Two Silicons Bonded Directly To The Same Oxygen Patents (Class 556/450)
  • Patent number: 6203578
    Abstract: The use of linear or cyclic silicon compounds containing at least one chromophoric group of quinone or azo type as direct dyes in dye compositions intended for dyeing human keratin fibres and in particular the hair. The invention also relates to novel silicon compounds and dye compositions containing them, as well as to the corresponding direct dyeing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Madeleine Leduc, Hervé Richard, Alain Lagrange
  • Patent number: 6197989
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing organic silicon compound represented by the following formula 1, which is useful as various industrial base materials required to have performances such as water and oil repellency, anti-fouling properties or release properties and as raw materials therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignees: Asahi Glass Company Ltd., OSi Specialties, Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka Furukawa, Mami Kotera, Seisaku Kumai, Robert E. Ruckle, Jr., Gerald J. Murphy
  • Patent number: 6184408
    Abstract: A method for the preparation of hydrophobic precipitated silica. The method comprises contacting an aqueous suspension of a hydrophilic precipitated silica with (1) a catalytic amount of an acid and (2) an organosilicon compound in the presence of (3) a water-miscible organic solvent in an amount sufficient to facilitate reaction of the hydrophilic precipitated silica with the organosilicon compound to form a hydrophobic precipitated silica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Thomas Burns, Qin Deng, James Richard Hahn, Thomas G. Krivak, Timothy A. Okel, Clifford Carlton Reese
  • Patent number: 6176885
    Abstract: The use of linear or cyclic silicon compounds containing at least one chromophoric group of quinone or azo type as direct dyes in dye compositions intended for dyeing human keratin fibers and in particular the hair. The invention also relates to novel silicon compounds and dye compositions containing them, as well as to the corresponding direct dyeing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Madeleine Leduc, Herv{acute over (e)} Richard, Alain Lagrange
  • Patent number: 6172171
    Abstract: Macroazo compounds, which comprise a repeating unit composed of a moiety of the formula (a), a (b) and a moiety of the formula (c) wherein X, E, Z and T are independently a lower alkylene group, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently a lower alkyl group or a cyano group, R5, R6, R7 and R8 are independently a lower alkyl group or an aryl group, and m and n are independently a positive integer, those moieties being bound with one another through a carboxylic acid ester linkage or a carboxylic acid amido linkage, make it possible, for instance, in a case of using the compound as a polymerization initiator, to produce easily and at high efficiency a block polymer containing both polyorganosiloxane units and polyoxyalkylene units in its molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Wako Pure Chemical Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Shiraki, Hiroyuki Tsurumoto, Tomomitsu Abe
  • Patent number: 6160147
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I) is disclosed for use as a silylating agent: ##STR1## wherein each R.sup.1 is independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an alkenyl group with at least one R.sup.1 being a hydrogen atom or alkenyl group, and R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group. Also disclosed is a method of making the compound, and a method of using the compound as a silylating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Dow Corning Limited
    Inventors: Eric Damme, Jean de la Cro Habimana, Fabrice Lebecq, David Wilson
  • Patent number: 6136940
    Abstract: A silacyclobutane compound having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are independently chloro, triorganosiloxy, organooxy, triorganosilyl, or a monovalent hydrocarbon group; R.sup.3 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group free of conjugated aliphatic unsaturation, triorganosilyl, or hydrogen; and R.sup.4 is a monovalent saturated hydrocarbon group; provided that when R.sup.3 is hydrogen, neither R.sup.1 nor R.sup.2 is chloro or organooxy. Methods of preparing the silacyclobutane compounds, silane polymers containing at least one silacyclobutane unit, and siloxane polymers containing at least one silacyclobutane unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Dow Corning Limited
