Stretched Product Patents (Class 526/348.1)
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Patent number: 7101947Abstract: The present invention is directed to enantioselective polyelectrolyte complex films. Further, said films may be free or isolated membranes, or coatings on substrates such a porous substrates, capillary tubes, chromatographic packing material, and monolithic stationary phases and used to separate chiral compounds. The present invention is also directed to a method for forming such enantioselective polyelectrolyte complex films.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2003Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Joseph B. Schlenoff, Hassan Rmaile
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Patent number: 7101939Abstract: An ethylene/?-olefin copolymer comprising a component produced by a non-single-site polymerization catalyst and a component produced by a single-site polymerization catalyst, its preparation and use are described. The copolymer has an ?-olefin content of 5 to 20 percent by weight and shows at least two CRYSTAF peak temperatures differing by at least 15° C. and/or at least two DSC melting peak temperatures differing by at least 15° C.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2002Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Thomas Edward Nowlin, Pradeep P. Shirodkar, Robert Ivan Mink, Gary M. Diamond, Jill Helaine Paul, Lawrence T. Kale, Keith Dackson
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Patent number: 7098277Abstract: The present invention provides isotactic polypropylene compositions suitable for cast film applications, cast polypropylene films made therefrom, and processes for forming such films. The novel polypropylene films are formed from film resins having a melt flow ratio of from 6–15 dg/min, with a narrow molecular weight distribution, narrow composition distribution, low level of solvent extractables, and increased film clarity (i.e., decreased haze %) compared to prior art Ziegler-Natta polypropylene film resins. The polypropylene films can be cast from an extruded polypropylene polymer, the extruded isotactic polypropylene polymer being formed by polymerization with a fluorided silica supported catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2001Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Chon-Yie Lin, Michael C-C Chen, Aspy K. Mehta
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Patent number: 7094856Abstract: Process for the production of an oriented polyolefin film using multi-component polymer compositions. One polymer component comprises an isotactic propylene homopolymer produced by the polymerization of propylene with a Ziegler-Natta catalyst. A secondary component is a Ziegler-Natta polymerized ethylene-propylene random copolymer or a metallocene-polymerized ethylene-propylene random copolymer produced by the polymerization of propylene and ethylene in the presence of a metallocene polymerization catalyst. The Ziegler-Natta polymerized copolymer is produced by the polymerization of ethylene and propylene in the presence of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst and contains no more than 0.5 wt. % ethylene and has a xylene solubles content of at least 2 wt. %. The primary and secondary polymer components are mixed together to provide a blend in which, when the secondary component is a Ziegler-Natta polypropylene, is present in an amount within the range of 5–25 wt.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2005Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: Fina Technology, Inc.Inventors: Michael A. McLeod, David Smith
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Patent number: 7094857Abstract: This invention relates to the field of metal-catalyzed olefin polymerization methods and the polymers and films prepared therefrom. In one aspect, this invention provides polyethylene and ethylene/?-olefin copolymers formed in the presence of tightly-bridged metallocene catalyst, organoaluminum cocatalyst, and a chemically-treated solid oxide, and optionally in the presence of additional cocatalysts. The resins and films prepared from these polymers exhibit high haze values, low clarity values, and a low coefficient of friction.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2004Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, L.P.Inventors: Ashish M. Sukhadia, Jerry D. Stark, Max P. McDaniel, Elizabeth A. Benham, Michael D. Jensen, Joel L. Martin, Rajendra K. Krishnaswamy
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Patent number: 7041765Abstract: Films with excellent machine direction (MD) tear properties comprise at least one layer made from a polymer comprising: (A) at least 50 weight percent (wt%) propylene; and (B) at least 5 wt % ethylene and/or one or more unsaturated comonomers. Representative of component (B) unsatuarated comonomers are the C4-20 ?-olefins, C4-20 dienes, styrenic compounds, and the like. Preferably, the film has at least one of a (i) haze value of less than about 10, (ii) 45 degree gloss of greater than about 65, and (iii) dart value of greater than about 100 g/mil. In one preferred embodiment, the layer comprises a compolymer characterized as having at least one of the following properties: (i) 13C NMR peaks corresponding to a regio-error at about 14.6 and about 15.7 ppm, the peaks of about equal intensity, (ii) a B-value greater than about 1.4 when the comonomer content, i.e.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2002Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Dow Global Technologies Inc.Inventors: Li-Min Tau, Pak-Wing S. Chum, Seema Karande, Clive Bosnyak
