Abstract: A rare earth-iron-nitrogen based magnetic material has superior magnetic properties. A method of manufacturing the rare earth-iron-nitrogen based magnetic material controls the decline in the magnetic properties of the material during pulverizing processes, and pulverizes the material to a critical particle dimension for single-domain behavior. The fragility of the material is increased since the material includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo and W at 0.05-5% atomic percentage. The material is pulverized by a gas current type jet mill. Sample powder injected from a hopper is introduced from a supply mouth to a pulverizing chamber by nitrogen gas spouting from a pressure nozzle, and the powder is then accelerated to acoustic velocity by high pressure nitrogen gas spouting from gliding nozzles. As a result, the powder particles collide with each other.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 23, 1997
Date of Patent:
March 23, 1999
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Abstract: Solid compositions containing diamidediurethanes are useful as components of hot-melt inks. Diamidiurethanes may be prepared by reaction of a hydroxycarboxylic acid and/or lactone with either (1) monoamine and diisocyanate or (2) diamine and monoisocyanate. Alternatively, the diamidediurethane may be prepared by reacting a non-hydric carboxylic acid and/or anhydride with an hydroxyamine and a dfisocyanate. The reactant identity and stoichiometry, as well as the reaction conditions, may be tailored to optimize the formation of diamidediurethane in preference to high molecular weight oligomers. The hot-melt inks may be used in ink jet, flexographic, gravure and intaglio printing.
Abstract: Thermoreversible hydrogels comprising non-ionic, uncrosslinked copolymers, and methods of their use in electrophoresis, are provided. The subject copolymers comprise polyacrylamide backbones, where a portion of the acrylamide monomeric units comprise hydrogen bonding groups as N-substituents. Combination of the subject copolymers with an aqueous phase provides thermoreversible hydrogels which find use as separation media in electrophoretic applications.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 23, 1996
Date of Patent:
March 16, 1999
Assignee:
ACLARA BioSciences, Inc.
Inventors:
Alexander P. Sassi, Shi Lin, M. Goretty Alonso-Amigo, Herbert H. Hooper
Abstract: A process for the preparation of diazo pigment mixtures, which comprises condensing 2 mol of an azocarboxylic acid chloride of formula ##STR1## with 1 mol of a mixture of diamines of formulae ##STR2## at a molar ratio of II:III:IV from 0-30:5-60:40-95,the condensation and isolation of the product obtained being carried out by customary methods.The diazo pigment mixtures so obtained are distinguished by high color strength and chroma.
Abstract: The subject invention relates to a foundry binder system which cures in the presence of a volatile amine curing catalyst comprising (a) an epoxy resin,(b) an organic polyisocyanate, (c) a reactive unsaturated acrylic monomer or polymer, and (d) an oxidizing agent. The foundry binders are used for making foundry mixes. The foundry mixes are used to make foundry shapes which are used to make metal castings.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 4, 1997
Date of Patent:
March 9, 1999
Assignee:
Ashland Inc.
Inventors:
James J. Archibald, Matthew S. Sheridan
Abstract: This invention is the addition of an aldimine to enhance the ability of thermoplastic low profile additives to improve the surface quality of cured sheet molding compound vehicle parts.
Abstract: New adducts are produced from the reaction of vinyl dioxo compounds with anhydrides, epoxyesters, lactones, and lactams, and such adducts are useful for preparing curable coating compositions.
Abstract: An electroconductive resin composition comprising (A) at least one thermoplastic resin selected from the group consisting of a polyphenylene ether type resin, a polystyrene type resin and an ABS type resin, (B) carbon black, and (C) an olefin type resin, said electroconductive resin composition containing from 5 to 50 parts by weight of (B) the carbon black per 100 parts by weight of (A) the thermoplastic resin, and from 1 to 30 parts by weight of (C) the olefin type resin per 100 parts by weight of the total amount of (A) the thermoplastic resin and (B) the carbon black, and said electroconductive resin composition having a surface resistivity of from 10.sup.2 to 10.sup.10 .OMEGA..
Abstract: Prints are produced by the offset heatset process using a printing ink based on mineral oil and additionally using an agent for increasing the abrasion resistance of the prints, where the agent for increasing the abrasion resistance is an oxidized olefin polymer which has a melt viscosity of from 100 to 15,000 mm.sup.2 /s, measured in accordance with DGF M-III 8 (75), and an acid number of from 5 to 50 mg of KOH/g of polymer, measured in accordance with DGF M-IV 2 (57).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 31, 1996
Date of Patent:
March 2, 1999
Assignee:
BASF Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Stefan Weiss, Michael Wolfgang Muller, Klaus Boehlke, Wilhelm Weber
Abstract: Several techniques may be used for forming a colored interference filter coating on a substrate such as polyester film. The interference filter has two metal reflective films, at least one of which is semi-transparent. A layer of transparent acrylate polymer dielectric between the metal layers completes the interference filter, which may be sandwiched between protective layers. The dielectric is formed by evaporating an acrylate monomer having a molecular weight in the range of from 150 to 600. Preferably the acrylate monomer has a molecular weight to acrylate group ratio in the range of from 150 to 400. The acrylate condenses on the substrate and is polymerized in situ for forming a monolithic film with a sufficient thickness to produce an interference color. In several embodiments different areas of the film have different thicknesses for producing different interference colors.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 20, 1995
Date of Patent:
March 2, 1999
Assignee:
Catalina Coatings, Inc.
