Patents Issued in July 29, 2014
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Patent number: 8790537Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the preparation of solid polymer electrolytes using ionic liquids useful for electrochromic devices or electrochromic windows, which used an insitu polymerized solid polymer electrolyte encompassing an ionic liquid. Therefore the electrolyte is free from leakage, corrosion, side reaction and moisture sensitivity. The synthesis of polymeric electrolyte comprising of Ionic liquid containing at least one of the anions selected from the group of trifluoromethylsulfonate (CF3SO3?), bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide [(CF3SO2)2N?] and bis(perfluoroethylsulfonyl)imide [(C2F5SO2)2N?], while varying the alkyl chain of the imidazolium ring is described and a simple method for preparing Ionic liquids has also been discussed. A method for preparing substantially pure molten salts i.e. ionic liquids is also described. Another objective of the present invention is to provide an electrochromic device utilizing these systems.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Council of Scientific & Industrial ResearchInventors: Shahzada Ahmad, Suhasini Avinash Agnihotry, Melepurath Deepa
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Patent number: 8790538Abstract: Disclosed is a composition for ferroelectric thin film formation which is used in the formation of a ferroelectric thin film of one material selected from the group consisting of PLZT, PZT, and PT. The composition for ferroelectric thin film formation is a liquid composition for the formation of a thin film of a mixed composite metal oxide formed of a mixture of a composite metal oxide (A) represented by general formula (1): (PbxLay)(ZrzTi(1?z))O3 [wherein 0.9<x<1.3, 0?y?0.1, and 0?z?0.9 are satisfied] with a composite oxide (B) or a carboxylic acid (B) represented by general formula (2): CnH2n+1COOH [wherein 3?n?7 is satisfied]. The composite oxide (B) contains one or at least two elements selected from the group consisting of P (phosphorus), Si, Ce, and Bi and one or at least two elements selected from the group consisting of Sn, Sm, Nd, and Y (yttrium).Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignees: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, STMicroelectronics (Tours) SASInventors: Jun Fujii, Hideaki Sakurai, Takashi Noguchi, Nobuyuki Soyama
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Patent number: 8790539Abstract: Provided are azeotrope-like compositions comprising 1,1,1,2,2,3,3-heptafluoro-3-methoxy propane and E-1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (K-1233zd) and uses thereof, including use in refrigerant compositions, refrigeration systems, blowing agent compositions, solvent, and aerosol propellants.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Arkema Inc.Inventors: Laurent Abbas, Brett L. Van Horn
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Patent number: 8790540Abstract: A transportable PCM (phase change material) module comprises a number of PCM packs; a housing for thermally insulting said number of PCM packs from a module's surrounding medium; spaces separating said packs and forming one or more channels for the flow of a fluid; said housing incorporating a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet; whereby, in use, fluid flows through said channels from said inlet to said outlet. A PCM (phase change material) pack comprises a laminate of a first conducting panel and a second conducting panel enclosing a portion formed primarily of PCM; wherein said portion of PCM incorporates thermal conductors. A PCM (phase change material pack) comprises an envelope of relatively highly thermally conductive material enclosing a portion formed primarily of PCM; wherein said PCM portion incorporates a conductive compound mixed into said PCM which comprises carbon black particles.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: VKR Holding A/SInventors: Mathew Holloway, Karina Torlei, Daniel Becerra, William Linsey Penfold
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Patent number: 8790541Abstract: The present invention herein provides a method for preparing a dispersion of fluorinated nanodiamond particles, which can be used in, for instance, an abrasive, a lubricant, and a heat-exchanging fluid medium, which is stable over a long period of time on the order of not less than 120 hours and which has a viscosity, as determined at 20° C., of not less than 3 cP. This dispersion can be prepared by blending fluorinated nanodiamond particles with a first liquid having a viscosity, as determined at 20° C., of not higher than 2.5 cP to thus form a suspension, classifying the suspension to give a classified suspension, and then blending the classified suspension with a second liquid having a viscosity value, as determined at 20° C., of not less than 4 cP.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2007Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Central Glass Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akifumi Yao
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Patent number: 8790542Abstract: The present invention provides for novel compositions and methods for recycling or recovering ionic liquid used in IL pretreated cellulose and/or lignocellulosic biomass (LBM).Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignees: Sandia Corporation, The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Dean C. Dibble, Aurelia Cheng, Anthe George
