Patents Issued in May 18, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170137726
    Abstract: Methods are provided for producing Group I base stocks having high viscosity and also having one or more properties indicative of a high quality base stock. The resulting Group I base stocks can have a viscosity at 100° C. and/or a viscosity at 40° C. that is greater than the corresponding viscosity for a conventional Group I bright stock formed by solvent processing. Additionally, the resulting Group I base stocks can have one or more properties that are indicative of a high quality base stock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Suzzy C.H. Ho, Charles L. Baker, JR., Shuji Luo, Halou Oumar-Mahamat
  • Publication number: 20170137727
    Abstract: A treated oil, such as a treated heavy oil, which has a viscosity which is lower than the viscosity of the oil prior to the treatment thereof (i.e., the initial oil). The temperature at which 80 mass % of the treated oil has boiled is within 25° C. of temperature at which 80 mass % of the oil prior to the treatment thereof has boiled. Thus, the treated oil and the oil prior to the treatment thereof, have distillation curves or boiling point curves which are the same as or approximate to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Michel Chornet, Esteban Chornet
  • Publication number: 20170137728
    Abstract: A rotating air distributor for rotary reactors such as rotary kilns for the gasification of biomass and other carbonaceous materials for efficient mixing and maximum conversion of solid biomass and other carbonaceous materials into synthesis fuel gas is disclosed. The invention includes a gas distribution port comprises of one main supply from which several discharge nozzles emerge at different angles and at different locations along the length of the reactor to provide distribution of gas throughout the intended length of the reactor. The discharge of gas from the gas distribution port is adjusted by the variable position of a plug inside the port that can be adjusted during the operation of the kiln to achieve optimum gas-solid interaction along the length of the reactor. The rotating action of the gas distribution port also facilitates and eases the passage of reacted biomass solid and other carbonaceous material residue through the reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventor: Amirali G. Rehmat
  • Publication number: 20170137729
    Abstract: Disclosed are novel engineered fuel feed storks, feed storks produced by the described processes, and methods of making the fuel feed stocks. Components derived from processed MSW waste streams can be used to make such feed stocks which are substantially free of glass, metals, grit and noncombustibles. These feed stocks are useful for a variety of purposes including as gasification and combustion fuels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Dingrong BAI, Paula Calabrese
  • Publication number: 20170137730
    Abstract: Colloidal coal-in-water slurries having nano-particles of coal creating a pseudo-fluid. The colloidal coal-in-water slurry generally includes from about fifty to about seventy two weight percent of coal, with about 20 to about 80 percent of the coal having a particle size of about one micron or less with a mode particle size of about 250 nanometers. The coal-in-water slurry can also include a surfactant system containing one surfactant or mixtures of two or more surfactants, or mixtures of one or more surfactants and an inorganic or organic salt. The coal-in-water slurry can be used in low NOx burner applications as the main fuel and/or the reburn fuel, in gasification processes as the input fuel either alone, or in combination with organic materials, in gas turbine applications, and in diesel engine applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Daniel D. Joseph, Gustavo A. Nunez, Maria Briceno, Takeshi Asa, Cebers Gomez
  • Publication number: 20170137731
    Abstract: The present process produces a clean burning coal from low grade coal and has a higher heating value per unit mass, as compared to the feed stock coal. The clean coal may be used in coal-fired power plants, industrial boilers, and homes since it produces fewer or none of the emissions commonly associated with coal burning devices. The process treats coal prior to its combustion and removes about 90 percent of the pollutants. These pollutants are removed within 6 to 18 minutes, many of which may be recycled into products such as roofing tar, chemical feed stocks, and light hydrocarbons that can be used as gaseous fuels. The final product is suitable for use in homes where coal is used for cooking and heating, and significantly improves the health of those who have previously been exposed to toxic fumes from burning uncleaned coal in their homes. The process is fueled by its own by-products, recycles heat, and reduces coal weight to save energy in transporting it to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Larry HUNT, Anton Dilo PAUL, Florentino J. MENDEZ, Alejandro GARCIA
  • Publication number: 20170137732
