Metal Bonded To Carbon Is Aluminum Patents (Class 526/185)
  • Patent number: 11702525
    Abstract: Although polyolefin elastomers are widely employed commodity polymers, there are shortcomings of this class of polymers for certain applications. For example, the rheological properties of some polyolefin elastomers may be insufficient to provide the green strength or low shear viscosity necessary to form stable foams, or to provide sufficient viscosity modification effects when present in a solvent. Cationomeric modification of polyolefin elastomers may alleviate these difficulties. Such polyolefin elastomers may feature a random cationomeric polyolefin copolymer comprising at least a first monomer and a second monomer, in which the first monomer is a neutral monomer and the second monomer has a side chain bearing a cationic moiety. The polyolefin elastomers may be present in foamed polyolefin compositions comprising a gas component and/or in liquid compositions comprising a solvent in which the polyolefin elastomer is dissolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventor: Jason A. Mann
  • Patent number: 11492450
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to dual-headed organoaluminum compositions having the formula (I) and processes to prepare the same. In at least one aspect, the compositions having the formula (I) may be used during olefin polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Lixin Sun, Endre Szuromi, Jerzy Klosin, Edmund M. Carnahan, Jasson T. Patton, Longyan Liao
  • Patent number: 11485815
    Abstract: A 4-methyl-1-pentene polymer particle (X) which satisfies the following requirements (X-a), (X-b) and (X-c): (X-a) being composed of a 4-methyl-1-pentene polymer which has a content of a constitutional unit derived from 4-methyl-1-pentene being 30.0 to 99.7% by mol, and a content of a constitutional unit derived from at least one olefin selected from ethylene and an ?-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms (except for 4-methyl-1-pentene) being 0.3 to 70.0% by mol; (X-b) having, when measured in a cross fractionation chromatograph apparatus (CFC) using an infrared spectrophotometer as a detector part, at least one peak A of an amount of a component eluted present in the range of 100 to 140° C., and at least one peak B of an amount of a component eluted present at lower than 100° C.; and (X-c) having a meso diad fraction (m) measured by 13C-NMR falling within the range of 95.0 to 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Masakazu Tanaka, Toyoaki Sasaki, Tomoaki Matsugi, Sadahiko Matsuura, Naoto Matsukawa, Masatoshi Chinaka
  • Patent number: 9644051
    Abstract: Catalyst component for the polymerization of olefins comprising Mg, Ti and an electron donor of formula (I) In which X and Y are selected from, R1, and —OR1 and —NR2, B is oxygen or sulphur S is sulphur, R1 is selected from C1-C15 hydrocarbon groups, optionally contain a heteroatom selected from halogen, P, S, N, O and Si, which can be fused together to form one or more cycles, R is hydrogen or R1 and A is a bivalent bridging group with chain length between the two bridging bonds being 1-10 atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Alessandro Mignogna, Reynald Chevalier, Igor Kashulin, Ilya Nifant'ev, Giampiero Morini, Martin Schneider
  • Patent number: 9512247
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a polymer having a low halogen atom content remaining in the polymer, a simple production method thereof, an active energy ray-curable composition that can be rapidly cured by an irradiation of a small amount of light, and a cured product thereof. These purpose can be achieved by an active energy ray-curable composition, including a polyisobutylene polymer (A) represented by the following general formula (1) (wherein R1 represents a monovalent or polyvalent aromatic hydrocarbon group, or a monovalent or a polyvalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group; A represents a polyisobutylene polymer; R2 represents a divalent saturated hydrocarbon group having 2-6 carbon atoms, which contains no hetero atoms; R3 and R4 each represent hydrogen, a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1-20 carbon atoms, or an alkoxy group having 1-20 carbon atoms; R5 represents hydrogen or a methyl group; and n denotes a natural number), and an active energy ray polymerization initiator (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Kaneka Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ikari, Hironari Nakabayashi
