Abstract: Flame retardant material comprising a compound of empirical formula (III) wherein R is H, an alkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, or arylalkyl group; M is a metal and y is 3, such that M(+)y is a metal cation where (+)y represents the charge formally assigned to the cation; a, b, and c represent the ratio of the components to which they correspond relative to one another in the compound, and satisfy a charge-balance equation 2(a)+c=b(y); and a and c are not zero. The presently disclosed flame retardants are useful, for example, in polymer compositions, particularly thermoplastics processed at high temperatures, over a wide range of applications.

Abstract: A phosphorus-containing flame retardant is produced by preparing a reaction mixture, the reaction mixture including a phosphonic acid, a solvent for the phosphonic acid, and a metal or suitable metal compound, and reacting the phosphonic acid and the metal or suitable metal compound under conditions as described herein. The chemical composition of the resulting flame retardant product leads to excellent flame retardancy and exhibits high thermal stability. The presently disclosed flame retardants are useful, for example, in polymer compositions, particularly thermoplastics processed at high temperatures, over a wide range of applications.

Abstract: An electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and a display positioned in the aperture. The display and the housing can define an internal volume in which a speaker assembly is positioned. The speaker assembly can include a speaker module and a speaker enclosure in fluid communication, with the speaker enclosure at least partially defining a speaker volume.

Abstract: For holding together flexible materials, such as roll-up display screens, edge-to-edge, very thin and narrow flexible magnetic strip (3) is co-moulded edge-to-edge with non-magnetic flexible strip (4), one face (7 or 5) of the combined strip (1 or 2) being suitable for the application of an adhesive, e.g. in the form of double-adhesive tape (8, 9), and the other face (5 or 7) being provided with indicator means for the polarity of the magnetic portions (3) e.g. different colouring pigments in the non-magnetic portions (4) of co-acting combined strips, or impressions such as a single continuous groove (6) for N-polarity and a pair of grooves (10) for S-polarity.