Patents Examined by Chun-Cheng Wang
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Patent number: 9428602Abstract: Provided is a (meth)acrylic acid-based copolymer containing, as structural units, a structural unit derived from a sulfonic acid (salt) group-containing monomer and a structural unit derived from (meth)acrylic acid (salt), the copolymer being capable of expressing an excellent effect on the dispersion of hydrophobic particles. Also provided is a method of producing such (meth)acrylic acid-based copolymer. A (meth)acrylic acid-based copolymer of the present invention contains: 1 mass % to 20 mass % of a structural unit (a) derived from an ether bond-containing hydrophobic monomer (A) represented by a specific structure; 1 mass % to 50 mass % of a structural unit (b) derived from a sulfonic acid (salt) group-containing monomer (B) represented by a specific structure; and 30 mass % to 98 mass % of a structural unit (c) derived from (meth)acrylic acid (salt) (C).Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Michitaka, Atsuro Yoneda, Kenji Kuwada
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Patent number: 9421504Abstract: An ultrasonic mixing system having a treatment chamber in which at least two separate phases can be mixed to prepare an emulsion is disclosed. The treatment chamber has an elongate housing through which the phases flow longitudinally from a first inlet port and a second inlet port, respectively, to an outlet port thereof. An elongate ultrasonic waveguide assembly extends within the housing and is operable at a predetermined ultrasonic frequency to ultrasonically energize the phases within the housing. An elongate ultrasonic horn of the waveguide assembly is disposed at least in part intermediate the inlet and outlet ports, and has a plurality of discrete agitating members in contact with and extending transversely outward from the horn intermediate the inlet and outlet ports in longitudinally spaced relationship with each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2009Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Philip Eugene Kieffer, Corey Thomas Cunningham, Steven Michael Hurley, Scott W. Wenzel, Shiming Zhuang
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Patent number: 9416200Abstract: A process for the preparation of a 1,3-butadiene and styrene copolymer comprising the following steps: a) anionically polymerizing a blend comprising from 5% by weight to 40% by weight of styrene and from 60% by weight to 95% by weight of 1,3-butadiene, with respect to the overall weight of the mixture, in the presence of at least one hydrocarbon solvent, of at least one lithium-based catalyst having the general formula LiR1 wherein R1 represents a linear or branched C3-C10 alkyl group, and of least one polar modifier; b) optionally, reacting the copolymer obtained in step (a) with at least one chain-end monomer selected from 1,3-butadiene, styrene and ?-methylstyrene; c) reacting from 10% by weight to 70% by weight, preferably from 20% by weight to 50% by weight, of the lithium-terminated polymeric chains present in the copolymer obtained in step (a) or in step (b), with at least one coupling agent selected from liquid polyepoxides having at least three reactive sites capable of reacting with the carbon-lithType: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: VERSALIS S.P.A.Inventors: Luca Soddu, Gabriele Veneri
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Patent number: 9410009Abstract: Copolymers, especially multi-block copolymer containing therein two or more segments or blocks differing in tacticity, are prepared by polymerizing propylene, 4-methyl-1-pentene, or another C4-8 ?-olefin in the presence of a composition comprising the admixture or reaction product resulting from combining: (A) a first metal complex olefin polymerization catalyst, (B) a second metal complex olefin polymerization catalyst capable of preparing polymers differing in tacticity from the polymer prepared by catalyst (A) under equivalent polymerization conditions, and (C) a chain shuttling agent.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventor: Phillip D. Hustad
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Patent number: 9404007Abstract: Aqueous wax dispersions useful as surface modifiers for paints, inks and coatings. More particularly, aqueous particulate wax dispersions useful as surface modifiers to provide improved properties in primers, paints, inks and other coating formulations. The dispersions are stable, substantially homogenous, have a high solids concentration at low viscosities, and comply with the applicable FDA regulations for use in food packaging applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: George Leotsakos, Wayne M. Gravatt, Christopher P. Smith, Michael A. Kocur
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Patent number: 9403990Abstract: A curing-type coating-agent composition according to the present invention contains: Component (A) (e.g., an isocyanuric ring-containing urethane (meth)acrylate compound) in an amount of from 20 to 80 parts by mass; Component (B) (e.g., an isocyanuric ring-containing tri(meth)acrylate compound free from any urethane bond) in an amount of from 10 to 70 parts by mass; Component (C-1) (e.g., a reaction compound between a colloidal silica and an alkoxysilane compound having a maleimide group) in amount of from 1 to 35 parts by mass, or Component (C-2) (e.g., a specific organosilicon compound) in an amount of from 5 to 35 parts by mass; a radical-polymerization initiator serving as Component (D) in an amount of from 0.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOAGOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Takashima, Kyoko Kumagai, Hidetaka Hayashi, Tetsuya Mitsuoka, Naoharu Ueda, Hisashi Muramatsu, Kazumasa Inata, Takeshi Fujita, Yasuyuki Sanai, Eiichi Okazaki, Satoshi Yoneda, Naomasa Furuta
