Patents Examined by Vishal V Vasisth
  • Patent number: 12234380
    Abstract: Thermal spray coating obtained from a thermal spray powder material containing at least one of Aluminum-containing particles, Magnesium-containing particles, and Titanium-containing particles mechanically alloyed to a transition metal. The coating includes Aluminum, Magnesium, or Titanium alloy portions alloyed to the transition metal. The thermal spray powder is obtained of Aluminum, Magnesium, or Titanium containing particles mechanically alloyed to a transition metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: OERLIKON METCO (US) INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Szyndelman, Scott Wilson
  • Patent number: 12227713
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to polysiloxanes, processes for preparing polysiloxanes, and hydraulic fluids comprising polysiloxanes. This disclosure also relates to hydraulic fluids comprising one or more polysiloxane compounds and diphosphonate compounds, and to the use of diphosphonate compounds in hydraulic fluids or as additives or components in various compositions, for example to provide fire retardant properties to a fluid or composition. This disclosure also relates to use of the compositions as hydraulic fluids, which may be used in various machines, vehicles and craft, including aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: THE BOEING COMPANY, COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: Mathew John Ballard, Philip Stephen Casey, Susan Wan-Yi Holmes, Cameron David Way, Kevin Norman Winzenberg, James Hull
  • Patent number: 12227715
    Abstract: Provided is a lubricating oil composition including a lubricating oil additive and a lubricating oil, the lubricating oil additive having nanodiamonds, of which a surface is hydrophobically modified by a surface treatment, dispersed in a base oil. The lubricating oil composition retains dispersibility over a long period of time and thus can ensure storage stability. Machines to which the lubricating oil composition is applied may have improved abrasion resistance as well as improved fuel consumption and reduced noise, and high thermal conductivity of the lubricating oil composition may also increase cooling efficiency and the service life of machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: KONASOL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeon Joo Bae, Keum Cheol Hwang, Im Joo Choi
  • Patent number: 12227712
    Abstract: A refrigerating machine oil containing: a lubricating base oil; and a polymer additive, wherein a carbon residue of 10% residual oil is 0.05% by mass or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Shono, Fumiyuki Nara
  • Patent number: 12215295
    Abstract: Described is a cooling lubricant for cold rolling aluminum, which includes a mineral oil-based or synthetic base oil and a polyalkylene glycol or a compound with a polyalkylene oxide structure. Further, the cooling lubricant is not water-soluble or miscible with water, and the cooling lubricant is substantially free of fatty acids and fatty alcohols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Speira GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Draese, Thomas Graf, Oliver Seiferth, Volker Schmitz
  • Patent number: 12203046
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a grease composition including: a base oil; a thickener; a rust inhibitor; and an extreme pressure agent, in which the rust inhibitor includes, with respect to a total mass of the grease composition: 0.10 mass % to 10.00 mass % of a calcium sulfonate; 0.20 mass % to 10.00 mass % of a zinc sulfonate; and 0.10 mass % to 10.00 mass % of a zinc carboxylate, and the extreme pressure agent includes, with respect to the total mass of the grease composition, 2.00 mass % to 14.00 mass % of a zinc dialkyldithiophosphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanako Niiya, Kazunori Miyake, Masayuki Murakami, Shota Akimoto, Takahiro Maeda, Kaname Nishi, Michitaka Yoshihara, Kazuki Isa, Koki Ando
  • Patent number: 12195686
    Abstract: An anti-static fuel additive composition and method for using the composition to reduce or prevent buildup of electrostatic charge is described. The anti-static fuel additive composition comprises a polysulfone and a copolymer derived from reaction of an alkanolamine and a hydrocarbyl-substituted 4-membered to 7-memebered ring anhydride; for example, a hydrocarbyl-substituted succinic anhydride, a hydrocarbyl-substituted maleic anhydride, a hydrocarbyl-substituted phthalic anhydride, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaojin Harry Li, Ashish Dhawan, Nestor Soriano, John Matthew Chudomel
  • Patent number: 12195695
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to lubricating compositions and methods of lubricating a spark-ignition engine effective to improve low-speed pre-ignition (LSPI) through selection of lubricant elemental relationships rather than through the addition of supplemental fluid additives with the added benefit that the relationships herein, in some circumstances, improve the low-speed pre-ignition independent of the underlying base oil quality. The lubricating compositions herein include one or more base oils of lubricating viscosity, one or more phosphorus-containing additives providing low levels of phosphorus, a detergent system providing calcium and/or magnesium with certain relationships of the calcium sulfated ash content to the low phosphorus content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Kongsheng Yang, Brent Calcut, Amy M. James, Kristi Engelman
  • Patent number: 12187975
    Abstract: A lubricant grease composition is disclosed, the lubricant grease composition including a base oil and a thickener. The thickener includes an aluminum-based complex soap and a polyurea thickener, wherein the lubricant grease is configured for lubrication of surfaces of components in which an upper use temperature of the lubricant grease composition is at least 90° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: KLUEBER LUBRICATION MUENCHEN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Christof Schmitz, Wolfgang Tiepermann, Raphaela Makrutzki, Stefan Seemeyer
  • Patent number: 12187974
