5- Or 6-membered Nitrogen Ring Compound Having At Least One Oxygen In The Ring Patents (Class 526/260)
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Patent number: 6512065Abstract: The present invention is directed to copolymers of norbornene and functional group containing norbornene comonomers and processes for the preparation thereof. These polymers may be random, alternating or block copolymers or terpolymers, etc.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2002Date of Patent: January 28, 2003Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Gino Georges Lavoie, Peter Borden Mackenzie
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Patent number: 6512070Abstract: Multifunctional electroactive copolymers are provided. The copolymers may be A-B-A triblock copolymers, brush-type graft copolymers, or variations thereof. In a preferred embodiment, the copolymers are “dual use” in that they comprise both a light emitting segment and a charge transport segment. Methods of synthesizing the novel electroactive copolymers are provided as well, as are opto-electronic devices, particularly LEDs, fabricated with the novel copolymers.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2001Date of Patent: January 28, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Craig Jon Hawker, Gerrit Klaerner, Jeong-Ik Lee, Victor Yee-Way Lee, Robert Dennis Miller, John Campbell Scott
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Publication number: 20030017404Abstract: A chemical amplification photoresist monomer, a photoresist polymer prepared thereof, and a photoresist composition using the polymer. More specifically, a chemical amplification photoresist polymer comprising a fluorine-containing monomer represented by Chemical Formula 1, and a composition comprising the polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2002Publication date: January 23, 2003Inventors: Jae Chang Jung, Geun Su Lee, Ki Soo Shin
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Publication number: 20030008991Abstract: Optical devices fabricated from solvent processible polymers suffer from susceptibility to solvents and morphological changes. A semiconductive polymer capable of luminescence in an optical device is provided. The polymer comprises a luminescent film-forming solvent processible polymer which contains cross-linking so as to increase its molar mass and to resist solvent dissolution, the cross-linking being such that the polymer retains semiconductive and luminescent properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2000Publication date: January 9, 2003Inventors: Andrew Bruce Holmes, Xiao-Chang Li, Stephen Carl Moratti, Kenneth Andrew Murray, Richard Henry Friend
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Publication number: 20020198346Abstract: The present invention relates to vinyl-phenyl monomers and polymers prepared therefrom. More particularly, the present invention is to provide the vinyl-phenyl monomers expressed by formula (1) which are capable of various polymerization such as radical polymerization, cation polymerization, anion polymerization and metallocene catalyzed polymerization due to resonance effect of phenyl group and changing characteristics variously and thus, suitable in the synthesis of general-purpose polymers which can be used in photo-functional materials by forming a complex with a metal component having an optical characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2001Publication date: December 26, 2002Applicant: KWANGJU INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jae-Suk Lee, Jun-Hwan Ahn, Young-Sun Cho, Nam-Goo Kang, Hye-Kyong Lee
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Patent number: 6492478Abstract: The invention relates to novel crosslinkable prepolymers comprising structural units of the formula wherein the variables are as defined in the claims, to crosslinked polymers, to either homo-polymers or copolymers prepared from those novel prepolymers, to mouldings produced from the said homo- or co-polymers, and especially to contact lenses produced from those homo- or co-polymers.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1999Date of Patent: December 10, 2002Assignee: Novartis AGInventor: Bettina Steinmann
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Publication number: 20020173608Abstract: A vinylpyrrolidone polymer which is little colored, gives off a bad smell little, and contains extremely little impurities is provided. The polymerization is performed by adding a water-soluble organic peroxide and a sulfite to a vinylpyrrolidone aqueous solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2001Publication date: November 21, 2002Inventors: Akira Kitada, Keiichi Fujise, Itsuko Hamaguchi
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Patent number: 6479606Abstract: The present invention relates to polymerizable compositions for the manufacture of optical lenses with a high refractive index and a high Abbe number, and optical lenses comprising these compositions.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1999Date of Patent: November 12, 2002Assignee: Essilor International Compagnie Generale d'OptiqueInventors: Peiqi Jiang, Gilles Widawski, Gilbert Menduni
