Patents by Inventor Jean-Luc Couturier

Jean-Luc Couturier has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130210972
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of plasticisers, compounds used as additives in polymers for facilitating the transformation thereof or modifying the mechanical properties thereof, especially rigidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Nicolas Dufaure, Julien Jouanneau, Guillaume Le, Jean-Luc Couturier, Manuel Hidalgo
  • Publication number: 20130211057
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nitrogenous associative molecules comprising at least one unit rendering them capable of associating with one another or with a filler by noncovalent bonds, and comprising a function capable of reacting with a polymer containing unsaturations so as to form a covalent bond with said polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Nicolas Seeboth, Serguey Ivanov, Jean-Luc Couturier, Manuel Hidalgo
  • Publication number: 20130203944
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of plasticisers, compounds used as additives in polymers for facilitating the transformation thereof or modifying the mechanical properties thereof especially rigidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Nicolas Dufaure, Jean-Luc Couturier, Manuel Hidalgo
  • Publication number: 20130197237
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nitrogenous associative molecules comprising at least one unit rendering them capable of associating with one another or with a filler, via noncovalent bonds, and comprising a function capable of reacting with a polymer containing unsaturations so as to form a covalent bond with said polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Nicolas Seeboth, Serguey Ivanov, Jean-Luc Couturier, Manuel Hidalgoo
  • Publication number: 20130116458
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a process for synthesizing a saturated long-chain o.,0)-amino ester (acid) obtained in a first step by cross-metathesis between an acrylic first compound and a monounsaturated second compound comprising at least one nitrile, acid or ester trivalent function, one of these compounds comprising a nitrile function and the other an acid or ester function, in the presence of a ruthenium carbene metathesis catalyst, and in a second step by hydrogenation of the monounsaturated nitrile ester (acid) obtained in the presence of the metathesis catalyst of the preceding stop, acting as a hydrogenation catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicants: ARKEMA FRANCE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE RENNES 1
    Inventors: Jean Luc Couturier, Jean Luc Dubois, Xiaowei Miao, Cedric Fischmeister, Christian Bruneau, Pierre Dixneuf
  • Patent number: 8394904
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved process for preparing alkoxyamines resulting from ?-phosphorated nitroxides corresponding to the formula (I): by reaction with a halogenated derivative in the presence of an organometallic system. This process comprises carrying out the reaction in a water-miscible organic solvent and precipitating the alkoxyamine directly from the organic medium by adding an aqueous solution of a strong acid. These alkoxyamines can be used in particular as radical polymerizations initiators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Couturier
  • Publication number: 20120277475
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bio-based glutaraldehyde compound and to the different non-fossil, natural raw material manufacture methods thereof. To prepare said compound, glycerol created by the methanolysis of vegetable oil or animal fat is used, leading after dehydration to acrolein that is caused to react with a vinyl/alkyl/ether as per a Diels-Alder cyclization reaction, followed by hydrolysis so as to obtain the bio-based glutaraldehyde of the invention. Sugars containing five carbon atoms, that is, pentoses created from for example hemicellulose, may also be used, leading after dehydration to furfural, which leads, after complete hydrogenation followed by selective oxidation, to the bio-based glutaraldehyde of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Jean Luc Couturier, Jean Luc Dubois
  • Publication number: 20120022221
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use, as a shock absorber, of a material formed from branched molecules comprising associative groups. Said branched molecules are each constituted of fragments that are at least bifunctional and of fragments that are at least trifunctional joined together by ester or thioester bridges, alone or in combination with amide or urea bridges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Manuel Hidalgo, Nicolas Dufaure, Jean-Luc Couturier, Bruno Hemelryck
  • Publication number: 20120020910
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel composition, for nontherapeutic purposes, containing at least one POM (PolyOxyMethylene dialkyl ether) and at least one diol. It also relates to the use of this composition for preserving and/or embalming a human or animal body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Jean Sigoure, Jean-Luc Couturier, Jean-Luc Dubois
  • Publication number: 20110046407
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved process for preparing alkoxyamines resulting from ?-phosphorated nitroxides corresponding to the formula (I): by reaction with a halogenated derivative in the presence of an organometallic system. This process comprises carrying out the reaction in a water-miscible organic solvent and precipitating the alkoxyamine directly from the organic medium by adding an aqueous solution of a strong acid. These alkoxyamines can be used in particular as radical polymerizations initiators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Couturier