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Patent number: 9399685Abstract: A method of curing a compound having a cross-linkable, unsaturated-chain polymer base and a curing system; the method employing microwaves as a form of energy to promote curing reactions; and the curing system including compounds of general formula (I) ([R1R2R3NR5(NR4R6R7)n](n+1)+)y(n+1)Xy? (I) where: X is an atom or anionic group; R1, R2, R3, which are the same or different, are each CmH2m+1, where m is 1 to 3, or CH2CHCH2 or CHCHCH3, R4, R6, R7, which are the same or different, are each CH2CHCH2 or CHCHCH3; n is 0 or 1; y is 1 when n is 1; y is 1 or 2 when n is 0; R5 is an aliphatic group C15-C22 when n is 0; is an aliphatic group C8-C16 when n is 1; when n is 0, at least one of R1, R2, R3, R5 has a double bond.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2012Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Valeria Grenci, Salvatore Cotugno
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Patent number: 9388255Abstract: This invention relates to relates to a polyolefin composition comprising one or more of the following formulae: wherein the PO is the residual portion of a vinyl terminated macromonomer (VTM) having had a terminal unsaturated carbon of an allylic chain and a vinyl carbon adjacent to the terminal unsaturated carbon.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Ian C. Stewart, David T. Harris
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Patent number: 9388263Abstract: Provided is a copolymer having excellent calcium ion trapping ability, calcium carbonate dispersing capacity, and gel resistance. A (meth)acrylic acid-based copolymer contains, as essential structural units, a structural unit (a) derived from a monomer represented by the following formula (1) in an amount of 2% by mole or more and 9% by mole or less, and a structural unit (b) derived from a (meth)acrylic acid (salt) in an amount of 91% by mole or more and 98% by mole or less, relative to 100% by mole of structural units derived from all monomers, wherein the copolymer contains a sulfonic acid (salt) group at least one end of the main chain and has a weight average molecular weight of 7000 to 100000, wherein R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and X and Y each independently represent a hydroxyl group or a sulfonic acid (salt) group (at least one of X and Y represents a sulfonic acid (salt) group).Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2013Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.Inventors: Masato Nakano, Yuki Sano
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Patent number: 9382350Abstract: This invention relates to a polyolefin comprising one or more aromatic moieties according to the following formulae: wherein the PO is the residual portion of a vinyl terminated macromonomer (VTM) having had a terminal unsaturated carbon of an allylic chain and a vinyl carbon adjacent to the terminal unsaturated carbon; Ar is attached to the terminal portion of the VTM to provide PO—Ar or at the vinylidene carbon of the VTM to provide PO—CH(Ar)CH3; and Ar is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2013Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Donna J. Crowther, Man Kit Ng, Suzzy C. H. Ho, Elizabeth L. Walker, Hong Cheng, Patrick Brant
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Patent number: 9382405Abstract: The present invention relates to peroxide mixtures and in particular to peroxide mixtures that are suitable for the accelerated crosslinking of ethylene vinyl acetate.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2012Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: UNITED INITIATORS GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Martin Kunz, Katharina Seitz, Iris Nagl
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Patent number: 9382428Abstract: Provided are tinted or tintable and clear films formed from liquid tint material, and methods of making and using the same. Such films are useful to application to substrates such as glass, specifically windows on vehicles, to reduce glare from the sun, reject heat, provide protection from UV rays, and create a unique or decorative look to the vehicle. The films dry into a smooth and clear thin film. The film-forming liquid tint materials comprise: an aqueous polymeric dispersion; a tinting agent dispersed in the aqueous polymeric dispersion; wherein upon contact with a substrate, the film-forming liquid tint material dries to a film that is clear and tintable. The tinting agents, in particular, photoactive components, can be encapsulated in a plurality of ORMOSIL nanoparticles.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2012Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Susan M. Endle, Corey J. Radloff, Jeffrey J. Schwab
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Patent number: 9382367Abstract: Provision of, and a method for production of, a polymer electrolyte membrane, which is characterized by introducing a vinyl monomer into an aromatic polymer membrane substrate, typified by polyether ether ketone, polyether imide, or polysulfone, as graft chains by graft polymerization, and then chemically converting some of the graft chains or/and part of the aromatic polymer chain into sulfonic groups.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2007Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCYInventors: Yasunari Maekawa, Shin Hasegawa, Yasuyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 9370770Abstract: One embodiment of the invention provides polyisobutylene (PIB) oligormers that are end-functionalized with ruthenium (Ru) catalysts. Such nonpolar catalysts can be dissolved in nonpolar solvents such as heptane, or any other nonpolar solvent that is otherwise not latently biphasic (i.e., if two or more solvent components are present, they remain miscible with each other throughout the entire reaction process, from the addition of substrate through to the removal of product). Substrate that is dissolved in the nonpolar solvent with the catalyst is converted into product. The lower solubility of the product in the nonpolar solvent renders it easily removable, either by extraction with a more polar solvent or by applying physical means in cases where the product precipitates from the nonpolar solvent. In this manner the catalysts are recycled; since the catalysts remain in the nonpolar solvent, a new reaction can be initiated simply by dissolving fresh substrate into the nonpolar solvent.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEMInventors: David E. Bergbreiter, Hassan S. Bazzi, Chayanant Hongfa
