Abstract: Halogenated resin compositions are prepared without using halogen acids by combining at least one silicone intermediate, with an optional silane, an organic halogen-containing ingredient having functional groups selected from the group consisting of hydroxy, amine, and carboxyl groups, and a resin selected from the group consisting of hydroxy- and epoxy-functional resins. One or more amine curing agent and/or catalyst selected from the group consisting of organometallic compounds, acids, bases, and mixtures thereof can optionally be added to facilitate ambient temperature curing of the resulting composition. The combined ingredients undergo hydrolysis reactions to form a halogenated organooxysilane that condenses to form a cross-linked halogenated polysiloxane composition. The resin also reacts with the condensing halogenated organooxysilane to introduce itself into the cross-linked halogenated polysiloxane and, thereby form the halogenated polysiloxane resin composition.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent (EL) device includes at least one luminescent layer having an organic compound doped with a metal capable of acting as a donor dopant, in adjacent to a cathode electrode. The EL device ensures a diminished energy barrier in an electron injection from the cathode electrode into the luminescent layer, i.e., metal-doped organic compound layer, and thus a lowered driving voltage. The lowered driving voltage can be obtained regardless of the work function of the cathode material.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device of a single heterostructure is fabricated by forming a transparent electrode (anode) of ITO, a hole transport layer, an electron transport layer and a metal electrode (cathode) in that order on a glass substrate. An exciton generation promoting layer is formed between the hole transport layer and the electron transport layer. The hole transport layer is a two-layer structure consisting of a hole transport light emitting layer or a hole injection layer, and a hole transport light emitting layer. Exciton generation in the hole transport light emitting layers 4a and 4b can be promoted. The hole injection layer enables efficient hole injection.

Abstract: An EL cell exhibiting high luminous efficiency and excellent durability is disclosed. The EL cell comprises a layer of a block copolymer comprising a block component (A) of the following formula (1) having a positive hole transfer capability and a block component (B) of the following formula (2) having an electron transfer capability at molar ratio of the block component (A) to the block (B) between 0.1:99.9 and 99.9:0.1.

Abstract: An oxygen scavenging composition capable of providing good oxygen absorption capabilities wherein the oxygen scavenging agent is a hydroxosulfitometalate. Methods for making a hydroxosulfitometalate are also disclosed.

Abstract: An OLED having a cathode constructed from a first conducting layer. An electron transport layer constructed from a first electron transport material overlays the cathode. An electroluminescent layer constructed from the first electron transport material doped with dibenzotetraphenylperiflanthene overlays the electron transport layer. A hole transport layer constructed from a first hole transport material overlays the electroluminescent layer. The anode overlays the hole transport layer. In one embodiment of the invention, a second hole transport layer constructed from a second hole transport material is sandwiched between the anode and the first hole transport layer. In a third embodiment of the invention, a second electron transport layer constructed from a second electron transport material is sandwiched between the electroluminescent layer and the first hole transport layer.

Abstract: An oriented polymeric in-mold label film comprises a hot-stretched, annealed, linerless self-wound film lamina and has a face layer for printing and a base layer which includes a heat-activatable adhesive. The heat-shrinkability of the film is balanced thickness-wise to minimize curl and allow the film to be printed in conventional label-printing presses. An antistat may be included only in the charge for the base layer which includes the heat-activatable adhesive. In the manufacture of labelled blow-molded containers, sheets and labels formed from the film may be handled at high speeds while maintaining accurate registration and dimensional and positional integrity even in the absence of any reinforcing backing, yet the labels perform well on deformable containers such as shampoo bottles.

Abstract: A bottle molded from a polyester composition comprising 97 to 99.99% by weight of a polyester and 3 to 0.01% by weight of a polyester elastomer, which bottle exhibits dimensional change ratios of not greater than 5% measured in the height direction of the bottle and also not greater than 5% measured in the wall part diameter direction of the bottle and has an overturning angle of at least 10.degree., when the bottle was subjected to a hot bath test in which the bottle is filled with a beverage containing 2.5 gas volume carbon dioxide at 23.degree. C., stoppered and immersed in sealed condition in a hot bath heated at 70.degree. C. Thus, the bottle retains self-standing property without deformation even after it is filled with a carbonated beverage and subjected to heat sterilization.

Abstract: The invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device comprising a light-emitting composition disposed between a first and second electrode. The composition comprises poly(fluorene-co-anthracene).

Abstract: A plasma display device with a phosphor screen, comprising a phosphor composition of an UV-phosphor furnished with a coating which includes one or more catena-polyphosphates of metals of the group formed by the alkaline earth metals, zinc, cadmium and manganese, can effectively be used to counteract degradation of the phosphor by UV-excitation.

Abstract: This invention provides means to replace vulcanized natural rubber with non-allergenic synthetic rubbers in the manufacture of health care devices such as protective gloves, condoms, tourniquets and dental dams. The synthetic rubbers are latexes and aqueous polyurethane dispersions having very low glass transition temperatures and crosslinked by means other than sulfur vulcanization of double bonds.