  • Patent number: 9273160
    Abstract: The invention relates to an energy efficient, environmentally favorable process for the preparation of brominated rubbers, in particular bromobutyl rubber, that uses a common medium for both solution polymerization and subsequent bromination of the rubber and which further exhibits an enhanced bromine usage due to the use of a oxidizing agent. More particularly, the invention relates to a process that employs a common aliphatic medium for both solution polymerization and bromination of rubber in the presence of a brominating agent and an oxidizing agent with intermediate removal of un-reacted monomers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: LANXESS INTERNATIONAL SA
    Inventors: Adam Gronowski, Carsten Kreuder, John Lovegrove, Paul Nguyen, David Thompson, Hanns-Ingolf Paul, Rolf Feller, Udo Weisner
  • Patent number: 9273161
    Abstract: The invention relates to an energy efficient, environmentally favorable process for the preparation of halogenated rubbers, in particular chloro- and bromobutyl rubber, that uses a common aliphatic medium of specific composition for both solution polymerization and subsequent halogenation of the rubber. More particularly, the invention relates to a process that employs a common aliphatic medium for both solution polymerization and halogenation of rubber with intermediate removal of un-reacted monomers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: LANXESS INTERNATIONAL SA
    Inventors: Carsten Kreuder, Adam Gronowski, John Lovegrove, Hanns-Ingolf Paul, Rolf Feller, Udo Wiesner
  • Patent number: 9273154
    Abstract: The invention relates to an energy efficient, environmentally favorable process for the preparation of butyl ionomers that uses a common medium for both solution polymerization and subsequent bromination of butyl rubber. More particularly, the invention relates to a process that employs a common aliphatic medium for both solution polymerization and bromination of butyl rubber in the presence of a brominating agent and optionally for subsequent reaction with at least one nitrogen and/or phosphorus based nucleophile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: LANXESS INTERNATIONAL SA
    Inventors: Carsten Kreuder, Adam Gronowski, John Lovegrove, Hanns-Ingolf Paul, Rolf Feller, Dana Adkinson, Phil Magill
  • Patent number: 9102773
    Abstract: Pyridyldiamido transition metal complexes are disclosed for use in alkene polymerization to produce polyolefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Hagadorn, Matthew S. Bedoya, Peijun Jiang
  • Publication number: 20150148505
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a catalyst composition comprising titanium-, zirconium- and/or hafnium amidinate complexes and/or titanium-, zirconium- and/or hafnium guanidinate complexes and organo aluminium and/or organic zinc compounds, a coordinative chain transfer polymerization (CCTP) process employing the catalyst composition as well as long chain aluminium alkyls and subsequent alcohols obtained by such process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Thoralf Gross, Holger Ziehe, Rhett Kempe, Winfried Kretschmer, Christian Hubner
  • Patent number: 9040644
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a diene elastomer. The invention especially applies to the production of a polybutadiene with a high level of cis-1,4 linkages that has at the same time a Mooney viscosity ML (1+4) greater than or equal to 40, a polydispersity index less than 2.1 and a reduced cold flow and of a polyisoprene. The process according to the invention comprises a reaction of a catalyst system with at least one conjugated diene monomer, this catalyst system being based on at least: one conjugated diene; one organic phosphoric acid salt of one or more rare-earth metals, said salt being in suspension and in at least one saturated and aliphatic or alicyclic, and inert hydrocarbon-based solvent; one alkylating agent composed of an alkyl aluminum for formula AlR3 or HAlR2 and a halogen donor belonging to the family of alkylaluminium halides, with the exclusion of alkylaluminium sesquihalides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE, S.A.
