Solid Polymer From Ethylenic Reactants Only Is Derived From Heterocyclic Reactant Patents (Class 525/103)
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Patent number: 11628409Abstract: Multiblock polymer materials, methods of preparing, and using to separate proteins, nucleic acids, other biological or other biomolecules, compounds, or solutes, with high fluxes through electrostatic interactions where the self-assembled block polymer materials contain at least one of macro, meso, or micro pores, and at least some of the pores are isoporous, and at least one polymer block contains stationary electrostatic charge, or reactive functional groups to provide large surface areas that are charged in isoporous structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: TeraPore Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Rachel Mika Dorin, Spencer William Robbins
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Patent number: 11466175Abstract: The present invention is directed towards an electrodepositable coating composition comprising, consisting essentially of, or consisting of an ionic salt group-containing silicone-based main film-forming polymer comprising functional groups; and a curing agent reactive with the functional groups of the ionic salt group-containing silicone-based main film-forming polymer. Also disclosed are coatings, coated substrates, and methods of coating a substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: David A. Stone, Jonathan A. Love, Casey Sample
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Patent number: 11261299Abstract: A block copolymer including a first block consisting of a polymer having a repeating structure of a structural unit (u1) containing no silicon atom, and a second block consisting of a polymer having a repeating structure of a structural unit (u2) containing a silicon atom, the second block containing a block (b21) consisting of a polymer having a repeating structure represented by general formula (u2-1), and a block (b22) consisting of a polymer having a repeating structure of a structural unit (u22) containing a silicon atom, and the block (b22) is positioned between the first block and the block (b21) (wherein RP211 represents an alkyl group, a halogenated alkyl group, a hydrogen atom, or an organic group having a polar group; and RP212 represents an organic group having a polar group).Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignees: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo Institute of TechnologyInventors: Akiyoshi Yamazaki, Daisuke Kawana, Takehiro Seshimo, Teruaki Hayakawa, Lei Dong, Rin Odashima
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Patent number: 10066049Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a heat-curable composition that is capable of providing a cured product having low vapor permeability, a low linear expansion coefficient, and a low refractive index. The present invention relates to a curable composition including a fluorine-containing polymer having a hydroxyl value of 100 mgKOH/g or higher and a refractive index of 1.42 or lower and an epoxy compound.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshito Tanaka, Tadashi Kanbara, Kouji Kubota, Jun Miki
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Publication number: 20150148477Abstract: The present invention is directed to a functionalized elastomer comprising the reaction product of a living anionic elastomeric polymer and a polymerization terminator of formula I wherein R1 is C1 to C4 linear or branched alkanediyl; Z is R2, —OR3, or —R4—X; R2, R3 are independently C1 to C18 linear or branched alkyl; R4 is C1 to C18 alkanediyl; X is halogen or a group of structure II, III, IV, V or VI wherein R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 are independently H or C1 to C8 alkyl; R10 is C2 to C8 alkanediyl; R11 and R12 are independently H, aryl or C1 to C8 alkyl; Q is N or a group of structure VII wherein R13 is C1 to C8 alkyl.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Liqing Ma, Frank Schmitz, Nicola Costantini, Georges Marcel Victor Thielen, Michael Joseph Rachita
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Publication number: 20150104598Abstract: A thermoplastic composition comprising from about 50 to about 99 by weight percent of a nylon 6,6 resin, from about 1 to about 50 by weight percent of a polymer performance modifier and about from 0.01 to about 25 by weight percent of a silicone based additive, wherein the silicone based additive comprises an ultrahigh molecular weight siloxane polymer that is unfunctionalized and non-reactive with the polyamide resin, wherein the thermoplastic composition has an impact strength value which is greater than the combination of the polyamide resin and the polymer performance modifier or the combination of the polyamide resin and the silicone based additive and wherein the thermoplastic composition has an ultimate tensile strength that is at least 80% that of the combination of the polyamide resin and the polymer performance modifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: INVISTA North America S.a.r.l.Inventor: Rajeev S. BHATIA
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Patent number: 8987378Abstract: The present disclosure describes cyclic carbonate-amine resin coating compositions including an amino functional silicon resin component, where the cyclic carbonate-amine resin coating displays improved oxidation resistance and durability. The coating compositions are isocyanate free and may be cured a low temperatures to provide a durable coating. In specific embodiments, the described coating compositions may be used as a mono-coat on a surface of an article, without any undercoating or primer layers.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Ljiljana Maksimovic, Lawrence J. Fitzgerald, Susan Donaldson, Randy E. Daughenbaugh, Peter Kamarchik, Jr.
