Patents Issued in August 20, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200262930
    Abstract: This invention relates to selective inhibition of inflammation using an anti-YKL-40 antibody. Specifically, the invention relates to methods of treating an inflammatory disease or inflammatory disorder in an individual by contacting the individual with an anti-YKL-40 antibody.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Geoffrey Chupp, Lauren Cohn
  • Publication number: 20200262931
    Abstract: An apparatus can include a processor that can receive location data from a user device, and store the location data in a user profile data structure also storing facial recognition data. The processor can also receive at least one image, and can identify a location based at least in part on a set of characteristics within the at least one image. The processor can, for each user profile data structure stored in a database, compare location data in that user profile data structure to the location. The processor can, when the location data of the user profile data structure and the location match, conduct facial recognition to determine whether the user associated with the user profile data structure can be identified in the at least one image. The processor can then associate the at least one image with the user profile data structure if the user can be identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: 15 Seconds of Fame, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam RESNICK, Ruslan SABITOV, Brett JOSHPE
  • Publication number: 20200262932
    Abstract: Novel heterodimeric antibody-Fc-containing proteins, such as bispecific antibodies, and novel methods for producing such proteins
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Aran Frank LABRIJN, Joyce I. MEESTERS, Ewald T. J. VAN DEN BREMER, Joost J. NEIJSSEN, Patrick VAN BERKEL, Bart DE GOEIJ, Tom VINK, Jan VAN DE WINKEL, Janine SCHUURMAN, Paul PARREN
  • Publication number: 20200262933
    Abstract: Provided is cellulose acetate with which a hollow fiber membrane having excellent salt rejection and water permeability can be produced. The cellulose acetate, in which a total content of calcium and magnesium is 2.8 to 3.5 ?mol/g; a 6 percent viscosity is 40 to 80 mPa?s; a degree of filtration Kw is 35 g?1 or less; a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn is 3.00 or less; and a degree of acetylation is 61.3 to 62.3%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohiro OYAMADA, Akihiro HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200262934
    Abstract: A methyl ethyl hydroxyalkyl cellulose (MEHEC), process for making the MEHEC, and a powder containing the MEHEC are disclosed. The MEHEC is provided with a DSmethyl from 1.5 to 2.5, a DSethyl from 0.005 to 0.15, and a MSalkylene-oxide from 0.005 to 0.2. The methyl ethyl hydroxyalkyl cellulose optionally includes an anti-oxidant. The MEHEC optionally does not have a combination of a DSmethyl of 2.2 or 1.8, a DSethyl of 0.05 or 0.1, and a MSalkylene-oxide of 0.1 and does not have a combination of a DSmethyl of 2.5 or 2.0, a DSethyl of 0.1, and a MSalkylene-oxide of 0.05. The MEHEC has very good biostability and is suitable for use in the building industry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: NOURYON CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V.
    Inventors: Leif Magnus Joakim ANGER, Kjell STRIDH, Lars Erik BERGLUND, Alexander ZAPF
  • Publication number: 20200262935
    Abstract: A methodology useful for predicting the texture of a heated starch suspension by predicting the storage modulus (G?) of the starch suspension resulting from starch granule swelling during heating has been developed. The methodology is based on the physical properties of the starch granules in the starch suspension and the temperature history of the heated starch suspension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Ganesan Narsimhan, Gnana Prasuna Desam, Jinsha Li, Vivek Narsimhan
  • Publication number: 20200262936
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to charge-bearing polymeric materials and methods of their use for purifying fluid samples from micropollutants, such as anionic micropollutants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Gokhan BARIN, Jason M. Spruell, Moira Brown, Shan Li
  • Publication number: 20200262937
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for obtaining a high molecular weight chitosan with a lower acetylation degree and its use in human or veterinarian medicine. More specifically, to the obtaining of this biomaterial by means of a simpler process, with reduced energy costs, when compared with conventional procedures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Rita LÓPEZ CEBRAL, Tiago José QUINTEROS LOPES HENRIQUEZ DA SILVA, Joaquim Miguel ANTUNES CORREIA DE OLIVEIRA, Ramón NOVOA CARBALLAL, Rui Luís GONÇALVES DOS REIS