    Inventors: Norbert Auner, Martin Grasmann
  • Patent number: 6136996
    Abstract: A mixture of a short chain linear phosphazene having the formula:X.sub.3-p (HO).sub.p P(NPX2).sub.m NP(O)X.sub.2,where X is a halogen selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I, and m is an integer ranging from 0 to 6 and p is 0 or 1; anda linear sifoxane having a viscosity ranging from 1 to 5,000 centistokes is a catalyst for the polymerization, condensation, or redistribution of siloxanes; the process of making the catalyst and the process of using the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Slawomir Rubinsztajn, Patricia P. Anderson, Dennis P. Thompson
  • Patent number: 6121336
    Abstract: Polyurethane foams prepared using polysiloxane/polyoxyalkylene surfactants, preferably blended with a viscosity modifying agent, particularly in combination with particulate silica, especially silica aerogel, exhibit improved thermal insulating capacity, as measured by K-factor, and improved closed cell content, without increasing the density of the polyurethane foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Michael O. Okoroafor, Alan E. Wang, Bulent E. Yoldas
  • Patent number: 6107505
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a process for producing a polyorganosiloxane, which comprises adding an organochlorosilane to a uniform mixture comprising water and at least one kind of alcohol, to subject the organochlorosilane to a hydrolysis and condensation reaction. The organochlorosilane is preferably one represented by the following formula (1):R.sup.1 --Si(Cl).sub.3 (1)wherein R.sup.1 is a C.sub.1-30 straight chain saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group, a C.sub.1-30 branched chain saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group, a phenyl group, a cyclohexyl group, a C.sub.3-15 halogenated hydrocarbon group, an acryloxypropyl group or a methacryloxypropyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Chisso Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yoshida, Koichi Ayama, Nobumasa Ootake
  • Patent number: 6027537
    Abstract: The use of linear or cyclic silicon compounds containing at least one chromophoric group of quinone or azo type as direct dyes in dye compositions intended for dyeing human keratin fibres and in particular the hair. The invention also relates to novel silicon compounds and dye compositions containing them, as well as to the corresponding direct dyeing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Madeleine Leduc, Herve Richard, Alain Lagrange
  • Patent number: 6011167
    Abstract: Polyorganosiloxazane is provided which is capable of being converted into a ceramic material having low dielectric constant. The polymer according to the present invention is characterized by comprising the main repeating units of --(RSiN.sub.3)--, --(RSiN.sub.2 O)--, --(RSiNO.sub.2)-- and --(RSiO.sub.3)--, wherein, R represents an alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkylamino or alkylsilyl group, and by having a number-average molecular weight ranging from 300 to 100,000. The polyorganosiloxazane of the present invention has superior thermal resistance, and a ceramic material obtainable by firing the same at a predetermined temperature shows very low specific dielectric constant of 2.7 or less, making it useful particularly as a material in electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Tonen Corporation
    Inventors: Yuuji Tashiro, Osamu Funayama
  • Patent number: 5972512
    Abstract: A polymer matrix composite comprises a matrix of a cured methylsilsesquioxane resin and a reinforcing material. The composite has low heat release rate, smoke yield, and carbon monoxide yield when burned. After burning, the composite has high char yield and retains much of its initial tensile strength. The method for making the composite comprises applying a silanol-functional methylsilsesquioxane resin comprising 70 to 90 mol % ((CH.sub.3)SiO.sub.3/2) units and 10 to 25 mol % (CH.sub.3 Si(OH)0.sub.2/2) units to a reinforcing material and curing the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald Paul Boisvert, Gary Thomas Burns, Timothy Chi-Shan Chao, Dimitris Elias Katsoulis, Satyendra Kumar Sarmah
