Ammonia Or Alkali Metal Hydroxide Or Carbonate Component Patents (Class 510/435)
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Patent number: 7857913Abstract: A cleaning compound for cleaning surfaces in a food processing environment includes at least one container, with each container including a peroxide and/or an alkaline reactant therein. The alkaline reactant is selected to raise the pH of the cleaning compound into the alkaline range when the peroxide and the alkaline reactant are mixed together. The cleaning compound may be a liquid or dry compound, which is applied to the surface to be cleaned.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2003Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Inventor: William E. Spindler
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Publication number: 20100323944Abstract: A cleaning agent made of a mixture of a first solution and a second solution wherein the first solution is a mixture of water and sodium bicarbonate which has been passed through a positively charged magnetic field and wherein the second solution is a mixture of water and sodium silicate which has been passed through a negatively charged magnetic field.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Inventor: William C. Reed
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Patent number: 7855171Abstract: The present invention comprises an iron complexing mixture and method of using same wherein beneficial performance and natural gas pipeline cleaning methods are employed. The synergistic improvement of combining two water-soluble metal complexing agents, THPS and IDS, prove to offer advantages in performance over the individual use of either chemical.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2008Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Inventor: David O. Trahan
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Patent number: 7781388Abstract: An oxidizing cleaning composition comprises a low concentration of aqueous hydrogen peroxide that is environmentally friendly and has good stability in strong alkaline solutions. The aqueous hydrogen peroxide composition contains a synergistic combination of one or more hydrophilic surfactants having an HLB of 10 or greater, one or more hydrotropes, one or more UV-analyzable surfactants having an aromatic detectable functional group, and optionally a surfactant having an HLB of less than 10. The cleaning composition when mixed with an alkaline compound is very effective in removing dried or baked residues of polymers, modified or natural celluloses starches, natural gels, and the like at low concentrations and temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2006Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: American Sterilizer CompanyInventors: Stavroula Maria Heintz, Shannon K. Campbell, Gurusamy Manivannan
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Patent number: 7763576Abstract: A solidification matrix includes a polycarboxylic acid polymer, sodium carbonate, and water. Exemplary polycarboxylic acid polymers include a polyacrylic acid polymer having a molecular weight of between about 1,000 and about 100,000, a modified polyacrylic acid polymer having a molecular weight of between about 1,000 and about 100,000, and a polymaleic acid polymer having a molecular weight of between about 500 and about 5,000. The polycarboxylic acid polymer, sodium carbonate, and water interact to form a hydrate solid. The solidification matrix may be used, for example, in a solid detergent composition.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2008Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Brenda L. Tjelta, Lisa M. Sanders, Michael E. Besse
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Patent number: 7745383Abstract: Cleaner for hard surfaces, especially glass. Application of the cleaner containing a colloidal silica sol results in a modification of the streaming potential of the surface by ?5 to ?50 mV. The cleaner can be used to hydrophilize and clean hard surfaces by contact.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2005Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Michael Dreja, Juergen Noglich, Bernhard Guckenbiehl
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Patent number: 7674760Abstract: Floor finishes are stripped or deep scrubbed using a floor stripper/cleaner composition containing sparingly water-soluble floor finish solvent; water; sulfonic acid, sulfate acid, phosphonic acid, phosphate acid or aromatic acid coupler in an amount sufficient to provide a homogenous aqueous liquid phase and no or low foaming during shaking; and sufficient organic amine so that the composition pH is about 2 to about 11.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2005Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Robert D. P. Hei, Brian R. Leafblad, Minyu Li, Lauren K. Carlson, Nicola Kriens, Christian Franz Liko
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Publication number: 20100016204Abstract: A cleaning agent made of a mixture of a first solution and a second solution wherein the first solution is a mixture of water and sodium bicarbonate which has been passed through a positively charged magnetic field and wherein the second solution is a mixture of water and sodium silicate which has been passed through a negatively charged magnetic field.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: William C. Reed
