Added Material Is Other Than Monomer Per Se, Or Composition Containing Monomer Patents (Class 526/81)
  • Patent number: 9751967
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a fluoropolymer [polymer (F)] comprising: recurring units derived from vinylidene fluoride (VDF); from 10% to 50% by moles of recurring units derived from trifluoroethylene (TrFE); and from 0.01% to 10% by moles of recurring units derived from at least one (meth)acrylic monomer [monomer (MA)] having formula (I) here below: wherein: R1, R2 and R3, equal to or different from each other, are independently selected from a hydrogen atom and a C1-C3 hydrocarbon group, and ROH represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-C5 hydrocarbon moiety comprising at least one hydroxyl group. The invention also pertains to a process for the manufacture of said polymer (F) and to use of said polymer (F) as ferroelectric, piezoelectric, pyroelectric or dielectric material in electrical and electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SOLVAY SPECIALTY POLYMERS ITALY S.P.A.
    Inventors: Alessio Marrani, Giulio Brinati
  • Patent number: 9453083
    Abstract: A method of producing vinyl polymer particles by suspension polymerization comprising: combining an aqueous media and a tricalcium phosphate to a reaction vessel; adding a pH stabilizing agent to the reaction vessel; adding a vinyl monomer to the reaction vessel; adding a peroxide initiator, e.g., which also generates CO2 as a result of primary or secondary decomposition, to the reaction vessel; adding surfactant or a water soluble free radical initiator to generate surfactant in situ to the reaction vessel; maintaining the reactor contents at greater than or equal to 90° C. until a density of a dispersed phase becomes substantially equal to that of a continuous phase; adding a blowing agent to the reaction vessel; raising the temperature of the reaction vessel to greater than or equal to 100° C.; and collecting polymer particles having a particle size distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Syed Mehmood Ahmed, Mohammed Hamdan, Syed Azhar Hashmi
  • Patent number: 9255164
    Abstract: A process is provided for the polymerization of fluoromonomer to an dispersion of fluoropolymer particles in an aqueous medium in a polymerization reactor, by (a) providing the aqueous medium in the reactor, (b) adding the fluoromonomer to the reactor, (c) adding initiator to the aqueous medium, the combination of steps (b) and (c) being carried out essentially free of hydrocarbon-containing surfactant and resulting in the kickoff of the polymerization of the fluoromonomer, and (d) metering hydrocarbon-containing surfactant into the aqueous medium after the kickoff of polymerization, e.g. after the concentration of the fluoropolymer in the aqueous medium is at least 0.6 wt %, the metering being at a rate reducing the telogenic activity of said surfactant while maintaining surface activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: THE CHEMOURS COMPANY FC, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Douglas Brothers, Subhash Vishnu Gangal, Dipti Dilip Khasnis
  • Patent number: 9133282
    Abstract: Provided herein is a (meth)acrylic resin that has less impurities and is less likely to deteriorate in transparency or turn yellow during molding processing, which is not obtainable by conventional suspension polymerization. The invention is a method for producing a methyl methacrylate polymer, comprising suspension polymerization of 30 to 100 wt % of methyl methacrylate and 70 to 0 wt % of a monomer copolymerizable therewith to produce a methyl methacrylate polymer, wherein the polymerization is initiated in the presence of 350 ppm or less of a suspension stabilizer relative to the monomer(s) and then a suspension stabilizer is added when a polymerization conversion ratio reaches 20 to 90%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fuminobu Kitayama
  • Patent number: 9074025
    Abstract: A polymerization process is provided, comprising polymerizing fluoromonomer in an aqueous medium to form a dispersion of fluoropolymer particles in the aqueous medium, said polymerizing being carried out in the presence of (i) polymerization initiator, and (ii) hydrocarbon-containing surfactant stabilizing the dispersion of fluoropolymer particles, the hydrocarbon-containing surfactant being passivated to reduce its the telogenic behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: THE CHEMOURS COMPANY FC, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Douglas Brothers, Subhash Vishnu Gangal, Dipti Dilip Khasnis
  • Patent number: 9056303
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the continuous preparation of a catalytic system that can be used for the polymerization of at least one conjugated diene monomer, said catalytic system being based on at least: a preforming conjugated diene; an organic phosphoric acid salt of one or more rare-earth metal(s), said salt being in suspension in at least one saturated aliphatic or alicyclic and inert hydrocarbon-based solvent; an alkylating agent comprising an alkylaluminium having the formula AlR3 or HAlR2; and a halogen donor comprising an alkylaluminium halide; characterized in that it comprises successively in one line (L): (i) a reaction between the preforming conjugated diene, with the solution of the salt of rare-earth element(s) and the alkylating agent, with the alkylation reaction being carried out for a characteristic minimum period of at least 5 minutes in an alkylation reactor (30) composed of at least one well-mixed dynamic mixer; (ii) the addition of said halogen donor to the mixtur
