Solid Hydrocarbon Polymer Patents (Class 508/591)
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Patent number: 12247176Abstract: The present application relates to the use of a lubricant composition comprising a base oil and a hydrogenated diene styrene polymer to reduce engine particulate emissions.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: TotalEnergies OneTechInventors: Gautier Burette, François Paoloni
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Patent number: 12091630Abstract: A lubricating oil composition containing a base oil (A), a comb-shaped polymer (B), and an olefin-based copolymer (C), wherein a content of the component (B) is more than 0.80 mass % based on the total amount of the lubricating oil composition, a weight average molecular weight of the component (C) is 500,000 or more, and the lubricating oil composition has a viscosity index of 200 or more and a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 9.3 to 11.0 mm2/s.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akinori Yomogita
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Patent number: 11926959Abstract: Textiles intercalated with shear thickening fluids (STF) are disclosed. The STF-intercalated textiles are light weight and include high tenacity textiles that exhibit enhanced resistance to puncture, cutting, abrasion, dust penetration, and projectile penetration. Also disclosed are multi-layer articles, such as safety suits and extra-vehicular mobility units, which include STF-intercalated textiles. Methods for manufacturing STF-intercalated textiles are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: STF Technologies, LLCInventors: Norman J. Wagner, Richard Dombrowski
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Patent number: 11926804Abstract: The present disclosure relates to passenger car motor oil lubricating oil compositions having select dispersant and detergent systems to improve at least one of deposits, sludge, oxidization, and wear when using a blend of API Group II base oils with one or more API Group III and/or API Group IV base oils. The dispersant systems herein includes select amounts of boron, nitrogen, and total base number contributions that surprisingly achieve performance even when including higher amounts of the API Group II base oils in the lubricants.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Afton Chemical CorporationInventors: Leah Donham, Kongsheng Yang, Kenneth Garelick, Kristi Engelman
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Patent number: 11873456Abstract: Proposed is a process of producing a high-quality lube base oil using a refined oil fraction obtained from waste lubricant as a feedstock. The process includes purifying waste lubricant to obtain a refined oil fraction, pretreating the refined oil fraction, and blending the pretreated refined oil fraction with unconverted oil (UCO), before or after vacuum distillation and catalytic dewaxing of the unconverted oil, or between the vacuum distillation and the catalytic dewaxing of the unconverted oil.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Inventors: Young Wook Jeon, Jin Hee Ok, Kyung Seok Noh, Do Woan Kim
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Patent number: 11820954Abstract: Provided are: a lubricating oil composition for transmissions having a long fatigue life and a low viscosity, which contains a base oil and an olefin copolymer and in which the mass-average molecular weight of the olefin copolymer is 5,000 or more and 30,000 or less, the hydrodynamic radius of the olefin copolymer is 1.00 nm or more and 5.00 nm or less, and the content of the olefin copolymer based on the total amount of the composition is 1.0% by mass or more and 8.0% by mass or less; and a production method for the composition, a lubricating method using a lubricating oil composition for transmissions, and a transmission.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazushi Tamura
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Patent number: 11788019Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for catalytic hydroprocessing to form lubricant base oils. The methods can include performing high pressure hydrofinishing after fractionating the hydrotreated and/or hydrocracked and/or dewaxed effluent. Performing hydrofinishing after fractionation can allow the high hydrogen pressure for hydrofinishing to be used on one or more lubricant base oil fractions that are desirable for high pressure hydrofinishing. This can allow for improved aromatic saturation of a lubricant base oil product while reducing or minimizing the hydrogen consumption. The high pressure hydrofinishing can be performed at a hydrogen partial pressure of at least about 2500 psig (˜17.2 Mpa), or at least about 2600 psig (˜18.0 Mpa), or at least about 3000 psig (˜20.6 MPa). The high pressure hydrofinishing can allow for formation of a lubricant base oil product with a reduced or minimized aromatics content, a reduced or minimized 3-ring aromatics content, or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering CompanyInventors: Bradley R. Fingland, Gary P. Schleicher
