Patents Examined by Earl Nielsen
  • Patent number: 5021470
    Abstract: A series of oligomeric adducts of diols and diepoxides are disclosed which are precursors of amine resins for use in electrodeposition coatings. The adducts are epoxide-alcohol addition products of a polyaromatic and/or a mono-aromatic diol and a polyaromatic bis-glycidyl ether, and/or a monoaromatic bis-glycidyl ether and/or an alkoxy arylene bis-glycidyl ether, thioether or amine. The coatings which include amine resin, cross linking agent, grind resin and pigment exhibit excellent corrosion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: James A. Laugal, Glenn E. Martin, Donald L. St. Aubin, Gerald G. Wold
  • Patent number: 5021513
    Abstract: Curable compositions comprise(A) a polyglycidyl ether of a polyhydric phenol,(B) a polyglycidyl ether of a polyhydric alcohol,(C) a nitrogen-containing latent hardener for epoxide resins and(D) as cure accelerator dispersed as a powder in the composition, a solid solution of a polymeric phenol with an aliphatic polyamine having two or more amine groups, each of the amine groups being tertiary and at least two of the amine groups being dimethylamino groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventor: Madan M. Bagga
  • Patent number: 5021520
    Abstract: The present invention relates to crosslinked polyurethane-polyurea powders which are prepared by a process which comprises dispersing NCO semiprepolymers in an aqueous medium, forming powders and isolating the powders from the aqueous medium, the NCO semiprepolymers having an NCO content of 10 to 20%, being liquid at room temperature and/or dissolved in isocyanate-inert, water-soluble solvents and based on the reaction product of(a) a polyisocyanate component based on at least one organic polyisocyanate with a polyol component having an average hydroxyl functionality of 2.3 to 4.0 and containing(b) a hydrophobic polyol component containing less than 25% by weight of ethylene oxide units, --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Reiff, Dieter Dieterich, Rene Stepanek
  • Patent number: 5021538
    Abstract: Improved polyol esters of phenol-rosin condensates and polyimide/polyamide derivatives thereof and their method of manufacture are disclosed as well as their applications as varnishes for lithographic inks and in pigment dispersion (flushing). Advantages of ink varnishes comprising these derivatives include higher water yields, increased gloss, transparency, and color strength, as well as reduced bronzing in both pigment concentrates and finished lithographic inks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Everett Crews
  • Patent number: 5019643
    Abstract: A process for condensing at least one aliphatic epoxide having at least 8 atoms of carbon in its molecule on at least one cyclic anhydride of a dicarboxylic acid in the presence of a catalyst consisting of at least one titanium complex of general formula (I) Ti(OR).sub.2 (L).sub.2 in which each R group independently represents one hydrocarbon group with 1 to 10 atoms of carbon and each L group represents a ligand of the diketonic beta type or of the keto-ester beta.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignees: Institut Francais du Petrole, L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme pour L'Etude et L'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude, ELF France
    Inventors: Valerie Bagrel, Jacques Garapon, Remi Touet, Catherine Huet, Bernard Damin
  • Patent number: 5019639
    Abstract: Advanced epoxy resins are disclosed which can be obtained by reacting liquid or semi-solid aromatic opoxy resins with aliphatic diols, and subsequently reacting the reaction product with mono- or binuclear bisphenols in the presence of a cyclic quaternary ammonium salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Arnold Hofer, Alex Wegmann
  • Patent number: 5019094
    Abstract: A crystalline copolymer of p-dioxanone and a poly(alkylene oxide), and absorbable surgical filaments and devices derived therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.
    Inventors: Rao S. Bezwada, Shalaby W. Shalaby
  • Patent number: 5017684
    Abstract: A polymer of an epoxy compound is selectively obtained by polymerizing an epoxy compound having the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, by using an initiator comprising a silyl ether represented by the general formul (II): ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are each a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, in the presence of an inorganic fluoride catalyst, thereby preparing a polyether having a silyloxy group in its terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Assignee: Asahi Denka Kogyo K.K.
