Patents Assigned to EMS-Inventa AG
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Patent number: 6831137Abstract: The invention concerns a transparent polyamide alloy, produced by compounding it from 30-98% by weight of a transparent, amorphous, rigid and brittle polyamide A with at least 35 mole % cyclo-aliphatic diamine and a glass transition point of at least 150° C., and 2-70% by weight of a transparent, impact resistant polyamide B with at least 40-80 mole % of at least one long-chain polyamide-forming monomer, with more than 10 carbon atoms and at least 10 mole % terephthalic acid and a glass transition point of under 70° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: EMS Inventa AGInventors: Hans Dalla Torre, Manfred Hewel
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Patent number: 6515056Abstract: A packaging film is made from a master-batch on a polyamide base. The preferred polyamide base is copolyamide 6/12. The packaging films made from this master-batch exhibit improved slip properties and anti-blocking properties. The packaging films are particularly suitable for use in automatic packaging machines in order to increase the cycle frequencies in the are of foodstuff packaging.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2001Date of Patent: February 4, 2003Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventor: Roland Treutlein
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Patent number: 6313234Abstract: A heat settable, coating system of carboxyl-functional polyester resins, polyfunctional epoxy compounds and/or &bgr;-hydroxy alkyl amides, as well as further customary additives, if required. The coating system contains at least one linear carboxyl-functional polyester resin of up to 10 mol-part of isophthalic acid and at least 90 mol-parts of at least a further dicarboxylic acid from the group of aromatic dicarboxylic acids with 8 to 16 C-atoms, aliphatic dicarboxylic acids with 6 to 22 C-atoms and cycloaliphatic dicarboxylic acids with 8 to 16 C-atoms, and at least 90 mol-parts of at least one branched aliphatic diol with 4 to 12 C-atoms, and up to 50 mol-parts of at least one linear aliphatic diol with 2 to 22 C-atoms and/or at least one cycloaliphatic diol with 6 to 16 C-atoms as the binder resin.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: EMS Inventa-AGInventors: Andreas Kaplan, Manfred Hoppe, Eberhard Kinkelin
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Patent number: 6284334Abstract: The invention relates to novel thermoplastic multi-layer composites comprising at least a) a layer formed from a molding compound based on a polyamide and b) a second layer formed from a molding compound based on a linear alternating polyketone polymer from carbon monoxide and an ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon compound, at least part of which layer b) is adjacent to layer a).Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1998Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventors: Georg Stöppelmann, Manfred Hewel
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Patent number: 6277911Abstract: Colorless, amorphous, transparent copolyamides, their blends or alloys, and molded articles with high alternate bending strengths that can be produced from them. The copolyamides are preferably made of cycloaliphatic diamines combined with aliphatic dicarboxylic acids and small amounts of aromatic dicarboxylic acids. The copolyamides exhibit high strength, high rigidity, high heat distortion, and good solvent resistance.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1999Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: EMS Inventa AGInventor: Hans Dalla Torre
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Patent number: 6204355Abstract: The invention relates to the use of polyamide moulding compounds, their alloys or blends, which contain at least one homopolyamide, which has been obtained from long-chained aliphatic monomer blocks with cycloaliphatic monomer blocks, in order to manufacture moulded members for optical or electro-optical applications.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1999Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventors: Hans Dalla Torre, Ralf Hala
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Patent number: 6174474Abstract: A device and a method are disclosed, by means of which microfilament yarns made of synthetic polymers can be produced with increased uniformity of the titer, dye absorption and improved physical yarn properties at increased production speeds by means of a spinning process with spinnerets of high hole density and a central cooling unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1999Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventors: Manfred Stein, Christian Baumann, Ulrich Kemp, Gunter Goossens
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Patent number: 6153677Abstract: A polyamide composition which is flame-retardant, includes several polyamides; and at least one flame-retarding additive which is at least one alkyl phosphonic acid compound having general formula (I):Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1995Date of Patent: November 28, 2000Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventors: Hans Dalla Torre, Daniel Capaul, Manfred Hewel
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Patent number: 6150474Abstract: The invention relates to a polymer blend composition containing (A) a linear alternating polyketone polymer on the basis of carbon monoxide and at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon compound, (B) at least one polyamide and/or block copolyester amide, (C) optionally customary auxiliaries and additives such as stabilizers, pigments, fillers, plasticizers and impact modifiers, the polyamide and/or the block copolyester amide (B) having a carboxyl/amino end-groups ratio of more than 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1998Date of Patent: November 21, 2000Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventors: Georg Stoppelmann, Manfred Hewel
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Patent number: 6100342Abstract: A powder coating is prepared by (a) solvent polymerizing carboxy-functional acrylate copolymers, (b) separating and reacting the copolymers with a molar excess of at least one epihaloalkane, (c) removing excess epihaloalkane, (d) adding toluene and then reacting the copolymers with a sodium hydroxide solution to produce epoxy groups-containing acrylate copolymers having an epoxide number of from 0.018-0.501 eq/100 g copolymer, a weight average molecular weight of from 1000-30,000 and a Tg of from 20-120.degree. C.; and (e) extruding the epoxy groups-containing acrylate copolymers with a hardener such as aliphatic polybasic acids or anhydrides, or carboxy-functional polyesters or acrylic resins along with additives such as pigments or fillers.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1997Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventors: Albert Reich, Andreas Kaplan, Rene Gisler
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Patent number: 6013758Abstract: A method for the production and use of a catalytically-acting liquid system is offered, which has no or only a small proportion of free lactam, and which is of low viscosity and good storage stability and which directly initiates the anionic lactam polymerization.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1998Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventors: Eduard Schmid, Roman Eder, Ivano Laudonia