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Patent number: 11783963Abstract: A composition and method for reducing the coefficient of friction and required pulling force of a wire or cable are provided. A composition of aqueous emulsion is provided that is environmentally friendly, halogen free and solvent free. The composition is compatible with various types of insulating materials and may be applied after the wire or cable is cooled and also by spraying or submerging the wire or cable in a bath. The composition contains lubricating agents that provide lower coefficient of friction for wire or cable installation and continuous wire or cable surface lubrication thereafter.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Encore Wire CorporationInventors: William T. Bigbee, Jr., Sheri H. Dahlke, Ronald A. Raedeke, Jason Drew Gillen, Melvin Glenn Debord
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Patent number: 11773343Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of improving viscosity shear stability of a lubricating oil and lubricating oil composition comprising: a base oil of lubricating viscosity; an amount of one or more zinc dialkyl dithiophosphate compound(s); wherein the lubricating oil composition has one or both of the following ratios: a) a ratio of KV40° C.fresh to a weight % of zinc contributed by the one or more zinc dialkyl dithiophosphate compound(s) based on a total weight of the lubricating oil composition, of greater than 510, wherein KV40° C.fresh is the kinematic viscosity of the fresh lubricating oil composition at 40° C.; and b) a ratio of KV40° C.fresh to a weight % of phosphorus contributed by the one or more zinc dialkyl dithiophosphate compound(s) based on a total weight of the lubricating oil composition, of greater than 560, wherein KV40° C.fresh is the kinematic viscosity of the fresh lubricating oil composition at 40° C.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: AFTON CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenneth Garelick, Todd Dvorak, Mark Devlin
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Patent number: 11713433Abstract: A solid lubricant bar comprising hydrogenated castor oil or wax, expandable flake graphite, and copper. ATH, MDH, and zinc borate can also be added to the formulation to enhance fire retardancy and suppression.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Inventor: John Chester Kubiak
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Patent number: 11702488Abstract: The polyethylene according to the present invention has narrow particle size distribution, and can minimize a change in the crystal structure, and thus, it can be reacted with chlorine to prepare chlorinated polyethylene having excellent chlorination productivity and thermal stability.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Inventors: Sunghyun Park, Si Jung Lee, Bog Ki Hong, Yi Young Choi, Myunghan Lee
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Patent number: 11603916Abstract: Systems and methods of monitoring lubrication of a gear assembly during operation of a machine provide for receiving at a control system, a signal from a sensor indicative of a value obtained by the sensor for an electrical property of a circuit crossing the gear assembly operably coupled to the machine, ascertaining whether the value for the electrical property corresponds to a warning level for a condition of the lubricant film, and outputting a control command when the value for the electrical property corresponds to the warning level for the condition of the lubricant film.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: GE AVIO S.R.L.Inventor: Andrea Piazza
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Patent number: 11572526Abstract: Disclosed is a lubricant composition including: at least one base oil; at least one olefin copolymer; at least one detergent; and at least one hydrogenated and linear styrene/butadiene copolymer. Also disclosed is the use of this composition for reducing the fuel consumption of an engine and for improving the cleanliness of a 4-stroke or 2-stroke, preferably 4-stroke marine engine, or of a stationary engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICESInventors: Catherine Amblard, Christian Gonneaud
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Patent number: 11414618Abstract: A VM concentrate comprising: from about 60 to about 95 parts (and at least 50 wt %) of a diluent oil (e.g., having a KV100 of about 2 cSt to about 40 cSt); and from about 5 parts to about 40 parts (and at least 6.0 wt %) of a linear triblock copolymer characterized by the formula: D?-PA-D?; wherein D? represents a block derived from diene, PA represents a block derived from monoalkenyl arene, D? represents a block derived from diene, and the linear triblock copolymer is present in an amount effective to modify a lubricating kinematic viscosity at approximately 100° C. (KV100) of the concentrate, and wherein the KV100 of the concentrate is about 3000 cSt or less. The linear triblock copolymer may additionally or alternatively have a thickening efficiency span of at most 0.5.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Infineum International LimitedInventors: Yi Zhao, Jun Cui, Stuart Briggs, Ewan Galbraith
