Organic Pigment Containing Patents (Class 106/493)
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Patent number: 7230040Abstract: High concentrations of dye may be prepared in combination with thermoplastic polymers and used in optical polymers as monomeric and dimeric molecular solutions. The method of preparing high concentration levels allows the control over the aggregation of dye molecules that is required to maintain effective nonlinear operation. The present invention is applicable to many systems and is essential to the successful production of working optical limiting devices and other optically transparent polymeric devices, as well as other photonic applications, such as nonlinear optics.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2004Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc.Inventors: Steven R. Carlo, Eva M. Maya, Arthur W. Snow, Richard Gork Sim Pong
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Patent number: 7229490Abstract: Ready-to-use water dispersible pigment compositions containing water-insoluble, hydrophilic pigments are provided. The compositions comprise a stable dispersion of the pigment such as a porphyrin pigment, carmine, curcumin and a caratenoid in the form of bodies of an average size which is at the most 10 ?m is provided. The pigment bodies are dispersed without he use of a surface active substance in an aqueous phase comprising a hydrocolloid. The natural pigment compositions which are useful for coloring of food products and pharmaceuticals do not migrate in the products and they are acid stable. The compositions are useful in coating compositions for tables and dragees.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2004Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Chr. Hansen A/SInventors: Per Pihlmann Isager, Marianne Winning
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Patent number: 7220306Abstract: The present invention provides a treated pigment produced by treating at least one pigment selected from the group consisting of organic pigments and carbon black each having a functional group reactive with a carbodiimide group with a carbodiimide compound having one or more carbodiimide groups, said carbodiimide compound having, within the molecule thereof, at least one side chain selected from the group consisting of polyester side chains, polyether side chains and polyacrylic side chains, with a carbodiimide equivalent of 100 to 50,000.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2003Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Sakata INK Corp.Inventors: Masanori Kano, Kazunori Itoh, Naoyuki Kitaoka, Takaaki Yodo, Hideo Shibata
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Patent number: 7220307Abstract: A treated pigment and a dispersion composition thereof having preferable dispersion stability and fluidity in a dispersion medium even the pigment has no functional group reactive with a carbodiimide group on the surface thereof, and further to provide a resist composition exerting very excellent developing characteristics when forming color filters, black matrices and the like patterns. Furthermore, the invention also provides a compound for pigment treatment suited for the treatment of such pigment. A treated pigment which is producible by the treatment with a carbodiimide-based compound having at least one side chain selected from the group consisting of polyester side chains, polyether side chains and polyacrylic side chains and at least one basic nitrogen-containing group within the molecule.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2003Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Sakata Inx Corp.Inventors: Masanori Kano, Kazunori Itoh, Takaaki Yodo, Naoyuki Kitaoka, Hideo Shibata
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Patent number: 7198667Abstract: Solid pigment preparations containing the following ingredients as substantial components: (A) 60–85 wt. % of at least one organic pigment, (B) 0.1–15 wt.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2003Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ingo Klopp, Juan Antonio Gonzalez Gomez, Uwe Mauthe, Hansulrich Reisacher, Andreas Stohr
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Patent number: 7192477Abstract: The process for producing highly concentrated nanometer-size fine particles of an organic pigment, which comprises dissolving the organic pigment in an amide solvent, especially an organic solvent comprising at least 50 vol % 1-methyl-2-pyrrodinone, and pouring the resultant organic pigment solution with stirring into a poor solvent which is not compatible with the organic pigment. The pigment may be a quinacridone pigment, phthalocyanine pigment etc. Any atmospheric pressure to a sub-critical and/or supercritical state can be employed as the production conditions.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2003Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Japan Science and Technology AgencyInventors: Hachiro Nakanishi, Koich Baba, Hitoshi Kasai, Hidetoshi Oikawa, Shuji Oikawa
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Patent number: 7160371Abstract: A process for the preparation of organic pigments with enhanced fluorescence, which process comprises treating said pigments with a surfactant, and to the fluorescent organic pigments obtained by said process. The pigments according to the present invention can be used in marking applications, wherein durable fluorescence is required.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2005Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Iain Frank Fraser, Sharon Kathleen Wilson, Ian Alexander Macpherson
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Patent number: 7160380Abstract: A method of producing a fine particle of an organic pigment, containing the steps of: flowing a solution of an organic pigment dissolved in an alkaline or acidic aqueous medium, through a channel which provides a laminar flow; and changing a pH of the solution in the course of the laminar flow.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2004Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Maeta, Yuki Shimizu, Tadahisa Sato
