Patents by Inventor Roberto Pantaleoni

Roberto Pantaleoni 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: 20170183485
    Abstract: Ethylene polymer composition having a fusion enthalpy ?Hfus, measured by Differential Scanning calorimetry with a heating rate of 20° C. per minute, of 60 J/g or more, comprising, all per cent amounts being by weight: A) 25-55% of an ethylene polymer containing 10% or less, referred to the weight of A), of a fraction XSA soluble in xylene at 25° C.; B) 45-75% of a copolymer of ethylene and propylene containing from 45% to 70%, of ethylene and 60% or more of a fraction XSB soluble in xylene at 25° C., both the ethylene of the copolymer and XSB amounts being referred to the weight of B); wherein the amounts of A) and B) are referred to the total weight of A)+B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: BASELL POLIOLEFINE ITALIA S.R.L.
    Inventors: CLAUDIO CAVALIERI, MICHELE GRAZZI, ROBERTO PANTALEONI
  • Publication number: 20170183486
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an ethylene polymer composition having an eta (0.01) equal to or higher than 35,000 Pa·s, comprising: A) 25-75% by weight of an ethylene polymer selected from ethylene homopolymers, copolymers of ethylene with 10% or less of one or more olefin comonomers, and mixtures of the homopolymers and copolymers; B) 25-75% by weight of a copolymer of ethylene and propylene comprising 45-70% by weight of ethylene; wherein eta (0.01) is the complex shear viscosity at an angular frequency of 0.01 rad/s, measured with dynamic oscillatory shear in a plate-plate rotational rheometer at a temperature of 200° C., and the amounts of A) and B) refer to the total weight of A)+B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: BASELL POLYOLEFINE GMBH
    Inventors: CLAUDIO CAVALIERI, MICHELE GRAZZI, ROBERTO PANTALEONI
  • Patent number: 9683062
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process for the preparation of a porous propylene carried out in the presence of a catalyst system comprising (a) a Ziegler-Natta catalyst containing at least two electron donor compounds, one of which is present in an amount from 50 to 90% by mol with respect to the total amount of donors and selected from succinates, and the other being selected from 1,3 diethers, (b) an aluminum alkyl and comprising the following steps: i) contacting the catalyst components (a) and (b) for a period of time ranging from 1 to 60 minutes, at a temperature ranging from 35 to 55° C.; optionally, ii) pre-polymerizing with one or more olefins of formula CH2?CHR, where R is H or a C1-C10 hydrocarbon group, up to forming amounts of polymer from about 0.1 up to about 1000 g per gram of solid catalyst component (a); and iii) polymerizing propylene in the optional presence of minor amounts of ethylene and/or C4-C10 alpha olefins for producing the porous propylene (co)polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefin Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Benedetta Gaddi, Marco Bocchino, Gianni Collina, Ofelia Fusco, Simona Guidotti, Antonio Mazzucco, Roberto Pantaleoni, Fabrizio Piemontesi
  • Patent number: 9650458
    Abstract: Propylene terpolymers are prepared by polymerizing propylene, ethylene and an alpha-olefin selected from the group of C4-C8 alpha-olefins in the presence of a catalyst system obtained by contacting a solid catalyst component comprising a magnesium halide, a titanium compound having at least a Ti-halogen bond and at least two electron donor compounds one of which being present in an amount from 40 to 90% by mol with respect to the total amount of donors and selected from succinates and the other selected from 1,3 diethers, an aluminum hydrocarbyl compound, and optionally an external electron donor compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Monica Galvan, Andreas Neumann, Tiziana Caputo, Stefano Squarzoni, Antonio Mazzucco, Ofelia Fusco, Benedetta Gaddi, Gianni Collina, Gisella Biondini, Claudio Cavalieri, Roberto Pantaleoni
  • Publication number: 20160304642
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process for the preparation of a porous propylene carried out in the presence of a catalyst system comprising (a) a Ziegler-Natta catalyst containing at least two electron donor compounds, one of which is present in an amount from 50 to 90% by mol with respect to the total amount of donors and selected from succinates, and the other being selected from 1,3 diethers, (b) an aluminum alkyl and comprising the following steps: i) contacting the catalyst components (a) and (b) for a period of time ranging from 1 to 60 minutes, at a temperature ranging from 35 to 55° C.; optionally, ii) pre-polymerizing with one or more olefins of formula CH2?CHR, where R is H or a C1-C10 hydrocarbon group, up to forming amounts of polymer from about 0.1 up to about 1000 g per gram of solid catalyst component (a); and iii) polymerizing propylene in the optional presence of minor amounts of ethylene and/or C4-C10 alpha olefins for producing the porous propylene (co)polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: BASELL POLIOLEFINE ITALIA S.R.L.
