Nitrogen Of Ring Is Bonded Directly Or Indirectly To Extracyclic Ethylenic Moiety Patents (Class 526/263)
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Publication number: 20090105419Abstract: Disclosed is a water-based resin composition containing a copolymer (A) which is obtained by carrying out emulsion polymerization of an unsaturated monomer composed of 0.5 to 50 parts by mass of a specific ethylenically unsaturated monomer (a) having a piperidyl group in a molecule and 50 to 99.5 parts by mass of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer (b), which does not substantially contain an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having a specific functional group in a molecule, with the total of the ethylenically unsaturated monomers (a) and (b) being 100 parts by mass, under the coexistence of 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of an emulsifier. Also disclosed are a weather resistance improver for water-based paints using the foregoing water-based resin composition, a weather resistance improver for thermoplastic resins, and a weather resistance improver for solvent-based paints.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2006Publication date: April 23, 2009Inventors: Takahiro Mukuda, Masaaki Kiura, Motomi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20090099655Abstract: The invention relates to a hydrogel polymer produced by polymerising an acrylic acid ester with an N vinylpyrrolidene and wherein less than 100% copolymer ester groups are saponified in such a way that free carboxyl groups are formed. The hydrogel polymer makes it possible to produce reliable long-lasting implants which are used, in particular, for increasing breasts or filling cutaneous wrinkles, are adaptable to each application and have a sufficiently high swelling coefficient.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2005Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventor: Michael Kircheisen
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Publication number: 20090074958Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymeric nanocomposition of matter comprising a plurality of organic quantum dots. The composition includes at least one functionalized polymer chain template and a plurality of size-tunable organic quantum dots self-assembled onto the functionalized polymer chain template. The self-assembled organic quantum dots may be nanometer-scale molecular aggregates with size tunable by the functionalized polymer chain template. The polymer nanocomposite may be coated onto the surface of Ag or Au nanoparticles to achieve surface enhanced properties, such as, surface enhanced Raman effect. One embodiment of the polymer nanocomposites has shown unusual physicochemical property, which is especially suitable for use in optical devices including optical fibers, waveguides, Raman amplifiers, splitters, multiplexers, demultiplexers, attenuators, modulators, switches, and combination of such structures.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Inventor: Dequan Xiao
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Publication number: 20090060859Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of imidazolium alkyl(meth)acrylate homo- and copolymers in cosmetic preparations and to the corresponding cosmetic preparations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Ivette Garcia Castro, Yvonne Dieckmann, Ingrid Haupt
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Publication number: 20090047233Abstract: Polymers and compositions utilizing such polymers are disclosed for treating hyperphosphatemia and other illnesses associated with elevated serum phosphate levels. Phosphate binding polymers, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the polymers, comprise pendent groups extending from a backbone of the polymer. Each pendent group comprises at least two nitrogen-bearing functional groups which bind phosphate. Variations of such polymer and compositions are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2006Publication date: February 19, 2009Inventors: Chad C. Huval, Stephen Randall Holmes-Farley, Pradeep K. Dhal
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Publication number: 20090043051Abstract: Vinylamine-containing polymers are disclosed where the amine groups are substituted with (1) cationic functional groups, (2) anionic functional groups, (3) hydrophobic functional groups, (4) hydrophilic functional groups, (5) functional groups that impart amphoteric characteristics to the polymers, or (6) combinations thereof. Also disclosed are processes for preparing such polymers, as well as compositions comprising such polymers. Among other applications, these polymers can be used in papermaking applications as dry strength additives, wet strength additives, retention aids, drainage aids, and pitch and stickies control agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Inventors: Qu-Ming Gu, Jonathan M. McKay, Richard J. Riehle