  • Publication number: 20200262938
    Abstract: The disclosure provides hydrogel compositions comprising polysaccharides with repeat units and methods of synthesis and usage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: GUOMING SUN
  • Publication number: 20200262939
    Abstract: This invention provides a preparation, composition, product, and application of a photo-coupled synergistically crosslinked hydrogel material. The preparation includes dissolving Component A including a photosensitive polymer derivative having o-nitrobenzyl phototriggers and Component B including a polymer derivative having amine or alkene (double group) or sulfhydryl group in a biocompatible medium to obtain solution A and solution B, respectively; mixing the solution A and solution B homogeneously to obtain a hydrogel precursor solution; initiating photo-coupled synergistic crosslinking under an irradiation of a UV light to form the hydrogel. The irradiation causes the o-nitrobenzyl phototriggers to generate an aldehyde group/keto group or a nitroso group to initiate photo-coupled synergetic crosslinking. The photo-coupled synergistically crosslinked hydrogel has applications in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, 3D printing and as a carrier of cell, protein or drug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Linyong Zhu, Yujie Hua, Qiuning Lin, Yiqing Zhang, Chunyan BAO, Xuepeng Zhong
  • Publication number: 20200262940
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods of producing glycans from samples containing glycoconjugates using a salt of a hypohalous acid. Methods for producing N-glycans, O-glycans and lipid linked-glycans are provided. Compositions with novel O-glycans or lipid linked-glycans are provided. Methods of producing glycosaminoglycans from samples, particularly animal tissue samples containing proteoglycans, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Xuezheng Song, Richard Cummings, David Fletcher Smith
  • Publication number: 20200262941
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a method of making fluoropolymer dispersions using certain polyfunctional perfluoropolyether derivatives including a plurality of ionisable groups selected from the group consisting of —SO3Xa, —PO3Xa and —COOXa, whereas Xa is H, an ammonium group or a monovalent metal, and whereas said groups are comprised as pendant groups in the perfluoropolyether chain, and to fluoropolymer dispersions therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Marco AVATANEO, Ugo DE PATTO, Giuseppe MARCHIONNI, Mirko TAVANO
  • Publication number: 20200262942
    Abstract: Phosphorus-containing aqueous polymer dispersions and the use thereof as binders in coating formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Quirin Maximilian KAINZ, Ulrich TROMSDORF, Manfred DARGATZ
  • Publication number: 20200262943
    Abstract: Provided are a novel indene-based transition metal complex, a transition metal catalyst composition including the same having high catalyst activity for preparing an ethylene homopolymer or copolymers of ethylene and one or more ?-olefins, a method for preparing an ethylene homopolymer or copolymers of ethylene and ?-olefins using the same, and the thus-prepared ethylene homopolymer or copolymers of ethylene and ?-olefins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Dong-cheol SHIN, Yeonock OH
  • Publication number: 20200262944
    Abstract: Apparatuses and processes that produce multimodal polyolefins, and in particular, polyethylene resins, are disclosed herein. This is accomplished by using two reactors in series, where one of the reactors is a multi-zone circulating reactor that can circulate polyolefin particles through two polymerization zones optionally having two different flow regimes so that the final multimodal polyolefin has improved product properties and improved product homogeneity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Joseph A. CURREN, Rebecca A. GONZALES, Scott E. KUFELD, Joel A. MUTCHLER, Eric J. NETEMEYER, Jamie N. SUTHERLAND, Paul J. DESLAURIERS, Jeffrey S. FODOR
  • Publication number: 20200262945
    Abstract: Apparatuses and processes that produce multimodal polyolefins, and in particular, polyethylene resins, are disclosed herein. This is accomplished by using two reactors in series, where one of the reactors is a multi-zone circulating reactor that can circulate polyolefin particles through two polymerization zones optionally having two different flow regimes so that the final multimodal polyolefin has improved product properties and improved product homogeneity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Joseph A. CURREN, Rebecca A. GONZALES, Scott E. KUFELD, Joel A. MUTCHLER, Eric J. NETEMEYER, Jamie N. SUTHERLAND, Paul J. DESLAURIERS, Jeffrey S. FODOR
  • Publication number: 20200262946
