Stretched Product Patents (Class 526/348.1)
  • Patent number: 7595368
    Abstract: Nanoflims useful for filtration are prepared from amphiphilic species and one or more polymeric components. The amphiphilic species or components may be oriented on an interface or surface. A nanofilm may be prepared by coupling one or more of the components. The nanofilm may also be deposited or attached to a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Covalent Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua W. Kriesel, Donald B. Bivin, David J. Olson, Jeremy J. Harris
  • Patent number: 7579422
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a propylene random copolymer comprising polymerization of propylene with a comonomer, said comonomer being ethylene or an ?-olefin comprising at least four carbon atoms, in the presence of a catalyst in a multistage process comprising polymerization of propylene with a comonomer in a first reaction zone including at least one slurry reactor to give a first polymerization product, transferring said first product to a second reaction zone including at least one gas phase reactor and polymerisations of propylene with a comonomer in said gas phase reactor in the presence of said first polymerization product, wherein the temperature in the gas phase reactor is at least 10° C. higher than in the slurry reactor and to a polymer obtainable by this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Borealis Technology Oy
    Inventors: Pirjo Jaaskelainen, Norbert Hafner, Paivi Pitkanen, Markus Gahleitner, Olli Tuominen, Wilfried Toltsch
  • Patent number: 7576166
    Abstract: A process for producing bimodal linear low-density polyethylene polymer compositions, useful for making films. The polymer compositions have a melt flow rate MFR2 of 0.4 to 1.0 g/10 min and a density of 918 to 925 kn/m3. The process to produce the polymer compositions involves copolymerizing ethylene with an alpha-olefin comonomer in a loop reactor to produce a low molecular weight polymer having a melt flow rate MFR2 of 50 to 500 g/10 min and a density of 945 to 953 kg/m3. The polymerization is continued in a gas phase reactor to produce a high molecular weight polymer, such that the final polymer composition has the desired properties. The final composition contains from 41 to 48% by weight of the low molecular weight polymer and from 59 to 52% by weight of the high molecular weight polymer. The resulting films have an excellent visual appearance and good mechanical properties. The compositions can easily be converted to films. The process can be operated a long time without a shutdown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Borealis Technology Oy
    Inventors: Jari Äärilä, Irene Helland, Ole Jan Myhre, Jorunn Nilsen, Markku Vahteri
  • Publication number: 20090202801
    Abstract: Certain stretched polymers have defects which reduce their tenacity and effectively render the stretched polymers opaque. These defects are at least in part cause by the undesirable stresses being applied to the fiber. Such stresses may be avoided by avoiding thermal shock and by avoiding bending and twisting during processing. Such stretched polymers may be used in optically clear application such as bullet resistant glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventor: John N. Magno
  • Publication number: 20090186999
    Abstract: Injection stretch blow molded (ISBM) articles and processes for forming the same are described herein. The articles include a propylene based polymer having a melt flow rate of less than 10 g/10 min.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: Fina Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Luyi Sun, Likuo Sun, Michael Musgrave, Tim Coffy
  • Publication number: 20090163686
    Abstract: An integrated wet stretch method of making an intrinsic polarizer includes the following steps in order: providing a polymeric film comprising poly(vinyl alcohol) and having an original length; immersing the polymeric film in a first bath comprising a first solution having a pH of less than about 3; uniaxially stretching the first polymeric film in the machine direction thereby forming a stretched polymeric film; removing the stretched polymeric film from the first bath; removing excess first solution from the stretched polymeric film; and uniaxially stretching the stretched polymeric film in the machine direction, at a temperature of at least about 120° C., thereby forming a further stretched polymeric film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Michael K. Gerlach, Gerald N. Nkwantah, Giorgio B. Trapani, Pradnya V. Nagarkar, Phillip J. Ralli
  • Publication number: 20090156773
