Specified Material Contains A Carboxylic Acid Or Derivative Patents (Class 525/262)
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Patent number: 6706391Abstract: An anisotropically electroconductive film, which has a high reliability in its capacity for conducting electricity and also a good adhesion under such an adhesive condition that the film is heated at a temperature of 130° C. or less for a short period of time, has a layer of an adhesive within which electroconductive particles are distributed. The adhesive is composed of a thermosetting resin composition including a base resin, a reactive compound, an organic peroxide and a reaction accelerating compound, and also the electroconductive particles incorporated into the thermosetting resin composition. The base resin is a polyacetalized resin which is obtained by acetalizing a polyvinyl alcohol. The reactive compound is at least one selected from a group consisting of acryloxy group-bearing compounds, methacryloxy group-bearing compounds and epoxy group-bearing compounds. The reaction accelerating compound is a compound which has a radically reactive group and alkali-reactive group as its end groups.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2001Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignee: Bridgestone CorporationInventors: Ryo Sakurai, Hidetoshi Hiraoka, Tokuo Okada, Teruo Miura, Yasuhiro Morimura
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Patent number: 6596824Abstract: Provided is a continuous vapor-phase polymerization method for producing polyolefins. In the method, polymer agglomerates and aggregates are prevented from being formed, and polymer deposition on the wall of reactors and around stirring blades is prevented. The method enables continuous and stable production of high-quality polyolefins, with no pipe line clogging. The method is characterized by a specific supply mode of feeding a catalyst activity retardant such as alcohol into polymerization reactors. Specifically, the retardant is fed into the vapor phase in a polymerization reactor and into the powder phase therein through its side wall. Preferably, the retardant is fed into the powder phase through a plurality of sites of the side wall of the reactor.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2001Date of Patent: July 22, 2003Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoo Nambu, Masao Aida, Masatoshi Toda
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Publication number: 20030096301Abstract: Supports useful for the synthesis of chemical compounds, and combinatorial libraries of compounds, are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making and using the supports.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2001Publication date: May 22, 2003Inventor: MaoJun Guo
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Patent number: 6500902Abstract: A fitting composition capable of fitting a body-worn tool to be used in contact with skin, such as spectacles, a hearing aid, and an artificial limb, suitably to the body shape of individual wearer and thereby realizing the function of the body-worn tool in a steady state, as well as providing an excellent wear-feeling, a body-worn tool produced using the same, and a method of producing the same. The fitting composition for body-worn tools to be used in contact with skin including (a) a thermoplastic block copolymer having at least one polymer block (A) mainly composed of an aromatic vinyl compound and at least one elastic polymer block (B); (b) a (meth)acrylic monomer; and (c) a polymerization initiator.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2001Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignees: Kuraray Co., Ltd., Japan Institute of Advanced DentistryInventors: Satoshi Yamaguchi, Junichi Yamauchi, Kenji Hatanaka, Mizuho Maeda, Eiichi Masuhara
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Publication number: 20020193528Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide molecular compounds useful in the fields of state-of-the-art materials, such as formulations, waste water treatments, energy transducers, conductors and bio-model reactions, in a way that interaction points and forces working inside polymer assemblies are fixed as well as controlled so that constituent polymers are aligned and modified. It is also an object of the present invention to provide methods for aligning and/or modifying polymers having hydrogen bond sites.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2002Publication date: December 19, 2002Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Satoru Abe
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Patent number: 6472085Abstract: A multi-component composite coating composition comprising a base coat deposited from a pigmented film-forming composition and a transparent top coat applied over the base coat in which the base coat is a thermosetting composition comprising a co-reactable solid, particulate mixture of (i) an epoxy functional polymer containing at least one of the polymer chain structures -[(M)p-(G)q]x- or -[(G)q-(M)p]x- wherein M is an oxirane-free residue of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer, G is a glycidyl-functional ethylenically unsaturated monomer, p and q each independently has a value of 0 to typically less than 100, and x has a value of at least 1 to typically less than 100, the total value of p, q and x selected such that said epoxy functional polymer has a number average molecular weight of at least 250, and (ii) a co-reactant having functional groups reactive with the epoxy groups of (i).Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2001Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Karen A. Barkac, Simion Coca, James R. Franks, Kurt A. Humbert, Paul H. Lamers, Roxalana L. Martin, James B. O'Dwyer, Kurt G. Olson, Daniela White
