Oxygen Patents (Class 522/120)
  • Patent number: 6831115
    Abstract: Modified polyolefins are produced by reacting a functionalized polyolefin with one or more ethylenically unsaturated compounds having a functional group reactive with the functional group on the polyolefin. These modified polyolefins may then polymerize in the presence of a photoinitiator upon exposure to ultraviolet radiation and also have the capability of copolymerizing in the presence of a photoinitiator with other ethylenically unsaturated crosslinking agents upon exposure to ultraviolet radiation. These modified polyolefins may also contain pendant carboxyl groups, which have the propensity to form hydrophilic salts with amines, and therefore may be rendered water-dispersible. The modified polyolefins of the present invention significantly improve the adhesion of paints, inks, and adhesives to various plastic and metal substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Kevin Alan Williams, Michael Bellas, Charlie Carroll Freeman, Jr., Lisa Kay Templeton
  • Patent number: 6818679
    Abstract: To provide a photopolymerizable dental coating composition that, when applied to the surface of a dental resin material such as crown restoratives, dental fillers, and denture or denture base resins, is thoroughly cured upon irradiation with a visible light and produces a smooth, colorless and transparent cured surface after curing so that a film having superior durability, abrasion resistance and resistance to discoloration can be formed, the photopolymerizable dental coating composition includes a volatile (meth)acrylate compound, a polyfunctional acrylate as a cross-linking agent, a fluoroalkyl group constituted of at least one fluorocarbon-containing (meth)acrylate compound for improving the durability, abrasion resistance and resistance to discoloration after curing, and an acyl phosphine oxide-based polymerization initiator having a high polymerization promoting effect for monomers, which does not make the polymerized composition remain yellowish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: GC Corporation
    Inventors: Shoichi Fukushima, Tomohiro Kumagai
  • Patent number: 6803394
    Abstract: A composition for actinic radiation curable nail coatings and artificial nail tips comprising a BISGMA based urethane resin, an additional polymer, a photoinitiator, and having a viscosity of greater than approximately 80,000 cps. Composition may additionally comprise other additives known in the art and also methods of application of the composition alone and with related compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Gel Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Pamela H. Lilley, Sarah Peterson
  • Patent number: 6803393
    Abstract: Multicomponent system curable thermally and with actinic radiation, comprising A) an isocyanate-reactive binder comprising A1) at least one unsaturated polyester whose molecule contains on average at least one group that can be activated with actinic radiation, of the formulae I, II and/or III wherein n is an integer from 1 to 10; and A2) at least one binder, different than (A1), whose molecule comprises on average at least two isocyanate-reactive functional groups, and/or A3) at least one binder, different than (A1), whose molecule comprises on average at least one isocyanate-reactive functional group and at least one reactive functional group having at least one bond that can be activated with actinic radiation, and B) a crosslinker comprising B1) at least one polyisocyanate and/or B2) at least one polyisocyanate whose molecule comprises on average at least one reactive functional group having at least one bond that can be activated with actinic radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: BASF Coatings AG
    Inventors: Rainer Blum, Maxime Allard
  • Patent number: 6783809
    Abstract: A photosensitive composition of (a) a compound of formula (Ia) or (Ib) and (b) a bifunctional acrylate or methacrylate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Huntsman Advanced Materials Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Bettina Steinmann, Adrian Schulthess, Max Hunziker
  • Patent number: 6784223
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an ultraviolet light curable transparent conductive composition and method for making such a composition that may be used to produce a transparent conductive coating on a suitable substrate. These coatings may be used in such applications as touch screens, membrane switches, TV screens, and VCRs. The disclosed composition does not contain any significant amount of volatile organic solvents that do not become incorporated in the active layer after curing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Allied PhotoChemical, Inc.
