Encapsulated Chemical Agent Patents (Class 525/936)
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Patent number: 9029459Abstract: Provided is a curable composition which contains: an organic peroxide encapsulated in microcapsules which further contains a plasticizer; an accelerator which reacts with the organic peroxide to accelerate polymerization; (meth)acrylate compounds which may contain a (meth)acrylate having a carboxylic group and a (meth)acrylate having an alicyclic hydrocarbon; and a multifunctional (meth)acrylate different from the (meth)acrylate having a carboxylic group. The curable composition exhibits a quick curing rate.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2008Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keita Kobayashi, Kimihiko Yoda, Jun Watanabe
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Patent number: 8859716Abstract: A thiol-ene polymeric material is disclosed. The material is produced by the photopolymerization of reactants having thiol and olefin moieties. The material can incorporate encapsulated components, including cells. Additionally, the material can be derivatized by reacting the polymeric material with components such as proteins.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2013Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: The Regents of the University of ColoradoInventors: Christopher Bowman, Kristi Anseth, Bilge Hacioglu, Charlie Nuttelman
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Patent number: 7045559Abstract: A composition providing electrically conductive adhesive hydrogels suitable for use as skin contact adhesives and, particularly, suitable for use as an electrical interface for disposable medical devices. The present hydrogels provide for reduced skin irritation and/or malodor properties, hydrate a subject's skin, readily wet around a subject's skin surface hair, and protect against burning of a subject upon or due to electrical stimulation through the hydrogel. These hydrogels generally include a monomer, a first initiator, a solubilizer, and a cross-linking agent. The present hydrogels also desirably include a buffer system to help prevent discoloration of the hydrogels and/or hydrolysis of the hydrogels as well as to improve shelf-life. Other additives such as conductivity enhancers, pharmaceuticals, humectants, plasticizers, skin health agents, etc. may be added to the present hydrogels either before or after curing.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2003Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Ali Yahiaoui, Caron Keller, Richard Arnold Borders
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Patent number: 6638991Abstract: An ocular lens material comprising a copolymer prepared by polymerization with heating of a monomer mixture and/or with irradiating a monomer mixture with ultraviolet ray by means of a molding method, the monomer mixture containing a polysiloxane macromonomer A, a Si-containing alkyl methacrylate B, a hydrophilic monomer C comprising NVP as C-1 and another hydrophilic monomer C-2, another monomer D and a crosslinkable monomer E comprising a crosslinkable monomer E-1 containing at least one group selected from acryloyl group, vinyl group and allyl group, and methacryloyl group, and a crosslinkable monomer E-2 containing at least two methacryloyl groups as main components, wherein (A+B)/C (weight ratio) is 30/70 to 70/30, A/B is 25/75 to 75/25, C-1/C-2 is 50/50 to 100/0, the amount of D is 0 to 20% by weight in the monomer mixture, which has high oxygen permeability, high mechanical strength, excellent surface wettability and low surface frictional property.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2001Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaki Baba, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Kazuhiko Nakada
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Patent number: 6566409Abstract: A lock unimolecular micelle includes at least one engineered acceptor specifically binding a ligand (or specifically a “key” unimolecular micelle) thereto. A key unimolecular micelle comprises a core molecule and a plurality of branches extending therefrom, at least one of the branches including a shank portion extending therefrom having a terminal moiety at an end thereof for binding to a complimentary acceptor of a lock unimolecular micelle. Together, the lock and key micelles form a unit, either irreversibly or reversibly bound wherein the lock micelles is a soluble receptor engineered to specifically bind to the specifically engineered key micelle.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2000Date of Patent: May 20, 2003Assignee: University of South FloridaInventors: George R. Newkome, Charles N. Moorefield, Gregory Baker
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Patent number: 6559223Abstract: Forming graft copolymers in water using labeling of water soluble polymers with photoinitiators. Water soluble polymers can form environmentally responsive hydrophobically stimulated cages. The cages, which contain initiating radicals after irradiation, may be “opened” or “closed” by changes in environmental conditions. When the cage is closed, the radicals are trapped inside and thus do not cause substantial polymerization of water soluble monomers in the same solution. When the cage is closed, the radicals escape and cause polymerization. In another variation, hydrogels and graft copolymers are formed by covalently linking phototoinitiator groups to water soluble polymers that do not form cages. Thus, monomers may form grafts to the polymer, allowing formation of physical hydrogels.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2001Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: Polytechnic UniversityInventors: Mark M. Green, Sung Yun Yang
