Patents by Inventor Louis Joseph Sorriero

Louis Joseph Sorriero 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).

  • Patent number: 6517984
    Abstract: An electrophotographic element comprises: an electrically conducting layer, a charge generating layer overlying the electrically conducting layer, and a charge transport layer overlying the electrically conducting layer. The charge transport layer, which can be an overcoat overlying the charge generating layer, comprises the reaction product in an aqueous medium of a mixture comprising a silsesquioxane polymer and a hole transport compound that comprises a tertiary arylamine containing at least one alcoholic or one phenolic hydroxy substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Wayne Thomas Ferrar, Jane Robinson Cowdery-Corvan, William Tod Gruenbaum, Jeanne Ellen Kaeding, Michel Frantz Molaire, Louis Joseph Sorriero, David Steven Weiss
  • Patent number: 5874018
    Abstract: Glassy solid electrolytes and charge transporting elements including antistatic elements and charge generating elements. The charge generating element has an electrically conductive layer, a charge generating layer overlying the electrically conductive layer, and a layer of glassy solid electrolyte overlying the electrically conductive layer. The glassy solid electrolyte includes a complex of silsesquioxane and a charge carrier. The complex has a surface resistivity from about 1.times.10.sup.10 to about 1.times.10.sup.17 ohms/sq. The complex has a T.sup.2 -silicon:T.sup.3 -silicon ratio of less than 1 to 1. The complex has a ratio of carbon atoms to silicon atoms of greater than about 1.2 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wayne Thomas Ferrar, Jane Robin Cowdery-Corvan, Edward T. Miskinis, Catherine Newell, Donald S. Rimai, Louis Joseph Sorriero, John Anthony Sinicropi, David Steven Weiss, Nicholas Zumbulyadis
  • Patent number: 5786119
    Abstract: An electrophotographic element comprising a high mobility charge transport layer. The layer binder is a polyester according to formula I: ##STR1## wherein Ar represents phenylene, terephthoyl, isophthoyl, 5-t-butyl-1,3-phenylene and phenylene indane;D represents alkyl, linear or branched, or cycloalkyl, having from 4 to about 12 carbons;R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.7, and R.sup.8 represent H, alkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, cyclohexyl, norbornyl, phenylindanyl, perfluoralkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, .alpha., .alpha.-dihydrofluoroalkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and .alpha.,.alpha.,.omega.-hydrofluoroalkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; andR.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6, R.sup.9, R.sup.10, R.sup.11, and R.sup.12 represent, H, halo and alkyl having from 1 to about 6 carbons;x is from 0 to 0.8; andy is from 0 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Louis Joseph Sorriero, Marie B. O'Regan, Paul Michael Borsenberger
  • Patent number: 5776649
    Abstract: The composition of the present invention is a miscible blend comprising a first addition copolymer and a second addition copolymer, each having a weight-average molecular weight of about 30,000 to 100,000 and a number-average molecular weight of about 5,000 to 50,000, and each comprising repeating units of (1) at least one of an aromatic vinyl monomer of the structure, ##STR1## where Ar is phenylene or naphthylene and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are H or lower alkyl; and (2) at least one of (a) an acrylic ester of the structure ##STR2## where R.sup.3 is linear or branched C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl and R.sub.4 is H or lower alkyl, or (b) a divinyl compound of the structure ##STR3## where R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are H, Cl, or CH.sub.3. The polymer composition comprises a miscible blend of the above-described first and second addition copolymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Louis Joseph Sorriero, John J. Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 5747145
    Abstract: The composition of the present invention is a miscible blend comprising a first addition copolymer and a second addition copolymer, each having a weight-average molecular weight of about 30,000 to 100,000 and a number-average molecular weight of about 5,000 to 50,000, and each comprising repeating units of (1) at least one of an aromatic vinyl monomer of the structure, ##STR1## where Ar is phenylene or naphthylene and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are H or lower alkyl; and (2) at least one of (a) an acrylic ester of the structure ##STR2## where R.sup.3 is linear or branched C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl and R.sub.4 is H or lower alkyl, or (b) a divinyl compound of the structure ##STR3## where R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are H, Cl, or CH.sub.3. The polymer composition comprises a miscible blend of the above-described first and second addition copolymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Louis Joseph Sorriero, John J. Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 5733695
    Abstract: A multiactive electrophotographic element comprising an electrically conductive support, a photoconductive pigment containing charge generation layer and a charge transport layer wherein the charge generation layer contains a polyester-ionomer binder having a weight average molecular weight of 2,500 to 75,000 and a glass transition temperature of 20.degree. to 150.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michel F. Molaire, Louis Joseph Sorriero
  • Patent number: 5731117
    Abstract: Glassy solid electrolytes and charge transporting elements including antistatic elements and charge generating elements. The charge generating element has an electrically conductive layer, a charge generating layer overlying the electrically conductive layer, and a layer of glassy solid electrolyte overlying the electrically conductive layer. The glassy solid electrolyte includes a complex of silsesquioxane and a charge carrier. The complex has a surface resistivity from about 1.times.10.sup.10 to about 1.times.10.sup.17 ohms/sq. The complex has a T.sup.2 -silicon:T.sup.3 -silicon ratio of less than 1 to 1. The complex has a ratio of carbon atoms to silicon atoms of greater than about 1.2 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wayne Thomas Ferrar, Jane Robin Cowdery-Corvan, Edward T. Miskinis, Catherine Newell, Donald S. Rimai, Louis Joseph Sorriero, John Anthony Sinicropi, David Steven Weiss, Nicholas Zumbulyadis
  • Patent number: 5716436
    Abstract: An ink jet ink comprising a carrier, a pigment and a water dispersible polyester ionomer having an absolute molecular weight from 750 to 8000 and a glass transition temperature from 10.degree. to 80.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Louis Joseph Sorriero, Domenic Santilli