Patents Issued in January 30, 2018
  • Patent number: 9878914
    Abstract: Nano polycrystalline diamond is composed of carbon and a plurality of impurities other than carbon. A concentration of each of the plurality of impurities is not higher than 0.01 mass %, and the nano polycrystalline diamond has a crystal grain size (a maximum length) not greater than 500 nm. The nano polycrystalline diamond can be fabricated by preparing graphite in which a concentration of an impurity is not higher than 0.01 mass % and converting graphite to diamond by applying an ultra-high pressure and a high temperature to graphite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ikeda, Katsuko Yamamoto, Hitoshi Sumiya
  • Patent number: 9878915
    Abstract: A silicon member for a semiconductor apparatus is provided. The silicon member has an equivalent performance to one fabricated from a single-crystalline silicon even though it is fabricated from a unidirectionally solidified silicon. In addition, it can be applied for producing a relatively large-sized part. The silicon member is fabricated by sawing a columnar crystal silicon ingot obtained by growing a single-crystal from each of seed crystals by placing the seed crystals that are made of a single-crystalline silicon plate on a bottom part of a crucible and unidirectionally solidifying a molten silicon in the crucible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Nakada
  • Patent number: 9878916
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for synthesizing molecular sieve SSZ-63 using 1-(decahydronaphthalen-2-yl)-1-methylpyrrolidinium cations as a structure directing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventor: Saleh Ali Elomari
  • Patent number: 9878917
    Abstract: Ammonia storage structure, characterized in that it comprises an alternation:—of at least one ammonia storage layer, and—of at least one layer of a thermally conductive material of a thermal conductivity higher than that of the storage layer, the at least one layer of thermally conductive material being intended to increase heat transfers within the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: AAQIUS & AAQIUS SA
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Dementhon, Michael Francis Levy
  • Patent number: 9878918
    Abstract: Aluminum chlorohydrate products include particles of aluminum chlorohydrate, in fractured crystal form, the particles having a basicity in the range of about 50% to about 85.6%, a bulk density of 40 to 65 pounds per cubic foot, and a mean particle size in the range of about 10 microns to about 15 microns. The particles may also have a surface area to weight ratio of about 295 to about 705 m2/kg, inclusive of both endpoints and all numerical values therebetween, where the ratio is measured by laser diffraction. Methods of producing such products are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: USALCO, LLC
    Inventor: Bruce Wonder
  • Patent number: 9878919
    Abstract: The invention provides a Potassium Fluotitanate (K2TIF6) manufacture process. The Potassium Fluotitanate (K2TIF6) manufacture process includes steps: A. providing titanium ferrum powder to a reaction furnace and adding HF and peroxide solution to react with the titanium ferrum powder sufficiently to manufacture H2TiF6, B. filtrating the sufficiently mixed solution of step A and adding it to another reaction furnace, and then after the H2TiF6 cools off, adding Potassium Chloride (KCl) solution to react with the mixed solution to manufacture Potassium Fluotitanate (K2TiF6); C. adding K2CO3 solution to the remaining solution of step B and react with the remaining solution and controlling the pH value, the element Fe is recycled by a form of Fe(OH)3 flocculent precipitate and the Potassium Chloride (KCl) and KF solution are recycled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SUNXING LIGHT ALLOYS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuemin Chen, Qingdong Ye, Jianguo Li, Chaowen Liu, Yueming Yu
  • Patent number: 9878920
    Abstract: A white pigment dispersion includes 10 to 60 wt % of low effective density TiO2, 1 to 40 wt % of a latex, and the balance a dispersing medium. Inks using the low effective density TiO2 and methods for preparing the low effective density TiO2 are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Yan Zhao, Howard S. Tom, Hou T. Ng
  • Patent number: 9878921
    Abstract: Removable and replaceable outlets for point-of-use showers or faucets, filter devices, and methods and systems including the outlets and/or filter devices, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Pall Corporation
    Inventors: Alastair J. Hunter, Timothy J. Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 9878922