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Publication number: 20150064909Abstract: Provided are: a resin mold material and a resin replica mold material composition for imprinting having a superior mold releasability; a resin mold and a resin replica mold resulting from containing the material composition; and a method for producing them. The resin mold material or resin replica mold material composition for imprinting contains 100 parts by weight of a mold resin or replica mold resin for imprinting and 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a curable fluoropolymer (A). Preferably, the fluoropolymer (A) has a weight-average molecular weight of 3,000 to 20,000 and results from including as repeating units (a1) an ?-position substituted acrylate having a fluoroalkyl group having 4 to 6 carbon atoms and (a2) and 5 to 120 parts by weight of a high-softening-point monomer exhibiting a glass transition point or softening point of at least 50° C. in the homopolymer state.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tsuneo Yamashita, Masamichi Morita, Yoshiko Kuwajima
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Patent number: 8912253Abstract: A thermoplastic material, and in particular a jacket for an electrical cable, and more particularly a jacket for a THHN electrical cable, includes a polyamide base material, a silicon elastomer and an ethylene polymer modified with an unsaturated aliphatic diacid anhydride. The silicon elastomer does not migrate through the jacket. The jacket has a lower coefficient of friction than a cable with a jacket that does not have a silicon elastomer incorporated therein, and the resulting cable requires less force to install than a cable without a lubricant incorporated therein. The cable also has improved flame resistance and elongation-to-break properties. Methods for making these thermoplastic materials are also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2010Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Conductores Monterrey, S.A. DE C.V.Inventors: Sergio A. Montes, Hector R. Lopez, Patricio G. Murga, Victor M. Rodriguez
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Patent number: 8907015Abstract: The present application provides a copolymer including one or more units of pyrene and one or more units of pyrrole. The present application also provides a method of producing a copolymer, including incubating pyrene monomer and pyrrole monomer with an oxidant in the presence of a reaction solvent. Uses of the copolymers are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Tongji UniversityInventors: Xin-Gui Li, Mei-rong Huang, Zhenzhong Hou
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Patent number: 8895687Abstract: This invention includes a wettable biomedical device containing a high molecular weight hydrophilic polymer and a hydroxyl-functionalized silicone-containing monomer.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2013Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Kevin P. McCabe, Frank F. Molock, Jr., Gregory A. Hill, Azaam Alli, Robert B. Steffen, Douglas G. Vanderlaan, James D. Ford
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Patent number: 8796353Abstract: This invention includes a wettable biomedical device containing a high molecular weight hydrophilic polymer and a hydroxyl-functionalized silicone-containing monomer.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2013Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Kevin P. McCabe, Frank F. Molock, Jr., Gregory A. Hill, Azaam Alli, Robert B. Steffen, Douglas G. Vanderlaan, James D. Ford
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Publication number: 20140171541Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a hydrogel polymer having less than 100% haze, and distributed therein an oxygen enhancing effective amount of oxygen permeable particles having an oxygen permeability of at least about 100 barrer, average particle size less than about 5000 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: JOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION CARE, INC.Inventors: Charles W. Scales, Gregory A. Hill, I, John B. Enns, Eric R. George
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Patent number: 8679581Abstract: Silicone pressure sensitive adhesive compositions including amphiphilic copolymers. The amphiphilic copolymers are based on a polydimethylhydrogensiloxane or polydimethylsiloxane based macroinitiator. A medical device including said pressure sensitive adhesive compositions for securing the device to human skin or tissue.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2010Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Convatec Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Mahesh Sambasivam, James Crivello
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Patent number: 8653190Abstract: Disclosed is a curable silicone composition for preparing release layers and pressure sensitive adhesives, and to substrates bearing a layer of the cured composition. More specifically, this invention relates to a silicone composition, curable in the absence of both catalysts and actinic radiation comprising a cyclic anhydride copolymer and an amine-terminated polysiloxane.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2011Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Joon Chatterjee, Timothy D. Filiatrault, Hae-Seung Lee, David S. Hays, Naimul Karim, Babu N. Gaddam
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Patent number: 8629228Abstract: Certain disclosed embodiments of the present invention concern a golf ball, including a core having a center, an outer cover layer, and optionally one or more intermediate layers, where at least one or more of the core, outer cover layer, or one or more intermediate layers if present, includes an isobutylene maleic anhydride copolymer having the general formula where n is greater than 10 and having a weight average molecular weight Mw of greater than about 2,000. The present invention also relates to golf ball including a core having a center, an outer cover layer; and optionally one or more intermediate layers, where at least one or more of the core, outer cover layer, or one or more intermediate layers if present, includes an isobutylene maleic anhydride ionomer formed by hydrolysis and neutralization of the isobutylene maleic anhydride copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2010Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Hyun J. Kim, Hong G. Jeon