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Publication number: 20090043063Abstract: The process of the current invention, named Percino-Chapela, has as one of its main novelty features that starting from pyridinmethanol derivatives, a dimerization or polymerization reaction of pyridinic alcohols is carried out in order to produce novel products, the process of the current invention has the following aspects that characterize it: it is carried out in the absence or presence of some solvent, during the process of the current invention, temperature may be or may be not used as catalyst, in the process of the current invention the reaction may be or may not be catalyzed by the presence of a catalyst (acid or base), the resultant products can be produced and separated in an easy way, in the process of the current invention starting from pyridinic alcohols the resultant ethenediols can be produced by a single step reaction, the pyridinmethanol derivatives used as starting compounds, do not oxidize as easily and their handling is easier than that of other compounds previously used that oxidize easiType: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicants: BENEMERITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE PUEBLAInventors: Maria Judith PERCINO ZACARIAS, Victor Manuel CHAPELA CASTANARES, Berenice HERRERA DE LA LUZ
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Publication number: 20090023876Abstract: Crosslink agents used to copolymerize at least one hydrophilic monomer with at least one lens monomer typically used to prepare polymeric materials for ophthalmic lenses. The crosslink agents have a relatively high selectivity for the hydrophilic monomer and limited reactivity with the crosslink agent used to polymerize the lens monomer. Accordingly, the invention is also directed to a hydrophilic crosslinked polymer that comprises at least two monomeric units and at least two different crosslink units. The use of the dual crosslink system provides an improved means to control the final chemical, physical and structural characteristics of the resulting polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2008Publication date: January 22, 2009Inventors: Ivan M. Nunez, Joseph A. McGee, David E. Seelye
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Publication number: 20090005276Abstract: Lubricating oil compositions having excellent friction stability comprise a base lubricating oil, an oil soluble source of phosphorus and a defined polyalkylene polyamine-based friction modifier that has been reacted with a borating agent to convert at least one secondary amine group into the corresponding boric acid ester or boric acid salt.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: January 1, 2009Inventors: Raymond F. Watts, Joe R. Noles, JR., Keith R. Gorda, Kerry L. Cogen
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Publication number: 20080311415Abstract: The present invention concerns the use, in the surface treatment of waterproofed wood, of an aqueous dispersion comprising at least one latex obtained by emulsion polymerization of a mixture of monomers comprising at least one acrylic monomer B comprising at least one ureido function.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2006Publication date: December 18, 2008Applicant: LAPEYREInventors: Jean-Christophe Castaing, William Bett, Jean-Noel Bousseau
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Patent number: 7456236Abstract: To offer adhesives for percutaneous absorption, adhesive compositions for percutaneous absorption and preparations for percutaneous absorption which show high ability to dissolve drugs and to dissolve absorption promoting agents and enable high percutaneous absorption and have suitable cohesion and adhesion and do not damage the skin when detached. Adhesives for percutaneous absorption which comprise a copolymer in which the constituents are methoxyethyl acrylate 40-60 wt %, lauryl(meth)acrylate 30-40 wt % and a polar monomer 10-25 wt % only.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2004Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: Cosmed Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventor: Minoru Kohara
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Patent number: 7446157Abstract: The present invention relates to novel materials particularly useful for ophthalmic applications and methods for making and using the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to relatively soft, optically transparent, foldable, high refractive index materials particularly suited for use in the production of intraocular lenses, contact lenses, and other ocular implants and to methods for manufacturing and using the same.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2004Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Key Medical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Khalid Mentak, Anthony Keslinke, Kevin Phan
