Patents by Inventor Graciela Morales

Graciela Morales 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).

  • Patent number: 9527945
    Abstract: A process for producing rubber modified polymers having an increased rubber phase volume, including feeding a vinyl aromatic monomer and an elastomer to a polymerization reactor to form a reaction mixture, polymerizing the reaction mixture, combining a copolymer to the polymerized reaction mixture to form a combined mixture, subjecting the combined mixture to further polymerization, and obtaining a rubber modified polymer product from the further polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: FINA TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Carlos DeAnda, Graciela Morales, Jose M. Sosa, David Knoeppel
  • Publication number: 20150307644
    Abstract: A process for producing rubber modified polymers having an increased rubber phase volume, including feeding a vinyl aromatic monomer and an elastomer to a polymerization reactor to form a reaction mixture, polymerizing the reaction mixture, combining a copolymer to the polymerized reaction mixture to form a combined mixture, subjecting the combined mixture to further polymerization, and obtaining a rubber modified polymer product from the further polymerization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Carlos DeAnda, Graciela Morales, Jose M. Sosa, David Knoeppel
  • Patent number: 9120889
    Abstract: A process for producing rubber modified polymers having an increased rubber phase volume, including feeding a vinyl aromatic monomer and an elastomer to a polymerization reactor to form a reaction mixture, polymerizing the reaction mixture, combining a copolymer to the polymerized reaction mixture to form a combined mixture, subjecting the combined mixture to further polymerization, and obtaining a rubber modified polymer product from the further polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: FINA TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Carlos DeAnda, Graciela Morales, Jose M. Sosa, David Knoeppel
  • Publication number: 20140323654
    Abstract: A process for producing rubber modified polymers having an increased rubber phase volume, including feeding a vinyl aromatic monomer and an elastomer to a polymerization reactor to form a reaction mixture, polymerizing the reaction mixture, combining a copolymer to the polymerized reaction mixture to form a combined mixture, subjecting the combined mixture to further polymerization, and obtaining a rubber modified polymer product from the further polymerization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Carlos DeAnda, Graciela Morales, Jose M. Sosa, David Knoeppel
  • Patent number: 8822597
    Abstract: A process for producing rubber modified polymers having an increased rubber phase volume, including feeding a vinyl aromatic monomer and an elastomer to a polymerization reactor to form a reaction mixture, polymerizing the reaction mixture, combining a copolymer to the polymerized reaction mixture to form a combined mixture, subjecting the combined mixture to further polymerization, and obtaining a rubber modified polymer product from the further polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Fina Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos DeAnda, Graciela Morales, Jose M. Sosa, David Knoeppel
  • Publication number: 20120277375
    Abstract: A process for producing rubber modified polymers having an increased rubber phase volume, including feeding a vinyl aromatic monomer and an elastomer to a polymerization reactor to form a reaction mixture, polymerizing the reaction mixture, combining a copolymer to the polymerized reaction mixture to form a combined mixture, subjecting the combined mixture to further polymerization, and obtaining a rubber modified polymer product from the further polymerization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: Fina Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos DeAnda, Graciela Morales, Jose M. Sosa, David Knoeppel
  • Patent number: 7608669
    Abstract: This invention describes the obtainment of impact-resistant materials from a block copolymer that comprises as monomers an alkadiene (conjugated diene) and a vinyl aromatic compound, which is used as impact modifier to obtain such materials and in which, at least, one of the blocks of the vinyl aromatic compound is polydisperse. The invention allows obtaining morphologies such as rods, points or capsules by incorporating such copolymer into a polymeric matrix derived from vinyl aromatic monomers independently from other agents such as chain transfer agents, and achieving increases, in the impact values up to 50% through the use of the copolymer of this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Dynasol Elastomeros, S.A. De C.V.
    Inventors: Graciela Morales-Balado, Rodolfo Flores-Flores, Antonio Montalvo-Robles, Ramon Enrique Diaz De Leon-Gomez, Pablo Acuna-Vazquez
  • Publication number: 20060194915
    Abstract: This invention describes the obtainment of impact-resistant materials from a block copolymer that comprises as monomers an alkadiene (conjugated diene) and a vinyl aromatic compound, which is used as impact modifier to obtain such materials and in which, at least, one of the blocks of the vinyl aromatic compound is polydisperse. The invention allows obtaining morphologies such as rods, points or capsules by incorporating such copolymer into a polymeric matrix derived from vinyl aromatic monomers independently from other agents such as chain transfer agents, and achieving increases, in the impact values up to 50% through the use of the copolymer of this invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventors: Graciela Morales-Balado, Rodolfo Flores-Flores, Antonio Montalvo-Robles, Ramon Diaz De Leon-Gomez, Pablo Acuna-Vazquez