Patents by Inventor Kenneth J. Wynne
Kenneth J. Wynne 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: 6750296Abstract: The present invention provides block copolymers with semifluorinated LC side groups (single or monodendron groups). The block copolymers can be blended with a thermoplastic elastomer block copolymer, e.g., styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene (SEBS) to provide a surface active block copolymer (SABC).Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2002Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Christopher K. Ober, Maoliang Xiang, Kenneth J. Wynne
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Publication number: 20030158373Abstract: This invention is directed to mono- and bis-substituted oxetane monomers having fluorinated alkoxymethylene side chains, hydroxy-terminated prepolymers derived from these mono- and bis-substituted oxetane monomers and tetrahydrofuran (THF), and polymers produced from these prepolymers, as well as the synthesis processes associated with each, and the use of the monomers, prepolymers and ultimate polymers, both directly and as components of numerous compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2002Publication date: August 21, 2003Applicant: Aerojet-General CorporationInventors: Aslam A. Malik, Thomas G. Archibald, Roland P. Carlson, Kenneth J. Wynne, Edward N. Kresge
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Patent number: 6479623Abstract: This invention is directed to mono- and bis-substituted oxetane monomers having fluorinated alkoxymethylene side chains, hydroxy-terminated prepolymers derived from these mono- and bis-substituted oxetane monomers and tetrahydrofuran (THF), and polymers produced from these prepolymers, as well as the synthesis processes associated with each, and the use of the monomers, prepolymers and ultimate polymers, both directly and as components of numerous compositions.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2000Date of Patent: November 12, 2002Assignees: Omnova Solutions, Inc,, Aerojet-General CorporationInventors: Aslam A. Malik, Thomas G. Archibald, Roland P. Carlson, Kenneth J. Wynne, Edward N. Kresge
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Publication number: 20020161147Abstract: The present invention provides block copolymers with semifluorinated LC side groups (single or monodendron groups). The block copolymers can be blended with a thermoplastic elastomer block copolymer, e.g., styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene (SEBS) to provide a surface active block copolymer (SABC).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2002Publication date: October 31, 2002Inventors: Christopher K. Ober, Maoliang Xiang, Kenneth J. Wynne
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Patent number: 6265515Abstract: An antifoulant composition includes a fluorinated silicone resin: wherein R is the same or different group and stands for an alkyl of 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R′ is H or a lower alkyl of 1 to 10 carbon atoms, n is 2 to 10, x is at least 1 and y is at least 2.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1999Date of Patent: July 24, 2001Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Ann E. Mera, Kenneth J. Wynne
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Patent number: 6114031Abstract: This invention is comprised of new nonlinear optic polymers and a new Lanir-Blodgett (LB) film deposition scheme for which these polymers were designed. The invention is unique because it produces an electro-optic film which has never undergone electric-field poling nor high temperature treatment. It eliminates the dilution effect of the long hydrophobic alkyl groups, and creates stronger ionic bonds between the polymer chains. Finally, the invention reduces the time to make a film of a given thickness by at least half by virtue of depositing two polymer layers per stroke. The new polymers are comprised of asymmetric chromophores linked head-to-head by alternating two different kinds of bridging groups. One of the bridging groups contains one or more ionic groups, and the other bridging group contains one or more non-ionic, hydrophilic groups.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1999Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Marion J. Roberts, John D. Stenger-Smith, Kenneth J. Wynne, Peter Zarras, Andrew P. Chafin, Richard A. Hollins, Geoffrey A. Lindsay