    Abstract: Processes for enhancing blown film processability and the blown films formed thereby are described herein. One embodiment of the processes generally includes providing a first propylene based heterophasic copolymer having a first melt flow rate, modifying the first propylene based heterophasic copolymer to form a second heterophasic polymer having a second melt flow rate, wherein the second melt flow rate is greater than the first melt flow rate, contacting the first heterophasic polymer, the second heterophasic copolymer or a combination thereof with a plurality of additives, wherein the plurality of additives include a nucleator, polyethylene and mineral oil to form a modified heterophasic copolymer and blowing the modified heterophasic polymer into a film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: Fina Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rodolfo Mier, Mark Miller
  • Publication number: 20090149612
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a biaxially oriented polypropylene film. The biaxially oriented polypropylene film comprises a polypropylene material having xylene solubles of at least 0.5 percent by weight. The polypropylene also has a strain hardening index of at least 0.15 measured at a deformation rate d?/dt of 1.00 s?1 at a temperature of 180° C. In certain embodiments, the strain hardening index is defined as the slope of a logarithm to the basis 10 of a tensile stress growth function as a function of a logarithm to the basis 10 of a Hencky strain for the range of Hencky strains between 1 and 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventors: Manfred Stadlbauer, Eberhard Ernst, Petri Lehmus, Yvo Daniels, Franck Jacobs
  • Publication number: 20090142456
    Abstract: A polymeric sheet having low density and comprising a low to non-existent amount of cyclic olefinic polymers (COP) and/or cyclic olefinic copolymers (COC). The overall density of the sheet may be lower than water. The sheet may be stretched and then heat shrinked onto an article. The sheet may be used as a label or package to wrap articles therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventors: Maor Segal, Yoav Guthman, Aharon Ben-Soussane, Yiftach Nir
  • Patent number: 7538173
    Abstract: Ethylene copolymers valuable for films, coatings, sheets, and molded articles are disclosed. Some of the copolymers have a long-chain-branching index from 0.25 to 0.60 and a gpcBR index from 0.1 to 0.7. Others have a primary DSC melting point that is less than its secondary DSC melting point. Also disclosed is LLDPE in which the weight percentage of the low-temperature elution fraction exceeds that of the high-temperature fraction, and wherein the Mw of the low-temperature fraction exceeds that of the high-temperature fraction. The ethylene copolymers process easily, even at low melt indices, and films from the copolymers have high stiffness, good impact resistance, and high heat-seal strength over a wide temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Equistar Chemicals LP
    Inventors: Thomas J. Schwab, Jean A. Merrick-Mack, Wallace W. Yau, Kelly L. Williams
  • Publication number: 20090131618
    Abstract: A pre-stretched film roll of a mono orientated linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) is stretched between 30% and 320% from it's original length depending on the final product that is required. Stretching is in the machine direction (MD) at a controlled rate in two stages. Differentially rewinding the film entraps air between the layers of the roll and creates soft overlapping edges around the roll to produce a spongy, soft roll that prevents and resists drop damage due to its shock absorbent characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventor: Angel Gerardo Santillan Diaz de Leon
  • Patent number: 7524897
    Abstract: A film with a broad molecular weight distribution, excellent impact strength and a high dart drop value or moderate dart drop value accompanied by good optical property consisting of a bimodal terpolymer comprising a low molecular weight homopolymer of ethylene and a high molecular weight terpolymer of ethylene, 1-butene and a C6 to C12 alpha-olefin, or a bimodal terpolymer comprising a low mo-lecular weight polymer which is a binary copolymer of ethylene and a C4 to C12 alpha-olefin and a high molecular weight polymer which is either a binary copolymer of ethylene and 1-butene, if the low molecular weight polymer is a binary co-polymer of ethylene and a C6 to C12 alpha-olefin, or a terpolymer of ethylene, 1 -butene and a C6 to C12 alpha-olefin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Borealis Technology Oy
    Inventors: Jari {umlaut over ( )}Äärilä, Marja Ora, Tuula Sivonen, Markku Vahteri
  • Patent number: 7521515