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Patent number: 6472491Abstract: There is desribed a novel process for preparing interpolymers comprising ethylene and at least two monomer units selected from heteroatom substituted olefin monomer units derived from a compound of the formula XV wherein E and G represent the same or different heteroatoms selected from oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur, which are bound to a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbyl group, or a substituted hydrocarbyl group, or are joined by a linking group; and n is 0 or an integer from 1-20; or 2,3-dihydrofuran, or vinylcyclopropane, and interpolymers prepared thereby, including novel interpolymers having melting peak temperatures (Tm) equal to or greater than 50° C.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2000Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Jose Pedro Martinez, Jeffrey James Vanderbilt
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Patent number: 6465592Abstract: A vinylpyrrolidone polymer which is little colored, gives off a bad smell little, and contains extremely little impurities is provided. The polymerization is performed by adding a water-soluble organic peroxide and a sulfite to a vinylpyrrolidone aqueous solution.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2001Date of Patent: October 15, 2002Assignee: Dai-Ichi Kogyo Seiyaku Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Kitada, Keiichi Fujise, Itsuko Hamaguchi
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Patent number: 6458908Abstract: A sulfur-containing unsaturated carboxylate compound comprising a sulfur-containing substituent and at least two &agr;,&bgr;-unsaturated carboxylic acid residues, which are each attached to a secondary or tertiary carbon atom via an oxygen atom; a polymerizable composition comprising the sulfur-containing unsaturated carboxylate compound; a cured product prepared by polymerizing the polymerizable composition; an optical component consisting of the cured product; and novel intermediate compounds for preparation of the above carboxylate.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: October 1, 2002Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Masao Imai, Kenichi Sugimoto, Kenichi Fujii, Atsuo Otsuji, Tadashi Ohkuma, Masatoshi Takagi, Rihoko Suzuki, Keisuke Takuma
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Patent number: 6451951Abstract: The present invention relates to an oligomer with a semi-telechelic nitrogen-functionality and at least one ethylenic unsaturation pendant to the backbone of the oligomer. In addition, a process is provided to prepare the semi-telechelic nitrogen-functional oligomer. The semi-telechelic nitrogen-functional oligomer is useful as a dispersant for pigments in radiation curable formulations.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2001Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Assignee: Rohm and Haas CompanyInventors: Ronald Scott Beckley, Barry Clifford Lange, David William Whitman, Jo Ann Arceneaux, Michael Christopher Kramer, Peter Thomas Weissman
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Patent number: 6451458Abstract: An electroluminescent cell which exhibits a high luminous efficiency and excellent durability is provided. The electroluminescent material comprises a unit (AB) which is formed by alternate copolymerization of hole transfer monomers and electron transfer monomers, and a unit (A) which is formed by the polymerization of hole transfer monomers, wherein the molar ratio of the total of the structural units originating from the hole transfer monomers and the structural units originating from the electron transfer monomers in the unit (AB) and the structural units originating from the hole transfer monomers in the unit (A) is from 50:50 to 5:95. The electroluminescent cell has an anode layer 2, an electroluminescent material layer 3 made from the electroluminescent material, an electron transfer luminous layer 4, and a cathode layer 5.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 1999Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Assignees: JSR Corporation, International Center for Materials Research, TECO Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuhiko Sakakibara, Yasumasa Takeuchi, Ding-kuo Ding
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Publication number: 20020120084Abstract: The present invention is directed toward the surface treatment of silicone medical devices such as contact lenses and medical implants. In particular, the present invention is directed to a method of modifying the surface of a medical device to increase its biocompatibility or hydrophilicity by coating the device with a hydrophilic polymer by means of reaction between reactive functionalities on the hydrophilic polymer which functionalities are complementary to reactive functionalities on or near the surface of the medical device. The present invention is also directed to a contact lens or other medical device having such a surface coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2001Publication date: August 29, 2002Inventors: Paul L. Valint, Joseph A. McGee, Joseph C. Salamone, Richard M. Ozark