    Abstract: A process forming a high MFR polypropylene includes providing a reactor powder polypropylene, the reactor powder polypropylene having a melt flow rate of less than 100 dg/min. The process also includes mixing the reactor powder polypropylene with a free-radical initiator to form a powder/initiator mixture and subjecting the powder/initiator mixture to post-reactor forming. The present disclosure further provides for a vis-broken polypropylene and a polymer article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Michael McLeod, Russell McDonald, Joe Shuler, Mahesh Patkar, Marc Mayhall
  • Publication number: 20200262947
    Abstract: Described herein are organoborane polymers and methods for the oxidation of these organoborane polymers to poly (vinyl alcohol) PVA. The organoborane polymers of the present invention respond to an external trigger by changing from a hydrophobic to a hydrophilic state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Rebekka Klausen, Heidi Lee VanDeWouw, Jae Young Lee
  • Publication number: 20200262948
    Abstract: Derivatized polyvinyl alcohols and methods for forming derivatized polyvinyl alcohols are described. Methods include incubating a polyvinyl alcohol with a derivatizing agent that includes an isothiocyanate group, upon which the isothiocyanate can spontaneously react with alcohol groups of the polyvinyl alcohol. Functionalization can include addition of detectable labels and/or active groups the polyvinyl alcohol. Derivatized materials can be used in forming products, e.g., particles, films, fibers, that include the added functionality at a surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: R. MICHAEL GOWER, CHRISTOPHER ISELY
  • Publication number: 20200262949
    Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatuses and processes for manufacturing polymers of thiophene, benzothiophene, and their alkylated derivatives. A process for manufacturing polymers that includes isolating a sulfur-containing heterocyclic hydrocarbon from cracked naphtha and reacting the sulfur-containing heterocyclic hydrocarbon with a super acid to produce a polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Abdullah R. AL-MALKI
  • Publication number: 20200262950
    Abstract: A method of selectively transitioning a polymerization process making an ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer in such a way that melt elasticity of the copolymer is substantially changed without changing comonomer and without substantially changing density of the copolymer. A method of compensating a reactor temperature-induced change in melt elasticity with an inverse change in H2/C2 gas molar ratio. Also, use of process control variable(s) to selectively change the melt elasticity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Bo Liu, Mark G. Goode
  • Publication number: 20200262951
    Abstract: An ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer that can be synthesized in a fluidized-bed, gas phase polymerization reactor and made into a blown film. The ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer is characterized by a bubble stability-effective combination of properties comprising density, melt flow ratio (I21/I5), and melt storage modulus G? (G?=3,000 Pa). The synthesis in the FB-GPP reactor is characterized by a property-imparting-effective combination of operating conditions comprising reactor bed temperature and H2/C2 gas molar ratio. An embodiment of the blown film consisting of the ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer is characterized by enhanced bubble stability. A method of making the ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer. A film comprising the ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer. A method of making the film. A manufactured article comprising the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Bo Liu, Mark G. Goode, Ayush A. Bafna, Daniel C. Garska, François Alexandre, Timothy R. Lynn
  • Publication number: 20200262952
    Abstract: The invention provides novel pellets having high fluidity in a hopper of an extruder and capable of forming a coating layer having good wire diameter stability and capacitance stability even when used for rapid molding of electric wire coating. The pellets contain a fluororesin. Each of the pellets, placed on a horizontal surface, has a substantially circular outline or a substantially elliptic outline and has a major axis D1 of 3.1 mm or shorter and a minor axis D2 of 3.1 mm or shorter when observed in the direction normal to the horizontal surface. Each pellet satisfies the following formula (1): (D1+D2)/2L=1.8 to 2.6, wherein D1 represents the major axis, D2 represents the minor axis, and L represents the height from the horizontal surface to the highest point of the pellet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo SAKAKIBARA, Jihong LIU, Yoshiyuki TAKASE, Ryouichi FUKAGAWA, Yosuke SHOJIMA, Yukari KARASAWA, Takeshi SHIMONO