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Patent number: 7026421Abstract: Random copolymers of propylene with other 1-alkenes having up to carbon atoms, whose content of comonomers is in the range from 0.7 to 1.4% by weight if the only comonomer present in the propylene copolymers is ethylene, or whose content of comonomers is in the range from 0.7 to 3.0% by weight if at least one C4–C10-1-alkene is present as comonomer, and whose cold-xylene-soluble fraction is from 1.0 to 2.5% by weight if ethylene is present as a comonomer in the propylene copolymers, or whose cold-xylene-soluble fraction is from 0.75 to 2.0% by weight if the only comonomers present are C4–C10-1-alkenes, and a process for preparing the random copolymers of propylene is described, as is their use for producing films, fibers or moldings, and also the films, fibers and moldings themselves and biaxially stretched films made from random propylene copolymers of this type and processes for their production.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2004Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: David Appleyard, Franz Langhauser, Murray Horton, Roland Hingmann, Günther Schweier, Volker Rauschenberger, Ingolf Hennig, Dieter Lilge, Werner Schöne, Meinolf Kersting
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Patent number: 7018710Abstract: A process for the preparation of a heat sealable film comprising a core layer and a sealing layer, said process comprising attaching said core layer to said sealing layer, said sealing layer comprising an ethylene copolymer composition in which: (1) there are two distinct maxima in the TREF fractogram of the ethylene copolymer composition; (2) at lest 10%, of the ethylene copolymer composition elutes in TREF at a temperature of less than 50° C.; (3) at least 25%, of the ethylene copolymer composition elutes in TREF at a temperature of higher than 75° C.; (4) none of the ethylene copolymer composition elutes in TREF at a temperature of higher than 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2001Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Kalle Kallio, Jari Äärilä , Merete Skar, Arja Lehtinen
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Patent number: 6994915Abstract: Biaxially oriented polypropylene films (BOPP) having at least one layer of a propylene polymer containing at least 0.8% by weight of ethylene and, optionally, one or more C4-C10 ?-olefins, or a propylene polymer composition containing at least 0.8% by weight of one or more comonomers selected from the group consisting of ethylene and C4-C10 ?-olefins, and having I) a melting temperature of 155° C. or higher; and II) a xylene soluble fraction at room temperature lower than 3% by weight, and a value of the ratio of the polymer fraction collected at the temperature range from 25° C. to 95° C. (by TREF) to the said xylene soluble fraction higher than 8.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2001Date of Patent: February 7, 2006Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia s.r.l.Inventors: Anteo Pelliconi, Angelo Lonardo, Gabriele Mei
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Patent number: 6982311Abstract: The subject invention provides a film having at least one layer comprising an interpolymer of ethylene and at least on comonomer selected from the group consisting of C3-C20 ?-olefins, dienes, and cycloalkenes, wherein the interpolymer is characterized as having a high degree of processability, good optical performance, and good mechanical properties. The subject invention further provides film fabrication processes and polymer compositions which are useful in preparing the subject films.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2002Date of Patent: January 3, 2006Assignee: Dow Global Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Seema V. Karande, Lonnie G. Hazlitt, Pradeep Jain, Kaelyn Koch, Shih-Yaw Lai, Li-Min Tau
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Patent number: 6967232Abstract: A high-molecular gelling agent precursor for an electrolyte comprises a copolymer formed of (A) a hydrophobic monomer having a hydrophobic group, which forms a carboxyl group upon saponification, and (B) a hydrophobic polyfunctional monomer. The saponification product of the copolymer has property to gel the electrolyte. A high-molecular gelling agent for the electrolyte is produced by saponifying the precursor with a saponifying agent selected from the group consisting of acids and alkalis while using a reaction medium selected from the group consisting of water and hydrophobic organic solvents.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2002Date of Patent: November 22, 2005Assignee: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg., Co., Ltd.Inventors: Minoru Takizawa, Seiji Doi, Chiaki Iwakura, Hiroshi Inoue, Naoji Furukawa, Shinji Nohara, Yoshifumi Sugito, Naomi Oguma, Sachio Yoshikawa, Michiei Nakamura
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Patent number: 6956088Abstract: Metallocene catalyzed polyethylenes are found to have improved physical properties, improved processability and improved balance of properties. Surprisingly, there is a direct relationship between MD shrinkage, and MD tear. Additionally, MD tear is greater than TD tear, and MD tear is also greater than intrinsic tear. MD tear to TD tear ratios are above 0.9, and dart drop impact is above 500 g/mil. The polyethylenes have a relatively broad composition distribution and relatively broad molecular weight distribution.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2002Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: Univation Technologies, LLCInventors: James McLeod Farley, John F. Szul, Matthew Gary McKee