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Patent number: 6433115Abstract: Multifunctional electroactive copolymers are provided. The copolymers may be A-B-A triblock copolymers, brush-type graft copolymers, or variations thereof. In a preferred embodiment, the copolymers are “dual use” in that they comprise both a light emitting segment and a charge transport segment. Methods of synthesizing the novel electroactive copolymers are provided as well, as are opto-electronic devices, particularly LEDs, fabricated with the novel copolymers.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2001Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Craig Jon Hawker, Gerrit Klaerner, Jeong-Ik Lee, Victor Yee-Way Lee, Robert Dennis Miller, John Campbell Scott
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Patent number: 6433116Abstract: A novel polymer having the moiety: wherein R is an alkyl group containing 1-5 carbon atoms or an aryl, substituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl, alkyl-aryl, alkylether-aryl or O; R1 and R2 are hydrogen or a methyl group; X is O, NH, NR′ wherein R′ is an alkyl group containing 1-5 carbon atoms, or O—R″ or NR″ wherein O—R″ is O-alkyl-O or O-alkyl, NR″ is O-alkyl-ONH, wherein each instance alkyl contains 1-5 carbon atoms and n is 0 or 1. The compound of this invention is useful as a monomer which can be polymerized and/or copolymerized by catonic polymerization. Polymers and copolymers produced in this invention can be crosslinked and are useful in coatings, inks, overprint varnishes, and surface treatment applications.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2001Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: S. C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.Inventors: Bill M. Culbertson, David L. Trumbo
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Publication number: 20020099157Abstract: The invention concerns a monomer of general formula A—(Q—S)p wherein: A=an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring; Q=a carbonaceous or siliceous divalent radical, respectively corresponding to general formulae: (CR1R2)n wherein: R1, R2=H, alkyl, alkenyl comprising between 1 to 4 carbon atoms and n ranges between 4 and 24; and [O—Si(R1R2)]n wherein R1, R2=H, alkyl, alkenyl comprising between 1 and 4 carbon atoms and n ranges between 3 and 24; S=a solvating segment consisting of at least an aliphatic chain comprising at least a polar heteroatom. 1≦p≦6. The invention also concerns the polymer (homopolymer or copolymer) incorporating said monomer, and their use in organic electroluminescent devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2002Publication date: July 25, 2002Applicant: University Joseph FourierInventors: Olivier Stephan, Michel Armand, Jean-Claude Vial
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Patent number: 6417244Abstract: Metal oxide and metal oxide-silica nanoparticles are disclosed wherein the surfaces thereof are complexed with a polymerizable, biocompatible, heterocyclic base. Polymerizable compositions are prepared by loading such nanoparticles into acrylate based monomer matrices, which compositions can then be photocured into X-ray opaque, transparent or translucent solids. Methods are disclosed for forming such complexed nanoparticles and compositions and for using such compositions as medical or dental restoratives.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2000Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignees: Southwest Research Institute, Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: Stephen T. Wellinghoff, Hong Dixon, Henry R. Rawls, Barry K. Norling
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Patent number: 6403239Abstract: This invention relates to (co)polymers which contain at least one repeat chain unit of the general formula (1) or (2) and optionally contain repeat units of the general formula (3) in which L1 and L2 mean a photoluminescent residue, wherein the proportion of structural units of the formulae (1) and/or (2) is in each case 0.5 to 100 mol. %, and (3) 0 to 99.5 mol. %, and the molar percentages add up to 100, to the use thereof for the production of electroluminescent devices and to the electroluminescent devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2001Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Assignee: Bayer AGInventors: Yun Chen, Rolf Wehrmann, Andreas Elschner, Ralf Dujardin
