Polymer Or Resin Containing (i.e., Natural Or Synthetic) Patents (Class 428/35.7)
  • Patent number: 9096758
    Abstract: The present invention relates to biodegradable polyester foil comprising: i) 80 to 95 weight %, based on the total weight of components i to ii, of a biodegradable polyester based on aliphatic and aromatic dicarboxylic acids and on an aliphatic dihydroxy compound; ii) 5 to 20 weight %, based on the total weight of components i to ii, of polyhydroxyalkanoate; iii) 10 to 25 weight %, based on the total weight of components i to vi, of calcium carbonate; iv) 3 to 15 weight %, based on the total weight of components i to vi, of talc; v) 0 to 30 weight %, based on the total weight of components i to vi, of polylactic acid and/or starch; vi) 0 to 2 weight %, based on the total weight of components i to vi, of 2-(4,6-bisbiphenyl-4-yl-1,3,5-triazine-2-yl)-5-(2-ethyl-(n)-hexyloxy)phenol; and to uses of these polyester foils, in particular for agricultural applications, such as mulch foils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert Loos, Xin Yang, Jörg Auffermann, Franziska Freese
  • Patent number: 9097018
    Abstract: The invention relates to a membrane including a partition layer, wherein the partition layer contains at least 50 wt % of PVC, and a barrier layer. The barrier layer can be a barrier layer, wherein the barrier layer has a polyamide layer containing more than 50 wt % of copolymer, wherein said polyamide layer is connected to the partition layer by a polyurethane layer, wherein the polyurethane layer contains more than 10 wt % of polyurethane. Alternatively, the barrier layer can be a barrier layer, wherein the barrier layer is made of a composition containing 5-50 wt % of polyurethane and 50-95 wt % of copolymer. The membranes according to the invention have significantly lower plasticizer migration compared to the membranes of the prior art and are characterized by improved aging resistance, in particular with regard to the adhesion of the barrier layer to the partition layer, and impermeability to moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Elyes Jendoubi, Norman Blank
  • Patent number: 9090000
    Abstract: Injection stretch blow molded (ISBM) articles and methods of forming the same are described herein. The ISBM articles generally include a metallocene random propylene-based copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: FINA TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Luyi Sun, Mark Leland
  • Patent number: 9090770
    Abstract: A polyacetal resin composition and molded article having a high metallic gloss, small change in a color tone according to the viewing angle, high weld performance, and high mechanical properties can be provided in which the amount of formaldehyde to be produced in molding and recycle is suppressed, the mold deposit is improved, and the repeated impact resistance after aging is high. A polyacetal resin composition comprising: (A) 100 parts by mass of a polyacetal copolymer resin, and (B) 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of an aluminum pigment, the aluminum pigment having a coin-like or flake-like flat shape, a volume average particle size D50 of 15 to 50 ?m, an average surface roughness Ra of 20 to 50 nm, and an average height Rc of depressions and projections in a surface roughness curve of 80 to 200 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Horio, Syuichi Kudou, Seizaburoh Asai
  • Patent number: 9062201
    Abstract: A significant disadvantage of the use of polylactic acid (PLA), lack of flame retardance, has been overcome by the use of polyphosphonate-co-carbonate in combination with an impact modifier, a drip suppressant, and optionally, an epoxy functional styrene-acrylate oligomeric chain extender. The compound achieves a UL 94 rating of V-0 or V-1 and a Notched Izod value of more than about 5 ft-lbs/in. The compound also exceeds a threshold of 100° C. in heat deflection temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: PolyOne Corporation
    Inventors: Shixiong Zhu, Roger W. Avakian
  • Patent number: 9052598
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel processes for using the neutral layer compositions for aligning microdomains of directed self-assembling block copolymers (BCP). The processes are useful for fabrication of electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: AZ ELECTRONIC MATERIALS (LUXEMBOURG) S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Hengpeng Wu, Yi Cao, SungEun Hong, Jian Yin, Margareta Paunescu, Mark O Neisser, Guanyang Lin
  • Patent number: 9050243