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Patent number: 8790543Abstract: A closure (40) for a container incorporates calcium hydride and a matrix material as a hydrogen-generating composition. In use, hydrogen is generated which reacts with oxygen permeating a container associated with the closure and a catalyst associated with the container catalyses reaction of the hydrogen and oxygen to produce water, thereby scavenging the oxygen. The composition of calcium hydride and matrix is also claimed.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Colormatrix Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Adrian John Carmichael, Andrew Stuart Overend, Mark Rule, Ronald James Valus, James Stuart Leeming
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Patent number: 8790544Abstract: It is possible to obtain a polarizing film having a high dichroic ratio by using a liquid-crystalline coating solution in which a small quantity of a second lyotropic liquid-crystalline low-molecular compound is mixed with a first lyotropic liquid-crystalline low-molecular compound. The second lyotropic liquid-crystalline low-molecular compound has a mole number smaller than the first lyotropic liquid-crystalline low-molecular compound. The molecular size of the second lyotropic liquid-crystalline low-molecular compound is smaller than that of the first lyotropic liquid-crystalline low-molecular compound.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Shoichi Matsuda, Tadayuki Kameyama, Sadahiro Nakanishi, Toru Umemoto
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Patent number: 8790545Abstract: A composition for a liquid crystal film includes: 100 parts by weight of a vertically aligned liquid crystal mixture; 0.001-20 parts by weight of a chiral dopant; and 50-900 parts by weight of a solvent.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Dae-Hee Lee, Belyaev Sergey, Moon-Soo Park
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Patent number: 8790546Abstract: A method comprising contacting a carbon and hydrogen-containing solid fuel and a metal-based catalyst in the presence of oxygen to produce hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide gas, wherein the contacting occurs at a temperature sufficiently high to prevent char formation in an amount capable of stopping production of the hydrogen gas and the carbon monoxide gas is provided. In one embodiment, the metal-based catalyst comprises a rhodium-cerium catalyst. Embodiments further include a system for producing syngas. The systems and methods described herein provide shorter residence time and high selectivity for hydrogen and carbon monoxide.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2008Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Regents of the University of MinnesotaInventors: Lanny D. Schmidt, Paul J. Dauenhauer, Nick J. Degenstein, Bradon J. Dreyer, Joshua L. Colby
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Patent number: 8790547Abstract: An anisotropic conductive adhesive including conductive particles dispersed in an epoxy-based adhesive containing an epoxy compound and a curing agent gives a cured product having the elastic modulus satisfying the expressions (1) to (5), in which EM35, EM55, EM95, and EM150 are values of the elastic modulus of the cured product at 35° C., 55° C., 95° C., and 150° C., respectively, ?EM55-95 is the rate of change in the elastic modulus between 55° C. and 95° C., and ?EM95-150 is the rate of change in the elastic modulus between 95° C. and 150° C., 700 MPa?EM35?3000 MPa??(1) EM150<EM95<EM55<EM35??(2) ?EM55-95<?EM95-150??(3) 20%??EM55-95??(4) 40%??EM95-150??(5).Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Dexerials CorporationInventors: Hidetsugu Namiki, Shiyuki Kanisawa, Genki Katayanagi
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Patent number: 8790548Abstract: A carbonaceous material is derived from a polysaccharide by carbonization. The polysaccharide is preferably a starch. The carbonaceous material has mesoporosity and is useful as a solid catalytic support.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2007Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: University of YorkInventors: Vitaliy Budarin, James Hanley Clark, Rafael Luque, Duncan James MacQuarrie, Krzysztof Milkowski, Robin Jeremy White
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Patent number: 8790549Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic component using a Cu-based conductive material that can suppress oxidization even in a heat treatment in an oxidizing atmosphere and that can suppress an increase in an electrical resistance. In an electronic component having an electrode or a wiring, a ternary alloy made from three elements consisting of Cu, Al, and Co is used as a Cu-based wiring material that can prevent oxidization of the electrode or the wiring. Specifically, part or the whole of the electrode or the wiring has a chemical composition in which an Al content is 10 at % to 25 at %, a Co content is 5 at % to 20 at %, and the balance is composed of Cu and unavoidable impurities, and the chemical composition represents a ternary alloy in which two phases of a Cu solid solution formed by Al and Co being dissolved into Cu and a CoAl intermetallic compound coexist together.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiko Kato, Takashi Naito, Hiroki Yamamoto, Takuya Aoyagi, Seiichi Watanabe, Seiji Miura, Norihito Sakaguchi, Kazuki Aoshima, Kenji Ohkubo
