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: 8987366
    Abstract: Provided is a seal ring manufactured from a mixture containing a soft resin including at least one of a thermoplastic elastomer and a dynamic crosslinked resin, and a hard resin including a thermoplastic resin. With this seal ring, the adhesion to the inner peripheral surface of a housing can be maintained in a no-load state where a hydraulic pressure is not generated even after use as a one-piece type for an extended period of time and oil leakage can be effectively prevented. The mixture constituting the seal ring preferably has a compression permanent deformation of 95% or lower after immersion in an automatic transmission fluid at 150° C. for 100 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Riken
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ito, Akihiro Oowada
  • Patent number: 8978449
    Abstract: A composition comprising a fluid, and a material dispersed in the fluid, the material made up of particles having a complex three dimensional surface area such as a sharp blade-like surface, the particles having an aspect ratio larger than 0.7 for promoting kinetic boundary layer mixing in a non-linear-viscosity zone. The composition may further include an additive dispersed in the fluid. The fluid may be a thermopolymer material. A method of extruding the fluid includes feeding the fluid into an extruder, feeding additives into the extruder, feeding a material into the extruder, passing the material through a mixing zone in the extruder to disperse the material within the fluid wherein the material migrates to a boundary layer of the fluid to promote kinetic mixing of the additives within the fluid, the kinetic mixing taking place in a non-linear viscosity zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ecopuro, LLC
    Inventor: William L. Johnson, Sr.
  • Patent number: 8980427
    Abstract: A carbon fiber bundle has carbon fibers and a sizing agent, wherein the sizing agent comprises a water soluble polyurethane resin having an SP value of 11.2 to 13.3, and the sizing agent is deposited on the carbon fibers at a rate of 0.5 to 7% by mass. In another carbon fiber bundle, the sizing agent is composed of the component shown in (A) and the component shown in (B1) or (B2) below, and the sizing agent is deposited on the carbon fibers at a rate of 0.5 to 7% by mass: (A) 73 to 98% by mass of a polyoxyalkylene unit; (B1) 0.5 to 15% by mass of an aromatic ester unit, 1.5 to 10% by mass of an aromatic urethane unit; and (B2) 0.5 to 10% by mass of an aromatic ester unit, 1.5 to 11% by mass of an aliphatic urethane unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Hirano, Atsuki Tsuchiya, Masato Honma
  • Patent number: 8980991
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide intermediate transfer members that can be used in electrostatographic devices and methods for using them in forming an image. The disclosed intermediate transfer members can include a plurality of nanotubes with high electrical conductivity, high thermal conductivity, and/or low humidity sensitivity. The hydrophobicity of the nanotubes can be controlled by covalently grafting hydrophobic components onto one or more nanotubes; surface treating one or more nanotubes; and encapsulating one or more nanotubes with hydrophobic components. In an exemplary embodiment, the nanotubes can be dispersed in polymer matrices and/or formed on the surface of polymer matrices of the intermediate transfer members. The intermediate transfer members can take various forms of belts, sheets, webs, films, rolls, tubes or any shape that can provide a smooth surface and rotatable function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Liang-Bih Lin, Daniel Levy, Jin Wu
  • Patent number: 8980136
    Abstract: A polymer composite composed of a polymerized mixture of functionalized carbon nanotubes and monomer which chemically reacts with the functionalized nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes are functionalized by reacting with oxidizing or other chemical media through chemical reactions or physical adsorption. The reacted surface carbons of the nanotubes are further functionalized with chemical moieties that react with the surface carbons and selected monomers. The functionalized nanotubes are first dispersed in an appropriate medium such as water, alcohol or a liquefied monomer and then the mixture is polymerized. The polymerization results in polymer chains of increasing weight bound to the surface carbons of the nanotubes. The composite may consists of some polymer chains imbedded in the composite without attachment to the nanotubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
    Inventors: Chunming Niu, Lein Ngaw
  • Patent number: 8980992
    Abstract: An adhesive including an amorphous carbon dispersed in a cyanate ester resin, wherein the adhesive has static dissipative properties and low radio frequency loss properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Lynn Edward Long, Randall Jay Moss
  • Publication number: 20150065635
    Abstract: A carbon fiber composite material comprising 100 parts by mass of an elastomer, and 20 to 100 parts by mass of carbon nanofibers that have been oxidized and reduced in number of branch points. The carbon fiber composite material has a dynamic modulus of elasticity (E?) at 200° C. and 10 Hz of 10 to 1000 MPa, and a volume resistivity of 106 to 1018 ohms·cm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Toru NOGUCHI, Hiroyuki UEKI, Shigeki INUKAI, Satoshi IINOU, Masaei ITO
  • Patent number: 8969466
    Abstract: Nanocomposite compositions based on expandable thermoplastic polymers which comprise: a) a polymeric matrix produced by the polymerization of a base comprising one or more polymerizable monomers; b) 1-10% by weight, calculated with respect to the polymer (a), of an expanding agent englobed in the polymeric matrix; c) 0.004-15% by weight, calculated with respect to the polymer (a), of an athermanous filler comprising nano-scaled graphene plates with a thickness (orthogonal to the graphene sheet) not greater than 150 nm, an average dimension (length, width, or diameter) not greater than 10 micrometers and a surface area>50 m2/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: versalis S.p.A.
