Processes Of Chemically Modifying A Solid Polymer Derived Only From Ethylenically Unsaturated Monomers By Treating Polymer With A Chemical Reactant; Or Compositions Therefore Patents (Class 522/113)
  • Patent number: 8309621
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radiation curable solid ink composition comprising: (a) a curable wax; (b) at least one curable monomer, oligomer, or prepolymer; (c) at least one photoinitiator; and (d) a pigment colorant; wherein the ink is a solid at a first temperature of about 25° C. or lower; and wherein the ink is a liquid at a second temperature of about 40° C. or higher; said ink being curable by free-radical polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Marcel P Breton, Michelle N Chretien, Barkev Keoshkerian
  • Patent number: 8303862
    Abstract: Disclosed are a photosensitive resin composition for a color filter and a color filter including the same. The photosensitive resin composition for a color filter may include (A) an acrylic-based copolymer including a structural unit represented by the following Chemical Formula 1 and a structural unit represented by the following Chemical Formula 2, wherein the substituents of Chemical Formula 1 and Chemical Formula 2 are the same as defined in the specification; (B) an acrylic-based photopolymerizable monomer; (C) a photopolymerization initiator; (D) a pigment; and (E) a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Cheil Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Chang-Min Lee, Kil-Sung Lee, Jae-Hyun Kim, Jun-Seok Kim, Sang-Won Cho, Gyu-Seok Han
  • Patent number: 8303838
    Abstract: There is provided novel curable ink compositions comprising inorganic oxide-coated magnetic metal nanoparticles. In particular, there is provided ultraviolet (UV) curable gel inks comprising at least the inorganic oxide-coated magnetic metal nanoparticles, one curable monomer, a radiation activated initiator that initiates polymerization of curable components of the ink. In particular the ink may include a gellant. The inks may also include optional colorants and one or more optional additives. These curable UV ink compositions can be used for ink jet printing in a variety of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Gabriel Iftime, Naveen Chopra, Barkev Keoshkerian, Peter G. Odell, Marcel P. Breton
  • Patent number: 8298454
    Abstract: Disclosed are a photosensitive resin composition and a light blocking layer using the same. The photosensitive resin composition includes (A) a cardo-based monomer represented by the following Chemical Formula 1 or 2, wherein the substituents of Chemical Formula 1 and Chemical Formula 2 are the same as defined in the detailed description, (B) a cardo-based resin, (C) a reactive unsaturated compound, (D) a pigment, (E) an initiator, and (F) a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Cheil Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Chang-Min Lee, Jun-Seok Kim, Kil-Sung Lee, Min-Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 8293149
    Abstract: Disclosed are a photosensitive resin composition for a color filter and a color filter using the same. The photosensitive resin composition for a color filter may include (A) a copolymer including a structural unit represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, wherein the substituents of Chemical Formula 1 are the same as defined in the specification; (B) an acrylic-based photopolymerizable monomer; (C) a photopolymerization initiator; (D) a pigment; and (E) a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Cheil Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Chang-Min Lee, Jun-Seok Kim, Kil-Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 8288451
    Abstract: A photo-curable resin composition for the UV-LED light source, which is rapidly cured and particularly has excellent surface curing property, is disclosed. The resin composition contains (a) polybutadiene (meth)acrylate; (b) a polythiol compound; and (c) a photo radical initiator and is photo-curable by an irradiation with an ultraviolet light-LED. Accordingly, production efficiency can be significantly increased in the production of liquid crystal displays and electrical and electronic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventor: Chunfu Chen
  • Patent number: 8288450
    Abstract: An adhesive composition and an optical member, the adhesive composition including 100 parts by weight of a polymer prepared by polymerization of (meth)acrylic ester containing monomers; 0.01 to about 3 parts by weight of an antistatic agent containing an ionic compound and/or a lithium salt; 0 to about 1 part by weight of a silane coupling agent; and about 3 to about 20 parts by weight of a benzotriazole group containing compound; and about 0.05 to about 5 parts by weight of a cross-linking agent, or about 3 to about 30 parts by weight of a multifunctional (meth)acrylate monomer, and 0 to about 5 parts by weight of an active energy-ray initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Cheil Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheong Hun Song, Hiroshi Ogawa, Tatsuhiro Suwa
