From Monomer Containing An Acetylenic Group Patents (Class 526/285)
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Patent number: 4983696Abstract: A polyacetylene with excellent stretchability can be obtained by a process which comprises polymerizing acetylene with a Ziegler-Natta catalyst consisting of a tetraalkyl titanate and a trialkylaluminum, wherein in the Ziegler-Natta catalyst at least one of the tetraalkyl titanate and the trialkylaluminum has a long chain alkyl group and the molar ratio of al to Ti is 1.5-10.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 1990Date of Patent: January 8, 1991Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mamoru Soga, Shu Hotta, Nobuo Sonoda
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Patent number: 4970137Abstract: This invention concerns a process of mixing a dispersion comprising a substantially crystalline, image receptive polyacetylenic compound in an aqueous non-solvating binder solutions with an effective ripening amount of an organic liquid boiling above 30.degree. C. which is completely miscible with water at least in a proportion of 1:2 part per parts and in which said polyacetylene is soluble for a time and at an elevated temperature sufficient to effect crystalline growth and improved sensitivity to imaging by exposure to a source of radiation.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1989Date of Patent: November 13, 1990Assignee: GAF Chemicals CorporationInventors: David F. Lewis, Steward E. Purdy
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Patent number: 4965331Abstract: New curable resin compositions comprise a (bis- or poly)-maleimide and a propargyl aromatic ether.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1990Date of Patent: October 23, 1990Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Roy J. Jackson, Anthony M. Pigneri
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Patent number: 4962163Abstract: Thermosettable vinyl ester compositions are prepared from an advanced epoxy resin containing a mesogenic or rodlike moiety and a monounsaturated monocarboxylic acid and, optionally, a monoepoxide compound. These vinyl ester compounds can be mixed with polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomers which can, if desired, contain a mesogenic or rigid rodlike moiety.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 1989Date of Patent: October 9, 1990Assignee: The Dow Chemical CompanyInventors: Robert E. Hefner, Jr., Jimmy D. Earls, Paul M. Puckett
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Patent number: 4946919Abstract: Boron-containing ceramics are formed from organoboron preceramic polymers which are carboralated acetylenic polymers. The polymers can be formed by carboralating acetylenic or diacetylenic diols and condensing the diols to form carboralated polyesters. In an alternative process, polydiacetylene formed by the polymerization of diacetylene monomers having conjugated triple bonds are carboralated subsequent to polymerization. A process for obtaining readily soluble polydiacetylenes comprises heating a diacetylene diol in a high boiling solvent.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 1988Date of Patent: August 7, 1990Assignee: Hoechst Celanese Corp.Inventor: Robert E. Johnson
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Patent number: 4931541Abstract: Thermosetting quinazolone resins, their preparation and their applications re described.These thermosetting quinazolone resins can be defined as having the following general formula: ##STR1## in which Ar.sup.1 is a bivalent mono- or polycyclic aromatic radical and Ar.sup.2 is a bivalent aromatic radical of several simple aromatic rings bound two by two by atoms or bivalent groups.These Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2 radicals are chosen so that the melting or emollescence temperature is between 80.degree. C. and 170.degree. C.The resins can be prepared from condensation of an ethynylarylbenzoxazinone with an aromatic diamine containing flexibilizing groups.These quinazolone resins can be polymerized in bulk in order to prepare adhesives or composite matrices in particular.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1989Date of Patent: June 5, 1990Assignee: Centre d'Etude des Materiaux Organiques pour Technologies AvanceesInventors: Regis Mercier, Bernard Sillion
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Patent number: 4927897Abstract: A metal-containing organic polymer produced by the step of polymerizing a compound represented by formula (I):(R--C.tbd.C.sub.lk S).sub.m (I)whereinS represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group, an amino group, a mercapto group, a polyoxyether group, a polyaminoether group, a polythioether group, a sulfino group or a salt thereof, a sulfo group or a salt thereof, a carboxyl group or a salt thereof or a polymerizable group;R represents a metallic atom, a hydrogen atom, or a group --COOM wherein M represents a hydrogen atom or a metallic atom;provided that when R represents a carboxyl group or a hydrogen atom, said compound represented by formula (I) is polymerized in the presence of a metallic salt;L represents a chemical bond or a group having a valency of (k+m); andl, k and m each represents an integer of 1 or more.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1988Date of Patent: May 22, 1990Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ken Kawata, Kozo Sato, Masayoshi Tsuboi
