From Hydrocarbon Patents (Class 526/348)
  • Patent number: 12110382
    Abstract: Provided is a polyolefin microporous membrane having a loss tangent (tan ?) at 230° C. of 0.35 or more and less than 0.60 in melt viscoelasticity measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihisa Yamashita, Manabu Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 12077643
    Abstract: An encapsulant film is made from a composition comprising (A) a non-polar ethylene-based polymer having a density of 0.850 g/cc to 0.890 g/cc; (B) an organic peroxide; (C) a silane coupling agent; and (D) a co-agent comprising triallyl phosphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Chao He, Bharat I. Chaudhary, Brian M. Habersberger, Hong Yang, Weiming Ma, Yuyan Li
  • Patent number: 12031021
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyolefin and a film molded therefrom. Specifically, the present invention relates to a polyolefin, particularly a linear low-density polyethylene, which is prepared by a hybrid catalyst comprising different transition metal compounds and has excellent processability, impact strength, and haze, and to a film prepared therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: HANWHA SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: In Jun Lee, Jisong Jo
  • Patent number: 12002494
    Abstract: A device to detect hot-plugging and hot-unplugging of hard disk and the hard disk type includes a connector and a control circuit. When hot-plugged, the hard disk is coupled to the connector, the control circuit comprises delay circuit and latch circuit. The delay circuit delays a falling edge of the third signal and outputs a delay signal, the latch circuit processes the first and second signals and outputs a logical result as a latch signal. The control circuit determines the connected or disconnected status and type of the hard disk according to the respective levels of the first and second signals, the delay signal, and the latch signal. The delay signal and the latch signal work to correct error of the control circuit in determining connectivity and non-connectivity during a session due to asynchronous changes in signal levels of the first and second signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Hong-Shuang Wu
  • Patent number: 11999813
    Abstract: The invention provides a multimodal propylene butene random copolymer having a melt flow rate (MFR2) of 1.0 to 20.0 g/10 min and a butene content of 5.0 to 20.0 wt %, wherein said copolymer is prepared using a single site catalyst and wherein said copolymer comprises: (i) 30 to 70 wt % of a propylene butene copolymer (A) having an MFR2 of 0.5 to 20.0 g/10 min and a butene content of 2.0 to 10.0 wt %; and (ii) 70 to 30 wt % of a propylene butene copolymer (B) having an MFR2 of 0.5 to 20.0 g/10 min and a butene content of 4.0 to 20.0 wt %; wherein copolymers (A) and (B) are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Klaus Bernreitner, Pauli Leskinen, Matthias Hoff
  • Patent number: 11987552
    Abstract: A phenol compound comprises a phenyl group, a hydroxy group directly bonded to the phenyl group, and at least one polymeric substituent bound to the phenyl group. The polymeric substituent comprises three or more monomers units. A method for producing a polyurethane polymer comprises the steps of (a) providing a polyol; (b) providing a polyisocyanate compound; (c) providing the phenol compound described above; (d) combining the polyol, the polyisocyanate compound, and the phenol compound to produce a reaction mixture; and (e) allowing the polyol and the polyisocyanate compound to react to produce a polyurethane polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Nicholas G. Moon, Haihu Qin, Sharon A. Free, Mark E. Ragsdale, Michael Hong
  • Patent number: 11981782
    Abstract: The invention provides a multimodal propylene butene random copolymer having a melt flow rate (MFR2) of 1.0 to 20.0 g/10 min and a butene content of 1.5 to 8.0 wt %, wherein said copolymer is prepared using a single site catalyst and wherein said copolymer comprises (i) 30 to 70 wt % of a propylene butene copolymer (A) having an MFR2 of 0.5 to 20.0 g/10 min and a butene content of 0.5 to 10.0 wt %; and (ii) 70 to 30 wt % of a propylene butene copolymer (B) having an MFR2 of 0.5 to 20.0 g/10 min and a butene content of 1.0 to 8.0 wt %; wherein copolymers (A) and (B) are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Klaus Bernreitner, Pauli Leskinen, Matthias Hoff
  • Patent number: 11939271
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a warm mix asphalt additive comprising (a) a wax; (b) a phosphoric ester; and (c) a fatty amine. Preferably component (a) is a fatty amide wax and component (b) is a C16-C18 alkyl phosphoric ester. Also disclosed is a warm mix asphalt binder composition comprising asphalt and a warm mix asphalt additive, and methods for its preparation thereof. Additionally disclosed is a warm mix asphalt composition comprising a warm mix asphalt binder and aggregate, and methods for its preparation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUIMIKAO, S.A. DE C.V.
