Patents by Inventor Bill Gustafsson
Bill Gustafsson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10665361Abstract: A crosslinkable polymer composition includes an unsaturated polyolefin having a total amount of carbon-carbon double bonds/1000 carbon atoms of at least 0.1, at least one scorch retarder, and at least one crosslinking agent.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: BOREALIS TECHNOLOGY OYInventors: Jan-Ove Bostrom, Annika Smedberg, Ruth Dammert, Lena Lindbom, Nigel Hampton, Bill Gustafsson, Ulf Nilsson, Perry Nylander, Claes Broman
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Publication number: 20180155525Abstract: The invention relates to a method for modifying a polymer composition, to modified polymer compositions, to an article, preferably wire or cable, including said modified polymer composition, to a process for preparing an article, preferably a wire or cable, to the use of said modified polymer in one or more layers of a wire or cable, as well as to a compound for use as a radical generating agent for modifying a polymer composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: Annika Smedberg, Bill Gustafsson, Daniel Nilsson
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Publication number: 20160217882Abstract: The present invention relates to crosslinkable polymer composition, comprising an unsaturated polyolefin having a total amount of carbon-carbon double bonds/1000 carbon atoms of at least 0.1, at least one scorch retarder, and at least one crosslinking agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Jan-Ove Bostrom, Annika Smedberg, Ruth Dammert, Lena Lindbom, Nigel Hampton, Bill Gustafsson, Ulf Nilsson, Perry Nylander, Claes Broman
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Patent number: 9296883Abstract: The present invention relates to a semiconductive polymer composition comprising: —an ethylene copolymer (A) comprising methyl(meth)acrylate co-monomer units, wherein the ethylene copolymer (A) has a melt temperature of 80° C. or below, and—carbon black, wherein the ethylene copolymer (A) is produced in a autoclave high pressure reactor or in a multi-feed tubular reactor; to a semiconductive polymer composition comprising—an ethylene copolymer (A) comprising methyl(meth)acrylate, comonomer units; and—carbon black, wherein ethylene copolymer (A) is characterized in that the fraction obtained in the first fractionation step (fraction 1) in the fractionation method of ethylene copolymer (A) as described herein, is present in an amount of not more than 40 wt.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2011Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: BOREALIS AGInventors: Ola Fagrell, Oscar Prieto, Christian Piel, Bill Gustafsson
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Patent number: 8968851Abstract: A peroxide crosslinked ethylene polymer pressure pipe and a method for the preparation thereof are described. The pipe is characterized in that it comprises an ethylene polymer with a density of less than 950 kg/m3 obtained by polymerization with a single-site catalyst and having a shear thinning index, SHI5/300 of less than 20 and a MWD of <10. The method is characterized in that it comprises polymerizing ethylene, optionally together with at least one comonomer, with a single-site catalyst to provide the above defined ethylene polymer, forming the ethylene polymer into a pipe by extrusion and crosslinking it.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2005Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Philipp Walter, Anneli Pakkanen, Jeroen Oderkerk, Magnus Palmlof, Lars Hojer, Bill Gustafsson, Tore Dreng
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Patent number: 8445599Abstract: The present inventions relates to a process for producing polyethylene compositions comprising polymerizing polyethylene resins in a cascaded multi-stage reaction in which the reaction steps are performed in at least two slurry phase reactors (A) and (B) and at least one gas phase reactor (C) which are arranged in series in any order wherein in reactor (A) a low molecular weight ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction having a MFR2 of 100 to 2000 g/10 min, in reactor (B) a low molecular weight ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction having an MFR2 of 100 to 2000 g/10 min, and in reactor (C) a high molecular weight ethylene copolymer fraction are polymerized, and further comprising a compounding step after polymerization, wherein the final polyethylene composition has a MFR21 of 3 to 50 g/10 min, the melt flow rates being determined according to ISO 1133.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2009Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Borealis AGInventors: Bill Gustafsson, Jari Hatonen, Petri Rekonen, Markku Vahteri, Siw Bodil Fredriksen, Arild Follestad, Karl Isak Skau
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Publication number: 20130032376Abstract: The present invention relates to a semiconductive polymer composition comprising:—an ethylene copolymer (A) comprising methyl(meth)acrylate co-monomer units, wherein the ethylene copolymer (A) has a melt temperature of 80 ° C. or below, and—carbon black, wherein the ethylene copolymer (A) is produced in a autoclave high pressure reactor or in a multi-feed tubular reactor; to a semiconductive polymer composition comprising—an ethylene copolymer (A) comprising methyl(meth)acrylate, comonomer units; and—carbon black, wherein ethylene copolymer (A) is characterized in that the fraction obtained in the first fractionation step (fraction 1) in the fractionation method of ethylene copolymer (A) as described herein, is present in an amount of not more than 40 wt.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2011Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: BOREALIS AGInventors: Ola Fagrell, Oscar Prieto, Christian Piel, Bill Gustafsson
