Patents by Inventor Thierry Briffaud

Thierry Briffaud 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: 9139707
    Abstract: A method of producing a composite material, comprising an assembly of natural fibers, impregnated with an amorphous or semi-crystalline thermoplastic polymer, said method including: i) a step of impregnating said assembly with a precursor composition in the molten state and including: a) at least one prepolymer P(X)n of said thermoplastic polymer, having a molecular chain P having, at the ends of same, n reactive functions X, with n ranging from 1 to 3, in particular n being 1 or 2, and preferably 2 b) at least one chain extender Y-A-Y including reactive functions Y with at least one of said functions X ii) a step of polymerization by mass (poly)addition, in the molten state, of said prepolymer with said chain extender with: said thermoplastic polymer being the result of said polymerization by mass polyaddition and said impregnation i) and polymerization ii) taking place at a temperature lower than 250° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Gilles Hochstetter, Marc Audenaert, Thierry Briffaud
  • Publication number: 20150225505
    Abstract: A copolyamide including at least two different repeat units having the following general formulation: A/X.Y, in which A is an aliphatic repeat unit selected from a unit obtained from at least one amino acid and a unit obtained from at least one lactam, and X.Y is a repeat unit obtained from the polycondensation of at least one cycloaliphatic diamine and at least one dicarboxylic acid. The proportion by weight of unit A is greater than or equal to 91%. Also, a composition including such a copolyamide and uses thereof, in particular in the soles of sports footwear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Philippe Blondel, Thierry Briffaud
  • Patent number: 9102828
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition including: 45 to 95 wt % of a semi-aromatic copolyamide containing at least two separate units having the following general formulation: A/X.T, where A is selected from among a unit obtained from an amino acid, a unit obtained from a lactam, and a unit having the formula (diamine Ca).(diacid in Cb), and XT denotes a unit obtained from the polycondensation of a diamine in Cx and from terephthalic acid, with x being the number of carbon atoms of the diamine in Cx, said copolyamide having a polymoleoularity index, noted Ip, of less than or equal to 3.5, measured by gel permeation chromatography, and an amino chain end content of between 0.020 meg/g and 0.058 meg/g; and 5 to 55 wt % of at least one cross-linked polyolefin. The invention also relates to a method for preparing said composition and to the uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Philippe Blondel, Thierry Briffaud, Vincent Ferreiro
  • Publication number: 20150126646
    Abstract: A method of producing a composite material, comprising an assembly of natural fibres, impregnated with an amorphous or semi-crystalline thermoplastic polymer, said method including: i) a step of impregnating said assembly with a precursor composition in the molten state and including: a) at least one prepolymer P(X)n of said thermoplastic polymer, having a molecular chain P having, at the ends of same, n reactive functions X, with n ranging from 1 to 3, in particular n being 1 or 2, and preferably 2 b) at least one chain extender Y-A-Y including reactive functions Y with at least one of said functions X ii) a step of polymerisation by mass (poly)addition, in the molten state, of said prepolymer with said chain extender with: said thermoplastic polymer being the result of said polymerisation by mass polyaddition and said impregnation i) and polymerisation ii) taking place at a temperature lower than 250° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Gilles Hochstetter, Marc Audenaert, Thierry Briffaud
  • Patent number: 9012026
    Abstract: The invention relates to a copolyamide comprising at least two different units corresponding to the following general formulation: A/X.T A is chosen from a unit obtained from an amino acid, a unit obtained from a lactam and a unit corresponding to the formula (Ca diamine).(Cb diacid), with a representing the number of carbon atoms of the diamine and b representing the number of carbon atoms of the diacid, a and b each being between 4 and 36, advantageously between 9 and 18, X.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Thierry Briffaud, Philippe Blondel
  • Publication number: 20150099080
    Abstract: The invention relates to a copolyamide comprising at least two different units corresponding to the following general formulation: A/X.T A is chosen from a unit obtained from an amino acid, a unit obtained from a lactam and a unit corresponding to the formula (Ca diamine)·(Cb diacid), with a representing the number of carbon atoms of the diamine and b representing the number of carbon atoms of the diacid, a and b each being between 4 and 36, advantageously between 9 and 18, X.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Thierry BRIFFAUD, Philippe BLONDEL
  • Publication number: 20140316063
    Abstract: A method for producing a composite material, including an assembly of one or a plurality of synthetic reinforcement fibres, impregnated with at least one thermoplastic polymer having a vitreous transition temperature Tg greater than or equal to 80° C. including: i) a step of impregnating said assembly with a precursor composition in the molten state and including: a) at least one prepolymer P(X)n of said thermoplastic polymer, including a molecular chain P having, at the ends n thereof, identical reactive functions X, said prepolymer having a semi-aromatic and/or semi-cycloaliphatic structure, b) at least one chain extender including two identical functions Y, which are reactive with at least one of said functions X; ii) a step of polymerisation by mass (poly)addition, in the molten state, of said prepolymer with said chain extender, with said thermoplastic polymer of the thermoplastic matrix being the result of said polymerisation by mass polyaddition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Gilles Hochstetter, Thierry Briffaud, Michel Glotin, Pierre Nogues, Maliha Khusrawy
