Oxygen Atom Is Part Of A Carboxylic Acid Group Patents (Class 525/301)
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Patent number: 6265493Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing polyolefin graft copolymers (II) from linear and well defined polyolefin copolymers (I) containing divinylbenzene comonomer units, wherein R, in formulas I and II, is a C1 to C10 linear or branched alkyl group or a C6 to C10 substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group; and wherein G and G′, independantly, are selected from —H, —OH, epoxy, —NH2, —COOH, anhydride, —Cl, —Br, —M, —COOM (M=metal, e.g., Li, Na, K and Ca) or a polymer chain having the molecular weight of at least about 500, which can be derived from both step and chain polymerization reactions. G and G′ can be selected singly or in a combination of two or more thereof. In the graft copolymer composition, the combined alpha-olefin mole .% (x+y) is from about 50 to 99.9 mole %. Preferably, x+y is from 85 to 99.9 mole %, and most preferably x+y is from 95 to 99.9 mole %.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2000Date of Patent: July 24, 2001Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Tze-Chiang Chung, Jinyong Dong
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Publication number: 20010006760Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel photosensitive resin which can be developed in water and which can be used as a photosensitive resin composition. More specifically, the present invention relates to a composition which is useful as a photosensitive soldering resist for printed circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2001Publication date: July 5, 2001Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Shigeo Nakamura, Tadahiko Yokota
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Patent number: 6252005Abstract: The thermal oxidative stability of acrylic grafted polymers is improved by (a) graft polymerizing monomers selected from the group consisting of (i) an ester or salt of an unsubstituted or 1-3 C alkyl-substituted acrylic acid and (ii) an ester or salt of an unsubstituted or 1-3 C alkyl-substituted acrylic acid and about 1 to about 10 mole %, based on the total monomers added, of an unsubstituted or 1-3 C alkyl-substituted acrylic acid, to a backbone of a propylene polymer material in the presence of a 4-vinyl-substituted 5-12 C cyclic 1-alkene, wherein the total amount of polymerized monomer is about 20 to about 200 parts per hundred parts of the propylene polymer material and the vinyl-substituted cyclic alkene is present in an amount of about 1 mole % to about 30 mole %, based on the total moles of monomer added, and (b) removing any unreacted grafting monomer from the resulting grafted propylene polymer material, decomposing any unreacted initiator, and deactivating any residual free radicals in the materiType: GrantFiled: August 7, 1998Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Montell Technology Company BVInventor: Suhas G. Niyogi
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Patent number: 6239227Abstract: Novel water-soluble or water-dispersible grafted copolymers comprising polyvinyl alcohol, vinylpyrrolidone or oxyalkylene oligomer or polymer units and hydrophilic copolymer units derived from ethylenically unsaturated anionic and amphoteric water-soluble monomers.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1999Date of Patent: May 29, 2001Assignee: Rhodia ChimieInventors: Harold Schoonbrood, Vance Bergeron, Jean-Pierre Marchand
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Patent number: 6228948Abstract: Modified polymers, particularly polyolefins with improved flow over that of polyolefin alone, are produced by reacting polypropylene, maleic anhydride monomer, and a peroxy initiator in a twin-screw extruder. The maleic anhydride monomer is injected as a fluid and is grafted onto the base polypropylene during the degradation/chain scissioning process. Novel, highly-grafted polymers with high melt flow and other useful properties are produced in pellet form.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1999Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Vicki Flaris, David John Mitchell
