Ethylenic Reactant Is Acyclic Hydrocarbon Patents (Class 525/319)
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Patent number: 6262195Abstract: A multi-stage process for preparing ethylene (co)polymers having broad molecular weight distributions is disclosed, said process comprising: (A) a first polymerization stage in which, in the presence of a Ti or V catalyst, a first ethylene polymer is prepared; (B) a treatment stage in which the catalyst used in the first stage is deactivated and in which a bridged bis-2-indenyl zirconocene is supported on the ethylene polymer produced in stage (A), optionally in the presence of a suitable cocatalyst; and (C) a second polymerization stage in which ethylene is polymerized in the presence of the product obtained from stage (B). Furthermore, polyethylene obtainable by the above process is disclosed, having intrinsic viscosity ranging from 0.5 to 6 dl/g, Mw/Mn>8 and cold xylene solubility<1.2% wt.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1999Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignee: Montell Technology Company bvInventors: Tiziano Dall'Occo, Giovanni Baruzzi, Colin J. Schaverien
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Publication number: 20010007897Abstract: Polyisobutylene (PIB) functionalized with terminal reactive unsaturation is disclosed. Carbocationically polymerized monohalogen-terminated PIB is dehydrohalogenated in a hydrocarbon solvent using an alkoxide of the formula RO-M wherein R is alkyl of at least 5 carbon atoms and M is alkali metal. The PIB obtained has terminal unsaturation which is 100% in the reactive ‘exo’ form which can be converted to succinic anhydride groups (PIB-SA) by the ene reaction with maleic anhydride. The PIB-SA is reactive with amine functional dendrimers to obtain a star-branched polymer having a dendrimer core and PIB branches joined by succinimide linkages. Blends of the star-branched polymer with polypropylene have improved energy absorption properties and controllable moisture/oxygen permeabilities useful in films.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2001Publication date: July 12, 2001Inventors: Pawan Kumar Agarwal, Hsien-Chang Wang, Yu Feng Wang, Jean M.J. Frechet, Shah A. Haque
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Patent number: 6218475Abstract: The present invention has its object to provide an isobutylene group block copolymer containing a highly reactive alkenyl group with a high rate of introduction of an alkenyl, and process for producing the same. An alkenyl-group-containing isobutylene group block copolymer comprising a polymer block derived from (a) a monomer component containing isobutylene group as a predominant monomer and (b) a monomer component not containing isobutylene group as a predominant monomer, in which said block copolymer has an alkenyl group of the following general formula (1).Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1998Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Tomoki Hiiro, Shinji Ozawa, Taizo Aoyama
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Patent number: 6204422Abstract: A rational technical process for producing dialkylnaphthalenes from petroleum-derived starting materials which exist in abundance is established.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1998Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Fuji Oil Company, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Tsutsui, Takumi Sasaki, Yoshitaka Satou, Osamu Kubota, Shinichi Okada, Masaki Fujii
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Patent number: 6191227Abstract: A polyethylene resin superior in both moldability and long-term physical properties and suitable for both pipe and pipe joint, the polyethylene resin having a density of 0.915 to 0.955 g·cm−3, a melt flow rate of not more than 0.20 dg·min as measured at 190° C. and at a load of 2.16 kgf, a melt flow rate of 17.0 to 70.0 dg·min−1 as measured at 190° C. and at a load of 21.6 kgf, a zero shear viscosity (&eegr;0) of 200,000 to 2,000,000 Pa·s, a characteristic time constant (&tgr;0) of 50 to 500 sec., and a ratio (&tgr;0/&eegr;0) of 1.0×10−4 to 4.0×10−4 Pa−1, the zero shear viscosity (&eegr;0) being obtained by approximating a dynamic melt viscosity (&eegr;*, unit: Pa·s) with equation [1], the dynamic melt viscosity (&eegr;*) being obtained by measurement using a rheometer at 190° C., at a parallel plate spacing of 1.5 mm, at a distortion of 10% to 15% and in the frequency (&ohgr;) range of 100 to 0.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1997Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Japan Polyolefins Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tohru Matsuoka, Kiyofumi Matsuoka, Fumiaki Naka, Kiyonobu Sato
