Patents Issued in July 16, 2019
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Patent number: 10351642Abstract: A method of curing a free-radically polymerizable composition includes contacting a curable composition with at least one metal oxide selected from the group consisting of magnesium oxide, ferrous metal oxides, aluminum oxide, nickel oxide, silver oxide, and combinations thereof. The curable composition includes: free-radically polymerizable compound; and a beta-dicarbonyl compound represented by the formula (I) or a salt thereof, wherein: X1 and X2 independently represent a covalent bond, wherein each R4 independently represents H or alkyl having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms; R1 and R2 independently represent a hydrocarbyl or substituted-hydrocarbyl group having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, and R3 represents hydrogen, or a hydrocarbyl or substituted-hydrocarbyl group having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, or taken together any two of R1, R2, or R3 form a five-membered or six-membered ring; an organic peroxide; and a quaternary ammonium halide. Articles including the cured compositions are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventor: Zachary J. Thompson
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Patent number: 10351643Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide polymerizable compounds having excellent optical characteristics and suited as materials for optically anisotropic articles, compositions containing the polymerizable compounds, polymers obtained by polymerizing the polymerizable compounds, optically anisotropic articles formed of the polymers, and liquid crystal display devices including the optically anisotropic articles.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: DIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Hasebe, Yoshio Aoki, Kunihiko Kotani, Akihiro Koiso, Hidetoshi Nakata
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Patent number: 10351644Abstract: Novel antiviral means is disclosed. The antiviral agent of the present invention comprises as an effective ingredient particles having a particle diameter of not more than 5 ?m, wherein said particles are polymer particles whose repeat unit comprises a structure represented by a particular general formula, and wherein said particles do not contain an antiviral active component. The polymer particles are preferably cyanoacrylate polymer particles. The antiviral agent of the present invention shows adhesiveness to the surface (especially envelope) of virus particles, and destroys a normal virus particle structure to reduce or eliminate infectivity of the virus particles. Sanitary articles such as masks comprising the antiviral agent of the present invention can exert an excellent effect on prevention of infection with viruses such as influenza virus that occurs through droplet infection or airborne infection.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Inventor: Shoichi Shirotake
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Patent number: 10351645Abstract: A copolymer having a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound and a structural unit derived from an ?-olefin having 3 to 8 carbon atoms, wherein the copolymer has a melting point within a temperature range of 0 to 10° C. and has a fusion enthalpy of 5 J/g or more as measured on a differential scanning calorimeter under the following conditions. Conditions: (1) cooling from 200° C. to ?150° C. at a rate of 10° C./min; (2) retaining at ?150° C. for 1 minute; and (3) heating from ?150° C. to 200° C. at a rate of 20° C./min.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: JSR CORPORATIONInventors: Takuo Sone, Shouichi Matsumoto, Ayumi Watanabe, Ayumi Hara
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Patent number: 10351646Abstract: The instant invention provides a polyolefin composition and method of producing the same. The olefin polymerization process according to the present invention comprises contacting one or more olefinic monomers with a biphenylphenolic polymerization catalyst under polymerization conditions and in the presence of one or more treated aluminum-based scavengers in a polymerization reactor, wherein said one or more treated aluminum-based scavengers comprise the reaction product of an alkylaluminum or an aluminoxane specie with a compound of the general Formula (I): wherein X is O, N, or S and R is alkyl, aryl, heteroalkyl, heteroaryl, or hydrogen, wherein n=1 if X is O or S and n=1 if X is N, and wherein at least one R is not a hydrogen; Rn—X—H (I); thereby producing a polyolefin composition which comprises less than 50% of the oligomer level of a polyolefin composition produced in an olefin polymerization process in the presence of said one or more untreated aluminum-based scavengers.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Philip P. Fontaine, Susan G. Brown, Andrew J. Young, David M. Pearson, Edmund M. Carnahan
