Patents Issued in October 11, 2016
  • Patent number: 9463967
    Abstract: An improved small vehicle lift having an automatically engaging ratchet mechanism that functions to fix the lift at one of a plurality of lift height positions. A pair of generally identical toothed ratchet plates are affixed to lower link members which form the parallelogram linkage, and which that are pivotally connected to the center support post. The support comprises a generally hollow ember having opposing sides each defining longitudinally disposed slotted apertures. A catch is retained by a carrier riding within the support and is received within said slotted apertures and projects laterally from the center support post. The catch is spring biased to an upper position such that the catch will automatically engage the toothed ratchet plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Inventor: Larry Meyer
  • Patent number: 9463968
    Abstract: A faucet assembly for dispensing liquid from a beverage source includes a housing having a body and a cover coupled to the body. The body is configured to mount to a structure associated with the beverage source. The cover is movable relative to the body while the body is connected to the structure to provide access to an interior of the housing. The faucet assembly also includes an insert positioned within the housing in fluid communication with the beverage source to direct the liquid through the housing. The insert is removable from the housing when the cover is moved to provide access to the interior of the housing. The faucet assembly further includes an actuator supported by the housing. The actuator is movable relative to the housing to selectively inhibit fluid flow through the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Brewnique LLC
    Inventors: Mark Schaefer, Patrick Morrissey, Sesha Chalapathi Madireddi, Ye Tian, Nicholas William Yurek
  • Patent number: 9463969
    Abstract: A refillable package combination includes a stand-up pouch accommodated within an outer container that includes a hollow shell with an open bottom. The stand-up pouch is inserted through the open bottom and a corner spout of the pouch is inserted through an opening in a slanted corner panel of the hollow shell. Frictional engagement between the corner spout and the opening secures the spout to the corner panel and pouch within the hollow shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Sonoco Development, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Huntington Hartley
  • Patent number: 9463970
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for automated intake and discharge of fluids to and from specified inclusion zones at a drilling site and related sites. A surface map is annotated with shapes designating at least inclusion zones for managed control of permitted intake and discharge of fluids tt and from permitted zones. For specified water sources, the inclusion zone is a loading zone associated with specified conditions and another inclusion zone is an unloading zone also having specified conditions. A control system in a vehicle uses the annotated map and GPS to assist the operator of the vehicle avoid restricted intake from and discharge to restricted zones and limit volumes and rates based on monitored parameters. Records are maintained to confirm the fluid, fluid location and volumes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Summit Liability Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Russel Lloyd Orcutt, Jason Pecht, Kyle Laturnus, Corey Kenneth McAllister
  • Patent number: 9463971
    Abstract: An overfill prevention valve system including an overfill prevention valve having a blocking component. The blocking component is movable between a closed position, wherein the blocking component generally blocks fluid from flowing through the valve, and an open position, wherein the blocking component generally allows fluid to flow through the valve. The valve further including a float operatively coupled to the blocking component. The system additionally has an actuator that is operable to directly or indirectly move the blocking component to at least one of its open or closed positions to thereby enable testing of the overfill prevention valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: OPW FUELING CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Jeromy E. Higgins, Charles J. Liebal, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9463972
    Abstract: A docking station for a beverage dispenser having a reservoir is provided. The docking station includes an inlet conduit that extends from a pressurized water source to a spout of the docking station. A removable water filter is coupled to the inlet conduit in order to filter the flow of water through the inlet conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Erik Hitzelberger, Bart Andrew Nuss, Alan Joseph Mitchell
  • Patent number: 9463973