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Patent number: 11345872Abstract: Sulfur-free, ashless, and low phosphorus-containing lubricant compositions for use as engine oil having improved oxidation stability. The lubricant composition can include about 60.0 mass % to about 99.8 mass % of an oil base stock, at least one ashless antiwear additive, at least one ashless detergent, and at least one antioxidant, based on a total mass of the lubricant composition. The oil base stock can include at least one polyalphaolefin and at least one alkyl naphthalene. The lubricant composition can contain less than about 0.05 mass % phosphorus, less than about 0.05 mass % sulfur, and less than about 0.05 mass % ash. The lubricant composition can be made by a process that includes combining the above-mentioned components to provide a lubricant composition.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering CompanyInventor: Zhisheng Gao
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Patent number: 11279780Abstract: A semicrystalline multiblock copolymer includes alternating blocks of semicrystalline isotactic polypropylene (iPP) and semicrystalline polyethylene (PE), having a block arrangement according to formula (I): (iPPw)p(PEx)(iPPy)m(PEz)n?? (I), wherein p is 0 or 1; m is 0 or 1; n is 0 or 1; the sum of p, m, and n is 1, 2, or 3; and the sum of w, x, y, and z is greater than or equal to 40 kg/mol, with the provisos that: when m and n are 0, the sum of w and x is greater than or equal to 140 kg/mol; and when p and n are 0, the sum of y and x is greater than or equal to 140 kg/mol. Related compositions and methods are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignees: CORNELL UNIVERSITY, REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAInventors: Geoffrey Coates, James Eagan, Anne Lapointe, Frank S. Bates
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Patent number: 11274262Abstract: Provided are a lubricating oil composition used in a diesel engine equipped with a forced-induction compressor, containing a base oil (A) containing a poly-?-olefin (A1), and a viscosity index improver (B) having an SSI (shear stability index) of 20 or less, having a distillation amount of a light fraction of 496° C. or less in a gas chromatography distillation test of less than 80% by volume, having a high retention of the effect of suppressing the formation of deposits that may occur inside the compressor, and being capable of retaining a high efficiency of the compressor for a long period of time, in the use thereof in a diesel engine equipped with a forced-induction compressor having an outlet temperature of the compressor becoming a high temperature reaching 190° C. or more, and a method for using the lubricating oil composition.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignees: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji Sunahara, Kazuo Yamamori, Kosuke Fujimoto
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Patent number: 11242498Abstract: A lubricant composition is described. The novel lubricant composition has superior thermal stability, and can reduce the need to replenish the lubricant. The lubricant composition includes at least a soap component, a thickener component, an oil component, and a spherical polyolefin component (optionally Microthene). The spherical polyolefin component includes polyolefin microparticles.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Equistar Chemicals, LPInventor: Maged G. Botros
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Patent number: 11208607Abstract: A polyalphaolefin composition is provided comprising trimers of C12 alpha-olefins and dimers of C14 alpha-olefins, where the ratio by weight of C12 trimer to C14 dimer is within a range of 4:1 by weight to 1:4 by weight, where the C12 trimer enriched polyalphaolefin has an average branching ratio <0.2 and the C14 dimer has an average branching ratio of >0.20, and where the average branching ratio for all C12 trimers and C14 dimers is between 0.19 and 0.26. The composition has a boiling point distribution where less than 30% by weight of the composition has a boiling point between 420° C. and 455° C., and the resulting base oil has a kinematic viscosity of about 3.3 to 4.7 cSt at 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: NOVVI LLCInventors: Jason Charles Rosalli, Wui Sum Willbe Ho, Eduardo Baralt, Jason R. Wells, Liwenny Ho, Benton Thomas