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Patent number: 10351647Abstract: This invention relates to a process to polymerize olefins by contacting one or more olefins with a catalyst system comprising an organoaluminum treated layered silicate support, and a bridged metallocene compound and obtaining a polyolefin having a g?vis of 0.90 or more and an MIR of 30 or less.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Matthew W. Holtcamp, Gregory S. Day, Laughlin G. McCullough, David F. Sanders
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Patent number: 10351648Abstract: A method for preparing a zwitterionic co-polymer comprising the steps of: a) providing a solution of at least one ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable zwitterionic monomer dissolved in a solvent; b) combining said solution of zwitterionic monomer with at least one co-monomer being selected from cationic, anionic and non-ionic ethylenically unsaturated monomers; c) polymerizing the zwitterionic monomer and said at least one co-monomer in the presence of said solvent to form a solution or dispersion of co-polymer; and, d) replacing at least part of said solvent with a further solvent in which said co-polymer shows sufficient solubility to form a solution of said co-polymer in that further solvent. Step b) and step c) of this method may be performed sequentially or concurrently.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: AKZO NOBEL COATINGS INTERNATIONAL B.V.Inventor: Ian Stuart Millichamp
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Patent number: 10351649Abstract: A composition is described comprising a polymer. The polymer comprises polymerized units derived from a cleavable crosslinking monomer. The cleavable crosslinking monomer comprises at least two free-radically polymerizable groups and at least one group having the formula —O—C(R2)(R3)—O—, wherein R2 and R3 are independently hydrogen, alkyl, or aryl. The composition has a Tg no greater than 50° C. In some embodiments, the composition has a storage modulus greater than 3×105 Pa at 25° C. and 1 Hz and may be characterized as a non-tacky polymer. In other embodiments, the composition is a pressure sensitive adhesive. Upon cleavage of at least a portion of the polymerized monomeric units derived from the cleavable crosslinking monomer, the composition exhibits a change in at least one physical property. In another embodiment, the composition comprises a polymer and fragments. The fragments comprise the reaction product of a free-radically polymerizable group bonded to a polymer chain and a pendent hydroxyl group.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Jason D. Clapper, Dennis E. Vogel, Ann R. H. Fornof, Babu N. Gaddam
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Patent number: 10351650Abstract: The present invention is a method for producing a conjugated diene random copolymer comprising polymerizing at least a conjugated diene monomer using a living radical polymerization method to produce a conjugated diene polymer that comprises a halogen atom at a terminal of a polymer chain, a living radical polymerization reaction being initiated using a copper salt, a multidentate ligand that comprises a nitrogen atom having an sp2 hybridized orbital as a coordinating atom, and an organic halide, to produce the conjugated diene polymer having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 1,000 to 1,000,000 and a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of less than 2.0. The present invention provides a method for efficiently and inexpensively producing a conjugated diene polymer that includes a halogen atom at the terminal of the polymer chain, and has the desired molecular weight and a narrow molecular weight distribution.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: ZEON CORPORATIONInventor: Fumiaki Bando
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Patent number: 10351651Abstract: A imprint material is provided, and a film that is prepared from the material and to which the pattern is transferred. An imprint material including: (A), (B), (C) and (D) components; a ratio of the amount of the (B) component to a total amount of the (A) component and the (B) component of 100% by mass is 5% by mass or more and 25% by mass or less: (A) a silsesquioxane compound having a repeating unit of Formula (1) and having two or more polymerizable groups of X0 in Formula (1); (B) a silicone compound having a repeating unit of Formula (2) and having two polymerizable groups at ends thereof; (C) a photopolymerization initiator; and (D) a solvent wherein the formulae, R1 and R2 are each independently a C1-3 alkyl group; R0 is a C1-3 alkylene group; and k is an integer of 0 to 3.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Junpei Kobayashi, Taku Kato, Keisuke Shuto, Masayoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 10351652Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing polymeric carbodiimides by addition of cesium salts and to polymeric carbodiimides produced by this process and to the use thereof as a hydrolysis inhibitor, especially in polyurethane (PU)-based systems, preferably thermoplastic TPU, PU adhesives, PU casting resins, PU elastomers or PU foams.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: LANXESS Deutschland GmbHInventors: Wilhelm Laufer, Oliver Herd, Rolf Sperber
