The Nitrogen Heterocyclic Ring Has Chalcogen Bonded Directly To Ring Carbon Adjacent To Ring Nitrogen (e.g., Succinimide Compounds, Etc.) Patents (Class 508/192)
  • Patent number: 8912133
    Abstract: The invention provides a lubricating composition containing an oil of lubricating viscosity, an additive containing a polymeric backbone and at least one amino group. The invention further provides for the additive to have dispersant and/or dispersant viscosity modifying properties. The lubricating composition is suitable for lubricating an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew D. Gieselman, Friend L. Christopher, Preston J. Adam
  • Patent number: 8901050
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for improving copper corrosion performance of a lubricating oil composition containing (a) a major amount of a base oil of lubricating viscosity; and (b) one or more dispersants containing one or more basic nitrogen atoms. The method involves adding to the lubricating oil composition an effective amount of one or more copper corrosion performance improving agents of the general formula Si—X4 or a hydrolysis product thereof, wherein each X is independently a hydroxyl-containing group, hydrocarbyloxy-containing group, acyloxy-containing group, amino-containing group, monoalkyl amino-containing group or dialkyl amino-containing group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Chevron Oronite Company LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Nelson, Elaine S. Yamaguchi, Kam-Sik Ng, Paula S. Rogers
  • Patent number: 8853422
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a compound of the formula I or a tribologically acceptable salt, solvate, hydrate, or proadditive thereof, wherein R1, R2 and R4 are as defined herein. Such novel pyrrolidine, or succinimide, derivatives may be useful as friction modifiers in lubricant compositions. This disclosure also relates to a method of using such friction modifier compounds in lubricating fluid formulations to lubricate machine parts, including gear, axle, engine, and transmission parts, and to lubricant compositions containing such friction modifier compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Roger M. Sheets, Nubar Ozbalik
  • Patent number: 8809244
    Abstract: A lubricant composition, comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity, a dispersant comprising the condensation product of a carboxylic-functionalized polymer with an aromatic moiety through an amide, imide, or ester linkage, and an oil-soluble titanium compound, exhibits good oxidative stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: Mary Galic Raguz, Virginia A. Carrick, John K. Pudelski
  • Patent number: 8802604
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lubricating oil composition in contact with a silver-containing material, which comprises: a lubricant base oil made of a mineral base oil and/or a synthetic base oil; (A) metallic detergent; (B) one or more species of alkenyl succinimide and/or boron-containing alkenyl succinimide; and (C) zinc dialkyl dithiophosphate, wherein the content of these components to the total mass of the lubricating oil composition are defined as, (A) component: 0.12-2.0 mass % as metal content; (B) component: 0-0.03 mass % as boron content, 0.005 mass % to less than 0.08 mass % as nitrogen content, and the mass ratio (B/N) between the boron content (B) and the nitrogen content (N) is 0-0.55; and (C) component: 0.005-0.10 mass % as phosphorous content. As a lubricating oil in contact with silver-containing material, the lubricating oil composition can inhibit sulfidation corrosion of silver while containing zinc dialkyl dithiophosphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yagishita
  • Publication number: 20140171349
    Abstract: A fuel economical lubricating oil composition for internal combustion engines comprises a base oil and an additive composition comprising an overbased metal-containing detergent and a molybdenum-containing friction modifier, in which the overbased metal-containing detergent comprises calcium salicylate having an alkyl group having an average carbon atom number of 14-18, at least 60 mol. % of the alkyl group having a carbon atom number of 14-18, and calcium sulfonate having an alkyl group having an average carbon atom number of 20-24, at least 60 mol. % of the alkyl group having a carbon atom number of 20-24, and/or calcium salicylate having an alkyl group having an average carbon atom number of 20-28, at least 60 mol. % of the alkyl group having a carbon atom number of 20-28.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Cheveron Japan Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Ushioda, Tsuyoshi Miyamoto, Yasuhiro Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 8741824
    Abstract: Soot induced kinematic viscosity increase of lubricating oil compositions for diesel engines, particularly heavy duty diesel engines, equipped with EGR systems, particularly EGR systems operating in a condensing mode, can be ameliorated by addition of a phenylenediamine compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Infineum International Limited
    Inventors: Dennis L. Malandro, Michael L. Alessi
  • Patent number: 8658575