  • Patent number: 8278021
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a thin film transistor substrate having high light sensitivity, heat-resistance, impact resistance, and a photosensitive composition used by the same, the method including forming data wires on an insulating substrate, forming an organic insulating film on the data wires by applying a photosensitive composition comprising a terpolymer, where the terpolymer is derived from monomers of an unsaturated carboxylic acid, an unsaturated carboxylic acid anhydride, or a mixture thereof, an unsaturated epoxy group-containing compound, and an olefinic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoon Kang, Jae-sung Kim, Yang-ho Jung, Hi-kuk Lee
  • Patent number: 8277701
    Abstract: Disclosed are a photosensitive resin composition for a color filter and a color filter using the same. The photosensitive resin composition for a color filter includes (A) an acrylic-based binder resin including a structural unit represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, wherein the substituents of Chemical Formula 1 are the same as defined in the specification; (B) an acrylic-based photopolymerizable monomer; (C) a photopolymerization initiator; (D) a pigment; and (E) a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Cheil Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Chang-Min Lee, Kil-Sung Lee, Jun-Seok Kim, Seong-Yong Uhm, Sang-Won Cho
  • Patent number: 8273270
    Abstract: Disclosed are a photosensitive resin composition that includes (A) a cardo-based resin including repeating units represented by the following Chemical Formulae 1 and 2, wherein the substituents of Chemical Formulae 1 and 2 are the same as defined in the specification, (B) reactive unsaturated compound, (C) a pigment, (D) an initiator, and (E) a solvent, and a light blocking layer using the photosensitive resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Cheil Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Chang-Min Lee, Kil-Sung Lee, Jun-Seok Kim, Jung-Sik Choi
  • Patent number: 8273167
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a pigment dispersion composition including (A) an organic pigment, (B) a pigment derivative represented by Formula (I) below and (C) a polymer compound having a pigment-adsorptive functional group; a curable color composition including the pigment dispersion composition, a polymerizable compound and a polymerization initiator; and a color filter having a color region formed using the curable color composition and a method for producing the same. Q represents an organic colorant residue; A represents an ethylene group or the like; and R represents a hydroxyl group or a group represented by —NH-A-Z; Z represents —SO3H, —COOH or a salt thereof; and n represents an integer of from 1 to 4. When R represents —NH-A-Z, the structures represented by the two —NH-A-Zs bonded to the triazine ring contained in each of the n partial structures bonded to Q may be the same as each other or different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Sugihara, Kazuhiro Fujimaki
  • Patent number: 8263675
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photosensitive resin composition for a color filter and a color filter fabricated using the same. The photosensitive resin composition includes (a) an acrylic-based resin, (b) a photopolymerizable monomer, (c) a photopolymerization initiator, (d) a pigment, and (e) a solvent. The acrylic-based resin is a copolymer including a repeating unit of an ethylenic unsaturated monomer including a carboxyl group and a repeating unit of an ethylenic unsaturated monomer including an alkoxy 4-oxo butanoic acid group. The photosensitive resin composition for a color filter can have residue removing characteristics, and is capable of forming fine pixels and providing a color filter having high resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Cheil Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Kil-Sung Lee, Jae-Hyun Kim, Chang-Min Lee, Eui-June Jeong
  • Patent number: 8263679
    Abstract: The invention provide a new class of silicone-containing prepolymers containing dangling polysiloxane-containing polymer chains. This class of silicone-containing prepolymer is capable of being actinically crosslinked to form a silicone hydrogel material with a relatively high oxygen permeability, a reduced elastic modulus, and a relatively high ion permeability. The present invention is also related to silicone hydrogel contact lenses made from this class of silicone-containing prepolymers and to methods for making the silicone hydrogel contact lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Jian S. Zhou, Dawn A. Smith
  • Patent number: 8263681