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Patent number: 10351653Abstract: A method of making a silyl-terminated polyurethane in an aqueous dispersion aqueous silyl-terminated polyurethane dispersions are described. In one embodiment, the polyurethane comprises a) urethane moieties derived from the reaction of a (i) a diol; (ii) a neutralized anionic water solubilizing compound; and iii) a diisocyanate. The polyurethane also comprises b) silyl terminal groups derived from an alkoxy silane compound having the formula (R3O)3SiR4—Z, wherein R3 is independently hydrogen or a C1-C4 alkyl; R4 is a divalent group selected from alkylene, alkylarylene, oxyalkylene; and Z is selected from the group consisting of —OH, —SH, —NR, —NH2, wherein R is an aromatic or aliphatic cyclic group. The polyurethane also comprises c) urea moieties derived from the reaction of an isocyanate terminated prepolymer and a difunctional hydrazine or hydrazide compound.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Yongshang Lu, Jon P. Nietfeld, Susan M. Endle, Richard G. Hansen, Suresh Iyer
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Patent number: 10351654Abstract: The present invention encompasses polyurethane compositions comprising aliphatic polycarbonate chains. In one aspect, the present invention encompasses polyurethane foams, thermoplastics and elastomers derived from aliphatic polycarbonate polyols and polyisocyanates wherein the polyol chains contain a primary repeating unit having a structure: In another aspect, the invention provides articles comprising the inventive foam and elastomer compositions as well as methods of making such compositions.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Saudi Aramco Technologies CompanyInventors: Scott D. Allen, Wayne R. Willkomm
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Patent number: 10351655Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyurethane dispersion comprising particles of a polyurethane dispersed in a dispersing medium, wherein the polyurethane is obtainable by reacting a polyol and an isocyanate, wherein the polyol comprises at least one dimer fatty residue selected from a dimer fatty diacid residue, a dimer fatty diol residue and a dimer fatty diamine residue; and at least one furan dicarboxylic acid residue. The invention also relates to a coating composition comprising the polyurethane dispersion, a polyol for making the polyurethane dispersion, the use of the polyol and a method of making the polyurethane.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: CRODA INTERNATIONAL PLCInventors: Wilhelmus Adrianus Jacobus Honcoop, Remco Benjamin Van Triet, Angela Leonarda Maria Smits
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Patent number: 10351656Abstract: The present invention relates to a silylated polyurethane obtainable by a process comprising the step of contacting at least one isocyanate with at least one isocyanate-reactive compound and with at least one aminosilane; wherein said at least one isocyanate comprises 2,4?-methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, and wherein said at least one isocyanate comprises less than 50.0% by weight of said 2,4?-methylene diphenyl diisocyanate based on the total weight of said at least one isocyanate. The present invention also relates to a process for preparing said silylated polyurethane. The present invention also relates to formulations and compositions comprising said silylated polyurethane, and the use thereof for the preparation of adhesives, coatings, sealants, elastomers, or foams.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLCInventors: Servaas Holvoet, Christopher Phanopoulos, Fabrice Desesquelles
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Patent number: 10351657Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a polyester polyol having favorable reactivity and a favorable color tone, which can be used for obtaining a polyurethane having an excellent balance of flexibility, mechanical strength, and chemical resistance, and a method for producing the polyester polyol. The object can be achieved with a polyester polyol in which an aliphatic diol contains as a structural unit 1,10-decanediol derived from a biomass resource, and in which the aldehyde body content in the polyester polyol is 0.01 to 0.5% by weight, and a method for producing the polyester polyol.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshikazu Kanamori, Shigeki Nitta, Kaori Yano, Takayuki Aoshima, Yuta Hioki
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Patent number: 10351658Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a biomass-resource-derived polyurethane, which comprises: reacting a dicarboxylic acid and an aliphatic diol to produce a polyester polyol; and reacting the polyester polyol and a polyisocyanate compound, wherein the dicarboxylic acid contains at least one component derived from biomass resources, a content of an organic acid in the dicarboxylic acid is more than 0 ppm and not more than 1,000 ppm relative to the dicarboxylic acid, and a pKa value of the organic acid at 25° C. is not more than 3.7.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Teruhiko Ohara, Naoki Suzuki, Yasuko Nakajima, Hiroto Itou, Takayuki Aoshima, Naoki Sugai, Takanao Matsumoto