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Patent number: 6447915Abstract: In order to provide a multilayer printed circuit board having a fine pitch circuit, the interlaminar insulating adhesive used therein must have heat resistance and low thermal expansion coefficient so that required accuracy can be obtained during circuit formation and mounting of components. Therefore, the present invention aims at providing a multilayer printed circuit board which uses an interlaminar insulating adhesive superior in heat resistance and low in thermal expansion coefficient and wherein the insulating adhesive layer has a small variation in thickness between circuit layers.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2000Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Company LimitedInventors: Toshio Komiyatani, Masao Uesaka, Masataka Arai, Hitoshi Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 6350384Abstract: Multi-arm star polymers are derived from silicon containing dendrimers and have arms containing the moiety where each R′ can be the same or different and is an alkyl group containing 1-6 carbon atoms such as methyl and ethyl or an aryl group such as phenyl; R″ is alkylene radical —(CH2)a— in which a has a value of 2 or 3; and R′″ is the —(CH2)bCH3 group in which b has a value of 1-50. These compositions can be used for dissolving metals and other electrophiles.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2000Date of Patent: February 26, 2002Assignee: Dow Corning CorporationInventors: Petar Radivoj Dvornic, Jin Hu, Agnes M. de Leuze-Jallouli, Michael James Owen, Paul Lane Parham, Susan Victoria Perz, Scott Daniel Reeves
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Patent number: 5969044Abstract: Process for airtight and/or moisture-proof packaging of air-sensitive and/or moisture-sensitive materials for the introduction of the packaged materials in a chemical reactor. Described is a process for the airtight and/or moisture-proof packaging of air-sensitive and/or moisture-sensitive materials in a foil and a method for introducing the packaged materials in a reactor, whereby the polymer foil is dissolved in an organic solvent.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1998Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Assignee: Metallgesellschaft AktiengesellschaftInventors: Serge Fritz, Reinhold Feldmann
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Patent number: 5965631Abstract: An ophthalmic lens suited for extended-wear periods of at least one day on the eye without a clinically significant amount of corneal swelling and without substantial wearer discomfort. The lens has a balance of oxygen permeability and ion or water permeability, with the ion or water permeability being sufficient to provide good on-eye movement, such that a good tear exchange occurs between the lens and the eye. A preferred lens is a copolymerization product of a oxyperm macromer and an ionoperm monomer. The invention encompasses extended wear contact lenses, which include a core having oxygen transmission and ion transmission pathways extending from the inner surface to the outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1998Date of Patent: October 12, 1999Assignees: CIBA Vision Corporation, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Paul Clement Nicolson, Richard Carlton Baron, Peter Chabrecek, John Court, Angelika Domschke, Hans Jorg Griesser, Arthur Ho, Jens Hopken, Bronwyn Glenice Laycock, Qin Liu, Dieter Lohmann, Gordon Francis Meijs, Eric Papaspiliotopoulos, Judy Smith Riffle, Klaus Schindhelm, Deborah Sweeney, Wilson Leonard Terry, Jr., Jurgen Vogt, Lynn Cook Winterton
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Patent number: 5959002Abstract: Disclosed is a coated granular curing agent, which is for use in curing at least one first radically curable compound selected from the group consisting of a radically curable resin and a radically polymerizable monomer and which comprises an organic peroxide granule, wherein the organic peroxide granule has an entire surface thereof coated with a layer of a cured resin derived from at least one second radically curable compound selected from the group consisting of a radically curable resin and a radically polymerizable monomer, and wherein the first and second radically curable compounds are the same or different. The coated granular curing agent of the present invention is advantageous not only in that the curing agent can be handled with ease, but also in that the curing agent can be uniformly dispersed in a radically curable compound, so that it exhibits excellent curing performance.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1997Date of Patent: September 28, 1999Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidenori Kuramochi, Nobuhiro Takeda
