Patents Examined by Veronica F. Faison
  • Patent number: 9896583
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are high structured carbon blacks, methods of synthesis and treatment, and dispersions and inkjet ink formulations prepared therefrom. The carbon black can have the following properties: OAN?170 mL/100 g; and STSA ranging from 160 to 220 m2/g. The carbon black can also have the following properties: OAN?170 mL/100 g; and a ratio of STSA/BET surface area ranging from 0.7 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Cabot Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew P. Dikan, Stephane F. Rouanet, Heather E. Clarke, Bruce E. MacKay, Danny Pierre
  • Patent number: 9896753
    Abstract: A bulk amorphous alloy, including, based on atomic percentage amounts, between 41 and 63% of Zr, between 18 and 46% of Cu, between 1.5 and 12.5% of Ni, between 4 and 15% of Al, between 0.01 and 5% of Ag, and between 0.01 and 5% of Y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignees: INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, DONGGUAN EONTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huameng Fu, Haifeng Zhang, Zhengkun Li, Aimin Wang, Zhengwang Zhu, Hongwei Zhang, Hong Li, Yangde Li, Weirong Li, Tiezhuang Tang
  • Patent number: 9869001
    Abstract: A heat-treatment oil composition contains (A) at least one of a hydroxy fused fatty acid having a polymerization degree of 2 or more and a derivative of the hydroxy fused fatty acid. The heat-treatment composition may also contain (B) at least one of a mineral oil and a synthetic oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenro Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9856387
    Abstract: Provided is a color pencil lead which is excellent in a hue, a light resistance and a strength and can be erased with an eraser and which is suited to pencil leads for mechanical pencils and wooden pattern holder pencils. The above color pencil lead is characterized by containing a resin in which a dye is dissolved or included in a pencil lead body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Satoru Banzai
  • Patent number: 9840747
    Abstract: In some examples, an apparatus includes a pallet supporting a plurality of workpieces, the pallet including through-holes structured to pass a quenching fluid. In some examples, the apparatus further includes a reservoir of quenching fluid configured to provide the quenching fluid, and a plurality of upturned wall portions extending from the pallet and substantially surrounding the exteriors of the plurality of workpieces. The plurality of upturned wall portions may be located in relative orientation to the plurality of workpieces to regulate heat transfer coefficients of the plurality of workpieces during a quenching operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Gangshu Shen, Nathan J. Cooper, Nathan Wesley Ottow, Robert Louis Goetz, John F. Matlik
  • Patent number: 9828507
    Abstract: A printing ink composition includes a disperse dye, a surfactant, a water soluble dye, and a dispersant, in which an IOB value A of the disperse dye, an IOB value B of the surfactant, and an IOB value C of the water soluble dye satisfy the following Equation (1), A<B<C (1), and the IOB value B is 1.0 to 2.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunari Ikeda, Akio Ito
  • Patent number: 9822271
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions, such as inkjet inks, for jetting onto a ceramic substrate, and associated methods and systems. The compositions comprise a pigment compound that is configured to be jetted on a ceramic substrate during a ceramic inkjet process to impart a color effect to the ceramic substrate, and a reduction agent which, when exposed to a firing temperature, reacts with the pigment compound to cause a reduction reaction. In some embodiments, the pigment compound comprises jettable copper particles, which can cause the fired composition to take on a red or oxblood color, which can be used for decoration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Zavada, David Weber, Louis Fage, Matthew Tennis
  • Patent number: 9822272
    Abstract: A printing ink composition includes a disperse dye, a first solvent, a water soluble dye, and a dispersant, in which an IOB value A of the disperse dye, an IOB value B1 of the first solvent, and an IOB value C of the water soluble dye satisfy the following Equation (1), A<B1<C (1), the IOB value B1 is 1.0 to 4.0, and a content of the first solvent exceeds 5.0 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunari Ikeda, Akio Ito
  • Patent number: 9790387
    Abstract: There is provided a non-aqueous ink jet ink composition, including a pigment, a non-aqueous solvent, and a surfactant, in which the ink composition contains an acetylene glycol-based surfactant having a HLB value of 1.0 to 6.0 as the surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kumeta, Kana Mitsuzawa
  • Patent number: 9782859
    Abstract: A flux (55) for superalloy laser welding and additive processing (20, 50), including constituents which decompose when heated in a laser induced plasma or to a melt temperature of the superalloy (42), creating one or more gases (46) that blanket the melt to protect it from air, while producing not more than 5 wt. % of slag relative to the weight of the flux. Embodiments may further include compounds providing one or more functions of surface cleaning, scavenging of impurities in the melt, and elemental additions to the superalloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Gerald J. Bruck, Ahmed Kamel
  • Patent number: 9783695
    Abstract: A liquid composition, including a solvent, for printing with a binary deflected continuous jet printing technique, wherein upon printing the liquid composition form drops that are each: not charged by an electric field, have a zero electric charge, form a dipole under the effect of an electric field, and are then deflected by the electric field. The liquid composition has all the following characteristics: a conductivity at 20° C. from 5 to 500 ?S/cm, still preferably a conductivity at 20° C. from 5 to 500 ?S/cm, the value of 500 ?S/cm being excluded, better a conductivity at 20° C. from 5 to 400 ?S/cm, still better a conductivity at 20° C. from 30 to 400 ?S/cm, for example from 30 to 200 ?S/cm; a dynamic viscosity at 20° C. from 1 to 25 cPs, preferably from 6 to 25 cPs; and a density from 0.8 to 2.5 g/cm3, preferably from 1.2 to 2.5 g/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: DOVER EUROPE SÀRL