    Inventors: BENEDETTA GADDI, MARCO BOCCHINO, GIANNI COLLINA, OFELIA FUSCO, SIMONA GUIDOTTI, ANTONIO MAZZUCCO, ROBERTO PANTALEONI, FABRIZIO PIEMONTESI
  • Publication number: 20160272802
    Abstract: A masterbatch composition comprising: 70-90% wt of a component (A) being a propylene homopolymer or copolymer of propylene with ethylene or C4-C10 alpha olefins, having a MFRA according to ISO 1133 (230° C./2.16 Kg) ranging from 15 to 70 g/10 min; and 10-30% wt of a component B) being a propylene-ethylene copolymer comprising 25-45% wt of ethylene derived units and having a value of the intrinsic viscosity [?] of the fraction soluble in xylene at room temperature ranging from 5 to 9 dl/g, said masterbatch composition having a total MFR higher than 4 g/10 min, and a value of the flexural modulus measured according to ISO method 178 ranging from 950 to 2000 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: BASELL POLIOLEFINE ITALIA S.R.L.
    Inventors: Marco Ciarafoni, Paola Massari, Gisella Biondini, Roberto Pantaleoni, Sander Willems
  • Patent number: 9309394
    Abstract: A masterbatch composition comprising: 70-90% wt of a component (A) being a propylene homopolymer or copolymer of propylene with ethylene or C4-C10 alpha olefins, having a MFRA according to ISO 1133 (230° C./2.16 Kg) ranging from 15 to 70 g/10 min; and 10-30% wt of a component B) being a propylene-ethylene copolymer comprising 25-45% wt of ethylene derived units and having a value of the intrinsic viscosity [?] of the fraction soluble in xylene at room temperature ranging from 5 to 9 dl/g, said masterbatch composition having a total MFR higher than 4 g/10 min, and a value of the flexural modulus measured according to ISO method 178 ranging from 950 to 2000 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Marco Ciarafoni, Paola Massari, Gisella Biondini, Roberto Pantaleoni, Sander Willems
  • Publication number: 20160032032
    Abstract: Propylene terpolymers are prepared by polymerizing propylene, ethylene and an alpha-olefin selected from the group of C4-C8 alpha-olefins in the presence of a catalyst system obtained by contacting a solid catalyst component comprising a magnesium halide, a titanium compound having at least a Ti-halogen bond and at least two electron donor compounds one of which being present in an amount from 40 to 90% by mol with respect to the total amount of donors and selected from succinates and the other selected from 1,3 diethers, an aluminum hydrocarbyl compound, and optionally an external electron donor compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Monica Galvan, Andreas Neumann, Tiziana Caputo, Stefano Squarzoni, Antonio Mazzucco, Ofelia Fusco, Benedetta Gaddi, Gianni Collina, Gisella Biondini, Claudio Cavalieri, Roberto Pantaleoni
  • Patent number: 9181424
    Abstract: Propylene polymer compositions comprising: A) from 70 wt % to 95 wt %, of a random copolymer of propylene with ethylene, containing from 1.5 wt % to 4.5 wt %, of ethylene derived units, having a content of fraction insoluble in xylene at 25° C. of not less than 93%; B) from 5 wt % to 35 wt %, of a copolymer of propylene with ethylene, containing from 7.0 wt % to 17.0 wt % of ethylene derived units; the sum A+B being 100; wherein the melt flow rate, MFR. (Melt Flow Rate according to ASTM 1238, condition L, i.e. 230° C. and 2.16 kg load) ranges from 40 g/10 min and 130 g/10 min; and wherein the relation (I) is fulfilled: 10<XS*C2A?MFR/C2B<30??(I) wherein XS is the wt % of xylene soluble content at 25° C. of the total composition; C2A is the wt % of ethylene derived units content of component A; MFR is the melt flow rate of the total composition; C2B is the wt % of ethylene derived units content of component B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Gisella Biondini, Marco Ciarafoni, Paola Massari, Roberto Pantaleoni
  • Publication number: 20150191852
    Abstract: Fibers comprising a polypropylene obtainable by a process comprising the steps of: (i) polymerizing propylene in the presence of a catalyst system comprising the product obtained by contacting the following components: (a) a solid catalyst component comprising a magnesium halide, a titanium compound having at least a Ti-halogen bond and at least two electron donor compounds one of which being present in an amount from 40 to 90% by mol with respect to the total amount of donors and selected from succinates and the other being selected from 1,3 diethers, (b) an aluminum hydrocarbyl compound, and (c) optionally an external electron donor compound, to obtain a polypropylene precursor having a melt flow rate MFR1; (ii) subjecting the thus-obtained polypropylene precursor to visbreaking to obtain a visbroken polypropylene having a melt flow rate MFR2; (iii) spinning the visbroken polypropylene obtained in the previous step; wherein MFR2 is comprised between from 15 to 40 g/10 min, the ratio MFR2/MFR1 is comprise
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Monica Galvan, Andreas Neumann, Roberto Pantaleoni, Antonio Mazzucco, Ofelia Fusco, Benedetta Gaddi, Gianni Collina