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Patent number: 7578968Abstract: Processes for effecting biocidal activity in subterranean oil and gas wells being drilled, completed, worked over or produced are described. In general the process comprises blending with aqueous well fluid a biocidally-effective amount of a sulfamate stabilized, bromine-based biocide. Compositions comprised of aqueous well fluid blended with such aqueous biocides are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2002Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Christopher J. Nalepa, Joel F. Carpenter
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Publication number: 20090197793Abstract: Disclosed is a detergent composition for hard surface, containing (A) a monoalkyl glyceryl ether whose alkyl group has 3 to 8 carbon atoms, (B) a specific compound represented by the formula (1), (C) an amine, (D) a polyvalent carboxylic acid having a molecular weight of 40 to 400 and/or a salt thereof, (E) a surfactant provided that (A) and (B) are excluded from (E), and water, wherein the mass ratio of (A)/(B), the content of (A)+(B), the mass ratio of (C)/(D), and the content of (C)+(D) are respectively in a specific range, and the pH of the detergent composition at 20° C. is 9.5 to 11.5.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2007Publication date: August 6, 2009Applicant: Kao CorporationInventors: Takumi Inoue, Junya Hanai, Kazunori Tsukuda
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Publication number: 20090197790Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to both sprayable and non-sprayable cleaner compositions comprising 1 to 9% by weight of a layered phyllosilicate, 1 to 10% of a surfactant, and at least one silicate salt or strong base as a pH-adjusting agent. The composition optionally can include hypochlorite bleach and the pH of the formulation can be in the range 11 to 14. The composition optionally can include water-insoluble glycol ether type solvents or oils in the form of emulsions or microemulsions for degreasing, disinfecting, and fragrance delivery. The compositions provide improved drip resistance when sprayed on to vertical surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2009Publication date: August 6, 2009Applicant: AMCOL International CorporationInventors: Tapashi Sengupta, Gregory G. Plutko, Ashoke K. SenGupta, Charvi Patel
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Patent number: 7534760Abstract: The present invention relates to a clear and stable, highly alkaline composition with controlled foaming, containing a high amount of surface active nonionic alkylene oxide adduct and a hexyl glycoside as a hydrotrope. This composition has a very good wetting and cleaning ability and can be used for cleaning of hard surfaces, in a mercerization process and for a cleaning, desizing or scouring process of fibres and fabrics.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2005Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.Inventors: Ingegard Johansson, Bo Karlsson, Christine Strandberg, Gunvor Karlsson, Karin Hammarstrand
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Patent number: 7531490Abstract: The present invention relates to a detergent composition containing (a) 2 to 30% by weight of an inorganic alkali, (b) 0.5 to 20% by weight of at least one surfactant selected from an anionic surfactant and a nonionic surfactant, (c) 0.01 to 2% by weight (based on calcium ion) of a calcium salt, (d) 0.1 to 15% by weight of a calcium ion-sequestering agent, (e) 1 to 30% by weight of a water-soluble organic solvent and (f) 20 to 95% by weight of water.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2005Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Junji Kondo, Yasunori Horio
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Patent number: 7456143Abstract: A particulate washing or cleaning composition containing (A) a phosphate-free water-soluble builder component and (B) alkali metal percarbonate particles having a coating containing alkali metal silicate.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2005Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien (Henkel KGaA)Inventors: Horst-Dieter Speckmann, Joerg Poethkow, Heike Schirmer-Ditze, Gerhard Blasey, Birgit Middlehauve
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Patent number: 7442675Abstract: A cleaning composition comprises at least quaternary ammonium hydroxide, a water-soluble organic solvent, water, an anticorrosive, and potassium hydroxide of 1 mass percent or less of a total amount of the solution. This cleaning composition can singly and effectively remove a photoresist film, a buried material, a metallic residue from the surface of a semiconductor substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2004Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignees: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd., Intel CorporationInventors: Shigeru Yokoi, Kazumasa Wakiya, Takayuki Haraguchi, Makarem A. Hussein, Lana I. Jong, Shan Christopher Clark