    Abstract: Overburden from surface coal mining in many regions can produce a rain runoff laden with selenium, in the selenate form. This occurs from rainwater leaching through exposed selenium-containing rocks in the overburden. The selenium-containing runoff water is caught in ponds. Remediation of the pond water to remove selenate is performed by treatment with sulfur-modified iron (SMI) in a contact bed of an upflow reactor vessel. The pond water after pretreatment is pumped through the SMI reactor, and can then be run through an oxidation tank and filtered to remove iron. For extending effectiveness and life of the SMI the contact bed is either periodically “fluffed” with a high-velocity upflow of water through the bed, or moved continuously through the column in a continuous medium filtration system. A biocide can be added to runoff water prior to the contact bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Peter F. Santina
  • Patent number: 9878923
    Abstract: A cross-linked terpolymer (BSDF) obtained by polycondensation of bisphenol-S, formaldehyde and 1,6-diammohexane. The terpolymer is highly efficient in eliminating lead ions from aqueous solutions. The adsorption of lead ions on BSDF was studied under different conditions such as: pH, contact time and temperature. The adsorption kinetics fits Lagergren second order kinetic model that are in agreement with the low surface area as a chemisorption process. Applying BSDF on non-spiked and spiked real wastewater samples under optimum conditions revealed the high efficiency of BSDF in removing toxic metal ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Othman Charles Sadeq Al Hamouz, Tawfik Abdo Saleh Awadh
  • Patent number: 9878924
    Abstract: A system and method for contaminant removal from water bodies with biochar are disclosed. An example system includes an anchor, a float, and an attachment line extending between the anchor and the float. One or more porous container is provided on the attachment line. The porous container has biochar therein. The container with the biochar is provided into a water body and maintained on the attachment line between the anchor and the float. The biochar in the porous container sequesters contaminants in the water body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Biochar Now, LLC
    Inventors: William T. Beierwaltes, James G. Gaspard, II
  • Patent number: 9878925
    Abstract: Described herein is a filtration medium comprising a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a thermolysis product of (i) a carbon substrate having a surface of COxEy, wherein E is selected from at least one of S, Se, and Te; and wherein x and y are greater than 0; and (ii) a metal salt; and methods of removing chloramine from aqueous solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Meredith McMurdo Doyle, Allen R. Siedle, Mark R. Stouffer, Thomas E. Wood
  • Patent number: 9878926
    Abstract: Assemblies designed to facilitate detection of water flow in low water flow situations. In some embodiments, the assembly includes a channel that narrows from an inlet end of the assembly to an outlet end of the assembly to increase the velocity of water flowing through the channel. In some embodiments, the assembly may also include a water delivery mechanism that delivers water flowing through the channel to a flow sensor and enables the detection of water flow, even in low flow situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: ZODIAC POOL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Hwa Leung Heng, Richard Asplund
  • Patent number: 9878927
    Abstract: Apparatus for purifying a fluid, which comprises at least one ion absorption cell (2) with an operating chamber (4, 5) at its interior through which a first operative fluid (F1) flows and an evacuation chamber (13, 13?) through which a second operative fluid (F2, F2?) flows and which is separated from the operating chamber (4,5) by a filtering membrane (100). A porous electrical conductor (18) is housed in the evacuation chamber (13, 13?) and is traversed by the second operative fluid (F2, F2?). Two electrodes (A, B) have the aforesaid operating chamber (4, 5) and evacuation chamber (13, 13?) interposed, and are supplied with opposite polarities in order to generate an operative electric field in the operating chamber (4, 5) and a limited electric field in the evacuation chamber (13, 13?), the latter with value lower than the operative electric field, due to the shielding effect of the porous electrical conductor (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: IDROPAN DELL'ORTO DEPURATORI S.R.L
    Inventor: Tullio Servida
  • Patent number: 9878928
