Titanium (e.g., Titanate, Etc.) Patents (Class 423/598)
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Patent number: 11223042Abstract: The invention provides a method for preparing lithium-containing particles suitable for use in an electrode of a battery, the method including forming a mixture comprising titanium dioxide precursor particles and an aqueous solution of a lithium compound; and heating the mixture at elevated temperature in a sealed pressure vessel in order to form lithium-inserted titanium dioxide particles, wherein at least one particle size characteristic selected from average primary particle size, particle size distribution, average intra-particle pore size, average inter-particle pore size, pore size distribution, and particle shape of the titanium dioxide particles is substantially unchanged by said heating step.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: TRONOX LLCInventor: Guoyi Fu
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Patent number: 11183682Abstract: The present development is a process for the preparation of nanowire synthesis, coatings and uses thereof. Lithium titanate (LTO) nanowires are synthesized using a continuous hydrocarbon/plasma flame process technology combined with the dry impregnation method. The resulting LTO nanowires can be used as electro active anode materials for lithium ion batteries. The coating parameters, such as thickness, porosity of the film, packing density, and viscosity are controlled using the length of the nanowires, calendaring pressure, and slurry composition.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Advanced Energy Materials, LLCInventors: Mahendra Kumar Sunkara, Vivekanand Kumar, Veerendra Atla
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Patent number: 11015070Abstract: Security of a printed matter is enhanced, and a visual image is made clear if a latent image formed by a coating printed on a matter to be printed for a security enhancement of the printed matter becomes the visual image. A security ink pigment contains a powder. A main constituent of the powder is a perovskite-type oxide. The perovskite-type oxide has a composition expressed as a general formula of ABO3. A is mainly made of Ba. B is mainly made of Sn. The powder emits an infrared fluorescence when being irradiated with an ultraviolet excitation light. The perovskite-type oxide has a crystal lattice constant having a difference equal to or smaller than 0.002 angstrom from a theoretical crystal lattice constant of the perovskite-type oxide having a composition expressed as a composition formula of BaSnO3.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventor: Tatsuya Hishiki
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Patent number: 10927913Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a frictional material composition not containing copper as an element or having the content of copper of 0.5 mass % or less, the composition containing a cashew dust; (A) potassium titanate; (B) one or more selected from the group consisting of lithium potassium titanate and magnesium potassium titanate; and (C) one or more selected from the group consisting of zirconium silicate, zirconium oxide, and magnesium oxide, wherein the content of the cashew dust is 1 to 10 mass %, and the content of the component (C) is 11 to 30 mass %.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: SHOWA DENKO MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventor: Masamichi Mitsumoto
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Patent number: 10903012Abstract: A ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer structure, wherein a main component of dielectric layers is ceramic expressed by a general formula AmBO3 (0.995?m?1.010), wherein the dielectric layers include a rare earth element Re as a first sub-component by 2.0 mol to 5.0 mol when converted into Re2O3/2, include Mg as a second sub-component by 1.0 mol to 3.0 mol when converted into MgO, include V as a third sub-component by 0.05 mol to 0.25 mol when converted into V2O5/2, include Si as a fourth sub-component by 0.5 mol to 5.0 mol when converted into SiO2, include an alkali earth metal element M as a fifth sub-component by 0.1 mol to 5.0 mol when converted into MCO3, on a presumption that an amount of the ceramic is 100 mol, wherein a ratio Si/V is 30 or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuyuki Inomata, Yousuke Nakada, Tetsuo Shimura
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Patent number: 10833248Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing a sol-gel solution which can be used to prepare a barium titanate ceramic doped with hafnium and/or with at least one lanthanide element, comprising the following steps: a) a step to place a first mixture comprising a barium carboxylate and a diol solvent in contact with a second mixture comprising a titanium alkoxide and a hafnium alkoxide and/or an alkoxide of a lanthanide element in a monoalcohol solvent; b) a step to distil the mixture resulting from step a) to remove at least part of the monoalcohol solvent; c) a step to add acetic acid, under heat, to the distilled mixture of step b).Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies AlternativesInventors: Philippe Boy, Thomas Richardot, Philippe Belleville
