Organic Silicon Compound Contains An Ether Group Patents (Class 521/112)
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Patent number: 6458859Abstract: By blending acicular conductive titanium oxide and an antistatic agent having a metal ion-containing moiety in an organopolysiloxane having at least two aliphatic unsaturated groups, there is obtained a silicone rubber composition which is curable with an organic peroxide and/or an organohydrogenpolysiloxane/platinum group catalyst. The composition cures into silicone rubber having a stabilized resistivity in the semiconductive region, especially in the range of 1×103 to 1×1012 &OHgr;-cm, even under high voltages. The composition is thus suitable as a semiconductive roll material for use as charging rolls, transfer rolls and developing rolls.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2000Date of Patent: October 1, 2002Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Hayashida, Tsutomu Nakamura
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Publication number: 20020132867Abstract: The invention relates to the use of mixtures of organofunctionally modified polysiloxanes with branched alcohols in the production of flexible polyurethane foams.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2001Publication date: September 19, 2002Inventors: Rob Borgogelli, Oliver Eyrisch
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Patent number: 6423755Abstract: Polyurethane foams containing a syntactic phase and a cellular, non-syntactic phase are useful as reinforcing foams, such as in automotive applications. The foams are conveniently made in the reaction of a high viscosity isocyanate-reactive component and a high-viscosity polyisocyanate component, at least one of which contains a plurality of hollow microspheres.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2000Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: Essex Specialty Products, IncInventors: Mark P. Allen, Roney J. Matijega
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Publication number: 20010051667Abstract: By blending acicular conductive titanium oxide and an antistatic agent having a metal ion-containing moiety in an organopolysiloxane having at least two aliphatic unsaturated groups, there is obtained a silicone rubber composition which is curable with an organic peroxide and/or an organohydrogenpolysiloxane/platinum group catalyst. The composition cures into silicone rubber having a stabilized resistivity in the semiconductive region, especially in the range of 1×103 to 1×1012 &OHgr;-cm, even under high voltages. The composition is thus suitable as a semiconductive roll material for use as charging rolls, transfer rolls and developing rolls.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2000Publication date: December 13, 2001Inventors: Osamu Hayashida, Tsutomu Nakamura
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Patent number: 6271274Abstract: An open-cell polyisocyanurate foam for fixing and supporting plants, which is prepared from an aromatic isocyanate, a hydroxyl compound having an average number of functional groups of 1.0 or above and an oxyethylene content of 20 wt % or above, an isocyanuration catalyst and a silicone foam stabilizer consisting of a polysiloxyane/polyoxyalkylene copolymer wherein the terminal OH group of the polyether segment is capped with a compound not having any other active hydrogen atom and oxyethylene units are contained in an amount of 30 wt % or above, and which exhibits a density of 8 to 70 kg/m3, an open cell content of 98% or above, a hardness of 0.1 to 2.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1999Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignee: Toyo Quality One CorporationInventor: Yoko Sano
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Patent number: 6265456Abstract: An improved process is provided for the preparation of siloxane-oxyalkylene and siloxane-alkyl copolymer compositions via a hydrosilation reaction in the presence of high boiling point natural vegetable oils as the reaction solvent. The reaction solvent need not be removed from the block copolymer product, and indeed is beneficial to remain with the copolymer particularly when the copolymer is used as a surfactant for polyurethane foam formulations. Soybean oil and linseed oil are the preferred high boiling natural oil solvents when the copolymer product is to be used in the preparation of the surfactants for polyurethane foams. High resiliency polyurethane foam prepared with these natural oils present in the surfactant preparation afforded improved compression sets, wet compression sets and humid aged compression sets.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1999Date of Patent: July 24, 2001Assignee: CK Witco CorporationInventors: Paul E. Austin, Edmond J. Derderian, Robert A. Kayser
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Patent number: 6258866Abstract: Provided herein are subcombinations from which polyurethane foams and polyurethane foams containing polyisocyanurates may be prepared. The subcombinations are unique in that they contain components which synergistically act towards promoting compatibility between a blowing agent and the remaining components of the formulation. Through the use of the teachings herein, blowing agent concentrations in excess of 25% by weight of the total subcombination may be incorporated.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2000Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: Huntsman Petrochemical CorporationInventor: Frank C. Kohoutek
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Patent number: 6258867Abstract: A method for making an energy-absorbing foam with polyurethane fillers that produces an energy-absorbing foam with properties that are comparable to a foam made without fillers.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1999Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: Bayer CorporationInventors: Neil H. Nodelman, David D. Steppan
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Publication number: 20010004646Abstract: The invention relates to the use of silicone-polyether copolymers of the formula I 1Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2000Publication date: June 21, 2001Inventors: Georg Burkhart, Georg Feldmann-Krane, Ingo Fleute-Schlachter, Andreas Weier
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Patent number: 6245824Abstract: A method for preparing a polyurethane flexible molded by reacting an organic polyisocyanate with a polyol in the presence of urethane catalyst, water as a blowing agent, optionally a cell opener, and a silicone surfactant cell stabilizer having the formula: Me3Si(OSiMe2)x(OSiMeG)yOSiMe3 wherein x has an average value from 1 to 4.5 and y has an average value from 0.75 to 7.5, the value of x/y is from 0.25 to 5 and the value of x+y is from greater than 5 to 9, G is a group having the formula —D(OR″)mA where D is a divalent organic linking radical, R″ is an alkylene group, m has an average value from 1 to 5, and A denotes an —OR′″ or an —OOCR′″ group, where R′″ is selected from the group consisting of methyl, ethyl, and a combination of methyl and ethyl.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1999Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: John Herbert Frey, David Robert Battice, Allen Robert Arnold, Jr.