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multilayered body for medical containers, in which the innermost layer formed from a cyclic polyolefin exhibits favorable adhesion to another layer without using an adhesive, which exhibits excellent heat resistance, and which provides favorable blocking resistance when formed as a film, as well as a medical container formed from this multilayered body for medical containers, which suffers minimal deterioration in properties such as transparency and peel strength even when subjected to sterilization with high-pressure steam or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: HOSOKAWA YOKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Nakamura, Hiroshi Miyagi
  • Patent number: 9044883
    Abstract: Process for manufacturing a container (2) from a plastic preform (3) by blow-molding in a mold (11), comprising: an operation of introducing the preform (3) into the mold (11); a blow-molding operation consisting of pressurizing the preform (3) by introducing a gas under a blow-molding pressure into it; a flushing operation subsequent to the blow-molding operation consisting of partially pressurizing the container (2) by introducing a gas under a flushing pressure lower than the blow-molding pressure into it; an operation of at least partial depressurization of the container down to a pressure lower than the flushing pressure, wherein this depressurization operation is subsequent to the blow-molding operation and prior to the flushing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventors: Mikael Derrien, Pierrick Protais
  • Patent number: 9046437
    Abstract: Air leaks in a seal beneath a vacuum bag are detected using a leak detection film inside the vacuum bag. The film includes a gas permeable binder and a gas sensitive material held in the binder. The gas sensitive material has at least one visual characteristic that changes in the presence of gas entering the vacuum bag through a leak in the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Finley B. Miller, Michael E. Benne
  • Publication number: 20150147502
    Abstract: The instant invention is an aqueous based blend composition and method of producing the same. The aqueous based blend composition comprises (a) an aqueous polyolefin dispersion comprising the melt blending product of one or more base polymers and one or more stabilizing agents in the presence of water and optionally one or more neutralizing agents, wherein the polyolefin dispersion has an average volume particle size diameter in the range of from 400 to 1500 nm; and a pH range from 8 to 11; and (b) an acrylic emulsion acrylic solids having an average weight particle size diameter in the range of from 75 to 450 nm; an acid level in the range of from 0.25 to 5 percent by weight of acid monomers based on the weight of the acrylic monomer, and a weight average molecular weight in the range of from 200,000 to 5,000,000 g/mole, and a glass transition temperature (Tg) in the range of from 7 to 100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Denise Lindenmuth, Joceyln Gruver, Ann R. Hermes, Ray E. Drumright
  • Publication number: 20150147503
    Abstract: A welding process of an inflatable product is provided that includes using isolating members between first and second portions of weldable tensioning members to resist the first and second portions of the weldable tensioning structures being welded together during welding of the first portions to a first sheet of weldable material and welding of the second portions to a second sheet of weldable material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Hua Hsiang Lin, Yaw Yuan Hsu
  • Publication number: 20150147501
    Abstract: The instant invention is an aqueous based blend composition and method of producing the same. The aqueous based blend composition according to the present invention comprises: (a) an aqueous polyolefin dispersion comprising the melt blending product of one or more base polymers and one or more stabilizing agents in the presence of water and optionally one or more neutralizing agents, wherein the polyolefin dispersion has an average volume particle size diameter in the range of from 400 to 1500 nm, and a pH range from 8 to 11; and (b) one or more crosslinking agents selected from the group consisting of phenol-formaldehyde resins, hydroxyalkylamide resins, amino-formaldehyde resins; epoxy group containing resins, and combinations thereof, wherein said crosslinking agents comprise form 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicants: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Hass Company
    Inventors: Denise Lindenmuth, Joceyln Gruver, Ann R. Hermes, Ray E. Drumright
  • Patent number: 9040136