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Patent number: 7435301Abstract: Disclosed are a cleaning solution for preventing damage of a silicon germanium layer when cleaning a semiconductor device including the silicon germanium layer and a cleaning method using the same. The cleaning solution of a silicon germanium layer includes from about 0.01 to about 2.5 percent by weight of a non-ionic surfactant with respect to 100 percent by weight of the cleaning solution, about 0.05 to about 5.0 percent by weight of an alkaline compound with respect to the cleaning solution and a remaining amount of pure water. The damage to an exposed silicon germanium layer can be prevented when cleaning a silicon substrate having a silicon germanium layer. Impurities present on the surface portion of the silicon germanium layer can be effectively removed.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2005Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang-Sup Mun, Doo-Won Kwon, Hyung-Ho Ko, Chang-Ki Hong, Sang-Jun Choi
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Patent number: 7410939Abstract: A cleaner composition which comprises at least one surfactant, at least one builder and at least one nitrogen-containing polymer is described. The nitrogen-containing polymer is, for example, an alkoxylated polyvinylamine, an alkoxylated, acylated or alkylated polyaminoamide or a polyurethane-urea with tertiary amino groups. The nitrogen-containing polymers facilitate soil release.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2002Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ralf Noerenberg, Helmut Meffert, Karl Haeberle, Martin Scholtissek, Cordula Mock-Knoblauch, Franz Weingart
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Patent number: 7402553Abstract: A buffered acid composition created by the combination of liquid ammonia and an acid and a method for making the composition. The buffered acid composition is for use as a cleaning agent and for balancing the pH of a fluid.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2007Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Inventor: Stephen C. Perry
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Patent number: 7390775Abstract: Surfactant-thickened active chlorine-containing bleach compositions including at least one water soluble anionic styrenic polymer are described. The styrenic polymer serves to improve the rheology properties of the thickened bleach composition. The thickened bleach composition additionally includes a surfactant-based thickening system including an amine oxide, and an alkaline agent to maintain the pH of the composition at about 10 or greater. The amine oxide includes at least 75% of one or more C14-C18 alkyl dimethyl amine oxides. The thickened bleach compositions have reduced viscosity, decreased elastic properties, with improved flow and pour properties resulting from the inclusion of the styrenic polymer.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2005Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.Inventors: Wayne M. Rees, Susan L. Bryant
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Patent number: 7323436Abstract: An adduct that has an acidic solution of sparingly-soluble Group IIA complexes (“AGIIS”) and at least one additive. The AGIIS can be prepared by mixing a mineral acid (such as sulfuric acid), and a Group IIA hydroxide (such as calcium hydroxide) or a Group IIA salt of a dibasic acid (such as calcium sulfate), or a mixture of the two Group IIA compounds, followed by removing the solid formed. The additives can be an alcohol, an organic acid or a surface active agent. The composition has various uses, including cleaning, food production, decontamination, bioremediation, agricultural application, medical application, and detoxification of substances.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2002Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Mionix CorporationInventors: Maurice Clarence Kemp, Robert B. Lalum, Zhong Wei Xie, Michael A. Cunha, Robert H. Carpenter, Zhang Shu, Yao Yu, David E. Lewis
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Patent number: 7312186Abstract: A cleaning solution for semiconductor substrates comprising a nonionic surface active agent of the formula (1) and/or the formula (2), a chelating agent and a chelating accelerator: CH3—(CH2)l—O—(CmH2mO)n—X ??(1) wherein l, m and n independently represent a positive number, and X represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group; CH3—(CH2)a—O—(CbH2bO)d—(CxH2xO)y—X ??(2) wherein a, b, d, x and y independently represent a positive number, b and x are different, and X represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2004Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignees: Kanto Chemical Co., Inc., NEC Electronics CorporationInventors: Masayuki Takashima, Yoshiko Kasama, Hiroaki Tomimori, Hidemitsu Aoki
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Patent number: 7258748Abstract: In a method for processing a baking pan, the baking pan is placed in a solution including: water, N-Methyl-2-Pyrrolidone, Ethoxylate of nonylphenol, Monoethanolamine, Triethanolamine and Potassium hydroxide. The solution is heated to a temperature in a predefined temperature range. The baking pan is removed from the solution after a predefined period of time.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2006Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: Chemstar CorporationInventor: Mingzhong Su