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Patent number: 6162871Abstract: A polyolefin resin composition containing an ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer having: (A) a density d of 0.86 to 0.96 g/cm.sup.3 ; (B) a melt flow rate MFR of 0.01 to 200 g/10 min; (C) a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of 1.5 to 4.5; (D) a composition distribution parameter Cb of 1.08 to 2.00; and (E) an orthodichlorobenzene-soluble content X (wt %), at 25.degree. C. a density of d (g/cm.sup.3) and a melt flow rate MFR (wt %) satisfying that: (i) when the density (d) and the melt flow rate MFR satisfy relationship (I):d-0.008.times.logMFR.gtoreq.0.93 (I)the orthodichlorobenzene-soluble content X satisfies relationship (II):X<2.0 (II)(ii) when the density d and the melt flow rate MFR satisfy relationship (III):d-0.008.times.logMFR<0.93 (III)the orthodichlorobenzene-soluble content X satisfies relationship (IV):X<9.8.times.10.sup.3 .times.(0.9300-d+0.008.times.logMFR).sup.2 +2.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1998Date of Patent: December 19, 2000Assignee: Nippon Petrochemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideo Watanabe, Masahiko Sato, Masaaki Ikeda, Takaaki Hattori, Yoshihiro Hatakeyama, Naoki Miwa, Tatsuyuki Kamiya, Hisao Sakuma, Yuka Umeshima
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Patent number: 6136924Abstract: Process for the preparation of a composition containing ethylene polymers comprising a polymer of melt index MI.sub.2 of 5 to 1000 g/10 min and a polymer of melt index MI.sub.5 of 0.01 to 2 g/10 min, the ratio of these indices being from 500 to 50,000 and the weight ratio of the two polymers being equal to (30 to 70):(70 to 30), according to which part of the ethylene, a catalyst derived from a transition metal having an intrinsic molecular weight distribution defined by an intrinsic M.sub.w /M.sub.n ratio less than or equal to 10 and a deactivation constant less than or equal to 0.5 h.sup.-1, and a cocatalyst are introduced into a first reactor, polymerization of the ethylene is carried out therein, a mixture comprising one of the polymers, the catalyst and the cocatalyst is drawn off from this reactor and the mixture and another part of the ethylene are introduced into a second reactor, which ethylene is polymerized to form the other polymer.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1995Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignee: Solvay (Societe Anonyme)Inventor: Michel Promel
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Patent number: 6111022Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process of atom (or group) transfer radical polymerization for the synthesis of novel homopolymer or a block or graft copolymer, optionally containing at least one polar group, with well defined molecular architecture and narrow polydispersity index, in the presence of an initiating system comprising (i) an initiator having a radically transferrable atom or group, (ii) a transition metal compound, and (iii) a ligand; the present invention is also directed to the synthesis of a macromolecule having at least two halogen groups which can be used as a macroinitiator component (i) to subsequently form a block or graft copolymer by an atom or group transfer radical polymerization process; the present invention is also directed to a process of atom or group transfer radical polymerization for the synthesis of a branched or hyperbranched polymer; in addition, the present invention is directed to a process of atom or group transfer radical polymerization for the synthesis of a maType: GrantFiled: December 8, 1998Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: Carnegie-Mellon UniversityInventors: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Simion Coca, Scott G. Gaynor, Yoshiki Nakagawa, Seong Mu Jo
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Patent number: 6087456Abstract: A curable composition comprising the components (A), (B), (C) and (D), viz.(A) an isobutylene polymer which contains in a molecule, at least one alkenyl group capable of hydrosilylation reaction;(B) a curing agent which contains at least two hydrosilyl groups in a molecule;(C) a hydrosilylation catalyst; and(D) an organic compound which contains in a molecule, at least one alkenyl or alkynyl group capable of hydrosilylation reaction.This composition is excellent in workability because of its low viscosity, and has such advantages that the cured product thereof has large strength and further that the weight loss by heating is small. Since a large amount of an inorganic filler can be blended with this composition, it is possible to obtain a composition having high thixotropy and little sagging.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1997Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Masashi Sakaguchi, Yoshimichi Yamanaka, Makoto Chiba, Toshihiko Okamoto, Yuriko Asai, Jyunji Takase
