Patents Examined by Vickey Nerangis
  • Patent number: 10570284
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an oxygen scavenging composition for containers. The oxygen scavenging composition may comprise at least one polyester component, which is a copolyester containing a metal sulfonate salt group, a transition metal catalyst, and a vegetable oil. The vegetable oil may comprise at least one molecule having a double allylic structure. The copolyester containing a metal sulfonate salt group may comprise at least one acid unit and at least one diol unit. The concentration of the double allylic structures of the vegetable oil in the composition may be greater than 5.0 meq/kg of all of the polyester components. The composition may also be void of or substantially void of a polyamide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: APG Polytech, LLC
    Inventors: Gianluca Ferrari, D. Jeffrey Black
  • Patent number: 10570561
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sizing agent for carbon fibers, a carbon fiber with improved interfacial adhesion, a polymerization reaction type carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composite material using the same, and a production method therefor and, more specifically, to a sizing agent for carbon fibers, comprising a phenoxy resin and a block isocyanate compound prepared through a reaction of ?-caprolactam with one of two isocyanate groups of a diisocyanate compound, and the production of a carbon fiber with improved interfacial adhesion using the same, a polymerization reaction type carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composite material using the carbon fiber with improved interfacial adhesion, and a production method therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF MACHINERY & MATERIALS
    Inventors: Sangwoo Kim, Jin Woo Yi, Dong Gi Seong, Moon-Kwang Um, Kangeun Lee, Taehoon Park, Youngseok Oh
  • Patent number: 10563051
    Abstract: Provided are a rubber composition for outer layers of tires with which it is possible to reduce the amount of phosphorus used, and further to improve initial grip performance and grip performance during the middle phase of running while maintaining or improving good abrasion resistance, thereby achieving a balanced improvement in these properties, and a pneumatic tire formed from the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for outer layers of tires, containing a rubber component, a plasticizer, a resin having a softening point of 30° C. or higher, and sulfur, the plasticizer including an aliphatic polybasic acid ester having a freezing point of ?50 to ?10° C., the rubber composition containing, per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, 0.5 to 50 parts by mass of the aliphatic polybasic acid ester and 2 parts by mass or more of the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10557019
    Abstract: Provided herein, inter alia, are a carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composite and a method for manufacturing the same. The carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composite may improve interfacial bonding force by modifying the surface of carbon fibers with an amphiphilic block copolymer and then forming a composite of the surface-modified carbon fibers with a polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Sung Hyun Lee, Soon Joon Jung, Won Jin Seo, Dong Uk Lee, Ho Gyu Yoon, Heun Young Seo, Yong Sik Yeom, Jae Young Lee
  • Patent number: 10550261
    Abstract: An anti-slipping material consisting of a thermoplastic elastomer composition, wherein the composition comprises (a) 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic elastomer composed of a hydrogenated block copolymer obtained by hydrogenating a block copolymer having polymer block (A) consisting of a vinyl aromatic compound in molecule, and having a polymer block (B) consisting of a conjugated diene compound in molecule, (b) 150 to 200 parts by weight of a softener, and (c) 25 to 50 parts by weight of a propylene-based resin having a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn, which is weight-average molecular weight/number-average molecular weight, of 3.0 or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: KURARAY PLASTICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Makino, Nobuhiro Miwa, Haruyuki Takayama, Midori Miyashita
  • Patent number: 10538648
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rubber composition containing main-chain benzoxazine, in which benzoxazine generates no harmful materials during vulcanization and can thus be used in lieu of a phenol novolac resin used as a resin component of a conventional rubber composition, and also in which the use of benzoxazine, especially main-chain benzoxazine having a high molecular weight, is capable of maintaining excellent mechanical properties and exhibiting high flexibility. The rubber composition of the invention can be utilized for a rubber product, especially a tire product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: KOLON INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Do Kyung Sung, Ki Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 10526475