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Patent number: 6448333Abstract: A grafted polyolefin polymers having high polarity produced by grafting bi-functional N-substituted diacids to maleated or other functional group grafted polyolefin. The new polymers exhibit improved water miscibility, compatability and good adhesion to polar materials such as nylon, polyester, glass, and metal substrates.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1999Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Manuel Soler Rodriguez, Pierre Nazareth Tutunjian, Charles Lee Edwards, Paul Karol Casey, Carlton Edwin Ash, Charles C. Hwo, Pui Kwan Wong
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Publication number: 20020103303Abstract: A modified thermoplastic norbornene polymer obtained by graft-modifying a thermoplastic norbornene polymer selected from a ring-opening polymer of a norbornene monomer or a hydrogenated product thereof with at least one unsaturated compound selected from the group consisting of unsaturated epoxy compounds and unsaturated carboxylic compounds, and having a rate of graft modification of at least 10 mol % and a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 500 to 500,000, a production process thereof, and a crosslinking polymer composition comprising the modified thermoplastic norbornene polymer and a crosslinking agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 1999Publication date: August 1, 2002Inventor: JUNJI KODEMURA
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Patent number: 6407197Abstract: Aqueous dispersion of a polymer, which polymer has been obtained by subjecting a starting polymer which contains maleic anhydride monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units to an imidization reaction, the starting polymer containing 7-50 mole % maleic anhydride monomer units and the imidization reaction having been carried out in such a way that at most 75% of the maleic anhydride monomer units has been imidized.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2000Date of Patent: June 18, 2002Assignee: DSM N.V.Inventors: Hendrik J. Van Den Berg, Mathijs H. G. Maassen, Laurentius W. Steenbakkers
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Patent number: 6350817Abstract: Phenylethynyl containing reactive additives were prepared from aromatic diamines containing phenylethynyl groups and various ratios of phthalic anhydride and 4-phenylethynylphthalic anhydride in glacial acetic acid to form the imide in one step or in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone to form the amide acid intermediate. The reactive additives were mixed in various amounts (10% to 90%) with oligomers containing either terminal or pendent phenylethynyl groups (or both) to reduce the melt viscosity and thereby enhance processability. Upon thermal cure, the additives react and become chemically incorporated into the matrix and effect an increase in crosslink density relative to that of the host resin. This resultant increase in crosslink density has advantageous consequences on the cured resin properties such as higher glass transition temperature and higher modulus as compared to that of the host resin.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1999Date of Patent: February 26, 2002Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationInventors: John W. Connell, Joseph G. Smith, Jr., Paul M. Hergenrother
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Patent number: 6348545Abstract: A water-absorbing resin having superior water absorption properties, and a method for manufacturing the water-absorbing resin having superior water absorption properties in a short time, in which used waste materials are used for effective utilization of resources. To this end, a high-molecular material containing acrylonitrile, styrene and conjugated dienes as constituent units are processed with acid and/or alkali.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1999Date of Patent: February 19, 2002Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasuhito Inagaki, Haruo Watanabe, Tsutomu Noguchi
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Publication number: 20010053824Abstract: There is a need for polymers that offer a high level of heat and ultraviolet light resistance. It is particularly critical for polymers that are utilized in making skin compounds for automotive instrument and door panels to display excellent heat and ultraviolet light resistance. Polymer blends having such characteristics can be made by blending certain rubbery polymers with halogen containing polymers, such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC). There is currently a demand for halogen-free polymers having such characteristics. This invention discloses a rubbery polymer that can be blended with polyolefins, such as polyethylene or polypropylene, to make leathery compositions having good heat and ultraviolet light resistance. The rubbery polymer of this invention is comprised of repeat units which are comprised of (a) butyl acrylate, (b) an alkoxyalkylene acrylate, (c) styrene, (d) a half ester maleate soap, and (e) a crosslinking agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2001Publication date: December 20, 2001Inventor: Hung Dang Ngoc