    Inventors: Riccardo Felisari, Olga Valentino, Alessandro Casalini
  • Patent number: 8961834
    Abstract: An electrically conductive thermoplastic composition is prepared by melt blending a polymer and a masterbatch of carbon nanotubes in wax having a melting point of about 45 to about 150° C. The masterbatch of carbon nanotubes in wax is more easily prepared than a conventional carbon nanotube masterbatch in high molecular weight polymer. Use of the masterbatch of carbon nanotubes in wax also improves the melt flow properties of the electrically conductive thermoplastic composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sabic Global Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Jos Bastiaens, Arno Hagenaars
  • Patent number: 8962736
    Abstract: A process and result for forming an electrically relaxable coating composite for an electrophotographic imaging component includes providing a non-functionalized soluble carbon nanotube complex, and mixing a polymer material with the soluble carbon nanotube complex. The electrically relaxable coating composite exhibits resistivity in the range or about 107 to about 1012 ohm-cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Kock-yee Law
  • Patent number: 8946341
    Abstract: Polymer compositions comprising poly(aryl ether ketone)s and graphene materials. In particular, a polymer composition comprising: A) a poly(arylether ketone) and B) 0.1 to 70 wt. %, based on the combined weight of A) and B), of at least one non-tubular graphene material. Use of such polymer compositions for the manufacture of molded or extruded articles. Molded or extruded articles made from such polymer compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Solvay SA
    Inventors: Kermit S. Kwan, Mohammad Jamal El-Hibri, Hans Edouard Miltner
  • Patent number: 8946342
    Abstract: There is provided a random mat of the present invention including: reinforcing fibers having an average fiber length of 5 to 100 mm; and a thermoplastic resin, wherein a fiber areal weight of the reinforcing fibers is from 25 to 3,000 g/m2, for a reinforcing fiber bundle (A) including the reinforcing fibers equivalent to or more than a critical single fiber number defined by formula (1), a ratio of the reinforcing fiber bundle (A) to a total amount of the reinforcing fibers in the mat is from 30 vol % to less than 90 vol %, and an average number (N) of the reinforcing fibers in the reinforcing fiber bundle (A) satisfies formula (2): Critical single fiber number=600/D??(1) 0.7×104/D2<N<1×105/D2??(2) wherein D is an average fiber diameter (?m) of single reinforcing fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Yuhei Konagai, Naoaki Sonoda, Noboru Okimoto, Katsuyuki Hagihara
  • Patent number: 8945434
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antistatic or electrically conductive, thermoset polyurethane obtained by reacting A) an organic polyisocyanate; B) a compound comprising NCO-reactive groups; and C) optionally a catalyst, a blowing agent, an auxiliary, an additive, or mixtures thereof; and wherein, the polyurethane comprises a carbon nanotube present in an amount of from 0.1 to 15% by weight based on the total weight of the polyurethane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Future Carbon GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Krause, Bernd Breuer, Maren Heinemann, Ralf Jumel
  • Patent number: 8946321
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composition having a thermoset polymer and a plurality of hollow microsphere homogenously dispersed in the composition. The polymer is a cyanate ester thermoset, a phthalonitrile thermoset, a crosslinked acetylene thermoset, or a hydrosilation thermoset. Also disclosed herein is a method of: providing a thermosetting compound; adding microspheres to the thermosetting compound; and mixing the thermosetting compound while initiating crosslinking of the thermosetting compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Teddy M Keller, Matthew Laskoski
  • Publication number: 20150018473
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon fiber reinforced plastic material having excellent rigidity, flexibility and improved heat resistance and a method of manufacturing the same. The present invention provides a carbon fiber reinforced plastic material containing 2 parts by mass or more and 30 parts by mass or less of a nanofiller with respect to a total of 100 parts by mass of 30 parts by mass or more and 90 parts by mass or less of a polymer material and 70 parts by mass or more and 10 parts by mass or less of carbon fibers, an average aspect ratio (length/width) of the nanofiller being 20 or more. The average aspect ratio (length/width) of the nanofiller may also be 50 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Hiroshi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 8927658
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fluorescent hybrid material of dual functionality. The hybrid material may function as the fluorescence marker and as the attacking drug at the same time for biomedical applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Toyoko Imae, Ampornphan Siriviriyanun
