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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2014
Firestone Polymers, Llc, Akron, OH (US);
Heritage Research Group, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Herb Wissel, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Peter Boerner, Massillon, OH (US);
Daniel Graves, Canal Fulton, OH (US);
Christine Rademacher, Akron, OH (US);
Timothy Reece, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Firestone Polymers, LLC, Akron, OH (US);
Heritage Research Group, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
A modified-asphalt composition prepared by introducing a diene end-capped block copolymer with a molten asphalt composition, where the block copolymer is defined by the formulaα-(D-V-d)where each D is independently a polydiene block, each V is independently a vinyl aromatic block, each d is a polydiene end cap, α is a coupling moiety, and x is an integer from 2 to 10.