    Abstract: A mechanism for reducing stiction in a MEMS device by decreasing an amount of carbon from TEOS-based silicon oxide films that can accumulate on polysilicon surfaces during fabrication is provided. A carbon barrier material film is deposited between one or more polysilicon layer in a MEMS device and the TEOS-based silicon oxide layer. This barrier material blocks diffusion of carbon into the polysilicon, thereby reducing accumulation of carbon on the polysilicon surfaces. By reducing the accumulation of carbon, the opportunity for stiction due to the presence of the carbon is similarly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruben B. Montez, Robert F. Steimle
  • Patent number: 9463974
    Abstract: The micro-electro-mechanical system is provided with at least two separate anchoring elements (F1, F2) designed to be bound to a support. A anchoring element (F1, F2) is solidly linked to at least one beam (P1, P2) that can be deformed in bending, and two beams (P1, P2) respectively linked to two distinct anchoring elements (F1, F2) have different directions. A beam has a length L, a thickness e, and a height h, such that the stiffnesses KL in the directions of the length and of the height Kh are large and the stiffness in the direction of the thickness Ke is small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Bertrand Leverrier, Olivier Lefort, Andre Boura, Bernard Chaumet
  • Patent number: 9463975
    Abstract: A MEMS capacitive pressure sensor is provided. The pressure sensor includes a substrate having a first region and a second region, and a first dielectric layer formed on the substrate. The pressure sensor also includes a first electrode layer formed on the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer having first openings formed on the first electrode layer. Further, the pressure sensor includes conductive sidewalls connecting with the first electrode layer formed on sidewalls of the first openings, and a second electrode layer with a portion formed on the second dielectric layer in the second region and the rest suspended over the conductive sidewalls in the first region. Further, the pressure sensor also includes a chamber between the conductive sidewalls and the second electrode layer; and a third dielectric layer formed on the second electrode layer exposing a portion of the second electrode layer in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (SHANGHAI) CORPORATION
    Inventor: Zhongshan Hong
  • Patent number: 9463976
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for fabricating a high aspect ratio MEMS sensor device having multiple vertically-stacked inertial transducer elements (101B, 110D) formed in different layers of a multi-layer semiconductor structure (100) and one or more cap devices (200, 300) bonded to the multi-layer semiconductor structure (100) to protect any exposed inertial transducer element from ambient environmental conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert F. Steimle, Paul M. Winebarger
  • Patent number: 9463977
    Abstract: A sacrificial limiter filter may include a substrate and a metal nano-coating and/or a polymer/carbon allotrope coating. The sacrificial limited filter may transmit optical radiation having desired frequencies and/or intensities while blocking optical radiation having undesired frequencies and/or intensities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Ushinsky, Mitchell Haeri
  • Patent number: 9463978
    Abstract: The method described herein provides a method for preparing trisilylamine. In one aspect, the method comprises: providing a reaction mixture of trisilylamine and monochlorosilane into a reactor wherein the reaction mixture is at a temperature and pressure sufficient to provide trisilylamine in a liquid phase wherein the reaction mixture is substantially free of an added solvent; contacting the reaction mixture with ammonia to provide a crude mixture comprising trisilylamine and an ammonium chloride solid wherein monochlorosilane is in stoichiometric excess in relation to ammonia; purifiying the crude mixture to provide trisilylamine wherein the trisilyamine is produced at purity level of 90% or greater; and optionally removing the ammonium chloride solid from the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Krishan Agarwal, Sai-Hong Andrew Lo, Howard Paul Withers, Jr., Joseph T. Sluzevich, James Joseph Hart
  • Patent number: 9463979
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a manufacturing device and a manufacturing method that use carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) as a source material for the efficient, low-cost manufacture of recycled carbon fibers exhibiting excellent ease of handling. A device for manufacturing recycled carbon fibers is provided with: a dry distillation-carbonization furnace (101) having a box-shaped main body (105), a dry distillation-carbonization chamber (102) which accommodates CFRP (40), a combustion chamber (103) equipped with a burner (104), and a heating chamber (115) formed in the space between the main body (105) and the dry distillation-carbonization chamber (102); and a continuous furnace (26) that continuously heats the CFRP (25) after dry distillation and removes a portion of the fixed carbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Carbon Fiber Recycle Industry Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidehito Itazu, Hajime Kanki
