Abstract: A metal rubber gasket includes a central metal lamina sandwiched by two outer elastomer layers. The elastomer is a blend of a butadiene-acrylonitrile rubber and a random terpolymer of ethylene, alkyl acrylate and the mono alkyl ester of a dioic acid. Preferably the butadiene-acrylonitrile rubber is functionally modified with polar groups such as a carboxyl, amine, or hydroxyl groups.

Abstract: Corrosion inhibiting calcium-containing amorphous precipitated silica is described. The silica is prepared by admixing simultaneously in a reactor aqueous alkali metal silicate, e.g., sodium silicate, acidifying agent, e.g., hydrochloric acid, and a water-soluble source of calcium, e.g., calcium chloride. The product contains from 6 to 9 weight percent calcium (as CaO). The silica product may be incorporated into a coating composition used for corrodible metallic surfaces.

Abstract: A material for forming a hollow-molded body, which comprises a polyamide comprising hexamethylene isophthalamide units as the main recurring units. A hollow-molded body having an excellent gas barrier property can be obtained by using this polyamide molding material alone or in combination with polyethylene terephthalate.

Abstract: An improved overlay proofing film comprising a substantially transparent polyester base film which is first coated on one or both sides with a non-light sensitive composition having a refractive index of about 1.6, said non-light sensitive composition consisting essentially of a copolymer of polymethyl methacrylate and methacrylic acid.

Abstract: A thick composite polyester film of between 40 and 300 microns in thickness being crystalline or semicrystalline comprising drawn unfilled layer (A) of thickness e, covered on at least one surface thereof with a thin drawn filled layer (B) of thickness e.sub.2, having an overall roughness greater than 0.3 microns and being filled with inert particles wherein the volume median diameter of the filler being at least equal to the thickness of layer (B); the thickness ratio of layers (A) and (B) denoted by e.sub.1 /e.sub.2 is lower than 5% and the percentage of scattered light transmitted from the composite film is lower than 7.

Abstract: Packaging material for relatively rigid objects, the material consisting of a metal foil sheet coated on one face of the foil sheet with a layer of plastic material, where a creped basic layer of a plastic material or paper is applied to a second face of the foil sheet.

Abstract: A thin film comprising a polymer having linear recurring units wherein an organic group R.sup.1 is combined alternately with an organic group R.sup.2 through a bivalent bonding group, wherein each of said group R.sup.1 and said group R.sup.2 has a valence of at least 2 and has at least 2 carbon atoms; each of said linear recurring units having at least one hydrocarbon-containing group R.sup.3 having 10 to 30 carbon atoms bonded with covalent bond, and a device having the thin film. The thin film of the invention is formed by building-up layers of the above polymer by LB technique, and the obtained film can be subjected to ring closure and to elimination of a known LB compound added as occasion demand by heat treatment to provide a thin film having a thickness of not more than 10,000 .ANG. and excellent heat resistance, chemical resistance and mechanical properties, and the device having the thin film is useful particularly as electric and electronic devices.

Abstract: An aromatic polyimide film containing very fine particles of an inert inorganic material having an average particle diameter of 40 to 1,000 angstroms in an amount of 0.02 to 6.0 wt. %, wherein a surface of the film is provided with extremely small sized protrusions having a maximum height of 50 to 500 angstroms and an average diameter of 50 to 2,000 angstroms, the number of protrusions is in the range of 2.times.10.sup.5 to 1.times.10.sup.8 /mm.sup.2, and the number of protrusions having a diameter of not less than 1.5 times as much as the average diameter is not more than 5% of the total number of the protrusions. This polyimide film is suitably employable as a support of a magnetic recording medium.

Abstract: A compliant sealing material with low or no gas permeability and low spring rate is made by coating a metal such as gold, on the surface of a polymer sheet. The metal acts as a complete gas barrier on an atomic level, and the polymer provides structural integrity and mounting attributes without detrimentally increasing compliance. A small number of metal atoms injected at a moderate energy into the near surface of the polymer act as link sites for joining subsequent lower energy atoms forming an impermeable layer. The total heat delivery to the polymer is minimized thereby preserving integrity and continuity. The material is particularly useful in micromechanical devices where high flexibility is needed with complete sealing.

Abstract: An embossing foil such as a hot embossing foil includes a backing foil which is a thermoplastic polyester triple-layer foil comprising a central polyester layer which has a lower melting point than the other two polyester layers on respective sides thereof, and a decorative layer on the backing foil, comprising at least one layer of lacquer and possibly an adhesive layer. Provided at the surface of the backing foil which is towards the decorative layer is a three-dimensional patterning.