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lubricating oil composition including a viscosity index improver (A) containing a comb-shaped polymer and having an SSI (shear stability index) of 30 or less together with a base oil, wherein an HTHS viscosity (high temperature high shear viscosity) at 150° C. (T150) is 1.6 to 2.9 mPa·s, and a ratio of a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. (V40) [mm2/s] to the HTHS viscosity at 150° C. (T150) [mPa·s] (V40/T150) is 12.4 or less. The lubricating oil composition of the present invention is excellent in fuel consumption reducing properties in a low-temperature region assuming the time of starting an engine while making various properties, such as a viscosity, etc., in a high-temperature region assuming the time of high-speed operation of an engine favorable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshimasa UTAKA
  • Publication number: 20170137733
    Abstract: Methods are provided for producing Group III base stocks having high viscosity and also having one or more properties indicative of a high quality base stock. The resulting Group III base stocks can have a viscosity at 100° C. and/or a viscosity at 40° C. that is greater than the corresponding viscosity for a conventional Group III base stock. Additionally, the resulting Group III base stocks can have one or more properties that are indicative of a high quality base stock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Suzzy C.H. Ho, Charles L. Baker, JR., Shuji Luo, Halou Oumar-Mahamat
  • Publication number: 20170137734
    Abstract: A composition that includes one or more compounds represented by the formula R1—O—R2 wherein R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or polyaryl group having from about 4 to about 40 carbon atoms, and R2 is a substituted or unsubstituted, linear or branched, alkyl group having from about 4 to about 40 carbon atoms. The composition has a viscosity (Kv100) from about 1 to about 10 cSt at 100° C. as determined by ASTM D-445, a viscosity index (VI) from about ?100 to about 300 as determined by ASTM D-2270, and a Noack volatility of no greater than 50 percent as determined by ASTM D-5800. The disclosure also relates to a process for producing the composition, a lubricating oil base stock and lubricating oil containing the composition, and a method of reducing boundary friction and improving dispersancy of polar additives of a lubricating oil by using as the lubricating oil a formulated oil containing the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Abhimanyu O. Patil, Satish Bodige, Shuji Luo, Shane Deighton, Halou Oumar-Mahamat
  • Publication number: 20170137735
    Abstract: A composition that includes one or more compounds represented by the formula R1—O—R2 wherein R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or polyaryl group having from about 4 to about 40 carbon atoms, and R2 is the residue of a substituted or unsubstituted glycol ether having from about 4 to about 40 carbon atoms. The composition has a viscosity (Kv100) from about 1 to about 10 cSt at 100° C. as determined by ASTM D-445, a viscosity index (VI) from about ?100 to about 300 as determined by ASTM D-2270, and a Noack volatility of no greater than 50 percent as determined by ASTM D-5800. The disclosure also relates to a process for producing the composition, a lubricating oil base stock and lubricating oil containing the composition, and a method for improving one or more of oxidative stability, solubility and dispersancy of polar additives of a lubricating oil by using as the lubricating oil a formulated oil containing the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Abhimanyu O. Patil, Satish Bodige
  • Publication number: 20170137736
    Abstract: A lubricant including an ionic liquid, which includes a conjugate acid (B+) and a conjugate base (X?), and is protic, wherein the ionic liquid is represented by the following general formula (1): where R1 and R2 each represent a hydrogen atom or R1 and R2 form a benzene ring together with carbon atoms to which R1 and R2 are bonded, and R3 represents a straight-chain hydrocarbon group having 10 or more carbon atoms in the general formula (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi KONDO, Kouki HATSUDA, Makiya ITO, Nobuo TANO, Kyungsung YUN, Masayoshi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20170137737
    Abstract: This invention discloses an improved process which employs mixed alpha-olefins as feed over activated metallocene catalyst systems to provide essentially random liquid polymers particularly useful in lubricant components or as functional fluids
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Margaret M. Wu, Norman Yang, Phil Surana, Anura Patil, Steven P. Rucker, Kuangnan Qian, Shakeel Tirmizi, Mark P. Hagemeister
  • Publication number: 20170137738
    Abstract: The invention relates to industrial gear oil compositions that have been specially designed to have improved storage stability and/or paint compatibility and/or seal compatibility. This improvement is achieved while maintaining good performance in other areas. These improvements are particularly relevant to synthetic lubricants, such as those made with polyalphaolefin (PAO) base oils. This balance of properties has been difficult to achieve in synthetic compositions where problems in the areas of storage stability, paint compatibility and/or seal compatibility of become more pronounced. The invention also relates to processes of making such compositions and methods of using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: David M. HOBSON, Michael R. KOHUT, Stephen J. GOTHER