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Patent number: 7235516Abstract: A substrate surface cleaning liquid medium and a cleaning method using the cleaning liquid medium are capable of removing finely particulate contaminants more efficiently than conventional techniques from substrates for devices in the production of semiconductor devices, display devices, etc., which cleaning liquid medium contains the following ingredients (A), (B), (C), and (D), has a pH of 9 or higher, and a content of ingredient (C) of 0.01 to 4% by weight: (A) an ethylene oxide addition type surfactant which has an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group and a polyoxyethylene group in the same molecular structure and in which the ratio of the number of carbon atoms contained in the hydrocarbon group (m) to the number of oxyethylene groups in the polyoxyethylene group (n), m/n, is m/n?1.5, (B) an alkali ingredient, (C) hydrogen peroxide, and (D) water.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2002Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Morinaga, Hideaki Mochizuki, Atsushi Itou
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Patent number: 7229505Abstract: The present invention comprises methods and compositions for affecting indoor air quality, such as by reducing particulates in indoor air and providing allergen control comprising using surfactant-free cleaning compositions to remove particulate matter such as soils and stains from fibers and surfaces comprising fibers such as indoor carpeting and upholstery, and to prevent redeposition of particles and other soil or stain components on indoor environmental surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2005Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Clean Control CorporationInventor: Cory S. Hammock
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Patent number: 7179775Abstract: An aqueous coating removal composition containing: a) an alkoxylated aromatic alcohol, b) an amine; and c) an inorganic base is provided. The coating removal compositions are useful in cleaning coatings such as paint from substrate surfaces and may be formulated to be essentially free (or, preferably, entirely free) of organic solvents classified as volatile organic compounds or HAPS.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2003Date of Patent: February 20, 2007Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft Auf AktienInventor: Kathryn E. Foster
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Patent number: 7157415Abstract: A new cleaning chemistry based on a choline compound, such as choline hydroxide, is provided in order to address the problem of dual damascene fabrication. An etch stop inorganic layer at the bottom of a dual damascene structure protects the underlying interconnect of copper and allows a better cleaning. A two step etch process utilizing the etch stop layer is used to achieve the requirements of ULSI manufacturing in a dual damascene structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2001Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: EKC Technology, Inc.Inventors: Catherine M. Peyne, David J. Maloney, Shihying Lee, Wai Mun Lee, Leslie W. Arkless
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Patent number: 7037884Abstract: An alkaline cleaner composition comprising an alkyl or alkylaryl ethoxy carboxylate, a strong chelating agent and a source of alkalinity, its manufacture and use in removing greasy soil from hard surface areas is described. The compositions are especially effective in removing lime-soaps in such greasy soil especially on institutional and commercial kitchen floors.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2002Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventor: Victor Fuk-Pong Man
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Patent number: 7008911Abstract: Compositions of the invention include: (a) a solvent at least partially immiscible in water; and (b) a solubilizing agent having a formula: where R is (C1–C7)alkyl, substituted (C1–C7)alkyl, (C1–C7)alkoxy, substituted (C1–C7)alkoxy, (C2–C7)alkenyl, substituted (C2–C7)alkenyl, aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkyl or heterocycly; and R? and R? is independently selected from hydrogen, (C1–C7)alkyl, substituted (C1–C7)alkyl, (C1–C7)alkoxy, substituted (C1–C7)alkoxy, (C2–C7)alkenyl, or substituted (C2–C7)alkenyl. Further compositions include: (a) a solvent at least partially immiscible in water; and (b) a solubilizing agent having a formula: R1—R—OH where R is (C1–C7)alkyl, substituted (C1–C7)alkyl, (C1–C7)alkoxy, substituted (C1–C7)alkoxy, (C2–C7)alkenyl, substituted (C2–C7)alkenyl, aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkyl or heterocycyl and R1 is a nitrogen containing heterocycyl or a nitrogen containing hetroaryl. The compositions are useful in providing stable single phase aqueous solutions when combined with water.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2002Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Ecolab, Inc.Inventors: Greg Griese, Mark Levitt
