Silicon Containing Organic Material Having An Atom Other Than Si, C, H, Or Oxygen Patents (Class 523/213)
  • Patent number: 12163023
    Abstract: A camera module containing a molded part (e.g., generally planar base, lens barrel mounted on the base, etc.) that is formed form a polymer composition is provided. The polymer composition includes a liquid crystalline polymer and inorganic particles that have a hardness value of about 2.5 or more based on the Mohs hardness scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ticona LLC
    Inventor: Young Shin Kim
  • Patent number: 12134672
    Abstract: Provided herein is a masterbatch including a grafted silicone polyether and a porous inorganic nanoparticle, bacteria repellant polymer composites including the same, and methods of preparation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Ka Shui Plastic Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: You Wu, Ho-Man Au, Yan-Hua Zhao, Hoi-Kuan Kong, Xi-Zi Song, Wai-Chung Peter Wong, Cheuk Nang Daniel Sung, Yuen-Fat Lee
  • Patent number: 12077657
    Abstract: A composition comprising at least the following components: A) an olefin multi-block copolymer; and B) a silicone rubber that comprises pendant vinyl groups, and optionally comprises terminal vinyl groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Haiyang Yu, Xiaolian Hu, Hongyu Chen, Kyle G. Kummer
  • Patent number: 12077690
    Abstract: A sheet includes a support layer and a coating layer on a side of the support layer. The coating layer is partially cured. The coating layer has carbon-carbon double bonds. The relative amount of carbon-carbon double bonds is higher at the surface of the coating layer than at the contact surface of the coating layer with the support layer. Methods are disclosed to manufacture such sheets; and to produce a decorative panel using such sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: UNILIN BV
    Inventors: Benjamin Clement, Sam Ledegen, Marijn Seynaeve
  • Patent number: 12011904
    Abstract: A production method for a laminate of a fluorosilicone rubber and a silicone rubber is provided. The production method comprises the following steps: (1) curing a fluorosilicone rubber composition comprising: (A) an organopolysiloxane having alkenyl groups and fluoroalkyl groups, (B) an organopolysiloxane having silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atoms and fluoroalkyl groups, and (C) a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst; (2) laminating a silicone rubber composition comprising: (D) an organopolysiloxane having alkenyl groups and not having fluoroalkyl groups, and (E) an organic peroxide on a surface of a fluorosilicone rubber produced in step (1) above; and (3) curing a silicone rubber composition layer in a laminate produced in step (2) above. A laminate in which a fluorosilicone rubber layer and a silicone rubber layer are adhered well using a hydrosilylation reaction curable fluorosilicone rubber composition is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: DOW TORAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chiichiro Hasegawa, Naoya Ishigami
  • Patent number: 11866590
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel diisocyanate-based radical polymerizable silane coupling compound having an urethane bond and a medical and/or dental curable composition comprising the same. The present invention provides a novel silane coupling agent that imparts high affinity to a radical polymerizable monomer, thereby imparting high mechanical strength and durability when used for a medical and/or dental curable composition, and an inorganic filler surface-treated with the novel silane coupling agent and a novel medical and/or dental curable composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SHOFU
    Inventors: Kiyomi Fuchigami, Kenzo Yamamoto, Naoya Kitada, Kazuya Shinno
  • Patent number: 11851546
    Abstract: Provided is a thermoplastic resin film with which a glass plate-including laminate that looks different in color tone depending on the direction or angle can be obtained. A thermoplastic resin film according to the present invention includes a thermoplastic resin and a pigment, and when the thermoplastic resin film is planarly viewed with a transmission electron microscope, a number of pigments having an aspect ratio of 3 or more and 50 or less is 3 or more and 100 or less in a rectangular region of 13 ?m long and 18 ?m wide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shougo Yoshida, Atsushi Nohara
  • Patent number: 11795317