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Patent number: 5882785Abstract: This invention is comprised of new nonlinear optic polymers and a new Lanir-Blodgett (LB) film deposition scheme for which these polymers were designed. The invention is unique because it produces an electro-optic film which has never undergone electric-field poling nor high temperature treatment. It eliminates the dilution effect of the long hydrophobic alkyl groups, and creates stronger ionic bonds between the polymer chains. Finally, the invention reduces the time to make a film of a given thickness by at least half by virtue of depositing two polymer layers per stroke. The new polymers are comprised of asymmetric chromophores linked head-to-head by alternating two different kinds of bridging groups. One of the bridging groups contains one or more ionic groups, and the other bridging group contains one or more non-ionic, hydrophilic groups.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1997Date of Patent: March 16, 1999Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Richard A. Hollins, Geoffrey A. Lindsay, Marion J. Roberts, Peter Zarras, John D. Stenger-Smith, Kenneth J. Wynne, Andrew P. Chafin
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Patent number: 5835453Abstract: Polymer materials having a low Young's modulus, a low dielectric constant, and a high apparent piezoelectric response when subjected to a high direct bias voltage and a superimposed alternating voltage, used as the active element in an underwater acoustic signal projector of a sonar system.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1997Date of Patent: November 10, 1998Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Kenneth J. Wynne, Robert B. Fox, Alan W. Ellinthorpe
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Patent number: 5828432Abstract: Conducting substrate for use in display device having a conducting polymer on the surface of a rigid or flexible, flat, curved or bent substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1997Date of Patent: October 27, 1998Assignees: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, GEO-Centers, Inc., The Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaInventors: Ranganathan Shashidhar, Jeffrey M. Calvert, Renate J. Crawford, Kenneth J. Wynne, Terrence G. Vargo, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Jamshid K. Avlyanov
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Patent number: 5520968Abstract: Second-order nonlinear optical polymeric films, including alternating monlecular layers of two head-to-head, mainchain, amphophilic, chromophoric polymers, one polymer having the electron donating end of the chromophore attached to hydrophilic groups, and the other polymer having the electron donating end of the chromophore attached to hydrophobic groups, and methods of fabricating the films for use in optonics.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1995Date of Patent: May 28, 1996Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Kenneth J. Wynne, Geoffrey A. Lindsay, James M. Hoover, John Stenger-Smith, Ronald A. Henry, deceased, Andrew P. Chafin
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Patent number: 5247055Abstract: The present invention discloses new polymers which can assume an accordion-like conformation of the backbone. These polymers are prepared by the copolymerization of two difuntional, chemically precoupled precursors to chromophoric units. The resulting polymers have a head-to-head, tail-to-tail topology (a syndioregic arrangement of rigid units along the polymer backbone), and the molecular units are designed to fold into an "accordion" conformation. This useful microstructure (a three-dimensional conformation) forms spontaneously (self-assembles); or, it can be brought about by field-assisted processing. Films and fibers of these polymers have useful second-order nonlinear optical properties, and may be used for the modulation and switching of optical communications signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 1992Date of Patent: September 21, 1993Inventors: John D. Stenger-Smith, Ronald Henry, James Hoover, Geoffrey Lindsay, John Fischer, Kenneth J. Wynne
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Patent number: 4839112Abstract: Methods for fabricating low dimensionally electroconductive articles comprising cofacially stacking organomacrocycles and as cofacially stacking phthalocyanines, in which a composition comprising a cofacially stacking phthalocyanine in strong Bronsted acid is formed into a desired shape such as a fiber or film, solidified by removal of the solvent, and provided in fractional valence state.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1986Date of Patent: June 13, 1989Assignee: Northwestern UniversityInventors: Kenneth J. Wynne, Tobin J. Marks, Tamotsu Inabe
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Patent number: 4622170Abstract: Methods and formable compositions for fabricating electrically conductive articles comprising cofacially stacking organomacrocycles and as cofacially stacking phthalocyanines, in which a composition comprising a cofacially stacking phthalocyanine in strong Bronsted acid is formed into a desired shape such as a fiber or film, solidified by removal of the solvent, and provided in fractional valence state.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1985Date of Patent: November 11, 1986Assignee: Northwestern UniversityInventors: Kenneth J. Wynne, Tobin J. Marks, Tamotsu Inabe