    Abstract: Compositions comprising a) a metal detergent and b) an acid comprising at least one hydrocarbyl-substituted carboxylic acid. The metal detergent comprises at least one alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, or combinations thereof. The weight ratio of the metal detergent a) to the acid b) ranges from 50:1 to 1:10, or 25:1 to 1:10, or 10:1 to 1:10, or 5:1 to 1:7, or 2:1 to 1:3. The compositions may be added to industrial coating or lubricant compositions to reduce corrosion of metal components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Weber, Samantha Lauro, Christina Brancel, Britt Minch, Eric Rodeheaver, Nicholas S. Pottschmidt
  • Patent number: 12188564
    Abstract: A piston ring includes a substrate, and a film covering at least a part of a surface of the substrate. The film includes Si and N. A Si content of the film is in a range of 1.1 to 7.5 at %, a crystallite size of the film is in a range of 10 to 30 nm, and a compressive residual stress of the film is 400 to 800 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroki Saito, Keiji Honda, Yuji Shima
  • Patent number: 12173245
    Abstract: A low friction wear surface with a coefficient of friction in the superlubric regime under a sliding and rolling movement. The low friction wear surface includes molybdenum disulfide and graphene oxide on a first wear surface with a tribolayer formed on a rough steel counter surface during the sliding and rolling movement. Methods of producing the low friction wear surface are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLC
    Inventors: Anirudha V. Sumant, Venkata Aditya Ayyagari
  • Patent number: 12157705
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods for making a freeze-cast material having a internal structure, the methods comprising steps of: determining the internal structure of the material, the internal structure having a plurality of pores, wherein: each of the plurality of pores has directionality; and the step of determining comprises: selecting a temperature gradient and a freezing front velocity to obtain the determined internal structure based on the selected temperature gradient and the selected freezing front velocity; directionally freezing a liquid formulation to form a frozen solid, the step of directionally freezing comprising: controlling the temperature gradient and the freezing front velocity to match the selected temperature gradient and the selected freezing front velocity during directionally freezing; wherein the liquid formulation comprises at least one solvent and at least one dispersed species; and subliming the at least one solvent out of the frozen solid to form the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Katherine T. Faber, Julia A. Kornfield, Noriaki Arai, Orland Bateman, Rustem F. Ismagilov
  • Patent number: 12152215
    Abstract: Provided are a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, a lubricant additive, and a method of adjusting frictional property of a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, each capable of satisfying both the steering stability and ride comfort. The lubricant composition for shock absorbers contains a base oil and pentaerythritol esters and having frictional property represented by the following formula (1): RI>1.75×Fave?0.05??(1) supposing that a ratio ({Fsa?Fave}/Fave) of a difference, at the time of minute amplitude, between a peak frictional force Fsa in transition from a stationary state to a sliding state and an average frictional force Fave to the average frictional force Fave at the time of minute amplitude is responsiveness RI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: KYB CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Kato
  • Patent number: 12152214
    Abstract: There is provided a grease composition for improving the chemical stability of the grease composition and increasing the fatigue life of a member in which the grease composition is used. The problems can be solved by a grease composition including a poly-?-olefin; a urea-based thickener; molybdenum dithiophosphate; and barium sulfonate, wherein a difference between an SP value of the urea-based thickener and an SP value of the poly-?-olefin is 3.5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Yoshizaki, Kazunori Miyake, Kazumi Sakai, Yusuke Ayame, Kiyomi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 12146118
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for cleaning hard articles including, cleaning a hard article to which an oil stain is adhered with a cleaning liquid containing 1 ppm or more and less than 500 ppm of (a) a branched alkyl sulfosuccinate ester having a branched alkyl group with 9 or 10 carbons and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Aono, Satoru Okamura
  • Patent number: 12145907
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing a composition of diesters comprising reacting an unsaturated compound of alcohol type or the ester thereof, with a saturated fatty acid, in the presence of an acid catalyst. The invention also relates to a composition of diesters that is obtainable by the method of the invention, and the use thereof in lubricating compositions or in cosmetic or pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOTALENERGIES ONETECH
    Inventors: Delphine Crozet, Alice Limoges
  • Patent number: 12146117
    Abstract: A refrigerating machine oil according to the present invention contains a lubricating base oil and alkylated hydroxyanisole, and a working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine according to the present invention contains the refrigerating machine oil and a refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Nagai
  • Patent number: 12146115
    Abstract: This disclosure describes low ash lubricating composition achieving passing steel corrosion, passing high temperature deposit formation, and emulsion stability. The lubricating compositions include one or more select corrosion or rust inhibitor chemistries having an oil-soluble acyclic structure with acidic, hydroxy, or amine moieties but being free of imine, imide, and/or amidine moieties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth Garelick
  • Patent number: 12139688
    Abstract: This ball screw grease composition for a rack-assisted electric power steering contains a thickener, a base oil, and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a Ca sulfonates, fatty acids, and triglycerides, wherein the kinematic viscosity of the base oil at 40° C. is 4-100 mm2/s, and the worked penetration of the composition is 265-385.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minami Soma, Tsuyoshi Kochi, Tomonobu Komoriya