    Abstract: Provided is a laminated body that has high adhesiveness between a resin body containing a fluorine-based resin and a silicone gel and that can be attached to and detached from an adherend for use. A laminated body comprising: a resin body; and a gel body, wherein the resin body comprises a fluorine-based resin, and the gel body comprises a silicone gel and lipophilic silica particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yuji Ohkubo, Kazuya Yamamura, Erika Miyake, Izuru Komatsu
  • Patent number: 11760840
    Abstract: The present invention provides a resin composition which is excellent in moisture and heat resistance, thermal stability, rigidity, surface impact properties and chemical resistance. The resin composition includes, based on a total of 100 parts by weight consisting of (A) 30 to 99 parts by weight of a resin (component A), which is composed of 10 to 100 wt % of a polycarbonate-polydiorganosiloxane copolymer resin (component A1) and 0 to 90 wt % of an aromatic polycarbonate resin (component A2), and (B) 1 to 70 parts by weight of a polyester resin (component B), (C) 10 to 50 parts by weight of a filler (component C) which is surface-treated with a silane coupling agent having an alkyl group, wherein the content of rubber-like polymer is 3 parts by weight or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventor: Ozora Baba
  • Patent number: 11680155
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising an organic polymer, and a silyl functional compound comprising a N—Si bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: BYK-Chemie GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Kröller, Alessa Meyer, Majdi Al-Masri, Frederik Piestert, Carl-Eric Wilen, Melanie Aubert, Teija Tirri, Timo Ääritalo
  • Patent number: 11623983
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for high temperature applications. More specifically, the present invention relates to a coated talc, a process for the preparation of such and its use as an additive in the production of polyolefin composite. Polyolefin composites produced according to the process of the present invention are exhibit a high thermal stability and are useful in a broad range of high temperature applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Specialty Minerals (Michigan) Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Clinton Wernett
  • Patent number: 11499001
    Abstract: Disclosed is a composition having: an organosilane polymer, a polyamide polymer; and an abrasive aggregate. The organosilane is made by: reacting an amino-functional alkoxysilane with one or more polyisocyanates to form one or more adducts having an unreacted isocyanate group; and reacting the adducts with one or more polyfunctional amino- and/or hydroxyl compounds so that the polymer contains no unreacted isocyanate groups. The polyfunctional amino- and/or hydroxyl compound has a cycloaliphatic group or an aromatic group. The composition can be used to make a single-component polysiloxane non-skid/non-slip coating that is applied by rolling, spraying, or troweling and cures with atmospheric moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Erick B. Iezzi
  • Patent number: 11441019
    Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a ply coat rubber composition for a tire ply comprises from 60 phr to 90 phr of natural rubber, from 10 phr to 40 phr of synthetic polyisoprene, from 30 phr to 80 phr of pre-silanized and precipitated silica, from 0.1 phr to 5 phr of a cobalt salt, up to 15 phr of carbon black, up to 5 phr of resin, and up to 8 phr of oil. Moreover, the invention is directed to a tire comprising such a rubber composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventors: Carolin Anna Welter, Jean-Claude Knepper, Marc-André Paulus, Betul Buehler, Dawn Michelle Johnson, Philippe Schmit, Vaibhav Nawale
  • Patent number: 11427698
    Abstract: A rubber-metal adhesion promoter characterized by including: a metal salt (1) of a carboxylic acid which is a metal salt of an aliphatic carboxylic acid having 2 to 25 carbon atoms and in which the metal is bismuth, copper, antimony, silver or niobium; or a compound (2) represented by the following general formula (A): [wherein Z represents a structure selected from the following formulae (z-1) to (z-4); M represents bismuth, copper, antimony, silver or niobium; (RCOO) represents a residue of an aliphatic carboxylic acid having 2 to 25 carbon atoms; and x represents the valence of M minus 1].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: DIC Corporation, National University Corporation, Iwate University
    Inventors: Shujiro Otsuki, Takayuki Odashima, Hidetoshi Hirahara
  • Patent number: 11390744