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Patent number: 10351659Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a polyurethane foam, a refrigerator including the same, and a method of manufacturing polyurethane foam. According with the present inventions, a refrigerator, comprising a polyurethane foam formed of a composition for preparing polyurethane, includes a cabinet; a door configured to open and close the cabinet; and a thermal insulation disposed in at least one of the cabinet and the door, wherein the thermal insulation includes a polyurethane foam-forming polyol system comprising a fiber having hydroxyl groups; and isocyanate.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong Ryul Choi, In Yeol Kim, Jae-Kyum Kim, Won Jang, Young Sung Jung
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Patent number: 10351660Abstract: A phenolic resin composition and an epoxy resin composition from which a cured epoxy resin having excellent heat resisting properties and a low dielectric constant can be produced. The phenolic resin composition contains a modified phenolic resin and a tetrakisphenolethane compound, the modified phenolic resin being prepared by condensation of a cyclic hydrocarbon compound having two or more unsaturated bonds and a compound having a phenolic hydroxyl group, in which the content of the tetrakisphenolethane compound is 3% to 60% by mass with respect to the total content of the modified phenolic resin and the tetrakisphenolethane compound. The epoxy resin composition is prepared by epoxidizing the phenolic resin composition. The cured epoxy resin is prepared by allowing the epoxy resin composition to react with a hardener.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: JFE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuya Takemura
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Patent number: 10351661Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of preparing an aminimide. An epoxy compound is reacted with a hydrazine compound comprising a trivalent nitrogen, and an anhydride functional material or a cyclic compound containing a carbonyl group and at least one heteroatom alpha to the carbonyl group at a temperature greater than 20° C. to form the aminimide. At least one of the epoxy compound and the anhydride functional material or the cyclic compound is polymeric.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Hongying Zhou, Masayuki Nakajima, Shanti Swarup, Tien-Chieh Chao
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Patent number: 10351662Abstract: This invention provides, among others, curing agents of Formula II, methods for preparing these curing agents, prepreg materials, degradable cross-linked polymers and reinforced composites made from these curing agents and epoxy resins, and methods for degrading and/or recycling the degradable polymers and reinforced composites.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Adesso Advanced Materials Wuhu Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bing Qin, Xin Li, Bo Liang
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Patent number: 10351663Abstract: Provided is a curable composition which has excellent thin-film curability and which can form, via the application of light and/or heat, a cured product having heat resistance and thermal yellowing resistance at excellent levels. This curable composition contains cationically curable compounds and a cationic-polymerization initiator. The cationically curable compounds include an epoxy compound (A) in an amount of 10 to 90 weight percent of the total weight of the cationically curable compounds, and an oxetane compound (B) in an amount of 5 to 40 weight percent of the total weight of the cationically curable compounds. The cationic-polymerization initiator includes an onium borate salt (C). The onium borate salt (C) preferably has an anionic moiety selected from [(C6H5)B(C6F5)3]?, [(C6H5)B((CF3CF2)2C6H2F)3]?, and [(C6H5C6H4)B(C6F5)3]? and a cationic moiety selected from arylsulfonium ions.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Fujikawa, Takashi Kubo
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Patent number: 10351664Abstract: The present invention is a resin formed article comprising a hydrogenated syndiotactic crystalline dicyclopentadiene ring-opening polymer with an initial melting temperature of 260° C. or higher, a melting point of lower than 280° C. and a syndiotacticity of higher than 90%, and a resin film, and an injection formed article. One aspect of the invention provides a resin formed article, a resin film and an injection formed article which sufficiently reflect the properties of the hydrogenated crystalline dicyclopentadiene ring-opening polymer.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: ZEON CORPORATIONInventors: Masatsugu Kato, Shigetaka Hayano
