Mixing With Carbon, E.g., Graphite, Etc., Having Numerical Limitations, Other Than Amount, E.g., Included Herein Are Particle Size, Surface Area, Etc., Or Composition Or Product Thereof, Dnrm Patents (Class 524/495)
  • Patent number: 11919211
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a plastic-metal hybrid part by plastic overmolding on a metal surface via nano-molding technology (NMT), wherein the moldable plastic material is a polymer composition comprising thermoplastic polyamide, or a thermoplastic polyester, or a blend thereof, and boron silicon glass fibers. The invention also relates to a plastic-metal hybrid part, obtainable by said process, wherein a metal part is overmolded by a polymer composition comprising thermoplastic polyamide, or a thermoplastic polyester, or a blend thereof, and boron silicon glass fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.
    Inventors: Frank Peter Theodorus Johannes Van Der Burgt, Ruogu Liao
  • Patent number: 11920018
    Abstract: The invention provides a novel semiconductive polymer composition with improved smoothness and dispersibility of carbon black when compounding the polymer composition and feasible balance with other properties such as volume resistivity. The semiconductive polymer composition comprises (a) from 30 to 90 wt % of a polymer component, (b) from 10 to 70 wt % of carbon black and the carbon black (b) has a mass pellet strength (MPS) according to ASTM D1937-13 of from 50 to 250 N. The invention further relates to a process for preparing the semiconductive polymer composition comprising the steps of: i) introducing 30-90 wt % of a polymer component as defined above and 0-8 wt % additives in a mixer device and mixing the polymer component and additives at elevated temperature such that a polymer melt is obtained; ii) adding 10-70 wt % of a carbon black as defined above to the polymer melt and further mixing of the polymer melt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Takashi Uematsu, Christer Svanberg, Karl-Michael Jäger, Fredrik Skogman, Koenraad Noyens, Peter Walter, Malin Johansson
  • Patent number: 11912868
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a conductive concentrated resin composition including (a) 100 parts by weight of a base resin including 50 to 95% by weight of a polyamide resin, 2.5 to 20% by weight of a polar polymer, and 2.5 to 30% by weight of a non-polar polymer, (b) 10 to parts by weight of a carbon nanofibril, (c) 0.5 to 5 parts by weight of a carbon nanoplate, and (d) 0.5 to 4 parts by weight of nanoclay; a conductive polyamide resin composition including the conductive concentrated resin composition; a method of preparing the conductive concentrated resin composition; and a molded article including the conductive polyamide resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Gi Dae Choi, Minsu Kim, Eon Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 11908101
    Abstract: A system for capturing, organizing, and storing handwritten notes includes a plurality of boundary markers. The boundary markers are configured to be positioned on a writing surface. The system also includes a tangible non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions which, when run on a camera-equipped computing device, causes the camera-equipped computing device to execute processes. The processes include capturing an image of the writing surface with the markers thereon. The processes also include detecting the boundary markers in the captured image. Additionally, the processes include identifying a virtual boundary in the captured image based on the positions of the boundary markers. The processes then unwarp a portion of the captured image within the virtual boundary to produce an unwarped image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Rocket Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Lemay, Jacob Epstein
  • Patent number: 11878741
    Abstract: A multi-layer sliding member (1) includes a backing plate (2) formed from a steel plate, a copper-plated or nickel-plated layer (4) formed on one surface (3) of the backing plate (2), a porous sintered metal layer (5) integrally bonded to the surface (3) of the backing plate (2) through the layer (4), and a coating layer (8) filling pores (6) and coating on the surface (7) of the porous sintered metal layer (5) and formed from a synthetic resin composition. The synthetic resin composition contains a PTFE as a main component and further contains, as additives, 5 to 30% by mass of a thermotropic liquid crystal polymer, 5 to 12% by mass of a polyarylketone resin, 5 to 12% by mass of a melt moldable fluororesin, and 1 to 5% by mass of a polyimide resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Oiles Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Maeda, Tsuyoshi Hashizume
  • Patent number: 11866635