    Abstract: This invention provides a composition of insulating fluid and process for the preparation thereof that mainly contains alkyl benzenes. In addition to alkyl benzenes, the composition also contains an antioxidant, an antifoaming agent, a pour point dispersant, a corrosion inhibitor and a detergent-dispersant additive. The product of this invention has utility as an insulating fluid in electrical installations such as transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research
    Inventors: Arun Kumar Singh, Naval Kishore Pandey, Ashok Kumar Gupta
  • Patent number: 8624038
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a compound of the formula I or a tribologically acceptable salt, solvate, hydrate, or proadditive thereof, wherein R1, R2 and R4 are as defined herein. Such novel pyrrolidine, or succinimide, derivatives may be useful as friction modifiers in lubricant compositions. This disclosure also relates to a method of using such friction modifier compounds in lubricating fluid formulations to lubricate machine parts, including gear, axle, engine, and transmission parts, and to lubricant compositions containing such friction modifier compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Roger Sheets, Nubar Ozbalik
  • Patent number: 8623797
    Abstract: Lubricating oil compositions having excellent friction stability comprise a base lubricating oil, an oil soluble source of phosphorus and a defined polyalkylene polyamine-based friction modifier that has been reacted with a borating agent to convert at least one secondary amine group into the corresponding boric acid ester or boric acid salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Infineum International Limited
    Inventors: Raymond F. Watts, Joe R. Noles, Jr., Keith R. Gorda, Kerry L. Cogen
  • Publication number: 20130324448
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antiwear agent and lubricating compositions thereof. The invention further provides for a method of lubricating a driveline device application by employing a lubricating composition containing the antiwear agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: Morey N. Najman, Mark R. Baker, Vera M. Marsic
  • Patent number: 8598100
    Abstract: A lubricant additive which comprises a succinimide compound or a boronization product thereof is advantageously used for preparation of a lubricant composition which can maintain the property of anti-shudder for a long time without decreasing the transmission torque capacity or the friction coefficient between metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Koshima, Shinichi Yanagi, Keiichi Narita, Hidetoshi Koga
  • Patent number: 8592356
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition used in an internal combustion engine contains lubricating base oil; a disulfide compound as a component (A), a no-boron-containing ashless dispersant as a component (B), and a boron-containing ashless dispersant as a component (C). The disulfide compound as the component (A) is represented by the following formula (1) and/or the following formula (2). The no-boron-containing ashless dispersant as the component (B) has in its side chain: an alkyl group having a number average molecular weight of 500 to 3,000; or an alkenyl group having a number average molecular weight of 500 to 3,000. The boron-containing ashless dispersant as the component (C) has in its side chain: an alkyl group having a number average molecular weight of 500 to 4,000; or an alkenyl group having a number average molecular weight of 500 to 4,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koki Ito
  • Patent number: 8575080
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition for diesel engines, particularly a composition with low ashes and no metals. The lubricating oil composition has exceedingly high detergency and excellent antiwear so that it is suitably used for diesel engines equipped with an apparatus for after-treatment of exhaust gas. The lubricating oil composition contains a lubricating base oil which includes a component (A): 2 to 30% by mass, based on the total amount of the composition, of a succinimide compound having an alkenyl group or an alkyl group of a number average molecular weight of 80 to 500 or a boronic compound thereof; and a component (B): 0.5 to 30% by mass, based on the total amount of the composition, of a succinimide compound having an alkenyl group of a number average molecular weight of 800 to 3,500 or a boronic compound thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignees: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., Petroleum Energy Center, A Juridical Incorporated Foundation
    Inventor: Tadashi Katafuchi
  • Publication number: 20130267449
    Abstract: Lubricating oil composition for use in diesel engines which comprises, in the base oil, not more than 0.3% by mass of sulphated ash, from 0.01 to 0.2% by mass of nitrogen in succinimides, from 0.05 to 0.12% by mass of zinc in zinc dithiophosphates, from 0.02 to 0.3% by mass of nitrogen in amine-based anti-oxidants, and from 0.01 to 0.08% by mass of boron, which further has a total value of [(zinc amount in zinc dithiophosphates)×(nitrogen amount in succinimides)] and [(zinc amount in zinc dithiophosphates)×(nitrogen amount in amine-based anti-oxidants)] as regards the aforementioned of from 0.015 to 0.06, and which does not contain salicylate, phenate or sulphonate metallic detergents. The intention is to obtain a lubricating oil composition for use in diesel engines which does not contain a metallic detergent yet maintains excellent engine (piston) detergency while preventing DPF clogging, and which reduces valve-train wear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Hanyuda, Tetsuo Wakizono
