Patents by Inventor Gia Huynh-Ba
Gia Huynh-Ba 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: 9309433Abstract: The disclosure relates to a coating composition comprising a component A comprising one or more acrylic polymers having one or more chemically crosslinkable functional groups X selected from hydroxyl, thiol, isocyanate, epoxy, acid, thioisocyanate, acetoacetoxy, carboxyl, amine, anhydride, ketimine, aldimine, or urethane group; and a component B comprising one or more monomers or oligomers having one or more functional groups Y that react with the functional groups X to form a crosslink and one or more radiation crosslinkable functional groups D which are radiation crosslinkable ethylenically unsaturated double bonds; wherein said functional groups X and Y are pair-wise selected from hydroxyl and isocyanate groups, thiol and isocyanate groups, epoxy and acid groups, epoxy and isocyanate groups, isocyanate and amine groups, or isocyanate and urethane groups. This disclosure is also directed to a method of using said coating composition to coat a substrate including a vehicle, a vehicle body or parts thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2008Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: AXALTA COATING SYSTEMS IP CO., LLCInventor: Gia Huynh-Ba
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Publication number: 20130143978Abstract: Disclosed is a coating composition that when dried and cured, provides a coating composition having excellent scratch and mar resistance. The coating composition is cures upon exposure to ultraviolet radiation. The coating composition comprises a film forming binder that is a polymer having poly(trimethylene ether) repeat units and in the range of from 1 to 20 ethylenically unsaturated double bonds. The coating composition is especially useful as a clearcoat composition in the automotive industry.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventor: Gia Huynh-Ba
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Patent number: 8293321Abstract: A fast hardening clear coating composition for repairing a clear coat/color coat finish or a pigmented mono-coat of a vehicle comprising a film forming binder and an organic liquid carrier, where the binder contains a hydroxyl polymer component comprising (A) hydroxyl-containing acrylic polymer, (B) at least one hydroxyl-terminated component selected from the group consisting of (1) an organic diol having the formula where R1 and R2 are individually selected from the group of hydrogen and an alkyl group having 1, 3-5 carbon atoms and (2) a hydroxyl terminated reaction product of trimethylol propane and a lactone; (C) an organic polyisocyanate crosslinking component, at least portion of which comprises a trimer of isophorone diisocyanate or hexamethylene diisocyanate and the composition further contains, a curing catalyst, of a dialkyl tin aliphatic carboxylate, a tertiary aliphatic mono or diamine, an aliphatic carboxylic acid, and optionally, a zinc or calcium organic acid salt in an effective amount sucType: GrantFiled: January 4, 2011Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Gia Huynh-Ba, Patrick Henry Corcoran
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Publication number: 20110111117Abstract: A fast hardening clear coating composition for repairing a clear coat/color coat finish or a pigmented mono-coat of a vehicle comprising a film forming binder and an organic liquid carrier, where the binder contains a hydroxyl polymer component comprising (A) hydroxyl-containing acrylic polymer, (B) at least one hydroxyl-terminated component selected from the group consisting of (1) an organic diol having the formula where R1 and R2 are individually selected from the group of hydrogen and an alkyl group having 1, 3-5 carbon atoms and (2) a hydroxyl terminated reaction product of trimethylol propane and a lactone; (C) an organic polyisocyanate crosslinking component, at least portion of which comprises a trimer of isophorone diisocyanate or hexamethylene diisocyanate and the composition further contains, a curing catalyst, of a dialkyl tin aliphatic carboxylate, a tertiary aliphatic mono or diamine, an aliphatic carboxylic acid, and optionally, a zinc or calcium organic acid salt in an effective amount sucType: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2011Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: GIA HUYNH-BA, Patrick Henry Corcoran
