Patents Examined by Vishal V Vasisth
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Patent number: 11976200Abstract: In one inventive concept, an ink includes a precursor of a graphene analogue, a thickener, and a solvent. In another inventive concept, an ink includes a graphene analogue, a thickener, and a solvent. In yet another inventive concept, an aerogel includes a three-dimensional printed structure having printed features comprised of two dimensional sheets of a graphene analogue.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventors: Swetha Chandrasekaran, Marcus A. Worsley
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Patent number: 11976252Abstract: The present disclosure provides a detergent additives and methods for preparing a sulfurized alkyl phenate product from polyalphaolefins.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Afton Chemical CorporationInventors: Xin Tian, Jason Bell, Steven Anderson
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Patent number: 11970614Abstract: Shelf-stable, rapid crosslinking, “all-in-one” pastes useful as “inks” in additive manufacturing are provided. These pastes exhibit desirable rheological flow properties and crosslinking upon exposure to UV light. The pastes are based on vinylsilyl-functionalized, completely amorphous, linear terpolysiloxanes containing predominantly dimethylsiloxy- repeat units with small amounts of diphenylsiloxy-, methylphenylsiloxy-, diethylsiloxy-, and/or methyltrifluoroalkylsiloxy- crystallization disruptors. The base polymers are preferably compounded with a trimethylsilylated-hydrophobic silica filler, thixotropic flow agent, hydrosilyl-functionalized oligomeric crosslinker, and a catalytic system comprising platinum (II) acetylacetonate or trimethyl(methylcyclopentadienyl)-platinum (IV), and diethyl azodicarboxylate.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLCInventors: Jamie Michael Messman, Steven Michael Patterson, Petar Dvornic, Alisa Zlatanic, James Beach
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Patent number: 11970669Abstract: [Technical Problem] An object is to provide a lubricant capable of forming a stable adsorption film on a sliding surface and stabilizing the sliding characteristics (for example, ensuring the wear resistance, etc.). [Solution to Problem] The present invention provides a lubricant represented by the following chemical structural formula. (R: a hydrocarbon group whose carbon number is 8 to 24, m and n: integers of 2 to 8) [Selected Figure] FIG.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHOInventors: Mamoru Tohyama, Hiroshi Moritani, Shigeru Hotta, Norikazu Sato, Hisato Takeuchi, Yoshihiro Kikuzawa, Tomoyuki Kinjo
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Patent number: 11970671Abstract: The present disclosure relates to lubricating compositions having a stable viscosity upon oxidization through select amounts and relationships of detergent metals and soap contents.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Afton Chemical CorporationInventors: Paul Ransom, Latifa Hamdani
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Patent number: 11970449Abstract: The present invention relates to a mechanochemical based synthesis of perfluoropyridine monomers, polymers made using such monomers and methods of making and using articles comprising such polymers. Such perfluoropyridine monomers are easily chemically tuned have the strength needed for high temperature applications and the flexibility needed for low temperature applications. In addition, to the aforementioned monomers, a mechanochemical based synthesis for such perfluoropyridine monomers is provided. All of the aforementioned performance application advantages are also found in polymers comprising Applicants' perfluoropyridine monomers.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Scott T. Iacono, Chadron M Friesen
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Patent number: 11958875Abstract: A mixture including a thiophosphoric acid product suitable for preparing organometallic and/or ashless antiwear additives having improved copper corrosion performance. The thiophosphoric acid product is distilled and recovered as a condensate of the distillation and having a low level of active sulfur.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Afton Chemical CorporationInventors: Brandon Knouse, David Edwards, Magdalena Makowska, Gregory James
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Patent number: 11939550Abstract: Disclosed herein is an overbased alkaline earth metal hydrocarbyl-substituted salicylate detergent comprising both carbonate and borate moieties and exhibiting the following characteristics: a basicity index of at least 3.8; a ratio of soap content to mass % boron is greater than 55 mmol/kg; a soap content of at least 330 mmol/kg; a TBN, measured according to ASTM D2896, of at least 220 mg KOH/g; and a mass ratio of borate to carbonate from 0.75 to 6.0, wherein the alkaline earth metal comprises calcium and/or magnesium, and the hydrocarbyl substitution comprises 9 to 30 carbon atoms. Methods of making the boron-containing salicylate detergent, specifically to be package-stable, are also disclosed, as well as package-stable lubricant additive package concentrates and lubricating oil compositions containing same.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Infineum International LimitedInventors: Thomas Daniel Wilkinson, Oliver Delamore, Alexander Coxon, Marcus Popowicz, Ara Samonte, Mallika Rana
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Patent number: 11926802Abstract: Provided is a lubricating oil composition that includes a major amount of a lubricant base oil and a minor amount of a viscosity index improver comprising a syndiotactic propylene-based ethylene-propylene copolymer comprising: a) 2 to 20% by weight of ethylene, b) 80 to 98% by weight of propylene; c) 50 to 99% of rr triads; and d) Mw (LS) of 10 to 250 kg/mol.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL PATENTS INC., CHEVRON ORONITE COMPANY LLCInventors: Sara Yue Zhang, Maryam Sepehr, David L. Morgan, Jingwen Zhang, Jo Ann M. Canich, Peijun Jiang, John R. Hagadorn, Chase A. Eckert, Sarah J. Mattler, Shuhui Kang, Pritesh Arjunbhai Patel
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Patent number: 11926804Abstract: The present disclosure relates to passenger car motor oil lubricating oil compositions having select dispersant and detergent systems to improve at least one of deposits, sludge, oxidization, and wear when using a blend of API Group II base oils with one or more API Group III and/or API Group IV base oils. The dispersant systems herein includes select amounts of boron, nitrogen, and total base number contributions that surprisingly achieve performance even when including higher amounts of the API Group II base oils in the lubricants.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Afton Chemical CorporationInventors: Leah Donham, Kongsheng Yang, Kenneth Garelick, Kristi Engelman