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Patent number: 6268433Abstract: A thermosetting composition useful as a powder coating comprises a co-reactable solid, particulate mixture of (a) an epoxy functional polymer containing at least one of the polymer chain structures -[(M)p-(G)q]x- or -[(G)q-(M)p]x- wherein M is an oxirane-free residue of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer, G is a glycidyl-functional ethylenically unsaturated monomer, p and q each independently has a value of 0 to typically less than 100, and x has a value of at least 1 to typically less than 100, the total value of p, q and x selected such that said epoxy functional polymer has a number average molecular weight of at least 250, and (b) a co-reactant having functional groups reactive with the epoxy groups of (a), e.g., dodecanedioic acid. The epoxy functional polymer is prepared by atom transfer radical polymerization and a polydispersity index of less than 2.5.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1999Date of Patent: July 31, 2001Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Karen A. Barkac, Simion Coca, James R. Franks, Kurt A. Humbert, Paul H. Lamers, Roxalana L. Martin, James B. O'Dwyer, Kurt G. Olson, Daniela White
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Patent number: 6262181Abstract: This invention relates to a process for generating a organically soluble partially cross-linked acid labile polymer according to the present invention comprises the steps of providing a polymer with one or more monomer units, wherein at least one of the monomer units contain one or more pendant COOH or hydroxyl groups; and reacting said polymer with a polyvinyl ether in the presence of a acid catalyst to form links between at least two polymer chains. The resulting polymer can be used as a component in a photoresist formulation.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1999Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignee: Arch Specialty Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Nageshwer Rao Bantu, Donald Frank Perry, Jacqueline Marie Marshall, Timothy Michael Holt
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Publication number: 20010002415Abstract: A colored photosensitive composition is composed of a pigment composition, a binder polymer having an acidic group, a multi-functional monomer having at least two ethylenic unsaturated double bonds, and a photopolymerization initiator. The pigment composition is composed of an organic pigment, a dispersant, and an organic solvent. The dispersant is a copolymer of a polymerizable oligomer having an ethylenic unsaturated double bond in its terminal position and one or more monomers at least one of which has a nitrogen-containing group and an ethylenic unsaturated double bond.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2001Publication date: May 31, 2001Inventors: Akihiko Takeda, Shinichiro Morimoto, Kousaku Yoshimura
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Patent number: 6224981Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-redispersible powder based on film-forming polymers which are substantially water-insoluble and which are prepared by aqueous emulsion polymerization of monomers containing ethylenic unsaturation and with a “core/shell” structure comprising a hydrophobic core based on a polymer exhibiting a Tg (glass transition temperature) of between −30 and 25° C., preferably between −10 and 20° C., and a shell, the shell being bonded to the core by covalent bonds resulting from the reaction of an agent for grafting the shell onto the ethylenic unsaturations remaining in the core, characterized in that the shell is prepared by emulsion polymerization, on the core particles, of a mixture of monomers comprising at least one monomer chosen from styrene and a C1-C12 alkyl acrylate or methacrylate, at least one monomer carrying a saccharide group and exhibiting at least one ethylenic unsaturation, and at least one grafting agent.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1997Date of Patent: May 1, 2001Assignee: Rhodia ChimiInventors: Joël Richard, William Bett
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Patent number: 6218468Abstract: In a process for the preparation of an aqueous polymer dispersion by the free radical aqueous emulsion polymerization method, the polymerization is carried out in the presence of frozen micelles of amphiphilic substances.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1998Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignees: BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Max-Planck-InstitutInventors: Klemens Mathauer, Walter Mächtle, Wolfgang Schrof, Horst Schuch, Timo Rager, Wolfgang Meyer, Gerhard Wegner
