Patents Issued in August 27, 2019
  • Patent number: 10392512
    Abstract: A detailing agent for three-dimensional (3D) printing includes a colorant present in an amount ranging from about 1.00 wt % to about 3.00 wt % based on a total weight of the detailing agent. The colorant is a dye having substantially no absorbance in a range of 650 nm to 2500 nm. The detailing agent also includes a co-solvent, a surfactant, and a balance of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ali Emamjomeh, Keshava A. Prasad, Michael A. Novick, Erica Montei Fung
  • Patent number: 10392513
    Abstract: The invention relates to spray-dried, washfast dye compositions, preferably in the form of pigment powders, having a bleeding rate of ?0.5% and consisting of water-soluble functional dyes, preferably food dyes, which are firmly incorporated in a silica matrix. Apart from low bleeding of dye, these compositions are remarkable for their high stability to pH changes and/or ascorbic acid. The invention is also directed to the production of the dye compositions and the use thereof. The dye compositions are preferably employed in coloring foods, cosmetics, pharmaceutical products, but also in other uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Sensient Imaging Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Lischewski, Christoph Roth, Michael Felicetti, Katrin Schwager
  • Patent number: 10392514
    Abstract: The present invention relates to storage-stable dye salts, solutions and compositions thereof a process for their preparation and their use for dyeing and/or printing substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Archroma IP GmbH
    Inventor: Friedrich Lehr
  • Patent number: 10392515
    Abstract: Metal cans coated at least in part with a coating composition comprising shellac are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: Amanda Ghantous, Christopher Most, Robert McVay
  • Patent number: 10392516
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition which contains a binder based on epoxy-thiol. Said claimed composition makes it possible to apply, in a simple and rapid manner, coatings that have the layer thickness required for the respective fire resistance grading, the layer thickness being reduced to a minimum while achieving a good fire protection effect. Said claimed composition is particularly suitable for fire protection, especially as a coating for cables and cable routes for increasing the fire resistance grading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Lang, Sebastian Simon, Juliane Marauska
  • Patent number: 10392517
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a curable antistatic primer composition, comprising: (d) at least one polyalkylene oxide polymer; (e) at least a Lithium salt; (f) at least an amorphizer selected from at least a dendritic polymer. The present invention also relates to an optical article having at least one surface comprising an antistatic primer coating obtained by depositing on a substrate and curing said composition, and its production method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Richard Liu, Hui Yu, Bastien Feret
  • Patent number: 10392518
    Abstract: Provided are a paste material, a method of forming the paste material, a wiring member formed from the paste material, and an electronic device including the wiring member. The paste material may include a plurality of liquid metal particles and a polymer binder. The paste material may further include a plurality of nanofillers. At least some of the plurality of nanofillers may each have an aspect ratio equal to or greater than about 3. A content of the plurality of liquid metal particles may be greater than a content of the polymer binder and may be greater than a content of the plurality of nanofillers. The wiring member may be formed by using the paste material, and the wiring member may be used in various electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION
    Inventors: Kunmo Chu, Byonggwon Song, Sunghoon Park, Kiyeon Yang, Changseung Lee
  • Patent number: 10392519
    Abstract: Described is a composition suitable for the preparation of an electroconductive transparent layer, said composition comprising silver nanowires and fibers of crystalline cellulose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Herve Dietsch, Thomas Sturm, Danny Seyfried
  • Patent number: 10392520
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon nanotube (CNT) network which can improve an electrical joint so that a sufficient amount of current flows into a thin film and the amount of current is controlled. A network of CNT or a CNT hybrid material is constructed by distributing, as a node between CNT and CNT in a CNT thin film, a fine particle of an inorganic semiconductor and preferably fine particles of a metal halide, a metal oxide, or a metal sulfide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ying Zhou, Reiko Azumi, Satoru Shimada