    Inventor: Roy C. Krohn
  • Patent number: 6777458
    Abstract: A process for producing scratch-resistant coatings, encompassing the following steps: applying at least one UV-curable coating composition to at least one surface of an article to be coated, said coating composition comprising at least one polymer and/or oligomer P1 containing on average at least one ethylenically unsaturated double bond per molecule, and curing the coating composition by exposure to UV radiation, which comprises conducting the curing of the coating composition under an oxygen-containing protective gas which has an oxygen partial pressure in the range from 0.2 to 18 kPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Jaworek, Reinhold Schwalm, Rainer Königer, Reiner Kranwetvogel
  • Patent number: 6767933
    Abstract: A radiation polymerizable composition comprising: (A) a donor/acceptor component for forming a charge transfer complex said component being selected from the group consisting of: (iii) a bifunctional compound having an electron donor group and an electron withdrawing group and a polymerizable unsaturated group; (iv) a mixture of (a) at least one unsaturated compound having an electron donor group and a polymerizable unsaturated moiety; and (b) at least one unsaturated compound having an electron acceptor group and a polymerizable unsaturated group; and (B) a binder polymer composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Ballina PTY LTD
    Inventors: John Lyndon Garnett, Allan Darley Matthews
  • Patent number: 6759080
    Abstract: The invention discloses methods for making foams by photopolymerizing emulsions comprising a reactive phase and a phase immiscible with the reactive phase components. Foams made from water-in-oil emulsions, including high internal phase emulsion are disclosed. Articles and uses for the foams are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Kristin La Velle Thunhorst, Mark David Gehlsen, Robin Edgar Wright, Eric Wayne Nelson, Steven Dean Koecher, Douglas Gold
  • Patent number: 6756417
    Abstract: Dental bonding compositions and methods for promoting adhesion of an amalgam-based restorative material to a dental substrate. The inventive compositions include one or more polymerizable resins that are able to adhere to a dental substrate when at least partially polymerized, one or more polymerization photoinitiators in an amount so as to result in partial polymerization of the resin when the compositions are irradiated with radiant energy, and one or more chemical initiators (e.g., benzoyl peroxide) that cause further polymerization of the resin when the composition is contacted with an amalgam restorative. A bonding composition applied to a dental substrate and irradiated with radiant energy is more polymerized in a region adjacent to the dental substrate, while a less polymerized inhibition layer forms in the region of the surface. Packing an uncured amalgam into the dental preparation mechanically disrupts the inhibition layer so as to form peaks, troughs and other irregularities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Ultradent Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M. Allred, Neil T. Jessop, Dan E. Fischer
  • Patent number: 6746632
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a process for the rapid in-situ curing of polymerizable materials to provide macromolecular networks and articles of manufacture that are “morphology-trapped”; that is, they exhibit a fixed phase morphology and/or molecular orientation that is locked in by the curing step. The process includes the steps of mixing together a dead polymer, a reactive plasticizer and an initiator to give a polymerizable composition; further processing the mixture in order to achieve a desired phase morphology and/or molecular orientation of the polymeric constituents; shaping the polymerizable composition into a desired geometry; and exposing the polymerizable composition to a source of polymerizing energy, without mixing, to give a final product with the desired phase morphology and/or molecular orientation locked in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: ZMS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Houston, Toshiaki Hino, David S. Soane
  • Patent number: 6733700
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a process for the rapid in-situ curing of polymerizable materials to provide macro-molecular networks and articles of manufacture that are “morphology-trapped”; that is, they exhibit a fixed phase morphology and/or molecular orientation that is locked in by the curing step. The process includes the steps of mixing together a dead polymer or a prepolymer, a reactive plasticizer or a diulent, and an initiator to give a polymerizable composition; further processing the mixture in order to achieve a desired phase morphology and/or moelcular orientation of the polymeric constitutents; shaping the polymerizable composition into a desired geometry; and exposing the polymerizable composition to a source of polymerizing energy, without mixing to give a final product with the desired phase morphology and/or moelcular orientation locked in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: ZMS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Houston, Toshiaki Hino, David S. Soane