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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: 6211288Abstract: A highly water resistant tackifier resin comprising an acrylic (co)polymer incorporating therein while taking up at least part of a tackifying component as a raw material on or around seed particles of 0.05 to 15 &mgr;m in average particle size having polar groups on their surfaces. The above tackifier resin can be produced by a process comprising the steps of: dispersing a tackifying component as a raw material, an oil-soluble peroxide or oil-soluble azo initiator and an acrylic monomer in an aqueous medium in which seed particles of 0.05 to 15 &mgr;m in average particle size having polar groups at their surfaces are dispersed; and polymerizing the acrylic monomer while at least part of the tackifying component is incorporated in the acrylic (co)polymer on or around the seed particles so that the seed particles grow.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1997Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Soken Chemical & Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kiyokuni Takashima
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Patent number: 6191210Abstract: The invention relates to water-dilutable binders which can be prepared by subjecting (A) from 20 to 90% by weight of a mixture of (a1) from 3 to 50% by weight of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid or of a mixture of acrylic acid and methacrylic acid, and (a2) from 50 to 97% by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer or of a mixture of ethylenically unsaturated monomers to free-radical polymerization in the presence of (B) from 9.9 to 79.9% by weight of a halogen-free copolymer composed of (b1) from 1 to 99, preferably from 50 to 90% by weight, of propylene, (b2) from 1 to 99, preferably from 10 to 50% by weight, of at least one olefin which is copolymerizable with (b1) and contains per molecule from five to twenty, preferably from six to eight, carbon atoms, with the exception of isoprene, and (b3) from 0 to 50, preferably from 0 to 25% by weight, of ethylene and/or butylene, or of a mixture of such copolymers, and (C) from 0.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1998Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: BASF Coatings AGInventors: Joachim Rösch, Harald Borgholte, Horst Hintze-Brüning
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Patent number: 6187870Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the production of low molecular weight grafted polyolefins in which a molten polyolefin is grafted by reactive processing in a screw extruder at an elevated pressure. The molten polyolefin has a low viscosity and flows easily around the screw, thus the pressure is maintained in the screw extruder apparatus by the use of a pressure control device at the exit end of the extruder.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1993Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Richard K. Stuart, Jr., Randal R. Ford
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Patent number: 6172015Abstract: Polar monomer-containing copolymers derived from at least one &agr;, &bgr; unsaturated carbonyl compound, such as alkyl acrylates and one or more olefins, such olefins including ethylene and C3-C20 &agr;-olefins such as propylene and 1-butene, which copolymers have (a) an average ethylene sequence length, ESL, of from about 1.0 to less than about 3.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1999Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents, IncInventors: Jacob Emert, Albert Rossi, David E. Gindelberger, Jon E. Stanat, James P. Stokes, Jaimes Sher
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Patent number: 6165457Abstract: Disclosed are personal care compositions, such as haircare, cosmetic and nail compositions containing toughened grafted polymers.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1997Date of Patent: December 26, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Sanjeev Midha, Timothy Roy Nijakowski
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Patent number: 6147165Abstract: Inherently tacky, pressure-sensitive adhesive compositions useful in marking film applications are provided. The compositions comprise polymer particles prepared by emulsion polymerization of at least one monomer mixture. The monomer mixture comprises at least one alkyl acrylate, the alkyl group of which has from about 4 to 12 carbon atoms, preferably in an amount of from about 73% to 90% by weight, at least one unsaturated carboxylic acid containing from about 3 to 5 carbon atoms, preferably in an amount of from about 2% to 12% by weight, and at least one hard monomer, preferably present in an amount of from about 5% to 15% by weight. The particles have a mean diameter of about 300 nm or less, as determined by laser light scattering. Preferably the hard monomer comprises a styrenic monomer, more preferably both a styrenic monomer and an alkyl methacrylate. In some embodiments, the compositions are prepared by sequential polymerization of the first and second monomer charges.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1998Date of Patent: November 14, 2000Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventors: Ivan S. P. Lee, Graham Yeadon, Paul Keller