  • Patent number: 9463980
    Abstract: Coke is manufactured by blending two or more kinds of coal to form a coal blend and by carbonizing the coal blend. Interfacial tension among coal kinds is used as a control index for determining the blending ratio of each coal when forming the coal blend. It is possible to increase the strength of coke without increasing the material cost of a coal blend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Fukada, Hiroyuki Sumi, Izumi Shimoyama, Takashi Anyashiki, Hidekazu Fujimoto, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Yusuke Dohi
  • Patent number: 9463981
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing carbon nanotubes, comprising a catalyst particle forming step of heating and reducing a catalyst raw material to form catalyst particles and a carbon nanotube synthesizing step of flowing a raw material gas onto the heated catalyst particles to synthesize carbon nanotubes, wherein a carbon-containing compound gas without an unsaturated bond is flowed onto the catalyst raw material and/or the catalyst particles in at least one of the catalyst particle forming step and the carbon nanotube synthesizing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Suguru Noda, Zhongming Chen, Dong Young Kim, Shunsuke Ueda, Eisuke Haba
  • Patent number: 9463982
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method for reducing iron silicide and/or iron phosphide fouling and/or corrosion in a hydrochlorosilane production plant are disclosed. Sufficient trichlorosilane is included in a silicon tetrachloride process stream to minimize hydrogen chloride formation, thereby inhibiting iron (II) chloride formation and reducing iron silicide and/or iron phosphide fouling, superheater corrosion, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: REC Silicon Inc
    Inventors: Stein Julsrud, Anja Olafsen Sjastad
  • Patent number: 9463983
    Abstract: A method for regulation of an ammonia plant where a purge gas (10) containing inerts is extracted from ammonia synthesis loop (SL), and where the ammonia plant is operated at a partial load by keeping the ammonia synthesis loop at a nominal high pressure, and reducing the purge rate in order to increase concentration of inerts in the ammonia synthesis loop and avoid overheating of the ammonia reactor; preferably a water electrolysis section (WE) produces a hydrogen feed (3) and an air separator produces a nitrogen feed (4); hydrogen and nitrogen are mixed to form a make up gas (5) which is reacted at a high-pressure in said ammonia synthesis loop (SL).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Casale SA
    Inventors: Raffaele Ostuni, Federico Zardi
  • Patent number: 9463984
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an anode active material with whole particle concentration gradient for a lithium secondary battery, a method for preparing same, and a lithium secondary battery having same, and more specifically, to a composite anode active material, a method for manufacturing same, and a lithium secondary battery having same, the composite anode active material having excellent lifetime characteristics and charge/discharge characteristics through the stabilization of crystal structure as the concentration of a metal comprising the anode active material shows concentration gradient in the whole particle, and having thermostability even in high temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yang-Kook Sun, Hyung Joo Noh
  • Patent number: 9463985
    Abstract: A composition comprising an aluminum chlorohydrate salt, the aluminum chlorohydrate salt having at least 50 mole % Al30 polyhydroxyoxoaluminum cation of all polyhydroxyoxoaluminum cations detectable by quantitative27 Al NMR within the aluminum chlorohydrate salt, and a buffer. The composition can optionally include zirconium. Also disclosed are a method of making an aluminum salt using an increased molar concentration of a starting aluminum salt with a buffer, a method of reducing perspiration with the aluminum chlorohydrate salt, and a method of treating water with the aluminum chlorohydrate salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Iraklis Pappas, John Vaughn, Long Pan
  • Patent number: 9463986
    Abstract: This method is based in the recirculation of an iron free solution or a solution with low iron content in such a manner that the final acidity conditions obtained are ideal for iron to efficiently precipitate as jarosite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: TAM 5, S.L.
