Patents by Inventor Paul Edward Howson
Paul Edward Howson 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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Publication number: 20170050860Abstract: Different methods for the preparation of high purity NaAlCl4 are disclosed. The methods includes charging a feed having an intimate mixture of aluminum chloride, sodium chloride, and aluminum metal, to a reactor at an initial temperature less than about 80° C., carrying out a solid state reaction to form a solid NaAlCl4 at an intermediate temperature less than about 145° C., melting the formed solid NaAlCl4 at an elevated temperature greater than about 150° C. to produce molten phase NaAlCl4, holding the reactor at a raised temperature greater than about 165° C. to substantially complete formation of colorless NaAlCl4 and filtering the reactor contents at a final temperature greater than about 165° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2015Publication date: February 23, 2017Inventors: Albert Santo Stella, Sergei Kniajanski, Paul William Buckley, Barbara Ellen Miebach, Elliott West Shanklin, Paul Edward Howson, David Winfield Woodruff
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Patent number: 9567232Abstract: Different methods for the preparation of high purity NaAlCl4 are disclosed. The methods includes charging a feed having an intimate mixture of aluminum chloride, sodium chloride, and aluminum metal, to a reactor at an initial temperature less than about 80° C., carrying out a solid state reaction to form a solid NaAlCl4 at an intermediate temperature less than about 145° C., melting the formed solid NaAlCl4 at an elevated temperature greater than about 150° C. to produce molten phase NaAlCl4, holding the reactor at a raised temperature greater than about 165° C. to substantially complete formation of colorless NaAlCl4 and filtering the reactor contents at a final temperature greater than about 165° C.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Albert Santo Stella, Sergei Kniajanski, Paul William Buckley, Barbara Ellen Miebach, Elliott West Shanklin, Paul Edward Howson, David Winfield Woodruff
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Patent number: 9289730Abstract: The invention provides improved hollow fiber membranes having at least two layers, and methods for forming the same. The methods include co-extruding a first composition, a second composition, and a third composition to form a dual layer hollow fiber membrane. The first composition includes a glassy polymer; the second composition includes a polysiloxane; and the third composition includes a bore fluid. The dual layer hollow fiber membranes include a first layer and a second layer, the first layer being a porous layer which includes the glassy polymer of the first composition, and the second layer being a polysiloxane layer which includes the polysiloxane of the second composition.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Dhaval Ajit Bhandari, Patrick Joseph McCloskey, Paul Edward Howson, Kristi Jean Narang, William Koros
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Patent number: 9085542Abstract: A method for synthesis of N-methyl piperazine diphenolamide is presented. The method includes contacting diphenolic acid with N-methyl piperazine to form a reaction mixture; and heating the reaction mixture to form a reaction product including N-methyl piperazine diphenolamide. An associated composition is also presented.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Patrick Joseph McCloskey, Julia Lam Lee, Paul Edward Howson, Hongyi Zhou
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Publication number: 20150053608Abstract: A membrane including a polyarylnitrile copolymer is presented. The polyarylnitrile copolymer includes structural units having a formula (I) and at least one terminal group having a formula (II): wherein “a” is 0, 1, 2, or 3; “m” is an integer having a value of 35 to 150; R1 is independently at each occurrence a hyrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, a C1-C12 aliphatic radical, a C3-C12 cycloaliphatic radical, or a C3-C12 aromatic radical; R2 and R3 are independently a C1-C12 aliphatic radical, a C3-C12 cycloaliphatic radical, or a C3-C12 aromatic radical; L is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; and Ar is independently at each occurrence a residue of an aromatic diol or a residue of an aromatic dihalide.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Gary William Yeager, Julia Lam Lee, Paul Edward Howson, Hongyi Zhou, Cathryn Ellen Olsen, Patrick Joseph McCloskey, Matthew Jeremiah Misner, Louisa Ruth Carr, Daniel Steiger