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Patent number: 6140425Abstract: A graft copolymer containing anhydride groups is made by (1) making a graft copolymer comprising a backbone of a propylene polymer material having graft polymerized thereto polymerized monomers selected from the group consisting of (a) at least one acrylic acid substituted with a 1-3 C alkyl group and (b) a mixture of at least one of these substituted acrylic acids and a vinyl compound capable of copolymerizing therewith, wherein the total amount of polymerized monomers is about 20 parts to about 240 parts per hundred parts of the propylene polymer material and the amount of the substituted acrylic acid is 60 mole % or more of the polymerized monomers, and (2) heating the graft copolymer to a temperature of about 170.degree. C. to about 300.degree. C. to dehydrate the acid groups in the graft copolymer to form anhydride groups.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1997Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: Montell North America Inc.Inventors: Anthony J. DeNicola, Jr., Abuzar Syed
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Patent number: 6127322Abstract: The reaction product of (i) an oligomer formed from one monomer or two or more different monomers, the or each monomer being an ethylenically unsaturated compound and said oligomer or each of said monomers being optionally partially or fully esterified, with (ii) a polyalkenyl derivative of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic reagent (iii), and (iv) a polyamine containing at least two --NH.sub.2 and/or --NH groups, wherein at least one of the ethylenically unsaturated compounds of the oligomer has a functional group which can react with an amine; and the use of the reaction product for its dispercency and low haze properties in lubricant compositions, fuel compositions and additive concentrates.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1996Date of Patent: October 3, 2000Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Richard Mark Scott, Robert William Shaw
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Patent number: 6121371Abstract: A process is provided for the preparation of (co)polymer emulsions or suspensions from a full range of free radically (co)polymerizable monomers, wherein the (co)polymers exhibit the characteristics of "living" polymerization, including one or more of predictable molecular weights, narrow or controllable molecular weight distributions and a variety of polymer architectures, including the roles of surfactants, catalyst and ligands, several initiation methods, and methods for catalyst removal from the emulsions or suspensions made, and the (co)polymer emulsions and suspensions made thereby.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 1998Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Scott G. Gaynor, Jian Qiu, Mircea Teodorescu
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Patent number: 6116774Abstract: A bonded body uses an adhesive having high water resistance to realize an adhesive-fixed structure having excellent waterproof properties and exhibiting relatively low changes in properties of the adhesive layer over time. The adhesive-fixed body of the present invention can be obtained by bonding and fixing a body and a glass cover as exterior pairs of a watch with an adhesive layer. The adhesive of the invention can be a curable adhesive containing 100 parts by weight of prepolymer resin having polytetramethylene oxide as a main chain and methacryl groups or acryl groups at both ends of the main chain or in side chains, 50 to 300 parts by weight of at least one selected from acrylic monomers or methacrylic monomers comprising isobornyl acrylate, isobornyl methacrylate or a mixture thereof, and a coupling agent.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 1998Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shigemi Sasaki, Tsutomu Saito
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Patent number: 6114461Abstract: Process for the preparation of vinylaromatic copolymers reinforced with rubber which comprises:a) dissolving a dienic rubber (i) and/or a linear block elastomer, vinylaromatic monomer-1,3 conjugated diene (ii), in a mixture comprising at least one vinylaromatic monomer and a pair of solvents consisting of a polar solvent and a nonpolar solvent;b) polymerizing the solution thus obtained, possibly in the presence of an initiator.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1997Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: Enichem S.p.A.Inventors: Davide Preti, Anna Grazia Rossi, Roberto Nocci, Nicola Vecchini