    Inventors: Takeshi Endo, Yoko Nambu, Keiji Abe
  • Patent number: 5017674
    Abstract: An epoxy resin composition is disclosed that can be cured at a temperature of 150.degree. C. or below, and can be used to provide a high performance carbon fiber composite material having a 0.degree. direction bending strength of 220 kg/mm.sup.2 or over, and an interlayer shear strength of 10 kg/mm.sup.2 or over.The composition is made up of:(A) an epoxy compound containing 10 to 100% by weight of m- or o-methyl-p-N,N-diglycidyl-aminophenyl-ether or its oligomer,(B) diaminodiphenylsulfone and/or diaminodiphenylmethane,(C) dicyandiamide, 2,6-xylenylbiguanide, o-tolylbiguanide, diphenylguanidine, adipil dihydrazide, azelayl dihydrazide, or isophthalic acid dihydrazide, and(D) a urea compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Inventors: Hisashi Tada, Yoshinobu Shiraishi, Shigetsuga Hayashi
  • Patent number: 5015673
    Abstract: A synthetic resin which carries basic nitrogen groups and is water-dilutable by protonation with acid is obtainable by reacting(A) an epoxy resin having an average molecular weight M.sub.n of from 300 to 6,000 and on average from 1.5 to 3.0 epoxy groups per molecule with(B) a ketimine of a primary amine additionally containing one or more urethane groups and optionally also with(C) a diketimine of a diprimary amine containing no urethane groups and optionally also with(D) a secondary amine which may contain a tertiary amino group also, a ketimine of a primary monoamine and/or a ketimine of a primary/tertiary diamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: BASF Lacke & Farben Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Perner, Rolf Osterloh, Eberhard Schupp, Thomas Schwerzel, Klaas Ahlers
  • Patent number: 5015672
    Abstract: A synthetic resin which carries basic nitrogen groups and is water-dilutable by protonation with acid is obtainable by reacting(A) an epoxy resin having an average molecular weight M.sub.n of from 300 to 6,000 and on average from 1.5 to 3.0 epoxy groups per molecule with(B) a ketimine of a primary amine additionally containing one or more urethane groups and optionally also with(C) a diketimine of a diprimary amine containing no urethane groups and optionally also with(D) a secondary amine which may contain a tertiary amino group also, a ketimine of a primary monoamine and/or a ketimine of a primary/tertiary diamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: BASF Lacke & Farben Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Perner, Rolf Osterloh, Eberhard Schupp, Thomas Schwerzel, Klaas Ahlers
  • Patent number: 5015675
    Abstract: A heat curable composition is provided which is useful for encapsulating microelectronic devices using a heat curable epoxy composition having a diaryliodonium hexafluoroantimonate salt as a catalyst in combination with an effective amount of a free radical generating aromatic compound as a cocatalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Erik W. Walles, John H. Lupinski, James V. Crivello
  • Patent number: 5015697
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for preparing a composition comprising a polybutyl ketone and a hydroxyester of an epoxidized polybutene wherein the epoxide groups of said epoxidized polybutene are at least 70% trisubstituted. Acid compounds are reacted with epoxidized polybutenes to obtain compositions of increased reactivity as compared with polybutyl ketone compounds. These compositions are useful as chemical intermediates to modify such materials as polyesters and polyurethenes, for applications such as coatings, foams, and sealants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventor: Wayne T. Riddick
  • Patent number: 5013825
    Abstract: A method of producing a sulfated lignin comprising the steps of dissolving lignin in an aqueous alkaline solution, adding an organic amine-sulfur trioxide complex to the dissolved lignin, and reacting the amine-sulfur trioxide complex with the lignin under conditions to sulfate the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Peter Dilling
  • Patent number: 5013814