  • Patent number: 9068029
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of propylene polymer compositions comprising from 50 to 90% by weight of a propylene polymer fraction insoluble in xylene at 25° C., and from 10 to 50% by weight of an ethylene copolymer fraction soluble in xylene at 25° C., said process being carried out in the presence of a specific catalyst system, is also characterized by the following step: (i) contacting the catalyst components (a), (b) and optionally (c) for a period of time ranging from 0.1 to 120 minutes, at a temperature ranging from 0 to 90° C.; (ii) polymerizing propylene in the optional presence of ethylene and/or C4-C10 alpha olefins producing a propylene (co)polymer being for at least 85% by weight of insoluble in xylene at 25° C. and (iii) in a successive step, carried out in gas-phase, in the presence of the product coming from (ii), polymerizing mixtures of ethylene with ?-olefins CH2?CHR in which R is a hydrocarbon radical having 1-10 carbon atoms, to produce an ethylene copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Gianni Collina, Marco Ciarafoni, Ofelia Fusco, Benedetta Gaddi, Monica Galvan, Giampiero Morini, Roberto Pantaleoni, Joachim T. M. Pater, Fabrizio Piemontesi, Francesca Verrocchio
  • Patent number: 9068028
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of propylene polymer compositions carried out in the presence of a catalyst system comprising (a) a solid catalyst component having average particle size ranging from 15 to 80 ?m comprising a magnesium halide, a titanium compound having at least a Ti-halogen bond and at least two electron donor compounds one of which being present in an amount from 50 to 90% by mol with respect to the total amount of donors and selected from succinates and the other being selected from 1,3 diethers, (b) an aluminum alkyl and optionally (c) an external electron donor compound, and comprising the following steps: (i) contacting the catalyst components (a), (b) and optionally (c); (ii) pre-polymerizing up to forming amounts of polymer from about 0.1 up to about 1000 g per gram of solid catalyst component (a); (iii) polymerizing propylene producing a propylene (co)polymer being for at least 85% by weight of insoluble in xylene at 25° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Gianni Collina, Marco Ciarafoni, Ofelia Fusco, Benedetta Gaddi, Monica Galvan, Giampiero Morini, Roberto Pantaleoni, Francesca Verrocchio
  • Patent number: 9045247
    Abstract: A container comprising a polyolefin composition comprising: A) from 59 wt. % to 84 wt. %, based upon the total weight of the polyolefin composition, of a propylene homopolymer having isotactic pentads (mmmm) measured with 13C-NMR higher than 96%, B) from 16 wt. % to 41 wt. %, based upon the total weight of the polyolefin composition, of a copolymer of propylene and ethylene, wherein the copolymer of propylene and ethylene comprises from 30 wt. % to 44 wt. %, of ethylene derived units based upon total weight of the copolymer of propylene and ethylene; the sum A)+B) being 100 wt. %; the polyolefin composition having an MFR L (Melt Flow Rate according to ISO 1133, condition L, i.e. 230° C. and 2.16 kg load) between 72 and 100 g/10 min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italisa S.r.l.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Frederick, Claudio Cavalieri, Jeanine A. Smith, Gilles Jobin, Timothy C. Brasel, Roberto Pantaleoni, Marco Ciarafoni, Paola Massari
  • Patent number: 8962763
    Abstract: A polypropylene composition for injection-molded drainage systems comprising 78-84 wt % of a crystalline propylene polymer, 8 to less than 13 wt % of an elastomeric copolymer and 8 to less than 13 wt % of polyethylene. The said composition exhibits a flexural modulus value higher than 1400 MPa, a melt flow rate (MFR), determined according to ISO method 1133 (230° C. and 2.16 kg), of from 1.5 to 5.0 g/10 min, and a value of Izod impact resistance at 0° C. of more than 6 kJ/m2 according to ISO method 180/1A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Claudio Cavalieri, Monica Galvan, Roberto Pantaleoni, Enrico Beccarini, Francesca Tisi, Werner Rothhöft
  • Publication number: 20150005438
    Abstract: Propylene polymer compositions comprising: A) from 70 wt % to 95 wt %, of a random copolymer of propylene with ethylene, containing from 1.5 wt % to 4.5 wt %, of ethylene derived units, having a content of fraction insoluble in xylene at 25° C. of not less than 93%; B) from 5 wt % to 35 wt %, of a copolymer of propylene with ethylene, containing from 7.0 wt % to 17.0 wt % of ethylene derived units; the sum A+B being 100; wherein the melt flow rate ,MFR. (Melt Flow Rate according to ASTM 1238, condition L, i.e. 230° C. and 2.16 kg load) ranges from 40 g/10 min and 130 g /10 min; and wherein the relation (I) is fulfilled: 10<XS*C2A-MFR/C2B<30 ??(I) wherein XS is the wt % of xylene soluble content at 25° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.I.