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Patent number: 6111027Abstract: This invention relates to an adhesive composition comprising a copolymer comprising units derived from one or more macromonomers and an unsaturated acid or an unsaturated anhydride wherein the weight average molecular weight of the copolymer is at least twice the weight average molecular weight of the macromonomer, the melt index of the copolymer is 1 dg/min or more, and wherein the macromonomer:(1) has a weight average molecular weight between 500 and 100,000;(2) has at least 30% terminal unsaturation; and(3) comprises a copolymer of ethylene and at least one .alpha.-olefin, and/or a copolymer of propylene and ethylene or an .alpha.-olefin.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1998Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents, IncInventors: Pamela J. Wright, Dennis George Peiffer, Kenneth Lewtas, Quoc Luvinh, Joseph Jacques Ripet, Anne Vera Macedo
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Patent number: 6107258Abstract: This invention relates to a novel multi-functional fuel and lubricant additive that provides dispersancy properties as well as viscosity index improved credit, improved fuel economy and low temperature viscometric properties. The invention further relates to concentrates, fuel and lubricating oil compositions containing said additive.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1997Date of Patent: August 22, 2000Assignees: Ethyl Corporation, DSM N.V.Inventors: Carl Kurt Esche, Jr., Anthony J. Rollin, Mark Thomas Devlin
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Patent number: 6100224Abstract: A copolymer comprising units of an unsaturated dicarboxylic monomer and an ethylene .alpha.-olefin macromer is disclosed. The macromer is an unsaturated ethylene .alpha.-olefin polymer comprising units of from ethylene and at least one .alpha.-olefin represented by the formula CH.sub.2 .dbd.CHR.sup.a, wherein R.sup.a is a C.sub.1 to C.sub.18 linear alkyl group or a C.sub.3 to C.sub.18 branched alkyl group; the ethylene .alpha.-olefin polymer has a number average molecular weight of from about 500 to about 100,000; and at least about 30% of the unsaturation in the ethylene .alpha.-olefin polymer is terminal vinylidene. The copolymer has a carbon-carbon backbone and contains succinic groups and hydrocarbyl groups. The copolymer can be derivatized by reaction with nucleophilic reactants including monoamines, polyamines, monoalcohols, polyols, amino alcohols, reactant metal compounds and mixtures thereof. The derivatized copolymers can be post-treated (e.g., borated) with one or more post-treating agents (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1997Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents IncInventors: Dennis G. Peiffer, Kenneth Lewtas, Robert D. Lundberg, Pamela J. Wright, Antonio G. Lazarus, Jacob Emert
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Patent number: 6100324Abstract: Disclosed are ionomers comprising functionalized polyolefins having fluoroalkyl sulfonate pendant groups and ionically conductive compositions formed therefrom by the addition of solvents.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1998Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Susan Kuharcik Choi, Christopher Marc Doyle, Mark Gerrit Roelofs, Lin Wang, Zhen-Yu Yang
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Patent number: 6087449Abstract: The thermoplastic molding material contains a mixture of(A) from 10 to 60% by weight of a methyl methacrylate polymer,(B) from 10 to 70% by weight of a copolymer of a vinyl aromatic monomer and vinyl cyanide(C) from 15 to 50% by weight of a graft copolymer obtainable from a core (C1) comprising a 1,3-diene and a vinyl aromatic monomer, a first graft shell (C2) comprising a vinyl aromatic monomer, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl ester of methacrylic acid and a crosslinking monomer and a second graft shell (C3) comprising a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl ester of methacrylic acid and a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl ester of acrylic acid, and(D) if required, conventional additives,the stated percentages of A, B and C in the mixture summing to 100% by weight.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1998Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Kristin Tiefensee, Rainer Neumann
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Patent number: 6080820Abstract: High-surface-area polyolefins grafted with certain fluoroalkylvinylether sulfonate or carboxylate monomers, and their method of preparation, are disclosed. Such materials are usefuli as catalysts and as membranes in electrochemical cells.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1998Date of Patent: June 27, 2000Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Edward G. Howard, Jr.
