Fluorescent Dye, E.g., Stilbene, Benzimidazole, Benzoxazole, Benzothiazole, Pyrazoline Dye, Etc., Optical Brightner Or Bluing Agent Patents (Class 8/648)
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Patent number: 8084377Abstract: A material and method delivering to the skin therapeutic radiation and filtering a part of the sun spectrum causing skin damage.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2008Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Sun-Soul Inc.Inventors: Michael Kreindel, Mark Gray, Christopher Hawthorne
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Patent number: 8075638Abstract: The invention relates to the dyeing of keratin materials using dichromophore dyes with a carbonyl or heterocyclic linker. The invention relates to a dye composition comprising a dye with a carbonyl or heterocyclic linker, and to a dyeing process with a lightening effect on keratin materials, in particular keratin fibers, especially human keratin fibers such as the hair, using said composition, optionally in the presence of a cosmetically acceptable acid or base. It similarly relates to novel dyes and to the uses thereof in lightening keratin materials. This composition makes it possible to obtain a coloring with a lightening effect which is particularly resistant and visible on dark keratin fibers.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2008Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.Inventor: Andrew Greaves
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Patent number: 8070830Abstract: The invention relates to a dye composition comprising a thiol/disulfide fluorescent dye comprising a heterocycle, and to a dyeing process which has a lightening effect on keratin materials, in particular keratin fibers, especially human keratin fibers such as the hair, using said composition. It similarly relates to novel thiol/disulfide fluorescent dyes and to uses thereof in lightening keratin materials. This composition makes it possible to obtain a particularly resistant and visible lightening effect on dark keratin fibers.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.Inventors: Andrew Greaves, Nicolas Daubresse
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Publication number: 20110289698Abstract: This invention relates to novel whitening agents for cellulosic substrates. The whitening agents are comprised of at least two components: at least one chromophore component and at least one polymeric component. Suitable chromophore components generally fluoresce blue, red, violet, or purple color when exposed to ultraviolet light, or they may absorb light to reflect these same shades. The whitening agents are further characterized by having a dispersion component value of the Hansen Solubility Parameter of less than or equal to about 17 MPa0.5. This invention also relates to laundry care compositions including but not limited to liquid and/or powder laundry detergent formulations and rinse added fabric softening (RAFS) compositions that comprise such whitening agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventors: Michael A. Valenti, Laurent D. Kieken, Xiaoyong Michael Hong, Eduardo Torres, Dominick J. Valenti, Patrick D. Moore, Leonard J. Starks, Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Mark Robert Sivik, Kevin Lee Kott, Keith Homer Baker
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Publication number: 20110283466Abstract: Novel compounds based on distyryl-biphenyl are provided. The compounds conform to the general structure The compounds are useful as optical brighteners. Compositions, such as laundry care compositions, containing such compounds are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Inventors: Eduardo Torres, Robert L. Mahaffey, Dominick J. Valenti, Patrick D. Moore, Leland G. Close, JR.
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Patent number: 8062382Abstract: The present invention provides a laundry treatment composition comprising a cationic azine dye.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2009Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Conopco Inc.Inventors: Stephen Norman Batchelor, Jayne Michelle Bird, Susan Barbara Joyce
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Publication number: 20110268896Abstract: A composition comprising an organic fluorophore having a structure of: or a derivative thereof; as well as articles of manufacture marked with the fluorophore, methods for marking articles with the fluorophore, and methods for producing a fluorescent fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2011Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Thomas Potrawa, Joachim Schulz
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Patent number: 8038731Abstract: The invention relates to a method of dyeing and lightening keratin materials in the presence of a reducing agent, comprising applying to keratin materials, a dyeing composition comprising a fluorescent disulfide dye and simultaneously applying to the keratin materials at least one reducing agent.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.Inventors: Nicolas Daubresse, Andrew Greaves, Henri Samain
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Patent number: 8038732Abstract: The invention relates to a dye composition comprising a thiol/disulfide fluorescent dye comprising amino groups, and to a dyeing process which has a lightening effect on keratin materials, in particular keratin fibers, especially human keratin fibers such as the hair, using said composition. It similarly relates to novel thiol/disulfide fluorescent dyes and to uses thereof in lightening keratin materials. This composition makes it possible to obtain a particularly resistant and visible lightening effect on dark keratin fibers.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.Inventors: Andrew Greaves, Nicolas Daubresse
