Solid Polymer Derived From Carboxylic Acid-containing Monomer Patents (Class 524/522)
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Patent number: 6110999Abstract: A composition is disclosed that comprises at least one base polymer, at least one resin and optionally one or more additives such as a filler, colorant, among other additives. The disclosed composition can applied by spraying, immersion, brushing, rolling onto the adherent surface; caulking, among other methods of application.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1999Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: Denovus LLCInventors: Darren Lee Ourth, Jess Rogers, Jeffrey J. Richerson
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Patent number: 6103802Abstract: This invention relates to water-based release coating compositions. More particularly, the invention relates to compositions for coating ovenable and dual-ovenable paperboard. Food trays made from this coated paperboard have superior grease resistance, high temperature resistance, and excellent food release properties--characteristics which make these trays particularly suitable for use in baking applications.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1998Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Westvaco CorporationInventors: Sukun Zhang, Charles G. Ruffner
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Patent number: 6103676Abstract: The invention provides dispersants and dispersant viscosity index improvers which include polymers of conjugated dienes which have been hydrogenated, functionalized, optionally modified and post treated. The dispersant substances include a copolymer of two different conjugated dienes. The polymers are selectively hydrogenated to produce polymers which have highly controlled amounts of unsaturation, permitting highly selective functionalization. The polymers may be functionalized by hydroformylation followed by reductive amination. Also provided are lubricant fluids, such as mineral and synthetic oils, which have been modified in their dispersancy and/or viscometric properties by means of the dispersant substances of the invention. Also provided are methods of modifying the dispersancy and/or viscometric properties of lubricating fluids such as mineral and synthetic lubricating oils. The dispersant substances may also include a carrier fluid to provide dispersant concentrates.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1998Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Mobil Oil CorporationInventors: Thomas S. Coolbaugh, Frederick C. Loveless, John E. Marlin, II, Demetreos N. Matthews
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Patent number: 6103787Abstract: The present invention is directed to golf balls comprising a cover and a core, wherein the cover is formed from a blend which comprises a base ionomer resin and a color concentrate comprising a coloring agent and a carrier ionomer resin. The relationship between the acid content of the base ionomer resin (X), wherein (X) is at least about 15% by weight and the acid content of the carrier ionomer resin (Y) is X-Y.ltoreq.4. Golf balls made with covers having base ionomer resins and carrier ionomer resins meeting the above relationship exhibit superior durability characteristics, including a significant reduction flow front failures and delamination as compared to golf ball covers which do not meet the above relationship.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1998Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Murali Rajagopalan, Kevin Harris, Padraic W. Elliott, Christopher E. Charleston
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Patent number: 6087435Abstract: A polystyrene-based resin composition, comprising (A) a styrene-based resin with a mainly syndiotactic configuration, (B) a polyolefin, and (C) rubber polymer particles as main components, exhibits excellent heat resistance and impact resistance.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akikazu Nakano, Takashi Sumitomo, Keisuke Funaki, Toshikazu Ijitsu, Michihiro Sawada, Masahiko Kuramoto, Masakazu Suzuki
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Patent number: 6077895Abstract: An alkali soluble hot melt composition for melt blowing applications is described which maintains a viscosity of at least 50,000 cp at temperatures of 350.degree. F. The adhesive composition in cludes about 20% to about 95%, by weight, of an alkali soluble polymer; about 0% to about 50%, by weight, of a crystalline resin; about 0-50% by weight, of a suitable filler; and about 0% to about 50%, by weight, of a suitable plasticizer.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1996Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: Ato Findley, Inc.Inventors: Diane Strelow, Mark Alper
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Patent number: 6075085Abstract: A recording liquid comprising a colorant, water and at least two kinds of fine resin particles. In a preferred embodiment, at least one of the two kinds of the fine resin particles are fine self-crosslinkable resin particles. In another preferred embodiment, the number of the kinds of the fine resin particles is 3 or more. Also, disclosed is an image recording method using the recording liquid.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1997Date of Patent: June 13, 2000Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzuru Fukuda, Takeshi Mikami, Jiro Minabe, Yasufumi Suwabe