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Patent number: 6403224Abstract: The present invention relates to a coated film comprising: a polyester film, a coating layer on said polyester film formed by applying a coating solution containing a polymer (A) on the surface of said polyester film, wherein said polymer (A) comprises a copolymer containing a monomer having oxazoline groups, (meth)acrylonitrile, and styrene, then drying and stretching the film, and a overcoat layer on said coating layer formed by applying an aqueous coating solution.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2000Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Assignee: Mitsubishi Polyester Film CorporationInventors: Nariaki Okajima, Yoshio Shimizu
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Patent number: 6395851Abstract: The present invention is directed to copolymers of norbornene and functional group containing norbornene comonomers and processes for the preparation thereof. These polymers may be random, alternating or block copolymers or terpolymers, etc.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2000Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Gino Georges Lavoie, Peter Borden Mackenzie
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Patent number: 6380431Abstract: Fluorescent monomers are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1999Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: Nalco Chemical CompanyInventors: Wesley L. Whipple, Patrick G. Murray
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Patent number: 6376631Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for making polymers from at least one tertiary amino-containing monomer and at least one vinyl-functional monomer, while controlling residual monomers and avoiding production of Michael addition adducts. The process employs one or more of the following steps to avoid such adducts, maintaining at least one tertiary amino-containing monomer and at least one vinyl-functional monomer separate until the polymerization reaction, maintaining the at least one tertiary amino-containing monomer and at least one vinyl-functional monomer free of water until the polymerization reaction, and employing high temperatures for the polymerization reaction. The polymers are useful in personal care products, fabric detergent, hand dishwashing detergent, oil well treating chemicals, fire-fighting foam, agricultural chemicals, flocculants, coagulants, and household cleaners.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2000Date of Patent: April 23, 2002Assignee: Rhodia, Inc.Inventors: Dominic Wai Kwing Yeung, Leo Zhaoqing Liu, Richard E. Rice
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Publication number: 20020045719Abstract: Multifunctional electroactive copolymers are provided. The copolymers may be A-B-A triblock copolymers, brush-type graft copolymers, or variations thereof. In a preferred embodiment, the copolymers are “dual use” in that they comprise both a light emitting segment and a charge transport segment. Methods of synthesizing the novel electroactive copolymers are provided as well, as are opto-electronic devices, particularly LEDs, fabricated with the novel copolymers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2001Publication date: April 18, 2002Inventors: Craig Jon Hawker, Gerrit Klaerner, Jeong-Ik Lee, Victor Yee-Way Lee, Robert Dennis Miller, John Campbell Scott
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Publication number: 20020032293Abstract: A polyacrylate ester, and more particularly a polymethacrylate ester based dispersant-viscosity improver for lubricating oil compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2001Publication date: March 14, 2002Inventors: Charles P. Bryant, Bryan A. Grisso, Robert Cantiani
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Patent number: 6355756Abstract: Multifunctional electroactive copolymers are provided. The copolymers may be A-B-A triblock copolymers, brush-type graft copolymers, or variations thereof. In a preferred embodiment, the copolymers are “dual use” in that they comprise both a light emitting segment and a charge transport segment. Methods of synthesizing the novel electroactive copolymers are provided as well, as are opto-electronic devices, particularly LEDs, fabricated with the novel copolymers.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1999Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Craig Jon Hawker, Gerrit Klaerner, Jeong-Ik Lee, Victor Yee-Way Lee, Robert Dennis Miller, John Campbell Scott
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Patent number: 6353068Abstract: Polyacrylates having an average molecular weight of from about 1000 to about 10,000 and the general formula where R4 is the radical of a known chain regulator or initiator, R1 is identical or different and is an alkyl radical, preferably of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R2 is identical or different and is a saturated or unsaturated alkyl radical of 12 to 22 carbon atoms, R3 is a hydrocarbon radical which carries at least one (meth)acryloxy group, a is from 10 to 50, b is from 3 to 20, c is from 0 to 10, and the ratio a:b+c is from 0.25 to 4 and the ratio b:c is from 1:0 to 1:0.7 as degassing agents for paints and coatings.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1999Date of Patent: March 5, 2002Assignee: Th. Goldschmidt AGInventors: Thomas Dietz, Eberhard Esselborn, Christian Psiorz, Ute Schick, Stefan Silber, Ellen Reuter, Dirk Wolfgram