  • Patent number: 8551927
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lubricating composition containing (a) an oil of lubricating viscosity, and (b) an oil soluble compound with a >N—R—N< group, wherein R may be a hydrocarbylene group. The invention further provides for the use of the lubricating composition for lubricating a limited slip differential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel J. Saccomando, Stuart L. Bartley, Shubhamita Basu
  • Patent number: 8536102
    Abstract: A gear oil additive composition and gear oil composition comprising a organic polysulfide having at least 30 wt % of a dialkyl polysulfide compound or mixture of dialkyl polysulfide compounds, a thiadiazole; and at least one ashless phosphorus-containing wear inhibitor compound is disclosed as having low yellow corrosion in axles and transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Chevron Oronite Company LLC
    Inventor: Juan A. Buitrago
  • Patent number: 8415283
    Abstract: The invention provides lubricant compositions for diesel engines having a regenerative DPF, which prolong life of the DPF by inhibiting accumulation of components depositable on DPF inner walls, diesel engine systems having a regenerative DPF with prolonged life, and a method for inhibiting accumulation of components depositing on the DPF in the system. The present composition is for diesel engines having a regenerative DPF and running on diesel fuel with <10 mass ppm sulfur, contains a base oil and additives including (A) metal detergent, (B) ashless dispersant, and (C) phosphorus-based anti-wear agent, and satisfies the conditions of a sulfated ash content of 0.4-2 mass %, an atomic ratio of metal from component (A) to the total phosphorus of 0.2-3, an atomic ratio of the total boron to metal from component (A) of 0.2-2, and an atomic ratio of the total sulfur to metal from component (A) of 0-4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignees: Nippon Oil Corporation, Japan Petroleum Energy Center
    Inventors: Isao Kurihara, Mineo Kagaya
  • Patent number: 8400030
    Abstract: A dispersant additive composition, a lubricant composition containing the dispersant additive, a transmission containing the dispersant additive, and a method of providing a versatile lubricating fluid. The dispersant includes a reaction product of a hydrocarbyl substituted carboxylic acid or anhydride and an amine. The reaction product has a nitrogen content up to 10,000 ppm by weight, and a boron plus phosphorus to nitrogen ((B+P)/N) weight ratio of from 0:1 to about 0.8:1. The dispersant additive composition is effective to provide an electrical conductivity to a lubricant composition containing the dispersant additive composition and a metal detergent of less than about 1700 pS/m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Hong-Zhi Tang, Mark T. Devlin, Naresh Mathur, Lee D. Saathoff, Timothy J. Henly
  • Patent number: 8389449
    Abstract: A gear oil additive composition and gear oil composition comprising a organic polysulfide having at least 30 wt % of a dialkyl polysulfide compound or mixture of dialkyl polysulfide compounds, a thiadiazole; and at least one ashless phosphorus-containing wear inhibitor compound is disclosed as having low yellow corrosion in axles and transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Chevron Oronite Company LLC
    Inventor: Juan A. Buitrago
  • Patent number: 8377857
    Abstract: A method of lubricating a cylinder liner and a crankcase in a marine diesel crosshead engine with the same lubricating oil composition. The lubricating oil composition has a TBN, as measured using ASTM D 2896-98, of 10 to 55 mg KOH/g. The lubricating oil composition comprises: at least 40 mass % of an oil of lubricating viscosity; at least one detergent; at least one dispersant; and at least one anti-wear additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Infineum International Limited
    Inventors: Laurent Chambard, Laura Kosidowski
  • Publication number: 20130029890
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition containing a bis-type alkenyl-substituted succinimide which is prepared by reaction of succinic anhydride substituted with 2-alkenyl group having a branched structure in ?-position with alkylenepolyamine or a compound derived from the bis-type alkenyl-substituted succinimide by post-treatment in combination with a mixture of an overbased sulfonate having a C20-C24 alkyl group and an overbased salicylate having a C14-C18 alkyl group shows a high friction coefficient within a wide sliding velocity range and keeps its high anti-shudder performance for a long period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: Chevron Oronite Company LLC