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flexible pipe comprising at least one polymer layer, and at least one armoring layer unbounded to said polymer layer, wherein at least one polymer layer is a cationic clay containing polymer layer of a polymer material comprising a polymer matrix and from about 0.1 to about 5% by weight of at least one cationic clay silicate. Preferred cationic clay silicates comprise kaolinite; smectite; Illite; chlorite; and synthetic cationic clays. The cationic clay silicate may e.g. be an organo-cationic clay. The cationic clay silicate may preferably be exfoliated and/or intercalated in the polymer matrix. The polymer layer may preferably comprise an inner liner, a thermally insulating layer, an anti-wear layer and/or an outer sheath or a sub-layer thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO DENMARK I/S
    Inventor: Inger-Margrete Procida
  • Patent number: 9040135
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved blend of polyphenylsulfone (PPSU) and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) for producing friction-reducing tapes (anti-wear tapes) used as a friction-reducing intermediate layer in flexible fluid pipes, e.g. oil pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Evonik Röhm GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Bumann, Albert Drexler, Ricardo Luiz Willemann
  • Patent number: 9040132
    Abstract: Disclosed are a medical multilayer film and use thereof. More specifically, disclosed are a medical multilayer film including: an outer layer comprising a propylene polymer selected from the group consisting of a polypropylene, a propylene copolymer and a combination thereof, an intermediate layer comprising 10 to 60% by weight of a propylene polymer selected from the group consisting of a polypropylene, a propylene copolymer and a combination thereof and 40 to 90% by weight of a thermoplastic elastomer, and an inner layer comprising 60 to 80% by weight of a propylene polymer selected from the group consisting of a polypropylene, a propylene copolymer and a combination thereof, 10 to 30% by weight of polyethylene, and 1 to 10% by weight of a thermoplastic elastomer, and use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: JW LIFE SCIENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yeon-Seok Choi, Hye-Kyung Kim, Eun-O Kim
  • Publication number: 20150140247
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high-pressure gas hose or storage vessel comprising at least one layer of a resin composition comprising (A) 1,2-diol in a side chain-containing vinyl alcohol-based resin, and (B) fluororesin having polar functional group capable of reacting with or forming hydrogen bond(s) with hydroxyl group. The gas-barrier layer comprising the resin composition has a favorable wettability of the interface between the component (A) and the component (B), and therefore the gas-barrier layer exhibits high level gas-barrier property without causing blister under the condition of high pressure of not only oxygen or air but also small molecule gas such as hydrogen. Furthermore, the gas barrier layer has superior flexibility and superior durability with respect to changes accompanying the supply and removal of high-pressure gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: THE NIPPON SYNTHETIC CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuo SHIBUTANI, Taiji KANDA, Yasuhiro HIRANO, Akinobu INAKUMA
  • Publication number: 20150140245
    Abstract: A syringe for use in a pressurized injection of a fluid includes a syringe barrel including a polymeric material having undergone expansion via blow molding. A preform for blow molding a blow molded syringe is described, the preform including a proximal end having a retention mechanism adapted to connect to the syringe to a powered injector, a distal end having a syringe outlet section, and a barrel section between the retention mechanism and the syringe outlet section, wherein the barrel section is adapted to be blow molded to form a cylindrical wall of a syringe barrel defined between the retention mechanism and the syringe outlet section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: John A. Haury, Edward J. Rhinehart
  • Patent number: 9034446
    Abstract: A preform (200, 300, 400, 500, 800a, 800b, 900, 1000) suitable for blow-molding into a final-shaped article is provided. The preform (200, 300, 400, 5000, 800a, 800b) comprises a neck portion (202, 302, 402, 502); a gate portion (206, 306, 406, 506); and a body portion (204, 304, 404, 504) extending between the gate portion (206, 306, 406, 506) and the neck portion (202, 302, 402, 502); the body portion (204, 304, 404, 504) defining: a first portion (210, 310, 410, 510, 810), a second portion (212, 312, 412, 512, 812) and a third portion (214, 314, 414, 514, 814), the second portion being disposed in-between the first portion and the third portion located in sequence along one of: (i) substantially the whole circumference of the body portion and (ii) substantially the whole length of the body portion; one of the first portion, second portion and the third portion having a stretch ratio different that at least one of the other ones of the first portion, the second portion and the third portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Jean-Christophe Witz, Laurent Christel Sigler, Rainer Kintzinger, Ralf Walter Fisch, Adeline Houssaye