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Patent number: 10747135Abstract: A toner including a toner particle; and an external additive, wherein the external additive contains strontium titanate particle, and when in a projected image of the strontium titanate particle photographed using a scanning electron microscope, a standard deviation of a distance from a center of the projected image to an outline of the projected image is Ds, and a circle-equivalent diameter of the projected image is Da, a value CV calculated by Equation (1) is 0.07 or less, CV=Ds/(Da/2)??(1).Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yojiro Hotta, Koji Nishikawa, Kazuo Terauchi, Takaaki Furui, Ryo Nagata, Keisuke Tanaka, Masami Fujimoto
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Patent number: 10615463Abstract: A method of charging a battery includes applying a charging voltage to a lithium-ion battery for a period of time after the battery is fully charged. The battery includes a positive electrode having a positive active material, a negative electrode having a negative active material, and an electrolyte. The negative active material includes a lithium titanate material and has a capacity that is less than that of the positive electrode. The charging voltage is greater than a fully charged voltage of the battery, and applying the charging voltage for the period of time is sufficient to cause a zero volt crossing potential of the battery to increase to above a decomposition potential of the positive active material.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: MEDTRONIC, INC.Inventors: Erik R. Scott, Gaurav Jain
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Patent number: 10510490Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes stacked to be alternately exposed to one side surface and the other side surface with the dielectric layer disposed therebetween; and first and second external electrodes disposed on an external surface of the ceramic body to be connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively, in which the ceramic body includes an area of overlap in a thickness direction of the first and second internal electrodes, margin region, and/or cover region, and the margin region in the width direction and/or the cover region includes a phosphoric acid-based second phase.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sim Chung Kang, Eun Jung Lee, Ki Pyo Hong, Yong Park
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Patent number: 10342113Abstract: A method of generating at least one trapped atom of a specific species, the method comprising the steps of: positioning a sample material (18) comprising a specific species in a vacuum (14); generate an atomic vapor (20) of the specific species by irradiating the sample material with a first laser (12); trapping one or more atoms from the generated atomic vapor.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAMInventors: Ole Kock, Yeshpal Singh, Kai Bongs, Wei He
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Patent number: 10315928Abstract: A method for producing a barium titanate-based powder that includes mixing a titanium compound and a barium compound together with water and chlorine to prepare a slurry, and temporarily firing the mixture of the titanium compound and the barium compound which is contained in the slurry to provide a barium titanate-based powder. The chlorine in the slurry is in the form of chlorine ions in a ratio of 230 to 1100 wt ppm based on the amount of the barium titanate-based powder to be synthesized.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroko Ajichi, Toshiharu Nakagawa, Wenjun Wang, Sanae Nakae, Norikazu Tachibana
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Patent number: 10294116Abstract: This invention relates broadly to the production of titanium alloys by electrolytic reduction processes, and is concerned in one or more aspects with the preparation of a feedstock for such processes. In other aspects, the invention relates to a novel synthetic rutile (SR) product and to methods of producing titanium alloy from titaniferous material.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: ILUKA Resources LimitedInventors: Nicholas Glen Bernard, John Maxwell Bultitude-Paull
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Patent number: 10249875Abstract: A method of preparing a negative electrode active material of the present invention includes mixing a lithium precursor and a titanium precursor, and sintering the precursor mixture to prepare a lithium titanium-based active material including a lithium titanium oxide, wherein a residual amount of lithium in the lithium titanium-based active material is 2,000 ppm or less based on a total amount of the lithium titanium-based active material. The preparation method allows the residual amount of lithium to be 2,000 ppm or less in a range, in which rate capability is not significantly reduced, by appropriately controlling sintering temperature, wherein the method may provide a lithium secondary battery, in which an amount of gas generated is extremely small even if stored at high temperature, a thickness expansion rate is consequently considerably low, and, simultaneously, the rate capability is also excellent.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Ye Ri Kim, Byung Hun Oh, Eun Kyung Kim