    Abstract: The invention mainly aims to provide an economical filler layer for a solar cell module which is excellent in the adhesion property to a transparent front substrate and a backside protective sheet, does not worsen the working environments, and causes no adverse effect on a solar cell element or electrodes at the time of production. To accomplish the aim, the invention provides a filler layer for a solar cell module containing a silane-modified resin obtained by polymerizing an ethylenic unsaturated silane compound and a polyethylene for polymerization and characterized in that the filler layer for a solar cell module has a gel fraction of 30% or lower when the filler layer for a solar cell module is used in a solar cell module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kasumi Oi, Hiroki Nakagawa, Takaki Miyachi, Isao Inoue, Koujiro Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 7521518
    Abstract: Disclosed is a novel ethylene copolymer by copolymerizing an ethylene and at least one comonomer selected from a compound represented by the formula H2C?CHR wherein R is an alkyl group or an aryl group, and a diene, by slurry polymerization process in the presence of a solid catalyst system comprising a support, a transition metal compound and an activator capable of converting the transition metal compound into a catalytically active transition metal complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Grant B. Jacobsen, Fumio Matsushita, Lee Spencer, Peter L. Wauteraerts
  • Patent number: 7517941
    Abstract: A shrink film comprising a polyethylene film of thickness 5 to 500 ?m, wherein the polyethylene comprises an ethylene homopolymer-copolymer mixture having a molecular weight distribution in the range of 5 to 40, and a weight average molecular weight of at least 100 kD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Borealis Technology Oy
    Inventors: Ole Jan Myhre, Merete Skar, Hans Georg Daviknes, Kjetil Larsen Borve, Geir Morten Johansen
  • Publication number: 20090076215
    Abstract: Integral polymer grids, such as geogrids, are made by stretching and orienting a polypropylene starting sheet material having a defined pattern of holes or depressions in which the polypropylene is at least 50%, and preferably up to about 80%, beta crystals caused by adding a beta nucleating agent to the polypropylene, preferably in concentrations between about 10 ppm to about 100 ppm. Such beta nucleated polypropylene grids exhibit increased yield and break tensile strengths, increased 2% and 5% tensile strengths, increased modulus characteristics, increased torsional stiffness, increased impact strength, and increased grid junction strength. Methods for manufacturing the beta nucleated polypropylene mesh grids are disclosed, along with applications for stabilizing particulate material in civil engineering structures, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: William Shelton, John Pocher
  • Patent number: 7473751
    Abstract: A polymer film having a thickness of 10 microns or less and improved barrier characteristics to both water vapor and oxygen is formed from a biaxially-oriented polypropylene film of isotactic polypropylene. The polypropylene is prepared by the polymerization of propylene in the presence of an isospecific metallocene catalyst. The film has a permeability to water vapor of less than about 2.5 g/m2day/25 ?m and a permeability to oxygen of less than about 2200 cc/m2day/25 ?m. The film also has a haze properties of less than about 1%. The polypropylene contains 0.1 to 1% 2,1 insertions and has an isotacticity of at least 96% meso pentads. The isotactic polypropylene thus produced is then extruded into a sheet that is biaxially-oriented by stressing the sheet in the transverse and longitudinal directions to a draw ratio of at least about 6:1 in the transverse direction, and at least about 4:1 in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Fina Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott D. Cooper
  • Patent number: 7452953
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a propylene random copolymer comprising polymerization of propylene with a comonomer, said comonomer being ethylene or an ?-olefin comprising at least four carbon atoms, in the presence of a catalyst in a multistage process comprising polymerization of propylene with a comonomer in a first reaction zone including at least one slurry reactor to give a first polymerization product, transferring said first product to a second reaction zone including at least one gas phase reactor and polymerizations of propylene with a comonomer in said gas phase reactor in the presence of said first polymerization product, wherein the temperature in the gas phase reactor is at least 10° C. higher than in the slurry reactor and to a polymer obtainable by this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Borealis Technology Oy
    Inventors: Pirjo Jääskeläinen, Norbert Hafner, Päivi Pitkänen, Markus Gahleitner, Olli Tuominen, Wilfried Töltsch
  • Publication number: 20080268221
