3-membered Heterocyclic Ring Contains At Least One Oxygen Atom Patents (Class 526/273)
  • Publication number: 20100056671
    Abstract: The present invention provides epoxy functional oligomeric compounds, methods of preparation and uses therefor. In particular, the present invention provides to oligomeric epoxy compounds derived from allyl glycidyl ether.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: DESIGNER MOLECULES, INC.
    Inventor: Stephen M. Dershem
  • Publication number: 20100048802
    Abstract: A myo-inositol derivative: R1, R2, R3 and R4 are identical, being selected from PO3H2, PO3Na2, PO3K2, PO3Li2, PO3Ca, PO3Mg, PO3(NH4), PO3(RNH3)2, PO3(R2NH2)2, PO3(R4N)2, PO(OR)2, H, COZ and BHPP, where R is benzyl or alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms and Z is an alkyl or arylalky group providing a cleavable protecting group; R5 of H, benzyl, 4-methoxybenzyl, COZ, PO3H2, PO3Na2, PO3K2, PO3Li2, PO3Ca, PO3Mg, PO3(NH4)2, PO3(RNH3)2, PO3(R2NH2)2, PO3(R4N)2, PO(OR)2, and BHPP, where R is benzyl or alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms and Z is an alkyl or arylalky group providing a cleavable protecting group; X is one of CH2, CH2CH2O, and CH2CH2CH2O; n is an integer from 1 to 8; L1 is a single bond or CH2; L2 is one of a single bond, CONH, CH2CONH, CH2CH2CONH, CH2CH2NHCO, CH2CH2NHCONH, CH2CH2NHCSNH, CH2CH2NHSO2, CH2CH2CH2NHCO, CH2CH2CH2NHCONH, CH2CH2CH2NHCSNH, CH2CH2CH2NHSO2, NHCO, NHCONH, NHCSNH, OCONH, CH2, CH2CH2, CH2CH2O, CH2CH2S, CH2CH2NH, CH2CH2CH2, CH2CH2CH2O, CH2CH2CH2S, CH2CH2CH2NH, and NH—SO2; and R6 is a UV-visible ch
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Bryan V. Hunt, Kyle J. Lindstrom, Judith M. Invie, David B. Olson, Anthony M. Renstrom
  • Patent number: 7666966
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of post-crosslinkable thermoplastic resins by bulk-polymerizing a polymerizable composition (A) comprising (I) a monomer fluid containing a cyclic olefin (?) having two or more metathetical ring-opening reaction sites in the molecule in an amount 10 wt % or above based on the total amount of the monomers or a monomer fluid containing a norbornene monomer and a crosslinking agent, (II) a metathetical polymerization catalyst, and (III) a chain transfer agent; thermoplastic resins obtained by this process; and a process for producing crosslinked resins or crosslinked resin composite materials which comprises laminating such a thermoplastic resin with a substrate at need and then crosslinking the thermoplastic resin. According to the invention, thermoplastic resins which are free from odor due to residual monomers and excellent in storage stability can be efficiently obtained by a simple process of bulk-polymerizing the composition (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Zeon Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoo Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20100022732
    Abstract: Polyether represented by R(—O—Xn—Zm—Y)p {R is a monovalent hydrocarbyl group that contains no more than 20 carbon atoms and that may contain an aliphatically unsaturated bond or is a group comprising the preceding group having an ether linkage therein; n is 1 to 200; m is 0 to 200; 0<n/(n+m)?1; X is a group provided by the ring-opening polymerization of a glycidyl ether; Z is an alkyleneoxy group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms; p is 1 to 6; Y is H or is a monovalent hydrocarbyl group, acyl group that contains no more than 20 carbon atoms and that may contain an aliphatically unsaturated bond or glycidyl group; and the configuration of the X and Z groups may be, inter alia, random} wherein either R or Y contains or both R and Y contain an aliphatically unsaturated bond and the molecular weight distribution (polydispersity) determined versus a polystyrene standard is 1.25 to 1.00.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventor: Tadashi Okawa
  • Publication number: 20100015869
