Patents Examined by Michael L Leonard
  • Patent number: 12187851
    Abstract: The present invention relates to covalent adaptable networks (CANs) having exchangeable crosslinks which are able to undergo repeated covalent bond reshuffling through photo-activation at ambient temperatures. The invention provides covalent adaptable network forming compositions as well as methods of forming, remolding and recycling the CANs of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate
    Inventors: Christopher N. Bowman, Brady T. Worrell, Gayla Berg Lyon, Matthew K. McBride, Chen Wang
  • Patent number: 12187837
    Abstract: An aqueous dispersion of a capsule composed of a polymeric shell surrounding a core, the core containing an amine blocked isocyanate, the amine blocked isocyanate comprises at least two isocyanate groups blocked by a blocking group, the blocking groups are independently from each other represented by a secondary amine. The aqueous dispersion is suitable as reactive binder chemistry in coatings and inks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Agfa NV
    Inventors: Johan Loccufier, Luc Decoster, Ellen Bertels
  • Patent number: 12180387
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating composition, a coating method and use of the composition, and a product coated with the coating composition. The coating composition comprises: (a) an isocyanate-reactive component comprising: (a1) at least one polyaspartic ester, and (a2) optionally a polyetheraspartic ester; (b) an isocyanate component comprising: (b1) at least one isocyanate prepolymer having an isocyanate group equivalent of 300 to 1100, and (b2) at least one isocyanate oligomer containing not less than two isocyanate groups, the weight ratio of the isocyanate prepolymer (b1) to the isocyanate oligomer (b2) being from 1:4 to 4:1; (c) a catalyst; and (d) optionally an additive; wherein the coating composition has a molar ratio of isocyanate groups to isocyanate-reactive groups of 1.5:1 to 8:1. The coating composition provided by the present invention has a long pot life, and the resulting coating has the advantages of fast drying and high hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AG
    Inventors: Dorota Greszta-Franz, Jianping Shen, Junchao Zheng, Yifeng Xu, Ling Yang, Jinqi Li, Hongchao Li, Hao Liu
  • Patent number: 12180335
    Abstract: A polycarbonate diol is derived from ether diol of anhydrohexitol, a preparation method thereof, a polyurethane prepared therefrom, and adhesive, etc. including the same. More specifically, the polycarbonate diol includes repeated units derived from ether diol of anhydrohexitol; and carbonate diester; and optionally anhydrohexitol; and thereby showing better effect of improving color as compared with conventional polycarbonate diol, and being capable of providing polyurethane prepared therefrom with remarkably improved adhesion strength (T-peel strength or shear strength), preparation method thereof, polyurethane prepared therefrom, and adhesive, paint and coating agent including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SAMYANG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Seop Im, Seung Hyun Yoo, Hoon Ryu, Won Hyun Jeon
  • Patent number: 12173178
    Abstract: A crosslinker composition is prepared from a reaction mixture including: (a) a prepolymer including a reaction product of a prepolymer mixture including: (i) a polyfunctional isocyanate; and (ii) a first compound comprising two or more active hydrogen groups, where the polyfunctional isocyanate and/or the first compound comprising two or more active hydrogen groups includes a greater than two functional isocyanate and/or active hydrogen groups, respectively; and (b) a polyfunctional hydrazide. The crosslinker composition is not self-crosslinkable. The crosslinker composition has an acid value of at least 15 based on total resin solids of the crosslinker composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Garrett Weis, Gereme Hensel, Chad Alan Landis, Pedro Velez-Herrera, Maria Wang, Shanti Swarup, Tsukasa Mizuhara, Xiangling Xu
  • Patent number: 12168712
    Abstract: A thermoplastic polyurethane having a glass transition temperature of the soft phase of not more than ?25° C. measured using DMA and a heating rate of 2K/min at 1 Hz under torsion based on DIN EN ISO 6721: 2016; maximum G? can be obtained by a process at least including the reaction of a polyol composition including a polypropylene glycol, wherein the proportion of the secondary terminal OH groups based on the total number of terminal OH groups of the polypropylene glycol is in the range of more than 90%, with a polyisocyanate to obtain a polyol composition including a prepolymer and the reaction of the polyol composition including the prepolymer with a polyisocyanate composition including at least one polyisocyanate and at least one chain extender having a molecular weight <500 g/mol. The thermoplastic polyurethane may be used for producing injection molded products, extruded products, films, profiles and shaped articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frank Schaefer, Michael Freese, Elmar Poeselt, Etsuhiro Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Dai Watanabe, Patrick Drawe
