Two Or More Heterocyclic Reactants Containing Rings Of One Oxygen And Two Carbon Atoms Patents (Class 528/419)
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Patent number: 10662264Abstract: A non-leaching mediator may include a polymer having a polymeric backbone, and a plurality of phenothiazine groups bonded to the polymeric backbone. The plurality of phenothiazine groups may include at least one of a phenothiazine group having the general formula (IV): and salts thereof, where n is about 9 and “R” represents the polymeric backbone to which the phenothiazine group is bonded, and a phenothiazine group having the general formula (V): and salts thereof, where n is about 9 and “R” represents the polymeric backbone to which the phenothiazine group is bonded.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Ascensia Diabetes Care Holdings AGInventors: Jiangfeng Fei, William Chiang, Frank Kerrigan, Stuart Green, Craig Robson, Howard Easterfield
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Patent number: 9944725Abstract: A non-leaching mediator may include a polymer having a polymeric backbone, and a plurality of phenothiazine groups bonded to the polymeric backbone. The plurality of phenothiazine groups may include at least one of a phenothiazine group having the general formula (IV): and salts thereof, where n is about 9 and “R” represents the polymeric backbone to which the phenothiazine group is bonded, and a phenothiazine group having the general formula (V): and salts thereof, where n is about 9 and “R” represents the polymeric backbone to which the phenothiazine group is bonded.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Ascensia Diabetes Care Holdings AGInventors: Jiangfeng Fei, William Chiang, Frank Kerrigan, Stuart Green, Craig Robson, Howard Easterfield
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Patent number: 9505884Abstract: A non-leaching mediator may include a polymer having a polymeric backbone, and a plurality of phenothiazine groups bonded to the polymeric backbone. The plurality of phenothiazine groups may include at least one of a phenothiazine group having the general formula (IV): and salts thereof, where n is about 9 and “R” represents the polymeric backbone to which the phenothiazine group is bonded, and a phenothiazine group having the general formula (V): and salts thereof, where n is about 9 and “R” represents the polymeric backbone to which the phenothiazine group is bonded.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Ascensia Diabetes Care Holdings AGInventors: Jiangfeng Fei, William Chiang, Frank Kerrigan, Stuart Green, Craig Robson, Howard Easterfield
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Patent number: 8877341Abstract: According to the present invention, a polycarbonate resin having a repeat unit represented by the following formula (1) and a repeat unit represented by the following general formula (2), and an optical film using the same, can be provided. In the formula, Y is a cycloalkylene group having a carbon number of 4 through 20 or a structure represented by the following general formula (3). In the general formula (3), R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently a hydrogen atom or a monovalent alkyl group having a carbon number of 1 through 5.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2007Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, IncInventors: Noriyuki Kato, Kunitoshi Mimura
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Patent number: 8846856Abstract: A novel hydroxyl-functional polyether derived from the reaction of (a) a divinylarene dioxide, particularly a divinylarene dioxide derived from divinylbenzene such as divinylbenzene dioxide (DVBDO); and (b) a diphenol; wherein the reaction product is thermally stable and exhibits an absence of self-polymerization (crosslinking or gelling) upon heating at elevated temperatures. The novel hydroxyl-functional polyether offers improved properties compared to known hydroxyl-functional polyethers such as solid epoxy resins, phenolic epoxy resins (hardeners), and poly(hydroxyl ethers).Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2009Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventor: Maurice J. Marks
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Patent number: 8779079Abstract: Novel silicone polyether copolymers of inverse structure of the formula 1, characterized in that no unsaturated functional groups caused by side reactions or conversion products thereof are present in the copolymer, and a process for preparation thereof, in which a polyether modified terminally and/or laterally with alkoxysilyl groups is reacted with silanes and/or siloxanes which bear one or more hydrolysis-labile groups, in a hydrolysis and condensation reaction.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2010Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Frauke Henning, Frank Schubert, Wilfried Knott, Horst Dudzik