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Patent number: 10351665Abstract: This invention relates to compositions and methods for increasing the crystallization rate and/or processing speed of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) polymers. PHA polymers are notorious for slow crystallization rates, reducing the practicality for using PHA for consumer products. Compounds that have similar crystal structures to PHA and have a melting point higher than that of the PHA, such as pentaerythritol, as well as compounds that undergo a crystal structure change at or below the melting point of the polymer, such as sulfur or selenium, act as good crystal nucleators for PHA.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Meredian Bioplastics, Inc.Inventors: Rachelle Arnold, Adam Johnson
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Patent number: 10351666Abstract: A catalytic composition for preparing a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin is provided. The catalytic composition comprises a polycondensation catalyst and cesium tungsten oxide (CsxWO3-yCly), and 0<x?1 and 0?y?0.5. A PET resin prepared by the catalytic composition above is also provided. The PET resin comprises 2-80 ppm of cesium tungsten oxide. This catalytic composition can solve the problems of slow solid-state polymerization rate of the PET preparation and thus the long preparation time, as well as yellowing. Moreover, the PET resin can absorb infrared radiation.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignees: Almighty Green Material Inc., Chung How Paint Factory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wen-Ting Wang, Sung-Jeng Jong, Pao-Tang Chung
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Patent number: 10351667Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a non-colored polyester with a high molecular weight. The method is to produce a polyester represented by a general formula (2). This method comprises: a first step of heating, under the presence of an antimony catalyst, a compound represented by the general formula (1) at a heating temperature in a range of from a melting point of the compound to a temperature that is 10° C. higher than the melting point; and a second step of heating a solid product or viscous product obtained after the first step at a heating temperature in a range of from the melting point of the compound represented by the general formula (1) to 270° C.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: RIKENInventors: Koichiro Tachibana, Hideki Abe
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Patent number: 10351668Abstract: A process for reducing diethylene glycol formation in polyethylene terephthalate includes (a) subjecting a mixture of bis(2-hydroxyethyl)terephthalate with aromatic polycarboxylic acid to an esterification reaction, and (b) subjecting the esterification reaction product to polycondensation.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Far Eastern New Century CorporationInventors: Der-Ren Hwang, Cheng-Ting Wang, Hsiao-Chan Wang
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Patent number: 10351669Abstract: The present invention relates to (per)fluoropolyether (PFPE) amino derivatives, a method for their manufacturing and their uses.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: SOLVAY SPECIALTY POLYMERS ITALY S.P.A.Inventors: Pier Antonio Guarda, Rosaldo Picozzi, Giovanni Simeone
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Patent number: 10351670Abstract: An aromatic polyketone including, in a structural unit, at least one alicyclic skeleton and at least one carbon atom bound by two rotatable single bonds, or an aromatic polyketone including a structural unit represented by the following Formula (1), the following Formula (2), or the following Formula (4), and a structural unit represented by the following Formula (5) is provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Nanako Mizuguchi, Hiroshi Matsutani, Satoshi Asaka, Misao Inaba, Katsuya Maeyama
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Patent number: 10351671Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing semi-aromatic copolyamides with a high diamine excess in the reaction batch.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Axel Wilms, Christian Schmidt, Florian Richter, Joachim Clauss, Gad Kory, Stefan Schwiegk, Arnold Schneller
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Patent number: 10351672Abstract: A polymer compound is formed by condensing a polyacrylic acid, a polyfunctional amine represented by the following general formula (1), and an aromatic monoamine. A chain structure constituted by the polyacrylic acid has free carboxyl groups and carboxyl groups to which the aromatic monoamines are bonded. Y is a straight-chain alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a phenylene group, or an oxygen atom. R1 and R2 are each independently one or more hydrogen atoms, a methyl group, an ethyl group, a trifluoromethyl group, or a methoxy group.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Yuta Nakagawa, Yusuke Sugiyama