    Inventors: Clotilde Canivet, Jean-Philippe Rasigade, Fanny Barbotin
  • Patent number: 8969484
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods for the preparation of mono- and multi-functional telechelic polyolefins via polymerization reaction with a terpene-based initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Chevron Oronite Company LLC
    Inventors: Casey D. Stokes, Young A. Chang, Patrick J. McDougall
  • Publication number: 20140378620
    Abstract: There is provided a catalyst composition for polymerizing a conjugated diene monomer containing a rare earth complex having a specific structure and a specific compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Iwase, Yuji Kosugi
  • Patent number: 8893725
    Abstract: The invention provides a polymer prepared from a substituted 1,3-butadiene (such as neophytadiene) derived from a plant of the Nicotiana species. The invention also provides smoking articles and smokeless tobacco compositions that include the polymers described herein. Further, the invention provides a method of polymerizing a substituted 1,3-butadiene derived from a plant of the Nicotiana species, the method including reacting a substituted 1,3-butadiene derived from a plant of the Nicotiana species with one or more reagents selected from the group consisting of an anionic initiator, a radical initiator, and a Ziegler-Natta catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Michael Francis Dube, William Monroe Coleman, III
  • Publication number: 20140275456
    Abstract: Non-phthalate compounds having a structure represented by the general formula and a method for using same are provided as electron donors in the Ziegler-Natta type catalyst system for the homopolymerization or copolymerization of alpha olefins. The non-phthalate compounds may be used in the preparation of the solid catalyst component, thus serving as “internal electron donors”, or employed during or prior to polymerization as “external electron donors,” and therefore they can be used to prepare phthalate-free polyolefins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Formosa Plastics Corporation, USA
    Inventors: Demin Xu, Lei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140088276
    Abstract: A multidimensional polymer production method for producing a multidimensional polymer containing a repeating unit derived from a first monomer and a repeating unit derived from a second monomer, the multidimensional polymer production method including the steps of: (a) using a first catalyst and a second catalyst; and (b) carrying out a polymerization reaction in the presence of the first catalyst, the second catalyst, the first monomer, the second monomer, and a chain shuttling agent in an identical reaction system, the first catalyst selectively catalyzing a positionally selective or stereoselective polymerization reaction of the first monomer per se, and the second catalyst selectively catalyzing a positionally selective or stereoselective polymerization reaction of the second monomer per se.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: RIKEN
    Inventors: Zhaomin Hou, Li Pan
  • Patent number: 8680001
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a catalyst solid for olefin polymerization, comprising a finely divided support, an aluminoxane and a metallocene compound, which comprises: a) firstly combining the finely divided support with the aluminoxane and subsequently b) adding the reaction product of a metallocene compound with at least one organometallic compound to the modified support, catalyst solids obtainable by this process, catalyst systems comprising these catalyst solids, their use for the polymerization of olefins and a process for the polymerization of olefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Heike Gregorius, Volker Fraaije, Manfred Lutringshauser
  • Patent number: 8664142
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preparing a solid catalyst for propylene polymerization, specifically to a method for preparing a solid catalyst for propylene polymerization which can produce a polypropylene having high melt flow rate, a wide molecular distribution and excellent stereoregularity with a high production yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Total Petrochemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Yull Kim, Joon Ryeo Park, Eun Il Kim, Jin Woo Lee
  • Publication number: 20130338321
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for preparing procatalyst compositions which include multiple contact steps in the presence of a substituted phenylene aromatic diester and at least one other internal electron donor. The multi-contact procatalyst compositions produced from the present processes improve polymer properties and polymerization parameters. In particular, the present multi-contact procatalyst compositions improve polymer bulk density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Joseph N. Coalter, III, Linfeng Chen, Clark C. Williams