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Patent number: 8247696Abstract: A crosslinkable polymer composition of an unsaturated polyolefin having a total amount of carbon-carbon double bonds/1000 carbon atoms of at least 0.38, and at least one crosslinking agent being a carbon-carbon initiator that is free of peroxide groups and capable of thermally decomposing into carbon-based free radicals by breaking at least one carbon-carbon single bond, such as 3,4-dimethyl-3,4-diphenylhexane.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Annika Smedberg, Bill Gustafsson
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Publication number: 20110288237Abstract: The present inventions relates to a process for producing polyethylene compositions comprising polymerising polyethylene resins in a cascaded multi-stage reaction in which the reaction steps are performed in at least two slurry phase reactors (A) and (B) and at least one gas phase reactor (C) which are arranged in series in any order wherein in reactor (A) a low molecular weight ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction having a MFR2 of 100 to 2000 g/10 min, in reactor (B) a low molecular weight ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction having an MFR2 of 100 to 2000 g/10 min, and in reactor (C) a high molecular weight ethylene copolymer fraction are polymerised, and further comprising a compounding step after polymerisation, wherein the final polyethylene composition has a MFR21 of 3 to 50 g/10 min, the melt flow rates being determined according to ISO 1133, a multimodal polymer composition comprising a polyethylene resin comprising (i) a first low molecular weight ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction having a MFR2Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2009Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: BOREALIS AGInventors: Bill Gustafsson, Jari Hatonen, Petri Rekonen, Markku Vahteri, Siw Bodil Fredriksen, Arild Follestad, Karl Isak Skau
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Publication number: 20100181096Abstract: The application relates to a method for modifying a polymer composition, to modified polymer compositions, to an article, preferably wire or cable, including said modified polymer composition, to a process for preparing an article, preferably a wire or cable, to the use of said modified polymer in one or more layers of a wire or cable, as well as to a compound for use as a radical generating agent for modifying a polymer composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2008Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: BOREALIS TECHNOLOGY OYInventors: Annika Smedberg, Bill Gustafsson, Daniel Nilsson
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Publication number: 20100181095Abstract: The invention relates to a method for modifying a polymer composition, to modified polymer compositions, to an article, preferably wire or cable, including said modified polymer composition, to a process for preparing an article, preferably a wire or cable, to the use of said modified polymer in one or more layers of a wire or cable, as well as to a compound for use as a radical generating agent for modifying a polymer composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2008Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: BOREALIS TECHNOLOGY OYInventors: Annika Smedberg, Bill Gustafsson, Daniel Nilsson
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Publication number: 20100108357Abstract: The present invention relates to a crosslinkable polymer composition comprising an unsaturated polyolefin having a total amount of carbon-carbon double bonds/1000 carbon atoms of at least 0.38, and at least one crosslinking agent being a carbon-carbon initiator that is free of peroxide groups and capable of thermally decomposing into carbon-based free radicals by breaking at least one carbon-carbon single bond, such as 3,4-dimethyl-3,4-diphenylhexane.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2007Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: BOREALIS TECHNOLOGY OYInventors: Annika Smedberg, Bill Gustafsson
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Publication number: 20090252910Abstract: The present invention concerns a multimodal polyethylene composition comprising a base resin comprising three ethylene homo- or copolymer fractions (A), (B) and (C) with different weight average molecular weight Mw, wherein a) fraction (A) has an MFR21 equal or lower than 20 g/10 min, b) fraction (B) has a lower weight average molecular weight than fraction (C), c) fraction (C) has a lower weight average molecular weight than fraction (A), d) the composition has a viscosity at a shear stress of 747 Pa (eta747) of 350 kPas or higher, and e) the composition has a MFR5 of 0.15 g/10 min or higher and a white spot area of 1% or below. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process for the production of such a composition as well as to the use of such a composition for the production of a pipe, for moulding applications, and wire and cable applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2005Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicant: BOREALIS TECHNOLOGY OYInventors: Mats Baeckman, Bill Gustafsson, Eric Van Praet, Remko Van Marion
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Patent number: 7592410Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyethylene resin comprising A) a first ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction, and B) a second ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction, wherein fraction (A) has a lower molecular weight than fraction (B), characterized in that the polymer resin powder obtained directly after the final polymerisation step has a particle size distribution PSD95/5 equal to or smaller than 12. Furthermore, the invention relates to a process for the production of a polymer composition comprising: (i) a step in which ethylene monomers, and optionally further alpha-olefin-comonomers, are polymerised in liquid phase in the presence of a polymerisation catalyst, (ii) a step in which ethylene monomers, and optionally further alpha-olefin comonomers, are polymerised in the gas phase in the presence of a polymerisation catalyst, and (iii) obtaining a polymer resin powder after the final polymerisation step wherein the powder has a particle size distribution PSD95/5 equal to or smaller than 12.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2006Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Remko Van Marion, Bill Gustafsson, Mats Baeckman, Erik Van Praet
