Patents by Inventor Nan L. Yang

Nan L. Yang 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: 5206308
    Abstract: Novel oxymethylene graft polymers are obtained by grafting, via Michael addition, an amine functional polymer onto an oxymethylene backbone having pendant acrylate or substituted acrylate ester groups serving as reactive sites for the graft reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Assignee: Hoechst Celanese Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew B. Auerbach, Jerry A. Broussard, Nan L. Yang, James L. Paul
  • Patent number: 5043398
    Abstract: Novel oxymethylene graft polymers are obtained by grafting a functional compound (i.e., a polymer or compound having one or two hydroxyl, carboxyl, or amine functional groups) onto an oxymethylene backbone having pendant hydroxyl groups which serve as reactive sites for the graft reaction with diisocyanate coupling agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: Hoechst Celanese Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew B. Auerbach, Jerry A. Broussard, Nan L. Yang, James L. Paul
  • Patent number: 5004798
    Abstract: Cationic copolymerization of trioxane and trimethylolpropane (TMP) formal or its ester derivatives yields acetal copolymers having pendant functional groups. The TMP formal or ester derivatives of TMP formal may therefore include functional groups selected from hydroxyl or ester moieties which are protected and thus survive the copolymerization with trioxane. These groups may then be present as functional reactive sites for the subsequent synthesis of block copolymers and/or to chemically bind modifiers to the acetal copolymer backbone, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1991
    Assignee: Hoechst Celanese Corporation
    Inventors: Jerry A. Broussard, Andrew B. Auerbach, Nan L. Yang, James L. Paul, Yong C. Zheng, Chong L. Zhang
  • Patent number: 4983708
    Abstract: Cationic copolymerization of trioxane with glycidyl ester derivatives, preferably glycidyl acrylate derivatives, produces thermally stable, usually cross-linked, acetal copolymer. The resulting acetal copolymer will exhibit side chain ester functionality, and particularly side chain vinyl functionality when glycidyl acrylate derivatives are employed, so as to permit its futher reaction with other chemical moieties to achieve an acetal copolymer of modified chemical and/or physical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1991
    Assignee: Hoechst Celanese Corporation
    Inventors: Nan L. Yang, Andrew Auerbach, Rose. Pesce, Jerry A. Broussard, James L. Paul
  • Patent number: 4975519
    Abstract: Cationic polymerization of trioxane and a mixture of ester derivatives of .alpha.,.alpha.- and .alpha.,.beta.-isomers of glycerol formal yields acetal terpolymers having pendant functional groups (i.e., ester groups, or hydroxyl groups obtained by hydrolyzing ester groups, pendent from the polymer's backbone). The glycerol formal monomers employed in this invention may include functional groups selected from ester moieties which are protected from, and thus survive, the polymerization process with trioxane. These groups may then be present as functional reactive sites for the subsequent synthesis of block polymers and/or to chemically bind modifiers to the acetal terpolymer backbone, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Hoechst Celanese Corporation
    Inventors: Nan L. Yang, Andrew Auerbach, Rose Pesce, Jerry A. Broussard, James L. Paul