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Patent number: 7888431Abstract: A fast hardening clear coating composition for repairing a clear coat/color coat finish or a pigmented mono-coat of a vehicle comprising a film forming binder and an organic liquid carrier, where the binder contains a hydroxyl polymer component comprising (A) hydroxyl-containing acrylic polymer, (B) at least one hydroxyl-terminated component selected from the group consisting of (1) an organic diol having the formula where R1 and R2 are individually selected from the group of hydrogen and an alkyl group having 1, 3-5 carbon atoms and (2) a hydroxyl terminated reaction product of trimethylol propane and a lactone; (C) an organic polyisocyanate crosslinking component, at least portion of which comprises a trimer of isophorone diisocyanate or hexamethylene diisocyanate and the composition further contains, a curing catalyst, of a dialkyl tin aliphatic carboxylate, a tertiary aliphatic mono or diamine, an aliphatic carboxylic acid, and optionally, a zinc or calcium organic acid salt in an effective amount sType: GrantFiled: February 7, 2007Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.Inventors: Gia Huynh-Ba, Patrick Henry Corcoran
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Publication number: 20100249263Abstract: The disclosure relates to a coating composition comprising a component A comprising one or more acrylic polymers having one or more chemically crosslinkable functional groups X selected from hydroxyl, thiol, isocyanate, epoxy, acid, thioisocyanate, acetoacetoxy, carboxyl, amine, anhydride, ketimine, aldimine, or urethane group; and a component B comprising one or more monomers or oligomers having one or more functional groups Y that react with the functional groups X to form a crosslink and one or more radiation crosslinkable functional groups D which are radiation crosslinkable ethylenically unsaturated double bonds; wherein said functional groups X and Y are pair-wise selected from hydroxyl and isocyanate groups, thiol and isocyanate groups, epoxy and acid groups, epoxy and isocyanate groups, isocyanate and amine groups, or isocyanate and urethane groups. This disclosure is also directed to a method of using said coating composition to coat a substrate including a vehicle, a vehicle body or parts thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventor: Gia Huynh-Ba
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Publication number: 20100168269Abstract: The present invention is directed to a coating composition that can be cured by radiation, chemical crosslink or both radiation and chemical crosslink. The coating composition comprises one or more radiation curable unsaturated double bonds and one or more crosslinkable functional groups, wherein a layer of said coating composition applied over a substrate cures into a dry coating when exposed to actinic radiation and said dry coating has a glass transition temperature between 15° C. to 120° C. The coating composition can be used in either 1K or 2K coating systems. This invention is also directed to a method of using said coating composition to coat a substrate including a vehicle, a vehicle body or parts thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2008Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: E. I. Du Pont De Nemours And CompanyInventor: Gia Huynh-Ba
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Publication number: 20070190257Abstract: A fast hardening clear coating composition for repairing a clear coat/color coat finish or a pigmented mono-coat of a vehicle comprising a film forming binder and an organic liquid carrier, where the binder contains a hydroxyl polymer component comprising (A) hydroxyl-containing acrylic polymer, (B) at least one hydroxyl-terminated component selected from the group consisting of (1) an organic diol having the formula where R1 and R2 are individually selected from the group of hydrogen and an alkyl group having 1, 3-5 carbon atoms and (2) a hydroxyl terminated reaction product of trimethylol propane and a lactone; (C) an organic polyisocyanate crosslinking component, at least portion of which comprises a trimer of isophorone diisocyanate or hexamethylene diisocyanate and the composition further contains, a curing catalyst, of a dialkyl tin aliphatic carboxylate, a tertiary aliphatic mono or diamine, an aliphatic carboxylic acid, and optionally, a zinc or calcium organic acid salt in an effective amount sType: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2007Publication date: August 16, 2007Inventors: Gia Huynh-Ba, Patrick Henry Corcoran
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Patent number: 7169475Abstract: A coating composition comprising a film forming binder of a. an acrylic polymer having pendant groups that are reactive with isocyanate moieties and having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 10 to 80° C.; b. a polytrimethylene ether diol having a Mn (number average molecular weight) of 500 to 5,000; and c. an organic polyisocyanate crosslinking agent; ?wherein the coating composition contains pigments and cures at ambient temperatures or elevated temperatures and forms a coating that is sandable and when used in combination with a top coat, for example, a colored base coat and clear coat or a pigmented mono-coat forms a chip resistant multi-layer coating useful for refinishing or repairing automotive and truck bodies and parts the coating composition can be used as an exterior clear coating composition primarily for automobiles, trucks and parts thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2004Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours & CompanyInventors: Patricia Mary Ellen Sormani, Hari Babu Sunkara, James William O'Neil, Joseph V. Kurian, Gia Huynh-Ba