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are rubber compositions comprising a conjugated diene-containing polymer, a reinforcing filler including silica, a bi-functional silane coupling agent, and an unsaturated, non-sulfur silane coupling agent, where the ratio of the bi-functional silane coupling agent to the unsaturated, non-sulfur silane coupling agent is from about 5:1 to about 20:1. Also disclosed are related methods which include both in-situ reaction of the silica filler and the unsaturated, non-sulfur silane coupling agent and pre-reacting of at least a portion of the silica filler and at least a portion of the unsaturated, non-sulfur silane coupling agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventor: Seth M. Miller
  • Patent number: 10526488
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a preform having a preform wall. The preform wall preferably comprises a composition comprising at least one polyester component, a transition metal catalyst, and a vegetable oil. The vegetable oil may comprise at least one molecule having a double allylic structure. The at least one polyester component may comprise at least one acid unit and at least one diol unit. The concentration of double allylic structures of the vegetable oil in the composition may be greater than 5.0 meq/kg of all of the polyester components. The preform has improved aesthetic characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: APG Polytech, LLC
    Inventors: Gianluca Ferrari, D. Jeffrey Black
  • Patent number: 10508159
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing large-sized diene-based rubber latex, and an acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene graft copolymer comprising the same. More particularly, it relates to a method for preparing large-sized diene-based rubber latex having improved impact strength by controlling content and time of addition of a cross-linking agent and an emulsifier having critical micelle concentration (CMC) of 150 mg/L or less during preparation of the large-sized rubber latex, large-sized diene-based rubber latex prepared therefrom, and an acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene graft copolymer and thermoplastic resin comprising the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Hyoung Lee, Young Min Kim, Su Jeong Han, Yoo Vin Kim, Young Hwan Jeong, Sun Haeng Chung, Jae Min Suk
  • Patent number: 10494515
    Abstract: According to the process for preparing a vulcanized rubber composition of the invention comprising (a) a step of preparing a master batch comprising a modified conjugated diene polymer and silica, (b) a step of preparing a master batch comprising an isoprene rubber and silica, (c) a step of kneading the master batch obtained in (a) and the master batch obtained in (b), and (d) a step of vulcanizing a kneaded product obtained in (c), wherein the obtained vulcanized rubber composition comprises a phase A comprising a modified conjugated diene polymer and a phase B comprising an isoprene rubber, which are incompatible with each other, an abundance ratio ? of silica in the phase A satisfies 0.5???0.9 (Relation 1), and a proportion ? of the modified conjugated diene polymer satisfies 0.4???0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mikako Takenaka, Ryoji Kojima
  • Patent number: 10494504
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are rubber compositions comprising shea butter and a rubber, and tires (and tire components) made from the rubber compositions. The rubber component comprises at least one conjugated diene monomer-containing polymer or copolymer. Also disclosed are methods of improving the wear resistance of the rubber composition by utilizing shea butter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventor: Benjamin C. Galizio
  • Patent number: 10471497
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed of making metal casting molds and components thereof by the three-dimensional printing process in which an untreated sand is used as the build material and a polymer is used as a component of the binder that is printed onto the build material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: The ExOne Company
    Inventors: Michael J. Orange, Daniel T. Brunermer
  • Patent number: 10465051
    Abstract: A composition includes a thermosetting resin and a plurality of polymer nanoparticles at least partially dissolved in the resin. The resin has a gradient of mechanical properties around each location of the at least partially dissolved polymer nanoparticles. Each gradient extends from a particle center toward the resin surrounding the polymer nanoparticle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Mark S. Wilenski, Samuel J. Meure, Michael P. Kozar
  • Patent number: 10465078
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aqueous dispersion of polymer, based on structured polymer particles, said particles comprising a core polymer phase, based on a polymer P1 with Tg1 ranging from 60 to 120° C., a second polymer phase enveloping said core, based on a polymer P2 with a Tg2 ranging from ?60 to 40° C. and a third outer polymer phase (or shell) based on a polymer P3, with a Tg3 ranging from Tg2?5° C. to Tg2+5° C. and having an Mn not exceeding 150 000, with the weight contents of said polymers P1, P2 and P3 being, relative to the total weight of polymer (P1+P2+P3): P1 from 5% to 60%, P2 from 40% to 85%, P3 from 5% to 25% with the sum of said weight contents being 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Isabelle Betremieux, Alain Boone, Jean-Yves Loze