  • Publication number: 20170137739
    Abstract: The disclosure generally provides branched diester compounds having exceptional low-temperature and flow properties. The disclosure also provides uses of the branched diester compounds in lubricant compositions, for example, as a base oil, and in other applications where their low-temperature and flow properties can be employed beneficially. The disclosure also provides efficient and green methods for making the branched diester compounds. In certain embodiments, a vegetable oil-based diester (1,6-hexyldioleate) was branched with propanoic acid (C3) using a green synthetic approach involving solvent-free and catalyst-free epoxide ring opening followed by in situ normal esterification. A total of three branched ester derivatives possessing varied numbers of internal protruding branched ester groups and hydroxyl groups were obtained. All of the pure branched derivatives were comprised of mixtures of positional isomers and/or stereoisomers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Suresh Narine, Laziz Bouzidi, Latchmi Raghunanan
  • Publication number: 20170137740
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lubricating composition comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity and a (thio)phosphate salt of an amine-functionalized esterified copolymer, wherein the esterified copolymer comprises units derived from monomers: (i) an ?-olefin and (ii) an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or derivatives thereof, that are esterified with an alcohol, or mixtures thereof, and wherein at least a portion of carboxylic acid groups not esterified react with an amine. The invention further provides for a lubricating composition containing said copolymer. The invention further provides a method and use of lubricating composition in a mechanical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: William R.S. Barton, Michael Huston, Julie Edgar, Mark R. Baker
  • Publication number: 20170137741
    Abstract: A water-based lubricating coating agent includes a water-soluble silicate (A) and at least one water-soluble inorganic salt (B) selected from a tungstate, a phosphate and a borate, wherein the water-soluble silicate (A) and the at least one water-soluble inorganic salt (B) are blended such that a solid content mass ratio (B)/(A) falls within a range of 0.7 to 25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Nihon Parkerizing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hatakeyama, Shinobu Komiyama
  • Publication number: 20170137742
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for recovering lipids from microbial biomass, and for producing lipids. In the method, an aqueous suspension includes fermentation broth containing oleaginous yeast biomass which is subjected to hydrothermal treatment and lipids are recovered from the biomass by solvent extraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: NESTE OYJ
    Inventors: Arto HEISKA, Annika MALM, Jukka-Pekka PASANEN
  • Publication number: 20170137743
    Abstract: A process of making fragrance compositions by adding solvents with different polarity before and after a filtering step to accelerate precipitation of e.g. waxy carry-overs from perfume oils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Sarah Noelle ABSHER, William James WHITTAKER, Anna Frances GALLOWAY, Wundriari Hagnyono Arif HOFFMANN
  • Publication number: 20170137744
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a composition containing a fragrance and a porous cyclodextrin-based metal organic framework (CD-MOF). The CD-MOF includes at least a metal cation and a plurality of cyclodextrin molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Benjie N. Limketkai, Youssry Y. Botros
  • Publication number: 20170137745
    Abstract: This relates to cleaning compositions containing one or more branched and unethoxylated C6-C14 alkyl sulphate anionic surfactants in combination with one or more short-chain nonionic surfactants, which are linear or branched C4-C11 alkyl or aryl alkoxylated alcohols. Such cleaning compositions exhibit surprising and unexpected improvement in the sudsing profiles and are particularly suitable for use in hand-washing fabrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Ming TANG, Qing CHEN, Wenting LIU
  • Publication number: 20170137746
    Abstract: Detergent compositions with improved sudsing profile, which are particularly suitable for hand-washing fabrics and dishware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Ming TANG, Qing CHEN, Wenting LIU, Shuo LI
  • Publication number: 20170137747
    Abstract: Cleaning compositions with improved sudsing profiles are provided, which contain the combination of one or more branched, unethoxylated C6-C14 alkyl sulphate surfactants with one or more linear, unalkoxylated C6-C18 alkyl sulfate surfactants. Such cleaning compositions are particularly suitable for hand-washing dishes or fabrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Ming TANG, Qing CHEN, Shuo LI