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Publication number: 20150020685Abstract: The invention provides improved hollow fiber membranes having at least two layers, and methods for forming the same. The methods include co-extruding a first composition, a second composition, and a third composition to form a dual layer hollow fiber membrane. The first composition includes a glassy polymer; the second composition includes a polysiloxane; and the third composition includes a bore fluid. The dual layer hollow fiber membranes include a first layer and a second layer, the first layer being a porous layer which includes the glassy polymer of the first composition, and the second layer being a polysiloxane layer which includes the polysiloxane of the second composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2013Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Dhaval Ajit BHANDARI, Patrick Joseph MCCLOSKEY, Paul Edward HOWSON, Kristi Jean NARANG, William KOROS
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Patent number: 8536298Abstract: A process for preparing polyimide resins comprises stirring a diamine and a dianhydride in a solvent to form a slurry; heating the slurry to a temperature sufficient for the diamine and dianhydride to react wherein the temperature is below the melting point of the dianhydride, below the melting point of the diamine, or below the melting points of the dianhydride and diamine; and reacting the diamine and dianhydride to form a polyimide having sufficient molecular weight to precipitate from the solvent.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2005Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: SABIC Innovative Platics IP B.V.Inventors: Philip L. Angermeier, Robert Edgar Colborn, Robert R. Gallucci, Paul Edward Howson, Tara Jane Mullen, Roy Ray Odle, Albert Santo Stella, John Morgan Whitney
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Patent number: 7772435Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method comprising: (a) adding an aqueous solution comprising a quaternary ammonium salt to an organic solvent in a vessel under an inert atmosphere, thereby forming a first mixture comprising the quaternary ammonium salt and the solvent; and (b) mixing the first mixture at a temperature and for a time sufficient to remove water and a portion of the solvent from the first mixture, wherein the mixing is performed in an inert atmosphere and the temperature is less than the decomposition temperature of the quaternary ammonium salt.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.Inventors: Thomas Link Guggenheim, Paul Edward Howson, Farid Fouad Khouri, Lioba Maria Kloppenburg, Matthew Hal Littlejohn, Jacob Lee Oberholtzer, Juan Rodriguez Ordonez, Suresh R. Sriram, David Winfield Woodruff
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Publication number: 20080161576Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method comprising: (a) adding an aqueous solution comprising a quaternary ammonium salt to an organic solvent in a vessel under an inert atmosphere, thereby forming a first mixture comprising the quaternary ammonium salt and the solvent; and (b) mixing the first mixture at a temperature and for a time sufficient to remove water and a portion of the solvent from the first mixture, wherein the mixing is performed in an inert atmosphere and the temperature is less than the decomposition temperature of the quaternary ammonium salt.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2006Publication date: July 3, 2008Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Thomas Link Guggenheim, Paul Edward Howson, Farid Fouad Khouri, Lioba Maria Kloppenburg, Matthew Hal Littlejohn, Jacob Lee Oberholtzer, Juan Rodriguez Ordonez, Suresh R. Sriram, David Winfield Woodruff
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Patent number: 7053168Abstract: A method for preparing a polyimide includes introducing a mixture of an oligomer and a solvent to an extruder, removing solvent via at least one extruder vent, and melt kneading the oligomer to form a polyimide. The polyimide has a low residual solvent content. The method is faster than solution polymerization of polyimides, and it avoids the stoichiometric inaccuracies associated with reactive extrusion processes that use monomers as starting materials.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2003Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Norberto Silvi, Mark Howard Giammattei, Paul Edward Howson, Farid Fouad Khouri
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Patent number: 6906168Abstract: Methods of reducing the amount of undesirable by-products in the production of polymers are disclosed. The resulting polyetherimides have lower polydispersivity and enhanced thermomechanical properties. In some embodiments, cyclic and low molecular weight linear oligomers are also obtained.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2003Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Farid Fouad Khouri, Paul Edward Howson
