Nitrogen-containing Reactant Patents (Class 524/602)
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Patent number: 6706789Abstract: An adhesive composition which can be formulated to have low or substantially no VOC emissions is provided. Adhesives in accordance with the invention can be formulated as high solids, one-part, reactive, cross-linked adhesives. This can be achieved by utilizing amide-ester-acrylate reactions or reactions with any other carboxylated polymers. Adhesive compositions in accordance with the invention can include oils, such as various drying oils and similarly acting polymers, co-polymers, and fatty acids. Adhesives in accordance with the invention can also include various hydrocarbon resins, particularly crosslinkable hydrocarbons having a melting point in the range 70° C. to 140° C. Cross-linking agents, such as materials with pendant oxazoline groups are also advantageously included. Various other mixing, flow and other handling ingredients can also be included.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2002Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignee: Taylor AdhesivesInventors: Robert Kintu Ddamulira, John Edmund Raidy, Jr., Barry Kenneth Wright, Darwin Carles Regis
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Patent number: 6686412Abstract: Pastes containing flatting agents and/or texture additives, containing A) 5 to 30 wt. % of one or more thixotropic (meth)acrylic copolymers and/or one or more thixotropic polyesters B) 15 to 45 wt. % of one or more flatting and/or texturing agents, C) 30 to 65 wt. % of one or more organic solvents and optionally wetting and dispersing agents, rheology modifiers, catalysts and optionally further additives and auxiliaries, wherein the proportions of components A), B) and C) add up to 100 wt. % and the weight ratio of thixotropic (meth)acrylic copolymer and/or thixotropic polyester: flatting and/or texturing agents is 1:6 to 1:0.8.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2000Date of Patent: February 3, 2004Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Günter Berschel, Udo Hellmann, Werner Stephan, Wolfgang Stricker
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Patent number: 6677015Abstract: A molding composition of at least 50% by weight of a polyamine-polyamide copolymer obtained from 0.05 to 2.5% by weight of a polyamine having at least 4 nitrogen atoms and having a viscosity of at least 5 000 Pa•s at 250° C. and at a shear rate of 0.1 l/s, and having a viscosity ratio of at least 7 at 250° C., when the melt viscosities at shear rates of 0.1 l/s and 100 l/s are compared with one another, has high melt stiffness and is easy to cut, and performs well in blow molding.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2001Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Degussa AGInventors: Martin Himmelmann, Wilfried Bartz, Franz-Erich Baumann, Guido Schmitz, Georg Oenbrink, Harald Haeger, Ralf Richter
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Polymeric pigment dispersant utilized as a grind resin for pigments and method of preparing the same
Patent number: 6657002Abstract: The present invention is directed to a polyester carboxylate polymeric pigment dispersant to be used as a grind resin to incorporate inorganic pigment into a pigment dispersion for a coating composition. The polymeric pigment dispersant is the reaction product of pentaerythritol, hexahydrophthalic anhydride, glycidylneodecanoate, and dimethylethanolamine. The present invention is also directed to a method of preparing the polymeric pigment dispersant. In this method, the pentaerythritol and the hexahydrophthalic anhydride are polymerized to form an intermediate compound. Next, an epoxy group of the glycidylneodecanoate reacts with the intermediate compound, and then the dimethylethanolamine neutralizes the intermediate compound to form the completed polymeric pigment dispersant. The polymeric pigment dispersant is utilized for efficient wetting and grinding of the pigment.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2000Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: Swaminathan Ramesh, JoAnn Lanza -
Patent number: 6653433Abstract: A polyimide film that exhibits improved peel strength when clad with a metal layer is prepared by reacting a polyamic acid polymer and an esterified polyamic acid oligomer. The esterified oligomer has from two to twenty repeating units and at least two crosslinkable groups selected from the group consisting of carbonyl, cyano, hydroxy, alkyne, maleimide, norbornene and sulfonyl groups. The polyamic acid is dissolved in a solvent to form a polyamic acid solution, which has a minimum gel-film forming temperature, or a minimum green film forming temperature, associated therewith. The esterified polyamic acid oligomer has an imidization temperature, which is higher than the minimum gel-film forming temperature, or the minimum green film forming temperature, of the polyamic acid solution.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2001Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: James Richard Edman, Meredith Lynn White