    Abstract: An article comprises a substrate and a functional polymeric phase change material bound to the substrate. In some aspects the functional polymeric phase change material is chemically bound to the substrate and can be accomplished by at least one of covalent bonding or electrovalent bonding. The functional polymeric phase change material can comprise a reactive function selected from the group consisting of an acid anhydride group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an alkyl group, an aldehyde group, an amide group, an amino group and their salts, a N-substituted amino group, an aziridine, an aryl group, a carbonyl group, a carboxy group and their salts, an epoxy group, an ester group, an ether group, a glycidyl group, a halo group, a hydride group, a hydroxy group, an isocyanate group, a thiol group, a disulfide group, a silyl or silane group, an urea group, and an urethane group, and wherein the substrate comprises at least one of cellulose, wool, fur, leather, polyester and nylon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: OUTLAST TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Hartmann, Aharon Eyal
  • Patent number: 7645846
    Abstract: There is provided a process for the preparation of a polymerizable composition comprising a cross-linker and a polymerizable monomer of formula (I) comprising (i) contacting a compound of formula (II) with an acid such as an imobilized acid; and (ii) neutralizing product of (i) such that a crosslinker is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: CooperVision International Holding Company LP
    Inventors: Barry Charles Holdstock, Trevor Owen Glasey
  • Publication number: 20090321016
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of epoxy-modified vinyl chloride-vinyl ester copolymers in the form of the solid resins involves aqueous, free radical polymerization of a mixture comprising a) from 50 to 90% by weight of vinyl chloride, b) from 5 to 25% by weight of epoxide-containing vinyl monomers and c) from 5 to 25% by weight of one or more vinyl esters of straight-chain or branched alkylcarboxylic acids having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, d) from 0 to 40% by weight of further comonomers copolymerizable with a), b) and c), the data in % by weight summing to 100% by weight, and subsequent drying of the aqueous dispersions obtained thereby, polymerization being effected by means of suspension polymerization in the presence of aldehyde regulators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Wacker Chemie AG
    Inventors: Stephan Kaiser, Karl Weber
  • Publication number: 20090311192
    Abstract: Nanoparticles having an average particle size of less than 2000 nm, wherein said nanoparticles comprise a polymer having pendant cleavable iodine substituted groups are provided. Processes for preparing the nanoparticles and their use as a contrast agent for X-ray imaging are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: Bar-Ilan University
    Inventors: Shlomo Margel, Anna Galperin
  • Publication number: 20090312460
    Abstract: A non-ionic polyether-polyester copolymer for extending workability to a cementitious mixture containing hydraulic cement and water, wherein the copolymer includes residues of at least the following monomers: Component A including an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid ester monomer having a moiety hydrolysable in the cementitious mixture, wherein the hydrolyzed monomer residue has an active binding site for a component of the cementitious mixture; and, at least one of: Component B including an ethylenically unsaturated, carboxylic acid ester or alkenyl ether monomer having at least one C2-4 oxyalkylene side group of about 1 to 30 units; or, Component C including an ethylenically unsaturated, carboxylic acid ester or alkenyl ether monomer having at least one C2-4 oxyalkylene side group of 31 to about 350 units; wherein the molar ratio of Component A to the sum of the molar ratios of Component B and Component C is about 1:1 to about 10:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Klaus K. Lorenz, Alexander Kraus, Thomas M. Vickers, JR., Suzanne Lianopoulos, Viswanath Mahadevan
  • Patent number: 7625988
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel flame retardant monomers and polymers, wherein the flame retardant properties of the polymers are provided by functionality in pendant groups attached to a polymer backbone (as opposed to the polymer backbone itself possessing flame retardant properties. The present invention is also directed to methods of making such polymers and monomers, and articles of manufacture incorporating such monomers and polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: James M. Tour, Joshua L. Jurs, Jason J. Stephenson
  • Publication number: 20090275715