  • Patent number: 10392521
    Abstract: Provided in one example herein is a three-dimensional printing method, comprising: (A) forming a layer comprising particles comprising a polymer and cavities between the particles, wherein the particles have an average diameter of between about 5 ?m and about 250 ?m; (B) disposing a liquid suspension over at least a portion of the layer such that the liquid suspension infiltrates into the cavities, wherein the liquid suspension comprises a radiation-absorbing coalescent agent and nanoparticles having an average diameter of less than or equal to about 500 nm; (C) forming an object slice by exposing the infiltrated layer to a radiant energy, wherein the object slice comprises a polymeric matrix comprising the polymeric particles, at least some of which are fused to one another, and the nanoparticles within the polymeric matrix; and (D) repeating (A) to (C) to form the three-dimensional object comprising multiple object slices bound depth-wise to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Hou T. Ng, Ali Emamjomeh, Alejandro Manuel De Pena, Edward Dale Davis
  • Patent number: 10392522
    Abstract: The ultraviolet curable composition includes a polymerizable compound, metal powder, and fluorine-containing powder, in which a content of the fluorine-containing powder is in a range of 0.010 mass % to 5.0 mass %. A constituting particle of the fluorine-containing powder preferably contains at least one of a particle formed of a fluorine polymer and an inorganic fine particle which is treated by using a fluorine-based surface treating agent. The metal powder preferably contains a material which is subjected to a surface treatment by using a fluorine-based surface treating agent as the constituting particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takiguchi, Atsushi Denda, Naoyuki Toyoda
  • Patent number: 10392523
    Abstract: A non-Newtonian photo-curable ink composition that includes a metal oxide/alkoxysilane complex in an amount ranging from about 0.1 wt % to about 10 wt %, a salt in an amount ranging from about 0.05 wt % to about 20 wt %, a photo-initiator, an organic solvent, and water, wherein the ink composition has a first dynamic viscosity ranging from 25 cps to 10,000 cps at a first state and a second dynamic viscosity ranging from 1 cps to 50 cps at a second state. Also described herein is a method for making such non-Newtonian photo-curable ink composition and a method for producing printed images using such non-Newtonian photo-curable ink composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: James P. Shields, Raymond Adamic, Sundar Vasudevan
  • Patent number: 10392524
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions, such as inkjet inks, for jetting onto a ceramic substrate, and associated methods and systems. The compositions comprise a pigment compound that is configured to be jetted on a ceramic substrate during a ceramic inkjet process to impart a color effect to the ceramic substrate, and a reduction agent which, when exposed to a firing temperature, reacts with the pigment compound to cause a reduction reaction. In some embodiments, the pigment compound comprises jettable copper particles, which can cause the fired composition to take on a red or oxblood color, which can be used for decoration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Zavada, David Weber, Louis Fage, Matthew Tennis
  • Patent number: 10392525
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method has an ejection step of ejecting, onto a substrate, an ink composition A that includes water, a coloring agent, a photopolymerization initiator, and a microcapsule enclosing a polymerizable compound therein, and an ink composition B that includes water, a coloring agent, a photopolymerization initiator, and a microcapsule enclosing a polymerizable compound therein; and an irradiation step of irradiating, with light, the ink composition A and the ink composition B ejected on the substrate. An absorbance ABSA of the ink composition A and an absorbance ABSB of the ink composition B satisfy a formula (1), and a concentration MA of the microcapsule included in the ink composition A and a concentration MB of the microcapsule included in the ink composition B satisfy a formula (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Umebayashi, Ichiro Koyama, Shota Suzuki, Noriaki Sato
  • Patent number: 10392526
    Abstract: The invention relates to a matting agent comprising agglomerates of pigment particles, to a method for the preparation of such matting agents, and to coating formulations containing the matting agents disclosed herein. The present invention further relates to pigmented mat surfaces, and to the use of agglomerates of pigment particles for matting pigmented coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Kronos International, Inc.