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Patent number: 6350837Abstract: The present invention is directed to copolymers of norbornene and functional group containing norbornene comonomers and processes for the preparation thereof. These polymers may be random, alternating or block copolymers or terpolymers, etc. In general, the present invention describes a polymer composition of the formula: [A]S— and —[B]T wherein A is monomer repeat unit derived from one or more norbornene or substituted norbornene monomers and B is a monomer repeat unit derived from one or more functionalized norbornene compounds.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2000Date of Patent: February 26, 2002Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Christopher Moore Killian, Peter Borden Mackenzie, John Anthony Hyatt, Leslie Shane Moody, Gino Georges Lavoie
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Patent number: 6348267Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating film comprising: a polyester film and at least one coating layer formed by coating a coating solution containing a polyer (A) comprising a copolymer of oxazoline group-containing monomer, (meth)acrylonitrile and styrene, having an equivalent weight of oxazoline group of less than 300 g/equivalent, and drying and stretching thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1999Date of Patent: February 19, 2002Assignee: Sharp Kabuhsiki KaishaInventor: Nariaki Okajima
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Publication number: 20020004570Abstract: Disclosed are polymers containing polymerized units one or more cyclic olefin monomers having one or more pendant cyclic electron withdrawing groups, methods of preparing such polymers, photoresist compositions including such polymers as resin binders and methods of forming relief images using photoresist compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2001Publication date: January 10, 2002Applicant: Shipley Company, L.L.C.Inventors: Anthony Zampini, George G. Barclay
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Patent number: 6329482Abstract: The object of the present invention is a radically polymerisable composition comprising a mixture of at least: one or more (meth)acrylate difunctional monomer(s) of type (a): of formula (A) and/or of formula (A′); and one or more alkenic difunctional monomers of type (b): of formula (B) and/or of formula (B′) and/or of formula (B″). The invention also relates to the resins obtained by polymerization of the compositions and the ophthalmic articles constituted, wholly or in part, of the resins, and the articles may optionally have photochromic properties.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2000Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Assignee: Corning, S.A.Inventor: David Henry
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Patent number: 6323295Abstract: Composition comprising (a) catalytic amounts of a one-component catalyst for metathesis polymerization and (b) at least one polymer with strained cycloalkenylene radicals bonded to the polymer backbone via a divalent bridge group, alone or as a mixture with strained cycloolefins. The composition can be polymerized thermally or photochemically by metathesis polymerization and is suitable for the production of shaped articles, coatings and relief images. The polymers (b) are likewise claimed.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1997Date of Patent: November 27, 2001Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Andreas Mühlebach, Andreas Hafner, Paul Adriaan Van Der Schaaf
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Patent number: 6294628Abstract: A polyacrylate ester, and more particularly a polymethacrylate ester based dispersant-viscosity improver for lubricating oil compositions. Specifically, the dispersant viscosity improvers of this invention are nitrogen-containing copolymers comprising units derived from (A) from about 5% to about 75% by weight of alkyl acrylate ester monomers containing from 1 to 11 carbon atoms in the alkyl group; (B) from about 25% to about 95% by weight of alkyl acrylate ester monomers containing from 12 to about 24 carbon atoms in the alkyl group; and (C) from about 0.1% to about 20% by weight of at least one nitrogen containing monomer selected from the group consisting of vinyl substituted nitrogen heterocyclic monomers, N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl acrylate monomers, N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl acrylamide monomers and tertiary-alkyl acrylamides, provided that the total equals 100%. Processes for preparing the compositions, additive concentrates and lubricating oil compositions are described.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1999Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventors: Charles P. Bryant, Bryan A. Grisso, Robert Cantiani