  • Patent number: 5969173
    Abstract: Dialkali metal organosilanolate and dialkali metal organosiloxanolate salts are manufactured from cyclic siloxanes or linear silicone polymers using a heterogeneous interfacial reaction process. A stoichiometric excess of an alkali metal hydroxide such as potassium hydroxide or an alkali metal oxide as a solid or dissolved or dispersed in a compatible solvent, is prepared and used as a first phase. The cyclic siloxane or linear silicone polymer is placed in a second phase either dissolved or dispersed in another solvent which is immiscible with the first phase. The resulting silanolate and siloxanolate salts can be used as monomers for solid-liquid phase and liquid-liquid phase interfacial polymerization or in a polycondensation process for the synthesis of alternating siloxane polymers. They can also be used as ring opening initiators for the base catalyzed polymerization of cyclic siloxanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Ross Clarke, Daniel Graiver, Janis Gunars Matisons, Michael James Owen
  • Patent number: 5891977
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organopolysiloxanes comprising polyhydroxyorganyl radicals, especially sugar radicals or sugar-derivative radicals, and polyoxyalkylene radicals, to processes for their preparation and to their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Th. Goldschmidt AG
    Inventors: Thomas Dietz, Burghard Gruning, Peter Lersch, Christian Weitemeyer
  • Patent number: 5882387
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wipe-on polish composition which contains no wax or abrasive components. The polish requires minimal effort to wipe out to a thin, glossy, streak-free, hydrophobic film. The polish is comprised of an emulsion that contains an organopolysiloxane and a volatile diluent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Wacker Silicones Corporation
    Inventors: Eugene R. Martin, Michael D. Lowery
  • Patent number: 5880304
    Abstract: Organosilicon aldehydes and ketones are prepared by a method in which an organosilicon compound containing ozonide functionality is first formed by exposing an organosilicon compound containing unsaturation to ozone. The organosilicon compound containing ozonide functionality is then reduced to the corresponding organosilicon aldehyde or ketone with a reducing agent. One preferred reducing agent is a combination of zinc and acetic acid. Complete conversion of the ozonide to the carbonyl (.dbd.C.dbd.O) compound is obtained when the ozonide containing the reducing agent is heated briefly to about 30.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Graiver, Aaron Quoc Khieu, Binh Thanh Nguyen
  • Patent number: 5877268
    Abstract: The invention discloses a new class of silicone surfactants and their use for the preparation of flexible urethane foam. The surfactants incorporate high molecular weight polyethers prepared with narrower molecular weight distributions than conventional polyethers. These polyethers are prepared using a double metal cyanide (DMC) catalyst. These surfactants are better foam stabilizers than the analogous surfactants prepared from conventional polyethers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: OSi Specialties, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael W. Jorgenson, Richard Budnik, Glenn A. Miller
  • Patent number: 5874603
    Abstract: A branched alkylsilane includes a branched hydrocarbon backbone which has a linear or branched alkylsilyl moiety extending asymmetrically from the backbone such that the backbone has a first portion and a second portion extending from the moiety. The second portion has two carbon atoms more than the first portion, and the alkylsilyl moiety includes at least one hydrolyzable group bound to silicon for reacting with a substrate. A method for preparing a branched alkylsilane useful for chromatographic applications includes the steps of preparing a vinylidene olefin by dimerization of an .alpha.-olefin and reacting it with a monomeric silane having a silicon-hydrogen bond in the presence of a metallic catalyst such that the silicon-hydrogen bond is added to the vinylidene double bond of the vinylidene olefin thereby converting the double bond to a single bond and bonding the silicon of the monomeric silane to the vinylidene olefin to form a branched alkylsilane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Gelest, Inc.