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Patent number: 6599631Abstract: Inorganic particle/polymer composites are described that involve chemical bonding between the elements of the composite. In some embodiments, the composite composition includes a polymer having side groups chemically bonded to inorganic particles. Furthermore, the composite composition can include chemically bonded inorganic particles and ordered copolymers. Various electrical, optical and electro-optical devices can be formed from the composites.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2001Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: NanoGram CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Kambe, Yigal Do Blum, Benjamin Chaloner-Gill, Shivkumar Chiruvolu, Sujeet Kumar, David Brent MacQueen
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Patent number: 6538099Abstract: Disclosed is a member of nylon 12 having a relative viscosity of from 1.9 to 3.5 when measured in 98% sulfuric acid at a concentration of 10 g/dm3 and at 25° C. and a melt flow rate of 0.1 g/10 min. or more when measured at 235° C. under a load of 2,160 g, wherein said relative viscosity and said melt flow rate have a relationship of the following formula (I): 2.87×103 exp(−3.48 &eegr;r)≦MFR≦3.25×104 exp(−3.48 &eegr;r) (I) wherein &eegr;r is relative viscosity and MFR is melt flow rate. The nylon 12 has excellent extrusion moldability and creep characteristics, fatigue characteristics and the like mechanical properties and is suited for tubular molds. A nylon 12 composition comprising the nylon 12 having the above-described specific relationship between &eegr;r and MFR and a plasticizer is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2001Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Noriyuki Isobe, Tetsuji Hirano, Kouichiro Kurachi, Nobuhiro Ogawa
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Patent number: 6531568Abstract: This invention provides crosslinkable-group-containing polyimides of various known thermoplastic polyimide backbone structures, which are provided with far better heat resistance, chemical resistance and mechanical properties than known polyimides of the structures without impairing excellent moldability or formability, superb sliding property, low water absorption property, outstanding electrical properties, high thermal oxidation stability and high radiation resistance, all of which are inherent to the structures.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2001Date of Patent: March 11, 2003Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Atsushi Shibuya, Tomomi Okumura, Hideaki Oikawa, Yoshihiro Sakata, Takashi Kuroki, Yuichi Okawa, Shoji Tamai
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Publication number: 20030036625Abstract: The instant invention provides an aromatic polyamide composition for molding which is of superior rigidity, strength, toughness, dimensional stability, resistance to chemicals, external surface appearance and sliding characteristics in high-humidity, high-temperature environments, which has a low coefficient of linear expansion and which is of low warpage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2002Publication date: February 20, 2003Inventors: Masahiro Nozaki, Reiko Koshida, Takeo Tasaka, Tadao Ushida
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Patent number: 6521700Abstract: Coating composition especially for preparing automotive surfacers, comprising a condensation product A of a carboxyl group-containing resin A1 and a hydroxyl group-containing resin A2, and a curing agent C, which becomes active only at elevated temperature of at least 80° C., and comprises a mixture of a water-insoluble blocked isocyanate C1 and a hydrophilically modified isocyanate C2.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2000Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignee: Solutia Austria GmbHInventors: Gert Dworak, Wrner Staritzbichler
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Patent number: 6515044Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of high-viscosity polyesters with a reduced content of acid end groups, wherein a masterbatch of low-viscosity polyesters and oxazolines is prepared, this is then mixed with a higher-viscosity polyester and this mixture (dry blend) is further processed.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2001Date of Patent: February 4, 2003Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karsten-Josef Idel, Hans-Jürgen Dietrich, Matthias Müller
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Publication number: 20020183479Abstract: The invention relates to a semi-aromatic polyamide containing at least tetramethylene terephthalamide units and also hexamethylene terephthalamide units.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2002Publication date: December 5, 2002Inventors: Rudy Rulkens, Robert C.B. Crombach
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Patent number: 6486240Abstract: An asymmetric support membrane can be prepared by using a phase separation method. The method includes immersing a polymer solvent solution into water. The polymer solution is made by dissolving 15 to 35% by weight of the polymer into a solvent that lets the polymer solution become a gel at a temperature of 0 to 50° C. The solution is then allowed to gel and brought into a final membrane form in water for phase separation and formation of the asymmetric support membrane. The polymer may be poly(vinyl chloride), polyethersulfone, polyetherimide and polyamic(methylester). The solvent is &ggr;-butyrolactone alone as a major solvent or is a mixed solvent with N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone as a cosolvent. The asymmetric support membrane is a porous support membrane of a sponge form having open pores that are connected to one another with a narrow pore size distribution. Thus, the asymmetric support membrane has an improved permeance and mechanical strength.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1999Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Jong Ok Won, Yong Soo Kang, Hyun Chae Park, Un Young Kim, Seong Hyun Yoo