  • Publication number: 20150132515
    Abstract: A polypropylene-based film comprising at least three layers characterized by two skin layers and at least one core layer, wherein the at least one core layer and/or at least one skin layer comprises a polymer blend of: (i) a first propylene-based polymer which comprises (A) at least 60 weight percent (wt %) units derived from propylene, and (B) from 5 to 40 wt % units derived from ethylene, and wherein the first propylene-based polymer is characterized by a melting temperature (Tm) of less than or equal to 110° C., and (ii) a second propylene-based polymer selected from the group consisting of rPP and hPP and characterized by certain mechanical and/or sealing properties is provided. Also provided is a method of making the polypropylene-based film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Claudia Hernandez, Andy C. Chang, Teresa Bernal Lara
  • Publication number: 20150132514
    Abstract: The instant invention provides a polyethylene blend-composition suitable for blown films, and films made therefrom. The polyethylene blend-composition suitable for blown films comprises the melt blending product of: (a) from 0.5 to 4 percent by weight of a low density polyethylene having a density in the range of from 0.915 to 0.935 g/cm3, and a melt index (I2) in the range of from greater than 0.8 to less than or equal to 5 g/10 minutes, and a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) in the range of from 6 to 10; (b) 90 percent or greater by weight of an ethylene/?-olefin interpolymer composition, wherein ethylene/?-olefin interpolymer composition has a Comonomer Distribution Constant (CDC) in the range of from 75 to 200, a vinyl unsaturation of less than 0.1 vinyls per one thousand carbon atoms present in the backbone of the ethylene/?-olefin interpolymer composition; a zero shear viscosity ratio (ZSVR) in the range from 2 to 20; a density in the range of from 0.903 to 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Jian Wang, Nilesh R. Savargaonkar, Mehmet Demirors, John W. Garnett, IV
  • Patent number: 9028935
    Abstract: This invention relates to a liquid-filled tetrahedral package having a longitudinal fin seal and having a first transverse seal on one end of the package and a second transverse seal on the opposite end of the package, wherein the first and second transverse seals are substantially perpendicular to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Bernhard Zeiler, Charles D. Buis, Neal Burgess, James A. Renninger, John B. Manly, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9028936
    Abstract: A housing shell for electrical measuring, controlling and communication devices, in particular the lower housing part of a cellphone, has very great flexural and torsional rigidity in spite of an extremely small wall thickness if it is formed as a part created by a forming operation from the planar blank of a thermoplastically impregnated long-fibered multi-layered mat. Fine-membered functional elements of likewise thermoplastic material are then molded onto the housing shell in an injection mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Oechsler Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Dietmar Drummer
  • Patent number: 9028938
    Abstract: An electronic component packaging sheet formed of a styrene resin composition includes: (A) 29-65 mass parts of a styrene-conjugated diene block copolymer; (B) 51-15 mass parts of a polystyrene resin; and (C) 20-9 mass parts of an impact resistant polystyrene resin. Components (A)-(C) each have a weight average molecular weight (Mw) within a specified range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junpei Fujiwara, Masatoshi Kawata
  • Patent number: 9028939
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a laminated sheet for packaging electronic components comprising a front surface layer, a center core layer and a rear surface layer, wherein the front surface layer and the rear surface layer each contains a rubber-modified styrenic copolymer (A) having a graft ratio of grafted rubber of 30 to 50%, a grafted rubber particle diameter of 0.1 to 0.5 ?m and a butadiene content of 5 to 25% by weight, and polyetheresteramide (B), and the center core layer contains a rubber-modified styrenic copolymer (C) having a graft ratio of grafted rubber of 70 to 90%, a grafted rubber particle diameter of 0.4 to 1.0 ?m, and a butadiene content of 5 to 15% by weight, and 5 to 50% by weight of a recycled material of this laminated sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junpei Fujiwara, Masatoshi Kawata, Yasushi Miyamura