    Inventors: Bruno Barbet, Jean-François Desse, Pierre De Saint-Romain, Daniel Esteoulle, Philippe Tenaud
  • Patent number: 9777176
    Abstract: A method of printing from an inkjet nozzle device having a thermal actuator. The method includes the steps of supplying a fluid to the inkjet nozzle device, the fluid comprising an acetylenic compound; and repeatedly actuating the thermal actuator so as to eject fluid droplets from a nozzle opening of the inkjet nozzle device. The acetylenic compound is present in an amount sufficient to increase the lifetime of the inkjet nozzle device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Memjet Technology Limited
    Inventors: Simon Fielder, Michele Gimona, Christopher Barton
  • Patent number: 9777175
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are aqueous dispersions comprising: at least one pigment present in an amount of at least 10% by weight relative to the total weight of the dispersion, the at least one pigment being selected from oxidized carbon blacks and modified carbon blacks having attached at least one organic group; and at least one organic solvent present in an amount of at least 10% by weight relative to the total weight of the dispersion, the at least one organic solvent having a Hansen hydrogen bonding parameter (?H) ranging from 13 to 50 MPa0.5, and a Hansen polarity parameter (?p) ranging from 5 to 13 MPa0.5, wherein the dispersion is substantially free of a surfactant. Also disclosed are methods of preparing aqueous dispersions and injet ink compositions prepared from the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Cabot Corporation
    Inventors: Tianqi Liu, Andrew P. Dikan
  • Patent number: 9777178
    Abstract: Reversible thermochromic and photochromic ink compositions and markers, pens or writing instruments that use them are herein disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Chromatic Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Terrill Scott Clayton, Timothy J. Owen
  • Patent number: 9765414
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat treatment method of turnout track comprising performing an accelerated cooling on the turnout track to be treated having a railhead tread with a temperature of 650-900° C. so as to obtain the turnout track with full pearlite metallographic structure, wherein the accelerated cooling velocity performed on the working side of railhead of the turnout track is higher than that performed on the non-working side of the railhead of the turnout track. The present invention provides a turnout track obtained with a heat treatment process as depicted therein. The turnout track in present invention has good straightness; both the hardness and tensile strength of the working side of railhead are higher than that of the non-working side of railhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignees: PANGANG GROUP PANZHIHUA IRON & STEEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD., PANGANG GROUP PANZHIHUA STEEL & VANADIUM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Zou, Zhenyu Han, Dongsheng Mei, Yong Deng, Hua Guo, Quan Xu, Chunjian Wang
  • Patent number: 9765419
    Abstract: New methods for aging aluminum alloys having zinc and magnesium are disclosed. The methods may include first aging the aluminum alloy at a first temperature of from about 310° F. to 530° F. and for a first aging time of from 1 minute to 6 hours, and then second aging the aluminum alloy at a second temperature for a second aging time of at least 30 minutes, with the second temperature being lower than the first temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: ALCOA USA CORP.
    Inventors: Xinyan Yan, Wenping Zhang, Dana Clark, James Daniel Bryant, Jen Lin
  • Patent number: 9758686
    Abstract: A solvent-based ink jet ink composition includes a coloring material; and a solvent; in which the composition includes, as the solvent, two or more types of solvent that are compounds represented by the following general formula (1), and R1, R2, and R3 have the same structure as one another and m are consecutive integers, in the solvent. R1O—(R2O)m—R3??(1) (in the formula, R1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group with 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R2 is an alkylene group with 2 or 3 carbon atoms, and R3 is a hydrogen atom, an acetyl group, or an alkyl group with 1 to 4 carbon atoms. However, both of R1 and R3 are not hydrogen atoms. m is an integer of 1 to 7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Nagase, Kenichiro Kubota, Jun Ito, Naoki Koike
  • Patent number: 9758685
    Abstract: A nonaqueous ink jet ink composition according to the invention includes a solvent including at least one compound represented by the following formula (1), and a pigment including a pigment orange 43 (PO-43), in which a Na amount included in the ink is 5 ppm to 500 ppm. R1O—(R2O)m—R3??(1) (wherein, in formula (1), R1 and R3 each independently represent hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms. However, either R1 or R3 is an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms. R2 represents an alkylene group having 2 or 3 carbon atoms. m represents an integer of 1 to 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Ito, Keiji Iida, Kenichiro Kubota, Naoki Koike, Makoto Nagase
  • Patent number: 9752039
    Abstract: A thermal ink jet ink composition includes at least 50% by weight volatile organic solvent selected from C1-C4 alcohols, C3-C6 ketones, C3-C6 esters, C4-C8 ethers, and mixtures thereof; a colorant; a humectant present in an amount from about 1% to about 30% by weight; from 0.3% to 8% by weight of a binder resin; and not more than 5% by weight water; wherein the ink composition is compatible with components of a thermal ink jet printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Videojet Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Harvey, Michael Kozee, Linfang Zhu, Casey Robertson, Anthony Selmeczy
  • Patent number: 9752038
    Abstract: There is provided a water-based ink for ink-jet recording containing: a pigment; a surfactant; and water, wherein dynamic surface tension of the water-based ink measured under a condition of temperature of 25 degrees Celsius and lifetime of 10 ms is not less than 35 mN/m; and dynamic surface tension of the water-based ink measured under a condition of temperature of 25 degrees Celsius and lifetime of 50 ms is not more than 34.5 mN/m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuki Okumura, Mitsunori Maeda