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Publication number: 20080214726Abstract: Copolymers, desirably having a molecular weight of from 500 to 20000, of aminoesters or aminoamides of (meth)acrylic acid and (meth)acrylamides at a molar ratio of from 10:1 to 60:1, particularly from 12:1 to 50:1 and especially about 20:1, can act as gas hydrate inhibitors in water containing hydrocarbon gas streams. Desirably the aminoesters or aminoamides are N-alkyl-amino(esters or amides) in particular of the formula (I): H2C?CR1 C(O)XR2NR3R4 (I) where R1, R2, R3, R4 and X have defined meanings and the (meth)acrylamides are of the formula (II): H2C?CR6C(O)NR7R8 (II) where R6, R7 and R8 have defined meanings. Methods of treating gas water mixtures using the copolymers to inhibit gas hydrate formation are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2005Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: Croda International PlcInventors: David J. Freeman, Derek J. Irvine, Jane Kitching, Stephen C. Rogers
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Publication number: 20080188611Abstract: The present invention provides the use of a particulate polymer material as a support for an active agent, characterised in that said polymer material is a polymer produced by copolymerising an unsaturated heterocyclic monomer and squaric or croconic acid or a derivative thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2005Publication date: August 7, 2008Applicant: COVENTRY UNIVERSITYInventor: Daniel Eric Lynch
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Publication number: 20080182957Abstract: Polymerizable light absorbing azo dyes are disclosed useful as monomers in the formation of devices such as, but not limited to ocular lenses. Specifically, intraocular lenses (IOL) are disclosed wherein one or more of the light absorbing dye is covalently bonded to other structural polymers though ethylene unsaturated groups. The resulting IOLs possess light absorbing properties without significant amounts of free (un-bound) azo dye molecules present in the final structural polymer matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2008Publication date: July 31, 2008Inventors: Jason Clay Pearson, Max Allen Weaver, Jean Caroll Fleischer
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Publication number: 20080177303Abstract: The present disclosure relates to Shape Memory Polymers (SMP's) comprising function groups that allow the polymers to be elastically deformed, utilized in the elastically deformed state, and subsequently returned to the original polymorphic shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2007Publication date: July 24, 2008Inventors: Mitchell L. Anthamatten, Jiahui Li
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Patent number: 7399811Abstract: The present invention relates to novel materials particularly useful for ophthalmic applications and methods for making and using the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to relatively soft, optically transparent, foldable, high refractive index materials particularly suited for use in the production of intraocular lenses, contact lenses, and other ocular implants and to methods for manufacturing and using the same.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2007Date of Patent: July 15, 2008Assignee: Key Medical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Khalid Mentak, Anthony Keslinke, Kevin Phan
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Publication number: 20080154001Abstract: There is provided a vinylpyrrolidone-based copolymer having as essential components N-vinylpyrrolidone and hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate, which gives a favorable crosslinked coating film, and a method for production by which the copolymer is easily obtained. A vinylpyrrolidone-based copolymer of the present invention contains a constitutional unit derived from N-vinylpyrrolidone and a constitutional unit derived from hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate at a specific ratio, in which a K value according to Fikentscher is 12 or more, water insoluble matter is 0.5% by mass (on the basis of solid content) or less, and each content of iron, nickel, chromium, sodium and calcium is 500 ppb (on the basis of mass: the same hereinafter) or less, or electrical conductivity of a 10% by mass-aqueous solution of the vinylpyrrolidone-based copolymer is 35 ?S/cm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventors: Daisuke Imai, Keiko Izumi, Yoshitomo Nakata
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Publication number: 20080138625Abstract: The invention provides compounds of formula I wherein R is H or alkyl; R1, R2, and R4 are independently at each occurrence a C1-C20 aliphatic radical, a C3-C20 aromatic radical, or a C3-C20 cycloaliphatic radical; R3 and R5 are independently at each occurrence hydrogen, a C1-C20 aliphatic radical, a C3-C20 aromatic radical, or a C3-C20 cycloaliphatic radical; and a, b and d are independently 0 or an integer ranging from 1 to 3. The invention further provides polymers derived from compounds of formula I, said polymers may be polyesters, polyethers, polycarbonates, polyestercarbonates, polyetherketones, polyethersulfones, and the like. Compounds and polymers of the invention find use in light emitting devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Qing Ye, Jie Liu