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Patent number: 10156277Abstract: Provided is an alkali-metal titanate in which the content and adhesivity of the fibrous potassium titanate is significantly reduced. The alkali-metal titanate includes 0.5 mol to 2.2 mol of potassium oxide in terms of potassium atoms, 0.05 mol to 1.4 mol of sodium oxide in terms of sodium atoms, and 0 mol to 1.4 mol of lithium oxide in terms of lithium atoms relative to 1 mol of alkali-metal hexatitanate, in which a total content of potassium oxide in terms of potassium atoms, sodium oxide in terms of sodium atoms, and lithium oxide in terms of lithium atoms relative to 1 mol of alkali-metal hexatitanate is 1.8 mol to 2.3 mol; and the alkali-metal titanate has a single phase conversion ratio of 85% to 100%, a fiber ratio of 0% by volume to 10% by volume, and a moisture content of 0% by mass to 1.0% by mass.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: TOHO TITANIUM CO., LTD.Inventors: Mamoru Nakashima, Hideki Sakai, Daisuke Taki
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Patent number: 10112178Abstract: The present invention provides a methane oxidation catalyst comprising one or more noble metals supported on zirconia, wherein the zirconia comprises tetragonal zirconia and monoclinic zirconia, and wherein the weight ratio of tetragonal zirconia to monoclinic zirconia is in the range of from 1:1 to 31:1. The invention further provides a process for preparing a methane oxidation catalyst, a methane oxidation catalyst thus prepared and a method of oxidizing methane.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANYInventors: Peter Tanev Tanev, Mario Soorholtz
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Patent number: 10106431Abstract: A method for making an anode active material of a lithium ion battery is provided. In the method, a tetrabutyl titanate solution and a water solution of lithium hydroxide is provided. The tetrabutyl titanate solution is incrementally added into the water solution of lithium hydroxide to react with the water solution of lithium hydroxide in an alkaline environment to obtain a mixed precipitate. The mixed precipitate is calcined to synthesize a spinel type lithium titanate. The spine lithium titanate is used as the anode active material to improve an electrochemical performance of the lithium ion battery.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2013Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Li Sun, Jia-Ping Wang, Shou-Shan Fan
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Patent number: 9796631Abstract: A method of manufacturing barium titanate powder by dispersing, in a solvent such as ethanol, barium titanate. Then, the barium titanate is separated from the slurry by evaporating the solvent while pressurizing the slurry in a pressure container. Then, the separated barium titanate is subjected to a heat treatment, thereby producing the barium titanate powder.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinya Konishi, Kazuya Fujii, Kazushige Nada
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Patent number: 9786912Abstract: The invention provides a low-cost, efficient method for producing lithium titanate that is useful for applications in electric storage devices. The desired lithium titanate can be obtained by heating at least (1) titanium oxide having a BET single point specific surface area of 50 to 450 m2/g based on nitrogen adsorption and (2) a lithium compound. Preferably the titanium oxide and lithium compound are heated together with (3) a lithium titanate compound having the same crystal structure as the desired lithium titanate. Preferably these ingredients are dry-mixed before heating.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: ISHIHARA SANGYO KAISHA, LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi Honma, Kazuyoshi Takeshima, Tsunehisa Takeuchi, Atsushi Ishizawa, Yusuke Okuda
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Patent number: 9771274Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing barium titanate powder comprising the steps of: adding an aqueous slurry of anatase hydrous titanium oxide having a BET specific surface area in the range of 200 m2/g to 400 m2/g and a half width of diffraction peak of (101) plane in the range of 2.3° to 5.0° as measured by X-ray diffraction to an aqueous solution of barium hydroxide while maintaining the aqueous solution of barium hydroxide at a temperature in the range from 80° C. to the boiling point thereof under normal pressure to cause a reaction of the barium hydroxide with the hydrous titanium oxide to provide an aqueous slurry of barium titanate precursor; and subjecting the barium titanate precursor thus obtained to hydrothermal treatment over a period of not less than 24 hours to provide barium titanate particles.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: SAKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazumi Yamanaka, Yuji Baba, Minoru Yoneda, Yukihiro Kuniyoshi, Shinji Ogama