    Abstract: More specifically, provided are a polyarylene sulfide resin composition including 100 parts by mass of a polyarylene sulfide resin and 1 to 100 parts by mass of an inorganic filler surface-treated with a sizing agent, wherein the sizing agent is a sizing agent (?) containing at least a urethane-modified epoxy resin having an alkoxy polyoxyalkylene structure and a urethane resin having a sulfonate group, a sizing agent (?) containing a copolymer (?1) having a mass average molecular weight of 5000 to 150000, which is obtained by radical copolymerization of a polymerizable monomer mixture of at least a (meth)acrylic acid ester and maleic acid (anhydride), or a sizing agent (?) containing at least a polyether resin, a urethane resin, and a silane coupling agent, a molded article thereof, an inorganic filler used for the composition, and methods for producing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamada, Hirokiyo Nakase, Takashi Goto, Masahiro Kajikawa
  • Patent number: 11365312
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for high temperature applications. More specifically, the present invention relates to a coated talc, a process for the preparation of such and its use as an additive in the production of polyolefin composite. Polyolefin composites produced according to the process of the present invention are exhibit a high thermal stability and are useful in a broad range of high temperature applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Specialty Minerals (Michigan) Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Clinton Wernett
  • Patent number: 11292903
    Abstract: Rubber mixtures containing at least one rubber, at least one filler and at least one compound of formula wherein R1, R3, R6 and R8 are identical or different and represent methyl or ethyl, R4 and R5 are identical or different and represent methyl or ethyl, R2 and R7 are identical or different and represent methyl or ethyl and x=4, and the vulcanizates obtainable therefrom and moldings containing said vulcanizates. The latter feature high strength and breaking elongation, low rolling resistance and good wet grip as well as low emission of VOC during production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: LANXESS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann-Josef Weidenhaupt, Irene Moll
  • Patent number: 11208556
    Abstract: A camera module containing a molded part (e.g., generally planar base, lens barrel mounted on the base, etc.) that is formed form a polymer composition is provided. The polymer composition includes a liquid crystalline polymer and inorganic particles that have a hardness value of about 2.5 or more based on the Mohs hardness scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Ticona LLC
    Inventor: Young Shin Kim
  • Patent number: 11015092
    Abstract: A composition comprising, in weight percent (wt %) based on the weight of the composition: (A) greater than zero to 39 wt % of at least one of a polar olefin polymer and a styrenic block copolymer; (B) greater than zero to 20 wt % of an epoxy or amine-functionalized silane; (C) 60 to 99 wt % of an organic solvent for a mixture of (1) the polar olefin polymer and/or styrenic block copolymer, and (2) the epoxy or amine-functionalized silane; and (D) zero to 10 wt % of a polyisocyanate crosslinking agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Yongchun Chen, Hang Wu, Tao Han, Haiyang Yu
  • Patent number: 10947344
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel synthesis route that can be used to access novel statistical, aliphatic-aromatic copolyamides, by means of ring-opening polymerisation and chain-growth polycondensation, as well as to the resulting copolymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignees: UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX, INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE BORDEAUX, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Stéphane Carlotti, Camille Bakkali-Hassani, Kévin Roos, Mikael Planes
  • Patent number: 10647831
    Abstract: The disclosure relates generally to a polymeric material for use in accommodating intraocular lenses for implantation in a lens chamber of a subject's eye. The present disclosure is directed to a polymeric material which comprises a fluorosilicone polymer and a silica component. The presently disclosed polymeric material is both optically clear and has a sufficiently low Young's modulus such that it can effectively respond to the eye's natural accommodative forces and thus can be used in accommodating intraocular lenses. When used in the fabrication of an intraocular lenses, the polymeric material disclosed herein protect the physical characteristics of the lens as the added hydrophobicity of the fluorosilicone polymer allows it to effectively resist diffusion of fluid from the eye and the adhesion of biologica materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: LensGens, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Silvestrini, Kevin Yacoub
  • Patent number: 10543718