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Patent number: 6239186Abstract: A method for preparing a polyurethane flexible foam which comprises reacting an organic polyisocyanate with a polyol in the presence of urethane catalyst, water as a blowing agent, optionally a cell opener, and a polydimethylsiloxane cell stabilizer composition which comprises at least 90 wt % of polydimethylsiloxane molecules having the formula: Me3Si(OSiMe2)nOSiMe3 where n is 5 to 7, provided at least 15 wt % of each of the three molecules in which n is 5, 6 and 7 is present.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1999Date of Patent: May 29, 2001Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Francis Mansfield, David Robert Battice, Allen Robert Arnold, Jr., Stephan Herman Wendel, John Herbert Frey
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Patent number: 6235804Abstract: A method for preparing a polyurethane flexible molded by reacting an organic polyisocyanate with a polyol in the presence of urethane catalyst, water as a blowing agent, optionally a cell opener, and a silicone surfactant cell stabilizer having the formula: Me3Si(OSiMe2)x(OSiMeG)yOSiMe3 wherein G is a group having the formula —D(OR″)mA where D is a divalent organic linking radical, R″ is an alkylene group, m has an average value from 1 to 5, A denotes an —OR′″ or an —OOCR′″ group, where R′″ is selected from the group consisting of methyl, ethyl, and a combination of methyl and ethyl, x has an average value from 1 to 3 and y has an average value from 0.25 to 1, the value of x/y is from 2.5 to 5 and the value of x+y is from 1.5 to 3.5.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1999Date of Patent: May 22, 2001Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: John Herbert Frey, David Robert Battice, Allen Robert Arnold, Jr.
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Patent number: 6201035Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for the formation of and a flexible slabstock polyurethane foam having substantially improved indentation force deflection and resilience characteristics while maintaining the other physical properties. The method comprises the steps of: forming a polyol blend having a nominal functionality of at least 2.3 by combining at least one polyether polyol having a plurality of terminal ethylene oxide caps of from 5 to 25% by weight based on the total weight of the polyether polyol, a molecular weight of greater than or equal to 4000 Daltons, and an unsaturation of greater than 0.04 meq/g KOH; at least one graft polyether polyol having an equivalent weight of greater than 1000 Daltons, a solids content of at least 28%, and a plurality of terminal ethylene oxide caps of from 5 to 25% by weight based on the total weight of the graft polyether polyol; and at least one very low unsaturated polyether polyol having an unsaturation of less than or equal to 0.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2000Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: Roeland Tuinman, Thomas B. Lee, Thomas L. Fishback, Curtis J. Reichel
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Patent number: 6166098Abstract: The invention provides for a composition comprising a mixture of Si--C- and Si--O--C- linked silicone polyether block copolymers and the use of said compositions as an additive in the production of polyurethane foams.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2000Date of Patent: December 26, 2000Assignee: Goldschmidt AGInventors: Georg Burkhart, Andreas Weier
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Patent number: 6136876Abstract: A method for preparing a flexible polyurethane foam by reacting an organic polyisocyanate with a polyol in the presence of urethane catalyst, water as a blowing agent, optionally a silicone surfactant, and a cell opener characterized in that the cell opener comprises an active methylene- or methine-group containing compound.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1998Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignee: Air Products and ChemicalsInventors: Ingrid Kristine Meier, Michael Louie
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Patent number: 6127441Abstract: An expandable resin composition comprising:(A) 100 parts by weight of HDPE (high density polyethylene) having a DSC melting point of about 127 to about 136 degrees C.; a density of 0.945 to 0.967 gram per cubic centimeter; and a melt flow rate of about 0.1 to about 10 grams per 10 minutes, and for each 100 parts by weight of component (A),(B) about 2 to about 50 parts by weight of polypropylene having a DSC melting point of at least about 130 degrees C.;(C) about 50 to about 200 parts by weight of an ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer, prepared with a metallocene catalyst, having a DSC melting point of about 98 to about 121 degrees C.; a density of 0.900 to 0.935 gram per cubic centimeter; and a melt flow rate of about 0.5 to about 3 grams per 10 minutes;(D) about 0.1 to about 5 parts by weight of a polysiloxane-polyether block copolymer having the following formula:R.sub.3 --Si--O--R.sub.2 (SiO).sub.m --RX(SiO).sub.n --SiR.sub.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1999Date of Patent: October 3, 2000Assignee: Nippon Unicar Company LimitedInventors: Toshio Sakamoto, Koji Ishihara, Takashi Furukawa