    Inventors: Álvaro Gutiérrez Muñiz, Raúl Terán Orozco, Luis Enrique Ramirez Soto, Luis Felipe Ortiz Cardenas
  • Patent number: 11926802
    Abstract: Provided is a lubricating oil composition that includes a major amount of a lubricant base oil and a minor amount of a viscosity index improver comprising a syndiotactic propylene-based ethylene-propylene copolymer comprising: a) 2 to 20% by weight of ethylene, b) 80 to 98% by weight of propylene; c) 50 to 99% of rr triads; and d) Mw (LS) of 10 to 250 kg/mol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL PATENTS INC., CHEVRON ORONITE COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Sara Yue Zhang, Maryam Sepehr, David L. Morgan, Jingwen Zhang, Jo Ann M. Canich, Peijun Jiang, John R. Hagadorn, Chase A. Eckert, Sarah J. Mattler, Shuhui Kang, Pritesh Arjunbhai Patel
  • Patent number: 11913150
    Abstract: A bonded and entangled non-woven structure made of at least 50% staple fibers by weight of the bonded and entangled non-woven structure, and at least a partial bonding of the fibers of the non-woven structure. The at least partial bonding including thermally activated bonds between a first polyolefin material produced with a catalyst including at least one metallocene catalyst and having a melting point in the range 130-170° C. and a second material having a melting point which is at least 10° C. higher than the melting point of the first material, the weight of the first material in the non-woven structure being at least 3% of the weight of the nonwoven structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Beaulieu International Group NV
    Inventors: Tim Vromman, Daan De Keyzer
  • Patent number: 11787885
    Abstract: A polymer composition may include a polymer produced from ethylene, one or more branched vinyl ester monomers, and optionally, vinyl acetate; wherein the polymer has a number average molecular weight ranging from 5 to 10,000 kDa, and a molecular weight distribution ranging from 1 to 60, obtained by GPC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Ashley Hanlon, Hadi Mohammadi, Nei Sebastião Domingues Junior, Adriane Gomes Simanke, Manoela Ellwanger Cangussu, Markus Busch, Sascha Hintenlang
  • Patent number: 11759489
    Abstract: The present invention provides a health functional food composition for promoting height growth comprising a Humulus japonicus extract or a Humulus japonicus crushed product as an active ingredient and a composition for promoting height growth comprising a watermelon/garlic concentrate in addition to a Humulus japonicus extract or a Humulus japonicus crushed product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: PENS CO., LTD., Hong Sik KIM
    Inventor: Hong Sik Kim
  • Patent number: 11732071
    Abstract: An olefin-based copolymer and method of making the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the olefin-based copolymer includes a repeating unit derived from an alpha-olefin, wherein the alphas-olefin is present in the copolymer at 15 wt % to 45 wt %, wherein the copolymer has a density (d) of 0.85 to 0.89 g/cc, a melt index (MI), measured at 190° C. and 2.16 kg load, of 15 g/10 min to 100 g/10 min, and a hardness defined by Equation 1. The olefin-based copolymer has improved hardness and is highly flowable, and may show improved physical properties of tensile strength, elongation rate and flexural modulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventors: Sang Eun Park, Eun Jung Lee, Hyun Jin Ju, In Sung Park, Choong Hoon Lee, Jin Sam Gong, Jung Ho Jun, Rae Keun Gwak
  • Patent number: 11718719
    Abstract: Provided are oriented films comprising linear low density polyethylene polymer and having improved balance of properties including improved machine direction tear strength. The oriented polymer film has at least one layer comprising 50 to 100 wt. % of an ethylene-based polymer. The MDO polymer film has a normalized MD Elmendorf Tear (ASTM D-1922) of at least 40 g/?m. In certain embodiments, the MDO polymer film surprisingly does not tear when MD Elmendorf Tear is measured according to ASTM D-1922.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Etienne R. H. Lernoux, Giriprasath Gururajan, Donald A. Winesett, Stefan B. Ohlsson
  • Patent number: 11699592