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Patent number: 6077909Abstract: Methods are revealed for producing polyolefin substituted carboxylic acylating agents having less than 1000 ppm chlorine, and reaction products formed therefrom such as dispersants. The carboxylic acylating agents are formed by reacting a polyolefin having labile halogen content with an .alpha.-.beta. unsaturated carboxylic acid. The products formed in this invention are used in lubricating compositions.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 1997Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventors: John K. Pudelski, Christopher J. Kolp, Jeffry G. Dietz, Charles K. Baumanis, Stuart L. Bartley, James D. Burrington
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Patent number: 6069206Abstract: Disclosed is an aromatic polycarbonate-styrene polymer resin composition comprising (A) an aromatic polycarbonate, (B) a specific rubber-modified styrene polymer and (C) a compatibility agent which is a copolymer containing an aromatic vinyl monomer and which has a non-uniform distribution with respect to the proportions of component monomers constituting the copolymer, so that the copolymer comprises copolymer molecules having different solubility parameter (SP) values, wherein the difference in SP value between the copolymer molecule having a maximum SP value and the copolymer molecule having a minimum SP value is from 0.4 to 0.6 (cal/cm.sup.3).sup.1/2, and wherein the copolymer has an average SP value of from 10.6 to 11.0 [(cal/cm.sup.3).sup.1/2 ].Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1997Date of Patent: May 30, 2000Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hajime Nishihara, Akihiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 6066603Abstract: Polar monomer-containing copolymers derived from at least one .alpha., .beta. unsaturated carbonyl compound, such as alkyl acrylates and one or more olefins, such olefins including ethylene and C.sub.3 -C.sub.20 .alpha.-olefins such as propylene and 1-butene, which copolymers have (a) an average ethylene sequence length, ESL, of from about 1.0 to less than about 3.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1997Date of Patent: May 23, 2000Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Jacob Emert, Albert Rossi, David E. Gindelberger, Jon E. Stanat, James P. Stokes, Jaimes Sher
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Patent number: 6051656Abstract: An elastomeric acrylate copolymer which contains, as polymerized units, comonomers having chemically reactive groups is prepared for the preparation of molding materials having good weathering resistance, improved impact strength and good flow properties. This copolymer is dissolved or swollen in monomers such as styrene and acrylonitrile, forming hard graft shells. After the addition of monomers and/or polymers having chemically reactive groups and, if required, after the addition of a chemically reactive crosslinking agent, the resulting monomer/copolymer mixture is subjected to graft polymerization, which is carried out up to a conversion of more than 15% by weight of the monomers, by thermal or free radical mass or solution polymerization. The molding materials can be used as dulling agents for polymer blends.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1998Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Graham Edmund Mc Kee, Bernhard Rosenau, Walter Heckmann
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Patent number: 6043319Abstract: Provided is a method of preparing a light-weight and inexpensive void type plastic pigment having enhanced hiding power and whiteness relative to inorganic pigments such as titanium oxide or organic pigments such as conventional styrene polymeric plastic pigments by regulating the content of each monomer in the sheath polymerization after core polymerization and controlling the glass transition temperature of the first sheath which is the shell obtained by initial polymerization less than that of the core by 70 to 120.degree. C., thus increasing the difference of refractive index between the polymeric matrices.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1998Date of Patent: March 28, 2000Assignee: Korea Kumho Petrochemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: HoSull Lee, Kyo-Dong Jo, Kill-Soo Jang, Min-Seok Cho
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Patent number: 6043315Abstract: A functionalized copolymer of the formulaA--B--Z--XwhereA is a block of vinylaromatic monomers of 8 to 20, preferably 8 to 12, carbon atoms,B is a block of alkadiene monomers of 4 to 12, preferably 4 to 8, carbon atoms,Z is a fundamental building block of a compound having sterically hindering groups andX is a functionalized fundamental building block,a process for its preparation, thermoplastic molding materials containing said copolymer, processes for their preparation, the use for the production of moldings and moldings comprising said molding materials.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1997Date of Patent: March 28, 2000Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Axel Gottschalk, Ralf Engelhardt, Jurgen Koch, Robert Weiss
