Patents Assigned to Atochem
  • Patent number: 6291024
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coated metal surface including, successive, at least one layer of polyurethane and at least one layer of thermoplastic polymer, it being possible for a binder to be placed between the polyurethane and the thermoplastic polymer. The invention is useful for covering pipers, electrical cables, telecommunication cables and stay wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem S.A.
    Inventors: Maxime Deroch, Evelyne Bonnet, Jean-Jacques Flat
  • Patent number: 6291410
    Abstract: For the stripping of photoresists, the invention proposes to use a mixture of dimethyl sulphoxide DMSO) or N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) and 3-methoxypropylamine (MOPA). Advantageously, a little water and a corrosion inhibitor, such as sodium tolyltriazolate, are added to the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: ELF Atochem S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Lallier
  • Patent number: 6291617
    Abstract: Compositions for the polymer curing, comprising: a) one or more organic peroxides and b) 3,7-Dimethyl-1,3,6-Octatriene (OCIMENE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Luciano Abrigo, Carla Beretta, Ezio Montessoro, Michele Merenda
  • Patent number: 6274668
    Abstract: Process for reducing the content of residual monomers, expressed as total VOC lower than 600 ppm and deriving from the monomers utilized to obtain the emulsion lower than 100 ppm; having an amount of wet coagula lower or equal to 500 ppm after wet filtering on 125 micron filter of the emulsion at the outlet after the various dropping phases, in polymrizations and copolymerizations in dispersion or emulsion in aqueous phase based on acrylic monomers, characterized in that it comprises as redox couple the utilization of a reducing agent selected from ascorbic acid or an aldehyde having a number of carbon atoms equal to or higher than 4 and containing at least a salifiable hydrogen, organic or inorganic, or its salts and the inorganic salifiable hydrogen being added to a carboxylic group; the aldehyde reducing agent or its salts being soluble in water for at least 5% by weight, preferably 10% by weight; and from an oxidizing agent consisting of an organic hydroperoxide in aqueous solution, excluding those solubl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Carlo Sempio, Leo Mario Saija, Daniele Becchi, Ezio Montessoro
  • Patent number: 6271171
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for obtaining a solid catalyst of general formula (I): [(Mg2+)1−x(Al3+)x(OH−)2]x+[(OH−)x]x−(H2O)n  (I) with 0.20≦x≦0.33 and n<1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem S.A.
    Inventors: Rémy Teissier, Maurice Fournier
  • Patent number: 6265628
    Abstract: In a process for the continuous preparation of mono- and/or bis(mono- and/or di- and/or trichloromethyl) benzenes by gradual chlorination of the corresponding mono-or dimethylbenzenes in several reactors in cascade, the first reactor has a greater volume than each of the other reactors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem, S.A.
    Inventors: Raymond Commandeur, Régis Loze
  • Patent number: 6253508
    Abstract: A building frontage including first frontage elements fixed to the building each including a cellular core and second frontage elements. The first and second frontage elements are arranged in substantially the same plane. The second frontage elements are fixed only to the first frontage elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem S.A.
    Inventors: Marc Ginet, Michel Le Feron De Longcamp
  • Patent number: 6254944
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer structure comprising a layer of a binder either containing a hydroxyl function or containing an epoxy function or alternatively consisting of an ethylene/alkyl (meth)acrylate copolymer and, directly attached thereto, a layer of polyketone. The structure may also comprise, on the binder side and directly attached thereto, either a layer of thermoplastic polymer such as polyethylene or a layer of rubber or a metal layer. The invention is useful for manufacturing packaging, bottles or pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem S.A.
    Inventors: Patrice Robert, Christophe Le Roy
  • Patent number: 6252065
    Abstract: For the preparation of lactams comprising 6 to 12 carbon atoms from the corresponding cycloalkanone oximes by rearrangement according to the Beckmann reaction in the presence of acid, the process is characterized in that use is made of methanesulphonic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem, S.A.
    Inventor: Jean Ollivier
  • Patent number: 6248687
    Abstract: Presulfurizing process and presulfurization promoter for a desulfurization catalyst to be used in a hydrodesulfurization unit of petroleum refinery of high molecular hydrocarbons, in which fresh metal oxide in said desulfurization catalyst is sulfurized with hydrogen sulfide produced from sulfur-containing compounds in a feed stream. In the invention, a compound having mercapto alkylthio group: HS—CmH2m—S— (in which “m” is an integer of 2 to 4) is added as promoter at a proportion of 10 ppm to 0.5% by weight and presulfurization is promoted at 180 to 260° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignees: Nippon Shokubai Co., LTD, Elf Atochem S.A.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Itoh, Kazuaki Abe, Yoshihiro Arita, Einosuke Jodo, Kazuya Hata, Tetsushi Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20010003786
    Abstract: The invention relates to the synthesis of difluoromethane by gas-phase catalytic fluorination of methylene chloride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2001
    Publication date: June 14, 2001
    Applicant: ELF ATOCHEM S.A.
    Inventors: Benoit Requieme, Sylvain Perdrieux, Bernard Cheminal, Eric Lacroix, Andre Lantz
  • Patent number: 6245848
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a latex containing two populations of particles of polymers based on vinyl chloride, respectively exhibiting mean diameters of between 0.9 and 1.3 &mgr;m and between 0.15 and 0.3 &mgr;m, in proportions such that the ratio by weight of the population with the lesser mean diameter to that with the greater mean diameter is between 0.4 and 0.7. Other subjects of the present invention are processes for the manufacture of the said latex and its application in fluid plastisols and foams of very good cellular quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem S.A.
