Solid Polymer Derived From A Reactant Which Is A Carboxylic Acid Or Derivative Patents (Class 524/845)
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Patent number: 7615582Abstract: A hydrophobic acidic group-containing polymeric monomer (a); a water-soluble polymeric monomer (b); water (c); a photopolymerization initiator (d); an aromatic tertiary amine (e) having an electron-withdrawing group; a cross-linkable polymeric monomer (f); and a basic compound (g) for producing a water-soluble salt through a reaction with a part of the hydrophobic acidic group-containing polymeric monomer (a) are included as essential compounding ingredients. A one-part dental adhesive composition that exhibits high adhesive strength and high storage stability in adhesion between a teeth, and more particularly enamel or dentine, and a dental repairing material, and more particularly a resin material, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2004Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: Kuraray Medical Inc.Inventors: Kazumitsu Nakatsuka, Naoki Nishigaki
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Publication number: 20090275697Abstract: The properties of a liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) containing ester linkages and made in the presence of an excess of diol are improved by treating the LCP with a dicarboxylic acid at elevated temperature. The resulting LCPs are useful as molding resins and for films.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2004Publication date: November 5, 2009Inventors: Marion Glen Waggoner, Richard Alan Jackson
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Patent number: 7605209Abstract: The present invention provides coating compositions that include reactive diluents and have high performance, low VOC levels, and low irritation levels. Certain embodiments of the present invention include water and water-dispersible polymers and other embodiments do not include water.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2004Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Valspar Sourcing, Inc.Inventors: T. Howard Killilea, James M Bohannon
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Patent number: 7598313Abstract: Polymer capsules from amphiphilic graft copolymers comprising reactive, hydrophobic polyolefin backbones, and hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) grafts are produced by self-assembly of the polymers at the oil-water interface, and crosslinking the assembly with bis-cyclooctene PEG derivatives in conjunction with ring-open metathesis polymerization catalysts. The use of the graft copolymer architecture in capsule synthesis provides significant opportunities to tune both the surface properties, in terms of recognition, and the membrane properties, in terms of mechanical strength, encapsulation, and release.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2004Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: University of MassachusettsInventors: Todd S. Emrick, Kurt Breitenkamp
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Publication number: 20090176933Abstract: The invention relates to a method for production of polyester resins containing nanodisperse nanoscale additives as binder for powder paints, whereby firstly at least one precursor compound for nanoscale solid particles to be formed is added to the reaction starting materials during the resin synthesis and distributed in the reaction starting materials. The precursor compound(s) which may be reacted at a temperature between 30? and 260° C., preferably between 80° and 250° C., are reacted to give the desired nanoscale solid particles under the effect of a reaction temperature in the range between 30? and 260° C., preferably between 80? and 250° C., the nanoscale solid particles thus formed being nanodispersedly distributed in the polyester resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2006Publication date: July 9, 2009Inventors: Dieter Holzinger, Thomas Schmidt
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Publication number: 20090139675Abstract: Finely divided, starch-containing polymer dispersions obtainable by emulsion copolymerization, with redox initiators, of ethylenically unsaturated monomers from the group consisting of (a) from 45 to 55% by weight of at least one optionally substituted styrene, methyl methacrylate, acrylonitrile and/or methacrylonitrile, (b) from 15 to 29% by weight of at least one C1-C12-alkyl acrylate and/or one C2-C12-alkyl methacrylate and (c) from 0 to 10% by weight of at least one other ethylenically unsaturated copolymerizable monomer in an aqueous medium in the presence of (d) from 15 to 35% by weight of a degraded cationized starch which has a molar mass Mw of from 1000 to 65 000, the sum (a)+(b)+(c)+(d) being 100% and being based on the total solids content, processes for the preparation of such polymer dispersions by emulsion polymerization of the monomers (a), (b) and (c) in an aqueous medium with redox initiators in the presence of (d) cationic starch, and use of the starch-containing polymer dispersions as sizeType: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2006Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hildegard Stein, Roland Ettl