  • Publication number: 20200262953
    Abstract: The present invention relates to copolymers, to a method for the preparation of these copolymers, to the use of these copolymers for reducing wear in a lubricant composition, to lubricant compositions comprising these copolymers, and to the use of these lubricant compositions as an automatic transmission fluid, a continuously variable transmission fluid, an engine oil, a gear oil, or a hydraulic oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Evonik Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Sofia SIRAK, Dmitriy SHAKHVOROSTOV, Ines BERWING, Denise BINGEL
  • Publication number: 20200262954
    Abstract: A method of producing an aqueous polymer composition and a method of reducing yellowing of an aqueous polymer composition and a coating made therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Xiangting Dong, Han Liu, Junyu Chen, Qingwei Zhang, Ling Li, Alvin M. Maurice, Jintao Liu
  • Publication number: 20200262955
    Abstract: A reactive resin includes a vinyl ester resin based on renewable raw materials, in particular a dianhydrohexitol-based vinyl ester resin as the base resin. A reactive resin component containing this reactive resin is useful for chemical fastening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jens Bunzen, Thomas Bürgel, Beate Gnass, Gerald Gaefke, Klaus Jaehnichen, Brigitte Voit
  • Publication number: 20200262956
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a rubber, comprising (co)polymerizing at least one diene monomer and optionally at least one vinylaromatic monomer, and a vinyl-silicone compound, in the presence of a functionalizing lithium initiator, and modifying the obtained (co)polymer by a poly functional silicon-containing agent. The functionalizing lithium initiator is obtained by reacting an organolithium compound, a secondary amine and a diene-containing compound. In addition, the instant inventon relates to rubbers obtained by said method, rubber compositions and vulcanizates based thereon, semi-finished products and tires, comprising such a rubber. The present invention provides obtaining of rubber compositions and vulcanizates based thereon characterized by the improved complex of histeresis properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: PUBLIC JOINT STOCK COMPANY "SIBUR HOLDING"
    Inventors: Alexei Mikhailovich AVERKOV, Svetlana Viktorovna TURENKO
  • Publication number: 20200262957
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing a graft copolymer comprising polyethylene, comprising the steps of: A) providing an ethylene copolymer comprising side chains having C?C bond and B) reacting the ethylene copolymer of step A) with an azide compound in the presence of a catalyst, a free radical initiator or diphenylamine to obtain the graft copolymer, wherein the azide compound is an azide compound having a functional group or a polymer having an azide group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Peter Neuteboom, Jan Nicolaas Eddy Duchateau, Diego Mauricio Castaneda Zuniga, Markus Busch, Sebastian Bruno Fries
  • Publication number: 20200262958
    Abstract: The present invention is a resin component disposed in a path of a beam emitted from a radar equipment, the resin component consisting of a thermoplastic resin composition containing at least one thermoplastic resin selected from a group consisting of a rubbery polymer-reinforced vinyl-based resin wherein a polymer part derived from a rubbery polymer and a vinyl-based resin part containing a structural unit derived from a vinyl-based monomer are chemically bonded, a polyolefin resin, and a polycarbonate resin, and having a dielectric constant of 2.9 or less, and a mold shrinkage rate of 1.2% or less as measured in accordance with JIS K 7152-4. This resin component can be used as a radome and may constitute part of a radar device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Yutaro TAKAHASHI, Shinsuke FUJIOKA
  • Publication number: 20200262959
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds, especially polymeric compounds, having at least one imidazole and/or imidazolium structural unit, a process for preparation thereof and for the use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Evonik Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Conradi, Artjom Maljusch, Harald Rögl
  • Publication number: 20200262960