  • Publication number: 20170137748
    Abstract: Cleaning compositions with improved sudsing profiles are provided, which contain a high level of one or more branched and unethoxylated C6-C14 alkyl sulphate anionic surfactants as a primary surfactant, with little or no alkoxylated alkyl sulfate and preferably without any suds suppressors. Such cleaning compositions are particularly suitable for hand-washing dishes or fabrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Ming (NMN) TANG, Qing (NMN) CHEN, Wenting (NMN) LIU
  • Publication number: 20170137749
    Abstract: Compound detergents, comprising a low HLB surfactant noncovalently bonded with a high HLB surfactant are presented. The low HLB surfactant and high HLB surfactant are preferably present in the compound detergent in a ratio of between 2:1 and 1:10 by weight, inclusive. Such compound detergents are formulated to remain homogenously distributed in an aqueous medium for a period of at least one hour. The inventive compound detergents can clean polymeric textiles without the use of solvents and while the surfaces are continuously exposed to water or a water solution. Additives for detergents comprising high HLB surfactants configured to noncovalently bond with low HLB surfactants in the detergents are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: True Blue Science, LLC
    Inventors: Karen Marie McMurray, Peter Mattei
  • Publication number: 20170137750
    Abstract: The present invention relates to method for preparing composition containing at least a quaternary ammonium compound, a cationic polysaccharide, a fragrance material or perfume, a nonionic surfactant, and optionally a nonionic polysaccharide. The method notably comprises a step of preparing a premix of the fragrance material or perfume and the nonionic surfactant. Said composition may notably be used for fabric conditioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Hai Zhou ZHANG, Nikolay CHRISTOV, Da Wei JIN, Lin HE
  • Publication number: 20170137751
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fabric softening composition, comprising a cationic fabric softening agent and a thickening polyurethane resulting from the condensation: a) of at least one compound of formula (I): R-[(EO)m—(PO)n—(BO)p]—OH??(I) in which: R is a linear or branched carbon chain, including at least one unsaturation and having between 17 and 24 carbon atoms, [(EO)m—(PO)n—(BO)p] represents an alkoxylated chain constituted of alternating or statistical alkoxylated units, distributed in blocks, chosen from ethoxylated units EO, propoxylated units PO and butoxylated units BO and m, n and p represent, independently of each other, 0 or an integer ranging between 1 and 10, the sum of m, n and p being between 0 and 10, b) of at least one polyol, for example of at least one poly(alkylene glycol) and c) of at least one polyisocyanate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: COATEX
    Inventors: Yves KENSICHER, Yves MATTER, Jean-Marc SUAU
  • Publication number: 20170137752
    Abstract: The present invention relates to products that comprise malodor reduction compositions and methods of making and using such products. Such malodor reduction compositions do not unduly interfere with the scent of the perfumed or unperfumed products comprising such malodor reduction compositions and the perfumed or unperfumed situs that is treated with such products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Gayle Marie FRANKENBACH, Judith Ann HOLLINGSHEAD, Steven Anthony HORENZIAK
  • Publication number: 20170137753
    Abstract: The present invention relates to delivery systems comprising malodor reduction compositions, methods of making such delivery systems and consumer products made with such delivery systems. Such delivery systems do not unduely interfere with the scent of the perfumed or unperfumed delivery system, perfumed or unperfumed products comprising such delivery systems and any perfumed or unperfumed situs that is treated with such products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Gayle Marie FRANKENBACH, Judith Ann HOLLINGSHEAD, Steven Anthony HORENZIAK, Johan (NMN) SMETS
  • Publication number: 20170137754
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid laundry additive composition and method of use in washing laundry. Not only does the composition reduce laundry odors but it also reduces washing machine drum odor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: AS Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Richard Alan Callahan
  • Publication number: 20170137755