    Inventors: Janine Siekman, Martin Sandrock, Nicole Kolmer-Anderl
  • Patent number: 10392527
    Abstract: Barrier coatings with efficacy against oxygen and nuisance substances are described that comprise lower molecular weight PVOH and EVOH co-polymers, when coated on flexible substrates. Coating formulations comprising these co-polymers advantageously tolerate moderate to higher proportions of organic solvents in aqueous blends, and thus produce faster drying coating formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SUN CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Asad Khan, Safraz Khan, Michael Leonard, Farid Azizian
  • Patent number: 10392528
    Abstract: A polyisocyanate composition includes at least a pentamethylenediisocyanate derivative. The polyisocyanate composition contains 5 mass % or more and 95 mass % or less of a uretdione derivative composed of an isocyanate bimolecular-product of pentamethylenediisocyanate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Nakagawa, Aya Nakagawa, Shinji Kiyono, Takashi Kanno, Hirokazu Morita, Satoshi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 10392529
    Abstract: A film having a metallic luster is easier to manufacture and exhibits little degradation over time, an article having the film formed thereon, and a manufacturing method for the film having a metallic luster. The film, which has a metallic luster, according to one aspect of the present invention, is characterized by containing a thiophene polymer. The manufacturing method for the film which has a metallic luster, according to another aspect of the present invention, is characterized by a thiophene being polymerized using an oxidizing agent and made into a solution containing the thiophene polymer, and then coating and drying the solution containing the thiophene polymer on an article. The article having the film which has a metallic luster formed thereon, according to another aspect of the present invention, is characterized by containing a thiophene polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Hoshino, Reo Tagawa
  • Patent number: 10392530
    Abstract: Compositions which undergo cure by irradiation with UV, visible light or electron beam only after activation by hydroxylated surfaces or exposure to moisture are based on mixtures of cyclic thiasilanes and unsaturated silanes, siloxanes or hydrocarbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Gelest Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Barry C. Arkles, Jonathan D. Goff
  • Patent number: 10392531
    Abstract: A process for removing a bulk material layer from a substrate and planarizing the exposed surface by CMP by (1) providing an CMP agent exhibiting at the end of the chemical mechanical polishing, without the addition of supplementary materials, the same SER as at its start and a lower MRR than at its start, —an SER which is lower than the initial SER and an MRR which is the same or essentially the same as the initial MRR or a lower SER and a lower MRR than at its start; (2) contacting the surface of the bulk material layer with the CMP agent; (3) the CMP of the bulk material layer with the CMP agent; and (4) continuing the CMP until all material residuals are removed from the exposed surface; and a CMP agent and their use for manufacturing electrical and optical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Vijay Immanuel Raman, Sophia Ebert, Mario Brands, Yongqing Lan, Philipp Zacharias, Ilshat Gubaydullin, Yuzhuo Li
  • Patent number: 10392532
    Abstract: An adhesive composition is provided that includes a block copolymer present at greater than or equal to 30 total weight percent of the adhesive system comprising a high glass transition temperature in subunits Y and Y?, each of the subunits Y and Y? having a high glass transition temperature of from 70° C. to 130° C. with a low glass transition temperature subunit Z having a low glass transition temperature of from ?100° C. to 10° C. intermediate between said high glass transition temperature acrylate subunits to define a structure Y-Z-Y?. The triblock copolymer is dissolved in a monomer curable under free radical. A free radical initiator of a peroxide or a hydroperoxide are present in combination with a sulfonyl chloride, dihydropyridine and copper or vanadium salt. By heating the cured adhesive at or above 70° C., the adhesive is amenable to being removed, repaired, or reworked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel K. Doe, Camus Weng, Welkin Li, Peter A. Carbutt, Frank Zhao
  • Patent number: 10392533
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an adhesive sheet having a surface sliding property and stainproof property. [Means for solving] An adhesive sheet is one that comprises at least a substrate and an adhesive layer, a static friction coefficient of the substrate is 0.05 or more and 1.50 or less, and an absolute value of a ?L* value of the substrate is 0.01 or more and 45.00 or less. A load at a time of 5% elongation of the substrate is preferably 1 N/cm or more and 15 N/cm or less. And a stress relaxation rate of the substrate by elongating to 10%, stopping the elongation at that state and after lapsing 600 seconds is preferably 40% or more and 100% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichi Imoto, Yoshio Nakagawa, Kenichi Nishikawa, Yasunori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10392534
    Abstract: An adhesive film, a foldable display device using the same, and a method of manufacturing a foldable display device are provided. An adhesive film includes: a frame including a micro-truss structure, the micro-truss structure including a plurality of unit cells including a plurality of wires intersecting each other in a three-dimensional space, and an adhesive filling the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Lim Won, Se-Jin Jang, Young-Joo Park, Suk Choi
  • Patent number: 10392535
    Abstract: A binder resin for an inorganic particle-dispersed paste that excels in both printability and adhesiveness and such an inorganic particle-dispersed paste are provided. The resin includes a mixture in which a polyvinyl acetal and a cellulose derivative are mixed so as to satisfy 0.2?X/(X+Y)?0.8, where X and Y stand for parts by mass of the polyvinyl acetal and the cellulose derivative, respectively. When a paste is formulated by mixing and kneading the resin with spherical nickel particles with an average particle diameter of 0.3 ?m, barium titanate particles with an average particle diameter of 0.05 ?m, a nonionic surfactant, dihydroterpineol, and mineral spirit at the prescribed mixing ratio, the paste has prescribed rheological characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SHOEI CHEMICAL INC.