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Helene Parola, Fanny Barbotin, Pierre Kiener, Bernard Anselme, Fabrice Martinet
  • Patent number: 8846832
    Abstract: Emulsion comprising an oil phase dispersed in an aqueous phase, wherein said oil phase comprises at least 53 wt % of one or more organic peroxides, more than 50 wt % of which have a molecular active oxygen content of at least 7.00 5 wt %, said emulsion satisfying the classification tests for organic peroxide type F. This emulsion allows the safe transport and storage of organic peroxide emulsions with high active oxygen content without the need for larger vent openings or higher design pressure of transport tanks and storage tanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel Chemicals International B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Jacobus Theodorus de Jong, Johan Nuysink, Koen Antoon Kornelis Vanduffel, Petrus Paulus Waanders
  • Patent number: 8816031
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing a water soluble polymer, which comprises: a first step of polymerizing: (a) 60 to 99.5 mol % of at least one selected from acrylamide and methacrylamide, (b) 0.5 to 20 mol % of at least one selected from ?,?-unsaturated monocarboxylic acid, ?,?-unsaturated dicarboxylic acid and salts thereof, and (c) 1 to 20 mol % of at least one selected from a water soluble cationic monomer and a salt thereof, (d) 0.01 to 1 mol % of a chain transfer agent, and (e) 0.005 to 5 mol % of a crosslinkable monomer, in the presence of a persulfate-based catalyst to obtain a prepolymer; and a second step of further adding the persulfate-based catalyst to the prepolymer obtained in the first step and the residual monomer, followed by the polymerization and termination of the polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Harima Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Kimura, Takahiro Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 8735516
    Abstract: Aqueous solutions of acrylic acid polymers are prepared by polymerization of acrylic acid in a feed operation with a free-radical initiator in the presence of hypophosphite in water as solvent, by a process comprising (i) initially charging water and optionally one or more ethylenically unsaturated comonomers, (ii) continuously adding acrylic acid in acidic, unneutralized form, optionally one or more ethylenically unsaturated comonomers, aqueous free-radical initiator solution and aqueous hypophosphite solution, and (iii) adding a base to the aqueous solution on completion of the acrylic acid feed, wherein a comonomer content does not exceed 30% by weight and the aqueous hypophosphite solution is added during a total feed time made up of three consecutive feed time spans ?tI, ?tII, and ?tIII, wherein the average feed rate in the second feed time span ?tII is greater than the average feed rates in the first and third feed time spans ?tI and ?tIII.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Howard Roger Dungworth, David Petty, Bolette Urtel, Ruth Wirschem
  • Patent number: 8686096
    Abstract: There is provided a method for making swellable particles, said method comprising mixing initial particles, at least one monomer, at least one initiator, and at least one chain-transfer agent, wherein said mixing is performed under conditions in which said monomer is capable of forming oligomer or polymer or a mixture thereof. Also provided are swellable particles made by that method. Further provided is a method of making polymeric resin particles comprising mixing at least one subsequent monomer to those swellable particles and polymerizing said subsequent monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Martin John Deetz, Biwang Jiang, Jiun-Chen Wu
  • Patent number: 8530591
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a latex composition containing polymer particles that are polymerized in at least two stages including a first phase polymer having a relatively high molecular weight and a relatively high glass transition temperature, and a second phase polymer having a relatively low molecular weight, a relatively high glass transition temperature, and polymerized from constituent monomers that include a crosslinkable monomer. Paint compositions and architectural coatings containing the latex composition according to the invention are also described herein, as well as substrates coated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Columbia Insurance Company
    Inventors: Yong Yang, Robert Sheerin, Clarena Shavel, Melissa Fagan
  • Patent number: 8524649