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Patent number: 6072024Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing with good productivity a cross-linked polyaspartic acid resin having biodegradability and high water absorbency. The process features inclusion of one of the following steps: (a) a polysuccinimide, which has been brought into a dispersed state by a dispersant, and a cross-linking agent are reacted to produce the cross-linked polyaspartic acid resin; (b) imide rings of a cross-linked polysuccinimide are subjected to a hydrolysis reaction while controlling a swelling degree of a resulting gel, whereby the cross-linked polyaspartic acid resin is produced; and (c) a gel of a cross-linked polysuccinimide, which has been obtained by reacting a cross-linking agent to a solution of a polysuccinimide in an organic solvent, is disintegrated to subject imide rings of the cross-linked polysuccinimide to a hydrolysis reaction, so that the cross-linked polyaspartic acid resin is produced.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1998Date of Patent: June 6, 2000Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Yoshihiro Irizato, Makoto Sukegawa, Toshio Katoh, Hiroaki Tamatani, Akinori Nagatomo, Masaru Wada
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Patent number: 6066690Abstract: This application provides a heat vulcanizable rubber composition which prevents scorch in a molding process for the production of vulcanized rubber molded articles, and has good storage stability when the composition is formulated in the form of a one pack pasty composition.The heat vulcanizable rubber composition of the present invention contains (A) a rubber component having double bonds, and (B) a vulcanizing agent in the solid state at room temperature and a vulcanizing accelerator in the solid state at room temperature, characterized in that the particle surfaces of at least one of the vulcanizing agent and vulcanizing accelerator are treated with a fine powder having a center particle size of 2 .mu.m or less in a weight ratio of said at least one of the vulcanizing agent and vulcanizing accelerator to the fine powder in the range between 1:0.001 to 1:2, to form the fine powder-treated vulcanizing agent and/or vulcanizing accelerator.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1998Date of Patent: May 23, 2000Assignee: Sunstar Giken Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshimi Shibata, Tatsuya Okuno
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Patent number: 6060537Abstract: A water based ink composition which can be used effectively in various ink jet type printing arrangements and on a variety of predetermined substrate surfaces. Such ink composition being resistant to smearing and running when contacted by water after application and drying on such substrate surfaces. This water based ink composition comprising a dye material, having a predetermined color, which is present in the ink composition generally in a range of between about 0.1 weight percent and about 10.0 weight percent. Water is present in such ink composition generally in a range of between about 50.0 weight percent and about 80.0 weight percent. There is a substantially water compatible organic solvent compound for dissolving such dye material therein. The organic solvent compound is present in such ink composition generally in a range of between about 10.0 weight percent and about 40.0 weight percent.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1998Date of Patent: May 9, 2000Assignee: Matthews International CorporationInventors: George B. Due, John W. Standard, Michael E. OBrien
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Patent number: 6060555Abstract: Improved sprayable roof coating systems which provide immediate waterproofing of a newly-sprayed latex-based ionic roof coating by applying to the upper surface of such roof coating an ionic catalyst having a pH opposed to the pH of such roof coating, whereby such upper surface of such roof coating coagulates immediately to form a thin waterproof surface layer on such roof coating and the bottom portions of such roof coating are permitted to coagulate and bond to the underlying roof normally. Also, latex-based sprayable roof coating systems permitting use in roof mastics of recycled rubber and spray equipment for such systems which do not clog up when air spraying such recycled-rubber-containing roof mastics.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1997Date of Patent: May 9, 2000Inventor: Winfield S. Wright
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Patent number: 6051655Abstract: A composition amenable to injection molding and extrusion comprises a syndiotactic styrene resin, a thermoplastic resin such as a polyolefin and an inorganic filler optionally contains a rubber.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akikazu Nakano, Takashi Sumitomo, Keisuke Funaki, Toshikazu Ijitsu, Michihiro Sawada, Masahiko Kuramoto, Masakazu Suzuki
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Patent number: 6051646Abstract: Abrasive articles comprising a cured thermosetting binder and abrasive grains. The binder is prepared with a poly-functional molecule which contains at least two functional groups selected from the group consisting of carboxyl, anhydride and amine, and a (hydroxyalkyl)urea crosslinking agent containing a single urea group, at least two hydroxyl groups, and have at least two carbon atoms disposed between the urea group and each of the hydroxyl groups. The abrasive articles comprise bonded, nonwoven or coated abrasive articles.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1998Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding CorporationInventors: David R. Nass, Andrew J. Kielbania, Jr., Sharon P. Lee