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Patent number: 9695061Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing barium titanate powder comprising the steps of: adding an aqueous slurry of anatase hydrous titanium oxide having a BET specific surface area in the range of 200 to 400 m2/g and a half width of diffraction peak of (101) plane in the range of 2.3° to 5.0° as measured by X-ray diffraction to an aqueous solution of barium hydroxide while maintaining the aqueous solution of barium hydroxide at a temperature in the range from 80° C. to the boiling point thereof under normal pressure to cause a reaction of the barium hydroxide with the hydrous titanium oxide to provide an aqueous slurry of barium titanate precursor; and subjecting the barium titanate precursor thus obtained to hydrothermal treatment over a period of time shorter than 24 hours to provide barium titanate particles.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: SAKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazumi Yamanaka, Yuji Baba, Minoru Yoneda, Yukihiro Kuniyoshi, Shinji Ogama
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Patent number: 9679698Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic capacitor has a structure where the dispersion, nd, of average grain size of the dielectric grains constituting the dielectric layer (a value (D90/D10) obtained by dividing D90 which is a grain size including 90% cumulative abundance of grains by D10 which is a grain size including 10% cumulative abundance of grains) is smaller than 4.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichiro Morita, Tetsuo Shimura
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Patent number: 9673381Abstract: The invention provides a lead titanate coating and a preparing method thereof. According to the method, mixed powder is sprayed on the surface of a matrix, and through polarization, the lead titanate coating is acquired. The mixed powder comprises PbTiO3 powder, PbO powder and Al powder. Lead titanate (PbTiO3) is a kind of ferroelectric material, and can be used for preparing a piezoelectric sensor. Besides, the PbO powder and the Al powder are added, so that the piezoelectric property of the lead titanate coating can be improved. Since the lead titanate coating prepared by the present invention can be combined with the matrix closely and the intensity of piezoelectric signal is high, it can be widely applied to mechanical parts, such as a piston ring, a cylinder, a gear, and the like, to dynamically monitor the service situations of the parts better.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Inventors: Haidou Wang, Zhiguo Xing, Binshi Xu
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Patent number: 9567690Abstract: The invention provides a process for the production of crystalline titanium powder containing single crystals or agglomerates of single crystals having an average crystal size (by volume) greater than 1 ?m, said process including reacting a titanium chloride species, preferably titanium dichloride, and reducing metal in a continuous back-mix reactor to produce a free flowing suspension of titanium powder in molten chloride salt wherein: i. both the titanium chloride species and the reducing metal are dissolved in a molten chloride salt and fed to the reactor containing a chloride salt of the reducing metal; ii. the average feed ratio of the titanium chloride species and reducing metal to the continuous back-mix reactor is within 1%, preferably within 0.1%, of the stoichiometric ratio required to fully reduce the titanium chloride salt to titanium metal; iii.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: CSIRInventors: David Steyn Van Vuuren, Salomon Johannes Oosthuizen, Jaco Johannes Swanepoel
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Patent number: 9566565Abstract: A TiO2-based catalyst material in particle form having a content of metal removes pollutants, in particular of nitrogen oxides from combustion gases.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2011Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Sachtleben Chemie GmbHInventors: Sonja Grothe, Bernd Rohe, Peter Ebbinghaus, Elke Gosch
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Patent number: 9561488Abstract: A zinc titanate reactive adsorbent comprising multiphase, polycrystalline nanofibers comprising ZnTiO3, ZnO, TiO2, and Zn2TiO4.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: The Board of Trustees of The University of IllinoisInventors: Prashant Jain, Mayank Behl, Mark Shannon, Junghoon Yeom