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Publication number: 20110183560Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing safety textiles in one of the following colors: fluorescent yellow, fluorescent orange-red or fluorescent red. In a first step a textile starting material is pre-dyed in the desired color such that the pre-dyed fluorescent material has a specified first minimum luminance factor and the color is situated within an associated color diamond. After that the pre-dyed material is cross-dyed with a mixture of a luminescent pigment dye and a binder in such a way that the cross-dyed fluorescent material has a specified second minimum luminance factor and the color of the cross-dyed material continues to be situated within the color diamond. Subsequently the cross-dyed material is dried.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2007Publication date: July 28, 2011Inventors: Rainer Hendel, Sven Klaus Brosig
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Publication number: 20110151149Abstract: An article in the form of a paper substrate having a first surface and a second surface; an internal paper sizing agent present in an amount sufficient to impart to the paper substrate an HST value of from about 50 to about 250 seconds; one or more optical brightening agents present in an amount below a “green over” effect excess but sufficient to impart an ISO Brightness value of at least about 92; and a metal salt drying agent mixture of multivalent and monovalent metal drying salts in a molar ratio of multivalent to monovalent cations of from about 3:1 to about 1:18 to provide a percent ink transferred (“IT %”) value equal to or less than about 65% and a black print density value of at least about 1.45. Also, a method for treating the optically brightened paper substrate with a mixture of multivalent and monovalent metal drying salts.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANYInventor: Michael F. Koenig
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Publication number: 20110107527Abstract: Method of cleaning a white load in a laundry machine, preferably a professional laundry machine, the method comprises subjecting the load to at least two washing steps and wherein the method comprises the steps of delivering bleach and subsequently a whitening additive.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventors: Francesco DE Buzzaccarini, Rapheal Angeline Alfons Ceulemans, Edward Robert Offshack
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Patent number: 7931702Abstract: Disclosed is an azo compound represented by the general formula (1) or a salt thereof: wherein R1 and R2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or a lower alkoxy group; and n represents 1 or 2. Also disclosed are a dye-containing polarizing film and a dye-containing polarizing plate, each of which comprises a polarizing film base material and the azo compound contained in the base material.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignees: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha, Polatechno Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Sadamitsu, Takuto Nishiguchi, Hiroaki Ohno
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Patent number: 7914646Abstract: Oxidative compositions and processes that preserve and enhance the brightness and improve color of pulp or paper when applied during different stages of the papermaking process are identified. The oxidative composition and method maintains and/or enhances brightness, prevents yellowing, and enhances the performance of paper products. Used in combination with optical brighteners and/or chelants the oxidative agents produce a synergistic effect not previously identified in the paper process.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2006Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Nalco CompanyInventors: Prasad Y. Duggirala, Sergey M. Shevchenko, Katherine M. Broadus
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Patent number: 7909890Abstract: The present invention relates to new compositions comprising compounds, which are molecular combinations of a phthalocyanine and a mono-azo dyestuff linked via specific linking groups. Further aspects are an improved shading process for textile materials and also use of these shading compositions for shading textiles.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Hans Kramer, Frank Bachmann, Christof Dosenbach, Mini Jeevanath, Georg Roentgen, Adolf Kaeser, Roger Wolfgang Basler, Neil Joseph Lant, Gregory Scot Miracle
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Publication number: 20110011417Abstract: The invention relates to a dyeing composition containing a thiol/disulphide fluorescent colorant comprising a heterocycle, and to a method for colouring keratin materials, especially keratin fibres, particularly human keratin fibres such as hair, with a lightening effect, using said composition. The invention also relates to novel thiol/disulphide fluorescent colorants and the uses thereof for lightening keratin materials. Said composition produces a lightening effect which is especially tenacious and visible on dark keratin fibres.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2007Publication date: January 20, 2011Inventors: Andrew Greaves, Nicolas Daubresse
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Publication number: 20100294447Abstract: The instant invention relates to storage stable solutions of optical brighteners based on certain salt forms of anilino-substituted bistriazinyl derivatives of 4,4?-diaminostilbene-2,2?-disulphonic acid and of organic acids which do not need extra solubilising additives.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2008Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: CLARIANT FINANCE (BVI) LIMITEDInventors: John Martin Farrar, Andrew Clive Jackson, Margaret Mahon, Martin Oberholzer