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Patent number: 6051562Abstract: An oil in water emulsion comprises a continuous aqueous phase and a discontinuous oil phase which is either a hydrophobic liquid which is immiscible with the aqueous phase or is a solid phase obtained by providing an emulsion in the aqueous phase of a solution of potentially solid material in the hydrophobic liquid and converting this solution to a solid phase, and the emulsion is stabilized by the inclusion of water-soluble stabilizing polymer in the aqueous phase and oil solubilizing stabilizing material, generally polymer, in the oil phase. The or each polymer is preferably a copolymer of hydrophilic and hydrophobic groups, preferably being formed by copolymerization of water-soluble monomer and oil-soluble monomer that provide the desired groups in the polymer without further reaction. Partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohol can be used as the water-soluble polymer.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1996Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemical Water Treatment LimitedInventors: Peter Chamberlain, Eleanor Harden
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Patent number: 6043311Abstract: The present invention relates to a printable formulation of a superabsorbent polymer and to the application forms of the product, for example, for cable insulation and for the production of nonwovens. The formulation is preferably supplied in the form of a two-component package consisting of precrosslinked superabsorber and reactive cross-linking agent and mixed in-situ to form the product. The obtained printing paste is printed on a substrate, for example, a nonwoven. For cable insulation purposes, the product is subsequently incorporated into the cable in a conventional manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1997Date of Patent: March 28, 2000Assignees: Stockhausen GmbH & Co. KG, Blydenstein-Willink N.V.Inventors: Jochen Houben, Winfried Krug
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Patent number: 6040376Abstract: Compositions of precipitated anionic polymers containing mixtures of certain salts as well as processes for making and using the same are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1998Date of Patent: March 21, 2000Assignee: Cytec Technology Corp.Inventors: Joseph J. Mallon, Raymond S. Farinato, Louis Rosati, John J. Freeman, Jr.
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Patent number: 6031028Abstract: This invention provides a cationic electrodeposition coating composition comprising(A) a resin prepared by reacting an epoxy- or carboxyl-containing acrylic polymer, a bisphenol compound and a bisphenol diglycidyl ether-type epoxy resin to produce an epoxy-containing resin and introducing thereinto cationic groups and(B) a hydroxyl- and amino-containing acrylic resin, the resins (A) and (B) being crosslinked and cured by urethanation reaction with (C) an isocyanate crosslinking agent component. The cationic electrodeposition coating composition of the invention is excellent in curability and in corrosion resistance of the cured coating film.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1998Date of Patent: February 29, 2000Assignee: Kansai Paint Company, LimitedInventors: Yutaka Iino, Katsuhisa Sugisaki, Koji Kamikado
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Patent number: 6025411Abstract: A denture adhesive composition is disclosed and comprises a polymeric activator in an amount of up to about 3 percent by weight based on the total weight of the denture adhesive composition. This composition exhibits enhanced adhesive performance and reduces oozing and incidence of food occlusion. Also disclosed is a method of preparing a denture adhesive composition comprising: preparing a mixture which comprises a polymeric activator in an amount of up to about 3 percent by weight based on the total weight of the denture adhesive composition; forming a denture adhesive composition including the mixture; and recovering the denture adhesive composition. A method of making a denture adhesive composition more adhesive and less oozing is disclosed as well. This method comprises adding to the denture adhesive composition a polymeric activator in an amount of up to about 3 percent by weight based on the total weight of the denture adhesive composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1997Date of Patent: February 15, 2000Assignee: Block Drug Company, Inc.Inventors: Eddie Wong, Hal C. Clarke, Robert C. Gasman, Alfred J. Smetana, Joseph Synodis
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Patent number: 6013726Abstract: A polystyrene-based resin composition containing a styrene-based resin with mainly syndiotactic configuration, a polyamide, and a rubber polymer as main components.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akikazu Nakano, Takashi Sumitomo, Keisuke Funaki, Toshikazu Ijitsu, Michihiro Sawada, Masahiko Kuramoto, Masakazu Suzuki