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polypropylene resin composition having good moldability and giving a film or a sheet that is excellent in transparency and heat-sealing properties. A polypropylene resin composition of the present invention comprises 1 to 50 wt % of a propylene polymer (A) whose melting point Tm as measured with a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) is 150° C. or higher, 10 to 90 wt % of a propylene copolymer (B) whose melting point Tm is 100° C. or higher and below 150° C., and 1 to 80 wt % of an olefin copolymer (C) whose melting point is 40° C. or higher and below 100° C., comprising 50 mol % or more of a constitutional unit derived from either one of propylene or 1-butene (a) and 50 mol % or less of a constitutional unit derived from an ?-olefin having 2 to 20 carbon atoms (b) other than the constitutional unit (a) (here, the sum of (a) and (b) is 100 mol %). A film obtained from this resin composition is suitable as a packaging film for food and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Norihide Inoue, Takayuki Kuroki
  • Patent number: 7442743
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of a propylene polymer in a multistage polymerization process comprising the polymerisation of propylene in the presence of a catalyst in a first reaction zone comprising at least one slurry reactor to give a first polymerisation product, transferring said first product to a second reaction zone comprising at least one gas phase reactor and continuing polymerisation of propylene in the gas phase in the presence of said first polymerisation product which is characterised in that the temperature in both the slurry and the gas phase reactor is at least 75° C. and the product of at least one reactor is having an ethylene content in the range of 0.05 to 0.5 wt %. Furthermore, the invention relates to a propylene polymer obtainable by the inventive process, to a propylene polymer which is characterised in that it comprises ethylene comonomer in an amount of 0.05 to 0.5 wt. %, is having a xylene solubles contents of 3.0 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Borealis Technology Oy
    Inventors: Pirjo Jääskeläinen, Marijke Verpoest, Bert Broeders, Helge Grande
  • Patent number: 7439315
    Abstract: A copolymer film having a decreased dielectric constant which is produced by supplying at least two organic monomers as raw materials, forming a film of a copolymer comprising a backbone based on said at least two monomers on a surface of a substrate, and heating the copolymer film at a temperature higher than a temperature at which the copolymer film is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Nobutaka Kunimi, Jun Kawahara, Akinori Nakano, Keizo Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 7423105
    Abstract: A curable composition for coating an optical fiber that includes an aliphatic-aromatic oxyglycidyl(meth)acrylate monomeric component, an aliphatic-(hetero)cyclic oxyglycidyl(meth)acrylate monomeric component, or a combination thereof, and an ethylenically unsaturated urethane or urea oligomeric component. Cured products of the composition and optical fibers that contain cured primary coatings formed from such compositions are also disclosed. The resulting optical fibers and optical fiber ribbons containing them can be used for data transmission in telecommunications systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Michael James Winningham
  • Patent number: 7420022
    Abstract: External donor systems, catalyst systems and olefin polymerization processes are described herein. The external donor systems generally include a first external donor represented by the general formula SiR2m(OR3)4-m, wherein each R2 is independently selected from alkyls, cycloalkyls, aryls and vinyls, each R3 is independently selected from alkyls and m is from 0 to 4. The external donor systems further include a second external donor represented by the general formula SiR4m(OR5)4-m, wherein each R4 is independently selected from alkyls, cycloalkyls, aryls and vinyls, each R5 is independently selected from alkyls, m is from 0 to 4 and at least one R4 is a C3 or greater alkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Fina Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth P. Blackmon, Shabbir A. Malbari
  • Publication number: 20080177018
    Abstract: A polymer film having a thickness of 10 microns or less and improved barrier characteristics to both water vapor and oxygen is formed from a biaxially-oriented polypropylene film of isotactic polypropylene. The polypropylene is prepared by the polymerization of propylene in the presence of an isospecific metallocene catalyst. The film has a permeability to water vapor of less than about 2.5 g/m2day/25 ?m and a permeability to oxygen of less than about 2200 cc/m2day/25 ?m. The film also has a haze properties of less than about 1%. The polypropylene contains 0.1 to 1% 2,1 insertions and has an isotacticity of at least 96% meso pentads. The isotactic polypropylene thus produced is then extruded into a sheet that is biaxially-oriented by stressing the sheet in the transverse and longitudinal directions to a draw ratio of at least about 6:1 in the transverse direction, and at least about 4:1 in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventor: Scott D. Cooper