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Patent number: 6191229Abstract: The present invention provides (meth)acryl syrup which shows excellent storage stability as a molding material, and also provides a method of manufacturing the (meth)acryl syrup in a shorter period of time compared with the conventional method, and a molding material which permits a molded article having excellent heat-resistance, solvent-resistance, weathering resistance, and water-resistance, etc., to be manufactured. The (meth)acryl syrup is manufactured, for example, by polymerizing a monomer component including (meth)acrylic ester and a vinyl monomer having a carboxyl group in a presence of a thiol compound, and subsequently processing the reaction mixture with maleic anhydride and a basic compound. The molding material includes the (meth)acryl syrup, and may also include a thickening agent, derivatives of succinic acid, a reinforcing material, etc.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1997Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masazumi Sasabe, Akihiko Fukada, Keiichiro Mizuta
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Patent number: 6136926Abstract: Cross-linkable, olefinic polymers synthesized from mixtures of olefinic polymers and ethylenically unsaturated organosilane compounds, which can be grafted, by a 2-step method using thermally decomposing free radical-forming agents by heating the mixtures to a temperature of 30.degree. to 110.degree. C. below the softening temperature or the crystallite melting point of the olefinic polymers used and subsequently heating the mixtures to a reaction temperature of 10.degree. to 60 .degree. C. below the softening temperature or the crystallite melting point of the olefinic polymers used. In the alternative, they can be grafted by a method involving the action of ionizing radiation with simultaneous absorption of organosilane compounds and the action of radiation. The method is suitable for producing films, sheets, fibers, panels, coatings, pipes, hollow objects, foamed materials and molded articles.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1997Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignee: Borealis GmbHInventors: Manfred Raetzsch, Achim Hesse, Harmut Bucka, Dirk Leistner, Sergej Ivanchev, Saul Heikin, Alla Mesh, Moisej Pukschanski
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Patent number: 6077903Abstract: There is a need for polymers which are utilized in automotive interiors which offer increased heat and ultraviolet light resistance. It is particularly critical for polymers which are utilized in making skin compounds for automotive instrument and door panels to display excellent heat and ultraviolet light resistance. This invention discloses a continuous process for preparing a rubbery polymer which can be blended with polyvinyl chloride to make leathery compositions having good heat and ultraviolet light resistance. This technique involves utilizing a multiple continuous reactor system wherein a first phase monomer solution containing butyl acrylate, an acrylic monomer, acrylonitrile and a crosslinking agent is continuously charged into at least three initial reactors. To attain a small particle size, it is necessary to limit the solids content in each of these initial reactors.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1998Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: The Goodyear Tire Rubber CompanyInventor: Hung Dang Ngoc
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Patent number: 6072006Abstract: This invention relates to a process for generating a organically soluble partially cross-linked acid labile polymer according to the present invention comprises the steps of providing a polymer with one or more monomer units, wherein at least one of the monomer units contain one or more pendant COOH or hydroxyl groups; and reacting said polymer with a polyvinyl ether in the presence of a acid catalyst to form links between at least two polymer chains. The resulting polymer can be used as a component in a photoresist formulation.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1998Date of Patent: June 6, 2000Assignee: Arch Specialty Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Nageshwer Rao Bantu, Donald Frank Perry, Jacqueline Marie Marshall, Timothy Michael Holt
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Patent number: 6025457Abstract: Novel molten-salt type polyelectrolytes are disclosed which contain as an essential ingredient a molten salt polymer obtained by reacting an imidazolium derivative, such as a 1,3-dialkylimidazolium halide, 1,2,3-trialkylimidazolium halide, 1-vinyl-3-alkylimidazolium halide, or 1-vinyl-2,3-alkylimidazolium halide, with an acid monomer, a poly(vinylsulfonamide), trifluoromethanesulfonimide, or the like. The electrolytes show high ionic conductivity at room temperature and have excellent stability to temperature fluctuations and excellent mechanical properties.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1997Date of Patent: February 15, 2000Assignee: Shikoku Chemicals CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Ohno, Kaori Ito
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Patent number: 5882799Abstract: Polymeric coupling agents incorporate within their structures co-vulcanizable groups such as alkenyl, epoxide, acrylate and/or acrylamide, and metal-complexing groups such as carboxylic, oxime, amine, hydroxamic and/or iminodiacetic groups. The polymeric coupling agents are useful in the adhesion of certain substrates and are particularly useful as adhesives for the adhesion of rubbers with metals. Snytheses of the novel polymeric coupling agents are provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1996Date of Patent: March 16, 1999Assignee: Vernay Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Frederik Roseboom, Cornelis P. J. van der Aar, Adriaan Bantjes, Minhua Feng