    Abstract: The invention features a dental composition containing a polycyclic aromatic compound, such as 2-ethyl 9,10-dimethoxy anthracene (EDMOA), in an amount that provides the composition with fluorescence mimicking that of natural teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Bradley D. Craig, Gregory A. Kobussen
  • Patent number: 8258201
    Abstract: To provide a photocurable composition whereby it is possible to obtain a cured product provided with both release property and high refractive index, and a process whereby it is possible to produce a molded product having a high refractive index and having on its surface a fine pattern having a reverse pattern of a mold precisely transferred. The photocurable composition comprising from 61 to 90 mass % of a compound (A) having a refractive index of at least 1.55 at a wavelength of 589 nm before curing and having at least two (meth)acryloyloxy groups, from 2 to 15 mass % of a compound (B) having fluorine atoms and at least one carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond (provided that compound (A) is excluded), from 5 to 35 mass % of a compound (C) having one (meth)acryloyloxy group (provided that compound (B) is excluded), and from 1 to 12 mass % of a photopolymerization initiator (D) (provided (A)+(B)+(C)+(D)=100 mass %).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Yasuhide Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 8252849
    Abstract: Disclosed is a coating agent for poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) panel nano imprinting, more particularly, a coating agent for PMMA panel nano imprinting comprising a UV curable resin, a photoinitiator, an additive for surface modification and a weather-resistant stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Choon Soo Lee, Min Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 8227522
    Abstract: A surface-modified blade rubber includes a surface modified by being subjected to irradiation treatment that generates radical active sites in the blade rubber and polymerization for graft polymerization starting from a generated radical active site. A method for modifying a blade rubber surface includes subjecting rubber of a blade rubber to irradiation treatment that generates radical active sites and polymerization for graft polymerization starting from a generated radical active site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito Mizote, Akio Katakai, Masao Tamada
  • Patent number: 8222313
    Abstract: Radiation curable compositions, such as UV curable ink compositions, contain a polymeric dispersant, a curable material, that includes a carrier and at least one nanoscale fluorescent pigment particle and an optional non-fluorescent colorant. The fluorescent organic nanoparticle composition includes one or more fluorescent dyes dispersed in a polymeric matrix obtained by modified EA latex process or by emulsion polymerization. In a different embodiment, the nanoscale fluorescent pigment particle composition includes pigment molecules with at least one functional moiety, and a sterically bulky stabilizer compound including at least one functional group, the functional moiety of the pigment associates non-covalently with the functional group of the stabilizer, and the presence of the associated stabilizer limits the extent of particle growth and aggregation, to afford nanoscale-sized pigment particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Gabriel Iftime, C. Geoffrey Allen, Maria M. Birau, Christopher A. Wagner, Daryl W. Vanbesien, Jordan H. Wosnick, Peter G. Odell
  • Patent number: 8168689
    Abstract: A high optical contrast pigment and colorful photosensitive composition employing the same are disclosed. The composition comprises a solvent, an alkali-soluble resin, reactive monomer, and a modified pigment which has low crystallization. The low crystallization degree means that the grain size variation R is not more 80%, wherein the grain size variation R is represented by a formula R=G1/G0×100%, G0 is the original grain size, and G1 is the grain size after modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chin-Cheng Weng, Kuo-Tung Huang, I-Jein Cheng, Ming-Tzung Wu, Yu-Ying Hsu, Chiang-Yun Li
  • Patent number: 8163813
    Abstract: To provide a photocurable composition from which a cured product excellent in mold release characteristics and mechanical strength can be obtained, and a method for producing a molded product excellent in durability, with a fine pattern having a reverse pattern of a mold precisely transferred on its surface. A photocurable composition 20 comprising from 15 to 60 mass % of a compound (A) which is an aromatic compound having at least two rings or an alicyclic compound having at least two rings and which has two (meth)acryloyloxy groups, from 5 to 40 mass % of a compound (B) having a fluorine atom and having at least one carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond (excluding the compound (A)), from 10 to 55 mass % of a compound (C) having one (meth)acryloyloxy group (excluding the compound (B)) and from 1 to 12 mass % of a photopolymerization initiator (D) (provided that (A)+(B)+(C)+(D)=100 mass %) is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yasuhide Kawaguchi, Kentaro Tsunozaki