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Patent number: 5760100Abstract: An ophthalmic lens suited for extended-wear for periods of at least one day on the eye without a clinically significant amount of corneal swelling and without substantial wearer discomfort. The lens has a balance of oxygen permeability and ion or water permeability, with the ion or water permeability being sufficient to provide good on-eye movement, such that a good tear exchange occurs between the lens and the eye. A preferred lens is a copolymerization product of a oxyperm macromer and an ionoperm monomer. The invention encompasses extended wear contact lenses, which include a core having oxygen transmission and ion transmission pathways extending from the inner surface to the outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1995Date of Patent: June 2, 1998Assignees: CIBA Vision Corporation, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Paul Clement Nicolson, Richard Carlton Baron, Peter Chabrecek, John Court, Angelika Domschke, Hans Jorg Griesser, Arthur Ho, Jens Hopken, Bronwyn Glenice Laycock, Qin Liu, Dieter Lohmann, Gordon Francis Meijs, Eric Papaspiliotopoulos, Judy Smith Riffle, Klaus Schindhelm, Deborah Sweeney, Wilson Leonard Terry, Jr., Jurgen Vogt, Lynn Cook Winterton
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Patent number: 5741591Abstract: A encapsulation method applicable to pharmaceutical preparations, cosmetics, pigment imparting materials such as inks, paints, dyes, electrostatic toner, and others is disclosed, as are methods of use thereof. According to the disclosed method, the use of auxiliary materials such as emulsifiers or surfactants can be dispensed with, and ultramicrocapsules having a readily controllable diameter of 1 .mu.m and less can be produced. The disclosed method includes the steps of preparing an organic phase consisting of a mixture of one or more hydrophobic liquid and/or solid materials and self dispersable resin which through the action of an aqueous phase, self disperses into particles with a diameter of 0.1 .mu.m and less; combining an aqueous phase with the organic phase, whereby self emulsification takes place, thereby encapsulating the one or more hydrophobic liquid and/or solid materials.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1995Date of Patent: April 21, 1998Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Nansei Tashiro, Osamu Maruyama
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Patent number: 5726456Abstract: Methods and compositions for encapsulated polymeric gels swollen with nonaqueous reactive materials are provided. The methods include gel synthesis, swelling of a gel precursor with a first nonaqueous reactive material, and encapsulation of the swollen gel with a second nonaqueous reactive material. Gels precursors may be synthesized from crosslinking polymers, or alternatively, may be formed by crosslinking and polymerizing a monomer starting material. An accelerator may be utilized to facilitate swelling of the gel precursor with the first nonaqueous reactive material. Foams and composites may also be swollen with the first nonaqueous reactive material. The swollen gel is then contacted with a second nonaqueous reactive material such that an encapsulation layer is formed thereby. The encapsulated gels may be stored for subsequent use.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: March 10, 1998Assignee: Gel Sciences, Inc.Inventors: E. Cornelius Lupton, Xiaohong Yu, Lev Bromberg, Barry Joseph Hand
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Patent number: 5726222Abstract: Disclosed is a microcapsule-type curing agent comprising (A) a curing agent for a thermosetting resin and (B) a thermoplastic resin dissolvable to the thermosetting resin by heating. The microcapsule-type curing agent is formed as a particle-like material in which the component (A) is coated with a layer whose main constituent is the component (B) and the mean particle diameter of which is in the range of 0.1 to 20 .mu.m. By using the microcapsule-type curing agent, a thermosetting resin composition and a prepreg which are good in storage stability at a room temperature and excellent in thermal resistance of a cured product made therefrom can be obtained. Further, a fiber reinforced composite material obtained using this thermosetting resin composition is excellent in curing uniformity and thermal resistance.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1997Date of Patent: March 10, 1998Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Ryuji Sawaoka, Shinji Kouchi, Toshio Muraki
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Patent number: 5650101Abstract: A lock unimolecular micelle includes at least one engineered acceptor specifically binding a ligand (or specifically a "key" unimolecular micelle) thereto. A key unimolecular micelle comprises a core molecule and a plurality of branches extending therefrom, at least one of the branches including a shank portion extending therefrom having a terminal moiety at an end thereof for binding to a complimentary acceptor of a lock unimolecular micelle. Together, the lock and key micelles form a unit, either irreversibly or reversibly bound wherein the lock micelles is a soluble receptor engineered to specifically bind to the specifically engineered key micelle.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 1994Date of Patent: July 22, 1997Assignee: University of South FloridaInventors: George R. Newkome, Charles N. Moorefield, Gregory R. Baker