  • Patent number: 8501885
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to olefin polymerization catalysts and compositions, their manufacture, and the production of polyolefins using specific catalyst compositions, including the use of chain shuttling agents in the olefin polymerization process. Specifically, this disclosure provides for dual headed and multi-headed chain shuttling agents (CSAs or MSAs) and for their use in preparing blocky copolymers. By controlling the ratio of dual-headed and multi-headed CSA sites to mono-headed CSA sites, a blocky copolymer can be provided having properties such as a narrow molecular weight distribution and/or improved melt properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Arriola, Thomas P. Clark, Kevin A. Frazier, Sara B. Klamo, Francis J. Timmers
  • Publication number: 20130144020
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a stabilized polymer in which inhibition of polymerization of a monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated bond is suppressed even when a specific phenolic antioxidant is added before or during the polymerization of the monomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoshi Kawamoto, Tsuyoshi Urushihara, Kohei Okamoto, Tetsuya Seguchi
  • Publication number: 20130116113
    Abstract: Provided are a catalyst composition comprising a main catalyst (A) and a promoter (B), wherein the main catalyst (A) is a complex represented by Formula (1): MLnK1xK2yK3z ??(1) (wherein M is one transition metal selected from groups 8 to 10 elements; L is a cyclopentadienyl base ligand containing; K1 to K3 are anionic or neutral ligands which are different from each other; n is an integer of 0 to 2; x, y and z each are an integer including 0, and a sum thereof is 1 to 7); and the promoter (B) is a compound (a) reacted with the main catalyst (A) to form a cationic compound, used for a high molecular weight addition copolymer of a norbornene compound having a polar group, a process for producing the copolymer using the above catalyst composition, and a film of the above copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shojiro Kaita, Olivier Tardif
  • Patent number: 8410231
    Abstract: The present invention provides a highly active process for producing an olefin polymer, comprising: the step (I) of preliminarily polymerizing an olefin at 65° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yasutoyo Kawashima, Tomoaki Goto
  • Publication number: 20130012662
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods for the preparation of mono- and multi-functional telechelic polyolefins via polymerization reaction with a terpene-based initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventors: Casey D. Stokes, Young A. Chang, Patrick J. McDougall
  • Patent number: 8324317
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to golf balls having at least one layer which comprises a polymer produced by a process wherein one or more monomers are contacted with a composition comprising the admixture or reaction product resulting from combining (A) a first olefin polymerization catalyst, (B) a second olefin polymerization catalyst capable of preparing polymers differing in chemical or physical properties from the polymer prepared by the first olefin polymerization catalyst under equivalent polymerization conditions, and (C) a chain shuttling agent. Golf balls of the present invention include one-piece, two-piece, and multi-layer golf balls. In two-piece and multi-layer golf balls of the present invention, the polymer may be present in a core layer, a cover layer, an intermediate layer (in the case of multi-layer balls), or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Brian Comeau, David A. Bulpett, Kevin M. Harris, Murali Rajagopalan
  • Publication number: 20120277389
    Abstract: Provided are a solid catalyst for propylene polymerization which includes titanium, magnesium, halogen and an internal electron donor mixture of two or more compounds wherein the internal electron donor mixture includes at least one selected from the bicycloalkanes or bicycloalkenes and at least one selected from diethers and succinates, and a method for preparing propylene using the same. As disclosed, it is possible to prepare polypropylene having an excellent stereoregularity with a high production yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG TOTAL PETROCHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Yull KIM, Jin Woo LEE, Eun Il KIM, Joon Ryeo PARK
  • Patent number: 8293857