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Patent number: 9508981Abstract: According to one embodiment, a non-aqueous electrolyte battery is provided. The non-aqueous electrolyte battery includes a negative electrode contained a negative electrode active material. The negative electrode active material includes a monoclinic ?-type titanium-based oxide or lithium titanium-based oxide. The monoclinic ?-type titanium-based oxide or lithium titanium-based oxide has a peak belonging to (011), which appears at 2?1 in a range of 24.40° or more and 24.88° or less, in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by wide angle X-ray diffractometry using CuK? radiation as an X-ray source.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Hiroki Inagaki, Norio Takami
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Patent number: 9466833Abstract: The invention provides a low-cost, efficient method for producing lithium titanate that is useful for applications in electric storage devices. The desired lithium titanate can be obtained by heating at least (1) titanium oxide having a BET single point specific surface area of 50 to 450 m2/g based on nitrogen adsorption and (2) a lithium compound. Preferably the titanium oxide and lithium compound are heated together with (3) a lithium titanate compound having the same crystal structure as the desired lithium titanate. Preferably these ingredients are dry-mixed before heating.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: ISHIHARA SANGYO KAISHA, LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi Honma, Kazuyoshi Takeshima, Tsunehisa Takeuchi, Atsushi Ishizawa, Yusuke Okuda
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Patent number: 9446964Abstract: Provided is a process for manufacturing, at a low cost and efficiently, lithium titanium oxides which are useful for electricity storage devices. A desired lithium titanium oxide can be obtained by heating at least both (1) a titanium compound and (2) a lithium compound that has a volume-mean particle diameter of 5 ?m or less. The lithium compound is preferably obtained by adjusting the volume-mean particle diameter to 5 ?m or less by pulverizing. It is preferable that the titanium compound and the lithium compound are heated together with (3) a lithium titanium oxide compound that has the same crystal structure as that of objective lithium titanium oxide. It is preferable that these materials are dry-blended prior to the heating.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: ISHIHARA SANGYO KAISHA, LTD.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Takeshima, Tsunehisa Takeuchi, Masatoshi Honma, Yusuke Okuda
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Patent number: 9416244Abstract: The invention provides a process for producing an aqueous dispersion of zirconium oxide that includes: reacting a zirconium salt with an alkali in water to obtain a slurry of particles of zirconium oxide; filtering, washing, and repulping the slurry; adding an organic acid to the resulting slurry in an amount of one mole part or more per mole part of the zirconium in the slurry; hydrothermally treating the resulting mixture at a temperature of 170° C. or higher; and washing the resulting aqueous dispersion of particles of zirconium oxide.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: SAKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichi Nakagawa, Takanori Morita
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Patent number: 9327990Abstract: A process of preparing nanostructured lithium titanate particles. The process contains the steps of providing a solvent containing a soft-template compound, a lithium ion-containing compound, and a titanium ion-containing compound; removing the solvent to obtain a lithium titanate precursor; and calcining the precursor followed by milling and annealing. Also disclosed is a nanostructured lithium titanate particle prepared by this process.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: National University of SingaporeInventors: Palani Balaya, Srirama Hariharan
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Patent number: 9312070Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor has multiple laminated dielectric ceramic layers made of a dielectric ceramic, internal electrodes formed between the dielectric ceramic layers, and external electrodes electrically connected to the internal electrodes, wherein generation of cracks in the dielectric layer due to expansion of the internal electrode is suppressed by causing ceramic grains having a crystal axis ratio c/a higher than that of the ceramic grains constituting the dielectric layer to be present in non-contiguous parts of the internal electrodes between the dielectric ceramic layers, and by harnessing the stress-mitigating effect of domain switching involving these ceramic grains.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2013Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Shusaku Ueda, Noriyuki Chigira, Shinichi Abe