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Patent number: 8790550Abstract: The present invention is directed to an electroconductive thick film paste composition comprising Ag and a Pb-free bismuth-tellurium oxide both dispersed in an organic medium, wherein the paste is fireable at temperatures below 420° C. The paste is especially useful for forming electrodes on substrates such as glass or films, particularly electrochromic glass or films, that would be damaged by higher firing temperatures. The present invention is further directed to a device comprising an electrode formed from the paste composition and, in particular, to an electrochromic device comprising such an electrode.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Kenneth Warren Hang, Hena Pyada, Howard T Sawhill, Michael A. Skurski, Robert Paul Waldrop
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Patent number: 8790551Abstract: An electrolyte composition containing an ionic liquid and conductive particles, an electrolyte composition containing an ionic liquid and oxide semiconductor particles and optionally containing conductive particles, and an electrolyte composition containing an ionic liquid and insulating particles are provided. Furthermore, a photoelectric conversion element comprising: a working electrode, the working electrode comprising an electrode substrate and an oxide semiconductor porous film formed on the electrode substrate and sensitized with a dye; a counter electrode disposed opposing the working electrode; and an electrolyte layer made of these electrolyte compositions is provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Usui, Nobuo Tanabe, Hiroshi Matsui, Tetsuya Ezure, Shozo Yanagida
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Patent number: 8790552Abstract: A highly conductive wet coating composition including a molten salt and a highly conductive thin film prepared therefrom is provided. The highly conductive wet coating composition can be coated at room temperature and the thin film prepared therefrom has a good thin film characteristic and high conductivity.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jong-Jin Park, Jae-Hwan Kim
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Patent number: 8790553Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition suitable for use in electrical equipment containing a dielectric fluid including an oil component, the oil component including one or both of crambe oil and high erucic acid rapeseed oil and one or both of esterified crambe oil and esterified high erucic acid rapeseed oil.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Jose Humberto Lopes, David V. Mahoney, Rafael Garcia-Ramirez
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Patent number: 8790554Abstract: A method of preparing meta-aramid fibers includes the operations of polymerization, neutralization and spinning using m-phenylenediamine and isophthaloyl chloride as raw materials, wherein the neutralizing agent is added in an amount that is sufficient only for neutralizing a part of hydrogen chloride, so that the resultant spin dope of polyisophthaloyl metaphenylene diamine contains salts produced by the neutralization reaction and a part of unneutralized hydrogen chloride. The method of the invention has a short production line with reduced amount of the neutralizing agent, therefore both the costs of raw materials and the production energy consumption are saved. The fibers prepared according to the method of the invention have reduced gray scale to improve the electrical insulation properties of the fibers.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Inventor: Zhou Zhong
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Patent number: 8790555Abstract: The invention relates to a tool changing device of a work station in a thermoform packaging machine, used for allowing a work insert to be pushed out of the work station laterally relative to the production direction, a chain guide be movable vertically to the tool insert.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Elmar Ehrmann
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Patent number: 8790556Abstract: A spinneret having tri-arc holes may be used to produce tri-arc filaments. In some instances, tri-arc holes have a Y-shape with three prongs and each prong having an arc at the end of the prong that tapers from the end of the arc to a connection point of an adjacent arc, and tri-arc filaments have a generally-Y shape cross-section with bulbous or arcing tips. Further, tri-arc filaments may be useful in a plurality of applications including, but not limited to, filters, filters comprising particulate additives, and smoking device filters.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Celanese Acetate LLCInventors: Christopher M. Bundren, Lawton E. Kizer, Denis G. Fallon, Lixin Xue
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Patent number: 8790557Abstract: A method for producing a wood-fiber board, which has a pattern on the top, in that glued wood fibers are scattered at least one layer to form a fiber cake, and the fiber cake is subsequently compressed under pressure and temperature to form a board of the desired thickness, is characterized in that the pattern is applied to the fiber cake before compression. An installation for producing a wood-fiber board with a scattering device, by means of which a fiber cake comprising at least one layer of wood fibers glued with resin is scattered, and a conveyor device, which conveys the fiber cake in a process direction to a pressing device in which the fiber cake is pressed to form a board of the desired thickness, is characterized in that a printing device is arranged above the conveyor device between the scattering device and the pressing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventor: Norbert Kalwa