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Patent number: 6008288Abstract: Colorless, amorphous polyamides, their blends or alloys, and the molded articles with high alternate bending strengths that can be produced from them, are made available; they are preferably made up of cycloaliphatic diamines combined with aliphatic dicarboxylic acids and small amounts of aromatic dicarboxylic acids which show at the same time high strength, high rigidity, high heat distortion, and good solvent resistance.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1997Date of Patent: December 28, 1999Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventor: Hans Dalla Torre
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Patent number: 5958283Abstract: The invention relates to a thermoplastically processible molding material with a two-phase matrix of a partially aromatic copolyamide and an aliphatic polyamide or copolyamide containing permanently magnetic or magnetizable fillers, as well as to a method for producing this molding material and using it for producing molded parts.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1997Date of Patent: September 28, 1999Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventors: Eduard Schmid, Ivano Laudonia, David Jarvis, Etienne Aepli, Gion Antoni Tuor
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Patent number: 5932686Abstract: This invention relates to adhesion agents and compatibility agents, respectively, on the basis of partially crystalline, high-molecular block (co)polyester amides, produced by direct esterification of carboxyl-terminated or hydroxycarboxyl-terminated polyamide precondensates and hydroxyl-terminated or hydroxycarboxyl-terminated polyester segments, characterized in that the block (co)polyester amides form two crystalline phases and comprise as segments(A) at least one polyamide or copolyamide block having a uniform number average molar mass of at least 1000 g/mole,(B) at least one aromatic polyester and/or copolyester block having a uniform number average molar mass of at least 1000 g/mole, and(C) at least one further diol component of the general structureHO--R--OH,wherein R is selected from the group consisting of aliphatic or partially aromatic (co)polyesters, aliphatic polyethers, aliphatic (co)polyester amides, polycarbonates or aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1997Date of Patent: August 3, 1999Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventor: Heinz Hoff
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Patent number: 5917001Abstract: An uncoated lens, especially for use as the lens of a fog light or a headlight for an automobile, and having particularly good resistance against the environmental effects which are inherent in this environment, is formed of a colorless, transparent copolyamide having a glass transition temperature of at least a 170.degree. C., blended with a homopolyamide, and wherein the copolyamide is formed from at least one cycloaliphatic diamine with two cyclohexane rings, and at least one aromatic dicarboxylic acid which is predominantly isophthalic acid. The copolyamide may optionally contain up to 20 mol % of a further polyamide forming monomer of at least one lactam or an omega-aminocarboxylic acid. The homopolyamide is preferably one of PA6, PA11, PA12, PA66, PA69, PA610 or PA612. The cycloaliphatic diamine of the copolyamide is preferably bis(3-methyl-4-aminocyclohexyl)-methane.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 1996Date of Patent: June 29, 1999Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventors: Susanne Laederach, Hans Dalla Torre
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Patent number: 5917004Abstract: The invention is relative to weather-resistant polyamides and to methods of their production in which the polymerization or polycondensation of the polyamide-forming monomers (I) is carried out in the presence of 0.02 to 0.7% by weight 4-amino-2,2,6,6-tetraalkylpiperdine (II), 0 to 0.5% by weight of an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diamine (III) carrying a primary and a tertiary amino group and 0.02 to 0.7% by weight of a 2,6-dialkylphenol (IV) functionalized in 4-position to the OH group and with the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are the same or different alkyl groups with 1 to 6 C atoms, R.sup.3 is either a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, functional group A represents either a free carboxyl group or a carboxyl group esterified with C.sub.1 -C.sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1997Date of Patent: June 29, 1999Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventor: Hanns-Jorg Liedloff
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Patent number: 5905119Abstract: A method for making glycidyl ether-functional (meth)acrylate copolymers includes the step of reacting a hydroxyalkyl-functional (meth)acrylate copolymer with an epihalohydrin in the presence of a suitable catalyst. The reactants may be reacted by an addition reaction catalyzed with a Lewis acid catalyst, followed by dehydrohalogenation with aqueous alkali solution. Alternatively, the reactants may be reacted in a phase transfer reaction employing quaternary ammonium or quaternary phosphonium phase transfer catalysts.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1997Date of Patent: May 18, 1999Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventors: Andreas Kaplan, Rene Gisler, Albert Reich
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Patent number: 5895808Abstract: A process for producing composite materials which can be thermally postformed, with a matrix of polylactam produced by means of activated anionic polymerization is offered.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 1997Date of Patent: April 20, 1999Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventors: Eduard Schmid, Roman Eder, Urs Wild
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Patent number: 5889126Abstract: The invention relates to Amorphous and/or semicrystalline copolyesters containing .beta.-hydroxyalkylamide groups according to formula (I) ##STR1## whereinP=polymer chain of the polyesterR1=alkyl residues with 1-5 atoms or hydrogen or ##STR2## R2=alkyl residues with 1-5 C-atoms or hydrogen, R3=alkyl residues and 1-5 C-atoms or hydrogen, andn.gtoreq.2,with a molecular weight (Mn) of 300 to 15,000 and a hydroxyl value of 10 to 400 ?mg KOH/g!.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1997Date of Patent: March 30, 1999Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventors: Andreas Kaplan, Rene Gisler, Eberhard Kinkelin
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Patent number: RE39207Abstract: The invention concerns anti-static, peroxide-stable molding compounds on the basis of polyamides and/or polyesters, whereby the molding compounds are modified with very pure conductive carbon black with a low specific surface area. These anti-static molding compounds can be used for the production of injection-molded or extruded parts and the production of sheets or multi-layer hoses and tubes.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2003Date of Patent: July 25, 2006Assignee: EMS-Inventa AGInventors: Georg Stöppelmann, Manfred Hewel