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Patent number: 8618217Abstract: A topcoat composition to be applied on a resist film is provided, the topcoat composition including: (A) an alkali-soluble resin; (B) a compound containing at least one of an Si atom and an F atom, and increasing a contact angle on a surface of the topcoat film; and (C) a solvent.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2008Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Shinichi Kanna
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Publication number: 20130289210Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, including an acrylic polymer produced by polymerizing a monomer component or a partial polymerization product of the monomer component. The monomer component includes alkyl (meth)acrylate having an alkyl group having 10 to 13 carbon atoms and a polar group-containing monomer other than a carboxyl group-containing monomer. A content of the alkyl (meth)acrylate is 40 wt % or more and less than 80 wt % with respect to a total amount (100 wt %) of the monomer component. A content of the polar group-containing monomer is 7 wt % or more with respect to the total amount of the monomer component. A total content of the polar group-containing monomer and an alicyclic monomer is 15 wt % or more with respect to the total amount of the monomer component.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kaori MIKI, Masato FUJITA, Takahiro NONAKA, Masahito NIWA
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Publication number: 20130237631Abstract: This invention includes a wettable biomedical device containing a high molecular weight hydrophilic polymer and a hydroxyl-functionalized silicone-containing monomer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Kevin P. McCabe, Frank F. Molock, Jr., Gregory A. Hill, Azaam Alli, Robert B. Steffen, Douglas G. Vanderlaan, James D. Ford
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Publication number: 20130126836Abstract: Various apparatuses, systems and methods involve high mobility materials. In accordance with one or more example embodiments, a material includes a conjugated molecule and a side chain bonded to the conjugated molecule. The side chain includes at least one of a siloxane-terminated unit and a derivative of a siloxane-terminated unit that enhance solubility of the conjugated molecule. Further, the side chain facilitates a ?-stacking distance between the conjugated molecules when stacked (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2012Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventor: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junio
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Patent number: 8431669Abstract: This invention includes a wettable biomedical device containing a high molecular weight hydrophilic polymer and a hydroxyl-functionalized silicone-containing monomer.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Kevin P. McCabe, Frank F. Molock, Gregory A. Hill, Azaam Alli, Robert B. Steffen, Douglas G. Vanderlaan, James D. Ford
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Patent number: 8389621Abstract: A thermosetting resin composition for producing a color filter for a CMOS image sensor is provided. The thermosetting resin composition comprises an organic solvent and a self-curing copolymer having structural units represented by Formulae 1, 2, 3 and 4, which are described in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Cheil Industries Inc.Inventors: O Bum Kwon, Kil Sung Lee, Jae Hyun Kim, Jung Hyun Kim
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Patent number: 8357755Abstract: Moisture curable one-component organosilicon compositions exhibiting excellent resilience and adhesiveness contain an ?-alkoxysilyl-terminated base polymer, aminoalkylalkoxysilane adhesion promoter, and polyolefin bearing succinic anhydride groups.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2010Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Wacker Chemie AGInventor: Wolfgang Ziche
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Patent number: 8344090Abstract: Methods for preparing functionalized polyvinylpyrrolidones with polymerizable functions. Also, amphipathic polydimethylsiloxane-PVP block copolymers, such as and (meth)acrylated and (meth)acrylamide-functionalized polyvinylpyrrolidone compounds, such as The block copolymers are useful as biomaterial components in biomedical devices. They provide improved wettability, lubricity, and material compatibility to the biomedical device, e.g., ophthalmic lenses.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.V.Inventors: James Parakka, Keith R. McCrea, Robert S. Ward
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Patent number: 8299179Abstract: Disclosed are a conjugated diene-based polymer from which a polymer composition excellent in fuel cost-saving properties and elongation at break can be obtained, a polymer composition containing the conjugated diene-based polymer and a reinforcing agent, and a process for producing the conjugated diene-based polymer. A conjugated diene-based polymer obtained by reacting one end of a polymer having a monomer unit based on a conjugated diene, a monomer unit based on a compound represented by the following formula (1), and a monomer unit based on a compound represented by the following formula (2) with an alkoxysilane compound. V1—S1??(1) wherein V1 represents a hydrocarbyl group having a polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond, and S1 represents a substituted silyl group. V2-A2??(2) wherein V2 represents a hydrocarbyl group having a polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond, and A2 represents a substituted amino group, or a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2011Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Mana Ito, Katsunari Inagaki