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Patent number: 5872189Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-redispersible powder based on film-forming polymers which are substantially water-insoluble and which are prepared by aqueous emulsion polymerization of monomers containing ethylenic unsaturation with a "core/shell" structure comprising a hydrophobic core based on a polymer exhibiting a Tg (glass transition temperature) of between -30.degree. and +25.degree. C., preferably between -10.degree. and +20.degree. C., and a hydrophilic shell based on a polymer exhibiting a Tg higher than +55.degree. C., preferably higher than +90.degree. C., characterized in that the shell is bonded to the core by covalent bonds resulting from the reaction of an agent for grafting the shell onto the ethylenic unsaturations remaining in the core, and is substantially insoluble in an alkaline medium.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1997Date of Patent: February 16, 1999Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc ChimieInventors: Bill Bett, Joel Richard
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Patent number: 5817707Abstract: A graft copolymer of a propylene polymer material is prepared by (1) making an oxidized propylene polymer material by (a) irradiating a porous particulate propylene polymer material in the substantial absence of oxygen, (b) exposing the irradiated propylene polymer material to a controlled amount of oxygen of greater than 0.004% but less than 15% by volume at a temperature of 40.degree. C. to 110.degree. C., and (c) heating the irradiated polymer material to a temperature of at least 110.degree. C. in the presence of a controlled amount of oxygen within the same range as is used in the previous step, (2) dispersing the resulting oxidized propylene polymer material in water in the presence of a surfactant at a temperature of 30.degree. C.-90.degree. C., (3) adding (a) a primary reducing agent, (b) a chelating agent, and (c) a secondary reducing agent, (4) adding at least one vinyl monomer, and (5) recovering the graft copolymer from the reaction mixture.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1996Date of Patent: October 6, 1998Assignee: Montell North America Inc.Inventors: Anthony J. DeNicola, Jr., Abuzar Syed
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Patent number: 5811474Abstract: There is a need for polymers which offer increased heat resistance, ultraviolet light resistance, and low fogging characteristics for utilization in automotive interiors. It is particularly critical for polymers which are utilized in making skin compounds for automotive instrument and door panels to display excellent heat resistance, ultraviolet light resistance, and low fogging characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1997Date of Patent: September 22, 1998Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Hung Dang Ngoc, Mariano Salazar
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Patent number: 5804662Abstract: Agglomerated, finely divided, crosslinked vinylimidazole copolymers obtainable by free-radically initiated polymerization of N-vinylimidazoles of the formula ##STR1## where R, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are identical or different and each is H, C.sub.1 -C.sub.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1997Date of Patent: September 8, 1998Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christian Schade, Karl-Heinrich Schneider
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Patent number: 5767173Abstract: There is a need for polymers which offer increased heat resistance, ultraviolet light resistance, and low fogging characteristics for utilization in automotive interiors. It is particularly critical for polymers which are utilized in making skin compounds for automotive instrument and door panels to display excellent heat resistance, ultraviolet light resistance, and low fogging characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 1997Date of Patent: June 16, 1998Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Hung Dang Ngoc, Mariano Salazar
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Patent number: 5756586Abstract: This invention relates to a vulcanizable rubber composition obtained by compounding, into an ethylenically unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene copolymer rubber, a zinc compound, an .alpha., .beta.-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, a compound of a 2A Group metal of the periodic table and an organic peroxide. The vulcanizable rubber composition of this invention can provide a vulcanized rubber having excellent heat resistance and oil resistance and moreover possessing high tensile stress or stably exhibiting high tensile strength without being affected by kneading conditions, and is hence suitable for use as a rubber material for toothed belts and the like.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1995Date of Patent: May 26, 1998Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Nishimura, Yoshiomi Saito, Kazuyoshi Nakajima, Atsushi Tanaka, Yasuaki Serizawa
