Patents by Inventor Thomas Reginald Forbus

Thomas Reginald Forbus 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: 11820952
    Abstract: A lubricating fluid comprising a base oil, which utilizes carboxylic esters of carboxyl di-end-capped-polyethylene glycols, or a mixture thereof with carboxylic esters of carboxyl di-end-capped-polytetramethylene glycols, to improve low temperature performance, as well as minimize elastohydrodynamic shear strength, and enables the production of high efficiency fluids with enhanced low temperature properties for machines or machine elements that operate in the elastohydrodynamic regime in lubrication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: VANTAGE SANTOLUBES RESEARCH LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Reginald Forbus, Jr., Salvatore Michael Perna
  • Publication number: 20220213400
    Abstract: A lubricating fluid comprising a base oil, which utilizes carboxylic esters of carboxyl di-end-capped-polyethylene glycols, or a mixture thereof with carboxylic esters of carboxyl di-end-capped-polytetramethylene glycols, to improve low temperature performance, as well as minimize elastohydrodynamic shear strength, and enables the production of high efficiency fluids with enhanced low temperature properties for machines or machine elements that operate in the elastohydrodynamic regime in lubrication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Reginald Forbus, JR., Salvatore Michael Perna
  • Patent number: 9879198
    Abstract: The instant invention involves the use of simple and complex carboxyl esters, or mixtures thereof, of carboxyl end-capped-polytetramethylene glycols of specific structure to minimize the elastohydrodynamic shear strength of these types of fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Santolubes LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Reginald Forbus
  • Publication number: 20170145336
    Abstract: The instant invention involves the use of simple and complex carboxyl esters, or mixtures thereof, of carboxyl end-capped-polytetramethylene glycols of specific structure to minimize the elastohydrodynamic shear strength of these types of fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventor: Thomas Reginald Forbus, JR.
  • Patent number: 9556397
    Abstract: A lubrication fluid including cyclic hydrocarbons in combination with dimethylsilicone fluids and/or di-alkyl or di-cycloalkyl or alkyl-cycloalkyl, or mixtures thereof, and di-end-capped polypropylene oxides or highly branched esters to produce very high traction elastohydrodynamic (EHD) traction fluids and to modify the low temperature viscometric properties of the mixed fluids without adversely affecting the very high elastohydrodynamic shear strength or traction coefficients of the very high shear strength cyclic hydrocarbon fluid in the resulting mixed fluids with improved low temperature viscosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Santolubes LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Reginald Forbus, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20150105305
    Abstract: A lubrication fluid including cyclic hydrocarbons in combination with dimethylsilicone fluids and/or di-alkyl or di-cycloalkyl or alkyl-cycloalkyl, or mixtures thereof, and di-end-capped polypropylene oxides or highly branched esters to produce very high traction elastohydrodynamic (EHD) traction fluids and to modify the low temperature viscometric properties of the mixed fluids without adversely affecting the very high elastohydrodynamic shear strength or traction coefficients of the very high shear strength cyclic hydrocarbon fluid in the resulting mixed fluids with improved low temperature viscosity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Santolubes Incorporation
    Inventor: Thomas Reginald Forbus, JR.
  • Patent number: 6013239
    Abstract: In a synthetic porous crystalline material having the structure of ZSM-5 and a composition involving the molar relationship: X.sub.2 O.sub.3 :(n)YO.sub.2, wherein X is a trivalent element; Y is a tetravalent element; and n is greater than about 12, the crystals have a major dimension of at least about 0.5 micron and surface framework YO.sub.2 /X.sub.2 O.sub.3 ratio which is no more than 20% less than the bulk framework YO.sub.2 /X.sub.2 O.sub.3 ratio of the crystal. The material is synthesized using an amino-acid as a directing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Catherine Shuihua Hsia Chen, Frank Thomas Diguiseppi, Thomas Reginald Forbus, Jr., Mae Koenig Rubin, Sanjay Bhardwaj Sharma, David Said Shihabi, Hye Kyung Cho Timken, Steven Edward Wentzek