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Publication number: 20020161163Abstract: Disclosed is a member of nylon 12 having a relative viscosity of from 1.9 to 3.5 when measured in 98% sulfuric acid at a concentration of 10 g/dm3 and at 25° C. and a melt flow rate of 0.1 g/10 min. or more when measured at 235° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2001Publication date: October 31, 2002Applicant: Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Noriyuki Isobe, Tetsuji Hirano, Kouichiro Kurachi, Nobuhiro Ogawa
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Publication number: 20020147269Abstract: The present invention is directed to an aqueous dispersion of a polyester salt and polymeric vehicles which include the aqueous dispersions of a polyester salt. The polymeric vehicle is particularly effective for providing coating binders in cured primer coatings. The primer coating compositions are useful for multilayer paint coating films which have at least two layers of paint film including the cured primer coating composition film. The use of the primer polymeric vehicles of the present invention in conjunction with one or more additional overlaying top coating film layers provide a multiple layer coatings having improved adhesion and chip resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2001Publication date: October 10, 2002Inventors: Gary Eugene Spilman, Michael Charles Knight, Lisa Kay Kemp, Joseph Leo Nothnagel
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Publication number: 20020111422Abstract: A amidoamine composition containing oligomeric amidoamine compounds having the structure: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2000Publication date: August 15, 2002Inventors: Gayle Edward Back, Pen-Chung Wang, Larry Steven Corley, Jimmy D. Elmore
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Patent number: 6423774Abstract: The present invention is directed to an electrodepositable composition of a resinous phase dispersed in an aqueous medium. The resinous phase includes an ionic polyester polymer prepared from a) an aromatic and/or cycloaliphatic carboxylic acid compound having at least two aromatic and/or secondary aliphatic carboxyl groups, b) a branched aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or araliphatic compound containing at least two aliphatic hydroxyl groups, the aliphatic hydroxyl groups being either secondary or tertiary hydroxyl groups or primary hydroxyl groups attached to a carbon adjacent to a tertiary or quaternary carbon, c) a compound including an ionic salt group or a group which is converted to an ionic salt group, and d) optionally, at least one hydroxyl substituted carboxylic compound comprising at least one tertiary aliphatic carboxyl group and at least two aliphatic hydroxyl groups.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2000Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Steven R. Zawacky, Raphael O. Kollah, Craig A. Wilson, Gregory J. McCollum, Robin M. Peffer, Geoffrey R. Webster, Jr., Venkatachalam Eswarakrishnan, Linda K. Anderson
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Patent number: 6416873Abstract: An intermediate transfer material which is disposed between a latent image-carrier and a recording medium and is primary-transferred thereon a toner image formed on the latent image-carrier, wherein the intermediate transfer material is formed by a polyimide resin having dispersed therein an electrically conductive agent and having a glass transition temperature of 245° C. or lower, and an image-forming apparatus using the above-described intermediate transfer material. The intermediate transfer material does not give image defects such as white spots, etc., caused by lowering of resistivity by the influence of a transferring electric field.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1999Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Hara, Shinichi Ishigame, Akiko Kimura, Shigeru Fukuda
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Patent number: 6410677Abstract: The present invention provides an insulating material showing excellent thermal propeties and electrical properties in semiconductor applications.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2000Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Company LimitedInventors: Takashi Enoki, Nobuhiro Higashida, Mitsuru Murata
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Patent number: 6403698Abstract: The invention provides a method of making an amide-type polymer/first polymer blend comprising the steps of: a) preparing a polymer colloid system comprising a first polymer dispersed in a liquid continuous phase; b) introducing the polymer colloid system into an amide-type polymerization reaction medium prior to or during the reaction, wherein the reaction medium comprises 1) a diacid component and a diamine component, an oligomer of a diacid and a diamine component, or a mixture thereof; and c) polymerizing the components of b)1, thereby providing an amide-type polymer/first polymer blend. Polymer blends made by the methods herein are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2000Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: David Logan Murray, Allan Scott Jones, Wesley R. Hale, William R. Darnell