    Abstract: Chemical pretreatments are used to produce usable water by treating a water source with a chemical pretreatment that contains a hexavalent chromium and an acid to generate a treated water source, wherein the concentration of sulfate compounds in the acid is negligible, and wherein the treated water source remains substantially free of precipitates after the addition of the chemical pretreatment. Other methods include reducing the pH in urine to be distilled for potable water extraction by pretreating the urine before distillation with a pretreatment solution comprising one or more acid sources selected from a group consisting of phosphoric acid, hydrochloric acid, and nitric acid, wherein the urine remains substantially precipitate free after the addition of the pretreatment solution. Another method described comprises a process for reducing precipitation in urine to be processed for water extraction by mixing the urine with a pretreatment solution comprising hexavalent chromium compound and phosphoric acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventor: Dean Muirhead
  • Patent number: 9878929
    Abstract: A process for producing a polyaluminum chlorosulfate (PACS) includes providing solid aluminum hydroxychloride, providing aluminum sulfate, mixing the solid aluminum hydroxychloride with the aluminum sulfate, in the presence of water, to form an aqueous milky suspension, wherein, on a dry weight basis, the ratio of the aluminum hydroxychloride to the aluminum sulfate is 0.75-20 parts aluminum hydroxychloride to 1 part aluminum sulfate, and maintaining the milky suspension for a period sufficient to allow the milky suspension to form a clear to slightly turbid solution including the PACS, the PACS having a basicity of 55 to 75%, the average molecular weight of the PACS is greater than or equal to 95 and less than or equal to 111, and salts present in the PACS comprise 0-1.0% sodium chloride by weight and 0-1.0% sodium sulfate by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: USALCO, LLC
    Inventor: James M. Dulko
  • Patent number: 9878930
    Abstract: An enhanced apparatus system and method may be used to facilitate the construction of a processing tank such as an anaerobic digester. The kit may include a cover assembly that can be assembled to form a cover for the processing tank, a side wall assembly that can be assembled to form a side wall for the processing tank, and a plurality of ballast support assemblies. Each ballast support assembly may have a retracted configuration in which the ballast support assembly avoids significantly impeding vertical motion of the ballast block from an initial ballast location to a final ballast location, and a deployed configuration in which the ballast block can be supported by the ballast support assembly in the final ballast location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: WesTech Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler D. Garr, Chad T. Allen
  • Patent number: 9878931
    Abstract: A device for artificial wetland sewage treatment, which comprises a vertical flow artificial wetland bed body with an openmouthed upper portion, a vertical flow sewage treatment artificial wetland arranged on the vertical flow artificial wetland bed body, a diversion canal formed at one end of the vertical flow artificial wetland bed body, a draining ditch formed at the other end of the vertical flow artificial wetland bed body, a baffle wall dividing into a first wetland unit and a second wetland unit, an upper water conduit with an upper water conduit inlet valve at one end. It ensures the service life of the vertical flow sewage treatment artificial wetland and avoids pipe blockage; has the lasting purification treatment capacity; has a simple structure and can achieve the low cost of construction and convenient operation management; and has a long-term stable use effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHANGSHU
    Inventors: Shuqing An, Delin Xu, Lijun Ren, Tangwu Yang
  • Patent number: 9878932
    Abstract: A submerged combustion melter 10 is arranged with a vertical melting chamber 11, which may be cylindrical, and at least five submerged combustion burners 21-26 in the bottom base 13, the burners so spaced apart from each other and from the walls and angled from the vertical that in use a toroidal flow pattern can be achieved, providing intensive mixing. The claims also pertain to a method of melting a vitrifiable material from solid batch by submerged combustion melting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventors: Jerry Demott, Bostjan Marolt, Randy Etzkorn, David Ducarme
  • Patent number: 9878933
    Abstract: One aspect relates to a method for the manufacture of doped quartz glass. Moreover, one aspect relates to quartz glass obtainable according to the method including providing a soot body, treating the soot body with a gas, heating an intermediate product and vitrifying an intermediate product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Heraeus Quarzglas GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Malte Schwerin, Martin Trommer, Steffen Zwarg
  • Patent number: 9878934