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Patent number: 8790558Abstract: A film for film capacitors having a thickness of 10 microns or less, is manufactured by the successive steps of: mixing and preparing a forming material composed of a thermoplastic resin composition; melting and extruding the forming material to a film through a T-die; pinching and cooling the film between a pressure roll and a cooling roll having a rough surface for forming a rough surface to the film, wherein the rough surface of the cooling roll has (?/Ra) of 0.2 or less, and the rough surface of the film has (?/Ra) of 0.2 or less, where (Ra) is an arithmetic average roughness defined by a method specified in JIS B 0601 2001, and (?) is a standard deviation; and rolling up the cooled film onto a winding tube in a winding unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Suzuki, Kenro Takizawa, Masaru Yoneyama, Junya Ishida
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Patent number: 8790559Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a microporous polyolefin film useable as a battery separator, which is easy to control strength, permeability and shrinking properties of the microporous film and embodies excellent quality uniformity and production stability in fabricating the microporous film.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: SK Innovation Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gwi Gwon Kang, Jang-Weon Rhee, In Hwa Jung
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Patent number: 8790560Abstract: A process for making molds which do not generate toxic gas in pouring a molten metal into the molds equipped with casting cores or the like even when the binder contained therein decomposes and which are excellent in disintegration characteristics after casting. The process includes mixing a particulate aggregate with one or more water-soluble binders, a surfactant, a crosslinking agent and water under stirring and foaming to prepare a foamed aggregate mixture, charging the foamed aggregate mixture into a mold-foaming cavity, solidifying the charged mixture by evaporating the water contained in the mixture to form a mold, and taking the mold out of the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Sintokogio, Ltd.Inventors: Norihiro Asano, Yusuke Kato
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Patent number: 8790561Abstract: Various embodiments herein include utilities for generating embosser drums that are used to pre-format optical media such as optical tape with a pattern of nanostructures such as wobbled grooves. One utility includes generating a plurality of replicas from an embossing master and bonding the replicas together to form a bonded replica structure having a surface with the nanostructure pattern imprinted therein and a surface area that is approximately the same as an outer embossing surface of the embosser drum to be formed. Advantageously, a single, one-piece metallic shim can subsequently be generated, appropriately shaped and welded at a single seam to form the embosser drum outer embossing surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Faramarz Mahnad, Joseph J. Kozak
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Patent number: 8790562Abstract: The invention relates to a dynamic mold seal for use in a method of molding apparatus to mold a polymeric frame or gasket onto the periphery of a glass sheet. The seal and method are preferably utilized to form a vehicle window.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Pilkington Group LimitedInventors: Charles Sitterlet, Robert Ronald Frutig
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Patent number: 8790563Abstract: A method is presented for stably, highly, and efficiently producing a three-dimensional molded article of a fiber-reinforced composite material having a three-dimensional shape, uniform quality, and free from wrinkles by press molding a plurality of prepregs cut out in a predetermined shape and also to a molded article.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsuneo Takano, Kiharu Numata, Akihiro Itou, Masato Taguchi, Junnichi Muramatsu
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Patent number: 8790564Abstract: During the cooking of a composite component including layers of fibers embedded into a matrix, a superficial pressure is exerted. This superficial pressure generates a deformation that causes local contacts of fibers of at least two layers without damaging these fibers. As a result, when an electrical current is applied on a side of the composite component, such as during a lightning strike or a short circuit, the added local contacts enable the electric current to flow along multiple fibers in the composite component, thereby avoiding significant spikes in temperature.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)Inventor: Benjamin Provost
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Patent number: 8790565Abstract: A composite structure, such as a structural member (12), is formed by the steps of knitting a three dimensional pre-form (17) from one or more selected fibers such as natural fibers selected from hemp, cotton, flax, jute and synthetic fibers such as boron aramide fibers, carbon fibers, glass fibers and polymer based fibers, using a three dimensional knitting machine (16). The pre-form (17) has a shape commensurate with that of the structure (12) to be formed. The pre-form (17) is caused to take its three dimensional shape by inflating or otherwise expanding the pre-form such as by injecting a foamable synthetic plastics material into the interior of the pre-form, and thereafter fixing the shape of the shaped fibers to form the composite structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2007Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Futuris Automotive Interiors (Australia) Pty LtdInventor: Jason Anthony Miller