    Abstract: Tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers each formed of reinforcing elements inserted between two skim layers of rubber compound. First layer S of polymer compound is in contact with a working crown layer and the carcass reinforcement. The crown reinforcement comprises a layer of circumferential reinforcing elements. The elastic modulus under tension at 10% elongation of a skim layer of a working crown layer is less than 8.5 MPa, the maximum value of tan(?) of the skim layer of a working crown layer is <0.100. First layer S comprises a filled elastomer blend having a macro dispersion coefficient Z?65 and a maximum tan(?) value <0.100 and its complex dynamic shear modulus G*, measured at 10% and 60° C. on the return cycle is >1.35 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Hichem Rehab, Nathalie Salgues, Jacques Besson
  • Patent number: 10532612
    Abstract: Tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of reinforcing elements. First layer C of rubber compound is placed between ends of the two working crown layers. Second layer S of polymer compound is in contact with at least one working crown layer and with the carcass reinforcement. The crown reinforcement includes at least one layer of circumferential reinforcing elements. The elastic modulus under tension at 10% elongation of first layer C is less than 8 MPa, the maximum value of tan(?) of first layer C is less than 0.100. The second layer S is made up of a filled elastomer blend having a macro dispersion coefficient Z greater than or equal to 65 and a maximum tan(?) value less than 0.100, and its complex dynamic shear modulus G*, measured at 10% and 60° C. on the return cycle, is greater than 1.35 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Hichem Rehab, Nathalie Salgues, Jacques Besson
  • Patent number: 10518584
    Abstract: Tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of reinforcing elements, crossed from one layer to the other making with the circumferential direction angles comprised between 10° and 45°. A first layer S of polymer compound is in contact with at least one working crown layer and in contact with the carcass reinforcement, the first layer S of polymer compound extending axially as far as at least the axial end of the tread, the first layer S of compound polymer compound is made up of a filled elastomer blend having a macro dispersion coefficient Z greater than or equal to 65 and a maximum tan(?) value, denoted tan(?)max, less than 0.100 and its complex dynamic shear modulus G*, measured at 10% and 60° C. on the return cycle is greater than 1.35 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Hichem Rehab, Mukul Gupta, Nathalie Salgues, Jacques Besson
  • Patent number: 10480749
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polyamide composition for a reflector having high heat resistance and good mechanical properties, having excellent adhesion to a sealing material for an LED package, and capable of retaining a high reflectance even after exposure to heat and light intended for the production process of the LED package and the environment in which the reflector is used in the LED package, when it is molded. The present invention is a polyamide composition for a reflector, containing: 30 mass % or more of a polyamide (A) having a melting point of 280° C. or higher; and 25 mass % or more of titanium oxide (B). The total content of the polyamide (A) and the titanium oxide (B) is 75 mass % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kozo Tamura, Takaharu Shigematsu, Shimon Kanai
  • Patent number: 10435542
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are rubber compositions comprising hemp oil and a rubber, and tires (and tire components) made from the rubber compositions. Also disclosed are methods of improving the tear resistance of a rubber composition by utilizing hemp oil in the rubber composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Bridestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Priyavardhana Srinivasan, Amy M. Randall, Steven J. Walter
  • Patent number: 10399386
    Abstract: Tire comprising a crown reinforcement comprising two working crown layers having unequal axial widths. Layer C of rubber compound is placed between ends of the working crown layers. Second layer S of polymer compound is in contact with at least one working crown layer and the carcass reinforcement, which comprises a layer of circumferential reinforcing elements arranged radially between two working crown layers. Distance d between the end of the axially narrowest working layer and the working layer separated from it by layer C is 1.1ø<d<2.2ø, ø being the diameter of the reinforcing elements, in a meridian plane. Second layer S is made up of a filled elastomer blend having a macro dispersion coefficient Z?65 and a maximum tan(?) value less than 0.100. Its complex dynamic shear modulus G*, measured at 10% and 60° C. on the return cycle is greater than 1.35 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMETNS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Hichem Rehab, Nathalie Salgues, Jacques Besson