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Patent number: 5589523Abstract: Disclosed is a microcapsule curing agent including (A) a curing agent for a thermosetting resin and (B) a thermoplastic resin. The microcapsule curing agent is formed as a particle-like material in which component (A) is coated with a layer whose main constituent is component (B) and the mean particle diameter of which is in the range of 0.1 to 20 .mu.m. By using the microcapsule curing agent, a thermosetting resin composition and a prepreg which exhibit good storage stability at room temperature and are excellent in thermal resistance for cured products made therefrom can be obtained. A fiber reinforced composite material obtained using the thermosetting resin composition is excellent in curing uniformity and thermal resistance.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: December 31, 1996Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Ryuji Sawaoka, Shinji Kouchi, Toshio Muraki
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Patent number: 5464910Abstract: An epoxy resin composition having high epoxy curing property and sufficient storage stability, and an epoxy curing agent therefor. The curing agent or the cure accelerating agent obtained by treating the surfaces of (1) an epoxy adduct obtained by adding a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound, an aliphatic amine or an aromatic amine to an epoxy compound having one, two or more epoxy groups in one molecule, with (2) a boric acid compound or (3) a boric acid compound and a phenolic compound, exhibits high curing property and storage stability, and can be favorably used as a curing agent for the epoxy resin composition. The epoxy resin composition prepared by mixing the epoxy resin with (1) and (2) or (1) and (3), exhibits excellent curing property and storage stability.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1993Date of Patent: November 7, 1995Assignee: Shikoku Chemicals CorporationInventors: Takuo Nakatsuka, Tsuyoshi Toyota, Mie Tanimoto, Akiko Matsumoto
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Patent number: 5422176Abstract: The invention relates to copolymers containinga) 20-90% of 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid, sulfoethyl or sulfopropyl (meth) acrylate or vinylsulfonic acid,b) 0-50% of a vinylic acid,c) 0-70% of methyl or ethyl acrylate or methacrylate, C.sub.2 --C.sub.4 -hydroxyalkyl acrylate or N-vinylpyrrolidone andd) 0.1-10% of styrene or C.sub.4 --C.sub.18 -alkyl acrylate or C.sub.4 --C.sub.18 -alkyl methacrylate.The copolymers according to the invention are particularly suitable as protective colloids for microencapsulation.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1993Date of Patent: June 6, 1995Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Bernhard Schuler, Rainer Dyllick-Brenzinger, Ralf Biastoch
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Patent number: 5326819Abstract: A method for the production of water absorbent polymer beads which retain a bead like shape after the absorption of water, wherein the absorbent beads are used in the manufacturing of concrete/mortar.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1991Date of Patent: July 5, 1994Assignee: Oosaka Yuuki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Taiji Kanbayashi, Chuzo Kato
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Patent number: 5306745Abstract: A composition includes a blend of an additive, such as a fungicide, encapsulated in a first thermoplastic resin and a second thermoplastic resin which has a lower melting point than the first resin. During extrusion of the blend, the second resin melts and surrounds the encapsulated additive before the first resin melts. Thus composition is especially useful in combination with a multilayer film including a core layer made up of the composition, and respective further layers laminated to each side of the core layer. These films are useful in packaging articles such as fruits and vegetables to protect them from fungal infections.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1992Date of Patent: April 26, 1994Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn.Inventors: Vincent W. Herran, Livio Buongiorno
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Patent number: 5283266Abstract: A microcapsule adhesive for preventing the loosening of screws and the like, which is superior in storage stability, adhesive force and safety, and which is comprised of an epoxy resin as a core material; a urea-formaldehyde resin, a melamine-formaldehyde resin, a polyurethane or a urea-urethane resin as a wall material; a water-soluble polyacetal resin binder; and a non-volatile, water-soluble or -dispersible amine-based curing agent.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1992Date of Patent: February 1, 1994Assignee: Three Bond Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Matsuo, Ikuzo Usami, Makoto Kurihara, Kunihiko Nakashima
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Patent number: 5279898Abstract: The present invention provides microencapsulated hydrosilylation catalysts for one-part heat curable organosiloxane compositions. Compositions containing these exhibit long-term storage stability yet cure rapidly when heated above the melting point of the encapsulating polymer. At least a portion of these microcapsules are less than one micron in diameter, and substantially all are less than about three microns in diameter. Compositions containing the preferred platinum group metals as catalysts are optically transparent.The microencapsulated curing catalysts of this invention are prepared by irradiating with UV light in the wavelength range of from 300 to 400 nanometers a solution containing (1) at least one of a specified group of photocrosslinkable organosiloxane compounds derived from propargyl esters of carboxylic acids containing a terminal aromatic hydrocarbon radical and at least two ethylenically unsaturated carbon atoms and (2) a liquid or solubilized hydrosilylation catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1993Date of Patent: January 18, 1994Assignee: Dow Corning CorporationInventors: Steven M. Evans, Chi-Long Lee, Ming-Hsiung Yeh