  • Patent number: 8927641
    Abstract: A thermosetting resin composition including: a matrix including a thermosetting resin and an elastomer; and carbon nanofibers dispersed in the matrix. The elastomer includes an unsaturated bond or a group having affinity to the carbon nanofibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Noguchi, Akira Magario
  • Patent number: 8927642
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition includes (A) thermoplastic resin in an amount of about 100 parts by weight, (B) flame retardant in an amount of about 1 to about 10 parts by weight, and (C) carbon nanotubes in an amount of about 0.005 to about 0.05 parts by weight. The thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention can have excellent anti-dripping properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Cheil Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Yun Tack Lee, Sung Hee Ahn, Seon Ae Lee, Byeong Yeol Kim, Won Jun Choi, Seung Yong Bae
  • Patent number: 8927078
    Abstract: The present invention relates to encapsulated activated carbon and a method of preparing the same to protect the structure of the activated carbon and preserve the odor absorbing capability of the activated carbon particles. Particularly, the present invention is directed to a polymer article having odor absorption capabilities comprising a film comprising a matrix polymer and activated carbon particles at least partially encapsulated with a non-water soluble amorphous polymer, wherein the non-water soluble amorphous polymer is incompatible with the matrix polymer. The polymer article can be a bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Reynolds Consumer Products Inc.
    Inventors: Chieh-Chun Chau, William F. Patchen
  • Publication number: 20150000829
    Abstract: A continuous carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic plastic composite having excellent impregnation properties and a method for manufacturing the same is provided. A continuous carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic plastic composite in accordance with the present invention comprises a continuous carbon fiber impregnated in thermoplastic resin, and the continuous carbon fiber is a continuous carbon fiber has the width of 4 times to 8 times as wide as the initial fiber bundle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Gi-Hune Jung, Yong-Hoon Yoon, Hee-June Kim, Tae-Hwa Lee, Ae-ri Oh, Jae-Hoon Choi
  • Publication number: 20150005433
    Abstract: Rubber composition for conveyor belts containing (A) a rubber component that contains a styrene-butadiene rubber mixture having a mean styrene content of from 28 to 35% by mass, which contains one or more types of styrene-butadiene rubber having a styrene content of from 20 to 25% by mass and one or more types of styrene-butadiene rubber having a styrene content of from more than 25 to 50% by mass, and at least one selected from butadiene rubber and natural rubber in a specific ratio, (B) silica, (C) resin, and (D) specific carbon black in a specific ratio; a rubber for conveyor belt covers, formed by using the rubber composition; and a conveyor belt cover provided by using the rubber composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Yosuke Furuhata
  • Publication number: 20150005434
    Abstract: A carbon fiber composite material includes the material is made of carbon fibers and a thermoplastic resin; the proportion Y, relative to the total weight of carbon fibers, of carbon fiber bundles for which Mn/(Ln×D) is 8.5×10?1 (mg/mm2) or more, is 30?Y<90 (wt %); the average value X of Mn/Ln for the carbon fiber bundles is 1.1×10?2?X?8.1×10?2 (mg/mm); and Y satisfies Y?100X+30, wherein Mn: weight of carbon fiber bundles, Ln: fiber length of carbon fibers, D: fiber diameter of carbon fibers. The carbon fiber composite material combines high flowability and mechanical properties, has few variations in mechanical properties and shows an excellent adaptability of carbon fibers for small parts such as ribs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Miyoshi, Takashi Shimada, Takafumi Hashimoto, Tetsuya Ohara, Tomonori Iizuka, Shoji Nakashima
  • Patent number: 8921473
    Abstract: The invention relates to an image support medium for creation of an aesthetic image that is a work or object for display. This support medium is made from a smart or intelligent material so that the medium provides or enables formation of an image having at least one aesthetic element that can be responsive, interactive, controlled, changed, programmed, and/or modulated. The support medium can further comprise stimuli, triggers or influences that cause the smart or intelligent material to respond to change shape, size, volume, density, light properties, color, appearance, and/or another physical property of the aesthetic element. In a preferred embodiment, the smart or intelligent material is reversibly responsive to the stimuli, triggers or influences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Inventor: Sydney Hyman