  • Patent number: 10351704
    Abstract: Described are hydrosilylation-curable polyorganosiloxane compositions containing sulfur, including hydrosilylation-curable polyorganosiloxane prepolymers and hydrosilylation-cured polyorganosiloxane polymer products made therefrom, as well as methods of preparing and using the same, devices comprising or prepared from the same, and sulfur-functional organosiloxanes useful therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Fumito Nishida, Steven Swier, Yanhu Wei
  • Patent number: 10160883
    Abstract: There is provided a room-temperature-curable polyorganosiloxane composition having low viscosity and good coatability without any solvent and forming a cured coating film excellent in scratch resistance. The room-temperature-curable polyorganosiloxane composition contains: (A) 100 parts by mass of a mixture of (A1) 10 to 80 parts by mass of a polyorganosiloxane having two or more alkoxy groups bonded to silicon atoms and a prescribed viscosity, and (A2) 90 to 20 parts by mass of a polyorganosiloxane represented by an average composition formula: R1aSi(OR2)bO{4?(a+b)}/2 (R1 and R2 represent prescribed group respectively, and a and b are prescribed positive numbers), having an Mw of 2,000 to 100,000 and a three-dimensional network structure, and being in a solid state or in a semisolid state at normal temperature; and (B) 0.1 to 15 parts by mass of an organic titanium compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: MOMENTIVE PERFORMANCE MATERIALS JAPAN LLC
    Inventors: Isao Iida, Takeshi Sunaga
  • Patent number: 10023726
    Abstract: Compositions comprising surface-modified nanocalcite particles dispersed in a curable resin system comprising a vinyl ester, and coatings and fibrous composites incorporating such compositions are described. The surface-modifying agents include a binding group ionically associated with the calcite and a compatiblizing segment, compatible with the curable resin. The surface-modifying agent may also include a reactive group capable of reacting with the curable resin system. Methods of preparing nanocalcite composites and coating a fibrous composites prepared from such nanocalcite composites are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: William J. Schultz, Peter D. Condo, Emily S. Goenner, Chad A. Haraldson
  • Patent number: 9957378
    Abstract: Various methods and systems of making inorganic fiber/flake reinforced composites having a thermoplastic matrix are disclosed. The methods use systems similar to those used to make inorganic fiber/flake reinforced products having a thermoset matrix, but the systems and methods are modified to use thermoplastic precursor monomer(s) followed by in situ polymerization of the monomer(s) during and/or following forming of the desired shape of the products. These methods permit the manufacture of superior inorganic fiber reinforced thermoplastic matrix composites in large and very large shapes heretofore not possible, or practical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Klaus Friedrich Gleich, Jawed Asrar, Thomas E Burghardt, Rajappa Tadepalli
  • Patent number: 9935246
    Abstract: LEDs comprising polysilazane/polysiloxane copolymers and curable compositions containing same are disclosed. Methods of providing thermal and UV degradation resistance to said LED's, as well as increased luminous flux, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Brad Williams, Shaow B. Lin
  • Patent number: 9745330
    Abstract: The present invention relates to oligomeric organosilanes containing at least two different structural units within a molecule, selected from the structural units A, B, C and D joined in any desired linear, branched or cyclic arrangement, wherein at least one R, R1, R2, R3, R4 or R7 group is an alkyl polyether group —O—(R5—O)m—R6, to the preparation thereof and to the use thereof in rubber mixtures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Anke Blume, Ralph Moser, Sebastian Rosenstingl
  • Patent number: 9708458
    Abstract: Silicone rubber containing structurally modified hydrophobic pyrogenic silica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBH
    Inventors: Mario Scholz, Jürgen Meyer
  • Patent number: 9695300