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Patent number: 8524857Abstract: A new class of compounds, namely diamino alcohols, is described, along with a process for their production and their use as hardeners, or curing agents, for epoxy resin systems, some of which have high glass transition temperatures, Tgs, such as greater than about 120° C.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, ANGUS Chemical CompanyInventors: Asghar Akber Peera, Ian Tomlinson
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Publication number: 20130102755Abstract: Product containing epichlorohydrin and at least one alkyl glycidyl ether in an amount of less than 0.1 g/kg of product. Use of the product containing epichlorohydrin in the manufacture of epoxy resins, of glycidyl ethers, of glycidyl esters, of glycidyl amides, of glycidyl imides, of products that will be used in food and drink applications, of cationization agents, and of flame retardants, of products which will be used as detergent ingredient and of epichlorohydrin oligomers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2012Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: SOLVAY SAInventor: Solvay SA
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Patent number: 8334092Abstract: The present invention relates to a photo-sensitive resin composition having superior heat-resistant and mechanical property, and a protective film for printed circuit board, and particularly provides a photo-sensitive resin composition including an acid-modified oligomer, a photo-polymerizable monomer, a photo-initiator, an epoxy resin, and a butadiene-modified epoxy resin including epoxy group and at least one double bond in the main chain, and a protective film for printed circuit board prepared by using the composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Bo-Yun Choi, Byung-Ju Choi, Woo-Jae Jeong, Kwang-Joo Lee, Min-Su Jeong
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Patent number: 8293866Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a poly(ethylene oxide) copolymerized with one alkylene oxide and to a poly(ethylene oxide-co-alkylene oxide) copolymer produced by such method, a photovoltaic device containing such poly(ethylene oxide-co-alkylene oxide)-copolymer, and to uses of such poly(ethylene oxide)-(alkylene oxide)-copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbHInventors: Gabriele Nelles, Silvia Rosselli, Tzenka Miteva, Akio Yasuda, Christo Tsvetanov, Rayna Stamenova, Iliyana Berlinova, Petar Petrov
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Patent number: 8273853Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of emulsifiers E1 which are obtained by (a) reacting a polyol with propylene oxide or a mixture of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, to give an intermediate Z1, (b) reacting the intermediate Z1 with epichlorohydrin, forming an intermediate Z2, (c) reacting the intermediate Z2 with an adduct of ethylene oxide or a mixture of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, with a C1-C22 monoalcohol, provided that on average at least one epoxide function of the intermediate Z2 is reacted and on average at least one epoxide function originating from the intermediate Z2 is retained. Compounds E1 are suitable as emulsifiers for preparing aqueous emulsions or dispersions of epoxy resins.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2009Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Cognis IP Management GmbHInventors: Paul Birnbrich, Hans-Josef Thomas, Giorgio Sabbadini, Ulrich Nagorny, Georg Bourscheidt
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Patent number: 8247051Abstract: A coating composition is provided for use in laminate substrates useful in packaging of liquids and solids where the coating provides and increased resistance to the permeability of gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide. In one embodiment the coating composition is a dispersion or a solution that comprises at least one hydroxyl functional polyetheramine, phosphoric acid and a defoamer. The backbone of the polyetheramine has diglycidyl ether linkages that comprise about 5 to about 70 mole percent resorcinol diglycidyl ether. The coating composition can be applied to substrates by coating applications such as spraying, rolling reverse and direct, rolling direct and reverse gravure, kiss coat, flow coating, brushing, dipping and curtain-wall coating, for example.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2006Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: The Glidden CompanyInventors: Daniel Bode, Cathy Li, Kenneth J. Gardner
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Patent number: 8242217Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an epoxy resin curing agent which has a favorable pot life and good storage stability as a curing agent for epoxy resins and from which an epoxy resin cured product having good water resistance and hardness is obtained through curing. The present invention is an epoxy resin curing agent containing a secondary or tertiary branched thiol compound having a substituent on a carbon atom at the ?-position to a thiol group, and is also an epoxy resin composition comprising a polyvalent epoxy compound and the epoxy resin curing agent.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2008Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.Inventors: Yoshifumi Urakawa, Hideo Miyata, Isao Yamagami, Katsumi Murofushi