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Patent number: 6013324Abstract: A sprayable aqueous coating composition for motor vehicles comprising an aqueous dispersion of addition polymer microparticles having a crosslinked core and a non-crosslinked stabilising mantle containing acid groups, characterised in that the crosslinked core comprises: i) a crosslinked inner core of an addition polymer and ii) a crosslinked outer core of addition polymer which is made from at least 10% by weight of monomers having a solubility in water of less than 0.1% by weight ratio of the inner core to the outer core being in the range 10:90 to 90:10.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1998Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLCInventors: Andrew Frangou, James William Casper, Deepak Gogna, William James Highcock
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Patent number: 6013325Abstract: The invention relates to a printable one-component swelling paste made of an aqueous mixture of a water-soluble polymer containing carboxyl groups, and at least one multifunctional alcohol as crosslinker and optionally further additives such as thickeners, the carboxyl groups of the polymer being neutralized to 40-65 mole-%. The invention also relates to the use of the swelling paste for producing water-swellable yarns, fabrics, nonwovens, or films. After coating the swelling paste on a support, a thermal subsequent treatment is effected for the purpose of drying and crosslinking the swelling paste.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1997Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Stockhausen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Jochen Houben, Oliver Hoppe, Daniel Roulands
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Patent number: 6013721Abstract: The present invention is directed to traffic paint compositions, which dry faster than conventional waterborne traffic paints and to a method of producing traffic paint road markings made therefrom. The traffic paint composition of the present invention includes a blend of an anionically stabilized polymer binder, a polyfunctional amine polymer having an amine and an acid functionality therein and an amount of volatile base sufficient to raise the pH of the composition to a point where essentially all of the polyfunctional amine polymer is in a non-ionic state. The traffic paint composition of the present invention further provides improved storage stability.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1998Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Rohm and Haas CompanyInventors: Donald Craig Schall, Steven Scott Edwards
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Patent number: 6005042Abstract: A polymer dispersion having a minimum film-forming temperature in the range from 0 to 40.degree. C., which is useful in coating compositions for substrates, in the form of varnishes or gloss paints, is obtained by stepwise emulsion polymerization, which includes polymerizing, onto a first stage having the monomer composition I comprising: from 50 to 68.5% by weight of soft monomers A whose homopolymers have a glass transition temperature (T.sub.g) below 0.degree. C.; from 30 to 50% by weight of hard monomers B whose homopolymers have a glass transition temperature (T.sub.g) above 65.degree. C.; from 0.5 to 5% by weight of .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carboxylic acids and/or carboxamides C which are copolymerizable with A and B; from 1 to 7.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1997Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Ulrich Desor, Stephan Krieger
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Patent number: 5990227Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ink-jet recording process which comprises applying a first liquid at least containing a water-soluble resin having at least one carboxyl group or anhydride thereof, or sulfonic group per molecule to a recording medium and then applying an ink at least comprising water, an organic solvent, a dye, an alkali-soluble resin and an alkali to the portions where the first liquid has adhered, thereby forming an image. An ink set and an instrument for use in such a process are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1997Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihisa Takizawa, Makoto Aoki, Yutaka Kurabayashi
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Patent number: 5976648Abstract: Disclosed is a heterogeneous polymer gel comprising at least two gel networks. One embodiment of the present invention concerns a heterogeneous polymer gel comprising a first gel network comprising an environmentally-stable gel and a second gel network comprising an environmentally-unstable gel wherein the first gel network interpenetrates the second gel network. The heterogeneous polymer gel exhibits controlled changes in volume in response to environmental changes in condition, such as of temperature or of chemical composition.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1996Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Yong Li, Zhibing Hu, Xiaomin Zhang