    Abstract: An aqueous dispersion of a copolymer with copolymerized units a) of at least one ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, b) of at least one nonionic ethylenically unsaturated surfactant monomer, c) of at least one C1-C2-alkyl methacrylate, d) of at least one C2-C4-alkyl acrylate, where the alkyl chain length averaged over the number of alkyl groups of the alkyl acrylate is 2.1 to 4.0, is described. Following neutralization with alkali, the dispersion serves as associative thickener, in particular for liquid detergent and cleaner formulations. The thickeners are characterized by high transparency and high thickening effect coupled with high shear dilution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Reinhold J Leyrer, Kati Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8507619
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the polymerization of vinyl-containing monomers such as, for example, monomeric vinyl halides, in a reaction mixture, in which process less waste is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Vinnolit Technologie GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich Woike, Heinz Klippert, Jürgen Kirschner, Peter Kammerhofer
  • Patent number: 8283431
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a process to polymerize one or more monomers wherein at most 90% w/w of a safely useable amount of a first initiator is used and a second initiator is dosed at least after the start of the polymerization, in an amount such that essentially the full cooling capacity of the polymerization reactor is used, resulting in a cost efficient process to make polymers, particularly polymers comprising polymerized vinyl chloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel NV
    Inventors: Hans Westmijze, Lambertus Meulenbrugge, Koen Antoon Kornelis Vanduffel, Andreas Petrus Van Swieten
  • Patent number: 8232356
    Abstract: A method is described for producing an aqueous thickener dispersion from a monomer composition made of at least one ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid and at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer, (i) an at least partially polymerized pre-emulsion being produced from 10 to 80 wt.-% of said monomer composition, and (ii) the residual quantity of said monomer composition being added completely to the at least partially polymerized pre-emulsion and initiating a radical polymerization. The monomer composition preferably also comprises an associative monomer. The method avoids disadvantages of batch polymerization, such as inadequate batch-to-batch reproducibility and safety problems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Reinhold J. Leyrer, Kati Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20120184691
    Abstract: Emulsion comprising an oil phase dispersed in an aqueous phase, wherein said oil phase comprises at least 53 wt % of one or more organic peroxides, more than 50 wt % of which have a molecular active oxygen content of at least 7.00 5 wt %, said emulsion satisfying the classification tests for organic peroxide type F. This emulsion allows the safe transport and storage of organic peroxide emulsions with high active oxygen content without the need for larger vent openings or higher design pressure of transport tanks and storage tanks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: AKZO NOBEL CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Jacobus Theodorus de Jong, Johan Nuysink, Koen Antoon Kornelis Vanduffel, Petrus Paulus Waanders
  • Patent number: 8206553
    Abstract: A method of improving retention and drainage in a papermaking process is disclosed. The method provides for the addition of an associative polymer, prepared by an inverse emulsion polymerization process that utilizes multiple, discrete additions of initiator. Additionally, a process for preparation of an associative polymer, prepared by an inverse emulsion polymerization process that utilizes multiple discrete additions of initiator is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Hercules Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert A. Gelman, Erin A. S. Doherty
  • Patent number: 8076429
    Abstract: A high impact strength random block copolymer including (a) about 65-97 wt. % of a crystalline propylene/ethylene copolymer A containing from about 0.5 wt. % to about 6 wt. % derived from ethylene and from about 94 wt. % to about 99.5 wt. % derived from propylene, and (b) about 3-35 wt. % of a propylene/ethylene copolymer B containing from about 8 wt. % to about 40 wt % derived from ethylene and from about 60 wt % to about 92 wt. % derived from propylene. The crystalline to amorphous ratio Lc/La of the random block copolymer ranges from about 1.00 to about 2.25. The random block copolymer is characterized by both high toughness and low haze.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Lummus Novolen Technology GmbH
    Inventors: José Pezzutti, Alberto Benito, Guillermo Cassano, Leandro Roth, Werner Schoene, Hartmut Siebert, Andreas Winter, Anita Dimeska, Vassilios Galiatsatos
  • Patent number: 7834110
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a process to polymerize one or more monomers wherein one or more initiators and optionally one or more surfactants are added to a polymerization mixture when the pressure in the polymerization reactor is dropping. This process allows a shorter polymerization time due to a higher pressure drop rate at the end of the polymerization reaction. Moreover, the cooling capacity of the polymerization reactor is used more efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel N. V.