    Abstract: An initial semiconductor structure includes an underlying substrate, a hard mask stack, an organic planarization layer (OPL), a first complementary material, and a patterned photoresist layer patterned into a plurality of photoresist pillars defining a plurality of photoresist trenches. The first material is partially etched inward of the trenches, to provide trench regions, and the photoresist is removed. The trench regions are filled with a second complementary material, preferentially etchable with respect to the first material. A polymer brush is grafted on the second material but not the first material, to form polymer brush regions with intermediate regions not covered by the brush. The first material is anisotropically etched the at the intermediate regions but not the brush regions. The OPL is etched inward of the intermediate regions, to provide a plurality of OPL pillars defining a plurality of OPL trenches inverted with respect to the photoresist pillars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nelson Felix, Ekmini Anuja De Silva, Praveen Joseph, Ashim Dutta
  • Patent number: 11680119
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method of producing a multimodal ethylene-based polymer comprising a first catalyst and a second catalyst in a first solution polymerization reactor and a third catalyst in a second solution polymerization reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Daniela Ferrari, Alec Y. Wang, Pradeep Jain, Yijian Lin
  • Patent number: 11680120
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method for producing a multimodal ethylene-based polymer having a first, second, and third ethylene-based component, wherein the multimodal ethylene based polymer results when ethylene monomer, at least one C3-C12 comonomer, solvent, and optionally hydrogen pass through a first solution, and subsequently, a second solution polymerization reactor. The first solution polymerization reactor or the second solution polymerization reactor receives both a first catalyst and a second catalyst, and a third catalyst passes through either the first or second solution polymerization reactors where the first and second catalysts are not already present. Each ethylene-based component is a polymerized reaction product of ethylene monomer and C3-C12 comonomer catalyzed by one of the three catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Alec Y. Wang, Johnathan E. DeLorbe, Joshua B. Gaubert, Sarat Munjal, Mehmet Demirors, Yijian Lin
  • Patent number: 11667779
    Abstract: Polymer compositions may include a matrix phase comprising a polypropylene-based polymer; and an elastomeric rubber phase; wherein the polymer composition has melt flow rate (MFR) according to ASTM D1238 at 230° C./2.16 kg equal to or greater than 90 g/10 min and at least one feature selected from (I) an Izod impact resistance according to ASTM D256A at 23° C. equal to or greater than 400 J/m; (II) an instrumented drop impact at ?30° C., average total energy, equal to or greater than 17 J; or (III) an instrumented drop impact at ?30° C., average percent ductility, equal to or greater than 60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Moisés Magalhães Werlang, Joel Carr, Tadeu Forest
  • Patent number: 11661506
    Abstract: Polymer compositions may include a matrix phase comprising a polypropylene-based polymer; and an elastomeric rubber phase; wherein the polymer composition has melt flow rate (MFR) according to ASTM D1238 at 230° C./2.16 kg equal to or greater than 90 g/10 min and at least one feature selected from (I) an Izod impact resistance according to ASTM D256A at 23° C. equal to or greater than 400 J/m; (II) an instrumented drop impact at ?30° C., average total energy, equal to or greater than 17 J; or (III) an instrumented drop impact at ?30° C., average percent ductility, equal to or greater than 60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Moisés Magalhães Werlang, Joel Carr, Tadeu Forest
  • Patent number: 11634567
    Abstract: Disclosed are ethylene polymer compositions containing a homogeneously-branched first ethylene polymer component and 15-35 wt. % of a homogeneously-branched second ethylene polymer component of higher density than the first ethylene polymer component. The ethylene polymer composition can be characterized by a density from 0.912 to 0.925 g/cm3, a ratio of Mw/Mn from 2 to 5, a melt index less than 2 g/10 min, and a CY-a parameter at 190° C. from 0.35 to 0.7. These polymer compositions have the excellent dart impact strength and optical properties of a metallocene-catalyzed LLDPE, but with improved machine direction tear resistance, and can be used in blown film and other end-use applications. Further, methods for improving film Elmendorf tear strength also are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: Jeremy M. Praetorius, Chung Ching Tso, Ashish M. Sukhadia, Yongwoo Inn, Qing Yang, John T. Blagg
  • Patent number: 11618807
