Patents Issued in December 15, 2015
  • Patent number: 9212077
    Abstract: A molten glass discharging device provided in the bottom of a melting furnace of a waste vitrification apparatus so that the device can control the melting or cooling of a molten material. The molten glass discharging device, which is provided in the bottom of the furnace and controls discharging of a molten material, includes: an induction heating unit (110) having a discharging passage (10) along a discharging port formed in the bottom of the melting furnace; an induction coil (120) provided outside the induction heating unit (110); and a cooling unit (130) supporting the induction heating unit (110) and having a cooling conduit through which a cooling fluid circulates. The device can realize repeated discharging of the molten material by induction heating or cooling of the induction heating unit. Further, even when glass is adhered to the discharging port, the adhered glass can be easily discharged from the furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: KOREA HYDRO & NUCLEAR POWER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deuk Man Kim, Seok Mo Choi, Hyun Jun Jo, Hyun Je Cho, Seung Chul Park, Cheon Woo Kim, Tae Won Hwang
  • Patent number: 9212078
    Abstract: A vertical individual section (I.S.) machine for manufacturing glass containers is disclosed in which parisons made in parison molds are lowered into blow molds located under the parison molds without being inverted, where they are blown into glass containers. Optionally, reheat shrouds may be located vertically intermediate the blank molds and the blow molds to reheat the parisons prior to them being blown. The vertical I.S. machine may have multiple sections that are located close adjacent each other, with each section potentially having multiple blank and blow molds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Emhart Glass S.A.
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Bratton, F. Alan Fenton, Matthew R. Hyre, Paul Stargardter, Jonathon S. Simon, Stephen A. Austin, Steven J. Pinkerton
  • Patent number: 9212079
    Abstract: In a vertical glass drawing process, an edge guiding assembly (33) located between a glass forming apparatus (41) and a glass sheet separating apparatus (20) reduces horizontal motion of the glass ribbon (13) from which the glass sheets (11) are removed and results in the reduction of the difference in stress levels between the top and bottom edges of a glass sheet (11) made by the process. The edge guiding assembly also provides a reduction of the variation of stress levels between successive sheets of glass made by the vertical drawing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Kirby, Liam Ruan de Paor
  • Patent number: 9212080
    Abstract: A glass film cleaving method includes cleaving a full-body of a glass film having a thickness of 200 ?m or less by propagating an initial crack along a preset cleaving line through heating of the glass film with a laser beam followed by subsequent cooling of the glass film. The method also includes manufacturing a glass film laminate by setting a surface roughness Ra of a surface of the glass film to contact a support glass, which supports the glass film, and a surface of the support glass to contact the glass film to 2.0 nm or less, and by bringing the surfaces of the glass film and the support glass into surface contact with each other, followed by the cleaving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Naohiko Yagi
  • Patent number: 9212081
    Abstract: Methods of cutting laminate strengthened glass substrates are disclosed. A method is disclosed which includes providing a laminate strengthened glass substrate having a glass core layer with first and second surface portions, and at least one glass cladding layer fused to the first surface portion or the second surface portion of the glass core layer. The glass core layer has a core coefficient of thermal expansion that is larger than a cladding coefficient of thermal expansion. The method further includes forming an edge defect on the laminate strengthened glass substrate, heating first and second regions of the laminate strengthened glass substrate on the at least one glass cladding layer. The first and second regions are offset from first and second sides of a desired line of separation, respectively. The method further includes propagating a crack imitated at the edge defect between the first and second regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Gaozhu Peng, Xinghua Li, Rui Zhang
  • Patent number: 9212082