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Patent number: 4581391Abstract: The use of high vinyl-containing vinylmethylsiloxane polymers as high temature insulating materials.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1984Date of Patent: April 8, 1986Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: James C. Baldwin, Gary W. Meyers, Robert A. Rhein, Kenneth J. Wynne
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Patent number: 4563300Abstract: Methods and formable compositions for fabricating electrically conductive articles comprising ionically bonding cofacially stacking organomacrocycles and as cofacially stacking phthalocyanines, in which a composition comprising a cofacially stacking phthalocyanine in strong Bronsted acid is formed into a desired shape such as a fiber or film, solidified by removal of the solvent, and provided in fractional valence state.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1982Date of Patent: January 7, 1986Assignee: Northwestern UniversityInventors: Kenneth J. Wynne, Tobin J. Marks, Tamotsu Inabe
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Patent number: 4304719Abstract: An iodine-doped polyfluorometallophthalocyanine having the repeating unit [(PcMF) (I).sub.x ] wherein Pc represents a phthalocyanine moiety, M represents a III-A metal selected from the class consisting of aluminum and gallium, and x is from about 0.01 to about 3.4 if M is aluminum and x is from about 0.01 to about 2.3 if M is gallium.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1981Date of Patent: December 8, 1981Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Kenneth J. Wynne, Paul Kuznesof, Ronald Nohr, Malcolm Kenney
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Patent number: 4132842Abstract: A silicon-phthalocyanine-siloxane polymer having the formula ##STR1## WHEREIN Pc is a phthalocyanine nucleus, Ph is a phenyl group, n is an integer from 1 to 8, and x is an average value up to 20, is prepared by a method including a reaction of a phthalocyanine-silicon-disilanol with a bis(ureido) dialkyl silane or bis(ureido) siloxane or by the reaction of a phthalocyanine-silicon-disilanol with a bis(dialkyl) amino) silane or a bis(dialkylamino) siloxane. These polymers are useful as strengthening agents for high-temperature resins, such as polyimides, poly(phthalocyanines) or epoxies and as coatings or dyes.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 1978Date of Patent: January 2, 1979Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Kenneth J. Wynne, John B. Davison
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Patent number: 4131609Abstract: A silicon-phthalocyanine-siloxy monomer having the formula:PcSi(OSiR'Ph(OSiR".sub.2 ).sub.r X).sub.2wherein X is a hydroxyl group or unreido group having the formula: ##STR1## Pc is a phthalocyanine nucleus, R' and R" are alkyl groups having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, and r is an integer from 1 to 4. The monomers are useful as dyes and in polymer synthesis as reactive intermediates.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 1978Date of Patent: December 26, 1978Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Kenneth J. Wynne, John B. Davison
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Patent number: 4097294Abstract: A method for preparing ceramic material from a polymer which comprises selecting a polymer from the class consisting of poly(diorganosilanes), poly(haloorganosilanes), poly(carbosilanes), polysilazanes, polycarbocarboranes, and polyborazines; heating said polymer to a temperature from 700.degree. to 2000.degree. C at a rate of at most 100.degree. C/hr. in an inert atmosphere for at least one hour; and cooling to room temperature at a cooling rate which avoids thermal stresses.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1976Date of Patent: June 27, 1978Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Roy W. Rice, Kenneth J. Wynne, William B. Fox
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Patent number: H2046Abstract: A process that lends itself to automation for producing multi-layer second-order nonlinear optical polymer (NLOP) thin films by the forming of a polycation layer containing an NLO-active cationic polymer, having non-centrosymmetric chromophores, on a substrate followed by the forming of a polyanion layer, also having non-centrosymmetric chromophores, on the polycation layer. A predetermind number of the polycation and the polyanion layers may be alternated upon the surface as well as one or more buffer layers. An added benefit is the formation of an ultra-smooth surface of the same order of roughness as the substrate upon which the layers are formed.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1997Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Seceretary of the NavyInventors: M. Joe Roberts, Geoff A. Lindsay, Kenneth J. Wynne, Andrew P. Chafin, John D. Stenger-Smith, Peter Zarras, Rena Y. Yee, Richard A. Holloins