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Patent number: 5753759Abstract: Graft polymers which contain N-vinyl units and in which the grafting base is a polymer which contains in each case at least 5% by weight of units of the formulae ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl, monoethylenically unsaturated monomers are grafted onto the grafting base in a weight ratio of from 100:1 to 1:100, and which have K values of at least 7 (determined according to H. Fikentscher in 5% strength by weight aqueous solution at 25.degree. C. and pH 7), are prepared by polymerization of monoethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of polymers which in each case contain at least 5% by weight of units of the formulae I and/or II as the grafting base in a weight ratio of from 100:1 to 1:100, and are used as dispersants for pigments, as additives for detergents and cleaning agents, and strength agents for paper and as soil stabilizers and for fertilizer compaction.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1996Date of Patent: May 19, 1998Assignee: Basf AktiengesellschaftInventors: Heinrich Hartmann, Walter Denzinger, Claudia Nilz
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Patent number: 5712346Abstract: Rubber articles are coated with a powder-free coating; the power-free/non-tacky coating comprises a copolymer formed by the sequential polymerization of two mixtures of monomers comprising styrene, alkyl acrylates, acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, and a silicone oligomer. The sequential polymerization of the two monomer mixtures produces a core copolymer surrounded by a shell copolymer, in which the two copolymers have differing glass transition temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: January 27, 1998Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventor: Ivan Lee
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Patent number: 5708128Abstract: Novel thermoset polyimide and composite materials comprising the thermoset polyimides and a fibrous reinforcement are prepared according to this invention. The thermoset polyimides are obtained by heat-treating a linear polyamic acid or a linear polyimide prepared by using 4,4'-bis(3-aminophenoxy)biphenyl and pyromellitic dianhydride as essential monomers or by adding 4,4'-diaminodiphenyl ether or 3,3',4,4'-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride to the essential monomers and by end-capping the molecular chain end with an aromatic dicarboxylic anhydride having a carbon-carbon triple bond. The thermoset polyimides have essential excellent properties of thermoplastic polyimide and additionally has enhanced heat resistance and improved mechanical properties. The thermoset polyimide can be used to provide various kinds of composite materials for aircraft matrices, electric and electronic appliances and others.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1996Date of Patent: January 13, 1998Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Hideaki Oikawa, Shoji Tamai, Masahiro Ohta, Akihiro Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 5679729Abstract: The present invention relates to a silica reinforced rubber composition and pneumatic tires having treads comprised of the silica reinforced rubber compositions. The silica reinforced rubber composition comprises an elastomer, silica, optionally carbon black and a silica coupler of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 individually represent hydrogen or an alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms; X represents oxygen or sulfur; and Z represents a hydroxyalkyl group of 2 to 7 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1996Date of Patent: October 21, 1997Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Lawson Gibson Wideman, Paul Harry Sandstrom, Denise Jeannette Keith
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Patent number: 5616651Abstract: There is a need for polymers which are utilized in automotive interiors which offer increased heat and ultraviolet light resistance. It is particularly critical for polymers which are utilized in making skin compounds for automotive instrument and door panels to display excellent heat and ultraviolet light resistance.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1995Date of Patent: April 1, 1997Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Mariano S. Ni no, Hung D. Ngoc
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Patent number: 5567800Abstract: Controlled molecular weight phenylethynyl terminated imide oligomers (PETIs) have been prepared by the cyclodehydration of precursor phenylethynyl terminated amic acid oligomers. Amino terminated amic acid oligomers are prepared from the reaction of dianhydride(s) with an excess of diamine(s) and subsequently endcapped with phenylethynyl phthalic anhydride(s) (PEPA). The polymerizations are carried out in polar aprotic solvents such as N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone or N,N-dimethylacetamide under nitrogen at room temperature. The amic acid oligomers are subsequently cyclodehydrated either thermally or chemically to the corresponding imide oligomers. Direct preparation of PETIs from the reaction of dianhydride(s) with an excess of diamine(s) and endcapped with phenylethynyl phthalic anhydride(s) has been performed in m-cresol. Phenylethynyl phthalic anhydrides are synthesized by the palladium catalyzed reaction of phenylacetylene with bromo substituted phthalic anhydrides in triethylamine.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1994Date of Patent: October 22, 1996Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationInventors: Paul M. Hergenrother, Joseph G. Smith, Jr.