    Abstract: A block copolymer including a first block consisting of a polymer having a repeating structure of a structural unit (u1) containing no silicon atom, and a second block consisting of a polymer having a repeating structure of a structural unit (u2) containing a silicon atom, the second block containing a block (b21) consisting of a polymer having a repeating structure of a structural unit (u21) represented by general formula (u2-1) shown below, and the volume ratio of the first block, based on all blocks constituting the block copolymer being 42 to 44 vol %: In which RP211 represents an alkyl group, a halogenated alkyl group, a hydrogen atom, or an organic group having a polar group; and RP212 is a group derived from a compound represented by formula SHRt1, wherein Rt1 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms optionally having a substituent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Teruaki HAYAKAWA, Seina YAMAZAKI, Akiyoshi YAMAZAKI, Daisuke KAWANA, Yoshitaka KOMURO, Takaya MAEHASHI, Rin ODASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200262961
    Abstract: A conjugated diene-based rubber including a polymer block (A) containing isoprene monomer unit as the main component and a polymer block (B) containing 1,3-butadiene monomer unit as the main component, wherein at least one of the polymer block (A) and the polymer block (B) contains a unit of a vinyl compound having a functional group interactive with silica, the polymer block (A) has a weight average molecular weight (Mw) in the range of 1,000 to 30,000, and the entire conjugated diene-based rubber has a weight average molecular weight (Mw) in the range of 50,000 to 5,000,000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicants: ZEON CORPORATION, SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED, ZS ELASTOMERS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuro SAKURAI, Takashi IIZUKA, Mana FUJII, Hisakatsu HAMA
  • Publication number: 20200262962
    Abstract: A polyoxymethylene polymer composition is disclosed containing a formaldehyde stabilizer package. The formaldehyde stabilizer package, which contains at least two emission control agents, dramatically and unexpectedly reduces formaldehyde emissions. The formaldehyde stabilizer package includes at least two emission control agents selected from the group of benzoguanamine compounds, a hydantoin, a substituted hydantoin, an amino acid, and an alkylene urea such as ethylene urea.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Sung Hye Kim, Rong Luo, Jared T. Kindt
  • Publication number: 20200262963
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for polyurethane foam produced by blending a polyol containing a polyester polyol and a polyether polyol, tolylene diisocyanate, a foaming agent, and a foam stabilizer, the polyester polyol containing a phthalate ester polyol, the tolylene diisocyanate having a compositional mass ratio (2,4-tolylene diisocyanate/2,6-tolylene diisocyanate) of (65/35) to (70/30). The composition for polyurethane foam can further increase tensile strength and restorability of a polyurethane foam while ensuring low air permeability and excellent toner sealing property of the polyurethane foam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aya HIRATA, Shinya KANZAKI
  • Publication number: 20200262964
    Abstract: An object to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a method for producing an artificial leather on a practically usable level without using an organic solvent and without requiring a crosslinking step for a crosslinking agent. The present invention provides a method for producing an artificial leather having a cured product layer of a moisture-curing urethane hot-melt resin composition, wherein the moisture-curing urethane hot-melt resin composition contains a urethane prepolymer having an isocyanate group and does not contain a crosslinking agent having a hydroxyl group and/or an amino group, the method including applying the moisture-curing urethane hot-melt resin composition to a substrate at a coating weight of 0.03 to 0.5 kg/m2 so as to form a cured product layer of the moisture-curing urethane hot-melt resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Kunihiko KOMATSUZAKI, Shingo TAKEDA, Yoshinori KANAGAWA, Toyokuni FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20200262965
    Abstract: The presently claimed invention relates to a composition comprising polyurethane polymer and diluents, which is used as an additive in coating formulations, in particular water-borne paint and coating formulations, for reducing the effect of the viscosity loss caused by the addition of colorants/pigment pastes thereby improving the viscosity stability in tinted coating formulations as well as the method for preparing the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert REICHARDT, Matthias MAIER, Tim MEISENZAHL
  • Publication number: 20200262966
    Abstract: Disclosed is a moisture curable silane modified terpolymer comprising a polyether segment, a segment of polytetrahydrofuran or polycarbonate, a polysiloxane segment and terminal amino silane groups joined to the terpolymer via urethane linkages and wherein the polyether segment comprises at least 70% by weight based on the total weight of the silane modified terpolymer. Also disclosed is a method of forming moisture curable silane modified terpolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Wu Suen, Andrea Keys Eodice, Claudia Meckel-Jonas, Christina Despotopoulou, Johann Klein
