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Granted Patent B2
US 8,546,317 · App. 12/833,492 · Granted Oct 1, 2013

Hard surface cleaning composition

Inventors: Annick Julia Oscar Mertens (Bornem, BE); Geert Andre Deleersnyder (Wielsbeke, BE); Patrick Firmin August Delplancke (Steenhuize-Wijnhuize, BE); Stefano Scialla (Rome, IT)
Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
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Patent No.
US 8,546,317
App. No.
12/833,492
Granted
Oct 1, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a hard surface cleaning composition comprising a polybetaine polymer, wherein said polybetaine polymer comprises a zwitterionic unit A or a mixture thereof, wherein said unit A comprises a betaine group or a mixture thereof and wherein said betaine group of said unit A is a sulphobetaine group or a mixture thereof, and a vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer or copolymer, wherein said polybetaine polymer and said vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer or copolymer are present in said composition at a weight ratio of polybetaine polymer to vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer or copolymer of at utmost 1.5:1.

Claims (14)

1. A hard surface cleaning composition comprising a polybetaine homopolymer, wherein said polybetaine homopolymer comprises a zwitterionic unit A, wherein said unit A comprises a betaine group and wherein said betaine group of said unit A is a sulphobetaine group

and a vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer,

wherein said polybetaine homopolymer and said vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer are present in said composition at a weight ratio of polybetaine homopolymer to vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer of from about 1:10 to about 1:8, and

wherein said unit A of said polybetaine homopolymer is selected from the group consisting of:

2. A hard surface cleaning composition according to claim 1 , wherein in said polybetaine polymer said betaine group of said unit A is a pendant group of said polybetaine homopolymer.

3. A hard surface cleaning composition according to claim 1 , wherein said polybetaine homopolymer is obtainable by a copolymerization step by introducing:

a monomer A, containing an ethylenically unsaturated group and a sulphobetaine group, and

a free radicals source.

4. A hard surface cleaning composition according to claim 1 , wherein said polybetaine homopolymer is present at a level of from about 0.001% to about 5% of the total weight of said composition.

5. A hard surface cleaning composition according to claim 1 , wherein said polybetaine homopolymer and said vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer are present in said composition at a weight ratio of polybetaine homopolymer to vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer or copolymer of from about 1:25 to about 1:1.

6. A hard surface cleaning composition according to claim 1 , wherein said composition is a liquid hard surface cleaning composition.

7. A hard surface cleaning composition according to claim 1 , wherein said composition is a liquid, acidic to neutral, preferably acidic, hard surface cleaning composition.

8. A pre-moistened hard surface cleaning wipe comprising a substrate, preferably a nonwoven substrate, impregnated with a hard surface cleaning composition according to claim 6 .

9. A process of cleaning a hard surface with a hard surface cleaning composition according to claim 1 or a pre-moistened hard surface cleaning wipe according to claim 8 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 13, 2010
From: MERTENS, ANNICK JULIA OSCAR; DELEERSNYDER, GEERT ANDRE; DELPLANCKE, PATRICK FIRMIN AUGUST; SCIALLA, STEFANO
To: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
Reel/Frame 024673/0569 →
Priority Claims (1)
EP 09164872 · Jul 8, 2009 · regional
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20110009309A1 · Jan 13, 2011