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Patent number: 7147703Abstract: The invention relates to a process for aftertreating organic pigments which comprises heating the unground or ground organic crude pigment in water and/or organic solvents by means of microwave irradiation, under pressure if desired, so that the mass temperature of the mixture reaches 30 to 250° C.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2005Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Matthias Ganschow, Carsten Plueg
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Patent number: 7147704Abstract: A pigment dispersing agent wherein a quinophthalone structure is bonded to a triazine structure through an arylene group or a heteroaromatic ring and a basic functional group is bonded to triazine ring through a connecting group which pigment dispersing agent improves an ink or a coating in fluidity and is effective for preparing a product having a low viscosity and low thixotropic properties and having excellent properties such as tinting strength, transparency and viscosity stability with the passage of time, and a pigment composition and a pigment dispersion containing the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2006Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Tokyo Ink Mfg. Co., LtdInventor: Yoshimitsu Ueno
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Patent number: 7135062Abstract: Image-recording, hydrophilic colorants having an organic pigment linked to a hydrophilic compound through a linking group and which are capable of forming images excellent in print quality such as chroma, gloss, density, light fastness and abrasion fastness, and also as hydrophilic colorants capable of affording inks excellent in physical properties such as long-term storability and press stability are described.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2004Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michiei Nakamura, Hideyuki Koiso, Naoyuki Sakai, Yoshiyuki Zama, Atsushi Nogami, Hiroyuki Shimanaka, Seishichi Sasaki, Hiroaki Saikatsu
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Patent number: 7135067Abstract: The invention relates to a pigment dispersion consisting essentially of a) at least one organic or inorganic pigment or a combination of the same, b) an alpha-methyl--omega-hydroxy-polyethylene glycol ether having an average molar mass of between 250 and 1000 g/mol, c) standard dispersing agents for producing aqueous pigment dispersions, d) water, and e) optionally other standard additives.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2002Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Andreas Harz, Lothar Wihan, Martin Alexander Winter, Andreas Pfrengle
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Patent number: 7122081Abstract: The present invention is directed to an aqueous process for reducing particle size of organic pigments by milling the crude pigment in the presence of a water soluble styrene copolymer dispersant, optionally a defoamer, optionally an additive, and greater than about 10 wt. % water, and isolating the organic pigment.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2004Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Yingxia He, Colin D. Campbell
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Patent number: 7118623Abstract: The invention relates to a diaryl yellow pigment preparation, including a) at least one diaryl yellow pigment b) at least one natural resin on the basis of rosin or modified rosin, c) at least one compound of formula (1), and d) an aluminum, zinc, manganese or iron compound in an amount of from 0.1 to 8% by weight (calculated as a metal cation), based on component b). The inventive preparations are suitable for a variety of applications, among them the production of printing inks, especially offset printing inks.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2002Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Heinz Bach, Ulrich Ott, Rainer Winter, Thomas Heber, Rolf Kaiser
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Patent number: 7105674Abstract: Perylene derivatives of the general formula I where X and Y are independently oxygen, —NR1 or —NR2; R1 and R2 are independently hydrogen, C1–C18-alkyl, C5–C7-cycloalkyl, aryl or C1–C6-alkoxy; R3 to R10 are independently hydrogen, hydroxyl or aryl, although radicals conjointly attached to one carbon atom may also be ?O or ?CHR11, R11 is hydrogen or C1–C3-alkyl, with the proviso that said perylene derivative I contains from at least one to not more than three carbonyl groups per molecule.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2004Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Claus Hackmann, Paul Guenthert, Anton Dotter, Peter Blaschka
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Patent number: 7102014Abstract: The invention provides novel pigment dispersants of the formula (I): in which Q is a radical of the formula (Ia): s is a number from 0.1 to 4.0 and n is a number from 0 to 2.0; and provides pigment preparations comprising an organic base pigment and a pigment dispersant of the formula (I).Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2004Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Joachim Weber, Felix Wendelin Grimm, Erwin Dietz
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Patent number: 7083675Abstract: A black perylene-based pigment comprising a solid solution obtained by calcining a mixture of at least two compounds selected from the group consisting of anhydrides of perylene tetracarboxylic acid, diimide derivatives of perylene tetracarboxylic acid and diimide derivatives of perylene diiminodicarboxylic acid, exhibits an excellent blackness, an excellent heat resistance and an excellent weather fastness as well as a high resistance and a high safety.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2004Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jin Mizuguchi, Nobuya Shimo
