Abstract: Before impregnation with fluid a capacitor roll, or a transformer core and coil, is filled with a monomeric gas that is thereafter polymerized, in situ, in a plasma discharge. Formation of solid polymer occurs at the regions of most intense electric field, thereby raising both corona-start and operating voltage for these devices.

Abstract: An electron emissive coating for long life fluorescent lamps comprises a composition of barium tantalate having the formula M(BaO) . N(Ta.sub.2 O.sub.5) where the ratio M/N is greater than 1.

Abstract: Mixtures of polyalkylenetrimellitate imides and polyalkylenetrimellitate ester imides suitable for use as self-bonding varnish coatings for magnet wire.

Abstract: Magnet Wire Bearing a Self-Bonding Poly(alkylenetrimellitate ester imide) varnish coating which is capable of forming a unitary structure after producing a fabricated article from the coated wire wherein the varnish layer bonds on heating.

Abstract: Encapsulation method not requiring molds and according to which curing of a thermosetting substance which when hardened provides requisite protection to an electrical or other assembly consisting of one or a plurality of elements is effected while the assembly is surrounded by a substance which remains solid and prevents movement of the thermosetting substance out of contact with the assembly during thermoplastic stages of curing thereof, and melts when the thermosetting substance has hardened, whereby the assembly may be moved out of contact therewith.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrically insulated coil having excellent insulation characteristics and high reliability using a vacuum-pressure impregnation process comprises the step of selectively effectively combining epoxy resins, curing agents and curing accelerators employed as a mica bonding agent and an impregnant.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing preforms from which clad optical fibers having longitudinal, eccentric, azimuthal index inhomogeneities may be drawn. In one embodiment, the known CVD process for making preforms is modified by the use of asymmetric heating to produce circumferentially alternating deposits of doped and undoped glass which act as the fiber core when the preform is subsequently collapsed and drawn into a fiber.

Abstract: A self-bonding magnet wire comprising a conductor and a baked mixture of nylon copolymer (A) and nylon copolymer (B) where the proportion of nylon copolymer (A) and nylon copolymer (B) is 50-95 parts of (A) to 50 to 5 parts of (B) (by weight), nylon copolymer (A) being alcohol-insoluble and non-swellable by an alcohol at room temperature and containing nylon-12, and nylon copolymer (B) having a lower melting point than that of nylon copolymer (A). Yoke coils for television sets comprising such a magnet wire and a process for forming such a magnet wire are also disclosed.

Abstract: Magnet wire bearing a poly(ethylene trimellitate imide) varnish coating which is capable of forming a unitary structure after producing a fabricated article from the coated wire where the poly(ethylene trimellitate imide) cures on heating or application of electrical current.

Abstract: After vacuum pressure impregnating an insulated coil with liquid polyester resin the outer surface of the combination is treated to cause a quick low temperature gellation of an outer shell of the resin to thereby encapsulate the remaining liquid portion. A subsequent high temperature cure is imposed for a relatively long period of time to solidify the liquid inner portion and to fully cure the resin throughout the insulation.

Abstract: Water-damaged electrical equipment is rehabilitated by treatment with a bath comprising a paraffinic oil, a polymethyl aromatic compound, a salt formed from the reaction of an N-alkyl polymethylenediamine and a dimer acid, and an inert organic solvent.

Abstract: Improved, more reliable activation of a thin wire emitter for field ionization and field desorption mass spectrometry is provided by controlled preroughening of the emitter wire prior to growing semiconducting microneedles on the wire surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for insulating rotor plates for electric motors by coating the rotor plates with a solution containing organo-silicon compounds, drying the coated plates and thereafter contacting the coated plates with a steam atmosphere to form a blue iron-oxide film thereon.