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Patent number: 6946535Abstract: Films with excellent machine direction (MD) tear properties comprise at least one layer made from a polymer comprising: (A) at least 50 weight percent (wt %) propylene; and (B) at least 5 wt % ethylene and/or one or more unsaturated comonomers. Representative of component (B) unsatuarated comonomers are the C4-20 ?-olefins, C4-20 dienes, styrenic compounds, and the like. Preferably, the film has at least one of a (i) haze value of less than about 10, (ii) 45 degree gloss of greater than about 65, and (iii) dart value of greater than about 100 g/mil. In one preferred embodiment, the layer comprises a compolymer characterized as having at least one of the following properties: (i) 13C NMR peaks corresponding to a regio-error at about 14.6 and about 15.7 ppm, the peaks of about equal intensity, (ii) a B-value greater than about 1.4 when the comonomer content, i.e.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2004Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: Dow Global Technologies Inc.Inventors: Li-Min Tau, Pak-Wing S. Chum, Seema Karande, Clive Bosnyak
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Patent number: 6943229Abstract: A low crystallizability polypropylene sheet which has an average spherulite radius between 0.1 ?m and 4 ?m, an average number of spherulites of 600/mm2 or less in a sheet cross section, a solid density of 0.895 g/cm3 or less, a fusion enthalpy H of less than 90 J/g at the highest endothermic peak of the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) curve, a degree of gloss of 90% or higher on at least one side and shows an exothermic peak of 1 J/g or higher at the low temperature side of said highest endothermic peak and a thickness of 50 ?m or more.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2001Date of Patent: September 13, 2005Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Funaki, Masahiro Kubo
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Patent number: 6936674Abstract: A process for producing a poly-olefin is disclosed, which comprises contacting at least one 1-olefin under polymerisation conditions with a polymerisation catalyst or catalyst system comprising (1) a compound having the Formula (I) wherein M is Fe[II], Fe[III], Co[I], Co[II], Co[III], Mn[I], Mn[II], Mn[III], Mn[IV], Ru[II], Ru[III], Ru[IV], V[II], V[III], V[IV], or V[V], Ti[II], Ti[III] or Ti[IV]; X represents an atom or group covalently or ionically bonded to the transition metal M; T is the oxidation state of the transition metal M and b is the valency of the atom or group X; R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 are independently selected from hydrogen, halogen, hydrocarbyl, substituted hydrocarbyl, heterohydrocarbyl or substituted heterohydrocarbyl; and when any two or more of R1-R7 are hydrocarbyl, substited hydrocarbyl, heterohydrocarbyl or substituted heterohydrocarbyl, said two or more can be linked to form one or more cyclic substituents; and optionally (2) an activating quantity of an activator compound comType: GrantFiled: November 30, 2000Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: BP Chemicals LimitedInventors: Patrick Daniel Yves Behue, Marianne Gil, Susan Katherine Christie, John Norman Reid Samson
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Patent number: 6927258Abstract: Improved thermoplastic polymer blend compositions comprising an isotactic polypropylene component and an alpha-olefin and propylene copolymer component, said copolymer comprising crystallizable alpha-olefin sequences. In a preferred embodiment, improved thermoplastic polymer blends are provided comprising from about 35% to about 85% isotactic polypropylene and from about 30% to about 70% of an ethylene and propylene copolymer, wherein said copolymer comprises isotactically crystallizable propylene sequences and is predominately propylene. The resultant blends manifest unexpected compatibility characteristics, increased tensile strength, and improved process characteristics, e.g., a single melting point.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2003Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Sudhin Datta, Charles Cozewith, Periagaram Ravishankar, Edmund J. Stachowski
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Patent number: 6919407Abstract: Films with excellent machine direction (MD) tear properties comprise at least one layer made from a polymer comprising: (A) at least 50 weight percent (wt %) propylene; and (B) at least 5 wt % ethylene and/or one or more unsaturated comonomers. Representative of component (B) unsatuarated comonomers are the C4-20 ?-olefins, C4-20 dienes, styrenic compounds, and the like. Preferably, the film has at least one of a (i) haze value of less than about 10, (ii) 45 degree gloss of greater than about 65, and (iii) dart value of greater than about 100 g/mil. In one preferred embodiment, the layer comprises a compolymer characterized as having at least one of the following properties: (i) 13C NMR peaks corresponding to a regio-error at about 14.6 and about 15.7 ppm, the peaks of about equal intensity, (ii) a B-value greater than about 1.4 when the comonomer content, i.e.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2003Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Dow Global Technologies Inc.Inventors: Li-Min Tau, Pak-Wing S. Chum, Seema Karande, Clive Bosnyak