  • Patent number: 6693142
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a production method by which a polymer of a functional group-terminated vinyl monomer can be easily and practically produced. Further, it is another object of the present invention to provide a functional group-terminated vinyl polymer which is useful as a material for the production of various functional products. The first aspect of the present invention is concerned with a production method of a functional group-terminated vinyl polymer comprising a step of synthesizing a halogen atom-terminated vinyl polymer by the radical polymerization reaction of a vinyl monomer in the presence of a halogen compound and a step of introducing a functional group to a terminus by substituting a functional group-containing group for the terminal halogen atom of said vinyl polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Wakiya, Takamaro Kakehi
  • Patent number: 6686161
    Abstract: The present invention provides solid supports (e.g., glass) and polymer hydrogels (particularly polymer hydrogel arrays present on a solid support) comprising one or more reactive sites for the attachment of biomolecules, as well as biomolecules comprising one or more reactive sites for attachment to solid supports and polymer hydrogels. The invention further provides novel compositions and methods for the preparation of biomolecules, solid supports, and polymer hydrogels comprising reactive sites. The invention also provides for preparation of crosslinked solid supports, polymer hydrogels, and hydrogel arrays, wherein one or more biomolecules is attached by means of the reactive sites in a photocycloaddition reaction. Advantageously, according to the invention, crosslinking of the hydrogel and attachment of biomolecules can be done in a single step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Amersham Biosciences AB
    Inventors: Travis Johnson, John McGowen, Allyson Beuhler, Charles Kimball Brush, Robert Emil Lajos
  • Patent number: 6680144
    Abstract: A method for producing a battery separator is disclosed. The method comprises applying a coating of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer to the fibers of a non-woven sheet and polymerizing the monomer in situ on the fiber surfaces. The non-woven sheet is from 50 to 3000 microns thick, and is composed of polyolefin fibers having an average fiber diameter from 0.5 to 5 microns and a surface area from 0.2 to 30 square meters per gram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: KVG Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Wai M. Choi
  • Patent number: 6664306
    Abstract: This invention relates to polymeric compositions that are processible and may be photochemically cured to produce crosslinked compositions useful in coating, sealants and adhesive applications. The crosslinkable composition comprises a first component having a plurality of pendent, free-radically polymerizable functional groups; a polymeric photoinitiator, and a residual content of less than 2%. The composition is melt processable at temperatures of less than or equal to 100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Babu N. Gaddam, Steven M. Hellmann, Ahmed S. Abuelyaman, Maureen A. Kavanagh, Duane D. Fansler, Kevin M. Lewandowski
  • Patent number: 6664061
    Abstract: [2+2] photo-attachable functional groups were incorporated in polyacrylamide based hydrogels and synthetic oligonucleotide probes. The probes were photochemically attached by covalent bonding to the three dimensional surface of a hydrogel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Amersham Biosciences AB
    Inventors: Robert Elghanian, Charles K. Brush, Yanzheng Xu
  • Patent number: 6645617
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition curable with actinic energy rays which comprises a copolymer comprising 0.1 to 30 wt. %, preferably 0.1 to 3 wt. %, structural units derived from an imide (meth)acrylate represented by general formula (1) and 70 to 99.9 wt. %, preferably 97 to 99.9 wt. %, structural units derived from an ethylenic monomer such as an alkyl (meth)acrylate having a C4-12 alkyl group. In formula (1), R1 and R2 each independently is hydrogen or C1-4 alkyl, one of R1 and R2 is hydrogen and the other is C1-4 alkyl, or R1 and R2 are bonded to each other to form a carbon ring; R3 is C1-6 alkylene; R4 is hydrogen or methyl; and n is an integer of 1 to 6. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is usable as one-pack type, has excellent storage stability, and does not necessitate any step such as heating or aging when used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Toagosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichi Okazaki, Tetsuji Jitsumatsu
  • Patent number: 6632854
    Abstract: A process for producing polypropylene having increased melt strength, the process comprising irradiating polypropylene with an electron beam having an energy of at least 5 MeV and with a radiation dose of from 5 to 100 kGray in the presence of a grafting agent for forming long chain branches on the polypropylene molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Atofina Research, S.A.
