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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8084538 | Thermoplastic polymer composition and molded product The present invention provides a thermoplastic polymer composition capable of exhibiting excellent impact resistance, durability and destaticizing property. The present invention relates to a thermoplastic polymer composition comprising (A) 50 to 95% by mass of an a... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7820760 | Amphiphilic block copolymer-modified epoxy resins and adhesives made therefrom A curable adhesive epoxy resin composition including (a) an epoxy resin; (b) an amphiphilic block copolymer containing at least one epoxy resin miscible block segment and at least one epoxy resin immiscible block segment; wherein the immiscible block segment compris... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7435770 | Polymeric-type electric resistance control agent and polymer composition containing the same The present invention provides a polymeric-type antistatic agent containing a polymer composition consisting of a polymeric-type antistatic agent containing a resin or/and an elastomer as a main component thereof; or/and a thermoplastic resin having a polar group or... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7425322 | Responsive biomedical composites A responsive polymeric system including a responsive polymeric component capable of undergoing a transition that results in a sharp increase in viscosity in response to a triggering effected at a predetermined body site. The system includes a solid non-ceramic reinf... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7361290 | Electroconductive resin, composition useful for forming electroconductive resin, and method of producing electroconductive resin An object of the present invention is to provide a composition useful for forming an electroconductive resin, the composition comprising a resin and a vapor-growth carbon fiber compounded with the resin, and which can be easily formed into a thin film, and to provid... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7291675 | Golf ball rubber compositions and golf balls A rubber composition for a one-piece golf ball or for a solid core of a solid golf ball having a multilayer construction in which the core is enclosed directly, or with an intermediate layer, by a cover includes (a) 100 parts by weight of a base rubber, (b) 10 to 60... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7282551 | Thermoplastic block copolymers consisting of polyalkyl(meth)acrylate and polyamide segments and the use thereof Polyamide polyalkyl(meth)acrylate block copolymers which are built from polyamide generating monomers in addition to 15-70 weight percent polyalkyl(meth)acrylates as well as products produced from same. The block copolymers are produced by producing polyamide or cop... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7279175 | Stent coated with a sustained-release drug delivery and method for use thereof An intraluminal medical device comprises a stent having a coating applied to at least part of an interior surface, an exterior surface, or both. The coating comprises a sustained release formulation of a combination of pharmaceutical compounds dispersed within a bio... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7259217 | Controlled-architecture polymers and use thereof as separation media Controlled architecture polymers made preferably with acrylamide type monomers are prepared in living-type or semi-living-type free radical polymerizations, with the architecture preferably being other than linear, such as star, branched, grafted or hyper-branched. ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7250177 | Multiblock biodegradable hydrogels for drug delivery and tissue treatment Gel-forming macromers including at least four polymeric blocks, at least two of which are hydrophobic and at least one of which is hydrophilic, and including a crosslinkable group are provided. The macromers can be covalently crosslinked to form a gel on a tissue su... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7230051 | Use of polyacrylate-modified polysiloxanes as levelling agents in coating compositions The invention relates to the use of block copolymers as leveling agents for surface coatings, having a weight-average molecular weight of from 1000 to 100000. The leveling agent is a linear or branched block copolymer composed of a polysiloxane block and one or more... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7226965 | Polymeric-type electric resistance control agent and polymer composition containing the same The present invention provides a polymeric-type antistatic agent containing a polymer composition consisting of a polymeric-type antistatic agent containing a resin or/and an elastomer as a main component thereof; or/and a thermoplastic resin having a polar group or... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7226617 | Thermosensitive and biodegradable microgel and a method for the preparation thereof The present invention provides a thermosensitive and biodegradable microgel and a method of synthesizing such microgels. The thermosensitive and biodegradable microgel is synthesized from a macromer comprising a thermosensitive block polymer co-polymerized with a bi... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223282 | Remote activation of an implantable device The invention is directed to an implantable device, such as a stent, for delivering a therapeutic substance. The device includes a reservoir containing a therapeutic substance and an energy converter to cause the release of the substance. ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7205337 | End-capped polymers and compositions containing such compounds End-capped polymers, methods for making those end-capped polymers, compositions containing those end-capped polymers, and methods for using those compositions are disclosed. One of the disclosed end-capped copolymers has the formula (I): | 04/17/2007 |
| 7193007 | Environment responsive gelling copolymer The invention relates to a gelable copolymer composition comprising a copolymer in a solvent. The copolymer has the structure A(B)n, wherein the core (A) is soluble in the solvent, the arms (B) are convertible between soluble and insoluble in the solent depending on... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7165584 | Rubber compositions and vulcanizates comprising nylon-containing copolymers A tire comprising a tread, where the tread includes a vulcanized rubber, from about 5 to about 80 parts by weight of a nylon-containing block copolymer per 100 parts by weight of the vulcanized rubber, and from about 1 to about 100 parts by weight filler per 100 par... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7160931 | Thermally reversible implant and filler The invention relates to the use of a thermal reversible gel, such as a copolymer composition, as a biological filler or implant. The gel has a semi-solid form at body temperature, but upon cooling to a temperature below a threshold level, the gel is liquefied and c... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7160949 | Olefin block copolymers, processes for producing the same and uses thereof Olefin block copolymers (A-1) are disclosed represented by the formula (I) PO1-g1-B1 . . . (I) wherein PO1 is a segment comprised of repeating units derived from an olefin having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, g1 is an e... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7160551 | Injectable system for controlled drug delivery An injectable composition for delivery of a bioactive agent contains a biocompatible solvent, a hydrophobic polymer, and an amphiphilic block copolymer. The hydrophobic polymer may be a biodegradable polymer, and the block copolymer may contain a segment of poly(eth... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7142904 | Method and composition for probing the body through the skin A method and composition for probing the body through the skin. In one embodiment of the invention, the method includes providing a medium for interfacing with the skin, applying the medium to the skin at a selected location, and coupling at least two of (a) an elec... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7138132 | Hydrogel entrapping therapeutic agent and stent with coating comprising this A hydrogel forming system which comprises a hydrophobic macromer with unsaturated group terminated ends and a hydrophilic polymer which is a polysaccharide containing hydroxy groups which are reacted with unsaturated group introducing compound, is convertible by fre... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7135529 | Golf ball comprising saturated rubber/ionomer block copolymers The invention provides golf balls with a core and with one or more layers, preferably cover layers, formed of a saturated rubber/ionomer block copolymer comprising one or more neutral thermoplastic polymer blocks and one or more ionomeric blocks. The saturated rubbe... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7129295 | Golf ball A golf ball excellent in abrasion resistance and rebound characteristics. The golf ball according to the present invention is characterized in that the golf ball comprises a base resin constituting the cover containing a polyurethane having a polyisocyanate and a po... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7078106 | Thermosetting resin composition and use thereof A thermosetting resin composition comprising: (1) a copolymer resin comprising (a) a monomer unit and (b) a monomer unit respectively represented by the following general formulae (I) and (II): wherein R1 | 07/18/2006 |
| 7067582 | Golf ball core compositions containing high Vicat softening temperature, resilient thermoplastic materials The invention is directed to golf ball core compositions comprising at least one natural or synthetic rubber and at least one high Vicat softening temperature thermoplastic material, methods of preparing the compositions, and golf ball cores and golf balls including... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7041735 | Vinyl chloride polymer composition The present invention provides a vinyl chloride polymer composition which comprises (i) a vinyl chloride polymer (a) and (ii) a block copolymer (b) having a polymer block (I) comprising of a block copolymer, which may be hydrogenated, of an aromatic vinyl compound p... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7009027 | Method for producing meltable polyesters This invention relates to a method for producing and processing polyester block copolymers, in particular, polyester side-chain grafted, rigid side-chain and/or semi-rigid side-chain polymers. According to the invention, the monomeric units of rigid side-chain and/o... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009034 | Biocompatible crosslinked polymers Biocompatible crosslinked polymers, and methods for their preparation and use, are disclosed in which the biocompatible crosslinked polymers are formed from water soluble precursors having electrophilic and nucleophilic functional groups capable of reacting and cros... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6995209 | Thermally reversible water in oil in water emulsions A thermally reversible water in oil in water (W/O/W) emulsion including a thermally reversible viscosifying polymer in the continuous aqueous phase of the emulsion. The thermally reversible viscosifying polymer of the W/O/W emulsion includes a block copolymer having... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6962956 | Antistatic strenique polymer compositions The invention relates to a composition comprising, for 100 parts by weight, 99-60 parts of a styrenic polymer (A), 1-40 parts of (B)+(C), (B) being a polyamide block and polyether block copolymer essentially comprising ethylene oxide patterns (C2H4-O)—, (C) being ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6949251 | Porous β-tricalcium phosphate granules for regeneration of bone tissue A porous β-tricalcium phosphate material for bone implantation is provided. The multiple pores in the porous TCP body are separate discrete voids and are not interconnected. The pore size diameter is in the range of 20-500 μm, preferably 50-125 μm. The porous β-... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6946520 | Fabricated articles prepared from blends of substantially random ethylene/propylene/vinyl aromatic interpolymers with polypropylene This invention relates to fabricated articles, including films or sheets prepared from blends of substantially random ethylene/propylene/vinyl aromatic monomer interpolymers with propylene homopolymers or copolymers. The fabricated articles exhibit high toughness, t... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6939915 | Method for agglomerating finely divided polybutadiene latices The present invention relates to a method for agglomerating finely divided rubber latices by adding an aqueous solution of a water-soluble amphiphilic copolymer that contains at least one hydrophilic portion and at least one hydrophobic portion. ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6939916 | Adhesion promoter, coating compositions for adhesion to olefinic substrates and methods therefor The composition is an adhesion promoter that includes a chlorinated polyolefin and an olefin-based block copolymer that has an olefin block that is substantially saturated and at least one (poly)ester or (poly)ether block. The olefin-based block copolymer can be pre... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6933340 | Formulation comprising an ionic compound, a polyionic polymer, and a block copolymer The invention relates to a formulation comprising an ionic compound and a polyionic polymer. The invention more specifically relates to an improved formulation thereof, further comprising a copolymer. The improved formulation avoids phase-separation of colloidal par... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6923986 | Multiblock biodegradable hydrogels for drug delivery and tissue treatment Gel-forming macromers including at least four polymeric blocks, at least two of which are hydrophobic and at least one of which is hydrophilic, and including a crosslinkable group are provided. The macromers can be covalently crosslinked to form a gel on a tissue su... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6921791 | Thermoplastic elastomer Disclosed is a product and process for a substantially halogen-free thermoplastic elastomer. The thermoplastic elastomer can be incorporated into a decorative surface covering as a binder with the addition of an optional filler. The substantially halogen-free thermo... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6916857 | Hydrogel-forming system with hydrophobic and hydrophilic components A hydrogel forming system which comprises a hydrophobic macromer with unsaturated group terminated ends and a hydrophilic polymer which is a polysaccharide (e.g. dextran) containing hydroxy groups which are reacted with unsaturated group introducing compound, is con... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6906128 | Method for depositing a polymer onto a surface by applying a composition onto said surface The invention relates to a method for depositing a polymer onto a surface, by applying an aqueous composition, preferably an aqueous composition, onto said surface. The invention also relates to a method for making the composition. The composition comprise a block c... | 06/14/2005 |