    Abstract: Various methods and systems of making inorganic fiber/flake reinforced composites having a thermoplastic matrix are disclosed. The methods use systems similar to those used to make inorganic fiber/flake reinforced products having a thermoset matrix, but the systems and methods are modified to use thermoplastic precursor monomer(s) followed by in situ polymerization of the monomer(s) during and/or following forming of the desired shape of the products. These methods permit the manufacture of superior inorganic fiber reinforced thermoplastic matrix composites in large and very large shapes heretofore not possible, or practical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Klaus Friedrich Gleich, Jawed Asrar, Thomas E Burghardt, Rajappa Tadepalli
  • Patent number: 9682518
    Abstract: The use of nanoparticles, including surface-modified silica and calcite nanoparticles, as processing aides for pultrusion is described. The methods include combining a resin system containing a resin and the nanoparticles with continuous fibers, pultruding this combination, and at least partially curing the resin. The methods are suitable for use with a wide variety of resins and fibers, and may be used to reduce the pull-force at a fixed fiber volume loading, increase the fiber volume loading, or both. Pultruded parts made by these methods and pultruded parts with high volume loadings of fibers are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Kristin L. Thunhorst, Emily S. Goenner
  • Patent number: 9650498
    Abstract: Various methods and systems of making inorganic fiber/flake reinforced composites having a thermoplastic matrix are disclosed. The methods use systems similar to those used to make inorganic fiber/flake reinforced products having a thermoset matrix, but the systems and methods are modified to use thermoplastic precursor monomer(s) followed by in situ polymerization of the monomer(s) during and/or following forming of the desired shape of the products. These methods permit the manufacture of superior inorganic fiber reinforced thermoplastic matrix composites in large and very large shapes heretofore not possible, or practical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Klaus Friedrich Gleich, Jawed Asrar, Thomas E Burghardt, Rajappa Tadepalli
  • Patent number: 9574055
    Abstract: A compatibilized silica for incorporation into natural and synthetic polymers in latex form using precipitated or fumed silica with at least two organosilicon coupling compounds in an aqueous suspension. Polymer-silica reinforced masterbatches are prepared by addition of the compatibilized silica slurry using the formed compatibilized silica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: LION COPOLYMER HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Arigo, Subir Debnath
  • Patent number: 9562720
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods for the removal of organic solvents from wet bagasse. The use of the methods result in dried bagasse that contains no more than 1 weight percent organic solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Yingyi Huang, Mark W. Smale, William M. Cole
  • Patent number: 9486981
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a composition comprising (A) at least one lactam, (B) at least one catalyst, (C) an activator from the group consisting of isocyanates, acid anhydrides, acyl halides, reaction products thereof with (A) and mixtures thereof, (D) at least one polyethyleneimine. The invention likewise relates to a composition comprising (i) 0.01 to 10 wt %, based on the sum total of components (A) and (D), of at least one polyethyleneimine, and (ii) 90 to 99.99 wt %, based on the sum total of components (A) and (D), of at least one lactam (A) and/or polyamide obtainable from (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Philippe Desbois, Andreas Wollny, Andreas Radtke, Bernd Bruchmann, Anna Karina Möller
  • Patent number: 9458326
    Abstract: Disclosed are intermediate products (semifinished products) for polymer materials, comprising surface-modified components, said polymer materials based on the intermediate products, a method for producing the intermediate products, and the use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Inventor: Felix Winkelmann
  • Patent number: 9394429
    Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein are directed to silane coupling agents that may be used, for example, to covalently couple a polymer to a filler. In some examples, devices that include the polymer-silane coupling agent-filler compositions are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Huilin Tu, Agathe Robisson, Julien Ramier
  • Patent number: 9382345
    Abstract: Intermediate products (compounds, semi-finished goods) for polymer materials having coupled components, to the polymer materials based on the intermediate products, and to the components to be manufactured therefrom. A method for producing intermediate products, polymer materials and components, and to the use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Inventor: Felix Winkelmann