    Abstract: Storage-stable compositions comprising soil release polymers. Compositions are described comprising *A) of from 45 to 55% by weight of one or more polyesters according to the following formula (I) wherein * R and R2 independently of one another are X—(OC2H4)n—(OC3H6)m wherein X is C1-4alkyl, the —(OC2H4) groups and the —(OC3H6) groups are arranged block-wise and the block consisting of the —(OC3H6) groups is bound to a COO group or are HO—(C3H6), *n is based on a molar average a number of from 12 to 120, * m is based on a molar average a number of from 1 to 10, and *a is based on a molar average a number of from 4 to 9, and * B) of from 10 to 30% by weight of one or more alcohols selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol, 1,2-propylene glycol, 1,3 -propylene glycol, 1,2 -butylene glycol, 1,3 -butylene glycol, 1,4 -butylene glycol and butyl glycol and *C) of from 24 to 42% by weight of water, the amounts in each case being based on the total weight of the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Robert John CARSWELL, Carsten COHRS, Richard Michael CRAVEN, David Philip JONES, Peter Eugen KLUG, Helen Elspeth LYON, Peter Helmut Erich NAUMANN, Alyn James PARRY, Henricus Wilhelmus Ida PEERLINGS, Alastair Richard SANDERSON, Andrew WYNNE
  • Publication number: 20170137756
    Abstract: Methods for using sulfur-containing compounds comprising short chain aliphatic ester or amide moieties as solvents and compositions comprising these compounds are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Graciela B. Arhancet, Scott A. Long
  • Publication number: 20170137757
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organic-inorganic hybrid core-shell microcapsules encapsulating an active ingredient such as a perfume and having a shell made from the hydrolysis and condensation reaction of particular polyalkoxysilane macro-monomeric compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Firmenich SA
    Inventors: Lahoussine OUALI, Marlène JACQUEMOND, Philipp ERNI
  • Publication number: 20170137758
    Abstract: Liquid laundry detergent compositions. Water-soluble unit dose articles that include a gel and a particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Mauro Vaccaro, Anju Deepali Massey Brooker, Nigel Patrick Somerville-Roberts, Alan Thomas Brooker, Eric San Jose Robles, Melissa Cuthbertson, Lynn Donlon
  • Publication number: 20170137759
    Abstract: The present invention relates to gels comprising lamellar phase compositions and water-soluble unit dose articles comprising said gels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Mauro Vaccaro, Anju Deepali Massey Brooker, Nigel Patrick Somerville-Roberts, Alan Thomas Brooker, Eric San Jose Robles, Melissa Cuthbertson, Lynn Donlon
  • Publication number: 20170137760
    Abstract: The present invention relates to aqueous compositions of associative polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs), optionally containing surfactants, biocidal agents and/or oxidants, which can provide a cleaning benefit and surface protection to treated articles including reduced soiling tendency, reduced cleaning effort and improved soil repellancy, as well as providing bacteriostatic properties to treated surfaces that thereby gain resistance to water, environmental exposure and microbial challenge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: THE CLOROX COMPANY
    Inventors: DAVID R. SCHEUING, WILLIAM L. SMITH, MICHAEL KINSINGER, JARED HEYMANN
  • Publication number: 20170137761
    Abstract: Disclosed is the use of lignified stalks, of at least one extract of lignified stalks or of a composition containing same in a cosmetic composition, a food supplement, a nutritional product, a food or a beverage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventor: Michael PAETZOLD
  • Publication number: 20170137762
    Abstract: A microalgae photochemistry culturing apparatus includes a photochemistry culturing machine for culturing microalgae by photochemical reactions; a red variation photochemistry culturing machine, which is connected to the photochemistry culturing machine to mix a nitrogen starvation medium filled therein with the microalgae precipitated in the photochemistry culturing machine and allows the nitrogen starvation medium to subject the microalgae to red variation to produce red variation microalgae in which astaxanthin is produced; a floatation separator enriching the red variation microalgae precipitated and emitted from the red variation photochemistry culturing machine through microbubbles fed; and a centrifugal separator removing residual moisture from the red variation microalgae enriched in the floatation separator and collecting the red variation microalgae.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventor: Kwang Mo SEONG
  • Publication number: 20170137763
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mass-cultivation system for microalgae, including a reactor that contains a cultivation liquid in the interior thereof, wherein the liquid includes functional particles. According to the mass-cultivation system for microalgae according to the present invention, because various functions that are necessary for cultivation of microalgae may be uniformly distributed in a cultivation liquid by allowing functional particles having various functions to flow in the cultivation liquid, a suitable environment may be created based on the cultivation of a large amount of microalgae and the growth of microalgae so that a high efficiency cultivation system may be realized while the problems of mass-cultivation of an existing cultivation system may be solved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Uen Do LEE, Won YANG, Byung Ryeul BANG, Su Ji JEON