    Inventors: Lambertus Meulenbrugge, Koen Antoon Kornelis Vanduffel, Hans Westmijze
  • Patent number: 7759438
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous dispersion polymerization process for preparing a (co)polymer wherein an organic peroxide is used as initiator (as a source of free radicals) during the polymerization process in conjunction with an effective amount of an organic peroxide stabilizing additive (controlling agent). The invention also relates to formulations comprising an organic peroxide and an effective amount of an organic peroxide stabilizing additive suitable for use in said polymerization process. The invention finally relates to 10 (co)polymers obtainable by the dispersion polymerization process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Jacobus Theodorus De Jong, Johannes Willibrordus Antonius Overkamp, Andreas Petrus Van Swieten, Koen Antoon Kornelis Vanduffel, Hans Westmijze
  • Patent number: 7705096
    Abstract: In a manufacturing method of a resin for developing agent, a first polymerization agent is added in an aqueous medium; a radical polymerizable monomer is polymerized in the presence of a chain transfer agent to form a low molecular substance resin particle; after consuming the chain transfer agent, a second polymerization initiator is added in the aqueous medium; and the remaining monomer is polymerized to form a high molecular substance resin particle, thereby improving fixability of the developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Motonari Udo, Takashi Urabe, Tsuyoshi Ito, Masahiro Ikuta
  • Patent number: 7619045
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation in aqueous solution of water-soluble acrylic polymers or for the preparation in aqueous dispersion of water-dispersible acrylic co-polymers, polymerised from, the total being 100 mol %: a) 5 to 70 mol % of one or more monomer(s) (A) which are (alkoxy)polyalkylene glycol (meth)acrylates and/or ((alkoxy)polyalkylene glycol)(meth)acrylamides; b) 5 to 95 mol % of one or more unsaturated carboxylic monomer(s) (B); and c) 0 to 85 mol % of one or more hydrophobic monomer(s) (C) which are water insoluble, in the absence of a chain-transfer agent, and in the presence of a sufficient amount of a water-soluble alkoxyamine, until a conversion of at least 90% by weight of the monomers (A), (B) and (C) is obtained. The polymer has a polydispersity index Mw/ Mn advantageously <2 and an Mn of between 10 000 g/mol and 50 000 g/mol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Manuel Hidalgo, Stephanie Magnet, Olivier Guerret
  • Patent number: 7507781
    Abstract: A papermaking method and a composition which utilize, as a drainage aid, a water-soluble anionic copolymer prepared via a water-in-oil polymerization technique that, absent a cross-linking agent, is characterized by a Huggins' constant (k?) determined in 0.01M NaCl greater than 0.75 and a storage modulus (G?) for a 1.5 wt. % actives polymer solution at 4.6 Hz greater than 175 Pa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Hercules Incorporated
    Inventors: Brian Walchuk, Fushan Zhang, John C. Harrington, William Sean Carey, Richard Lee Brady
  • Patent number: 7375148
    Abstract: A process for preparing an aqueous styrene-butadiene polymer dispersion by free-radical aqueous emulsion polymerization of a monomer mixture M comprising styrene, butadiene, and if desired up to 30% by weight, based on 100% by weight of monomers, of ethylenically unsaturated comonomers other than styrene and butadiene; in a polymerization vessel by a monomer feed technique in the presence of a regulator system containing, based on 100% by weight of monomers, from 0.02 to 0.5% by weight of at least one hydrocarbon HC having from 6 to 20 carbon atoms, selected from compounds which on abstraction of a hydrogen atom form a pentadienyl radical or 1-phenylallyl radical, and ?-methylstyrene dimer, and from 0.3 to 2% by weight of an organic compound S containing at least one SH group wherein at least 30%, preferably at least 50%, in particular at least 80%, and with particular preference the entirety (or >95%) of hydrocarbon HC is included in the initial charge to the polymerization vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Gaschler, Volker Schaedler, Lambertus Manders, Thomas Wirth, Hubertus Kroener
  • Patent number: 7303821
    Abstract: This invention provides a chemically coated surface for the electrophoretic separation application. The surface comprises of block copolymers prepared from addition monomers selected from a group consisting of acrylates and its derivatives, metharylates and its derivatives, styrene and its derivatives, acrylamide, methacrylamide, dimethacrylamide, N-monosubstituted acrylamide, N-monosubstituted methacrylamide, N,N-bissubstituted acrylamide, N,N-bissubstituted methacrylamide, vinyl acetate, vinyl pyrolidone, vinyl ether, acrylic acid and methacrylic acid. This invention also provides a chemical process for making the chemically coated surface for the electrophoretic separation application. The process comprises: (a) contacting the support surface with a coupling agent solution, then (b) contacting the support surface with a first living radical polymerizing solution, and optionally (c) contacting the support surface with a second living radical polymerizing solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Sepax Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Xueying Huang