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Patent number: 6124369Abstract: A process for producing an organosilicon resin is disclosed. The process includes the steps of equilibrating a mixture of silane compounds of Si(OR.sup.3).sub.4 wherein R.sup.3 's are a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R.sup.2 Si(OR.sup.4).sub.3 wherein R.sup.2 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and R.sup.4 's are a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and R.sup.1.sub.3 SiX wherein X is an --OH group, an --OSiR.sup.1.sub.3 group or a hydrolyzable group, and R.sup.1 's are a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; adding water to the product of the equilibration reaction to carry out hydrolysis reaction; and adding an aqueous alkali to the product of the hydrolysis reaction to carry out condensation reaction. The organosilicon resin obtained is well dispersible in a resin premix containing a polyol, a blowing agent, a catalyst and a foam stabilizer, and also is highly hydrophobic and low reactive.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1999Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Muneo Kudo, Shinichi Morioka, Mitsuo Asai
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Patent number: 6121336Abstract: Polyurethane foams prepared using polysiloxane/polyoxyalkylene surfactants, preferably blended with a viscosity modifying agent, particularly in combination with particulate silica, especially silica aerogel, exhibit improved thermal insulating capacity, as measured by K-factor, and improved closed cell content, without increasing the density of the polyurethane foam.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1994Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: Michael O. Okoroafor, Alan E. Wang, Bulent E. Yoldas
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Patent number: 6117963Abstract: Block copolymers of the general average formula ##STR1## where, A=radical R.sup.1, radical D, or radical E,D=radical of the formula--R.sup.2.sub.f --O--(C.sub.2 H.sub.4-g R.sup.5.sub.g O--).sub.n (CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2-i R.sup.6.sub.i --O--).sub.m R.sup.3,and E isa) a radical of the general formula --R.sup.2.sub.f --O--(C.sub.2 H.sub.4-g R.sup.5.sub.g O--).sub.n R.sup.3 and/orb) an epoxy-functionalized alkyl substituent which may contain heteroatoms and/orc) a monohydroxylalkyl, dihydroxylalkyl, or trihydroxyalkyl substituent which may also be aromatic or branched and partially or fully etherfied or esterfied and/ord) a halogen- or pseudohalogen-substituted alkyl, aryl, or aralkyl radical which may also be branched,provided that there are two or more different polyether copolymer units in the block copolymer, the remaining variables being defined herein, are disclosed, as well as their use as surface-active substances, in particular as additives in the production of polyurethane foams.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1997Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: TH Goldschmidt AGInventors: Tammo Boinowitz, Georg Burkhart, Rolf-Dieter Langenhagen, Andreas Weier
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Patent number: 6100359Abstract: The present invention relates to an ablative fire resistant hydrophilic polyurea foam made from low molecular weight polyols capped with an isocyanate, with the polyol mixture including a fire retardant polyol that preferably includes carborane disilanol, with the fire retardant polyol containing the carborane disilanol imparting superior fire retardancy characteristics. The present invention also relates to a prepolymer for forming the polyurea foam and the present invention especially relates to the use of a carborane disilanol fire retardant polyol. The present invention also relates to a method for forming the polyurea foam and the prepolymer.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1998Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Inventor: Sina Ghatan
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Patent number: 6080800Abstract: A method for preparing a flexible or semi-flexible polyurethane foam by reacting an organic polyisocyanate with a polyol in the presence of urethane catalyst, water as a blowing agent, optionally a silicone surfactant, and a cell opening additive characterized in that the cell opening additive comprises an aqueous dispersion of particles comprising a wax substance and optionally an emulsifier, at least 35% of the particles having a size of 0.2 to 5 microns and a melting point which ranges from 0 to 55.degree. C. below the maximum foam exotherm temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1999Date of Patent: June 27, 2000Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: John Herbert Frey, Allen Robert Arnold, Jr., Timothy Charles Boyer, Kevin Rodney Lassila