    Abstract: Methods of conveying a glass ribbon are provided that each includes the step of conveying the glass ribbon over a support device with a cushion of fluid supporting the glass ribbon over the support device. Each method further includes the step of monitoring a physical contact event between the glass ribbon and the support device by detecting an acoustic signal associated with the physical contact event. In further examples, glass ribbon conveying apparatus are provided that each includes a support device configured to support a glass ribbon over the support device with a cushion of fluid. Each apparatus further includes an acoustic sensor configured to monitor a physical contact event between the glass ribbon and the support device by detecting an acoustic signal associated with the physical contact event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Shi, Ningli Yang, Rui Zhang
  • Patent number: 9878935
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an optical fiber includes drawing an optical fiber preform and forming a bare optical fiber, coating an outer circumference of the bare optical fiber with a coating layer including a resin, curing the coating layer and forming an optical fiber by curing the coating layer, and changing a direction of the bare optical fiber using one or a plurality of direction changing devices at any position between a position where the bare optical fiber is formed and a position where the coating is performed. The direction changing device includes a guide groove which guides the bare optical fiber, and an internal space portion into which a fluid is introduced from an outside, and in the guide groove, an outlet through which the fluid in the internal space portion is blown to float the bare optical fiber in the guide groove is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Okada
  • Patent number: 9878936
    Abstract: An ultraviolet absorbing glass article comprising, as a glass matrix composition in mass % based on oxides, from 66 to 75% of SiO2, from 10 to 20% of Na2O, from 5 to 15% of CaO, from 0 to 6% of MgO, from 0 to 5% of Al2O3, from 0 to 5% of K2O, from 0.13 to 0.9% of FeO, at least 0.8% and less than 2.4% of total iron as represented by Fe2O3, and more than 1% and at most 5% of TiO2, containing from 100 to 500 mass ppm of CoO, from 0 to 70 mass ppm of Se and from 0 to 800 mass ppm of Cr2O3 in a total content of CoO, Se and Cr2O3 of less than 0.1 mass % based on the total content of components in the glass matrix composition, and having an ultraviolet transmittance of at most 2% at a thickness of 3.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Shuichi Akada
  • Patent number: 9878937
    Abstract: A heat-absorbing glass plate containing iron, tin, selenium, cobalt and sulfur, where the mass ratio of divalent iron as calculated as Fe2O3 to total iron as calculated as Fe2O3 is at least 55%, the ratio Tv/Te of the visible light transmittance Tv (by illuminant A, 2° visual field) as defined in JIS R3106 (1998) calculated as 4 mm thickness of the glass plate to the solar transmittance Te as defined in JIS R3106 (1998) calculated as 4 mm thickness of the glass plate, is at least 1.5, the visible light transmittance Tv (by illuminant A, 2° visual field) is higher than 65% as defined in JIS R3106 (1998) calculated as 4 mm thickness of the glass plate, and the excitation purity Pe is at most 7% as defined in JIS Z8701 (1999) calculated as 4 mm thickness of the glass plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yuya Shimada, Yusuke Arai
  • Patent number: 9878938
    Abstract: An antimony-free glass suitable for use in a frit for producing a hermetically sealed glass package is described. The hermetically sealed glass package, such as an OLED display device, is manufactured by providing a first glass substrate plate and a second glass substrate plate and depositing the antimony-free frit onto the first substrate plate. OLEDs may be deposited on the second glass substrate plate. An irradiation source (e.g., laser, infrared light) is then used to heat the frit which melts and forms a hermetic seal that connects the first glass substrate plate to the second glass substrate plate and also protects the OLEDs. The antimony-free glass has excellent aqueous durability, good flow, low glass transition temperature and low coefficient of thermal expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Melinda Ann Drake, Robert Michael Morena
  • Patent number: 9878939
    Abstract: Lithium silicate glass ceramics and glasses comprising specific oxides of monovalent elements are described which crystallize at low temperatures and are suitable in particular as dental materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Christian Ritzberger, Elke Apel, Wolfram Höland, Volker Rheinberger
  • Patent number: 9878940