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Patent number: 11198832Abstract: A lubricating oil composition for automotive transmissions is disclosed. It offers an automotive transmission (especially a fuel-saving type) which satisfies all requirements as regards the properties of resistance to churning, maintenance of the oil film and low-temperature viscosity. It comprises a GTL low viscosity base oil and a Group 1 high viscosity base oil.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANYInventors: Noriaki Shinoda, Ryuji Maruyama, Katsuji Okami
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Patent number: 11180709Abstract: Disclosed are functional fluids such as automotive engine transmission fluids, clutch fluids, gearbox fluids, electric motor fluids, and/or battery packing cooling fluids comprising a low-viscosity, low-volatility Polyalpha-olefin base stock, and processes for lubricating and/or cooling an engine transmission, an electric motor, and/or a battery packing using such functional fluids.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Craig J. Emett, Babak LotfizadehDehkordi, Najeeb M. Kuzhiyil, Wenning W. Han, Heinrich R. Braun
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Patent number: 11155768Abstract: A lubricant oil composition for automotive gears includes a lubricant base oil including a mineral oil having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 2.0 to 6.5 mm2/s, a viscosity index of not less than 105 and a pour point of not more than ?10° C., and/or a synthetic oil having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 1.0 to 6.5 mm2/s, a viscosity index of not less than 120 and a pour point of not more than ?30° C.; and an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer having an ethylene content of 55 to 85 mol %, a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 10 to 200 mm2/s, a molecular weight distribution of not more than 2.2, and a melting point in the range of ?30° C. to ?60° C. The lubricant oil composition for automotive gears has a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 4.0 to 9.0 mm2/s.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Shota Abe, Terufumi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11072702Abstract: Provided is a hydrogenated block copolymer, which is a hydrogenation product of a block copolymer including a polymer block (A) containing more than 70 mol % of a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound and a polymer block (B) containing 30 mol % or more of a structural unit derived from at least one selected from the group consisting of a conjugated diene compound and isobutylene, the hydrogenated block copolymer being satisfied with the following requirements (1) and (2): Requirement (1): the content of the polymer block (A) in the block copolymer is 1 to 30% by mass; and Requirement (2): when the polymer block (B) is regarded as having a structure with a hydrogenation rate of 100 mol %, an average value of a methylene chain length of a main chain of the structural unit derived from at least one selected from the group consisting of a conjugated diene compound and isobutylene is 1.0 to 6.0.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Senda, Shinya Oshita
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Patent number: 11035015Abstract: A vapor film-rupturing agent is provided that is prepared from asphalt as a staring material, so as to have a fraction (x) (% by mass) of a saturated component and a fraction (y) (% by mass) of an asphaltene component based on the total fraction 100% by mass of the saturated component, the asphaltene component, an aromatic component, and a resin component obtained by any one of analysis methods described in the Japan Petroleum Institute Standard and Manuals Testing Method for Petroleum Products JPI-5S-70-10 and the British Standard Test Method IP-469 that satisfy one or more of the following conditions (1) to (3): condition (1): 1.2926×(x)/100?8.113×(y)/100+2.3384?2.400, condition (2): (y)?7.0, and condition (3): ((y)/(x))?0.5. The vapor film-rupturing agent is capable of preparing a thermal treatment oil composition having a high vapor film-rupturing effect with a characteristic number of seconds in the cooling capability test according to JIS K2242 (2012) of 2.50 seconds or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukio Yoshida, Hideaki Hattori, Akinori Yomogita
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Patent number: 11008530Abstract: A lubricant composition includes a mixture of grease and wax formed into a block which is solid at atmospheric pressure and temperatures up to 150° F., and which transforms into a semi-solid under mechanical loading. The mixture is formed with 5-25% of melted wax. The block may be coated to form a shell to remain solid at elevated temperatures. The block may include other additives. The grease block is suitable for use in various applications, including on a 5th wheel trailer hitch plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Best Green Answers, LLCInventors: Todd Whiting, Kenneth A. Budke, II