    Abstract: A film is provided with void spaces having a porous structure with less cracks and a high proportion of void space as well as having strength. The film with void spaces includes one kind or two or more kinds of structural units that form a structure with minute void spaces, wherein the structural units are chemically bonded through catalysis. For example, the abrasion resistance measured with BEMCOT® is in the range from 60% to 100%, and the folding endurance measured by the MIT test is 100 times or more. The film with void spaces can be produced by forming the precursor of the silicone porous body using sol containing pulverized products of a gelled silicon compound and then chemically bonding the pulverized products contained in the precursor of the silicone porous body. The chemical bond among the pulverized products is preferably a chemical crosslinking bond among the pulverized products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Hattori, Hiromoto Haruta, Kozo Nakamura, Kazuki Uwada, Hiroyuki Takemoto, Nao Murakami
  • Patent number: 11592217
    Abstract: A fluoropropene composition comprising Z-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, E-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, 1,1,3,3,3-pentafluoropropene, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, and optionally 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane wherein the 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene being present in an amount of 0.00001 to 1.0%. A method of producing the fluoropropene, methods for using the fluoropropene and the composition formed are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: THE CHEMOURS COMPANY FC, LLC
    Inventors: Sheng Peng, Mario Joseph Nappa
  • Patent number: 11579093
    Abstract: The invention is concerned with methods for producing a useful and highly uniform optical component which is useful in the construction of an optical sensor. Also discussed are the optical component itself, an optical sensor comprising the optical component, a process for producing the optical sensor and a process for detecting and/or quantifying the amount of an analyte in a sample using the optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SciLogica Corp.
    Inventors: Alasdair Allan Mackenzie, Barry Colin Crane, Nicholas Paul Barwell, Robert Perkins, Praveen Sagar
  • Patent number: 11466109
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an amorphous functionalized olefin copolymer composition and a process for the preparation of an amorphous functionalized olefin copolymer composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Miloud Bouyahyi, Lidia Jasinska-Walc, Robbert Duchateau, Marc Tellez Nogales, Jakub Kruszynski, Tatani Aikaterini
  • Patent number: 11407867
    Abstract: A heat-shrinkable label made from or containing a terpolymer film containing propylene, ethylene and 1-hexene, wherein the terpolymer has: (i) a content of ethylene derived units ranging from 0.5 wt % to 5.0 wt %, (ii) a content of 1-hexene derived units ranging from 1.0 wt % to 6.0 wt %, (iii) a melt flow rate (MFR) (ISO 1133 230° C., 2.16 kg) ranging from 0.5 to 20 g/10 min, and (iv) a polydispersity index (P.I.) ranging from 2.0 to 7.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Paola Massari, Andrea Felisati, Marco Izzi, Paolo Bassi, Claudio Cavalieri
  • Patent number: 11401360
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an amorphous polyolefinic ionomer and a process for the preparation of an amorphous polyolefinic ionomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Lidia Jasinska-Walc, Robbert Duchateau, Miloud Bouyahyi, Anton Ginzburg, Jiadong Zhu, Jakub Kruszynski, Tatani Aikaterini, Marc Tellez Nogales
  • Patent number: 11396592
    Abstract: Polymer compositions may include a matrix phase comprising a polypropylene-based polymer; and an elastomeric rubber phase; wherein the polymer composition has melt flow rate (MFR) according to ASTM D1238 at 230° C./2.16 kg equal to or greater than 90 g/10 min and at least one feature selected from (I) an Izod impact resistance according to ASTM D256A at 23° C. equal to or greater than 400 J/m; (II) an instrumented drop impact at ?30° C., average total energy, equal to or greater than 17 J; or (III) an instrumented drop impact at ?30° C., average percent ductility, equal to or greater than 60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Moisés Magalhães Werlang, Joel Carr, Tadeu Forest
  • Patent number: 11384228
    Abstract: Embodiments of thermoformed monolayer or multilayer films are provided, wherein the thermoformed monolayer multilayer films comprise a first composition comprising at least one ethylene-based polymer, wherein the first composition comprises a Molecular Weighted Comonomer Distribution Index (MWCDI) value greater than 0.9, and a melt index ratio (I10/I2) that meets the following equation: I10/I2?7.0?1.2×log (I2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, PBBPolisur S.R.L.