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Patent number: 9260316Abstract: The present invention relates to titanium dioxide nanoparticles, titanate, lithium titanate nanoparticles, and preparation methods thereof. According to the present invention, titanium dioxide nanoparticles having a quasicrystalline phase corresponding to an intermediate form between a crystalline phase and an amorphous phase may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: POSCOInventors: Dong Hyun Kim, Jhi-Yong Kim, Juno Seok, Seok-Mo Chung, Jong Hoon Son
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Patent number: 9248428Abstract: A zinc titanate reactive adsorbent comprising multiphase, polycrystalline nanofibers comprising ZnTiO3, ZnO, TiO2, and Zn2TiO4.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Prashant Jain, Mayank Behl, Mark Shannon, Junghoon Yeom
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Patent number: 9245688Abstract: A monolithic ceramic capacitor having a large capacity and high reliability includes a ceramic sintered body including a plurality of stacked ceramic layers, and first and second inner electrodes and alternately disposed inside the ceramic sintered body to be opposed to each other in a stacking direction of the ceramic layers with one of the ceramic layers being interposed between the adjacent first and second inner electrodes. The ceramic sintered body includes a first portion in which the first and second inner electrodes are opposed to each other, and a second portion positioned outside the first portion. A ratio (Ic/Ia) of c-axis peak intensity (Ic) to a-axis peak intensity (Ia) measured with an XRD analysis of the one of the ceramic layers is about 2 or more.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akihiro Shiota
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Patent number: 9242922Abstract: A method for producing a high-quality barium titanyl salt includes using, as the fluids to be treated, at least two kinds of fluids, namely, a barium titanium mixed solution that is obtained by dissolving both a barium compound and a titanium compound in a solvent, a compound solution that is obtained by dissolving, in a solvent, a compound capable of deposing the barium and titanium contained in the barium-titanium mixed solution into a barium titanyl salt, and if necessary, one or more other fluids; and mixing these fluids together in a thin film fluid formed at least between two treating surfaces and to form a barium titanyl salt. The treating surfaces are so arranged as to face each other in an approachable/separable state with one of the treating surfaces and being capable of turning relatively to the other.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: M. TECHNIQUE CO., LTD.Inventor: Masakazu Enomura
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Patent number: 9145304Abstract: Methods directed to the synthesis and peroxide-modification of nanosized monosodium titanate are described. Methods include combination of reactants at a low concentration to a solution including a nonionic surfactant. The nanosized monosodium titanate can exhibit high selectivity for sorbing various metallic ions.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLCInventors: David T. Hobbs, Kathryn M. L. Taylor-Pashow, Mark C. Elvington
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Patent number: 9061945Abstract: There are provided a method of manufacturing perovskite powder, and perovskite powder and a multilayer ceramic electronic component manufactured thereof. The manufacturing method includes: washing metal oxide hydrate to remove impurities therefrom; adding pure water and an acid or a base to the metal oxide hydrate to prepare a metal oxide sol; mixing the metal oxide sol with a metal salt to form perovskite particle nuclei; and conducting grain growth of the perovskite particle nuclei by hydrothermal treatment to produce perovskite powder. The method of manufacturing perovskite powder and the perovskite powder manufactured by the same have advantages such as excellent crystallinity, reduced generation of fine powder, and favorable dispersion properties.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kum Jin Park, Sang Hyuk Kim, Hye Young Baeg, Hyung Joon Jeon, Sang Hoon Kwon, Chang Hak Choi
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Publication number: 20150132623Abstract: According to one embodiment, a non-aqueous electrolyte battery is provided. The non-aqueous electrolyte battery includes a negative electrode contained a negative electrode active material. The negative electrode active material includes a monoclinic ?-type titanium-based oxide or lithium titanium-based oxide. The monoclinic ?-type titanium-based oxide or lithium titanium-based oxide has a peak belonging to (011), which appears at 2?1 in a range of 24.40° or more and 24.88° or less, in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by wide angle X-ray diffractometry using CuK? radiation as an X-ray source.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2015Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Hiroki INAGAKI, Norio Takami