  • Patent number: 12163047
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electron beam curable coating composition comprising: an electron beam curable component (A) which contains 10% by mass or more of a multifunctional (meth)acrylate; and a room temperature curable component (B) which contains 1 to 15% by mass of an isocyanate group and is not cured by electron beam irradiation, wherein a solid content mass ratio of the component (B) to a total amount of the components (A) and (B) is 20 to 55% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kanji Mori, Shuji Yomo, Keiji Ambo, Mamoru Kouzaki, Atsuo Nabeshima, Eiichi Okazaki
  • Patent number: 12163061
    Abstract: The two-part curable adhesive composition contains a main agent (A) containing a urethane prepolymer (a1) and a residual polyisocyanate (a2), and a curing agent (B) containing a polyol compound (b1) and a polyamine compound (b2). The urethane prepolymer (a1) is made by reacting in an equivalent ratio of an isocyanate group in a raw material polyisocyanate to a hydroxy group in a polycarbonate polyol being 2.05 or greater. The equivalent ratio of an isocyanate group in the main agent (A) to an active hydrogen group in the curing agent (B) is from 0.5 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kageyama, Kazushi Kimura, Yutaro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12163046
    Abstract: Described herein are aqueous coating compositions including at least one dispersion of core/shell particles containing a polyurethane resin as core portion and a crosslinked acrylic resin as shell portion and at least one aqueous polyurethane-polyurea dispersion containing crosslinked polyurethane-polyurea particles. Also described herein is a method for forming a multilayer coating on a substrate using the aqueous coating compositions as basecoat compositions. Also described herein is a multicoat paint system produced by the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: BASF COATINGS GMBH
    Inventors: Hisayuki Nakashima, Hardy Reuter, Souichi Mori
  • Patent number: 12162973
    Abstract: Described herein is a process for preparing a polyurethane elastomer including the steps of (A) preparing an isocyanate prepolymer (a), where the isocyanate prepolymer has an isocyanate content in the range of ?1 wt.-% to ?9 wt.-%, and (B) preparing a reaction mixture by mixing at least one epoxy compound (b) with the isocyanate prepolymer (a) in presence of at least one catalyst (c), and where the amount of the alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt is 0.00001 to 0.1 mol per kg of the total weight of the isocyanate prepolymer (a), the epoxy compound (b) and the catalyst (c), and heating the mixture to at least 80° C. to obtain the polyurethane elastomer. Also described herein are a polyurethane elastomer obtained by the process and a method of using the polyurethane elastomer as part of a roller or as a sealant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Julia Liese, Andre Kamm, Hendrik Wagner
  • Patent number: 12157840
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a process for the production of hot melt adhesives having a low emission of monomeric isocyanates upon heating wherein in a first step a polyurethane prepolymer is generated which is subsequently reacted with a chain extender. Further, the present invention refers to hot melt adhesives obtained by the inventive process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Uwe Franken, Hans-Georg Kinzelmann
  • Patent number: 12152102
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a solid, internally and externally blocked polyurethane curing agent based on a (cyclo)aliphatic polyisocyanate, in which, in the sequence of steps a) to d), a) i) at least one internally blocked (cyclo)aliphatic polyisocyanate and ii) at least one lactam and/or at least one aliphatic alcohol are dissolved in a solvent to produce a reaction mixture, b) the reaction mixture is heated and reacted, c) the reacted reaction mixture is cooled until product precipitates, and d) liquid solvent and any unreacted dissolved reactants and precipitated product are mechanically separated from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Emmanouil Spyrou, Andrea Henschke, Elke Gollan, Nicole Fresmann, Jessika Schüller
  • Patent number: 12134716