  • Patent number: 7772340
    Abstract: A subject-matter of the invention is alkoxyamines resulting from ?-phosphorated nitroxides corresponding to the formula: in which R represents an alkyl radical having a number of carbon atoms ranging from 1 to 3, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a residue: in which R3 represents an alkyl radical having a number of carbon atoms ranging from 1 to 20, and R2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl radical having a number of carbon atoms ranging from 1 to 8, a phenyl radical, an alkali metal, such as Li, Na or K, H4N+, Bu4N+ or Bu3HN+, exhibiting a kinetic dissociation constant kd, measured at 120° C. by EPR, of greater than 0.05 s?1. These compounds can be used as initiators for the (co)polymerizations of at least one monomer which can be polymerized by the radical route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Couturier, Olivier Guerret, Denis Bertin, Didier Gigmes, Sylvain Marque, Paul Tordo, Florence Chauvin, Pierre-Emmanuel Dufils
  • Publication number: 20090281351
    Abstract: The invention relates to an alkoxyamine of formula (I) below: in which R1 may be a hydrogen atom, R2 and R3 alkyl groups, such as a methyl group, R4 a phenylene group bearing an —SO3Na group, R5 a hydrogen atom, and R6 and R7 alkyl groups, such as an ethyl group. Use of these alkoxyamines as a radical polymerization initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Couturier, Manuel Hidalgo
  • Publication number: 20090221850
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel process for preparing alkoxyamines from a nitroxide and a dithiocarbamate by photolysis reaction. This process, which does not generate effluent containing metals, may be carried out in batch or in continuous mode and takes place at a lower temperature than the known processes for synthesizing alkoxyamines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Denis Bertin, Jean-Luc Couturier, Didier Gigmes, Olivier Guerret, Yohann Guillaneuf
  • Publication number: 20090208441
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the polymerization of one or more monomers comprising a stage in which the said monomer or monomers is/are brought into contact, in a medium comprising water, with at least one specific initiator of the alkoxyamine type corresponding, for example, to the following formula:
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Couturier, Manuel Hidalgo
  • Publication number: 20090170958
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising a latex and at least one copolymer that may be obtained via a monomer polymerization process, comprising a step of placing in contact, in a medium comprising water, the said monomer(s) with at least one initiator corresponding, for example, to the formula:
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Couturier, Manuel Hidalgo
  • Publication number: 20080274074
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the polymerization of one or more methacrylate and/or methacrylic monomers, for the synthesis of methacrylate or methacrylic polymers or of exclusively methacrylic and/or methacrylate copolymers, comprising a step of bringing said monomer(s) into contact with one at least of the compounds of formula (I) and (II) below: in which: R1 and R2 may represent a phenyl group, R3 and R4 may together form an ?N-phenyl group, Z represents a group of formula —CR8R9R10, in which R8 and R9 may represent methyl groups and R10 may represent a —COO-phenyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Couturier, Yohann Guillaneuf, Denis Bertin, Didior Gigmes
  • Publication number: 20080221354
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of the alkoxyamine 2-methyl-2-[N-(diethoxy-phosphoryl-2,2-dimethylpropyl)aminoxy]propionic acid or of its salts comprising a stage of saponification of an azo compound in the presence of a base, a stage of photolysis of the salt resulting from the saponification stage in the presence of N-(tert-butyl)-1-diethylphosphono-2,2-dimethylpropyl nitroxide and optionally a stage of acidification of the salt of the alkoxyamine obtained on conclusion of the photolysis stage. The alkoxyamine or its salts can be used as radical polymerization initiators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Couturier, Didier Gigmes, Olivier Guerret, Yohann Guillaneuf
  • Publication number: 20070167591
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of alkoxyamines of formula (I): for the preparation of polymerized or non-polymerized mono- or polyalkoxyamines of formula (II):
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Couturier, Olivier Guerret, Denis Bertin, Didier Gigmes, Sylvain Marque, Paul Tordo, Pierre-Emmanuel Dufils
  • Patent number: 7214810
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of alkoxyamines of formula (I): for the preparation of polymerized or non-polymerized mono- or polyalkoxyamines of formula (II):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Jean-luc Couturier, Olivier Guerret, Denis Bertin, Didier Gigmes, Sylvain Marque, Paul Tordo, Pierre-emmanuel Dufils
  • Patent number: 7199214
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for the preparation of polyalkoxyaminies from monoalkoxyamine(s) of formula (I) and of at least one polyunsaturated compound of formula (II): and the preparation of polyfunctional living (co)polymers by polymerization by the radical route of one or more vinyl monomers in the presence of the polyalkoxyamines thus prepared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Couturier, Olivier Guerret, Stéphanie Magnet