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Patent number: 8216487Abstract: The invention relates to a copolymer of ethylene oxide or propylene oxide and at least one substituted oxirane bearing an ionic group. The copolymer is characterized in that its chain comprises repeat units —O—CH2—CH(—CH2—O—SO3?Li+)—, repeat units —O—CH2—CHR— in which R is H or CH3, optionally, repeat units —O—CH2—CH(—CH2R?)— in which R? is a functional group. x Uses: electrolyte in electrochemical, selective-membrane and reference-membrane devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2006Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: BatscapInventors: Jean-Yves Sanchez, Marc Deschamps, Fannie Alloin, Christophe Chauvin, Cristina Iojoiu
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Patent number: 8167992Abstract: A composition comprising a particulate Solid, an organic medium and a compound with an alkyleneoxy compound with an inorganic acidic polar head group (Z), wherein the compound is defined by Formula (1) and salts thereof: U—(Y)x-T-N(G)r(B—Z)q (Formula 1) wherein U is independently R?—N—(C)-T?-O—, or R—O—; R or R? may be the same or different and are independently H or C1-50-optionally substituted hydrocarbyl, or hydrocarbonyl group (acyl group), or the residue of an epoxide, or the residue of an optionally substituted (meth) acrylic ester or amide group; Y is C2-4-alkyleneoxy; T or T? is independently C2-4 alkylene; B is an alkylene group, such as, methylene; Z is an inorganic acidic polar head group, such as, a sulphur or phosphorus acidic polar head group; G and G? may be the same or different and are independently H or C1-50-optionally substituted hydrocarbyl or C1-50-optionally substituted hydrocarbyl or hydrocarbonyl group or the residue of an epoxide, or the residue of an optionally substituted (meth) acType: GrantFiled: December 14, 2006Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Lubrizol LimitedInventors: Dean Thetford, Patrick J. Sunderland, Neil L. Simpson
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Publication number: 20110318646Abstract: The present invention is directed at a binder for a battery electrode comprising an ethylene oxide-containing copolymer including a first monomer of ethylene oxide (EO) and at least one additional monomer selected from an alkylene-oxide that is different from the first monomer of EO, an alkyl glycidyl ether, or a combination thereof; wherein the ethylene oxide-containing copolymer has a weight average molecular weight less than about 200,000 g/mole (e.g., from about 10,000 to about 100,000), the molar fraction of the first monomer of EO (XEo) in the ethylene oxide-containing copolymer is greater than 0.80 (e.g., from about 0.80 to about 0.995), and the ethylene oxide-containing copolymer h a peak melting temperature (Tp), in ° C., for a selected XEO in the range of about 0.80 to about 0.995, which is below a maximum value of Tpmax, at the selected XEO, which is calculated using the equation Tpmax=(60?150 (1?XEO)).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2010Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Susan J. Babinec, Houxiang Tang, Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar, Eric P. Wasserman, Richard A. Galley, Michael M. Luong
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Patent number: 8034891Abstract: A novel polyether-modified organopolysiloxane and a novel diorganopolysiloxane-polyether block copolymer are more resistant to oxidation than the heretofore existing polyoxyalkylene-modified organopolysiloxanes and are thus more resistant to producing allergenically antigenic oxidation products during elapsed time in storage. Methods of producing this novel polyether-modified organopolysiloxane and novel diorganopolysiloxane-polyether block copolymer are also provided, as well as cosmetic that the modified organopolysiloxane or diorganopolysiloxane-polyether block copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2007Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Dow Corning Toray Company, Ltd.Inventor: Tadashi Okawa
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Patent number: 7842261Abstract: The invention pertains to a process for preparing resorbable polyesters by bulk polymerization, wherein the reaction components are melted and homogenized in a reactor, the reaction mixture is then transferred into a polymerization reactor having a lumen defined by a reaction wall, wherein said reactor wall comprises at least two components which are releasably fitted to each other and wherein the shortest distance of any point within said lumen to the reaction wall is less than 8 cm, the reaction mixture is polymerized and the resulting polymer is removed from the polymerization reactor by releasing the components of the reactor wall exposing the resulting polymer lengthwise. The invention further relates to a polymerization reactor having a lumen defined by a reaction wall for performing said process.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2006Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Purac Biochem BVInventors: Albert Van Der Wal, Arie Cornelis Mol