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Patent number: 11912952Abstract: A material comprising: a support 10; and a brush layer 20 containing a brush-like polymer chain assemblage 21 formed of a plurality of polymer chains and a swelling liquid 22, in which a brush layer 20 is swollen with the swelling liquid 22, the brush layer 20 retaining on the surface a lubricating liquid 30, and the swelling liquid 22 contained in the brush layer 20 and the lubricating liquid 30 being phase-separated to form a liquid-liquid phase separation interface 40 in between and a sliding system using the material.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: KYOTO UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Yoshinobu Tsujii, Keita Sakakibara, Takaya Sato, Hiroyuki Arafune, Ken Nakano, Mayu Miyazaki
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Patent number: 11905489Abstract: Lubricant composition, in particular a cooling lubricant solution, based on ionic and/or organoelemental compounds.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Carl Bechem GmbHInventors: Lutz Kogel, Patrick Degen, Tobias Asam
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Patent number: 11898117Abstract: High temperature lubricants for magnetic media are provided. One such lubricant includes fluoroalkyl, fluoroalkenyl, perfluoroalkyl, or perfluoroalkyl ether segments, anchoring functional groups engageable with a protective overcoat of a magnetic recording media, and cyclic functional groups. The lubricants can be used in conjunction with a magnetic recording medium and/or a magnetic data storage system.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Xingliang He, Bala Krishna Pathem
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Patent number: 11891479Abstract: In various aspects, the present disclosure pertains to thermoformed webs that comprise polymer films having one or more thermoformed cavities contained therein, the polymer films comprising a polymer blend of amorphous polyethylene terephthalate (APET) and a copolyester that comprises (a) dicarboxylic acid residues (e.g., dicarboxylic acid residues that comprise terephthalic acid residues and, optionally, one or more additional dicarboxylic acid residues) and (b) diol residues (e.g., diol residues comprising ethylene glycol residues and, optionally, one or more additional diol monomer residues). Other aspects of the disclosure pertain to methods of forming such thermoformed webs, packaged products comprising such thermoformed webs, and methods of recycling such thermoformed webs.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: KLÖCKNER PENTAPLAST OF AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Wade Jackson Kammauff, Seth Thomas Stewart, Carlos Daniel Stagnaro
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Patent number: 11884893Abstract: An oil-soluble ashless antiwear additive and a lubricating composition including the ashless antiwear additive having improved copper corrosion performance obtained by reacting an organic hydroxy compound with phosphorus pentasulfide to form a reaction product, distilling the reaction product and recovering a condensate, and reacting the condensate with an unsaturated carboxylic acid to form an oil-soluble phosphorus antiwear additive.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Afton Chemical CorporationInventors: Brandon Knouse, David Edwards, Magdalena Makowska, Gregory James, Robert Mccovick
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Patent number: 11884890Abstract: The present disclosure provides fuel additives including quaternary ammonium salt additive(s) and Mannich detergent additive(s) effective to improve engine performance in both port fuel injected and gasoline direct injection engines.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Afton Chemical CorporationInventors: Janice Jianzhao Wang, Julienne Galante-Fox, Shannon Bendel, Saeid Shirazi
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Patent number: 11884892Abstract: An organometallic phosphorus-providing antiwear additive and a lubricating composition including the organometallic phosphorus-providing antiwear additive having improved copper corrosion performance obtained by reacting an organic hydroxy compound with phosphorus pentasulfide to form a reaction product, distilling the reaction product and recovering a condensate, and neutralizing the condensate with a basic or neutral metal compound including one or more of a metal oxide, a metal hydroxide, or a metal carbonate to form the organometallic phosphorus-providing antiwear additive or salt thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Afton Chemical CorporationInventors: Brandon Knouse, David Edwards, Magdalena Makowska, Keith Hayes, Gregory James
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Patent number: 11873461Abstract: A sulfurized extreme pressure additive and lubricant including the same providing good copper corrosion and seal compatibility.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Afton Chemical CorporationInventors: David Edwards, LeAnna Hobbs, Magdalena Makowska, Jon Jacoby
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Patent number: 11866672Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: KONASOL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yeon Joo Bae, Keum Cheol Hwang, Im Joo Choi
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Patent number: 11865499Abstract: A zeolite membrane complex includes a longitudinal support member having at least one through hole extending along its length and a zeolite membrane on an inner peripheral surface of the through hole or over an outer peripheral surface of the support, from one end portion of the support to the other end portion thereof. Among constituent elements of the zeolite membrane except oxygen, an element with the highest percentage is a main element, and when the concentration of the main element is measured at three portions defined by dividing the support into three equal parts in the longitudinal direction, the concentration of the main element gradually decreases from the one end portion toward the other end portion, and the ratio of the concentration of the main element at the other end portion to that at the one end portion is 0.90 or more.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Makoto Miyahara, Kenichi Noda