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Publication number: 20080131618Abstract: An ink composition for inkjet-recording, which shows a high sensitivity to irradiation with actinic radiation and is able to form an image with superior curability, permitting the image formed after curing to have sufficient adhesiveness to a recording medium, as well as to have excellent flexibility in the formed image portion, and an inkjet-recording method using the same is provided: wherein the ink composition for inkjet-recording comprises (A) a compound having a polymerizable unsaturated bond and a cyclic amine structure in the molecule, (B) a compound having a polymerizable unsaturated bond and an alicyclic structure in the molecule, and (C) a radical polymerization initiator.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Ippei NAKAMURA, Kaoru TOJO, Yuuichi HAYATA
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Publication number: 20080103248Abstract: The invention concerns the use as a thickening agent, in possibly pigmented aqueous formulations, such as coating formulations such as paints in the aqueous phase such as dispersion paints, varnishes, paper coatings, cosmetic formulations, detergent formulations, textile formulations and drilling muds, of a water-soluble acrylic copolymer consisting of at least one monomer with ethylenic unsaturation and a carboxylic function, at least one non-ionic monomer with ethylenic unsaturation, at least one oxyalkylated monomer with ethylenic unsaturation terminated by a hydrophobic branched and non-aromatic chain with 10 to 24 carbon atoms, and possibly at least one monomer with at least two ethylenic unsaturations. The invention also concerns the possibly pigmented aqueous formulations obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2005Publication date: May 1, 2008Applicant: Coatex S.A.S.Inventors: Jean-Marc Suau, Yves Kensicher, Denis Ruhlmann
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Patent number: 7323532Abstract: The present invention concerns a process for producing low-viscosity polyisocyanates or secondary products thereof, which carry activated, radiation-curable double bonds and can optionally also cure thermally, and low-viscosity polyisocyanate mixtures or secondary products thereof and their use in coating compounds.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2003Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AGInventors: Thomas Fäcke, Jan Weikard, Wolfgang Fischer
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Patent number: 7262250Abstract: The present invention relates to the prevention of scorching before crosslinking of a thermoplastic and/or elastomeric composition with peroxides or azo compounds. This is achieved by using a family of specific nitroxides as additive.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Arkema FranceInventors: Fabien Debaud, Alfredo Defrancisci, Olivier Guerret, Jacques Kervennal
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Patent number: 7235345Abstract: It is disclosed an over-coating agent for forming fine patterns which is applied to cover a substrate having photoresist patterns thereon and allowed to shrink under heat so that the spacing between the adjacent photoresist patterns is lessened, further characterized by containing a water-soluble polymer and a surfactant. Also disclosed is a method of forming fine-line patterns using the over-coating agent. According to the invention, one can obtain fine-line patterns which exhibit good profiles while satisfying the characteristics required of semiconductor devices, being excellent in controlling the dimension of patterns.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2002Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiki Sugeta, Fumitake Kaneko, Toshikazu Tachikawa
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Patent number: 7205362Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for controlled radical polymerization using an organosulfur reversible chain transfer agent which consists in preparing polymers having a molar weight of greater than 100 000 g/mol, with a polydispersity index of less than 1.2 for molar weights of less than 200 000 g/mol and of less than 1.4 for molar weights of greater than 200 000 g/mol, with a degree of conversion of monomer of greater than 75% and a polymerization time of less than 8 h, characterized by the control of the flux of initiator radicals in the polymerization medium. The control of the flux of initiator radicals can be achieved by the use of two appropriate polymerization temperatures T1 and T2 or by use of an initiator having a decomposition rate constant which is greater than that of azobisisobutyronitrile at the same temperature.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2003Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignee: bioMérieuxInventors: Amaud Favier, Marie-Therese Charreyre