  • Publication number: 20140377556
    Abstract: A method for making a discontinuous fiber molding compound from carbon fiber tow. The method involves using remnants of carbon fiber tows from spent carbon fiber spools. The remnants are chopped into pieces to form an assembly of chopped carbon fiber tows that are from 1 cm to 10 cm long. The chopped carbon fiber tows are then mixed with a powdered resin to form a blend of chopped carbon fiber tows and powdered resin. The blend is heated to soften/melt the particles of resin and then cooled to form a discontinuous fiber molding compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Bruno Boursier
  • Publication number: 20140370269
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel nanocomposite materials, methods of making nanocomposites and uses of nanocomposite materials. In particular, the invention relates to composite materials which contain two-dimensional materials (e.g. graphene) in multi-layer form i.e. in a form which has a number of atomic layers. The properties of a composite material containing two-dimensional material is in multi-layer from are shown to be superior to those which contain the two-dimensional material in monolayer form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Ian Kinloch, Robert Young, Lei Gong
  • Patent number: 8912268
    Abstract: A method of preparing a silicone resin film, the method comprising coating a release liner with a nanomaterial-filled silicone composition comprising a hydrosilylation-curable silicone composition and a carbon nanomaterial, and heating the coated release liner at a temperature sufficient to cure the silicone resin; a silicone resin film prepared according to the preceding method; and a nanomaterial-filled silicone composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Mark David Fisher, Bizhong Zhu
  • Patent number: 8904626
    Abstract: Methods for preparing an electrode comprise: providing a mixture of carbon particles and a solvent and shearing the mixture to form a dispersion of the carbon particles in the solvent; adding non-fibrillated POLY(TETRAFLUOROETHYLENE) to the dispersion to provide a resultant mixture and shearing the resultant mixture until at least a portion of the poly(tetrafluoroethylene) has been fibrillated; processing the resultant mixture into a sheet; and attaching the sheet onto a current collector. Methods for preparing sheet for the electrode and composition for the sheet are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jianyun Liu, Wei Cai, Hai Yang, Liping Zheng, Rihua Xiong
  • Publication number: 20140357777
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a carbon fiber-reinforced polypropylene sheet which comprises carbon fibers having a weight-average fiber length of 1.5 mm to 20 mm and a matrix resin composed of a polypropylene and an acid-modified polypropylene, wherein the carbon fibers are dispersed in the form of single fibers and the interfacial shear strength between the carbon fibers and said matrix resin is 5.50 to 10.5 MPa. Provided is a carbon fiber-reinforced polypropylene sheet for obtaining a molded article having excellent mechanical properties and impact resistance, which carbon fiber-reinforced polypropylene sheet comprises discontinuous carbon fibers and a polypropylene, can be molded into a complex shape and has isotropic mechanical properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Muramatsu, Noriyuki Hirano
  • Patent number: 8901228
    Abstract: A carbon fiber composite material comprising 100 parts by mass of an elastomer, and 20 to 100 parts by mass of carbon nanofibers that have been oxidized and reduced in number of branch points. The carbon fiber composite material has a dynamic modulus of elasticity (E?) at 200° C. and 10 Hz of 10 to 1000 MPa, and a volume resistivity of 106 to 1018 ohms·cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd., Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Noguchi, Hiroyuki Ueki, Shigeki Inukai, Satoshi Iinou, Masaei Ito
  • Patent number: 8901257
    Abstract: Flexible members for use in imaging devices comprise a polyphenylsulfone and a polyetherimide; and optionally, a polysiloxane surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Jin Wu
  • Publication number: 20140345821
    Abstract: A roll covering is particularly suitable for a roll for the treatment of a paper web, paperboard web, or any other web of fibrous material in a machine for the production and/or finishing the same. The roll covering encompasses at least one layer. The at least one layer is formed of a rubber composition that includes at least one (meth)acrylate compound and a rubber component with at least one crosslinked hydrogenated nitrile rubber. Further, the at least one layer has a recovery rate of at least 12 mm per second and/or a maximal degree of plastic deformation of 0.9%, and a maximal tan ? value of 0.16 determined in accordance with DIN 53513 at 60° C. in tension at 10 Hz, 15% static elongation, and 1% dynamic elongation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Peter Putschoegl, Stephan Ully