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Patent number: 4914225Abstract: A polymer comprising a carbon-carbon backbone chain and at least one N-(substituted oxalyl)carbamoyl group of the formula: --CO--NH--CO--CO--OR wherein R is a hydrocarbon group as a side chain attached to said backbone chain.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1987Date of Patent: April 3, 1990Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Suzuki, Satoshi Urano, Hirotoshi Umemoto, Ryuzo Mizuguchi, Kei Aoki, Noriyuki Tsuboniwa
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Patent number: 4906550Abstract: A method of producing a polydiacetylene thin film comprises spreading on a water surface a diacetylene compound having one or more conjugated diacetylene groups, subjecting the diacetylene compound to incomplete polymerization by irradiation with ultraviolet rays to an extent incapable of causing complete polymerization, transferring the spread film to a substrate to form a monolayer or built-up film thereon, and irradiating the transferred film with ultraviolet rays or an electron beam to complete the polymerization thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 1988Date of Patent: March 6, 1990Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Kengo Shimanoe, Tetsuo Sakamoto, Masao Sakashita
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Patent number: 4904438Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 1989Date of Patent: February 27, 1990Assignees: Agency of Industrial Science & Technology, Ministry of International Trade & IndustryInventors: Hiro Matsuda, Hachiro Nakanishi, Masao Kato, Yoshio Tanaka, Kazuo Nakayama
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Patent number: 4873284Abstract: Bismaleimide resion systems containing a bismaleimide and a multinuclear alkenyl and/or alkynyl arene as comonomers have improved toughness while maintaining high glass transition temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 1988Date of Patent: October 10, 1989Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Peter Ittemann, Philipp Eisenbarth
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Patent number: 4870147Abstract: A highly conductive polyacetylene film is obtained by orienting a catalyst-containing polyacetylene film or an essentially catalyst-free polyacetylene film which has been swelled in a solvent after the catalyst has been washed out, the polyacetylene being essentially free of sp.sup.3 -hybridized carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1987Date of Patent: September 26, 1989Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Herbert Naarmann, Nicolas Theophilou
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Patent number: 4864004Abstract: Acetylene can be polymerized into a polyacetylene by a solid-state polymerization reaction when it is compressed into a solid under a high pressure of, for example, 1 GPa or higher. The polyacetylene product is obtained in a bulky transparent form in contrast to conventional polyacetylenes in a fibrous form prepared by utilizing a Ziegler-Natta catalyst, and free from impurities because neither catalyst nor solvent is used in the reaction.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1988Date of Patent: September 5, 1989Assignee: Japan as represented by Director General of Agency of Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Katsutoshi Akoi, Shuzo Fujiwara, Katsumi Tanaka, Yozo Kakudate, Masatake Yoshida, Shu Usuba
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Patent number: 4857614Abstract: Polymers consisting of (a) vinyl compounds having a 2,2'-bipyridyl side group, (b) vinyl compounds having a radiation-sensitive side group and, if appropriate, (c) olefines which differ from (a) and (b), and their complexes with metal compounds, with the exception of alkali metal and alkaline earth metal compounds. They are suitable for coating substrates and for the preparation of photographic relief images. Complexes with cobalt salts are effective catalysts for the polymerization of acetylene.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1987Date of Patent: August 15, 1989Assignee: Ciba-Geigy CorporationInventors: Jurgen Kaschig, Jurgen Finter
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Patent number: 4834911Abstract: Intrinsically conductive or semiconductive stable polyacetylides and methods of forming same. The unique soluble metallic polyacetylides may be formed as a conductive adherent film for coating glass, ceramics and metals. The polyacetylides may also be synthesized with pendant organic anions and cations for conductive or semiconductive materials, including integrated circuit subunits, printed circuit board equivalents and thin film electrodes in an organic battery. The polyacetylides may also be synthesized with organic crosslinkers forming high tensile strength polymers comparable to steel.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1986Date of Patent: May 30, 1989Assignee: Electro-Organic CompanyInventor: Evan B. Carew