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Publication number: 20120193822Abstract: This invention includes a wettable biomedical device containing a high molecular weight hydrophilic polymer and a hydroxyl-functionalized silicone-containing monomer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Inventors: Kevin P. McCabe, Frank F. Molock, Gregory A. Hill, Azaam Alli, Robert B. Steffen, Douglas G. Vanderlaan, James D. Ford
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Publication number: 20120171433Abstract: A coating is disclosed, comprising the reaction product of: an epoxy silane; and an oligomer comprising MFMEMS wherein MF comprises a fluorinated (meth)acrylate, ME comprises an epoxy(meth)acrylate, and MS comprises a silane(meth)acrylate. Phototools comprising a layer of the coating on a substrate can be made. A method of making a printed assembly such as a printed circuit board is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2010Publication date: July 5, 2012Inventor: Zai-Ming Qiu
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Publication number: 20120116019Abstract: According to the present invention, a contact lens material being excellent in oxygen permeability and transparency, being capable of undergoing injection molding, having no water content and having flexibility is provided. The present invention also relates to a contact lens gel material having excellent oxygen permeability and transparency. Particularly, the present invention relates to a contact lens material comprising a polycarbonate resin derived from a compound represented by a general formula (A), a compound represented by a general formula (B) and a compound forming a carbonic acid ester.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2009Publication date: May 10, 2012Inventors: Yasuhiko Suzuki, Kazuhiko Nakada, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Takahiro Adachi, Mamoru Hagiwara, Masahiko Minemura
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Patent number: 8173720Abstract: A transparent gel is disclosed which has an interpenetrating polymer network of a copolymer containing a polysiloxane structure and a polycarbonate structure and a hydrophilic polymer obtained by polymerizing a hydrophilic monomer. The transparent gel is useful as a cultivation substrate, a container for storage and an ophthalmic material, comprising an easily synthesizable and purifiable silicon-containing resin, wherein a gel strength, transparency, oxygen permeability, birefringence and other characteristics are excellent.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2006Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignees: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc., Menicon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Nakada, Takahito Nakase, Takahiro Adachi, Akira Yamamoto, Masahiko Minemura
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Patent number: 8168720Abstract: This invention includes a wettable biomedical device containing a high molecular weight hydrophilic polymer and a hydroxyl-functionalized silicone-containing monomer.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Kevin P. McCabe, Frank F. Molock, Gregory A. Hill, Azaam Alli, Robert B. Steffen, Douglas G. Vanderlaan, James D. Ford
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Publication number: 20120083573Abstract: Methods for preparing functionalized polyvinylpyrrolidones with polymerizable functions. Also, amphipathic polydimethylsiloxane-PVP block copolymers, such as and (meth)acrylated and (meth)acrylamide-functionalized polyvinylpyrrolidone compounds, such as The block copolymers are useful as biomaterial components in biomedical devices. They provide improved wettability, lubricity, and material compatibility to the biomedical device, e.g., ophthalmic lenses.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Inventors: James PARAKKA, Keith R. McCrea, Robert S. Ward
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Patent number: 8148484Abstract: Norbornene-based biocidal polymers having primary, secondary or tertiary amine or phosphine end groups, the parent monomers, processes for preparing the monomers and polymers, and their use.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2006Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: KE Kelit Kunststoffwerk GesmbHInventors: Xaver Norbert Gstrein, Wolfgang Kern, Karl Rametsteiner, Gerhard Seyfriedsberger, Franz Stelzer
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Patent number: 8106124Abstract: The present invention relates to an antifogging film formed on a transparent substrate. The antifogging film is characterized in that the film comprises a urethane resin having a water absorption percentage of 20-40 wt %, that the urethane resin is one derived from an acrylic polyol having an average molecular weight of 1000-4000 and a polyoxyalkylene-series polyol having an average molecular weight of 400-5000, that the film is used in an interior environment having a mechanism to forcibly remove water from the film after the water absorption saturation of the film, and that a water film is not formed upon showing antifogging property.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2006Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Central Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Yukihiro Ougitani, Yoshinori Akamatsu