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Patent number: 6887923Abstract: The present invention disclose a method for the orientation of a high density polyethylene (“HDPE”) film. The process of the invention comprises forming a HDPE-wax mixture by adding to a HDPE batch a normally solid hydrocarbon wax. The HDPE-wax mixture is subsequently stretched into a film at an orientation temperature below the film's melt temperature. The hydrocarbon wax is characterized by having a drop point equal to or lower than the melting point of the HDPE film. The present invention also provides a film made by the process of the invention and a master batch thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2002Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: Equistar Chemicals, L.P.Inventors: Robert J. Bowling, D. Ryan Breese
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Patent number: 6870010Abstract: A low density substantially linear polyethylene composition is described, including some that have: (a) a density of 0.935 g/cc or less; (b) a Haze of 10% or less, (c) a Dart Impact of 100 grams/mil or more, (d) an average overall long chain branching index of 0.95 or more; and (e) a slice long chain branching (SLCB) index of 0.85 or less for any portion of the composition having a molecular weight of 100,000 or above.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2003Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: Univation Technologies, LLCInventors: Ching-Tai Lue, Tae Hoon Kwalk
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Patent number: 6855781Abstract: A process to produce ethylene polymers is provided. Particularly, a process to produce ethylene polymers having a broad molecular weight distribution is provided. More particularly, a process to produce ethylene polymers that have low formation of smoke and odor during blow molding is provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2003Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Inventors: Joseph J. Bergmeister, Steven J. Secora, Elizabeth A. Benham, Max P. McDaniel
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Patent number: 6852813Abstract: In accordance with the method of manufacture described herein, it has been found that by applying a polymerization catalyst or polymerization initiator directly to a liquid-absorbent or liquid adsorbent (hereinafter collectively referred to as “liquid-sorbent”) substrate, preferably a porous geotextile in sheet material form, to form a polymerization-initiating substrate or sheet material, a monomer that is subsequently embedded in the liquid-sorbent substrate will be completely contacted by the polymerization catalyst or polymerization initiator for complete polymerization of the embedded monomer to form embedded polymer solids, without the monomer partially polymerizing before contacting the substrate. It has been found that complete polymerization of the monomer while in contact with the substrate achieves best results in retention of embedded and interlocked polymer solids.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2002Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: Amcol International CorporationInventors: Jerald W. Darlington, Jr., Natali A. Dotlich, Craig M. Mattern, Richard Wilson Carriker, Mark William Clarey
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Patent number: 6844398Abstract: An ethylenic copolymer composition including an ethylenic copolymer having Mw/Mn of 1.5 to 4, Mw of 3,000 to 1,000,000, and a resin density of 0.85 to 0.95 g/cm3. The relationship between the half width at the half maximum [W/2] of the Gaussian distribution curve, and the average, n, of short-chain branches in the copolymer satisfies the equation, 0.704+0.147n=W/2=?0.055+0.577n. The ethylenic copolymer composition also includes an ethylenic copolymer having an Mw of 3,000 to 1,000,000 and a resin density of 0.85 to 0.95 g/cm3.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2002Date of Patent: January 18, 2005Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruo Shikuma, Shuji Machida, Motoharu Ishikawa, Shinichi Kurokawa
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Patent number: 6841261Abstract: It is to provide a block copolymer and its copolymer composition which provides a heat shrinkable (multilayer) film with less spontaneous shrinkage while maintaining favorable low temperature shrinkability, and a heat shrinkable (multilayer) film containing the block copolymer. By using a block copolymer comprising a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon and a conjugated diene characterized in that the relation of the loss tangent value obtained by dynamic viscoelasticity measurement with the temperature satisfies specific conditions, or a composition containing the copolymer composition as an essential component, a heat shrinkable (multilayer) film with less spontaneous shrinkability and less odor while maintaining favorable low temperature shrinkability can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2001Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masamitsu Matsui, Hideki Watanabe, Jun Yoshida, Hisakazu Hoshino
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Patent number: 6835791Abstract: Disclosed is a stretched film excellent in low-temperature heat sealability after corona treatment as well as that before corona treatment and/or in heat shrinkability, the stretched film being comprised of a layer comprising a copolymer of propylene with &agr;-olefin and/or ethylene such that in measurement of a DSC curve the amount of the heat absorbed in the temperature range of from T−10 (° C.) to T+10 (° C.) accounts for from 15 to 36% of the amount of the heat absorbed in the temperature range of from 53 to 170° C., wherein T denotes a temperature (° C.) at which a maximum endothermic peak appears in the DSC curve.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2002Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Takeshi Ebara, Kazuki Wakamatsu