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Patent number: 7202300Abstract: A method of preparing a dispersion which includes the step of contacting a first phase, a first material immiscible therewith, a first polymeric material and a second polymeric material wherein: (a) (i) said first polymeric material has a repeat unit of the formula (I), wherein A and B are the same or different, are selected from optionally-substituted aromatic and thereoaromatic groups and at least one comprises a relatively polar atom or group and R1 and R2 independently comprise relatively non-polar atoms or groups; (ii) said first polymeric material is prepared or preparable by providing a compound of general formula (I), wherein A, B, R1 and R2 are as described above, in an aqueous solvent and causing the groups C?C in said compound to react with one another to form said first polymeric material; (b) said second polymeric material includes a functional group which is able to react with said first polymeric material so that covalent bonds are formed between said first and second polymeric materials; (c) tType: GrantFiled: June 2, 2003Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignee: Advanced Gel Technology LimitedInventors: Donald Eagland, Nicholas John Crowther
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Patent number: 7153588Abstract: Naphthalate polyester articles can be coated with polymerizable compositions containing a vinyl-functional crosslinkable film former, a large amount of benzotriazole and a copolymerizable monomer that solubilizes the benzotriazole. The cured compositions help protect the naphthalate polyester from UV exposure and other weathering effects.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2003Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Steven J. McMan, Stephen A. Johnson, Clinton L. Jones, Eric W. Nelson, Emily S. Goenner
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Patent number: 7148296Abstract: A thermoset composition exhibiting reduced water absorption in the cured state includes an olefinically unsaturated monomer and a capped poly(arylene ether) prepared by the reaction of an uncapped poly(arylene ether) with an anhydride capping agent. The capped poly(arylene ether) is isolated and/or purified by methods that reduce the concentrations of polar impurities that contribute to water absorption by the cured composition.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2003Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kenneth Paul Zarnoch, John Robert Campbell, Amy Rene Freshour, Hua Guo, John Austin Rude, Prameela Susarla, Michael Alan Vallance, Gary William Yeager
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Patent number: 7030202Abstract: A thermally processable graft copolymer formed from a water soluble polymer and a water insoluble polymer, wherein the graft copolymer forms a hydrogel upon exposure to water. A method to form such a hydrogel-forming graft copolymer by copolymerizing a water soluble 2-substituted-2-oxazolines with a water insoluble 2-substituted-2-oxazoline. A method to form such a hydrogel-forming graft copolymer by transamidating a poly-2-oxazoline with a carboxylic acid terminated water-insoluble polymer.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2003Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Polymer Chemistry Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Bernard Gordon, III, Jim DiBattista
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Patent number: 6994745Abstract: This invention provides both a pigment dispersing resin which is a copolymer of: (A) polymerizable unsaturated monomer containing at least one kind of ionic functional group selected from the group consisting of tertiary amino group, quaternary ammonium salt and sulfonic acid group; (B) nonionic polymerizable unsaturated monomer having polyoxyalkylene chain; (C) ultraviolet-absorbing polymerizable unsaturated monomer and/or an ultraviolet-stabilizing polymerizable unsaturated monomer; and (D) other ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and water-based pigment dispersion which comprises said pigment dispersing resin, pigment, aqueous medium and, as circumstances may demand, dispersing agent as well.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2002Date of Patent: February 7, 2006Assignee: Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuko Hoshida, Yoshiyuki Yukawa, Isao Kamimori, Akihiko Yamanouchi
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Patent number: 6969750Abstract: The water absorbent material of the present invention is composed of a copolymer of an anhydropolyamino acid having at least one ethylenically unsaturated double bond in a molecule, a water-soluble monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond and polysaccharides, and has high water absorption ratio and high water absorption rate in pure water or water having a low ion content and also has high absorption properties for high concentration salt-containing solutions.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2001Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Hisakazu Tanaka, Toshiya Kato, Shigeki Ideguchi, Hideyuki Ishizu, Yoshiki Hasegawa