  • Patent number: 9028934
    Abstract: A label has a part that is to stand out at a defined angle from a curved surface to which the label is applied. There is a reinforcement area that has an edge curvature at the transition part of the label, between the part that is to be raised up and the part that is attached to the curved surface. The edge curvature is implemented such that it fixes the part to be raised up at a defined angle during or after placement of the label on a specific object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich Moosheimer, Josef Mair
  • Publication number: 20150125642
    Abstract: The present invention provides coating compositions and methods of using these compositions to form tough, abrasion resistant, and water resistant coatings on metal-containing substrates. Coating compositions of the present invention are preferably derived from one or more ingredients comprising at least one copolymer, referred to herein as Copolymer I, that preferably comprises (a) one or more repeating units (Repeating Unites) A) comprising at least one hydrophilic ester functionality and at least one polar functionality; and (b) one or more additional kinds of copolymerizable repeating units (Repeating Unites) B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Benoit Prouvost, Marie Braillon Girard, Mark Stuetelberg
  • Publication number: 20150125640
    Abstract: A manufacturing method that forms a multilayer thin film on the inner surface of a housing forming a transparent appearance of an electronic product to provide a deep metal texture and an electronic product having a metal texture provided at the inner surface of the housing. The multilayer thin film manufacturing method includes reforming an inner surface of a housing having an outer surface and the inner surface through plasma processing, depositing at least one hardness reinforcement layer on the inner surface, and depositing a color layer on the hardness reinforcement layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seo Joon LEE, Jin Sub KIM, Hyong Jun YOO, Min Chul JUNG, Jin Hyun CHO
  • Patent number: 9023446
    Abstract: A blow-molded PET container comprising a wall having a density of between about 1.370 g/cc and 1.385 g/cc, a heat-induced crystallinity of from about 18% to about 25%, and a strain-induced crystallinity of from about 55% to about 75%, wherein the PET container, when filled with a liquid having a temperature of from about 100° C. to about 132° C. or when subjected to a pasteurization or retort process, will not experience a change in volume of greater than 3%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Graham Packaging LC, L.P.
    Inventors: Kerry W. Silvers, Mark D. Schneider, Sergey B. Bobrov, Samuel E. Evins
  • Patent number: 9023445
    Abstract: A composite container for storing perishable products may include a composite body and a composite bottom. The composite bottom may include a bottom fiber layer, a bottom oxygen barrier layer, and a bottom sealant layer, such that the composite bottom has an upper surface and a lower surface. A hermetic seal may be formed between a sealing portion of the composite bottom and an interior surface of the composite body. When an internal pressure is applied to the interior surface of the composite body and the upper surface of the platen portion of the composite bottom, an external pressure is applied to the exterior surface of the composite body and the lower surface of the composite bottom, and the internal pressure is about 20 kPa greater than the external pressure, the platen portion of the composite bottom may not extend beyond the bottom edge of the composite body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Kellogg North America Company
    Inventors: Brian Daniel Guzzi, Robert Paul Cassoni
  • Patent number: 9023443
    Abstract: A laminate film including a first core polylactic acid layer, a coating receiving-layer of polylactic acid, and coated on one side of the coating receiving-layer with PVOH, EVOH, a blend of crosslinked EVOH/PVOH, vinyl alcohol-vinylamine (PVAm) copolymer, anionic carboxylated styrene-butadiene copolymer (SBR) emulsion, or blends thereof. This coating may be applied after the machine-direction orientation step and dried and oriented in a transverse direction orientation oven if in-line coating is desired; or applied to the film in an off-line coating method and dried in an air flotation oven. The dried coating layer can be metallized. This laminate film exhibits excellent gas and moisture barrier properties, appearance, and metal adhesion. It may also optionally include a heat sealable or winding improving layer on the side opposite the coating receiving-layer of the core layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Toray Plastics (America), Inc.