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Patent number: 6028140Abstract: Homopolymers or copolymers obtained by a multistage process of olefins having the formula CH.sub.2 .dbd.CHR, in which R is hydrogen or R has from 1 to 10 carbon atoms and is an alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl group, the process comprising:(A) a first stage of polymerization in which one or more of the olefins are polymerized in the presence of a titanium or vanadium catalyst;(B) a treatment stage in which the product obtained in the first stage of polymerization (A) is brought into contact with a compound capable of deactivating the catalyst present in the stage (A); and also brought into contact with a compound of a transition metal M selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, V, or Hf containing at least one M-.pi. bond and optionally with an alkyl-Al compound; and(C) a second stage of polymerization in which one or more of the olefins are polymerized, in one or more reactors, in the presence of the product obtained in treatment stage (B).Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1997Date of Patent: February 22, 2000Assignee: Montell Technology Company B.V.Inventors: Gianni Collina, Tiziano Dall'occo, Maurizio Galimberti, Enrico Albizzati, Luciano Noristi
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Patent number: 5994475Abstract: Reaction products of a microgel that contains carboxylic acid groups with a nitrogen-containing base have a high latency and high stability towards mechanical influences and are suitable as hardeners for one-component epoxy resin systems.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1997Date of Patent: November 30, 1999Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.Inventors: Martin Roth, Qian Tang, Sameer Hosam Eldin
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Patent number: 5942586Abstract: Catalyst for the polymerization of olefins, process for its preparation, and its use.The present invention relates to a supported catalyst for the polymerization of olefins, which can be prepared by reacting the reaction product formed from an aluminoxane and at least one metallocene with a microporous, polymeric support.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: August 24, 1999Assignee: Targor GmbHInventors: Hans-Friedrich Herrmann, Bernd Bachmann, Bernhard Hierholzer, Walter Spaleck
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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: 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: 5869576Abstract: Relatively low molecular weight Olefin/CO copolymers are graft copolymerized with vinyl monomers by the exposure of a mixture of a dispersion of the two to high energy radiation such as .gamma. ray radiation. Styrene is an example of a monomer useful in forming the graft copolymer. The graft copolymers are useful as waterborne glues particularly in the preparation of wood composites.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1997Date of Patent: February 9, 1999Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Carlton Edwin Ash, Narayana Mysore, Pui Kwan Wong
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Patent number: 5866663Abstract: 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 microstructure, which gives 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: February 2, 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, Jerald Feldman, Elizabeth Forrester McCord, Stephan James McLain, Kristina Ann Kreutzer, Alison Margaret Anne Bennett, Edward Bryan Coughlin, Steven Dale Ittel, Anju Parthasarathy, Lin Wang, Zhen-Yu Yang
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Patent number: 5844056Abstract: The synthesis and characterization of novel linear polymers and multi-arm star polymers comprising polyisobutylene arms connected to a well-defined calixarene core are described. The polymers are directly telechelic. They synthesis has been achieved using the "core first" method wherein multifunctional calix?n!arene (where n=4 to 16) derivatives or their monofunctional analogues are used as initiators which, in conjunction with certain Freidel-Crafts acids as co-initiators, induce the living polymerization of isobutylene or a similar carbocationic polymerizable monomer. Novel initiators suitable for inducing the polymerization are also described.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1996Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: The University of AkronInventors: Joseph P. Kennedy, Istvan J. Majoros, Sunny Jacob
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Patent number: 5834563Abstract: The present invention provides the composite rubber particles and graft copolymer particles of composite rubber which can be used as the impact modifier being excellent in weather resistance, thermal stability, and particularly impact resistance without substantially lowering transparency of each resin. The composite rubber particles have intertwined molecular chains of the isobutylene polymer and the vinyl polymer so that the both polymers cannot be separated substantially from each other and the graft copolymer particles of composite rubber are prepared by graft-polymerizing at least one vinyl polymer to the above composite rubber particles.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1997Date of Patent: November 10, 1998Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Katsuhiko Kimura, Taizo Aoyama
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Patent number: 5698637Abstract: A method for modifying polyolefins by grafting with a carboxylic acid, carboxylic acid anhydride or other functionalized monomer in the presence of two additional comonomers, one being an aliphatic diolefin and the other an aromatic vinyl or (meth)acrylate monomer.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1995Date of Patent: December 16, 1997Assignee: Borealis Holding A/SInventor: Jari Aarila