    Inventor: Barry C. Arkles
  • Patent number: 5869728
    Abstract: Fluoroalkyl organosilicon compounds are prepared by reacting fluoroolefins with organosilicon compounds that contain at least one H--Si group, in the presence of a Pt(0) complex catalyst. Further, fluoroalkylalkoxy organosilicon compounds are prepared by esterifying fluoroalkyl organosilicon compounds. The process proceeds uniformly under mild conditions with high yields and selectivities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Jenker, Albert-Johannes Frings, Michael Horn, Jaroslaw Monkiewicz, Burkhard Standke
  • Patent number: 5856546
    Abstract: A method for the preparation of potassium silanolates comprising reacting a mixture comprising solid potassium hydroxide and a polyorganosiloxane described by formula R.sup.1 R.sup.1 R.sup.2.sub.2 SiO(R.sup.2.sub.2 SiO).sub.m R.sup.3 or (R.sup.2.sub.2 SiO).sub.n, where m is an integer from 1 to about 1000, n is an integer from 3 to about 20, R.sup.1 a hydroxyl group or an alkoxy group comprising from 1 to about 8 carbon atoms and R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom or an independently selected substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group comprising from 1 to about 8 carbon atoms R.sup.3 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group comprising from 1 to 8 carbon atoms in the presence of an organic solvent which forms an azeotrope with water at a temperature within a range of about 90.degree. C. to 150.degree. C. thereby forming a potassium silanolate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Graiver, Arnold Wade Lomas, Edward Thomas Rasmussen, Jr., Kelly James Wall
  • Patent number: 5830486
    Abstract: A cosmetic which contains perfluoroalkyl denatured methylphenyl polysiloxane with a structure represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## where l, m and n denote average numbers where l is 1-150, m is 1-150 and n is 0-150, a denotes an integer 0-10, and Rf denotes a perfluoroalkyl group with a carbon number of 1-12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Shiseido Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomiyuki Nanba, Kazunori Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 5824761
    Abstract: The present invention relates to radiation curable silicone vinyl ethers and methods for preparing silicone vinyl ethers. More particularly, the present invention relates compositions containing vinyl ether functional silicones and to the preparation and use of silicone vinyl ethers which are curable by addition of photocleavable acids and exposure to ultraviolet or electron beam radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Valerie Joy Bujanowski, Shedric Oneal Glover, Susan Victoria Perz, Maris Jazeps Ziemelis, Gary Rex Homan, Michael Ward Skinner
  • Patent number: 5801262
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process to prepare polysiloxane microspheres with narrow size distribution having a particle size in the range of about 0.5 microns to about 10 microns. The first step involves combining, by weight, an optional anionic surfactant, a polymeric stabilizer, an hydroxide base, and water to form a first aqueous mixture to which is added a silane monomer to form a second aqueous mixture. The second aqueous mixture is then stirred at a temperature of from about 5.degree. C. to about 90.degree. C. for at least about 1 hours to form an aqueous dispersion comprising polysiloxane microspheres. The polysiloxane microspheres upon separation may be optionally washed with water and optionally dried at a temperature of up to about 300.degree. C. The polysiloxane microspheres can be further optionally jet treated to yield polysiloxane microspheres with a narrow size distribution having a particle size in the range of about 0.5 microns to about 10 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Mary Elizabeth Adams
  • Patent number: 5789612
    Abstract: A method for neutralizing a polyorganosiloxane mixture. The method comprises (A) contacting a mixture comprising a polyorganosiloxane and an acid with a neutralizing amount of a solid organic base at a mixture temperature above the melting temperature of the solid organic base forming a molten organic base and forming an insoluble adduct of the acid with the molten organic base, (B) lowering the mixture temperature to effect solidification of residual molten organic base to residual solid organic base, and (C) effecting separation of the insoluble adduct and the residual solid organic base from the polyorganosiloxane mixture. The present invention is especially useful for neutralizing mixtures comprising polyorganosiloxane mixtures where the polyorganosiloxane comprises hydrogen atoms bonded to silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Graiver, Arthur James Tselepis
  • Patent number: 5783718