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Patent number: 4814404Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1987Date of Patent: March 21, 1989Assignees: Agency of Industrial Science & Technology, Ministry of International Trade & IndustryInventors: Hiro Matsuda, Hachiro Nakanishi, Masao Kato, Yoshio Tanaka, Kazuo Nakayama
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Patent number: 4808679Abstract: The present invention is a process for polymerizing trialkylsilylacetylene derived monomers to form the corresponding poly(trialkylsilylacetylene) polymer. The polymerization reaction is carried out in the presence of an organic solvent over a catalyst comprising a halide of a transition metal of group Vb or VIb. The molecular weight of the resultant polymer is decreased by adding to the reaction mixture, in a concentration between about 0.5-25 wt. %, a compound having the structural formula ##STR1## wherein each R is independently methyl, C.sub.2-4 alkyl or phenyl, and n is from 1 to 100.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1988Date of Patent: February 28, 1989Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventor: Michael Langsam
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Patent number: 4783514Abstract: Polymeric compositions are comprised of, in polymerized form, a monomer which contains one reactive arylcyclobutane moiety.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1986Date of Patent: November 8, 1988Assignee: The Dow Chemical CompanyInventors: Robert A. Kirchhoff, Alan K. Schrock, Stephen F. Hahn
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Patent number: 4778868Abstract: A permselective membrane having an improved gas-permeability and selectivity is obtained from a polymer of 1-alkyldimethylsilyl-1-propyne.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1987Date of Patent: October 18, 1988Assignees: Toshinobu Higashimura, Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Toshinobu Higashimura, Toshio Masuda, Koichi Takada
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Patent number: 4778625Abstract: An insoluble infusible electroconductive polymer is provided, which is derived from an organic compound having 3 to 6 carbon atoms and having a cyano group and an ethylenically or acetylenically unsaturated bond by mutually reacting this compound at an elevated temperature.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1987Date of Patent: October 18, 1988Assignee: Director-General of Agency of Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Kiichiro Matsumura, Akio Takahashi, Jun Tsukamoto
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Patent number: 4771115Abstract: Polyacetylene having an apparent density at 20.degree. C. greater than 0.6 g/ccm and a surface area below 60 m.sup.2 /g is prepared by polymerizing gaseous acetylene in the presence of a catalytic system consisting of:(a) an oxygenized compound of Ti or V, containing at least one metal-oxygen bond;(b) an organometallic compound of aluminum containing at least one hetero-atom, of the formula: ##STR1## wherein: ##STR2## while R=a hydrocarbon radical with 1-18 carbon atoms, and where R'.dbd.R, or halogen or alcoxyl.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1986Date of Patent: September 13, 1988Assignee: Montedison S.p.A.Inventors: Enrico Albizzati, Michele Petrera, Giovanni Giunchi
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Patent number: 4749778Abstract: A 2-cyanoacrylate composition which comprises (A) a 2-cyanoacrylate compound and (B) a carbonate compound selected from the group consisting of dialkyl carbonates, alkylene carbonates, alkyne carbonates, alkylene glycol bisalkyl carbonates and trihydric alcohol trisalkyl carbonates.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1986Date of Patent: June 7, 1988Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Alpha GikenInventors: Minoru Fukuzawa, Eisuke Hirakawa
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Patent number: 4748273Abstract: Amphiphilic diacetylene compound having benzene ring. The compound can readily form a single crystal and is photopolymerizable. A stable monomolecular film or built-up film can be prepared from the diacetylene compound. The film is useful as various electronic materials and optoelectronic materials.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 1985Date of Patent: May 31, 1988Assignee: Kanegafushi Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kiyoshige Fukuda, Yasunori Yoshioka, Masakazu Uekita
