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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8157122 | Lidded container A lidded container comprising a container body with side walls, a bottom, and a top end with an opening comprising means to retain a lid, and an upstanding edge around the opening having its outer sides in line with the side walls of the container. The upstanding ed... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8147979 | Adhesive system and method The invention relates to an adhesive system comprising starch and one or more polymers (P) containing acetoacetoxy groups. It further relates to a method of producing an adhesive composition comprising starch and one or more polymers (P) containing acetoacetoxy grou... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8133953 | Coating composition comprising a polyacrylate polyol, a polyester polyol, and an isocyanate-functional crosslinker The invention relates to a coating composition comprising a) a polyacrylate polyol obtainable by polymerization of olefinically unsaturated monomers wherein at least 40 weight-% of the monomers comprises linear or branched alk(en)yl or alk(en)ylene groups having at ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8114920 | UV-curable aqueous emulsion, preparation thereof and solventless coating composition comprising the same The UV-curable aqueous coating composition is characterized by using a UV-curable aqueous emulsion obtained by urethane reaction with a mixture including a poly-carbonate polyol or polyester polyol; an isocyanate compound; a urethane-reactive carboxylic acid; a UV-c... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8093334 | Protective sealable coating compositions A dispersion of polymer microparticles in organic liquid, the polymer comprising the reaction product of i) from 2 to 40 parts by weight of a first polymer being polypropylene polymer having sufficient carboxylic acid and/or carboxylic acid anhydride groups equivale... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8067093 | Curing agents for epoxy-functional compounds 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 α-β unsaturated acid and/or ester and a mono-functional epoxy compound. The invention further relat... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8053519 | Coating composition comprising a vinyl modified alkyd resin Coating composition comprising an alkyd having at least 20% by weight of vinylic building blocks and having an oil length below 65%. The weight ratio non-vinylic:vinylic groups is between 1:1 and 4:1, preferably between 1.5:1 and 3:1. The vinylic groups include styr... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8048970 | Reaction product of melamine aldehyde resin and diol Novel low viscosity oligomeric polyols and the use thereof in coating compositions are disclosed. The novel low viscosity oligomeric polyols may be prepared by reacting at least one melamine aldehyde resin and at least one of α,β-diol, α,γ-diol, or mixture there... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8048482 | Paint comprising a liquid phase and an active powder phase Coating composition comprising a liquid first phase comprising one or more polymer binder components having functional groups capable of cross-linking by electron pair exchange, and a second phase which is a powder material, such as sand, comprising one or more comp... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8043424 | Aqueous coating composition Aqueous coating composition comprising an oxidatively drying resin and an alkali-soluble acrylate having an acid number of at least 15 mg KOH/g in a content of at least 1.5 wt. %. Optionally a second acrylate can also be used, such as a polyurethane acrylate. ... | 10/25/2011 |
| D641571 | Color center cabinet | 07/19/2011 |
| D641569 | Display unit | 07/19/2011 |
| 7972660 | Electrostatic fluidised powder bed coating process The present invention pertains to a process for forming a coating on a substrate using a tribo-charging electrostatic fluidized bed process; characterized in that a powder coating is used which has a particle size distribution such that a) d(v,90)≦42.5 μm, and b)... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7960452 | Adhesive composition and method The invention relates to an adhesive composition comprising at least partly gelatinized starch and one or more polymers (P) containing an amine group or an amide group. It also relates to a method of gluing pieces of wood based materials and to a wood based product.... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7846997 | Pigment preparation The invention relates to a solid pigment preparation comprising at least 35% by weight of one or more pigments and at most 65% by weight of a dispersant resin, wherein the dispersant resin comprises a polyester backbone having at least one pendent hydrophilic polyal... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7842757 | Pigment preparation The invention relates to a solid pigment preparation comprising a pigment and a dispersant resin, wherein the composition comprises at least 35% by weight of at least one pigment and at most 65% by weight of dispersant resin, calculated on the combined weight of pig... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7804597 | Method for matching paint A method for matching colour properties and texture properties of a repair paint to colour properties and texture properties of a paint film on a substrate to be repaired is provided. In the method, the texture of the paint film is imaged with a digital imaging devi... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7732017 | Effect paint Emulsion paint composition for obtaining special textile or suede effect comprising a filler at least partly consisting of pre-pigmented spherical aliphatic polyurethane particles. About 3-10% of the spherical particles has a particle size between 63-90 micrometers ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7691938 | Silyl ester copolymer compositions The invention relates to a silyl ester copolymer solution having a solids content of at least 55 weight percent and a viscosity of less than 20 poise at 25° C., comprising a silyl ester copolymer having a weight-average molecular weight of less than 20,000. The inv... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7674817 | Antimicrobial acid-catalyzed coating compositions The antimicrobial acid-catalyzed coating composition of the invention is an acid-catalyzed coating composition formulated with at least one antimicrobial agent to provide antimicrobial activity to the coating composition and an article coated therewith. ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7641759 | Method of joining surfaces The present invention relates to a method of joining surfaces, comprising in the following order: applying an adhesive composition (A), comprising a solvent, onto a first surface, drying off the solvent, partially or completely, by forced drying, to give the adhesiv... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7601472 | Toner/developer compositions Toner compositions have a post-blended particulate additive which comprises aluminum oxide and aluminum hydroxide with, optionally, a third component such as silica or a wax, which is a tribo-charging additive which, upon tribo-charging of the toner particles, shift... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7598299 | Anti-fouling compositions comprising a polymer with salt groups The invention relates to the use of a polymer including salts of amine-functional groups and/or salts of phosphine-functional groups bound (pendant) to the backbone of the polymer, said salts including as counter-ion the anionic residue of an acid having an aliphati... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7572348 | Method and device for printing objects Method for printing objects, whereby these objects (15) are provided with a multi-layered print, characterized in that to this aim, on one hand, two or more layers of printing medium (10-11-12), which at least partially are situated one a... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7452945 | Ambient temperature curing coating composition Ambient temperature curing coating composition comprising—a branched alkoxy-functional polysiloxane having the formula R2-O-[Si(R1)2—O]n—R2, wherein each R1 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, aryl, and alkoxy groups having up... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7384671 | Apparatus and process for forming a powder coating on a substrate using a fluidised bed and tribostatic charging of the powder coating composition An apparatus and process for forming a coating on a substrate, including establishing a fluidised-bed having a fluidising gas and a powder coating composition, immersing the substrate wholly or partly in the fluidised bed, the substrate being either electrically iso... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7337722 | Method and device for printing objects Method for printing objects (2) whereby printing ink (5) or the like is provided on a carrier (3) which consists of a flexible, mainly flat material layer on the one hand, and whereby the printing ink (5) is transferred to the object (... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7323226 | Tribostatic fluidised bed powder coating process A process for forming a coating on a substrate, including the steps of effecting tribostatic charging of a body of powder by establishing a fluidised-bed of the body of powder in a fluidising chamber at least a part of which is conductive, applying a voltage to the ... | 01/29/2008 |
