US Patent Issued to SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES on June 17 for "Resin modifier, resin composition, molding, and molded article" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,167, issued on June 17, was assigned to SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Resin modifier, resin composition, molding, and molded article" was invented by Shimpei Hasegawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuhei Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a resin modifier (Y) containing: a block polymer (X) that has a block of a hydrophobic polymer (a) and a block of a hydrophilic polymer (b) as constitutional units, the block polymer (X) having an orientation index (Omega) obtained by the following formula of 1.5 to 15:orientation index (Omega)=(Beta)/(Alpha) wherein (Alpha) represents a weight r...