    Inventors: Maria Laura Perez Muñoz, João Gargalaka, Jr., Nicolas Cardoso Mazzola, Gianna Buaszczyk, Carmelo Declet Perez, Sydney E. Hansen
  • Patent number: 11351710
    Abstract: A security marking has a physically unclonable function (PUF) wherein the PUF includes a disordered multilayer photonic crystal structure having an electromagnetic transmission and/or reflection spectrum and/or spectra upon receipt of electromagnetic radiation within a photonic bandgap region of the structure that is unique to the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Eric Baer, Andy Olah, Zhenpeng Li, Michael Hore, Cong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11306197
    Abstract: The invention relates to a polypropylene composition comprising a propylene homopolymer or propylene-ethylene copolymer having an ethylene content of at most (1.0) wt % based on the propylene-ethylene copolymer, wherein the amount of propylene homopolymer or propylene-ethylene copolymer is at least (98) wt %, for example at least (98.5) wt %, preferably at least (99) wt %, more preferably at least (99.5), for example at least (99.75) wt % based on the polypropylene composition, wherein the polypropylene composition has a melt flow rate in the range of (0.10) to less than (0.70) dg/min as measured according to ISO1133 (2.16 kg/230° C.), an Mw/Mn in the range from (7.0) to (13.0), wherein Mw stands for the weight average molecular weight and Mn stands for the number average weight, an Mz/Mn is in the range from (20) to (50), wherein Mz stands for the z-average molecular weight and wherein Mw, Mn and Mz are measured according to ASTM (D6474-12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Henrica Norberta Alberta Maria Steenbakkers-Menting, Patrick Elisabeth Luc Voets, Martin Alexander Zuideveld, Akhlaq A. Moman
  • Patent number: 11186662
    Abstract: Polymerization processes for producing ethylene-based plastomers and elastomers having densities less than 0.91 g/cm3 utilize a metallocene-based catalyst system containing a chemically-treated solid oxide. These polymerization processes can be conducted in a slurry reactor, a solution reactor, and/or a gas phase reactor. Ethylene polymers produced from the polymerization process can be characterized by a density of less than 0.91 g/cm3, a CY-a parameter of less than 0.2, and a ratio of HLMI/MI of at least 30, or a density less than 0.91 g/cm3, a CY-a parameter from 0.25 to 0.75, and a ratio of Mw/Mn from 2 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: Scott E. Kufeld, Max P. McDaniel
  • Patent number: 11041030
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a process of forming a polymer includes supplying a feed having one or more olefin monomers and a solvent; contacting the feed with a catalyst to form a reaction mixture; treating the reaction mixture in a first separator to form a first polymer-rich mixture; introducing the first polymer-rich mixture into a second separator; introducing a volatile component and/or inert component into the first separator, the second separator and/or a line between the first separator and the second separator; treating the first polymer-rich mixture to form a second polymer-rich mixture; and devolatilizing the second polymer-rich mixture to obtain the polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Yu F. Wang, Justin R. Huber
  • Patent number: 11028188
    Abstract: Provided herein are organic solvent-based processes for the removal of rubber from aged briquettes made from compressed plant matter (briquettes) of non-Hevea plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Yingyi Huang, Mark W. Smale, Robert W. White, Hiroshi Mouri, William M. Cole
  • Patent number: 11015002
    Abstract: Polymerization processes to produce polyolefin polymers, for example, polyethylene polymers, from catalyst systems comprising one or more olefin polymerization catalysts and at least one activator are provided. The polyolefin polymers may have a Broad Orthogonal Composition Distribution (BOCD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Donna J. Crowther, Timothy M. Boller, Richard B. Pannell, Jeanette M. Diop, Wen Li
  • Patent number: 11007699
    Abstract: A method of producing a film in accordance with an aspect of the present invention includes: a first kneading and forming step of forming a composition obtained by kneading a polyolefin resin and a plasticizer; a stretching step of stretching the composition; a composition cleaning step of immersing the composition in a cleaning solvent and removing the plasticizer; a separation step of separating, from the cleaning solvent which has been used in the cleaning step, the plasticizer which has been eluted in the cleaning solvent; and a second kneading and forming step of forming a composition obtained by kneading a polyolefin resin and the plasticizer which has been separated in the separation step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Daizaburo Yashiki, Shinichi Yamate
  • Patent number: 10982022
    Abstract: Synergistic visbreaking composition of peroxide and a hydroxylamine ester for increasing the visbreaking efficiency for polypropylene polymers at melt extrusion temperatures below 250° C. and its use in visbreaking polypropylene. The present invention is furthermore related to the use of such visbroken polypropylene polymers for producing melt blown non-wovens with improved barrier properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Joachim Fiebig, Henk Van Paridon, Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner
  • Patent number: 10941221
    Abstract: A polyolefin production system is provided. The polyolefin production system includes a plurality of gas-phase polymerization tanks configured to polymerize an olefin gas to form a polyolefin, a compressor comprising an inlet and an outlet and being configured to compress a an olefin-containing gas, an individual gas feed line disposed at each of the gas-phase polymerization tanks and configured to guide the gas fed from the outlet of the compressor to each of the gas-phase polymerization tanks, an individual gas discharge line disposed at each of the gas-phase polymerization tanks and discharging the gas from each of the gas-phase polymerization tanks, and a first valve installed in each of the individual gas feed lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Itoguchi, Naganjaneyulu Suruvu, Shunpei Funaoka
  • Patent number: 10766816
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a building composition marker comprising at least one alpha-amino acid, alpha-amino acid salt or a mixture thereof in a building composition. The invention also relates to a building composition comprising such a building composition marker, and to a process for producing the building composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: NOURYON CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V.
