Patents by Inventor Stephen Fearon

Stephen Fearon 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: 11926768
    Abstract: A method of activating a surface of a plastics substrate formed from: (a) polyaryletherketone such as polyether ether ketone (PEEK) polyether ketone ketone (PEKK), polyether ketone (PEK); polyether ether ketone ketone (PEEKK); or polyether ketone ether ketone ketone (PEKEKK); (b) a polymer containing a phenyl group directly attached to a carbonyl group, for example polybutadiene terephthalate (PBT) optionally wherein the carbonyl group is part of an amide group, such as polyarylamide (PARA); (c) polyphenylene sulfide (PPS); or (d) polyetherimide (PEI); for subsequent bonding, the method comprising the step of exposing the surface to actinic radiation wherein the actinic radiation: includes radiation with wavelength in the range from about 10 nm to about 1000 nm; the energy of the actinic radiation to which the surface is exposed is in the range from about 0.5 J/cm2 to about 300 J/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Brian Deegan, Gavin Haberlin, Brendan Kneafsey, Stephen Fearon
  • Publication number: 20230272186
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cure accelerators useful for anaerobic curable compositions, such as adhesives and sealants. The cure accelerators may be embraced generally within the structure below where X is CH2, O, S, NR?, CR?R?? or C?O; R is hydrogen or (meth)acryl; R6 is hydrogen, halogen, amino, carboxyl, nitro, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, hydroxyalkyl, hydroxyalkenyl, hydroxyalkynyl, or alkaryl; and A and A1 are each individually selected from hydrogen or taken together create a ring structure of 5 to 12 total ring atoms, wherein the ring structure may be cycloaliphatic, cycloheteroaliphatic or aromatic or combinations thereof with or without substitution by one or more hydroxyl or (meth)acryl groups; and n is 0 or 1, provided that when R is hydrogen, A and A? cannot both be hydrogen or taken together cannot be naphthyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Brian Deegan, Brendan Kneafsey, Nigel Sweeney, Patrick O'Dwyer, Stephen Fearon, Gavin Haberlin, David Birkett, David Condron, Marc Hamm, Vincent O'Brien
  • Publication number: 20220025234
    Abstract: An anaerobically curable composition comprising a hydroxy-functionalized mono(meth)acrylate compound, an aromatic mono(meth)acrylate compound which is not the same as the hydroxy-functionalized mono(meth)acrylate compound, a (meth)acrylate functionalised polyurethane resin, and an anaerobic cure inducing component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen Fearon, Gavin Haberlin, David Condron
  • Publication number: 20210403758
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are anaerobically curable compositions comprising one or more polymerizable (meth)acrylate ester monomers, a redox-active metal catalyst, saccharin or a saccharin derivative, a peroxide, and a benzoyl functionalized compound, wherein the composition does not gel after about 24 hours of storage at room temperature and methods of adhering two substrates using the anaerobically curable compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen FEARON, Nigel SWEENEY, Gerry COUGHLAN, David CONDRON, Brendan KNEAFSEY
  • Publication number: 20210292603
    Abstract: A method of activating a surface of a plastics substrate formed from: (a) polyaryletherketone such as polyether ether ketone (PEEK) polyether ketone ketone (PEKK), polyether ketone (PEK); polyether ether ketone ketone (PEEKK); or polyether ketone ether ketone ketone (PEKEKK); (b) a polymer containing a phenyl group directly attached to a carbonyl group, for example polybutadiene terephthalate (PBT) optionally wherein the carbonyl group is part of an amide group, such as polyarylamide (PARA); (c) polyphenylene sulfide (PPS); or (d) polyetherimide (PEI); for subsequent bonding, the method comprising the step of exposing the surface to actinic radiation wherein the actinic radiation: includes radiation with wavelength in the range from about 10 nm to about 1000 nm; the energy of the actinic radiation to which the surface is exposed is in the range from about 0.5 J/cm2 to about 300 J/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Brian Deegan, Gavin Haberlin, Brendan Kneafsey, Stephen Fearon