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Patent number: 9023311Abstract: A ceramic powder that contains, as a main composition, barium titanate powder having a perovskite structure with an average particle size (median size) of 200 nm or smaller as measured by SEM observation, wherein the barium titanate powder is such that the percentage of barium titanate particles having twin defects in the barium titanate powder is 13% or more as measured by TEM observation and that its crystal lattice c/a is 1.0080 or more. The ceramic powder has a wide range of optimum sintering temperatures and thus offers excellent productivity and is particularly useful in the formation of thin dielectric layers of 1 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.Inventor: Youichi Mizuno
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Patent number: 9023305Abstract: The invention relates to a strontium-82/rubidium-82 generator, comprising a column filled with a cationic exchanger loaded with strontium-82, and having an inlet and an outlet, and a liquid medium, wherein parts of the column, inlet and outlet coming into contact with the liquid medium are iron-free, preferably metal-free, to a method for producing rubidium-82, and to the obtained diagnostic agent.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2009Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Stichting Jeroen Bosch ZiekenhuisInventor: Roland Anthonius Maria Johannus Claessens
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Patent number: 9011713Abstract: Provided are a composite including a lithium titanium oxide and a bismuth titanium oxide, a method of manufacturing the composite, an anode active material including the composite, an anode including the anode active material, and a lithium secondary battery having improved cell performance by including the anode.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Min-sang Song, Kyu-sung Park, Gue-sung Kim, Young-min Choi
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Patent number: 9005568Abstract: The invention provides a process for production of powder of perovskite compound which comprises: the first step for obtaining an aggregate of perovskite compound which comprises at least one A group element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba and Pb and at least one B group element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf and Sn, and which is represented by the general formula ABO3 wherein A is at least one A group element and B is at least one B group element; and the second step for heating the aggregate of perovskite compound obtained in the first step in a solvent at a temperature in a range from 30° C. to 500° C. whereby disintegrating the aggregate.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2005Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Sakai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Shikida, Shinji Ogama, Yoshiaki Ikeda, Kazuhisa Hidaka
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Publication number: 20150094199Abstract: A convenient and versatile method for preparing complex metal oxides is disclosed. The method uses a low temperature, environmentally friendly gel-collection method to form a single phase nanomaterial. In one embodiment, the nanomaterial consists of BaAMnBTiCOD in a controlled stoichiometry.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Stephen O'Brien, Shuangyi Liu, Limin Huang
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Patent number: 8986641Abstract: In some embodiments, the present invention provides amphiphilic nanosheets that comprise lamellar crystals with at least two regions: a first hydrophilic region, and a second hydrophobic region. In some embodiments, the amphiphilic nanosheets of the present invention also comprise a plurality of functional groups that are appended to the lamellar crystals. In some embodiments, the functional groups are hydrophobic functional groups that are appended to the second region of the lamellar crystals. In some embodiments, the lamellar crystals comprise ?-zirconium phosphates. Additional embodiments of the present invention pertain to methods of making the aforementioned amphiphilic nanosheets. Such methods generally comprise appending one or more functional groups to a stack of lamellar crystals; and exfoliating the stack of lamellar crystals for form the amphiphilic nanosheets.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: The Texas A&M University SystemInventors: Zhengdong Cheng, Andres F. Mejia, Agustin Diaz, Abraham Clearfield, Mahboobul S Mannan, Ya-Wen Chang
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Publication number: 20150075603Abstract: A coating is described. The coating includes a metal oxide layer, which in turn includes a surface having a water contact angle greater than 90 degrees. A metal-oxide coating composition is also described. The composition includes effective amounts of a first type and a second of metals and an effective amount of oxygen to react with the first type and the second type of metals to produce a first type and a second type of metal oxides, both of which produce a structure that is greater than about 50% (by volume) amorphous.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Mark Allen George, Ching-Lin Chang, Ravi Prasad