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Patent number: 6380297Abstract: A method for the preparation of polymer particles comprising the steps of: a) forming an organic phase by dissolving a polymer material in a solvent; b) dispersing the organic phase in an aqueous phase comprising a particulate stabilizer and homogenizing the resultant dispersion, thereby forming spherical particles having a selected particle and uniform particle size distribution; c) following the homogenizing, adding a particle shape-modifying surface active material to the spherical particles; and d) removing the solvent, thereby producing irregularly shaped polymer particles having substantially the same selected particle size and particle size distribution as that of the spherical particles.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1999Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: NexPress Solutions LLCInventors: Todd C. Zion, Dennis E. Smith, Hichang Yoon, Matthew C. Ezenyilimba
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Patent number: 6355723Abstract: A molded article suitable for direct application of a reflective metal coating includes an amorphous thermoplastic or thermoplastic blend having a glass transition temperature greater than about 170° C. and at least one thermally stable colorant that contributes to the article's dark appearance. The article has excellent dimensional stability, and the surface to which a metal coating can be applied exhibits low gloss. Application of a metal coating to the molded article produces a metalized surface with high total reflectivity, low diffuse reflectivity, and low haze. Compositions and methods for forming the article are described.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2000Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: General Electric Co.Inventors: Harry van Baal, Jenny Z. Bu, Peter J. Codella, Robert R. Gallucci, Dennis A. Kopp, Martin J. Lindway, James R. Wilson
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Patent number: 6355716Abstract: The present invention relates to a silicon wafer carrier consisting of a composition composed of (a) 100 parts by weight of a polyester, (b) 5 to 100 parts by weight of a polyether ester amide, (c) 10 to 2,500 ppm (based on the polyether ester amide) of an alkaline metal and (d) 0 to 40 parts by weight of a modified polyolefin, generating not more than 10 ppm of volatile gas by the heat-treatment at 150° C. for 60 minutes and eluting not more than 10 ppm of the alkaline metal by the immersion treatment in pure water at 80° C. for 120 minutes. The silicon wafer carrier has the generation of volatile gas and the elution of metal suppressed to an extent not to essentially cause the surface contamination of a silicon wafer and is provided with excellent permanent antistaticity and high mechanical properties and heat-resistance.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2000Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: Teijin LimitedInventors: En Lai Zhang, Satoshi Yamamoto, Takayoshi Numata, Kiyoshi Sugie
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Publication number: 20020019481Abstract: A substantially non-reflective, low or non-fluorescing substrate comprising a phase-inversion support and a plurality of opaque solids that are substantially chemically non-reactive with the phase inversion support and of a size sufficient to be partially or completely contained within, or intimately bound to, the phase inversion support. Methods of making and using the substantially non-reflective, low or non-fluorescing substrate are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2001Publication date: February 14, 2002Inventors: Rita J. Andreoli, Richard S. Chesterson
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Publication number: 20020010306Abstract: Disclosed is a member of nylon 12 having a relative viscosity of from 1.9 to 3.5 when measured in 98% sulfuric acid at a concentration of 10 g/dm3 and at 25° C. and a melt flow rate of 0.1 g/10 min. or more when measured at 235° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2001Publication date: January 24, 2002Applicant: Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Noriyuki Isobe, Tetsuji Hirano, Kouichiro Kurachi, Nobuhiro Ogawa
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Patent number: 6333109Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a novel water-swellable crosslinked polymer composition which exhibits excellent saltwater absorption speed and capacity under a load. This object can be achieved in the case where, in a water-swellable crosslinked polymer composition comprising a blend of water-swellable crosslinked polymer particles of basicity in water and water-swellable crosslinked polymer particles of acidity in water, the water-swellable crosslinked polymer particles of basicity in water are unified with the water-swellable crosslinked polymer particles of acidity in water through ionic bondings in a state where water is present between the particles, wherein the ionic bondings are formed in a state where water is present between the particles by neutralization of at least part of acid groups of the water-swellable crosslinked polymer particles of acidity in water with the water-swellable crosslinked polymer particles of basicity in water.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1999Date of Patent: December 25, 2001Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki Harada, Shigeru Sakamoto, Yoshifumi Adachi, Toshimasa Kitayama