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Patent number: 10829709Abstract: Concentrates of linear, block copolymers having a polymer block derived from a monoalkenyl arene, covalently linked to one or more blocks of a hydrogenated derivative of a conjugated diene copolymer, dissolved in highly saturated diluent oil, wherein the size of the monoalkenyl arene block is controlled to provide an optimized level of incompatibility of the block copolymer in the selected diluent.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2014Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Infineum International LimitedInventors: Rajiv Taribagil, Isabella Goldmints, Stuart Briggs, Bogdan Barboiu, Richard D. Bertram, Robin H. Scott
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Patent number: 10787623Abstract: The invention relates to low molecular weight hydrogenated polybutadienes and to a method for the preparation of these polymers. The invention is also directed to lubricant compositions comprising these polymers and uses thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbHInventors: Sofia Sirak, Holger Pletsch, Marius Kemper
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Patent number: 10731096Abstract: Disclosed is a lubricant base stock blend comprising a PAO base stock and an alkylated aromatics (AA) base stock, wherein at least the longer portion of the pendant groups attached to the carbon backbones of the PAO molecules have comparable length to at least the longer portion of the side chain groups attached to the aromatic ring structure of the AA molecules. The comparable lengths of at least the longer portion of the pendant groups and the side chain groups lead to enhanced improvement in oxidation stability of the blend.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Wenning W. Han, Pramod J. Nandapurkar
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Patent number: 10731100Abstract: A viscosity index improver containing, in non-ester diluent oil, one or more hydrogenated, functionalized linear block copolymers having at least one block derived from monoalkenyl arene covalently linked to at least one block derived from diene in an amount that is greater than the critical overlap concentration (ch*), in mass %, for the linear block copolymers in the diluent oil; and an amount of ester base stock.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: INFINEUM INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Rajiv R. Taribagil, Stuart A. Taylor, Stuart Briggs, Laurent Chambard
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Patent number: 10633610Abstract: A comb polymer can be used for reducing a Noack evaporation loss of a lubricant composition, especially of an engine oil composition. Application of the comb polymer to the lubricant composition can bring about the desired reduction. The comb polymer can include specified amounts of macromonomer and alkyl acrylates. Resulting lubricant compositions can include the comb polymer.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbHInventors: Katrin Schöller, Stefan Maier, Sarah Lippert, Klaus Schimossek
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Patent number: 10604718Abstract: The present invention provides a lubricant composition which can be washed off cold and the use thereof for application to a metal strip as anti-corrosion, wash and/or forming lubricant. The composition is 50 to 90 wt % base fluid, 3 to 15 wt % sulfonate-based corrosion inhibitor, 1 to 20 wt % ester component, 0.5 to 3 wt % phosphorus source component or 1 to 10 wt % sulfur source component as high-pressure/anti-wear additive, 1 to 15 wt % emulsifier, 0.05 to 1 wt % carboxylic acid component, 0.05 to 1 wt % aminic and/or phenolic antioxidant, 0.5 to 5 wt % wax and/or thickener component, based in each case on the total weight of the composition. Further disclosed is a dry lubricant composition which can be washed off cold.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Fuchs Petrolub SEInventors: Achim Losch, Agnes Fundus
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Patent number: 10501700Abstract: An oil composition comprising a first component having pendant groups, a second component having two or more terminal carbon chains, and optionally a third component, where a single molecule of the second component can form shearable stable structure with two molecules of the first component via van der Waals force between pendant groups and the terminal carbon chains. Shear stability of the oil can be improved if the total concentration of the heavy fraction of the shearable stable structure is controlled at a low concentration.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Wenning W. Han, Bernie J. Pafford