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Patent number: 6294615Abstract: A copolymer which can provide an aqueous solution thereof having high viscosity, a cationic high molecular weight flocculating agent comprising the copolymer and a process for producing the copolymer. The copolymer is formed by a process where copolymer units necessary to form the copolymer are reacted with a polyamine in the presence of ammonium chloride and/or a hydrochloride of an amine. The copolymer has units represented by the following formulae (1) and (2) where substituents are defined in the specification: The copolymer has a Brookfield viscosity as a 1 wt % aqueous solution thereof of 10 to 10,000 centipoise.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1998Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: Tosch CorporationInventors: Toshiya Higashino, Hiroshi Inoue
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Patent number: 6281307Abstract: Composition comprising (a) catalytic amounts of a one-component catalyst for metathesis polymerization and (b) at least one polymer with strained cycloalkenylene radicals bonded in the polymer backbone, alone or as a mixture with strained cycloolefins. The composition can be polymerized thermally or photochemically by metathesis polymerization and is suitable for the production of shaped articles, coatings and relief images. The catalyst is selected from Ruthenium and Osmium compounds.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 1997Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Andreas Mühlebach, Andreas Hafner, Paul Adriaan Van Der Schaaf
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Patent number: 6248457Abstract: This invention relates to (co)polymers which contain at least one repeat chain unit of the general formula (1) or (2) and optionally contain repeat units of the general formula (3) in which L1 and L2 mean a photoluminescent residue, wherein the proportion of structural units of the formulae (1) and/or (2) is in each case 0.5 to 100 mol. %, and (3) 0 to 99.5 mol. %, and the molar percentages add up to 100, to the use thereof for the production of electroluminescent devices and to the electroluminescent devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1996Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Bayer AGInventors: Yun Chen, Rolf Wehrmann, Andreas Elschner, Ralf Dujardin
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Patent number: 6210859Abstract: This invention relates to a copolymer for the manufacture of chemical amplified photoresist and a chemical amplified positive photoresist composition comprising a copolymer for the manufacture of chemical amplified photoresist as a base resin, as represented by the following formula 1, an acid generator and additive, Wherein, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; R5, R6, R7 and R8 are a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group of C1-8, an alkoxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group or a halogen atom; h and i are independently an integer of 0-8; k, l, m and n represent an integer of element units provided that 0.3<k/(k+l+m+n)<0.9, 0≦l/(k+l+m+n)<0.6, 0≦m/(k+l+m+n)<0.6, and 0.01<n/(k+l+m+n)<0.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Korea Kumho Petrochemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun Pyo Jeon, Seong Ju Kim, Joo Hyeon Park, Jong Bum Lee
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Patent number: 6172129Abstract: (Meth)acrylate functional compound which is the reaction product of a cyclic secondary amine and a poly(meth)acrylate having at least three acrylate or methacrylate groups, useful for radiation curable coating or ink composition having low viscosity, low volatility, and high cure rate under radiation. Process of preparing a coating or ink composition using such compound. Radiation cured coating or ink based on such composition. Coated or printed article having such a cured coating or ink based on such composition.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1999Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Assignee: Sartomer Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ming Xin Fan, Gary Ceska, James P. Horgan, Henry C. Miller, Edward A. Jurczak