    Inventor: Yves Charlier
  • Patent number: 6632852
    Abstract: A self-leveling finishing composition capable of providing chemically resistant low profile coatings is described. The finishing composition comprises thermoplastic resin solids and thermosetting resin solids in a weight ratio of about 0.5:1 to about 11:1 and a solvent composition comprising a solvent capable of dissolving the thermoplastic resin solids component and a solvent miscible co-solvent capable of dissolving the thermosetting resin solids. The finishing composition is applied and dried to a dry-to-touch surface which is thereafter subjected to conditions capable of initiating polymerization of the component thermosetting resin solids. The finishing composition can be used as a substitute for more expensive or more labor intensive coating compositions in existing surface finishing protocols without compromise of surface quality and chemical resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Inventors: Frank Bor-Her Chen, Gregory David Muselman, Eugen Safta, Harvey Richard Forrest, George Matton
  • Patent number: 6620887
    Abstract: Crosslinked fine particles having a Tg of 100° C. or higher and an amount of remaining double bonds of 0.01 mmol/g or more, which are obtainable by polymerizing a compound (a1) having one or two radical-polymerizable ethylenic unsaturated groups in the molecule and a compound (a2) having three or more (meth)acryloyl groups in the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juichi Fujimoto, Seiji Nushi, Hiroshi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 6620857
    Abstract: By means of a curing process combining thermal and UV curing it is possible, using compositions comprising (A) a coating system based on a polyacrylate polyol or polyester polyol with melamine, or a polyacrylate polyol and/or polyester polyol with a blocked or unblocked polyisocyanate, or a carboxyl-, anhydride- or amino-functional polyester and/or polyacrylate with an epoxy-functional polyester or polyacrylate, (B) an OH—, NH2—, COOH—, epoxy- or NCO-functional resin containing, in addition, at least one ethylenically unsaturated double bond, which is separated from the functional group by a spacer group, and (C) at least one photoinitiator, to obtain coatings having good surface properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventor: Andreas Valet
  • Patent number: 6617371
    Abstract: A single component liquid heat-curable adhesive formulation that is stable at room temperature. The formulation includes from about 5 to about 70 wt % of at least one acrylate monomer, from about 5 to about 94 wt % of an acrylate oligomer, and from about 0.1 to about 10 wt % of a thermal initiator selected from the group consisting of diacyl peroxides, benzoyl peroxides and peroxy esters. A photo initiator may be included thereby rendering the stable liquid formulation to be both heat-curable and UV-curable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Addison Clear Wave, LLC
    Inventor: Chau Thi Minh Ha
  • Patent number: 6616885
    Abstract: A manufacturing method comprising the steps of forming at first solidified wax layer of a desired shape, depositing onto the first solidified wax layer at least one layer of a liquid resin formulation, solidifying the layer of liquid resin formulation, depositing a second wax layer on to the combination of the first solidified wax layer and the layer of solidified resin formulation, solidifying the second wax layer, and separating the solidified resin formulation from first and second wax layers. Preferably, the resin formulation comprises at least one monofunctional water soluble vinyl or acrylic monomer in combination with a low molecular weight aliphatic polymer having acrylic or methacrylic acid functionality. The solidified wax and resin formulation layers can be machined as may be desired to form mold of a given shape comprising wax layers when the layer of formulation is separated from the wax layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Advanced Ceramics Research, Inc.