    Inventors: Takamasa Imai, Seiyu Teruya, Kousuke Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10392536
    Abstract: Provided are a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, a pressure-sensitive adhesive film, and a method of manufacturing an organic electronic device using the same. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition that may effectively block moisture or oxygen penetrated into an organic electronic device from an external environment, and exhibit reliability under harsh conditions such as high temperature and high humidity and excellent optical characteristics, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive film including the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung Yul Bae, Hyun Jee Yoo, Yoon Gyung Cho, Suk Ky Chang
  • Patent number: 10392537
    Abstract: A hot melt adhesive composition that includes at least 35% polymer, from about 15% by weight, to no greater than 75% by weight propylene polymer derived from at least 50% by weight propylene and from 0 mole % to about 37.5% by weight of an alpha-olefin comonomer other than propylene, the propylene polymer exhibiting a heat of fusion of from about 5 Joules per gram (J/g) to 60 J/g, from 5% by weight to about 50% by weight ethylene alpha-olefin copolymer derived from at least 50% by weight ethylene and at least one alpha-olefin comonomer having at least three carbon atoms, the ethylene alpha-olefin copolymer having a density of no greater than 0.90 g/cm3, and from 18% by weight to about 37% by weight of a wax component that exhibits a melting point greater than 80° C. and a heat of fusion of at least 200 J/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: H.B. Fuller Company
    Inventors: Thomas F. Kauffman, Scott C. Schmidt, Kim M. Larson, Amanda L. Schmit, Timothy W. Roska
  • Patent number: 10392538
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive composition is described comprising at least one low Tg (meth)acrylic polymer, and at least one silsesquioxane polymer crosslinker comprising a plurality of ethylenically unsaturated groups. The low Tg (meth)acrylic polymer typically has a Tg no greater than 10° C. In some embodiments, the low Tg (meth)acrylic polymer comprises at least 50, 55, 60, 65, or 70 wt-% of polymerized units derived from low Tg ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s). The low Tg ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s) is typically an alkyl (meth)acrylate comprising 4 to 20 carbon atoms. Also described are pressure sensitive adhesive articles and methods of preparing such articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Joon Chatterjee, Jitendra S. Rathore, Babu N. Gaddam
  • Patent number: 10392539
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide a one component epoxy adhesive composition having improved impact resistance at low temperatures, such as ?40° C. or less. In a first aspect, the adhesive includes one or more epoxy resins; at least one polyurethane based toughener; at least one amphipathic block copolymer; and one or more epoxy curing agents. In a further, aspect epoxy adhesive compositions having improved wash off resistance are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Gary L. Jialanella, Andreas Lutz, Eric E. Cole, Glenn G. Eagle, Rajesh H. Turakhia, Yanli Feng
  • Patent number: 10392540
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a B-stageable adhesive composition and a coating prepared by the same. In the present disclosure, the adhesive composition comprises the following components in solid content percentage: (A) 15% to 50% by weight of a first epoxy resin with a weight average molecular weight Mw of 8,000 g/mol or more; (B) 3% to 15% by weight of a second epoxy resin with a weight average molecular weight Mw of 200 to 2,000 g/mol; (C) 20% to 50% by weight of a carboxyl terminated polyester or derivates thereof; (D) 0.1% to 2.5% by weight of a first curing agent capable of reacting with epoxy group; (E) 0.1% to 2.5% by weight of a second curing agent capable of reacting with carboxyl group; and (F) 0% to 40% by weight of a flame retardant. The coating obtained from the adhesive composition of the present disclosure shows good adhesion strength, heat resistance and functional properties such as flame retardance and prolonged shelf life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Liang Qin, Zhenqian Yang, Dong Li, Ping Zhou, Qunying Liu
  • Patent number: 10392541
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hot melt adhesive which is excellent in environmental friendliness, thermal stability, adhesion to a polyolefin substrate and a polyester substrate, and heat resistance. The present invention relates to a hot melt adhesive comprising (A) a polar functional group-modified conjugated diene-based polymer, (B) an aliphatic polyester-based resin, (C) an amorphous olefin-based polymer, (D) a crystalline polypropylene resin, and (E) a tackifier resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Makoto Takenaka, Tadashi Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 10392542