    Abstract: Process for polymerization of ethylene using a catalyst system including (i) a solid catalyst of Ti, Mg and halogen, (ii) a first activator which is at least one trialkylaluminium compound of the formula AlR3, where each R is independently a C2 to C20 alkyl radical, and (iii) a second activator which is at least one alkylaluminium chloride of the formula AlR?2Cl, where each R? is independently a C2 to C20 alkyl radical. The second activator is introduced directly into the polymerization reactor, without precontact with the solid catalyst, continuously or semi-continuously, and at a maximum rate of introduction at any time corresponding to less than 10 ppm by weight of chlorine relative to the rate of polyethylene production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Ineos Europe Limited
    Inventors: Alain Berardi, Andre Frederich, Dominique Jan, Jean-Jacques Kuhlburger, Anthony Sgard, Alain Van Daele
  • Patent number: 8236910
    Abstract: Cycloolefin copolymers which are distinguished by the presence of racemic diads of repeating polycyclic units and additionally by racemic triads of repeating polycyclic units are described. These copolymers can be prepared by copolymerization of polycyclic olefins with linear olefins in the presence of metallocene catalysts which have no Cs symmetry in relation to the centroid-M-centroid plane. The novel copolymers can be used for the production of shaped articles, in particular of films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Topas Advanced Polymers GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Ruchatz, Anne-Meike Schauwienold, Peter Jörg
  • Publication number: 20120165486
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to olefin polymerization catalysts and compositions, their manufacture, and the production of polyolefins using specific catalyst compositions, including the use of chain-shuttling agents in the olefin polymerization process. Specifically, this disclosure provides for dual-headed and multi-headed chain shuttling agents (CSAs or MSAs) and for their use in preparing blocky copolymers. By controlling the ratio of dual-headed and multi-headed CSA sites to mono-headed CSA sites, a blocky copolymer can be provided having properties such as a narrow molecular weight distribution and/or improved melt properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Arriola, Thomas P. Clark, Kevin A. Frazier, Sara B. Klamo, Francis J. Timmers
  • Publication number: 20120101235
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for polymerizing olefins in which the amount of trimethylaluminum in a methylalumoxane solution is adjusted to be from 1 to 25 mol %, prior to use as an activator, where the mol % trimethylaluminum is determined by 1H NMR of the solution prior to combination with any support. This invention also relates to a process for polymerizing olefins in which the amount of an unknown species present in a methylalumoxane solution is adjusted to be from 0.10 to 0.65 integration units prior to use as an activator, where the amount of the unknown species is determined by the 1H NMR spectra of the solution performed prior to combination with any support. Preferably, the methylalumoxane solution is present in a catalyst system also comprising a metallocene transition metal compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: Donna J. CROWTHER, David M. Fiscus
  • Patent number: 8138286
    Abstract: Cycloolefin copolymers which are distinguished by the presence of racemic diads of repeating polycyclic units and additionally by racemic triads of repeating polycyclic units are described. These copolymers can be prepared by copolymerization of polycyclic olefins with linear olefins in the presence of metallocene catalysts which have no Cs symmetry in relation to the centroid-M-centroid plane. The novel copolymers can be used for the production of shaped articles, in particular of films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Topas Advanced Polymers GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Ruchatz, Anne-Meike Schauwienold, Peter Jörg
  • Patent number: 8119749
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of obtaining a (meth)acrylate-based polymer from a reaction solution containing the (meth)acrylate-based polymer, the method including (a) adding an acid to the reaction solution containing the (meth)acrylate-based polymer which is obtained by polymerizing a monomer composed mainly of a (meth)acrylate in a water-insoluble organic solvent in the presence of a metal compound, (b) washing the reaction solution to which the acid has been added by admixing water at 90° C. or more, (c) separating the mixed solution of the reaction solution and water generated by the washing in (b) into an organic solvent solution layer and an aqueous solution layer, and (d) isolating each of the organic solvent solution layer and the aqueous solution layer in order to obtain the (meth)acrylate-based polymer from the isolated organic solvent solution layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Kuraray Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Hamada, Susumu Matsunaga, Kazunori Watanabe, Masaji Kato, Jun Nagai, Tatsufumi Watanabe, Tatsuo Morotomi, Hiroshi Oshima