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Patent number: 6833420Abstract: A film having a large tensile stress in the machine direction, excellent mechanical properties and stretch-wrapping property, and that is less broken at the time of wrapping, can be favorably torn off in the transverse direction, can be intimately adhered on the container walls to be wrapped, and excellently restores its shape after it is depressed and deformed as a result of wrapping. The film for stretch-wrapping is formed of a resin composition containing, as a chief component, an ethylene/(meth)acrylic acid/(meth)acrylic acid ester terpolymer that contains not more than 7% by weight of a (meth)acrylic acid ester unit, and, optionally, containing an anti-fogging agent or a tackifier.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2001Date of Patent: December 21, 2004Assignee: Du Pont Mitsui Polychemicals Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Yoshikawa, Akira Kamikuzu
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Publication number: 20040254322Abstract: A polymer film comprises a composition having either a polyolefin or a polyamide as a major component. The film has an Elmendorf tear value parameter of about 200 g/mil or less, a thickness greater than about 0.5 mils. The film has a melt flow index between at least about 2 g/10 min. and less than about 17 g/10 min. and further includes a filler to achieve the 200 g/mil tear value parameter. Alternatively, the film has a melt flow index of at least about 17 g/10 min and need not include a filler. The film is substantially unstretched in the transverse direction. The film may be charged. A method of producing a film is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: John S. Trent, James L. Oberholtzer, James C. Pawloski, Julie M. Grissmeyer, Jose Porchia
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Patent number: 6824878Abstract: A thermoplastic film comprising a core layer comprising a polyolefin wherein the core layer comprises the interior of the film; a first transition layer comprising a polyolefin and a silicone additive, wherein the first transition layer is exterior to the core layer; and a first skin layer comprising a polyolefin wherein the first skin layer is exterior to the first transition layer and the core layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2001Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: ExxonMobil Oil CorporationInventors: Robert A. Migliorini, Karen A. Sheppard
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Patent number: 6825303Abstract: New precursors and processes to generate fluorinated poly(para-xylylenes) (“PPX”) and their chemically modified films suitable for fabrications of integrated circuits (“ICs”) of <0.15 &mgr;m are disclosed. The films so prepared have low dielectric constants (“∈”) and are able to keep the integrity of the dielectric, Cu, and the barrier metal, such as Ta. Hence, the reliability of ICs can be assured.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2001Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Dielectric Systems, Inc.Inventor: Chung J. Lee
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Publication number: 20040220367Abstract: An ethylene-&agr;-olefin copolymer resin having a melt index of 0.5 to 2.0 g/10 minutes and a density of 0.905 to 0.920 g/cm3 and showing such a temperature raising elution fractionation pattern that the amount of fractions corresponding to a high density polyethylene is 8 to 25% of the total elution and that the amount of fractions eluted up to a temperature of T40° C. is 40% of the total elution and the amount of fractions eluted up to a temperature of T70° C. is 70% of the total elution, wherein the value of 30/(T70−T40) is 2.0 to 3.3%/° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2004Publication date: November 4, 2004Inventors: Toshitaka Kanai, Shin-ichiro Miyazaki, Hideki Uehara, Kunio Sakauchi, Toshiro Yamada
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Patent number: 6812289Abstract: This invention relates to cast films prepared from interpolymer compositions comprising; (A) a substantially linear ethylene/&agr;-olefin interpolymer present in the composition in an amount of from about 10 to about 100% by weight based on the combined weight of Components A and B; and (B) a heterogeneous interpolymer present in the composition in an amount of from about 0 to about 90% by weight based on the combined weight of Components A and B; and wherein said interpolymer composition has an I10/I2 value of < about 10.0 and is characterized as having a viscosity at 100 rad/s and a relaxation time (&tgr;) which satisfies either of the following relationships; Log(viscosity at 100 rad/s)≦4.43−0.8 log(I2) or log(&tgr;)>−1.2−1.3* log(I2) The interpolymer compositions are useful in cast stretch film manufacture with the resulting cast films having an excellent balance of strength and processability.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2002Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: Dow Global Technologies Inc.Inventors: Jozef J. I. Van Dun, Jacquelyn A. deGroot, Pradeep Jain, Kalyan Sehanobish, Pak-Wing S. Chum
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Publication number: 20040214972Abstract: A fluorine-containing terpolymer with distinguished transparency and strength at ordinary temperature and at elevated temperatures when heated, which comprises 20-98% by weight of tetrafluoroethylene, 1-40% by weight of perfluoro(ethyl vinyl ether) and 1-40% by weight of perfluoro(propyl vinyl ether) and has a specific melt viscosity of 0.1×103-110×103 Pa·s (372° C.). The fluorine-containing terpolymer preferably has a comonomer ratio of perfluoro(propyl vinyl ether) to perfluoro(ethyl vinyl ether) of 1.0 or more by weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2003Publication date: October 28, 2004Inventors: Satoshi Kurihara, Daisuke Fujihara, Takashi Enokida