    Inventor: Francisco Jose Tamargo Garcia
  • Patent number: 9463987
    Abstract: An electrical purification apparatus and methods of making same are disclosed. The electrical purification apparatus may provide for increases in operation efficiencies, for example, with respect to current efficiencies and membrane utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Evoqua Water Technologies Pte. Ltd
    Inventors: Li-Shiang Liang, Joseph D. Gifford, John K. Chan, Lawrence J. Salvo
  • Patent number: 9463988
    Abstract: An electrical purification apparatus and methods of making same are disclosed. The electrical purification apparatus may provide for increases in operation efficiencies, for example, with respect to current efficiencies and membrane utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Evoqua Water Technologies Pte. Ltd
    Inventors: Li-Shiang Liang, Joseph D. Gifford, Lawrence J. Salvo, John K. Chan
  • Patent number: 9463989
    Abstract: The use of a dialdehyde (e.g. glyoxal) and a nitrogen-containing scavenger (e.g. a triazine) when injected separately in media containing hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and/or mercaptans to scavenge H2S and/or mercaptans therefrom gives a synergistically better reaction rate and overall scavenging efficiency, i.e. capacity, over the use of the dialdehyde or the nitrogen-containing scavenger used alone, but in the same total amount of the dialdehyde and nitrogen-containing scavenger. The media may include an aqueous phase, a gas phase, a hydrocarbon phase and mixtures of a gas and/or hydrocarbon phase with an aqueous phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Carlos M. Menendez, Vladimir Jovancicevic, Sunder Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 9463990
    Abstract: A water treatment agent for removing contaminants through oxidation with high-activity intermediate-state pentavalent manganese consists of a manganese-containing compound, a complexing agent, and a persulfate, wherein the manganese-containing compound is bivalent manganese ions, permanganate or manganese dioxide. The molar ratio of the bivalent manganese ions, the ligand, and the persulfate is 1:1-50:1-1000. The agent removes contaminants through oxidation with high-activity intermediate-state pentavalent manganese, and has the advantages of high oxidizing ability, being capable of fast removing organic contaminants in water, and having no toxic and harmful substance produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Harbin Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jin Jiang, Suyan Pang, Jun Ma
  • Patent number: 9463991
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the treatment of water with a gas or nutrient infused liquid. One embodiment delivers an oxidized water supply to a wastewater digester medium by means of pure oxygen introduced to the water supply via a pressure vessel or other means to infuse the liquid. This oxygen infused liquid is delivered to the medium to be treated at a critically controlled depth via a surface float delivery system. The invention involves delivering the oxygen infused liquid via nozzles which are located strategically in the supernatant allowing an extended oxygen-water interface time without over oxidizing the sludge blanket below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Inventors: Dennis Lapin, Brad McMahen
  • Patent number: 9463992
    Abstract: A laser material processing system which includes a pulsed fiber laser source having a continuous wavelength bandwidth of larger than 100 nm and pulse width of from 100 femtosecond to 1 microsecond, a broad band laser emitted from one core of an optical fiber, where the broad band laser is applied to a subject material to produce removal of the subject material and/or color change of the subject material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: AdValue Photonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Shibin Jiang, Jihong Geng, Qing Wang
  • Patent number: 9463993
    Abstract: A glass ribbon engagement system is described herein that includes a robot tooling device with suction cups configured to engage a first side of a glass ribbon, and a guidance device with one or more devices (e.g., air nozzles, cylinder-wheel units) which are configured to apply one or more local forces to a second side of the glass ribbon to shift the glass ribbon towards the suction cups to assist the suction cups in engaging and securing the first side of the glass ribbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: James William Brown, Shawn Rachelle Markham, Naiyue Zhou, Zepei Zhu
  • Patent number: 9463994
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing an optical preform by means of an internal vapor deposition process including an energy source, a hollow substrate tube having a supply side and a discharge side and the energy source being moveable along a length of the hollow substrate tube, and an elongation tube connected to the hollow substrate tube at the discharge side thereof, wherein the hollow substrate tube extends into an interior of the elongation tube and an internal diameter of the elongation tube is at least 0.5 millimeters larger than an external diameter of the hollow substrate tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Draka Comteq B.V.
    Inventors: Igor Milicevic, Johannes Antoon Hartsuiker, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen, Gertjan Krabshuis, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
  • Patent number: 9463995