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Patent number: 7479511Abstract: An energy curable aqueous composition is disclosed containing: water; an ethylenically unsaturated oligomer; and a resin not containing energy curable functional groups.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2005Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: Sun Chemical CorporationInventors: Mikhail Laksin, Ralph Arcurio, Prasad K. Adhikari, Subhankar Chatterjee, Volker Linzer, Richard Czarnecki, Jitendra J. Modi
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Publication number: 20080319129Abstract: Processes for generating aqueous dispersions for use in the emulsion/aggregation technique, by combining crystalline polyester resin, amorphous polyester resin and water, heating and agitating the mixture and generating an aqueous dispersion containing both crystalline polyester resin particles and amorphous polyester resin particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2008Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Allan K. Chen, Tie Hwee Ng, Paul D. Szabo
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Publication number: 20080314292Abstract: A pigment dispersant contains (a) 5 to 30 wt % of aromatic and/or heterocyclic vinyl monomer units, (b) 10 to 30 wt % of monomer units having acid groups, (c) 40 to 80 wt % of (meth)acrylate ester monomer units, and (d) 5 to 30 wt % of monomer units having poly(C2-6-alkylene glycol) chains or mono(C1-22-alkyl)ether chains of said glycol, said poly(C2-6-alkylene glycol) chains or mono (C1-22-alkyl)ether chains having a number average molecular weight of from 150 to 1,500. A sum of the monomer units (a) to (d) amounts to 100 wt %. The pigment dispersant has an acid value of from 30 to 300 mgKOH/g, a number average molecular weight of from 5,000 to 30,000, and a content of organic compounds, boiling points of which are not higher than 250° C., of not higher than 0.2 wt %. Also disclosed are its production process, its aqueous solution and its dispersion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2008Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimanaka, Yoshikazu Murakami, Satoshi Isobe, Takaaki Ota, Jyunki Takada, Satoshi Dosho
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Publication number: 20080300333Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparation of copolymers A) comprising A1) one or more vinylaromatic monomers, A2) one or more vinyl cyanides, and A3) one or more dicarboxylic anhydrides via bulk polymerization or via solution polymerization, an important feature of the invention being that the polymerization is carried out in the presence of from 0.01 to 0.5% by weight of water, based on the total weight of the polymerization mixture. The present invention further relates to the copolymers A), to thermoplastic molding compositions comprising the copolymers A), to the use of the copolymers A) and of the thermoplastic molding compositions, and also to the moldings, foils, fibers, or foams obtainable from the copolymers A) or from the thermoplastic molding compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2006Publication date: December 4, 2008Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Martin Weber, Peter Ittemann, Axel Gottschalk, Bernd Niedermaier, Birgit Reinhard, Cornelius Eme Koning, Lubertus Klumperman, Maarten Pieter Bram Staal
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Publication number: 20080275182Abstract: A process for preparing an aqueous polyamide dispersion by enzyme-catalyzed polycondensation reaction of a diamine compound and a dicarboxylic acid compound in aqueous medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2005Publication date: November 6, 2008Applicant: BASFAktiengesellschaftInventors: Xiang-Ming Kong, Motonori Yamamoto, Dietmar Haring
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Patent number: 7390844Abstract: The present invention discloses a water dispersible polymer particle stabilized by a hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide dispersant. The present invention also discloses a heterogeneous method for forming polymer particles comprising providing a water immiscible organic phase comprising at least one monomer dispersed in a continuous water phase and a hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide, and polymerizing said organic phase to yield polymer particles stabilized with hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide. Also disclosed in the present invention is a heterogeneous method for forming polymer particles comprising providing a water immiscible organic dispersed in a continuous water phase, polymerizing said organic phase, and adding bydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide to yield polymer particles stabilized with hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2005Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Jeffrey W. Leon, Jeanne E. Kaeding, Dennis E. Smith, Trevor J. Wear, Alan R. Pitt, Peter J. Ghyzel