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Patent number: 7005013Abstract: Surfactant-free cleaning compositions are provided for use in removing soil and stains from fiber surfaces such as carpets, upholstery and the like as well as for preventing redeposition of soil and stains on such surfaces. Additionally, processes are provided for cleaning such soiled and/or stained fiber surfaces utilizing aqueous forms of such surfactant-free cleaning compositions having a surface tension of greater than about 38 dynes per centimeter.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2004Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: Clean Control CorporationInventor: Cory S. Hammock
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Patent number: 6984614Abstract: A composition for removing paraffin, wax, or asphaltine deposits from the surface of a crude oil transmission system, such as a downhole tubular, a pipeline, or a surface tank, includes an aqueous sodium hydroxide solution containing from 18% to 25% by weight sodium hydroxide. The composition further includes an acetic acid solution containing from 30% to 55% by weight acetic acid compared to the sodium hydroxide, and a liquid aromatic hydrocarbon having from 6 to 10 carbon atoms and from 15% to 40% by weight compared to the sodium hydroxide. According to the method of the invention, the aqueous sodium hydroxide solution may be metered in a downhole tubular or a pipeline separate from the acetic acid solution, such that heat generated by the mixed composition is generated within the downhole tubular or the pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2005Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Inventor: Jerome S. Als
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Patent number: 6946432Abstract: The anti-foaming preparations comprise aqueous formulations, which contain at least one substance, from the group of polyhydroxy compounds, non-ionic detergents and phosphoric acid esters and their salts, preferably alkyl polygluocosides, alkoxylated long-chain alcohols and an alkali salt of a phosphoric acid partial-ester. The particular advantage of said aqueous formulations is that they are stable when included in highly alkaline cleaning concentrates.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2000Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: Ecolab GmbH & Co. OHGInventors: Siegfried Bragulla, Peter Schwarz
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Patent number: 6900167Abstract: Methods of the invention include: (a) providing a solid composition that includes; a rheology modifier, a solidifying agent, and a surfactant; (b) providing a solvent with a first viscosity; and dissolving a portion of the solid composition with the solvent forming a use solution with a second predetermined viscosity, wherein the second predetermined viscosity is greater than the first viscosity.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2002Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: Ecolab, Inc.Inventors: Greg Griese, Mark Levitt
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Patent number: 6835702Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for mitigating corrosion of applied color designs on a bottle, or on another glass or ceramic item. More specifically the composition or method of the present invention can mitigate corrosion even in the presence of a known corrosive agent. The composition and methods of the invention employ one or more phosphates and one or more phosphonates at a ratio that reduces or minimizes corrosion of an applied color design.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2001Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Brandon Leon Herdt, Gerald Kurt Wichmann, David Arnold Halsrud, Michel Marie Lawrence, Richard Eugene Steindorf
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Patent number: 6835704Abstract: Surfactant-free cleaning compositions are provided for use in removing soil and stains from fiber surfaces such as carpets, upholstery and the like as well as for preventing redeposition of soil and stains on such surfaces. Additionally, processes are provided for cleaning such soiled and/or stained fiber surfaces utilizing aqueous forms of such surfactant-free cleaning compositions having a surface tension of greater than about 38 dynes per centimeter.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2002Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Clean Control CorporationInventor: Cory S. Hammock
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Patent number: 6830629Abstract: Brass articles having leachable lead are contacted with an aqueous caustic solution that contains a chelating agent. A brass article can optionally be post-treated by contacting it with an aqueous solution containing anazole.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc.Inventors: Edward L. Cote, Andrew D. Wenzel, Lance E. Agness
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Patent number: 6821352Abstract: A composition for removing etching residue and a method using same are disclosed herein. In one aspect, there is provided a method for removing etching residue from a substrate comprising: contacting the substrate with a composition comprising water, an organic dicarboxylic acid, a buffering agent, a fluorine source, and optionally a water miscible organic solvent.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2003Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Roberto John Rovito, David Barry Rennie, Dana L. Durham