    Inventor: Thomas Aberle
  • Patent number: 10752851
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for preparing a gas in a closable reactor by supplying the reactor with carbon-based biomass or chopped wood material, such as chips, in substantially oxygen-free conditions, by allowing the biomass or wood material to gasify at a high temperature, and by recovering the gas generated in a gasification reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: ForestGas Oy
    Inventor: Teuvo Karvonen
  • Patent number: 10442924
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a composition comprising: A) a propylene/C4-C10 alpha-olefin interpolymer; (i)) a total unsaturation per mole of propylene from 0.010% to 0.030%, (ii) a density from 0.855 g/cc to 0.890 g/cc, and (iii) a melt viscosity, at 177 C, from 500 cP to 200,000 cP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Allan Walter Mclennaghan, Yi Jin, Jozef Van Dun
  • Patent number: 10316110
    Abstract: Provided herein are organic solvent-based processes for the removal of rubber from aged briquettes made from compressed plant matter (briquettes) of non-Hevea plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Yingyi Huang, Mark W. Smale, Robert White, Hiroshi Mouri, William M. Cole
  • Patent number: 10315176
    Abstract: A reactor comprises an outer sidewall and a bottom wall enclosing a hollow chamber comprising a lower fluidized bed zone and an upper freeboard zone. A plurality of inlets is provided for injecting at least one fluidizing medium into the fluidized bed zone and creating a swirling flow. At least one feed inlet communicates with the fluidized bed zone; and at least one product outlet is provided for removing a product from the chamber, the outlet(s) communicating with either the fluidized bed zone or the freeboard zone. The reactor has at least one internal barrier located inside the hollow chamber, and at least partly located in the fluidized bed zone. The internal barrier(s) have at least one opening within the fluidized bed zone, such as an underflow opening, to permit internal recirculation of material from the product zone to the feed zone, thereby simplifying reactor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: HATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Kamal Adham, Christopher Thomas Harris, Alexandre Kokourine
  • Patent number: 10308736
    Abstract: Metallocene-catalyzed polyethylene polymers and articles made therefrom are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Etienne R. H. Lernoux, Wen Li
  • Patent number: 10287367
    Abstract: Provided herein are organic solvent-based processes for the removal of rubber from non-Hevea plants such as TKS. By the use of the processes, solid purified rubber can be obtained that contains 0.05-0.5 weight % dirt, 0.2-1.5 weight % ash, and 0.1-4 weight % resin (when it has been dried so as to contain 0.8 weight % volatile matter).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Yingyi Huang, Hiroshi Mouri, Michael R. Beaulieu
  • Patent number: 10266625
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are an olefin polymerization apparatus and an olefin polymerization process. The following operations and effects can be realized by the apparatus or method provided in the present invention: the gas material discharged from the polymerization reactor is condensed, after the gas-liquid separation, the resulting gas portion is recycled to the reactor to form a circulation loop; the condensate can be selectively introduced to the polymerization reactor, in order to achieve the free switch between the homopolymerization reaction and the copolymerization reaction or between different copolymerization reactions, and at the same time the condensate can absorb the heat generated by the reaction. By using the apparatus and method provided in the present invention, polyolefin products having excellent mechanical properties and processability can be prepared as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, Zhejiang University
    Inventors: Jingdai Wang, Wenqing Wu, Yongrong Yang, Guodong Han, Zhengliang Huang, Jingyuan Sun, Xiaofei Wang, Xiaoqiang Fan, Huanjun Du, Binbo Jiang, Zuwei Liao, Yao Yang
  • Patent number: 10253171