    Inventors: Gisella Biondini, Marco Ciarafoni, Paola Massari, Roberto Pantaleoni
  • Publication number: 20140316069
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of propylene polymer compositions comprising from 50 to 90% by weight of a propylene (co)polymer fraction insoluble in xylene at 25° C., and from 10 to 50% by weight of an ethylene copolymer fraction soluble in xylene at 25° C., said process comprising: (i) a first step of polymerizing propylene in the optional presence of ethylene and/or C4-C10 alpha olefins, to produce a propylene (co)polymer being for at least 85% by weight insoluble in xylene at 25° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Basell Polilefine Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Monica Galvan, Roberto Pantaleoni, Ofelia Fusco, Benedetta Gaddi, Andreas Neumann, Antonio Mazzucco, Gianni Collina, Marco Ciarafoni
  • Publication number: 20140235802
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of high purity propylene polymers carried out in the presence of a catalyst comprising the product obtained by contacting: (a) a solid catalyst component comprising Mg, Ti and at least a first internal electron donor compound (HD) selected among the succinates and a second internal electron donor compound (2ID) selected among the 1,3-diethers, wherein the molar ratio of first internal donor over second internal donor 1ID:2ID is comprised between 4:6 and 9:1, with (b) an organo-aluminium compound, and optionally with (c) an external electron donor compound, said process being carried out at a temperature equal or higher than 78° C. and by employing a molar ratio of organo-aluminum compound over solid catalyst component (b):(a) of lower than 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Monica Galvan, Roberto Pantaleoni, Ofelia Fusco, Benedetta Gaddi, Andreas Neumann, Antonio Mazzucco, Gianni Collina, Gabriella Sartori
  • Patent number: 8729188
    Abstract: A propylene polymer composition comprising (percent by weight): A) 74%-84% of a propylene homopolymer having a Polydispersity Index (P.I.) value of from 4.6 to 10, a fraction insoluble in xylene at 25° C., higher than 90%, and a MFR L (Melt Flow Rate according to ISO 1133, condition L, i.e. 230° C. and 2.16 kg load) from 110 to 200 g/10 min; B) 16%-26%, of a copolymer of propylene with from 39% to 48%, of ethylene derived units; the composition having an intrinsic viscosity of the fraction soluble in xylene at 25° C. comprised between 2.7 and 4.0 dl/g; and a MFR L (Melt Flow Rate according to ISO 1133, condition L, i.e. 230° C. and 2.16 kg load) from 30 to 80 g/10 min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Monica Galvan, Marco Ciarafoni, Gianni Collina, Ofelia Fusco, Roberto Pantaleoni, Antonio Mazzucco
  • Patent number: 8722803
    Abstract: A polymer composition comprising (per cent by weight): a) 70-84% of a crystalline propylene polymer having an amount of isotactic pentads (mmmm), measured by 13C-MNR on the fraction insoluble in xylene at 25° C., higher than 97.5 molar %; b) 8-15% of an elastomeric copolymer of ethylene and propylene, the copolymer having an amount of recurring units deriving from ethylene ranging from 25 to 50 wt % and being partially soluble in xylene at ambient temperature; the polymer fraction soluble in xylene at ambient temperature having an intrinsic viscosity value ranging from 2.5 to 3.5 dl/g; and c) 8-15% of ethylene homopolymer having an intrinsic viscosity value ranging from 1.5 to 4 dl/g; said composition having a value of melt flow rate ranging from 55 to 90 g/10 min, and the amount of hexane extractables lower than 3.5 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Paola Massari, Marco Ciarafoni, Gisella Biondini, Roberto Pantaleoni
  • Publication number: 20140121340
    Abstract: Films or sheets of polypropylene, particularly biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films, exhibiting excellent physical and mechanical properties combined with good processing characteristics can be prepared from propylene polymers prepared in the presence of Ziegler-Natta catalysts comprising a succinate and a diether compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.I
    Inventors: Monica Galvan, Roberto Pantaleoni, Ofelia Fusco, Benedetta Gaddi, Andreas Neumann, Antonio Mazzucco, Gianni Collina