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Patent number: 7816481Abstract: Provided herein are polyamine precursors useful in the manufacture of epoxy resins. Use of a polyamine precursor according to the invention provides an epoxy resin formulation having an increased working time over prior art amines used for curing epoxies. Increased working times translate to the ability to manufacture composites which could not be made using conventional epoxy curing agents, such as composite blades for wind-driven turbines. Such polyamines are also useful in polyurea formulations for lengthening reaction time, thus allowing more flow of applied polyurea coatings prior to gellation.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2009Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Huntsman Petrochemical LLCInventors: Howard P. Klein, Bruce L. Burton, Matthew W. Forkner, David C. Alexander, Terry L. Renken, Chris E. Godinich
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Publication number: 20100168277Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds suitable to use as curing agents for epoxy systems which can be obtained by reacting an amine-functional compound with an ?-? unsaturated acid and/or ester and a mono-functional epoxy compound. The invention further relates to coating compositions comprising these curing agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2007Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: AKZO NOBEL COATINGS INTERNATIONAL B.V.Inventors: Steve Alister Nixon, Susan Elizabeth Borthwick
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Publication number: 20100096096Abstract: The additive includes a polymer of an alkylene glycol or a copolymer of different alkylene glycols.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2007Publication date: April 22, 2010Inventors: Jose Luis Egiburu, Juan Antonio Navalpotro
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Publication number: 20100056753Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a poly(ethylene oxide) copolymerized with one alkylene oxide and to a poly(ethylene oxide-co-alkylene oxide) copolymer produced by such method, a photovoltaic device containing such poly(ethylene oxide-co-alkylene oxide)-copolymer, and to uses of such poly(ethylene oxide)-(alkylene oxide)-copolymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2007Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: SONY DEUTSCHALND GMBHInventors: Gabriele Nelles, Silvia Rosselli, Tzenka Miteva, Akio Yasuda, Christo Tsvetanov, Rayna Stamenova, Iliyana Berlinova, Petar Petrov
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Patent number: 7550550Abstract: Provided herein are polyamine precursors useful in the manufacture of epoxy resins. Use of a polyamine precursor according to the invention provides an epoxy resin formulation having an increased working time over prior art amines used for curing epoxies. Increased working times translate to the ability to manufacture composites which could not be made using conventional epoxy curing agents, such as composite blades for wind-driven turbines. Such polyamines are also useful in polyurea formulations for lengthening reaction time, thus allowing more flow of applied polyurea coatings prior to gellation.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2003Date of Patent: June 23, 2009Assignee: Huntsman Petrochemical CorporationInventors: Howard P. Klein, Bruce L. Burton, Matthew W. Forkner, David C. Alexander, Terry L. Renken, Chris E. Godinich
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Patent number: 7473757Abstract: The hyperbranched polymers are at least one anhydrosugar-related compound selected from the dianhydrosugar alcohol [1]: (wherein R is hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms, provided that nR's are equal to or different from one another and at least one R of nR's is hydrogen atom, and symbol n is an integer from 1 to 10) and the anhydrosugar alcohol [2]: (wherein each of R1, R2, R3 and R4 is hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms; provided that R1, mR2's, pR3's and R4 are equal to or different from one another and at least one R2 or R3 of said mR2's and pR3's is hydrogen atom, respectively; and symbol m is zero (0) or an integer from 1 to 20 and symbol p is an integer from 1 to 20, provided that symbol m+p is an integer from 1 to 20) or at least one anhydrosugar-related compound selected from the dianhydrosugar alcohol [1] and/or the anhydrosugar alcohol [2] with at least one sugar compound selected from the anhydrosugar as represented by thType: GrantFiled: February 2, 2004Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Harumi Kaga, Toyoji Kakuchi, Toshifumi Satoh, Tomoko Imai