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Patent number: 6790934Abstract: Aromatic polyethers are prepared by displacement polymerization reaction in the presence of a water-immiscible solvent with boiling point at atmospheric pressure of greater than 110° C. and a density ratio to water of greater than 1.1:1 at 20-25° C. The polyethers are purified by processes comprising aqueous extraction, or filtration, or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Norman Enoch Johnson, Raul Eduardo Ayala, Thomas Joseph Fyvie, Amy Rene Freshour, David Winfield Woodruff, Peter David Phelps, Ganesh Kailasam, Paul Edward Howson, Elliott West Shanklin, Lioba Maria Kloppenburg, David Bruce Hall, Pradeep Jeevaji Nadkarni, Daniel Joseph Brunelle
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Publication number: 20020151675Abstract: Aromatic polyethers are prepared by displacement polymerization reaction in the presence of a water-immiscible solvent with boiling point at atmospheric pressure of greater than 110° C. and a density ratio to water of greater than 1.1:1 at 20-25° C. The polyethers are purified by processes comprising aqueous extraction, or filtration, or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2001Publication date: October 17, 2002Inventors: Norman Enoch Johnson, Raul Eduardo Ayala, Thomas Joseph Fyvie, Amy Rene Freshour, David Winfield Woodruff, Peter David Phelps, Ganesh Kailasam, Paul Edward Howson, Elliott West Shanklin, Lioba Maria Kloppenburg, David Bruce Hall, Pradeep Jeevaji Nadkarni
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Publication number: 20020013488Abstract: High purity sterically hindered diaryl chlorophosphates, having a purity of at least 98% by weight and a proportion of the corresponding aryl dichlorophosphate less than 1.5% by weight, are prepared by a method including the steps of gradually introducing POCl3 into a mixture of a sterically hindered hydroxyaromatic compound such as 2,6-xylenol and a catalyst such as magnesium chloride, and gradually increasing the temperature of the reaction mixture to a final level in the range of about 135-150° C. The products are capable of reaction with amines such as piperazine to produce sterically hindered phosphoramidates.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2001Publication date: January 31, 2002Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: John Robert Campbell, Paul Edward Howson, Matthew Ladd Reitz
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Patent number: 6291700Abstract: Sterically hindered phosphoramidates such as N,N′-bis[di-(2,6-xylyl)phosphoryl]piperazine are prepared by the reaction of a sterically hindered diaryl chlorophosphate, such as di-(2,6-xylyl) chlorophosphate, with a basic nitrogen compound containing at least two basic N—H groups, preferably a heterocyclic compound such as piperazine, in the presence of an acid acceptor such as triethylamine. The reaction is conducted in methylene chloride or an aromatic hydrocarbon such as toluene as solvent. If an aromatic hydrocarbon is employed, there is also present at least one dipolar aprotic nitrogen compound, such as 4-dimethylaminopyridine, in an amount effective to increase the reaction rate.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2000Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: James Anthony Cella, John Robert Campbell, Paul Edward Howson
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Patent number: 6265521Abstract: Polyether polymers such as polyetherimides are prepared by a two-step reaction. The first step is the reaction between an alkali metal salt of a dihydroxy-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon, such as bisphenol A disodium salt, and a substituted aromatic compound such as 1,3-bis[N-(4-chlorophthalimido)]benzene, the alkali metal salt being employed in an amount less than stoichiometric. The intermediate low molecular weight polymer thus produced then undergoes reaction with additional alkali metal salt. By this method, a polyether polymer of closely controlled molecular weight can be conveniently prepared.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2000Date of Patent: July 24, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Thomas Joseph Fyvie, Peter David Phelps, Paul Edward Howson, Donald Frank Rohr, Ganesh Kailasam, Elliott West Shanklin
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Patent number: 6235866Abstract: Bis(halophthalimides) such as, 3-bis[N-(4-chlorophthalimido)]benzene are prepared in slurry in an organic liquid such as o-dichlorobenzene or anisole, by a reaction at a temperature of at least 150° C. between at least one diamino compound, preferably an aromatic diamine such as m- or p-phenylenediamine, and at least one halophthalic anhydride such as 4-chlorophthalic anhydride, in the presence of an imidization catalyst such as sodium phenylphosphinate. The solids content of the reaction mixture is at least about 5% and preferably at least about 12% by weight. The product slurry may be employed directly in the preparation of polyetherimides, and similar slurries may be employed to prepare other polyether polymers.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1999Date of Patent: May 22, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Farid Fouad Khouri, Ganesh Kailasam, Joseph John Caringi, Peter David Phelps, Paul Edward Howson