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Patent number: 7157536Abstract: A composition that can be used as a component in auto clear coat and primer is disclosed. The composition comprises or is an alkoxylated amine having the formula of (A)[N(R1H)2]p including an isomer or mixture of isomers thereof. Also disclosed is a process, which comprises contacting an amine with an epoxide under a condition sufficient to produce an alkoxylated amine. Further disclosed is a composition that can be used as coating composition and primer, which comprises an alkoxylated amine and an organic polyisocyanate.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Gia Huynh-Ba, Patrick Henry Corcoran, Carl Brent Douglas, Christian Peter Lenges, John Stuart Coates
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Patent number: 7125932Abstract: The present invention provides (i) a novel composition which is the polyol reaction product polyol made by mixing together a polyhydroxyl-tertiary amine, at least two of the hydroxyl groups of said amine being indirectly bonded to a nitrogen atom of said amine through a chain containing at least two carbon atoms, with an organic polyisocyanate, essentially all the isocyanate groups of said polyisocyanate being reacted with hydroxyl groups of said amine, and (ii) a coating composition containing a film forming binder and a volatile organic liquid carrier, said binder containing (I) hydroxyl-containing acrylic polymer and (II) the novel composition (i).Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2002Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: E. I. du Pont Nemours and CompanyInventor: Gia Huynh-Ba
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Publication number: 20050159537Abstract: A composition that can be used as a component in auto clear coat and primer is disclosed. The composition comprises or is an alkoxylated amine having the formula of (A)[N(R1H)2]p including an isomer or mixture of isomers thereof. Also disclosed is a process, which comprises contacting an amine with an epoxide under a condition sufficient to produce an alkoxylated amine. Further disclosed is a composition that can be used as coating composition and primer, which comprises an alkoxylated amine and an organic polyisocyanate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2004Publication date: July 21, 2005Inventors: Gia Huynh-Ba, Patrick Corcoran, Carl Douglas, Christian Lenges, John Coates
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Publication number: 20040258923Abstract: A coating composition comprising a film forming binder ofType: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2004Publication date: December 23, 2004Inventors: Patricia Mary Ellen Sormani, Hari Babu Sunkara, James William O'Neil, Joseph V. Kurian, Gia Huynh-Ba
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Patent number: 6780908Abstract: The present invention relates to coating compositions which can be used as the clear coat for automotive finishing or refinishing, the coating composition contining a film-forming binder which contains (A) hydroxyl-containing acrylic polymer and polyhydroxyl-tertiary amine, (B) organic polyisocyanate, and (C) catalyst, to provide a coating film which is quick to cure at ambient temperature.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2000Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Gia Huynh-Ba
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Patent number: 6703452Abstract: The present invention relates to coating compositions which can be used as the clear coat for automotive finishing or refinishing, the coating composition containing a film-forming binder which contains (A) hydroxyl-containing acrylic polymer and polyhydroxyl-tertiary amine, (B) organic polyisocyanate, and (C) catalyst, to provide a coating film which is quick to cure at ambient temperature.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2001Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Gia Huynh-Ba
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Patent number: 6680356Abstract: A fast hardening clear coating composition for repairing a clearcoat/colorcoat finish of a vehicle, which composition is capable of being wet sanded, buffed or polished to a high gloss finish on the same day of application, comprising a film forming binder and an organic liquid carrier, where the binder contains a hydroxyl component comprising a hydroxyl-containing acrylic polymer and a hydroxyl-terminated polyester oligomer, and an organic polyisocyanate crosslinking component, at least portion of which comprises a trimer of isophorone diisocyanate, where the composition further contains, as a combined curing catalyst, at least one dialkyl tin aliphatic carboxylate, at least one tertiary aliphatic mono or diamine, and at least one aliphatic carboxylic acid, in an effective amount such that the clear coating composition on curing at ambient temperatures is in a water spot free and sufficiently hard state for sanding or buffing within about 4 hours after application or on cool down when baked under normal condType: GrantFiled: September 9, 2002Date of Patent: January 20, 2004Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Gia Huynh-Ba
