Abstract: The present invention pertains to a curable composition which comprises a) a N-substituted 4-(o-nitrophenyl)dihydropyridine which constitutes a base-generating substance that is caused to generate a base by the action of ultraviolet light, and (b) a silicone polymer (R.sub.2 SiO.sub.2/2)(RSiO.sub.3/2) containing silicon-hydrogen bonds (Si--H) which are capable of reacting with hydroxy groups to form silicon-oxygen bonds (Si--O) and hydrogen molecules (H.sub.2) under the effect of the base. This composition is cured by irradiation with ultraviolet light. Patterns are formed by placing a mask between a coating film of the composition and the ultraviolet light source during the irradiation with ultraviolet light, and then dissolving and removing the uncured portions of the composition following said irradiation.

Abstract: A method of detecting an ultraviolet laser beam, which includes irradiating a detector with the ultraviolet laser beam to produce photoluminescence from the detector, and sensing the photoluminescence. The detector includes a specific polysilmethylene compound or a specific polysiloxane compound. A method of recording an information is also disclosed which includes exposing a photosensitive layer to an ultraviolet laser beam according to the information. The photosensitive layer includes a specific polysilmethylene compound or a specific polysiloxane compound. By irradiating the exposed photosensitive layer to a reference ultraviolet laser beam, the recorded information is read.

Abstract: Curable compositions comprising a substance that produces a base when exposed to radiation and a polymer molecule that contains silicon-hydrogen bonds which react with hydroxyl groups under the action of the base to form silicon-oxygen bonds (Si--O) and hydrogen molecules. These compositions cure when exposed to radiation. A pattern can be formed by placing a mask between a coating of the composition and the radiation source during this exposure episode and thereafter dissolving the uncured composition. The compositions have little weight loss during their cure, they can be cured by low intensity radiation, and they yield heat-resistant cured products.

Abstract: Allyl silane compounds represented by the formula (CH.sub.2 .dbd.CH--CH.sub.2 --)R.sub.n SiCl.sub.3-n (R represents, independently of each other, hydrocarbon groups with a carbon number of C.sub.1 to C.sub.8 ; n represents an integer from 0 to 3) are reacted with AX (AX stands for mercaptans, thiocarboxylic acids, carbon tetrachloride, or chloroform, the letter X represents, respectively, H bonded to sulfur in the case of mercaptans and thiocarboxylic acids, chlorine in the case of carbon tetrachloride, and H in the case of chloroform, and the letter A represents a residual group bonded to X) in the presence of radical generating agents, thereby obtaining allylsilane compounds represented by the formula (ACH.sub.2 CHXCH.sub.2)R.sub.n SiCl.sub.3-n (R, n, A and X have the same meaning as above).

Abstract: What is disclosed is a new composition for forming coating water repellent films with a very smooth water-repellent surface. The composition imparts an attractive appearance to the coating film and assures that less time is needed for water to descent down a substrate.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for the preparation of a copolymer of polypropylene and organopolysiloxane, the method comprising heating a solution of an .alpha., .omega.-diene-propylene polymer and an organohydrido polysiloxane having on average at least two SiH groups in one molecule at a temperature below the boiling point of the solvent. Preferably, the .alpha., .omega.-diene-propylene polymer is obtained by subjecting polypropylene to thermal decomposition in an inert atmosphere at a pressure below atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: Cross-liked resins exhibiting a high level of optical transparency and little variation of refractive index with temperature are prepared using mixtures of two organosiloxane resins in combination with a reinforcing silica filler. The types and relative concentrations of hydrocarbon radicals in the resins are within specified limits to obtain the required optical properties and each resin contains groups that react with groups on the other resin to form a crosslinked network.

