Patent ID: 7001971

Claim:
A polyhydric alcohol-modified silicone having the formula (1): R 1 a R 2 b R 3 c SiO (4-a-b-c)/2 (1) wherein R 1 is, identical or different, a 1–30 carbon atom alkyl group, aryl group, aralkyl group, fluorine-substituted alkyl group, amino-substituted alkyl group or carboxyl-substituted alkyl group, or an organic group of the formula (2): —C d H 2d —O—(C 2 H 4 O) e (C 3 H 6 O) f R 4 (2) wherein R 4 is a hydrocarbon group having 4–30 carbon atoms, or R 5 —(CO)— wherein R 5 is a hydrocarbon group having 1–30 carbon atoms, d, e and f are integers in the range, respectively, 0≦d≦15, 0≦e≦5, and 0≦f≦50; R 2 is of the formula (3): -Q-O—X (3) wherein Q is a bivalent hydrocarbon group having 3–20 carbon atoms which may contain at least an ether linkage or ester bond, and X is a polyhydric alcohol-substituted hydrocarbon group which has at least two hydroxyl groups; R 3 is an organosiloxane having the formula (4): wherein R groups each represent a 1–30 carbon atom alkyl group, aryl group, aralkyl group or fluorinated alkyl group, g and h are integers in the range, respectively, 1≦g≦5, and 0≦h≦500, and a, b and c are in the range, respectively, 1.0≦a≦2.5, 0.001≦b≦1.5, and 0.001≦c≦1.5.