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optical fiber preform or an optical fiber is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) providing a glass tube and a glass core rod; (b) inserting the glass core rod into the glass tube to form an assembled body; (c) heating the assembled body to cause the glass tube to collapse on and adhere to the glass core rod; and (d) treating an interface gap between the glass core rod and the glass tube during heating of at least a portion of the assembled body. Treating of the interface gap involves: (i) establishing a vacuum pressure in the interface gap, (ii) increasing a pressure of the interface gap by a treatment gas through the interface gap for a predetermined time, and (iii) re-establishing a vacuum pressure in the interface gap after the predetermined time has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignees: Heraeus Quarzglas GmbH & Co. KG, Heraeus Tenevo LLC
    Inventors: Georges Levon Fattal, Oliver Ganz, Kai Chang
  • Patent number: 9212083
    Abstract: A system and method for coating glass gobs with a liquid-based lubricating dispersion during their drop to blank glass container molds which provides sufficient lubrication to the glass container molds without requiring swabbing of the glass container molds. The lubricating dispersion is sprayed onto hot glass gobs as they fall from the gob supply system prior to their distribution by the gob distribution system into blank molds. The lubricating dispersion coats the falling glass gobs to lubricate the glass gobs as well as the molds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignees: Emhart Glass S.A., Imerys Graphite & Carbon Switzerland SA
    Inventors: Leo Diehm, Thomas L. Sidler, Michal T. Judge, Braden A. McDermott, Robert D. Ginsberg
  • Patent number: 9212084
    Abstract: An aluminosilicate glass for touch screens is provided. The glass includes, calculated based on weight percentage: SiO2, 55 to 65%; Na2O, 12 to 17%; Al2O3, 15 to 20%; K2O, 2 to 6%; MgO, 3.9 to 10%; ZrO2, 0 to 5%; ZnO, 0 to 4%; CaO, 0 to 4%; Na2O+K2O+MgO+ZnO+CaO, 15 to 28%; SnO2, 0 to 1%; TiO2+CeO2, ?1%. A chemical strengthening method for glass also provided that includes ion exchange strengthening in a 100% KNO3 salt bath, wherein a preheating temperature ranges from 370° C. to 430° C. and the treatment time is from 0.5 to 16 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: SCHOTT GLASS TECHNOLOGIES (SUZHOU) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Chong Wang, José Zimmer
  • Patent number: 9212085
    Abstract: An easily-administered technology which demonstrates the intrinsic thermal conductivity improvement effect by addition of non-oxide system compound crystal phase (filler particles) and makes it possible to sufficiently raise the thermal conductivity of a glass-ceramics composite material is provided. In the glass phase which constitutes a glass-ceramics composite material, the quantity of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) component is increased under a condition where at least either of zinc oxide (ZnO) component or magnesium oxide (MgO) component exists in a predetermined quantity or more. Thereby, the unintended reaction between a non-oxide system compound crystal phase and a glass phase can be suppressed, and the intrinsic thermal conductivity improvement effect by addition of non-oxide system compound crystal phase (filler particles) can be demonstrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Yano, Yoshihiro Tanaka, Tsutomu Nanataki, Hirofumi Yamaguchi, Natsumi Shimogawa, Naoto Ohira
  • Patent number: 9212086
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a chemically resistant glass composition for the production of reinforcing strands which comprises the following constituents within the limits defined below, expressed in mol %: SiO2 67-72%; ZrO2 5-9.5%, preferably ?7.5%; R2O (R=Na, K and Li) 11-17%; Li2O 0-5.5%; K2O 0-5.5%; Na2O<10%; and CaO 3-9%, the composition furthermore containing less 1% of impurities (Al2O3, Fe2O3, Cr2O3, TiO2, MgO, SrO, BaO and P2O5) and being free of F. It also relates to the glass strands obtained from this composition and to the composites based on an organic or inorganic material containing such strands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Anne Berthereau, Jerome Lalande
  • Patent number: 9212087
    Abstract: A glass-ceramics composite material suitable for a low-temperature firing use, which has high moisture resistance and thermal conductivity, is provided. In the glass-ceramics composite material which contains aluminum nitride (AlN) particles as a filler, even in a case where boron oxide (B2O3) is blended as a flux of a glass phase, by adjusting the composition of raw materials which forms the glass phase to a specific conditions to make the crystal phase which contains boron (B) precipitate at the time of firing of the glass-ceramics composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Yano, Yoshihiro Tanaka, Naoto Ohira, Hirofumi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9212088