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Patent number: 7199185Abstract: Reactive polymeric surfactants are disclosed, and their use in processes for preparation of microcapsules, and in stabilising emulsions. The surfactants are random graft polymers or block copolymers which contain both hydrophobic and hydrophilic units and in which the hydrophobic unit includes a hydrophilic cross-linking unit which reacts with (a) a wall forming ingredient in a microencapsulation process, or (b) an ingredient in the disperse phase of an emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2002Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Alexander Mark Heming, Patrick Joseph Mulqueen, Herbert Benson Scher, Ian Malcolm Shirley
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Patent number: 7186772Abstract: Self-coating or self-layering lacquer systems from at least two different resins, oligomers, or polymers, which are emulsifiable or dispersible in water, have different surface tensions, and form self-layering phases. After the application, the phases separate into the components of the formulation.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2003Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Reinhold Berkau, Michael Gailberger, Thomas Gruber, Karl Holdik, Georg Meichsner, Fritz Mezger
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Patent number: 7183335Abstract: Compositions for use in the manufacture of three-dimensional objects including compositions for use as a support and/or release material in the manufacture of the three-dimensional objects are provided. There is thus provided, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a composition suitable for building a three-dimensional object. The compositions may include, inter alia, a curable component, having a functional group, wherein if the functional group is a polymerizable reactive functional group, then the functional group is a (meth)acrylic functional group, a photo-initiator, a surface-active agent and a stabilizer; wherein said composition has a first viscosity of about 50–500 cps at a first temperature, wherein said first temperature is ambient temperature, and a second viscosity lower than 20 cps at a second temperature wherein said second temperature is higher than said first temperature, wherein, after curing, the composition results in a solid form.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2005Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Objet Geometries Ltd.Inventor: Eduardo Napadensky
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Patent number: 7157526Abstract: Aqueous primary dispersion, substantially or entirely free of volatile organic compounds, and comprising dispersed and/or emulsified, solid and/or liquid polymer particles and/or dispersed solid core/shell particles with a particle diameter?500 nm, preparable by free-radical micro- or miniemulsion polymerization of at least one olefinically unsaturated monomer in the presence of at least one hydrophobic additive and of at least one oligomeric polyester with a number-average molecular weight of from 150 to 1 500 daltons, a hydroxyl number of from 100 to 1 000 mg KOH/g, and an acid number<20 mg KOH/g and also a process for preparing it and its use as a coating material, adhesive or sealing compound or to prepare a coating material, an adhesive or a sealing compound.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2002Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: BASF Coatings AGInventors: Ralf Nickolaus, Heinz-Peter Rink, Reinhold Clauss, Elisabeth Wessling, Wilma Löcken, Nicole Freitag, Dunja Mikolajetz
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Patent number: 7129278Abstract: The overall performance of water-reducible polymer dispersions, more specifically alkyd dispersions, can be substantially improved by utilizing resins derived from acidolysis reaction products of polyalkylene terephthalates and polyalkylene naphthalates. According to this invention, polymer dispersions can be produced from low acid value polymers and yet have good water dispersibility. When an aqueous coating composition is formulated using the dispersion of this invention, a final coating is formed that has good hydrolytic stability, and when blended with a latex, exhibits improved gloss and wet adhesion.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2001Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams CompanyInventors: Paul M. Kayima, Joseph L. McJunkins, James K. Marlow, Madhukar Rao, Richard F. Tomko, Syed Y. Hasan
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Patent number: 7094826Abstract: An aqueous coating composition comprising a crosslinkable water-dispersible hyperbranched macromolecule(s) wherein the composition when drying has an open time of at least 20 minutes, a wet edge time of at least 10 minutes, a tack free time ?15 hours, a dust free time ?5 hours and an equilibrium viscosity of ?5,000 Pa·s at any solids content when drying in the range of from 20 to 55% by weight using any shear rate in the range of from 9±0.5 to 90±5 s?1 and at 23±2° C.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2001Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.V.Inventors: Emilio Martin, Gerardus Cornelis Overbeek, Pablo Steenwinkel, Ronald Tennebroek