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Patent number: 6071977Abstract: An improved process is provided for the preparation of siloxane-oxyalkylene and siloxane-alkyl copolymer compositions via a hydrosilation reaction in the presence of high boiling point natural vegetable oils as the reaction solvent. The reaction solvent need not be removed from the block copolymer product, and indeed is beneficial to remain with the copolymer particularly when the copolymer is used as a surfactant for polyurethane foam formulations. Soybean oil and linseed oil are the preferred high boiling natural oil solvents when the copolymer product is to be used in the preparation of the surfactants for polyurethane foams. High resiliency polyurethane foam prepared with these natural oils present in the surfactant preparation afforded improved compression sets, wet compression sets and humid aged compression sets.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1996Date of Patent: June 6, 2000Assignee: CK Witco CorporationInventors: Paul E. Austin, Edmond J. Derderian, Robert A. Kayser
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Patent number: 6005016Abstract: The present invention is directed to a rigid, molded foam produced by reacting: a) one or more organic polyisocyanates, with b) a polyol blend comprising i) 100 parts by weight of a mixture comprising: 1) from 30 to 80 parts by weight of one or more polyethers having hydroxy functionalities of 2 or 3 and molecular weights of from about 1,000 to about 8,000, the polyethers further being characterized as containing no nitrogen atoms and not being filled polyethers, 2) from 10 to 50 parts by weight of one or more adducts of toluene diamine and an alkylene oxide, the adduct having a molecular weight of from about 350 to about 700, 3) from 0 to 15 parts by weight of one or more di- or trialkanol amines, with the amounts of components 1), 2) and 3) totaling 100 parts, and c) from about 0.1 to about 4 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of component b) of a silicone cell-opening surfactant and d) from 1 to 7 parts by weight of water, and e) from 0.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1998Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Bayer CorporationInventors: Neil H. Nodelman, David D. Steppan, John W. Jenny, Peter Gansen
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Patent number: 5990185Abstract: A preformed stabilizer composition based on a precursor stabilizer obtainable by reacting a silicon atom containing compound of formula R.sub.n SiX.sub.4-n or R.sub.n Si((--OSi(R.sup.1).sub.2).sub.p X).sub.4-n wherein the R groups are independently saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbyl groups, at least one R group being an olefinically unsaturated hydrocarbyl group; R.sup.1 is a hydrocarbyl group, X is a C.sub.1 to C.sub.10 alkoxy group, n is an integer from 1 to 3 and p is an integer greater than zero, with a polyether polyol having an average molecular weight in excess of 400 and a hydroxyl number in the range 20 to 280 is used to manufacture polymer polyol compositions having a combination of (a) high polymer content, from 30 weight percent to 60 weight percent, (b) lower viscosities, typically less than 9,000 centipose, (c) product stability such that 100% passes through a 150 mesh screen, and (d) up to 100% of the polymer solids content passes through a 700 mesh screen.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1998Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: The Dow Chemical CompanyInventor: Graeme Douglas Fogg
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Patent number: 5985948Abstract: The invention relates to the use of silicone-polyether copolymers of the formula I ##STR1## as surface-active substances in the production of high-resilience polyurethane foams.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 1999Date of Patent: November 16, 1999Assignee: Th. Goldschmidt AgInventors: Georg Burkhart, Bernd-Jurgen Klietsch, Rolf-Dieter Langenhagen, Andreas Weier
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Patent number: 5981613Abstract: The present invention relates to a siloxane-oxyalkylene copolymer surfactant having the formula MD.sub.x D'.sub.y M wherein M represents (CH.sub.3).sub.3 SiO.sub.1/2 or R(CH.sub.3).sub.2 SiO.sub.1/2, D represents (CH.sub.3).sub.2 SiO.sub.2/2, D' represents (CH.sub.3)RSiO.sub.2/2, and the value of x+y is from 48 and 220, and the ratio x/y is from 5 to 15 inclusive. In the above formulae for M and D', R is a polyether-containing substituent selected from the group consisting of (1)--C.sub.n H.sub.2n O(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.a (C.sub.3 H.sub.6 O).sub.b R' moieties having weight average molecular weights of from about 2300-3200 and wherein n is 3-4, the ratio a/b is from 0.5 to 1.3 inclusive, R' represents hydrogen, an alkyl group of 1-4 carbon atoms or --C(O)CH.sub.3 and (2)--C.sub.n' H.sub.2n' O(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.a' (C.sub.3 H.sub.6 O).sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 1998Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: Dow Corning CorporationInventors: Vicky Sue Cobb, Michael Allen Stanga, Wanda Wells Rauscher, Robert Edward Stevens, Robert H. Whitmarsh, Kevin Dale Wiese