    Abstract: The invention relates to an alloy having high temperature mechanical strength in an oxidizing medium and comprising a carbide-precipitation-strengthened matrix containing chromium. The invention is characterized in that the alloy comprises carbides of at least one metal (M) selected from among titanium, zirconium and hafnium, said carbides also optionally containing (M?) tantalum. The invention is suitable for articles that require high temperature mechanical strength, such as for hot glass processing or production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignees: SAINT-GOBAIN ISOVER, SAINT-GOBAIN SEVA
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Bernard, Christophe Liebaut, Patrice Berthod, Sylvain Michon
  • Patent number: 9463996
    Abstract: To provide a glass substrate for a display cover glass not only having excellent strength and antibacterial properties but also having a high transparency and a high visible transmittance suitable as a cover glass for a display device. A glass substrate for a display cover glass, which comprises a surface compressive stress layer and an antibacterial substance-containing layer formed on the glass substrate surface, characterized by having a ratio (T1/T2) of the transmittance T1 at a wavelength of 428 nm to the transmittance T2 at a wavelength of 650 nm of the glass substrate of at least 0.95, and a transmittance at a wavelength of 428 nm of at least 86% when the thickness of the glass substrate is from 0.1 to 3.0 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Yusaku Matsuo
  • Patent number: 9463997
    Abstract: A composite oxide particle prepared from raw materials comprising: (1) a finely powdered silica having a BET specific surface area of 50 m2/g or greater or an alkoxysilane, and (2) a liquid metal alkoxide other than an alkoxysilane or a nano order metal oxide powder other than finely powdered silica, one of components (1) and (2) being a solid oxide and the other being a liquid alkoxide, wherein the composite oxide particle is prepared by mixing or kneading the raw materials to obtain a sol or gel-like substance, sintering the sol or gel-like substance at a temperature of 300° C. or higher to form a glass-like substance, and then crushing the glass-like substance is provided. Also, a resin composition containing the composite oxide particle, and a reflector for a light-emitting semiconductor device formed using the resin composition are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Shiobara, Yoshihiro Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 9463998
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a film-coated glass film includes heating a cylindrical body made of glass or ceramic with a heater provided in an interior of the cylindrical body, heating a glass film by feeding the glass film over the heated cylindrical body, and forming a film made of an oxide, a nitride, or a metal on the glass film while the film is on and being heated by the cylindrical body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takayoshi Saitoh
  • Patent number: 9463999
    Abstract: A glass sheet has an electrically conductive film having a sheet resistance in the range of 9.5 to 14.0 ohms/square; an emissivity in the range of 0.14 to 0.17 and an absorption coefficient of greater than 1.5×103 cm?1 in the wavelength range of 400-1100 nanometers, and a surface roughness of less than 15 nanometers Root Means Square. A glass sheet of another embodiment of the invention has an electrically conductive film having a phosphorous-fluorine doped tin oxide pyrolytically deposited film on the surface of the glass sheet, wherein the ratio of phosphorous precursor to tin precursor is in the range of greater than 0-0.4. The coated glass sheets of the invention can be used in the manufacture of multi sheet insulating units, OLEDs and solar cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashtosh Ganjoo, David R. Haskins, James W. McCamy, Gary J. Nelis, Peter Tausch
  • Patent number: 9464000
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to cementitious binder compositions, related concrete compositions, and related methods. The cementitious binder includes a cement augmented with particulate glass (e.g., mixed color waste glass) and a reactive particulate mineral and/or metal salt such as sodium bicarbonate or calcium carbonate. The cementitious binder can be combined with aggregate and used to form corresponding (cured) concrete compositions. Inclusion of the reactive particulate material improves the set time and early-age strength development of the cured compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Parviz Soroushian, Iman Harsini, Amirpasha Peyvandi
  • Patent number: 9464001
    Abstract: Materials and methods for implementing engineered aggregates in metamaterials are provided. The engineered aggregates may be tuned to oscillate resonantly under the influence of an external force improving the dynamic performance of the metamaterial by impeding dynamic excitation. The engineered aggregate generally comprise a multilayer resonant structure having at least a relatively heavy inner core surrounded by at least a compliant coating layer. The geometry and stiffness of the relative layers can be tuned to engineer a desired resonant frequency response within the aggregate for a chosen frequency range. The engineered aggregates are disposed in a matrix material to form a metamaterial. The engineered aggregates may be disposed within a mortar matrix to form a concrete metamaterial suitable for use, for example, in structural applications, including bunkers, shelters, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Stephanie Mitchell, Anna Pandolfi, Michael Ortiz
  • Patent number: 9464002
