Patents by Inventor Joseph Anthony King, Jr.
Joseph Anthony King, Jr. 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).
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Patent number: 8497010Abstract: A moisture vapor permeable metalized composite sheet is formed by coating a moisture vapor permeable sheet with at least one metal layer and at least one outer organic coating layer. The moisture vapor permeability of the composite sheet is at least about 80% of the moisture vapor permeability of the starting sheet. The composite sheet provides a barrier to air and liquid water infiltration while having high moisture vapor permeability and good thermal barrier properties. The composite sheet material is suitable for use as a building construction wrap such as roof lining and house wrap.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Ioannis V Bletsos, Edmee Lydie Marie-Jeanne Devaquet, Joseph Anthony King, Jr., Michael G Mikhael, Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Parada, Angelo Yializis
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Patent number: 8431209Abstract: A moisture vapor permeable metalized composite sheet is formed by coating a moisture vapor permeable sheet with at least one metal layer and at least one outer organic coating layer. The moisture vapor permeability of the composite sheet is at least about 80% of the moisture vapor permeability of the starting sheet. The composite sheet provides a barrier to air and liquid water infiltration while having high moisture vapor permeability and good thermal barrier properties. The composite sheet material is suitable for use as a building construction wrap such as roof lining and house wrap.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Ioannis V Bletsos, Edmee Lydie Marie-Jeanne Devaquet, Michael G Mikhael, Jose Manuel Rodrigues-Parada, Angelo Yializis, Joseph Anthony King, Jr.
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Patent number: 7805907Abstract: A moisture vapor permeable metalized composite sheet is formed by coating a moisture vapor permeable sheet with at least one metal layer and at least one outer organic coating layer. The moisture vapor permeability of the composite sheet is at least about 80% of the moisture vapor permeability of the starting sheet. The composite sheet provides a barrier to air and liquid water infiltration while having high moisture vapor permeability and good thermal barrier properties. The composite sheet material is suitable for use as a building construction wrap such as roof lining and house wrap.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Ioannis V. Bletsos, Edmee Lydie Marie-Jeanne Devaquet, Joseph Anthony King, Jr., Michael G Mikhael, Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Parada, Angelo Yializis
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Patent number: 6333394Abstract: Copolycarbonates containing such structural units as birefringence-reducing or “soft block” units are prepared by conducting a reaction, such as melt polymerization or equilibration, between a precursor polycarbonate and a monomer, polycarbonate oligomer or high molecular weight polycarbonate which is a source of other structural units. The crystallinity of the resulting precursor copolycarbonate or one of the reagents employed in its preparation is enhanced and the precursor copolycarbonate is subjected to solid state polymerization.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1999Date of Patent: December 25, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christian Maria Emile Bailly, Bhaskar Bhairavnath Idage, Swaminathan Sivaram, Nayaku Nivarati Chavan, Rein Mollerus Faber, Shamal Karunakaran Menon, Gautam Chatterjee, Godavarthi Satyana Varadarajan, James Day, Patrick Joseph McCloskey, Joseph Anthony King, Jr., Arun Savalaram Jadhav
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Patent number: 6143859Abstract: Copolycarbonates containing such structural units as birefringence-reducing or "soft block" units are prepared by conducting a reaction, such as melt polymerization or equilibration, between a precursor polycarbonate and a monomer, polycarbonate oligomer or high molecular weight polycarbonate which is a source of other structural units. The crystallinity of the resulting precursor copolycarbonate or one of the reagents employed in its preparation is enhanced and the precursor copolycarbonate is subjected to solid state polymerization.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1999Date of Patent: November 7, 2000Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Gautam Chatterjee, Godavarthi Satyanarayana Varadarajan, James Day, Patrick Joseph McCloskey, Bhaskar Bhairavnath Idage, Joseph Anthony King, Jr., Arun Savalaram Jadhav
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Patent number: 6042920Abstract: Copolycarbonates comprise structural units derived from a bisphenol such as bisphenol A, a spiro(bis)indane bisphenol such as 6,6'-dihdyroxy-3,3,3',3'-tetramethyl-1,1'-spiro(bis)indane and a polyoxyalkylene glycol such as polyethylene glycol. These copolycarbonates have high processability and are expected to have low birefringence. They are useful for the fabrication of optical disks.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1998Date of Patent: March 28, 2000Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Gautam Chatterjee, Joseph Anthony King, Jr., Donald George LeGrand, Godavarthi Satyanarayana Varadarajan
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Patent number: 6034142Abstract: Polycarbonates are recycled without the need for chemical modification by dissolution in a solvent followed by removal of any insoluble materials and precipitation by addition of a non-solvent. The precipitation step may be followed by solid state polymerization of the recycled polycarbonate. Particularly when solid state polymerization is to be performed, the use of a combination of solvent and non-solvent which produces a crystalline intermediate is performed, and use of a modifying reagent increasing the hydroxy end group concentration of the polycarbonate may be advantageous.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1997Date of Patent: March 7, 2000Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Godavarthi Satyanarayana Varadarajan, Joseph Anthony King, Jr., Bhaskar Bhairavnath Idage, Swaminathan Sivaram, Vishnu Ramchandra Ranade
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Patent number: 5969086Abstract: Quaternary salts having a double helix structure are prepared by the reaction of dihydroxyaromatic compound, preferably a bisphenol, with an alkali metal hydroxide and a quaternary salt, such as a tetraalkylammonium or hexaalkylguanidinium chloride. The quaternary salts and their alkaline hydrolysis products are useful as catalysts in various reactions, including imide formation from bisphenol salts and halo- or nitro-substituted phthalimides and redistribution and equilibration of polycarbonates.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1997Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jimmy Lynn Webb, Thomas Link Guggenheim, Robert Joseph Nick, Patrick Joseph McCloskey, Joseph Anthony King, Jr.