    Abstract: There is provided a thermosetting material with which the heat-dissipating properties of a cured product can be considerably heightened and the mechanical strength of the cured product can also be heightened. The thermosetting material according to the present invention includes a thermosetting compound, a thermosetting agent, boron nitride nanotubes, and an insulating filler not being a nanotube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroya Ishida
  • Patent number: 11865866
    Abstract: An aircraft tire comprises a tread (2), having an axial width L, which comprises a middle portion (3) having an axial width LC at least equal to 50% and at most equal to 80% of the axial width L of the tread and consisting of a middle rubber composition, and two lateral portions (41, 42), positioned axially on either side of the middle portion (3), each having an axial width (LS1, LS2) at least equal to 10% and at most equal to 25% of the axial width L of the tread and each consisting of a lateral rubber composition. The middle rubber composition comprises in particular from 25 to 85 phr of a tin-functionalized butadiene and styrene copolymer and from 15 to 75 phr of isoprene elastomer, and at least one lateral rubber composition is different from the middle rubber composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Cabioch, Michael Arnoux
  • Patent number: 11866586
    Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a tire rubber composition and a tire which have good wet grip performance and an excellent ability to reduce deterioration of wet grip performance and abrasion resistance over time. The present disclosure relates to a tire rubber composition which contains one or more rubber components having a combined content of styrene-butadiene rubber and polybutadiene of 90% by mass or more, one or more fillers, and one or more vulcanizing agents, the rubber composition as a whole having a vinyl content of 20 mol % or higher and a trans content of 50 mol % or higher, each based on 100 mol % of the combined amount of the butadiene-based structural units in the butadiene portion of the styrene-butadiene rubber and the polybutadiene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryoji Matsui
  • Patent number: 11870093
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a high-voltage battery that has a housing and at least one battery cell arranged in the housing. The battery cell has a battery cell housing with an emergency degassing opening which opens at a specified cell inner pressure and through which hot or burning gas can pass out of the interior of the battery cell housing into the housing of the high-voltage battery in the event of a disruption or damage to the battery cell. The emergency degassing opening faces a housing wall against which hot or burning gas flows in the event of the disruption or damage to the battery cell. The housing wall of the high-voltage battery is designed to be more thermally resistant locally in the region in which the emergency degassing opening is arranged and in which the hot or burning gas flows out of the battery cell housing in the event of a disruption or damage to the battery cell than in the wall regions at a distance from the emergency degassing opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Philip Raettich, Frank Tenfelde
  • Patent number: 11845857
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a polypropylene composition (C) comprising an ?-nucleated heterophasic composition (HECO) comprising a (semi)crystalline polypropylene (PP1), an elastomeric ethylene/propylene copolymer (EPR) and a first ?-nucleating agent (NU1), an impact modifier comprising a polyethylene (PE) being a copolymer of ethylene and a C4-C12 ?-olefin and a second ?-nucleating agent (NU2). The present invention is further directed to a method for preparing said polypropylene composition (C) and an article comprising said polypropylene composition (C). The present invention is also directed to the use of a composition comprising a polyethylene (PE) being a copolymer of ethylene and a C4-C12 ?-olefin and an ?-nucleating agent (NU2) as an impact modifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: ABU DHABI POLYMERS CO. LTD (BOROUGE) L.L.C., BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Katja Klimke, Hans Jozef Francois Van Cauwenberghe
  • Patent number: 11814516
    Abstract: The invention belongs to the field of rubber tire processing, and particularly discloses an application of a lignin in preparing a radial tire, wherein the lignin is capable of completely or partially replacing resorcinol, and meanwhile, the lignin is also capable of completely or partially replacing an anti-aging agent. Compared with the prior art, the resorcinol is replaced or partially replaced by a biomass-derived lignin or a modified lignin in the invention, so that requirements of cost reduction, environmental protection and no toxicity are satisfied. Especially, the lignin modified by demethylation according to the invention is capable of effectively enhancing various properties of rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chenjie Zhu, Hanjie Ying, Ming Li, Pingkai Ouyang, Jiannong Shen, Xinjian Xu, Wei Zhuang, Tao Shen