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Patent number: 6139767Abstract: A carboxylic acid polymer containing a carboxylic group and having at least one kind of bond selected from the group consisting of an amino bond, an ether bond, and a thioether bond in a side chain is prepared by polymerizing a monomer component containing a carboxylic acid monomer represented by General Formula (3): ##STR1## where Y.sub.4 is a hydrogen atom, an allyl group, or a --(CHR.sub.4).sub.c --W.sub.2 --(CHR.sub.5).sub.d --COOR.sub.6 group, each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6, independent of the others, is either a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group of a carbon number from 1 to 6, each of W.sub.1 and W.sub.2, independent of the other, is either an --NH-- group, an --S-- group, or an --O-- group, and each of a, b, c, and d, independent of the others, is an integer from 0 to 6. The carboxylic acid polymer has a superior metal-scavenging ability (chelating ability) and can be suitably used, for example, as a chelating agent.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1998Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Hirano, Hisakazu Shindo, Hirokazu Ito
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Patent number: 6136935Abstract: This invention discloses a composition and a method of using the composition to cement a borehole penetrating a subsurface earth formation. The composition, the random polymerization product of two or three different vinyl-containing monomers including a vinylamide morpholine derivative, operates to reduce fluid loss from the cement slurry used to cement the borehole to the subsurface formation.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1999Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignee: Fritz Industries, Inc.Inventors: Rebecca G. Udarbe, Kim Hancock-Grossi
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Patent number: 6124046Abstract: An organic electroluminescent (EL) polymer for a light emitting diode in accordance with the present invention is PDPCVz which is prepared by combining a dialkyl substituted phenylene moiety and a carbazole moiety. Another organic EL polymer is PPOPPD which is prepared by combining an oxadiazole moiety and a phenylene moiety. In the present invention, a polymer blend of said PDPCVz and PPDPPO is used for an organic EL polymer. The organic EL polymer according to the present invention is applied to a light emitting layer of a light emitting diode having a cathode/light emitting layer/anode structure, a cathode/buffer layer/light emitting layer/anode structure, or a cathode/hole transporting layer/light emitting layer/electron transporting layer/anode structure. Each of said PDPCVz and PPDPPO can be blended with conventional polymers such as polystyrene, polycarbonate, polyacrylate, polymethylmethacrylate, polyvinylcarbazole, polyimide, liquid crystalline polymer, etc.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1998Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignees: Samsung Display Device Co., Ltd, Cheil Industries Inc.Inventors: Sung-Ho Jin, Woo-Hong Kim, Byung-Hee Son, In-Sung Song, Eun-Mi Han
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Patent number: 6124383Abstract: A composition comprising a polymer which comprises repeat units derived from a first unsaturated amide, a hydroxy acrylate, and at least two monomers selected from the group consisting of (1) a vinyl pyridine or derivative thereof and acrylic acid or salt thereof, (2) a vinyl morpholine and a second unsaturated amide; (3) acrylic acid or salt thereof and a second unsaturated amide; (4) acrylic acid or salt thereof, a vinyl pyridine, and a vinyl morpholine; and combination of two or more thereof wherein said first unsaturated amide is not the same as said second unsaturated amide.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1998Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: Phillips Petroleum CompanyInventors: Michael L. Stephens, Howard F. Efner
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Patent number: 6124415Abstract: What is described herein is a crosslinked polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVPP) copolymer of vinyl pyrrolidone (VP) and monomer derived from 1-vinyl-3-(E)-ethylidene pyrrolidone (EVP).Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1999Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: ISP Investment Inc.Inventors: Edward G. Malawer, Victor Kabanov, Kolazi S. Narayanan, Michael A. Tallon, Susan Y. Tseng, Philip F. Wolf
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Patent number: 6117961Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing a crosslinkable styrene or styrene derivative polymer having narrow molecular weight distribution by radical polymerization of a styrene or styrene derivative monomer and other comonomer, wherein the polymerization is conducted in the presence of a catalyst system composed of a free radical compound and a radical polymerization initiator. With the present process, a heat- or photo-crosslinkable styrene or styrene derivative polymer having excellent rheology controlling ability and excellent reaction efficiency of a functional group can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 1997Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tetsuo Ogawa