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Patent number: 6677425Abstract: A fast hardening clear coating composition for repairing a clearcoat/colorcoat finish of a vehicle, which composition is capable of being wet sanded, buffed or polished to a high gloss finish on the same day of application, comprising a film forming binder and an organic liquid carrier, where the binder contains a hydroxyl component comprising a hydroxyl-containing acrylic polymer and a hydroxyl-terminated polyester oligomer, and an organic polyisocyanate crosslinking component, at least portion of which comprises a trimer of isophorone diisocyanate, where the composition further contains, as a combined curing catalyst, at least one dialkyl tin aliphatic carboxylate, at least one tertiary aliphatic mono or diamine, and at least one aliphatic carboxylic acid, in an effective amount such that the clear coating composition on curing at ambient temperatures is in a water spot free and sufficiently hard state for sanding or buffing within about 4 hours after application or on cool down when baked under normal condType: GrantFiled: September 9, 2002Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Gia Huynh-Ba
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Publication number: 20030105229Abstract: The present invention provides (i) a novel composition which is the polyol reaction product polyol made by mixing together a polyhydroxyl-tertiary amine, at least two of the hydroxyl groups of said amine being indirectly bonded to a nitrogen atom of said amine through a chain containing at least two carbon atoms, with an organic polyisocyanate, essentially all the isocyanate groups of said polyisocyanate being reacted with hydroxyl groups of said amine, and (ii) a coating composition containing a film forming binder and a volatile organic liquid carrier, said binder containing (I) hydroxyl-containing acrylic polymer and (II) the novel composition (i).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2002Publication date: June 5, 2003Inventor: Gia Huynh-Ba
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Publication number: 20030069382Abstract: A fast hardening clear coating composition for repairing a clearcoat/colorcoat finish of a vehicle, which composition is capable of being wet sanded, buffed or polished to a high gloss finish on the same day of application, comprising a film forming binder and an organic liquid carrier, where the binder contains a hydroxyl component comprising a hydroxyl-containing acrylic polymer and a hydroxyl-terminated polyester oligomer, and an organic polyisocyanate crosslinking component, at least portion of which comprises a trimer of isophorone diisocyanate, where the composition further contains, as a combined curing catalyst, at least one dialkyl tin aliphatic carboxylate, at least one tertiary aliphatic mono or diamine, and at least one aliphatic carboxylic acid, in an effective amount such that the clear coating composition on curing at ambient temperatures is in a water spot free and sufficiently hard state for sanding or buffing within about 4 hours after application or on cool down when baked under normal condType: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2002Publication date: April 10, 2003Inventor: Gia Huynh-Ba
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Publication number: 20030069381Abstract: A fast hardening clear coating composition for repairing a clearcoat/colorcoat finish of a vehicle, which composition is capable of being wet sanded, buffed or polished to a high gloss finish on the same day of application, comprising a film forming binder and an organic liquid carrier, where the binder contains a hydroxyl component comprising a hydroxyl-containing acrylic polymer and a hydroxyl-terminated polyester oligomer, and an organic polyisocyanate crosslinking component, at least portion of which comprises a trimer of isophorone diisocyanate, where the composition further contains, as a combined curing catalyst, at least one dialkyl tin aliphatic carboxylate, at least one tertiary aliphatic mono or diamine, and at least one aliphatic carboxylic acid, in an effective amount such that the clear coating composition on curing at ambient temperatures is in a water spot free and sufficiently hard state for sanding or buffing within about 4 hours after application or on cool down when baked under normal condType: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2002Publication date: April 10, 2003Inventor: Gia Huynh-Ba