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a porous glass layer easily, wherein a ripple is suppressed. A method for manufacturing an optical member provided with a porous glass layer on a base member includes the steps of forming an intermediate layer containing at least one of silicon, potassium, and aluminum on the base member, forming a phase-separable glass layer on the intermediate layer, forming a phase-separated glass layer on the base member by heating the intermediate layer and the phase-separable glass layer at a temperature higher than or equal to the glass transition temperature of the phase-separable glass layer, and forming a porous glass layer on the base member by subjecting the phase-separated glass layer to an etching treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Takashima, Zuyi Zhang, Yoshinori Kotani, Akiko Takei, Akira Sugiyama, Naoyuki Koketsu
  • Patent number: 9212089
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for applying an optical coating to a substrate comprising the steps of (a) preparing an optical coating formulation comprising a solvent component and a film forming component; (b) using a die coater to form a coated substrate by applying the optical coating to a substrate, where the applied optical coating forms a wet film thereon having a thickness from 8 ?m to 100 ?m; (c) drying the coated substrate, where the coated substrate is in a substantially horizontal plane thereby converting the wet film to a dry film having a thickness of less than 1 ?m. The optical coating formulation comprises greater than 0.3 wt % to no more than 10 wt % solids relative to the total weight of the optical coating formulation. The coated substrate may be optionally cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.
    Inventors: Nanning Joerg Arsten, Pascal Josef Paul Buskens, Marnix Rooijmans
  • Patent number: 9212090
    Abstract: One subject of the invention is a material comprising a substrate coated on at least one portion of at least one of its faces with a stack comprising a photocatalytic layer, the geometrical thickness of which is between 2 and 30 nm, and at least one pair of respectively high and low refractive index layers positioned underneath said photocatalytic layer so that in the or each pair, the or each high refractive index layer is closest to the substrate, said material being such that the optical thickness, for a wavelength of 350 nm, of the or each high refractive index layer, except the photocatalytic layer, is between 170 and 300 nm and the optical thickness, for a wavelength of 350 nm, of the or each low refractive index layer is between 30 and 90 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Stephane Laurent, Anne Durandeau, Emmanuel Valentin
  • Patent number: 9212091
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for accelerating the hardening of hydraulic or latent hydraulic binders, wherein ternesite and an aluminum component are added to the binder, and relates to an additive that increasing early strength for hydraulic or latent hydraulic binders that contain ternesite and a non-hydraulically reactive aluminum component, and relates to the use of an additive comprising ternesite and an aluminum component for the purpose of accelerating the hardening of hydraulic or latent hydraulic binders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: HEIDELBERGCEMENT AG
    Inventors: Frank Bullerjahn, Dirk Schmitt, Mohsen Ben Haha
  • Patent number: 9212092
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to a novel cement comprising Portland cement clinker and a supplementary cementitious material. The supplementary cementitious material comprises a heat treated clay material and an optionally heat treated carbonate material, wherein the clay material has been heat treated optionally together with the carbonate material in such a way that the heat treated clay material is substantially dehydroxylated while the optionally heat treated carbonate material remains substantially carbonated. This can be achieved by premixing the carbonate and clay materials before heat treating to 400-700 C, or heat treating the clay material separately to a temperature of up to 900 C. When used in the final application the cement results in much higher strengths than would be predict from any other combination of these materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: AALBORG PORTLAND A/S
    Inventors: Duncan Herfort, Jesper Sand Damtoft
  • Patent number: 9212093