  • Patent number: 10450464
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mixtures of pigments comprising at least one inorganic compound selected from the group of iron oxides, iron oxide hydrates, zinc ferrites, zinc oxides, magnesium ferrites and manganese ferrites, wherein the at least one inorganic compound is equipped with a coating comprising at least one hydroxide or oxide of magnesium or calcium and at least one calcium salt or magnesium salt of a fatty acid, to processes for production thereof, to the use thereof for coloring polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and to processes for coloring PVC and to PVC colored with such mixtures, and also to plastics products comprising such mixtures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: LANXESS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Krzysztof Chlopek
  • Patent number: 10442917
    Abstract: A rubber composition for a tire tread is a rubber composition containing from 66 to 110 parts by weight of a filler containing not less than 50 wt. % of a silica per 100 parts by weight of a diene rubber containing not less than 40 wt. % of a terminal-modified styrene-butadiene rubber, from 8 to 35 wt. % of a natural rubber, and from 15 to 40 wt. % of a butadiene rubber; the terminal-modified styrene-butadiene rubber having a terminal functional group derived from a compound reacting with silanol groups; a styrene unit content thereof being from 38 to 48 wt. %; an oil-extended oil content thereof being less than 30 wt. %; a ratio (BR/NR) of a compounded amount of the butadiene rubber (BR) to the natural rubber (NR) being more than 1.0 and not more than 2.5; and an embrittlement temperature of the rubber composition being not more than ?45° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Miyuki Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10442882
    Abstract: A process for forming voided latex particles is improved by combining swelling and polymerization of an outer shell into a single step. The process includes contacting multi-stage emulsion polymer particles comprising a core, at least one intermediate shell, with a swelling agent, and polymerizing an outer shell after said contacting with swelling agent wherein the core and the at least one intermediate shell are contacted with swelling agent in the presence of less than 0.5% monomer based on the weight of the multi-stage emulsion polymer particles, and substantially all of the swelling occurs during polymerization of the outer shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Arkema Inc.
    Inventors: Lily Liu, Wayne Devonport, Daniel Edward Stark, Matthew F. Boudreaux
  • Patent number: 10442114
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a resin pellet and a process to make said resin pellet. The resin pellet comprises a major polyester comprising a catalytic titanium compound, and a minor polyester comprising a phosphorus compound. The major polyester is present in a first compartmentalized zone of the resin pellet and the minor polyester is present in a second compartmentalized zone of the resin pellet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: APG Polytech, LLC
    Inventor: Gianluca Ferrari
  • Patent number: 10442951
    Abstract: The present invention provides an economical route to environmentally friendly polymeric coatings with a high content of raw materials from renewable resources. These polymeric coatings offer performance characteristics that are competitive with conventional coating systems. The unique polymers on which this invention is based are copolymers of triglyceride oils, such as soybean oil, linseed oil, or another natural oil, with a vinyl compound, such as an acrylate or methacrylate, or a vinyl aromatic monomer. The present invention more specifically discloses a water dispersible, self-crosslinkable prepolymer composition which is comprised of a triglyceride oil having appended thereto (1) hydroxyl groups, (2) epoxy groups, (3) moieties which contain at least one aldehyde group or at least one ketone group, and (4) moieties which contain at least one vinyl and/or substituted vinyl group. In one embodiment of this invention the moiety which contains at least one vinyl group is derived from maleic anhydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony D. Pajerski
  • Patent number: 10436272
    Abstract: A friction material comprises a base and a porous friction generating layer penetrating into and integral with the base. The base presents a bonding surface. The porous friction generating layer presents a friction generating surface facing opposite the bonding surface of the base. The porous friction generating layer comprises fibers and friction adjusting particles, and about 30 to about 95% of a total surface area of the fibers is in contact with the friction adjusting particles. A curable resin is dispersed throughout the porous friction generating layer and the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Dong, Wanjun Liu