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Patent number: 8790566Abstract: A manufacturing method of composite material member includes a step of shaping a laminate including laminated prepreg sheets along a mold. The laminate includes a first layer in which fibers are oriented in single direction. In the first layer, a first surface crossing the single direction and a second surface crossing the single direction are confronted each other such that the first surface and the second surface face each other. Since the fibers are discontinuous between the first surface and the second surface, the laminate is easily shaped and wrinkles are hard to be generated in a composite material member to be manufactured from the laminate.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Nishiyama, Shinichi Yoshida, Toshio Abe
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Patent number: 8790567Abstract: Provided is an electret having high piezoelectric properties. An electret sheet of the invention is characterized in that it comprises a synthetic resin sheet is electrified by injecting electric charges thereinto, that the synthetic resin sheet comprises two types of synthetic resins incompatible with each other, and that these synthetic resins form a phase separated structure and are cross-linked through a polyfunctional monomer. Therefore, positive and negative charges in an apparently polarized state are present in the interfacial portions between the two types of synthetic resins incompatible with each other. By applying an external force to the electret sheet to deform it, the relative positions of these positive and negative charges are changed, and these changes cause a favorable electrical response. Therefore, the electret sheet has high piezoelectric properties.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignees: Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd., A School Corporation Kansai UniversityInventors: Kazuho Uchida, Takazumi Okabayashi, Yoshiro Tajitsu
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Patent number: 8790568Abstract: Method for producing a plastic bottle, and preform and blowing mold suited therefore are disclosed. An exemplary process can produce a plastic bottle, for example, a PET bottle. Such a bottle can be produced from a preform which has a body which is closed on one side, which is connected to a neck section with a pour opening, in which the preform which has been produced in a plastic injection process or an extrusion process is placed in the mold cavity of a blow mold and inflated using the blow nozzle by overpressure according to the mold cavity. Sealing can take place between the blow nozzle and the preform within the preform.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2005Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Alwin Lehner, Johann Künz, Markus Düringer
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Patent number: 8790569Abstract: A device (10) for adjusting the locking point of the electrode of a smelting furnace includes a vice (120) for supporting said electrode and supplying it with power. A structure (13) is coupled with the vice (120), supports the electrode and moves the electrode vertically.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignees: Tenova S.p.A., Piccardi S.R.L.Inventors: Silvio Reali, Giancarlo Cavallini, Gianlucio Piccardi
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Patent number: 8790570Abstract: A movable device for injecting oxygen and other technical materials into an electric arc furnace includes a housing situated above a portion of a step of a crucible and equipped with a cooling coil, an injection lance of oxygen and other technical materials, a supporting and moving system of the lance between minimum and maximum range points of the liquid bath level contained therein, positioned in the housing, an opening situated in the housing and facing the inside of the crucible in which the lance is transferably guided, and a scraping member disposed between the opening and the lance.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Tenova S.p.A.Inventors: Sivio Maria Reali, Giancarlo Cavallini, Mauro Grioni
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Patent number: 8790571Abstract: A method for preparing an article is disclosed. The method comprises compacting a mixture of a first pre-alloyed powder and a lubricant to thereby form a green part having a green strength sufficient to permit mechanical handling; applying a slurry to a surface of the green part to thereby form a slurry coated green part, wherein the slurry comprises a second pre-alloyed powder, a binder, and a solvent; and heating the coated green part to a temperature below a solidus temperature of the first pre-alloyed powder and between a solidus temperature and a liquidus temperature of the second pre-alloyed powder to thereby solid state sinter the first pre-alloyed powder into a sintered core and to liquid state sinter the second pre-alloyed powder into a continuous alloy coating over the sintered core.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Abdelhakim Belhadjhamida, Donald Williams, John Davies