    Abstract: A hybrid magnesium cement composition formed of an A-side and a B-side. The A-side having an A1-component including a light-burn grade magnesium-containing material, and an A2-component including a non-metallic oxide salt. A B-side having a metal silicate polymer is included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignees: NTH Consultants, Ltd., Wayne State University
    Inventors: Hwai-Chung Wu, Kraig Warnemuende
  • Patent number: 9212094
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a polycarboxylic acid copolymer which is excellent in various properties, in particular dispersibility, and is useful in various uses such as dispersants and admixtures for cement. The present invention also aims to provide a dispersant for cement, an admixture for cement, and a cement composition each containing the above polycarboxylic acid copolymer. The polycarboxylic acid copolymer of the present invention includes a structural unit (I) derived from an unsaturated polyalkylene glycol monomer (a) and a structural unit (II) derived from an unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer (b). The copolymer has a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 5000 to 25000. The copolymer includes a dimer including two units of the unsaturated polyalkylene glycol monomer (a) bonded to each other, and has an area percentage of the dimer of 7% or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hirokatsu Kawakami, Kazutaka Otsuki, Akiko Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 9212095
    Abstract: A cementitious composition containing hydraulic cement, water, and a hyper-branched polyether surfactant. An aqueous admixture composition for cementitious compositions including a hyper-branched polyether surfactant, optionally a dispersant, optionally an additional surfactant or defoamer, and optionally a stabilizing agent. A method of making a cementitious composition including mixing cementitious material, water, a hyper-branched polyether surfactant, optionally a dispersant for cementitious compositions, optionally an additional surfactant or defoamer, and optionally a stabilizing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Construction Research & Technology, GmbH
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Bury, Thomas M. Vickers, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9212096
    Abstract: A building brick with cellular structure comprising a porous material, said porous material being obtained by a process comprising the following successive steps: a step a) of synthesis of quicklime; a step b) of mixing said quicklime, water and silica; a step c) of introduction of a nucleating agent; a step d) of hydrothermal synthesis to obtain a ceramic mass, and a step e) of drying said ceramic mass obtained in step d).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Société Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procédés Georges Claude
    Inventors: Pascal Del-Gallo, Nicolas Richet, Sebastien Goudalle
  • Patent number: 9212097
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fused grit having the following chemical analysis, in wt %: ZrO2+HfO2: 38.0-46.0%; Al2O3: the remainder up to 100%; SiO2: 0.20-0.60%; Y2O3: 0.45 to 0.70%; TiO2: 1.00 to 2.00%; other oxides: <1.00%, the ratio of Y2O3/SiO2 being 0.80 to 2.00, and the tetragonal phase being 60 to 90% of the weight of the zirconia, the remainder being in monoclinic form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D' ETUDES EUROPEEN
    Inventors: Samuel Marlin, David Langohr, Sylvain Petigny
  • Patent number: 9212098
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blend for the production of a sintered refractory material containing chromium oxide, a sintered refractory material containing chromium oxide, a method for the manufacture of a sintered refractory material containing chromium oxide and to a use of magnesium titanate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: REFRACTORY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH & CO.
    Inventors: Boro Djuricic, Roland Nilica, Klaus Santowski
  • Patent number: 9212099
    Abstract: A ceramic article having a ceramic substrate and a ceramic coating with an initial porosity and an initial amount of cracking is provided. The ceramic article is heated to a temperature range between about 1000° C. and about 1800° C. at a ramping rate of about 0.1° C. per minute to about 20° C. per minute. The ceramic article is heat treated at one or more temperatures within the temperature range for a duration of up to about 24 hours. The ceramic article is then cooled at the ramping rate, wherein after the heat treatment the ceramic coating has a reduced porosity and a reduced amount of cracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Ren-Guan Duan, Biraja P. Kanungo, Dmitry Lubomirsky
  • Patent number: 9212100
