Patents Assigned to Dow Global Technologies
  • POLYMERS CONTAINING BENZIMIDAZOLE MOIETIES AS LEVELERS
    Publication number: 20160255729
    Abstract: Polymers of reaction products of dihalogens and compounds containing benzimidazole moieties are included in metal electroplating compositions to provide level metal deposits on substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicants: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC, Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Lingli Duan, Yang Li, Tong Sun, Shaoguang Feng, Chen Chen, Zuhra Niazimbetova, Maria Rzeznik
  • REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20160251505
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a reinforced polypropylene comprising a multi-modal molecular weight distribution elastomer and a block composite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Yi Jin, Kim L. Walton, Edmund M. Carnahan, Gary R. Marchand, Xuming Chen, Jeffrey D. Weinhold, Jerzy Klosin, A. Willem Degroot, Philip P. Fontaine
  • Process to produce enhanced melt strength ethylene/?-olefin copolymers and articles thereof
    Patent number: 9428636
    Abstract: An ethylene/?-olefin copolymer comprising units derived from ethylene; and units derived from at least one ?-olefin; wherein the ethylene/?-olefin copolymer has a density in the range of from 0.90 to 0.94 g/cc; a melt index (I2) in the range of from 0.05 to 50 dg/min; an Mw/Mn of from 3 to 5; and from 300 to 500 vinyl unsaturations per 1,000,000 carbon atoms in the ethylene/?-olefin copolymer is provided. Also provided is a process for producing an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer comprising: (1) polymerizing ethylene and one or more ?-olefins in a polymerization reactor; (2) thereby producing an enhanced melt strength ethylene/?-olefin copolymer having from 300 to 500 vinyl unsaturation units per 1,000,000 carbon atoms, a density in the range of from 0.90 to 0.94 g/cc; a melt index (I2) in the range of from 0.05 to 50 dg/min; and a Mw/Mn of from 3 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence J. Effler, Teresa P. Karjala, Mehmet Demirors, Nilesh R. Savargaonkar, Selim Bensason, Zhe Zhou
  • Ethylene-based polymers and processes to make the same
    Patent number: 9428595
    Abstract: The invention provides a process to form an ethylene-based polymer, said process comprising polymerizing ethylene in the presence of at least one free-radical agent, and in the presence of a “metal alkyl-containing compound” selected from the group consisting of the following: i) at least one “Group II metal alkyl-containing compound,” ii) at least one “Group III metal alkyl-containing compound,” or iii) a combination of i) and ii). The invention also provides a composition comprising at least one ethylene-based polymer, prepared from a free-radical polymerization, and wherein the ethylene-based polymer has the following property: y>0.28567x?0.00032, wherein y=vinyl/1000C, as determined by 1H NMR, and x=mol % polymerized ?-olefin, as determined by 13C NMR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Sean W. Ewart, Teresa P. Karjala, Sarat Munjal, Mehmet Demirors
  • Woven carpet coating compounds, associated methods of use, and articles made therefrom
    Patent number: 9428857
    Abstract: A method of preparing a woven carpet comprising applying a coating compound as an adhesive layer to the woven carpet to form a coated woven carpet, wherein the coating compound comprises an aqueous dispersion comprising a base polymer, a stabilizing agent, and a liquid medium, wherein the base polymer comprises a polyolefin-based polymer; and a wetting agent. A woven carpet comprising a woven substrate; and an adhesive layer comprising a dehydration product of a coating compound comprising an aqueous dispersion comprising a base polymer, a stabilizing agent, and a liquid medium, wherein the base polymer comprises a polyolefin-based polymer; and a wetting agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Hans De Vos
  • Multi-layered structure and a method of sealing or shaping using a multi-layered structure
    Patent number: 9427938
    Abstract: A multi-layered structure comprising an induction activation layer comprising a blend of (a) a first thermoplastic polymer, (b) a plurality of first particles, each said first particle comprising (i) a core comprising one or more magnetic materials and (ii) a shell comprising silicon dioxide; and (c) optionally a plurality of second particles, each said second particle comprising heat conducting particles; and a sealant, wherein the sealant exhibits a melting point equal to or lower than any other layer in the multi-layered structure, wherein the induction activation layer and sealant are in direct or indirect thermal contact is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Rudolf J. Koopmans, Luis G. Zalamea Bustillo, Karl Zuercher, Thomas T. Allgeuer
  • Ammonium Bisulfate Catalyzed Dehydration of Beta-Hydroxy Acids
    Publication number: 20160244395