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of polyorganosiloxanes by hydrolysis of organohalosilanes of formula (I) R.sub.a R.sup.1.sub.b SiX.sub.c, wherein R and R.sup.1 identical or different, are an hydrogen atom or a linear or branched C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, aryl, alkylaryl or aralkyl group; X is a halogen atom; and a+b+c=4 and 0<c<4; said process comprising the steps of carrying out three or more successive hydrolysis steps (1), (2), (3), in which the reaction medium is capable of exerting an increasing hydrolysing force on the organohalosilanes (I), wherein step (1) is a hydrolysis under pressure in the presence of an aqueous solution S.sub.1 of saturated hydrogen halide, at the pressure and temperature of the reaction medium; and, optionally, carrying out one or more coalescence step (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc Chimie
    Inventors: Loic Doguet, Patricia Fompeyrine, Etienne Foucher, Frederic Leising
  • Patent number: 5767216
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the synthesis of optionally alkoxylated polyorganosiloxane (POS) resins by non-hydrolytic condensation. The object is to provide a process which offers the possibility of controlling the crosslinking. This object, inter alia, is achieved by the process according to the invention, which makes provision for carrying out a non-hydrolytic condensation reaction between alkoxysilyl units (Mo1) and halogenosilyl units (Mo2), both of which are carried by identical or different silanes, in the presence of a catalyst of the Lewis acid type, said condensation reaction generating essentially .tbd.Si--O--Si.tbd. linkages and coproducts XR (X=halogen).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc Chimie
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Frances, Hubert Pierre Mutin, Laurence Bourget, Dominique LeClercq, Andre Vioux
  • Patent number: 5739246
    Abstract: Polysiloxanes having pendant and/or telechelic carbonyl functionality, i.e., aldehyde functionality .tbd.Si--R--CH.dbd.O or ketone functionality .tbd.Si--R--CR.dbd.O, are manufactured in high yield by ozonolysis of polydiorganosiloxanes containing alkenyl groups, followed by treatment with a reducing agent such as zinc and acetic acid. The process is relatively fast and economical using readily available starting materials such as hexenyl-functional polymers. In particular, aldehyde functionality on the polymer can be used as a polymeric crosslinking agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Graiver, Aaron Quoc Khieu, Binh Thanh Nguyen
  • Patent number: 5712391
    Abstract: Disclosed are amino silicone derivatives having triazinyl groups or pyrimidinyl groups bound to amino groups of amino silicones, their production and use, said silicone derivatives being able to gel silicone oil or to increase the viscosity thereof stably and homogeneously, and therefore being useful as bases for cosmetics, pharmaceutical preparations and industrial materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Chiba Flour Milling Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ohno, Natsue Kawahara, Isaburo Amano, Takanao Suzuki, Koji Chiba
  • Patent number: 5690858
    Abstract: A mesomorphic compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 independently denote methyl group or a mesomorphic residual group, at least one of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 being a mesomorphic residual group having an optically active group of the formula below as a terminal flexible group: ##STR2## wherein R.sub.4 is an alkyl group having 1-12 carbon atoms; n is an integer of 0-10; m is an integer of 1-10; and L is an integer of 1-100. The mesomorphic compound is usable for constituting a liquid crystal composition and a liquid crystal device having a large picture area and capable of showing an improved switching characteristic and a good impact resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nohira, Michihiro Yamada, Kazuo Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 5639845
    Abstract: A novel and very efficient method is disclosed for the introduction of perfluoroalkyl groups into an organopolysiloxane by utilizing the hydrosilation reaction with an organohydrogenpolysiloxane. Different from the conventional but inefficient hydrosilation reaction using a perfluoroalkyl-substituted ethylene as the olefin compound, the inventive method utilizes a propene-1 3-substituted by a perfluoroalkyl group compound as the olefin compound to react with an organohydrogenpolysiloxane by which a very high efficiency in the hydrosilation reaction can be obtained without side reactions which otherwise greatly decrease the yield of the desired perfluoroalkyl-containing organopolysiloxane product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inomata, Yasushi Yamamoto, Yasuo Tarumi, Noriyuki Koike, Kouichi Ishida
  • Patent number: 5624977