    Abstract: Environmental barrier coatings for high temperature ceramic components. The barrier coatings include a bond coat layer containing silicon, an optional silica layer, at least one transition layer containing about 85% to about 100% by volume of a primary transition material comprising mullite, BSAS, or a mullite/BSAS mixture; an outer layer containing about 85% to about 100% by volume of a primary outer material comprising BSAS; and at least one of a sintering aid and a secondary material in the transition layer and/or outer layer. The secondary material is a reaction product of the sintering aid and at least one of the primary transition material and the primary outer material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Glen Harold Kirby, Brett Allen Boutwell
  • Patent number: 9212101
    Abstract: The present invention provides improved solvent systems for the preparation of liquid formulations of urease inhibitors, specifically NBPT, comprising aryl alkyl alcohols. The solvent systems provided good solubility of the urease inhibitor as well as at least one of improved stability, lower flammability, lower toxicity, improved cold temperature storage, improved handling, improved adsorption onto and/or solubility with solid media such as urea. Methods of making and using the compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Koch Agronomic Services, LLC
    Inventors: Kurt D Gabrielson, Stacey L Wertz, Richard P Beatty, Drew R Bobeck
  • Patent number: 9212102
    Abstract: An insensitive crystalline high explosive molding powder, usable as a booster HE. The subject insensitive crystalline high explosive molding powder being manufactured by adding the crystalline high explosive, metal or semi-metal particles and a polymer or wax based binder to a solvent to form a solution, spray drying the solution to drive off the solvent, thereby co-precipitating the HE and binder to form granules in which the crystals of HE and metal particles are uniformly distributed in the binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Paul E. Anderson, Hongwei Qiu, Victor Stepanov
  • Patent number: 9212103
    Abstract: A pyrotechnic pressure accumulator includes an elongated body extending from a first end of a pyrotechnic section to a discharge end of a hydraulic section. A propellant charge located in a gas chamber of the pyrotechnic section, a piston movably disposed the hydraulic section, and a fluid disposed in a hydraulic chamber between the piston and the discharge end, wherein the fluid is exhausted under pressure through a discharge port in response to ignition of the propellant charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Bastion Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Don Coppedge, Dewey James Louvier, Anna Azzolari Ronalds, Hildebrand A. Rumann
  • Patent number: 9212104
    Abstract: The present invention provides processes for catalytic deconstruction of biomass using a solvent produced in a bioreforming reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Virent, Inc.
    Inventors: Ming Qiao, Randy D. Cortright, Elizabeth Woods
  • Patent number: 9212105
    Abstract: A process for producing at least one light olefin comprising: (a) contacting a first raw material comprising methanol with a least one catalyst in a first reaction zone to produce at least one light olefin and at least one inactivated catalyst; (b) transporting the at least one inactivated catalyst to a first regeneration zone to produce at least one first regenerated catalyst, and transporting a portion of the at least one first regenerated catalyst to the first reaction zone; (c) transporting another portion of the at least one first regenerated catalyst to a second regeneration zone to obtain at least one second regenerated catalyst; and (d) transporting the at least one second regenerated catalyst to a second reaction zone, and contacting the at least one second regenerated catalyst with a second raw material comprising C4 olefins to produce a product stream II comprising at least one light olefin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignees: Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Sinopec, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Guozhen Qi, Siqing Zhong, Hongtao Wang, Yongming Jin
  • Patent number: 9212106
    Abstract: A process is described for making a product mixture including isobutene, propylene, 1-butene, 2-butene, 2-methyl-1-butene and 2-methyl-2-butene from a mixture of acetic acid and propionic and through reaction in the presence of a source of hydrogen and of a mixed oxide catalyst, for example, a ZnxZryOz mixed oxide catalyst. A variety of commercially valuable products may be made in turn from the various C3, C4 and C5 constituents of the product mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignees: Washington State University, Archer Daniels Midland Co.