  • Patent number: 8895651
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for printing a seed layer for electrodeposition or electroless deposition of a metal for the production of full-area or structured metallic surfaces on a substrate, comprising 0.1 to 6% by weight of electrolessly and/or electrolytically coatable particles, 40 to 98.8% by weight of at least one solvent, 0 to 15% by weight of a crosslinker, 0.1 to 6% by weight of at least one dispersing additive, 0 to 5% by weight of at least one further additive and 1 to 20% by weight of at least one polymer, said at least one polymer being in the form of a dispersion. The invention further relates to a process for producing full-area or structured metallic surfaces on a substrate, and to a use of the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stephan Hermes, Sorin Ivanovici
  • Patent number: 8877851
    Abstract: Polyester compositions comprising: 3 to 40 weight percent, preferably 3 to 30 weight percent, of at least one polyester, preferably polybutylene terephthalate, polytrimethylene terephthalate, polyethylene terephthalate, poly(ethylene 2,6-naphthoate), and poly(1,4-cyclohexyldimethylene terephthalate); 25 to 50 weight percent non-fibrous graphite, preferably a platy or particulate graphite; 10 to 40 weight percent inorganic filler selected from the group consisting of wollastonite, glass fibers, aramid fibers, ceramic fibers, potassium titanate whiskers, or combinations of them; 3 to 10 weight percent copolyether ester elastomer; wherein: the amount of a+b+c+d is 100 weight percent of the composition; the amount of b+c is at least 50 weight percent of the composition; the weight ratio of copolyether ester elastomer to polyester is from 0.3 to 0.4; and the composition has at least a 0.2 percent elongation, a thermal conductivity of at least 3 WmK, and a tensile strength of at least 25 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Yuji Saga
  • Patent number: 8871836
    Abstract: Provided are: a polycarbonate-based resin composition, including: (A) 100 parts by mass of a resin mixture formed of: 30 to 100 mass % of a PC-POS copolymer (A-1) which has constituent units represented by a general formula (I) and a general formula (II), and in which an average repetition number n of organosiloxane constituent units in the general formula (II) is 70 to 500; and 70 to 0 mass % of an aromatic polycarbonate resin (A-2) except the PC-POS copolymer (A-1); (B) 0.01 to 0.15 part by mass of an alkaline (earth) metal salt of an organic sulfonic acid; (C) 0.1 to 1 part by mass of a polytetrafluoroethylene having a fibril-forming ability; and (D) 2 to 15 parts by mass of titanium dioxide particles each having, on an outermost surface thereof, a coating layer formed of a polyol free of a nitrogen atom; a molded article obtained by molding the resin composition; and a structure member for solar photovoltaic power generation formed of the molded article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusuke Aoki
  • Patent number: 8871854
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a recyclable composite having natural (4) and carbon fibers (6) as a reinforcement material and epoxy resin (8) as a matrix. Preferably, the natural fibers are hemp. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for producing such a recyclable composite comprising the steps of preparing the composite, vacuum bagging it and then heating it with a heating cable (12). Finally, the present invention relates to a kit having a frame (10), a heating cable (12) and an apparatus box with a thermostat and heat sensors and which can be used for performing the method according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Trifilon AB
    Inventors: Giottis Motsanos, Mats Dalborg
  • Patent number: 8871838
    Abstract: The invention provides method for preparing an epoxy-carbon nanomaterial coating which includes a base of a two-pack epoxy coating material, a hardener of the two-pack epoxy coating material and about 0.0125 wt % to about 0.2 wt % of carbon nanomaterial. The invention also provides a method for preparing the epoxy-carbon nanomaterial coating. More specifically, the invention provides a method for preparing epoxy based coating materials as anti-corrosive coating composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)
    Inventors: Mohammed Abdullah Bahattab, Musarrat Husain Jafri, Andrei V Krauklis, Siarhei Zhdanok
  • Patent number: 8871339
    Abstract: A modified clay is provided, which includes a layered clay material intercalated with a modifier having a conjugated double bond and capable of producing free radicals when heated. A clay-polymer composite is also provided, which includes a polymer material and the modified clay, wherein the modified clay is dispersed in the polymer material and at least partially exfoliated. The modifier is capable of producing free radicals when heated to scavenge free radicals generated from thermal cracking or burning of the polymer material to prevent further thermal cracking of the polymer material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignees: Chung Yuan Christian University, China Glaze Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Yen Tsai, Shau-Tai Lu, Chia-Hsiang Liu, Chun-Chieh Huang, Hsien-Chung Tsai, Jen-Chun Lin