Inventors:
David G. Shaw, Daniel S. Cline, Eric P. Dawson, Marc Langlois
Abstract: Polymer powders which are redispersible in an aqueous medium are prepared by drying an aqueous polymer dispersion whose polymer particles dispersed in the aqueous medium have a positive or a negative electric surface charge, with the addition of a water-soluble polyelectrolyte as a drying assistant, the electric charge of the polyion being opposite to the electric surface charge of the disperse polymer particles.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 23, 1996
Date of Patent:
February 23, 1999
Assignee:
BASF Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Joachim Pakusch, Reinhold Dieing, Jurgen Tropsch
Abstract: An effective production method for silane-treated clays having exceptional reinforcing effects with respect to rubber, and compositions using these silane-treated clays are offered. With the silane-treated clay production method, a functional silane is predispersed or emulsified in water by means of a surfactant in order to mix the functional silane with kaolin clay and thereby uniformly surface-treat the kaolin clay with the functional silane. The surfactant should preferably be a non-ionic surfactant with an HLB value in the range of 8-18. The silane-treated clay formed by surface-treating kaolin clay by means of these functional silanes characteristically contains low residual levels of the non-ionic surfactants. The functional silanes can be either vinyl or sulfur functional silanes. The silane treated clays are useful as fillers or extenders in rubber compositions, particularly those employing silicas and/or carbon blacks.
Abstract: Dispersible additive systems for polymeric materials include a dispersant-coated pigments in a liquid nonaqueous polymeric. The additive systems are most preferably in the form of a particulate nonaqueous paste which can be added in metered amounts (dosed) to a melt flow of the polymeric host material prior to being shaped (for example, prior to being spun into synthetic filaments). By providing a number of additive systems having a number of different additive attributes, and controllably dosing one or more into the melt flow of polymeric material, shaped objects of the polymeric material (e.g., melt-spun filaments) having different additive attributes may be produced on a continuous basis without shutting down the shaping operation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 3, 1997
Date of Patent:
February 9, 1999
Assignee:
BASF Corporation
Inventors:
Donald Caswell, Frank R. Jones, Stanley A. McIntosh, Gary A. Shore, G. Daniel Gasperson
Abstract: The invention relates to a process for integrated evaporation and gasification of spent liquor from the production of cellulose, the gasification taking place in a reactor (1) at a pressure of from atmospheric pressure up to about 150 bar and at a temperature of about 500.degree.-1600.degree. C., by partial combustion of the spent liquor, a gas phase and a phase of solid and/or smelted material being formed in the reactor and being removed therefrom. The invention is characterized in that the combustion gas obtained from the reactor (1) by partial combustion of the spent liquor is brought together in direct contact with spent liquor, which may have been pre-evaporated, in a first stage--for example a venturi scrubber--, with alkali metal compounds, etc.
Abstract: The ethylene/.alpha.-olefin/nonconjugated polyene copolymer rubber composition of the present invention comprises in specified proportions a crystalline polyolefin resin (A) and an ethylene/.alpha.-olefin/nonconjugated polyene copolymer rubber (B) composed of ethylene, an .alpha.-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms and a specific branched chain polyene compound. The molar ratio of ethylene units to .alpha.-olefin units, iodine value and intrinsic viscosity ?.eta.! of the ethylene/.alpha.-olefin/nonconjugated polyene copolymer rubber (B) are within respective specified ranges. This rubber composition is excellent in low temperature properties. When the above olefinic thermoplastic elastomer composition is partially or entirely crosslinked, a molding can be provided which is superior to the conventional vulcanized rubbers in low temperature properties, tensile strength, elongation at break and rubber properties.
Abstract: An emulsion of a copolymer of carbon monoxide with an olefinically unsaturated compound dispersed in an aqueous diluent; a curable resin composition in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion comprising a copolymer of carbon monoxide with an olefinically unsaturated compound and a curing agent; and a polymer which is produced by grafting a polymer comprising poly(ethene oxide) moiety in its molecular structure onto a copolymer of carbon monoxide with an olefinically compound.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 21, 1998
Date of Patent:
February 9, 1999
Assignee:
Shell Oil Company
Inventors:
Evert van der Heide, Gerrit Vietje, Chung Wang
Abstract: A method of stabilizing a composition containing a thickening agent which is adversely affected by the increasing ionic strength of the composition, by blanketing the solution in a vessel with a sufficient amount of gas capable of diluting or displacing the atmospheric air in the headspace of the vessel.
Abstract: Disclosed are a fixed-bed, catalytic reactor wherein reaction heat can be exchanged against a heat exchange medium circulating indirectly through the catalyst bed, and a catalytic process comprising operation of the reactor. The reactor comprises a catalyst bed having internally embedded banks of heat exchange tubes. An inlet distributor distributes reactants for flow through the bed. The distributed fluid passes through the bed in a flow path wherein a catalytic reaction occurs. The reaction effluent is then collected from the bed by an outlet product collector. A heat exchange medium circulated through the internal heat exchange tubes adds or removes reaction heat as required for enhanced conversion in the reactor. Multiple heat exchange tubes can be used, and inlet and discharge manifolds are provided for distributing the circulating heat exchange medium. The heat exchange tubes can be spaced in accordance with the heat interchange required to optimize the reaction rate.
Abstract: The present invention is directed to traffic paint compositions, which dry faster than conventional waterborne traffic paints and to a method of producing traffic paint road markings made therefrom. The traffic paint composition of the present invention includes a blend of an anionically stabilized polymer binder, a polyfunctional amine polymer having an amine and an acid functionality therein and an amount of volatile base sufficient to raise the pH of the composition to a point where essentially all of the polyfunctional amine polymer is in a non-ionic state. The traffic paint composition of the present invention further provides improved storage stability.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 22, 1997
Date of Patent:
January 19, 1999
Assignee:
Rohm and Haas Company
Inventors:
Donald Craig Schall, Steven Scott Edwards