    Abstract: The present invention is a high modulus bio-based plastic or polymer composition and methods of using the same. The composition is formed from the reaction of a bio-based epoxidized unsaturated triglyceride, an energy activated catalyst and a bio-based non-aromatic bio-based cross-linking compound to form a structural polymer plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: David A. Boyles, Mohammad S. Al-Omar
  • Patent number: 7612156
    Abstract: A controlled molecular weight polymer of styrene is provided having bromine substituted thereon. Control of molecular weight is achieved by the use of alpha-methyl styrene dimer as a chain transfer agent. The brominated polymer of styrene is useful as a flame retardant, particularly for polyamides giving improved properties including color retention after molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Chemtura Corporation
    Inventors: Wayne Meyer, Jennifer L. Bohan, Larry D. Timberlake, James D. Siebecker
  • Publication number: 20090266583
    Abstract: The invention provides a photosensitive resin composition comprising: a polymer comprising a polymerizable group and a functional group that interacts with a plating catalyst or a precursor thereof so as to form a coordination bond; and at least one selected from the group consisting of a synthetic rubber, an epoxy acrylate monomer, and a polymerizable monomer having a benzyl alcohol group; a laminate; a method of producing a metal plated material; a metal plated material; a method of producing a metal pattern material; a metal pattern material; and a wiring substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo Nagasaki, Takeyoshi Kano
  • Patent number: 7601781
    Abstract: The present invention has for its object to provide a curable composition which, despite its low viscosity, gives a cured product with a high gel fraction, low residual tack, low modulus, high elongation and good flexibility. The present invention relates to a curable composition comprising the following two components: (A) a vinyl polymer having at least one crosslinking silyl group on the average per molecule: and (B) a photocurable substance, (C) an air oxidation-curable substance, (D) a high molecular plasticizer, (E) a reactive plasticizer or (F) a compound having one silanol group in its molecule and/or a compound capable of reacting with moisture to give a compound having one silanol group in the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Kaneka Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Fujita, Nobuhiro Hasegawa, Yoshiki Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20090253076
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a coating-type underlayer coating forming composition that is applied for multi-ply coating process by thin film resist in order to prevent collapse of resist pattern after development with miniaturization of resist pattern, and that shows a sufficient etching resistance against a semiconductor substrate to be processed on processing of the substrate by having a low dry etching rate compared with the photoresist and substrate. [Means for solving problems] A coating-type underlayer coating forming composition that is used for lithography process by multiply coating, comprising a polymer containing a vinylnaphthalene based structural unit and an acrylic acid based structural unit containing an aromatic hydroxy group or a hydroxy-containing ester. A coating-type underlayer coating forming composition further comprising an acrylic acid based structural unit containing an aliphatic cyclic compound-containing ester or an aromatic compound-containing ester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Sakaguchi, Tomoyuki Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20090227752
    Abstract: A resin suitable for powder coating including glycidyl acrylate or glycidyl methacrylate. The resin may also contain a high Tg and hydrophobicity monomer. Typical powder coatings made from the resin show improved powder coating handling, and particularly acid etch resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Anderson Development Co.
    Inventors: Szuping Lu, Rahul Holla, Benjamin Morley
  • Publication number: 20090202813
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a porous membrane obtainable by polymerizing at least one type of curable epoxyacrylate monomer that is soluble in a solvent wherein at least 50 wt % of said solvent is water. The invention further relates to image recording materials, in which these porous membranes are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Manufacturing Europe B.V.