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Patent number: 7094831Abstract: An aqueous polymer dispersion prepared by free-radical polymerization of vinyl acetate in the presence of at least one ionic emulsifier, at least one free-radical initiator and at least one protective colloid, wherein the polymerization is carried out in the presence of a polymerization regulator and wherein the ratio by weight of protective colloid to ionic emulsifier is at least 4:1 and wherein the ratio by weight of vinyl acetate monomer to protective colloid is between 19:1 and 4:1.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2001Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: BASF AktiengellsellschaftInventors: Karl Kolter, Maximilian Angel, Katrin Zeitz
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Patent number: 7087244Abstract: Disclosed is a thermogelling biodegradable aqueous polymer solution useful in providing a bioactive agent delivery system. A thermogelling biodegradable aqueous polymer solution may comprise a biocompatible block and a biodegradable polypeptide block, where the blocks are linked to form a polymer of a general structure comprising the formula of CnDm, wherein n is equal to or greater than 1, m is equal to or greater than 1, C is a biodegradable polypeptide block, and D is a biocompatible soluble polymer having a chain length such that if D is not biodegradable, D may be eliminated through a glomeruli filtration system.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2002Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Byeongmoon Jeong, Anna Gutowska
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Patent number: 7026369Abstract: To provide an aqueous emulsion composition which has high adhesion strength for a wide variety of materials including molded products and affords sufficient wettability even for the object to be adhesive bonded of low surface polarity so that it can develop sufficient adhesiveness and whose emulsion is stable so satisfactorily as to provide good mechanical stability and storage stability, and to provide an adherent composition comprising the aqueous emulsion composition, at least ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer or modified resin thereof, photo polymerization initiator, and unsaturated ethylenic monomer are mixed and dissolved or dispersed, to prepare oil drop component, followed by emulsifying the oil drop component in water by using a surface-active agent, whereby an aqueous emulsion composition, in which micelles each encapsulating at least the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer or modified resin thereof, the photo polymerization initiator and unsaturated ethylenic monomer are dispersed in water, is preparedType: GrantFiled: July 22, 2002Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Mitsui Takeda Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Kenji Kuroda, Susumu Okatani, Hiroyuki Shiraki
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Patent number: 7005480Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing an aqueous dispersion. A resin (b) or a solvent solution thereof, or a precursor (b0) of the resin (b) or a solvent solution thereof is dispersed in an aqueous dispersion of resin particles (A) composed of resin (a), and is caused the precursor (b0) to react where the precursor (b0) or a solvent solution thereof is used, to prepare resin particles (B) composed of said resin (b). Thereby, an aqueous dispersion (X1) of resin particles (C) having a structure such that the resin particle (A) adheres to the surface of the resin particle (B) is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2001Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiko Kinsho, Kazuyuki Hirai, Masataka Mitsumoto
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Patent number: 6994914Abstract: A water slurry process is used to prepare a prepreg and to manufacture articles from macrocyclic polyester oligomers. In one embodiment, a process for preparing a water suspension of macrocyclic polyester oligomers includes the steps of contacting a macrocyclic polyester oligomer and a polymerization catalyst with water and a surfactant, and mixing the macrocyclic polyester oligomer and polymerization catalyst with water and the surfactant thereby forming a suspension. In another embodiment, a process for impregnating macrocyclic polyester oligomers for polymerization includes the steps of providing a suspension of a macrocyclic polyester oligomer and a polymerization catalyst in water, applying the suspension to a base material, drying to remove water from the suspension, and pressing the dried suspension to a desired form. In yet another embodiment, a composition of macrocyclic polyester oligomer includes a macrocyclic polyester oligomer, a polymerization catalyst, and water.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2003Date of Patent: February 7, 2006Assignee: Cyclics CorporationInventors: Steven J. Winckler, Tohru Takekoshi
