Exactly Two Azo Groups Attached Indirectly To Each Other By Nonionic Bonding Patents (Class 534/816)
  • Patent number: 8979947
    Abstract: The present invention relates to dyes of the formula (I) in which R1 to R10, D1 and D2 are defined as given in claim 1, a process for preparing them, and their use for dyeing and printing hydroxyl- and/or carboxamido-containing materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: DyStar Colours Distribution GmbH
    Inventors: Roxana Barbieru, Vajiravelu Sivamurugan
  • Patent number: 8927070
    Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic film, having at least one dichroic dye, in which the light absorption anisotropic film shows a diffraction peak derived from a periodic structure in a direction in a plane of the light absorption anisotropic film in X-ray diffraction measurement and the diffraction peak has a half width of 1.0 ? or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Nobutaka Iwahashi, Masashi Ogiyama, Shinichi Morishima
  • Patent number: 8466266
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new class of solids supports for synthesis of modified oligomers of nucleic acids, and nucleic acid probes that have a format expediently synthesized on the new supports. Exemplary solid supports include at least one quencher bound through a linker to the solid support. Various exemplary embodiments include a moiety that stabilizes a duplex, triplex or higher order aggregation (e.g., hybridization) of nucleic acids of which the oligomer of the invention is a component. Other components of the solid support include moieties that stabilize aggregations of nucleic acids, e.g., intercalators, minor groove binding moieties, bases modified with a stabilizing moiety (e.g., alkynyl moieties, and fluoroalkyl moieties), and conformational stabilizing moieties, such as those described in commonly owned U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2007/0059752.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Biosearch Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald M. Cook, Matt Lyttle
  • Patent number: 8357210
    Abstract: Compounds of the general formula (I) a process for their preparation and their use for dyeing and/or printing organic substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited
    Inventors: Rainer Nusser, Urs Daetwyler
  • Publication number: 20120245334
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for detecting a primer extension product in a reaction mixture. In the subject methods, a primer extension reaction is conducted in the presence of a polymerase having 3??5? exonuclease activity and at least one FET labeled oligonucleotide probe that includes a 3??5? exonuclease resistant quencher domain. Also provided are systems and kits for practicing the subject methods. The subject invention finds use in a variety of different applications, and are particularly suited for use in high fidelity PCR based reactions, including SNP detection applications, allelic variation detection applications, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: QUIN CHOU, Dragan Spasic
  • Patent number: 7772377
    Abstract: Disclosed is a colorant composition of the formula wherein R is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, or an alkylaryl group, and wherein R can be joined to the phenyl moiety to form a ring, R? is an aromatic- or heteroaromatic-containing group, each Ra, independently of the others, is a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a nitrile group, a nitro group, an amide group, or a sulfonamide group, w is an integer of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, n is an integer representing the number of carbon atoms in each repeat alkylene oxide unit, and x is an integer representing the number of repeat alkylene oxide units, wherein said colorant has no more than one —OH, —SH, or primary or secondary amino group per molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey H Banning, Donald R Titterington, Clifford R King
  • Patent number: 7619075
    Abstract: Disclosed is a colorant composition of the formula wherein R is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, or an alkylaryl group, and wherein R can be joined to the phenyl moiety to form a ring, R? is an aromatic- or heteroaromatic-containing group, each Ra, independently of the others, is a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a nitrile group, a nitro group, an amide group, or a sulfonamide group, w is an integer of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, n is an integer representing the number of carbon atoms in each repeat alkylene oxide unit, and x is an integer representing the number of repeat alkylene oxide units, wherein said colorant has no more than one —OH, —SH, or primary or secondary amino group per molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery H. Banning, Donald R. Titterington, Clifford R. King
  • Publication number: 20090259030
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new class of solids supports for synthesis of modified oligomers of nucleic acids, and nucleic acid probes that have a format expediently synthesized on the new supports. Exemplary solid supports include at least one quencher bound through a linker to the solid support. Various exemplary embodiments include a moiety that stabilizes a duplex, triplex or higher order aggregation (e.g., hybridization) of nucleic acids of which the oligomer of the invention is a component. Other components of the solid support include moieties that stabilize aggregations of nucleic acids, e.g., intercalators, minor groove binding moieties, bases modified with a stabilizing moiety (e.g., alkynyl moieties, and fluoroalkyl moieties), and conformational stabilizing moieties, such as those described in commonly owned U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2007/0059752.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: BIOSEARCH TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Ronald M. Cook, Matt Lyttle
