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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8088836 | Oxime ester compounds and photosensitive resin compositions using the same An oxime ester compound represented by the following general formula (I): (the symbols of which are defined in the specification) is used as the photopolymerization initiator in a photosensitive resin composition.... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7745505 | Photoinitiators and UV-crosslinkable acrylic polymers for pressure sensitive adhesives UV-crosslinkable acrylic hotmelt pressure sensitive adhesives comprising acrylic and vinyl monomers, and a polymerizable UV photoinitiator. The photoinitiator comprises a spacer comprising both ethylene oxide and urethane, or urea, carbonate, or siloxane functional ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7732504 | Functionalized photoinitiators The invention relates to novel photoinitiators of formula (I) wherein each of the substituents is given the definition as set forth in the Specification and the claims. The photoinitiators can be used to prepare multifunctional photoinitiators. | 06/08/2010 |
| 7473719 | Crosslinkable hydrophilic materials from polymers having pendent Michael donor groups The present invention provides crosslinkable compositions useful in the preparation of hydrophilic gels, and are prepared from polymers having pendent hydrophilic groups, and pendant Michael donor groups, and crosslinked by polyacryl Michael acceptor compounds. ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7371782 | Polymerizable composite material This invention relates to a polymerizable composite material and method of making same including at least one multifunctional acid containing monomer having a concentration ranging from about 10% to about 85%, a non-reactive filler having a concentration ranging fro... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7368519 | Fast moisture curing and UV-moisture dual curing compositions The invention provides fast moisture and photo/moisture curing silicone compositions and methods for the preparation thereof. More particularly, the compositions provided are prepared from silanol and silane cappers; the cappers have an α-carbon bonded to the silic... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364834 | Functional polymer A polymer having α,β unsaturated groups and a group that generates a free radical when exposed to actinic radiation. The polymer may be self-cross-linking. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7335690 | Crosslinkable hydrophilic materials from polymers having pendent Michael donor groups The present invention provides crosslinkable compositions useful in the preparation of hydrophilic gels, and are prepared from polymers having pendent hydrophilic groups, and pendant Michael donor groups, and crosslinked by polyacryl Michael acceptor compounds. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7323290 | Dry film photoresist A dry film photoresist includes a functional polymer. The functional polymer has α,β-unsaturated groups and groups that generate a free radical upon exposure to actinic radiation. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7307106 | Photocurable Michael addition polymers A curable composition is described comprising a Michael donor component, a polyacryl component, and a monoacryl component, where at least one of the Michael donor or monoacryl components comprises a pendent photoinitiator group. A Michael addition polymer that is th... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7300747 | Photobase generator and curable composition The photobase generator of the invention is represented by the following formula 1: wherein Ar, R, A+ and X− are as defined in the specification. Since the photobase generator of the formu... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7291654 | Storage stability of photoinitiators Compounds of formula (I), wherein R1 is hydrogen or alkyl; R2 is C1-C4alkoxy or a morpholino radical; and R3 is hydrogen or C1-C4alkoxy, are suitable for improving the solubility of specifi... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7186312 | Adhesive which hardens in several stages A hotmelt adhesive having a melting point of at least 40° C. is provided which may be hardened in multiple stages and which is useful in the production of laminates. The hotmelt adhesive may contain a polymer with at least one functional group that is reactive towa... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7169825 | Dual cure reaction products of self-photoinitiating multifunctional acrylates with thiols and synthetic methods Self-photoinitiating liquid oligomeric compositions are disclosed. The oligomeric compositions are formed from multifunctional mercaptans and Michael addition polyacrylate resins, synthesized from multifunctional acrylates and β-dicarbonyl Michael donors, specifica... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7166356 | Superabsorbent polymers having radiation activatable surface cross-linkers and method of making them The present invention relates to superabsorbent polymer particles with improved surface cross-linking and their use in absorbent articles. The superabsorbent polymer particles of the present invention comprise a water-absorbing resin and the reaction product ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7148265 | Functional polymer A polymer having α,β unsaturated groups and a group that generates a free radical when exposed to actinic radiation. The polymer may be self-cross-linking. ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7135209 | Water soluble radiation activatable polymer resins The present invention relates to water soluble radiation activatable polymer resin formulations which are suitable to modify the absorption properties of fibrous materials and the polymer obtained by such radiation activatable polymer resins and the method of prepar... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7105207 | UV curable oligomeric adhesive compositions suitable for use in flexible packaging applications The present invention relates to flexible package laminates useful in food packaging that are prepared using a liquid, UV curable, oligomeric, adhesive composition that does not require a photoinitiator. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7081277 | Magnetic disk drive having a surface coating on a magnetic disk A magnetic disk is produced with improved yield by forming a DLC protective film by a d.c. magnetron sputtering process conducted in a sputtering atmosphere containing oxygen. The magnetic disk carries a lubricating film on the DLC film wherein a fluorocarbon resin ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7008752 | Photosensitive resin composition and use of the same A photosensitive resin composition which, when exposed to light through a photomask and then developed, can form a pattern comprising a polyimide film having a thickness of 20 μm or larger with high resolution; and a use of the composition, in particular, a method ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7008758 | Method of forming a patterned film of surface-modified carbon nanotubes Disclosed herein is a method of forming a negative pattern of carbon nanotubes through: modifying the surfaces of carbon nanotubes to have double bond-containing functional group capable of participating in radical polymerization; coating a substrate with a liquid c... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7001644 | Surface-active photoinitiators A process for the production of coatings with scratch-resistant durable surfaces that comprise as photoinitiator (B) in a photocurable formulation at least one surface-active photoinitiator, concentrated at the surface of the formulation, of formula (Ia) or (Ib), wh... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6994904 | Pressure sensitive adhesive fibers with a reinforcing material This invention is directed to a reinforced adhesive fiber that includes a pressure sensitive adhesive component and a reinforcing material within the pressure sensitive adhesive component. ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6929828 | Surface-active photoinitiators A process for the production of coatings having scratch-resistant durable surfaces, in which there is used a photocurable formulation comprising a surface-active photoinitiator, concentrated at the surface of the formulation, of formula (Ia) or (Ib), wherein R and R... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6914086 | Crosslinkable UV absorbing agent for UV absorbing lens A crosslinkable UV absorbing agent prepared by the following steps: (1) preparing a mixture of reactants comprising a UV absorbing compound (A) with multiple pendant hydroxyl groups and an unsaturated monoglycidyl compound (B) with both reactive glycidyl and vinyl g... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6903151 | Wet-stick adhesives, articles, and methods A wet-stick pressure-sensitive adhesive is provided wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive comprises: at least one copolymerized monoethylenically unsaturated (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer, wherein the (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer, when homopolymerized, has ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6849668 | Organo-silicon compounds and their use as photoinitiators A multi-functional photoinitiator of formula (I) R1m—Q—(A1—PI)n (I) wherein Q is a heteroatom selected from Si, Ti, Zr and Sn or any two independently selected suc... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6844373 | Composition comprising fluorinated, radiation-curable dyes for surface energy control A radiation-curable composition having a reduced surface energy and including a reactive dye containing at least one radiation-curable substituent and at least one fluorine-containing substituent. The reactive dye may include any anthraquinone, methine, azo, azine, ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6747090 | Compositions capable of forming hydrogels in the eye The invention related to a hydrogel forming aqueous composition of water soluble polymers having a sufficiently high coherency that it substantially not is dispersed when being injected into an aqueous environment of a body site such as the capsular bag of the eye t... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6693141 | Surface-active photoinitiators The invention relates to the use of surface-active photoinitiators of formula I ##STR1## the units being arranged randomly or in blocks, and wherein n is a number from 1 to 1000; m is a number from 0 to 100; p is a number from 0 to 10,000; x is the n... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6673850 | Photoinitiators and their applications Photoinitiators of formula (Ia) or (Ib) having chain transfer groups, wherein n is 1 or 2; PI is for example a group of formula (IIa); PI' inter alia is a group of formula (IIIa); Ar is for example phenyl; Ar2 is inter alia phenylene; R1 | 01/06/2004 |
| 6482869 | Adhesive with multistage curing and the utilization thereof during the production of composite materials An adhesive useful in making composites includes two components A and B. Component A includes at least one polymer having a molecular weight (Mn) of at least 800 that has at least one functional group polymerizable by irradiation with UV light ... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6296986 | Photoinitiator A multifunctional photoinitiator is obtainable as the reaction product of a multifunctional core material containing two or more reactive groups and a photoinitiator or a derivative thereof. The photoinitiator or its derivative has a reactive group capabl... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6277897 | Photoinitiators and applications therefor The present invention is directed to new, energy-efficient photoinitiators in the form of -amino enol ether compounds. The present invention is also directed to a method of generating reactive species, which includes exposing one or more photoiniti... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6242057 | Photoreactor composition and applications therefor A method of generating reactive species which includes exposing a wavelength specific photoreactor composition to radiation, in which the wavelength specific photoreactor composition comprises one or more wavelength-specific sensitizers associated with on... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6203143 | Hydroxyalkylated high performance curable polymers Disclosed is a composition which comprises (a) a polymer containing at least some monomer repeat units with photosensitivity-imparting substituents which enable crosslinking or chain extension of the polymer upon exposure to actinic radiation, said polyme... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6197842 | Material based on crosslinked silicone polymer comprising an attached photoinitiator, process for the preparation thereof, hydrophilic polymeric product obtained from this material and process for the preparation thereof, and novel photoinitiators This invention pertains to a process for the manufacture of a hydrophilic polymeric product, consisting in causing a material comprising a crosslinked silicone polymer matrix and photoinitiator groups dispersed and immobilized within the polymer matrix to... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6156345 | Crosslinkable macromers bearing initiator groups A crosslinkable macromer system that includes two or more polymer-pendent polymerizable groups and one or more polymer-pendent initiator groups. The polymerizable groups and the initiator group(s) can be pendent on the same or different polymeric backbone... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6151042 | High performance polymer compositions Disclosed is a composition comprising a polymer with a weight average molecular weight of from about 1,000 to about 100,000, said polymer containing at least some monomer repeat units with a first, photosensitivity-imparting substituent which enables cros... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6099415 | Ultraviolet radiation curable inks for game balls, golf balls and the like Ultraviolet radiation curing of inks on game balls, golf balls and the like is disclosed. Production inks, logo inks and methods for forming production prints and logos on golf balls, game balls and the like are disclosed. To form an ultraviolet radiation... | 08/08/2000 |