  • Publication number: 20200262967
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical article having a substrate made of an optical material comprising a polymer matrix and at least one near infrared absorber, wherein TVIS is higher than or equal to 70%, TNIR is lower than or equal to 85%, TNIR and TVIS being respectively the average optical transmittance in the 780-1400 nm and in the 380-780 nm wavelength range for the optical material through a 2 mm thick layer of said optical material. This optical article can be used to protect from noxious infrared light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Pierre FROMENTIN
  • Publication number: 20200262968
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new process for preparing polyisocyanates containing isocyanurate groups and being flocculation-stable in solvents from (cyclo)aliphatic diisocyanates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Harald SCHAEFER, Daniel FLOJHAR, Jens SCHEIDEL, Thomas GENGER, Sebastina EMMERLING, Matthias KRONER, Guillermo ARENS
  • Publication number: 20200262969
    Abstract: An epoxy resin, comprising (1) an epoxy compound having two aromatic rings that form a divalent biphenyl structure and mesogenic structures that are bonded to the two aromatic rings, and at least one of the mesogenic structures being bonded to the aromatic ring at an angle with a molecular axis of the divalent biphenyl structure; (2) an epoxy compound having two aromatic rings that form a divalent biphenyl structure and mesogenic structures that are bonded to the two aromatic rings, and at least one of bonding sites of the aromatic ring to the mesogenic structure being at an ortho position or a meta position with respect to a carbon atom that bonds the aromatic rings; or (3) an epoxy compound having a phenylene group and two mesogenic structures that are bonded to the phenylene group at an angle with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoko HIGASHIUCHI, Naoki MARUYAMA, Yuka YOSHIDA, Kazumasa FUKUDA, Yoshitaka TAKEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20200262970
    Abstract: Copolyesters having improved properties based on a diacid component of 4,4?-biphenyl dicarboxylic acid or 3,4?-biphenyl dicarboxylic acid and a mixed diol component, such as 1,4 cyclohexanedimethanol (CHDM) with ethylene glycol or neopentyl glycol (NPG), e.g., poly(4,4?-biphenyl dicarboxylate-(ethylene glycol-co-CHDM)), poly(4,4?-biphenyl dicarboxylate-(NPG-co-CHDM)), poly(3,4?-biphenyl dicarboxylate-(ethylene glycol-co-CHDM)), poly(3,4?-biphenyl dicarboxylate-(NPG-co-CHDM)); methods of making the copolyesters; and shaped articles made of the copolyesters. Also, polyesters based on biphenyl dicarboxylic acid and NPG; methods of making the polyesters; and shaped articles made of the polyesters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Hans Eliot Edling, Haoyu Liu, Ryan J. Mondshein, Timothy E. Long, S. Richard Turner, Ting Chen
  • Publication number: 20200262971
    Abstract: Copolyesters are based on a diacid component containing terephthalate and 4,4?-biphenyl dicarboxylate or 3,4?-biphenyl dicarboxylate, and a diol component containing an alkylene diol, e.g., ethylene glycol or NPG, and an alicyclic polyhydroxyl compound, e.g., CHDM. The copolyesters may have a glass transition temperature more than 100° C. and mechanical, thermal and/or barrier characteristics at least comparable to some commercially available copolyesters. A method to control the morphology and properties of a copolyester involves contacting diacid and diol components in the presence of a catalyst, selecting proportions of terephthalic and 4,4?-biphenyl dicarboxylic or 3,4?-biphenyl dicarboxylic acids or ester producing equivalents thereof in the diacid component, and selecting the alkylene diol and proportions of the CHDM (or other alicyclic polyhydroxyl compound) and the alkylene diol in the diol component, to obtain the desired morphology and other properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Haoyu Liu, Ryan J. Mondschein, Ting Chen, Timothy E. Long, S. Richard Turner
  • Publication number: 20200262972
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes where A includes at least one of a carbon-carbon bond or a bridging group, R includes between 0 and 4 of a first hydrocarbon, and n is between 2 and 3,000. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the bridging group may include a linear hydrocarbon chain and/or a branched hydrocarbon chain. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the bridging group may include between 1 and 10 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Nicholas RORRER, Gregg Tyler BECKHAM, Caroline Bradshaw HOYT, Jared Jon ANDERSON