    Abstract: Disclosed are latent two-part polyurethane adhesives that rapidly develop adhesive strength when cured by application of infrared radiation containing a polyol component which includes; one or more polyols having a hydroxyl equivalent weight of 400 to 2000 and a nominal hydroxyl functionality of 2 to 3; one or more aliphatic diol chain extenders; one or more latent room temperature organometallic catalysts; and one or more multifunctional polyols having a functionality of greater than 3; b) a polyisocyanate component containing one or more polyisocyanate compounds; and v) a carboxylic acid-blocked cyclic amidine compound, vi) a phenol-blocked cyclic amidine compound or both of v) one or more carboxylic acid-blocked cyclic amidine compounds and vi) one or more phenol-blocked cyclic amidine compounds which may be located in the polyol component or the isocyanate component. Further disclosed are methods of bonding structures together using the latent two-part polyurethane adhesives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Schmatloch, Joel Kunz, Grunder Sergio, Felix Koch
  • Patent number: 10392543
    Abstract: Disclosed is a highly fluorinated silicone resin and a method for making the same. The silicone resin includes M, T, optionally D and optionally Q type monomers and is crosslinkable. The resin has a fluorine content of at least 55 weight percent and a very low refractive index of less than 1.4. The resin is formed in a one step process and requires use of very specific solvents. Preferably the resin includes a first T type monomer having a fluoroalkane group to provide the fluorine to the resin. Preferably the resin includes a second T type monomer having a (meth)acryloyl function to enable cross-linking. The resin forms an effective liquid optically clear adhesive. The resin can be further combined with highly fluorinated (meth)acrylate monomers or perfluoro polyethers to provide even lower refractive indexes and improved adhesive properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Henkel IP & Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Bahram Issari, Wenhua Zhang, John G. Woods, Shengqian Kong, Yayun Liu, Jiangbo Ouyang, Li Kang
  • Patent number: 10392544
    Abstract: To provide a working medium for heat cycle which has less influence over the ozone layer, which has less influence over global warming and which provides a heat cycle system excellent in the cycle performance (the efficiency and the capacity), and a heat cycle system excellent in the cycle performance (the efficiency and the capacity). A working medium for heat cycle comprising 1,2-difluoroethylene is employed for a heat cycle system (such as a Rankine cycle system, a heat pump cycle system, a refrigerating cycle system 10 or a heat transport system).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Masato Fukushima
  • Patent number: 10392545
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for making CF3CF?CHF. The process involves reacting CF3CClFCCl2F with H2 in a reaction zone in the presence of a catalyst to produce a product mixture comprising CF3CF?CHF. The catalyst has a catalytically effective amount of palladium supported on a support selected from the group consisting of alumina, fluorided alumina, aluminum fluoride and mixtures thereof and the mole ratio of H2 to CF3CClFCCl2F fed to the reaction zone is between about 1:1 and about 5:1. Also disclosed are azeotropic compositions of CF3CClFCCl2F and HF and azeotropic composition of CF3CHFCH2F and HF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: THE CHEMOURS COMPANY FC, LLC
    Inventors: Velliyur Nott Mallikarjuna Rao, Mario Joseph Nappa, Allen Capron Sievert
  • Patent number: 10392546
    Abstract: A composition for a heat cycle system and a heat cycle system employing the composition are provided. The composition has favorable lubricating properties and contains a working fluid for heat cycle and a refrigerant oil. The working fluid has a low global warming potential and can replace R410A. The working fluid contains an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound having a specific structure. The refrigerant oil has a breakdown voltage of at least 25 kV, a hydroxyl value of at most 0.1 mgKOH/g, and a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of from 5 to 200 mm2/s and a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of from 2 to 30 mm2/s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Masato Fukushima, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Mai Tasaka, Daisuke Shirakawa, Hirokazu Takagi, Takeaki Arai
  • Patent number: 10392547
    Abstract: A supercooling release material, which releases a supercooled state of a cold storage material including one or more types of alkylammonium halide aqueous solutions that generate a hydrate by being cooled to a hydrate generation temperature or lower, includes: an alkylammonium ion included in the cold storage material; and a metal halide ion which has, as a constituent element, a halogen element included in the cold storage material. The supercooled state of the cold storage material can be reliably released by using the supercooling release material having such a configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Toyama, Mika Kawakita, Katsunori Iwase, Hajime Shingai, Hiroyuki Kumano
