IP Library Granted Patent US 12,104,137
Granted Patent B2
US 12,104,137 · App. 18/040,165 · Granted Oct 1, 2024

Engine oil composition

Inventors: Priyanka Subhash Desai (Houston, TX); Mark Clift Southby (London, GB)
Assignee: Shell USA, Inc.
C10M169/04C10M107/00C10M133/56C10M141/00C10M2205/04C10M2205/06C10M2205/173C10M2209/084C10M2215/28C10M2217/023C10N2020/02C10N2020/04C10N2020/071C10N2030/02C10N2030/04C10N2030/54C10N2040/25
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Patent No.
US 12,104,137
App. No.
18/040,165
Granted
Oct 1, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides an engine oil composition including 70 to 95 percent by weight of a base oil and 0.01 to 15 percent by weight of a dispersant comb polymer, based on the overall weight of the engine oil composition. The dispersant comb polymer consists of 13.7% by weight of a macromonomer, which is an ester of methacrylic acid and a hydroxylated hydrogenated polybutadiene with Mn of 4750 g/mol; 51.5% by weight of n-butyl methacrylate; 17.3% by weight of LMA; 11.2% by weight of styrene; 0.2% by weight of methyl methacrylate; and 6.10% by weight of N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate. The modified dispersant inhibitor package contains 30 wt % or less of succinimide type dispersant based on the overall weight of the modified dispersant inhibitor additive package, and the engine oil composition has an SAE viscosity grade of 0W-X, wherein X is 30 or less.

Claims (17)

1. An engine oil composition comprising:

i) in the range of 70 to 95 percent by weight of a base oil, based on the overall weight of the engine oil composition;

ii) in the range of 0.01 to 15 percent by weight of a dispersant comb polymer, based on the overall weight of the engine oil composition;

iii) in the range of from 4.99 to 15 percent by weight of a modified dispersant inhibitor additive package based on the overall weight of the engine oil composition, wherein the dispersant comb polymer consists of

a. 13.7% by weight of a macromonomer, which is an ester of methacrylic acid and a hydroxylated hydrogenated polybutadiene with Mn of 4750 g/mol;

b. 51.5% by weight of n-butyl methacrylate;

c. 17.3% by weight of LMA;

d. 11.2% by weight of styrene;

e. 0.2% by weight of methyl methacrylate; and

f. 6.1% by weight of N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate;

wherein the modified dispersant inhibitor package contains 30 wt % or less of succinimide dispersant based on the overall weight of the modified dispersant inhibitor additive package, and

wherein the engine oil composition has an SAE viscosity grade of 0W-X, wherein X is 30 or less.

2. The engine oil composition according to claim 1 , wherein the base oil is a Fischer-Tropsch derived base oil.

3. The engine oil composition according to claim 1 , wherein the succinimide dispersant is present in the modified dispersant inhibitor package at an amount that is at least 50% less than that which would have been present if a viscosity modifier that was not a dispersant comb polymer consisting of 13.7% by weight of a macromonomer, which is an ester of methacrylic acid and a hydroxylated hydrogenated polybutadiene with Mn of 4750 g/mol); 51.5% by weight of n-butyl methacrylate; 17.3% by weight of LMA; 11.2% by weight of styrene; 0.2% by weight of methyl methacrylate;

and 6.1% by weight of N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate, was used.

4. The engine oil composition according to claim 1 , wherein the succinimide dispersant is present in an amount in the range of from 0.01 to 3.5 wt % of the engine oil composition.

5. The engine oil composition according to claim 1 , wherein the succinimide dispersant is a polyolefin substituted succinimide dispersant.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 22, 2024
From: SHELL OIL COMPANY
To: SHELL USA, INC.
Reel/Frame 068749/0449 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 3, 2023
From: DESAI, PRIYANKA SUBHASH; SOUTHBY, MARK CLIFT
To: SHELL USA, INC.
Reel/Frame 062581/0301 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 1, 2023
From: SHELL OIL COMPANY
To: SHELL USA, INC.
Reel/Frame 062597/0746 →
Continuity (2)
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