Abstract: An information recording card using a semiconductor laser beam for writing and reading information. The card comprises a recording layer formed on one side of a card substrate and a light absorbing layer closely interposed between the substrate and the recording layer. The material of the recording layer is a polymer blend which comprises a copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and at least one F-containing comonomer, preferably hexafluoroacetone, and an acylic or methacylic ester polymer and which exhibits phase separation by heating. The light absorbing layer is for efficiently absorbing laser light used for recording and transforming it into heat energy. A good embodiment of the light absorbing layer is a film of Bi or Te, and another good embodiment is a thin layer of a resin composition containing fine particles of at least one of Bi, Te and C dispersed in a thermoplastic or thermosetting resin.

Abstract: A metallized plastic substrate having directly adhered to the metallized surface thereof, a transparent, cross-linked film from a coating composition comprises: (A) from 4 to 10 percent of an oxalanilide ultraviolet light (UV) stabilizer dissolved in the coating composition, the UV stabilizer corresonding to the formula ##STR1## in which R is C.sub.6-22 alkyl or C.sub.6-22 alkoxy, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently hydrogen, C.sub.1-8 alkyl, C.sub.1-12 alkoxy, C.sub.1-12 alkylthio, phenoxy or phenylthio, provided that R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may not both be selected from alkylthio, phenoxy and phenylthio, and R.sub.3 is hydrogen or C.sub.1-8 alkyl; (B) from 20 to 80 percent of a radiation sensitive monomer having at least two addition polymerizable unsaturated bonds; (C) from 0.1 to 5.

Abstract: Vertically oriented polymer materials with nonlinear optical properties are obtained by polymerization of monomers containing polar groups.

Abstract: Bubble-formation when melting a magnetically adhering bituminous soundproofing sheet provided with a hot-melt adhesive layer (4) onto an automobile body sheet metal at temperatures of about 190.degree. C., is prevented by integrating a flexible, temperature-resistant foil (5) into the soundproofing sheet. For soundproofing sheets up to 3 mm thick, the spacing between the hot-melt layer (4) and the foil (5) preferably should not exceed 1 mm.

Abstract: An acid scavenger additive for a one-component, acyloxy-functional RTV composition. The acid scavenger is selected from magnesium materials, zinc materials, and aluminum materials. The acid scavenger prevents a discoloration of the metallic substrate and a decrease in bonding properties of the RTV composition to the substrate on which it is applied.

Abstract: Thermal delayed tack sheets prepared by coating base sheets with a thermal delayed tack composition basically containing an adhesive polymer (A) and a solid plasticizer (B), and preferably further containing a tackifier (C), the thermal delayed tack sheets being characterized in that the solid plasticizer comprises fine particles of one or more selected from the compounds represented by the following general formula (I):R.sub.1 --O--.PHI.--R.sub.2 general formula (I)wherein .PHI. is a benzene ring or a naphthalene ring which may have a substituent, R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom, an acyl radical, an alkylsulfonyl radical or a benzenesulfonyl radical which may have a substituent on the benzene ring thereof, R.sub.2 is a radical of --O--CO--R.sub.3 or --CO--CO--R.sub.3, and R.sub.3 is a radical selected from the group consisting of an alkyl radical, an alkenyl radical, an aralkyl radical, an aralkenyl radical and an aryl radical, and when R.sub.

Abstract: The fluorine-containing elastomer of the present invention is a novel elastomer comprising vinylidene fluoride units and, hexafluoropropylene units, optionally with tetrafluoroethylene units, and wherein the fluorine content of the elastomer is 63.5 to 71% by weight, the content of fractions having molecular weights of 50,000 or less (M.sub.5) in the elastomer is 5% by weight or less, the content of fractions having molecular weights of 1,000,000 or more (M.sub.100) in the elastomer is 10 to 35% by weight, and the limiting viscosity number (ml/g) of the elastomer is in the range of from 100 to less than 250. The fluorine-containing elaastomer of the present invention is excellent in resistance to heat and chemicals and is not only extremely excellent in compression set resistance properties and mechanical properties but also has a satisfactory workability. Further, by vulcanization of the elastomer, there can be provided excellent shaped articles such as rings, gaskets, seals, diaphragms and the like.

Abstract: A low adhesion perfluoropolyether composition is provided. The composition comprises a copolymer prepared from a mixture of at least one monofunctional perfluoropolyether monomer and at least one difunctional perfluoropolyether monomer, each of said monofunctional and difunctional monomers having a molecular weight in the range of about 1500 to 2500.

Abstract: An invention relates to new injection-moulded articles made from metal/plastic composite systems containing a polyurethane adhesive (intermediate) layer, and a process for the preparation thereof.

Abstract: A sheet or web comprising a substrate which is composed of or coated with a hydrophobic resin and carries an antistatic layer, characterized in that the antistatic layer consists essentially of a blockcopolyetherester of dibasic carboxylic acid(s) esterified with ethylene glycol and with a polyoxyethylene glycol having an average molecular weight in the range 1,000 to 10,000, at least 20% by weight of such blockcopolyetherester being constituted by polyoxyethylene-ester chain parts.