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for producing a manufactured product, a method for making a liquid absorbent, and processes for disposal of flammable liquids with a flue gas desulfurization by-product. The compositions for the manufactured products combine a binder and the by-product. The composition contains a greater percentage by weight of the by-product than the binder. The methods for producing manufactured products include dewatering the gypsum-depleted waste stream to reduce a water content, and forming the manufactured product. The method for making a liquid absorbent includes dewatering, granulating, drying, heating, and packaging a granulated gypsum-depleted composition as the liquid absorbent. The processes for disposal of flammable liquids include distributing a by-product into contact with flammable liquid, absorbing the liquid, transporting, and igniting the flammable liquid. The artificial soils are a combination of by-product and animal waste, human waste, or another bio-solid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Utter Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Terry D. Utter
  • Patent number: 9464003
    Abstract: A method produces a composite material using a mixing system. The composite material comprises at least one aggregate, e.g. rock and/or glass, and the reaction product of a two-component polymeric binder composition comprising a first component, e.g. an isocyanate component, and a second component, e.g. an isocyanate-reactive component. The mixing system includes a mixing apparatus. The method includes the step of providing the aggregate, the first component and the second component into the mixing apparatus. The method further includes the step of mixing the first and second components to produce the reaction product of the two-component polymeric binder composition, and the step of applying the reaction product of the two-component polymeric binder composition to the aggregate within the mixing apparatus to produce the composite material. The composite material can be used for forming a paved structure, such as a sidewalk or a roadway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignees: BASF SE, LARIAT HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Hicks, David Kenneth Bower, William G. Handlos, Joe Kaul, Brian T. Arnott
  • Patent number: 9464004
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing porous ceramic articles is provided that includes forming a plurality of extruded green bodies from a ceramic precursor batch composition. The method also includes firing the extruded green bodies in a tunnel kiln to produce porous ceramic articles, periodically determining a shrinkage characteristic of at least one sample passing through the tunnel kiln, and adjusting a top soak temperature in the kiln if the shrinkage characteristic is outside of a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Jean E Balster, Michael P Brown, Thomas James Deneka, Joshua L Howell, Daniel Edward McCauley
  • Patent number: 9464005
    Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition is represented by a general formula “xBi2O3.yZnO.(z-a)Nb2O5.aV2O5”. The variables, “x”, “y”, “z” and “a” in the general formula respectively satisfy the following conditions: 2.90?x?3.10, 1.90?y?2.10, 1.90?z?2.10, and 0.0005?a?0.020.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Arashi, Osamu Taguchi, Tomoaki Kawata
  • Patent number: 9464006
    Abstract: An example of a nanoballoon thermal protection system includes a refractory ceramic foam having carbide balloons. The foam has a closed cell structure not allowing liquid to penetrate through the foam. Each of the carbide balloons is hollow and has a diameter greater than 0 nm and less than 900 nm. Each of the carbide balloons includes a refractory carbide. In addition, a vehicle with thermal shield includes a surface and a first and second nanoballoon closed cell foam coatings. Each of the foam coatings has a melting point temperature greater than 1000° C. and a density less than 85%. Each of the foam coatings has hollow balloons having a diameter less than 900 nm. Each of the foam coatings includes a closed cell structure not allowing liquid to penetrate through the respective coating. Methods for manufacturing a nanoballoon system and a nanoballoon thermal protection system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Alfred A. Zinn, Justin S. Golightly, Loosineh Avakians
  • Patent number: 9464007
    Abstract: The present invention relates to, inter alia, methods for the treatment of wallboards with fungicides and the treated wallboards. In particular, the invention relates to the treatment of wallboards with a fungicidally effective amount of difenoconazole. The invention also provides for the treatment of wallboards with synergistic combinations of difenoconazole and other fungicides. The invention also provides the treatment of building materials with difenoconazole and synergistic mixtures containing difenoconazole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: LANXESS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Cornish, Anja Greiner, Gertrude Knauf-Beiter, Johann Steiner
  • Patent number: 9464008
    Abstract: Ammonium sulfate nitrate double salts may be produced using a process that result in complete or nearly complete conversion to the 2:1 double salt. In some embodiments, the disclosure pertains to methods of controlling moisture content during the production process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Stephanie C. Barthe, James A. Kweeder, Maria A. Azimova, Raymond G. Wissinger, Christopher B. Pace, Joshua H. McGill, Keith D. Cochran, Andrew J. Howes
  • Patent number: 9464009
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for recovery of urea dust and ammonia from a gas stream by contacting said gas stream with an aqueous sulphuric acid solution, thus forming an acid solution of ammonium sulphate and urea, characterized in that the acid solution is concentrated to a melt comprising less than 5 wt % of water, which melt is subsequently transferred into solid particles comprising urea and ammonium sulphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Stamicarbon B.V.