  • Patent number: 11794447
    Abstract: A composite material structure includes a first fiber layer, a second fiber layer, and a third fiber layer. The first fiber layer is composed of a first long fiber and a first resin material. The second fiber layer is composed of a second long fiber and a second resin material. The third fiber layer is disposed between the first fiber layer and the second fiber layer. The third fiber layer is composed of a short fiber and a third resin material. A length of the first long fiber and a length of the second long fiber are both greater than a length of the short fiber, and the length of the short fiber is less than or equal to 25 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Han-Ching Huang, Jung-Chin Wu, Kuo-Nan Ling, Sheng-Hung Lee
  • Patent number: 11798713
    Abstract: A positive temperature coefficient (PTC) composition having a first thermally active polymer having a melting point of 30-70° C. and providing a first PTC in a lower temperature range below 70° C., and a second thermally active polymer having a melting point of 70-140° C. and providing a second PTC in a higher temperature range above 70° C., the composition also having conductive particles; and an organic solvent with a boiling point higher than 100° C., solvent being capable of dissolving both the first and second thermally active polymer. The PTC composition has two distinct PTC characteristics at the two different temperature ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: LMS CONSULTING GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Shuyong Xiao, Lee M. Sisler, Richard C. Abbott
  • Patent number: 11786883
    Abstract: A highly adsorptive structure includes: a substrate; and a metal-organic framework (MOF) comprising a plurality of metal atoms coordinated to a plurality of organic spacer molecules; wherein the MOF is coupled to at least one surface of the substrate, wherein the MOF is configured to adsorb and desorb a refrigerant under predetermined thermodynamic conditions. The refrigerant includes one or more materials selected from the group consisting of: acid halides, alcohols, aldehydes, amines, chlorofluorocarbons, esters, ethers, fluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, halocarbons, halogenated aldehydes, halogenated amines, halogenated hydrocarbons, halomethanes, hydrocarbons, hydrochlorofluorocarbons, hydrofluoroethers, hydrofluoroolefins, inorganic gases, ketones, nitrocarbon compounds, noble gases, organochlorine compounds, organofluorine compounds, organophosphorous compounds, organosilicon compounds, oxide gases, refrigerant blends and thiols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Theodore F. Baumann, Joe H. Satcher, Jr., Joseph C. Farmer, Todd Bandhauer
  • Patent number: 11772292
    Abstract: A drawing device includes a pen fixed to a cartridge, a mover, a conveyer, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores for each classification of each of a plurality of objects, drawing data representing control conditions of the mover and the conveyer for drawing the object, and angle data representing a fixed angle of the pen with respect to the cartridge when drawing the object. The processor receives at least one of the classifications of the plurality of objects, reads out and acquires, from the memory, the drawing data and the angle data corresponding to the received at least one classification. The processor also displays, on a display, fixed angle information corresponding to the fixed angle represented by the acquired angle data, controls the mover and the conveyer on the basis of the acquired drawing data, and draws the object of the received classification on a target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Yamada, Daisuke Abe
  • Patent number: 11773234
    Abstract: The claimed invention refers to the development of rubber recipes to improve essential properties related to correlated rubber compounds. Silica gel is added to the rubber compound as a reinforcing agent, partially replacing some of the precipitated silica. The use of silica gel for the pneumatic market provides improved tear resistance, elongation and adhesion performance, and improves adhesion of the tire on wet surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: PQ, LLC
    Inventors: Flavio Ernesto Ribeiro, Ronaldo dos Santos Flor
  • Patent number: 11773238
    Abstract: It has been discovered that certain monofunctional thiuram compounds can be synthesized at low cost and utilized as vulcanization accelerators which provide excellent cure rates without causing a high level of scorch. The use of these monofunctional thiuram compounds as vulcanization accelerators also result in cured rubber compositions that exhibit reduced compression set, improved age hardening characteristics, and degradation resistant crosslinks. These monofunctional thiuram compounds are of the structural formula: wherein R1 and R2 can be the same or different and represent organyl radicals, wherein R1 and R2 contain a total of at least 8 carbon atoms, and wherein R1 and R2 can join together to form a cyclic structure, and wherein R3 represents an organyl radical containing at least 6 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas Franklin Spilker, Frank J. Feher