    Inventors: Junming Sun, Changjun Liu, Yong Wang, Colin Smith, Kevin Martin, Padmesh Venkitasubramanian, Joshua Terrian
  • Patent number: 9212107
    Abstract: In a process for producing cumene, isopropanol containing nitrogenous impurities is reacted with benzene in an alkylation reactor to produce an effluent stream comprising cumene, unreacted benzene and water. Water is removed from the effluent stream and an aliquot of the resultant dried effluent stream is treated to remove nitrogenous impurities and produce a purified recycle stream. At least part of the purified recycle stream is then recycled to the alkylation reactor. In an alternative embodiment, the isopropanol is combined with fresh and/or recycled benzene and the combined stream is treated to remove nitrogenous impurities before being fed to the alkylation reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: BADGER LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Birkhoff, Shyh-Yuan H. Hwang
  • Patent number: 9212108
    Abstract: A process for increasing the production of monoalkylbenzenes is presented. The process includes utilizing a transalkylation process to convert dialkylbenzenes to monoalkylbenzenes. The feed to the transalkylation process has alkylated toluenes and alkylated ethylbenzenes and other alkylated aromatics having small alkyl groups with less than 8 carbons removed to improve the efficiency of the transalkylation process. The recycled dialkylbenzenes and a portion of the recycled benzene are converted to monoalkylbenzenes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Stephen W. Sohn, Mark G. Riley, Michael A. Moore
  • Patent number: 9212109
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process involving contacting a hydrohalobutane selected from the group consisting of CF2HCHClCH2CCl2H, CF3CHClCH2CCl2H, CF3CHClCH2CCl3, CF3CClHCHFCCl2H and CF3CClHCHFCCl3, with HF in a reaction zone in the presence of an antimony halide catalyst selected from SbCl5 and SbF5 to form a first product mixture containing a hydromonochlorofluorobutane. Also disclosed is a process involving contacting a hydrohalopentane selected from the group consisting of CF2HCHClCH2CX2CX3 and CF3CHClCH2CX2CX3, wherein each X is independently selected from the group consisting of F and Cl, and not all X are fluorines, with HF in a reaction zone in the presence of an antimony halide catalyst selected from SbCl5 and SbF5 to form a first product mixture containing a hydromonochlorofluoropentane. A compound of the formula CF3CHClCH2CHF2 is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: THE CHEMOURS COMPANY FC, LLC
    Inventor: Ekaterina N Swearingen
  • Patent number: 9212110
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel method for producing a mixture of fluoroalkyl iodides with high production efficiency, the method enabling the production of a desired fluoroalkyl iodide with high selectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takeomi Hirasaka
  • Patent number: 9212111
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a haloaryl compound which comprises contacting a mixture of dihalodiarylsulfone isomers [mixture (M)] with sulfuric acid to provide a mixture of haloarylsulfonic acid isomers [mixture (M1)] and reacting mixture (M1) in the presence of water. The process is independent on the manufacturing process of mixture (M) and is advantageous in that the obtained haloaryl compound can be recycled to the first step of a dihalodiarylsulfone manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: SOLVAY SPECIALTY POLYMERS USA, LLC
    Inventors: Walter Reichle, Olivier Vidberg, Nicholas Almeter, Chantal Louis
  • Patent number: 9212112
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a process for the preparation of a compound of formula in the form of any one of its stereoisomers or mixtures thereof, wherein R represents a C1-C7 alkyl or alkenyl group, a C7-C10 benzyl group optionally substituted by one to three C1-3 alkyl or alkoxy groups, a C1-C7 acyl group or an alkoxycarbonyl of formula C(?O)OR?, wherein R? is a C1-C7 alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Firmenich SA
    Inventor: Anthony A. Birkbeck
  • Patent number: 9212113
    Abstract: A method and system for producing a synthesis gas in an oxygen transport membrane based reforming system is disclosed that carries out a primary reforming process within a reforming reactor, and a secondary reforming process within an oxygen transport membrane reactor and in the presence of heat generated from a oxygen transport membrane reactor and an auxiliary source of heat. The auxiliary source of heat is disposed within the reactor housing proximate the reforming reactors and may include an auxiliary reactively driven oxygen transport membrane reactor or a ceramic burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Shrikar Chakravarti, Raymond F. Drnevich, Ines C. Stuckert, Minish M. Shah
