Patents by Inventor Michel Nuckols

Michel Nuckols 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).

  • Publication number: 20230080086
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides fuel additives including Mannich-based quaternary ammonium salt additives, fuel compositions including such additives, and Mehtods of improving performance of fuel injector using such additives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Scott D. Schwab, Geeta Vadehra, Michel Nuckols
  • Publication number: 20230077913
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides fuel additives including Mannich-based quaternary ammonium salt additives, fuel compositions including such additives, and Methods of improving performance of fuel injector using such additives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Scott D. Schwab, Geeta Vadehra, Michel Nuckols
  • Patent number: 11390821
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and fuel compositions for reducing or eliminating fuel injector deposits in high pressure gasoline engines. The fuel compositions include gasoline and a synergistic combination of a fuel injector clean-up mixture including a heterocyclic amine, diamine, or open chain derivative thereof and a hydrocarbyl substituted dicarboxylic anhydride derivative selected from a diamide, acid/amide, acid/ester, diacid, amide/ester, diester, and imide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Shanahan, Michel Nuckols
  • Patent number: 11248183
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of fuel additives for fuel compositions and more particularly to a composition that can be used as a friction modifier, and its preparation process. More particularly, the present invention concerns a composition comprising at least one fatty acid amide of diethanolamine (DEA) and at least one fatty acid ester and/or amide of DEA oligomer, and it preparation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: OLEON NV
    Inventors: Keihann Yavari, Lieven Van Hecke, Scott A. Culley, Charles Shanahan, Michel Nuckols
  • Publication number: 20200332207
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of fuel additives for fuel compositions and more particularly to a composition that can be used as a friction modifier, and its preparation process. More particularly, the present invention concerns a composition comprising at least one fatty acid amide of diethanolamine (DEA) and at least one fatty acid ester and/or amide of DEA oligomer, and it preparation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Keihann YAVARI, Lieven VAN HECKE, Scott A. CULLEY, Charles SHANAHAN, Michel NUCKOLS
  • Publication number: 20200248089
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and fuel compositions for reducing or eliminating fuel injector deposits in high pressure gasoline engines. The fuel compositions include gasoline and a synergistic combination of a fuel injector clean-up mixture including a heterocyclic amine, diamine, or open chain derivative thereof and a hydrocarbyl substituted dicarboxylic anhydride derivative selected from a diamide, acid/amide, acid/ester, diacid, amide/ester, diester, and imide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Charles Shanahan, Michel Nuckols
  • Publication number: 20200024536
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and fuel compositions for reducing fuel injector deposits in gasoline engines operated at high fuel pressures. The fuel compositions include hydrocarbons boiling in the gasoline range and a synergistic fuel injector cleaning mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Charles Shanahan, Michel Nuckols
  • Publication number: 20190177632
    Abstract: A fuel composition including a fuel and a fuel additive including a fuel soluble detergent selected from succinimide compounds of the Formula (I), Mannich detergents of the formulae (IIa), and amine detergents of the formulae (IIIa) and (IIIb). The fuel soluble detergents are derived from a specific class of ethylene-alpha olefin copolymers having an Mn of less than 5,000 g/mol, an ethylene unit content of more than 40 mol % to less than 90 mol %; a terminal unsaturation of 70 mol % or greater; at least 70 mol % of the unsaturation is terminal vinylidene, one or more tri-substituted isomers of the terminal vinylidene or any combination thereof, an average ethylene run length of less than 2.6; and wherein nC2,Actual>nC2,Statistical. Methods employing the fuel compositions for operating diesel and gasoline engines to reduce injector valve deposits, valve sticking and injector nozzle fouling, and a method for stabilizing a diesel fuel composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: AFTON CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nathaniel Cain, Michel Nuckols, John Loper, Lawrence Cunningham, William Colucci
  • Publication number: 20180223017
    Abstract: Polyisobutylenes (PIBs) containing a high proportion of vinylidene end groups are generally favored over conventional PIBs because of their higher reactivity in reactions that are needed to prepare fuel and lubricant additives. However, detergent additives that have been prepared from conventional PIBs actually perform better than detergent additives prepared from high reactive PIBs. Specifically, detergent additives that were prepared from conventional PIB that was then enriched with tri- and tetra-PIB resulted in altered thermal stability and improved detergency of the resulting compound as compared to the structures which were created using a high proportion of vinylidene end groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: William Jay Colucci, Charles S. Shanahan, Michel Nuckols, Alice Diane Gauthier, John T. Loper
  • Patent number: 10011795
    Abstract: A fuel additive concentrate for gasoline, a gasoline fuel containing an additive mixture, a method for reducing wear in an engine and in a fuel delivery system of a gasoline engine, and a method for improving injector performance. The additive concentrate includes an aromatic solvent and a mixture that contains (i) N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)alkylamide, (ii) 2-((2-(bis(2-hydroxyethyl)amino)ethyl)amino)ethyl alkanoate and N-(2-(bis(2-hydroxyethyl)amino)ethyl)-N-(2-hydroxyethyl)alkylamide, and (iii) fatty acid ester(s) and amide(s) derived from a self-condensation product of diethanolamine (DEA) containing at least 3 amino groups. A weight ratio of (i) to (ii) to (iii) in the concentrate ranges from about 8:2:0 to about 2:5:3. The fuel additive mixture is substantially devoid of glycerin and remains fluid at a temperature down to about ?20° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: AFTON CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michel Nuckols, Charles Shanahan, Scott A Culley, Keihann Yavari, Lieven Van Hecke
  • Publication number: 20170158785
    Abstract: Polyisobutylenes (PIBs) containing a high proportion of vinylidene end groups are generally favored over conventional PIBs because of their higher reactivity in reactions that are needed to prepare fuel and lubricant additives. However, detergent additives that have been prepared from conventional PIBs actually perform better than detergent additives prepared from high reactive PIBs. Specifically, detergent additives that were prepared from conventional PIB that was then enriched with tri- and tetra-PIB resulted in altered thermal stability and improved detergency of the resulting compound as compared to the structures which were created using a high proportion of vinylidene end groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: William Jay Colucci, Charles S. Shanahan, Michel Nuckols, Alice Diane Gauthier, John T. Loper
  • Publication number: 20120180382
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a gasoline additive concentrate including a reaction product of (a) 1,8-naphthalic anhydride; and (b) a reaction product of a hydrocarbyl-substituted succinic anhydride with a polyamine. Fuel compositions containing the additive concentrate are also disclosed. Method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Xinggao Fang, Jason Lagona, Michel Nuckols, May Duffield Thomas