  • Patent number: 7402640
    Abstract: A fluorocopolymer and film thereof exhibiting excellent transparency and mechanical strength at ambient and elevated temperatures, wherein the fluorocopolymer includes polymerized units based on ethylene (E), tetrafluoroethylene (TFE), hexafluoropropylene (HFP) and perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) (PFAV), wherein the molar ratio of polymerized units based on E/TFE is from 10/90 to 60/40, the content of polymerized units based on HFP is from 0.2 to 0.9 mol % based on the total number of polymerized units, and the content of polymerized units based on PFAV is from 0.1 to 1.0 mol % based on the total number of polymerized units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Aida, Atsushi Funaki
  • Publication number: 20080152851
    Abstract: Stretch blow molded containers comprising a propylene polymer composition produced with a metallocene catalyst, the propylene polymer composition comprising: A. 25.0 wt % to about 75.0 wt % of a homopolymer or minirandom copolymer of propylene containing up to 1.0 wt % of at least one of ethylene and C4-C10 ?-olefins, having an isotactic index greater that about 80%; and B. 25.0 wt % to about 75.0 wt % of a random copolymer of propylene and at least one olefin chosen from ethylene anti C4-C10 ?-olefins, containing about 0.3 to about 30 wt % of said olefin, and having an isotactic index greater than about 60%; wherein the propylene copolymer composition has a melt flow rate of 1 to 50 and a molecular weight distribution or less than 3.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: BASELL POLIOLEFINE ITALIA s.r.l.
    Inventors: David H. McKeeman, Timothy C. Brasel, Leroy V. Robeson, Alexander Woerz, Gabriella Sartori
  • Publication number: 20080154009
    Abstract: The invention disclosed herein relates to a method of treating plastics material fibres, filaments or film to improve their resistance to degradation by UV radiation and/or increase their resistance to gas (oxygen) transmissivity and an improved plastics material so treated, the method including stretching the fibre, filament or film beyond its yield point and allowing the film to at least partially relax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventor: Peter Johnstone
  • Patent number: 7390575
    Abstract: A polyolefin based biaxially oriented multi-layer film having at least one surface layer comprise of the propylene-ethylene random block copolymer; The propylene-ethylene random block copolymer obtained through sequential polymerization catalyzed by a metallocene component which is composed of 30 to 70 wt % of a propylene-ethylene random copolymer component having an ethylene content of 1 to 7 wt % produced in the first step of the polymerization and from 70 to 30 wt % of a low crystallinity or an amorphous propylene-ethylene random copolymer component produced in the second step of the polymerization having an ethylene content of 6 to 15 wt % higher than that of the polymer component obtained in the first step, wherein that shows a single peak at 0° C. or lower in the temperature-loss tangent (tan ?) curve obtained by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Japan Polypropylene Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Tayano, Kuninori Takahashi, Iku Kouzai, Shinichi Kitade, Shigeo Mizukami, Koichi Hirayama
  • Patent number: 7365142
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to enantioselective polyelectrolyte complex films. Further, said films may be free or isolated membranes, or coatings on substrates such a porous substrates, capillary tubes, chromatographic packing material, and monolithic stationary phases and used to separate chiral compounds. The present invention is also directed to a method for forming such enantioselective polyelectrolyte complex films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph B. Schlenoff, Hassan Rmaile
  • Patent number: 7361717
    Abstract: A fluorocopolymer film formed by molding at a molding temperature of at most 320° C. a fluorocopolymer comprising repeating units based on ethylene, repeating units based on tetrafluoroethylene, repeating units based on hexafluoropropylene and repeating units based on a fluoroalkyl vinyl ether represented by CF2?CFORf (wherein Rf represents a C1-10 fluoroalkyl group), having a molar ratio of the repeating units based on ethylene/the repeating units based on tetrafluoroethylene of from 10/90 to 60/40, a content of the repeating units based on hexafluoropropylene to the total repeating units of from 0.1 to 20 mol % and a content of the fluoroalkyl vinyl ether to the total repeating units of from 0.1 to 10 mol %, and having a volumetric flow rate of from 0.1 to 30 mm3/sec at 297° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Aida, Masaru Yamauchi, Hiroshi Aruga