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Patent number: 6963001Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there are provided thermosetting resin compositions with a reduced propensity to shrink in volume upon cure and methods of use therefor. The compositions of the present invention include compounds having aromatic, rigid-rod like spacer groups between the crosslinkable moieties. As such, these compounds impart a degree of liquid crystal-like character to the thermosetting resin composition which results in lower shrinkage upon cure. This effect follows from the well-known expansion that occurs when liquid crystal-like materials pass from a nematic liquid crystal-like state to an isotropic state. Further provided by the present invention are low shrinkage die attach pastes and methods of use therefor.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2003Date of Patent: November 8, 2005Assignee: Henkel CorporationInventors: Stephen M. Dershem, Kang Yang, Puwei Liu
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Patent number: 6960636Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there are provided novel thermosetting resin compositions which do not require solvent to provide a system having suitable viscosity for convenient handling. Invention compositions have the benefit of undergoing rapid cure. The resulting thermosets are stable to elevated temperatures, are highly flexible, have low moisture uptake and are consequently useful in a variety of applications, e.g., in adhesive applications since they display good adhesion to both the substrate and the device attached thereto.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2003Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: Henkel CorporationInventors: Stephen M. Dershem, Puwei Liu
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Patent number: 6906158Abstract: This invention provides novel methods for synthesis of narrow polydispersity oxazolone-containing polymers via nitroxide-mediated living free radical polymerization, as well as the products and derivatives thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2004Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: IRM, LLCInventor: David Tully
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Patent number: 6900280Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising: a) an acid monomer or oligomer of acrylic acid or of an acid derivative of acrylic acid or mixtures thereof; or a mixture of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer or oligomer and an acid monomer or oligomer of acrylic acid or of an acid derivative of acrylic acid; b) at least one radical initiator which forms a radical upon heating or upon irradiation with (UV) light in the range from 305 nm to 450 nm; and c) a compound of the formulae (I), (Ib) or (Ic) wherein Y represents a group that activates nucleophilic addition reactions at the adjacent double bond; X represents halogen or the anion of an aliphatic or aromatic monocarboxylic or dicarboxylic acid of 1-12 carbon atoms, of a monovalent or divalent oxo acid or of a complex acid; n represents 0 or 1; R1, R2, R3 independently of one another represent hydrogen, C1-C18alkyl, C3-C18alkyl interrupted by at least one nitrogen or oxygen atom, C3-C18alkenyl, C3-C18alkynyl, C7-C9phenylalkyl, C3-C12 cycloalkyl and C3-Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2002Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: CIBA Specialty Chemicals Corp.Inventor: Peter Murer
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Publication number: 20040234893Abstract: The present invention provides a resin composition that includes (A) a polymer compound that has, on a side chain of a main chain polymer, through a linkage group containing a hydrogen-bonding group and a ring structure, a terminal ethylenic unsaturated bond, and is soluble or swelling in water or an alkali aqueous solution, and (B) a compound that generates radicals when exposed to light or heat. The invention further provides a thermo/photosensitive composition that includes (A′) a polymer compound that has a non-acidic hydrogen-bonding group on a side chain and is soluble or swelling in water or an alkali aqueous solution, and (B′) a compound that generates radicals when exposed to light or heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2003Publication date: November 25, 2004Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiro Fujimaki
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Patent number: 6818716Abstract: Photoiniferters for controlled radical polymerizations and telechelic copolymers comprising polymerized units of one or more free radically (co)polymerizable monomers having a first azalactone terminal group and a second dithiocarbamate terminal group are described.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2004Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Michael S. Wendland, Kevin M. Lewandowski, Duane D. Fansler, Babu N. Gaddam, Steven M. Heilmann