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Patent number: 5969005Abstract: The present invention provides an ink which provides an image with a sufficient image density free from bleeding and unevenness, dries rapidly on paper and can be jetted at a high reliability and a recording method using said ink. A novel ink for ink jet recording comprising water, a coloring material and a water-soluble organic solvent is provided, characterized in that said ink comprises a polymer containing a carboxyl group having an average molecular weight of from 1,000 to 20,000 in the free or salt state in an amount of from 0.1 to 3% by weight, a water-soluble organic compound which normally stays solid and vaporizes in a proportion of not less than 50% by weight at a temperature of from 100.degree. C. to 350.degree. C. in an amount of from 1 to 20% by weight, and a compound represented by the following formula (A):R--O--X.sub.n H (A)wherein R represents a functional group selected from the group consisting of C.sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1997Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Assignee: FUJI XEROX Co., LTDInventors: Yoshiro Yamashita, Ken Hashimoto, Hiroshi Inoue
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Patent number: 5962554Abstract: Polymers composed of at least >80% by weight of monomers of the formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are each C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 -alkyl,R.sup.4 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 -alkyl andX is 0 or NH,are used as assistants in the drying of aqueous polymer dispersions and, in the case of a weight average relative molecular weight of from 5000 to 35,000, additionally as protective colloid for the preparation of aqueous polymer dispersions by the free radical aqueous emulsion polymerization method.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1996Date of Patent: October 5, 1999Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Joachim Pakusch, Bernhard Schuler, Walter Machtle, Roland Baumstark
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Patent number: 5962571Abstract: Process for making organic solvent-free aqueous crosslinkable polymer composition comprising: a) preparing an aqueous solution of an acid-functional oligomer with Tg 10 to 125.degree. C. and having crosslinker functional groups; b) conducting an aqueous emulsion polymerization to make an aqueous emulsion of an olefinic hydrophobic polymer in the presence of the aqueous oligomer solution, the hydrophobic polymer having Tg at least 25.degree. C. below that of the oligomer and optionally crosslinker functional groups, and c) combining with a crosslinking agent reactable with the crosslinker groups of the oligomer and polymer, said composition having Koenig hardness of .gtoreq.40 sec and minimum film forming temperature (MFFT) .ltoreq.55.degree. C. Also the aqueous composition so formed and its use in various applications. The aqueous composition has excellent properties and in particular an advantageous balance of MFFT and Koenig hardness.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 1996Date of Patent: October 5, 1999Assignee: Zeneca Resins B.V.Inventors: Gerardus Cornelis Overbeek, Yvonne Wilhelmina Smak, Alfred Jean Paul Buckmann
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Patent number: 5962579Abstract: The subject invention relates to a latex blend which is particularly beneficial when utilized in manufacturing coatings for concrete structures, said latex being comprised of a blend of (1) from about 60 weight percent to about 95 weight percent of a first latex which is comprised of (a) water, (b) a polymer that is comprised of repeat units which are derived from about 30 to about 70 weight percent vinyl aromatic monomers, from about 25 to about 65 weight percent of at least one alkyl acrylate monomer, from about 1 to about 5 weight percent of acrylic acid and from about 0.4 to about 3 weight percent methacrylic acid, (c) about 0.2 phr to 0.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 1998Date of Patent: October 5, 1999Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Gerald Owen Schulz, Roger William Riffle
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Patent number: 5952404Abstract: An aqueous gloss emulsion paint comprises a dispersion of structured composite particles, said structured particles comprising an association of particles of inorganic pigment and polymeric particles. The polymeric particles are formed from a polymer or copolymer having a minimum film forming temperature not greater than 50.degree. C. The component particles of the composite particles are held in association as a result of surface charges on the particles said surface charges on the polymeric particles being of opposite sign to the surface charge on the particles of inorganic pigment. The ratio of polymeric particles to particles of inorganic pigment in the composite particles is from 0.5:1 to 6:1 by volume.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1995Date of Patent: September 14, 1999Assignee: Tioxide Group Services LimitedInventors: Leslie Ainsley Simpson, Keith Robson, Steven Hugh Ashdown, Lisa Blakey
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Patent number: 5942570Abstract: A water-based paint composition comprising (A) from 10-90% by weight, based on total weight of resin solids of a water-dispersible acrylic graft copolymer having an acid value of 10-30 mg and a hydroxyl value of 50-150, wherein the polymer is obtained by graft polymerization of an acrylic copolymer of an acid value of 35-120 mg KOH/g and a hydroxyl value 50-150 mg KOH/g, and an acrylic copolymer of acid value .ltoreq.15 and a hydroxyl value of 50-150, and (B) from 10-90% by weight, based on total weight of resin solids of internally non-crosslinked acrylic fine particles having an acid value 15-200 and a hydroxyl value of 15-200 made by emulsion polymerizing .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically unsaturated monomers.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1997Date of Patent: August 24, 1999Assignee: BASF Coatings AGInventors: Yoshiaki Matsukura, Atsuhiro Sakai, Hitoshi Taniguchi, Yoshiaki Kawamura