    Inventors: Jozef Hubert Meessen, Pantelis Orfanidis
  • Patent number: 9464010
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for producing hydrogen and capturing CO2 from emissions combine both H2 production and CO2 capture processes in forms of thermochemical cycles to produce useful products from captured CO2. The thermochemical cycles are copper-chlorine (Cu—Cl) and magnesium-chlorine-sodium/potassium cycles (Mg—Cl—Na/K—CO2). One system comprises a Cu—Cl cycle, a CO2 capture loop, and a hydrogenation cycle. Another system comprises an Mg—Cl—Na/K—CO2 cycle and a hydrogenation cycle. Devices for hydrogen production, CO2 capture, hydrogenation, and process and equipment integration include a two-stage fluidized/packed bed, hybrid two-stage spray-fluidized/packed bed reactor, a two-stage wet-mode absorber, a hybrid two-stage absorber, and a catalyst packed/fluidized bed reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Greg Naterer, Zhaolin (Forest) Wang
  • Patent number: 9464011
    Abstract: A process for producing an alkylated aromatic compound comprises contacting an aromatic starting material and hydrogen with a plurality of catalyst particles under hydroalkylation conditions to produce an effluent comprising the alkylated aromatic compound, the catalyst comprising a composite of a solid acid, an inorganic oxide different from the solid acid and a hydrogenation metal, wherein the distribution of the hydrogenation metal in at least 60 wt % of the catalyst particles is such that the average concentration of the hydrogenation metal in the rim portion of a given catalyst particle is Crim, the average concentration of the hydrogenation metal in the outer portion of a given catalyst particle is Couter, the average concentration of the hydrogenation metal in the center portion of the given catalyst particle is Ccenter, where Crim/Ccenter?2.0 and/or Couter/Ccenter2.0. Also disclosed are rimmed catalyst and process for making phenol and/or cyclohexanone using the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Gabor Kiss, Thomas E. Green, Terry E. Helton, William C. Horn, William A. Lamberti, Tan-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 9464012
    Abstract: A simulated moving bed process using dual, parallel rotary valves configured or plumbed to be operated independently in which the step times of the rotary valves are staggered. In embodiments, the second rotary valve is programmed to step about halfway through the step time of the first rotary valve. Staggering the step time of the parallel rotary valves, rather than utilizing simultaneous stepping, results in increased net composite paraxylene concentration of the extract stream, allowing for increased capacity of the simulated moving bed process and/or reduced energy consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Porter, Timothy P. Bender, Dana L. Pilliod
  • Patent number: 9464013
    Abstract: Provided are azeotropic and azeotrope-like compositions of 2-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (HCFO-1233xf) and hydrogen fluoride (HF). Such azeotropic and azeotrope-like compositions are useful as intermediates in the production of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Hang T. Pham, Daniel C. Merkel, Konstantin A. Pokrovski, Hsueh S. Tung, Rajiv R. Singh
  • Patent number: 9464014
    Abstract: In a process for the preparation of methanolin parallel reactors, comprising the steps of (a) reacting carbon oxides and hydrogen in the presence of a methanol catalyst in a first methanol reactor to obtain a first methanol-containing effluent, (b) introducing and reacting unconverted synthesis gas in a second methanol reactor in the presence of a methanol catalyst to obtain a second methanol-containing effluent, the first methanol reactor and the second methanol reactor being connected in parallel, (c) combining the first and second effluent, and (d) cooling and separating the combined and cooled effluent into a methanol-containing liquid phase and unconverted synthesis gas, the methanol catalyst in the first methanol reactor is indirectly cooled by boiling water and the methanol catalyst in the second methanol reactor is either directly or indirectly cooled by the unconverted synthesis gas prior to conversion into the second effluent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/S
    Inventors: Hassan Modarresi, Christian Wix
  • Patent number: 9464015
    Abstract: A process for the hydrogenolysis of glycerol to produce propylene glycol as the major product comprising contacting the glycerol with hydrogen in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst under conditions for the formation of propylene glycol is disclosed. In particular, propylene glycol is formed with a selectivity of greater than about 90%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN
    Inventors: Ajay Kumar Dalai, Rajesh Vishnudev Sharma, Pardeep Kumar
  • Patent number: 9464016
    Abstract: Methods of treating or suppressing oxidative stress disorders affecting normal electron flow in the cells, including mitochondrial diseases, impaired energy processing disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, diseases of aging and diseases caused by reactive oxygen species are disclosed, as well as compounds useful in the methods of the invention, such as such as catechol or ortho-quinone derivatives of Formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: EDISON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Mollard, Gloria Pfister