  • Publication number: 20090187012
    Abstract: A polarizer of the present invention comprises an azo compound which is represented by the following general formula (I). In the general formula (I), Q1 represents an optionally substituted aryl group, Q2 represents an optionally substituted arylene group, M represents a counter ion, l represents an integer of from 1 to 6, and m represents an integer of from 0 to 5 (l+m?6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichi MATSUDA, Kyoko NISHIGUCHI, Tadayuki KAMEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20090126128
    Abstract: Compounds of the general formula (I) a process for their preparation and their use for dyeing and/or printing organic substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: CLARIANT FINANCE (BVI) LIMITED
    Inventors: Rainer Nusser, Urs Datwyler
  • Publication number: 20080119643
    Abstract: The present invention provides 4,4?-diazobenzanilide derivatives, a process for their preparation, their use as dyes, dyed paper, formulations comprising them and also precursors thereof and their processes of preparation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2005
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Michael Lennartz, Holger Lautenbach
  • Publication number: 20030098447
    Abstract: A polyazo compound or salt thereof covering the region of from 500 to 580 nm and manifesting high initial polarization ability and represented by the following formulae (I) or (II): 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Toru Ashida, Yoshiteru Ohta, Narutoshi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 6472514
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new charge transport agent for use in a photosensitive layer in a positive-electrification-type electrophotographic photoconductor that can be used with high speed copying machines. The electrophotographic photoconductor of the invention includes an electrically conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer on the substrate. The photosensitive layer contains a charge generation agent and an electron transport compound described by the following general formula (I). wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group having form 1 to 8 carbon atoms, an arylalkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or a residue for forming a ring. A1 is an oxygen atom, m is an integer from 0 to 4 and n is an integer from 0 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Imaging Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masami Kuroda
  • Patent number: 6417178
    Abstract: Amyloid binding compounds which are derivatives of Chrysamine G, pharmaceutical compositions containing, and methods using such compounds to identify Alzheimer's brain in vivo and to diagnose other pathological conditions characterized by amyloidosis, such as Down's Syndrome are described. Pharmaceutical compositions containing Chrysamine G and derivatives thereof and methods using such compositions to prevent cell degeneration and amyloid-induced toxicity in amyloidosis associated conditions are also described. Methods using Chrysamine G derivatives to stain or detect amyloid deposits in biopsy or post-mortem tissue are also described. Methods using Chrysamine G derivatives to quantify amyloid deposits in homogenates of biopsy and post-mortem tissue are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh
    Inventors: William E. Klunk, Jay W. Pettegrew, Chester A. Mathis, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20020065402
    Abstract: The invention relates to six new crystal polymorphs, &agr; (alpha), &bgr; (beta), &ggr; (gamma), &dgr; (delta), &zgr; (zeta), and &eegr; (eta), of the disazo colorant of the formula I, 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Applicant: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Ruediger Jung, Hans-Joachim Metz, Joachim Weber, Martin U. Schmidt, Olaf Schupp, Andreas Wacker
  • Patent number: 6254671
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a green shade yellow pigment composition comprising a compound having the formula: wherein R1 and R2 are independently hydrogen, halogen, an alkyl group having 1 to about 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to about 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxycarbonyl group having 1 to about 6 carbon atoms, nitro, cyano, phenoxy or trifluoromethyl; and M2+ is a divalent metal. The green shade yellow pigment composition is suitable for use in plastics, paints, inks, electrostatic toners, powder coatings, and paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Engelhard Corporation
    Inventor: Byron G. Hays
  • Patent number: 6013775
    Abstract: Polyazo dyes of the formula I ##STR1## where one of the two radicals X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 is hydroxyl and the other is amino,p and q are each independently of the other 0 or 1,D.sup.1 and D.sup.2 are each independently of the other a radical of the formula ##STR2## and B is a bridge member are prepared using novel sulfonamide intermediates and are useful as dyes for dyeing natural or synthetic substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gunther Lamm, Matthias Wiesenfeldt