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Patent number: 10351673Abstract: Provided are a block polyamide acid imide having an appropriate solubility in aqueous alkaline solutions, and block polyimides that are obtained using same and have high transparency and a low coefficient of linear thermal expansion (low CTE). The block polyimide comprises blocks configured from repeating structural units represented by defined formula (1A) and blocks configured from repeating structural units represented by defined formula (1B).Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Kenichi Fukukawa, Masaki Okazaki, Yoshihiro Sakata, Tatsuhiro Urakami, Atsushi Okubo
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Patent number: 10351674Abstract: Sulfur-containing polymeric particles having a high sulfur content can be prepared using emulsion polymerization. The sulfur-containing polymeric particles are useful in aerospace coatings and sealants.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: PRC-DeSoto International, Inc.Inventors: Amy Liane Toolis, Lawrence G. Anderson
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Patent number: 10351675Abstract: The present disclosure relates to injectable compositions and methods of making injectable compositions of moisture curing siloxane polymers for forming accommodating intraocular lenses. In certain embodiments, the moisture curing siloxane polymers are comprised of an organosilicon compound and a hydrolytically sensitive siloxane moiety and have a specific gravity of greater than about 0.95, a number average molecular weight (Mn) greater than about 5,000 or about 20,000 and a weight average molecular weight (Mw) greater than about 20,000 or about 40,000. The disclosure includes accommodating intraocular lenses formed from moisture curing siloxane polymers and having a modulus of elasticity of less than about 6 kPa, less than 20% post-cure extractables, refractive index ranging from 1.4 to 1.5 and dioptric range of accommodation of 0D to 10D.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Adventus Technology, Inc.Inventors: Jason Watling, Stephen Clarke, Kim-Anh Thi Nguyen, Tony Aitchison, Elda Markovic, Anton Blencowe, Chun Kit Lo
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Patent number: 10351676Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing amino acid group-containing organosilicon compounds (O), wherein the epoxy group-bearing organosilicon compounds are reacted with a stoichiometric excess of amino acids or the salts thereof in the presence of an alcohol.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Wacker Chemie AGInventors: Elke Fritz-Langhals, Richard Weidner
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Patent number: 10351677Abstract: A graphene-containing composite material comprises components of a composite functional material with a double-conductive channel and a polymer matrix. The composite functional material with a double-conductive channel is sulfonated graphene surface grafted conductive polymer poly-3,4-(ethylenedioxythiophene). The composite functional material with a double-conductive channel and the graphene-containing composite material can be used for preparing a piezoresistance response material or an antistatic or electromagnetic shielding material and the like, and have excellent piezoresistance response, piezoresistance repeatability and electromagnetic shielding effect. The present invention is simple and easy to operate, can be used in large scale production, has excellent piezoresistance performance and very sensitive piezoresistance response, with the percolation threshold being only 0.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING SCIENCEInventors: Chao Zhou, Sihao Chen, Jianzhong Lou
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Patent number: 10351678Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include organic polymeric particles, paper coating compositions, coated paper, and methods of forming coated paper with the paper coating compositions. The embodiments of the organic polymeric particle include an organic hydrophilic polymer with a unit for hydrogen bonding, and a hollow porous structure that comprises an organic polymer that at least partially surrounds the organic hydrophilic polymer, where the hollow porous structure has a pore surface area greater than 1 percent of a total theoretical exterior surface area of the hollow porous structure and the organic hydrophilic polymer and the hollow porous structure give the organic polymeric particle a void volume fraction of 40 percent to 85 percent.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: OMNOVA Solutions Inc.Inventors: David J. Brennan, John P. Kelly, Brian J. Ninness, James G. Galloway, Alan B. Chaput, Jr., John A. Roper, III, John D. Oates