  • Publication number: 20120094119
    Abstract: A photocurable pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, a photocurable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and a photocurable pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet including a support and such a photocurable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on at least one side of the support are provided. The photocurable pressure-sensitive adhesive composition can form an adhesive layer that has sufficient initial adhesive strength through the process of drying and cross-linking without having any adhesive protruding at normal temperatures and pressures, hardens easily with light irradiation, and has a high peeling resistance. The photocurable adhesive composition contains a graft polymer that graft-polymerizes a monomer containing a cyclic ether group to a (meth)acrylic polymer and a cationic photopolymerization initiator. The photocurable adhesive layer and the photocurable adhesive sheet are prepared by using said photocurable adhesive composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Fujita, Yutaka Moroishi, Fumiko Nakano
  • Patent number: 8158693
    Abstract: A process for preparing a radiation curable solid ink composition wherein a solid pigment and dispersant are added to a molten solid monomer including (a) heating a monomer that is solid at room temperature to a temperature above the monomer melting point to provide a molten solid monomer; (b) adding a curable component, a non-curable component, and a photoinitiator to the molten solid monomer to provide a molten ink base; (c) adding a dispersant to the molten ink base; and (d) a adding a pigment to the molten ink base with stirring to provide a curable pigmented ink composition. Included is a process for preparing a radiation curable solid ink composition wherein a liquid pigment concentrate or a solid pigment concentrate is added to an ink base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Marcel P. Breton, Michelle N. Chretien, Barkev Keoshkerian, Peter G. Odell
  • Publication number: 20120082847
    Abstract: The disclose provides pressure-sensitive adhesives and adhesive sealants prepared from modified, crosslinked isobutylene copolymers, and tape articles prepared therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: Hae-Seung Lee, Guy D. Joly, Joon Chatterjee, Marie Aloshyna ep Lesuffleur, Jay M. Jennen, Jingjing Ma, Gregg A. Caldwell, Babu N. Gaddam, Larry R. Krepski
  • Patent number: 8129441
    Abstract: The present invention relates to radiation-curable coating compositions which are of low viscosity and comprise (meth)acrylates and divinyl adipate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Oscar Lafuente Cerda, Yvonne Heischkel, Michael Vetter, Reinhold Schwalm, Nick Gruber
  • Patent number: 8114920
    Abstract: The UV-curable aqueous coating composition is characterized by using a UV-curable aqueous emulsion obtained by urethane reaction with a mixture including a poly-carbonate polyol or polyester polyol; an isocyanate compound; a urethane-reactive carboxylic acid; a UV-curable acrylic oligomer having 2 to 9 functional acrylate groups; a UV-curable acrylic monomer; and a urethane-reactive acrylate without an organic solvent. The aqueous composition provides good environmental acceptability and satisfactory film properties comparable to those of the prior oily UV-curable coating composition and, therefore, it is useful for coating various plastics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.
    Inventors: Dong Soo Kim, Tae Yun Jeong, Su Dong Hong, Jung Hyun Oh
  • Patent number: 8110612
    Abstract: A process for preparing a pressure sensitive adhesive using a modified planetary roller extruder is described. The process in accordance with one aspect of the invention includes introducing primary raw materials including a non-thermoplastic elastomer into a feeding section of the modified planetary roller extruder, conveying the raw materials from the feeding section to a compounding section of the modified planetary roller extruder, continuously mixing the primary raw materials in the compounding section to produce a homogeneous adhesive composition. The adhesive composition may be applied to a web-form material. The compounding section of the modified planetary roller extruder includes a main spindle surrounded by and intermeshed with a plurality of planetary spindles at least one of which is a double transversal mixing spindle having a plurality of back-cut helical flights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Intertape Polymer Corp.