  • Publication number: 20110294924
    Abstract: Copolymer are formed by polymerizing C4 to C7 isoolefin monomers and alkyl-styrene monomers. The method comprises first providing feed streams into a reactor. The various feed streams provide monomers, a polar diluent or polar diluent mixture, and a catalyst system into the reactor. In the reactor, the feed streams contact one another so that the monomers form a polymer in a stable slurry, wherein the amount of polymer in the slurry yields a slurry concentration greater than 22 wt %. The ratio of moles of polymer formed per mole initiator is in the range of 0.25 to 4.0 moles polymer per mole of initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Timothy D. Shaffer, Deborah J. Davis, James P. Stokes
  • Publication number: 20110294973
    Abstract: A method for preparing a reactor for performance of a polymerization reaction, the method including providing at least one seed bed into the reactor; wherein the at least one seed bed includes at least one organometallic compound and polymer particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: UNIVATION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: F. David Hussein, Mark G. Goode, Michael E. Muhle, David A. Yahn, Robert O. Hagerty
  • Patent number: 8067518
    Abstract: Ethylene alpha-olefin copolymers formed by contacting at least one supported metallocene catalyst, ethylene, and an alpha-olefin in a gas phase reactor are disclosed. In some embodiments, the polymer may have: a density of between 0.890 and 0.970 g/cc; a melt index of between 0.7 and 200 dg/min; a melt index ratio of less than 30; an ESCR value of greater than 1000 hours; and a 1% secant modulus of greater than 75,000 psi. In other embodiments, the polymer may have: a density of between 0.930 g/cc and 0.970 g/cc; a melt index of between 10 dg/min and 200 dg/min; a melt index ratio of between 10 and 25; a part weight of greater than 3 g and a part length of greater than 38 cm in a spiral flow test, and; a zero shear viscosity of less than 150 Pa·s. Processes to produce these polymers are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Univation Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher R. Davey, James M. Farley, Rainer Kolb, Mark P. Ossowski
  • Publication number: 20110237764
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnesium compound-supported nonmetallocene catalyst, which is produced by directly contacting a catalytically active metallic compound with a nonmetallocene ligand-containing magnesium compound, or by directly contacting a nonmetallocene ligand with a catalytically active metal-containing magnesium compound, through an in-situ supporting process. The process is simple and flexible. In the process, there are many variables in response for adjusting the polymerization activity of the catalyst, and the margin for adjusting the catalyst load or the catalyst polymerization activity is broad. The magnesium compound-supported nonmetallocene catalyst according to this invention can be used for olefin homopolymerization/copolymerization, in combination with a comparatively less amount of the co-catalyst, to achieve a comparatively high polymerization activity. Further, the polymer product obtained therewith boasts high bulk density and adjustable molecular weight distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Yuefeng Gu, Xiaoli Yao, Chuanfeng Li, Zhonglin Ma, Feng Guo, Bo Liu, Yaming Wang, Shaohui Chen, Xiaoqiang Li, Jiye Bai
  • Publication number: 20110178258
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the covalent anchorage of non-coordinating anions on mineral supports to prepare supported ionic liquids and to their use as activating supports for the polymerisation of ethylene and alpha-olefins. The invention also discloses the concomitant covalent anchorage of zwitterionic systems containing both the non-coordinating anion and the counter cation parts of the ionic liquids and of the activating supports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicants: Total Petrochemicals Research Feluy, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Abdelkrim El Kadib, Karine Molvinger, Daniel Brunel, Floran Prades, Abbas Razavi
  • Publication number: 20110086992
    Abstract: The present invention relates a process for the preparation of catalytic support and the supported metallocene catalysts used in the production of ethylene homopolymers and ethylene copolymers with ?-olefins, of high and ultra high molecular weight with broad molecular weight distribution, in gas or liquid phase polymerization processes, the latter being in slurry, bulk or suspension, and the products obtained from these processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Marcia Silva Lacerda Miranda, Fernanda Oliveira Vieira da Cunha
  • Publication number: 20110028654