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Patent number: 8790572Abstract: Titanium flat product is produced by passing a titanium powder green flat material through a pre-heating station and heated under a protective atmosphere to a temperature at least sufficient for hot rolling. The pre-heated flat material then is passed through a rolling station while still under a protective atmosphere and hot rolled to produce a hot rolled flat product of a required level of hot densification. The hot rolled flat product is passed through a cooling station while still under a protective atmosphere, and cooled to a temperature at which it can be passed out of a protective atmosphere. In the process, the hot rolling provides the predominant hot densification mechanism involved.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2008Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Nigel Austin Stone, Robert Wilson, Merchant Yousuff, Mark Gibson
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Patent number: 8790573Abstract: A ferritic Cr-contained steel having a reduced thermal expansion coefficient is provided. The ferritic Cr-contained steel contains C of 0.03% or less, Mn of 5.0% or less, Cr of 6 to 40%, N of 0.03% or less, Si of 5% or less, and W of 2.0% to 6.0% in percent by mass, and Fe and inevitable impurities as the remainder, wherein precipitated W is 0.1% or less in percent by mass, and an average thermal expansion coefficient between 20° C. and 800° C. is less than 12.6×10-6/° C.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Atsushi Miyazaki, Yasushi Kato, Osamu Furukimi
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Patent number: 8790574Abstract: A thrust bearing for a turbocharger of an internal-combustion engine is made of a copper alloy including a brass matrix and a needle-like Mn—Si-based compound dispersed in the brass matrix. Not less than 50% of the needle-like Mn—Si-based compound dispersed in a region from a surface of a sliding portion of the thrust bearing to a depth of 50 ?m have a major axis extending from the inside of the sliding portion to the surface. The major axis makes an angle of 30° to 150° with the surface of the sliding portion when observed in a sectional view perpendicular to the surface of the sliding portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Daido Metal Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Toda, Satoru Kurimoto, Ryo Sato
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Patent number: 8790575Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for improving the efficiency of an aerator which is used for removing residual biocide used for decontamination, sterilization, sanitation, or disinfection processes. The apparatus comprises an aerator assembly that produces an optimum air flow region and a high surface area catalyst panel. The method comprises utilizing the apparatus with optimizing gas flow rates, residence time of the contaminated gas within the catalyst panel, air flow pattern, air transport rate, cleaned air discharge pattern, and the nature and configuration of the catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Nano Mist Systems, LLCInventors: Kayyani C. Adiga, Rajani Adiga, Robert F. Hatcher, Jr.
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Patent number: 8790576Abstract: The present invention relates to a vessel treatment machine for sterilizing containers (1) by means of a sterilization fluid and an associated treatment method. At least one fluid feed line (3) having at least one valve (5) disposed therein is provided to this end. One or more gas feed lines (4; 4a, 4b) are also present. Finally, a mixing chamber (7b) for producing a fluid/gas mixture is implemented. According to the invention, the mixing chamber (7b) and the outlet side valve chamber (7b) of the valve (5) work together functionally in fluid feed line (3).Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: KHS GmbHInventors: Eva Bauer, Frank Peter Behrendt, Margit Kiefer, Andreas Kleiss, Bernd Neumann, Andreas Stanislawski, Hans Peter Stuwe
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Patent number: 8790577Abstract: A sample analyzer is disclosed. In one embodiment, the sample analyzer includes an analysis section for analyzing a sample by using a reagent to obtain numerical data and distribution diagram of particles contained in the sample; a display device; an information receiver for receiving an input of reagent information assigned to the reagent; a determination section configured for determining whether or not the reagent satisfies a condition to determine that the reagent is a genuine product based on the reagent information; and a controller that controls the display device to display both the numerical data and the distribution diagram if the reagent satisfies the condition by the determination section and to display the numerical data without displaying the distribution diagram if the reagent does not satisfy the condition by the determination section.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2008Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Sysmex CorporationInventors: Toru Mizumoto, Ryuichiro Ebi, Keisuke Tsutsumida, Yousuke Tanaka, Junya Inoue
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Patent number: 8790578Abstract: Luminescence test measurements are conducted using an assay module having integrated electrodes with a reader apparatus adapted to receive assay modules, induce luminescence, preferably electrode induced luminescence, in the wells or assay regions of the assay modules and measure the induced luminescence.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Meso Scale Technologies, LLCInventors: Jacob N. Wohlstadter, Eli Glezer, James Wilbur, George Sigal, Kent Johnson, Charles Clinton, Alan Kishbaugh, Bandele Jeffrey-Coker, Jeff D. Debad, Alan B. Fischer