  • Patent number: 7291685
    Abstract: There is disclosed a process for producing an ?-olefin oligomer by subjecting an ?-olefin to oligomerization reaction in the presence of a catalyst and an organic solvent which comprises the step of spraying a solvent containing the organic solvent in the form of a linear or bar-like pressure fluid toward a wall surface of a vapor phase portion of a reactor from a nozzle fitted within a space of the vapor phase portion of the reactor to conduct the oligomerization reaction while cleaning the wall surface of the vapor phase portion of the reactor. In the production process of the present invention, it is possible to effectively prevent deposition of polymers onto the wall surface of the vapor phase portion of the reactor and stably operate the reactor for a long period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Kobayashi, Shigeki Kura
  • Patent number: 7282549
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fluorine-containing compound containing a substituent represented by the formula 1: where R1 is (a) a straight-chain alkylene group, (b) a branched alkylene group, (c) a cyclic structure containing an aromatic ring group or aliphatic cyclic group, or (d) a substituent containing an aromatic ring group and an aliphatic cyclic group, and R1 optionally contains fluorine, another halogen, CN, oxygen, nitrogen, silicon, or alcohol, and R2 is a hydrogen atom, a straight-chain or branched alkyl group, an aromatic group, or a hydrocarbon group optionally containing an aliphatic cyclic group, and R2 optionally contains fluorine, oxygen, nitrogen, carbonyl bond, or alcohol, and a plural number of R2 having different structures are optionally contained in the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Central Glass Company Limited
    Inventors: Tadashi Narita, Kazuhiko Maeda
  • Patent number: 7250448
    Abstract: A papermaking method and a composition which utilize, as a drainage aid, a water-soluble anionic copolymer prepared via a water-in-oil polymerization technique that, absent a cross-linking agent, is characterized by a Huggins' constant (k?) determined in 0.01M NaCl greater than 0.75 and a storage modulus (G?) for a 1.5 wt. % actives polymer solution at 4.6 Hz greater than 175 Pa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Hercules Incorporated
    Inventors: Brian Walchuk, Fushan Zhang, John C. Harrington, William Sean Carey, Richard Lee Brady
  • Patent number: 7247387
    Abstract: This invention provides a chemically coated surface for the plastics surface such as contact lens. The chemical surface coating comprises of at least one addition polymer prepared from addition monomers selected from a group consisting of acrylates and its derivatives, metharylates and its derivatives, styrene and its derivatives, acrylamide, methacrylamide, dimethacrylamide, N-monosubstituted acrylamide, N-monosubstituted methacrylamide, N,N-bissubstituted acrylamide, N,N-bissubstituted methacrylamide, vinyl acetate, vinyl pyrolidone, vinyl ether, acrylic acid and methacrylic acid. This invention also provides a chemical process for making the chemically coated surface on the plastics surface. The process comprises: (a) contacting the plastics surface with a coupling agent solution, then (b) contacting the plastics surface with a first living radical polymerizing solution, and optionally (c) contacting the plastics surface with a second living radical polymerizing solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Sepax Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Xueying Huang
  • Patent number: 7232867
    Abstract: There is provided a process for producing a vinyl chloride-based polymer, in which a suspension polymerization of either vinyl chloride monomer, or a mixture of vinyl chloride monomer and another copolymerizable monomer, is conducted in a polymerization vessel fitted with a reflux condenser, the process including the steps of: (A) adding to the reaction mixture a high-activity, oil-soluble polymerization initiator, with a 10-hour half life temperature of no more than 40° C. at a concentration of 0.1 mol/L in benzene, for a specified time within a period from the commencement of heat removal using the reflux condenser through to completion of the polymerization, and (B) adding an antioxidant either continuously or intermittently to the reaction mixture at least during the period from the commencement of addition of the high-activity, oil-soluble polymerization initiator through to completion of that addition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Ooura, Tadashi Amano
  • Patent number: 7173095
    Abstract: The invention relates to a polymerization process wherein at least one peroxide, with a half life in between 1 hour and 0.001 hour at the polymerization temperature at the moment of dosing, is dosed to the reaction mixture at the polymerization temperature and wherein at least during part of the period in which the peroxide is dosed i) the cooling means of the reactor are kept at essentially maximum cooling capacity and ii) the amount of initiator that is dosed is actively controlled such that the desired polymerization temperature is achieved and maintained within 0.3° C. of said polymerization temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel N. V.