  • Publication number: 20170137764
    Abstract: A photobioreactor system and a process for its use is illustrated, whereby water and nutrients from multiple sources are balanced (mixed using aeration) to the specific requirements of the particular photosynthetic organism strain used, sterilized, further mixed to balance the system and seeded with the photosynthetic microorganism, e.g. microalgae (dilution of a concentrated stock or added to an existing algal biomass). In accordance with such an embodiment, the algal biomass is then grown for a most efficient number of hours in a totally controlled environment where temperature (using aeration, an internal coil cooling system, or a combination thereof), pH (via CO2 delivery) and light delivery (using internal lighting directly inside the algal biomass) are optimized to the algal strain grown.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: AVESPA HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: David PUNCHARD, Philippe BOIS, Angela CORTINA BURGUEÑO
  • Publication number: 20170137765
    Abstract: A sealed container includes a container body having an opening, a lid removably installed in the opening of the container body, and a first seal member installed to seal a gap between the container body and the lid. A locking hole is formed in an inner peripheral portion of the container body. A first opening capable of facing the locking hole is formed in an outer peripheral portion of the lid. A second opening communicating with the first opening is formed in an end portion of the lid. The lid includes a locking member that can linearly move to protrude from and retract into the first opening, a rotatable rotary member positioned to face the second opening, a conversion mechanism configured to covert rotational motion of the rotary member to linear motion of the locking member, and a second seal member installed to seal the second opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventor: Akitake TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170137766
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for generating, culturing, and using magnetically-controlled three-dimensional (3D) tissues are described. A magnetically-enabled transwell system for immobilizing and supplying perfusion to a 3D mini-tissue includes a cell culture vessel with at least a first chamber and a second chamber, the mini-tissue being disposed in the first chamber, and a perfusion mechanism defining an elongate perfusion channel with a proximal end in the first chamber and a distal end in fluid communication with the second chamber, with a magnetic element configured to immobilize a magnetically-controlled 3D mini-tissue such that the proximal end is in fluid communication with basolateral space of the immobilized mini-tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Eugen Dhimolea, Constantine Mitsiades
  • Publication number: 20170137767
    Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition for cell culture substrates that enables the low-cost manufacture of a cell culture substrate, that can easily form patterns of various shapes when providing a pattern on the surface of a cell culture substrate, has low cytotoxicity, and that can form a cell culture substrate; a cell culture substrate that is formed using the photosensitive resin composition; and a cell culture substrate manufacturing method that uses the photosensitive resin composition. The photosensitive resin composition includes a photopolymerizable monomer and a photopolymerization initiator. The photopolymerizable monomer contains a defined amount of a polyfunctional monomer that is at least trifunctional, and the content of the photopolymerization initiator is within a prescribed range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventor: Takahiro SENZAKI
  • Publication number: 20170137768
    Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed herein are generally related to a cell culture system. More particularly, the systems and methods enable the culturing and interconnecting of a plurality of tissue types in a biomimetic environment. By culturing organ specific tissue types within a biomimetic environment and interconnecting each of the organ systems in a physiologically meaningful way, experiments can be conducted on in vitro cells that substantially mimic the responses of in vivo cell populations. In some implementations, the system is used to monitor how organ systems respond to agents such as toxins or medications. The system enables the precise and controlled delivery of these agents, which, in some implementations, enables the biomimetic dosing of drugs in humans to be mimicked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Joseph Cuiffi, Jeffrey T. Borenstein, Anilkumar Harapanahalli Achyuta, Mark J. Mescher, Linda Griffith, Samuel Walker Inman
  • Publication number: 20170137769