  • Patent number: 8871847
    Abstract: A composition which comprises a conjugated polymer, a fullerene derivative, a first solvent, and a second solvent. When the sum of the weight of the first solvent and the weight of the second solvent is taken as 100, the weight of the first solvent is 70-97. The first solvent at 25° C. has a surface tension exceeding 25 mN/m, and the second solvent at 25° C. has a surface tension of 15-25 mN/m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventor: Takahiro Seike
  • Patent number: 8865814
    Abstract: Provided are a rubber composition for a tread, capable of improving the fuel economy and abrasion resistance in a balanced manner while achieving a good appearance and a good cure rate; and a pneumatic tire containing the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for a tread, including: a solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber, carbon black, silica, and polyethylene glycol, wherein a rubber component of the rubber composition contains 60 mass % or more of the solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber based on 100 mass % of the rubber component, and the rubber composition includes, per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, 10 parts by mass or less of the carbon black, 50 parts by mass or more of the silica, and 0.1 to 3.5 parts by mass of the polyethylene glycol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshikazu Kondo
  • Publication number: 20140309332
    Abstract: The invention relates to an NdBR wet masterbatch comprising -neodymium-catalysed polybutadienes having a high proportion of cis-1,4 units of >95% and a low proportion of 1,2-vinyl content of <1%, with narrow polydispersity of less than 3, with a Mooney viscosity (ML1-4 100° C.) between 30 and 90 MU, with a high linearity index (ratio of solution viscosity to Mooney viscosity) of 3 to 10 m Pas/MU and with a Mooney relaxation after 30 seconds of 2 to 12%, the latter being prepared by means of solution polymerization,—at least one carbon black, the carbon black having an iodine absorption number (ION) between 85 and 210 mg/g, measured to ASTM D1510-1304, and an oil absorption number (OAN) between 75 and 150 ml/100 g, measured to ASTM D2414, and—an oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Heike Kloppenburg, Alex Lucassen, David Hardy, Thomas Gross, Judy Elizabeth Douglas
  • Patent number: 8859650
    Abstract: A rubber composition for tires which comprises at least one rubber component selected from natural rubber and synthetic rubbers and, based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, 0.1 to 45 parts by mass of (A) a terpene phenol resin and 1 to 150 parts by mass of (B) a softener comprising a process oil which comprises polycyclic aromatic compounds (PCA) in an amount such that the content of extracts with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) in accordance with the method of IP346 is controlled to a value smaller than 3%. A rubber composition for tires which overcomes problems arising due to the use of a highly aromatic oil having a content of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PCA) controlled to a value smaller than 3% as the process oil in place of conventional highly aromatic oils and exhibits excellent loss property and rigidity and a tire which uses the rubber composition and exhibits excellent steering stability on dry road surfaces and excellent braking property on wet road surfaces can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Seiichi Katou
  • Patent number: 8859669
    Abstract: A process for producing a relief printing plate precursor for laser engraving is provided that comprises a layer forming step of forming a relief-forming layer formed from a resin composition for laser engraving containing (Component A) an isocyanate compound having an average number of isocyanato groups, fn, of greater than 2, and (Component B) a compound having a siloxane bond in the molecule and having two or more active hydrogen atoms; and a crosslinking step of thermally crosslinking the relief-forming layer, and thereby obtaining a relief printing plate precursor having a crosslinked relief-forming layer. Furthermore, there are also provided a relief printing plate obtained by the above process, a process for making a relief printing plate, and a relief printing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Sugasaki
  • Patent number: 8859667
    Abstract: Transparent or semi-transparent, electrically conductive anti-curl back coating composite for electrophotographic imaging member comprising a carbon nanotube complex and a polycarbonate binder are described along with processes for preparing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Edward F. Grabowski, Kock-Yee Law, Markus R. Silvestri, Donald J. Goodman, Dale S. Renfer, Ryan J. Ehmann, Kathleen M. Carmichael, Scott J. Griffin, Jonathan H. Herko, Michael S. Roetker