  • Patent number: 7351478
    Abstract: A heat-seal polymer film and method of forming such film is provided. The heat-seal film is formed from metallocene-catalyzed isotactic random copolymers of propylene and at least one other C2 to C8 alpha olefin, such as ethylene random. Such films show improved heat-seal characteristics, such as reduced seal initiation temperatures (SIT's) and improved heat-seal strength, as well as other improved properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Fina Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Aiko Hanyu, Scott D. Cooper, Mark Miller
  • Publication number: 20080004411
    Abstract: A polyethylene film comprising a polymer composition having the characteristics of a total energy dart drop, measured in accordance with ASTM D4272, of greater than a bout 0.45 ft.lbf, a dart drop impact strength, measured in accordance with ASTM D1709 Method A, of greater than about 135 g, and a moisture vapor transmission rate, measured in accordance with ASTM F1249 at 100° F. and 90% relative. humnidity, of less tha about 0.85 g-mil/100 square inch/24 hr, wherein said ASTM tests are performed on a test specimen having a 0.8 mil thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: Ashish M. Sukhadia, Joel L. Martin, Qing Yang, Kumudini C. Jayaratne, J. Todd Lanier
  • Patent number: 7314905
    Abstract: A film that has high rigidity and high heat resistance and good releasability from a roughened copper foil surface, which is subjected to surface oxidization or etching treatment with acid, such as a black oxidized copper foil surface and that is suitable as a release film for producing an MLB; and a process for producing the same. A drawn film having a layer (A) which comprises a copolymer that is made from 4-methyl-1-pentene and ethylene or an ?-olefin, except 4-methyl-1-pentene, having 3 to 20 carbon atoms and that comprises 80% or more by mole of 4-methyl-1-pentene, the thermal coefficient of contraction of the film being 20% or more in the film-drawn direction, or the peel area of the film being 50% or more when the film, together with a copper foil surface subjected to roughening treatment, is subjected to heating and pressing treatment. This film is suitable for producing an MLB and has good releasability from the roughened copper foil surface, for example, a black oxidized copper foil surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Nishijima, Shinichi Imuta, Toshiyuki Hirose
  • Patent number: 7312292
    Abstract: A polymer comprising polycyclic repeating units having recurring ion conducting groups and optional crosslinkable groups is disclosed. The present invention provides the capability of tailoring polymers to impart unique properties to membranes fabricated from the polymers. Membranes comprising the polymers and methods for preparing the membranes and their use in ion conducting membranes, particularly in fuel cells, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Promerus LLC
    Inventors: Ravi Ravikiran, Xiaoming Wu, Larry F. Rhodes, Robert A. Shick, Hiroko Nakano, Hirotaka Nonaka, Huabin Wang, Saikumar Jayaraman, Robert John Duff, John-Henry Lipian
  • Patent number: 7312295
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a copolymer comprising units derived from ethylene and 1-heptene, to a composition comprising such a copolymer, and to an article prepared from or containing such a copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Hendrik H. Hagen, Lambertus P. P. M. Van Der Heijden
  • Patent number: 7294678
    Abstract: Natural rubber and/or synthetic polyisoprene film products having enhanced tear strength and tensile strength crosslinked with a one polynitrile oxide, intended for direct or indirect contact with living tissue or fluids to be placed in living organisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Regent Medical Limited
    Inventors: Mark W. McGlothlin, Whitney A. Williams, Scott W. Herrick
  • Patent number: 7265193
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process to polymerize olefins comprising: contacting: (i) propylene and (ii) a mixture comprising, optionally ethylene, and three or more different alpha olefins having 4 to 20 carbon atoms, wherein at least one alpha olefin is present at Z percent or more, based upon the weight of the mixture, where Z=Y+X, where X=(100 divided by the number of alpha olefins present in the mixture) and Y equals 1 to 75, where Z is not more than 95%, with (iii) a metallocene catalyst system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Weiqing Weng, Srivatsan Srinivas, Robert J. Wittenbrink
  • Patent number: 7256239