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Patent number: 7361728Abstract: The present invention relates to a class of conducting oligomers and polymers and to a method for the preparation of the same. The conducting oligomers and polymers contain an end-capping group, which is non-electrically conductive and contains at least one branch point. The branched end-capping groups are made by a method that first substitutes the branched group on the heteroaromatic monomer, particularly at the “2” position on these monomers. In a second step, the end-capping intermediate is co-polymerized with one or more additional heteroaromatic monomers to form capped conducting oligomers and polymers.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2004Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: TDA Research, Inc.Inventors: Brian J. Elliott, William W. Ellis, Silvia D. Luebben, Shawn A. Sapp, Chieh-Hui Chang, Raechelle A. D'Sa
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Patent number: 7268204Abstract: A method of forming a polyethercarbonate polyol enhances incorporation of CO2 into the polyethercarbonate polyol. The method provides a catalyst including a multimetal cyanide compound. The multimetal cyanide compound has an ordered structure defined by a cationic catalytic center and an anionic backbone with the anionic backbone spatially arranged about the cationic catalytic center. The anionic backbone is modified with a supplemental anionic spacer to affect the spatial arrangement and catalytic activity of the cationic catalytic center. The supplemental anionic spacer is incorporated into the multimetal cyanide compound to establish the general formula, M1a[M2b(CN)cMd3Xe]f, wherein M1, M2, and M3 are various metal ions and X is the supplemental anionic spacer. An H-functional initiator, an alkylene oxide, and CO2 are reacted in the presence of the modified multimetal cyanide compound to form the polyethercarbonate polyol.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2005Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: Werner Hinz, Jacob Wildeson, Edward M. Dexheimer
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Patent number: 7112635Abstract: Non-gelled polymeric polyols are prepared by the acid catalyzed copolymerization of water, tetrahydrofuran and multifunctional epoxy resins. The polyols can be cured with OH reactive crosslinkers such as amino resins and polyisocyanates to yield thermosetting coatings with useful properties.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2004Date of Patent: September 26, 2006Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventor: Frederick Herbert Walker
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Patent number: 7056978Abstract: A curable underfill encapsulant composition which is especially useful in the no-flow underfill encapsulation process. The composition contains an epoxy resin, a fluxing agent, a linear polyanhydride, a core shell polymer and a catalyst. In an alternative embodiment, the composition also contains a linear anhydride. Various additives, such as surfactants and coupling agents may also be added to the composition.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2002Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding CorporationInventor: Jayesh P. Shah
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Patent number: 7037399Abstract: A curable underfill encapsulant composition that is applied directly onto semiconductor wafers before the wafers are diced into individual chips. The composition comprises a thermally curable epoxy resin, a solvent, an imidazole-anhydride curing agent, fluxing agents, and optionally, wetting agents. Various other additives, such as defoaming agents, adhesion promoters, flow additives and rheology modifiers may also be added as desired. The underfill encapsulant is B-stageable to provide a coating on the wafer that is smooth, non-tacky and will allow the wafer to be cleanly diced into individual chips. A method for producing an electronic package containing the B-stageable material may also utilize an unfilled liquid curable fluxing material on the substrate to which the chip is to be attached.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2002Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding CorporationInventors: Quinn K. Tong, Yue Xiao, Bodan Ma, Sun Hee Hong
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Patent number: 6894116Abstract: A toughener comprising a trithiocarbonate polymer having an epoxy end group is described which is utilized with various thermosettable polymers such as epoxy, polyurethane, and the like. A toughened composition is made by curing the thermosettable polymer and the toughener utilizing various curing agents.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2002Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Noveon IP Holdings Corp.Inventors: John Ta-Yuan Lai, Carole Angele Lepilleur, Carl Duane Weber, David Richard Egan, Deborah Susan Filla