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Patent number: 7083674Abstract: A pigment dispersant represented by the following general formula (1) is provided: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 each independently is —H, —Cl, —CH3, —CF3, —NO2, —COOCH(CH3)2 or —COOCH2CH2Cl; R11, R12, R13 and R14 each independently is —H, —Cl, —CH3 or —CN; M is one equivalent of a bivalent or trivalent metal; and n is an integer of 1 to 3.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2005Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Kamikubo, Tetsuya Sai
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Patent number: 7077899Abstract: A pigment dispersing agent of the formula (1) capable of providing a printing ink or a coating composition excellent in fluidity and dispersion stability and a dry coating excellent in gloss, a pigment composition containing the same and a pigment dispersion containing the same, wherein X1 is —NH—, —O—, —CONH—, —SO2NH—, —CH2NH—, —CH2NHCOCH2NH— or —X3—Y—X4—, X2 and X4 are —NH— or —O—, X3 is —CONH—, —SO2NH—, —CH2NH—, —NHCO— or —NHSO2—, Y is an alkylene group, an alkenylene group or an arylene group, Z is —SO3M or —COOM, R1 is a heterocyclic ring residue or an aromatic ring residue, Q is —O—R2, —NH—R2, a halogen group, —X1—R1 or —X2—Y-Z, R2 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an alkenyl group, and M is one equivalent of a monovalent to trivalent cation.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2004Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co. Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Kamikubo, Daisuke Tanabe, Tetsuya Sai
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Patent number: 7074268Abstract: A pigment composition obtainable by dry-milling an organic pigment in the presence of a resin for a printing ink, the resin being composed of a synthetic resin for a printing ink in an amount of 10 to 80 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the organic pigment and an aliphatic hydrocarbon resin which is extracted from gilsonite and has a softening point of 120 to 125° C. in an amount of 0.1 to 5 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the organic pigment.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2004Date of Patent: July 11, 2006Assignee: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ippei Imagawa, Ataru Chiba, Takahiro Yuasa
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Patent number: 7074267Abstract: Pigment composition comprising an organic pigment and a combination of at least two normally water-soluble coloured compounds (dyes) of opposing charge, i.e. of at least one anionic and one cationic dye are provided. The compositions impart improved rheology on non-aqueous pigment based printing inks and paints.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2003Date of Patent: July 11, 2006Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Stephen John Coughlin, Iain Frank Fraser, Thomas Healy, Stuart Cook Niven
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Patent number: 7064210Abstract: A light resistant colorant is obtained by coupling a dye or a pigment with a light resistant material. A light resistant colorant-containing composition has no additional light stabilizer. Therefore, side effects caused by the addition of a light stabilizer, such as precipitate generation, may be prevented. Furthermore, substrates to which the composition is applied preserve excellent light resistance for a long term.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2003Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yeon-kyoung Jung, Seung-min Ryu
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Patent number: 7056378Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing vattable organic pigments. The invention is characterized in that an agueous or an aqueous-organic suspension of a coarse crystalline raw mineral is vatted and re-oxidised, and the pigment suspension is ground to a diameter equal to or less than 0.9 mm during vatting and/or during oxidation by means of an agitator ball mill, which is operated at a power density of more than 1.0 KW per litre per grinding chamber and at an agitator peripheral speed of more than 12 m/s, using grinding bodies.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2003Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Joachim Weber, Manfred Urban, Erwin Dietz
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Patent number: 7049039Abstract: A coloring agent for use in toners which comprises coloring particles modified with a surface modifier having in one molecule a hydrophilic moiety, a hydrophobic moiety, and a reactive moiety between the hydrophilic moiety and the hydrophobic moiety. Also disclosed is a toner comprising toner particles containing at least a binder resin and a coloring agent comprising the above surface-modified coloring particles.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2002Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yayoi Tazawa, Yasukazu Ayaki
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Patent number: 7045638Abstract: The invention provides novel pigment dispersants of the formula (I) in which is a radical of the formula (Ia) s is a number from 0.1 to 4.0 and n is a number from 0 to 2.0; and provides pigment preparations comprising an organic base pigment and a pigment dispersant of the formula (I).Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Joachim Weber, Felix Wendelin Grimm, Erwin Dietz
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Patent number: 7041166Abstract: Organic solid solution pigments are prepared and conditioned by treating a mixture of their components, after synthesis but preferably without or with only partial drying, in a mixture of from 0 to 30% by weight of an organic liquid having a dipole moment ? of 2.8–6.0·10?18 .esu (2.8 to 6.0 debye units) and from 70 to 100% by weight of water in an agitated media pearl mill having a specific power density of at most 2.0 kj·s?1 per liter of grinding space. Drying the starting components is especially suitable in the case of only slightly agglomerating, easy to wet pigments of specific surface area from 1 to 25 m2/g. The method gives excellent results, and is flexible and also much simpler than known methods.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2003Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Philippe Bugnon, Marc Maurer