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Patent number: 10351679Abstract: A process produces a polymer composition (A) containing a styrene copolymer (a) and an impact modifier (b), comprising a copolymer (b1) as graft base and a graft (b2), where the steps of the process are: (1) providing a crosslinked copolymer (b1) made of: (b11) from 70 to 99.99% by weight of a conjugated diene or acrylate, (b12) from 0 to 29% by weight of another comonomer, (b13) from 0 to 10% by weight of crosslinking monomers, and (b14) from 0.01 to 0.7% by weight of a chain-transfer reagent; (2) applying, to the copolymer (b1), at least one graft (b2) comprising: (b21) from 65 to 95% by weight of a vinylaromatic monomer, (b22) from 5 to 35% by weight of acrylonitrile and/or methacrylonitrile, and (b23) from 0 to 30% by weight of monoethylenically unsaturated monomers, thus providing the impact modifier (b); (3) mixing the styrene copolymer (a) and the impact modifier (b), and thus leads to improved mechanical properties of the polymer composition (A).Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: INEOS STYROLUTION GROUP GMBHInventors: Brian J. Banaszak, Roland Walker, Libor Seda, Johannes Barth, Gisbert Michels, Nikolaus Nestle
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Patent number: 10351680Abstract: A formed body having a layer of a resin composition constituted by a thermoplastic resin and a barrier resin, wherein the layer of the resin composition forms, in a matrix of the thermoplastic resin, a layer structure in which the barrier resin is dispersed in the form of a lamellar dispersion phase stretching in one direction; and the ratio (a)/(b) of an aspect ratio (a) of the dispersion phase of the barrier resin near the surfaces of the layer and an aspect ratio (b) of the dispersion phase of the barrier resin in the central portion in the direction of thickness of the layer, is not more than 2.0. The formed body has the layer of the resin composition constituted by the thermoplastic resin and the barrier resin, and has a dispersion structure capable of exhibiting excellent barrier property despite of the single layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignees: NIPPON CLOSURES CO., LTD., TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.Inventors: Yuhei Yonekawa, Daisuke Tsuchimoto, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Takayuki Ishihara
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Patent number: 10351682Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a composite molded article having a flexural modulus at 150° C. of 25% or more of a flexural modulus at 23° C., including the steps of (1) placing glass fibers in a mold; (2) impregnating glass fibers with a polymerizable composition containing a cycloolefin monomer, a metathesis polymerization catalyst, a radical generator, and a compound represented by the general formula (I); (3) subjecting the above polymerizable composition with which the glass fibers are impregnated to a bulk polymerization to provide a composite molded article; and (4) demolding the composite molded article; and a composite molded article obtained by the above method. According to the method of the present invention, a composite molded article containing glass fibers, the composite molded article having excellent mechanical strength can be produced.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: RIMTEC CORPORTIONInventor: Masaki Takeuchi
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Patent number: 10351683Abstract: A method of making a carbon fiber having on its surface a partially cured sizing agent, the method comprising covalently binding on the surface of said carbon fiber a sizing agent comprised of an epoxy resin, and partially curing said sizing agent by contact thereof with a curing agent such that at least a portion of epoxide groups remain uncrosslinked on said surface, which corresponds to a curing degree of epoxide groups of no more than about 0.6, and further comprising reacting at least a portion of said epoxide groups with a bifunctional molecule that contains first and second reactive groups, the first reactive group being reactive with and forming a covalent bond with the epoxy group, and the second reactive group being unsaturated and accessible for reaction with a carbon-carbon double bond of an unsaturated resin via a vinyl addition reaction.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: UT-BATTELLE, LLCInventors: Frederic Vautard, Soydan Ozcan, Felix Leonard Paulauskas
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Patent number: 10351684Abstract: An ion exchange membrane includes: a cation exchange resin material; and a macromolecular material that has an acidic functional group and is mixed in the cation exchange resin material.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki Nagai, Takehisa Ishida, Yusaku Kato
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Patent number: 10351685Abstract: The present invention provides a water-soluble packaging film which is capable of inhibiting roll contamination, which has favorable unwinding properties to pass through processing steps smoothly, thereby improving the productivity, and which has enhanced water solubility, chemical resistance, visibility, and packaging properties. The present invention relates to a water-soluble packaging film including: polyvinyl alcohol; a plasticizer; and starch, the starch being applied to a front surface and a rear surface of the water-soluble packaging film, the starch being applied in an amount of 0.001 to 0.10 g per 1 m2 of the water-soluble packaging film, the water-soluble packaging film having a contact angle with distilled water measured by the sessile-drop method of 20° to 50°.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuyuki Ieda, Shintaro Moriguchi
