Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive having an excellent tack and adhesive strength is obtained from a composition which contains an alkenyl group-containing silicone polymer, a tackifying silicone resin having less than one percent hydroxyl content, an organohydrogenpolysiloxne curing agent for the alkenyl group-containing silicone polymer and a platinum-containing catalyst. The composition can be cured to a silicone pressure-sensitive adhesive by heating at relatively low temperatures.

Abstract: The subsequent tack and adhesion of a silicone pressure-sensitive adhesive can be improved by incorporating into the adhesive a small amount of an organopolysiloxane resin having a majority of R.sub.3 SiO.sub.1/2 siloxane units and the balance (R.sup.2 O).sub.a SiO.sub.(4-a)/2, preferably SiO.sub.4/2, siloxane units. The resulting composition, when brought into contact with a release liner, such a peelable protective sheet or the backside of the next turn in a roll of tape, have better tack and/or adhesion when separated from that liner than an analogous composition which does not contain the resin.

Abstract: An adhesion promoter which is a silane or polysiloxane having in each molecule at least one organic group possessing aliphatic unsaturated group and at least one organic group possessing amino group or having in each molecule at least one organic group possessing both aliphatic unsaturation and an amino group is useful for improving the adhesion of radiation curable organopolysiloxane compositions to substrates.

Abstract: An adhesion promoter which is a silane or polysiloxane having in each molecule at least one organic group possessing aliphatic unsaturated group and at least one organic group possessing amino group or having in each molecule at least one organic group possessing both aliphatic unsaturation and an amino group is useful for improving the adhesion of radiation curable organopolysiloxane compositions to substrates.

Abstract: An optical wavelength converting device includes a substrate, and a waveguide layer of a nonlinear organic material formed on one major surface of the substrate and having a thickness tapered along one axis parallel to the major surface, in which a waveguide with a desired thickness can be selected in a direction normal to the axis.

Abstract: A focus adjusting apparatus comprises a focus lens device provided in an optical system. The focus lens device comprises a transparent container of a rectangular prism form, a lens member supported in the container and formed of poly(acrylic amide) gel as a polymer gel substance having electro-reactive deformability, and a pair of transparent electrodes, the container being filled with water-aceton mixture solution. The lens member is formed by two lens materials having different proportions of acrylic acid group. A voltage is applied to the transparent electrodes under control of an automatic focusing circuit to cause electric field in the container, whereby the lens member is deformed in a concentric spherical form to form a lens. When the application of the voltage is stopped, the lens member returns to the initial form. A focal distance of the lens member is changed according to degrees of such deformation of the lens member.

Abstract: There is disclosed a radiation sensitive high polymeric material which is used, for example, for making a photo-mask which is comprising polymethyl methacrylate having an average molecular weight which is in a range from 600,000 to 1,500,000 and a tetraalkylammonium perchlorate as an orientation inhibitor wherein said polymethyl methacrylate and tetraalkylammonium perchlorate are dissolved in an acetic cellosolve as a solvent.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive having an excellent tack and adhesive strength is obtained from a composition which comprises an organic solvent solution of an alkenyl group-containing silicone polymer having a gum-like consistency, a tackifying silicone resin, a curing agent for the alkenyl group-containing silicone polymer and a platinum-containing catalyst. The composition can be cured by heating at relatively low temperatures.

Abstract: A method of curing certain organopolysiloxane compositions by a combination of heat and exposure to ultraviolet radiation or electron beam provides the ability to use lower temperatures than heat cures alone and shorter cure times than ultraviolet radiation or electron beam alone. The organopolysiloxane compositions are addition-curable and are made up of alkenyl-containing organopolysiloxane, organohydrogensiloxane, a platinum catalyst, an addition-reaction inhibitor selected from alkynol, 3-methyl-3-pentene-1-yne, 3,5-dimethyl-3-hexene-1-yne, methylvinylsiloxane cyclics, benzotriazole, and mixtures thereof, and a photosensitizer.

Abstract: What is disclosed herein is a room temperature curable, one component epoxy resin modified silicone resin which has excellent heat resistance, adhesiveness to substrates, and is hard. The improvements in properaties are obtained by the use of epoxy fatty acid esters in the coating formulation.