  • Patent number: 11753529
    Abstract: The introduction of graphene as an additive in rubber compounds is disclosed. The product shows increased barrier protection for tire sidewalls, with no tradeoffs in other characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventors: Douglas Paschall, Adel F. Halasa, Michael Brendan Rodgers
  • Patent number: 11746218
    Abstract: Disclosed are a water-expandable rubber composition and a water-expandable rubber pad including the same. The water-expandable rubber pad manufactured using the water-expandable rubber composition is rigid enough to be directly inserted into a cylinder jacket even without a metal plate, etc. Moreover, the water-expandable rubber pad may increase in volume upon contact with engine coolant, thereby being optimized for an assembly process and facilitating design. Thus, since no separate assembly parts are used compared to conventional cases, the number of parts can be reduced, and costs can be reduced, and adhesiveness of the rubber pad is superior to that of conventional foam rubber and thus heat retention performance is excellent, resulting in improved engine fuel efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jae Wook Kang, Il Suk Yang
  • Patent number: 11746232
    Abstract: A method of preparing a vinyl collagen microsphere polyamide fiber composite material includes the following steps: step 1: modifying a collagen with methacrylic anhydride to obtain a vinyl collagen, then emulsifying and cross-linking the vinyl collagen to obtain vinyl collagen microspheres; step 2: treating a polyamide fiber substrate with formaldehyde to obtain a hydroxylated polyamide fiber substrate, treating the hydroxylated polyamide fiber with (3-mercaptopropyl)trimethoxysilane (MPS) to obtain a sulfhydrylated polyamide fiber substrate; and step 3: modifying the sulfhydrylated polyamide fiber substrate with the vinyl collagen microspheres to obtain the vinyl collagen microsphere polyamide fiber composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Na Xu, Yanmei Xing, Xuechuan Wang
  • Patent number: 11732112
    Abstract: This application relates to natural rubber (NR) composites, and more specifically to a method of preparing a graphene/natural rubber composite. In the method provided herein, nano-silica loaded graphene oxide (SiO2-GO) is formed by electrostatic interaction between silica and graphene oxide (GO), and then the SiO2-GO is added to natural rubber (NR) latex to obtain a SiO2-GO/NR masterbatch by aqueous phase synergistic aggregation-precipitation process. The SiO2-GO/NR masterbatch is subjected to mechanical blending and vulcanization to obtain the graphene/NR composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA, SHANXI ZHOHNGBEI NEW MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yaqing Liu, Guizhe Zhao, Mingshan Gong
  • Patent number: 11732114
    Abstract: A rubber compound for the production of tire portions comprising a polymer base with a cross-linkable unsaturated chain, a filler system and a vulcanization system. The filler system comprises (a) a quantity, greater than or equal to 25 phr, of a first carbon black having a surface area smaller than or equal to 170 m2/gr; (b) a second carbon black having a surface area greater than or equal to 300 m2/gr in a quantity that is such that the ratio between the quantity of said first carbon black and the quantity of said second carbon black is greater than or equal to 5 and smaller than or equal to 13; (c) a quantity ranging between 0.5 and 2.0 phr of a dispersant agent comprised in the class of aromatic amides and having an unsaturation suited to interact with the polymer base with a cross-linkable unsaturated chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Bridgestone Europe NV/SA
    Inventors: Gianpaolo Chieffi, Aya Saiki, Davide Privitera
  • Patent number: 11732162
    Abstract: Disclosed are an anisotropic conductive adhesives for thermo-compression bonding containing solder conductive particles and flux additives and a method of connecting electronic parts using the same. The anisotropic conductive adhesives for thermo-compression bonding may include a flux activator, solder particles and polymer resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: KyoungWook Paik, Jae Hyeong Park
  • Patent number: 11725106