  • Patent number: 8859668
    Abstract: A resin composition comprises a carbon-based nanofiller (A), a modified polyolefin-based polymer (B), and two or more resins (C) other than the modified polyolefin-based polymer (B), the resin composition comprising a dispersed phase formed from a resin (Caff) which has a highest affinity for the carbon-based nanofiller (A) among the two or more resins (C), and a continuous phase formed from the remaining one or more resins (C1), wherein at least part of the modified polyolefin-based polymer (B) is present at an interface between the dispersed phase and the continuous phase, and the carbon-based nanofiller (A) is present in the dispersed phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho
    Inventors: Takuya Morishita, Mitsumasa Matsushita, Yoshihide Katagiri, Kenzo Fukumori, Minoru Takahara, Takashi Ohta
  • Patent number: 8852733
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fibrous veil and methods of making the same. The fibrous veil includes a base having a plurality of fibers, each of the plurality of fibers having an average diameter ranging from about 7,000 nm to about 9,000 nm. Graphite nano-platelets are attached to at least some of the plurality of fibers without a polymeric binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Choongyong Kwag, Chen-Shih Wang
  • Patent number: 8852739
    Abstract: The invention relates to a carbon black with a CTAB surface area of from 20 to 49 m2/g, with a COAN greater than 90 ml/(100 g), and with a sum of OAN and COAN greater than 235 ml/(100 g). The carbon black is produced in a furnace reactor, where from 20 to 55% by weight of the feedstock used for the carbon black are introduced radially through a nozzle within the first third of the reaction zone, and the remaining amount of the feedstock used for the carbon black is introduced through a nozzle upstream at least one further point into the reactor. The carbon black can be used in rubber mixtures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Evonik Carbon Black GmbH
    Inventors: Arndt-Peter Schinkel, Michael Stanyschöfsky, Conny Vogler, Joachim Fröhlich, Bernhard Schwaiger, Thomas Pelster
  • Publication number: 20140296414
    Abstract: A carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin composition includes a thermoplastic resin (A), a carbon fiber (B), and a titanium compound (C), an amount of the thermoplastic resin (A) being 10 to 65% by weight, an amount of the carbon fiber (B) being 35 to 90% by weight, based on 100% by weight of the total amount of the thermoplastic resin (A) and the carbon fiber (B), and an amount of the titanium compound (C) being 0.01 to 5 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the thermoplastic resin (A) and the carbon fiber (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Kimihiko Hattori, Akiyoshi Tamai, Kenichi Utazaki
  • Patent number: 8846801
    Abstract: Thermoplastic elastomers containing carbon nanotubes that is an autonomous, intrinsic, and reversible self healing polymer that requires no intervention to induce self healing, that requires no sequestered healing agents are added to the matrix, and is capable of multiple healing events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Julie P. Harmon, Roger Bass
  • Patent number: 8846824
    Abstract: The invention relates to a methylmethacrylate-butadiene-styrene (MBS) core/shell polymer impact modifier containing functionalization in the shell. The functionalized MBS is useful as an impact modifier in engineering resins, and especially in blends of engineering resins, particularly where the blend contains both functional and non-functional resins. One specific engineering resin blend having excellent low temperature impact performance is a polycarbonate (PC)/polyethylene terephthalate (PET) blend with the functional MBS of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Arkema Inc.
    Inventors: Jason M. Lyons, Navneeth K. Singh, Xianfeng Shen
  • Publication number: 20140288226
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing a fluororubber composition that is able to give a crosslinked article that exhibits not only heat resistance, but also excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures. A method for producing a fluororubber composition includes: a step (1-1) of mixing a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B) by means of an internal mixer until the maximum temperature reaches 80 to 220° C. so as to obtain an intermediate composition; a step (1-2) of cooling the intermediate composition to a temperature of less than 50° C.; and a step (2-1) of mixing the cooled intermediate composition until the maximum temperature reaches not lower than 10° C. but lower than 80° C. so as to obtain a fluororubber composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Mayuko Taeda, Masanori Kitaichi, Michiko Doi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Shoji Fukuoka