    Inventors: Tracy A. Paolilli, John J. Fitch
  • Patent number: 9017814
    Abstract: Articles having substantially cylindrical bodies including a plurality of circumferential layers, each layer having at least one ply of material, the material comprising a weave fabric, a non-crimp fabric, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ming Xie, Michael Scott Braley, Curt Brian Curtis, Warren Rosal Ronk
  • Patent number: 9017780
    Abstract: A carbon nanopipe comprising a durable graphitizable carbon wall of tunable thickness of about 10-500 nm formed by exposing a silica fiber network to a carbon precursor vapor and thereby depositing a carbon film onto the silica fiber network at a temperature suitable for complete pyrolysis of the carbon precursor and removing the silica fibers. The atmosphere of the step of depositing is controlled by a two-stage gas manifold wherein stage 1 purges the reaction chamber with pure argon and stage 2 introduces the carbon precursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Justin C Lytle, Trevor N. Zimmerman, Debra R Rolison
  • Publication number: 20150110981
    Abstract: A coating composition for application to the surface of a container comprising: (a) a film-forming resinous material comprising a functional group-containing reaction product of: (i) a cyclic carbonate group-containing material, (ii) a polyamine; (b) a curing agent reactive with functional groups of (a); (c) a liquid diluent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: John Dudik, Qin Li, Youssef Moussa, Randy Daughenbaugh, James Rowley, Kareem Kaleem
  • Publication number: 20150111092
    Abstract: A multi-layer shrink film. The shrink film can exhibit a significant amount of shrink within a certain temperature range that is above the onset temperature of the film. The film can exhibit a shrinkage that is at least about 50% of the total shrink within a temperature range T1 above the onset temperature of the film. In one aspect, the shrink film comprises a core layer and skin layers disposed about opposite surfaces of the core layer, and tie layers disposed between the core and the skin layers, the skin layers individually comprising a polyester, e.g., a glycol-modified polyester, and the tie layers individually comprising an anhydride modified material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Paul Janousek, Vadim Zaikov, Farid Ghiam, Robert Quattlebaum, Walter Mueller
  • Patent number: 9011998
    Abstract: Phase separated blends of polyaryl ether ketones, polyaryl ketones, polyether ketones, polyether ether ketones and mixtures thereof with at least one polysulfone etherimide, wherein the polysulfone etherimide has greater than or equal to 50 mole % of the polymer linkages contain at least one aryl sulfone group are described. Such blends have improved load bearing capability at high temperature. In another aspect a high crystallization temperature, especially at fast cooling rates, is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Sabic Global Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Ashish Aneja, Robert Russell Gallucci, Roy Ray Odle, Kapil Chandrakant Sheth
  • Patent number: 9011999
    Abstract: A coating composition is described. The coating composition preferably includes an unsaturated polymer such as, for example, an unsaturated polyester polymer; an ether component including one or more ether groups; and an optional liquid carrier. In preferred embodiments, the unsaturated polymer preferably has an iodine value of at least 10. The coating composition is useful in coating a variety of substrates, including planar metal substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Valspar Sourcing, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Cavallin, T. Howard Killilea, Larry Brandenburger, Dan Hartinger
  • Patent number: 9012000
    Abstract: A spacer for multi-pane insulating glazing, comprising a main body, which has mutually parallel abutment surfaces for panes, and an outer face and an inner face, which respectively connect the two abutment surfaces, the main body being made of plastic and having at least one metal layer on the outer face. The spacer also has a metal or a non-metal mesh, which is embedded in the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: S & T Components GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heiko Trautz, Hans Trautz
  • Patent number: 9012001
    Abstract: The invention relates to an unbonded, flexible pipe having a length and comprising from inside out, a tubular inner sealing sheath, at least one metal armor layer and an outer sealing sheath of a sealing material. The unbonded, flexible pipe comprises at least one stiffened length section comprising a stiffening cover partially or totally surrounding the outer sealing sheath in the stiffened length section. The stiffening cover comprises a layer of a stiffening material having a flexural modulus which is higher than the flexural modulus of the sealing material, wherein the flexural modulus is determined according to ISO 178.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: National Oilwell Varco Denmark I/S