    Inventors: John Lang Lombardi, Gregory John Artz
  • Patent number: 6610762
    Abstract: An adhesive composition which is switchable under irradiation to change from a tacky to a less tacky state which includes a switchable polymer. The polymer comprises a backbone polymeric moiety bound to a plurality of curable moieties, each of which comprises a free-radically active group and has an amine functionality. Also, the switchable polymer, processes for producing such polymers and compositions, and switchable adhesive articles comprising the adhesive compositions, such as light-switchable pressure sensitive adhesive dressings, and methods of using such articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Smith & Nephew Plc
    Inventor: Iain Webster
  • Patent number: 6605651
    Abstract: This invention provides a method and material compositions for producing objects containing in whole, or in part, biomedical polymers, especially those having dental use. Microwave sensitive material compositions are injected under pressure into a mold, the mold containing a replica of a body tissue or tissues. While hydraulic pressure is maintained on the material, a microwave source emits metered electromagnetic energy for hardening the material in the 3-dimensionally defined space. For dental and other applications, the mold making, injection and hardening are done sequentially to rapidly produce an object which accurately fits the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Biomat Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan Stangel, Jingwei Xu
  • Patent number: 6599958
    Abstract: Light cured nail coatings that are applied to natural nails and/or artificial nail-tips for cosmetic purposes. An optional bond-enhancing compound can be used to strengthen the bond between the light curable coatings and the natural nail. Also, finishing compounds may be used to clean the surface of the uv curable coatings resulting in a high-gloss shine. The methods of applying uv-radiation curable nail coatings, bond-enhancing compounds, and finishing compounds to artificial nail-tips and natural nail are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Gel Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Pamela H. Lilley
  • Patent number: 6599957
    Abstract: A UV light-curable composition comprises: (a) a first component, said first component being UV light-polymerizable polymer having a first index of refraction; and (b) a second component, the second component being UV light-polymerizable monomer having a second index of refraction, the second index of refraction being higher than said first index of refraction; wherein the first component polymerizes slower upon exposure to UV radiation than the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven B. Dawes, Michael E. DeRosa, Robert J. Hagerty, Jianguo Wang
  • Patent number: 6596787
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to low intensity UV curable adhesives formulated using a blend of acrylate oligomers and monomers which are capable of bonding glass, provide improved low-yellowing properties and fast cure speed over current glass bonding adhesives, while maintaining good bond strength lo and durability comparable to, or better than, state-of-the-art glass bonding adhesives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Henkel Loctite Corporation
    Inventors: Susan Levandoski, JoAnn DeMarco
  • Publication number: 20030134925
    Abstract: A method of preparing fiber sheet molding compounds with a fabric of continuous fiber reinforcement that can be molded under low pressures and temperatures to provide thermoset articles, wherein liquid reactive components are slowly absorbed in solid acrylic resin. The acrylic resin functions as a thickener which delays the viscosity build allowing the fabric of continuous fiber reinforcement to be incorporated before molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: REINFORCED POLYMERS, INC.
    Inventor: Robert Guzauskas
  • Patent number: 6593393
    Abstract: Radiation-curing coating systems which contain a silanized silica, where the silane is hexamethyldisilazane, 3-methacryloxypropyltrialkoxysilane and/or glycidyloxypropyltrialkoxysilane as the silanizing agent. The radiation-curing coating systems can be used for coating derived timber boards, solid wood, wood veneers, parquet, decorative papers, decorative films, thermoplastics and thermosetting plastics, mineral and polymeric glasses, metals (for example aluminium, high-grade steel, phosphated, chromated and galvanized steel sheets, copper), lacquered surfaces, printing inks and leather.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Stephanie Frahn, Manfred Ettlinger, Jürgen Meyer
  • Publication number: 20030129323