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Patent number: 5939482Abstract: The invention concerns a two-stage method for the preparation of aqueous, self-crosslinking copolymer dispersions made from acrylate copolymers having acetoacetyl and carboxylic groups. The copolymers are neutralized with polyamines which act as crosslinking agents. These copolymers are useful in paints as binders that crosslink at room temperature or at elevated temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1997Date of Patent: August 17, 1999Assignee: Vianova Resins AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ingo Kriessmann, Rami-Raimund Awad, Hannelore Gsoell, Kurt Gossak, Bernhard Hirschmann
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Patent number: 5939467Abstract: The present invention relates to polymeric compositions that are biodegradable and that can be melt processed into various forms, including films, fibers, and nonwovens. The compositions include compatible or semicompatible blends of biodegradable polymers and have physical and thermomechanical integrity. Films formed from preferred polymeric compositions are suitable for use as backsheets in disposable absorbent articles. In a preferred embodiment, the polymeric composition includes a polyhydroxyalkanoate and at least one other biodegradable polymer selected from aliphatic polyester-based polyurethanes, a polylactide, polycaprolactone, or a mixture of two or more of these polymers. Where the second polymer is polycaprolactone, the composition preferably also includes a third polymer for enhancing the melt processability of the composition.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1994Date of Patent: August 17, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Andrew Julian Wnuk, David Harry Melik, Terrill Alan Young
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Patent number: 5932629Abstract: An aqueous printing ink composition containing finely dispersed pigments and a synthetic polymer binder, the binder containing: (a) finely dispersed, aqueous-basic insoluble emulsion (co)polymers having a number average molecular weight of from about 10,000 to 1,000,000 and a glass transition temperature of up to 0.degree. C., in intimate admixture with (b) aqueous-basic soluble or dispersible (co) polymers having a number average molecular weight lower than that of the (co)polymers of component (a) and a glass transition temperature of at least 0.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1996Date of Patent: August 3, 1999Assignees: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien, Hartmann Druckfarben, GmbHInventors: Michael Beck, Herbert Fischer, Wolfgang Ritter, Ludwig Schieferstein, Udo Griebsch, Quang-Minh Thai
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Patent number: 5929135Abstract: This invention provides a ball-point pen suited to low-viscosity aqueous ink. This ball-point pen includes a ball-point pen refill in which an ink reservoir communicates with a tip for holding a tip ball via a joint, wherein the ink reservoir is filled with water type ball-point pen ink containing at least one type of a solvent selected from the group consisting of ethyleneglycol, diethyleneglycol, propyleneglycol, and glycerin in an amount of 5 to 40 wt % of the total ink amount, a crosslinking acrylic acid polymer in an amount of 0.1 to 1.0 wt % of the total ink amount, a pigment in an amount of 5 to 10 wt % of the total ink amount, and the balance primarily consisting of water, and the tip has a spring which in a normal state urges and brings the tip ball into intimate contact with the inner edge of a ball holding portion at the front end of the tip and releases the intimate contact when writing is performed.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1997Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Eiji Wasai, Kazuhiko Furukawa
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Patent number: 5929140Abstract: A non-aqueous dispersion type coating resin composition which is excellent in pigment dispersibility and adhesive properties to various base material surfaces, can be made to have a high solid content, can be applied thick, and can form coat having good physical properties such as water resistance, alkali resistance and weatherability, and comprises(A) an organic solvent comprising an aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent as a main component,(B) an acrylic polymer which contains therein 0.2 to 30 weight % of a repeating unit represented by the following formula ##STR1## wherein, R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or methyl group,m is an integer of 3 to 11, andn is a number of 1 to 10,and is soluble in the above organic solvent (A), and(C) polymer fine particles substantially insoluble in the above organic solvent (A).Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1997Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Nippon Carbide Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takao Fujii, Hiroaki Obata, Shunichi Yakita, Akira Kume, Hiroshi Serizawa, Takeshi Komatu