  • Patent number: 5964899
    Abstract: Azo dyes containing sulphur dye entities as a constitutional component are dyes of valuable properties, in particular for the dyeing of leather.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited
    Inventors: Jordi Berenguer, Manuel Jose Domingo, Jose Rocas
  • Patent number: 5821373
    Abstract: Solid solutions consisting of 3,6-bis(biphenyl-4-yl)- 2,5-dihydropyrrolo?3,4-c!pyrrole-1,4-dione and either a) a second 1,4-diketopyrrolopyrrole or b) a quinacridone, which are further defined herein, are outstandingly suited to pigmenting high molecular weight organic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Zhimin Hao, Olof Wallquist
  • Patent number: 5782934
    Abstract: A process for colouring a synthetic textile material or fiber blend thereof which comprises applying to the synthetic textile material a compound of Formula (1):A--N.dbd.N--D--N.dbd.N--E Formula (1)wherein:A, D and E each independently is an optionally substituted heterocyclic or carbocyclic group and at least one of A, D or E carries directly at least one --SO.sub.2 F group or carries a substituent to which at least one --SO.sub.2 F group is attached.A process for the mass coloration of plastics which comprises incorporating into a plastics material a compound or mixture thereof which is free from water solubilising groups, of Formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Zeneca Limited
    Inventors: Nigel Hall, Mark Robert James
  • Patent number: 5747345
    Abstract: Diaza-18-crown-6 compounds of the formula I: ##STR1## wherein X is a phenol, naphthol or quinolinol moiety selected from those of the formulae: ##STR2## R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are independently selected from hydrogen, halo, cyano, nitro, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.6) alkyl, (C.sub.2 -C.sub.8) acyl, acetamido, mercapto, alkyl or arylsulfonyl, trifluoromethyl, aryl, and substituted aryl wherein the aryl moiety is selected from phenyl and naphthyl and the aryl substituent is selected from halo, cyano, nitro, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.6) alkyl, (C.sub.2 -C.sub.8) acyl, phenyl, acetamido, mercapto, alkyl or arylsulfonyl and trifluoromethyl; provided that when R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.5 are hydrogen and X is phenol, R.sub.4 is not nitro; and provided that when X is phenol and R.sub.5 is hydrogen, R.sub.1 (or R.sub.2) and R.sub.4 are not both nitro.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Clinical Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Woodrow Weber, II, Calvin Roman Messing, Margaret Elizabeth Logan
  • Patent number: 5204454
    Abstract: Prepolymer polyols containing mesogenic moieties useful as reactants for the preparation of resinous materials are disclosed. Synthesized by condensing a polyether polyol with bifunctional mesogenic diacids, or diesters, the compounds of the invention are characterized by their reasonably low melt temperature which renders them suitable as additive materials in polymeric molding compositions and as precursors for the preparation of resinous materials.The liquid crystalline properties of the prepolymers of the invention were found to depend on the type and molecular weight of the glycols and on the molar ratio between the glycols and the mesogenic reactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: Miles Inc.
    Inventors: Randall A. Rodenhouse, Dittmar K. Nerger, Douglas A. Wicks
  • Patent number: 5190585
    Abstract: The present invention provides processes for the production of a pigment composition comprising: Ia) contacting a pigment, before or during its synthesis, with a water-immiscible carrier medium, and then completing the pigment synthesis to produce a pigment composition comprising the pigment and the water-immiscible carrier medium, and Ib) contacting the resulting aqueous fully-synthesized pigment composition with an aliphatic organic acid and optionally a water-immiscible carrier medium; adjusting the pH value of the mixture so obtained to below 7.0; and then adjusting to the pH value of the mixture to a value above 7.0 thereby transferring the organic acid into the aqueous phase; and isolating a pigment composition comprising the pigment and the water-immiscible carrier medium, or II) contacting an aqueous fully-synthesized pigment slurry with an aliphatic organic acid and a water-immiscible carrier medium according to above step Ib).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: James M. McCrae, Neil C. W. Forsythe
  • Patent number: 5006128
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## and salts thereof, whereinR.sub.1 is hydrogen or methyl,R.sub.2 is hydrogen, methyl or acetamido,R.sub.3 is hydrogen, methyl or methoxy,R.sub.4 is hydrogen, C.sub.1-4 alkyl or hydroxy(C.sub.2-4 alkyl),R.sub.5 is hydroxy(C.sub.2-4 alkyl) or hydroxy(C.sub.2-4 alkoxy)C.sub.2-4 alkyl, or--NR.sub.4 R.sub.5 is a 5- or 6-membered ring containing 1 to 3 hetero atoms which ring is unsubstituted or substituted by 1 to 3 substituents selected from C.sub.1-4 alkyl and C.sub.2-4 alkyl monosubstituted by hydroxy or amino, andthe two naphthyl-2 groups are identically substituted, with the proviso that when R.sub.3 is methoxy, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are different, solid and aqueous liquid dye compositions and printing inks comprising such compounds and salts and the use of such compounds and salts for dyeing and printing substrates, especially hydroxy group- and nitrogen-containing organic substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Sandoz Ltd.