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Patent number: 5690861Abstract: A method for coupling a cationic polymer includes forming a reaction mixture of a cationic polymer and a bis(diphenylethylene). The reaction mixture is exposed to a temperature which causes the bis(diphenylethylene) to react with the cationic polymer, thereby coupling to cationic polymer. In another embodiment, the method includes forming a reaction mixture of an oxo-acid and a isopropenyl polyisobutylene. The reaction mixture is exposed to a temperature below about -30.degree. C., whereby the oxo-acid reacts with isopropenyl polyisobutylene, thereby coupling the polymer.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1995Date of Patent: November 25, 1997Assignee: University of Massachusetts LowellInventor: Rudolf Faust
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Patent number: 5637647Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the capping of a living polymer with one or more capping compounds comprising non-polymerizable monomer, preferably selected from the group consisting of substituted or unsubstituted diphenyl alkylene, substituted or unsubstituted .alpha.-methoxystyrene, substituted or unsubstituted trans-stilbene, substituted or unsubstituted 1-isopropenylnapthalene and substituted or unsubstituted 2,4-dimethyl-.alpha.-methylstyrene.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1994Date of Patent: June 10, 1997Assignee: University of Massachusetts LowellInventor: Rudolph Faust
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Patent number: 5629080Abstract: Thermobondable fiber of at least one first component of polypropylene having a melt flow rate of 0.5-30, and at least one second component of polypropylene having a melt flow rate of 60-1000.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1993Date of Patent: May 13, 1997Assignee: Hercules IncorporatedInventors: Rakesh K. Gupta, James E. Mallory, Kunihiko Takeuchi
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Patent number: 5624999Abstract: A functionalised polymer, especially an ashless dispersant or a viscosity index improver dispersant, suitable for use as a lubricating or fuel oil additive, or as an intermediate for use in the manufacture of such an additive, is prepared from reactants in different phases by reacting the reactants in a reaction region defined by adjacent surfaces between which there is relative movement or in a thin film on a surface over which they move.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1995Date of Patent: April 29, 1997Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Alessandro Lombardi, Geraldo Barini, Carmine D'Antonio, Stefano Gusi
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Patent number: 5608009Abstract: There are herein disclosed an olefin copolymer which comprises an olefin unit and a diolefin unit and in which a weight-average molecular weight is in the range of 200 to 800,000, the content of the diolefin unit is in the range of 0.002 to 30 mol%, and a ratio TUS/DOU between the total content of unsaturated groups observed in a molecular chain (TUS mol%) and the content of the diolefin unit (DOU mol%) is in the range of 0.001 to 200; an olefin graft copolymer obtained by the graft polymerization of this olefin copolymer and an olefin; a hydrogenated olefin copolymer and olefin graft copolymer thereof; and a process for preparing these copolymers.These olefin copolymers are excellent in molding/working properties and have a good thermal stability, transparency and uniformity. Therefore, they are useful as a high-performance VLDPE, LDPE, L-LDPE and HDPE, and further useful as a novel branched propylene polymer, a thermoplastic elastomer, a compatibilizing agent for other resins, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1995Date of Patent: March 4, 1997Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuji Machida, Haruo Shikuma, Toshinori Tazaki, Tomio Tatsumi, Shinichi Kurokawa
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Patent number: 5589549Abstract: Multistage process for the polymerization of olefins CH.sub.2 .dbd.CHR, where R is hydrogen or an alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl radical with 1-10 carbon atoms, comprising two stages of polymerization. In a first stage, in the presence of a titanium or a vanadium catalyst and working in one or more reactors, an olefinic polymer with particular values of porosity is prepared; in a second stage, in the presence of the said porous polymer and a metallocene compound and/or their reaction products, one or more olefins, that are equal to or different from those polymerized in the first stage, are polymerized in one or more reactors.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: December 31, 1996Assignee: Montell Technology Company bvInventors: Gabriele Govoni, Mario Sacchetti, Stefano Pasquali
