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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation, Tarrytown, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C11D 9/44 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C11D 9/44 ;
Abstract
A liquid fluorescent whitening agent formulation comprising: a) 10 to 20% of a compound of formula (1) in which R represents hydrogen, 1-5 C-alkyl, 1-5 C-alkoxy or halogen, M represents hydrogen, an alkaline- or alkaline earth-metal, or ammonium; b) 20 to 50% of a non-ionic surfactant; c) 20 to 40% of a polyhydroxy compound; d) 0 to 20% of a glycol compound and e) 1 to 50% water and use thereof for improving the whiteness aspect of detergents.