  • Patent number: 10392548
    Abstract: A composite material part including reinforcement made of carbon fibers or yarns consolidated by an organic matrix. The part includes one or more thermally and electrically conductive portions in which the carbon fibers or yarns are free of matrix at least in part, the matrix-free carbon fiber or yarn portions being in contact with a material that is thermally and electrically conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Nicolas Maisonnave, Marc-Antoine Colot, Julien LeFrancois
  • Patent number: 10392549
    Abstract: A date tree trunk-based lost circulation material (LCM) is provided. The date tree trunk LCM includes date tree trunk fibers produced from date tree trunks. The date tree trunks may be obtained from the date tree waste produced by the processing of date trees in the production of date fruits. The date tree trunk LCM may include fibers having lengths less than 8 millimeters (5 mm) and having an aspect ratio range of 10 to 15. Methods of lost circulation control using a date tree trunk LCM and manufacture of a date tree trunk LCM are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Md Amanullah, Jothibasu Ramasamy
  • Patent number: 10392550
    Abstract: Spacer fluids include an emulsion, a surfactant package, and at least one additive that modifies the rheology of the spacer fluid, the density of the spacer fluid, or both. The emulsion may include an aqueous external phase and a hydrocarbon-based internal phase. The surfactant package may include one or more surfactants. The surfactant package may also include a surfactant having the general structure R—(OCH2CH2)9—OH, where R is a hydrocarbyl having 12 carbon atoms, 13 carbon atoms, or 14 carbon atoms. The spacer fluid may contain at least 4.25 pounds of R—(OCH2CH2)9—OH per barrel of the spacer fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Hussain AlBahrani, Abdullah Al-Yami, Vikrant Wagle
  • Patent number: 10392551
    Abstract: A method of servicing a well is disclosed. The method comprises mixing ingredients to form a well servicing fluid. The ingredients comprise (i) at least one surfactant chosen from alcohol ethoxylates, C4 to C12 primary alcohols and ethoxylated propoxylated alcohols, (ii) a zwitterionic polymer prepared by inverse emulsion polymerization of at least one monomer Ab comprising a betaine group and optionally one or more nonionic monomers Ba, and (iii) a saline based aqueous solution. The well servicing fluid is introduced into a hydrocarbon well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: D. V. Satyanarayana Gupta, Madhukar Chetty, Paul Carman
  • Patent number: 10392552
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of petroleum drilling, and discloses a water-based drilling fluid for protecting fractured reservoirs and preparation method and use thereof. The drilling fluid includes: bentonite, a tackifier, a diluent, a filtrate reducer, an anti-collapse agent, a reservoir protectant composition, a lubricant, and water, wherein, the reservoir protectant composition comprises at least one of a polymer elastic granule, a synthetic fiber and a film former; the polymer elastic granule comprises an intermediate product, an alkali, a salt, and water in specific contents; the intermediate product is prepared from raw materials including acrylamide, a cationic monomer, a cross-linker, an initiator, a toughener, and water in specific contents. The drilling fluid provided in the present invention has a temperature-resistant property up to 200° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM (EAST CHINA)
    Inventors: Jinsheng Sun, Kaihe Lv, Jingping Liu
  • Patent number: 10392553
    Abstract: Scales are prevented or inhibited from forming in a well or in a formation penetrated by a well by pumping into the well a fluid comprising a hydratable polymer, a crosslinking agent, such as an organometallic crosslinking agent containing a polyvalent metal and a scale inhibitor selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl sulfonates, a polyacrylamidomethylpropane sulfonic acid, carboxymethyl inulin and sulfonated polyacrylates and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Dong Shen, Dora V. Galvan, Hoang V. Le, Qi Qu
  • Patent number: 10392554
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for treating a system, the method comprising providing a composition comprising HCl, urea, complex substituted keto-amine-hydrochloride, at least one alcohol selected from the group consisting of isopropyl alcohol and propargyl alcohol, an ethoxylate, and at least one ketone selected from the group consisting of methyl vinyl ketone, acetone, and acetophenone; and inserting the composition into at least one of an oil well and a gas well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Green Products & Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventor: John T. MacDonald, II
  • Patent number: 10392555
