Lord Corporation

Donald A Nixon

J David Carlson

Keith D Weiss

Gary William Adams

K Andrew Kintz

Daniel E Barber

Anthony J Margida

Scott D Gartland

Eric T Byrd

A magnetorheological fluid comprising magnetic-responsive particles, a thickener, an ionic thixotropic additive, and a carrier fluid wherein the carrier fluid comprises a glycol-water mixture comprising at least 50 percent by weight of a glycol compound. The thickener is preferably fumed silica and the ionic thixotropic additive is preferably one of sodium nitrite, sodium chloride, sodium acetate, and sodium benzoate.

Non-settling glycol based magnetorheological fluids

A container for storing and transporting field controllable fluid is disclosed. The field controllable material may be mixed and remixed in the container and the field controllable material may be flowed into or discharged from the container chamber without opening the container.

Container for transporting and storing field controllable fluid

A magnetorheological fluid that includes a carrier component and a magnetizable particle component wherein the magnetizable particle component is a mixture of at least a first particle group having an average particle diameter and a second particle group having an average particle diameter wherein the average particle diameter of said first particle group is 3 to 15 times larger than the average particle diameter of said second particle group.

Method and magnetorheological fluid formulations for increasing the

A magnetorheological fluid that includes a carrier component and a magnetizable particle component wherein the magnetizable particle component has a fractional packing density of at least 0.50 prior to formulation into the magnetorheological fluid. Use of this magnetorheological fluid can increase the force output of a magnetorheological device without increasing the viscosity of the fluid because the particle volume concentration in a working gap of the device increases when a magnetic field is applied.

A magnetorheological material containing a carrier fluid, a particle component and a thixotropic additive to provide stability against particle settling. The thixotropic additive can be a hydrogen-bonding thixotropic agent, a polymer-modified metal oxide, or a mixture thereof. The utilization of a thixotropic additive creates a thixotropic network which is unusually effective at minimizing particle settling in a magnetorheological material.

Thixotropic magnetorheological materials

d A magnetorheological material containing a carrier fluid and a magnetically active particle. The particle has been modified so that the surface of the particle is substantially free of contamination products. The contamination products are removed from the surface of the particle by abrader processing, chemical treatment or a combination thereof. Magnetorheological materials prepared using the particles from which contamination products have been removed exhibit significantly enhanced magnetorheological effects.

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Wilson, NC, United States of America

Donald A Nixon