    Inventors: John Kinch Tynan, Jr., Richard Walter St. Coeur, David Michael Kovach, Thomas Lombardo
  • Publication number: 20120029109
    Abstract: A method for producing a composite nanoparticle, including the steps of, collapsing at least a portion of a polyelectrolyte polymer in solution about one or more precursor moieties to form a composite precursor moiety having a mean diameter in the range between about 1 nm and about 100 nm, wherein the polyelectrolyte polymer has an extended conformation in a first solution state and a more compact conformation in a second solution state; and cross-linking the polyelectrolyte polymer of the composite precursor moiety to form a composite nanoparticle wherein the precursory moiety is a charged organic ion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: VIVE NANO, INC.
    Inventors: Cynthia M. Goh, Jose Amado Dinglasan, Jane B. Goh, Richard Loo, Darren Anderson
  • Patent number: 8101673
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a UV-crosslinkable composition comprising a) unmodified, protonated silica nanoparticles; b) urethane acrylate; c) polar solvent; and d) UV initiator system, wherein the amount by weight of unmodified, protonated silica nanoparticles exceeds the content of urethane acrylate and is at least 50.1 wt. %, based on the dry weight of the coating, to the use of the composition in the coating of substrates, and to substrates coated with such formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Karlheinz Hildenbrand, Peter Capellen, Eberhard Koch
  • Publication number: 20120010318
    Abstract: A polypropylene for a film capacitor or a polypropylene sheet for a film capacitor which exhibits excellent stretchability when stretched into a film and provides a film having high breakdown voltage and small thermal shrinkage ratio, and which is suitable for a polypropylene film for a film capacitor and a film capacitor comprising the film. The polypropylene for a film capacitor of the present invention is obtained by irradiating a propylene homopolymer with a radiation with an absorbed dose of 0.1 to 500 kGy, the propylene homopolymer having (1) a melt flow rate (MFR) within a range of 1 to 10 g/10 min as determined at 230° C. under a load of 2.16 kg in accordance with ASTM D1238, (2) an isotactic pentad fraction (mmmm fraction) of not less than 94% as determined using 13C-NMR, (3) an ash amount of not more than 30 ppm as obtained by completely burning the propylene homopolymer in air, and (4) a chlorine amount of not more than 10 ppm as determined by ion chromatography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: Noriko Tan, Satoshi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20110311776
    Abstract: A resin composition for laser engraving, including: a compound (A) having at least one of a hydrolyzable silyl group or a silanol group; and a binder polymer (B) having a functional group capable of forming a crosslinked structure by reacting with at least one of a hydrolyzable silyl group or a silanol group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugasaki, Takashi Kawashima
  • Patent number: 8071195
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-layered object having a hard coat layer capable of improving anti-staining property, anti-staining durability, scratch resistance, abrasion resistance and the like. A multi-layered object comprising a hard coat layer and a light transmitting layer, wherein the hard coat layer is formed from a composition for hard coat comprising: an active energy ray-curable silicone-acrylic copolymer (A); and an active energy ray-curable polyfunctional compound (B), and wherein the active energy ray-curable silicone-acrylic copolymer (A) contains: a polysiloxane block (a-1), an acrylic block (a-2) containing an active energy ray-curable double bond group and a fluoroalkyl group-containing acrylic block (a-3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Yoneyama, Kazushi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Hashiguchi, Akira Yamamoto, Koichi Ueda
  • Patent number: 8063115
    Abstract: A radiation curable composition comprising a curable compound, a photo-initiator and a co-initiator, wherein said co-initiator has a structure according to Formula I A-L-B??Formula I wherein A represents a structural moiety comprising an aromatic tertiary amine; B represents a structural moiety comprising at least one aliphatic tertiary amine; L represents a divalent linking group positioning the nitrogen atom of the aromatic amine of the structural moiety A and the nitrogen of at least one aliphatic amine of the structural moiety B in a 1-3 to 1-23 position; with the proviso that at least one aromatic and at least one aliphatic amine each have at least one alfa-hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Agfa Graphics NV