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Patent number: 5928656Abstract: A thickener for products for topical application such as personal care products for application to the skin or hair, or topically administrable pharmaceutical preparations, comprises a water-in-oil emulsion containing polymeric material, at least 98% of which polymeric material is soluble in the aqueous phase. The polymeric material comprises units derived from (a) acrylamide, (b) 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane-sulphonic acid (AMPS) and (c) a polyfunctional monomer, present in an amount of from 0.12 to 2 milliequivalents per mol of total monomer units. At least some of the AMPS units are in the form of a neutral salt such that the aqueous phase of the water in oil emulsion has a pH of at least 5.5.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1997Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Scott Bader Company LimitedInventors: Arshad-Ul-Hag Chaudhry, Roman J Mikolajewicz
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Patent number: 5922788Abstract: A surface coating agent includes a main ingredient compound containing a mixture of white cement and finely ground silica and carbon fibers and a water soluble hardener containing a mixture of a cationic acrylic resin and an anionic acrylic resin.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1997Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Inventor: Kaneo Gotan
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Patent number: 5922777Abstract: Gift free coating with improved tannin stain blocking, nicotine stain blocking, efflorescencee resistance, and water spot resistance are disclosed. Pre-treated ion exchange resins are incorporated into the coating compositions to achieve the improvements.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1997Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Inventor: Paul Ralph Van Rheenen
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Patent number: 5922468Abstract: Coating dispersions for articles containing either (a) a tetrafluoroethylene homopolymer having a standard specific gravity of at least 2.250 and a melt viscosity of 3.times.10.sup.8 to 3.times.10.sup.9 Pa.multidot.s or (b) a non-melt-fabricable tetrafluoroethylene copolymer having a standard specific gravity of at least 2.165 and a melt creep viscosity of 1.times.10.sup.7 to 1.times.10.sup.9 Pa.multidot.s.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1996Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Peter L. Huesmann, Michael Fryd
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Patent number: 5907011Abstract: Heterogeneous, solvent- and plasticizer-free polyvinyl ester dispersions which are stabilized by protective colloids and which have a minimum filming temperature of below 10.degree. C. are disclosed. These dispersions are made of a mixture of(a) a homopolymer or copolymer A having a glass transition temperature of above 20.degree. C., whereby homopolymer or copolymer A includes(i) from 85 to 100% by weight of at least one vinyl ester of carboxylic acids having 1 to 18 carbon atoms;(ii) from 0 to 5% by weight of at least one .alpha., .beta.-unsaturated carboxylic acid;(iii) from 0 to 5% by weight of at least one mono-olefinically unsaturated compound (a3) having at least one amino or amido group, and(iv) from 0 to 5% by weight of at least one polyethylenically unsaturated monomer, and(b) a copolymer B having a glass transition temperature of below 20.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1997Date of Patent: May 25, 1999Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Martin Jakob, Detlev Seip, Volker Matz, Stefan Hess
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Patent number: 5900454Abstract: Aqueous dispersions comprising emulsified polyolefins and metal salts of phosphoric acid esters which are useful for sizing glass fibers.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1996Date of Patent: May 4, 1999Assignees: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Bayer Antwerpen N.V.Inventors: Stephan Kirchmeyer, Alexander Karbach, Raymond Audenaert
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Patent number: 5898042Abstract: An aqueous fluororesin coating composition and a process for producing the same, the coating composition comprising a core/shell fluorine-containing copolymer dispersed in an aqueous medium, the core/shell fluorine-containing copolymer comprising a core comprising a fluorine-containing copolymer comprising a repeating unit derived from a fluoroolefin monomer and a repeating unit derived from a vinyl carboxylate monomer and having a glass transition point Tg of 40.degree. C. or more, and a shell comprising a fluorine-containing copolymer comprising a repeating unit derived from a fluoroolefin monomer and a repeating unit derived from a vinyl carboxylate monomer and having a glass transition point Tg of from -10 to 30.degree. C., the weight ratio of the core to the shell being from 20/1 to 1/2.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1997Date of Patent: April 27, 1999Assignee: Toagosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Sawada, Etsuzo Marumoto, Akihito Iida, Tatsuo Nishio, Hiroshi Inukai