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to crystallizable glasses and glass-ceramics that exhibit a black color and are opaque. In one or more embodiments, the crystallizable glasses and glass-ceramics include a precursor glass composition that exhibits a liquidus viscosity of greater than about 20 kPa*s. The glass-ceramics exhibit less than about 20 wt % of one or more crystalline phases, which can include a plurality of crystallites in the Fe2O3—TiO2—MgO system and an area fraction of less than about 15%. Exemplary compositions used in the crystallizable glasses and glass-ceramics include, in mol %, SiO2 in the range from about 50 to about 76, Al2O3 in the range from about 4 to about 25, P2O5+B2O3 in the range from about 0 to about 14, R2O in the range from about 2 to about 20, one or more nucleating agents in the range from about 0 to about 5, and RO in the range from about 0 to about 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: David Eugene Baker, Matthew John Dejneka, Indrajit Dutta, Robert Michael Morena, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Patent number: 9878941
    Abstract: A glass composition including SiO2 in an amount from about 70.0 to about 78.2% by weight, Al2O3 in an amount from about 18.6 to about 26.2% by weight, MgO in an amount from about 3.1 to about 10.7% by weight, CaO in an amount from 0.0 to about 7.6% by weight, Li2O in an amount from about 0.1 to about 5.0% by weight, and Na2O in an amount from 0.0 to about 0.2% by weight is provided. In exemplary embodiments, the glass composition is free or substantially free of B2O3 and fluorine. The glass fibers have a specific strength between about 1.6×106 J/kg and 2.24×106 J/kg and a specific modulus between about 3.3×107 J/kg and 3.7×107 J/kg. Glass fibers formed from the inventive composition possess exceptionally high specific strength and a low density, which make them particularly suitable in applications that require high strength, high stiffness, and low weight, such as in wind blades and aerospace structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: OCV Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Alan Hofmann, Peter B. McGinnis
  • Patent number: 9878942
    Abstract: Provided is a glass composition for glass fiber allowing spinning to be stably performed without mixing of red foreign substances into glass fibers. The glass composition for glass fiber includes, in relation to the total amount thereof, SiO2 in a content falling within a range from 57.0 to 60.0% by mass, Al2O3 in a content falling within a range from 17.5 to 20.0% by mass, MgO in a content falling within a range from 8.5 to 12.0% by mass, CaO in a content falling within a range from 10.0 to 13.0% by mass and B2O3 in a content falling within a range from 0.5 to 1.5% by mass, the total content of SiO2, Al2O3, MgO and CaO being 98.0% by mass or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Nonaka, Norio Hirayama, Kazuaki Minami, Yosuke Nukui
  • Patent number: 9878943
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method of making an optical fiber with improved bend performance, the optical fiber having a core and at least one cladding layer, and a chlorine content in the in the last layer of the at least one cladding layer that is greater than 500 ppm by weight. The fiber is prepared using a mixture of a carrier gas, a gaseous chlorine source material and a gaseous reducing agent during the sintering of the last or outermost layer of the at least one cladding layer. The inclusion of the reducing gas into a mixture of the carrier gas and gaseous chlorine material reduces oxygen-rich defects that results in at least a 20% reduction in TTP during hydrogen aging testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Dana Craig Bookbinder, Robert Brett Desorcie, Hazel Benton Matthews, III, Pushkar Tandon
  • Patent number: 9878944
    Abstract: The present invention relates to glass-ceramic compositions, as well as methods for forming such composition. In particular, the compositions include various polymorphs of silica that provide beneficial thermal expansion characteristics (e.g., a near linear thermal strain). Also described are methods of forming such compositions, as well as connectors including hermetic seals containing such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Xunhu Dai, Mark A. Rodriguez, Nathanael L. Lyon
  • Patent number: 9878945
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the expansion of sand grain-shaped raw material (1) in which the raw material drops downwards through a substantially vertical heated shaft (3) provided with means (2) for heating, in which a shaft flow (4) prevails and to a dosing element (6) which can be connected to a substantially vertical shaft (3) and a conveying line (7). In order to prevent the pressure fluctuations coming from the conveying line (7) in the area of the shaft (3), a dosing element (6) is attached between the shaft and the conveying (7) line, in which the quantity of granulate which goes over from the shaft (3) into the conveying line (7) is regulated via means for regulating so that a defined material collection of the granulate is formed as a buffer in the dosing element (6), which decouples the shaft flow (4) from the conveying flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: BINDER + CO AG