    Abstract: Hydroxycarboxylic acids, e.g., 3-hydroxypropionic acid, and/or their ammonium salts are dehydrated to their corresponding unsaturated carboxylic acids, e.g., acrylic acid, by a process that uses a catalyst comprising ammonium bisulfate. The use of ammonium bisulfate reduces or eliminates the problems associated with processes that use sulfuric acid as a dehydrating catalyst, e.g, excess sulfuric acid consumption and/or recovery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Leonard E. Bogan, Jr., Mark A. Silvano, Raymond P. Roach, Sarah M. Hoyt, Robert Tengler, David C. Decoster, Sanjib Biswas, Muhunthan Sathiosatham, Sarah L. Hruby, Andrew M. Lemonds
  • MICROBICIDAL COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20160242412
    Abstract: A synergistic microbicidal composition having two components. The first component is a nonionic surfactant with structure: R1O(CH2CH(CH3)O)5(CH2CH2O)9H, where R1 is a C8 alkyl group. The second component is 2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one. The weight ratio of the nonionic surfactant to 2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one is from 1:0.005 to 1:1.3714.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicants: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Usha Gandhi, Christine McInnis, Kiran Pareek, Paul O. Schook, Nigel G. Watson, Terry Michael Williams, Bei Yin
  • Pouch for fresh produce item and method
    Patent number: 9422098
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pouch for holding a fresh produce item and a method. The pouch includes (A) a body composed of at least one flexible multilayer film having a haze value less than 20%. The body further includes a front wall, a rear wall, and a gusset panel that form a closed chamber. (B) The gusset panel includes a rim. (C) A fresh produce item is located in the closed chamber. (D) The pouch has a chamber-to-rim ratio (mm) from 6:1 to 200:1. At least a portion of at least one wall is transparent permitting a person to see the fresh produce item in the pouch. The method includes displaying the fresh produce item through at least one of the front wall or the rear wall at a chamber-to-rim ratio from 6:1 to 200:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Jill M. Martin, Haley Lowry, James F. Warner, Jihoon Kim, Thomas A. Herbert
  • Aminopyridine derivatives for removal of hydrogen sulfide from a gas mixture
    Patent number: 9421492
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel class of aminopyridine derivatives with the general formula: wherein R1; R2, R3, and R4 are each independently hydrogen, an alkyl group, —(O—CH2—CH2)n-OH wherein n is an integer from 0 to 8, —CH2—(O—CH2—CH2)n-OH wherein n is an integer from 0 to 8, an hydroxyalkyl group, an aminoalkyl group where the nitrogen can be part of a 5 or 6 ring membered cycle, an alkylene group containing quaternary ammonium, a carboxylic acid and/or a salt thereof, or a sulphonic acid and/or a salt thereof, preferably R1; R2, R3, and R4 are each hydrogen. The compounds are useful for removal of hydrogen sulfide and other impurities from fluid streams containing hydrogen sulfide, including selective removal from such streams which also contain carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Christophe R. Laroche, Gerardo Padilla
  • Process for preparing stable dispersions of starch particles
    Patent number: 9422669
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, the present disclosure provides for a process for preparing a dispersion of starch particles in an aqueous liquid. In one or more embodiments, the process includes introducing a feed starch and the aqueous liquid into a rotor stator mixer, maintaining the feed starch and the aqueous liquid in the rotor stator mixer at a temperature ranging from a gelation temperature to less than a solubilization temperature, and shearing the feed starch into starch particles with the rotor stator mixer to form the dispersion of starch particles in the aqueous liquid. In one or more embodiments, the starch particles produced by this process have an average particle size diameter of no larger than 2 micrometers and the dispersion has 20 to 65 weight percent of the starch particles based on a total weight of the dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Gregory W. Welsch, Brian J. Ninness, Michael D. Read, Timothy J. Young, Michal E. Matteucci, David E. Hammond, Liang Hong, Donald K. Ervick, Jr.
  • Polyethylene with high melt strength for use in films
    Patent number: 9422425
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for producing a film particularly well suited for shrink film applications, said method comprising the steps of selecting a target polyethylene resin and then increasing the melt strength of the polyethylene resin by reacting the polyethylene resin with an alkoxy amine derivative, and then forming a film from the reacted target polyethylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignees: Dow global Technologies LLC, Dow Brasil S.A.