Abstract: A refractive index modulation element made of a refractive index modulation material. The refractive index can be thermally modulated. The refractive index modulation material can be a silicone resin represented by the following formula R.sub.n SiO.sub.(4--n)/2,where the average value of n is 0.5 to 3 and where K is an aliphatic or aromatic group with 1 to 18 carbon atoms or other functional group. The silicone resin has a spectral transmission factor that on average is higher than 80%, within the wavelength range of 350 nm to 1,600 nm, and a refractive index temperature dependence of -0.001/.degree.C. to -0.00005/.degree.C.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for manufacturing a polysiloxane resin with charge transporting properties by uniformly bonding charge transporting groups in effective concentration within a polysiloxane resin. The charge transporting groups are formed in the resin by cohydrolyzing and condensing silane monomers with an aromatically substituted tertiary amine which has been modified by substitution of one or more of the aromatic rings with a hydrocarbon group containing a silyl group bearing hydrolyzable substituents. Tertiary amines have ionization potentials of 4.5 to 6.2 volts.

Abstract: The invention is an optically transparent organopolysiloxane resin with a large amount of a uniformly dissolved and dispersed optically-functional organic material. The compatibility of the optically functional material is achieved by modifying it by addition of alkoxysilylalkyl groups to aromatic groups of optically-functional organic compounds such phthalocyanines, porphyrins, tetraphenylbutadienes, axobenzenes, bis(4-dimethylaminodithiobenzyl)nickel and anthracenes. The compositions contain 20 to 200 parts by weight of the modified optically-functional organic compounds per 100 parts by weight of the organopolysiloxane resin. The composition may be formed into a specified shape, solvents evaporated, and cured by heat.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing charge transporting materials which impart a charge transporting property to a polysiloxane resin, and which is soluble in the resin. The charge transporting material is an aromatic substituted tertiary amine with a plurality of aromatic groups, and a silyl group introduced via a hydrocarbon group, into at least one of the aromatic groups. The method is characterized by using an unsaturated aliphatic group bonded to an aromatic group which makes up the silicon-type charge transporting compound, or using a newly bonded unsaturated aliphatic group which is bonded to a silane in which the substituent for silicon is hydrogen or a hydrolyzable group. This is conducted in the presence of a platinum compound as catalyst by means of hydrosilylation. The silicon-type charge transporting material is then brought into contact with an adsorbent for the platinum compound, causing the platinum compound to be adsorbed onto the adsorbent.

Abstract: The introduction of a highly spin-coatable silicone resin that does not produce large amounts of volatiles during its cure, and that is a precursor to highly heat-resistant, optically transparent cured products that exhibit an excellent hardness. The silicone resin comprises a silicone polymer of the general formula:(Ph.sub.2 SiO).sub.a (HSiO.sub.3/2).sub.b (R.sup.1 SiO.sub.3/2).sub.cin which R.sup.1 is hydrogen or C.sub.1 to C.sub.8 hydrocarbon group, possibly containing a heteroatom, Ph is a phenyl group and 6.ltoreq.a+b+c.ltoreq.1,000, 0.6>a/(a+b+c).gtoreq.0.4, and 1.0.gtoreq.b/(b+c).gtoreq.0.2.

Abstract: This invention provides curable compositions comprising a polytitanosiloxane containing at least two alkenyl radicals per molecule and a crosslinking agent that is either 1) the combination of an organohydrogensiloxane containing at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per molecule and a platinum-containing catalyst or 2) an organic peroxide. This invention also provides a method for curing a polytitanosiloxane by reacting it with the crosslinking agent of the present compositions.

Abstract: The invention is a method for the preparation of organic solvent-soluble polyheterosiloxanes containing MO.sub.2 (M=Ti or Zr) and SiO.sub.2 units. A compound MA.sub.4 (M=Ti or Zr, A=hydrolyzable group) and a compound Si(OR).sub.4 (R=hydrocarbon group or alkali metal atom) are hydrolyzed and condensed in the presence of a carboxylic acid, a phenol, or a diketone. This is followed by the addition of an organosilane R.sup.1.sub.3 SiX (R.sup.1 =hydrogen or hydrocarbon group, X=hydrolyzable group) and hydrolysis and condensation.