  • Publication number: 20140212613
    Abstract: The invention relates to a copolyamide comprising at least two different units corresponding to the following general formulation: A/X.T A is chosen from a unit obtained from an amino acid, a unit obtained from a lactam and a unit corresponding to the formula (Ca diamine).(Cb diacid), with a representing the number of carbon atoms of the diamine and b representing the number of carbon atoms of the diacid, a and b each being between 4 and 36, advantageously between 9 and 18, X.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Thierry BRIFFAUD, Philiippe BLONDEL
  • Publication number: 20140171563
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition including 30 to 97 wt % of at least one semi-aromatic polyamide, 2 to 50 wt % of white pigments, 0 to 50 wt % of strengthening agents, 0.1, to 10 wt % of at least one metal hydroxide and/or of at least one metal oxide other than a metal oxide, and up to 3 wt % of an organic phosphite. The invention also relates to the use of said composition for forming all or part of an electronic component, as well as to a reflector having a light-emitting diode (LED) and entirely or partially consisting of a material obtained form said composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Thierry Briffaud, Philippe Blondel, Quentin Pineau, Shinya Matsuno
  • Patent number: 8748004
    Abstract: The invention relates to a copolyamide comprising at least two different units corresponding to the following general formulation: A/X.T A is chosen from a unit obtained from an amino acid, a unit obtained from a lactam and a unit corresponding to the formula (Ca diamine).(Cb diacid), with a representing the number of carbon atoms of the diamine and b representing the number of carbon atoms of the diacid, a and b each being between 4 and 36, advantageously between 9 and 18, X.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Thierry Briffaud, Philippe Blondel
  • Patent number: 8642716
    Abstract: The present invention relates to branched polyamides comprising unsaturated ends comprising: at least one unit originating from a multifunctional monomer (A) having more than two functional groups, at least sequences resulting from the condensation, in the presence of at least one unsaturated monoacid, either of at least two different lactams, or of at least one lactam, at least one dicarboxylic acid and at least one diamine, or of a lactam or of an ?,?-aminocarboxylic acid, or of a diamine and of a diacid. The invention also relates to thermofusible adhesives comprising these branched polyamides comprising unsaturated ends, and to the use of these branched polyamides comprising unsaturated ends in sheathing electrical cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Annett Linemann, Thierry Briffaud
  • Publication number: 20130225786
    Abstract: The invention relates to a copolyamide comprising units resulting from the polycondensation reaction of the following precursors: terephthalic acid (a), an aliphatic diamine (b) comprising x carbon atoms, x being an integer between 6 and 22, and an aminocarboxylic acid and/or a lactam (c) comprising a main chain and at least one linear or branched alkyl branching, the total number of carbon atoms of the aminocarboxylic acid and/or of the lactam (c) being between 12 and 36. The invention also relates to the process for preparing said copolyamide and to a composition comprising such a copolyamide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicants: INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE LYON, ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Thierry Briffaud, Quentin Pineau, Emilie Goncalves, Jerome Robert Dupuy, Alain Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Publication number: 20120329944
    Abstract: The invention relates to a semiaromatic polyamide, to the process for preparing same, to a composition comprising such a polyamide and to the uses thereof. This polyamide consists of 70 to 95 mol % of a first repeating unit obtained from the polycondensation of at least one first linear or branched aliphatic diamine comprising from 10 to 36 carbon atoms and of at least one aromatic dicarboxylic acid, and of 5 to 30 mol % of a second repeating unit obtained from at least one lactam and/or from at least one aminocarboxylic acid comprising from 9 to 12 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Thierry Briffaud, Vincent Ferreiro
  • Publication number: 20120202896
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition including: 45 to 95 wt % of a semi-aromatic copolyamide containing at least two separate units having the following general formulation: A/X.T, where A is selected from among a unit obtained from an amino acid, a unit obtained from a lactam, and a twit having the formula (diamine Ca).(diacid Cb), and XT denotes a unit obtained from the polycondensation of a diamine in Cx and from terephthalic acid, with x being the number of carbon atoms of the diamine in Cx, said copolyamide having a polymoleoularity index, noted Ip, of less than or equal to 3.5, measured by gel permeation chromatography, and an amino chain end content of between 0.020 mcg/g and 0.058 mcg/g; and 5 to 55 wt % of at least one cross-linked polyolefin. The invention also relates to a method for preparing said composition and to the uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Philippe Blondel, Thierry Briffaud, Vincent Ferreiro