    Abstract: Process for producing coatings, adhesive films and/or seals from actinic-radiation-curable coating materials, adhesives and/or sealing compounds on and/or in primed and unprimed substrates by applying the coating materials, adhesives and/or sealing compounds onto and/or into the substrates and curing the resultant films with actinic radiation using photoinitiator-free coating materials, adhesives and sealing compounds comprising actinic-radiation-activatable constituents, A) at least one (meth)acrylate copolymer containing on average per molecule at least one group (a) having at least one actinic radiation activatable bond, group (a) being attached to the basic structure of the (meth)acrylate copolymer (A) by polymer-analogous reactions, or alternatively B) at least one compound containing on average per molecule at least one group (a) having at least one actinic radiation activatable bond, and C) at least one (meth)acrylate copolymer which is free of such groups (a), and which contain an amount of actinic-ra
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Ludger Dornieden, Jorge Prieto, Roland Steinrucken, Reinhard Wiesing
  • Patent number: 6586491
    Abstract: A method of reducing the flow viscosity of a polyacrylate composition, which comprises adding a) to a polyacrylate, a polyacrylate copolymer, a polyacrylate mixture or a mixture of polyacrylates and polyacrylate copolymers having an average molecular weight of more than 500000 g/mol b) a polyacrylate, a polyacrylate copolymer, a polyacrylate mixture or a mixture of polyacrylates and polyacrylate copolymers having an average molecular weight of less than 500000 g/mol, component (b) possessing functional groups crosslinkable by UV irradiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: tesa AG
    Inventors: Marc Husemann, Stephan Zöllner
  • Patent number: 6586492
    Abstract: An ink-jet ink is provided including an ink jet vehicle and a colorant. The vehicle includes at least 35% by weight radiation curable material, based on the total vehicle weight. The vehicle may but does not necessarily include a thickener. The vehicle is a paste or a solid at 20° C. and has a viscosity of less than 25 centipoise between 40° C. and 130° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Coates Brothers PLC
    Inventors: Nigel Antony Caiger, Hartley David Selman
  • Publication number: 20030087982
    Abstract: A method of modifying a polymeric material which comprises the steps of activation-treatment and a hydrophilic polymer-treatment, or comprises the steps of activation-treatment, a hydrophilic polymer-treatment, and monomer grafting in this order, or comprises the step of a solvent-treatment followed by these steps. Thus, the polymeric material, e.g., polyolefin, is improved in hydrophilicity, adhesion, etc. without lowering the practical strength thereof The polymeric material thus improved in adhesion and other properties can be used in many applications where water absorption and adhesion are required, such as an absorption material, e.g., a wiping/cleansing material, a water retention material, a material for microorganism culture media, a separator for batteries (or cells), a synthetic paper, a filter medium, a textile product for clothing, a medical/sanitary/cosmetic supply, and reinforcing fibers for composite materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Inventor: Hitoshi Kanazawa
  • Publication number: 20030083396
    Abstract: Ink compositions having excellent imaging and a low tendency to foam are disclosed. The ink compositions may contain one or more fluorochemical surfactants. Methods of coating a substrate by printing the ink composition onto a substrate are also disclosed. Substrates coated with an ink composition are further disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2001
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventors: Caroline M. Ylitalo, Ronald K. Thery, Richard L. Severance
  • Patent number: 6555595
    Abstract: Disclosed are radiation-curable or photopolymerizable compositions, processes for applying and curing the compositions and articles bearing a cured coating of the compositions utilizing radiation-curable compositions which contain, in addition to the typical components of radiation-curable compositions, a polymer derived from 3,4-epoxy-1-butene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Inventors: James Vincent Crivello, Marco Sangermano, Stephen Neal Falling
  • Publication number: 20030078314
    Abstract: The present invention provides solid supports (e.g., glass) and polymer hydrogels (particularly polymer hydrogel arrays present on a solid support) comprising one or more reactive sites for the attachment of biomolecules, as well as biomolecules comprising one or more reactive sites for attachment to solid supports and polymer hydrogels. The invention further provides novel compositions and methods for the preparation of biomolecules, solid supports, and polymer hydrogels comprising reactive sites. The invention also provides for preparation of crosslinked solid supports, polymer hydrogels, and hydrogel arrays, wherein one or more biomolecules is attached by means of the reactive sites in a photocycloaddition reaction. Advantageously, according to the invention, crosslinking of the hydrogel and attachment of biomolecules can be done in a single step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2001
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Applicant: Motorola Inc.