    Abstract: A polymer composition that contains an aromatic polymer in combination with a tribological formulation is provided. The polymer composition may exhibit a low degree of surface friction that minimizes the extent to which a skin layer is peeled off during use of a part containing the composition (e.g., in a camera module). For example, the polymer composition may exhibit a dynamic coefficient of friction of about 1.0 or less and/or a wear depth may be about 500 micrometers or less as determined in accordance with VDA 230-206:2007.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Ticona LLC
    Inventor: Young Shin Kim
  • Patent number: 11718755
    Abstract: The elastomer composition of the present invention comprises a thermoplastic elastomer composition which contains 20 to 80% by weight of component (A), 1 to 25% by weight of component (B), and 1 to 70% by weight of component (C): Component (A): at least one block copolymer selected from: a block copolymer having a polymer block derived from a vinyl aromatic compound and a polymer block derived from at least one selected from a conjugated diene and isobutylene; and a block copolymer obtained by hydrogenating the block copolymer; Component (B): a polypropylene resin containing component (B1): a modified polypropylene obtained by graft-modifying a polypropylene resin with a diene compound; and Component (C): a hydrocarbon softener for rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: MCPP Innovation LLC
    Inventor: Kanae Karube
  • Patent number: 11708482
    Abstract: Tires and tire components are provided having improved fire properties, as well as the vulcanizable compositions for making the tires and tire components. A vulcanizable composition is provided that includes at least one vulcanizable polymer, a curative, a halogenated hydrocarbon, and expandable graphite. The tires and tire components have improved properties including one or more of improved flame retardancy, reduced smoke density and/or toxicity, and reduced heat release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Michael C. Howard, Brandon C. Adcock, Hang Li
  • Patent number: 11708276
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for dispersing nanoparticles in solvents, involving the use of a cationic species and an anionic species, where at least one of the ionic species is soluble in the nonpolar solvent and the other ionic species has a relatively strong affinity for the surface of the nanoparticles. The cationic species and the anionic species together form a cluster of ion pairs shielding the nanoparticles and enhancing their dispersibility in the nonpolar solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: UTI LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
    Inventors: Elsayed Abdelfatah, Steven Bryant
  • Patent number: 11702552
    Abstract: The invention relates to coated effect pigments, wherein the coating comprises a binder which is suitable for powder paints. They comprise a crystalline and an amorphous fraction which is determined by C13 NMR MAS relaxation measurements, the relaxation of the 13C cores being fitted as a biexponential relaxation according to the formula (II) and the degree of crystallinity c being in a range between 40 to 85%, and relaxation having a short average relaxation time T1S and a long average relaxation time T1l, and T1l being in a range of from 65 to 130 s. The effect pigments coated according to the invention have at least one endothermic peak with a maximum from a range of Tmax=100 to 150° C. and an enthalpy ?H associated with said peak from a range of 15 J/g to 80 J/g in DSC at a feed speed of 5° C./min, the enthalpy being calculated relative to the amount of the binder. The binders are applied to the effect pigment by way of spontaneous precipitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: ECKART GmbH
    Inventor: Burkhard Schreiber
  • Patent number: 11698510
    Abstract: Provided an imaging apparatus including a first optical device, a second optical device disposed such that light transmitted through the first optical device is incident on the second optical device, and a third optical device disposed such that light transmitted through the second optical device is incident on the third optical device, wherein at least one of the first optical device, the second optical device, and the third optical device includes a plurality of nanostructures, and heights of at least two nanostructures of the plurality of nanostructures are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Seunghoon Han, Amir Arbabi, Andrei Faraon, Sungwoo Hwang, Jangwoo You, Byounglyong Choi, Hyeonsoo Park
  • Patent number: 11672537
    Abstract: Stapling assemblies for use with a surgical stapler are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the stapling assembly includes a cartridge having a plurality of staples disposed therein and a non-fibrous adjunct formed of at least one fused bioabsorbable polymer and configured to be releasably retained on the cartridge. Adjunct systems for use with a surgical stapler are also provided. Surgical end effectors using the stapling assemblies are also provided. Methods for manufacturing stapling assemblies and using the same are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Jason L. Harris, Michael J. Vendely, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Hardik Kabaria, Farhad Javid