    Inventor: Reinhard Pedrazzi
  • Patent number: 4910299
    Abstract: Disperse dyes suitable for dyeing textile material composed of polyester dyes of the formula ##STR1## in which D is the radical of a substituted or unsubstituted, homocyclic or heterocyclic diazo component belonging to the series comprising thienyl, thiazolyl, isothiazolyl, 1,2,4-thiadiazolyl, 1,3,4-thiadiazolyl, benzothiazolyl, benzoisothiazolyl, pyrazolyl, imidazolyl or phenyl,X is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, acylamino, halogen or a group of the formula -NH-CO-NHQ in which Q is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or phenyl,Y is hydrogen, halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy,R is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 -alkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.12 -alkenyl or phenyl, or Y and R, together with the nitrogen atom and the two C atoms linking them, form a 5-membered ring or 6-membered ring,B is a l inear or branched C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 -alkylene radical,W is halogen, C.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Angelo D. Casa, Peter Liechti, Max Dempfle
  • Patent number: 4861344
    Abstract: Water-soluble azo compounds having useful fiber-reactive dye properties conforming to the general formula ##STR1## in which: A is phenylene which may be substituted or unsubstituted, or is a radical of the formula ##STR2## in which W is a direct bond or a radical of the formula --CH.dbd.CH-- or --NH--CO--NH-- and R* denotes hydrogen, nitro, sulfo, carboxy, methyl, ethyl, methoxy or ethoxy;n is the number zero or 1;B is a radical of the formula ##STR3## where R is equal to carboxy or carbamoyl; M is hydrogen or an alkali metal; andK is one of five radicals described in the specification, each of which contains a fiber-reactive group.These azo compounds produce fast dyeings on carboxamido- and/or hydroxy-containing materials, in particular cellulose fibers. On cellulose, fast dyeings are also obtained in a weakly acid to neutral medium, for example together with disperse dyes for dyeing a polyester fiber portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ludwig Schlafer, Hartmut Springer, Reinhard Hahnle
  • Patent number: 4647310
    Abstract: An aqueous ink composition for ink-jet recording comprising an aqueous solution of a water-soluble dye of formula (I) and a humectant dissolved in water: ##STR1## wherein Ar represents an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group, or an unsubstituted or substituted naphthyl group; X represents a hydroxyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom, an alkylamino group, a hydroxyalkylamino group, a cyclic amino group or an anilino group; M represents hydrogen, K, Na, Li, NH.sub.4 or an organic amine cation; and n is an integer of 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1987
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Shimada, Toshiyuki Kawanishi, Kakuji Murakami, Tamotsu Aruga, Hiroyuki Uemura, Kiyofumi Nagai
  • Patent number: 4592756
    Abstract: A dye solution composition containing a black dye obtained by the action of at least one acid or its salt:HO(CH.sub.2).sub.n SO.sub.3 H, Cl(CH.sub.2).sub.n COOH, Br(CH.sub.2).sub.n COOH (n=1 or 2)on one or a mixture of dyes of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R is phenylene or naphthylene residue; X and X' are each H, sulfonic acid group or sulfonate group; Y and Y' are each H or alkali metal; R' is one of amino group-containing radicals: ##STR2## (the carboxyl group may be carboxylate group and the sulfonic acid group may be sulfonate group), except that when R' has not sulfonic acid group, X and X' are not the same and when R' has sulfonic acid group, X and X' are H. This is highly stable, preservative and water soluble, and is useful as ink composition for ball-point pen and ink jet recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1986
    Assignee: Taoka Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Sinjiro Kawasaki, Hideo Kitagawa, Yutaka Nishii