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Publication number: 20100255186Abstract: A thermoplastic material, and in particular a jacket for an electrical cable, and more particularly a jacket for a THHN electrical cable, includes a polyamide base material, a silicon elastomer and an ethylene polymer modified with an unsaturated aliphatic diacid anhydride. The silicon elastomer does not migrate through the jacket. The jacket has a lower coefficient of friction than a cable with a jacket that does not have a silicon elastomer incorporated therein, and the resulting cable requires less force to install than a cable without a lubricant incorporated therein. The cable also has improved flame resistance and elongation-to-break properties. Methods for making these thermoplastic materials are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: Conductores Monterrey, S.A. de C.V.Inventors: Sergio A. Montes, Hector R. Lopez, Patricio G. Murga, Victor M. Rodriguez
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Patent number: 7772334Abstract: A crosslinker for polymerizing a film-forming material including an alkyl or aromatic compound comprising at least two functional groups reactive with a film-forming resin and at least one pendent group having a nonionic metal coordinating structure. Coating compositions can include a film-forming material and the crosslinker. The coating compositions can be used to coat a substrate, such as a metal substrate. Applied coating layers on substrates can be cured to form coating films.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2006Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: BASF Coatings GmbHInventors: Timothy S. December, Sergio Gonzalez, Günther Ott, Karl-Heinz Grosse-Brinkhaus
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Patent number: 7758158Abstract: An ink jet head is formed with a nozzle surface having a liquid repellent characteristic. The nozzle surface comprises a condensation product made from a hydrolyzable silane compound having a fluorine containing group and a hydrolyzable silane compound having a cationic polymerizable group.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2003Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Norio Ohkuma, Akihiko Shimomura, Etsuko Hino, Hikaru Ueda, Helmut Schmidt, Peter Muller, Steffen Pilotek, Carsten Becker-Willinger, Pamela Kalmes
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Patent number: 7759436Abstract: Film-forming materials include nonionic metal coordinating structures. Nonionic metal coordinating structures can coordinate metals, such as metal catalysts and metal substrates. Example film-forming materials can be the product of a poly-functional epoxide and a nucleophilic ligand having a nonionic metal coordinating structure, or the product of a poly-functional alcohol and an electrophilic ligand having a nonionic metal coordinating structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2006Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: BASF Coatings GmbHInventors: Timothy S. December, Sergio Gonzalez, Günther Ott, Karl-Heinz Grosse-Brinkhaus
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Publication number: 20100104776Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical film comprising a block copolymer which comprises a block containing 50 mol % or more of (meth)acrylate, a production method thereof, and a liquid crystal display comprising the optical film. The optical film according to the present invention has excellent transparency and physical properties, and improved moisture absorption, as compared to a conventional acrylate film.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Inventors: Hee-Jung Kim, Dong-Ryul Kim, Young-Whan Park, Dae-Woo Nam, Boong-Goon Jeong, Ju-Eun Cha
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Publication number: 20100084775Abstract: This invention includes a wettable biomedical device containing a high molecular weight hydrophilic polymer and a hydroxyl-functionalized silicone-containing monomer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2009Publication date: April 8, 2010Inventors: Kevin P. McCabe, Frank F. Molock, Gregory A. Hill, Azaam Alli, Robert B. Steffen, Douglas G. Vanderlaan, James D. Ford
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Publication number: 20090171026Abstract: In one aspect, the invention relates to silicone prepolymer compositions comprising a silicone prepolymer and a solvent. A soluble silicone prepolymer can be provided having increased average silicon content, thereby attaining a desired oxygen permeability. A solvent can be provided with a desired balance between hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity by selection and modification of the solvent molecular structure, resulting in molded polymer films and articles that exhibit minimal or nonexistent eye irritation and exhibit highly transparent products. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventors: Kazuhiko Fujisawa, Mitsuru Yokota, Masataka Nakamura
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Patent number: 7449521Abstract: The present invention provides an acrylic elastomer composition including an acrylic elastomer (A) and a polyorganosiloxane-containing graft polymer (B), and having excellent formability and mechanical physical properties, and both low-temperature characteristics and oil resistance. Acrylic rubber and an acrylic block copolymer can be used as the acrylic elastomer (A).Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2004Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Kentaro Takesada, Takao Manabe
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Publication number: 20080255305Abstract: A silicone polymer having a modified surface is described, wherein said modification consists of a covalently attached water soluble polymer bearing an activating group, wherein said activating group reacts with reactive functionalities on one or more biological molecules so that said one or more biological molecules become covalently attached to said silicone polymer. The modified silicones are reacted with biological molecules to make them more biocompatible for use in biodiagnostic, biosensor or bioaffinity applications, or for coatings for in vivo transplantation or for liners exposed to biological broths.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2005Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: McMASTER UNIVERSITYInventors: Michael A. Brook, Heather Sheardown, Hong Chen