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Publication number: 20040210012Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a propylene random copolymer comprising polymerisation of propylene with a comonomer, said comonomer being ethylene or an &agr;-olefin comprising at least four carbon atoms, in the presence of a catalyst in a multistage process comprising polymerisation of propylene with a comonomer in a first reaction zone including at least one slurry reactor to give a first polymerisation product, transferring said first product to a second reaction zone including at least one gas phase reactor and polymerisations of propylene with a comonomer in said gas phase reactor in the presence of said first polymerisation product, wherein the temperature in the gas phase reactor is at least 10° C. higher than in the slurry reactor and to a polymer obtainable by this process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2004Publication date: October 21, 2004Inventors: Pirjo Jaaskelainen, Norbert Hafner, Paivi Pitkanen, Markus Gahleitner, Olli Tuominen, Wilfried Toltsch
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Patent number: 6800710Abstract: Polypropylene sheet for thermoforming having at least one layer comprises a propylene polymer containing at least 0.8% by weight of ethylene and, optionally, one or more C4-C10 &agr;-olefins, or a propylene polymer composition containing at least 0.8% by weight of one or more comonomers selected from the group consisting of ethylene and C4-C10 &agr;-olefins, and having I) a melting temperature of 155° C. or higher; and II) a xylene soluble fraction at room temperature lower than 4% by weight, and a value of the ratio of the polymer fraction collected at 25° C. to 95° C. to the xylene soluble fraction higher than 8.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.p.A.Inventors: Anteo Pelliconi, Angelo Lonardo, Gabriele Mei
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Publication number: 20040181024Abstract: A polypropylene-based resin composition for metallized films, comprising (A) 100 parts by weight of a propylene random copolymer having an MFRA of 1 to 30 g/10 minutes, PI of 2.4 to 4, solubles contained at 20° C. or lower at 1.5% by weight or less and solubles contained at 40° C. or lower at 4.0% by weight or less, (B) 0.01 to 6 parts by weight of a polyethylene resin having a density of 0.945 to 0.980 g/cm3 and MIB of 1 to 1000 g/10 minutes, (C) 0.01 to 0.7 parts by weight of an antiblocking agent having an average particle size of 1.0 to 5.0 &mgr;m and pore volume of 1.7 mL/g or less, (D) 0.01 to 0.5 parts by weight of an antioxidant having a molecular weight of 500 or more and (E) 0.005 to 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2003Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventors: Yasunori Nakamura, Hiroshi Ohmori
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Publication number: 20040171782Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a polypropylene homopolymer synthesized from a metallocene catalyst system and methods of forming the homopolymer, the homopolymer having an aluminum and chlorine recoverables value of less than 25 ppm and a xylene solubles of less than 1 wt % relative to the total weight of the homopolymer. The resulting homopolymer has other desirable properties such as a heat deflection temperature at 0.45 MPa of from 90° C. to 110° C., and a MWD value of from 1.7 to 5.0. These properties make embodiments of the homopolymer desirable for films, and in particular for capacitor films.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2003Publication date: September 2, 2004Inventors: Chon-Yie Lin, Bernard Louis Bossert, Chen Michael Chia-Chao, Susan Chia-Yu Yeh
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Patent number: 6784269Abstract: This invention relates to propylene homopolymer compositions obtained from metallocene catalysis wherein the polymer has a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) in the range of from 4.0 to 20.0. The propylene homopolymer composition may be prepared in a multiple stage polymerization process using the same metallocene component in at least two stages. The composition may comprise isotactic homopolymer in one embodiment, and have a hexane extractables of less than 2 wt % in one embodiment. The composition is useful in making films.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2002Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Chon Y. Lin, Michael C. Chen, Aspy K. Mehta, Rajan K. Chudgar
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Patent number: 6780954Abstract: Elastic ethylene polymers are disclosed which have processability similar to highly branched low density polyethylene (LDPE), but the strength and toughness of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE). The polymers have processing indices (PI's) less than or equal to 70 percent of those of a comparative linear ethylene polymer and a critical shear rate at onset of surface melt fracture of at least 50 percent greater than the critical shear rate at the onset of surface melt fracture of a traditional linear ethylene polymer at about the same I2 and Mw/Mn. The novel polymers can also have from about 0.01 to about 3 long chain branches/1000 total carbons and have higher low/zero shear viscosity and lower high shear viscosity than comparative liner ethylene polymers. The novel polymers can also be characterized as having a melt flow ratio, I10/I2, ≧5.63, a molecular weight distribution, Mw/Mn, defined by the equation: Mw/Mn≦(I10/I2)−4.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2003Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: Dow Global Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Shih-Yaw Lai, John R. Wilson, George W. Knight, James C. Stevens