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a polyolefin composition comprising contacting a metallocene pre-catalyst, co-catalyst, and a stoichiometric excess of a metal alkyl; adding a first olefin monomer; and polymerizing the first monomer for a time sufficient to form the polyolefin. The method allows for the use of minimum amounts of activating co-catalyst and metallocene pre-catalyst. Also disclosed is a method of producing a block polyolefin composition comprising contacting a metallocene pre-catalyst, a co-catalyst, and a stoichiometric excess of a metal alkyl; adding a first olefin monomer; polymerizing the first monomer for a time sufficient to form the polyolefin; adding a second monomer; and polymerizing the second olefin monomer for a time sufficient to form said block polyolefin composition. Also disclosed are amorphous atactic polymer and copolymer compositions made according to the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: University of Maryland, college Park Office of Technology Commercialization
    Inventors: Lawrence R. Sita, Wei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20110003954
    Abstract: Described is a cyclobutene polymer comprising: monomeric units of cyclobutene, said cyclobutene having at least one fused ring system substituted thereon, said polymer comprising not more than 10 mol percent ring-opened units of said cyclobutene; and said polymer having a molecular weight of at least 1,000; said polymer optionally copolymerized with a comonomer to form a copolymer therewith. Compositions thereof and methods of making the same are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventors: Bruce M. Novak, Keitaro Seto
  • Publication number: 20100324243
    Abstract: The object is to provide a catalyst component for polymerization of ethylene which can produce an ethylene polymer of high molecular weight which has substantially only an ethyl branch. The catalyst component for polymerization of ethylene is obtained by contacting the following components (A), (B) and (C): component (A): a meso-metallocene compound, component (B): a solid co-catalyst component comprising a particulate carrier and a compound which ionizes a metallocene compound to form an ionic complex and which is supported on the particulate carrier, and component (C): an organoaluminum compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventor: Yasutoyo Kawashima
  • Patent number: 7847042
    Abstract: The invention discloses a metallocene catalysed slurry polymerisation process of ethylene in the presence of a low concentration of scavenger. This allows improving the anti-sheeting of the reactor during the polymerisation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Total Petrochemicals Research Feluy
    Inventors: Olivier Miserque, Martine Slawinski, Daniel Siraux, Alain Brusselle
  • Publication number: 20100240847
    Abstract: This invention relates to the oligomerisation of olefinic compounds in the presence of an oligomerisation catalyst activated in two stages by two catalyst activators According to the invention there is provided a process for activating an oligomerisation catalyst by contacting the catalyst with i) a first activator component selected from the group consisting of the aluminoxanes and a mixture of at least one aluminoxane and at least one organylaluminium compound, and ii) a second activator component which is an organylaluminium compound, the process being characterised therein that the oligomerisation catalyst is first contacted with one of the first activator component or second activator component, and the resulting mixture is thereafter contacted with the other of the first activator component or second activator component
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventors: John Thomas Dixon, David Hedley Morgan, Hulisani Maumela, Palesa Nongodlwana
  • Publication number: 20100190944
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst system, to a method of manufacturing this system, and also to uses of this system. The catalyst system of the invention is characterized in that it comprises molecules of a polymer having, at one of its ends or along the chain, one or more polar functional groups; a solvent, said solvent, due to the fact of said polar functional group of said polymer, provoking and maintaining, when said molecules of the polymer are introduced thereinto, an organization of said molecules of the polymer into aggregates, micelles or vesicles so that the polar functional groups of said polymer are located inside the aggregates, micelles or vesicles formed; and a catalyst activator and a catalyst trapped in said aggregates, micelles or vesicles of said polymer. The catalyst system of the present invention may be used, for example, for catalyzing a (co)polymerization of olefins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: Centre National De La Rescherche Scientifique - CN RS
    Inventors: Henri Cramail, Cécile Bouilhac, Eric Cloutet, Daniel Taton, Alain Deffieux
