Patents by Inventor Edward Nathan Kresge

Edward Nathan Kresge has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Nanocomposite materials (LAW392)
    Patent number: 5883173
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a latex comprising water and a layered material intercalated with a polymer. The invention also relates to a nanocomposite material comprising a layered material intercalated with a polymer. The latex can be produced by forming a dispersion of layered material in water, adding surfactant, polymerizable monomer or monomers, and a polymerization initiator to the mixture and then polymerizing the monomer to form a latex. The latex can also be formed from preformed polymers. Composite materials formed from latexes produced by either method have improved mechanical properties and reduced air permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Chester W. Elspass, Dennis G. Peiffer, Edward Nathan Kresge, Dong-Tsai Hsieh, James Joseph Chludzinski, Keng S. Liang
  • Tactoidal elastomer nanocomposites
    Patent number: 5807629
    Abstract: An elastomeric material nanocomposite having sufficiently low air permeability to be useful as a tire inner liner among other things, can be prepared by dispersing a layered clay material into the elastomer in the form of packets having an average thickness in the range of about 100 .ANG. to about 1400 .ANG.. Accordingly, the present invention provides in one embodiment, a novel composite composition, and in another embodiment, a novel tire inner liner composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Chester W. Elspass, Dennis George Peiffer, Edward Nathan Kresge, Pamela Jean Wright, James Joseph Chludzinski, Hsien Chang Wang
  • Tire inner-liners comprising a solid rubber and a complex of a reactive rubber and layered silicate clay
    Patent number: 5665183
    Abstract: A tire inner-liner, comprising a solid rubber and a complex, said complex comprising a reactive rubber and a layered silicate clay uniformly dispersed therein. The complex comprising the clays significantly improve the low air permeability of the tire inner-liner without adversely affecting the rubber composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Nathan Kresge, David John Lohse