    Abstract: Provided is a thermoplastic fluorosilicone resin of the average compositional formula (1):(RfCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 SiO.sub.3/2).sub.x (C.sub.6 H.sub.5 SiO.sub.3/2).sub.y (SiO.sub.2).sub.z ( 1)wherein Rf is a perfluoroalkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and x, y, and z are 0.2.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.95, 0<y.ltoreq.0.8, 0.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.0.05, and x+y+z=1 and having a softening point of 50.degree.-200.degree. C. The fluorosilicone resin is useful for microcapsulating a platinum catalyst for prolonging the pot life of an addition type organopolysiloxane composition and can be used as a coating agent for forming a weather resistant, stainproof, water repellent coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Takarada, Yoshiteru Kobayashi, Takashi Kondou
  • Patent number: 5616673
    Abstract: Use of a certain class of acid washed clays enables a fixed bed process for the production of very low viscosity low silanol content silicone fluids to be produced in a fixed bed single reactor process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Patricia P. Anderson, Dennis P. Thompson
  • Patent number: 5589562
    Abstract: A synthesis process for polysilsesquioxanes which produces a high yield, tractable copolymer of perfectly alternating silsesquioxane and bridging group segments is provided. A difunctional silsesquioxane monomer of the formula Si.sub.8 R.sub.8 O.sub.11 (OA).sub.2 or Si.sub.7 R.sub.7 O.sub.9 (OSiR.sup.4 R.sup.5 R.sup.6) (OA).sub.2 is reacted with a difunctional compound of the formula X-M-X which forms a bridging group for a time sufficient to condense the difunctional silsesquioxane monomers and bridging groups into a linear polymer containing alternating silsesquioxane and bridging group segments. The resulting linear copolymer is essentially free of impurities and has controllable properties through the proper selection of the monomeric starting materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: The University of Dayton
    Inventors: Joseph D. Lichtenhan, Ngo Quang Vu, Jeffrey W. Gilman, Frank J. Feher
  • Patent number: 5547604
    Abstract: Siloxane compounds having a smectic liquid crystal phase and the general formula ##STR1## wherein each R=alkyl, alkenyl or aryl, Q represents a monovalent group, for example alkyl, --(CH.sub.2).sub.n OM', a chiral organic group, a dye group, a non-linear optic group or the group --(CH.sub.2).sub.n L, in which L represents a siloxane group, M and M' each represent ##STR2## wherein A is carboxyl, T is CN, F or Cl and p=0 or 1, provided that when T is F or Cl x has a value of at least 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: Dow Corning Limited
    Inventors: Harry J. Coles, Jonathon P. Hannington, David R. Thomas
  • Patent number: 5548051
    Abstract: Single component inorganic/organic network materials incorporating the physical properties of glasses with the flexibility of organic materials of empirical formula X(SiO.sub.1.5).sub.n wherein X is one or more flexible organic linkages and n is greater than or equal to 2, as well as precursors thereof, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: E. I Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Michael J. Michalczyk, Kenneth G. Sharp
  • Patent number: 5539137
    Abstract: A method is provided for making silicone fluids having a high refractive index by effecting a hydrosilylation reaction between an arylacetylene such as phenylacetylene and a silicon hydride substrate, such as a cyclic or linear hyridosiloxane in the presence of a platinum catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: General Electic Company
    Inventors: Larry N. Lewis, Susan A. Nye
  • Patent number: 5516871
    Abstract: There is disclosed a diphenylsiloxane oligomer functionalized at both terminals and methods for the preparation thereof, said oligomer having the following general formulaG-(OSiPh.sub.2).sub.m O-G (i)wherein Ph denotes a phenyl radical, m is 3 to 50 and G has a formula independently selected from the group consisting of ##STR1## in which R, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are independently selected from the group consisting of methyl, phenyl and R.sup.1, R.sup.1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 2 to 8 carbon atoms excluding phenyl, tolyl, xylyl, and ethylphenyl radicals, Q is a divalent hydrocarbon group and k is independently 0 to 3 at each terminus of said oligomer with the proviso that k is >0 at one terminus of said oligomer, at least one substituent among R, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 in formula (ii) is R.sup.1 and, when both R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 groups at one terminus of said oligomer are phenyl, groups R.sup.4 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Assignee: Dow Corning Asia, Ltd.
