Patents Assigned to Atofina
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Patent number: 7129303Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing homo- and co-polymers of ethylene, or more particularly a method for producing homo- and copolymers of ethylene in the presence of (a) a solid titanium catalyst produced by preparing a magnesium solution by contact-reacting a halogenated magnesium compound with an alcohol; reacting thereto an ester compound having at least one hydroxyl group and a silicon compound having at least one alkoxy group; and adding a mixture of a titanium compound and a silicon compound; (b) organometallic compounds of Group II or III of the Periodic Table; and (c) an alkoxysilane compound and a haloalkne compound. The catalyst for homo- and co-polymerization of ethylene, produced according to the present invention, exhibits a high activity and the polymers produced by the method of the present invention using said catalyst have the advantages of exhibiting a high bulk density and a narrow molecular weight distribution.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2001Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Samsung Atofina Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chun-Byung Yang, Won-Young Kim, Weon Lee
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Patent number: 7126021Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of ?-phosphorated nitroxide radicals which consist in preparing, in a first step, an aminophosphonate by reaction of a carbonyl compound, of a primary amine and of a phosphorous compound in the presence of a Lewis acid and then, in a second step, in oxidizing the said crude aminophosphonate using nonhalogenated organic peracids in a water/organic solvent two-phase medium with an aqueous phase buffered at a pH ranging from 5 to 12.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2001Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: Arkema (formerly Atofina)Inventors: Olivier Guerret, Jean-Luc Couturier, Christophe Le Mercier
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Patent number: 7122233Abstract: The invention relates to a transparent composition comprising, by weight, the total being 100%: 5 to 40% of an amorphous polyamide (B) which results essentially from the condensation: either of at least one diamine chosen from cycloaliphatic diamines and aliphatic diamines and of at least one diacid chosen from cycloaliphatic diacids and aliphatic diacids, at least one of these diamine or diacid units being cycloaliphatic, or of a cycloaliphatic ?,?-aminocarboxylic acid, or of a combination of these two possibilities, and optionally of at least one monomer chosen from ?,?-aminocarboxylic acids or the possible corresponding lactams, aliphatic diacids and aliphatic diamines, 0 to 40% of a supple polyamide (C) chosen from copolymers containing polyamide blocks and polyether blocks and copolyamides, 0 to 20% of a compatabilizer (D) for (A) and (B), 0 to 40% of a supple modifier (M), with the condition that (C)+(D)+(M) is between 0 and 50%, the remainder to 100% being a semi-crystalline polyamide (A).Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2005Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: AtofinaInventors: Thibaut Montanari, Christelle Recoquille
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Patent number: 7119152Abstract: The present invention relates to thermoplastic polyesters, which comprise, by weight: (i) a thermoplastic polyester; (ii) an impact modifier comprising: (a) a core-shell copolymer (A); (b) an ethylene copolymer (B) chosen from ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid anhydride copolymers (B1), ethylene-unsaturated epoxide copolymers (B2) and blends thereof; (iii) the (B)/(A) ratio being between 40/60 and 10/90 for proportions of impact modifier between 18 and 40% in 82 to 60% of polyester, respectively; (iv) the (B)/(A) ratio being between 40/60 and 25/75 for proportions of impact modifier between 2 and 18% in 98 to 82% of polyester, respectively. It is particularly useful for PET and PBT.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2000Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: ATOFINAInventors: Christophe Lacroix, Alain Bouilloux
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Catalyst obtained by prepolymerization of polyolefin and olefin polymerization method using the same
Patent number: 7098285Abstract: The present invention provides a prepolymerized olefin polymerization catalyst and olefin polymerization method using the same. More particularly, the present invention provides a prepolymerized catalyst that is encapsulated with macromonomers produced by polymerizing olefin monomers with a vinyl-terminated polysiloxane compound in the presence of a solid titanium catalyst for olefin polymerization having been previously surface treated with silane compounds containing two or more vinyl groups, and a method for producing polyolefin having a high melt strength using the catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2001Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: Samsung Atofina Co., Ltd.Inventors: Young-Soo Koo, Yong Chun, Young-Jun Lee, Ho-Sang Son, Ki-Su Ro -