    Inventors: Claus Dencker Christensen, Inger-Margrete Procida, Martin Damgaard Christensen
  • Publication number: 20150104593
    Abstract: The present invention provides a molding material for package including a matte-coating layer having excellent formability, chemical resistance, solvent resistance, electrolytic solution resistance and printing property. The molding material for package (1) includes an outer base material layer (13) comprising a heat-resistant resin; an inner sealant layer (16) comprising a thermoplastic resin; a metal foil layer (11) disposed between the outer base material layer (13) and the inner sealant layer (16); and a matte-coating layer (14) formed on a side opposite to the metal foil layer (11) of the outer base material layer (13), wherein the matte-coating layer (14) is a multilayer including a bottom layer (14a) comprising a resin composition including a main agent resin including a phenoxy resin and a urethane resin, a curing agent, and solid fine particles; and an upper layer (14b) comprising a resin composition including a fluorine-containing resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Yuji MINAMIBORI, Honglin WANG
  • Publication number: 20150098979
    Abstract: A method of imparting enduring beneficial features to a hard flocked surface of an article is provided. The method includes encapsulating a desired beneficial agent as a core material in a polymeric microcapsule, and transferring polymeric microcapsule to the surface by a dipping, spraying, or padding application. The beneficial agent, after getting transferred to the surface of a hard flocked article, imparts long lasting performance, provides fragrance and may protect an article from odor, insect, pest, fungi, bacteria, viruses, and the like. The polymeric microcapsules deliver long lasting benefits to surfaces with flocking, such as clothes hangers. Also described is a process for manufacture of flocked items with benefit delivering polymer microcapsules, without the need for binders or adhesives. Benefit agents are released with shear force on the flocked surface, so they are released when used and provide long-lasting performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Robert R. Diakon, Raymond E. Guerry
  • Patent number: 8999486
    Abstract: A composite molded article comprising: a main body portion including, a bottom wall portion formed of an elastically deformable polymer material, and a peripheral wall portion protruding so as to surround a peripheral edge of the bottom wall portion and formed of an elastically deformable polymer material; a vent hole passing through the bottom wall portion; and a gas permeable membrane integrally connected to the main body portion and is permeable to gas but is impermeable to liquid, wherein the gas permeable membrane is arranged to the bottom wall portion so as to cover the vent hole and connected to the bottom wall portion at a periphery of the vent hole, and wherein the bottom wall portion includes at least one rigid body portion which is more difficult to be deformed than the bottom wall portion at an outer peripheral part of the gas permeable membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Tokai Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Kamikawa
  • Patent number: 8999468
    Abstract: A transparent article includes a continuous polyester matrix having at least one incompatible filler dispersed therein. The incompatible filler provides domains in the polyester matrix, each domain having a particular dimension, thus providing a range of dimensions for the domains in the article. To create haze, the dimensions are within the range of from about 380 nm to about 720 nm. Once the range of dimensions is determined, a light absorbent composition can be found which absorbs light at a range of wavelengths that at least substantially covers the range of dimensions of the domains. In doing so, it has been found that the haze of the article can be substantially masked. Method for producing the article and for masking the haze are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: M&G USA Corporation
    Inventors: Edwin Andrew Sisson, Arianna Giovannini, Simone Ferrero
  • Patent number: 8999466
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a multilayer stretched polyamide-based film having excellent bending resistance, thermal dimensional stability and aroma retention, whose lamination strength is measureable when a sealing layer is laminated thereon. Specifically, the invention provides a multilayer stretched polyamide-based film obtained by biaxially stretching a multilayer laminate including three layers consisting of a polyester layer (Layer A), an adhesive layer (Layer B), and a polyamide layer (Layer C), wherein Layer A contains a crystalline polyester, Layer B contains a modified polyester-based elastomer, Layer C contains an aliphatic polyamide, and Layer C has a thickness of 5 ?m or more, and wherein a sealing layer is to be laminated on Layer C by a lamination method, after biaxially stretching the multilayer laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignees: Gunze Limited, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Uehara, Naoyuki Maruichi, Hiroyuki Yoshizaki, Atsushi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9000116