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Publication number: 20100281628Abstract: A bluing composition concentrate comprises an aqueous medium and at least one colorant that exhibits a blue or violet shade when deposited onto a textile material. The concentrate can be used to produce a bluing composition, and the bluing composition can be used to treat textile materials in such a way as to decrease the visually-perceived yellow coloration of textile articles that can occur with repeated use and laundering.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2010Publication date: November 11, 2010Inventors: Carlos Ilao, JR., Kheng Teck Chan, Rajnish Batlaw, Zhen Zhen Lim
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Patent number: 7812156Abstract: The instant invention relates to stilbene optical brightening agents which combine a high solubility in water while providing superior fluorescent whitening effects when applied to the surface of paper in either the size-press or in a pigmented coating composition and which show a reduced anionic charge. The instant optical brighteners may also be used for finishing of textiles.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2005Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Clariant Finance (BVI) LimitedInventors: Andrew Clive Jackson, Nicholas Philip Lock
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Patent number: 7789917Abstract: A brightening system includes a substrate and an amphoteric stilbene composition established on the substrate. The amphoteric stilbene composition includes a predetermined amount of at least one of 4,4?-diamino-2,2?-stilbene disulfonic acid, biarylsulfonate-4,4?-diamino-2,2?-stilbene disulfonic acid, biaryldisulfonate-4,4?-diamino-2,2?-stilbene disulfonic acid, derivatives thereof, salts thereof, and mixtures thereof; and a fixing agent.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2008Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Kai Kong Iu, Gary Larson, Hai Q Tran, William A Houle
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Patent number: 7780743Abstract: The invention relates to the dyeing of keratin materials using naphthylimide thiol/disulphide thiol fluorescent dyes, and to a dyeing process which has a lightening effect on keratin materials, in particular keratin fibres, especially human keratin fibres such as the hair, using said composition. It similarly relates to novel thiol/disulphide fluorescent dyes and to uses thereof in lightening keratin materials. This composition makes it possible to obtain a particularly resistant and visible lightening effect on dark keratin fibres.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.Inventors: Andrew Greaves, Nicolas Daubresse
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Patent number: 7753967Abstract: Novel crystalline forms of and a process for converting perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboximide of the general formula I to a form used as a fluorescent dye. The process including: a) dissolving or suspending the perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboximide in a solvent to obtain a solution or suspension; and b1) cooling the solution obtained in step a) to a temperature at or below the crystallization temperature of the perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboximide and, if the solvent is organic, removing excess solvent until the first crystals form, otherwise, adding water or dilute aqueous solutions of the solvent until the first crystals form, and maintaining the solution at that temperature for further crystallization; or b2) cooling the suspension obtained in step a) to or below the crystallization temperature when the temperature in step a) was above the crystallization temperature, and maintaining the suspension at the temperature for further crystallization to form one or more solvate crystals.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Peter Erk, Simone Schaefer, Arno Boehm, Peter Blaschka, Harald Arms, Willi Helfer
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Patent number: 7744658Abstract: The disclosure relates to the dyeing of keratin materials using indole-derived styryl dyes comprising an alkylene linker. Disclosed herein is a dye composition comprising an indole-derived styryl dye comprising an alkylene linker, and a dyeing process with, for example, a lightening effect on keratin materials such as hair, using said composition. Disclosed herein are novel indole-derived styryl dyes comprising an alkylene linker and the uses thereof in lightening keratin materials. This composition makes it possible to obtain a coloring with a lightening effect which can be resistant and visible on dark keratin fibers.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.Inventors: Andrew Greaves, Nicolas Daubresse
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Patent number: 7744657Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the dyeing of keratin materials using thiol/disulfide styryl tetrahydroquinolinium fluorescent dyes. Disclosed herein is a dye composition comprising a thiol/disulfide styryl tetrahydroquinolinium fluorescent dye and a dyeing process with, for instance, a lightening effect on keratin materials such as hair, using said composition. Disclosed herein are thiol fluorescent dyes and the uses thereof in lightening keratin materials. This composition can be used to obtain a lightening effect which can be resistant and visible on dark keratin fibers.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.Inventors: Andrew Greaves, Nicolas Daubresse, Franco Manfre