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Patent number: 7033429Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a low-dust pigment composition, which comprises suspending a filter cake obtained from preparation of the pigment, or a solid pigment, in water, adding thereto from 0.1 to 6.0% by weight, based On the weight of the pigment composition, of an amphoteric surfactant and, where appropriate, further adjuvants, and then drying the aqueous suspension to form granules, to the pigment composition obtainable according to that method, and to the use thereof in the production of colored plastics or colored polymeric particles.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2002Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventor: Paolo Balliello
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Patent number: 7029526Abstract: The invention pertains to the field of green color filters and LCDs. It has been found that pigments with surprisingly improved coloristic, chemical and physical properties are obtained by salt-kneading a halogenated phthalocyanine pigment together with a yellow pigment of the disazo condensation, barbituric acid or azoquinolone series. The process takes place in the presence of an organic liquid and in the absence of binder or optionally in the presence of a relatively small amount of binder. Claimed are the process itself as well as the green pigment composition obtained by the process and compositions comprising it.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2002Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Véronique Hall-Goulle, Takashi Deno
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Patent number: 7022177Abstract: The present invention relates to novel pigments of formula (1), wherein R1 is hydrogen or C1–C12alkyl, R2 is hydrogen, —CN, —COO-aryl, —COO-heteroaryl, —CONH-aryl or —CONH-heteroaryl, and R3 is the radical of a heteroaromatic compound of formula or R2 and R3 together form a radical of formula wherein R4, R5, R6 and R7 are defined herein and to a process for the preparation of those pigments, and to their use in the production of coloured plastics or polymeric colour particles.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2003Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Jean-Marie Adam, Jean-Pierre Bacher
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Patent number: 6997983Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a pigments form of perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic acid N,N?-bis-methylimide having a transparent clean yellowish shade, comprises comminution of a mixture comprising perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic acid N,N?-bis-methylimide produced by methylation of perylenetetracarboxylic imide with an alkylating agent and perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic acid N,N?-bis-methylimide produced by the condensation of perylenetetracarboxylic anhydride with methylamine, in the presence of dimerized rosin. The pigments obtainable are notable for their outstanding coloristic and rheological properties and are suitable for use in a variety of applications.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2004Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Terence Richard Chamberlain, Donald Thomas DeRussy, Michael John Lemmons
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Patent number: 6986811Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted perylene derivatives in which the substituent has a sterically stabilizing and/or electrostatically stabilizing effect. The perylene derivatives of the invention are particularly suitable as pigment dispersants. The present invention additionally relates to pigment preparations in which the perylene derivatives of the invention are used.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2004Date of Patent: January 17, 2006Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Martin Könemann, Ulrike Hees, Valerie Pierre
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Patent number: 6960252Abstract: Monoazo based yellow pigment compositions for image recording that are suitable as a well-balanced yellow coloring agent for image recording with favorable reproducibility of images and image retaining capacity, which is inexpensive and excellent in safety are provided. Provided is a yellow pigment composition for image recording which includes a monoazo yellow base pigment represented by the general formula (1): and a particular disazo yellow pigment having a sulfonic acid group and/or a particular monoazo yellow pigment.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2003Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: Sanyo Color Works, Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Takahara, Kensuke Misono, Hidehiro Tamatome, Junichiro Sato, Kunji Kitamura
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Patent number: 6942724Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of preparing modified organic colorant dispersions comprising the step of combining, in any order, i) an organic colorant; ii) an hydroxide reagent; and iii) an aqueous medium, to form a modified organic colorant dispersion. The methods further comprises a particle size reduction step. These steps can occur in either order. The organic colorant comprises at least one organic species having at least one carboxylic acid group. Modified organic colorants and uses of these modified organic colorants, including inkjet ink compositions, are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2003Date of Patent: September 13, 2005Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventor: Yuan Yu