  • Patent number: 11655353
    Abstract: A sheet molding compound (SMC) is provided with superior conductivity properties based on the use of graphitics. A process for exfoliation of GnP and turbostratic carbon is also provided. By exfoliating the graphitics, a reduced amount of material can confer comparable properties relative to native GnPs or turbostratic carbon thereby reducing the amount of material usage, but also reducing negative effects to the base resin formulation through inclusion of these additives. Particular utility is found in thermoset resin molding to produce articles that are amenable to electrostatic coating and other surface treatments that rely on surface conductivity and especially in the realm of vehicle body parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Teijin Automotive Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas T. Kamar, David J. Krug, Michael J. Siwajek
  • Patent number: 11627777
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sole for a footwear article. The sole is formed from an elastomeric compound comprising at least one elastomer, and at least one graphene based material, in an amount ranging from 0.1 wt % to 5 wt % relative to the weight of said at least one elastomer, essentially uniformly distributed in said at least one elastomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: INOVEIGHT LIMITED
    Inventors: Ian Bailey, Douglas Sheridan, Aravind Vijayaraghavan, Maria Iliut
  • Patent number: 11608448
    Abstract: There is provided a thermosetting powder coating material capable of forming a cured product having excellent workability at coating and high plasticity as well as heat resistance, resulting in heat resistance and crack resistance at bending processing. (A) denotes a bisphenol type epoxy resin having epoxy equivalent weight of 600 to 800 g/eq (not including 800 g/eq), (B) a rubber-modified epoxy resin, (C) a bisphenol type phenyl resin curing agent (D) a compound for activating (C), (D1) an imidazole compound and (D2) an amine-epoxy adduct type compound. The thermosetting powder coating material is composed of a finely pulverized composition. The composition comprises (A), (C) and (D) but does not comprise (B). (D) comprises (D1) and (D2), and a weight ratio of (D2) with respect to (D1) is 1.0 or more and 3.7 or less when (D1) is 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SOMAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Toyoda, Fumiyuki Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11597242
    Abstract: A radial tire (10), with the sidewalls thereof (20), and the tread thereof (30) arranged for minimizing the temperature of the tire while guaranteeing its electrical conductivity. The tread (30) comprises two wings (311, 312) and a central portion (32). These components rest on a base layer (33) radially on the inside of the tread (30). The base layer (33) contains a lateral portion (331, 332) partly in contact with a tread wing (311, 312). This structure of the crown of the tire, in contact with the carcass reinforcement makes it possible to constitute a preferential conductive pathway of the electric charges between the rim and the ground when the tire is mounted on its rim and flattened on the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventor: Thierry Royer
  • Patent number: 11550442
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen with a cylindrical housing including an opening at an end portion of the housing on a pen tip side of the housing, a cylindrical member disposed in the housing and fixed to the housing at a part on the pen tip side of the housing, and a core body formed in a rod shape by a material containing a pigment, the core body including a body portion inserted into the cylindrical member through the opening of the housing and a pull-out portion configured to enable the core body to be pulled out of the housing. A diameter of the body portion of the core body inserted into the cylindrical member is larger than a difference between an outer diameter of the cylindrical member and an inner diameter of the cylindrical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takenori Kaneda, Mamoru Ogata, Kenichi Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 11529781
    Abstract: A method of making a flexible pipe layer, which method comprises: commingling polymer filaments and carbon fibre filaments to form an intimate mixture, forming yarns of the commingled filaments, forming the yarns into a tape, and applying the tape to a pipe body to form a flexible pipe layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK Limited
    Inventors: Majeed Al-Zubaidy, Neville Dodds, Vineet Jha, James Latto, David Finch
  • Patent number: 11530311