    Inventors: Yujiro Itami, Akira Kase
  • Publication number: 20090186982
    Abstract: Organosilicon polymers prepared by copolymerizing an unsaturated methylol compound, an unsaturated monomer, and an organopolysiloxane bearing at least one unsaturated group exhibit good binding and crosslinking properties when applied to fibers, and the ability to tailor substrate hydrophobicity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: WACKER CHEMIE AG
    Inventors: Oliver Minge, Peter Ball, Andrea Kneissl
  • Publication number: 20090173438
    Abstract: Disclosed is a photocurable resin composition which is highly sensitive to ultraviolet light or visible light having a long wavelength, in particular a photocurable resin composition which is useful as a sealing agent. Specifically disclosed is a photocurable resin composition containing a component (a) which is composed of an anthraquinone derivative represented by the formula (I) below, and a component (b) which is composed of a compound having a (meth)acryloyl group in the molecule. The photocurable resin composition is characterized in that a part or the entire of the component (b) further contains an oxiranyl group in the molecule, and the component (a) content is 0.01-10% by mass relative to the component (b) content. [chemical formula 1] (I) (In the formula (I), X represents a phenyl group, an alkyl group having 1-8 carbon atoms, an alcoholic form of the phenyl group or the alkyl group, or a derivative of the alcoholic form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2006
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Fumito Takeuchi, Yasushi Mizuta
  • Publication number: 20090171007
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an active energy beam-curable ink comprising polymerizable monomers, wherein relative to the total of all the polymerizable monomers, the polymerizable monomers comprise from 95 to 99.99% by weight of a monofunctional monomer and from 0.01 to 5% by weight of a polyfunctional monomer, and a cured film of thickness 10 ?m formed using the active energy beam-curable ink exhibits a drawing ability exceeding 120% when stretched at a temperature of 170° C. at a strain rate of 2/min.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Jonai, Yasuo Yoshihiro, Daisuke Nishida
  • Publication number: 20090163683
    Abstract: Provided are a novel photopolymerizable monomer having at least one unsaturated double bond and epoxide, and a photocurable composition comprising the photopolymerizable monomer and an initiator, which is polymerizable with good efficiency using light and/or heat, provides reduced shrinkage, and has superior mechanical strength including adhesion and transparency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: EunKyoung KIM, Jeonghun Kim, Hyunjin Oh
  • Publication number: 20090130469
    Abstract: A powder adhesive composition for bonding an elastomer to metals or other rigid substrates comprising a powdered film forming polymer having a liquefaction temperature above room temperature and is capable of forming rubber tearing bonds between an elastomer and a substrate. The adhesive composition is shelf stable and free flowing at room temperature to allow for ease of storage and electrostatic spray application, yet melts or flows at elevated temperatures to form a film on a coated substrate prior to elastomer bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: KEI-YI WEI, Kirk J. Abbey, James Halladay
  • Patent number: 7534542
    Abstract: Disclosed is a binder resin for a toner which contains a styrene-acrylic resin having a gel component and a small amount of a volatile component. Also disclosed are a method for producing the binder resin and a toner employing the binder resin. A binder resin (A) for a toner contains a styrene-acrylic resin having a structure derived from a carboxyl group and a structure derived from a glycidyl group, wherein the content (AIS) of a gel component is 1 mass %?AIS?50 mass % and the content (AVO) of a volatile component in the resin is AVO?200 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Yoshida, Kazuya Sakata
  • Publication number: 20090062442
    Abstract: A composition includes a first cycloolefin substituted with at least one epoxy group and an aromatic amine. The composition is capable of bonding to a filler having a corresponding binding site. The composition is compatible with a metathesis catalyst capable of catalyzing a ring-opening metathesis polymerization reaction when contacted to the first cycloolefin. An associated method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Xiaolan Wei, Wendy Wen-Ling Lin
  • Publication number: 20090036626
    Abstract: Provided is a protective sheet for a coating layer comprising a substrate sheet having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is obtained by cross-linking of a layer through irradiating with an active energy beam, and the layer comprises a composition containing a component (A) an acrylic-based homopolymer or copolymer containing at least one selected from butyl(meth)acrylate, 2-ethylhexyl(meth)acrylate and isooctyl(meth)acrylate as a monomer component and containing no active hydrogens and a component (B) a multifunctional (meth)acrylate monomer or oligomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: Lintec Corporation
    Inventor: Atsuhiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20090018227