  • Patent number: 9290679
    Abstract: The invention relates to a water based rubber cement and tire with fabricated tread where the tire tread is fabricated by joining ends of an uncured rubber strip containing a high content of hydrophobated precipitated silica content with a water based cement containing a diene-based elastomer and a component reactive with said diene based elastomer and with residual hydroxyl groups on said hydrophobated precipitated silica contained in said uncured rubber strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Paul Harry Sandstrom
  • Patent number: 9222202
    Abstract: A carbon fiber bundle includes carbon fibers and a copolymerized polyolefin attached to the surface of the carbon fibers. The copolymerized polyolefin contains an aromatic vinyl compound and an acid and/or acid anhydride as copolymerization components. The amount of the copolymerized polyolefin attached is 0.01 to 10 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the carbon fiber bundle. The carbon fiber bundle may be used or contained in a random mat, a composite material, and various molded articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Kaori Nagakura, Takeshi Naito, Masaru Sato, Toru Kaneko, Katsuyuki Hagihara, Takashi Ito, Jirou Sadanobu
  • Patent number: 9217065
    Abstract: Fiberglass mats, binder compositions, and methods for making the same are provided. The fiberglass mat can include a plurality of glass fibers and an at least partially cured binder composition. The binder composition, prior to at least partial curing, can include a first copolymer modified by reaction with one or more base compounds. The first copolymer can include one or more unsaturated carboxylic acids, one or more unsaturated carboxylic anhydrides, or a combination thereof, and one or more vinyl aromatic derived units. The first copolymer can have a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of about 500 to about 200,000. The first copolymer can be present in an amount ranging from about 60 wt % to about 95 wt %, based on a combined weight of the first copolymer and the one or more base compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC
    Inventors: Kelly A. Shoemake, Benjamin D. Gapud, Ramji Srinivasan, Arun Narayan, Ahmed A. Iman
  • Patent number: 9169364
    Abstract: Binder compositions and methods for making and using same are provided. The binder composition can include at least one polyamidoamine prepolymer and at least one copolymer. The copolymer can include one or more vinyl aromatic derived units, and one or more unsaturated carboxylic acids, one or more unsaturated carboxylic anhydrides, or a combination thereof. The copolymer can be modified by reaction with one or more base compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC
    Inventors: Ramji Srinivasan, Benjamin D. Gapud, Kelly A. Shoemake
  • Patent number: 9162398
    Abstract: The use of nanoparticles, including surface-modified silica and calcite nanoparticles, as processing aides for pultrusion is described. The methods include combining a resin system containing a resin and the nanoparticles with continuous fibers, pultruding this combination, and at least partially curing the resin. The methods are suitable for use with a wide variety of resins and fibers, and may be used to reduce the pull-force at a fixed fiber volume loading, increase the fiber volume loading, or both. Pultruded parts made by these methods and pultruded parts with high volume loadings of fibers are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Kristin L. Thunhorst, Emily S. Goenner
  • Patent number: 8987351
    Abstract: A method for treating filler material includes contacting the filler material with a silane which, upon hydrolysis, produces substantially no significant amount of volatile organic compound and/or the hydrolyzate of the silane to provide a treated filler which can then be incorporated into a matrix to provide a composite body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
    Inventor: Keith Weller
  • Publication number: 20150045476
    Abstract: A pellet comprising glass fibres and a thermoplastic polyester matrix, wherein the glass fibre at least partially has been coated with a two-part sizing composition comprising: (C) A precursor comprising: (a) an aminosilane and (b) a polymer or copolymer containing carboxylic acid and/or anhydride, both having a functionality, F?3, and (D) A binder comprising a multifunctional epoxy resin of functionality, F?3, and wherein the pellet has been subjected to a solid state post condensation process (SSPC).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.
    Inventors: Ronald Michaël Alexander Maria Schellekens, Luc Elza Florent Leemans, Frédéric Van Hoof, Nadia Masson