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Patent number: 4745163Abstract: An apparatus for producing a polyacetylene film by contacting acetylene gas with Ziegler-Natta catalyst to polymerize the acetylene gas in a vessel which comprises a catalyst introduction conduit to be introduced with the Ziegler-Natta catalyst provided at a cap provided at the top of the vessel and having an end opening disposed in the vicinity of the inner surface of the side wall of the vessel in such a manner that the conduit and the vessel are relatively moved in rotation, and a rotary transmission mechanism for driving to rotatably coat the catalyst flowed out from the end opening of the conduit on the inner surface of the bottom from the inner surface of the side wall of the vessel. Thus, the polyacetylene film can be produced in a uniform thickness and in a relatively large area by introducing the Ziegler-Natta catalyst of the suitable quantity, and the catalyst can be spread over the entire surface rapidly by the relative rotation between the conduit and the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1986Date of Patent: May 17, 1988Assignee: Hoxan CorporationInventors: Ichiro Hide, Junichi Umetsu
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Patent number: 4740412Abstract: Multi-layered sheet structures comprising at least two layers, at least one of which consists of optionally doped polyacetylene, and at least one other layer joined thereto consists of a plastics material or inorganic material forming films or coatings, and processes for the production thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 1983Date of Patent: April 26, 1988Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jurgen Hocker, Bruno Broich
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Patent number: 4730032Abstract: Novel mono- or difunctional phenylacetylene-substituted Schiff's base monomers useful in the preparation of electrically conducting polymers is disclosed. On heating, these monomers melt to a viscous liquid state, and on continued heating above about 300.degree. C. polymerize to form an electrically insulating thermoset polymer. On further post-cure heat treatment, the polymer becomes electroconductive showing a bulk conductivity of at least 10.sup.-2 S/cm.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1987Date of Patent: March 8, 1988Assignee: National Starch and Chemical CorporationInventors: Robert D. Rossi, Steven P. Fenelli
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Patent number: 4711532Abstract: This invention provides a novel class of diacetylenic monomers and corresponding polydiacetylenic polymers.Illustrative of the invention is a polymer characterized by the repeating unit: ##STR1## In the form of an optically transparent medium with a noncentrosymmetric alignment of molecules, the polymer exhibits exceptional second order nonlinear optical susceptibility effects.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1986Date of Patent: December 8, 1987Assignee: Hoechst Celanese CorporationInventor: Eui W. Choe
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Patent number: 4711927Abstract: Aqueous ink compositions are disclosed which are an admixture a colorant, a resin binder which is the Diels-Alder adduct of maleic anhydride and 2,3- and 6,7-poly(alloocimene) or the partial-ester thereof and a solvating proportion of water. The inks are useful in flexographic and gravure printing.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1986Date of Patent: December 8, 1987Assignee: Union Camp CorporationInventors: Mark S. Pavlin, James C. West
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Patent number: 4705645Abstract: Electrically conductive polymer blends of an acetylene polymer and an elastomer having a low level of unsaturation are disclosed herein. The low level of unsaturation provides resistance to heat, light, oxygen and ozone and yet provides sufficient sites for crosslinking of the blend to provide increased stability. These blends exhibit high conductivity upon doping with electron donors or electron acceptors.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1984Date of Patent: November 10, 1987Assignee: GTE Laboratories IncorporatedInventors: Kang I. Lee, Harriet Jopson
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Patent number: 4703096Abstract: This invention provides a novel class of diacetylenic monomers and corresponding polydiacetylenic polymers.Illustrative of the invention is a polymer characterized by the repeating unit: ##STR1## In the form of an optically transparent medium with a noncentrosymmetric alignment of molecules, the polymer exhibits exceptional second order nonlinear optical susceptibility effects.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1986Date of Patent: October 27, 1987Assignee: Celanese CorporationInventor: Eui W. Choe