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Patent number: 6989413Abstract: The invention relates to a novel polyester tackifier, adhesive compositions comprising the tackifier and methods of preparation. More specifically, the polyester tackifier is obtainable by polymerising a mixture comprising a diacid or derivative thereof, a diol, and at least 6 molar % of an organic monofunctional compound, wherein the mixture is essentially free from compounds comprising more than two carboxylic acid groups or alcohol groups.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2003Date of Patent: January 24, 2006Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.Inventors: John Hazen, Patrick Peter Mario Aarts
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Patent number: 6984675Abstract: An aqueous dispersion has an addition polymer (B) formed in situ on a sulfopolyester (A). The sulfopolyester (A) is formed as a polycondensation product of first and second reaction mixtures. The first reaction mixture includes at least about 70 mol. % of terephthalic acid or an ester thereof, and about 4–20 mol. % of a difunctional ester forming sulfomonomer containing at least one metal sulfonate group attached to an aromatic nucleus, wherein the functional groups are selected from the group consisting of hydroxyls, carboxyls and alkyl esters. The second reaction mixture includes at least two different glycols, at least about 20 mol. % of the second reaction mixture being ethylene glycol. The addition polymer (B) is formed in situ on the sulfopolyester (B) by polymerizing styrene monomer.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2002Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: Resolution Specialty Materials LLCInventors: David Joe Lesley, Gregory David Lesley, Darrell Scott Nasser, Kenneth Ray Barton, Eurrell Thomas Eubanks
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Patent number: 6887909Abstract: The present invention provides production processes of aqueous alkyd resin dispersions, said processes comprising a step of synthesizing alkyd resin by dissolving polyester resin whose chief component is terephthalic acid and which has been recovered from waste materials and regenerated, in a mixture of an alcoholic component, fatty acid and/or oil and fat, and polybasic acid component, said alcoholic component containing tri- or lower polyhydric alcohol and tetra- or higher hydric alcohol at a weight ratio of the former/latter within a range of 0-20, to effect depolymerizaiton and concurrently, esterification reaction; if necessary a step of introducing acid radicals into the resin; and a step of neutralizing and/or dispersing with use of surfactant, the so obtained alkyd resin in water. According to the processes of the present invention, aqueous alkyd resin dispersions can be prepared within a short time, using polyester resin which has been recovered from waste materials and regenerated.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2002Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chicara Kawamura, Kei Ito
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Patent number: 6884438Abstract: A process for the preparation of nanoparticles for the encapsulation of active constituents, the nanocapsules prepared being dispersible in aqueous phase in colloidal form, non-toxic, biocompatible, stable in colloidal suspension and economical. In the process, two non-oily solvents as used, together with a third, oily solvent.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1998Date of Patent: April 26, 2005Assignee: Universite Claude Bernard Lyon IInventors: David Quintanar, Hatem Fessi, Eric Doelker, Eric Allemann
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Patent number: 6855766Abstract: The invention concerns a process for concentrating polymer latexes, which can be separated into a latex phase and a serum phase in a separator with the aid of an auxiliary coalescing device.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2002Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christiane Oppenheimer-Stix, Michael Traving
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Patent number: 6841617Abstract: Disclosed is a thermogelling biodegradable aqueous polymer solution useful in providing a bioactive agent delivery system. The present invention provides a thermogelling biodegradable aqueous polymer solution with a polyethylene glycol (PEG) block and a biodegradable polyester block, where the blocks are linked to form a polymer of a general structure comprising the formula of An(B), where n is greater than 2 and A is selected from the group consisting of a polyethylene glycol block and a biodegradable polyester block, B is selected from the group consisting of a polyethylene glycol block and a biodegradable polyester block, and A is different from B.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2001Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Byeong Moon Jeong, Anna Gutowska
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Patent number: 6835773Abstract: A medium for use in electrophoresis comprising N-methylurea and a polyacrylamide gel. In particular, the medium is used in a system and method of electrophoretic separation comprising the introduction of a sample to the medium, and applying an electric field across the medium.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Martin Kratzmeier