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Patent number: 6936658Abstract: The invention deals with thermoplastic compositions comprising at least one transparent or translucent thermoplastic material and a pigment wherein the thermoplastic composition comprises at least one cholesteric liquid crystal polymeric plate shaped pigment in a quantity of 0.55 or less parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the transparent or translucent thermoplastic material.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2000Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Anne Ramlow
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Patent number: 6936097Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of preparing modified organic colorant dispersions comprising the step of combining, in any order, i) an organic colorant; ii) an hydroxide reagent; and iii) an aqueous medium, to form a modified organic colorant dispersion. The methods further comprises a particle size reduction step. These steps can occur in either order. The organic colorant comprises at least one organic species having at least one ester group. Modified organic colorants and inkjet ink compositions are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2003Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventor: Alex I. Shakhnovich
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Patent number: 6926768Abstract: A pigment's etheramine sulfonic acid salt is described. Also described is a method for enhancing the performance of a pigment composition containing an organic pigment, comprising enhancing the dispersion of said pigment by adding to 100 parts of said pigment about 1 to 40 parts of a pigment's etheramine sulfonic acid salt.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2003Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Sun Chemical CorporationInventors: Kevin A. Arthur, George H. Robertson, George McLaren, Stanislav G. Vilner, Ronald R. Forbes
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Patent number: 6923856Abstract: A process for the preparation of organic pigments with enhanced fluorescence, which process comprises treating said pigments with a surfactant, and to the fluorescent organic pigments obtained by said process. The pigments according to the present invention can be used in marking applications, wherein durable fluorescence is required.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2001Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Iain Frank Fraser, Sharon Kathleen Wilson, Ian Alexander Macpherson
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Patent number: 6918958Abstract: The invention relates to pigment dispersants of the formula (I), and to pigment preparations including at least one organic pigment and at least one pigment disperant of the formula (I): wherein Q1, R1, R2, E+, G+, s and n are defined in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2002Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Joachim Weber, Gerhard Wilker, Klaus Brychcy, Erwin Dietz
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Patent number: 6916367Abstract: Processes for preparing modified pigments are described. In one embodiment, the process comprises the step of combining, in any order, a pigment having attached an electrophilic group and a thiol reagent comprising at least one —SH group and at least two ionic or ionizable groups. In a second embodiment, the process comprises the step of combining, in any order, a pigment having attached an electrophilic group and a thiopolymer comprising at least one —H group. Modified pigments are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2003Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventor: Paul S. Palumbo
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Patent number: 6913642Abstract: Substantially crystalline organic pigments characterized by small particle size and narrow particle size distribution.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2004Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.Inventors: Yves Grandidier, Albert Riegler, Klaus Ruf, Urs Schlatter
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Patent number: 6911073Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a polymer-modified pigment comprising the step of: combining, in any order, at least one pigment having attached at least one nucleophilic group, at least one polymer comprising at least one carboxylic acid group or salt thereof, and at least one coupling agent. At least one mediator compound may also be used. The modified pigments can be used in applications such as inkjet ink applications.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2003Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: Curtis E. Adams, Ronald J. Gambale
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Patent number: 6911074Abstract: This invention relates to 1,4-diketopyrrolo[3,4c]-pyrrole pigments of the formula characterized by desirable color properties and novel visible absorbance spectra with a steep slope on the bathochromic side of the absorption maximum in the range of from 500 to 650 nm.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2004Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: CIBA Specialty Chemicals Corp.Inventors: Yves Grandidier, Albert Riegler, Klaus Ruf, Urs Schlatter