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Patent number: 10443008Abstract: Provided are marine lubricating oils including from 15 to 95 wt % of a Group III base stock having a kinematic viscosity at 100 deg. C. of 4 to 12 cSt, 0.5 to 55 wt % of cobase stock having a kinematic viscosity at 100 deg. C. of 29 to 1000 cSt, 0.1 to 2.0 wt % of a molydithiocarbamate friction modifier, 0.1 to 2.0 wt % of a zinc dithiocarbamate anti-wear additive, and 2 to 30 wt % of other lubricating oil additives. The cobase stock is selected from the group consisting of a Group I, a Group IV, a Group V and combinations thereof. Also provided are methods of making and using the marine lubricating oils.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Nabila Brabez, Kevin L. Crouthamel, John T. Fogarty, Andrew D. Satterfield
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Patent number: 10316176Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to polymer compositions that can be useful as viscosity modifiers, comprising (a) a first ethylene-?-olefin copolymer having an ethylene content of from about 60 to about 80 wt % and (b) a second ethylene-?-olefin copolymer having an ethylene content of from about 40 to about 60 wt %. The polymer composition comprises about 35 wt % to about 50 wt of the first ethylene-?-olefin copolymer and about 50 wt % to about 65 wt % of the second ethylene-?-olefin copolymer. The polymer compositions are made by comprising producing a first ethylene-?-olefin copolymer in a first reactor, directing the first copolymer to a second reactor, producing the second ethylene-?-olefin copolymer in the second reactor and forming the polymer composition.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Periagaram S. Ravishankar, Rainer Kolb
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Patent number: 10221267Abstract: A copolymer including ethylene units and units of one or more C3-10 alpha-olefins. The copolymer has a number average molecular weight of less than 5,000 g/mol, as measured by GPC. The ethylene content of the copolymer is less than 80 mol %. At least 70% of molecules of the copolymer have an unsaturated group, and at least 70% of said unsaturated groups are located in a terminal vinylidene group or a tri-substituted isomer of a terminal vinylidene group. The copolymer has a crossover temperature of ?20° C. or lower and/or a certain ethylene run length. Also disclosed are a method for making the copolymer and polyolefins plasticized with 1-40 wt % of the copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: AFTON CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Nathaniel Cain, John Loper, Lawrence Cunningham, Joseph W. Roos
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Patent number: 10208265Abstract: An oleaginous corrosion-resistant lubricating composition comprising at least one poly-alpha olefin synthetic oil and effective amounts of metal salts of sulfonic acids, metal salts of carboxylic acids, metal salts of mixtures of said sulfonic and carboxylic acids, alkylated aromatic stabilizers as solubility modifiers, pour-point depressants, at least one antioxidant, triazole deactivator compounds and fluoroacrylate copolymers.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: El Sayad Arafat
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Patent number: 10144894Abstract: An oil composition comprising a first component having pendant groups and a second component but free of a third component and process for making such oil composition, where a single molecule of the third component can form large shearable stable complex structure with two molecules of the first component via van der Waals force between pendant groups and the terminal carbon chains, and a single molecule of the second component is capable of adjoining no more than one molecule of the first type. The oil composition has high shear stability making it suitable for use in lubricants subject to repeated high shear stress events.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Wenning W. Han, Bernie J. Pafford
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Patent number: 10011803Abstract: A viscosity index improver containing, in diluent oil, one or more optionally functionalized linear block copolymers having at least one block derived from alkenyl arene covalently linked to at least one block derived from diene in an amount that is greater than the critical overlap concentration (ch*), in mass %, for the linear block copolymers in the diluent oil; and ester base stock and/or at least one star (or radial) polymer, the star polymer being present in an amount such that the c/ch* value of the star polymer in the concentrate falls within the range of from 0.01 to about 1.6, wherein c is the concentration in mass % of star polymer in the concentrate and ch* is the critical overlap concentration in mass % for the star polymer in the diluent oil used to form the concentrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: INFINEUM INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Rajiv R. Taribagil, Stuart A. Taylor, Stuart Briggs, Laurent Chambard