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Patent number: 7425347Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for forming anti-reflective coating for use in a lithography process in manufacture of a semiconductor device which comprises polymer (A) having a weight average molecular weight of 5,000 or less, and a polymer (B) having a weight average molecular weight of 20,000 or more. The composition provides an anti-reflective coating for use in a lithography which is excellent in step coverage on a substrate with an irregular surface, such as hole or trench, has a high anti-reflection effect, causes no intermixing with a resist layer, provides an excellent resist pattern, and has a higher dry etching rate compared with the resist layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2002Date of Patent: September 16, 2008Assignee: Nissan Chemical Industries, LtdInventors: Satoshi Takei, Yoshiaki Yasumi, Ken-ichi Mizusawa
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Patent number: 7172809Abstract: Coating compositions formed from at least one hydroxyl functional non-vinyl material comprising at least one alcoholic hydroxyl group blocked with a hydrolyzable silyl group, and at least one curing agent are provided by the present invention. Another embodiment of the present invention is directed to a coating composition formed from components comprising at least one carbamate functional material comprising at least one carbamate group blocked with a hydrolyzable silyl group, and at least one curing agent. Another embodiment of the present invention is directed to a coating composition formed from components comprising at least one carboxyl functional material comprising at least one carboxyl group blocked with a hydrolyzable silyl group, and at least one curing agent.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2003Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Steven V. Barancyk, John W. Burgman, James B. O'Dywer, Laura A. Kiefer-Liptak, Michael Allen Mayo, Gregory J. McCollum, Shiryn Tyebjee
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Patent number: 7060416Abstract: Alkali soluble copolymers, imageable elements useful as lithographic printing plate precursors that contain the alkali soluble copolymers, and methods for forming images using the imageable elements are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2005Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Kevin B. Ray, Anthony Paul Kitson, John Kalamen
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Patent number: 7008680Abstract: Heat-activatable adhesives comprise a semi-crystalline polymer. The semi-crystalline polymer comprises alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer units having an alkyl group that contains at least about 20 carbon atoms, alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer units having an alkyl group that contains from about 4 to about 12 carbon atoms, and optionally ethylenically-unsaturated non-acidic polar monomer units. Methods for making heat-activatable adhesives and articles therefrom are also included.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2003Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Albert I. Everaerts, Lang N. Nguyen
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Patent number: 6894117Abstract: A substantially non-gelled polymeric composition is disclosed and comprises the reaction product of an A polymer which is an addition polymer having 3.5 or more reactive functional groups per polymer chain and a B polymer having about 2 to about 3 functional groups per polymer chain that are co-reactive with the reactive functional groups of the A polymer. Also disclosed is a process for preparing such polymeric compositions, powder coatings and 100% solids ink resins prepared with such polymeric compositions, and a method for deglossing a powder coating using such polymeric compositions.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2003Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Johnson Polymer, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey L. Anderson, Alan J. Pekarik, Edward Tokas
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Patent number: 6852794Abstract: There is disclosed a pneumatic tire having a rubberized component comprising: (a) 100 parts by weight of at least one rubber containing olefinic unsaturation; and (b) 1 to 110 phr of a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2002Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Aaron Scott Puhala, David John Zanzig, Brian David Holden, Neil Arthur Maly
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Patent number: 6831130Abstract: A curable composition comprises a polyether polymer having at least one crosslinkable functional group and a vinyl polymer compatible therewith having at least one crosslinkable functional group at a terminus. Another aspect includes a compatibilizing agent capable of compatibilizing the polyether polymer and vinyl polymer when added to the mixture thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Nao Fujita, Yasuo Shimizu, Nobuhiro Hasegawa, Yoshiki Nakagawa
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Patent number: 6808752Abstract: Coating composition including a film-forming component, further including (a) a product formed by reacting a mixture including carboxy functional polymer, hydroxy functional polymer, or a mixture thereof, or ethylenically unsaturated monomer, with epoxy resin, and (b) a polyvinyl alcoholic-containing phenolic resol resin. Also provided is a method of coating a metal substrate with said coating composition. Further provided is a composite material comprising a metal substrate having at least one surface covered with a cured film of the coating composition.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2002Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: The Valspar CorporationInventor: Thomas R. Mallen