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Patent number: 6911075Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing pigments, which comprises subjecting a crude pigment or mixture of crude pigments and a crystalline inorganic salt or mixture of crystalline inorganic salts together, essentially in the absence of other constituents, to the action of a rotor having a tangential speed of at least 10 m/s, so that a temperature of at least 80° C. is attained by means of friction effects; and subsequently kneading the product of this treatment with an organic liquid, during which it is possible if desired to add additional substances selected from the group consisting of inorganic salts, inert additives and colorant. These pigments and their use in polymers, printing inks and colours filters are also claimed. The invention in particular relates to a novel pigment form of Pigment Violet 23 obtained by above-mentioned process and having higher colour strength and colour saturation as well as excellent other applications properties in particular in printing inks.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2002Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: CIBA Specialty Chemicals Corp.Inventors: Yves Grandidier, Albert Riegler, Klaus Ruf, Urs Schlatter, Takashi Deno
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Patent number: 6902613Abstract: A mixture of an organic nanosize pigment comprising of from 50 to 99% by weight of the nanosize pigment and 1 to 50% by weight based of a low molecular weight naphthalene sulfonic acid formaldehyde polymer and its use as a particle growth and crystal phase director for the preparation of a direct pigmentary organic pigment or in pigment finishing.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2003Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Inventor: Fridolin Bäbler
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Patent number: 6896726Abstract: The present invention relates to surface-treated organic pigments, to a process for their preparation and to their use in colouring a high molecular weight organic material. Compared with untreated pigments, the surface-treated pigments exhibit better rheological properties and/or no warping in the pigmenting of partially crystalline plastics.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2002Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.Inventors: Philippe Bugnon, Caroline Sansonnens
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Patent number: 6890380Abstract: Organic pigments are conditioned by treating them, after synthesis but preferably without or with only partial drying, in a mixture of from 1 to 30% by weight of a neutral, polar liquid having a dipole moment ? of 2.8-6.0? 10?18 esu (2.8 to 6.0 debye units) and from 70 to 99% by weight of water in an agitated media pearl mill having a specific power density of at most 2.0 kJs??1 per liter of grinding space. Drying is especially suitable in the case of only slightly agglomerating, easy to wet pigments of specific surface area from 1 to 25 m2/g. The method gives excellent results, and is flexible and also much simpler than known methods.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2002Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Gerhard Giger, Jürgen Beyrich, Philippe Bugnon, Marc Maurer
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Patent number: 6881255Abstract: Pigment preparations comprising a) at least one pigment, b) at least one polyethyleneimine which is alkoxylated, especially ethoxylated and propoxylated and/or butoxylated, and c) at least one condensation product based on A) sulphonated aromatics, B) aldehydes and/or ketones and optionally C) one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of nonsulphonated aromatics, urea and urea derivatives.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2004Date of Patent: April 19, 2005Assignee: Bayer Chemicals AGInventors: Udo Herrmann, Dirk Pfützenreuter, Josef Witt, Hans-Jürgen Hartrumpf
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Patent number: 6858073Abstract: The present application relates to a process for the manufacture of pigmented vitreous materials, as well as to pigmented vitreous materials, characterized by the use of soluble pigment precursors and preferably the absence of significant amounts of dispersants. These pigmented vitreous materials can be used as colored materials for any known purposes. Soluble pigment precursors comprising a partial structure are also claimed, wherein X1 is an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring, B is hydrogen or a group of the formula but at least one group B is not hydrogen, and L is a solubilizing group.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2004Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Patrice Bujard, Véronique Hall-Goulle, Zhimin Hao, Hitoshi Nagasue, Gerardus De Keyzer
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Patent number: 6849116Abstract: Quinophthalone derivatives have the general formula I where R1, R2, R3 and R5 are independently hydrogen, halogen or C1-C4-alkyl; R4 is —SO3H, —SO3+N+R6R7R8R9, —SO2NR6R7, —CH2NR6R7, —CH2R10, —COOH, —COO?N+R6R7R8R9, —COOR11, —COR11, —NO2 or C1-C4-alkyl; R6, R7, R8 and R9 are independently hydrogen; C1-C22-alkyl or C2-C22-alkenyl whose carbon chains may be interrupted by one or more moieties selected from the group consisting of —O—, —S—, —NR12—, —CO— and —SO2— and/or which may each be mono- or polysubstituted by hydroxyl, halogen, aryl, C1-C4-alkoxy and/or acetyl; C3-C8-cycloalkyl whose carbon skeleton may be interrupted by one or more moieties selected from the group consisting of —O—, —S—, —NR12— and —CO— and/or which may be mono- or polysubstituted by hydroxyl, halogen, aryl, C1-C4-alkoxy and/or acetyl; dehydroabietyl or aryl; R6 and R7 or R6, R7 and R8 are together a 5- to 7-membered cyclic radical which includes the nitrogen atom and may include further heteroatoms; R10 is R11 is alkyl R6; R12 isType: GrantFiled: June 22, 2001Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jianing He, Manfred Schröck
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Publication number: 20040266911Abstract: The invention relates to a pigment dispersion comprising: a condensate of or a salt between a polyallylamine and a polyester having a free carboxylic acid or the salt; a pigment derivative represented by the following general formula (1); a pigment; and an organic solvent,Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Applicant: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiji Aida, Shinya Fujimatsu, Kaori Nakano, Shinichi Sato, Daisuke Tanabe