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Patent number: 5571869Abstract: Grafted polymer particles are prepared by a free-radical addition polymerization mechanism using a flame produced by igniting a mixture of a combustible gas and an oxidant to heat at least a portion of the surface of a solid polymer particle to produce free-radicals thereon. At least one polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer is contacted and reacted with the free-radicals formed on the surface of the polymer to form a graft thereon.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 1995Date of Patent: November 5, 1996Assignee: The University of AkronInventors: Sunggyu Lee, Ramesh Rengarajan
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Patent number: 5567775Abstract: This invention provides for curable and graft-cured polymer compositions prepared from a mixture comprising:a) an elastomeric copolymer containing from about 0.01 up to about 10 mole % of Y ester groups randomly distributed along and pendant to the elastomeric polymer chain, said Y ester groups having the structure: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and an alkyl group containing 1 to about 6 carbon atoms and R.sub.4 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, an alkyl group containing from 1 to about 28 carbon atoms, an aryl group and an alkenyl group containing from 2 to about 28 carbon atoms; andb) at least one free radically polymerizable monomer. The invention also provides for a process for preparing graft-cured polymer compositions comprising forming the above recited mixture of (a) and (b) and subjecting said mixture to free radical polymerization conditions. The Y ester groups pendant to the elastomeric polymer chain, e.g.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: October 22, 1996Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Hsien C. Wang, Irwin J. Gardner, James V. Fusco
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Patent number: 5506316Abstract: A living carbocationic catalyst composition comprising an initiator of a tertiary alkyl halide, a tertiary aralkyl halide or polymeric halide a co-initiator of a methylaluminum or methylboron compound, and a solvent medium with a dielectric constant between 2.5 and 7 is used to produce narrow molecular weight distribution polymers particularly isobutylene polymers.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1994Date of Patent: April 9, 1996Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents Inc.Inventor: Timothy D. Shaffer
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Patent number: 5458796Abstract: The present invention is the synthesis of star polymers containing polyisobutylene (PIB) via the arm-first, core-last method. These polymers are superior in properties to known hydrogenated polyisoprene star-branched polymers due to their inherent lack of unsaturation.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1994Date of Patent: October 17, 1995Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Robson F. Storey, Donn A. Dubois, Dale L. Handlin, Jr., Bret J. Chisholm
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Patent number: 5451647Abstract: An olefin polymerization process is provided wherein an olefin chargestock is contacted with an organic compound polymerization initiator, a Lewis acid coinitiator and a pyridine compound such as 2,6-di-tert-butylpyridine to produce homopolymers, copolymers or block copolymers having a narrow molecular weight distribution.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1992Date of Patent: September 19, 1995Assignees: Exxon Chemical Patents Inc., University of Massachusetts LowellInventors: Rudolf Faust, Hsien-Chang Wang, Miklos Gyor
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Patent number: 5432009Abstract: A film for a first-aid sticking plaster consisting of polypropylene resin having a weight average molecular weight within a range of 80,000 to 500,000, with resin elution quantities according to cross fractionation chromatograph in ranges of 45 to 80 percent by weight at 0.degree. to 10.degree. C., 5 to 35 percent by weight at 10.degree. to 70.degree. C., 1 to 30 percent by weight at 70.degree. to 95.degree. C., and 5 to 35 percent by weight at 95.degree. to 125.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1994Date of Patent: July 11, 1995Assignee: Sekisui Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hironori Tabata, Masao Ogasa, Kiyomi Uenomachi, Hideshi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 5432236Abstract: According to the present invention, in a vapor phase polymerization of olefins, there is provided an efficient polyolefin manufacturing process capable of preventing the formation of a sheet-like polymer and allowing an olefin polymerization reaction to be started stably.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1994Date of Patent: July 11, 1995Assignee: Nippon Oil Company, LimitedInventors: Akira Sano, Kunimichi Kubo, Kazuo Matsuura