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Patent number: 5508348Abstract: A composite is formed wherein particles of a conductive polymer are uniformly distributed within a processable non-conductive polymer. In the method of the invention, an inverted emulsion is formed by dispersing an aqueous solution of oxidant in an organic solvent comprising a host polymer and an oil-soluble surfactant. A monomer whose polymerization yields a conductive polymer which is dissolved in a solvent miscible with the organic solvent of the emulsion is then added dropwise to the emulsion with agitation. The composite is separated from the emulsion and the precipitate is washed and dried.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1994Date of Patent: April 16, 1996Assignee: The Research Foundation of SUNYInventors: Eli Ruckenstein, Liang Hong
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Patent number: 5408005Abstract: A process for preparing a rubber modified thermoplastic resin, in which a latex in aqueous emulsion is prepared in the presence of an ionic surfactant; a vinyl monomer insoluble or substantially insoluble in water is added, and the particles of the latex are transferred to the monomer to form an organic phase using a transfer agent of opposite charge to the surfactant; and a polymerization of the organic phase is performed.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1993Date of Patent: April 18, 1995Assignee: NorsolorInventors: Philippe Heim, Gerard Riess
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Patent number: 5364908Abstract: Resin compositions of improved dispersibility and mechanical properties are obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable compound (A), insitu in a melted thermoplastic resin (B), in the presence of a dispersant (C) reactive or compatible with at least one of the resin (B) and polymerizate of (A).Suitable dispersants include those represented by the general formula (1) or (2)R.sub.1 --L(X--M--X--L).sub.n X--M--R.sub.2 (1)R.sub.1 --L(X--M--X--L).sub.n --R.sub.2 (2)wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are groups, such as hydrocarbyl acyl, alkoxy, hydroxyl, mercapto, amino, epoxy, isocyanate, carboxylic, carboxylic anhydride, carboxylic halide and aldehyde groups; L and M are residues of a polymer having a number average molecular weight of about 500-about 3,000,000, the difference in solubility parameter between the residue L or M and the resin (B) or polymerizate of (A) being not more than 0.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1991Date of Patent: November 15, 1994Assignee: Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Masafumi Oishi, Hiroshi Nishimoto, Takao Ando, Yukio Shibata, Toshiaki Okamoto, Katsura Gohda
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Patent number: 5310810Abstract: An improved process for the preparation of segmented copolymers of polyolefins and poly(methacrylates) is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1993Date of Patent: May 10, 1994Assignee: Rohm and Haas CompanyInventors: John Natoli, Min-Yin Chang
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Patent number: 5298560Abstract: A partially crosslinked thermoplastic resin composition is prepared by dynamically heat-treating a thermoplastic resin (A) in the presence of a carbon radical inducing agent (B) comprising a charge transfer complex or a combination of a hydrogen donating compound and a hydrogen accepting compound.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1991Date of Patent: March 29, 1994Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, LimitedInventors: Fuyuki Aida, Masaaki Miyazaki, Mamoru Nagai
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Patent number: 5266642Abstract: An improved process for the preparation of .alpha.-methylstyrene polymers by aqueous emulsion polymerization in which a styrene monomer mixture is first polymerized in a quantity of from 0.5 to 8% by weight of the total quantity of monomers and thereafter an .alpha.-methylstyrene monomer mixture is polymerized batchwise or semi-continuously.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1992Date of Patent: November 30, 1993Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karl-Erwin Piejko, Ralph Ostarek, Christian Lindner
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Patent number: 5266632Abstract: A grafting reaction system comprises an activated polymer and a grafting medium containing a monomer, with the system containing free radicals. The system further comprises 0.1 to 2% by weight of the grafting medium and monomer of a homopolymerization inhibitor compound, the inhibitor compound comprising a compatabilizing function toward the grafting medium which is selected from the group consisting of sulfonic, carboxylic and phenolic groups, and an inhibiting function which acts as a transfer agent for the free radicals, the inhibiting function being an allyl-type unsaturated group. The inhibitor compound has a diffusing capacity through the grafting medium which is greater than its diffusing capacity through the polymer.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1990Date of Patent: November 30, 1993Assignee: Institue Textile de FranceInventors: Roger Chatelin, Louis Gavet