    Inventors: Brian R. Harkness, Mamoru Tachikawa
  • Patent number: 5492992
    Abstract: A process for making liquid polymers by condensing monomers and/or oligomers, mixing them with a catalyst where required, and dispersing the mixture via an atomizing device to form small droplets suspended in a reaction chamber. The reagents are caused to polymerize in the dispersed state. The process is preferably carried out in a spray dryer using an atomizing device and is particularly useful for polymerizing organosilicon compounds by condensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1996
    Assignee: Dow Corning S.A.
    Inventor: Jean M. Gilson
  • Patent number: 5491250
    Abstract: A crude vinylically unsaturated product formed from a palladium-complex-catalyzed reaction of a reactant halide selected from the group consisting of aryl, allyl, vinyl, and benzyl halides, and a reactant olefin having a vinylic hydrogen, wherein the reaction is carried out in the presence of a hydrogen halide acceptor, is purified by first contacting the crude product with a base that is stronger than the hydrogen halide acceptor, then heating the stronger base-contacted product. The purified product shows a marked reduction in concentration bromine and palladium impurities. The product can then be further purified by such methods as chromatography, crystallization, or distillation to achieve a product that is more suitable for applications where very low levels of inorganic impurities are required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Edmund J. Stark, John A. Schultz, Ernest L. Ecker, Robert A. DeVries
  • Patent number: 5486565
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organosiloxane compositions that are reaction products of 1) a silane containing at least 3 hydrolyzable groups per molecule, 2) a monohydric or polyhydric alcohol containing at least one organofunctional group and 3) a polyhydric alcohol containing no organofunctional groups or ethylenic unsaturation, wherein said reaction products contain at least two silicon atoms. The organosiloxane compositions are particularly useful as adhesion promoting additives for curable organosiloxane compositions, particularly those that cure by a platinum group metal-catalyzed hydrosilation reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Theresa E. Gentle, Michael A. Lutz
  • Patent number: 5484867
    Abstract: A process for preparation of reactive polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes and the subsequent synthesis of polysilsesquioxanes which produce high yield, tractable polymers containing silsesquioxane segments is provided. A trifunctional polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane of the formula Si.sub.7 R.sub.7 O.sub.9 (OA).sub.3 is corner capped by reacting it with a compound of the formula M-Z to form a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane which can be reacted in various ways with oligomers, polymers, catalysts, or co-monomers to form polyhedral silsesquioxane polymers containing silsesquioxanes as pendant, block, or end group segments. The resulting polymers are essentially free of impurities and have controllable properties through the proper selection of the synthesis process and starting materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignees: The University of Dayton, The Regents of the University of California, The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Joseph D. Lichtenhan, Jeffrey W. Gilman, Frank J. Feher
  • Patent number: 5476916
    Abstract: The present invention describes a process wherein dimethyldichlorosilane is reacted, in a first step, with water present in hydrochloric acid to give a crude hydrolysate comprising cyclic and linear, chlorine-containing polydimethylsiloxanes and gaseous hydrogen chloride and, in a second step, the crude hydrolysate is treated with steam to reduce the chlorine content and form hydrochloric acid, with the hydrochloric acid formed in the second step being used in the first step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignee: Wacker-Chemie GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Pachaly, Gerhard Nagy, Wolfgang Jacques, Robert Christa
  • Patent number: 5473037