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Patent number: 6316589Abstract: A polyimide for optical communications, which is expressed by the formula (1) where R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of CF3, CCl3, unsubstituted aromatic ring group and halogenerated aromatic ring group; R3 and R4 are independently selected from the group consisting of Cl, F, I, Br, CF3, CCl3, unsubstituted aromatic ring group and halogenated aromatic ring group; and n is an integer from 1 to 39. The polyimides have a superior heat resistance, and can avoid the increase in optical absorption loss due to a refractive index increase and deterioration of adhesive and coating properties due to weak surface tension of a polyimide film. In addition, use of the polyimides as a material for a core layer of optical waveguides can expand the selection range of material for the cladding layer of the optical waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2000Date of Patent: November 13, 2001Assignee: SamSung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Kyung-Hee You, Kwan-Soo Han, Tae-Hyung Rhee
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Patent number: 6306956Abstract: The present invention is directed to an aqueous dispersion of a polyester salt and polymeric vehicles which include the aqueous dispersions of a polyester salt. The polymeric vehicle is particularly effective for providing coating binders in cured primer coatings. The primer coating compositions are useful for multilayer paint coating films which have at least two layers of paint film including the cured primer coating composition film. The use of the primer polymeric vehicles of the present invention in conjunction with one or more additional overlaying top coating film layers provide a multiple layer coatings having improved adhesion and chip resistance.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1999Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: McWhorter Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gary Eugene Spilman, Michael Charles Knight, Jr., Lisa Kay Kemp, Joseph Leo Nothnagel
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Publication number: 20010020062Abstract: Dispersants that adsorb to hydrophobic particle surfaces in aqueous media are described. The dispersants comprise dendritic polymers having at least one ionizable moiety and at least one peripheral hydrophobic long chain hydrocarbon moiety. Dispersions and inks wherein the dispersant operates as a solitary or co-dispersant are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2001Publication date: September 6, 2001Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Ahmed Salih Abuelyaman, Prabhakara Satyauolu Rao, Babu N. Gaddam
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Patent number: 6242515Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of compositions comprising at least one aqueous polymer dispersion wherein the polymer has carbonyl or oxirane groups (component a)) and at least one compound with at least two NH2 groups per molecule as sealing or coating compositions, especially for substrates with a hydrophobic surface. The present invention further relates to coating compositions containing such binder formulations.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1999Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Cheng-Le Zhao, Eckehardt Wistuba, Joachim Roser, Paul Fitzgerald, Jan Spitzer
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Patent number: 6225437Abstract: Provided are alkenyl and/or alkyl succinimides formed from at least one alkenyl or alkyl succinic anhydride and at least one aliphatic amine having one or two primary amino groups in the molecule. These succinimides are characterized in that each alkenyl or alkyl group thereof contains in the range of 16 to 30 carbon atoms. Such group is bifurcated on its alpha carbon atom into two branches neither of which contains less than 2 carbon atoms, one such branch being free of any side chain, and the other such branch either being free of any side chain or containing at most one methyl or methylene side chain. In addition the succinimide has a viscosity at 80° C. of less than about 100 centistokes. These succinimides are especially useful as internal and external sizing agents for paper and paper products.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1999Date of Patent: May 1, 2001Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Patrick C. Hu, Valerie N. LeGloahec
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Patent number: 6211286Abstract: Aqueous binders for soft feel materials, comprising predominantly aliphatic, water-soluble or water-dispersible polymers A having terminal or lateral cyclic carbonate groups and an amine B having at least two primary amino groups, the ratio of the number of primary amino groups in the component B to the number of cyclic carbonate groups in the component A being from 7:3 to 3:7.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2000Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Solutia Austria GmbHInventors: Markus A. Schafheutle, Martin Gerlitz, Anton Arzt, Julius Burkl, Joerg Wango, Martina Glettler