Patent number: 7087763Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of alkylimidazolidone (meth)acrylates, generally expressed as compound (I): that are prepared by reacting at least one (meth)acrylate of formula (II): with a heterocyclic alcohol of formula (III): in the presence of a catalyst comprising at least one compound (a) which is a chelate formed of lithium and of a 1,3-dicarbonyl compound. The invention also relates to a composition comprising compound (I) in solution in (meth)acrylate (II). Finally, the invention involves the use of the abovementioned composition in the preparation of polymers that can be used as coatings and adhesives, in the treatment of paper and of textiles, as agent for leather treatment and in the production of paints with high wet adhesion characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2003Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: AtofinaInventors: Jean-Michel Paul, Bernard Dupont
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Patent number: 7071262Abstract: According to a first form, the present invention relates to a compatibilizer composed of a polyolefin backbone and of polyamide grafts in which: the grafts are attached to the backbone via the residues of an unsaturated monomer (A) having a functional group which acts as activator in the polymerization of lactains and which is not an isocyanate functional group, the residues of the unsaturated monomer (A) are fixed to the backbone by grafting from its double bond. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of these compatibilizers in which, after the preparation of the backbone comprising the monomer having an activating functional group, the precursor lactam of the grafts and a catalyst are added and heating is carried out in order to obtain anionic polymerization of the lactam which spreads starting from the activating functional group. Subsequently, the compatibilizer and the polyamide which has formed apart from the grafts are optionally separated.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2001Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: AtofinaInventors: Guo-Hua Hu, Huxi Li, Heike Faulhammer, Nicola Hoogen, Thierry Vivier
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Patent number: 7067576Abstract: The present invention provides a polypropylene resin composition including a polypropylene resin having a melt flow rate of 4-18 g/10 minutes, a flame retardant additive having a low melting point, an antimony oxide, a UV stabilizer, a silane coupling agent, and titanium dioxide as a light-blocking agent. The resin composition of the invention produces products exhibiting excellent flame retarding properties, stability against weather, and maintainability of physical/mechanical properties as shown by maintaining the original flame retarding properties after long periods of outdoor exposure and hydrothermal dipping treatments.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2000Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Samsung Atofina, Co., Ltd.Inventors: In-Sik Jung, Jong-Soo Hong, Sung-Man Lee, Man-Seang Her
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Patent number: 7053252Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing 1,1,1-trifluoro-2,2-dichloroethane (F123). This process consists in placing 1,1,1-trifluoro-2-chloroethane (F133a) in contact with chlorine in the presence of hydrogen fluoride and a fluorination catalyst. F133a may be obtained by fluorination of trichloroethylene, and the F123 may be subsequently fluorinated to F125.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2002Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: AtofinaInventors: Béatrice Boussand, Eric Jorda
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Publication number: 20060089518Abstract: Disclosed is a method for steam-cracking naphtha, according to which a charge of hydrocarbons containing a portion of paraffinic naphtha, which is modified by adding a combination of a first component containing a portion of gasoline and a second component containing a portion of at least one hydrocarbonated refinery gas, and a paraffin-rich change containing at least one parrafin selected among propane, butane, or a mixture thereof are fed through a steam cracker in the presence of vapor. Also disclosed is a hydrocarbon composition suitable for steam cracking, containing a portion of a paraffinic naphtha, which is modified by adding a combination of a first component containing a portion of gasoline and a second component containing a portion of at least one hydrocarbonated refinery gas and a paraffin-rich charge containing at least one paraffin selected among propane, butane, or a mixture thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2003Publication date: April 27, 2006Applicants: ATOFINA, TOTALFINAELF FRANCEInventors: Francois Bouvart, Robert Duchesnes, Claude Gutle