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Patent number: 6809889Abstract: A radiation curable resin composition for a Fresnel lens is provided, which exhibits a high elastic modulus and a high refractive index and is superior in adhesion to the plastic substrate and is superior in transparency. A lens layer exhibits excellent shape retention over a wide temperature range and is less likely to chip and crack due to an external force. A Fresnel lens sheet using the radiation curable resin composition is also provided. The resin composition comprises, as an essential component, an epoxy (meth)acrylate (a) having an epoxy equivalent per weight of 450 g/eq or more, which has a cyclic structure and two or more (meth)acryloyl groups; a specific trifunctional (meth)acrylate (b); a (meth)acrylate (c) having a molecular weight of 700 or less from an aliphatic polyhydric alcohol having an oxypropylene structure; and a monofunctional (meth)acrylate (d) having a cyclic structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2002Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignees: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc., Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Tokuda, Yasunobu Hirota, Yasuhiro Doi
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Patent number: 6806321Abstract: There is provided a process for producing a modified polymer rubber, which comprises the steps of: (1) polymerizing a conjugated diene monomer, or the conjugated diene monomer and an aromatic vinyl monomer in the presence of an alkali metal catalyst in a hydrocarbon solvent to produce an active polymer having an alkali metal at its end(s), and (2) reacting the active polymer with a ketone compound represented by a specific formula to produce a modified polymer rubber.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2003Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Mayumi Oshima, Seiichi Mabe, Katsunari Inagaki
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Patent number: 6803438Abstract: A polymer comprising the unit (I) wherein R is selected form the group consisting of hydrogen, C1-C18 alkyl, C1-C18 aralkyl, C1-C18 alkaryl, carboxylic acid, carboxy-C1-6alkyl, or any one of the C1-C18 alkyl, C1-C18 alkenyl, C1-C18 aralkyl, C1-C18 alkaryl substituted with a heteroatom within, or attached to, the carbon backbone; R1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C1-C6 alkyl groups; X is an acylating agent and wherein the polymer has a polydispersity of less than 1.4, preferably less than 1.2 and a molecular weight (Mw) of less than 100,000, the polymer is preferably made by controlled radical polymerization and is useful in the production of polymer drug conjugates with desirable biological profiles.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2002Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: Polytherics LimitedInventors: Stephen James Brocchini, Antony Godwin
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Patent number: 6800379Abstract: A compound represented by the following general formula (1) and a light-emitting device comprising the compound. In the general formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R2 and R3 independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent and may bond together to form a ring; R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent selected from the group consisting of alkyl groups, alkenyl groups, alkynyl groups, aryl groups, heterocyclic groups, alkylcarbonyl groups, arylcarbonyl groups, alkylsulfonyl groups, arylsulfonyl groups, alkoxycarbonyl groups, aryloxycarbonyl groups, carbamoyl groups and sulfamoyl groups; Z represents an atomic group forming an aromatic ring; A represents a comonomer unit; and k and n each represent a mole fraction, k being 1 to 100 (%), n being 0 to 99 (%), and the sum of k and n is 100 (%).Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2001Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toshiki Taguchi
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Patent number: 6777516Abstract: The present invention provides high density, non-volatile memory devices incorporating polymers comprised of sandwich coordination compounds. Such polymers can have multiple different and distinguishable oxidation states (e.g., ten different and distinguishable oxidation states), and thus provide molecules, information storage media and apparatus that store multiple bits of information. In addition, the polymers can be immobilized or bound to a substrate to produce other useful articles, such as electrochromic displays, molecular capacitors, and batteries.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2002Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: North Carolina State UniversityInventors: Junzhong Li, Dorota Gryko, Jonathan S. Lindsey
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Patent number: 6770219Abstract: An antifoulant composition comprising (meth)acrylic acid and one or more (meth)acrylate or (meth)acrylamide antifoulant polymers and a method of preventing fouling in (meth)acrylic acid processes comprising adding the (meth)acrylate or (meth)acrylamide antifoulant polymers to the (meth)acrylic acid process stream.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2002Date of Patent: August 3, 2004Assignee: Nalco Energy ServicesInventor: David Youdong Tong