    Abstract: A polyol composition comprising a polyol (a) and resin fine particles (b) dispersed in the polyol (a), and a method for producing the polyol composition are provided, wherein the resin fine particles (b) are particles such that an arithmetic standard deviation by volume of a particle size distribution of the particles, derived from respective values in 85 divisions of a range of 0.020 to 2000 ?m determined by a laser diffraction/scattering particle size distribution analyzer, is not more than 0.6. A resin fine particle-dispersed polyol composition that, even if the resin particles dispersed in the polyol have a small particle diameter, allows the production of a polyurethane resin having an excellent mechanical strength such as elongation at break, and a method for producing the same, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2006
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigekuni Nakada, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Takayuki Tsuji, Hiroki Mori
  • Patent number: 7468415
    Abstract: It was found that glycidyloxystyrenes, including glycidyloxystyrene and substituted glycidyloxystyrene, can be synthesized from hydroxycinnamic acid or substituted hydroxycinnamic acids in a one-pot, two-step process. The substrate can be thermally decarboxylated and then without purification, reacted in the presence of a halomethyl-oxirane and a base. The resulting product can be polymerized or coppolymerized to a fully substituted product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Keith Kunitsky, Mukesh C. Shah, Steven W. Shuey, Mark E. Wagman
  • Publication number: 20080306229
    Abstract: Dendritic amphiphilic polymers are contemplated. Most preferably, such polymers will be fabricated in a single step to the final product that may further be derivatized with, among others, biological relevant molecules. In alternative aspects, precursors of such molecules are prepared in a single step, and the precursors are then reacted to the dendritic amphiphilic polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventors: Zhibin Guan, Guanghui Chen
  • Publication number: 20080255332
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for improving the adhesion of carbon fibres with regard to an organic matrix forming a composite material with these fibres, this composite material being obtained by bringing the fibres into contact with a resin which can be cured by chain polymerization and then polymerizing the resin, which process is characterized in that it comprises the grafting, to the surface of the fibres, before they are brought into contact with the resin, of groups capable of acting as chain transfer agents during the polymerization of said resin. Fields of application: aeronautical, aerospatial, railway, ship building and automobile industries but also the armaments industry, the industry of sports and leisure articles, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Brigitte Defoort, Philippe Ponsaud, Xavier Coqueret
  • Publication number: 20080249271
    Abstract: An adhesive containing a ladder-type polysilsesquioxane which firmly bonds metals and synthetic resins and an adhesive sheet having an adhesive layer formed by using the adhesive on at least one side of a substrate are provided. An adhesive comprises a ladder-type polysilsesquioxane having a recurring unit of the following formula (I) in the molecule, wherein R1 represents a polymerizable functional group, and R2 represents the same group as R1, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms which may have a substituent, an alkoxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms which may have a substituent, or a phenyl group which may have a substituent, and the adhesive sheet has an adhesive layer formed by using the adhesive on at least one side of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: LINTEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shiori Beppu, Mikihiro Kashio, Toshio Sugizaki, Toshifumi Kageyama, Osamu Moriya
  • Publication number: 20080227916
    Abstract: An isobutene polymer which has an average of at least 1.4 terminal 1,3-propanediol groups is described, as is a crosslinking product thereof. Suitable crosslinkers are difunctional or higher-functionality isocyanates or epoxy compounds having at least two epoxide groups. The crosslinking products exhibit high storage moduli even at elevated temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Hans Peter Rath, Arno Lange, Helmut Mach, J. Richard Blackborow
  • Publication number: 20080194459
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are non-natural amino acids and polypeptides that include at least one non-natural amino acid, and methods for making such non-natural amino acids and polypeptides. The non-natural amino acids, by themselves or as a part of a polypeptide, can include a wide range of possible functionalities, but typical have at least one aromatic amine group. Also disclosed herein are non-natural amino acid polypeptides that are further modified post-translationally, methods for effecting such modifications, and methods for purifying such polypeptides. Typically, the modified non-natural amino acid polypeptides include at least one alkylated amine group. Further disclosed are methods for using such non-natural amino acid polypeptides and modified non-natural amino acid polypeptides, including therapeutic, diagnostic, and other biotechnology uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: AMBRX, INC.