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Patent number: 6815404Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaning agent, particularly for cleaning sewers, for fat and/or protein-containing sewage from the home or having a municipal or industrial origin, with a content of urea, a urea derivative, a urea salt and/or a urea derivative salt, the cleaning agent containing approximately 50 to 90 wt. % urea, urea derivative, urea salt and/or urea derivative salt, based on dry substance, and an alkaline-acting agent, protease and fat-degrading microorganisms.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2003Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignee: BBT Bergedorfer Biotechnik GmbHInventor: Klaus Becker
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Patent number: 6812202Abstract: The invention relates to a highly alkaline or mildly alkaline detergent composition having enhanced cleaning properties. The detergent combines a source of alkalinity and a blend of nonionic surfactants that enhances cleaning starchy soils. The blend of nonionic surfactants preferably includes an alkyl polyglycoside surfactant and a silicon surfactant having a hydrophobic silicon group and a pendant hydrophilic group. Preferably, the blend of nonionic surfactants includes a surfactant having a hydrophobic group and an ethylene oxide residue containing group and a polymer additive. A method for removing soil from an article is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2003Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Victor F. Man, Terrence P. Everson, Steven E. Lentsch
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Patent number: 6800600Abstract: A paste-form to solid detergent composition is provided consisting of a) 21 to 70 percent by weight of an aqueous lye solution having a concentration of 42 to 55 percent by weight of lye; b) 0.5 to 40 percent by weight of one or more alcoholates of ethanol, propanol, isopropanol, glycerol or butyleneglycol, and c) 10 to 35 percent by weight of water. The detergent is a high alkaline detergent, useful for cleaning hard surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2000Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: Ecolab GmbH & Co. oHGInventors: Werner Strothoff, Dieter Hemm, Guenter Hellmann
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Patent number: 6793760Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adhesive bonding a PVC surface comprising cleaning a PVC surface with an aqueous alkaline cleaning composition and applying an adhesive to the cleaned PVC surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2003Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Horst Hoffmann, Karl-Heinz Rogmann, Joerg Gehrke, Horst Kleinert
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Patent number: 6718992Abstract: Neutral to basic compositions comprising surfactants other than amphoteric surfactants, copolymers of vinylpyrrolidone and an alkylenically unsaturated monomer, and a polysaccharide polymer. Also, employment of these compositions in processes for treating hard surfaces, providing a shine benefit to the hard surfaces, reducing limescale deposits and watermarks from hard surfaces, and for providing a “next-time” cleaning benefit to hard surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2001Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Inventors: Sergio Cardola, Panos Iakovides, Laura Orlandini, Maria Rosa Rescio
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Patent number: 6693065Abstract: Detergent compositions which are non-foaming and stable in highly alkaline medium, comprising 25 to 45% by weight of non-foaming detergent agent, in particular a capped nonionic surfactant, for example an &agr;-alkyl-&ohgr;-halopoly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyl), or an &agr;-decyl-&ohgr;-benzyloxypoly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyl), 15 to 25% by weight of stabilizer, in particular a phosphoric ester of a fatty alcohol, and 30 to 60% by weight of an alkenylsuccinic acid or anhydride, in particular octenylsuccinic acid or anhydride. These compositions allow the preparation of alkaline washing products for cleaning hard surfaces, which are themselves non-foaming, even under pressurized cleaning conditions.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 1999Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Ceca S.A.Inventors: Philippe Gentilhomme, Bernard Mourrut
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Patent number: 6677286Abstract: Compositions containing water, an organic dicarboxylic acid, a buffering agent and fluorine source and optionally a water miscible organic solvent are capable of removing etching residue.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2002Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Roberto John Rovito, David Barry Rennie, Dana L. Durham