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Patent number: 6828411Abstract: A one-step polymerization process, leading directly to highly branched polyesters with unsaturated, either acrylate or sorbate end groups is described, which is based on the Diels-Alder reaction of polyfunctional sorbic esters with acrylates in defined ratios. A preferred embodiment of the invention is the Diels-Alder polymerization in aqueous emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2003Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Rainer Bruno Frings, Gerwald F. Grahe, Ou Shibata
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Patent number: 6828376Abstract: An aqueous coating composition (especially a paint or varnish for buildings, vehicles, furniture and metal or plastics containers) which can form coatings on surfaces at ambient temperatures which on drying have improved early hardness and tack-resistance. The coating composition comprises water, optionally pigment and other conventional ingredients and dispersed particles of a highly non-crystalline polyester containing repeating hydroxyalkanoate units (preferably 3-hydroxybutyrate or 3-hydroxyvalerate or their copolymers). The polyester is non-crystalline to the extent that at least 60 wt % of the particles have a density of less than 102% of Dmin where Dmin is the minimum density attainable by the polyester. The composition may also contain conventional film-forming polymers of the types used in aqueous paint or varnish.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2001Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLCInventor: Philip L. Taylor
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Patent number: 6818699Abstract: The present invention is to provide an aqueous dispersion of polyester resin with an excellent molecular weight stability, its production method, and an aqueous coating composition. An aqueous dispersion of polyester resin having an acid value of 8 to 40 mg KOH/g and a weight average molecular weight of 9,000 or more contains an organic solvent less than 0.5% by mass. A method for producing the aqueous dispersion of polyester resin comprising a step of at first obtaining an aqueous dispersion of polyester resin containing not lower than 0.5% by mass of an organic solvent by adding the polyester resin and a basic compound to an aqueous medium to make the resulting mixture aqueous and a step of removing the organic solvent from the aqueous dispersion. An aqueous coating composition can be obtained by adding a curing agent to the foregoing aqueous dispersion of polyester resin.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2001Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: Unitika Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kajimaru, Daisuke Shirasawa, Toru Tanaka, Sachiko Kokuryo
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Publication number: 20040204523Abstract: A medium for use in electrophoresis comprising N-methylurea and a polyacrylamide gel. In particular, the medium is used in a system and method of electrophoretic separation comprising the introduction of a sample to the medium, and applying an electric field across the medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2003Publication date: October 14, 2004Applicant: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Martin Kratzmeier
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Patent number: 6780942Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming porous particles comprising preparing a mixture of an organic phase and an aqueous phase comprising an unsaturated polyester, a water immiscible organic solvent, at least one organic-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and initiator, subjecting said mixture to high energy emulsification, initiating crosslinking of said polyester after emulsification, removing said water immiscible organic solvent to recover porous polyester particles.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2001Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Jeffrey W. Leon, Jeanne E. Kaeding, Robert E. Mccovick
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Patent number: 6777489Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing an aqueous dispersion of water insoluble polymer particles comprising: a) preparing by polymerisation an aqueous dispersion of water insoluble particles of a heteropolymer including monomeric units of a reactive amphiphile having a cloud point and monomeric units of a hydrophilic monomer, said polymerisation being conducted in the presence of a stabilising agent and the reactive amphiphile and at a temperature above the cloud point of said amphiphile, and b) cooling said aqueous dispersion to a temperature below the cloud point of the reactive amphiphile such that the viscosity of the aqueous dispersion increases. The invention also relates to aqueous dispersions of water insoluble heteropolymer particles which incorporate units of reactive amphiphile.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2002Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: Orica Australia PTY Ltd.Inventors: Michelle Jocelyn Carey, Matthew William Carr, Patrick William Houlihan, Bruce Leary, Christopher Henry Such, Thamala C Weerasinghe