    Inventors: Lambertus Meulenbrugge, Andreas Petrus Van Swieten, Koen Antoon Kornelis Vanduffel, Hans Westmijze
  • Patent number: 7132485
    Abstract: The invention relates to a suspension polymerization process for the preparation of styrene-containing (co)polymers, wherein the process comprises the steps of continuously or semi-continuously dosing an initiator to the reaction mixture, said initiator having a specified half-life at the temperature of the reaction mixture to which it is dosed. The invention further relates to styrene based (co)polymer obtainable by said process, and to the use of said styrene (co)polymer in a shaping process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.
    Inventors: Hendrikus Gerardus Boevenbrink, Frans Johannes Hoogesteger
  • Patent number: 7112637
    Abstract: There is provided a process for producing a vinyl chloride-based polymer, in which a suspension polymerization of either vinyl chloride monomer, or a mixture of vinyl chloride monomer and another copolymerizable monomer, is conducted in a polymerization vessel fitted with a reflux condenser, the process including the steps of: (A) adding to the reaction mixture a high-activity, oil-soluble polymerization initiator, with a 10-hour half life temperature of no more than 40° C. at a concentration of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Ooura, Tadashi Amano
  • Patent number: 7109275
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a process wherein initiators and protective colloids are both metered to a polymerization mixture. This manner of metering allows for improved control of the polymerization rate and an improved reactor space-time yield, and the process will render a polymer with a relatively high porosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.
    Inventors: Hans Westmijze, Koen Antoon Kornelis Vanduffel, Lambertus Meulenbrugge, Andreas Petrus Van Swieten
  • Patent number: 6939927
    Abstract: Vinyl pyrrolidone/vinyl acetate copolymers having a very low residual vinyl pyrrolidone monomer level, i.e. <100 ppm, preferably only 50 ppm, are made within an advantageously short production cycle, by post-treating an aqueous solution of the copolymer at an elevated temperature of about 120–150° C., preferably about 130° C., under pressure, in the presence of a high temperature initiator, for a period of about 1–4 hours, preferably 2 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: ISP Investments Inc.
    Inventors: Drupesh Patel, Paul Taylor, John Mc Kittrick
  • Patent number: 6872789
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a polymer obtainable from the steps: polymerizing a mixture, that is substantially free or organic solvents, of ethylenically unsaturated monomers which consist for at least 70% of methacrylates, and which comprises specific chain transfer agents, ?-methylstyrene dimer being preferred, to form a first polymer, aqueous emulsion polymerizing a mixture comprising ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of the first polymer to form a dispersion of a water-insoluble second polymer, wherein these steps are preferably performed in the absence or the substantial absence of a surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.