    Inventors: Harald Tschernko, Marcus Alfred Pusch, Bernhard Neukam, Ernst Erwin Brunnmair
  • Patent number: 9878946
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for producing a hydraulic binder by processing of a silicate-containing component with at least one of calcium silicate hydrate- or belite-containing components. The method includes comminuting the silicate-containing component to a particle sizes of <100 ?m, with at least partial breaking of Si—O—Si bonds and/or hydrogen bonds in the structure of the surface layer of the silicate-containing component, for surface activation. The method further includes contacting the comminuted silicate-containing component with calcium silicate hydrate- and/or belite-containing components to cause the calcium silicate hydrate- and/or belite-containing components to accumulate on at least 50% of the surface area of the silicate-containing carrier substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AG
    Inventors: Oliver Maier, Viktor Marchuk, Michael Wilczek, Dirk Schefer
  • Patent number: 9878947
    Abstract: A high performance engineered composite cementitious ductile mortar including a predetermined amount of matrix interactive fibers; a water reducer having a plasticizing effect; and a defoamer/plasticizer having a plasticizing effect. A carboxylic acid polymer or carboxylic acid copolymer based superplasticizer are not included in the defoamer/plasticizer or the water reducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: GST International, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Glessner, Thomas Martin, Richard McCabe
  • Patent number: 9878948
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a blend of reinforcement fibers for use in a variety of applications. In particular, the blend of reinforcement fibers can be used in cementitious compositions, such as Portland cement concrete and asphalt cement concrete compositions to reduce or preclude voids and/or cracks formed in the cement concrete upon placement. The blend of reinforcement fibers includes a plurality of first fibers and a plurality of different second fibers. The first and second fibers can be different based on coarseness/fineness, melting temperature, denier and specific chemical or material composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Forta Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey B. Lovett, Clifford Norman MacDonald, Tracy H. Lang
  • Patent number: 9878949
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are cement compositions and methods of using set-delayed cement compositions in subterranean formations. An embodiment includes a method of cementing in a subterranean formation comprising: providing a cement composition comprising water, pumice, hydrated lime, a set retarder, and a strength enhancer, wherein the strength enhancer comprises at least one material selected from the group consisting of cement kiln dust, slag, amorphous silica, a pozzolan, and any combination thereof; introducing the cement composition into the subterranean formation; and allowing the cement composition to set in the subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hallliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Jason Pisklak, Kyriacos Agapiou, Juan Humberto Martinez, Samuel Jason Lewis, Lance Everett Brothers, Pauline Akinyi Otieno, Peter James Boul, Matthew Grady Kellum, Ronnie Glen Morgan
  • Patent number: 9878950
    Abstract: A liquid accelerator composition for accelerating the setting reaction of calcium sulfate hemihydrate and water and methods of forming a liquid gypsum accelerator are provided. The liquid accelerator composition includes a liquid media in which calcium sulfate dihydrate is less than fully soluble and a ground product of a mill grinding of a mixture comprising calcium sulfate dihydrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: National Gypsum Properties, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Fewox, Joseph J. Bailey
  • Patent number: 9878951
    Abstract: The invention provides novel articles of composite materials having hollow interior channels or passageways, or otherwise being hollowed out, and formulations and methods for their manufacture and uses. These hollow core objects are suitable for a variety of applications in construction, pavements and landscaping, and infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Solidia Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry E. McCandlish, Orlando Narine, Daniel Castoro, Vahit Atakan, Devin Patten, John P. Kuppler