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Patent number: 5908871Abstract: A method for preparing a polyester polyurethane flexible slabstock foam by reacting an organic polyisocyanate with a polyester polyol in the presence of urethane catalyst, water as a blowing agent and a silicone surfactant characterized in that the silicone surfactant comprises the reaction product of 1,1,1,3,5,5,5-hepta(hydrocarbyl)trisiloxane coupled with polyalkyleneoxide mono allyl ether and capped with a succinic anhydride.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1998Date of Patent: June 1, 1999Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: John Herbert Frey, David Robert Battice, Krunoslav Muha, Lenin James Petroff
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Patent number: 5891977Abstract: The present invention relates to organopolysiloxanes comprising polyhydroxyorganyl radicals, especially sugar radicals or sugar-derivative radicals, and polyoxyalkylene radicals, to processes for their preparation and to their use.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1998Date of Patent: April 6, 1999Assignee: Th. Goldschmidt AGInventors: Thomas Dietz, Burghard Gruning, Peter Lersch, Christian Weitemeyer
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Patent number: 5883142Abstract: A method for making a rigid polyurethane foam by reacting a polyisocyanate and a polyol in the presence of a urethane catalyst, a blowing agent and a silicone surfactant characterized by employing as a blowing agent a C1-C4 HFC or HCFC, preferably HFC-245fa, and as the silicone surfactant a polyether-polysiloxane coploymer having a total surfactant molecular weight of 12,000 to 100,000 g/mole, a wt % siloxane in the surfactant of 10 to 40 wt %, a molecular weight of the polyether portion of 1200 to 6,000 g/mole, and a wt % of ethylene oxide in the polyether portion of 30-100 wt %.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1997Date of Patent: March 16, 1999Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer Ann Chojnacki, Karla Asuncion Sabram
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Patent number: 5877268Abstract: The invention discloses a new class of silicone surfactants and their use for the preparation of flexible urethane foam. The surfactants incorporate high molecular weight polyethers prepared with narrower molecular weight distributions than conventional polyethers. These polyethers are prepared using a double metal cyanide (DMC) catalyst. These surfactants are better foam stabilizers than the analogous surfactants prepared from conventional polyethers.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1998Date of Patent: March 2, 1999Assignee: OSi Specialties, Inc.Inventors: Michael W. Jorgenson, Richard Budnik, Glenn A. Miller
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Patent number: 5856678Abstract: Disclosed is a process for preparing an open-celled rigid polyurethane foam by reacting a polyisocyanate with a polyol in the presence of a blowing agent, usually water, and a cell opening agent. The cell opening agent comprises a combination of a polyoxyalkylene polysiloxane having a cloud point of 65.degree. C. or less, and a second substance that has a critical surface free energy of less than about 23 mJ/m.sup.2. Highly preferred as second substance is fine particulate poly(tetrafluoroethylene) polymer.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1998Date of Patent: January 5, 1999Assignee: The Dow Chemical CompanyInventors: Guido F. Smits, Guliano Cini, Henri J. M. Grunbauer, Jacobus A. F. Broos
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Patent number: 5856369Abstract: The invention discloses a new class of silicone surfactants and their use for the preparation of flexible urethane foam. The surfactants incorporate high molecular weight polyethers prepared with narrower molecular weight distributions than conventional polyethers. These polyethers are prepared using a double metal cyanide (DMC) catalyst. These surfactants are better foam stabilizers than the analogous surfactants prepared from conventional polyethers.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1997Date of Patent: January 5, 1999Assignee: OSi Specialties, Inc.Inventors: Michael W. Jorgenson, Richard Budnik, Glenn A. Miller
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Patent number: 5852065Abstract: A method for preparing a polyurethane flexible molded or rigid foam by reacting an organic polyisocyanate with a polyol in the presence of urethane catalyst, water as a blowing agent, optionally a silicone surfactant cell stabilizer, and a cell opener characterized in that the cell opener comprises the reaction product of 1,1,1,3,5,5,5-hepta(hydrocarbyl)-trisiloxane coupled with polyalkyleneoxide mono allyl ether and capped with a C1-C20 hydrocarbyl group-containing succinic anhydride.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1998Date of Patent: December 22, 1998Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: John Herbert Frey, David Robert Battice, Karla Asuncion Sabram, Lenin James Petroff