    Abstract: A method of designing a nanoparticle tailored to support hydrocarbon recovery in a subterranean formation, a method for using nanoparticles to extract hydrocarbon from a subterranean formation, and a nanoparticle structure. The method may include determining environmental conditions of a subterranean formation, defining nanoparticle parameters based on the environmental conditions, and forming a nanoparticle comprising the nanoparticle parameters. The method may include producing a colloidal suspension of nanoparticles by mixing nanoparticles with water and injecting the colloidal suspension of nanoparticles into a subterranean formation. A nanoparticle structure may include a hydrophilic material in a defined three-dimensional shape having a maximum diameter. The nanoparticle may penetrate through an oil-water interface with an optimized contact angle, minimize an interfacial area between oil and water, and create an oil in water emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ronaldo Giro, Claudius Feger, Mathias B. Steiner
  • Patent number: 10392556
    Abstract: The disclosure pertains to amphiphilic block copolymers comprising an aliphatic polycarbonate chain coupled to a hydrophilic polymer. Such amphiphilic polymers may have the formula A-L-B, where A- is a polycarbonate or polyethercarbonate chain having from about 3 to about 500 repeating units, L is a linker moiety and —B is a hydrophilic oligomer having from about 4 to about 200 repeating units. Provided copolymers are useful as surfactants capable of emulsifying aqueous solutions and supercritical carbon dioxide. Provided copolymers also have utility as additives for use in enhanced oil recovery methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Aramco Technologies Company
    Inventors: Scott D. Allen, Christopher A. Simoneau, John M. Salladay, David M. Hatfield, John W. Stevens
  • Patent number: 10392557
    Abstract: The stable and precise incorporation of multiple fluorescent dyes into hydrogel microparticles. The multiple fluorescent dyes, excited with the same source, have distinct fluorescence emission spectra to enable identification of the microparticles. The fluorescent molecules are directly polymerized into the hydrogel matrix or stably incorporated through molecular entanglement. By changing the molar ratios of the fluorescent dyes, different and identifiable microparticles can be synthesized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: DNA Medicine Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: Eugene Y. Chan
  • Patent number: 10392558
    Abstract: Provided are a method of producing an aluminate fluorescent material, an aluminate fluorescent material and a light emitting device. The production method includes heat-treating a mixture prepared by mixing a compound containing at least one alkaline earth metal element selected from the group consisting of Ba, Sr and Ca, a Mg-containing compound not acting as a flux, a Mn-containing compound, an Al-containing compound, a first flux containing at least one alkali metal element selected from the group consisting of Na, K, Rb and Cs, and a Mg-containing second flux to give an aluminate fluorescent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shozo Taketomi, Shoji Hosokawa, Tomokazu Yoshida, Kazuya Nishimata
  • Patent number: 10392559
    Abstract: A method for preparing nanocrystals is disclosed. The method includes synthesizing colloidal semiconductor nanocrystal cores, and adding a metal salt to the colloidal semiconductor nanocrystal cores and heating the mixture while maintaining the reaction temperature constant. During the reaction, the surfaces of the semiconductor nanocrystal cores are etched (‘in-situ etching’) and metal-surfactant layers are formed on the etched surface portions of the semiconductor nanocrystal cores. The metal-surfactant layers are derived from the metal salt. Nanocrystals prepared by the method have minimal surface defects and exhibit high luminescence efficiency and good stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun Joo Jang, Sang Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 10392560
    Abstract: Compositions useful for the selective removal of titanium nitride and/or photoresist etch residue materials relative to metal conducting, e.g., tungsten, and insulating materials from a microelectronic device having same thereon. The removal compositions contain at least one oxidant and one etchant, may contain various corrosion inhibitors to ensure selectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: ENTEGRIS, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Barnes, Emanuel I. Cooper, Li-Min Chen, Steven Lippy, Rekha Rajaram, Sheng-Hung Tu
  • Patent number: 10392561
    Abstract: The invention relates to bimesogenic compounds of formula I wherein R11, R12, MG11, MG12, X11, X12 and Sp1 have the meaning given in claim 1, to the use of bimesogenic compounds of formula I in liquid crystal media and particular to flexoelectric liquid crystal devices comprising a liquid crystal medium according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Pauluth, Kevin Adlem, Owain Llyr Parri, Rachel Tuffin, Hassan Arasi, Patricia Eileen Saxton