    Abstract: By providing a pre-processing unit on a processing liquid channel included in a cell capturing apparatus, air bubbles accumulate in an introduction region inside of the pre-processing unit and thus the air bubbles are removed while a processing liquid moves through the introduction region and a discharge region, even when the air bubbles are contained in the processing liquid. By providing a foreign matter removal filter, at least a part of foreign matters (foreign matters that cannot pass through through-holes) contained in the processing liquid can be captured and thus the processing liquid from which the foreign matters are removed can be supplied to a cell capturing device at the subsequent stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshihito KIKUHARA, Taihei ODAGIRI, Akio KOTATO, Masafumi KANETOMO
  • Publication number: 20170137770
    Abstract: A culturing device configured such that an isolator 2 has at least two communication ports 2dA and 2dB, and such that an incubator 4 is connected to each of the communication ports via a connecting member 114 (connection means 111). In the state where the work chamber 2a and the inside of the incubator 4 can be made to communicate with each other by opening the one communication port 2dA and a carrying-in-and-out port 4d of the incubator 4, which carrying-in-and-out port 4d is made to communicate with the communication port 2dA, the other communication port 2dB and the carrying-in-and-out port 4d of another incubator 4 are closed, and decontamination gas is supplied into the decontamination space S formed inside the connecting member to thereby decontaminate a portion exposed to the decontamination space. Thereby, the cultivating operation can be efficiently performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro SAKAMOTO, Takeshi YAMAMORI
  • Publication number: 20170137771
    Abstract: A cell culture apparatus of the present invention includes: a body including a space for accommodating a culture container, and an opening through which the culture container is taken in and out; a door that opens and closes the opening; an optical detection unit that includes optical sensors that optically detects an instruction to open and close the opening from a user, and converts the detection by the optical sensors to a signal and sends the signal; and a door open/close unit that receives the signal from the optical detection unit and controls open/close of the opening by the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KIMURA, Tatsuya MINAMI, Yasunori MAKARA
  • Publication number: 20170137772
    Abstract: A method detects the presence or absence of at least one first inhibition zone having a culture of biological particles on a culture medium in the presence of a chemical agent. The method of detection has a first step of seeding the culture medium with the biological particles, a second step in which the culture medium receives the chemical agent, a third step of incubation of the culture medium, and a fourth step of measurement of the first inhibition zone of the culture medium, which includes a first phase of taking an image of the first inhibition zone by ombroscopy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: bioMérieux
    Inventors: Laurent DRAZEK, Frédéric PINSTON
  • Publication number: 20170137773
    Abstract: A cell strainer based particle separation system is described consisting of a functionalized mesh and micro-particle smaller than the mesh size. The micro-particles carry at least two binding moieties, one binding on the mesh-fibers, and the second specific to the selected cells. The selected cells can be separated from the biological liquid, modified, detached, analyzed, cultivated or otherwise manipulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventor: Hams-Werner Heinrich
  • Publication number: 20170137774
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for separating beads and cells from a host fluid. The method includes flowing a mixture containing the host fluid, the beads, and the cells through an acoustophoretic device having an ultrasonic transducer including a piezoelectric material driven by a drive signal to create a multi-dimensional acoustic standing wave. A drive signal is sent to drive the at least one ultrasonic transducer to create the multi-dimensional acoustic standing wave. A recirculating fluid stream having a tangential flow path is located substantially tangential to the standing wave and separated therefrom by an interface region. A portion of the cells pass through the standing wave, and the beads are held back from the standing wave in the recirculating fluid stream at the interface region. Also disclosed is an acoustophoretic device having a coolant inlet adapted to permit the ingress of a cooling fluid into the device for cooling the transducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Bart Lipkens, Rudolf Gilmanshin, Louis Masi, Benjamin Ross-Johnsrud, Erik Miller, Walter M. Presz, JR., Thomas J. Kennedy, III
  • Publication number: 20170137775
    Abstract: Microorganisms such as micro algae are collected and separated from a host medium such as water. Cellular walls and membranes of the microorganisms are then ruptured to release their lipids using a lipid extraction unit. Thereafter, the lipids from the host medium are collected and separated using a lipid collection and separation unit. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Bart Lipkens, Eric Mitchell, Joey Carmichael, Dane Mealey, Jason Dionne