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Patent number: 5248733Abstract: Matte vinyl chloride polymers are prepared by suspension polymerizing a vinyl chloride monomer or a vinyl monomer mixture mainly comprising vinyl chloride in an aqueous medium in the presence of (A) a polyfunctional monomer having at least two ethylenic double bonds in a molecule and (B) a polymeric matting agent containing 3 to 25% by weight of a tetrahydrofuran-insoluble gel fraction. The polymers are effectively moldable and present uniform matte effect.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1991Date of Patent: September 28, 1993Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Kitamura, Ichiro Kaneko
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Patent number: 5247024Abstract: An improved process for the preparation of segmented copolymers of polyolefins and poly(methacrylates) is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1992Date of Patent: September 21, 1993Assignee: Rohm and Haas CompanyInventors: John Natoli, Min-Yin Chang
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Patent number: 5239007Abstract: Oil-absorbent compositions are disclosed. The compositions are crosslinked interpolymers of an alkylated styrene and a rubber. The compositions of the invention have high absorption capacities and absorption rates compared with prior-art compositions.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1991Date of Patent: August 24, 1993Assignee: ARCO Chemical Technology, L.P.Inventor: Bi Le-Khac
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Patent number: 5231141Abstract: A process for producing a hydrophilic group-containing macromonomer having an ethylenically unsaturated group at the end thereof comprising reacting a hydrophilic group-containing polymer having a carboxyl group at the end thereof, with an ethylenically unsaturated group-containing epoxy compound in the presence of a hydrophilic organic solvent. According to the process of the present invention, there is provided a process for producing a hydrophilic group-containing macromonomer having an ethylenically unsaturated group at the end thereof which has been not known in the prior art.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1990Date of Patent: July 27, 1993Assignee: Soken Kagaku Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshitsugu Arai, Susumu Kawase
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Patent number: 5219943Abstract: A process for producing monodispersed fine particles of a vinyl polymer is disclosed, which comprises polymerizing monomers containing at least one vinyl monomer selected from the group consisting of aromatic vinyl compounds, acrylic esters, and a methacrylic ester in the presence of (1) a surface active agent represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having from 4 to 8 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted cyclohexyl group and M represents an alkali metal, (2) from 10.sup.-3 to 10.sup.-1 mol/l of a persulfate as a polymerization initiator, and (3) from 10.sup.-4 to 10.sup.-2 mol/l of a divalent metal sulfate as an electrolyte. Monodispersed vinyl polymer fine particles having a particle size of 1 .mu.m or greater with a very narrow size distribution are obtained.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1991Date of Patent: June 15, 1993Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Akasaki, Naoya Yabuuchi, Tatsuro Ohki
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Patent number: 5196500Abstract: Tetrapolyimide films derived from 3,3',4,4'-benzophenone tetracarboxylic dianhydride, pyromellitic acid dianhydride, p-phenylene diamine and 4,4'-diaminodiphenyl ether, and their preparation, are described. The tetrapolymer films have low water absorption, low coefficients of thermal and hygroscopic expansion, high modulus and are caustic etachable and can be used in flexible printed circuit and tape automated bonding applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1990Date of Patent: March 23, 1993Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: John A. Kreuz, Richard F. Sutton, Jr., Stuart N. Milligan
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Patent number: 5185406Abstract: A process for preparing an elastomer-containing vinyl chloride graft copolymer having an elastomer content of up to 65% by weight. The process comprises forming a mixture of an elastomer dispersion, water, buffer and initiator, adding a precipitating agent; after precipitation has occurred, metering into the mixture the grafting monomer and a protective colloid; and then subjecting the mixture to suspension polymerization conditions. The graft copolymeric material is useful as an impact modifier or as plasticizer-free flexible PVC.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 1990Date of Patent: February 9, 1993Assignee: Wacker Chemie GmbHInventor: Peter Grauer
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Patent number: RE34640Abstract: Block copolymers compose a polyisobutylene rubbery soft segment of M.sub.n of about 5,000 to above 500,000 and glassy hard segments of M.sub.n of about 5,000 or higher and usually about 10,000 to 35,000 or more, are made by preparing a living polymer block of the polyisobutylene and then polymerizing on said living polyisobutylene block the glassy hard segments by adding thereto an electron donor having a donor number of 15 to 50 and then adding and polymerizing the monomers for the glassy hard segments. The monomers for the glassy hard segments are styrene and its derivatives and indene and its derivatives and mixtures thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1992Date of Patent: June 14, 1994Assignee: University of AkronInventors: Joseph P. Kennedy, Judit E. Puskas, Gabor Kaszas, William G. Hager