    Abstract: Provided is a polyester or co-polyester resin used in the manufacture of preforms suitable for making bottles and containers containing a carbon black, particularly lamp black carbon black, with a primary particle size in a range of from 100 to 160 nanometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: DAK AMERICAS, LLC
    Inventors: David Eugene Thompson, Helen Jane Codd
  • Patent number: 11518856
    Abstract: Rubber components of a tire comprising a diene elastomer and at least 1 phr of reduced graphene oxide nanoparticles having a specific surface area of at least 700 m2/g, an oxygen content of no more than 6 at %, and a ratio of non-aromaticity to aromaticity ID/IG of at least 0.7 as determined by Raman spectroscopy. Methods of preparing such rubber compositions in an internal mixer for achieving good distribution and dispersion are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin
    Inventor: Frederic Vautard
  • Patent number: 11508938
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a display device including a display panel, an inorganic layer directly contacting the display panel, and a carbon layer directly contacting the inorganic layer. A thickness of the carbon layer is about 1 nm to about 10 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Gil Park, Ki Hyun Kim, Young Jun Yoo, Jong Beom Hong
  • Patent number: 11498837
    Abstract: Provided is a shortened fibrous carbon nanohorn aggregate (CNB) obtained by shortening a CNB having a length of 1 ?m or more and a diameter in the short direction in the range of 30 to 100 nm, by oxidizing, stirring in an acid solution, subjecting to an ultrasonic treatment in a liquid, followed by cutting. The shortened CNB has an end surface on which no tip of the plurality of single-walled carbon nanohorns is disposed toward the longitudinal direction at least one end in the longitudinal direction, and has an excellent dispersibility by shortening the length to less than 1 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryota Yuge
  • Patent number: 11499038
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a rubber composition that includes an aromatic-compound based resin and a styrene-butadiene copolymer and a tire using the same as the tread rubber or a component thereof. The rubber composition provides improved wet traction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Hyeonjae Kim
  • Patent number: 11480454
    Abstract: A soft-melted parison is disposed in molds forming a shape of a measurement pipeline portion 10, the parison is expanded by means of gas inflow, and blow molding is performed. The shapes of a pipe body 11, a fluid inlet portion 12, and a fluid outlet portion 13 are formed by an inner mold of the molds. Ultrasonic wave input-output portions 14a and 14b bulging outwards in a sealed manner are formed on both sides positioned in the oblique direction of the pipe body 11 with respect to a center line of the pipe body 11. Parts of the ultrasonic wave input-output portions 14a and 14b are wall surfaces 15a and 15b for attaching ultrasonic wave transmission-reception units. The measurement pipeline portion 10 is obtained by cutting end portions of the fluid inlet portion 12 and the fluid outlet portion 13 after the parison is solidified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: RYUSOK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichi Murakami, Kohei Sakiyama
  • Patent number: 11472958
    Abstract: A powder for solid freeform fabrication includes a first resin particle and a second resin particle, wherein MFR2 is greater than MFR1 and a ratio of MFR2 to MFR1 is from 2 to 5, where MFR1 represents a melt mass-flow rate (MFR) of the first resin particle and MFR2 represents a melt mass-flow rate of the second resin particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Naruse, Akira Saito, Hitoshi Iwatsuki, Yasuyuki Yamashita, Toshiyuki Mutoh, Yasutomo Aman, Kiichi Kamoda, Sohichiroh Iida, Shinzo Higuchi, Toshiyuki Iseki
  • Patent number: 11466139
    Abstract: Compounds having an elastomer material, a filler material, at least one additive material, and at least one accelerant material are disclosed. In various embodiments, the filler material comprises a graphene-based carbon material. In various embodiments, the graphene-based carbon material comprises graphene comprising up to 15 layers, carbon aggregates having a median size from 1 to 50 microns, a surface area of the carbon aggregates at least 50 m2/g, when measured via a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) method with nitrogen as the adsorbate, and no seed particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Lyten, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryce H. Anzelmo, Daniel Cook
  • Patent number: 11447644