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Patent number: 6037080Abstract: A polymeric chain consisting primarily of vinylidene fluoride, onto which is grafted a mono-unsaturated carboxylic acid, ester, or amide, for example acrylic acid, may be combined with a lithium salt and a solvent to form an electrolyte material. This may be used as electrolyte in a lithium cell, or may be combined with an insertion material to make a composite electrode for such a cell. The electrolyte, and so also the composite electrode incorporating this electrolyte, adheres well to a metal current collector.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1997Date of Patent: March 14, 2000Assignee: AEA Technology plcInventors: Esam Kronfli, Christine Ruth Jarvis
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Patent number: 6020435Abstract: A process for preparing multi-stage emulsion polymers is provided. The process is capable of producing multi-stage emulsion polymers having low dry-bulk density. These polymers are useful in coating compositions such as paints and paper coatings.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1997Date of Patent: February 1, 2000Assignee: Rohm and Haas CompanyInventors: Robert Mitchell Blankenship, James Keith Bardman
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Patent number: 6013735Abstract: A continuous process for the preparation of linear, branched and star-polymers via anionic polymerization of acrylic monomers, linear, branched and star-polymers obtained by the process and lubricating oil compositions thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 1998Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Ethyl CorporationInventors: Munmaya K. Mishra, Yoon S Song, Akhilesh Duggal
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Patent number: 5998506Abstract: The invention provides novel compositions and golf balls formed from those compositions. The compositions generally include a cured blend of an elastomer, a peroxide polymerization agent, a co-agent, and an unsaturated polycarboxylic acid. More particularly, the cured composition includes a cured blend of cis 1,4 polybutadiene, dicumyl peroxide, zinc diacrylate, and fumaric acid. One piece golf balls formed of these compositions have improved durability.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1997Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: Spalding Sports Worldwide, Inc.Inventor: Robert Dennis Nesbitt
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Patent number: 5998547Abstract: The present invention relates to partially crystalline polypropylene homopolymer or copolymer waxes modified so as to be polar and having an acid or saponification number of from 0.5 to 120 mg KOH/g, a melt viscosity of from 20 to 50,000 mPa.s/170.degree. C. and a softening point (ring/ball) of from 90 to 165.degree. C., prepared by reacting a nonpolar polypropylene homopolymer or copolymer wax with an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof in the presence of free-radical formers, wherein the nonpolar polypropylene wax has been prepared by direct polymerization of propylene or copolymerization of propylene with higher 1-olefins using catalysts of Ziegler or metallocene type and has a softening point (ring/ball) of from 90 to 165.degree. C.The waxes are useful as plastics additives, for aqueous dispersions or for melt adhesive formulations.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 1997Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventor: Gerd Hohner
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Patent number: 5993951Abstract: Disclosed is a transparent plastic sheet obtained by co-polymerizing 100 parts by weight of methyl methacrylate with 0.1 to 2.0 parts by weight of methacrylic acid and 0.1 to 1.5 parts by weight of glycidyl methacrylate, and having a thickness of not greater than 4 inches, wherein the angular deviation satisfies specified conditions according to the thickness of the sheet and wherein the degree of swelling is not greater than 2.50. This transparent plastic sheet shows neither coloring nor sink marks on the surface, has excellent craze resistance and low long-term water absorption percentage, and is hence suitable for use as an aircraft windshield.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1998Date of Patent: November 30, 1999Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Minoru Shimizu, Yoshifumi Kubota, Jun Nakauchi
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Patent number: 5981666Abstract: A novel high performance pressure sensitive adhesive composition is provided comprised of a phase separated graft copolymer comprised of a polymerized acrylic or methacrylic acid ester backbone having grafted thereon pendant polymeric moieties such as polystyrene or poly-alpha-methylstyrene in an amount of from 1.5 to 2.5 grafts per polymer chain on average.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1997Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: Adhesives Research, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Zajaczkowski, Bernard Gordon, III
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Patent number: 5981665Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer is achieved by absorbing an acrylate monomer, an initiator and eventually a diacrylate into polyolefin particles, after which the temperature is raised and the acrylate polymerises into the polyolefin and forms a dispersed phase, which has been functionalized by copolymerising a functional monomer together with the acrylate. As a compatibiliser a grafter polyolefin is used, which is melt-blended after the polymerisation into the thermoplastic elastomer or before the polymerisation into the polyolefin.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1997Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: Optatech CorporationInventors: Torvald Vestberg, Viveca Lonnberg, Tommi Vainio, Kalle Hanhi, Harri Jukarainen