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Patent number: 5844010Abstract: The invention relates to the use of block copolymers having linked siloxane blocks of the general average formula ##STR1## as additive in the production of polyurethane foams.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1997Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: Th. Goldschmidt AGInventors: Georg Burkhart, Rolf-Dieter Langenhagen, Andreas Weier
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Patent number: 5844009Abstract: The invention relates to physically-blown low density polyethylene (LDPE) foams that are blends of an LDPE resin and a silane-grafted single-site initiated polyolefin resin. The LDPE resin generally has a density between about 0.91 and about 0.93 g/cm.sup.3 and a melt index greater than 1, and the silane-grafted single-site initiated polyolefin resin generally is a copolymer of ethylene and a C.sub.3 -C.sub.20 alpha-olefin that has a density between about 0.86 and about 0.96 g/cm.sup.3 and a molecular weight distribution between about 1.5 and about 3.5.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 1996Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: Sentinel Products Corp.Inventors: Robert F. Hurley, John D. Bambara, Michael Bambara, Richard Bambara
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Patent number: 5830970Abstract: The present invention relates to a siloxane-oxyalkylene copolymer surfactant having the formula MD.sub.x D'.sub.y M wherein M represents (CH.sub.3).sub.3 SiO.sub.1/2, or R(CH.sub.3).sub.2 SiO.sub.1/2, D represents (CH.sub.3).sub.2 SiO.sub.2/2, D' represents (CH.sub.3)RSiO.sub.2/2, and the value of x+y is from 48 and 220, and the ratio x/y is from 5 to 15 inclusive. In the above formulae for M and D', R is a polyether-containing substituent selected from the group consisting of(1) --C.sub.n H.sub.2n O(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.a (C.sub.3 H.sub.6 O).sub.b R' moieties having weight average molecular weights in the range 2300-3400 and wherein n is 3-4, the ratio a/b is from 0.5 to 1.3 inclusive, R' represents hydrogen, an alkyl group of 1-4 carbon atoms or --C(O)CH.sub.3 and(2) --C.sub.n' H.sub.2n' O(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.a' (C.sub.3 H.sub.6 O).sub.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1996Date of Patent: November 3, 1998Assignee: Dow Corning CorporationInventors: Vicky Sue Cobb, Wanda Wells Rauscher, Michael Allen Stanga, Robert Edward Stevens, Robert H. Whitmarsh, Kevin Dale Wiese
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Patent number: 5807903Abstract: This invention relates to a method for preparing a flexible polyurethane slabstock foam by reacting a polyol, an organic diisocyanate, and water in the presence of at least one urethane catalyst, a siloxane-oxyalkylene copolymer surfactant and, optionally another blowing agent, where the surfactant has the average formula MD.sub.x D'.sub.y M where M is (CH.sub.3).sub.3 SiO.sub.1/2 or R(CH.sub.3).sub.2 SiO.sub.1/2, D is (CH.sub.3).sub.2 SiO.sub.2/2, D' is (CH.sub.3)RSiO.sub.2/2, and the value of x+y is 48 to 220, the ratio x/y is 5 to 15 inclusive, R is a polyether-containing substituent selected from the group consisting of (1) --C.sub.n H.sub.2n O(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.a (C.sub.3 H.sub.6 O).sub.b R' group having weight average molecular weights in the range 2300-3400 and wherein n is 3-4, the ratio a/b is from 0.5 to 1.3 inclusive, R' represents hydrogen, an alkyl group of 1-4 carbon atoms or --C(O)CH.sub.3 and (2) --C.sub.n' H.sub.2n' O(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.a' (C.sub.3 H.sub.6 O).sub.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1997Date of Patent: September 15, 1998Assignee: Air Products and Chemical, Inc.Inventors: Michael Allen Stanga, Robert Edward Stevens, Kevin Dale Wiese, Wanda Wells Rauscher, Robert H. Whitmarsh, Vicky Sue Cobb
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Patent number: 5789454Abstract: Disclosed is a method of using inert gas as an auxiliary blowing agent in the production of flexible polyurethane foams, in the presence of a blend of a silicone surfactant stabilizer and a second silicone compound. The disclosed method provides better stabilization of the foams made by such processes. Also disclosed are foam formulations containing such blends.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1996Date of Patent: August 4, 1998Assignee: OSi Specialties, Inc.Inventor: Susan B. McVey
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Patent number: 5773484Abstract: The use of enol ether capped polyether-polysiloxane copolymers as surfactants in polyurethane foam applications is taught herein. These enol ether capped surfactants exhibit a high capping efficiency and yield good performance. Moreover, they are stable in water/amine premixes.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1996Date of Patent: June 30, 1998Assignee: OSi Specialties, Inc.Inventor: Glenn A. Miller