    Inventors: Shrestha Kedar Shanker, Michio Shiga, Masami Fuchi, Takahiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 8349775
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition used in an internal combustion engine is provided. The internal combusting engine uses a fuel that contains at least one fat and oil selected from a group consisting of natural fat and oil, hydrotreated natural fat and oil, transesterified natural fat, and oil and hydrotreated transesterified natural fat and oil. The lubricating oil composition includes: base oil of lubricating oil; a component (A) containing a boron derivative of an alkyl or alkenyl-substituted succinimide compound having a number average molecular weight of 200 to 5000; and a component (B) containing an alkaline earth metal-based detergent. The component (A) is contained by 0.01 to 0.2 mass % in terms of boron of a total amount of the composition while the component (B) is contained by 0.35 mass % or less in terms of the alkaline earth metal of the total amount of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Teshima, Hideki Kamano
  • Publication number: 20130005622
    Abstract: An engine oil lubricant composition comprising a major amount of base oil and an effective amount of a zinc dialkyl dithio phosphate, a polymeric viscosity index improver and a mixture of alkaline earth metal detergents provides improved fuel efficiency while providing excellent wear in an engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Kristen A. Lyon, Kevin John Kelly, William L. Maxwell, Douglas Edward Deckman
  • Publication number: 20130005623
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition for diesel engines, particularly a composition with low ashes and no metals. The lubricating oil composition has exceedingly high detergency and excellent antiwear so that it is suitably used for diesel engines equipped with an apparatus for after-treatment of exhaust gas. The lubricating oil composition contains a lubricating base oil which includes a component (A): 2 to 30% by mass, based on the total amount of the composition, of a succinimide compound having an alkenyl group or an alkyl group of a number average molecular weight of 80 to 500 or a boronic compound thereof; and a component (B): 0.5 to 30% by mass, based on the total amount of the composition, of a succinimide compound having an alkenyl group of a number average molecular weight of 800 to 3,500 or a boronic compound thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicants: PETROLEUM ENERGY CENTER, A JURIDICAL INCORPORATED FOUNDATION, IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadashi KATAFUCHI
  • Patent number: 8338342
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition according to the present invention is used in an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine uses a fuel that contains at least one fat and oil selected from a group consisting of natural fat and oil, hydrotreated natural fat and oil, transesterified natural fat and oil and hydrotreated transesterified natural fat and oil. The lubricating oil composition contains a component (A) that is an alkaline earth metal-based detergent. The component (A) is contained by a content of more than 0.35 mass % and 2 mass % or less of the total amount of the composition in terms of alkaline earth metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideki Kamano
  • Publication number: 20120316092
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition for a continuously variable transmission contains at a specific content: (A) a mineral oil or PAO having a sulfur content of 0.03 mass % or less and a kinematic viscosity at 100 degrees C. from 1.5 mm2/s to 3 mm2/s; (B) a mineral oil or PAO having a sulfur content of 0.03 mass % or less and a kinematic viscosity at 100 degrees C. from 5.5 mm2/s to 8 mm2/s; (C) PAO having a kinematic viscosity at 100 degrees C. from 30 mm2/s to 400 mm2/s; and (D) a polymethacrylate having a mass average molecular weight of 10000 to 40000, in which the total content of the components (C) and (D) is 19 mass % or more and the lubricating oil composition has a kinematic viscosity at 100 degrees C. from 5.5 mm2/s to 6.5 mm2/s and a kinematic viscosity at ?20 degrees C. of 680 mm2/s or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd., IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujita, Toshihiko Ichihashi, Kenji Kojima, Yoshie Arakawa, Makoto Maeda, Hideki Usuki
  • Patent number: 8299003
    Abstract: There is disclosed herein an additive composition including a compound of formula (III): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 , R7, R8, and R9are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, cyano, and hydrocarbyl groups comprising from about 1 to about 30 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: David J. DeGonia, Chip Hewette, Roger M. Sheets, Ronald L. Phillips, John T. Loper
  • Patent number: 8258087