    Inventors: Johan Loccufier, Roland Claes
  • Patent number: 8058349
    Abstract: A method for melt-processing a polymer of a monovinyl aromatic compound, such as styrene, is disclosed. The method may include heating a polymer of a monovinyl aromatic compound volumetrically with microwave energy, wherein the polymer of a monovinyl aromatic compound includes: a discontinuous rubber phase; and a continuous poly(monovinyl aromatic) phase comprising up to 49 weight percent of at least one of an acrylate comonomer and a vinyl cyanide comonomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Styron Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Amaia Montoya-Goni, Ronald G. Van Daele, Roel Vossen, Michael Cook
  • Publication number: 20110274941
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an active energy ray curable resin composition exhibiting good adhesion to a polyolefin-based resin base material. More specifically, there is provided an active energy ray curable resin composition comprising: a block copolymer (C) that includes a polymer block (A) composed mainly of an olefin-based monomer unit and a polymer block (B) composed of a vinyl-based monomer unit having a carboxyl group, a carboxylic anhydride group, or a sulfonic acid group and/or a second vinyl-based monomer unit copolymerizable with the aforementioned vinyl-based monomer unit, the block copolymer (C) having a weight-average molecular weight from 5,000 to 100,000; and an active energy ray curable compound (D).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: NIPPON PAPER CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Yada, Yuuki Kokufu, Yuu Takata, Hideo Hosaka, Kenichi Fujino
  • Patent number: 8053490
    Abstract: A dental filler and dental resin restorative composition containing the dental filler is provided. The dental filler is prepared by pre-treating an acid-reactive filler with a polymerizable monomer or oligomer pre-treatment chemical having at least one acid or acid-precursor functional group, at least one polymerizable unsaturated carbon-carbon bond, and a molecular weight of about 1,000 grams per mole or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Pentron Clinical Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Weitao Jia, Shuhua Jin
  • Patent number: 8048979
    Abstract: The present invention involves the design of a radiation curable organic pre polymer resin material based on urethane acrylic linkage synthesized from the natural renewable resource cardanol or a derivative thereof, for coating application. These new molecules have a faster and better curing rate compared to the starting renewable resource—cardanol. This is brought about by the hydrogen bonding of the urethane linkage which leads to a pre organization of the molecules in such a way as to bring the cross linkable double bonds closer to each other. The present invention also involves a UV curable formulation of the above mentioned resins along with 2-10 parts by weight of a photopolymerization initiator. The resin, either in a formulation or alone turns into a cross linked film upon photopolymerization in presence of photoinitiator under a UV curable radiation source like a mercury vapor pressure lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
    Inventors: Asha Syamakumari, Chennakkattu Krishna Sadasivan Pillai
  • Publication number: 20110262729
    Abstract: This disclosure provides articles that include functionalized nanoscale fibers and methods for functionalizing nanoscale fibers. The functionalized nanoscale fibers may be made by oxidizing a network of nanoscale fibers, grafting one or more molecules or polymers to the oxidized nanoscale fibers, and cross-linking at least a portion of the molecules or polymers grafted to the oxidized nanoscale fibers. The functionalized nanoscale fibers may be used to make articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: Florida State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: I-Wen Chen, Zhiyong Liang, Ben Wang, Chun Zhang
  • Patent number: 8022112
    Abstract: A plasticized ceramic-forming mixture and a method for stiffening the mixture, the mixture comprising a combination of inorganic powder, one or more plasticizing organic binders, a radiation-curable monomer, a photoinitiator, and water, and the method comprising stiffening the surfaces of extruded shapes of the mixture by applying electromagnetic energy to the surfaces following extrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Michelle Dawn Fabian, Edward John Fewkes, Kevin Robert McCarthy