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Patent number: 6734228Abstract: A thermosetting water-based resin composition comprising an oil-soluble initiator of which a temperature for one-minute half-life is from 90° to 270 ° C. and a polycondensation resin comprising an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid having a radical-polymerizable unsaturated bond or an acid anhydride thereof as at least one constituent monomer, wherein the polycondensation resin has an acid value of from 3 to 100 mg KOH/g, and wherein said oil-soluble initiator is present in said polycondensation resin; a process for preparing the thermosetting water-based resin composition; a molding compound composition comprising the water-based resin composition; and a molding product prepared by molding the molding compound composition.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2001Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Tadashi Sakuma, Kuniyasu Kawabe
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Patent number: 6677427Abstract: A polyamide, the enzymatic reaction product of at least one polyamine and diester, and processes for preparing and using the same. In addition, processes for preparing and using the enzymatic reaction product as creping adhesives and wet strength resins to make cellulose products.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2000Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Hercules IncorporatedInventors: Huai N. Cheng, Qu-Ming Gu, William W. Maslanka
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Publication number: 20030225204Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing aqueous copolymer solutions by polymerizing ethylenically unsaturated compounds in the presence of foam inhibitors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2003Publication date: December 4, 2003Applicant: BASF AkiengesellschaftInventors: Kathrin Michl, Matthias Gerst, Matthias Laubender, Dieter Faul, Hans-Jurgen Raubenheimer
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Patent number: 6653398Abstract: The invention relates to a novel polyester tackifier, adhesive compositions comprising the tackifier and methods of preparation. More specifically, the polyester tackifier is obtainable by polymerising a mixture comprising a diacid or derivative thereof, a diol, and at least 6 molar % of an organic monofunctional compound, wherein the mixture is essentially free from compounds comprising more than two carboxylic acid groups or alcohol groups.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2001Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.Inventors: John Hazen, Patrick Peter Mario Aarts
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Publication number: 20030212201Abstract: The invention relates to a novel polyester tackifier, adhesive compositions comprising the tackifier and methods of preparation. More specifically, the polyester tackifier is obtainable by polymerising a mixture comprising a diacid or derivative thereof, a diol, and at least 6 molar % of an organic monofunctional compound, wherein the mixture is essentially free from compounds comprising more than two carboxylic acid groups or alcohol groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2003Publication date: November 13, 2003Inventors: John Hazen, Patrick Peter Mario Aarts
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Publication number: 20030187122Abstract: An aqueous polymer dispersion prepared by free-radical polymerization of vinyl acetate in the presence of at least one ionic emulsifier, at least one free-radical initiator and at least one protective colloid, wherein the polymerization is carried out in the presence of a polymerization regulator and wherein the ratio by weight of protective colloid to ionic emulsifier is at least 4:1 and wherein the ratio by weight of vinyl acetate monomer to protective colloid is between 19:1 and 4:1.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2003Publication date: October 2, 2003Inventors: Karl Kolter, Maximilian Angel, Katrin Zeitz
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Patent number: 6624243Abstract: The invention provides functionalized copolymers in the form of their aqueous dispersions or water-redispersible powders, based on a) one or more monomers from the group consisting of vinyl esters of unbranched or branched alkylcarboxylic acids having 1 to 15 carbon atoms, methacrylic esters and acrylic esters of alcohols having 1 to 15 carbon atoms, vinyl aromatics, olefins, dienes, and vinyl halides, b) from 0.05 to 5.0% by weight of one or more hydrolyzable silane monomers from the group consisting of ethylenically unsaturated, hydrolyzable silicon compounds and hydrolyzable silicon compounds from the group consisting of epoxysilanes, aminosilanes, and mercaptosilanes, c) from 0.05 to 5.0% by weight of one or more monomers from the group consisting of ethylenically unsaturated epoxide compounds, d) from 0 to 2.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2001Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: Wacker Polymer Systems GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Kurt Stark, Peter Tschirner, Peter Ball, Klaus Büppelmann, Udo Kotschi