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Patent number: 6800720Abstract: A hydrogenated ring-opening metathesis polymer which contains at least a structural unit [B] of the following general formula [3] and/or a structural unit [C] of the following general formula [4]: wherein, R8 to R11 and R13 to R16 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and X2s and X3s are the same or different and represent —O— or —CR122— wherein, R12 represents a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms). One of Y1 and Y2 represents —(C═O)— and the other of Y1 and Y2 represents —CR182— wherein, R18 represents a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms and m and n represent an integer of 0 or 1 to 3.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2002Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Tadahiro Sunaga, Tetsuya Hamada, Keiichi Ikeda, Ritsuko Shibahara, Hirofumi Io, Takashi Ochiai
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Patent number: 6794451Abstract: A cationically polymerizable liquid composition is formed from a cationically polymerizable mixture (A) and a solid resin (B) that is compatible with the mixture (A) at room temperature and has a softening point of at least 40° C., so that the composition has a viscosity at 25° C. of 20 Pa·sec or below. The cationically polymerizable mixture (A) is formed from a monofunctional monomer (A-1) having in the molecule only one cyclic ether structure represented by formula (1) below, a polyfunctional monomer (A-2) having in the molecule at least two cyclic ether structures represented by formula (1) below, and a latent cationic polymerization initiator (A-3). A tacky polymer formed by cationic polymerization of the composition is also disclosed. (In formula (1), n denotes 0, 1, or 2, and R1 to R6 independently denote hydrogen atoms or hydrocarbon groups, which may have a substituent.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2002Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Toagosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Sasaki, Koutarou Yoneda
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Publication number: 20040167316Abstract: Clear, amine-initiated polyether polyols are made by epoxidizing an amine in the presence of an alkali metal hydroxide catalyst. By reducing the amount of catalyst used during the polyol synthesis and by adding the catalyst after between 5 and 30% of the total amount of at least one alkylene oxide has been added, after lactic acid neutralization, gives a short chain polyol that has foam processing characteristics similar to the conventional sulfuric acid neutralized polyol. The polyols produced in this manner are particularly useful for the production of polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2003Publication date: August 26, 2004Inventors: Nathan L. Anderson, Karl W. Haider, Keith J. Headley, Kerry A. Ingold, Herman P. Doerge
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Patent number: 6762278Abstract: A method of forming a polyethercarbonate polyol using a multimetal cyanide compound is disclosed. The method includes providing a multimetal cyanide compound having a crystalline structure and a content of platelet-shaped particles of at least 30% by weight, based on the weight of the multimetal cyanide compound and further including at least two of the following components: an organic complexing agent, water, a polyether, and a surface-active substance. Then an alcohol initiator is reacted with at least one alkylene oxide and carbon dioxide under a positive pressure in the presence of the multimetal cyanide compound, thereby forming the polyethercarbonate polyol.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: Werner Hinz, Edward Michael Dexheimer, Edward Bohres, Georg Heinrich Grosch
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Patent number: 6740732Abstract: Novel phosphorus element-containing epoxy resin compositions and novel phosphorus-element containing epoxy resin compositions based on an isomeric mixture of tris(2-hydroxyphenyl)-phosphine oxide compounds including non-halogenated, ignition resistant epoxy resin formulations. The ignition resistant epoxy resin formulations are advantageously used for making laminates for printed wiring boards and composite materials.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2002Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: Dow Global Technologies Inc.Inventors: David J. Brennan, John P. Everett, Bassam S. Nader
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Patent number: 6653441Abstract: In a process for preparing polyether alcohols by catalytic addition of at least two alkylene oxides onto H-functional initiator substances, at least one multimetal cyanide compound is used as catalyst and the addition of the alkylene oxides onto the initiator substance includes incorporation of at least one oxyalkylene block during whose formation at least two alkylene oxides are metered in together and the ratio of the alkylene oxides to one another in the mixture is changed during the joint introduction.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2002Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Kathrin Harre, Gerd Höppner, Georg Heinrich Grosch, Stephan Bauer, Jürgen Winkler, Els Paredis, Reinhard Lorenz, Inge Rotermund