  • Patent number: 7741407
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to golf balls having at least one layer which comprises a polymer produced by a process wherein one or more monomers are contacted with a composition comprising the admixture or reaction product resulting from combining (A) a first olefin polymerization catalyst, (B) a second olefin polymerization catalyst capable of preparing polymers differing in chemical or physical properties from the polymer prepared by the first olefin polymerization catalyst under equivalent polymerization conditions, and (C) a chain shuttling agent. Golf balls of the present invention include one-piece, two-piece, and multi-layer golf balls. In two-piece and multi-layer golf balls of the present invention, the polymer may be present in a core layer, a cover layer, an intermediate layer (in the case of multi-layer balls), or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Brian Comeau, David A. Bulpett, Kevin M. Harris, Murali Rajagopalan
  • Publication number: 20100144991
    Abstract: An electron donor composition comprising a dihydroanthracene derivative and a phthalate ester. Furthermore, a solid catalyst composition comprising the electron donor composition for use in ?-olefin polymerisation. Further, a process for the production of a polymer containing ?-olefin monomer units with the electron donor composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: SÜD-CHEMIE AG
    Inventors: BOCHAO ZHU, Xutao Zhao, Junji Jia, Meinolf Kersting, Christian Gueckel, Chen Wei, Eric Fang
  • Publication number: 20100129579
    Abstract: Pipe articles and methods of forming the same are described herein. The pipe articles generally include a bimodal polyethylene including a greater amount of high molecular weight fraction than low molecular weight fraction and wherein the pipe article exhibits a critical temperature of less than about 0° C. at 5 bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Fina Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: John Ashbaugh, Brian Cole, Gerhard Guenther
  • Patent number: 7709586
    Abstract: An olefin polymerization catalyst which includes an organometallic compound of the following Formula 1; aluminoxane; and an organic transition metal compound of the following Formula 2: M1R11R2mR3n or R2mR3nM1R11M1R2mR3n??[Formula 1 ] in Formula 1, M1 is selected from the group consisting of Group 2A, 2B and 3A of the Periodic Table, R1 is cyclic hydrocarbyl group of 5 to 30 carbon atoms, R2 and R3 are independently hydrocarbyl group of 1 to 24 carbon atoms, l is an integer of more than 1, m and n are independently an integer of 0 to 2, l+m+n is equal to the valence of M1, Q is a divalent group; M2R4pXq??[Formula 2 ] in Formula 2, M2 is Ti, Zr or Hf; R4 is cyclic hydrocarbyl group of 5 to 30 carbon atoms, X is halogen atom, p is an integer of 0 or 1, q is an integer of 3 or 4, p+q is equal to the valence of metal M2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Daelim Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sah-Mun Hong, Sung-Woo Kang, Young-Jae Jun, Jin-Sook Oh
  • Publication number: 20100076166
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel cyclic olefin compound, a polymer including the cyclic olefin compound, a liquid crystal alignment film including the polymer, and a liquid crystal display device including the liquid crystal alignment film. Since the polymer includes the cyclic olefin compound as a main chain, the thermal stability is excellent and the photoreactive speed is high. Accordingly, the production time can be reduced, the production cost can be reduced, and the anchoring force of the liquid crystal can be increased because the alignment property is stabilized due to the curing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Heon Kim, Sung-Ho Chun, Hee-Jin Lee, Dmitry Kravchuk, Kyung-Jun Kim, Sang-Kook Kim, Sung-Joon Oh, Hye-Ran Seong, Byung-Hyun Lee, Hye-won Jeong, Jung-Ho Jo, Yun-Jeong Lee, Dong-Hyun Oh
  • Publication number: 20100048843
    Abstract: This invention relates to the field of olefin polymerization catalyst compositions, and methods for the polymerization and copolymerization of olefins, including polymerization methods using a supported catalyst composition. In one aspect, the present invention encompasses a catalyst composition comprising the contact product of a first metallocene compound, a second metallocene compound, at least one chemically-treated solid oxide, and at least one organoaluminum compound. The new resins were characterized by useful properties in impact, tear, adhesion, sealing, extruder motor loads and pressures at comparable melt index values, and neck-in and draw-down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICALCOMPANY LP
    Inventors: Michael D. Jensen, Max P. McDaniel, Joel L. Martin, Elizabeth A. Benham, Randy Muninger, Gary Jerdee, Ashish M. Sukhadia, Qing Yang, Matthew G. Thorn