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Patent number: 5428111Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the living polymerization of aromatic, preferably styrenic monomers initiated from a living polyolefin, particularly polyisobutylene, chain end and thereby provides an efficient method for the preparation of block copolymers having polyolefin mid-blocks and styrenic end blocks. Polyisobutylene mid blocks and styrenic end blocks comprising para-methylstyrene, alpha-methylstyrene, indene and the like are preferred.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1993Date of Patent: June 27, 1995Assignee: University of MassachusettsInventors: Rudolph Faust, Zsolt Fodor
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Patent number: 5395885Abstract: The first synthesis of a multi-arm radial-star polyisobutylene is described. The synthesis occurred by the addition of excess divinylbenzene (DVB) linking reagent to a living polyisobutylene (PIB.sup..sym.), charge, i.e., by the "arm first" method under specific conditions. The radial structure of the star-PIB was proven by determining the molecular weight of a sample by light scattering, then selectively destroying the aromatic polydivinylbenzene core, and finally determining the molecular weight of the surviving aliphatic PIB arms. The synthesis strategy, kinetic observations during synthesis, and procedures leading to a representative star-PIB are described. This product whose M.sub.w =1,134,400 g/mole with M.sub.w /M.sub.n =2.83, contained .about.90.3 mole % (.about.78 wt. %) PIB arms and .about.9.7 mole % (.about.22 wt. %) aromatic core; thus the number of PIB arms emanating from the core was N.sub.n, arm =56 or N.sub.w, arm (weight average number of arms)=110.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1993Date of Patent: March 7, 1995Assignee: The University of AkronInventors: Joseph P. Kennedy, Timea M. Marsalko, Istvan J. Majoros
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Patent number: 5376729Abstract: The present invention provides graft copolymers that are highly absorbent to aqueous electrolyte solutions.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1993Date of Patent: December 27, 1994Assignee: Phillips Petroleum CompanyInventors: Iqbal Ahmed, Henry L. Hsieh
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Patent number: 5362814Abstract: There are disclosed a graft copolymer formed by grafting a styrenic monomer onto a high polymer having double bonds in the side chain to constitute highly syndiotactic polystyrenic chain as the graft component, the graft copolymer having a content of graft component of 0.005 to 99% by weight and a reduced viscosity of 0.01 to 30 dl/g as measured at a concentration of 0.05 g/dl in 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene at 135.degree. C. or a melt index of 0.001 to 500 g/10 minutes as measured at 300.degree. C. under a load of 2.16 kg; a process for efficiently producing the above graft copolymer using a catalyst comprising specific components; and a resin composition comprising the above graft copolymer, a highly syndiotactic styrenic polymer or other thermoplastic resin and, when necessary, an inorganic or organic filler. The above graft copolymer and resin composition are excellent in resistance to heat and chemicals, electrical properties, moldability, compatibility, impact resistance, etc.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1993Date of Patent: November 8, 1994Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuji Machida, Noriyuki Tani
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Patent number: 5336717Abstract: A fluorochemical graft copolymer comprising: a base polymer comprising polymerized units derived from monomers having terminal olefinic double bonds, having a moiety comprising a fluoroaliphatic group grafted thereto. Also disclosed are processes for preparing such fluorochemical graft copolymers, forming and annealing methods for enhancing the surface activity of such a graft copolymer, polymer blends comprising such a fluorochemical graft copolymer and a matrix polymer that is miscible with the base polymer, and a method for reducing the surface energy of a polymer comprising polymerized units derived from monomers having terminal olefinic double bonds.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1994Date of Patent: August 9, 1994Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Richard J. Rolando, Thomas A. Kotnour, James E. Sax
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Patent number: 5332789Abstract: Polypropylene based resins and compositions comprising the resin having extremely high stiffness, heat resistance and impact strength, with these properties being well-balanced, are provided. The polypropylene based resins are characterized by comprising:(1) a propylene polymer having a content of alpha-olefin other than propylene of not more than 4 mole percent, and the following properties (2), (3) and (4):(2) a pentad fraction (mmmm fraction) measured by .sup.13 C-NMR of not less than 96.0 percent,(3) a main elution fraction peak position of not less than 118.0.degree. C. and a peak half value width of less than 4.0, these values being measured by the temperature raising separation method, and(4) an intrinsic viscosity of not less than 0.5 dl/g, but not more than 5.0 dl/g; and,(5) a rubber content measured by pulse NMR of more than 25 percent.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1993Date of Patent: July 26, 1994Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Masaru Nakagawa, Hideo Kusuyama, Sueto Miyazaki, Tatsuya Housaki