    Inventors: Travis Johnson, John McGowen, Allyson Beuhler, Charles Kimball Brush, Robert Emil Lajos
  • Publication number: 20030073755
    Abstract: A radiation polymerisable composition comprising: (A) a donor/acceptor component for forming a charge transfer complex said component being selected from the group consisting of: (iii) a bifunctional compound having an electron donor group and an electron withdrawing group and a polymerisable unsaturated group; (iv) a mixture of (a) at least one unsaturated compound having an electron donor group and a polymerisable unsaturated moiety; and (b) at least one unsaturated compound having an electron acceptor group and a polymerisable unsaturated group; and (B) a binder polymer composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Inventors: John Lyndon Garnett, Allan Darley Matthews
  • Publication number: 20030054170
    Abstract: Crosslinked fine particles having a Tg of 100° C. or higher and an amount of remaining double bonds of 0.01 mmol/g or more, which are obtainable by polymerizing a compound (a1) having one or two radical-polymerizable ethylenic unsaturated groups in the molecule and a compound (a2) having three or more (meth)acryloyl groups in the molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2001
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juichi Fujimoto, Seiji Nushi, Hiroshi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 6531522
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating for an optical fiber. The coating includes a monomer. The monomer includes an oxyglycidyl (meth)acrylate component. A coating with the monomeric component has exhibited an excellent polymerization rate. The present invention also relates to methods of making such optical fibers coated in accordance with the invention and the coated glass article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Michael J. Winningham
  • Patent number: 6528553
    Abstract: The present invention provides a curable composition, comprising: a (meth)acrylate urethane compound derived from a polypropylene glycol or a propyleneoxide ethyleneoxide copolymer glycol having a molecular weight between 1,000 and 13,000 and an amount of unsaturation less than 0.01 meq/g. The liquid curable resin composition of the present invention has improved liquid stability and can produce cured products having superior mechanical characteristics by polymerization. The composition further comprises preferably a primary or secondary amine. The liquid curable resin composition can be used as a coating material for optical fibers, adhesives, and the like. The composition is particularly suitable as a coating material for optical fibers for which long-term stability is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignees: DSM N.V., JSR Corporation
    Inventors: Zen Komiya, Adrianus G. M. Abel, Duurt P. W. Alkema, Masahito Mase, Takashi Ukachi
  • Patent number: 6518327
    Abstract: Graft copolymers are prepared, in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, by (1) irradiating a particulate olefin polymer material with high energy ionizing radiation, (2) treating the irradiated olefin polymer material with at least one grafting monomer that is capable of forming side chains on the olefin polymer material, in the presence of at least one additive to control the molecular weight of the side chains of the polymerized grafting monomer selected from (a) at least one hydroxylamine derivative polymerization inhibitor, and (b) at least one thio-, nitro-, or halogen-substituted aliphatic or aromatic compound or an aliphatic or aromatic phosphine derivative, and (3) deactivating the residual free radicals in the resulting grafted olefin polymer material and removing any unreacted vinyl monomer from the material. Graft copolymers with low molecular weight side chains are produced that are easier to process and have improved internal and surface morphology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Vu A. Dang, Tam T. M. Phan, Jeanine A. Smith, Cheng Q. Song
  • Patent number: 6515039
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the parallel and combinatory synthesis of compounds bound to a continuous polymeric solid phase supporting material. According to the method, a continuous polymeric solid phase supporting material is prepared, the material comprising a matrix of a supporting polymeric material and graft copolymer chains covalently bound to the supporting matrix, the graft copolymer chains having reactive groups being able to react with organic compounds, thereby forming spatially defined reaction sites. The method then comprises the sequential spotting of synthesis building blocks or reagents at the various reaction sites on the continuous solid phase supporting material to yield a substrate library of compounds bound to the solid phase supporting material, whereby each reaction site on the continuous solid phase supporting material determines the composition of the synthesized compound, which is bound directly on the supporting matrix via the reactive groups of the graft polymer chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Poly-An GmbH