    Abstract: Provided is an antistatic powder coating composition, which includes single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) having specific physical properties as a conductive additive, thereby providing an environmentally friendly coating exhibiting excellent coating workability and constantly demonstrating stable surface resistance, irrespective of the thickness of a film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: KCC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Tae Kang, Byung Soo Moon, Jin Tae Kim, Chan Gi Kim
  • Patent number: 11396564
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electroconductive resin composition that has excellent electroconductivity and high mechanical strength. The electroconductive resin composition according to the present invention comprises 75-99 parts by mass of a thermoplastic resin (A), 1-25 parts by mass of a carbon material (B), and more than 1 part by mass but not more than 10 parts by mass, per 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the thermoplastic resin (A) and the carbon material (B), of a modified polyolefin wax (C), wherein the carbon material (B) is a granular carbon material having an average grain diameter of 500 nm or less or a fibrous carbon material having an average fiber length of 1000 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Kanaya, Kuniaki Kawabe, Yosuke Takahashi, Koji Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 11338546
    Abstract: A skin-covered foamed molded article having excellent lightweight property, bending rigidity, and favorable dimensional stability, which includes: a skin material composed of a hollow molded body produced by blow-molding an extruded parison; and an expanded bead molded article located inside the skin material, wherein the skin material has an average wall thickness of from 1.0 mm to 5.0 mm, the skin material includes a glass fiber-reinforced polypropylene-based resin containing glass fiber in a range of from 5 mass % to 30 mass %, the glass fiber has a weight-average fiber length of from 0.4 mm to 1.5 mm, the expanded bead molded article includes a polypropylene-based resin, the peeling strength between the skin material and the expanded bead molded article is 0.1 MPa or higher, and the longitudinal linear expansion coefficient of the skin-covered foamed molded article (100) at from 23° C. to 80° C. is 7×10?5/° C. or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: JSP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoo Tokiwa
  • Patent number: 11326118
    Abstract: A lubrication method including lubricating a sliding member which contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a liquid crystal polymer and polyetheretherketone by using a lubricating oil composition which contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a mineral oil and alkyl benzene as a lubricating base oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Shitara, Yohei Shono, Hidetoshi Ogata, Kazushi Kodama, Hiroshi Matsuura, Satoshi Masuyama
  • Patent number: 11300470
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a flexible temperature-sensitive pressure sensor based on nanoparticle array quantum conductance, and an assembly method and application thereof. The sensor includes a high polymer film, metal nanoparticle arrays, metal microelectrodes, and an external circuit for conductance measurement; at least one group of metal nanoparticle arrays are deposited on upper and lower surfaces of the high polymer film, and in the same group, positions of metal nanoparticle arrays on the upper and lower surfaces are in one-to-one correspondence; the metal microelectrodes are arranged on two sides of each group of metal nanoparticle arrays and are symmetrically distributed on the upper and lower surfaces of the high polymer film; and the external circuit for conductance measurement is electrically connected to the metal microelectrodes. Conductance response signals of the nanoparticle arrays in the present invention have an exponential relationship with a distance between particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventors: Minrui Chen, Min Han, Chang Liu, Weifeng Luo, Chen Jin
  • Patent number: 11214523
    Abstract: A process for the production of highly carbonaceous material, including combining a structured precursor including fibres and an unstructured precursor, in the form of a fluid, wherein the fluid has a viscosity of less than 45,000 mPa·s?1 at the temperature at which the combination step occurs, and including at least a cyclic organic or aromatic compound in the molten state, or in solution at a concentration by weight of less than or equal to 65%, in order to obtain a combined precursor corresponding to the structured precursor covered by the unstructured precursor, wherein the process further includes step of thermal and dimensional stabilization of the combined precursor in order to obtain fibres covered with a cyclic organic or aromatic compound deposit, and a step of carbonization of the fibres covered with a cyclic organic or aromatic compound deposit in order to obtain a highly carbonaceous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Alexander Korzhenko, Célia Mercader