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Patent number: 10351686Abstract: A method of forming a modified thermoplastic structure for a down-hole application comprises forming a thermoplastic structure comprising at least one thermoplastic material formulated for crosslinking using an electron beam process. The thermoplastic structure is exposed to at least one electron beam to crosslink polymer chains of the thermoplastic structure. Other methods of forming a modified thermoplastic structure, and a down-hole tool are also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Michal Benes, Jiaxiang Ren
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Patent number: 10351687Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition suitable for production of rigid polyurethane or polyisocyanurate foams, said composition comprising at least one isocyanate component, at least one polyol component, at least one foam stabilizer, at least one urethane and/or isocyanurate catalyst, optionally water and/or blowing agent, and optionally at least one flame retardant and/or further additives, which comprises at least two different varieties 1 and 2 of polyether siloxanes as foam stabilizers, and to the use of this composition for production of foamed polyurethane or polyisocyanurate materials, preferably rigid foams.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Jorg Diendorf, Raymond M. Geiling, III, Christian Eilbracht, Michael Ferenz
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Patent number: 10351688Abstract: Polyethylene resin foamed particles are obtained by foaming polyethylene resin particles containing a base resin. The base resin is a linear polyethylene resin. The polyethylene resin particles have a storage elastic modulus of 900 Pa or more and 5000 Pa or less at an angular frequency of 1 rad/second and a storage elastic modulus of 100000 Pa or less at an angular frequency of 100 rad/second, in a dynamic viscoelasticity measurement at 190° C. A differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) curve obtained by heating the polyethylene resin foamed particles using a differential scanning calorimeter at a temperature rising speed of 10° C./minute within a range of 20° C. to 220° C. has two melting peaks of a melting peak on a low temperature side and a melting peak on a high temperature side.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro Itoi
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Patent number: 10351689Abstract: A process for forming voided latex particles is improved by combining swelling and polymerization of an outer shell into a single step. The process includes contacting multi-stage emulsion polymer particles comprising a core, at least one intermediate shell, with a swelling agent, and polymerizing an outer shell after said contacting with swelling agent wherein the core and the at least one intermediate shell are contacted with swelling agent in the presence of less than 0.5% monomer based on the weight of the multi-stage emulsion polymer particles, and substantially all of the swelling occurs during polymerization of the outer shell.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Arkema Inc.Inventors: Lily Liu, Wayne Devonport, Daniel Edward Stark, Matthew F. Boudreaux
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Patent number: 10351690Abstract: A plasticizer composition for mastics, plastisols and adhesives is disclosed. The plasticizer includes at least one hydrocarbon-containing cut or a cut originating from biomass conversion and at least one fatty acid monoester. The plasticizer is free of phthalates.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Total Marketing ServicesInventors: Franck Bardin, Thorsten Bauer
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Patent number: 10351691Abstract: The present invention relates to the thermal stabilization of halogen containing polymer compositions. More particularly the invention relates to a tin stabilizer composition for chlorine containing polymers, and more specifically a composition comprising a mono alkyltin compound as major compound of the tin stabilizer composition and a co-stabilizer. The present invention relates as well to the use of a mono alkyl tin compound as major compound of the tin stabilizer and a co-stabilizer as heat stabilizers for processing chlorine containing polymer composition.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: PMC ORGANOMETALLIX, INC.Inventors: Anne Chabrol, Isabelle Tartarin, Berth Jan Deelman
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Patent number: 10351692Abstract: The disclosure relates to oxygen scavenging molecules, compositions, methods of making the compositions, articles prepared from the compositions, and methods of making the articles. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Plastipak Packaging, Inc.Inventors: Shenshen Li, Matthew J. Dauzvardis