    Inventors: Mathias Ulbricht, Rudolf Volkmer-Engert, Lothar Germeroth, Holger Wenschuh
  • Publication number: 20030018116
    Abstract: A curable resin composition comprises a poly(arylene ether), an acryloyl monomer, an allylic monomer, and an abrasive filler. The composition tolerates high filler contents, cures rapidly, and exhibits excellent toughness after curing. Useful articles prepared from the composition include grinding wheels and cut-off wheels having good wear characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventors: Erich Otto Teutsch, Gary William Yeager, Kenneth Paul Zarnoch, Steven William Webb, Hua Guo
  • Patent number: 6506815
    Abstract: A resin composition for denture is provided, which does not require operations for weighing, and mixing during the use; is free from involving of air bubbles; and when used for preparation of a denture base, is free from a reduction in physical properties and staining or discoloration with a lapse of time. Further, a completed denture has a high elastic energy value, is superior in impact resistance, and when applied with an impact or a stress as in the case of dropping, is not readily broken. The resin composition for denture base is in a one-paste state and is constructed by (a) a polymerizable monomer and/or oligomer having a modulus of elasticity at polymerization of 0.25 to 3.00 GPa, (b) an organic filler and/or an organic-inorganic composite filler having a modulus of elasticity of 0.25 to 3.00 GPa, and (c) a polymerization initiator made of a heat polymerization type polymerization initiator and/or a photopolymerization type polymerization initiator, and optionally, (d) an inorganic filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: GC Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Shinozaki, Tomohiro Kumagai
  • Patent number: 6500877
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an ultraviolet light curable paint composition and method for applying and making such a composition to a substrate. Suitable substrates include glass, metals, and various plastics such as polycarbonates. The disclosed composition does not contain any significant amount of volatile organic solvents that do not become incorporated in the coating or are released to ambient after curing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Krohn Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Roy C. Krohn
  • Publication number: 20020183412
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process of crosslinking a polymer material with silane by means of heat, in which process a polymer, a grafting agent, an initiator and a crosslinking catalyst and optional additives are fed into an extruder and extruded to a homogenous mass by keeping the process temperature so low that the initiator used does not degrade during the extrusion and the optional additives do not react or degrade in the extruder, and, after the extrusion, the extruded mass is grafted and crosslinked. After the extrusion, the process of the invention comprises a step of heating the initiator, mixed homogenously with the polymer material, by means of infared radiation in a wavelength range absorbed by the initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: MAILLEFER S.A..
    Inventors: Ali Harlin, Matti Sistola
  • Patent number: 6489376
    Abstract: A fast-curing, low viscosity composition for coating an optical waveguide, more specifically, an optical fiber, and optical fibers coated therewith are disclosed. The coating composition is a radiation curable composition containing: a radiation curable oligomer, a free radical photoinitiator, and a mixture of reactive diluents including a low molecular weight (meth)acrylate having tri-, tetra-, penta- or higher functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Igor V. Khudyakov, Michael B. Purvis, Robert J. Overton
  • Patent number: 6489377
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing thermotropic casting resin systems that comprise at least one matrix polymer including at least one thermotropic monomer compound which cannot be mixed with the matrix polymer, whereby the matrix polymer an the thermotropic monomer compound are selected in such a way that their refraction indices are almost the same in a temperatrue range that is below the temperature required for structural change and that reaches the temperature of structural change of the thermotropic monomer compound, the casting resin system being translucent or transparent in this termperature range. After dissolving the monomer thermotropic compund in a matrix solution containing a photohardening oligomer, reactive diluents and photoinitiators and a liquid, photohardenable system is obtained, photoradiation with exclusion of oxygen is carried out for hardening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Fraunhoger-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Taner Bicer, Christoph Schwitalla, Holger Goedeke