    Abstract: A polyurethane adhesive composition, more specifically a two-component polyurethane adhesive, including (a) at least one isocyanate component, and (b) at least one polyol component, wherein the polyol component (b) includes (bi) at least one first polyol compound, (bii) at least one second polyol compound and (biii) at least one chain extender, and a process for making the above adhesive composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: DDP SPECIALTY ELECTRONIC MATERIALS US, LLC
    Inventors: Sergio Grunder, Stefan Schmatloch, Joel Kunz
  • Patent number: 12134715
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a two-component solvent-less adhesive composition. The two-component solvent-less adhesive composition contains the reaction product of (A) an isocyanate component; and (B) a polyol component containing (i) a polyester-polycarbonate polyol and (ii) a phosphate-terminated polyol. The present disclosure also provides a method of forming the two-component solvent-less adhesive composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Tuoqi Li, Joseph J. Zupancic, Matthew M. Yonkey, Paul G. Clark, Thorsten Schmidt, Wenwen Li
  • Patent number: 12129377
    Abstract: A moisture-curing polyurethane composition having a content of monomeric diisocyanates of at most 0.1 wt %, containing: at least one isocyanate-group-containing polyurethane polymer having a content of monomeric diisocyanates of at most 0.5 wt %, obtained from reaction of at least one monomeric diisocyanate with at least one polyether polyol at a NCO/OH ratio of at least 3/1 and subsequent removal of a large part of monomeric diisocyanates by way of a suitable separating method; and at least one polyether having blocked hydroxyl groups and free of isocyanate groups, as a plasticizer. Moisture-curing polyurethane composition is highly storage-stable when moisture is excluded, can be safely handled without special safety precautions, can be sold without hazard label, can be well processed, has long open time and has fast curing to form elastic material of high strength and extensibility, high cold flexibility, good adhesion properties and high stability with respect to heat and moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Andreas Kramer, Michael Schlumpf, Urs Burckhardt
  • Patent number: 12129330
    Abstract: A reaction mixture and production method for making a polyurethane comprising material having reduced aldehyde emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Inventors: Lies Bonami, Joris Karel Peter Bosman, Ingrid Welvaert, Pengfei Wu
  • Patent number: 12129333
    Abstract: Provided are oriented biodegradable thermoplastic polyurethane films. The films may be prepared by extruding and drawing biodegradable polyurethane films. The polyurethanes may be prepared from biodegradable polyols and/or biodegradable chain extenders. The films possess high tensile strength yet are degradable under biological conditions. The films may be utilized in the fabrication of devices, particularly implantable medical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: POLYNOVO BIOMATERIALS PTY LIMITED
    Inventor: Timothy Graeme Moore
  • Patent number: 12122911
    Abstract: A polyalkylene ether glycol composition including a polyalkylene ether glycol including an alkoxy group serving as a terminal group. The polyalkylene ether glycol composition has a hydroxyl value of 220 or more and 750 or less. The ratio of the number of alkoxy group terminals of the polyalkylene ether glycol included in the polyalkylene ether glycol composition to the number of hydroxyl group terminals of polyalkylene ether glycols included in the polyalkylene ether glycol composition is 0.00001 or more and 0.0040 or less. Provided is a polyalkylene ether glycol composition having excellent compatibility with low-molecular-weight polyols, having suitable reactivity when used as a raw material for polyurethanes, and capable of achieving intended physical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Gaku Teshima, Ryo Yamashita, Shohei Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 12122013
    Abstract: The composition according to an embodiment employs a mixture of curing agents, which comprises a first curing agent containing sulfur and a second curing agent containing an ester group, whereby it is possible to control the physical properties of the polishing pad as necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SK ENPULSE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Wook Yun, Jang Won Seo, Hyeyoung Heo, Eun Sun Joeng
  • Patent number: 12116507
    Abstract: A solventless adhesive composition is provided. The solventless adhesive composition comprises (A) an isocyanate prepolymer having a side chains represented by —R2—(O—R1—O)n—R3 and (B) an isocyanate-reactive component, and exhibits improved bond strength, heat seal strength, adhesive COF property and optical appearance. A laminate product prepared with said solventless adhesive composition as well the method for preparing the laminate product are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Chenyan Bai