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Patent number: 7025093Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a thermally insulating composition in the form of crosslinked polyurethane elastomer gel, obtained by reacting at least one polyol and at least one polyisocyanate in the presence of at least one inert organic filler, for the thermal insulation of pipeline systems present in a product-transfer conduit.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2001Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: AtofinaInventors: Evelyne Bonnet, Laurent Martin, Helene Egret
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Patent number: 7022768Abstract: The invention concerns thermoplastic polyesters (such as PET or PBT) comprising, by weight, the total being 100%: 60 to 99% of thermoplastic polyester; 1 to 40% of impact modifier comprising: (a) a core-shell copolymer (A), (b) an ethylene copolymer (B) selected among ethylene copolymers (B1) and an unsaturated carboxylic acid anhydride, ethylene copolymers (B2) and an unsaturated epoxy compound and mixtures thereof, (c) a copolymer (C) selected among ethylene copolymers (C1) and an alkyl (meth)acrylate, ethylene copolymers (C2) and (meth)acrylic acid optionally neutralised and mixtures thereof. The invention also concerns an impact modifying composition which can be added in thermoplastic polyesters to improve their shock-proof properties and comprising constituents (A), (B) and (C).Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2000Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: AtofinaInventors: Christophe Lacroix, Alain Bouilloux, Claude Granel, Michael Tran
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Patent number: 7012113Abstract: A polyolefin resin composition suitable for use in a wheel cover of an automobile including a high-crystalline olefin resin, a polyolefin based elastomer, and an inorganic filler chosen from glass beads coated with a polypropylene grafted with unsaturated carbonic acid or its anhydride and barium sulfate, which is excellent in rigidity, impact strength, heat resistance, mechanical strength, moldability during injection molding, coatability, and appearance without protuberance on the welds and thus suitable for a wheel cover of an automobile.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2002Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Samsung Atofina Co. Ltd.Inventors: Bong-Hyun Park, Sung-Jun Lee, Won-Bum Jung, Kyoung-Suk Chae
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Patent number: 7009012Abstract: The present invention provides a supported catalyst comprising (A) a polymer (B) a supporter, (C) a transition metal compound, and optionally (D) (a) a compound which can form an ionic complex by the reaction with the transition metal compound or (b) a specific oxygen-containing compound, and (E) an alkylaluminum compound. The supported catalyst according to present invention, which has a high activity, can be used for preparing a styrenic polymer with a high syndiotacticity. The supported catalyst can be used in combination with a cocatalyst, preferably an alkyl aluminoxane.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2000Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Samsung Atofina Co. Ltd.Inventors: Sung Cheol Yoon, Xuequan Zhang, Jae Gon Lim, Hyun Joon Kim, Young Sub Lee
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Patent number: 6992136Abstract: The invention relates to a novel transparent block copolymer and its process for the manufacture. The process comprises a first partial killing of at least the living copolymeric species R-S1-B1-M with a multi-functional deactivation agent where S1 is a monovinyl-substituted aromatic homopolymer, B1, is a conjugated diene homopolymer, M is an alkali metal and R is an alkyl (RM being an initiator) and further comprises a second total deactivation of at least the living tapered block copolymeric species R-S1-B1-B2/S2-M (obtained by adding a feed B2/S2 to the reaction medium) by a mono-functional deactivation agent (the terminating agent).Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2003Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: Atofina ResearchInventors: Thierry Coupin, Jean Philippe Hallet