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Patent number: 6114463Abstract: The present invention relates to (co)polymers which contain at least one repeating structural chain unit of the general formula (1) and/or (2) and optionally repeating units of the general formula (3) ##STR1## in which L.sup.1 and L.sup.2, independently of each other, represent a photoluminescent grouping, a process for their preparation, their use in electroluminescent devices and the electroluminescent devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1997Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: Bayer AGInventors: Yun Chen, Burkhard Kohler, Rolf Wehrmann, Andreas Elschner, Ralf Dujardin
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Patent number: 6084023Abstract: A coating composition which is capable of crosslinking at ambient and elevated temperatures which includes a polymerized monomer having the formula ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or an alkyl group containing 1-5 carbon atoms, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are hydrogen or a methyl group; --X-- is a bond, --O-- or --NH--; Ar is unsubstituted arylene; n is 0-10 and m is 1 or 2; wherein when X is O or NH, n is at least 1. A process for preparing the composition suspensions is also presented. The coating composition is useful in coatings, inks, overprint, varnish and surface treatment applications.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1999Date of Patent: July 4, 2000Assignee: S. C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.Inventors: Husam A. A. Rasoul, Jody L. Svoboda
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Patent number: 6063885Abstract: A novel compound having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or an alkyl group containing 1-5 carbon atoms, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are hydrogen or a methyl group, X is nonexistent, O or --NH--, Ar is unsubstituted arylene, n is 0-10 and m is 1 or 2, wherein when X is O or --NH--, n is at least 1.The compound of this invention is useful as a monomer which can be polymerized and/or copolymerized by both free radical and cationic polymerization.Polymers and copolymers produced in this invention can be crosslinked and are useful in coatings, inks, overprint, varnish and surface treatment applications.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1998Date of Patent: May 16, 2000Assignee: S. C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.Inventors: Bill M. Culbertson, Husam A. A. Rasoul
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Patent number: 6008306Abstract: Composition of (a) at least one strained cycloolefin and (b) a catalytic quantity of at least one divalent-cationic compound of ruthenium or osmium with a metal atom, to which are bound 1 to 3 tertiary phosphine ligands with, in the case of the ruthenium compounds, sterically exacting substituents, optionally non-photolabile neutral ligands and anions for charge balancing, with the proviso that in ruthenium (trisphenylphosphine)dihalides or hydride-halides the phenyl groups are substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 haloalkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkoxy. The composition is suitable for the production of molded parts of all kinds and of coatings.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1997Date of Patent: December 28, 1999Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Andreas Hafner, Paul Adriaan Van Der Schaaf, Andreas Muhlebach
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Patent number: 5986030Abstract: A cationic water-soluble polymer comprising from 0.001 to 10 mole percent of a repeating mer unit represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein a is an integer of from 1 to 10, R.sub.1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and methyl groups, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are methyl groups, fluor is a fluorescing moiety and X is selected from the group consisting of chloride, iodide and bromide ions and wherein the polymer also contains from 90 to 99.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1997Date of Patent: November 16, 1999Assignee: Nalco Chemical CompanyInventors: Patrick G. Murray, Wesley L. Whipple
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Patent number: 5973093Abstract: Describes polymerizable organic compositions of a major amount of a first monomer component which is a polyol(allyl carbonate), e.g., diethylene glycol bis(allyl carbonate), and from about 2 to 35 weight percent of a second monomer component which is an alkoxylated bisphenol (or hydrogenated bisphenol) having acrylate or methacrylate groups, e.g., dimethacrylate of bisphenol A having 25 to 35 ethoxy units. Substantially completely cured polymerizates prepared from such compositions may be used to prepare photochromic articles, e.g., lenses, by incorporating a photochromic substance, e.g., by thermal transfer, into the polymerizate.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 1996Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Randy E. Daughenbaugh, Robert D. Herold, Charles R. Wiedrich, John C. Crano