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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8067514 | Anisotropic conductive film An anisotropic conductive film is provided which can provide high bonding strength and good conduction reliability when anisotropic conductive bonding is made under the compression bonding conditions of a compression bonding temperature of at most 130° C. for a com... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7378034 | Ionic compounds with a delocalized anionic charge, and their use as ion conducting components or as catalysts The invention relates to an ionic compound corresponding to the formula [R1X1(Z1)-Q−-X2(Z2)-R2]m Mm+ in which Mm+ is a cation of valency m, each of the gr... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7351509 | Toner A toner is disclosed including toner particles containing a binder resin and a colorant. The binder resin contains a vinyl resin. In the high-temperature GPC-RALLS-viscometer analysis of the o-dichlorobenzene-soluble matter of the toner, a weight-average molecular w... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7252784 | Cyclic ketone peroxide formulations The present invention relates to a cyclic ketone peroxide formulation comprising one or more crystallizing cyclic ketone peroxides, one or more co-crystallizing compounds which solidify in said cyclic ketone peroxide formulation at a temperature above the crystalliz... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7214812 | Stabilized peroxydicarbonate preparation The invention relates to a stabilized peroxydicarbonate preparation and its use in the polymerization or copolymerization of ethylenically unsaturated compounds. ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7077964 | Process for preparing monodisperse ion exchangers having chelating functional The present invention relates to a process for preparing novel, monodisperse ion exchangers having chelating functional groups, and their use for adsorbing metal compounds, in particular, heavy metal compounds and noble metal compounds, and also for extracting alkal... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6995221 | Method for producing organic peroxides and their use in the radical polymerization of monomers A process for producing organic peroxide initiators useful in the polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers. The process for making the organic peroxides includes forming an aqueous emulsion of the organic peroxide. The organic peroxide is dispersed as sm... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6960638 | Depot polymerization starter beads The invention relates to polymer beads having a high content of diacyl peroxides. A prolongation of the pot life in reaction resins based on high-boiling methacrylate esters is achieved due to this high content of peroxides. ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6911339 | Transparent polymer support for organic synthesis The invention provides polyol (allyl carbonate) polymer solid supports. The supports can be modified for attachment of a chemical moiety or ligand. A solid support comprising one or more ligands immobilized to a polyol (allyl carbonate) polymer solid support. The so... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6844408 | Preparation of polyethylene Ethylene homopolymers and copolymers are prepared in a tube reactor at from 160° C. to 350° C. and pressures in the range from 500 to 5000 bar, with or without use of molar mass regulators, using a peroxide mixture comprising from 1 to 95 mol %, based on the total... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6803436 | Transportable and safely packaged organic peroxide formulations comprising reactive phlegmatisers The invention relates to a method to safely produce, handle and transport packaged organic peroxide formulations comprising a reactive phlegmatiser and to the use of such packaged material in polymerisation and polymer modification processes, particularly the high-p... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6770716 | Use of accelerators in free-radical polymerizations of styrene It has been discovered that certain compounds serve as polymerization accelerators when employed together with peroxide initiators for the polymerization of vinylaromatic monomers. Suitable accelerators that increase the rate of decomposition of the peroxide initiat... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6716950 | Material for solar benches The invention describes a polymer with high transmission for UV rays, this transmission being preserved even after prolonged exposure to UV light (tanning lamps). The polymer is further characterized by a low residual monomer content (determined as methyl methacryla... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6703460 | Use of sequential polyperoxides to produce polystyrene with high grafting It has been discovered that sequential polyperoxides can be beneficially used as initiators for vinylaromatic/diene copolymers to give high grafting values and reasonable molecular weights. A new cyclic diperoxide did not give these same results. The sequ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6649663 | Process for preparing monodisperse ion exchangers having chelating functional groups and the use thereof The present invention relates to a process for preparing novel, monodisperse ion exchangers having chelating functional groups, and their use for adsorbing metal compounds, in particular, heavy metal compounds and noble metal compounds, and also for extra... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6608150 | Preparation of expandable styrene polymers Enhanced conversion rates are realized in a suspension polymerization process for styrene through the use of peroxide initiators having one hour half life temperatures from 101° to 111° C. are disclosed. Also disclosed are suitable initiator combination... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6593424 | Method for preparing thermoplastic resin A method for continuously preparing a heat resistant -methylstyrene-acrylonitrile copolymer by bulk polymerization, comprising the steps of: a) Continuously charging a mixture of monomers including following materials into a continuous polymerizati... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6486271 | Method of controlling molecular weight distributions during a polymerization process The present invention provides to overcome the deficiencies of the prior art, the present invention provides a method of producing a polymer. The method includes taking a product stream from a monovinyl aromatic polymerization system wherein the product s... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6384155 | Continuous dosing of very fast initiators during polymerization reactions The invention pertains to a process wherein peroxides are dosed to a polymerization mixture, with essentially all of the organic peroxide that is used in the polymerization process having a half-life from 0.05 hour to 1.0 hour at the polymerization temper... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6358435 | Phlegmatization of cyclic ketone peroxides The present invention relates to a composition comprising cyclic ketone peroxide and a phlegmatizer having a 95% boil-off point falling in the range of 220-265° C., most preferably 235-250° C. A preferred peroxide is cyclic methyl ethyl ketone peroxide.... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6262193 | Process for the preparation of polymer particles Process for the preparation of polyvinylarene polymer particles by suspension polymerization, wherein (a) vinylarene monomers are suspended in an aqueous medium to yield a suspension; (b) the temperature of the suspension is adjusted to a temperature above ... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6262225 | Carbon monoxide containing polymers derived from synthesis gas (KWP-0002) The invention is related to an olefin-carbon monoxide-vinyl monomer terpolymer composition which is derived from an olefin feed and a synthesis gas feed and at least one vinyl monomer feed. The invention is also related to a method for preparing olefin-ca... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6252015 | Process for the production of polymer A process, particularly a gas phase fluidised bed process, for the production of polymers avoids formation of sheets or chunks within the reactor, without the need to use antistatic agents, which can reduce the activity of the catalyst or alter the charac... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6242549 | Composition based on a dicyclopentenyloxyalkyl ester of (meth) acrylic acid and its applications in the building sector This composition, which is useful as a binder in the preparation of synthetic resin concretes or mortars, bonding primers or finishing coats, comprises (A) a system of monomers comprising: (a1) 50-90 parts of a dicyclopentenyloxyalkyl eater: ##STR1##... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6124409 | Processes for preparing copolymers Disclosed is a process for preparing copolymers which comprises, in the order stated: (1) adding monomers containing unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bonds, a first polymerization initiator, a second polymerization initiator, and a solvent to a reaction vesse... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6037428 | Polymerization of vinyl chloride with peroxide mixtures Suspension polymerization of vinyl chloride in an aqueous medium is carried out in the presence of an oil-soluble polymerization initiator which is a combination of diacylperoxide compound and t-hexylperoxy diglycolate, the former having a half-life perio... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5908905 | Polymerization of vinyl chloride with t-butyl peroxyneoheptanoate and perester peroxide There is provided a process of producing a vinyl chloride polymer wherein vinyl chloride monomer or a monomeric mixture containing vinyl chloride monomer is suspension polymerized in the presence of an oil-soluble polymerization initiator and a suspending... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5907022 | Cyclic ketone peroxides as polymer initiators A process for the preparation of (co)polymers employing a peroxide composition comprising at least one organic peroxide wherein at least 20% of the total active oxygen content of said organic peroxide is attributable to one or more cyclic ketone peroxides... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5880233 | Process for the preparation of ethylene/(meth)acrylic acid copolymers Copolymers of ethylene with ,ଲ-unsaturated carboxylic acids are prepared at from 50° to 250° C. and from 500 to 5000 bar in a stirred autoclave having a length/diameter ratio greater than 5:1 by a process in which the monomer mixtures are f... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5854365 | Toner for developing electrostatic image and method of manufacturing resin composition The present invention relates a toner for developing electrostatic images, comprising: a resin composition, which contains a binder resin and low molecular weight wax, and a coloring agent, wherein the binder resin does not substantially contain insoluble... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5756617 | Method for the suspension polymerization of a vinyl chloride/allyl ether copolymer A process for polymerizing vinyl chloride alone or a mixture of vinyl chloride and other vinyl monomer(s) with hydroxy containing monomer(s), and the copolymer obtained thereby. The hydroxy containing monomer(s) is obtained by the partial allylation of di... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5739222 | Process for preparing vinyl chloride polymer under specified vapor pressure A vinyl chloride polymer is prepared through suspension polymerization of a vinyl chloride monomer in the presence of a polymerization initiator in a reactor. The reactor is charged with up to 4/5 of the overall monomer charge to initiate polymerization. ... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5719304 | Organic peroxide stabilization with phosphomolybdic acid Organic peroxide compositions which contain phosphomolybdic acid to retard the rate of decomposition of the peroxide compound are disclosed.... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5714626 | Organic peroxide stabilization with ଲ-dicarbonyl compounds Organic peroxide compositions which contain a ଲ-dicarbonyl compound to retard the rate of decomposition of the peroxide compound are disclosed.... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5708112 | Styrene copolymers, polystyrene compositions, and injection-molded articles Disclosed are a styrene copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of about 200,000 to 2,000,000, having 1 to 20 branching points in the Z-average molecular weight, and having a methyl ethyl ketone/methanol mixture-insoluble matter content of not ... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5668229 | Process for preparing high-molecular weight acrylamide polymer A process for preparing an acrylamide polymer is herein disclosed which comprises the step of initiating polymerization in the presence of an oxidation-reduction system polymerization initiator comprising two or more kinds of oxidizing agents and a reduci... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5663252 | Process for preparing a branched polymer from a vinyl aromatic monomer A free radical polymerization process for producing a branched polymer from a vinyl aromatic monomer comprising polymerizing a vinyl aromatic monomer in the presence of a free radical initiator of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is H, alkyl, or aralk... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5644004 | Multi-component ethylenically unsaturated peroxyesters A novel and safe ethylenically unsaturated peroxyester composition derived from an ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid is provided, as well as processes for making and using the composition. The peroxyester composition comprises about 0.04 to abou... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5612426 | Process of producing vinyl chloride polymer using an organic peroxide in combination with 3-hydroxy-1,1-dimethylbutyl peroxyneodecanoate This process is a process of producing a vinyl chloride polymer by suspension polymerization of vinyl chloride or a mixture of vinyl monomers mainly made up of vinyl chloride in an aqueous medium in the presence of an oil-soluble polymerization initiator,... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5470887 | Vesiculated polymer beads Vesiculated polymer beads are prepared in which a water-in-oil-in-water emulsion containing a cross-linkable polymer and a copolymerizable monomer in the oil phase is heated in the presence of an initiator to cure the polymer beads, wherein curing is comm... | 11/28/1995 |