    Abstract: Sulfonium salts of the formulae I to IV ##STR1## in which A is C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 cycloalkyl, C.sub.4 -C.sub.10 cycloalkylalkyl, phenyl which is unsubstituted or mono- or polysubstituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, halogen, nitro, phenyl, phenoxy, alkoxycarbonyl having 1-4 C atoms in the alkoxy radical or acyl having 1-12 C atoms, Ar, Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2, independently of one another, are each unsubstituted or mono- or polysubstituted phenyl, or naphthyl which is unsubstituted or mono- or polysubstituted each arylene is an unsubstituted or mono- or polysubstituted phenylene or unsubstituted or mono- or polysubstituted naphthylene and Q.sup..crclbar. is SbF.sub.6 --, AsF.sub.6 -- or SbF.sub.5 OH-- are valuable curing agents and curing accelerators in the heat-curing of cationically polymerizable compounds, preferably epoxy resins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Roth, Beat Muller
  • Patent number: 5011904
    Abstract: Epoxy-containing compounds are prepared by dehydrohalogenating the reaction product of an epihalohydrin with the reaction product of a compound containing an average of more than one aromatic hydroxyl group per molecule with an alkylene oxide wherein the ratio of moles of epihalohydrin to hydroxyl groups is at least about 1.2:1. When these epoxy containing compounds are formulated into coatings, the resultant products have improved chemical resistance to acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Michael B. Cavitt, Dennis L. Steele, David J. Duncan
  • Patent number: 5011892
    Abstract: The present invention relates to hydrophilic, swellable graft copolymers composed, in random distribution, of 0.5 to 20% by weight of radicals of the general formula I ##STR1## 79 to 99% by weight of radicals containing an acidic group, of the general formula II ##STR2## and 0.1 to 2% by weight of crosslinking structures which are derived from monomers having at least two olefinically unsaturated double bonds, where the radicals X, Y, R.sup.1 to R.sup.4 and n have the meanings given in claim 1, and which are used as absorbents for water and aqueous solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Cassella AG
    Inventors: Friedrich Engelhardt, Ulrich Riegel
  • Patent number: 5011721
    Abstract: Chemorheologically viscosity tailored matrix resin formulation for use in forming prepregs and filament wound composite articles and having a specified viscosity profile comprising a curable matrix resin and an effective amount of a reactive resin curing agent reactive at room temperature and a latent resin curing agent substantially non-reactive at room temperature but activated upon heating or radiation such that the matrix resin formulation is adapted upon formulation to have a viscosity sufficiently low enough to enable the matrix resin to impregnate a filament or fiber at room temperature without the necessity for the application of heat or solvent and which, upon standing at room temperature after impregnation into the fiber or filament to form a prepreg composition, rises in viscosity to a viscosity level sufficiently high to prevent substantially any bleed of the matrix resin from winding tension upon spooling of the prepreg yet of sufficiently low enough viscosity to allow the prepreg to tack and dra
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Thiokol Corporation
    Inventors: Owen H. Decker, Neal A. Mumford
  • Patent number: 5010156
    Abstract: A lignin-modified phenol-formaldehyde resin for use as an adhesive for particulate wood products is disclosed which is prepared by reacting phenol and formaldehyde with an aqueous alkaline solution of an organosolv lignin. The organosolv lignin used in the formation of the resin is obtained from a pulping liquor prepared from particulate wood material from hardwood trees, aqueous polar organic solvent, and an acid catalyst. The resin allows for replacement of phenol or organosolv lignin at a level of up to 40% without detrimentally affecting its performance in terms of bonding strength or durability. The resin of the present invention is also superior to prior art lignin-modified resins in that it is low in sulfate, ash and sulfur residues, and thus will not give off distracting or harmful sulfur odors during resin preparation or hot-pressing of the adhesive and is unaffected and not solubilized by water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Phillip M. Cook, Steven L. Hess
  • Patent number: 5010173
    Abstract: The present application relates to a novel method of stabilizing the molecular weight of alkoxylates and stable compositions. The polyoxyalkylene compounds have incorporated into them, from the time of reaction of the alkylene oxide, a free radical type inhibitor which significantly improves stability of both the polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: LCE Partnership
    Inventors: Anthony J. O'Lenick, Jr., John C. Miller, J. Michael Clumpner