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition for an internal combustion engine. The lubricating oil composition includes: (A1) a lubricant base oil as a main component having a kinematic viscosity at 100 degree C. being 1 to 8 mm2/s, pour point being ?15 degree C. or less, aniline point being 100 degree C. or more, paraffinic content in saturates being 40 mass % or more, monocyclic naphthenic content being 25 mass % or less, bicyclic to hexacyclic naphthenic content being 35 mass % or less, iodine number being 2 or less, and ratio of tertiary carbon to the total carbon atoms composing the (A1) being 6.3% or more. The total mass of the composition is: (B) 0.005 to 0.5 mass % of a metallic detergent as metal content; (C1) 0.005 to 0.2 mass % of a boron-containing succinimide ashless dispersant as boron content; and (D) 0.005 to 0.2 mass % of a metal salt of phosphorus-containing acid as phosphorus content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Oil Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Yaguchi
  • Publication number: 20120214718
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for lubricating a driveline device comprising supplying to the driveline device a lubricating composition comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity and an antiwear package wherein the antiwear package comprises (a) a derivative of a hydroxycarboxylic acid, and (b) a phosphorus compound selected from the group consisting of an amine salt of a phosphate hydrocarbon ester, a phosphite having at least one hydrocarbyl group with 4 or more carbon atoms, and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: THE LUBRIZOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Morey N. Najman, Mark R. Baker, Vera M. Marsic
  • Publication number: 20120184472
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lubricant composition comprising a first phosphorus compound, a second phosphorus compound, and a third phosphorus compound, wherein the first phosphorus compound is present in the lubricant composition in an amount to provide between about 120 and 350 ppm phosphorus. The lubricant composition may provide robust anti-wear and reduced pitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: AFTON CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jeffrey L. Milner
  • Patent number: 8183187
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lubricating composition comprising (a) an oil of lubricating viscosity; (b) a friction modifier; (c) a corrosion inhibitor; (d) an antiwear agent; and (e) a product prepared by heating together: (i) a dispersant; (ii) 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole or a hydrocarbyl-substituted 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole, or oligomers thereof; (iii) a borating agent;and (iv) optionally a dicarboxylic acid of an aromatic compound selected from the group consisting of 1,3 diacids and 1,4 diacids, or (v) optionally a phosphorus acid compound, said heating being sufficient to provide a product of (i), (ii), (iii) and optionally (iv), which is soluble in an oil of lubricating viscosity. The invention further provides a use for the lubricating composition in a transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: James L. Sumiejski, Craig D. Tipton
  • Patent number: 8163681
    Abstract: A lubricant composition of a synthetic oil of lubricating viscosity, 3 to 6 percent by weight of a nitrogen-containing dispersant, 1 to 2.5 weight percent of an overbased magnesium detergent, 1 to 5 weight percent of an antioxidant; and 0.25 to 1.5 weight percent of a friction modifier is useful for lubricating a hydrogen-fueled engine. The composition will typically contain less than 0.01 weight percent Ca, less than 0.01 weight percent Zn, less than 0.06 weight percent P, and will have a sulfated ash level of less than 1.2%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: Ewa Bardasz, William B. Chamberlain
  • Publication number: 20120090568
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition used in an internal combustion engine is provided. The internal combusting engine uses a fuel that contains at least one fat and oil selected from a group consisting of natural fat and oil, hydrotreated natural fat and oil, transesterified natural fat, and oil and hydrotreated transesterified natural fat and oil. The lubricating oil composition includes: base oil of lubricating oil; a component (A) containing a boron derivative of an alkyl or alkenyl-substituted succinimide compound having a number average molecular weight of 200 to 5000; and a component (B) containing an alkaline earth metal-based detergent. The component (A) is contained by 0.01 to 0.2 mass % in terms of boron of a total amount of the composition while the component (B) is contained by 0.35 mass % or less in terms of the alkaline earth metal of the total amount of the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro TESHIMA, Hideki KAMANO
  • Patent number: 8153565
    Abstract: A lubricant composition for a final drive axle oil comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity, one or more dispersants and one or more phosphorus compounds wherein the kinematic viscosity of the lubricant composition at 100° C. is greater than 10 mm2/s and wherein the amount by weight of the dispersant is greater than the amount by weight of the phosphorus compounds and any sulfur compounds which may optionally be present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: Craig D. Tipton, Thomas A. Tagliamonte
  • Patent number: 8093188