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Patent number: 9365501Abstract: A polymerizable UV-absorbing colorant monomer is provided, which is excellent in stability under alkaline conditions and which is available for a useful material polymer for an intraocular lens. A compound, which is represented by the following general formula (1), is used as a polymerizable UV-absorbing monomer available for a material polymer for an intraocular lens: (in the general formula (1), R1 is a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group, a carboxy group, an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, a sulfonic acid group, or a benzyloxy group, R2 is a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group, or an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R3 is represented by the following formula (2)): (in the general formula (2), R4 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R5 is a single bond or an alkylene group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms which may have a substituent or substituents.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: KOWA COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Tamura, Takahide Oshita
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Patent number: 9359456Abstract: This invention relates to a polyolefin composition comprising one or more of the following formulae: wherein the PO is the residual portion of a vinyl terminated macromonomer (VTM) having had a terminal unsaturated carbon of an allylic chain and a vinyl carbon adjacent to the terminal unsaturated carbon; and wherein the VTM is preferably a vinyl terminated polymer having greater than 30% allyl chain ends with an Mn of greater than 10,000.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Donna J. Crowther, Patrick Brant
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Patent number: 9347915Abstract: An aqueous liquid medium for analyzing, purifying or separating species in an element having walls or for treating the walls of an element. The medium includes at least a polymer consisting of several polymeric segments. The polymer is of the irregular block-copolymer or irregular comb-like polymer type and has on the average at least three junction points between polymeric segments of different chemical or topological nature. The medium may be used in methods for analyzing, purifying or separating species and methods for treating an element to be contacted with a fluid and/or species contained in the fluid during preservation, transport, analysis, purification or separation of the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignees: Institute Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S)Inventors: Jean-Louis Viovy, Valessa Barbier
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Patent number: 9346899Abstract: The present invention provides novel polymers having chelating functionality and comprising units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated aminocarboxylate monomer which comprises units derived from ethylenediamine triacetic acid or its salt and a polymerizable vinyl monomer. The polymerizable vinyl monomer may be selected from (0-, m-, p-)DVBMO, allyl glycidyl ether, and glycidyl (meth)acrylate. The polymer may also comprise units derived from one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2012Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Inventors: Scott Backer, Allen Bulick, Joseph Manna, Cynthia Rand, Jia Xie
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Patent number: 9334236Abstract: Compounds comprising a lactam moiety, and a urethane or urea functional group are presented. By a preferred synthesis route, they are prepared using at least one polymerizable compound comprising an isocyanate moiety and reacting it with at least one hydroxyalkyl lactam compound or one aminoalkyl lactam compound. In preferred embodiments the lactam moiety is a pyrrolidone or caprolactam ring, and the polymerizable compound is a functionalized aryl isocyanate. The compounds and homopolymers and non-homopolymers thereof find useful application in a wide variety of arts, including: adhesive, agricultural, biocides, cleaning, coating, electronics, encapsulation, membrane, microelectronics, oilfield, performance chemical, personal care, sealant, and sensor applications.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2010Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: ISP INVESTMENTS INC.Inventor: Osama M. Musa
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Patent number: 9332755Abstract: The present invention relates to substrates comprising covalently attached antimicrobial polymers, which act as synthetic mimics of antimicrobial peptides (SMAMPs) and are preferably obtained by ring opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP). The inventive antimicrobial polymers exhibit a molecular weight of more than 100,000 g mol?1 and are preferably covalently attached to the surface of a substrate, e.g. an implant, a medical device, medical equipment or a (tissue-supporting) biomaterial, etc. Covalent bonding may be carried out using a photoreactive crosslinker but also by “grafting onto” or “grafting from”. The present invention is also directed to uses of the inventive antimicrobial polymers as defined herein, e.g. for antimicrobially coating a surface of such a substrate with a layer of the inventive antimicrobial polymer.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignees: UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM FREIBURG, ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURGInventors: Thorsten Steinberg, Karen Lienkamp, Pascal Tomakidi, Ali Al-Ahmad