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Patent number: 8790579Abstract: Methods and systems for preparing catalyst, such as chromium catalysts, are provided. The valence of at least a portion of the catalyst sent to an activator is changed from Cr(III) to Cr(VI). The catalyst is prepared or activated continuously using a fluidization bed catalyst activator.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LPInventors: Elizabeth A. Benham, Max P. McDaniel, Ted H. Cymbaluk, Charles K. Newsome, Charles R. Nease, H. Kenneth Staffin, Thomas R. Parr
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Patent number: 8790580Abstract: Disclosed in this specification is the design for an internal mixing device which increases the plug flow like behavior of the rotating inclined reactor.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: M & G USA CorporationInventors: Giuliano Cavaglia′, Giuseppina Boveri
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Patent number: 8790581Abstract: A manufacturing method by which alumina-silica based fibers excellent in mechanical strength can be readily and securely obtained. The method obtains precursor fibers as a material by using an alumina-silica based fiber spinning stock solution for use in an inorganic salt method. Next, the precursor fibers are heated under an environment which makes it difficult to carry out an oxidizing reaction on the carbon component contained in the precursor fibers. Thus, the precursor fibers are sintered to obtain alumina-silica based fibers.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2008Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazutomo Tanahashi, Masakage Doushita, Hidetomo Takahashi
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Patent number: 8790582Abstract: A housing (2) for an exhaust gas-treating device (1) of an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes a jacket (6) closed in the circumferential direction for mounting at least one exhaust gas-treating element (5. The jacket passes over at at least one axial end into a ring body (8, 9). The ring body (8, 9) is closed in the circumferential direction. The housing (2) can be connected to another component of the exhaust system. A simplified manufacture is achieved if the jacket (6) and the at least one ring body (8, 9) are manufactured from a single sheet steel billet (10) by rolling the sheet steel billet (10) in the circumferential direction and by connecting abutting edges (11) of the sheet steel billet (10). The jacket (6) and the at least one ring body (8, 9) differ from one another by different materials and/or different wall thicknesses (12, 13, 14).Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Bernd Müller, Achim Blum, Oliver Poth
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Patent number: 8790583Abstract: Devices for use in the disposal of pharmaceutical compositions are provided. Aspects of the devices include: a support having a surface; an activated carbon layer present on the surface; and an adhesive for stably associating a pharmaceutical composition with the activated carbon layer upon application of the pharmaceutical composition to the activated carbon layer. Also provided are methods of using the devices and kits containing the devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Teikoku Pharma USA, Inc.Inventors: William Fowler, Carter Anderson
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Patent number: 8790584Abstract: Disclosed is a system for refining UMG Si including a vacuum chamber, a cold crucible disposed within the vacuum chamber, a device disposed within the vacuum chamber to supply Si to the cold crucible, a steam plasma torch disposed above the cold crucible to apply steam plasma formed by introducing a reactive gas into plasma flame by an inert gas to the Si supplied to the cold crucible, and an impurity collector disposed above the cold crucible within the vacuum chamber to collect impurity gas generated in the cold crucible and discharge the collected impurity gas to the outside of the vacuum chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Korea Institute of Industrial TechnologyInventors: Byung Moon Moon, Je Sik Shin, Tae U Yu, Hyun Jin Koo, Dong Ho Park, Ho Moon Lee
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Patent number: 8790585Abstract: A countercurrent tank type supercritical water reactor with a sacrificial lining, comprising a cylinder body and a catalyst tank arranged inside, the upper part of the cylinder body is connected with a top cover, and the lower part of the cylinder body is connected with a spherical head, the inner side of the cylinder body, the inner side of the spherical head and the inner side of the top cover constitute the inner wall of the reactor, wherein the inner wall of the reactor is provided with a high temperature resistance and thermal insulation coating layer, the inner wall of the high temperature resistance and thermal insulation coating layer is provided with a sealing coating layer, and the inner wall of the sealing coating layer is provided with the sacrificial lining. The reactor is of a countercurrent tank type, which can prevent the reactor blockage caused by salt deposition.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityInventors: Shuzhong Wang, Yanmeng Gong, Honghe Ma, Donghai Xu, Jie Zhang, Lu Zhou
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Patent number: 8790586Abstract: The present application relates to a molecular exchange device (1) for use with an analysis and control apparatus and a method of manufacturing a molecular exchange device.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Probe Scientific LimitedInventors: Mark Thomas O'Connell, Stewart Jeffrey Block