Hard surface cleaners which provide improved fragrance retention properties to hard surfaces

US6786223B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• S. C. JOHNSON & SON, INC. · US

Inventors

• Michael E. Klinkhammer · Racine, US
• Richard S. Valpey, III · Matteson, US
• Brandon R. Thalmann · LaPorte, US
• Mathew Jones · Oshawa, CA
• John Tsibouklis · Waterlooville, GB
• Maureen J. Stone · Southampton, GB
• Richard W. Avery · Paragon Road, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 29, 2002
• Grant date: Sep 7, 2004
• Expiry date: Sep 13, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C11D1/72
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Disclosed herein are hard surface cleaners which provide improved fragrance retention properties to the treated hard surface, and methods for using them. The cleaners include a fragrance, a carrier, and a surfactant selected from ethylene oxide/propylene oxide block copolymers, polyglycosides, ethoxylated alkyl alcohols, and ethylene oxide/propylene oxide copolymers functionalized with a fatty alcohol moiety. The cleaner may also contain water and a base.