    Abstract: A film of a polyethylene produced by polymerization catalysed by a single site catalyst and comprising as comonomers to ethylene at least two C4-12 alpha olefins, preferably but-1-ene and hex-1-ene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Borealis Technology Oy
    Inventors: Irene Helland, Merete Skar, Jani Äärilä, Marja Ora, Markku Vahteri
  • Patent number: 7241850
    Abstract: A polypropylene composition comprises an isotactic polypropylene homopolymer resin that is suitable to form an injected molded article exhibiting less than about 60% haze, as determined by ASTM D1003, at a thickness of 0.05 inch without clarity-enhancing agents. The polypropylene composition has particular application to injection molded articles and may have a melt flow rate of from about 0.1 g/10 min to about 150 g/10 min as determined by ASTM D-1238, Procedure B. The resin may be prepared using a metallocene catalyst, and the composition may include clarity-enhancing agents for even greater clarity improvements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Fina Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Burmaster, Owen Hodges, J. Layne Lumus, Lu Ann Kelly, Mark Murphy
  • Patent number: 7238818
    Abstract: A new class of heterocyclic metallocenes, a catalytic system containing them and a process for polymerizing addition polymerizable monomers using said catalytic system are disclosed; the heterocyclic metallocenes correspond to the formula (I): YjR?iZjjMeQkPl wherein Y is a coordinating group containing a six ? electron central radical directly coordinating Me, to which are associated one or more radicals containing at least one non-carbon atom selected from B, N, O, Al, Si, P, S, Ga, Ge, As, Se, In, Sn, Sb and Te; R? is a divalent bridge between the Y and Z groups; Z is a coordinating group, optionally being equal to Y; Me is a transition metal; Q is halogen or hydrocarbon substituents; P is a counterion; i is 0 or 1; j is 1–3; jj is 0–2; k is 1–3; and l is 0–2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: John A. Ewen, Michael J. Elder, Robert L. Jones, Jr., Yuri A. Dubitsky
  • Patent number: 7235618
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a polypropylene homopolymer synthesized from a metallocene catalyst system and methods of forming the homopolymer, the homopolymer having an aluminum and chlorine recoverables value of less than 25 ppm and a xylene solubles of less than 1 wt % relative to the total weight of the homopolymer. The resulting homopolymer has other desirable properties such as a heat deflection temperature at 0.45 MPa of from 90° C. to 110° C., and a MWD value of from 1.7 to 5.0. These properties make embodiments of the homopolymer desirable for films, and in particular for capacitor films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Chon-Yie Lin, Bernard Louis Bossaert, Michael Chia-Chao Chen, Susan Chia-Yu Yeh
  • Patent number: 7232785
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new solid catalytic component, which can be used in combination with an aluminum compound as co-catalyst and optionally an external electron donor as additional co-catalyst to form a catalytic system of the Ziegler-Natta-catalyst-type. The solid catalytic system comprises titanium or vanadium compound, a compound of magnesium containing at least one halogen, a particulate porous support, and optionally an internal electron donor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: ABB Lummus Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolf Spaether, John Lynch, Joachim Rösch, Rainer Hemmerich
  • Patent number: 7226880
    Abstract: A film formed from a two-component single resin including two components, not blended or co-polymerized, but inter-polymerized. The two components may have different densities and/or different melt indexes, with the resulting resin having properties of a blend of the two components but with improved durability and improved cross-directional extension properties compared to a conventional blend. The two components may be linear low density polyethylene and a metallocene-catalyzed polymer, for example. The film may also include calcium carbonate to provide breathability. The film has a more uniform cross-directional gauge profile and can be extended more uniformly. The film has cross-direction extensibility at a low force, for example, between about 25% and about 50% at a force below 500 grams per 3 inches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventor: Prasad Shrikirshna Potnis
  • Patent number: 7202001
    Abstract: This invention relates to sulfonated copolymers which are useful in forming polymer electrolyte membranes used in fuel cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Polyfuel, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuguang Cao, Helen Xu, Thomas Jeanes, Kie Hyun Nam, Jian Ping Chen, David Olmeijer