    Abstract: An ashless lubricating oil, comprising a base oil having a viscosity index greater than 150, wherein the base oil is made from a blend of petroleum-based wax and Fischer-Tropsch derived wax.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: William Loh, John M. Rosenbaum, Nancy J. Bertrand, Patricia LeMay, Mark E. Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20110239970
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for improving copper corrosion performance of a lubricating oil composition containing (a) a major amount of a base oil of lubricating viscosity; and (b) one or more dispersants containing one or more basic nitrogen atoms. The method involves adding to the lubricating oil composition an effective amount of one or more copper corrosion performance improving agents containing one or more oil-soluble titanium compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Chevron Oronite Company LLC
    Inventors: Keneth D. Nelson, Elaine S. Yamaguchi, Kam-Sik Ng, Paula S. Rogers
  • Publication number: 20110239971
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for improving copper corrosion performance of a lubricating oil composition containing (a) a major amount of a base oil of lubricating viscosity; and (b) one or more dispersants containing one or more basic nitrogen atoms. The method involves adding to the lubricating oil composition an effective amount of one or more copper corrosion performance improving agents of the general formula Si—X4 or a hydrolysis product thereof, wherein each X is independently a hydroxyl-containing group, hydrocarbyloxy-containing group, acyloxy-containing group, amino-containing group, monoalkyl amino-containing group or dialkyl amino-containing group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Chevron Oronite Company LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Nelson, Elaine S. Yamaguchi, Kam-Sik Ng, Paula S. Rogers
  • Publication number: 20110245117
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for improving compatibility of a fluorocarbon elastomer seal with a lubricating oil composition containing (a) a major amount of a base oil of lubricating viscosity; and (b) one or more dispersants containing one or more basic nitrogen atoms. The method involves adding to the lubricating oil composition an effective amount of one or more fluorocarbon elastomer compatibility improving agents comprising one or more oil-soluble titanium compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Chevron Oronite Company LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Nelson, Elaine S. Yamaguchi, Kam-Sik Ng, Paula S. Rogers
  • Patent number: 8030255
    Abstract: The present invention provides lubricating oil compositions having excellent anti-wear properties and anti-fatigue properties as well as excellent low temperature fluidity, particularly suitable for automatic transmissions and/or continuously variable transmissions, and internal combustion engines. The compositions comprises (A) a base oil with a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 1 to 8 mm2/s, a pour point of ?15° C. or lower, an aniline point of 100° C. or higher, the saturates of the base oil containing 40 percent by mass or more of paraffins, 25 percent by mass or less of one ring naphthenes, and 35 percent by mass or less of two to six ring naphthenes, as the main component, and (B) 0.005 to 0.4 percent by mass of a metallic detergent, (C) 0.005 to 0.2 percent by mass in terms of nitrogen of a succinimide-type ashless dispersant, (D) 0.005 to 0.2 percent by mass in terms of phosphorus of a phosphorus-containing anti-wear agent, and (E) 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Matsui, Hitoshi Komatsubara
  • Publication number: 20110237472
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antiwear agent and lubricating compositions thereof. The invention further provides for a method of lubricating a driveline device or a grease application by employing a lubricating composition containing the antiwear agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: THE LUBRIZOL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Charla A. Ramsey
  • Patent number: 8026199
    Abstract: The present invention provide a lubricating oil composition suitable for internal combustion engines, which composition is excellent in thermal/oxidation stability and can inhibit the increases of the viscosity and acid number even in the presence of NOx and can be used for a long period of time or provide a lubricating oil composition particularly suitable for diesel or direct injection engines equipped with an exhaust-gas after-treatment device such as DPF or various catalysts, which composition is excellent in high-temperature detergency and base number retention properties and further can achieve the effect of inhibit wear caused by soot contamination in the oil occurring significantly when the content of phosphorus compounds such as ZnDTP is decreased, at a high level and can inhibit the exhaust-gas after-treatment device from being adversely affected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Matsui, Koji Hoshino, Shigeki Takeshima
  • Patent number: 8022021