  • Patent number: 9878952
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mortar composition for interior plaster or coating comprising at least one binder, at least aggregates, sands and/or fillers and at least one additive, characterized in that at least one additive is an agent in powder form capable of scavenging aldehydes and is selected from aminoalcohols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN WEBER
    Inventor: Wolfram Maier
  • Patent number: 9878953
    Abstract: A refractory formulation containing an anhydrous solvent, an oleophilic rheology modifier and a refractory aggregate exhibits non-thermoplastic behavior, and remains plastic and formable at temperatures in the range of 10 degrees Celsius to 180 degrees Celsius. The oleophilic rheology modifier may effectively bind with the solvent to create a gel-like structure with organic solvents with moderate to high polarity. A phyllosilicate clay that has been treated with a quaternary fatty acid amine may be used as the oleophilic rheology modifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: VESUVIUS CRUCIBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: James W. Stendera, Ryan Hershey
  • Patent number: 9878954
    Abstract: Vacuum insulated glass units having layered pillars. The glass units include two glass panes and an edge seal between the glass panes with a substantial vacuum gap between them. A plurality of pillars are located between the glass panes as spacers to maintain the vacuum gap. The pillars have a sintered ceramic, alpha alumina, or zirconia body with a tapered sidewall and a functional layer on a surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Margaret M. Vogel-Martin, Martin B. Wolk, Michael Benton Free, Olester Benson, Jr., Evan L. Schwartz, Robert F. Kamrath, Brant U. Kolb, Kathleen M. Humpal, Mark J. Hendrickson
  • Patent number: 9878955
    Abstract: The invention relates to a ceramic material for capacitors. In order to achieve reduced self-heating on assembly of the material into multilayer capacitors with antiferroelectric properties and a high dielectric constant, a ceramic material of formula ?Pb(1-r)(BaxSryCaz)r?(1-1.5a-1.5b-0.5c)(XaYb)Ac(Zr1-dTid)O3 is proposed, where X and Y both represent a rare metal earth selected from the group consisting of La, Nd, Y, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er and/or Yb; where A represents a monovalent ion; x+y+z=1; x and/or y and/or z>0; 0<r<0.3; 0<d<1; 0<a<0.2; 0<b<0.2; 0<c<0.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Guenter Engel
  • Patent number: 9878956
    Abstract: Nano polycrystalline diamond is composed of carbon, an element of different type which is an element other than carbon and is added to be dispersed in carbon at an atomic level, and an inevitable impurity. The polycrystalline diamond has a crystal grain size not greater than 500 nm. The polycrystalline diamond can be fabricated by subjecting graphite in which the element of different type which is an element other than carbon has been added to be dispersed in carbon at an atomic level to heat treatment within high-pressure press equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ikeda, Keiko Arimoto, Katsuko Yamamoto, Hitoshi Sumiya, Takeshi Sato
  • Patent number: 9878957
    Abstract: Catalyst extraction from polycrystalline diamond table may be achieved by treating with a halogen (in the gas phase or dissolved in a nonpolar organic solvent) to convert the catalyzing material to a salt. Then, polar organic solvents may optionally be used to leach the salt from the polycrystalline diamond table. The polycrystalline diamond (with the salt of the catalyzing material present or at least partially leached therefrom) may be brazed to a hard composite substrate to produce a cutter suitable for use in a matrix drill bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Enrique Antonio Reyes, Tiffany Anne Pinder, Qi Liang, Gagan Saini, Brian Atkins
  • Patent number: 9878958
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for controlling and/or predicting the shrinkage and/or growth of a ceramic honeycomb structure between a green body state and a fired state by adjusting the hydrated alumina content of the batch composition. Also disclosed herein is substantially clay-free cordierite honeycombs produced in accordance with such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: David J Bronfenbrenner, Michael James Lehman
  • Patent number: 9878959
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for coating a substrate in a rotating drum, wherein a pocket is created in a substrate bed into which pocket coating materials are delivered. Also provided is a controlled release product produced according to this process, and an apparatus for carrying out the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Agrium Inc.