    Inventors: Philippe Espiard, Richard Peres, Benoit Ernst
  • Patent number: 6242549
    Abstract: This composition, which is useful as a binder in the preparation of synthetic resin concretes or mortars, bonding primers or finishing coats, comprises (A) a system of monomers comprising: (a1) 50-90 parts of a dicyclopentenyloxyalkyl eater: where R=H or CH3; n=1 or 2; and R1=C2-C6 alkylene; (a2) 0-25 parts of at least one heavy (meth)acrylate giving a homopolymer with a Tg higher than that of a homopolymer of (a1); (a3) 0-25 parts of at least one heavy (meth)acrylate giving a homopolymer with a Tg lower than that of a homopolymer of (a1); (a4) 0-25 parts of at least one monomer containing at least two (meth)acrylic unsaturations; and (B) 5-30 parts of at least one poly(allyl glycidyl ether); and (C) an initiating system chosen from (C1) to (C4): (C1) 0.1-3 parts of at least one organic peroxide derived from a C3-C18 hydrocarbon compound and 0.1-2 parts of at least one aromatic amine; (C2) 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem, S.A.
    Inventors: Didier Vanhoye, Martine Cerf, Yves Barbier, Mieczyslaw Wnuk
  • Patent number: 6242659
    Abstract: The invention relates to the synthesis of difluoromethane by gas-phase catalytic fluorination of methylene chloride. To lengthen the lifetime of the catalyst the operation is carried out in the presence of chlorine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem, S.A.
    Inventors: Benoit Requieme, Sylvain Perdrieux, Bernard Cheminal, Eric Lacroix, Andre Lantz
  • Patent number: 6239059
    Abstract: Activator solid support for metallocenes as catalysts in the polymerization of olefins, characterized in that it consists of a group of support particles for a solid catalytic component, which are formed from at least one porous mineral oxide, the said particles having been modified in order to carry, on the surface, aluminium and/or magnesium Lewis-acid sites of formula: functionalization agent having reacted with —OH radicals carried by the base particles of the support, the functionalization reaction having been followed by a fluorination reaction. Also disclosed is a catalytic system including a metallocene catalyst, which has optionally been subjected to a prealkylation treatment; a cocatalyst; and an activator solid support for metallocene, as defined above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem, S.A.
    Inventors: Thierry Saudemont, Roger Spitz, Jean-Pierre Broyer, Jean Malinge, Nathalie Verdel
  • Patent number: 6238638
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of nitrosyl chloride from a solution of nitrosylsulphuric acid in sulphuric acid and from hydrogen chloride, the said process being characterized in that the solution of nitrosylsulphuric acid is substantially free of water and that aqueous hydrochloric acid and gaseous hydrogen chloride are used in amounts such that the molar ratio of aqueous hydrochloric acid to nitrosylsulphuric acid is between 0.25 and 1.2 and the molar ratio of aqueous hydrochloric acid and of gaseous hydrogen chloride to nitrosylsulphuric acid is between 1.25 and 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-François Devaux, Bernard Monguillon
  • Patent number: 6232394
    Abstract: The invention relates to thermoplastic master batches having at least one copolymer (A) of ethylene and of at least one unsaturated carboxylic acid ester as support and comprising vulcanization agents for rubbers. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of master batches containing vulcanization agents and having a thermoplastic ethylene copolymer as support, this process consisting in using an extruder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem S.A.
    Inventors: Dominique Bonhomme, Walter Pfrengle, Eddine Nour El Bounia, Jean-Michel Pierrot
  • Patent number: 6232513
    Abstract: In order to isomerize a hydrofluorocarbon having a certain thermodynamic stability (HFC 1) into a hydrofluorocarbon of greater thermodynamic stability (HFC 2), the hydrofluorocarbon HFC 1 is subjected to a heat treatment in the presence of hydrogen at a temperature above 500° C. This process, which does not require the use of a catalyst, applies especially to the isomerization of 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane into 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem S.A.
    Inventors: Serge Hub, Dominique Guillet
  • Patent number: 6228976
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of preparing polyamides, in which, in a first step, the anionic polymerization of at least one lactam is carried out and then, in a second step, a heat treatment is carried out on the polymer obtained, which has a distribution of the molar masses measured by SEC having a shape close to a Gaussian curve with a high-mass tail, at a high enough temperature and for a long enough time so as to obtain a unimodal distribution of the molar masses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Elf Atochem S.A.
    Inventors: Heike Faulhammer, Patrick Dang, Bernard Jacques, Michael Werth
  • Patent number: 6228961
    Abstract: The invention relates to alkoxysilacycloalkanes, to the process for their preparation and to their use in the polymerization of olefins. The introduction of these alkoxysilacycloalkanes into the olefin polymerization environment makes it possible to raise the heptane-insolubles content of the polymer finally formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: ELF Atochem S.A.
    Inventors: Claude Grison, Valerie Barthel, Philippe Coutrot, Jean-Michel Brusson, Claude Brun, Corinne Meynard