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Patent number: 5194460Abstract: The present invention provides microencapsulated hydrosilylation catalysts for one-part heat curable organosiloxane compositions. Compositions containing these exhibit long-term storage stability yet cure rapidly when heated above the melting point of the encapsulating polymer. At least a portion of these microcapsules are less than one micron in diameter, and substantially all are less than about three microns in diameter. Compositions containing the preferred platinum group metals as catalysts are optically transparent.The microencapsulated curing catalysts of this invention are prepared by irradiating with UV light in the wavelength range of from 300 to 400 nanometers a solution containing (1) at least one of a specified group of photocrosslinkable organosiloxane compounds derived from propargyl esters of carboxylic acids containing a terminal aromatic hydrocarbon radical and at least two ethylenically unsaturated carbon atoms and (2) a liquid or solubilized hydrosilylation catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 1992Date of Patent: March 16, 1993Assignee: Dow Corning CorporationInventors: Steven M. Evans, Chi-Long Lee, Ming-Hsiung Yeh
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Patent number: 5156914Abstract: This invention relates to an anhydrous, liquid phase process for entrapping droplets of a silicon compound in an organic polymer which involves precharging a reactor at between about 50.degree. and about 80.degree. C. with a polymerization initiator and a non-polar solvent in which the silicon compound is soluble; adding to the precharged reactor, silicon compound under vigorous agitation and gradually introducing from about 50 to about 99 wt. %, based on silicon compound, of a polymerizably precipitatable, aliphatically unsaturated monomer at a controlled rate; continuously polymerizing the monomer component, under vigorous agitation with the silicon compound, at between about 50.degree. and about 165.degree. C. while maintaining a desired monomer level of not more than 10% in the reactor and recovering a solid particulate product of silicon droplets entrapped in said polymerized monomer.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1991Date of Patent: October 20, 1992Assignee: ISP Investments Inc.Inventor: Jenn S. Shih
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Patent number: 5147723Abstract: A new method of producing paucilamellar lipid vesicles has been developed. The vesicles are made of non-phospholipid surfactants. The paucilamellar lipid vesicles have 2-8 lipid bilayers surrounding a central cavity which may be filled with either an aqueous-based solution or an oil or wax.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 1989Date of Patent: September 15, 1992Assignee: Micro-Pak, Inc.Inventor: Donald F. H. Wallach
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Patent number: 5095046Abstract: A heat curable hot melt adhesive system is disclosed. The system uses an epoxy-crosslinking ethylene polymer component, a tackifier compatible therewith and an epoxy crosslinking agent having an epoxide functionality of at least 2. The ethylene polymer component may be either an ethylene copolymer of an .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, or an ethylene copolymer of an ethylenically unsaturated alcohol used in combination with a dicarboxylic acid anhydride. The dicarboxylic acid anhydride and/or the epoxy can be encapsulated to inhibit premature crosslinking. The formulation is applied to a substrate surface as a hot melt at a moderate temperature, and subsequently cured by heating the adhesive composition to a higher curing temperature.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1990Date of Patent: March 10, 1992Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents Inc.Inventor: Mun F. Tse
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Patent number: 5084494Abstract: A polyester resin and reinforcement composite for use in the manufacture of glass fiber-reinforced polyester products is disclosed. The composite is prepared using an initiator which has been microencapsulated in order to prevent initiator-induced cross-linking of the resin reactants. The initiator is released during the molding of the composite by rupture of the microcapsules due to internal vapor pressure developed at a preselected temperature. The encapsulation of the initiator increases the storage life and temperature stability of the composites prior to molding. The encapsulation of the initiator also provides improved homogeneity and increased flowability of the composites during molding, an enables the provision of molded polyester products having higher degrees of cure and more defect-free finish surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1989Date of Patent: January 28, 1992Inventor: McDougal: John R.