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Patent number: 6664220Abstract: A solution capable of removing adherent organic material from the surface of a solid substrate at room temperature. The solution includes a first solvent, preferably water, having dissolved therein: up to 2% alkali metal silicates, a source of alkalinity that is substantially free of alkali metal hydroxide ions, an organic solvent, and an amount of hydrotrope effective to render the organic solvent or solvents soluble in the solution, an amino alcohol may be included, at least one surfactant, and a corrosion inhibitor may be included. The solution should have an alkaline pH less than about 12. The solution is used to remove the adherent organic material by soaking the object having such material thereon in such a solution, preferably at room temperature.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2001Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Kay Chemical, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer Riley Mayhall, Eddie D. Sowle, Charles Allen Hodge
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Patent number: 6664219Abstract: An alkaline detergent composition is provided including a source of alkalinity and an effective soil removing amount of a nonionic surfactant blend. The nonionic surfactant blend includes a nonionic surfactant having a hydrophobic and an (EO) group and a nonionic silicone surfactant. The detergent composition provides for the removal of waxy-fatty soil.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2000Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Lentsch, Victor F. Man, Deborah A. Ihns, Helmut K. Maier, Rhonda K. Schulz
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Patent number: 6660708Abstract: A process for the preparation of fluid detergent product comprising an anionic surfactant in which the acid precursor of the anionic surfactant is fed through at least two mixing devices, sufficient neutralising agent to neutralise 25-75 wt % of the acid precursor being fed to the first mixing device, and sufficient neutralising agent to complete neutralisation being added to the mixture from the first mixing device to substantially complete neutralisation by the time the process stream exits the final mixing device, wherein the initial liquid component and the process stream are kept at pumpable temperature at all times during the process.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventor: André Kaess
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Patent number: 6653274Abstract: The present invention relates to a hard surface detergent composition containing a soil entrainment system. The composition can be used with conventional implements known in the art, including sponges, cloths and/or sponge, string, and/or strip mops and floor cloths such as those sold at retail and specialty stores. In a most preferred embodiment, the solution is used with a cleaning pad comprising an effective amount of a superabsorbent material, said pad preferably being part of a cleaning implement comprising a handle and said cleaning pad preferably being removable. The process of using the detergent composition with such a cleaning pad, and the provision of a kit containing both detergent composition and cleaning pad are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2000Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Allen Godfroid, Kenneth William Willman, Christopher James Binski
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Patent number: 6649586Abstract: The invention relates to a highly alkaline or mildly alkaline detergent composition having enhanced cleaning properties. The detergent combines a source of alkalinity and a blend of nonionic surfactants that enhances cleaning starchy soils. The blend of nonionic surfactants preferably includes an alkyl polyglycoside surfactant and a silicon surfactant having a hydrophobic silicon group and a pendant hydrophilic group. Preferably, the blend of nonionic surfactants includes a surfactant having a hydrophobic group and an ethylene oxide residue containing group and a polymer additive. A method for removing soil from an article is provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2003Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Victor F. Man, Terrence P. Everson, Steven E. Lentsch
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Patent number: 6648983Abstract: A process of cleaning an enamel surface with a liquid acidic composition comprising an enamel safe buffering system, wherein said buffering system comprises a salt having an anion selected from the group consisting of hydroxide and carbonate; and a cation that has an ionic radius larger than 115 pm; with the proviso that no ethers of diethylene glycol are present in said composition.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2001Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Sergio Cardola, Panos Iakovides, Laura Orlandini, Maria Rosa Rescio
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Patent number: 6635118Abstract: This invention relates to water-based alkaline cleaning solutions and their use as an environmentally safer replacement of organic solvents to remove photoresist, polyimide residue and other interlevel dielectric polymer coating residue from polymer film apply equipment, specifically, spin coater bowl and assembly parts consisting of a teflon top shield, stainless steel plate, and a bottom teflon spin coating bowl used in semiconductor device fabrication processes.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2001Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Harbans S. Sachdev, Richard A. Cormack, Gerard V. Capogna, Felice J. Mancaruso, Krishna Sachdev