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Patent number: 5959035Abstract: Water-reducible resins, neutralized resins, and derivatized resins useful for water-borne and solvent-based coatings and inks, powder coatings, and anti-corrosive coatings are disclosed. The water-reducible resins are copolymers of a vinyl aromatic monomer, a propoxylated allyl alcohol, and an acrylic acid monomer. These low-molecular-weight resins uniquely contain both hydroxyl and acid functional groups, and allow controlled curing with a variety of crosslinkers in coating systems. Coatings of the invention are useful in many applications, e.g., automotive basecoats, industrial appliance coatings, and wood finishes.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1997Date of Patent: September 28, 1999Assignee: Arco Chemical Technology, L.P.Inventor: Shao-Hua Guo
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Patent number: 5942580Abstract: An acrylic rubber composition comprising a halogen-containing acrylic rubber, a vulcanizing agent and at least one unsaturated compound selected from the group consisting of (1) .alpha.-olefins having at least 4 carbon atoms, (2) carboxylic acid vinyl esters, (3) alkyl vinyl ethers, (4) lower alkyl cyclohexenes or cyclohexenecarboxylic acid caprolactone esters and (5) unsaturated dicarboxylic acid diesters can give vulcanization products having an improved compression set without any substantial deterioration of normal state physical properties and resistance to heat ageing of the vulcanization products, where the unsaturated compound gives off no unpleaseant odor without any skin irritation when vulcanized and without lowering the mold releasability.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1996Date of Patent: August 24, 1999Assignee: Nippon Mektron, LimitedInventors: Tamotsu Yoshida, Jun Okabe
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Patent number: 5929173Abstract: Disclosed are toughened grafted polymers, useful in personal care compositions, such as haircare, cosmetic and nail compositions.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1997Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Sanjeev Midha, Timothy Roy Nijakowski
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Patent number: 5916974Abstract: A graft copolymer comprising a backbone of a propylene polymer material having a vinyl monomer graft polymerized thereto is produced by (1) treating a propylene polymer material with a free radical polymerization initiator, (2) treating the propylene polymer material with at least one grafting monomer capable of being polymerized by free radicals, in the presence of a polymerization rate modifier, and (3) removing any unreacted grafting monomer from the graft copolymerized propylene polymer material, decomposing any unreacted initiator, and deactivating any residual free radicals in the material. Use of the polymerization rate modifier increases the polymerization induction time on the polymer surface, consequently facilitating monomer diffusion into the interior of the polymer particles so that surface polymerization of the monomer is inhibited.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1997Date of Patent: June 29, 1999Assignee: Montell North America Inc.Inventors: Cheng Q. Song, Daniele Bigiavi
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Patent number: 5910523Abstract: Composites from a semi-crystalline polyolefin and nanometer sized fillers with improved modulus, tensile strength and crack growth resistance are disclosed. The nanometer sized fillers are first functionalized with an aminosilane. Thereafter, a carboxylated or maleated polyolefin is grafted to the filler through an amine-carboxyl reaction. The resulting modified filler is dispersed in a semi-crystalline polyolefin (eg. polyethylene or polypropylene). Co-crystallization between the carboxylated or maleated polyolefin and the semi-crystalline polyolefin can improve interaction between the filler and semi-crystalline polyolefin.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1997Date of Patent: June 8, 1999Inventor: Steven David Hudson
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Patent number: 5908899Abstract: A resin composition for sealing liquid crystal cells which contains as essential components a rubber-modified unsaturated compound obtained by grafting a monomer having at least one polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated bond in a molecule with at least one rubber selected from acrylic rubber, silicone rubber, urethane rubber and conjugated diene rubber, and a coupling agent, a filler and a photopolymerization initiator. The rubber contained in the rubber modified unsaturated compound has a particle diameter of 0.2-5 .mu.m and a number average molecular weight of 1000-100,000, and the rubber content in the compound is 0.5-45% by weight based on the rubber modified unsaturated compound.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1996Date of Patent: June 1, 1999Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Shuji Tahara, Shigeo Makino, Kenji Ito, Seiji Itami, Hiromi Shitakoji
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Patent number: 5895801Abstract: Inherently tacky polymerized copolymer particles are formed by emulsion polymerization for use as an PSA for marking films.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1997Date of Patent: April 20, 1999Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventor: Ivan S. Lee