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Patent number: 6211326Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing hydroxyl- and carboxyl-containing polyesterimide resins, comprising as monomeric components: (A) imide-forming compounds having at least two primary amino groups and/or at least two isocyanate groups or imide-forming compounds having at least one primary amino group and/or at least one isocyanate group and at least one further functional group selected from hydroxyl, carboxyl and/or carboxylic anhydride, (B) polycarboxylic acids and/or their anhydrides and/or their esters and (C) polyols, characterized in that (I) component (A) is reacted with part of component (B) to form a polyimide, (II) the polyimide obtained in accordance with stage (I) is reacted with component (C) to form a polyesterimide, and finally (III) the polyesterimide obtained in accordance with stage (II) is reacted with the remaining part of component (B) to form the Also embraced by the invention is the use of the polyesterimides prepared by the process according to the invention as biType: GrantFiled: July 13, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Schenectady International, Inc.Inventors: Brian W. Glasper, Geoffrey C. Rix, Klaus-Wilhelm Lienert
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Patent number: 6174937Abstract: The invention encompasses a phase change ink comprising a material of the formula wherein X1, X2, X3 and X4 are segments comprising atoms selected from groups V and VI of the periodic table; wherein at least one R1. and R5 comprises at least 37 carbon units; and wherein R2, R3 and R4 each comprise at least one carbon unit. The invention further encompasses a composition of matter, as well as methods of reducing coefficients of friction of phase change ink formulations.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1999Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Jeffery H. Banning, C. Wayne Jaeger, Donald R. Titterington
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Patent number: 6174965Abstract: The present invention provides a polyester resin having in the molecule at least one quaternary ammonium base represented by the formula (wherein X is halogen and R is alkyl), and a process for its production. The present invention further provides a pigment dispersion containing a pigment and the above polyester resin as resin for dispersion of the pigment, and also provides a coating composition containing the above pigment dispersion.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 1999Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: Kansai Paint Company, LimitedInventors: Fumio Yamashita, Yoshiyuki Yukawa, Haruhiko Aida
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Patent number: 6166174Abstract: Polyimide copolymers were obtained containing 1,3-bis(3-aminophenoxy)benzene (APB) and other diamines and dianhydrides and terminating with the appropriate amount of a non-reactive endcapper, such as phthalic anhydride. Homopolymers containing only other diamines and dianhydrides which are not processable under conditions described previously can be made processable by incorporating various amounts of APB, depending on the chemical structures of the diamines and dianhydrides used. Polyimides that are more rigid in nature require more APB to impart processability than polyimides that are less rigid in nature. The copolymers that result from using APB to enhance processability have a unique combination of properties including: excellent thin film properties, low pressure processing (200 psi and below), improved toughness, improved solvent resistance, improved adhesive properties, improved composite mechanical properties, long term melt stability (several hours at 390 C.), and lower melt viscosities.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1999Date of Patent: December 26, 2000Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationInventor: Brian J. Jensen
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Patent number: 6133401Abstract: Polyimide copolymers were obtained containing 1,3-bis(3-aminophenoxy)benzene (APB) and other diamines and dianhydrides and terminating with the appropriate amount of reactive endcapper. The reactive endcappers studied include but should not be limited to 4-phenylethynyl phthalic anhydride (PEPA), 3-aminophenoxy-4'-phenylethynylbenzophenone (3-APEB), maleic anhydride (MA) and nadic anhydride (5-norbornene-2,3-dicarboxylic anhydride, NA). Homopolymers containing only other diamines and dianhydrides which are not processable under conditions described previously can be made processable by incorporating various amounts of APB, depending on the chemical structures of the diamines and dianhydrides used. By simply changing the ratio of APB to the other diamine in the polyimide backbone, a material with a unique combination of solubility, Tg, Tm, melt viscosity, toughness and elevated temperature mechanical properties can be prepared.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1999Date of Patent: October 17, 2000Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationInventor: Brian J. Jensen
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Patent number: 6121409Abstract: Poly(vinylamine)-based superabsorbent gels are disclosed. The superabsorbent gels either comprise a mixture of a poly(vinylamine) polymer and an acidic water-absorbing polymer, like polyacrylic acid, or comprise a salt of a poly(vinylamine) polymer. An improved method of preparing poly(vinylamine) also is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1999Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignee: AMCOL International CorporationInventors: Michael A. Mitchell, Thomas W. Beihoffer, Leticia L. Lobo, Jerald W. Darlington, Jr.