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Patent number: 9879201Abstract: An engine oil composition includes a star polymer (A) and a poly(alkyl (meth)acrylate) (B) as a viscosity index improver, and has a viscosity index of 185 to 230, the star polymer (A) having a star structure and having a weight average molecular weight of 100,000 to 1,000,000, the star structure being a structure in which polymer chains branch from a center of the polymer, the polymer chains being obtained by copolymerization and hydrogenation of an aromatic vinyl compound monomer and a conjugated diene monomer, the poly(alkyl (meth)acrylate) (B) having a weight average molecular weight of 200,000 to 600,000, the content (MA) of the star polymer (A) in the engine oil composition being 0.10 to 2.00 mass % based on the total mass of the engine oil composition, the content (MB) of the poly(alkyl (meth)acrylate) (B) in the engine oil composition being 0.50 to 6.00 mass % based on the total mass of the engine oil composition, and the ratio “MA/MB” being 0.10 to 1.00.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2014Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: COSMO OIL LUBRICANTS CO., LTD.Inventor: Atsushi Akamatsu
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Patent number: 9845375Abstract: Concentrates containing specific functionalized diblock copolymers serve as effective additives for improving the cold flow behavior of fuels and oils, the copolymers being derived from a terminally-unsaturated intermediate polymer obtained via a metallocene process involving hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: INFINEON INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Carl Waterson, Kenneth Lewtas, Peter Scott, Christopher J. Kay, Giles W. Theaker, Peter M. Wright
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Patent number: 9815926Abstract: Provided herein are ethylene copolymers, methods for making such copolymers, and compositions made from such copolymers. The ethylene copolymers have 70 wt. % to 85 wt. % of units derived from ethylene and at least 12 wt. % of units derived from at least one ?-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms. The copolymers preferably further have a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) ranging from about 50,000 to about 200,000 g/mol, melting point of at least 100° C., ratio of Mw/Mn of about 1.5 to about 3.5, a content of group 4 metals of no more than 25 ppm, and a ratio of wt ppm Group 4 metals/wt ppm Group 5 metals of at least 3. Such copolymers may be particularly useful as viscosity modifiers for lubricating oil compositions.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Rainer Kolb, Donna J. Crowther, Peijun Jiang
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Patent number: 9777205Abstract: Disclosed is an effective thermal grease comprising a hyperbranched olefinic fluid and a thermally conductive filler. Property-modifying additives and fillers may also be included. The hyperbranched olefinic fluid is selected to have an average of at least 1.5 methine carbons per oligomer molecule and at least 40 methine carbons per one thousand total carbons. The thermal grease exhibits a flash point of 180° C. or higher, a pour point of 0° C. or lower, and a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of no more than 200 cSt (0.0002 m 2/s). The composition may offer improved thermal conductivity, reduced tendency to migrate, and lower cost when compared with many other thermal greases, including silicone-based thermal greases.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Yunfeng Yang, Hongyu Chen, Brad C. Bailey, Mohamed Esseghir, Suh Joon Han
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Patent number: 9593288Abstract: This invention discloses an improved process which employs mixed alpha-olefins as feed over activated metallocene catalyst systems to provide essentially random liquid polymers particularly useful in lubricant components or as functional fluids.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Margaret M. Wu, Norman Yang, Phil Surana, Anura Patil, Steven P. Rucker, Kuangnan Qian, Shakeel Tirmizi, Mark P. Hagemeister
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Patent number: 9540583Abstract: Concentrates containing specific functionalized diblock copolymers serve as effective additives for improving the cold flow behavior of fuels and oils, the copolymers being derived from a terminally-unsaturated intermediate polymer obtained via a metallocene process involving hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: INFINEUM INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Carl Waterson, Kenneth Lewtas, Peter Scott, Christopher J. Kay, Giles W. Theaker, Peter M. Wright