    Abstract: Reactor grade thermoplastic polyolefins with high flowability and excellent surface quality comprising (A) 40-90 wt % of a propylene homo- or copolymer matrix with an MFR in accordance with ISO 1 133 (230° C., 2.16 kg load) of ?200 g/10 min and (B) 2-30 wt % of an elastomeric ethylene-propylene copolymer having an intrinsic viscosity IV (according to ISO 1628 with decalin as solvent) of ?2.8 dl/g and an ethylene content of >50 to 80 wt % and (C) 8-30 wt % of an elastomeric ethylene-propylene copolymer having an intrinsic viscosity IV (according to ISO 1628 with decalin as solvent) of 3.0-6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Christelle Grein, Klaus Bernreitner
  • Patent number: 10131719
    Abstract: Process for preparing a polyolefin polymer comprising the steps of a) forming a particulate polyolefin polymer by polymerizing one or more olefins in the presence of a polymerization catalyst system in a polymerization reactor; b) discharging the formed polyolefin particles from the polymerization reactor; c) degassing the polyolefin particles by a process comprising at least a final step of contacting the polyolefin particles with a nitrogen stream in a degassing vessel; and d) transferring the polyolefin particles from the vessel, in which the contacting of the polyolefin particles with the nitrogen stream is carried out, to a melt mixing device, in which the polyolefin particles are melted, mixed and thereafter pelletized, without passing the particles through a buffering device, wherein the degassing vessel is only partly filled with polyolefin particles and the empty volume within the degassing vessel is sufficient to take up additional polyolefin particles for at least 3 hours if the transfer of pol
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Giuseppe Penzo, Giulia Mei, Gabriele Mei, Antonio De Lucia, Pietro Baita
  • Patent number: 10113019
    Abstract: The number of small gels that form in polyolefin thin films may be reduced by altering certain production parameters of the polyolefin. In some instances, the number of small gels may be influenced by the melt index of the polyolefin. However, in many instances, melt index is a critical part of the polyolefin product specification and, therefore, is not manipulated. Two parameters that may be manipulated to mitigate small gel count while maintaining the melt index are polyolefin residence time in the reactor and ICA concentration in the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Univation Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce J. Savatsky, James M. Farley, Daniel P. Zilker, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10081686
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of a copolymer of propylene and ethylene comprising polymerizing propylene and ethylene in the gas phase in the presence of a solid particulate catalyst free from an external carrier comprising: (i) a symmetrical complex of formula (I), wherein M is zirconium or hafnium; each X is a sigma ligand; L is a divalent bridge selected from —R?2C—, —R?2C—CR?2—, —R?2Si—, —R?2Si—SiR?2—, —R?2Ge—, wherein each R? is independently a hydrogen atom, C1-C20-alkyl, tri(C1-C20-alkyl)silyl, C6-C20-aryl, C7-C20-arylalkyl or C7-C20-alkylaryl; R2 is a C1-C20 hydrocarbyl radical; m is 2 to 5; R9 is a H or C1-C20 hydrocarbyl radical; R7 is a hydrogen atom or a C1-10 hydrocarbyl radical; n is 0 to 3; R1 is a C1-C20 hydrocarbyl radical and optionally two adjacent R1 groups taken together can form a further mono or multicyclic ring condensed to Ph ring optionally substituted by one or two groups R4; and R4 is a C1-C10 alkyl radical; and (ii) a cocatalyst, preferably comprising an organometallic compound of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Luigi Resconi, Wilfried Töltsch, Jingbo Wang
  • Patent number: 10072107
    Abstract: A process for preparing a long chain branched polypropylene in presence of two metallocene-based active catalyst systems is provided. The polypropylene obtained therefrom has new molecular architecture and improved elasticity properties. The polypropylene is further characterized by new signals in its 13C NMR spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignees: Total Research & Technology Feluy, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Manuela Bader, Jean-françois Carpentier, Evgueni Kirillov, Olivier Lhost, Christian Lamotte, Katty Den Dauw