    Inventors: Boazhong Xing, Lawrence A. Wilms, Nick P. Wynnyk, Robert G. Ford, Nicolette M. Babiak, J. David Eastham
  • Patent number: 9878960
    Abstract: A homogeneous fertilizer granule comprises slow-release (e.g. struvite) and fast release sources of phosphorus (P). The homogeneous fertilizer granule may further contain other essential nutrients and micronutrients required by plants. A number of methods may be used to make such granules. One method includes introducing a struvite slurry or fines and a liquid supply of water soluble P into a granulator. Alternatively, dry raw materials can be mixed with water/steam and/or another binder prior to being fed into a granulator. In another embodiment, pre-mixed dry raw materials are mechanically compacted and crushed to yield homogeneous fertilizer particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Donald R. Clark, Dan Michael Froehlich, Ahren Thomas Britton
  • Patent number: 9878961
    Abstract: A nickel-M-alumina hybrid xerogel catalyst for preparing methane, wherein the metal M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Ni, Ce, La, Mo, Cs, Y, and Mg, a method for preparing the catalyst and a method for preparing methane using the catalyst are provided. The catalyst has strong resistance against a high-temperature sintering reaction and deposition of carbon species, and can effectively improve a conversion ratio of carbon monoxide and selectivity to methane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Hyo Jun Lim, Chang Dae Byun, In Kyu Song, Dong Jun Koh, Sun Hwan Hwang, Jeong Gil Seo
  • Patent number: 9878962
    Abstract: A process for producing olefins from oxygenates comprises the following steps: (i) heterogeneously catalyzed conversion of at least one oxygenate to an entire stream containing liquid and gaseous organic compounds and water, and (ii) separating the entire stream in a first separating means into a fraction containing at least 90 vol-% of the gaseous organic compounds of the entire stream, into a fraction containing at least 90 wt-% of the liquid organic compounds of the entire stream, and into a fraction containing at least 90 wt-% of the water of the entire stream. Furthermore, the invention also comprises a plant for carrying out this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: L'AIR LIQUIDE SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME POUR L'ÉTUDE ET L'EXPLOITATION DES PROCEDES GEORGE CLAUDE
    Inventors: Bernd Ahlers, Martin Gorny, Hermann Bach
  • Patent number: 9878963
    Abstract: The invention relates to process for the preparation of an olefinic product comprising ethylene and/or propylene from an oxygenate, the process comprising the following steps: a) an oxygenate conversion step wherein a gaseous effluent comprising olefins and a water-soluble oxygenate is obtained; b) separation of water from the effluent; c) compression of the effluent; d) acid gas removal from the compressed gaseous effluent obtained in step c), wherein the compressed gaseous effluent is treated with a caustic solution in a caustic tower; and e) separating the olefinic product from the gaseous effluent treated in step d), wherein, in a final stage in the caustic tower, water-depleted compressed gaseous effluent is treated with a water stream that is essentially free of water-soluble oxygenate and a spent water stream comprising caustic and water-soluble oxygenate is obtained, which spent water stream is withdrawn from the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventors: Antonius Gijsbertus Johannes Kloth, Sivakumar Sadasivan Vijayakumari, Jeroen Van Westrenen