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a controlled release gel with an ashless component and defined ash-producing component. Further, the invention relates to the use of a controlled release gel with a controlled level of ash-producing (i.e., metal) components for delivery of additives into lubricants wherein the gel has reduced ash and SAPS producing components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: James D. Burrington, Lewis A. Williams, Jack C. Kelley, David A. McCaughey, Frank M. van Lier, David B. Skursha
  • Publication number: 20110212863
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lubricating oil composition in contact with a silver-containing material, which comprises: a lubricant base oil made of a mineral base oil and/or a synthetic base oil; (A) metallic detergent; (B) one or more species of alkenyl succinimide and/or boron-containing alkenyl succinimide; and (C) zinc dialkyl dithiophosphate, wherein the content of these components to the total mass of the lubricating oil composition are defined as, (A) component: 0.12-2.0 mass % as metal content; (B) component: 0-0.03 mass % as boron content, 0.005 mass % to less than 0.08 mass % as nitrogen content, and the mass ratio (B/N) between the boron content (B) and the nitrogen content (N) is 0-0.55; and (C) component: 0.005-0.10 mass % as phosphorous content. As a lubricating oil in contact with silver-containing material, the lubricating oil composition can inhibit sulfidation corrosion of silver while containing zinc dialkyl dithiophosphate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yagishita
  • Patent number: 7981846
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition comprising a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity, an alkaline earth metal borated sulfonate detergent, and, optionally, a molybdenum-containing compound, wherein the lubricating oil composition comprises no more than 0.12 wt % phosphorus and the amount of sulfated ash in the lubricating oil is not more than 1.25 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Chevron Oronite Company LLC
    Inventors: Alexander B. Boffa, Ralph Eric Olsen, Willem Van Dam
  • Patent number: 7960318
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lubricating oil composition comprising a lube base oil comprising a mineral oil and/or a synthetic oil; (A) an alkenylsuccinimide or an alkylsuccinimide and/or a boron-containing derivative thereof in an amount of 0.01 to 0.14% by mass based on the composition in terms of the nitrogen content as an ashless dispersant, wherein an alkenylsuccic acid monoimide or an alkylsuccinic acid monoimide and/or a boron-containing derivative thereof in the ashless dispersant is 0.05% by mass or less in terms of nitrogen content; and (B) a dialkyldiphenylamine compound in an amount of 0.3 to 5.0% by mass and a hindered phenol compound in an amount of 0 to 2.5% by mass based on the composition as an antioxidant, and (C) a sulfated ash of the lubricating oil composition is 1.2% by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Kamano, Motoharu Ishikawa, Kazuhiro Teshima
  • Patent number: 7960319
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition favorably employable for trunk piston diesel engines contains an overbased sulfurized alkylphenol calcium salt, at least two (preferably three) overbased alkylsalicylic acid calcium salts having different base ratios and hydrocarbyl groups of different carbon atom numbers, a borated ashless dispersant, and a zinc dihydrocarbyldithiophosphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Chevron Japan Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Nagamatsu
  • Patent number: 7956021
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition comprising a base oil of lubricating viscosity having a kinematic viscosity of 22 to 300 mm2/s at 40° C. and dissolved or dispersed therein the following additives in the following amounts based on a total amount of the lubricating oil composition: (1) an overbased sulfurized alkylphenol calcium salt detergent in an amount of 0.5 to 1.0 wt. % in terms of calcium content, (2) an overbased calcium alkylbenzenesulfonate detergent in an amount of 1.5 to 2.1 wt. % in terms of calcium content, (3) a nitrogen-containing ashless dispersant in an amount of 0.005 to 0.1 wt. % in terms of nitrogen content, and (4) a zinc dihydrocarbyldithiophosphate in an amount of 0.007 to 0.1 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Chevron Japan Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Nagamatsu
  • Publication number: 20110092401
    Abstract: A gear oil additive composition and gear oil composition comprising a organic polysulfide having at least 30 wt % of a dialkyl polysulfide compound or mixture of dialkyl polysulfide compounds, a thiadiazole; and at least one ashless phosphorus-containing wear inhibitor compound is disclosed as having low yellow corrosion in axles and transmissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventor: Juan A. Buitrago
  • Patent number: 7906465
    Abstract: A lubricant composition comprising a detergent and a base oil comprising less than about 3% by weight of tetracycloparaffins is disclosed. Methods of making and using the composition are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Afton Chemical Corp.
    Inventors: Mark T. Devlin, Tze-chi Jao