  • Patent number: 8007878
    Abstract: An antireflection film comprising a support and a low refractive index layer prepared by coating a coating composition containing the following components: (A) a fluorine-containing polymer, a principal chain of which is made of only carbon atoms and which contains at least one fluorine-containing vinyl monomer polymerization unit and at least one hydroxyl group-containing vinyl monomer polymerization unit, wherein a content of the hydroxyl group-containing vinyl monomer polymerization unit exceeds 20% by mole, provided that the polymer does not have a polysiloxane structure in the principal chain; (B) a crosslinking agent capable of reacting with a hydroxyl group; and (C) a compound containing two or more (meth)acryloyl groups in one molecule thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoneyama, Masaki Noro, Yasuhiro Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8008366
    Abstract: A process for producing a cured coating is provided that includes a step of forming on a substrate layer of a curable composition that includes at least one compound represented by Formula (I) and a step of curing the layer of the curable composition by irradiation with electron beam. In formula (I) , Q1 denoted a cyano group or a —COX2 group, X1 denoted a hydrogen atom, organic residue, or polymer chain bonded to carbon atom CA via a heteroatom, or a halogen atom, X2 denoted a hydrogen atom, organic residue, or polymer chain boned to the carbonyl group via a heteroatom, or a halogen atom, Ra and Rb independently denote a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group, or an organic residue, and X1 and X2, Ra and Rb, and X1 and Ra or Rb may be bonded to each other to form a cyclic structure. There is also provided an electron beam-curable composition that includes a compound represented by Formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuto Kunita
  • Patent number: 7999014
    Abstract: A flame retardant suitable for manufacturing a polymer composition is provided. The polymer composition is used for forming a cured film in which a balance among flame retardancy, adhesion, chemical resistance, heat resistance, and elasticity, and so on, is provided. A flame-retardant polymer composition with an excellent balance among the above properties is also provided. The flame retardant of the invention has a structure of Formula (1), (2), or (3): (in which, R1 is hydrogen or methyl, R2 is C2-20 alkylene or C2-20 alkylene in which any —CH2— is replaced by —O—, R3 and R4 are C1-20 alkyl, phenyl, and phenyl substituted by C1-5 alkyl or phenyl, R3 and R4 may also be an integrally-formed cyclic group, and p and q are 0 or 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: JNC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Mineo, Tomohiro Eto, Yosihiro Deyama, Hiroyuki Satou
  • Patent number: 7977402
    Abstract: Radiation curable ink compositions for impulse printheads are described. The compositions include a photoinitiator system, containing both a photocation polymerization initiator and a free-radical photoinitiator, an acrylate ester of a carboxylic acid ester, and at least one radiation curable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Collins Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Sudhakar Madhusoodhanan, Devdatt S. Nagvekar
  • Patent number: 7977442
    Abstract: A polymer includes a repeating unit shown by a general formula (1) in which R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted linear or branched monovalent alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an alicyclic group having 3 to 25 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 22 carbon atoms, and X represents a substituted or unsubstituted methylene group or a substituted or unsubstituted linear, branched or alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 2 to 25 carbon atoms. The polymer has a polystyrene-reduced weight average molecular weight determined by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) of 3000 to 100,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: JSR Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Maruyama, Daisuke Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7968618
    Abstract: A one-component self-etching self-priming dental adhesive composition is disclosed. The composition comprises glycerol phosphate di(meth)acrylate monomer, at least one mono-functional polymerizable monomer having just one ethylenically unsaturated group, at least one multi-functional polymerizable monomer having at least two ethylenically unsaturated groups, at least one aprotic solvent, at least one protic solvent, and at least one polymerization initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Kerr Corporation