    Inventors: Richard Hendrikus Gerrit Brinkhuis, Andreas Henricus Johannes Roelofs, Dirk Emiel Paula Mestach, Petrus Johannes Maria David Elfrink, Wincently Lambertus Stanislaw Pilaszek, Hendrik Hermanus Rikus van der Horst
  • Patent number: 6822060
    Abstract: A process for producing a tetrafluoroethylene polymer, which comprises polymerizing tetrafluoroethylene in an aqueous medium in the presence of a dispersant, a stabilizer and a polymerization initiator, wherein the polymerization initiator is a redox polymerization initiator comprising a halogen acid salt YXO3/a sulfite Z2SO3 wherein X is a chlorine atom, a bromine atom or an iodine atom, Y is a hydrogen atom, ammonium, an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal, and Z is ammonium, an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal. By this process, it is possible to obtain a tetrafluoroethylene polymer which is suitable for a stretching operation after paste extrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shigeki Kobayashi, Jun Hoshikawa, Kazuo Kato, Hiroki Kamiya, Hiroyuki Hirai
  • Publication number: 20040143074
    Abstract: An aqueous semi-continuous emulsion polymerization process for producing bimodal polymer particles in volumes large than a single batch size is provided. A bimodal polymer composition prepared by the process of carrying out an aqueous semi-continuous emulsion polymerization is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: Thomas George Throne, Owen Clifford Hallerud
  • Patent number: 6765072
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of aqueous dispersions of latex particles having a heterogeneous morphology by a semicontinuous emulsion polymerization, comprising the emulsion polymerizing of ethylenically unsaturated (co)monomers, accompanied by, the addition of cationic and/or anionic and/or nonionic emulsifiers and/or protective colloids as stabilizers, which are directly used as such or synthesized in situ, the semicontinuous emulsion polymerization being performed in the presence of the stabilizer or stabilizers with a monomer mixture, which a) contains at least one nonionic, ethylenically unsaturated monomer with a glass transition temperature Tg above about 30° C. in a quantity of about 10 to 70 wt. %, based on the total weight of ethylenically unsaturated (co)monomers and b) at least one hydrophilic, ethylenically unsaturated monomer in a quantity of about 5 to 30 wt. %, based on the total weight of ethylenically unsaturated (co)monomers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding Corporation
    Inventors: Hongli Willimann, Robert Koelliker
  • Patent number: 6756460
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a novel water-soluble copolymer which is excellent in performance for uses, such as detergent builders, pigment dispersants, and scale inhibitors. In addition, the present invention provides: a novel liquid detergent builder which has extremely excellent compatibility, high transparency when a liquid detergent composition comprises it, and excellent detergency; and a novel liquid detergent composition comprising the liquid detergent builder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Saeki, Junichi Nakamura, Yoshikazu Fujii, Masahito Takagi, Shigeru Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 6727328
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process to create without mechanical agitation a zone of low shear, low turbulence flow pattern within a continuous phase liquid contained in a vessel by a continuous or periodic injection of an inert, immiscible, low density fluid, preferably gas, into the liquid to form such a flow pattern, recovering the fluid above the free surface of the liquid and, preferably, reinjecting it into the liquid. The invention is particularly useful if the continuous liquid contains a dispersed phase which should be distributed within the continuous liquid without excessive particle agglomeration or breakups in order to largely preserve the initial particle size distribution, or if the initial particle size distribution needs to be modified by controlled breakups of the largest particles, particularly during the subsequent batch processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Nova Chemicals Inc.
    Inventors: Karel Cornelis Bleijenberg, Grazyna Petela
  • Patent number: 6693151
    Abstract: An aqueous semi-continuous emulsion polymerization process for producing bimodal polymer particles in volumes large than a single batch size is provided. A bimodal polymer composition prepared by the process of carrying out an aqueous semi-continuous emulsion polymerization is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Thomas George Throne, Owen Clifford Hallerud
  • Patent number: 6689851
    Abstract: The subject invention is directed to a rheology-modified ethylene polymer having less than 0.5 weight percent gel, a composition distribution breadth index (CDBI) greater than 50 percent, and a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of less than 4.0, which is characterized as having improved rheological performance and/or melt strength attributes relative to the unmodified polymer. The subject invention is further directed to polymer blends which comprise the rheology-modified polymers, and to a process for preparing the rheology-modified polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Rowland, Robert R. Turley, James J. Hill, Lawrence T. Kale, Kyle G. Kummer, Shih-Yaw Lai, Pak-Wing Steve Chum
  • Patent number: 6605663
    Abstract: A process is for preparing polyvinyl alcohol-stabilized addition polymers based on (meth)acrylate monomers in the form of their aqueous dispersions and water-redispersible dispersion powders by means of free-radically initiated emulsion polymerization or suspension polymerization of one or more monomers selected from the group consisting of the esters of acrylic acid and methacrylic acid and, if desired, further monomers copolymerizable therewith in the presence of one or more protective colloids from the group of the polyvinyl alcohols and, if appropriate, with drying of the resultant aqueous dispersion, which includes a) conducting polymerization in the presence of from 0.001% to 0.02% by weight of initiator and, if desired, from. 0.001% to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Wacker Polymer Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hans-Peter Weitzel