  • Publication number: 20200262973
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods and systems for producing biodegradable beta-propiolactone-based polyester polymers from renewable EO and CO on an industrial scale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Sadesh H. Sookraj
  • Publication number: 20200262974
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sustained release composition having hyperbranched polymers that are polyesters that are biobased and biodegradable, and that have at least one active ingredient, which composition delivers the active ingredient over time. These active ingredients can be a wide variety of compounds so long as they can covalently bind to the polymer or be encapsulated in the polymer in a manner that is released at the point of delivery, usually by acid hydrolysis or enzymatic bond scission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick B. Smith, Bobby A. Howell, Cuiwei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200262975
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound comprising a hydrophobically modified poly(oxyalkylene-urethane) having a hydrophobic fragment represented by Structure I: where Ar1, Ar2; R1, m, and n are defined herein. The compound of the present invention provides viscosity stability upon tinting for paints containing a hydrophobically modified poly(oxyalkylene-urethane) rheology modifier, more particularly a HEUR rheology modifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: John J. Rabasco, Daniel A. Saucy, Antony K. Van Dyk
  • Publication number: 20200262976
    Abstract: A method for producing a polyamide-4 particle that includes polymerizing 2-pyrrolidone in an aprotic solvent incompatible with 2-pyrrolidone in the presence of a polymerization initiator and a 2-pyrrolidone lithium salt or polymerizing 2-pyrrolidone in an aprotic solvent incompatible with 2-pyrrolidone in the presence of a polymerization initiator, a 2-pyrrolidone lithium salt and a 2-pyrrolidone sodium salt. A volume average particle size of the resulting polyamide-4 particle is 1 ?m to 100 ?m, and a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of the polyamide-4 particle is 1.0 to 5.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON SODA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naohiro FUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200262977
    Abstract: A method of making a polyetherimide includes forming a monomer mixture comprising a bis(ether anhydride), a diamine and a volatile organic solvent; removing the volatile organic solvent to form a particulate solid; and melt polymerizing the particulate solid at a temperature 50 to 225° C. greater than the glass transition temperature of the polyetherimide in a single melt mixing device. The polyetherimide has an anhydride-amine stoichiometry and the standard deviation of anhydride-amine stoichiometry is less than 0.4 mol %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Nitin Vilas Tople, Bernabe Quevedo Sanchez, Juan Justino Rodriguez Ordonez, Javier Nieves Remacha
  • Publication number: 20200262978
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a polyimide polymer that includes the reaction product of: (a) at least one diamine selected from the group consisting of a diamine of Structure (Ia) and a diamine of Structure (Ib), [insert formula here] (la) or [insert formula here] (lb), (b) at least one diamine of Structure (II), (c) at least one tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride, and optionally (d) at least one compound containing a first functional group reactive with an amine or an anhydride and at least a second functional group selected from the group consisting of a substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group and a substituted or unsubstituted alkynyl group. Each variable in the above formulas is defined in the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Binod B. De, Sanjay Malik, William A. Reinerth, Ognian N. Dimov, Ahmad A. Naiini, Raj Sakamuri
  • Publication number: 20200262979
    Abstract: A quantum dot article is described comprising a first barrier layer, a second barrier layer, and a quantum dot layer between the first and second barrier layer. The quantum dot layer comprises light-emitting nanoparticles dispersed in a cured matrix. The quantum dot layer further comprises a hydroxyl-iunctional polyamine silicone ligand that is the reaction product of a polyamine silicone ligand and a monofunctional epoxy compound. Also described is a hydroxyl-functional polyamine silicone that is the reaction product of a polyamine silicone and a monofunctional epoxy compound, as well as quantum dot compositions comprising light-emitting nanoparticles and the described hydroxyl-functional polyamine silicone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Zai-Ming QIU, Joseph M. PIEPER, Eric W. NELSON