    Inventors: Xiangxu Chen, Xuejun Qian
  • Publication number: 20110130483
    Abstract: Disclosed is a coating agent for poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) panel nano imprinting, more particularly, a coating agent for PMMA panel nano imprinting comprising a UV curable resin, a photoinitiator, an additive for surface modification and a weather-resistant stabilizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Choon Soo Lee, Min Hee Lee
  • Publication number: 20110116992
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of: treating an organic polymer with an electron beam-generated plasma; exposing the treated polymer to air or an oxygen- and hydrogen-containing gas, generating hydroxyl groups on the surface of the polymer; reacting the surface with an organosilane compound having a chloro, fluoro, or alkoxy group and a functional or reactive group that is less reactive with the surface than the chloro, fluoro, or alkoxy group; and covalently immobilizing a biomolecule to the functional or reactive group or a reaction product thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Stella H. North, Evgeniya H. Lock, Scott G. Walton, Chris Rowe Taitt
  • Patent number: 7943206
    Abstract: Microstructured articles such as brightness enhancing film and turning films having a (e.g. brightness enhancing) polymerized structure comprising the reaction product an organic phase and at least 10 wt-% inorganic nanoparticles. The reaction product of the organic phase has a glass transition temperature of less than 35° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Clinton L. Jones, Brant U. Kolb
  • Patent number: 7943067
    Abstract: The present invention includes a method for preparing polymer hydrogel spherical particles on a nanometer scale (nanogels). The method includes encapsulating hydrogel-forming components into liposomes, diluting the large unilamellar liposomes suspension to prevent polymerization outside the liposomes, and polymerizing the encapsulated hydrogel-forming components. The lipid bilayer may be solubilized with detergent. The phospholipid and detergent molecules and their micelles may then be removed by dialysis. The resulting nanogels may then be dried by evaporation in a temperature gradient. Poly(acrylamide), poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-1-vinylimidazole) hydrogel particles with a diameter from 30 to 300 nm were detected and characterized by dynamic light scattering technique. The solvent, temperature, pH, and ionic sensitivities of the nanogels were studied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Polytechnic Institute of New York University
    Inventors: Sergey Kazakov, Marian Kaholek, Kalle Levon
  • Patent number: 7943681
    Abstract: Low viscosity, radiation curable fluid formulations that can be used advantageously as radiation curable, inks. The formulations are easily prepared for use in ink jet systems. The viscosity of the compositions is low enough so that conventional solvent is not required in order to satisfy the requisite low ink jet viscosity specifications. After curing, the compositions form durable, weatherable, abrasion resistant, printed images on a wide variety of porous and nonporous substrates. The formulations are very suitable for outdoor printing applications, especially for printing outdoor graphics onto a variety of surfaces, including vinyl or other polymer films commonly used for signage, retroreflective signage or other retroreflective items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Jennifer L. Lee, Ronald K. Thery, Caroline M. Ylitalo, Richard L. Severance, Dong Wu, Bruce A. Nerad, Verna J. LeMire, James G. Carlson, William J. Hunt
  • Publication number: 20110111350
    Abstract: A monomer M-S has a first polymerisable moiety (M) capable of forming a conjugated polymer, and a second polymerisable moiety (S) with a double bond susceptible to addition polymerisation. Polymerisation of the M-moieties is caused, generally by electropolymerisation or chemical oxidation. Polymerisation of the S-moieties is also caused, generally by a radical mechanism, before, after or simultaneously with the M-polymerisation. Suitable monomers include N-(methacrylamidoethyl)-aniline, N-(acrylamidoethyl)-aniline, N-(methacryloyloxyethyl)-aniline and N-(acryloyloxyethyl)-aniline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Dhana Lakshmi, Michael James Whitcombe, Iva Chianella, Sergey Anatoliyovich Piletsky