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Patent number: 6103861Abstract: An ionic thermosettable resin useful for imparting wet and dry strength to paper is made by: (a) providing a copolymer comprising monomer units derived by copolymerization of acrylamide or alkyl-substituted acrylamide and diallylamine or an acid salt thereof; and (b) reacting the copolymer with epihalohydrin or epihalohydrin equivalent and dialdehyde. Paper products made using the resin are more easily repulped than paper products made with conventional wet strength resins.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1997Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Hercules IncorporatedInventors: Ronald Richard Staib, Joseph Raymond Fanning, William Walter Maslanka
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Patent number: 6103798Abstract: Thermoplastic compositions are provided containing a saturated hydrocarbon amine oxide and stabilizer compositions are provided containing a saturated hydrocarbon amine oxide and a second stabilizer. The thermoplastic compositions exhibit good melt flow rate stability during processing and are useful for making molded and extruded articles. The stabilizer compositions are useful for addition to thermoplastics for the stabilization thereof. A method is also provided for stabilizing thermoplastic compositions and involves admixing a hydrocarbon amine oxide with a thermoplastic resin. The saturated hydrocarbon amine oxides are preferably trialkyl amine oxides. The thermoplastic resin is preferably a polyolefin resin.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1998Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Vaikunth S. Prabhu, Roger W. Avakian
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Patent number: 6075080Abstract: By addition of a polyamide resin, which is compatible with rosin-based resins as the main components of liquid flux and solder paste flux, which is resistant to temperature variation and provides a damp proofing effect, and particularly a polyamide resin which is obtained by polycondensation reaction of a dicarboxylic acid of 2 to 21 carbon atoms and a diamine and has a softening point of 80.degree. to 150.degree. C., or a polyamide resin which is obtained by polycondensation reaction of a dimer acid and a diamine and has a softening point of 80.degree. to 150.degree. C., highly reliable low-viscosity liquid fluxes and solder paste fluxes, with which solderability is not impaired, where the flux residues on printed circuit boards after soldering undergoes no cracking or deterioration even under temperature variation, and which prevent poor insulation and migration even under high humidity environment, are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1998Date of Patent: June 13, 2000Assignee: Fujitsu Ten LimitedInventors: Ritsu Katsuoka, Naoyasu Udono, Takashi Shibuya, Koichi Sekiguchi, Kenji Matsui
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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: 6017984Abstract: The invention relates to colorant compositions consisting essentially of one or more cholesteric liquid-crystalline polymers and at least one colorant which absorbs light in the visible wavelength range. Suitable colorants are organic or inorganic pigments or dyes. Coatings comprising such colorant compositions feature color effects which are dependent on the viewing angle and which cannot be obtained by means of absorption pigments alone or by means of cLCP effect coatings.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1997Date of Patent: January 25, 2000Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Axel Schonfeld, Erwin Dietz, Bernd Dewald
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Patent number: 6001910Abstract: A remoistenable hot melt adhesive composition comprising (i) 25 to 80% by weight of a sulfonated polyester;(ii) 3 to 40% by weight of an anionic or cationic plasticizer;(iii) 0 to 40% by weight of a polar tackifier;(iv) 0 to 3% by weight of an antioxidant; and(v) 10 to 35% by weight of a polar wax; and(vi) optionally 0 to 30% nonionic plasticizer, wherein the total of (i)-(vi) to equal 100% by weight.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 1999Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding CorporationInventors: Mitchell J. Blumenthal, Charles W. Paul, Matthew L. Sharak
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Patent number: 5998526Abstract: Salts of polyaspartic acids are used as milling agents for the milling of mineral materials to obtain aqueous suspensions of finely divided mineral materials which are pumpable and non-sedimenting, and have high concentrations of mineral materials which are useful in papermaking and in paper coating.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1998Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: Coatex S.A.Inventors: Jean-Marc Suau, Christian Jacquemet, Jacques Mongoin