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Patent number: 4698451Abstract: Described are novel bimetallic complexes particularly useful as homogeneous catalysts for the metathesis of alkynes, and methods for the preparation of such complexes. The complexes are formed from (i) a dirhenium halide having (a) a double or triple bond between a pair of rhenium atoms, and (b) a bis(dihydrocarbylphosphino)alkane coordinated therewith, and (ii) a Group III-A alkoxide in which the alkoxy groups are perfluorinated or are substantially perfluorinated. The complexes can be produced very easily and quickly. All that is required is to establish intimate contact between components (i) and (ii), preferably in an innocuous liquid organic solvent. 3-Heptyne was metathesized in good yields by means of the complex formed from Re.sub.2 Cl.sub.4 (dppm).sub.2 and Al(OCH(CH.sub.3).sub.2).sub.3, and the complex formed from Re.sub.2 Cl.sub.6 (dppm).sub.2 and Al(OCH(CF.sub.3).sub.2).sub.3 (dppm=bis(diphenylphosphino))methane).Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1986Date of Patent: October 6, 1987Assignee: Ethyl CorporationInventor: Steven P. Diefenbach
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Patent number: 4695655Abstract: Ethynylphenyl derivatives of diphenylhexafluoropropane having the formula: ##STR1## where X is oxygen or sulfur and each of R, R.sub.1, or R.sub.2 is hydrogen or ethynyl. The compounds are useful in forming polymer structures, either homopolymers or copolymers.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 1984Date of Patent: September 22, 1987Assignee: Hughes Aircraft CompanyInventors: Kreisler S. Y. Lau, William J. Kelleghan
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Patent number: 4690962Abstract: An electronic circuit having an electrically conductive pattern formed on a substrate and having on at least one surface of the substrate a film obtained from a soluble polymerizable oligomer of the formula: ##STR1## wherein D is ##STR2## wherein M is --C.tbd.C--, --C.tbd.C--C.tbd.C, --O--, ##STR3## wherein R is an alkyl or aromatic group; wherein Ar is an aromatic group; wherein x is an integer greater than two but less than 30, z is either zero or an integer, and y is an integer wtih the sum of y and z equal to x; and wherein n is an integer from 1 to 10. The substrate is coated by applying the above composition to the substrate and then hardening the composition by further polymerization. Preferred compositions contain the above described oligomer and certain plasticizers and/or toughening agents.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1986Date of Patent: September 1, 1987Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Roger J. Clark, James Economy, Mary A. Flandera, John R. Susko, Robin A. Wheater
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Patent number: 4687823Abstract: Arylcyclobutene resins are comprised of alkynyl groups bridging at least two arylcyclobutene moieties.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1986Date of Patent: August 18, 1987Assignee: The Dow Chemical CompanyInventors: Robert A. Kirchhoff, Stephen F. Hahn
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Patent number: 4673720Abstract: An insoluble infusible electroconductive polymer is provided, which is derived from an organic compound having 3 to 6 carbon atoms and having a cyano group and an ethylenically or acetylenically unsaturated bond by mutually reacting this compound at an elevated temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1983Date of Patent: June 16, 1987Assignee: Director-General of Agency of Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Kiichiro Matsumura, Akio Takahashi, Jun Tsukamoto
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Patent number: 4667006Abstract: A linear polymer having a recurring unit represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each independently is a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1-10 alkyl group, a C.sub.6-10 cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, or a halogen atom and the ethynyl group is in either meta position or para position to the main polymer chain; and a weight-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 1,000,000.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1986Date of Patent: May 19, 1987Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Ai, Yohsuke Koizumi, Naohiro Tsuruta
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Patent number: 4663123Abstract: An apparatus for producing a polyacetylene film by contacting acetylene gas with Ziegler-Natta catalyst to polymerize the acetylene gas in a vessel which comprises a catalyst introduction conduit to be introduced with the Ziegler-Natta catalyst provided at a cap provided at the top of the vessel and having an end opening disposed in the vicinity of the inner surface of the side wall of the vessel in such a manner that the conduit and the vessel are relatively moved in rotation, and a rotary transmission mechanism for driving to rotatably coat the catalyst flowed out from the end opening of the conduit on the inner surface of the bottom from the inner surface of the side wall of the vessel. Thus, the polyacetylene film can be produced in a uniform thickness and in a relatively large area by introducing the Ziegler-Natta catalyst of the suitable quantity, and the catalyst can be spread over the entire surface rapidly by the relative rotation between the conduit and the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1984Date of Patent: May 5, 1987Assignee: Hoxan CorporationInventors: Ichiro Hide, Junichi Umetsu