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Publication number: 20090203848Abstract: The present invention relates to a multimodal polyethylene composition for pipes which comprises polyethylene composition comprising a base resin which comprises (A) an ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction, and (B) an ethylene copolymer fraction comprising at least one alphaolefin comonomer having at least 4 carbon atoms, wherein (i) fraction (A) has a lower average molecular weight than fraction (B), and (ii) the comonomer content and the density d of the base resin satisfy the following relation: comonomer [mol %]>?0.0612 d [kg/m3] mol %/(kg/m3)+58.6, and (iii) the base resin comprises mom than 0.5 mol % of at least one alpha-olefin comonomer having at leant 4 carbon atoms. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process for the production or said composition, a pipe comprising said composition and to the use of said composition for the production of a pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2005Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: BOREALIS TECHNOLOGY OYInventors: Bill Gustafsson, Mats Baeckman, Erik Van Praet
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Publication number: 20090198018Abstract: The present invention in a first embodiment concerns a multimodal, preferably bimodal, polyethylene composition comprising a base resin which comprises (A) a first ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction, and (B) a second ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction, wherein fraction (A) has a lower molecular weight than fraction (B), the ratio of the MFR2 of fraction (A) and the MFR5 of the base resin being from 200 to 1500, and the composition has a white spot area of 1% or below. In a second embodiment, the present invention concerns a polyethylene composition comprising a base resin comprising (A) a first ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction, and (B) a second ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction, wherein fraction (A) has a lower molecular weight than fraction (B), the ratio of the MFR2 of fraction (A) and the MFR5 of the base resin being from 200 to 1500, and the composition has a rating in the ISO 18553 white spot rating test of below 4.5.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2005Publication date: August 6, 2009Applicant: BOREALIS TECHNOLOGY OYInventors: Mats Baeckman, Bill Gustafsson, Eric Van Praet, Remko Van Marion
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Publication number: 20080254289Abstract: The present invention relates to crosslinkable polymer composition, comprising an unsaturated polyolefin having a total amount of carbon-carbon double bonds/1000 carbon atoms of at least 0.1, at least one scorch retarder, and at least one crosslinking agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2006Publication date: October 16, 2008Inventors: Jan-Ove Bostrom, Annika Smedberg, Ruth Dammert, Lena Lindbom, Nigel Hampton, Bill Gustafsson, Ulf Nilsson, Perry Nylander, Claes Broman
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Publication number: 20080241510Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyethylene resin comprising A) a first ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction, and B) a second ethylene homo- or copolymer fraction, wherein fraction (A) has a lower molecular weight than fraction (B), characterized in that the polymer resin powder obtained directly after the final polymerisation step has a particle size distribution PSD95/5 equal to or smaller than 12. Furthermore, the invention relates to a process for the production of a polymer composition comprising: (i) a step in which ethylene monomers, and optionally further alpha-olefin-comonomers, are polymerised in liquid phase in the presence of a polymerisation catalyst, (ii) a step in which ethylene monomers, and optionally further alpha-olefin comonomers, are polymerised in the gas phase in the presence of a polymerisation catalyst, and (iii) obtaining a polymer resin powder after the final polymerisation step wherein the powder has a particle size distribution PSD95/5 equal to or smaller than 12.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2006Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: BOREALIS TECHNOLOGY OYInventors: Remko Van Marion, Bill Gustafsson
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Publication number: 20080226858Abstract: A peroxide crosslinked ethylene polymer pressure pipe and a method for the preparation thereof are described. The pipe is characterised in that it comprises an ethylene polymer with a density of less than 950 kg/m3 obtained by polymerisation with a single-site catalyst and having a shear thinning index, SHI5/300 of less than 20 and a MWD of <10. The method is characterised in that it comprises polymerising ethylene, optionally together with at least one comonomer, with a single-site catalyst to provide the above defined ethylene polymer, forming the ethylene polymer into a pipe by extrusion and crosslinking it.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2005Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Philipp Walter, Anneli Pakkanen, Jeroen Oderkerk, Magnus Palmlof, Lars Hojer, Bill Gustafsson, Tore Dreng
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Patent number: 6887939Abstract: The present invention relates to a stabilizing agent for polymers or copolymers which is a copolymer of ethylene or propylene (A) and a vinyl compound (B) having the formula: wherein X is O, NH or NR5; R1, R2 and R3 are each independently H, C1-C8 alkyl, C1-C8 substituted aryl; R4 is H, C1-C8 alkyl, C6-C12 cycloalkyl, C1-C10 acyl, C1-C10 acyloxy or C1-C8 alkyl ether; R5 is C1-C8 alkyl and wherein the copolymer has at least 1 mol % (B) and has an MFR2 of 1-1000 g/10 min.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2003Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignees: Degussa AG, Borealis A/SInventors: Udo Jegelka, Jochen Kirchhoff, Thomas Hjertberg, Bill Gustafsson, Johan Linner, Annika Smedberg