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Patent number: 5319030Abstract: A process for the preparation of an alkenyl-substituted succinic anhydride wherein the alkenyl substituent has a number average molecular weight of from about 500 to 5000 and the average number of succinic groups per alkenyl group is greater than 1.2 which comprises reacting a polyolefin having an alkylvinylidene isomer content of less than about 10 percent and a number average molecular weight of about 500 to 5000 with maleic anhydride in the presence of a free radical initiator at a temperature in the range of about 80.degree. C. to 220.degree. C. for a period of less than 20 hours, wherein the molar ratio of maleic anhydride to polyolefin is about 1.0:1 to 9:1, and wherein the half-life of the decomposition of the free radical initiator is about 5 minutes to 10 hours at the reaction temperature.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1992Date of Patent: June 7, 1994Assignee: Chevron Research and Technology CompanyInventors: James J. Harrison, William R. Ruhe, Jr.
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Patent number: 5314958Abstract: Process for preparing a graft copolymer having a high graft copolymer fraction which comprises subjecting a monomer to a polymerization initiation condition resulting from the reaction of a halogen-containing polymer with a combination of a reducing agent and a phase transfer catalyst such as an onium compound thereby to polymerize said monomer.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1992Date of Patent: May 24, 1994Assignee: Mitsubishi Petrochemical Company LimitedInventor: Shunichi Himori
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Patent number: 5314959Abstract: A fluorochemical graft copolymer comprising: a base polymer comprising polymerized units derived from monomers having terminal olefinic double bonds, having a moiety comprising a fluoroaliphatic group grafted thereto. Also disclosed are processes for preparing such fluorochemical graft copolymers, forming and annealing methods for enhancing the surface activity of such a graft copolymer, polymer blends comprising such a fluorochemical graft copolymer and a matrix polymer that is miscible with the base polymer, and a method for reducing the surface energy of a polymer comprising polymerized units derived from monomers having terminal olefinic double bonds.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1991Date of Patent: May 24, 1994Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Richard J. Rolando, James E. Sax
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Patent number: 5300579Abstract: A vulcanizable rubber composition comprising an ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer modified with an alkenyl aromatic compound alone or in combination with at least one other polymerizable compound, as a polymer component. The vulcanizable rubber composition is excellent in weather-resistance, ozone-resistance and heat-resistance and has a high strength, a high rigidity and a high hardness.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1992Date of Patent: April 5, 1994Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Masashi Aoshima, Hironobu Shigematsu, Takeru Wadaki, Mitsuji Tsuji
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Patent number: 5294678Abstract: A grafted and/or functionalized macromolecule comprises entanglement-inhibited architecture wherein the polymer exhibits reduced melt viscosity. In one embodiment, the macromolecule comprises a polymer of an isoolefin having about 4 to about 7 carbon atom and a para-alkylstyrene, wherein a grafted macromonomer such as a terminally functionalized polystyryl chain of very narrow molecular weight distribution is attached to the para-alkyl group of the para-alkylstyrene such that entanglement of adjacent chains in the melt are inhibited. In addition to distributed macromonomer grafts, other functionality may be attached to the para-alkyl group of the para-alkylstyrene to introduce other desirable properties such as radiation curability. In another embodiment the macromolecule comprises a polymer of one or more simple olefinic monomers wherein a macromolecule is attached to pendent functionality and/or copolymerized into the polymer backbone.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1993Date of Patent: March 15, 1994Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Mun-Fu Tse, Anthony J. Dias, Prasadarao Meka, Kenneth O. McElrath
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Patent number: 5290871Abstract: The present invention provides graft copolymers that are highly absorbent to aqueous electrolyte solutions.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1993Date of Patent: March 1, 1994Assignee: Phillips Petroleum CompanyInventors: Iqbal Ahmed, Henry L. Hsieh