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Publication number: 20040162402Abstract: The invention provides for polymerization catalyst compositions, and for methods for introducing the catalyst compositions into a polymerization reactor. More particularly, the method combines a catalyst component containing slurry and a catalyst component containing solution to form the completed catalyst composition for introduction into the polymerization reactor. The invention is also directed to methods of preparing the catalyst component slurry, the catalyst component solution and the catalyst compositions, to methods of controlling the properties of polymer products utilizing the catalyst compositions, and to polymers produced therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2004Publication date: August 19, 2004Inventors: Simon Mawson, Sun-Chueh Kao, Tae Hoon Kwalk, Timothy Roger Lynn, David H. McConville, Matthew Gary McKee, John Francis Szul, Kersten Anne Terry, Timothy T. Wenzel, Mark Gregory Goode, John Henry Oskam, Robert J. Jorgensen, Robert Harold Vogel
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Patent number: 6777520Abstract: High density polyethylene barrier grade films comprising at least one layer of polymer wherein the polymer comprises a density greater than about 0.955 g/cc and a rheological breadth parameter of greater than about 0.22 are disclosed. Methods for producing such films on a film line with a neck height configuration of greater than about 15 inches are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2001Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: Fina Technology, Inc.Inventors: Michael McLeod, Nguong van Nguyen
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Patent number: 6770715Abstract: A high molecular weight, medium density polyethylene (HMW, MDPE) is disclosed. The polyethylene comprises from about 85 to about 98 wt % of recurring units of ethylene and about 2 to about 15 wt % of a C3-C10 &agr;-olefin. It has a density from about 0.92 to about 0.944 g/cc, a melt index MI2 from about 0.01 to about 0.5 dg/min, and a melt flow ratio MFR from about 50 to about 300. It has a multimodal molecular weight distribution comprising a high molecular weight component and a low molecular weight component. The low molecular weight component has an MI2 from about 50 to about 600 dg/min and a density from about 0.94 to about 0.97 g/cc. A process for making the medium density polyethylene is also disclosed. The process uses a Ziegler catalyst and applies multiple reaction zones.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2002Date of Patent: August 3, 2004Assignee: Equistar Chemicals, LPInventors: Philip J. Garrison, Lawrence R. Wallace, Danny L. Wise, James H. Meas, Leonard V. Cribbs, Jean A. Merrick-Mack, Paula L. Nygard
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Publication number: 20040116584Abstract: The present invention disclose a method for the orientation of a high density polyethylene (“HDPE”) film. The process of the invention comprises forming a HDPE-wax mixture by adding to a HDPE batch a normally solid hydrocarbon wax. The HDPE-wax mixture is subsequently stretched into a film at an orientation temperature below the film's melt temperature. The hydrocarbon wax is characterized by having a drop point equal to or lower than the melting point of the HDPE film. The present invention also provides a film made by the process of the invention and a master batch thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2002Publication date: June 17, 2004Inventors: Robert J. Bowling, D. Ryan Breese
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Patent number: 6737171Abstract: Provided are a propylenic random copolymer of propylene and ethylene satisfying the following (1) to (5), a composition comprising the copolymer, a film and a stretched film of the copolymer or its composition, and a laminate film and a stretched laminate film comprising at least one layer of the copolymer or its composition. (1) The ethylene unit content (x, wt. %) of the copolymer is from 0.2 to 10 wt. %. (2) The copolymer has a melt index (MI, g/10 min) of from 0.1 to 4 g/10 min. (3) The relation between the boiling diethyl ether extraction (E, wt. %) of the copolymer and x satisfies the following (I) or (II); E≦0.253x+1.1 (0.2≦x<6) (I) E≦2.6 (6≦x≦10) (II) (4) The relation between the melting point (Tm, ° C.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2002Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasushi Seta, Satoshi Nakatsuka, Michihiro Sawada, Ryoichi Tsunori
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Publication number: 20040087751Abstract: A unique thermoplastic olefin composition having: (a) at least 40 percent by weight of a propylene-alpha olefin copolymer based on the total weight of polymers in the composition, the propylene-alpha olefin copolymer having at least 60 percent by weight units derived from propylene, at least 6 percent by weight units derived from an alpha olefin, a moleculare weight distribution less than 3.5, and a broad composition distribution; and (b) at least 20 percent by weight of a polypropylene based on the total weight of polymers in the composition, the polypropylene having at least 93 percent by weight units derived from propylene, a molecular weight distribution of greater than 3.5, a heat of fusion greater than the heat of fusion exhibited by the propylene-alpha olefin copolymer, and a melting point Tmax of at least 120° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2003Publication date: May 6, 2004Inventors: Li-Min Tau, Yunwa Wilson Cheung, Charles F. Diehl, Lonnie G. Hazlitt