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Patent number: 5891539Abstract: A molded article or water-supply pipe free from causing dot-like projections or small-diameter blisters on the molded article surface when the molded article is brought into contact with chlorine-containing water is obtained from a resin composition containing a polyolefin resin, a pigment and a copolymer resin obtained from a monomer having an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated double bond and a dibasic acid having an unsaturated double bond or an anhydride thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1996Date of Patent: April 6, 1999Assignee: Toyo Ink Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Izumi Nakane, Mitsuaki Nakata, Susumu Miyashita, Masashi Koide, Hirokazu Ootaka, deceased, Toshiaki Ootaka, heir
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Patent number: 5891525Abstract: Aqueous composition intended to form an antimigration and antiozone protective coating on the external surface of a tire, comprising an aqueous emulsion of at least: (a) a polymer called constituent I, said constituent I being a homopolymer or copolymer based on at least one monomer chosen from the group of acrylic, methacrylic and vinyl esters and having a glass transition temperature below 0.degree. C.; and (b) a constituent II chosen from the group consisting of a hydrophilic silica and a homopolymer or copolymer based on at least one monomer chosen from the group of acrylic, methacrylic and vinyl monomers, said homopolymer or copolymer having a glass transition temperature above 25.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1996Date of Patent: April 6, 1999Assignee: Michelin & CieInventors: Christian Chauffour, Patrick Cohen, Alain Cottin, Georges Peyron
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Patent number: 5886094Abstract: There is provided a thermoplastic resin composition which has damping property, mechanical strength, impact resistance and heat stability resistance in well-balance proportion and has excellent workability, and the composition comprising the following components (A) to (E), in which the ratio by weight of (A)/(B) is from 1/99 to 80/20, the content of the component (C) is from 1 to 50 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the components (A) and (B), the content of the component (D) is sufficient amount to compatibilize the components (A) and (B), and the content of the component (E) is from 1 to 120 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the components (A) and (B):(A): polyphenylene ether,(B): polyamide,(C): conjugated diene-alkenyl aromatic compound copolymer in which not less than 50% of the conjugated diene compound is polymerized by 1,2-bond or 3,4-bond and the tan .delta. peak temperature thereof is not less than -20.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 1997Date of Patent: March 23, 1999Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Sanada, Mitsuyoshi Shimano
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Patent number: 5880183Abstract: A composition of a hydroxyl functional polymer, an acetate functional polymer and a carboxyl functional polymer, which are crosslinked by a polyfunctional aziridine. Preferably, PVOH, polyvinylacetate and a carboxylated styrene/butadiene are used as the polymers. The aziridine can be held separate from the polymers prior to crosslinking. The composition is useful as a wood adhesive or coating composition.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 1997Date of Patent: March 9, 1999Inventor: Siew Puat Yeo
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Patent number: 5880207Abstract: Acrylic compositions are provided which comprise a matrix of polymethyl methacrylate having dispersed within it particles comprising 75 to 90 weight percent of polymethyl methacrylate and greater than 10 to 25 weight percent of a comonomer comprising an ethylenically unsaturated monomer that copolymerizes with methyl methacrylate, wherein the particles further comprise more than 0.4 weight percent of a crosslinker.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1995Date of Patent: March 9, 1999Assignee: ICI Acrylics Inc.Inventors: Walter H. Delphin, Marcia O. Leach, James R. Leach, Fareeduddin Farooq, Connie D. Dickerson
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Patent number: 5880176Abstract: A fluorescent marking composition containing particles of an organic material which has a glass transition temperature of at least 30.degree. C. and an average particle size of at least 30 nm, and emitting fluorescence in a visible light range, or absorbing infrared light having a wavelength of at least 700 nm and emitting a light in an infrared wavelength range, which composition is excellent in dispersion stability, light resistance, and heat and light resistance, and provides a mark which does not bleed.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1995Date of Patent: March 9, 1999Assignee: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Takanori Kamoto, Yoshinori Yamamoto, Toshinobu Sueyoshi
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Patent number: 5869557Abstract: Moldable and pigmentable heat-curable compositions which can be employed for forming molded articles with zero or practically zero shrinkage (low profile type) or a small expansion include a heat-curable resin, a catalyst, a (meth)acrylic polymer in powder form with a dimension smaller than 150 .mu.m, at least one inorganic filler and, optionally, reinforcing fibers and organic or inorganic pigments.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1996Date of Patent: February 9, 1999Assignee: Atohaas Holding C.V.Inventors: Lionel Landru, Florent Raviola