    Inventors: Teresa P. Karjala, Nicolas Cardoso Mazzola, Mehmet Demirors, Jorge Caminero Gomes, Michael A. Terrasa
  • Coating compositions
    Patent number: 9422444
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards coating compositions comprising from 20 to 85 percent of an aqueous dispersion based on a total weight of the coating composition, a basic water composition, and a crosslinker, wherein the aqueous dispersion comprises a melt blending product of (a) a base polymer comprising a polyolefin, (b) a polymeric performance improving agent (c) a polymeric stabilizing agent, and (d) a polymeric coupling agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Lundgard, Houxiang Tang, Jeffrey Wilbur, Jinghang Wu, David L. Malotky
  • Acetylated monoglyceride of 12-hydroxystearic acid and blends with epoxidized fatty acid esters
    Patent number: 9422418
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to plasticizer compositions. A composition is provided which includes a castor-free acetylated glyceride of 12-hydroxystearic acid (AGHA) having a hydroxyl number from 0 to less than 15. The castor-free AGHA finds application in coatings for wire and cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Bharat I. Chaudhary, Klaus Schiller, Michael Meerbote
  • Single polymer film structures for use in stand-up-pouches
    Patent number: 9421743
    Abstract: The present invention relates to film structure suitable for use in stand up pouches comprising all polyethylene material. The film structure can be a monolayer film or a multilayer film structure having specific requirements for each layer. The combination results in a film structure having adequate stiffness to function as a stand-up pouch while also providing acceptable water vapor transmission rates and good tear resistance. Such films have improved sustainability characteristics as they should permit down-gauging of the films and, can more easily be recycled, at least for the preferred embodiment comprising only polyethylene resins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Rosana Rosa, Nicolas C. Mazzola, Jorge C. Gomes
  • Ethylene/alpha-olefin/nonconjugated polyene interpolymers and processes to form the same
    Patent number: 9422383
    Abstract: The invention provides a solution polymerization process to form an ethylene/?-olefin/nonconjugated polyene interpolymer, said process comprising polymerizing ethylene, an ?-olefin, and a nonconjugated polyene in at least one reactor in the presence of a catalyst selected from Formula I, as described herein; and wherein the polymerization is conducted in a continuous process; and wherein the interpolymer has a rheology ratio (V0.1/V100 at 19° C.) greater than, or equal to, 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Colin LiPiShan, Thomas W. Karjala, Michael L. Smith, Liam P. Spencer, Jerzy Klosin
  • Tritylated alkyl aryl ethers
    Patent number: 9422493
    Abstract: A compound having formula (Ph3C)mAr(R1)j(OR2)n, wherein Ph represents a phenyl group, Ar is an aromatic ring system having from six to twenty carbon atoms, R1 and R2 independently are C1-C18 alkyl or C4-C18 heteroalkyl, m is one or two, j is an integer from one to four and n is an integer from one to three.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignees: Rohm and Haas Company, Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Robert Butterick, III, George David Green, Raymond J. Swedo
  • NONIONIC SURFACTANTS FOR ENHANCED CRUDE OIL RECOVERY
    Publication number: 20160237798
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of using a nonionic surfactant for enhanced oil recovery, where the nonionic surfactant is prepared with a double metal cyanide catalyst. The present disclosure also provides for an emulsion that includes carbon dioxide, a diluent and the nonionic surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Aaron W. Sanders, Sayeed Abbas, Shawn Maynard, Matthew Miller
  • STYRENE-CARBOXYLIC ACID COPOLYMER FOAM
    Publication number: 20160237233
    Abstract: Prepare a polymer foam by expanding a foamable polymer composition of a copolymer component and a blowing agent where the copolymer component accounts for more than 50 weight-percent of the total polymer weight in the foamable polymer composition and is one or more than one styrene-carboxylic acid copolymer having an acid number of 20 or higher while the blowing agent comprises a fluorinated blowing agent, less than 70 weight-percent of which is 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane and less than five weight-percent is carbon dioxide and C3-C5 hydrocarbons make up less than 30 mole-percent of the blowing agent; expand the foamable polymer composition into a polymer foam having an average cell size of less than 0.5 millimeters where the copolymer composition is a continuous phase in the polymer foam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicants: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence S. Hood, Stéphane Costeux, Scott T. Matteucci
  • NITROGEN CONTAINING POLYMERS AS LEVELERS
    Publication number: 20160237579
    Abstract: Polymers of reaction products of polyamines and nitrogen containing cyclic compounds are included in metal electroplating compositions to provide level metal deposits on substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicants: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC, Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Lingli Duan, Zuhra I. Niazimbetova, Chen Chen, Tong Sun, Maria Rzeznik