  • Patent number: 7193025
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with single layer articles produced by rotomoulding and consisting essentially of metallocene-produced syndiotactic polypropylene or isotactic random copolymer of propylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Total Petrochemicals Research Feluy
    Inventors: Eric Maziers, Valérie Smits
  • Patent number: 7189462
    Abstract: It is to provide a block copolymer and its copolymer composition which provides a heat shrinkable (multilayer) film with less spontaneous shrinkage while maintaining favorable low temperature shrinkability, and a heat shrinkable (multilayer) film containing the block copolymer. By using a block copolymer comprising a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon and a conjugated diene characterized in that the relation of the loss tangent value obtained by dynamic viscoelasticity measurement with the temperature satisfies specific conditions, or a composition containing the copolymer composition as an essential component, a heat shrinkable (multilayer) film with less spontaneous shrinkability and less odor while maintaining favorable low temperature shrinkability can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masamitsu Matsui, Hideki Watanabe, Jun Yoshida, Hisakazu Hoshino
  • Patent number: 7186458
    Abstract: An adhesive tape comprising a backing and a layer of adhesive on the backing. The backing comprises a biaxially oriented substrate which comprises an isotactic polypropylene composition. The tapes and backings of this invention can be severed readily using commercial tape dispensers having metal or plastic cutting teeth to produce cleanly serrated cut edges on the tape. The biaxially oriented substrate is preferably made from a resin comprising an isotactic polypropylene homopolymer having a melt flow rate greater than 8 grams/10 minutes, more preferably greater than 12 grams/10 minutes, and still more preferably greater than about 20 grams/10 minutes. One preferred way to obtain such a resin is to blend: A) at least one isotactic polypropylene homopolymer “A” having a weight average molecular weight of at least 350,000 grams/mole and melt a flow rate of about 0.5–8 grams/10 minutes, more preferably about 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: 3m Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Scott D. Pearson, Patrick J. Hager
  • Patent number: 7186788
    Abstract: A coating resin that is thermoplastic, exhibits good appearance, solvent resistance and adherence and is excellent in abrasion resistance; and a coting liquid or coating film thereof. In particular, a (meth)acrylic copolymer resin (A) produced by radical polymerization of 4 to 50 mass % of (meth)acrylic acid (a-1), 0.5 to 17 mass % of (meth)acrylamide (a-2), and 35 to 95.5 mass % of a compound having reactive unsaturated bond other than the compounds (a-1) and (a-2). With respect to the coating film produced therefrom, both the glass transition temperature Tg1 measured by means of a rigid-body pendulum type viscoelasticity measuring instrument and the glass transition temperature Tg2 measured by means of a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) are 110° C. or higher. The coating film is an abrasion resistant film whose abrasion resistance measured in accordance with the Taber abrasion testing method is 80 rotations or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yugo Hasegawa, Tsukasa Murakami, Keiichi Asami
  • Patent number: 7169855
    Abstract: An apparatus (1) for producing a transparent polypropylene sheet, which comprises a sheet formation means (11) for melt-kneading a resin composition comprising (A) 60 to 97 mass % of a polypropylene resin having an iostactic pentad proportion of 0.85 to 0.99 and a melt index of 2 to 10 g/10 min and (B) 40 to 3 mass % of a polypropylene resin having a racemic pentad proportion [rrrr/(1-mmmm)] of 0.15 to 0.50 and a melt index of 2 to 10 g/10 min and extruding it into s sheet, a first cooling means (12) for cooling a sheet (20) into a solid, a preheating means (13) for re-heating the cooled sheet (20), a heat treatment means (14) for heat-treating the sheet (20) into a sheet (21) and a second cooling means (15) for cooling the sheet (21) after heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Idemitsu Unitech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Yamaguchi, Masahiro Kubo, Katsumi Uchiyama, Akira Funaki
  • Patent number: 7166685
    Abstract: Solid and liquid compositions containing particles of highly fluorinated ion-exchange polymer having sulfonate functional groups with an ion exchange ratio of less than about 33. The compositions contain at least about 25% by weight of polymer particles having a particle size of about 2 nm to about 30 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Dennis Edward Curtin, Edward George Howard