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Publication number: 20040131972Abstract: The present invention provides a resin composition that includes (A) a polymer compound that has, on a side chain of a main chain polymer, through a linkage group containing a hydrogen-bonding group and a ring structure, a terminal ethylenic unsaturated bond, and is soluble or swelling in water or an alkali aqueous solution, and (B) a compound that generates radicals when exposed to light or heat. The invention further provides a thermo/photosensitive composition that includes (A′) a polymer compound that has a non-acidic hydrogen-bonding group on a side chain and is soluble or swelling in water or an alkali aqueous solution, and (B′) a compound that generates radicals when exposed to light or heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2004Publication date: July 8, 2004Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiro Fujimaki
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Publication number: 20040127986Abstract: An ionic electroactive graft copolymer with a fluorine-containing backbone and a carbazole-containing side chain having the following repeating unit is disclosed: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Applicant: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Jen-Luan Chen, Wen-Liang Liu, Long-Cheng Cheng
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Publication number: 20040072946Abstract: There is described a method of preparing a first polymeric compound which comprises a providing a compound of general formula (I) or a salt thereof where A and B are the same or different and at least one comprises a relatively polar atom or group and R1 and R2 independently comprise relatively non-polar atoms or groups, in a solvent of a type in which ethene itself is generally insoluble and causing the groups C═C in said compound to react with one another to form a polymeric structure. The first polymeric compound may be reacted with a second compound, for example polyvinylalcohol, collagen or the like to produce a colloid or gel which may have applications in the treatment or bums or recovery of oils.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Applicant: Advanced Gel Technology LimitedInventors: Donald Eagland, Nicholas J. Crowther
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Patent number: 6716935Abstract: The present invention discloses a continuous process for the production of polymerized controlled architectures materials under high solids loading conditions. The materials are made under stirred, plug-flow and temperature-controlled conditions.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2002Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: James Michael Nelson, Ryan E. Marx, Michael John Annen, Duane Douglas Fansler, Maureen Ann Kavanagh, Babu Nana Gaddam
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Patent number: 6713143Abstract: A thermosetting low-dielectric resin composition which has a low dielectric constant and a low dielectric tangent for use in a printed circuit board and which has excellent adhesion to a metal and scatters almost no resin when used for forming a prepreg by punching or cutting, the composition comprising a component (a): siloxane-modified polyimide, component (b): a compound containing 2 methylallyl groups and having the following formula (1) or a compound containing 3 allyl groups or 3 methylallyl groups and having the following formula (1A), and component (c): a compound containing at least 2 maleimide groups. wherein R is a hydrogen atom or methyl group.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2001Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Tomegawa Paper Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Hashimoto, Masaharu Kobayashi, Takeshi Sato, Daisuke Orino
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Publication number: 20040038150Abstract: Provided are new resins that comprise carbocyclic aryl units with hetero substitution units and photoresists that contain such resins. Particularly preferred photoresists of the invention comprise a deblocking resin that contains hydroxy naphthyl units and can be effectively imaged with sub-200 nm radiation such as 193 nm radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2003Publication date: February 26, 2004Applicant: Shipley Company, L.L.C.Inventors: Young C. Bae, George G. Barclay
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Patent number: 6693160Abstract: This invention discloses a process for synthesizing an amine functionalized monomer that comprises (1) reacting a secondary amine with a 2,3-dihalopropene to produce a vinyl halide containing secondary amine having a structural formula selected from the group consisting of wherein R and R′ can be the same or different and represent allyl, alkoxyl or alkyl groups containing from 1 to about 10 carbon atoms, and wherein X represents a halogen atom, and wherein m represents an integer from 4 to about 10, and wherein X represents a halogen atom; and (2) reacting the vinyl halide containing secondary amine with a vinyl magnesium halide to produce the monomer having a structural formula wherein R and R′ can be the same or different and represent alkyl, allyl or alkoxyl groups containing from 1 to about 10 carbon atoms, and wherein m represents an integer from about 4 to about 10.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2003Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Adel Farhan Halasa, Wen-Liang Hsu