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Patent number: 5753735Abstract: A composition comprising a particulate dispersion of from 50% to 98.9% by weight of a siloxane-polyoxyalkylene copolymer surfactant, from 1% to 49.9% by weight of a nonionic organic surfactant other than the siloxane-polyoxyalkylene copolymer surfactant and from 0.1% to 25% by weight, based on the total weight of the composition, of a particulate material having a particle size of less than 20 microns, is described. A method of preparing such a composition, and polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams containing such a composition are also described. The nonionic organic surfactant is preferably an ethoxylated nonylphenol. The particulate material is preferably a hydrophobic precipitated silica. The composition of the invention is useful as an additive in the preparation of rigid polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1997Date of Patent: May 19, 1998Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: Michael O. Okoroafor, William H. McDonald, Alan E. Wang
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Patent number: 5721284Abstract: Disclosed is a process for preparing an open-celled rigid polyurethane foam by reacting a polyisocyanate with a polyol in the presence of a blowing agent, usually water, and a cell opening agent. The cell opening agent comprises a combination of a polyoxyalkylene polysiloxane having a cloud point of 65.degree. C. or less, and a second substance that has a critical surface free energy of less than about 23 mJ/m.sup.2. Highly preferred as second substance is fine particulate poly(tetrafluoroethylene) polymer.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1996Date of Patent: February 24, 1998Assignee: The Dow Chemical CompanyInventors: Guido F. Smits, Giuliano Cini, Henri J. M. Grunbauer, Jacobus A. F. Broos
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Patent number: 5716548Abstract: The invention provides polyurethane components and compositions capable of providing internal mold release properties in SRIM applications. The polyol composition of the invention has an isocyanate reactive polyol (A) having a number average molecular weight from 100 to about 10,000 and an effective amount of internal mold release composition (B) having a silicon-containing polymer (a) and an epoxidized ester (b). The invention further provides an SRIM polyurethane composition useful in the preparation of molded polyurethane articles having internal mold release properties, the composition comprising an isocyanate component (I) and the isocyanate reactive polyol composition (Component (II)) disclosed above. In another aspect of the invention, the invention provides methods of using the claimed compositions as well as the rigid cellular polyurethane SRIM articles resulting from such processes.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1996Date of Patent: February 10, 1998Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: Richard P. Harrison, Bari W. Brown, Richard C. Rossio, Gladys M. Aviles, Edward M. Dexheimer, David Ho
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Patent number: 5705823Abstract: There is now provided a polyol composition containing a polyol having polyester linkages and a number average molecular weight of 400 or more, and at least about 8 php of a silicone-containing surfactant polymer. Either mixed into the polyol composition at the time of foaming, mixed into an isocyanate, or both, is an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic C.sub.4 -C.sub.7 hydrocarbon. The polyol composition is used to make a polyisocyanate based closed cell rigid foam by reacting an organic isocyanate and the polyol composition in the presence of an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic C.sub.4 -C.sub.7 hydrocarbon blowing agent.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1995Date of Patent: January 6, 1998Assignee: BASF CorporationInventor: Thomas L. Fishback
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Patent number: 5691392Abstract: A composition comprising a particulate dispersion of from 50% to 98.9% by weight of a siloxane-polyoxyalkylene copolymer surfactant, from 1% to 49.9% by weight of a nonionic organic surfactant other than the siloxane-polyoxyalkylene copolymer surfactant and from 0.1% to 25% by weight, based on the total weight of the composition, of a particulate material having a particle size of less than 20 microns, is described. A method of preparing such a composition, and polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams containing such a composition are also described. The nonionic organic surfactant is preferably an ethoxylated nonylphenol. The particulate material is preferably a hydrophobic precipitated silica. The composition of the invention is useful as an additive in the preparation of rigid polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 1997Date of Patent: November 25, 1997Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.Inventors: Michael O. Okoroafor, William H. McDonald, Alan E. Wang
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Patent number: 5686499Abstract: There is now provided a closed cell rigid polyurethane foam made from a polyol composition containing a polyol having polyester linkages and a number average molecular weight of 400 or more, and at least about 8 php of a silicone-containing surfactant polymer. Either mixed into the polyol composition at the time of foaming, mixed into an isocyanate, or both, is an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic C.sub.4 -C.sub.7 hydrocarbon.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1995Date of Patent: November 11, 1997Assignee: BASF CorporationInventor: Thomas L. Fishback