  • Patent number: 9212114
    Abstract: In a process for producing fatty alcohol, fatty acid is subjected to esterification with a lower alkanol to form a stream of lower alkyl fatty acid ester(s). The stream is vaporized and then subjected to hydrogenation. The stream is then subjected to transesterification in a wax ester reactor to convert at least a portion of the lower alkyl fatty acid ester(s) to lower alkanol and wax ester(s). The resulting stream is then separated to yield a fatty alcohol(s) steam, a wax ester(s) stream, and an overhead stream comprising fatty alkanol(s) and alkane. The overhead stream is reacted in a wax ester reactor to convert at least a portion of the lower alkyl fatty acid ester to lower alkanol and wax ester(s). The wax ester(s) formed from the alkane is separated, along with any water and/or lower alkanol present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: JOHNSON MATTHEY DAVY TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul John Cassidy, Robert Wild, Rikard Umberto Andersson, Simon Nicholas Tilley, Adrian Backes
  • Patent number: 9212115
    Abstract: The alicyclic diol compound of the present invention is represented by the following formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Mitsuharu Kitamura
  • Patent number: 9212116
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing cresol from phenol and methanol via gas phase alkylation, in which phenol and methanol are preheated and mixed with diluent gas, then the mixture continuously go through a catalyst bed comprising the catalyst for alkylation of phenol with methanol, to produce cresol by gas phase reaction at the reaction temperature of 200˜500° C. and the weight hourly space velocity of 0.5˜20 h?1. The catalyst for alkylation of phenol with methanol is obtained by modification steps and using ZSM-5 zeolite, MCM-22 zeolite or Beta zeolite as an active composition. Using phenol and methanol as feedstock, the cresol selectivity can reach to 90%, and the p-cresol selectivity can reach to 58%. The catalyst is environmental friendly and non-corrosive to the equipment with a good stability and a broad prospect in industrial application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Kunyuan Wang, Yunpeng Xu, Zhongmin Liu
  • Patent number: 9212117
    Abstract: Process for the production of acetic acid and dimethyl ether by contacting methanol and methyl acetate with a catalyst composition at a temperature in the range 140 to 250 ° C. The catalyst composition contains a zeolite having a 2-dimensional channel system comprising at least one channel which has a 10-membered ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: BP CHEMICALS LIMITED
    Inventors: Berian John Daniel, David John Law, John Glenn Sunley
  • Patent number: 9212118
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of organic chemistry, more specifically to the synthesis of intermediate compounds which can be used in the synthesis of pharmaceutically active agents such as anacetrapib or derivatives thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: LEK PHARMACEUTICALS D.D.
    Inventors: Jan Humljan, Nenad Maras
  • Patent number: 9212119
    Abstract: A method of making ?,?-diiodoperfluoroalkanes includes combining: diatomic iodine, at least one perfluoroalkylene oxide represented by the formula wherein Rf represents a perfluoroalkyl group; and at least one of: a) a first metallic compound comprising nickel, and a second metallic compound comprising molybdenum that is compositionally different from the first metallic compound; or b) a metallic alloy comprising from 50 to 70 percent by weight of nickel and from 20 to 40 percent by weight of molybdenum, based on the total weight of the metallic alloy, thereby producing at least one product represented by the formula I(CF2)nI, wherein n independently represents an integer in the range of from 1 to 11. The total weight of the at least one product wherein n is 3 or greater exceeds the total weight of the at least one product wherein n is 1 or 2 by a factor of at least 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Steven J. Martin, Luke T. Dressel, Aaron E. Hutt, Eric A. Schotz, Terence D. Spawn, Miguel A. Guerra, Tatsuo Fukushi, Jeremy A. Miller, Christopher M. Geise, James A. McDonell
  • Patent number: 9212120
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the synthesis of spiro[2.5]octane-5,7-dione useful as intermediate in the manufacture of pharmaceutically active ingredients. Also disclosed are novel intermediates used in the synthesis of this compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Busch, Sven Anklam, Joerg Jung, Markus Ostermeier