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Publication number: 20100159763Abstract: The instant invention relates to storage stable solutions of optical brighteners based on certain salt forms of anilino-substituted bistriazinyl derivatives of 4,4?-diaminostilbene-2,2?-disulphonic acid which do not need extra solubilising additives.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2006Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: John Martin Farrar, Andrew Clive Jackson, Margaret Mahon
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Patent number: 7736631Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cosmetic composition comprising at least one fluorescent dye and at least one aminosilicone; processes using this cosmetic composition and a kit comprising at least one composition comprising at least one fluorescent dye and at least one aminosilicone, which can be used to dye with a lightening effect human keratin materials for example, artificially dyed or pigmented hair, and dark skin.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2004Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.Inventors: Luc Gourlaouen, Henri Samain
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Patent number: 7727287Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel dye composition for the dyeing and/or lightening of keratin materials, such dye comprising a hemicyanin styryl chromophore thiol or disulfide dye of formula (I) or (II): the organic or mineral acid salts thereof, optical isomers and geometric isomers thereof, and the solvates thereof such as hydrates. The present disclosure further relates to a dyeing process with a lightening effect on keratin materials, in particular keratin fibers, including human keratin fibers such as the hair, using said composition. This composition makes it possible to obtain a coloring with a lightening effect which is particularly resistant and visible on dark keratin fibers.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.Inventors: Andrew Greaves, Nicolas Daubresse
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Patent number: 7717964Abstract: The disclosure relates to the dyeing of keratin materials using styryl hydroxy(cyclo)alkylamino thiol/disulfide fluorescent dyes. Disclosed herein is a dye composition comprising a styryl hydroxy(cyclo)alkylamino thiol/disulfide fluorescent dye and a dyeing process with, for example, a lightening effect on keratin materials such as hair, using said composition. Disclosed herein are novel thiol/disulfide fluorescent dyes and the uses thereof in lightening keratin materials. This composition makes it possible to obtain a lightening effect which can be resistant and visible on dark keratin fibers.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.Inventors: Nicolas Daubresse, Andrew Greaves, Franco Manfre
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Publication number: 20100069282Abstract: A particle for use in a composition comprising: a first coating layer comprising a coating material selected from surfactant, surfactant precursor, builder, film-forming polymer and mixtures thereof, and a core, at least a portion of said core being coated by said coating; wherein the particle additionally comprises a hueing dye.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Inventors: Manasvini Prabhat, Gillian Balfour Swan
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Publication number: 20100069283Abstract: Extruded particle comprising a hueing dye.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Inventors: Manasvini PRABHAT, Gillian Balfour SWAN, Stefan James EGAN, Andrew LATIMER
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Publication number: 20090320218Abstract: The present invention relates to thiazolium dyes, laundry care compositions comprising one or more thiazolium dyes, processes of making such dyes and laundry care compositions and methods of using same. The dyes, compositions and methods of the present invention are advantageous in providing improved hueing of fabric, including whitening of white fabric, while avoiding significant build up of bluing dyes on the fabric.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Mu-ill Lim, Manuela Javet, Cecile Pasquier, Brian Joseph Loughnane, Michael David Cummings, Donna D'Angelo Morrall, Kevin Lee Kott, Keith Homer Baker, Eduardo Torres, Laurent D. Keiken, Patrick D. Moore, Dominick J. Valenti, Robert L. Mahaffey
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Patent number: 7638016Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing the brightness of pulp, pulp made from such methods and methods of using such pulp.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2006Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: International Paper CompanyInventor: Xuan Truong Nguyen
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Publication number: 20090293210Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a combination of a free fluorescent whitening agent and cationic polymer as a brightening agent for a synthetic single or blended textile, especially polyester textile, and to a corresponding brightening agent as well as a laundering process for brightening a synthetic, single or blended textile, which is characterized by a) preparing a composition by contacting a free fluorescent whitening agent with a cationic polymer, and b) treating said synthetic, single or blended textile with the composition prepared in step a).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2006Publication date: December 3, 2009Inventors: Robert Hochberg, Oliver Becherer, Bernard Schultz, Goetz Scheffler, René Schlatter
