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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7341784 | Light management film and its preparation and use A light management film includes a first layer with a thermoplastic resin and a particular phosphonium sulfonate salt, and a second layer formed from a curable composition and having a refractive index of at least 1.5. The light management film exhibits reduced stat... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7087659 | Curable (meth)acrylate compositions A curable composition includes a multifunctional (meth)acrylate; a substituted or unsubstituted arylether (meth)acrylate monomer; and a polymerization initiator. The compositions exhibit high refractive indices and, upon polymerization, the compositions provide film... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6822044 | Varnish and its use for producing varnish coatings and color-and/or effect-producing multi-layer coatings The use of a copolymer (A) preparable by free-radical polymerization of a) at least one olefinically unsaturated monomer and b) at least one olefinically unsaturated monomer different than the olefinically unsaturated monomer (a) and of the... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6767979 | Crosslinked polymers and refractive devices formed therefrom A polymer is formed of ethylenically unsaturated monomers including a zwitterionic monomer, an aromatic monomer and a cross-linking monomer. Preferably the crosslinking monomer includes at least one a group containing compound and at least one aliphatic group contai... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6703466 | Foldable intraocular lens optics having a glassy surface Foldable intraocular lenses having a reduced risk of posterior capsule opacification are disclosed. The foldable intraocular lenses have optics that are prepared such that their surface is glassy and their bulk is rubbery.... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6673517 | Polymer, resist composition and patterning process A polymer comprising recurring units of formula (1) and/or (2) wherein R1 and R2 are H, C1-15 alkyl, acyl or alkylsulfonyl or C2-15 alkoxycarbonyl or alkoxyalkyl which may have halogen substituents; R3 | 01/06/2004 |
| 6670094 | Polymer, resist composition and patterning process A polymer comprising recurring units of formula (1-1) or (1-2) wherein R1 and R2 are H or C1-15 alkyl, R1 and R2, taken together, may form a ring; R3 is H, C1-15 alkyl, acyl or a... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6653422 | Foldable ophthalmic and otorhinolaryngological device materials Disclosed are soft, high refractive index, acrylic materials having an elongation of at least 150%. These materials, especially useful as intraocular lens materials, contain an aryl acrylic hydrophobic monomer as the single principal device-forming monome... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6610809 | Polymer, producing method thereof, and photorefractive composition A photorefractive composition comprising a polymer prepared by living radical polymerization, wherein: the living radical polymerization is carried out using a monomer, a polymerization initiator, transition metal catalyst and a ligand capable of reversib... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6528602 | Foldable ophthalmic and otorhinolaryngological device materials Disclosed are soft, high refractive index, acrylic materials having an elongation of at least 150%. These materials, especially useful as intraocular lens materials, contain an aryl acrylic hydrophobic monomer as the single principal device-forming monome... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6423799 | Photo-addressable substrates and photo-addressable side-group polymers with highly inducible double refraction Disclosed is an extremely rapidly photo-addressable storage media from inherently slow photo-addressable polymers by irradiating a substrate over a large area with a light source suitable for conventional inscription so that an optical anisotropy, i.e. a ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6355753 | Polymer and antifouling agent composition containing the same A stainproofing polymer having: (i) a reactive group selected from the group consisting of a carboxyl group or its salt, a hydroxyl group, an epoxy group, a phosphoric acid group, an alkoxysilane group, an imine group, a sulfonic acid group, an amino grou... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6281315 | Solid polymeric matrices containing rhodamines and their use in lasers The present patent of invention describes the obtention of lasers in solid condition of dyes of the family of Rhodamines. More particularly, it describes lasers in which said dye or chromophore is to be found covalently anchored to a solid matrix, consist... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6153663 | UV curable high index vinyl esters A cross-linkage polymeric casting composition including an effective amount of a divinyl ester monomer of a bicyclic or polycyclic compound, and optionally, a minor amount of a di- or polythio compound. The specification and claims include allylic ethers ... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6107364 | Methyl styrene as a high index of refraction monomer Described are a polymerizable composition comprising methyl styrene monomer, polymers comprising monomeric units derived from methyl styrene monomers, and optical products comprising these polymers.... | 08/22/2000 |
| 5977276 | High index/high Abbe number composition A cross-linkable polymeric casting composition including an effective amount of A: an acrylic or methacrylic monomer which provides high rigidity and low colour dispersion (High Abbe number) to the final product; B: a di- or polythio compound; C: a di- or poly... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5932626 | Optical product prepared from high index of refraction brominated monomers Described are optical products comprising a base and an optical layer. The optical layer is prepared from a polymerizable composition comprising an alkyl-substituted brominated phenolic ester(meth)acrylate monomer.... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5905127 | Polymerizable mesophases based on substituted unsaturated carboxylic acids Mesogens are provided based on substituted unsaturated carboxylic acids such as acrylic and methacrylic acid. Substitution of a variety of hydrophobic tails onto the carboxylic acid or acid derivative via the vinyl carbon proximal to the carbonyl of the c... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5641846 | Side-group polymers, and their use for optical components Side-group polymers whose permanently shape-anisotropic side groups carry lateral substituents are particularly suitable, owing to their excellent properties, for optical components which can be employed, in particular, in optical data storage and transfe... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5518652 | Liquid crystalline copolymer The invention relates to copolymers made from mono-reactive liquid and/or di-reactive liquid crystals which can be photopolymerized to form copolymers and to novel reactive liquid crystal compound having a nematic phase. Preferentially the reactive liquid... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5502138 | Textile coating and method of using the same The present invention provides an article of manufacture comprising a textile substrate and a coating being a polymer comprising a non-aromatic unsaturated mono- or dicarboxylic ester monomer and an aliphatic conjugated diene monomer. An unsaturated mono-... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5447655 | Polymeric liquid crystal copolymer compound, composition, thererof, and polymeric liquid crystal device making use of these Provided is a polymeric liquid crystal copolymer compound having a repeating unit represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein A represents a polymeric main chain of a carbon type; and B represents a polyoxyalkylene group or ##STR2## wherein... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5439970 | Paint latices comprising benzophenone/acrylic copolymerizates Acrylic polymers having glass transition temperatures less than 0° C., notably formulated as exterior paint latices, comprise the copolymerizate of (a) at least one alpha,beta-monoolefinically unsaturated carboxylic monomer, (b) at least one (meth)acryli... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5403901 | Flexible, high refractive index polymers High refractive index copolymers comprised of monomers having the formula: ##STR1## wherein X is H or CH3 ; m is 0-10; Y is nothing, O, S, or NR wherein R is H, CH3, Cn H2n+1 (n=1-10) iso OC3 H7 | 04/04/1995 |
| 5373033 | Casting composition A cross-linkable polymeric casting composition including A) a polyoxy alkylene glycol diacrylate or dimethacrylate; B) a monomer having a recurring unit derived from at least one radical-polymerisable bisphenol monomer capable of forming a homopolymer having a... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5349035 | Copolymerization process and optical copolymer produced therefrom A process for preparing a copolymer suitable for use in an optical element which comprises the step of radically-polymerizing a composition which comprises at least one first monomer represented by formula (I), at least one second monomer represented by a... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5342860 | Radiation curable alk-1-enyl ether polyester prepolymers This invention relates to alk-1-enyl ether-polyester block prepolymers which are curable by cationically initiated radiation and which are defined by the formula ##STR1## wherein m has a value of from 1 to 25; A is C2 to C12 alk... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5326841 | Germicidal barriers Disclosed is an elastomeric article comprising the cross-linked, polymerized product of (i) a quaternary ammonium compound having the formula N+ R4 X- wherein at least one of the R groups is unsaturated alkyl and the rema... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5247035 | Soluble polymers At least 95% tetrahydrofuran soluble polymers are obtainable by copolymerization of a monomer mixture of A) from 1 to 99% by weight of at least one at least 98% pure monomer of the general formula I CH2 .dbd.C(E)CH2 --O--CH2 C(... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5242964 | Process for the preparation of aqueous dispersions of magnetizable polymer particles with a desired size narrow distribution, and aqueous dispersions thereof, and uses thereof A process for the preparation of aqueous dispersions of magnetizable polymer particles with a narrow distribution from aqueous dispersions with a wide distribution. The amount of water in the aqueous dispersion with a wide distribution is adjusted so that... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5194511 | Organic nonlinear optical materials derived from vinylidene cyanide-vinyl-p-acetoxy-benzoate copolymers There is disclosed an organic nonlinear optical material which comprises a polymer having the following constitutional units, in amounts of 5 to 100 mole % of (I) and 0 to 95 mole % of (II), and a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of the polymer being ... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5173547 | Copolymers containing perfluoroalkyls Copolymers and graft copolymers of perfluoroalkylacrylates or methacrylates and esters of the general formula (I) or (II) ##STR1## wherein R, R1 and R2 denote hydrogen or methyl, p denotes 2 to 6, q denotes 2 to 200 and x and y denot... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5136005 | Composition and method of preparation of solid state dye laser rods The present invention includes solid polymeric-host laser rods prepared using bulk polymerization of acrylic acid ester comonomers which, when admixed with dye(s) capable of supporting laser oscillation and polymerized with a free radical initiator under ... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5130392 | Radiation-sensitive polymers Radiation-sensitive polymers suitable for use in positive- and negative-working recording elements contain not only acid-labile groups but also onium salt groups having nonnucleophilic counterions in one and the same molecule.... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5106932 | Benzoates containing a substituent having olefinic unsaturation Polymers suitable for use as positive photoresists can be prepared, in the absence or presence of other olefinically unsaturated monomers, from benzoates comprising an olefinic unsaturated substituent and consisting of formula I ##STR1## wherein... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5077187 | Photographic elements silver halide containing a specific polymer and water soluble dye layer Polymers comprising recurring units represented by the structure: ##STR1## where R1, R2, D, J, Y, a, b, and c are as defined herein are useful for controlling wandering of filter dyes in photographic elements.... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5037906 | High solids process for the production of water soluble polymers by exothermic polymerization A high solids polymerization process for producing a water-soluble polymer wherein a mixture of exothermically polymerizable material in water is cooled to produce a cold syrup or crystalline slurry of the polymerizable material in a polymerizable materia... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5015472 | Coating compositions and methods for preventing adhesion of organisms Disclosed are a coating composition (A) for preventing adhesion of organisms which comprises as its vehicle component a homopolymer or a copolymer, the homopolymer being one prepared by homopolymerizing a phenol-modified unsaturated monomer obtained by re... | 05/14/1991 |
| 5008358 | Polymer compositions A hydrophilic crosslinkable copolymer comprising monomer units derived from an ester of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid wherein the ester group contains a labile primary hydroxyl group and monomer units derived from a halohydroxyalkyl ester o... | 04/16/1991 |
| 5006450 | Mordant polymer photographic element containing Polymers comprising repeating units having the structure: ##STR1## where R1, R3, D, Y, x, and y are as defined herein are useful for controlling wandering of filter dyes in photographic elements.... | 04/09/1991 |