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Patent number: 6730753Abstract: Catalyst systems of the Ziegler-Natta type, which are suitable for the polymerization of olefins are prepared by: A) bringing an inorganic metal oxide on which a magnesium compound has been deposited into contact with a tetravalent titanium compound, B) if desired, bringing the intermediate obtained in this way into contact with an electron donor compound and C) bringing the intermediate obtained in step A) or B) into contact with a polysiloxane.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2001Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Klaus Föttinger, Stephan Hüffer, Rainer Karer
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Publication number: 20040082750Abstract: Films with excellent machine direction (MD) tear properties comprise at least one layer made from a polymer comprising:Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2003Publication date: April 29, 2004Inventors: Li-Min Tau, Pak-Wing S. Chum, Seema Karande, Clive Bosnyak
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Publication number: 20040063883Abstract: This invention provides a process for producing an organic polymer film whereby when using it as an interlayer insulating film in a semiconductor device, the film exhibits higher adhesiveness at its interfaces where other semiconductor materials are in contact with the lower and the upper surface of the film while an effective dielectric constant in the whole organic polymer film can be further reduced. Specifically, a plurality of organic monomers vaporized is sprayed onto a heated substrate surface via plasma generated in a reaction chamber to form a copolymer film comprising frame composed of a plurality of organic monomer units.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2003Publication date: April 1, 2004Inventors: Yoshihiro Hayashi, Jun Kawahara
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Patent number: 6713189Abstract: “Cast” films having excellent puncture resistance and tear strength are manufactured from “pseudohomogeneous” linear low-density polyethylene resin. The preferred pseudohomogeneous resins used in the present invention are prepared with an advanced Ziegler Natta catalyst (having a magnesium component and a titanium component), preferably in medium pressure solution polymerization process. The films of this invention are especially suitable for “pallet wrapping” and for wrapping goods of unusual or uneven shapes and sizes.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2002Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Nova Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Kam Wah Ho, Norman Dorien Joseph Aubee
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Patent number: 6703462Abstract: Poly (para-xylylene) (“PPX”) polymer films are processed under particular conditions in order to maintain their stability for use in integrated circuits. This is primarily achieved by controlling the substrate temperature, feed rate of the polymer precursors, and the environmental conditions. The resulting films are stable at high temperatures and compatible with other film layers.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2001Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Dielectric Systems Inc.Inventor: Chung J. Lee
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Publication number: 20040044154Abstract: A process of producing a bimodal polyolefin composition is described, which includes in one embodiment contacting monomers with a supported bimetallic catalyst composition for a time sufficient to form a bimodal polyolefin composition that includes a high molecular weight polyolefin component and a low molecular weight polyolefin component; wherein the supported bimetallic catalyst includes a first catalyst component that is preferably non-metallocene, and a second catalyst component that includes a metallocene catalyst compound having at least one fluoride or fluorine containing leaving group, wherein the bimetallic catalyst is supported by an enhanced silica, dehydrated at a temperature of 800° C. or more in one embodiment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Inventors: Chi-I Kuo, G. McCullough Laughlin, Pradeep Pandurang Shirodkar, Fred David Ehrman, Porter Clarke Shannon, Robert Lynn Santana, Steven K. Ackerman, Daniel Gerard O'Neil
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Patent number: 6696166Abstract: A plastic film having a desirable balance of physical properties is prepared using a pseudohomogeneous linear low density polyethylene (lldpe) resin on a blown film extrusion line. The lldpe used in this invention must have a melt index, I2, of from 0.4 to 0.8 grams per 10 minutes, a base resin density of from 0.915 to 0.919 grams per cubic centimeter and a copolymer/homopolymer (COHO) ratio of from 3 to 9. The film must be prepared under specific extrusion conditions using a specific annular extrusion die. The film of this invention has a dart impact strength of greater than 600 grams per mil and a machine direction tear strength of greater than 350 grams per mil and is suitable for the preparation of packaging and trash bags.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Nova Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: John Bayley, Peter Andrew Sipos, Nakul Ulhas Ranade