| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090093577 | IMPACT RESISTANT RIGID VINYL CHLORIDE POLYMER COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME - The instant invention is an impact resistant rigid vinyl chloride polymer composition, and method of making the same. The impact resistant rigid vinyl chloride polymer composition, according to instant invention, includes a vinyl chloride polymer, an impact modifier, and a lubricant system. The impact modifier includes a chlorinated olefin polymer, and an ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer. The lubricant system includes a first component, a second component, and a third component. The first component is a carboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of stearic acid, lauric acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid, blends thereof, and combinations thereof. The second component is a hydrocarbon wax selected from the group consisting of a paraffin wax, polyolefin wax, blends thereof, and combinations thereof. The third component is a metal soap selected from the group consisting of calcium stearate, aluminum stearate, copper stearate, lithium stearate, magnesium stearate, sodium stearate, zinc stearate, blends thereof, and combinations thereof. The process for preparing the impact resistant rigid vinyl chloride polymer composition of the instant invention includes the following steps: (1) providing a vinyl chloride polymer; (2) providing an impact modifier as described above; (3) providing a lubricant system as described above; (4) blending the vinyl chloride polymer, the impact modifier, and the lubricant system thereby forming the impact resistant rigid vinyl chloride polymer composition. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090143535 | IMPACT MODIFIER COMPOSITION, AN IMPACT RESISTANT COMPOSITION, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM - The instant invention is an impact modifier composition, an impact resistant composition, method of producing the same, and articles made therefrom. The impact modifier composition comprises (a) less than 30 percent by weight of high-density polyethylene, based on the weight of the impact modifier composition; and (b) at least 70 percent by weight of chlorinated polyethylene, based on the weight of the impact modifier composition. The impact resistant composition comprises (1) at least 85 percent by weight of poly(vinyl chloride), based on the weight of the impact resistant composition; and (2) less than 10 percent by weight of an impact modifier composition, based on the weight of the impact resistant composition, comprising; (a) less than 30 percent by weight of high-density polyethylene, based on the weight of the impact modifier composition; and (b) at least 70 percent by weight of chlorinated polyethylene, based on the weight of the impact modifier composition; wherein the impact resistant composition has an instrumented dart drop impact of greater than 0.90 inch-pounds per mil at −10° C. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090312499 | CHLORINATED ETHYLENE-BASED POLYMERS AND COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES PREPARED THEREFROM - The invention provides a chlorinated ethylene-based polymer, process for preparing the same, and compositions and articles prepared from the same. The chlorinated ethylene-based polymer has a low residual crystallinity, for example, less than 8 percent, a relatively high crystallization temperature, Tc, for example greater than, or equal to, 25° C., and a medium weight average molecular weight, Mw, for example, less than, or equal to, 325,000 g/mole. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100113698 | POLYMER BLENDS WITH ETHYLENE/a-OLEFIN INTERPOLYMERS - Embodiments of the invention provide an impact modified composition comprising ethylene/α-olefin interpolymers. The ethylene/α-olefin interpolymers are characterized by an average block index, ABI, which is greater than zero and up to about 1.0 and a molecular weight distribution, M | 05-06-2010 |
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| 20090113221 | COLLABORATIVE POWER SHARING BETWEEN COMPUTING DEVICES - A plurality of power budgets are sent to a corresponding plurality of power consumers by a power management point, wherein a total power budget managed by the power management point includes a sum of the plurality of power budgets and an available power budget not assigned to the plurality of power consumers. An additional power request having a power increase amount is received from a first power consumer of the plurality of power consumers. The additional power request is approved when the power increase amount does not exceed the available power budget. The available power budget is decreased by the power increase amount. An approval of the additional power request is sent to the first power consumer. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20100235834 | PROVIDING A MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION CHANNEL BETWEEN A SOFTWARE LAYER AND PLATFORM LAYER FOR HARDWARE MANAGEMENT CONTROL - A system includes hardware, a software layer, a platform layer, and a management communication channel between the software layer and the platform layer. The management communication channel provides an interface to enable the software layer to issue a hardware management command to the platform layer, where the hardware management command is to specify a change of a setting of the hardware, and where the management communication channel allows a hardware management engine of the platform layer to collaborate with the software layer to perform the change of the setting of the hardware. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20110022870 | COMPONENT POWER MONITORING AND WORKLOAD OPTIMIZATION - A component level power monitoring system may analyze workloads by determining energy consumed by individual components for the workload. By comparing different system configurations or by modifying the software operation, an optimized workload may be performed per energy consumed. In some embodiments, several system configurations may be attempted to determine an optimized system configuration. In other embodiments, a monitoring system may change how an application is executed by changing thread affinity or otherwise assigning certain operations to specific components. The component level monitoring may be implemented as operating system level function calls. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110093726 | Memory Object Relocation for Power Savings - A computer system may manage objects in memory to consolidate less frequently accessed objects into memory regions that may be operated in a low power state where the access times may increase for the memory objects. By operating at least some of the memory regions in a low power state, significant power savings can be realized. The computer system may have several memory regions that may be independently controlled and may move memory objects to various memory regions in order to optimize power consumption. In some embodiments, an operation system level function may manage memory objects based on parameters gathered from usage history, memory topology and performance, and input from applications. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110145609 | POWER AWARE MEMORY ALLOCATION - A computer system may place memory objects in specific memory physical regions based on energy consumption and performance or other policies. The system may have multiple memory regions at least some of which may be powered down or placed in a low power state during system operation. The memory object may be characterized in terms of access frequency, movability, and desired performance and placed in an appropriate memory region. In some cases, the memory object may be placed in a temporary memory region and later moved to a final memory region for long term placement. The policies may allow some processes to operate while consuming less energy, while other processes may be configured to maximize performance | 06-16-2011 |