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Patent number: 7622022Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for applying optical brightening agent (OBA) to a sheet of paper or paperboard substrate. The process comprises the step of spraying an aqueous composition comprising an optical brightening agent onto at least one surface of a sized paperboard substrate to form a treated paperboard substrate. The treated paperboard substrate includes a layer of OBA on at least one surface of the paper or paperboard substrate in which the brightness of the treated paper or paperboard substrate is greater than the sized paper or paperboard substrate before treating thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2006Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Inventors: Benny J Skaggs, Matt Bovee
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Patent number: 7608117Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a granular formulation of colorants soluble in plastics, which method comprises suspending in water a filter cake obtained from preparation of the colorant, adding thereto from 0.1 to 5.0% by weight, calculated with respect to the weight of colorant, of a polyvinylpyrrolidone and, where appropriate, further adjuvants, and then drying the aqueous suspension to form granules, to the granular formulations obtainable according to that method, and to the use thereof in the production of colored plastics or colored polymeric particles.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2007Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Paolo Balliello, Walter Dümler
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Patent number: 7601180Abstract: The present invention relates to the use, for the dyeing with lightening effect of human keratin substances, and in particular of human keratin fibres such as the hair, of a composition comprising at least one fluorescent cyanine dye. The present invention allows human keratin substances to be both dyed and at the same time lightened without detriment to said substances. The fluorescent dyes employed in the context of the invention also have high tinctorial affinity for keratin substances and good properties of resistance towards external agents, and especially towards shampoos.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2007Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.Inventors: Andrew Greaves, Nicolas Daubresse
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Publication number: 20090223003Abstract: The present invention provides a treatment composition comprising a hydrophobic dye.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2005Publication date: September 10, 2009Inventors: Stephen Norman Batchelor, Jayne Michelle Bird
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Patent number: 7585333Abstract: The present invention relates to a fluorescent whitening agent comprising a mixture of two symmetrically and one asymmetrically substituted triazinylaminostilbene disulphonic acids, certain novel derivatives, a process for their preparations and use of the mixture for whitening synthetic or natural organic materials, especially paper and for the fluorescent whitening and improvement of sun protection factors of textile materials.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2005Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Fabienne Cuesta, Ted Deisenroth, Peter Rohringer
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Publication number: 20090217467Abstract: A laundry treatment composition comprising: (i) from 2 to 70 wt % of a surfactant, and from 0.0001 to 0.1 wt % of an azine dye, wherein the dye is of the following core structure (I), wherein Ra, Rb, Rc, and Rd are selected from: H, an branched or linear C1 to C7-alkyl chain, benzyl a phenyl, and a naphthyl; the dye is substituted with at least one SO3? or —COO? group; the B ring does not carry a negatively charged group or salt thereof; and the A ring may further substituted to form a naphthyl; the dye is optionally substituted by groups selected from: amine, methyl, ethyl, hydroxyl, methoxy, ethoxy, phenoxy, Cl, Br, I, F, and NO2.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2007Publication date: September 3, 2009Inventors: Stephen Norman Batchelor, Jayne Michelle Bird
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Patent number: 7566349Abstract: The present invention provides novel bis-triazinylaminostilbene amphoteric fluorescent whitening agents, comprising both individual components and mixtures thereof, a process for their preparation, intermediates useful for their preparation and use of the fluorescent whitening agents for the fluorescent whitening of paper.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2007Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Goetz Scheffler, Peter Rohringer, Ian John Fletcher
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Publication number: 20090172899Abstract: Fluorescent phenyl xanthene dyes are described that comprise any fluorescein, rhodamine or rhodol comprising a particular C9 phenyl ring. One or both of the ortho groups on the lower C9 phenyl ring is ortho substituted with a group selected from alkyl, heteroalkyl, alkoxy, halo, haloalkyl, amino, mercapto, alkylthio, cyano, isocyano, cyanato, mercaptocyanato, nitroso, nitro, azido, sulfeno, sulfinyl, and sulfino. In one embodiment, halo and/or hydroxy groups are used. Optimal dyes contain a lower C9 phenyl ring in which both ortho groups are the same and the lower ring exhibits some form a symmetry relative to an imaginary axis running from the phenyl rings point of attachment to the remainder of the xanthene dye through a point para to the point of attachment. The phenyl xanthene dyes may be activated. Furthermore, the phenyl xanthene dyes may be conjugated to one or more substances including other dyes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2009Publication date: July 9, 2009Applicant: Applied Biosystems Inc.Inventors: Joe Y. L. Lam, Steven M. Menchen, Ruiming Zou, Scott C. Benson