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Patent number: 5290870Abstract: The present invention provides graft copolymers that are highly absorbent to aqueous electrolyte solutions.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1993Date of Patent: March 1, 1994Assignee: Philliips Petroleum CompanyInventors: Iqbal Ahmed, Henry L. Hsieh
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Patent number: 5290873Abstract: An isobutylene polymer having an unsaturated group and comprising more than one unit per molecule on the average of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are the same or different and each a hydrogen atom or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl group, R' and R" are the same or different and each a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or an ethyl group, and Q is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.30 divalent organic group, which provides a cured material having improved weather resistance.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1991Date of Patent: March 1, 1994Assignee: Kanegafuchi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Noda, Hiroshi Fujisawa, Kazuya Yonezawa
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Patent number: 5276094Abstract: An elastomeric polymer composition that exhibits improved processability and green strength comprises: from about 95 to about 70 parts by weight of one rubbery polymer selected from the group consisting of butyl rubber, chlorinated butyl rubber and brominated butyl rubber and from about 5 to about 30 parts by weight of a block copolymer having an elastomeric polyisobutylene midblock and two plastomeric endblocks of polymerized monovinylidene aromatic monomers and star-shaped block copolymers having from three to six arms wherein the inner elastomeric blocks are polyisobutylene and the outer plastomeric blocs are polymerized monovinylidene aromatic monmers for a total of 100 parts by weight of the rubbery polymer and the block copolymer. Vulcanizates of the composition that exhibit reduced permeability to gases and improved tear strength are provided together with a process for their production.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1992Date of Patent: January 4, 1994Assignee: Polysar Rubber Corp.Inventors: Gabor Kaszas, Judit E. Puskas
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Patent number: 5276081Abstract: A rubber composition containing (A) 100 parts by weight of an amorphous or low-crystalline ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer rubber having an ethylene content of 70 to 90 mole %, a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 3.0 or more and a Mooney viscosity ML.sub.1+4 (100.degree. C.) of 5 to 80; and (B) 1 to 120 parts by weight of a liquid ethylene-.alpha.-olefin random copolymer having an ethylene content of 40 to 90 mole % and an intrinsic viscosity [.eta.] of 0.01 to 0.4 dl/g as measured in decalin at 135.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 1993Date of Patent: January 4, 1994Assignee: Mitsui Petrochemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hidenari Nakahama, Tosiaki Kimura, Takasi Misima
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Patent number: 5262484Abstract: Graft copolymers and processes for the preparation thereof are provided. The copolymers comprise a base polymer having grafted thereto a monomeric 2-alkenyl azlactone. The surface properties of the graft copolymers can be modified by binding thereto nucleophilic reagents comprising further functional groups with desired properties. Further, the amount of azlactone available at the surface of a graft copolymer for binding to such nucleophilic reagents can be controlled by selecting a surface against which the graft copolymer is formed. The graft copolymers exhibit desirable thermoplastic, melt flow, and adhesion properties and are particularly useful for immobilizing proteins. Methods of immunoassay based on the immobilization of proteins are also disclosed. Another utility of the graft copolymers involves the compatibilizing of immiscible polymer blends.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1992Date of Patent: November 16, 1993Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Patrick L. Coleman, Thomas A. Kotnour, Richard J. Rolando
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Patent number: RE35308Abstract: A block copolymer of polyalkylene and halogenated polystyrene comprises the formula:S'--A--(A--S').sub.min which m is 0, 1, 3 or 4, A is a saturated polyalkylene, and S' is a nuclear brominated polystyrene having from about 0.5 to about 5 bromines per styrene unit. The polystyrene blocks are substantially free of halogen other than bromine and chlorine, and the polyalkylene is substantially free of halogen. The compositions retain the elastomeric properties of the non-halogenated form of the compounds while having significantly reduced flammability.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1995Date of Patent: July 30, 1996Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Nicolai A. Favstritsky, Rastko I. Mamuzic