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Patent number: 4654178Abstract: A method for producing polyurethane or polyester containing therein the diacetylene group having high rigidity and useful in manufacturing precision mechanical parts, which comprises molding a polymer material containing therein the diacetylene group having a unit structure to be represented by the following general formula and a molecular weight in a range from 5.times.10.sup.2 to 1.times.10.sup.5 under a high pressure and at a temperature below the melting point of the polymer: ##STR1## wherein R is a divalent organic group; and x is an integer of 0 or 1.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 1986Date of Patent: March 31, 1987Assignee: Agency of Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Mitsutoshi Aritomi, Eisuke Fujiwara
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Patent number: 4647403Abstract: Ion implanted polydiacetylenes prepared by implanting ions into substituted polydiacetylenes at fluence levels from about 1.times.10.sup.13 ions/cm.sup.2 to about 1.times.10.sup.17 ions/cm.sup.2 are disclosed. Ion implanted polydiacetylenes exhibit electrical and/or optical properties which are different from those of untreated polydiacetylenes.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1984Date of Patent: March 3, 1987Assignee: GTE Laboratories IncorporatedInventors: Boris S. Elman, Daniel J. Sandman, Sukant K. Tripathy, Mrinal K. Thakur
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Patent number: 4640006Abstract: Conjugated backbone polymers (e.g., polyacetylene), especially formed into a battery electrode, are contacted with a compound MR where M is an alkali metal and R is alkyl of 1-12 carbons, phenyl or alkylphenyl of 7-12 carbons. The method is particularly suited to treatment of battery electrodes to avoid a high initial internal resistance.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1985Date of Patent: February 3, 1987Assignee: Allied CorporationInventors: Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Granville G. Miller, James E. Toth
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Patent number: 4639499Abstract: The present invention is directed to cross-linkable, hydroxyl group-containing polymer resins which are obtained by copolymerizing olefinically-unsaturated monomers and are suitable as binder components for lacquers, the polymer resins having a hydroxyl number of about 20 to 400, an average osmometrically-determined molecular weight of about 500 to 30,000 and a molecular inhomogeneity U of about 0.5 to 15, characterized in that they contain about 0.2 to 80% by weight, preferably about 10 to 70% by weight, based on the total weight of the copolymers, of incorporated monomers selected from olefinically- and acetylenically-unsaturated aliphatic diols having 4 carbon atoms, the ether group-containing alkoxylation products thereof with a hydroxyl number of about 50 to 900, the reaction products of these diols with .epsilon.-caprolactone in a mol ratio of diol:-caprolactone of about 1:0.2 to 1:10 and any mixtures of these components.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1985Date of Patent: January 27, 1987Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Peter Hohlein, Manfred Schmidt, Josef Pedain, Bernd Riberi, Michael Sonntag
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Patent number: 4636539Abstract: Cyanoacrylate adhesive compositions which employ calixarene compounds as additives give substantially reduced fixture and cure times on de-activating substrates such as wood. The calixarene compounds are preferably employed at levels of about 0.1-1% by weight of the composition. The calixarene compounds particularly useful in this invention may be represented by the formula: ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is alkyl, alkoxy, substituted alkyl or substituted alkoxy; R.sup.2 is H or alkyl; and n=4, 6, or 8.The compositions are further characterized by a thickener component, which may suitably be selected from various polymers such as poly(methyl methacrylate), methacrylate type copolymers, acrylic rubbers, polyvinyl acetate and poly(.alpha.-cyanoacrylate) or silicas treated with polydialkylsiloxanes or trialkylsilanes.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1985Date of Patent: January 13, 1987Assignee: Loctite (Ireland) LimitedInventors: Stephen J. Harris, M. Anthony McKervey, David P. Melody, John Woods, John M. Rooney
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Patent number: 4626580Abstract: Novel polymers and copolymers containing the monomer 3,6-bis(trifluoromethyl)pentacyclo [6.2.0.0.sup.2,4.0.sup.3,6.0.sup.5,7 ]dec-9-ene are prepared which can be easily converted into poly(acetylene). The polymer (copolymer) and subsequent poly(acetylene) can be made into any desired shape, such as into films.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1985Date of Patent: December 2, 1986Assignee: The British Petroleum Company PLCInventors: William J. Feast, Jeremy N. Winter