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Patent number: 5077339Abstract: The present invention relates to the preparation of powdered heat-curable reaction mixtures in which melt suspension of (a) solid polyisocyanates having melting points above about 60.degree. C., (b) molten high molecular weight isocyanate-reactive compounds having molecular weights of from 400 to 10,000 that have melting or softening points of 50.degree. C. to 150.degree. C., and (c) optionally, solid or liquid low molecular weight chain-extending or crosslinking compounds having molecular weights of from 62 to 399, are added to an inert solvent containing an emulsifier, thereby forming powdered heat-curable reaction mixtures in which components (a), (b), and (c) remain in uncrossedlinked form. The invention further relates to the use of the heat-curing reaction mixtures for the preparation of high-quality polyurethane polyurea plastics.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1990Date of Patent: December 31, 1991Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Gerhard Grogler, Heinrich Hess, Richard Kopp, Werner Rasshofer
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Patent number: 5055342Abstract: Fluorinated polymeric composition exhibiting low dielectric constant and a low coefficient of thermal expansion containing a fluorinated polymeric material and a silica and/or quartz filler having a mean particle size of no greater than 7 microns, and use thereof to form a substrate having vias therein. Layers of the above composition are obtained by applying the composition to a substrate and then heating the composition to a temperature sufficient to cause the composition to fuse.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1990Date of Patent: October 8, 1991Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Voya Markovich, Ashit Mehta, Jae M. Park, Eugene Skarvinko, David W. Wang
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Patent number: 5013497Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for manufacture of multilamellar or paucilamellar lipid vesicles. The apparatus and method use shear mixing in a substantially cylindrical mixing chamber having at least one tangential input for rapid production of the lipid vesicles.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 1989Date of Patent: May 7, 1991Assignee: Micro-Pak, Inc.Inventors: Costas Yiournas, Donald F. H. Wallach
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Patent number: 4999387Abstract: A cohesive polymer comprising a matrix a matrix polymer and a coated particulate filler dispersed therein, characterized in that the matrix polymer is an acrylic polymer, and the filler is coated at least in part with a composition comprising an organic coating polymer of number average molecular weight of up to 300,000, which contains an acidic group (or precursor thereof) and an unsaturated group optionally linked to the matrix acrylic polymer, and a process for its production, and precursors thereof for use in the process.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 1989Date of Patent: March 12, 1991Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLCInventors: Roger N. Rothon, Thomas A. Ryan, Phillip J. Tavener
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Patent number: 4939190Abstract: An aqueous emulsion-type pressure sensitive adhesive characterized in that the aqueous emulsion is prepared by(i) a first step of emulsion polymerizing an ethylenically unsaturated monomer composed essentially of at least one type of styrene, alpha-methylstyrene, acrylonitrile, methyl methacrylate and vinyltoluene in the presence of an emulsion composed of at least one tackifier resin selected from a rosin ester, a petroleum resin and a terpene resin to form an aqueous emulsion containing particles of a two-layered structure having a core layer of the tackifier resin and a layer of a polymer (polymer A.sub.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1988Date of Patent: July 3, 1990Assignee: Dainippon Ink And Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Reizaburo Tomioka, Yasuhiro Shigematsu
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Patent number: 4911928Abstract: A new method of producing paucilamellar lipid vesicles has been developed. The vesicles are made of non-phospholipid surfactants. The paucilamellar lipid vesicles have 2-8 lipid bilayers surrounding a central cavity which may be filled with either an aqueous-based solution or an oil or wax.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1988Date of Patent: March 27, 1990Assignee: Micro-Pak, Inc.Inventor: Donald F. H. Wallach
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Patent number: 4857406Abstract: The present invention provides a process for forming microcapsules having discrete capsule walls. An emulsion of an oily core material in a continuous aqueous phase containing a polymeric anionic emulsifier, a free radical addition polymerizable cationic monomer and a free-radical initiator is formed. Particles of the oily core material are enwrapped in a polymerizate of the cationic monomer produced by polymerization of the cationic monomer.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1987Date of Patent: August 15, 1989Assignee: The Mead CorporationInventors: Gerhart Schwab, Richard L. Brandon