  • Patent number: 9212121
    Abstract: Processes for producing terephthalic acid are disclosed, the processes including a step of combining in a reaction medium para-xylene, a solvent comprising water and a saturated organic acid having from 2-4 carbon atoms, and an oxygen-containing gas, at a temperature for example from about 145° C. to about 175° C., in the presence of a catalyst composition comprising cobalt, manganese, zirconium, and bromine, wherein the zirconium is present in the reaction medium in an amount, for example, from 1 ppm to 50 ppm with respect to the weight of the liquid in the reaction medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
    Inventors: David Milton Lange, Ashfaq Shahanawaz Shaikh, Patrice L. Riesenberg, Mesfin Ejerssa Janka
  • Patent number: 9212122
    Abstract: A process for inhibiting unwanted free-radical polymerization of acrylic acid present in a liquid phase P whose acrylic acid content is at least 10% by weight and which, based on the weight of the acrylic acid present therein, additionally comprises at least 100 ppm by weight of propionic acid and at least 100 ppm by weight of glyoxal, in which at least one chemical compound of the element copper is added to the liquid phase P, and the resulting liquid phases P to which a chemical compound of the element copper has been added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Till Blum, Peter Zurowski, Tobias Johannes Korn, Sylke Haremza, Thorsten Friese, Friedrich-Georg Martin, Ulrich Jäger, Steffen Rissel, Volker Schliephake
  • Patent number: 9212123
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cosmetic composition containing, as an active ingredient, an ester oil obtained by the bonding and esterification of amyl alcohol or an isomer thereof and a fatty acid derived from a natural vegetable oil such as olive oil or coconut oil. The ester oil increases the viscosity and imparts stability to cosmetics while also having a far better moisturizing ability and a lighter feeling in use than silicone oil, and the invention therefore allows a naturally derived ester oil, which is relatively friendly to the human body, to be used as a fundamental base component of a cosmetic composition, in complete or partial substitution for silicone oil which has been used on account of the shortcomings of existing synthetic ester oils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Inventor: Jun-Hong Chi
  • Patent number: 9212124
    Abstract: Mixture of triglycerides obtained from vegetable oils comprising one or more of the following oligomeric structures: R4—[O—C(O)—R1—C(O)—O—CH2—CH(OR2)—CH2]n—O—R3 wherein R1 is selected from C2-C22 alkylenes, R2 is selected from one or more of the following groups consisting of C6-C24 dicarboxylic acid residues and C6-C24 monocarboxylic acid residues, R3 is selected from one or more of the following groups consisting of H, C6-C24 dicarboxylic acid residues and C6-C24 monocarboxylic acid residues, R4 is an alkyl group, n is an integer greater than or equal to 2, said C6-C24 dicarboxylic acid residues of R2 and R3 being esterified with monoalcohols and said mixture of triglycerides having a Numerical Average Molecular Weight (Mn) of between 800 and 10.000 Da.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Novamont S.p.A.
    Inventors: Catia Bastioli, Luigi Capuzzi, Paolo Magistrali, Sebastia Gesti' Garcia
  • Patent number: 9212125
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of travoprost of formula (I), comprising that, the compound of formula (II), is stereoselectively reduced, the resulting compound of formula (III), is if desired crystallized, the lactone group of the compound of formula (III) is reduced, the p-phenyl-benzoyl protecting group of the thus obtained compound of formula (IV), is removed, the resulting triol of formula (V), is, if desired after crystallization, transformed by Wittig reaction into the acid of formula (VI), which is then esterified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: CHINOIN GYÓGYSZER ÉS VEGYÉSZETI TERMÉKEK GYÁRA ZRT.
    Inventors: Zsuzsanna Kardos, Tibor Kiss, István Lászlofi, Irén Hortobágyi, Zoltán Bischof, Ádám Bódis, Gábor Havasi
  • Patent number: 9212126
    Abstract: A process of preparing a nitroalcohol, e.g., 2-nitro-2-methyl-1-propane, from a nitropolyol, e.g., 2-nitro-2-methyl-1,3-propanediol, the process comprising the step of contacting under hydrogenation conditions the nitropolyol with hydrogen, a hydrogenation catalyst and, optionally, a chelating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: ANGUS CHEMICAL COMPANY
    Inventors: David W. Moore, G. David Green