    Abstract: A blow molding ethylene resin composition satisfies the following requirements [a], [b], [c] and [d] at the same time: [a] the melt flow rate (MFR) at a temperature of 190° C. under a load of 21.6 kg is in the range of 1.0 to 15 g/10 min; [b] the density is in the range of 955 to 970 kg/m3; [c] the number of methyl branches per 1000 carbon atoms is less than 0.1 according to 13C-NMR; [d] the tensile impact strength measured at ?40° C. in accordance with JIS K 7160 is not less than 270 kJ/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignees: Prime Polymer Co., Ltd., Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hirase, Kenji Iwamasa
  • Patent number: 8999472
    Abstract: A tubular conduit is disclosed. The tubular conduit comprises a tubular portion made from a flexible material and an axially extending external helical formation located around the outside of the tubular portion. The external helical formation is for supporting the tubular portion. Optionally the tubular portion also comprises an axially extending internal helical protrusion, which imparts a helical flow to a fluid passing through the tubular portion. It is preferred that the tubular conduit is a vascular graft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Vascular Flow Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Robert Gordon Hood, Craig McLeod Duff
  • Patent number: 8999467
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cured coatings comprising: at least one filler, a polyalkoxysilane matrix, and at least one cured aminosilane in an amount between 5.5 to 40.0 wt % of the total weight of the cured coating. These cured coatings can be used in optics or electronics, and in devices such as lamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Nicolas Chechan, Matthieu Dhenaut, Virginie Mercier, Marcel Rene Bohmer
  • Publication number: 20150090375
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to the use of cellulosic materials, such as wood, paper, etc., or synthetic polymeric materials, such as a thermoplastic, rubber, etc., or a composite containing one or more of these materials as feedstock barrels for the process of injection molding of metallic glasses by rapid capacitor discharge forming (RCDF) techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: David S. Lee, Joseph P. Schramm, Marios D. Demetriou, William L. Johnson, Montague Rittgers
  • Publication number: 20150093527
    Abstract: A housing includes first and second housing elements coupled by an insert molded split. The insert molded split includes an injection guide that extends between a first aperture of the first housing element and a second aperture of the second housing element and material injection molded around the injection guide. A method for producing an insert molded split in a housing includes selecting an injection guide, inserting the injection guide into a first aperture of the first housing and the second aperture of the second housing, and injection molded material into and/or at least partially around the injection guide to form the insert molded split.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony S. Montevirgen
  • Publication number: 20150093528
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses disclosed herein relate to a recyclable thermoplastic unit that includes a casing body composed of a first thermoplastic having a first melting point. The casing body also includes a first locking mechanism that is configured to mate with a second locking mechanism of a sacrifice layer. The sacrifice layer is composed of a second thermoplastic and includes the second locking mechanism. The sacrifice layer has a melting point that is greater than the melting point of the casing body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventor: Aya Seike
  • Patent number: 8993080
    Abstract: A packaging system has a peelable seal section which includes a first sealing layer and a second sealing layer such that the first sealing layer contacts the second sealing layer to form a peelable seal. The first sealing layer includes thermoplastic polymer or a blend of thermoplastic polymers, an organoclay dispersed within the thermoplastic polymer, and an additional inorganic additive component, such as calcium carbonate, dispersed within the thermoplastic polymer. The peelable seal has achieved synergistic effect and offers high thermal conductivity, great caulkability and is consistent over a broad range of sealing temperatures without loss of desired peelable seal functionality as the seals age.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Intercontinental Great Brands LLC
    Inventors: Ying Liang, Panagiotis Kinigakis, Yunwa Wilson Cheung, Alexander D. Jones, Francis J. Rossi