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Patent number: 4833226Abstract: A master batch of hardener for curable one-package epoxy resin system which comprises (I) a hardener consisting of(I) a hardener consisting of(i) a powder of an amine compound (A) as a core having at least one tertiary amino group in the molecule while having no primary and secondary amino groups, the powder having both a group (X) capable of absorbing infrared rays of 1630 to 1680 cm.sup.-1 in wave length and a group (Y) capable of absorbing infrared rays of 1680 to 1725 cm.sup.-1 in wave length at least on the surface of the powder, and(ii) a reaction product of the amine compound (A) and an epoxy resin as a shell; and(II) an epoxy resin (B) in a ratio of 10 to 50,000 parts by weight to 100 parts by weight of the hardener (I).A hardener containing the master batch is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1987Date of Patent: May 23, 1989Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidekazu Ishimura, Masahiko Otsuka, Yasushi Takahashi, Tadayoshi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 4701373Abstract: The disclosure relates to difficulty flammable wooden articles, especially chip boards comprising solid and pipe boards, prepared by extrusion from wooden chips and/or woody fibrous materials. The articles contain as a flame-retarding addend a product of(a) 50 to 99.5 weight % of a flame-retarding agent physically and chemically stable under extrusion conditions, preferably 75 to 99.5 weight % of a pulverulent, free-flowing ammonium polyphosphate of the general formulaH.sub.(n-m)+2 (NH.sub.4).sub.m P.sub.n O.sub.3n+1in which n stands for a whole number with an average value of about 20 to 800 and the ratio of m/n is about 1, and(b) about 0.5 to 50 weight % of a cured water-insoluble artificial resin encapsulating the individual particles of the flame-retarding agent or ammonium polyphosphate.The disclosure also relates to difficulty flammable boards veneered with wood or a laminate.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1986Date of Patent: October 20, 1987Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Fritz-Reichard Fuchs, Horst Staendeke
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Patent number: 4670484Abstract: The disclosure relates to difficultly flammable wooden articles, especially chip boards comprising solid and pipe boards, prepared by extrusion from wooden chips and/or woody fibrous materials. The articles contain as a flame-retarding addend a product of(a) 50 to 99.5 weight % of a flame-retarding agent physically and chemically stable under extrusion conditions, preferably 75 to 99.5 weight % of a pulverulent, free-flowing ammonium polyphosphate of the general formulaH.sub.(n-m)+2 (NH.sub.4).sub.m P.sub.n O.sub.3n+1in which n stands for a whole number with an average value of about 20 to 800 and the ratio of m/n is about 1, and(b) about 0.5 to 50 weight % of a cured water-insoluble artificial resin encapsulating the individual particles of the flame-retarding agent or ammonium polyphosphate.The disclosure also relates to difficultly flammable boards veneered with wood or a laminate.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 1984Date of Patent: June 2, 1987Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Fritz-Reichard Fuchs, Horst Staendeke
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Patent number: 4647418Abstract: A process for the manufacture of glass fiber-reinforced polyester products is disclosed. A ready-to-mold resin and reinforcement composite is prepared using an initiator which has been microencapsulated in order to prevent initiator-induced cross-linking of the resin reactants. The initiator is released during the molding of the composite by rupture of the microcapsules due to internal vapor pressure developed at a preselected molding temperature. The encapsulation of the initiator provides improved homogeneity and increased flowability of the composites during molding, and enables the provision of molded polyester products having higher degrees of cure and more defect-free finish surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 1985Date of Patent: March 3, 1987Inventor: John R. McDougal
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Patent number: 4610927Abstract: Disclosed herein are microcapsules containing a hydrophobic, volatile substance as the core substance, a wall membrane of the microcapsule comprising a polymer made by interfacial polymerization of a polyvalent isocyanate with a water-soluble cationic urea resin and/or a prepolymer of aminoresin, and a resin made by polycondensing the water-soluble cationic urea resin with the prepolymer of aminoresin in the presence of a low-molecular anionic surfactant, and a process for producing the microcapsules.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 1984Date of Patent: September 9, 1986Assignee: Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuriko Igarashi, Masaaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 4537695Abstract: Thermal energy storage compositions comprise a thermal energy storage material, for instance an inorganic hydrate that can undergo a change of hydration with accompanying release or storage of latent heat of hydration at a temperature of 10.degree. to 100.degree. C., held in a matrix of polymeric material, generally acrylic polymer. In one aspect of the invention the composition is in particulate form and so can, for instance, be poured into the heat exchanger in which it is to be used. In another aspect of the invention the storage material includes polyvalent metal ions and the polymeric material is a cationic polymer. In another aspect of the invention the composition is made by forming a solution, generally in water, of all the polymerizable material and most or all of the storage material and then polymerizing the polymerizable material in this solution. The solution is generally a low viscosity fluid and polymerization may be conducted in the heat exchanger vessel in which the composition is to be used.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1984Date of Patent: August 27, 1985Inventors: Malcolm Hawe, David Marshall, John R. Walker