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Patent number: 4624761Abstract: An undoped semiconducting polymeric material is provided which is composed of a plurality of parallel sheets of regular two dimensional networks of polydiacetylene and polyacetylene chains interconnected by a plurality of spacer units. In the preferred embodiment the spacer units are methylene with the number of methylene units ranging from 5 to 8. The polymeric material is preferably formed by polymerizing a monomer having the structural formula CH.tbd.C--(CH.sub.2).sub.n --C.tbd.C--C.tbd.C--(CH.sub.2).sub.n --C.tbd.CH. In the preferred embodiment n has a value of 5 to 8.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1983Date of Patent: November 25, 1986Assignee: Case Western Reserve UniversityInventor: Jerome B. Lando
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Patent number: 4623703Abstract: A two-step method is disclosed for chemically synthesizing substituted butadiene polymers from 1,4-disubstituted butynes. The first step in the synthesis of the butadiene polymer is the polymerization of 1,4-disubstituted butyne monomers. The substituted butyne polymer which results is then isomerized to the corresponding substituted butadiene polymer by subjecting the butyne to a weak organic base such as triethylamine. The isomerization reaction can be performed under very mild conditions and proceeds at ambient temperature.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1984Date of Patent: November 18, 1986Assignee: The University of Texas SystemInventor: Budalur S. Thyagarajan
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Patent number: 4622348Abstract: Products formed from chlorosulfonyl isocyanate either by sequentially reaction of a hydroxy functional compound followed by reaction of the sulfonyl chloride group with a primary or secondary amine, or by reaction of chlorosulfonyl isocyanate with an excess of primary or secondary amine, are cure accelerators for acrylic compositions. Depending on the choice of alcohol or amine, the accelerator may be functionalized so that it is bound or bindable to an organic or silicone polymer backbone or contains other desirable functionality such as peroxy, photosensitizer, or acrylic groups.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 1984Date of Patent: November 11, 1986Assignee: Loctite CorporationInventors: Anthony F. Jacobine, David M. Glaser
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Patent number: 4616067Abstract: Electrically conductive polymer blends of an acetylene polymer, such as poly(acetylene), and a triblock thermoplastic elastomer, such as styrene-butadiene-styrene, are disclosed. In addition, a method for preparing such blends wherein the acetylene polymer is preferentially formed in the central elastomeric block of the triblock copolymer is disclosed. These blends exhibit high conductivity and elasticity upon doping with electron donors or electron acceptors.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1984Date of Patent: October 7, 1986Assignee: GTE Laboratories IncorporatedInventors: Kang I. Lee, Harriet Jopson
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Patent number: 4615962Abstract: Dialkenyl diacetylenes, especially divinyl diacetylenes having liquid crystalline phases, are provided. In accordance with certain preferred embodiments, diacetylenes having liquid crystalline phases are provided which may be polymerized while in the liquid crystalline state to yield conjugated polymers. The processes for the polymerization of such liquid crystalline diacetylenes and for the elaboratiPortions of this work have been supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Grant No. DAAK-70-77-C-0045 (5-26502). The United States Government has certain rights in this invention.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1983Date of Patent: October 7, 1986Assignee: University Patents, Inc.Inventor: Anthony F. Garito
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Patent number: 4603187Abstract: This invention provides a novel class of polyacetylenic compositions.Illustrative of the invention is a liquid crystalline polymer characterized by the repeating unit: ##STR1## In the form of an optically transparent substrate, the polymer exhibits exceptional nonlinear third-order susceptibility effects.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1985Date of Patent: July 29, 1986Assignee: Celanese CorporationInventor: Eui W. Choe
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Patent number: 4603185Abstract: Acetylene and other 1-alkynes are polymerized by a catalyst system comprised of a transition metal complex consisting of at least one binucleating ligand attached to at least one transition metal containing nucleus; and at least one organometallic cocatalyst containing at least one element of Group 1a, 2a or Group 3a.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1983Date of Patent: July 29, 1986Assignee: The Standard Oil CompanyInventors: Kenneth C. Benton, R. J. Weinert, Jr., Michael J. Desmond