  • Patent number: 6596804
    Abstract: An emulsion polymer and a method for preparing the emulsion polymer by the free radical polymerization of at least one first ethylenically unsaturated monomer to form a first emulsion polymer and the subsequent treatment of the first emulsion polymer with a colloidal stabilizer, at least one second ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and a redox system at 20-85° C. is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Steven Scott Edwards, Ralph Craig Even, Loretta Ann Wieckowski, Alexander Kowalski
  • Patent number: 6528599
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of preparing a polymer, which comprises subjecting a monomer containing at least a polar unsaturated compound to anionic polymerization in the presence of a phosphazenium compound represented by the formula (1): (wherein Z− is an anion of an active hydrogen compound in the form where a proton is eliminated from the active hydrogen compound and transferred to the anion; a, b, c and d each represents 1 or 0, but all of them are not simultaneously 0; and R may the same or different and each represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and two R(s) on the same nitrogen atom are optionally combined each other to form a cyclic structure), or in the presence of the phosphazenium compound and the active hydrogen compound. The resulting polymer is characterized by narrow molecular weight distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Tadahito Nobori, Atsushi Shibahara, Shinji Kiyono, Takaomi Hayashi, Katsuhiko Funaki, Isao Hara, Kazumi Mizutani, Usaji Takaki
  • Publication number: 20030032741
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing caoutchouc particles (K) by means of emulsion polymerisation in the presence of an emulsifier and a polymerisation initiator. Said particles contain A) 80 to 100 wt. % of one or more conjugated diene monomers (A) in relation to (K) and B) 0 to 20 wt. % of one or more monoethylenically saturated comonomers (B) in relation to (K) in the polymerised form The inventive method is characterised in that 1) a mixture (M1) containing water and an emulsifier is provided, 2) a mixture (M2) containing one or more monomers in the monomer or polymerised form selected from styrole, &agr;-methylstyrole, butadiene, n-butylacrylate, MMA and acrylnitrile and optionally comonomers is added, 3) polymerisation of the obtained mixture starts in the presence of a polymerisation initiator at temperature of 5 to 95° C., 4) a mixture (M3) containing 0 to 100 wt. % of the comonomers (B) in relation to (B) and 0 to 25 wt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Norbert Guentherberg, Bernhard Czauderna, Michael Breulmann, Sabine Oepen, Wil Duijzings, Norbert Niessner
  • Publication number: 20020165316
    Abstract: An aqueous composition suitable for use, when dry, as an improved elastomeric coating, caulk, sealant, or pressure sensitive adhesive is provided including a predominantly acrylic aqueous emulsion polymer, the polymer having a glass transition temperature (Tg) from −90° C. to 20° C., formed by the free radical polymerization of at least one ethylenically unsaturated nonionic acrylic monomer and 0.5-5%, by weight based on the total weight of said polymer, ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer until 90-99.7% of said monomers by weight, based on the total weight of said polymer, has been converted to polymer and subsequently at least half of the remaining monomer is converted to polymer in the presence of 0.1-1.0 wt %, by weight based on the total weight of said polymer, t-amyl hydroperoxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2002
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Inventor: Robert V. Slone
  • Patent number: 6455219
    Abstract: A process for making silica-containing latex particles involves polymerizing monomer in an emulsion comprising the monomer, water, silica particles, and optionally at least one surfactant, by adding at least one free radical initiator to the emulsion to form the silica-containing latex particles. In a preferred method, semicontinuous polymerization employing a seed latex is used to form the latex resin. The process achieves a silica-containing latex in which the silica is chemically incorporated therein that is ideally suited for use in the manufacture of toner and developer for xerographic use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Allan K. Chen, Tie Hwee Ng, Arthur Helbrecht, Kimberly D. Nosella, Danielle C. Boils-Boissier, Paul J. Gerroir, Rosa M. Duque
  • Patent number: 6447900
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive having a storage modulus from 1×105 to 1×106 dyne/cm2 and at a frequency of 1 Hz; and having a gel fraction of 55% or more when the storage modulus is measured at a temperature of 25° C. in dynamic viscoelasticity measurement. Its pressure-sensitive adhesive product can be obtained by the process, for example, for producing the (meth)acrylate emulsion-type pressure-sensitive adhesive which comprises adding the polymerization-initiator(s) at separate multi-steps to the present reaction system in the presence of polymerization-initiator(s) at the time of polymerizing alkyl (meth)acrylate and which comprises using a water-soluble polymerization-initiator at least one time during or after the second step of adding the polymerization-initiator(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Toyo Ink Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Ohtani, Yasuhiro Doi, Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Toshitaka Sakuda, Kenichi Shiba