    Inventors: Zhenwei Miao, Junjie Liu, Thea Norman
  • Publication number: 20080175758
    Abstract: A biochip substrate capable of realizing the high detection accuracy by restricting a nonspecific adsorption or bonding of a substance to be detected, when used for a detection or analysis of protein, nucleic acids and the like. The biochip substrate is for fixing a biologically active substance on a surface of a solid substrate, and characterized in that it has a layer comprising a polymer compound obtained by copolymerizing an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomer having an alkylene glycol residue, an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomer having a functional group for fixing a biologically active substance and an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomer having a cross-linkable functional group, on the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Mitsutaka Matsumoto, Sumio Shibahara, Takayuki Matsumoto, Kanehisa Yokoyama, Sohei Funaoka, Daisuke Masuda, Michael Patrick Coleman, Dominic Zichi
  • Publication number: 20080166550
    Abstract: A insulating resin cured film provided after the formation of tin plating, substantially containing no copper, on a flexible printed wiring board for electronic component, wherein the glass transition temperature of the film after being cured is 80° C. or less, and a process for producing the same. There is provided a flexible printed wiring board with tin plating substantially containing no copper for an electronic component, having coated thereon a resin cured film of photocurable and thermosetting resin, in which fewer copper is diffused in a pure tin plating layer, in comparison with that provided by a prior method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20080142158
    Abstract: The present invention provides hydrolytically resistant monomers prepared by the reaction of an epoxy compound and a reactive ester and methods for producing the monomers. Also provided are adhesive compositions containing the hydrolytically resistant monomers and methods for use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventor: Stephen M. Dershem
  • Patent number: 7388038
    Abstract: The present invention has for its object to provide a curable composition which, despite its low viscosity, gives a cured product with a high gel fraction, low residual tack, low modulus, high elongation, and good flexibility. The present invention relates to a curable composition comprising the following two components: (A) a vinyl polymer having at least one crosslinking silyl group on the average per molecule: and (B) a photocurable substance, (C) an air oxidation-curable substance, (D) a high molecular plasticizer, (E) a reactive plasticizer or (F) a compound having one silanol group in its molecule and/or a compound capable of reacting with moisture to give a compound having one silanol group in the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Kaneka Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Fujita, Nobuhiro Hasegawa, Yoshiki Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20080131813
    Abstract: The invention provides an alkali soluble polymer including a specific vinylketone phenol and a derivative thereof as radical polymerizable monomers and a positive working photosensitive resin composition containing the alkali soluble polymer and a photosensitizing agent. According to the invention, there can be provided an alkali soluble resin having high solvent resistance, high water resistance, high acid resistance, high alkali resistance, high thermal resistance, high transparency, excellent adhesiveness with a substrate, and the like and useful for the formation of a patterned resin film obtained by developing in an aqueous alkali solution and a positive working photosensitive resin composition including such an alkali soluble resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Tomohiro Etou, Eiji Watanabe, Ryouta Mineo
  • Publication number: 20080131815
    Abstract: A monomer for forming an organic anti-reflective coating layer, a polymer thereof and a composition including the same are disclosed. In a photolithography process, the organic anti-reflective coating layer absorbs an exposed light between a layer to be etched and a photoresist layer, and prevents a photoresist pattern from collapsing due to a standing wave generated under the photoresist layer. The polymer for forming an organic anti-reflective coating layer includes a repeating unit represented by Formula wherein, R1 is a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or an ethyl group, R2 is a C1˜C20 alkylene group, a C3˜C20 cycloalkylene group or a C6˜C20 aromatic hydrocarbon group, POSS is a polyhedral-oligomeric-silsesquioxane, and m is an integer of 2 to 110.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Sang-Jeoung KIM, Hyo-Jung ROH, Jong-Kyoung PARK, Jeong-Sik Kim, Hyun-Jin KIM, Jae-Hyun KIM