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Patent number: 8968609Abstract: A contactless power transfer system is proposed. The power transfer system comprises a field-focusing element comprising a dielectric material. The dielectric material comprises a composition that is selected from the family of (Ba,Sr)TiO3 or CaCu3Ti4O12. The compositions of the (Ba,Sr)TiO3 include the materials such as Ca1-x-yBaxSryTi1-zCrzO3-?Np, wherein 0<x<1; 0<y<1; 0?z?0.01; 0???1; and 0?p?1. The compositions of the CaCu3Ti4O12 include the materials such as Ca1-x-yBaxSry (Ca1-zCuz)Cu2Ti4-?Al?O12-0.5?, wherein 0?x<0.5; 0?y<0.5; 0?z?1; and 0???0.1.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2010Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kalaga Murali Krishna, Jay Chakraborty, Lohit Matani, Adnan Kutubuddin Bohori, Suma Memana Narayana Bhat, Somakumar Ramachandrapanicker
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Publication number: 20150051366Abstract: Disclosed herein are a novel complex metal oxide catalyst, and a method of preparing polyester using the same. The metal-bound compound of the present invention has a higher catalytic activity as compared to an antimony catalyst and existing titanium catalysts to be easily synthesized and stabilized, have a sufficient polymerization activity even with a small amount, and be used as an environmentally friendly catalyst for polyester polymerization. In addition, when preparing polyester by using the complex metal oxide of the present invention, since catalytic activity caused by phosphorus (P) which is a thermal stabilizer used to decrease pyrolysis at the time of hot-melting and molding is not deteriorated, an excessive amount of phosphorus may be used as compared to the related art, such that pyrolysis less occurs, whereby the yellowing phenomenon may be decreased and high viscosity may be maintained.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventors: Young Keun Yang, Seung Woong Yoon, Yong Taek Hwang, Kyung Ho Lim, Jong Ho Bae
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Publication number: 20150044568Abstract: A method for manufacturing lithium titanate (Li4Ti5O12) of a substantially single phase, which is excellent in rate performance, and can be easily handled. The lithium titanate (Li4Ti5O12) is prepared from substantially a raw material powder consisting of a lithium compound and a raw material powder consisting of a titanic acid compound which are mixed and the resultant mixture is calcined. A lithium carbonate is used as the lithium compound and metatitanic acid or orthotitanic acid is used as the titanic acid compound. The penetration speed coefficient of the lithium titanate obtained, to a nonaqueous electrolyte is larger than a penetration speed coefficient of lithium titanate, obtained by using a lithium hydroxide as the lithium compound, to the same nonaqueous electrolyte. The specific surface area of the lithium titanate obtained is 10 m2/g or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: TAYCA CORPORATIONInventors: Keiichi Watanabe, Shuji Nishida
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Patent number: 8940270Abstract: To provide a sulfur trioxide decomposition catalyst, particularly, a sulfur trioxide decomposition catalyst capable of lowering the temperature required when producing hydrogen by an S—I cycle process. A sulfur trioxide decomposition catalyst comprising a composite oxide of vanadium and at least one metal selected from the group consisting of transition metal and rare earth elements is provided. Also, a sulfur dioxide production process comprising decomposing sulfur trioxide into sulfur dioxide and oxygen by using the sulfur trioxide decomposition catalyst above, is provided. Furthermore, a hydrogen production process, wherein the reaction of decomposing sulfur trioxide into sulfur dioxide and oxygen by an S—I cycle process is performed by the above-described sulfur dioxide production process, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, National University Corporation Kumamoto UniversityInventors: Shinichi Takeshima, Masato Machida
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Publication number: 20150023857Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, comprising: calculating, using at least one computer, a distance to a hull for an alloy XxY1-x in the range 0.01?x?0.99, where X and Y are perovskite materials; determining, using the at least one computer, a preferred phase for the alloy in the range 0.01?x?0.99; and selecting an alloy composition having the distance to the hull being less than 0.1 eV/atom and for which the preferred phase in at least a portion of the range 0.01?x?0.99 is a tetragonal phase. Piezoelectric materials as selected by the method are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicants: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Central Michigan University, Robert Bosch LLC Research and Technology CenterInventors: Rickard Roberto ARMIENTO, Gerbrand CEDER, Marco FORNARI, Geoffroy HAUTIER, Boris KOZINSKY