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Patent number: 6639046Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising: a compound comprising two or more olefinically unsaturated groups comprising at least on electron-withdrawing functionality linked to a carbon atom of the unsaturated bond; a compound comprising at least two mercapto-functional groups; and a catalyst comprising at least one, optionally blocked, NH-group. The invention further relates to a method for the application of the composition and to the use of the composition as a coating composition or an adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2002Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.Inventor: Joseph Theodorus Maria Van Dijk
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Patent number: 6624216Abstract: A curable underfill encapsulant composition which is especially useful in the no-flow underfill encapsulation process. The composition contains an epoxy resin, a fluxing agent, a linear polyanhydride and a catalyst. In an alternative embodiment, the composition also contains a linear anhydride. Various additives, such as surfactants and coupling agents may also be added to the composition.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2002Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding CorporationInventors: Paul Morganelli, Anthony DeBarros, Brian Wheelock, Jayesh Shah
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Publication number: 20030175322Abstract: End-capped polymers, methods for making those end-capped polymers and compositions containing those end-capped polymers are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2002Publication date: September 18, 2003Inventors: John F. Kay, John J. Eisch
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Patent number: 6565976Abstract: A pultrusion resin composition comprising about 75 wt % to about 85 wt % of a phenolic resin, about 9 wt % to about 20 wt % of the reaction product of a polyhydroxy compound and an epoxy-functional polysiloxane, about 6 wt % to about 15 wt %, of a phenolic epoxy, and about 0.2 wt % to about 1 wt % of a catalyst, based on total weight of the composition. Pultruded products are formed by drawing fibrous reinforcement through a bath of the pultrusion resin composition.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2001Date of Patent: May 20, 2003Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Resins, Inc.Inventors: Shahid P. Qureshi, Harvey G. Dixon
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Patent number: 6552102Abstract: Described are chiral liquid crystalline polymer materials and polymerizable compounds used for preparing them. The polymer materials can serve as a carrier material or are coated onto a carrier material. Also described are methods of making such materials and using them to make pigment flakes used in paints, printing inks, spray paints, cosmetic products, colored plastics, optical elements and security applications.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2001Date of Patent: April 22, 2003Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschränkter HaftungInventors: Eike Poetsch, Gerhard Pfaff, Matthias Kuntz, Stephan Derow, David Coates
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Patent number: 6482868Abstract: Accelerators that can be useful for an energy polymerizable composition comprising a cationically curable material; energy polymerizable -compositions comprising at least one cationically curable material and an initiation system therefor, the initiation system comprising at least one organometallic complex salt and at least one accelerator; and a method for curing the compositions. The cured compositions can provide useful articles. The invention also provides compositions of matter comprising an organometallic complex salt and at least one compound selected from the Class 1 and Class 2 compounds disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2000Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Wayne Scott Mahoney, Peggy Sperl Willett
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Patent number: 6462106Abstract: Disclosed is a novel amino-polyether-modified epoxy for an electrodeposition paint. The amin-polyether-modified epoxy compound is obtained by reacting amino polyether represented by a formula as follow: wherein m is an integer of 5 or more, R is hydrogen, methyl group or ethyl group, and n is 2 or 3, with polyglycidyl ether having a molecular weight of 1,000 to 7,000 and an epoxy equivalent of 500 to 3,500, wherein an equivalent ratio of a primary amino group of the amino polyether to an epoxy group of the polyglycidyl ether is controlled within the range of 0.52 to 1.0.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2001Date of Patent: October 8, 2002Assignee: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinsuke Shirakawa, Mitsuo Yamada