  • Publication number: 20110206881
    Abstract: The invention relates to a copolyamide comprising at least two different units corresponding to the following general formulation: A/X.T A is chosen from a unit obtained from an amino acid, a unit obtained from a lactam and a unit corresponding to the formula (Ca diamine)·(Cb diacid), with a representing the number of carbon atoms of the diamine and b representing the number of carbon atoms of the diacid, a and b each being between 4 and 36, advantageously between 9 and 18, X.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Thierry Briffaud, Philippe Blondel
  • Publication number: 20110195215
    Abstract: The invention relates to a copolyamide comprising at least two units corresponding to the following general formula: A/10,T in which: A is chosen from a unit obtained from an amino acid, a unit obtained from a lactam and a unit corresponding to the formula (Ca diamine).(Cb (cyclo)aliphatic diacid), with a representing the number of carbon atoms of the diamine and b representing the number of carbon atoms of the diacid, a and b each being between 4 and 36; 10,T denotes a unit obtained from the polycondensation of 1,10-decanediamine and terephthalic acid, characterized in that it has a polydispersity index, denoted by Ip, of less than or equal to 3.5, measured by gel permeation chromatography. The invention also relates to the process for preparing said copolyamide, a composition comprising this polyamide and also the use of this polyamide and of such a composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Thierry Briffaud, Philippe Blondel, Thierry Lefebvre
  • Publication number: 20110189419
    Abstract: The invention relates to a polyamide comprising at least two units having the following general formula: 4.Y in which: 4 denotes butanediamine, and Y represents a dicarboxylic acid chosen from a linear or branched aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, a cycloaliphatic diacid and an aromatic diacid, the dicarboxylic acid containing from 7 to 11 carbon atoms, the butanediamine contains carbon of renewable origin, except for the fact that when the polyamide is a copolyamide, it cannot contain 100% by mass of organic carbon derived from renewable raw materials relative to the total mass of polyamide carbon. The invention also relates to a composition comprising this polyamide and the use of this polyamide and of such a composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Guillaume Le, Julien Jouanneau, Thierry Briffaud
  • Patent number: 7625972
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible semiaromatic polyamide composition with a low moisture uptake, made up by weight, the total being 100: A) 60 to 99.5% (preferably 70 to 93%) of at least one copolyamide of formula X/Y,Ar in which there are between 0.5 and 0.7 mol of X per 1 mol of Y, and in which Y denotes the residues of 1,10-decanediamine, Ar denotes the residues of terephthalic acid, X denotes the residue of aminoundecanoic acid NH2—(CH2)10—COOH, the unit Y,I residue from the condensation of the diamine (Y) with isophthalic acid, wherein said composition is a flexible semiaromatic copolyamide; B) 0.5 to 40% (preferably 7 to 30%) of at least one product chosen from plasticizers, nanofillers, polyolefins, crosslinked polyolefins and additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Philippe Blondel, Thierry Briffaud, Annett Linemann, Helene Egret, Pierre Nogues
  • Publication number: 20080249238
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible semiaromatic polyamide composition with a low moisture uptake, made up by weight, the total being 100: A) 60 to 99.5% (preferably 70 to 93%) of at least one copolyamide of formula X/Y,Ar in which there are between 0.5 and 0.7 mol of X per 1 mol of Y, and in which Y denotes the residues of 1,10-decanediamine, Ar denotes the residues of terephthalic acid, X denotes the residue of aminoundecanoic acid NH2—(CH2)10—COOH, the unit Y,I residue from the condensation of the diamine (Y) with isophthalic acid, wherein said composition is a flexible semiaromatic copolyamide; B) 0.5 to 40% (preferably 7 to 30%) of at least one product chosen from plasticizers, nanofillers, polyolefins, crosslinked polyolefins and additives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Philippe Blondel, Thierry Briffaud, Annett Linemann, Helene Egret, Pierre Nogues
  • Patent number: 7388048
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible semiaromatic polyamide composition with a low moisture uptake comprising, by weight, the total being 100: 60 to 99.5% (preferably 70 to 93%) of at least one copolyamide of formula X/Y,Ar in which: Y denotes the residues of an aliphatic diamine having from 8 to 20 carbon atoms, Ar denotes the residues of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid, X denotes either the residues of aminoundecanoic acid NH2—(CH2)10—COOH, of lactam-12 or of the corresponding amino acid, or X denotes the unit Y,x, residue from the condensation of the diamine with an aliphatic diacid (x) having between 8 and 20 carbon atoms, or X denotes the unit Y,I, residue from the condensation of the diamine with isophthalic acid, ?0.5 to 40% (preferably 7 to 30%) of at least one product chosen from plasticizers, nanofillers, polyolefins, crosslinked polyolefins and additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Philippe Blondel, Thierry Briffaud, Annett Linemann, Helene Egret, Pierre Nogues