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Publication number: 20090172898Abstract: The present invention relates to new compositions comprising compounds, which are molecular combinations of a phthalocyanine and a mono-azo dyestuff linked via specific linking groups. Further aspects are an improved shading process for textile materials and also use of these shading compositions for shading textiles.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2008Publication date: July 9, 2009Inventors: Hans Kramer, Frank Bachmann, Christof Dosenbach, Mini Jeevanath, Georg Roentgen, Adolf Kaeser, Roger Wolfgang Basler, Neil Joseph Lant, Gregory Scot Miracle
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Publication number: 20090106916Abstract: A detergent composition comprising i) 1-70% of an anionic or nonionic surfactant, ii) 1-75% of a builder, iii) 0.001-5% of at least one compound of Formula (1) wherein R represents a C1-C4alkyl residue and M represents hydrogen or an alkali metal cation, optionally with further FWA's, iv) 0-30% of a peroxide, v) 0-10% of a peroxide activator, vi) 0-5% of a bleaching catalyst and vii) 0-5% of an enzyme, each component by weight, based on the total weight of the detergent composition, use thereof for domestic washing of textile fibre materials and a process for the fluorescent whitening of textile materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2007Publication date: April 30, 2009Inventors: Oliver Becherer, Robert Hochberg, Gerhard Merkle, Bernard Schultz, Purushottam Jugalkishor Chandak
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Publication number: 20090100612Abstract: The invention relates to a laundry detergent shading composition that has been coated with a polymer that serves to promote the stability of the dye.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2006Publication date: April 23, 2009Inventors: Stephen Norman Batchelor, Bastiaan Domburg, Mark Nicholas Newman, Dawn Rigby
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Patent number: 7521556Abstract: 1,6,9,14-Tetrasubstituted terrylenetetracarboxylic diimides are particularly useful for absorbing and emitting in the long-wavelength red and near infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2003Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignees: BASF SE, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e.V.Inventors: Arno Boehm, Matthias Krieger, Erik Reuther, Klaus Muellen
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Patent number: 7497971Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixture of fluorescent whitening agents comprising 11 to 20% by weight of a compound of formula (1), and 80 to 89% by weight of a compound of formula (2), wherein R1 denotes hydrogen, C1-C6alkyl, C5-C14aryl or C6-C24aralkyl and X is a bivalent radical of formula (3), (4) or (5) compositions containing the mixture and the use of the compositions for whitening synthetic fibers, in particular, polyester.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2003Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Jean-Jacques Donzé, Marie Meyberger, Michael Milde, Volker Papendick, Josef Zelger
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Publication number: 20090049621Abstract: The present invention relates to the use, for the dyeing with lightening effect of human keratin substances, and in particular of human keratin fibres such as the hair, of a composition comprising at least one fluorescent cyanine dye. The present invention allows human keratin substances to be both dyed and at the same time lightened without detriment to said substances. The fluorescent dyes employed in the context of the invention also have high tinctorial affinity for keratin substances and good properties of resistance towards external agents, and especially towards shampoos.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2007Publication date: February 26, 2009Inventors: Andrew Greaves, Nicolas Daubresse
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Publication number: 20090031506Abstract: Novel energy transfer dyes which can be used with shorter wavelength light sources are provided. These dyes include a donor dye with an absorption maxima at a wavelength between about 250 to 450 nm and an acceptor dye which is capable of absorbing energy emitted from the donor dye. One of the energy transfer dyes has a donor dye which is a member of a class of dyes having a coumarin or pyrene ring structure and an acceptor dye which is capable of absorbing energy emitted from the donor dye, wherein the donor dye has an absorption maxima between about 250 and 450 nm and the acceptor dye has an emission maxima at a wavelength greater than about 500 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: Applera CorporationInventor: Linda G. Lee
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Publication number: 20090000043Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for improving the whiteness of fibre materials selected from the group consisting of polyester, polyamide, polyacrylonitrile, wool and silk, wherein the fibre materials are treated with at least one disperse dye in a laundry process.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2007Publication date: January 1, 2009Inventors: Wolfgang Schlenker, Mario Dubini
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Patent number: 7429277Abstract: A hair-dyeing agent, which contains at least one compound represented by formula (1) or (2) as a dye: wherein X1 and X2 each are an oxygen atom, nitrogen atom, sulfur atom, or dialkylmethylene group; R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and R8 each independently are a hydrogen atom or substituent; M1 and M2 each are a counter ion to balance the charge of the molecule; and m1 and m2 each are a number of 0 or more necessary to neutralize the charge of the molecule.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2006Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Katsumi Kobayashi