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Patent number: 6441121Abstract: A curable composition comprises a compound having at least one epoxy group and at least one styrenic or cinnamyl group per molecule.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2001Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding CorporationInventors: Osama M. Musa, Harry Richard Kuder
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Patent number: 6403220Abstract: Novel phosphorus element-containing crosslinking agents for epoxy resin compositions based on an isomeric mixture of tris(2-hydroxyphenyl)-phosphine oxide compounds. Epoxy resins cured or crosslinked with the crosslinking agents of this invention yield non-halogenated, ignition resistant epoxy resin formulations. The ignition resistant epoxy resin formulations are advantageously used for making laminates for printed wiring boards and composite materials.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2000Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Assignee: The Dow Chemical CompanyInventors: David J. Brennan, John P. Everett, Bassam S. Nader
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Patent number: 6268403Abstract: A method of accelerating the cure rate of an epoxy curing composition includes combining a cycloaliphatic epoxyalcohol monomer, a non-hydroxyl-containing epoxy monomer and a cationic photoinitiator to form an epoxy curing composition, and exposing the curing composition to a source of radiation. The resulting polymers and copolymers are branched polyethers containing hydroxyl functionality.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2000Date of Patent: July 31, 2001Assignee: Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteInventor: James V. Crivello
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Publication number: 20010007900Abstract: Amine-terminated urethane oligomer compositions are described that include very high oligomer concentrations. The compositions are melts of the amine-terminated oligomers. The compositions can include one or more property modifiers. The compositions are useful in the formation of crosslinked copolymers, especially with epoxy resins. The resulting copolymers are useful in the formation of coatings.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2001Publication date: July 12, 2001Inventors: Joseph S. Keute, Anne-Marie Thunnissen, Robert J. Tweedy
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Patent number: 6255440Abstract: Polyacetal copolymers, obtained by copolymerizing (A) 100 parts by weight of trioxane, (B) 0.01 to 10 part(s) by weight of at least one compound selected from among glycidyl ether compounds of the following general formula (I), (II) or (III) and (C) 0 to 20 part(s) by weight of a cyclic ether compound [excluding the glydicyl ether compound (B)] copolymerizable with trioxane, are a polyacetal resin having a high rigidity, excellent creep properties, a high surface hardness and excellent sliding properties: wherein R1 is a C1-12 alkyl group, an aryl group or a substtituted aryl group; wherein R2 represents a C2-20 polyalkylene oxide glycol residue; wherein R4 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms; R5 represents an alkylene group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2000Date of Patent: July 3, 2001Assignee: Polyplastics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidetoshi Okawa, Yoshihisa Tajima
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Patent number: 6172182Abstract: Process for the manufacture of epoxy compounds having the formula wherein Rb represents a group selected from those of the formulae Rg&Parenopenst;Q&Parenclosest;b-alkyl(Q&Parenclosest;a—˜, by reaction of a compound with an alkylene oxide, in the presence of a certain catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 1998Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Jan Hermen Hendrik Meurs, Jozef Jacobus Titus Smits, Judith Johanna Berendina Walhof
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Patent number: 6159389Abstract: A polyether copolymer having a weight-average molecular weight of 10.sup.4 to 10.sup.7, comprising 5 to 40% by mol of a repeating unit derived from epichlorohydrin, 95 to 60% by mol of a repeating unit derived from ethylene oxide, and 0.001 to 15% by mol of a crosslinkable repeating unit derived from a reactive oxirane compound, gives a provide a crosslinked solid polymer electrolyte which is superior in processability, moldability, mechanical strength, flexibility and heat resistance, and has markedly improved ionic conductivity.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1999Date of Patent: December 12, 2000Assignee: Daiso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhito Miura, Masanori Yanagida, Hiroki Higobashi, Seiji Nakamura