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| 8178353 | Method for determination of polymer concentration in water systems In one aspect, the invention is directed to a method for determining the concentration of anionic polymers or oligomers in industrial water comprising combining a buffer solution and a cationic dye solution, measuring absorbance of the buffer-dye admixture at select... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8076146 | Methods for evaluating and manufacturing rubber and method for manufacturing joint seal for inkjet printer A method for evaluating rubber is provided which can evaluate the degree of crosslinking of a crosslinked rubber product within a short period of time without performing any specific treatment. In the above method, the amount of energy shift of the peak (such as the... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8076147 | Chromotography of polyolefin polymers A method and apparatus for chromatography of a polyolefin polymer by flowing a solution of the polyolefin polymer through liquid flowing through a graphitic carbon liquid chromatography stationary phase. The method can be used to determine the monomer to comonomer r... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8048679 | Method for employing SEC-FTIR data to predict mechanical properties of polyethylene The present invention provides several methods of determining values of physical or chemical properties of polymers. In these methods, at least two polymer training samples are provided. Characteristics of the polymer microstructures of the training samples are corr... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7927881 | Inorganic polymers and use of inorganic polymers for detecting nitroaromatic compounds A method for detecting an analyze that may be present in ambient air, bound to a surface or as part of complex aqueous media that includes providing a metallole-containing polymer or copolymer, exposing the polymer or copolymer to a suspected analyze or a system sus... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7803629 | Method for employing SEC-FTIR data to predict mechanical properties of polyethylene The present invention provides several methods of determining values of physical or chemical properties of polymers. In these methods, at least two polymer training samples are provided. Characteristics of the polymer microstructures of the training samples are corr... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7566571 | Detection of gels in a solution polymerization In a solution polymerization process the increase in gel content in the solution at one or more locations may be detected by monitoring the structure of a spectrum obtained by analyzing the reaction at said one or more locations using a spectrometer selected from th... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7442553 | Method for determining the amount of the maleimidyl groups of a particle A method for quantitatively determining the amount of maleimidyl groups on a polymer fine particle containing at least maleimidyl groups, by allowing a fluorescent material having an SH group to react with the maleimidyl groups and determining the amount of maleimid... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7435600 | Infrared methods of measuring the extent of cure of a binder in fibrous products A method of measuring the extent of cure of a binder in a fibrous product is provided. The method comprises (a) providing a sample of a fibrous product, the fibrous product comprising fibers and a binder, (b) subjecting the sample to infrared spectroscopy to generat... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7427506 | High throughput property testing of olefin copolymers using rheological determinations A high throughput method to determine an amount of a comonomer in a copolymer sample of a copolymer system comprises the steps of providing a plurality of copolymer samples; creating an array of the copolymer samples; measuring a sample complex modulus of each of th... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7419830 | Plural reaction chamber catalytic testing device and method for its use in catalyst testing A catalytic testing device comprising a reaction block comprising a set of reaction chambers, each chamber comprising a fluid inlet and outlet connected to an outgoing fluid duct connected to analysis means, fluid ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7407810 | Methods and apparatus for characterizing polymeric mixtures The invention provides methods and apparatus for characterizing complex polymeric mixture of interest. Candidate solutions are eliminated from a solution space using one or more experimental measurements of a polymeric mixture of interest. The elimination step can b... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7399470 | Sandwich immunoassay kits for detecting ciguatoxin CTX3C A sandwich immunoassay kit for detecting ciguatoxins based on a combination of two anti-ciguatoxin CTX3C monoclonal antibodies produced by hybridomas, 3D11 (deposited at IPOD, AIST under accession number FMRM PB-8293) and 10C9 (FMRM PB-8292). In particular, one of t... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7390664 | Method and apparatus for high throughput catalysts screening and optimization The present invention relates to an apparatus and a process for the high-throughput, quick screening, optimization, regeneration, reduction and activation of catalysts. More specifically, the present invention is a method and apparatus to quickly screen, optimize an... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7354747 | Carbohydrate derived protein resistant biomaterial Carbohydrate-derived side-chain polyethers that may be synthesized by condensation polymerization of monomers derived from natural occurring carbohydrates. These compounds are protein resistant, biodegradable and may be functionalized at location other that the chai... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7319040 | Process control using on-line instrumentation and process models A method for providing improved estimates of properties of a chemical manufacturing process is disclosed. The method employs a process model that includes, or is modified by, scores or other gains obtained from the mathematical transformation of data obtained from a... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7288229 | Parallel reactor with sensing of internal properties An apparatus and method for carrying out and monitoring the progress and properties of multiple reactions is disclosed. The method and apparatus are especially useful for synthesizing, screening, and characterizing combinatorial libraries, but also offer significant... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288416 | Ionic polymers and polymer-comprising substrates An objective of the present invention is to provide ionic polymers that can provide for polymer-comprising substrates whose surfaces can stably and easily immobilize ligands such as sugar chains interacting with biological substances, in which the ligand portion exi... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7201874 | System for automatically extracting and analyzing residual solvents in material samples A system for quickly and automatically extracting and analysing residual solvents is realised for operating directly in the premises where the packing materials are being manufactured, printed and/or laminated. The system provides for a single unit equipped w... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7176032 | Process for the polymerisation of isobutene A process for maintaining a property P of a polyisobutene around a target value V during a continuous polymerisation of isobutene in a reactor containing a boiling liquid reaction phase in equilibrium with a gas phase above the liquid phase. The process comprises co... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7122379 | Determining the reaction progress of graft polymerization reactions A method of using Raman Spectra for determining the progress of a graft polymerization reaction is disclosed. The method entails (a) measuring at the beginning of the reaction and at a plurality of time intervals in the course of the reaction, continuously and on-si... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7118749 | Transferrin receptor genes Purified and isolated nucleic acid is provided which encodes a transferrin receptor protein of a strain of Haemophilus or a fragment or an analog of the transferrin receptor protein. The nucleic acid sequence may be used to produce peptides free of contaminan... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7094607 | Apparatus for high-throughput production of coat material arrays, and analytical methods using such arrays A combinatorial, high-throughput screening method is described for developing new coatings having a performance characteristic of a coating property which results in a substantial increase in the discovery rate of new coating materials. The method includes the steps... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7091254 | Analytical instruments for monitoring photopolymerization An apparatus for continuously monitoring a photopolymerization reaction in real time by optical pyrometry includes a housing having a chamber; a sample mount that may be disposed within the chamber; a light source for supplying light to induce a photopolymerization ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7087732 | Nucleotides and analogs having photoremovable protecting groups A synthetic strategy for the creation of large scale chemical diversity. Solid-phase chemistry, photolabile protecting groups, and photolithography are used to achieve light-directed spatially-addressable parallel chemical synthesis. Binary masking techniques are ut... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7074364 | Device and method for carrying out experiments in parallel Modular device and method for carrying out experiments in parallel on process substances to develop technical methods, comprising at least a multiplicity of individual reactors which are controllable independently of one another said reactors being comprised of pres... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7064155 | Luminescing and/or fluorescing radiation-curable, cyanoacrylate-containing compositions A radiation-curable composition which includes a cyanoacrylate component or a cyanoacrylate-containing formulation; a metallocene component; a photoinitiator; and a luminescent and/or fluorescent dye. ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7056744 | Measurement of short chain branching in olefin copolymers using chemometric analysis A method of determining the proportion of short-chain branching in an olefin copolymer process stream is disclosed. The short-chain branching may also be determined as a function of molecular weight in a sample having a range of molecular weights. In the method, at ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7052914 | Automated method for examining catalytic and spectroscopic properties of the components of combinatorial libraries The invention relates to an automated method for carrying out reactions with high spatial resolution on libraries of different materials and for analysis of the products obtained using a simple robot system and an analyzer, for example a mass spectrometer. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7015289 | Process and apparatus for reducing take-off valve plugging in a polymerization process A slurry polymerization process removes a portion of the fluid slurry without using a settling leg or a continuous take-off. The process uses a reactor take-off valve that is periodically fully closed and fully opened such that the withdrawn slurry is removed from t... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6989274 | Polyaspartic acid concentration determination by fluorometry The present invention relates to a method of performing concentration determinations of aqueous solutions of polyaspartic acid and/or salts thereof. ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6960195 | Metering receptacle A metering receptacle has an elongate hollow body which at one end has a closable exit opening, and which at the other end is closable by way of a plastic plunger stopper. The plunger stopper is at the same time longitudinally displaceable in the hollow body by way ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6946837 | Method for measuring the content of fat/oil in multi component system The invention is a method for determination of the content of fat in a multicomponent system. The method applies nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) for the detemination of fat/oil in for example fillets of fish, olives, paint or ice cream. ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6919211 | Polypeptide arrays The present invention provides methods and apparatus for sequencing, fingerprinting and mapping biological macromolecules, typically biological polymers. The methods make use of a plurality of sequence specific recognition reagents which can also be used for classif... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6910394 | Chromatograph valve and method of use An improved chromatograph valve is provided which may be placed in close proximity to a chromatograph in order to avoid temperature variations in the space therebetween. The valve may include a multiple sample slot rotor movable in a single direction to reduce wear ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6911516 | Copolymers of ethylene with c3-c12 α-olefins Copolymers of ethylene with C3-C12 α-olefin have a polydispersity Mw/Mn of ≦10, a density of from 0.85 to 0.95 g/cm3, a proportion of from 1 to 40% by weight of comonomer and a molar mass Mn above 150,000 g/mol and a comonomer com... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6864092 | Parallel reactor with internal sensing and method of using same Devices and methods for controlling and monitoring the progress and properties of multiple reactions are disclosed. The method and apparatus are especially useful for synthesizing, screening, and characterizing combinatorial libraries, but also offer significant adv... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6858440 | Tapered tubular optical waveguide probe for magnetic focusing immunosensors A waveguide probe for the detection of pathogens in a sample which comprises a laser, a first and a second tubes that converge at a point to form a proximal end. A magnet is positioned in the end to configure to focus paramagnetic microspheres attached to antigen/an... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6740528 | Method for measuring concentration of stable free radical compound In a process of treating a radical polymerizable compound containing a stable free radical compound, there is provided a method for measuring the concentration of the stable free radical compound rapidly and with high precision, from the absorption intensity of elec... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6727096 | Analysis and control of parallel chemical reactions Computer programs and computer-implemented methods for monitoring the progress and properties of parallel chemical reactions. The invention repeatedly receives a measured value or values associated with the contents of each of a plurality of reactor vessels and disp... | 04/27/2004 |