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Patent number: 6617393Abstract: Aqueous binder mixtures comprising a water-dilutable resin and a water-miscible hydroxy urethane have an increased mass fraction of solids and may be formulated in combination with curatives which are active at elevated temperature to give automobile primer-surfacer materials.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2001Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: Solutia Austria GmbHInventors: Gert Dworak, Roland Feola, Johann Gmoser, Werner Staritzbichler
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Patent number: 6613817Abstract: An aqueous emulsion of a resin which includes as an emulsifier at least one compound of the formula (I): R1—CO—NR2R3 wherein R1 is a polyunsaturated hydrocarbyl group; R2 is a polyhydroxy hydrocarbyl radical; and R3 is hydrogen, a hydrocarbyl, particularly alkyl, group, a hydroxy or hydrocarbyloxy substituted hydrocarbyl, particularly hydroxy or alkoxy substituted alkyl, or is a group defined for R2. The resin is preferably an alkyd resin, and the emulsions are particularly useful for incorporating into paints.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLCInventors: Alain Bouvy, Hanamanthsa Shankarsa Bevinakatti
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Patent number: 6605182Abstract: (Co)poly-&agr;-hydroxyacrylic-acid-based polymers (P), optionally in lactonized form or in salt form, optionally as Mg-complexes, and which are characterized by a content in carbohydrate units and 2-hydroxy-2-carboxyethylene-1,2 monomer units, are suitable as biologically degradable, alkali-resistant stabilizers for peroxide bleaching agents.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1997Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Assignee: Clariant Finance (BVI) LimitedInventor: Bernard Danner
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Patent number: 6576687Abstract: The invention relates to a novel process for the preparation of polycondensate solutions based on polyamidoamine/epichlorohydrin resins that gives products having a very low content of organic chlorine compounds, in particular a 1,3-dichlorophenol-2-propanol content of <0.1%, in combination with high activity and good shelf-life.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2001Date of Patent: June 10, 2003Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karl-Rudolf Gassen, Joachim König, Karlheinrich Meisel, Fritz Puchner, Jürgen Reiners, Horst Zwick
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Patent number: 6562899Abstract: Branched hydroxyl-functional polyester resin having an average hydroxyl functionality of >2, a hydroxyl number of 25 to 300 mg KOH/g, and a number average molecular weight within the range of from 500 to 3,000, which polyester resin comprises polyalkylene oxide groups and, optionally, sulphonate groups, wherein the polyester resin comprises the reaction product of 1) a mixture of carboxylic acids comprising 50 to 80 mole % of an m- and/or p-aromatic and/or cycloaliphatic dicarboxylic acid, 20 to 50 mole % of an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid and/or aliphatic monocarboxylic acid with more than 6 carbon atoms, and, optionally, a tri- or higher-functional acid, and 2) a mixture of alcohols comprising an aliphatic diol with at least 4 carbon atoms and/or a cycloaliphatic diol with at least 4 carbon atoms, a C1-C4 alkoxy polyalkylene oxide glycol and/or C1-C4 alkoxy polyalkylene oxide 1,3-diol having a number average molecular weight of 500 to 3,000, and, optionally, a tri- or higher-functional polyalcohol, wType: GrantFiled: April 20, 2001Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.Inventors: Roelof Buter, André Steenbergen, Taco Scherer, Petrus Johannes Arnoldus Geurink
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Patent number: 6537497Abstract: The invention discloses a composition and method of absorbing and/or detecting the presence of ignitable liquids. The composition includes a hydrophobic polymer, a hydrophobic long-chain carboxylic acid and, optionally, a hydrophobic solvent indicator dye and a hydrophobic white metallic oxide. The composition may be applied to an area suspected of containing an ignitable liquid and allowed to remain on the area for a time period sufficient to react with the ignitable liquid. If an ignitable liquid is present, the composition will form an aggregate by agglomeration with the ignitable liquid.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2000Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Inventor: John H. Woodland
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Patent number: RE39993Abstract: Emulsions are claimed which comprise oligoesters as emulsifiers. These oligoesters have hitherto only been used as soil release polymers.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2004Date of Patent: January 1, 2008Assignee: Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbHInventor: Matthias Loeffler