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Patent number: 9534188Abstract: A lubricating oil composition comprising (A) an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer satisfying all of the following requirements (A-1) to (A-3): (A-1) an ethylene structural unit content of 30 to 70% by mol, (A-2) a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 20 to 3000 mm2/s, and (A-3) Mw/Mn as measured by GPC of 1 to 2.5, (F) a sulfur-containing compound in which at least one hydrocarbon group adjacent to sulfur is a secondary or tertiary hydrocarbon group, and as an optional component, (G) an ?-olefin polymer having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, and having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 450 to 51,000 mm2/s, a sulfur content of 0.1 to 5 parts by weight, and a component (G) content of 0 to 15 parts by weight. The lubricating oil composition is suitable particularly for gear oil and the like.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Ryousuke Kaneshige, Shota Abe
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Patent number: 9458403Abstract: A process for producing a high viscosity functionalized metallocene polyalphaolefin (mPAO) fluid. The process includes providing a mPAO having a terminal double bond, said mPAO produced by the metallocene-catalyzed oligomerization or polymerization of an alpha-olefin feed; providing at least one of a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl thiol, aryl thiol, diphenylamine or naphthalene; and reacting, optionally in the presence of a catalyst or initiator, the mPAO having a terminal double bond with at least one of the substituted or unsubstituted alkyl thiol, aryl thiol, diphenylamine or naphthalene, under reaction conditions sufficient to produce the functionalized high viscosity mPAO fluid. The functionalized mPAO fluid has, as synthesized, a viscosity (Kv100) from 135 to 900 cSt at 100° C.; a viscosity index (VI) greater than 150; a pour point (PP) less than ?25° C.; a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) less than 2.0; a residual unsaturation (Bromine Number) less than 2.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2013Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Abhimanyu Onkar Patil, Shuji Luo, Satish Bodige
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Patent number: 9428709Abstract: The invention provides a lubricating composition containing an oil of lubricating viscosity and a block copolymer of a poly(olefin) block, such as poly(isobutylene) (PIB) and a polyvinyl aromatic) block, such as poly(styrene), wherein the copolymer is optionally functionalized or grafted. The invention further provides a method of using the block copolymer to control deposits in a lubricating oil composition.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2012Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventors: Michael R. Sutton, William R. S. Barton, David Price
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Patent number: 9416206Abstract: Provided are ethylene propylene copolymers compositions thereof and methods for making the same. The composition may include an ethylene copolymer, comprising 40 wt % to 70 wt % of units derived from ethylene, and at least 30 wt % of units derived from at least one ?-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms. The composition can have a melting point (Tm) in ° C., as measured by DSC, that satisfies the relation: Tm>3.4×E?180, where E is the weight % of units derived from ethylene in the copolymer. The composition can also have a Mw/Mn ratio of about 1.5 to about 3.5. The composition can further have a content of Group 4 metals derived from a catalyst of 25 ppm or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2011Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Rainer Kolb, Liehpao Oscar Farng, Sudhin Datta, Donna J. Crowther, Peijun Jiang
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Patent number: 9334203Abstract: This disclosure provides for alpha olefin oligomers and polyalphaolefins (or PAOs) and methods of making the alpha olefin oligomers and PAOs. This disclosure encompasses metallocene-based alpha olefin oligomerization catalyst systems, including those that include at least one metallocene and an activator comprising a solid oxide chemically-treated with an electron withdrawing anion. The alpha olefin oligomers and PAOs prepared with these catalyst systems can have a high viscosity index combined with a low pour point, making them particularly useful in lubricant compositions and as viscosity modifiers.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LPInventors: Brooke L. Small, Kenneth D. Hope, Qing Yang, Albert P. Masino, Max P. McDaniel, Richard M. Buck, William B. Beaulieu, Eduardo J. Baralt, Eric J. Netemeyer, Bruce Kreischer
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Patent number: 9212333Abstract: A dispersant of the present invention is used after being added to a dispersant obtained by dispersing fine particles of a crystalline polymer as a dispersed particle and is characterized by containing a copolymer of a first monomer and a second monomer, the first monomer being a monomer that can be crystallized as a polymer having the molecular structure identical to that of the dispersed particle.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Fukuoka UniversityInventors: Satoshi Ichikawa, Kazuhiro Oda, Shigeru Yao