Abstract: The invention is a method for the preparation of organic solvent-soluble polytitanosiloxanes that contain units with the formulas R.sup.1.sub.a R.sup.2.sub.(3-a) SiO.sub. 1/2 (M units), SiO.sub. 4/2 (Q units) and TiO.sub. 4/2. The method comprises hydrolyzing tetraalkyl titanate or a partial hydrolyzate-condensate thereof and tetraalkyl silicate or a partial hydrolyzate-condensate thereof using water in an amount which is less than 80% of the amount theoretically necessary for the hydrolysis of all the alkoxy groups, and reacting the cohydrolyzate-cocondensate with at least 1 silane compound with the formula R.sup.1.sub.a R.sup.2.sub.3-a) SiOR.sup.3, where in the preceding formulas, R.sup.1 is the hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group, R.sup.2 is a monovalent organic group, R.sup.3 is the hydrogen atom or an acyl group having no more than 8 carbon atoms, and a is an integer with a value of 0 to 3.

Abstract: The invention is a curable composition whose essential structural elements are M and Q units and which provides a cured product that has a flexural modulus capable of withstanding practical applications. The curable organopolysiloxane composition comprises (A) an alkenyl-functional organopolysiloxane whose main components are the R.sup.1.sub.3 SiO.sub.1/2 and SiO.sub.4/2 units where R.sup.1 represents monovalent organic groups, (B) an SiH-containing organopolysiloxane whose main components are the R.sup.2.sub.3 SiO.sub.1/2 and SiO.sub.4/2 units where R.sup.2 represents the hydrogen atom and monovalent organic groups and (C) a platinum catalyst. In addition, the composition exhibits a post-cure flexural modulus of at least 100 MPa.

Abstract: Methods are disclosed for the blending of inherently incompatible polymer systems to provide compositions comprising (i) 1 to 99.99 percent by weight of a diorganopolysiloxane; and (ii) 0.01 to 99 percent by weight of an organopolysiloxane-grafted rigid linear aromatic polymer selected from the group consisting of organopolysiloxane-grafted polyimide and organopolysiloxane-grafted polybenzobisoxazole.

Abstract: There is disclosed a diphenylsiloxane oligomer functionalized at both terminals and methods for the preparation thereof, said oligomer having the following general formulaG-(OSiPh.sub.2).sub.m O-G (i)wherein Ph denotes a phenyl radical, m is 3 to 50 and G has a formula independently selected from the group consisting of ##STR1## in which R, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are independently selected from the group consisting of methyl, phenyl and R.sup.1, R.sup.1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 2 to 8 carbon atoms excluding phenyl, tolyl, xylyl, and ethylphenyl radicals, Q is a divalent hydrocarbon group and k is independently 0 to 3 at each terminus of said oligomer with the proviso that k is >0 at one terminus of said oligomer, at least one substituent among R, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 in formula (ii) is R.sup.1 and, when both R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 groups at one terminus of said oligomer are phenyl, groups R.sup.4 and R.sup.

Abstract: There is disclosed a diphenylsiloxane oligomer functionalized at both terminals, and methods for the preparation thereof, said oligomer having the following general formula G-(OSi(Ph).sub.2).sub.m O--G wherein Ph denotes a phenyl radical, m is 3 to 50 and G is has a formula independently selected from the group consisting of ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 2 to 8 carbon atoms, said monovalent hydrocarbon group excluding phenyl, tolyl, xylyl, and ethylphenyl radicals, R is independently selected from the group consisting of R.sup.1, methyl radical and phenyl radical, Q is a divalent hydrocarbon group and n is an integer having a value of 1 to 3.

Abstract: The present lubricant compositions comprise a mixture of graphite, molybdenum disulfide and polytetrafluoroethylene in specified proportions within a matrix of an organic resin. When applied to surfaces that are in sliding contact with one another the compositions exhibit high wear resistance, good initial conformability, and a coefficient of friction following use that is lower than the initial coefficient of friction. The compositions are particularly suited for application to engine pistons.