  • Publication number: 20080111129
    Abstract: Disclosed is a composition for preparing an organic insulator, including an organic silane material, having a vinyl group, an acetylene group or an acryl group as a functional group for participating in a crosslinking reaction, a crosslinking agent, and a solvent for dissolving the above components. The organic insulator of example embodiments may be provided in the form of a solid insulating film, which may increase charge mobility while decreasing the threshold voltage and operating voltage of OTFTs, and which also may generate relatively slight hysteresis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Eun Jeong Jeong, Joo Young Kim, Kyung Seok Son, Eun Kyung Lee, Sang Yoon Lee
  • Publication number: 20080051542
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, implantable or insertable medical devices are provided, which contain at least one polymeric region in contact with a metallic region. The polymeric region contains at least one block copolymer that contains at least one low Tg block and at least one high Tg block. The polymeric region contains at least one polymer that contains at least one adhesion promoting group selected from one or more of halo-silane, alkoxy-silane, epoxy, anhydride, phenoxy, hydroxyl, amino, sulfonate and carboxyl groups, which at least one polymer may correspond to the block copolymer, a supplemental polymer, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventor: Frederick H. Strickler
  • Publication number: 20080017308
    Abstract: The invention provides derivatives of poly(styrene-co-allylalcohol). These materials are useful as thermosetting monomers that can be incorporated into adhesive compositions. In some embodiments, the adhesive compositions are useful in the microelectronic packaging industry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventor: Stephen M. Dershem
  • Patent number: 7300993
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of polyether polyols, which process involves: (a) contacting a phosphorus containing compound having at least one hydroxyl group with alkylene oxide to obtain alkoxylated initiator, (b) contacting the alkoxylated initiator with further alkylene oxide in the presence of a double metal cyanide complex catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Michiel Barend Eleveld, Jan Hermen Hendrik Meurs, Peter Alexander Schut
  • Patent number: 7268196
    Abstract: A process for producing a cycloolefin addition polymer in which one or more cycloolefin monomers can be (co)polymerized by addition polymerization with a small palladium catalyst amount to produce a cycloolefin addition (co)polymer while attaining high catalytic activity. The process for cycloolefin addition polymer production is characterized by addition-polymerizing one or more cycloolefin monomers comprising a cycloolefin compound represented by a specific formula in the presence of a multi-component catalyst comprising (a) a palladium compound and (b) a specific phosphorus compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: JSR Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Oshima, Michitaka Kaizu, Satoshi Ebata, Takashi Imamura
  • Patent number: 7135269
    Abstract: A polymer comprising recurring units containing silicon and recurring units having a substituent group of formula (1) is novel wherein A1 is a divalent group selected from furandiyl, tetrahydrofurandiyl and oxanorbornanediyl, R1 and R2 are selected from monovalent C1–C10 hydrocarbon groups, or R1 and R2 taken together may form an aliphatic hydrocarbon ring with the carbon atom, and R3 is hydrogen or a monovalent C1–C10 hydrocarbon group which may contain a hetero atom. The polymer is useful as a base resin to formulate a resist composition which is sensitive to high-energy radiation, and has excellent sensitivity and resolution at a wavelength of less than 300 nm as well as satisfactory oxygen plasma etching resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Hatakeyama, Takanobu Takeda, Osamu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7097883
