Patents by Inventor Marie Humbert

Marie Humbert 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).

  • Patent number: 6534567
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for making an organo-soluble (meth)acrylic resin composition which consists in: esterifying the COOH functions of a polymer comprising units derived from methacrylic acid, in a solvent medium, with Ti(OR)4, R representing one among ethyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, t-butyl, 2-ethylhexyl and t-amyl. The invention is characterised in that the esterification is carried out in the presence of at least a R′COOH monocarboxylic acid, R′ representing a linear, branched or cyclic C1-C18 alkyl radical; aryl; alkaryl; or aralkyl, by stopping esterification before a gel is formed, when the COOH resin and R′COOH functions have been added with a molar ratio Ti(OR)4/—COOH functions of the resin ranges between 1 and 3, and a molar ratio R′COOH/Ti(OR)4 ranges between 1 and 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Atofina
    Inventors: Marie Humbert, Alain Riondel, Eric Jouandon, Andre Margaillan, Michel Camail, Jean-Louis Vernet
  • Patent number: 5998646
    Abstract: These compounds are denoted by the formula (I): ##STR1## in which R denotes a tert-butyl, tert-amyl or 2-ethylhexyl radical. To prepare them, methacrylic acid is reacted with a tetraalkoxytitanium Ti(OR).sub.4, where R=isopropyl or tert-butyl, to obtain a corresponding compound (I), or with Ti(OR) (OtAm).sub.3, where R=isopropyl or tert-butyl and tAm=tert-amyl, to obtain a compound (I) with R=tert-amyl, the compounds (I) with R=isopropyl or tert-butyl furthermore denoting intermediate synthesis products which can be reacted with tert-amyl alcohol or with 2-ethylhexanol, to obtain a compound (I) in which R denotes tert-amyl or 2-ethylhexyl respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Elf Atochem S.A.
    Inventors: Alain Riondel, Michel Camail, Andre Margaillan, Jean-Louis Vernet, Marie Humbert
  • Patent number: 5919840
    Abstract: This organosoluble (meth)acrylic resin composition is characterized in that it includes a polymer containing units derived from methacrylic acid which are esterified with --Ti(OR).sub.3 groups, mixed with free Ti(OR).sub.4, which represents the excess of Ti(OR).sub.4 which has been introduced for the preparation of the said polymer in sufficient quantity for the resulting composition to be organosoluble and not in gel form, R representing one of ethyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, t-butyl, 2-ethylhexyl and t-amyl. It may be the product of esterification in a solvent medium of a polymer containing units derived from methacrylic acid with Ti(OR).sub.4, the Ti/COOH molar ratio being higher than 1, preferably being between 3/1 and 10/1; or the product of radical copolymerization in a solvent medium of at least one methacrylic acid esterified with Ti(OR).sub.3 and of at least one comonomer, in the presence of Ti(OR).sub.4, in a quantity which would have corresponded to a reaction between the methacrylic acid and Ti(OR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Assignee: Elf Atochem, S.A.
    Inventors: Didler Vanhoye, Michel Camail, Andre Margaillan, Jean-Louis Vernet, Marie Humbert