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Patent number: 5985988Abstract: A process for coloration of a substrate comprising printing an ink onto the substrate using a thermal ink jet printer, characterised in that the ink comprises water and a water-dissipatable polyester dyed using a disperse dye or solvent soluble dye. An ink comprising a water-dissipatable polyester dyed using a disperse dye or solvent dye and an aqueous medium.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1998Date of Patent: November 16, 1999Assignee: Zeneca LimitedInventor: David John Hodge
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Patent number: 5973032Abstract: Dispersible additive systems for polymeric materials include dispersant-coated pigments in a liquid nonaqueous polymeric carrier. The additive systems are most preferably in the form of a particulate nonaqueous paste which can be added in metered amounts (dosed) to a melt flow of the polymeric host material prior to being shaped (for example, prior to being spun into synthetic filaments). By providing a number of additive systems having a number of different additive attributes, and controllably dosing one or more into the melt flow of polymeric material, shaped objects of the polymeric material (e.g., melt-spun filaments) having different additive attributes may be produced on a continuous basis without shutting down the shaping operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1997Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: Donald Caswell, Frank R. Jones, Stanley A. McIntosh, Gary W. Shore, G. Daniel Gasperson
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Patent number: 5886137Abstract: A process for preparing salts of polyaspartic acid by treating polycondensates in aqueous medium with bases, employing at least 0.7 equivalent of an alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal base per mole of the aspartimide, aspartic acid and/or aspartamide units present in the polycondensates, and the bases being added within from 30 min to 20 hours to an aqueous suspension of polycondensates of aspartic acid which has been heated to 40.degree.-140.degree. C., and the reaction mixture being allowed to react further where appropriate, and the use of alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal salts of polyaspartic acids obtainable by treating polycondensates of aspartic acid in aqueous medium with more than 1 equivalent of an alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal base, with the molecular weight of the polycondensates being reduced, as additive to detergents and cleaners.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1997Date of Patent: March 23, 1999Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Matthias Kroner, Gunnar Schornick, Uwe Strotmann, Volker Schwendemann, Thomas Meyer, Alfons Ludwig
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Patent number: 5877235Abstract: The aqueous ink of the present invention comprises a suspension of a polymer, preferably a polyester or a polyester polyamide, having adsorbed a dye or a pigment, wherein the surface tension (.gamma.) and the viscosity (.eta.) of the ink at 20.degree. C. and the average particle size (d) of the suspended particles satisfy the following inequality (1):0.1.ltoreq..gamma..multidot..eta..multidot.d.ltoreq.11 (1)wherein the units of the parameters .gamma., .eta. and d are dyne/cm, cps, and .mu.m, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1997Date of Patent: March 2, 1999Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Tadashi Sakuma, Tetsuya Ueno, Kuniyasu Kawabe
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Patent number: 5859152Abstract: Disclosed is a water-dissipatable or dispersible adhesive composition that is useful in forming paper articles and other products that can be recycled through repulping in both neutral and alkaline media. The water-dispersible adhesive composition is preferably a hot melt adhesive that is a low molecular weight, branched copolyester containing a sulfomonomer. Additional utility for the invention resides in the manufacture of recyclable articles where insolubility in body fluids combined with solubility in tap water are required.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1997Date of Patent: January 12, 1999Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Richard A. Miller, Mark A. Montgomery