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing dimethylpolysiloxanes through hydrolysis of dimethyldichlorosilane wherein a water solution containing a water-soluble oxygen-containing organic compound is introduced into dimethyldichlorosilane. Therein, linear dimethylpolysiloxanes alone having both ends blocked with chlorine atoms can be selectively produced by properly controlling the water content in the hydrolysis system and further by rendering the hydrolysis system acidic, and cyclic dimethylpolysiloxanes alone can also be selectively produced by properly controlling the water content in the hydrolysis system and optionally rendering the hydrolysis system acidic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Itoh, Toshio Shinohara, Hiroaki Kizaki, Shoichi Tanaka, Yukinori Satou, Kazunobu Umemura
  • Patent number: 5466849
    Abstract: Novel siloxane derivatives represented by general formula (1): ##STR1## A method for producing the siloxane derivatives and agents such as cosmetic preparations, emulsifying dermatotherapeutic external agents and the like including at least one of the siloxane derivatives are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Shioya, Yuji Suzuki, Ken Takeuchi, Koji Yoshino, Akira Kawamata
  • Patent number: 5457220
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new silicone cure system. More particularly, the present invention discloses that a siloxane system containing sufficiently high levels of T or Q species in addition to M, D and a limited amount of silanol species can be cured by linear phosphonitrilic chloride disproportionation catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: John S. Razzano
  • Patent number: 5446114
    Abstract: The invention relates to a series of novel silicone fluorinated dimethicone copolyols. This class of compounds provides breathable barriers when applied to textiles and paper. These barriers allow for the passage of water and air through the barrier, but do not allow for the passage of oils. The compounds of the present invention are prepared by reacting a silanic hydrogen containing silicone polymer with a vinyl containing fluoro compound and an allyl alcohol alkoxylate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Siltech Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony J. O'Lenick, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5416233
    Abstract: This invention relates to a novel process for preparing vinylsilane-BCBs (vinylsilane-benzocyclobutenes) comprising reacting a hydrosilating reagent with an acetylene-BCB in the presence of a catalyst.The invention also relates to a novel mixture of isomers of DVS-bisBCB (1,3-divinyl-1,1,3,3-tetramethyldisiloxane bisbenzocyclobutene) as well as novel partially or fully cured polymers derived from the vinylsilane BCBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Robert A. DeVries, Edmund J. Stark
  • Patent number: 5412053
    Abstract: A synthesis process for polysilsesquioxanes which produces a high yield, tractable copolymer of perfectly alternating silsesquioxane and bridging group segments is provided. A difunctional silsesquioxane monomer of the formula Si.sub.8 R.sub.8 O.sub.11 (OA).sub.2 or Si.sub.7 R.sub.7 O.sub.9 (OSiR.sup.4 R.sup.5 R.sup.6)(OA).sub.2 is reacted with a difunctional compound of the formula X--M--X which forms a bridging group for a time sufficient to condense the difunctional silsesquioxane monomers and bridging groups into a linear polymer containing alternating silsesquioxane and bridging group segments. The resulting linear copolymer is essentially free of impurities and has controllable properties through the proper selection of the monomeric starting materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: The University of Dayton
    Inventors: Joseph D. Lichtenhan, Ngo Q. Vu, Jeffrey W. Gilman, Frank J. Feher
  • Patent number: 5393330
    Abstract: The present invention teaches masonry water repellents comprising aqueous emulsions of alkylalkoxysilanes with either a quaternary ammonium surfactant or a mixture of a quaternary ammonium surfactant with an amino and/or a nonionic surfactant. The alkylalkoxysilane is present at a level of about one to sixty weight percent of the final solution weight. The surfactants are present at levels of about 0.05 to 25 weight percent of the final solution weight. The useful quaternary ammonium surfactants are alkyltrimethyl or dialkyldimethyl ammonium compounds or quaternary ammonium modified dimethylpolysiloxanes. Amino and nonionic surfactants are used as additives to the quaternary surfactants. The types of nonionic surfactants contemplated herein are alkylamines and alkyl acetylenic alcohols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: OSi Specialties, Inc.
    Inventors: Ming J. Chen, Antonio Chaves