    Abstract: Polythioether polymers, curable compositions of polythioether polymers, the process of making polythioether polymers, and the use of polythioether polymers in sealants, wherein the polythioether polymers and curable compositions are liquid at a temperature of 20° C. or less, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: Suresh Sawant, Chandra Bhushan Rao, David Rosendo Leon
  • Patent number: 7081494
    Abstract: The present invention has for its object to provide a curable composition which, despite its low viscosity, gives a cured product with a high gel fraction, low residual tack, low modulus, high elongation, and good flexibility. The present invention relates to a curable composition comprising the following two components: (A) a vinyl polymer having at least one crosslinking silyl group on the average per molecule: and (B) a photocurable substance, (C) an air oxidation-curable substance, (D) a high molecular plasticizer, (E) a reactive plasticizer or (F) a compound having one silanol group in its molecule and/or a compound capable of reacting with moisture to give a compound having one silanol group in the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Kaneka Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Fujita, Nobuhiro Hasegawa, Yoshiki Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 7049381
    Abstract: Polymerizable compositions for making transparent polymeric substrates, resulting transparent polymeric substrates and the applications thereof in optics. The composition comprises: from 35 to 70 parts by weight of one or more monomers (I) of formula: ?wherein R1 and R2 represent H or CH3, A is a divalent moiety of formula: ?m1 and m2 each are an integer in the range of 4 to 20, from 5 to 50 parts by weight of a monomer (II) comprising at least a urethane unit and at least two (meth)acrylate functions, and from 5 to 40 parts by weight of a monomer (III) with a high Abbe number and comprising one or more methacrylate functions, the total of the monomers (I), (II) and (III) representing 100 parts by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Essilor International Compagnie Generale d'Optique
    Inventors: Richard Gilles, Primel Odile, Yean Leanirith
  • Patent number: 7022744
    Abstract: A composition useful for separating lipoproteins, such as high density lipoprotein (HDL), low density lipoprotein (LDL), very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) and modified lipoproteins with a high degree of accuracy by ion-exchange based procedures. The composition comprises an organic particle having a hydrophilic surface onto which ion-exchange groups are introduced and which is formulated so as to provide a high enough degree of hydrophilicity to prevent irreversible absorption of lipoproteins, but which is not so high as to block the pores of the ion exchange particles and prevent adequate retention and separation of lipoproteins. A method for making a composition for separating lipoproteins comprising seed polymerization of organic particles, hydrophilic treatment of the organic particles by introducing 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Haginaka, Masaru Sano, Tsunehiko Kurata
  • Patent number: 6984694
    Abstract: The invention provides chain extenders made from epoxy-functional (meth)acrylic monomers and styrenic and/or (meth)acrylic monomers. The invention further provides polymeric compositions made from the chain extenders and plastic articles made from the compositions. Finally, the invention provides methods of using the chain extenders to improve the properties of virgin, recycled, and reprocessed condensation polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Johnson Polymer, LLC
    Inventors: William George Blasius, Jr., Gary A. Deeter, Marco A. Villalobos
  • Patent number: 6977286
    Abstract: An objective of the invention is to provide a rubber composition which has satisfactory processability and dimension stability, and the like, gives a vulcanized rubber exhibiting excellent wearing resistance and tensile strength, and the like, and thus is useful in a belt, a hose and a tire and the like, as well as a crosslinked rubber particle for obtaining such rubber composition. A rubber composition of the invention comprises [1] a crosslinked rubber particle comprising as repeating units (a) 30 to 94.89% by weight of a conjugated diene unit, (b) 5 to 69.89% by weight of an aromatic vinyl unit, (c) 0.01 to 10% by weight of a monomer unit having at least two polymerizable unsaturated group, (d) one polymerizable unsaturated group and an amino group, a hydroxyl group and an epoxy group and (e) 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: JSR Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohisa Konno, Toshihiro Tadaki, Yoshiyuki Udagawa, Hiroshi Akema