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Patent number: 5891963Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for polymerizing ethylene, acyclic olefins, and/or selected cyclic olefins, and optionally selected olefinic esters or carboxylic acids, and other monomers. The polymerizations are catalyzed by selected transition metal compounds, and sometimes other co-catalysts. Since some of the polymerizations exhibit some characteristics of living polymerizations, block copolymers can be readily made. Many of the polymers produced are often novel, particularly in regard to their microsructure, which give some of them unusual properties. Numerous novel catalysts are disclosed, as well as some novel processes for making them. The polymers made are useful as elastomers, molding resins, in adhesives, etc. Also described herein is the synthesis of linear .alpha.-olefins by the oligomerization of ethylene using as a catalyst system a combination a nickel compound having a selected .alpha.-diimine ligand and a selected Lewis or Bronsted acid, or by contacting selected .alpha.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1997Date of Patent: April 6, 1999Assignees: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, University of North CarolinaInventors: Maurice S. Brookhart, Lynda Kaye Johnson, Christopher Moore Killian, Samuel David Arthur, Elizabeth Forrester McCord, Stephan James McLain
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Patent number: 5883196Abstract: Polyalkenylsuccinic acid derivatives are prepared by reacting oligo- or polyolefins having a number average molecular weight (M.sub.N) of from 500 to 10,000 with maleic acid derivatives I ##STR1## where R and R', independently of one another, are each hydroxyl, lower alkyl or halogen or together are oxygen, at elevated temperatures by a process in which effective amounts of free radical acceptors, such as oxygen, are present in the gas phase and in the liquid phase of the reacting system during the reaction. These polyalkenylsuccinic acid derivatives are suitable, after additional imidation, amidation or esterification, as fuel and lubricant additives.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1996Date of Patent: March 16, 1999Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hans Peter Rath, Helmut Mach
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Patent number: 5872155Abstract: The present invention relates to vinyl chloride copolymers, in the latex form, the particles of which are composed of a core, of an outer layer and optionally of an intermediate layer. It also relates to the process for the manufacture of this latex by seeded miscosuspension polymerization and to its applications in paints and plastisols.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 1997Date of Patent: February 16, 1999Assignee: Elf Atochem S.A.Inventors: Philippe Espiard, Richard Peres, Benoit Ernst
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Patent number: 5859160Abstract: A free radical curable composition that includes a free radical curable and a vinyl aromatic compound that is chemically different than the free radical curable component, wherein the vinyl aromatic compound is present in an amount sufficient to decelerate the cure rate of the free radical composition without adversely effecting completion of cure and the properties of the curable composition after it has cured. The composition is particularly useful as a two part adhesive that includes a free radical catalyst system and a diene elastomer.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1997Date of Patent: January 12, 1999Assignee: Lord CorporationInventors: Robin F. Righettini, Kirk J. Abbey
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Patent number: 5856408Abstract: Provided are aqueous paints with which paint films which have excellent paint film properties such as water resistance and resistance to chemical attack, and excellent finished appearance are obtained, and which have excellent painting operability and storage stability. The invention further provides water dispersible acrylic based graft copolymers, aqueous paints incorporating same and a method to make such paints, wherein an unsaturated bond-containing acrylic based copolymer (a) obtained by reacting an acrylic based copolymer (a1) of acid value 35-120 mg.KOH/gram, hydroxy group value 50-150 mg.KOH/gram, glass transition temperature -20.degree.-+50.degree. C. and number average molecular weight 4500-9000 and an unsaturated monomer mixture (a2), which has functional groups which can react with hydroxy groups, in a mol ratio of a2/a1=0.4-1.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1997Date of Patent: January 5, 1999Assignee: BASF Lacke + Farben, AGInventors: Yoshiaki Matsukura, Atsuhiro Sakai, Hitoshi Taniguchi, Yoshiaki Kawamura
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Patent number: RE36140Abstract: A two-part adhesive consisting of a first liquid comprising 100 parts by weight of a polymerizable vinyl monomer and from 0.1 to 20 parts by weight of an organic peroxide and a second liquid comprising 100 parts by weight of a polymerizable vinyl monomer and from 0.05 to 15 parts by weight of a reducing agent, wherein either one or both of the first and second liquids contain from 0.4 to 5% by weight of water, and the content of water is more than 0.2% by weight based on the total amount of the first and second liquids.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 1996Date of Patent: March 9, 1999Assignee: Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichi Taguchi, Kinpei Iwata, Hideki Matsudo