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| 20110152497 | CATALYSTS AND METHODS FOR POLYMER SYNTHESIS - The present invention provides unimolecular metal complexes having increased activity in the copolymerization of carbon dioxide and epoxides. Also provided are methods of using such metal complexes in the synthesis of polymers. According to one aspect, the present invention provides metal complexes comprising an activating species with co-catalytic activity tethered to a multidentate ligand that is coordinated to the active metal center of the complex. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110201779 | PURIFICATION OF POLYCARBONATES - The present disclosure provides, in part, a method for removing a catalyst from a product of catalyzed aliphatic polycarbonate polymerization reaction. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110207899 | ALIPHATIC POLYCARBONATE QUENCH METHOD - The present disclosure is directed to, in part, an aliphatic polycarbonate polymerization reaction initiated by combining an epoxide with carbon dioxide in the presence of a catalytic transition metal-ligand complex to form a reaction mixture, and further quenching that polymerization reaction by contacting the reaction mixture with an acid containing a non-nucleophilic anion produces a crude polymer solution with improved stability and processability. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110230580 | POLYCARBONATE POLYOL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS - In one aspect, the present disclosure encompasses polymerization systems for the copolymerization of CO | 09-22-2011 |
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| 20090032915 | TFCC (TM) & SWCC (TM) thermal flex contact carriers - Two groups of interconnection devices and methods are described. Both provide columns between electronic packages and boards or between chips and substrates or the like. In the first group, called Thermal Flex Contact Carrier (TFCC), the column elements are carved out of a flat laminated structure and then formed to suit. In the second group, the carrier, which carries the connecting elements, is made out of a soluble or removable material, which acts at the same time, as a solder mask, to prevent the solder from wicking along the stem of the elements. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090207575 | OC2 ORIENTED CONNECTIONS 2 - The invention discloses design concepts and means and methods that can be used for enhancing the reliability and extending the operating life of electronic devices, and assemblies incorporating such devices, and substrates and/or PCBs, especially if such assemblies are exposed to severe environmental conditions such as thermal cycling or power cycling. The main thrust of the invention is to provide flexible joints, such as columns, between the attached components, and preferably to orient such joints, so that they would present their softest bending direction towards the thermal center or fixation point of the assemblies. Joints with rectangular or elongated cross-section are preferred, and they should be oriented so that the wide face of each joint would be facing the thermal center, perpendicular to the thermal deformation ray emanating from the thermal center towards the center of each respective joint. The concepts apply equally to leadless packages as well as to leaded packages. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090240776 | XML2 X-MAIL (TM) 2 - The Mother invention, XML1, covers certain improvements to the Internet methods of handling “stray” email messages, which are sent to old “invalid” email addresses. It provides means and methods to salvage such stray messages. It proposes to establish a depository data center, which could be referred to as the XMAIL™ Center, with appropriate infrastructure, to store information in database files, correlating old “invalid” email addresses of participating users to their corresponding new “valid” email addresses. On demand and according to the wishes of the participants, the XMAIL™ Center can provide the necessary information to help in forwarding/delivering such stray messages to their intended recipients. The present invention combines the above XMAIL™ approach with the prior art spam filters and sniffing filters, in order to improve the effectiveness of the system and to create certain additional efficiencies in the total email traffic system. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20110033830 | CTS PEP PREVENTION EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) and Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTD's, also known by other names such as repetitive stress injuries [RSI's] and other such names, have emerged as a significant occupational health problem. The present invention is to provide systems, devices, products, methods and software programs, which will remind individuals, such as keyboard operators, on a regularly scheduled basis, and to recommend certain preventive exercises and the like. Once the system and the software is designed and implemented, a study will then be instituted to measure its effectiveness in workplaces, especially those that have experienced a high incidence of problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome. The recommendations for specific actions, such as posture and exercises, will be based on work already established in the medical and occupational literature and journals, as well as the continuous research conducted by medical experts in the field. The development of a relatively inexpensive method of controlling, reducing and preventing the incidence of these disorders is important to prevent injuries and to save money on insurance premiums, payments to injured workers, loss of productivity, loss of productive workers from the workplace as well as the need to retrain injured workers. Furthermore, the invention relates to an electronic device or chip that would act as the heart of the above system, and could be used as an embedded chip in various products. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110139782 | PT2 pull tab lids stacking - The invention relates to food and beverage containers and the lids that are used to close such containers. During the manufacturing process, it is desirable to stack the lids one on top of the other before presenting them to the machine that will join the lids to the bodies of the containers. Some lids according to my previous invention have ancillary components attached to their main bodies, such as pull tabs that have raised lifter tips or punch tips. Sometimes, the lids have also certain recesses and/or protrusions below or above the main body of the lids. Such ancillaries and/or recesses or protrusions could disturb the integrity of the stacks. Some experts in the industry indicated that they consider that such a stack could be unacceptably SQUISHY. This invention proposes ways and methods and construction designs, which would eliminate such stacking problems, even in the presence of such ancillaries and/or recesses or protrusions or other similar irregular shapes. The stacks will not be squishy. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110253719 | PT1-2 PULL TAB - The invention covers a number of alternative improvements to the prior art pull-tab used to open container such as soda cans. One improvement is by forming the nose of the pull tab at a certain angle to the body of the tab, thus allowing the user to tilt the tab thus lifting the pull tip higher and providing more room for the user to insert the finger tip under the pull tip thus making it easier to open the container. Another improvement is by rotating the pull tab a certain angle and making it follow a caming surface thus lifting the pull tip and again providing more room to insert the finger tip and making it easier to open the container. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20120012365 | THERMAL FLEX CONTACT CARRIERS #2 - The present invention relates generally to permanent interconnections between electronic devices, such as integrated circuit packages, chips, wafers and printed circuit boards or substrates, or similar electronic devices. More particularly it relates to high-density electronic devices. The invention describes means and methods that can be used to counteract the undesirable effects of thermal cycling and thermal fluctuations. The invention more specifically shows certain improvements related to its mother patent application, called Thermal Flex Contact Carrier (TFCC), where the improvements allow the height of the contact elements to be now not restricted anymore by the size of the spaces or distances between the contact pads of the devices to be attached together. Certain improvements to the carrier wafer are also shown. | 01-19-2012 |
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| 20090098807 | Composite slurries of nano silicon carbide and alumina - Improved slurry compositions comprising silicon carbide particles and alumina particles dispersed within an aqueous medium. Slurry compositions in the form of abrasive slurry compositions for use chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) processes, particularly abrasive slurry compositions for polishing of sapphire, and methods of use. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090101625 | Silicon carbide particles, methods of fabrication, and methods using same - Improved silicon carbide particles, improved silicon carbide abrasive particles, and abrasive slurry compositions for use chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) processes. The particles can comprise nano-sized silicon carbide particles, particularly silicon carbide particles having a surface chemistry similar to silica. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090104851 | Polishing of sapphire with composite slurries - Improved slurry compositions comprising a mixture of a first type of particles and a second type of abrasive particles dispersed within an aqueous medium, and abrasive slurry compositions for use chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) processes, particularly abrasive slurry compositions for polishing of sapphire. These abrasive slurry compositions comprise a mixture of a first type of abrasive particles having a hardness that is harder than the surface being polished and a second type of abrasive particles have a hardness that is softer than the surface being polished, particularly mixtures of silicon carbide abrasive particles and silica abrasive particles, dispersed within an aqueous medium. | 04-23-2009 |
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| 20110106321 | DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTED POWER GRID CONTROL SYSTEM - A system for dynamically managing and controlling distributed energy resources in a transmission/distribution power grid is disclosed. A plurality of regions within a transmission/distribution power grid is autonomously managed using regional control modules. Each regional control module oversees the management and control of the transmission/distribution power grid and is further associated with a plurality of local control modules that interface with distributed energy resources within a region. Power production and power consumption are monitored and analyzed by the enterprise control module which, upon determining that power consumption within a region does not match power producing capability, dynamically reallocates distributed energy resources throughout the grid keeping the system balance. Power flow at key nodes within the network are monitored and analyzed by the local control modules, regional control modules, and enterprise control modules with compensating actions taken in the event that system parameter risks violating safety, stability, or operational thresholds. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20120029720 | DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTED POWER GRID CONTROL SYSTEM - A distributive and decentralized power grid control system passes aggregate information to and from hierarchal nodes. A particular node can operates without knowing anything about which specific assets are available for control below it in the hierarchy or the individual capabilities of those assets. Moreover the objective function is distributed in that parent nodes may or may not have access to all local goals of its children nodes. The computational burden for building a control solution is spread among many computational nodes within the system. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120029897 | DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTED POWER GRID CONTROL SYSTEM - A control system for a distributed power grid includes a simulation module operative to directly interface with operational control of distributed energy resources (DER) to develop and when necessary dynamically modify control inputs of the distributed power grid. By conducting a decentralized and distributed simulation of DER topology (components and their surrounding infrastructure) each distributed control module can simulate control response characteristics of a plurality of DER to determine a control methodology necessary to achieve a desired target. Once developed the same control inputs can be directly applied to physical DER and thereafter monitored to validate performance. Once validated, operational control of the DER is established while ongoing modifications of the control inputs continues in parallel to maintain desired performance. | 02-02-2012 |