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Publication number: 20050272891Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and process for polymerizing olefins. One embodiment comprises polymerizing at least one monomer in a first loop reactor in the presence of a catalyst to produce a first polyolefin fraction. A portion of the first polyolefin fraction is transferred to a second loop reactor, connected in series with the first loop reactor. The process further comprises polymerizing in the second loop reactor at least one monomer in the presence of a catalyst to produce a second polyolefin fraction in addition to the first polyolefin fraction. The combination of the first and second polyolefin fractions can produce a polymer resin fluff having bimodal molecular weight distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2005Publication date: December 8, 2005Applicant: ATOFINA Research S.A.Inventors: Louis Fouarge, Eric Damme, Olivier Miserque, Daniel Siraux, Philippe Bodart, Andre Lewalle, Marc Auwera, Frans Brande, Giacomo Conti, Hugo Vandaele, Mark Verleysen, Carl Camp, Etienne Laurent, Philippe Marechal, Marc Moers, Leopold D'Hooghe, Marjan Sillis, Kai Hortman, Pascal Folie, Renaud Oreins
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Patent number: 6962956Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising, for 100 parts by weight, 99-60 parts of a styrenic polymer (A), 1-40 parts of (B)+(C), (B) being a polyamide block and polyether block copolymer essentially comprising ethylene oxide patterns (C2H4-O)—, (C) being a compatibilizer of styrene and at least one polymerized block comprising ethylene patterns, (B)/(C) ranging from 2 to 10.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2002Date of Patent: November 8, 2005Assignee: AtofinaInventors: Christophe Lacroix, Martin Baumert
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Patent number: 6958378Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing homo- and co-polymers of ethylene, or more particularly a method for producing homo- and co-polymers of ethylene in the presence of (a) a solid titanium catalyst produced by preparing a magnesium solution by contact-reacting a halogenated magnesium compound with an alcohol; reacting thereto an ester compound having at least one hydroxyl group and a silicon compound having at least one alkoxy group; and adding a mixture of a titanium compound and a silicon compound; (b) organometallic compounds of Group II or III of the Periodic Table; and (c) a cyclic nitrogen compound. The catalyst for homo- and co-polymerization of ethylene, produced according to the present invention, exhibits high activity, and the polymers produced by the method of the present invention by using said catalyst have the advantages of exhibiting high bulk densities and narrow molecular weight distributions.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2001Date of Patent: October 25, 2005Assignee: Samsung Atofina Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chun-Byung Yang, Sang-Yull Kim, Yong-Bok Lee, Weon Lee
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Patent number: 6956130Abstract: 2-Ethylhexyl acrylate is manufactured according to a process for the direct esterification of acrylic acid with 2-ethylhexanol catalysed by sulphuric acid, the acrylic acid subjected to the esterification being stabilized by at least one stabilizing agent, the said esterification being followed by the neutralization by a base of the crude reaction mixture (B1) obtained, the resulting salts passing into the aqueous phase (A1) of the said mixture, the organic phase (O1) and the aqueous phase (A1) resulting from this neutralization being separated and the 2-ethylhexyl acrylate being recovered from the organic phase (O1). To suppress the emulsions which appear during the said neutralization, the stabilizer or stabilizers of acrylic acid is/are chosen with the exclusion of hydroquinone, in the absence of which the aqueous phase of the process is stabilized before and/or during the neutralization.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2002Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: AtofinaInventors: Alain Riondel, Jacqueline Bessalem
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Patent number: 6946521Abstract: A polyethylene resin comprising from 35 to 49 wt. % of a first polyethylene fraction of high molecular weight and from 51 to 65 wt. % of a second polyethylene fraction of low molecular weight, the first polyethylene having a density of up to 0.930 g/cm3, and an HLMI of less than 0.6 g/10 min and the second polyethylene fraction comprising a high density polyethylene having a density of at least 0.969 g/cm3 and an MI2 of greater than 10 g/10 min, and the polyethylene resin, having a density of great 0.946 g/cm3, an HLMI of from 1 to 100 g/10 min, a dynamical viscosity, measured at 0.01 radians/second, greater than 200,000 Pa.s and a ratio of the dynamical viscosities measured at, respectively 0.01 and 1 radians/second greater than 8.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2001Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignees: ATOFINA Research S.A., Solvay Polyolefins Europe-Belgium S.A.Inventors: Olivier Miserque, Jacques Michel, Marc Dupire, Fabian Siberdt, Jean-Louis Costa, Serge Bettonville, Virgil Rouyer, Eric Damme