Abstract: An organic thin film electroluminescent device has at least an organic thin film provided between an anode and a cathode,wherein the organic thin film includes a compound which is represented by a general formula (I): ##STR1## where Ar.sup.1, Ar.sup.2, Ar.sup.3, Ar.sup.4, Ar.sup.5, and Ar.sup.6 are selected from the group consisting of non-substituted phenyl groups and phenyl groups substituted with at least a substituent which is selected from the group consisting of alkyl groups having 1-4 carbon atoms, alkoxyl groups having 1-4 carbon atoms, amino groups, alkyl amino groups having 1-4 carbon atoms, dialkyl amino groups having 1-4 carbon atoms, alkyl thio groups having 1-4 carbon atoms, halogens, and halogeno alkyl groups having 1-4 carbon atoms, and R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, and R.sup.6 are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and methyl groups.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent component with a layer arrangement includes a first electrode layer, an inorganic layer which conducts electrons, one or several optoelectronically active layers with at least one light-emitting layer which comprises an organic emitter, and a second electrode layer. The inorganic layer which conducts electrons is an N-type conducting oxide of a transition metal chosen from the group consisting of zirconium oxide, hafnium oxide, vanadium oxide, barium titanate, barium-strontium titanate, strontium titanate, calcium titanate, calcium zirconate, potassium tantalate, and potassium niobate.

Abstract: A slitting and scoring machine includes an upper tooling roller and a lower tooling roller that cooperate to define a tooling nip. Each tooling roller includes an alternating series of coaxially arranged annular knives, annular dies, and annular mandrels. A web of insulation is drawn through the tooling nip to simultaneously (i) cut the web into strips, (ii) score the strips in a manner that promotes the forming of the strips, and (iii) partially form the strips into modified U-shapes. Each strip includes a longitudinally extending middle segment and a pair of longitudinally extending side segments that extend away from the middle segment in a divergent manner to define a longitudinally extending channel. Longitudinally extending grooves are formed by the scoring at the junctures of the middle segment and the side segments. The scoring/grooves promote the divergent shape of the strip.

Abstract: The invention provides a conforming medium containing gels for customized fitting components, such as those used in a shoe. The invention further includes environmentally-responsive gels that are temperature-responsive so that they will react to body heat to transition from a liquid to a gel state or a gel state to a liquid state. Furthermore, the invention is directed to an article for conforming to the contours of an object having isolation means, such as a ladder of a flexible member, to contain the environmentally-responsive gel therein.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing; a high water-containing elastomer medical catheter and a urinary catheter prepared by the process. The process comprises a) heating a mixture consisting of polyvinyl alcohol, water, sulfoxide and linear alkane, in a sealed vessel with agitating; b) pouring the resulting homogeneous fluid into a mould; c) solidifying the fluid by cooling; d) releasing the solidified fluid from the mould; and e) heat-treating the resulting medical catheter and washing with a polar organic solvent. The medical catheter and the urinary catheter of the present invention have excellent lubricity.

Abstract: An organic EL device of the invention includes an inorganic material layer with a resistivity of less than 20 .OMEGA.-cm disposed between an electrode and a light emitting layer. The inorganic material layer contains at least one of indium oxide, tin oxide, and zinc oxide as a primary component, which is the same material as an anode, and at least one of silicon and germanium as an auxiliary component. This improves physical properties at the electrode-organic layer interface and restrains generation of dark spots, establishing an organic EL device featuring a long life, high efficiency and low cost.

Abstract: A polyurethane-modified bitumen coating composition of selected surface tack and fluidity. The composition includes: bitumen; a minor modifying amount of a polyurethane prepared by the reaction of a polyisocyanate and a hydroxyl terminated polybutadiene; a tackifier; and a filler material.

Abstract: A multilayer preform and container, and method of forming the same, having at least one layer including polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) to provide enhanced oxygen barrier performance and thermal stability. The PEN layer may be a homopolymer, copolymer, or blend of PEN. In a first high-PEN embodiment, the exterior layer contains on the order of 80-100% PEN and 0-20% PET by total weight of the layer, and a core layer of a non-strain hardenable polyester such as PETG. In a second low-PEN embodiment, the exterior layer includes a strain hardenable low-PEN copolymer or blend including on the order of 1-20% PEN and 80-99% PET, and the core layer is a strain-hardenable polyester such as a low-copolymer PET. In a third mid-range PEN embodiment, the exterior wall includes a substantially amorphous PEN copolymer or blend containing on the order of 20-80% PEN and 80-20% of another polyester such as PET, and a strain-hardened core layer of polyester such as a low-copolymer PET.

Abstract: A modified bitumen sheet material and method for a protective moisture barrier, particularly for masonry surfaces. The sheet material has a bitumen layer modified by the addition of a minor amount of a long-chain polybutadiene-isocyanate urethane polymer and optionally, a modifying amount of a hydrocarbon oil to provide a stable, non-flow and selected tackified surface properties to the bitumen layer. The sheet material includes a releasable casting paper film on one surface of the bitumen layer, to be removed prior to use, and a cross-linked polyethylene film bonded to the other outer surface of the bitumen layer as a handling or moisture barrier sheet. The sheet material is prepared by casting the hot, melted bitumen as a layer onto a casting paper sheet and applying the outer film to the exposed bitumen surface to bond to the top surface.