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Patent number: 5686526Abstract: The invention provides polyurethane components and compositions capable of providing internal mold release properties in SRIM applications. The polyol composition of the invention has an isocyanate reactive polyol (A) having a number average molecular weight from 100 to about 10,000 and an effective amount of internal mold release composition (B) having a silicon-containing polymer (a) and an at least diester functional compound (b) which is the reaction product of (i) an aromatic carboxylic acid, and (ii) alcohols having from 2 to 30 carbons. The invention further provides an SRIM polyurethane composition useful in the preparation of molded polyurethane articles having internal mold release properties, the composition comprising an isocyanate component (I) and the isocyanate reactive polyol composition (component (II)) disclosed above.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1995Date of Patent: November 11, 1997Assignee: BASF CorporationInventor: James Turnbach
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Patent number: 5650449Abstract: This invention may be described as follows. (1) A defoaming agent for the production of highly elastic soft and semi-rigid polyurethane foam, having as a main component thereof an organio silicone compound represented by the following formula (I) ##STR1## wherein each R.sup.1 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group of one to eighteen (18) carbon atoms, R.sup.2 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group of one to eighteen (18) carbon atoms or an organic substituent, and x and y are each not less than 1, providing x+y equals a number between 3 to 8. A method for the production of a highly elastic soft and semirigid polyurethane foam with said defoaming agent per formula (1) and a highly elastic soft polyurethane foam and a semirigid polyurethane foam produced by this method are also taught.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1996Date of Patent: July 22, 1997Inventors: Torahiko Mukuno, Yoshio Ofuji, Masao Takase
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Patent number: 5650450Abstract: Hydrophilic polyurethane foams with rapid wet out properties are formed from the reaction product of an MDI-based or polymeric MDI-based isocyanate capped prepolymer with an aqueous component, such as water, and about 0.5 to 2.0 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight prepolymer, of a silicone glycol copolymer liquid surfactant with a polyether portion, said surfactant having a viscosity of about 175 to 350 CST at 25.degree. C., a molecular weight in the range of about 1500 to 20,000, with the polyether portion having a molecular weight in the range of about 200 to 2000 and containing about 40 to 100 percent by weight ethylene oxide. The surface of the hydrophilic foam wets out or absorbs droplets of water in less than thirty (30) seconds, preferably instantaneously (less than one second).Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1996Date of Patent: July 22, 1997Assignee: Foamex L.P.Inventors: Joseph W. Lovette, Sharon A. Free
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Patent number: 5633292Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of high resilience polyurethane foams by reacting a mixture of highly reactive polyols, which usually have an average molecular weight of between about 4800 and 6500 g/mole and at least 70% primary hydroxyl groups and optionally contain fillers, polyfunctional isocyanates, amine activators, cross-linking agents, tin catalysts, blowing agents and stabilizers, compounds of the general formula ##STR1## being used as stabilizers, in which R.sup.1 is the same or different in the average molecule and represents a methyl group or a group of the general formula --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --(CH.sub.2).sub.a --C.sub.6 H.sub.3 (R.sup.2).sub.2 (a=0 or 1; R.sup.2 =--O--CH.sub.3), with the proviso that at least one R.sup.1 group is a group having the formula --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --(CH.sub.2)a--C.sub.6 H.sub.3 (R.sup.2).sub.2n has an average numerical value of 2 to 11,m has an average numerical value of 1 to 6,with the proviso that the quotient p=(n+m+2)/m is 1.66 to 12.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1995Date of Patent: May 27, 1997Assignee: Th. Goldschmidt AG.Inventors: Anette Brune, Georg Burkhart, Volker Zellmer
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Patent number: RE37711Abstract: The use of enol ether capped polyether-polysiloxane copolymers as surfactants in polyurethane foam applications is taught herein. These enol ether capped surfactants exhibit a high capping efficiency and yield good performance. Moreover, they are stable in water/amine premixes.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1999Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: CK Witco Corp.Inventor: Glenn A. Miller