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Patent number: 5905135Abstract: Crystallization of precursor polycarbonates prior to solid state polymerization is achieved by contact with a non-solvent comprising, at least in part, a dialkyl carbonate such as dimethyl carbonate. The non-solvent can be a mixture, typically of dimethyl carbonate with water or an alkanol such as methanol.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1997Date of Patent: May 18, 1999Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bhaskar Bhairavnath Idage, Swaminathan Sivaram, Godavarthi Satyanaryana Varadarajan, Joseph Anthony King, Jr.
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Patent number: 5756843Abstract: Quaternary salts having a double helix structure are prepared by the reaction of dihydroxyaromatic compound, preferably a bisphenol, with an alkali metal hydroxide and a quaternary salt, such as a tetraalkylammonium or hexaalkylguanidinium chloride. The quaternary salts and their alkaline hydrolysis products are useful as catalysts in various reactions, including imide formation from bisphenol salts and halo- or nitro-substituted phthalimides and redistribution and equilibration of polycarbonates.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1996Date of Patent: May 26, 1998Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jimmy Lynn Webb, Matthew Hal Littlejohn, Joseph John Caringi, Thomas Link Guggenheim, Robert Joseph Nick, Patrick Joseph McCloskey, Joseph Anthony King, Jr.
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Patent number: 5726856Abstract: Ultracapacitors including at least one cell with two solid, non-porous current collectors, two porous electrodes, preferably of carbon, and a porous separator between the electrodes, employ as electrolytes materials comprising at least one hexasubstituted guanidinium salt. Such salts may be employed in solution in a stable organic liquid such as propylene carbonate, or neat in liquid form. They may be prepared by first preparing a hexasubstituted guanidinium halide and then performing an anion exchange reaction, either with a salt which forms an insoluble halide such as a silver salt or by a liquid--liquid extraction method.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1996Date of Patent: March 10, 1998Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Joseph Anthony King, Jr., Peter David Phelps
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Patent number: 5717056Abstract: Solid state polycarbonate formation comprises an initial step of converting a precursor polycarbonate to an enhanced crystallinity precursor polycarbonate and a second step of polymerizing said enhanced crystallinity precursor polycarbonate in the solid state. Several options are employed. These include modifying the precursor polycarbonate by contact with a dihydroxy compound or diaryl carbonate, conversion of the precursor polycarbonate to the enhanced crystallinity polymer by contact with at least one compound selected from the group consisting of alkali metal hydroxides, tetraalkylammonium hydroxides, tetraalkylammonium carboxylates, tetraalkylphosphonium hydroxides and tetraalkylphosphonium carboxylates, and conducting the solid state polymerization in the presence of a catalytic amount of at least one tetralkylammonium or tetraalkylphosphonium carboxylate. The preferred tetralkylammonium compounds are tetramethylammonium maleate and tetramethylammonium hydroxide.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1996Date of Patent: February 10, 1998Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Godavarthi Satyanarayana Varadarajan, Swaminathan Sivaram, Bhaskar Bhairavnath Idage, Joseph Anthony King, Jr.
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Patent number: 5705696Abstract: Quaternary (e.g., tetraalkylammonium and tetraalkylphosphonium) salts containing non-halide anions are prepared by performing an anion exchange reaction by liquid-liquid extraction with a chlorinated solvent of a mixture of an aqueous solution an alkali metal salt of the anion and a corresponding quaternary halide.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1996Date of Patent: January 6, 1998Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Joseph Anthony King, Jr.
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Patent number: 5663406Abstract: A carbonate ester is produced by the metal-induced reaction of a hydroxy compound with a sulfur compound in a melt process. An orthocarbonate can also be produced. The orthocarbonate can be converted into carbonate ester in a subsequent operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1996Date of Patent: September 2, 1997Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Joseph Anthony King, Jr., Robert Edgar Colborn, Deborah Ann Haitko, Jimmy Lynn Webb