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Patent number: 4524043Abstract: A process for the manufacture of glass fiber-reinforced polyester products is disclosed. A ready-to-mold resin and reinforcement composite is prepared using an initiator which has been microencapsulated in order to prevent initiator-induced cross-linking of the resin reactants. The initiator is released during the molding of the composite by rupture of the microcapsules due to internal vapor pressure developed at a preselected molding temperature. The encapsulation of the initiator provides improved homogeneity and increased flowability of the composites during molding, and enables the provision of molded polyester products having higher degrees of cure and more defect-free finish surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1984Date of Patent: June 18, 1985Inventor: John R. McDougal
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Patent number: 4481341Abstract: A thermosetting organopolysiloxane and organohydrogenpolysiloxane mixture containsa catalytic amount of platinum or a platinum compound finely dispersed in a solid substance at a concentration of 0.01-5% by weight calculated as platinum metal and based on the total weight of catalyst and solid substance, wherein the solid platinum-containing catalyst material has a melting point or softening point between 70.degree. and 250.degree. C., is practically immiscible with the organopolysiloxane and organohydrogenpolysiloxane mixture below the melting point or the softening point, and is finely dispersible therein.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1982Date of Patent: November 6, 1984Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ottfried Schlak, Werner Michel, Bernard Munchenbach
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Patent number: 4470917Abstract: Thermal energy storage compositions comprise a thermal energy storage material, for instance an inorganic hydrate that can undergo a change of hydration with accompanying release or storage of latent heat of hydration at a temperature of 10.degree. to 100.degree. C., held in a matrix of polymeric material, generally acrylic polymer. In one aspect of the invention the composition is in particulate form and so can, for instance, be poured into the heat exchanger in which it is to be used. In another aspect of the invention the storage material includes polyvalent metal ions and the polymeric material is a cationic polymer. In another aspect of the invention the composition is made by forming a solution, generally in water, of all the polymerizable material and most or all of the storage material and then polymerizing the polymerizable material in this solution. The solution is generally a low viscosity fluid and polymerization may be conducted in the heat exchanger vessel in which the composition is to be used.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1983Date of Patent: September 11, 1984Assignee: Allied Colloids LimitedInventors: Malcolm Hawe, David Marshall, John R. Walker
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Patent number: 4393112Abstract: A method for marking employing a novel marking agent is disclosed wherein the marking agent is composed of a fine powder containing about 30 to 75% by volume of an ingredient which is insoluble in a solvent used to fix the marking agent.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1981Date of Patent: July 12, 1983Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoru Honjo, Yasuaki Yuyama, Masakazu Iwasa, Kazuo Imanishi
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Patent number: 4379897Abstract: Disclosed is a color-developer for pressure-sensitive recording sheets, comprising a co-condensate of a reaction intermediate of a p-substituted phenol and a trifunctional or higher phenol, or a polyvalent metal salt of said co-condensate, said reaction intermediate being obtained by the reaction of said p-substituted phenol under alkaline conditions with formaldehyde or a substance capable of generating formaldehyde.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1981Date of Patent: April 12, 1983Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Makoto Asano, Yoshimitu Tanabe, Hisamichi Murakami
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Patent number: 4357269Abstract: A molding compound is disclosed comprising a diallyl phthalate compound and capsules of water.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1981Date of Patent: November 2, 1982Assignee: Rogers CorporationInventors: Vincent R. Landi, Jeffrey L. Dalton
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Patent number: 4339360Abstract: Particles of active substance each comprising a core of a high molecular substance containing an aldehyde group and a coat applied to the aforementioned core and formed of the reaction product of the aforementioned aldehyde group-containing high molecular substance with a high molecular substance containing active hydrogen, which particles are manufactured by causing particles of the aforementioned aldehyde group-containing high molecular substance to assume a swelled state and allowing the swelled particles to be reacted upon by the aqueous solution of the aforementioned active hydrogen-containing high molecular substance.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1980Date of Patent: July 13, 1982Assignees: Agency of Industrial Science & Technology, Ministry of International Trade & IndustryInventors: Toshimi Shimizu, Shoei Fujishige, Akira Okada
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Patent number: 4307206Abstract: A urea-formaldehyde resin adhesive comprising a powder of a substance having the property of gradually reacting with an acid and thus consuming the acid.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1980Date of Patent: December 22, 1981Assignees: Oshika Shinko Co., Ltd., Mitsuo Higuchi, Isao SakataInventors: Mitsuo Higuchi, Isao Sakata
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Patent number: 4224422Abstract: Curable expoy resin-polyisocyanate systems which incorporate a minor amount of a cationically polymerizable, ethylenically unsaturated monomer and which are catalyzed by a Lewis acid.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1979Date of Patent: September 23, 1980Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Harold E. Rude, Richard G. Newell