Abstract: A thermoplastic resin molded product comprises a thermoplastic resin containing 5 to 40% by weight of rubber particles. The rubber particles present near the surface of the molded product fulfill conditions of the equations (1) to (4):(b/a).ltoreq.2 (1)where a and b are the average minor and major axis lengths in a section of the rubber particles,1.ltoreq.{(b/a)max.}/{(b/a)min.}.ltoreq.1.5 (2)where {(b/a)max.} and {(b/a)min.} are the maximum and minimum values of the ratios of (b/a), and0.ltoreq.(Amax.-A)/A.ltoreq.0.2 (3)0.ltoreq.(A-Amin.)/A.ltoreq.0.2 (4)where Amax. and Amin. are the maximum and minimum values of the proportions of the areas accounted for by the rubber particles in sections of the molded product, and A is the average value of the proportions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a film (A) consisting of a mixture comprising at least one polyamide and at least one polyolefin, the said film being placed on agricultural land into which a fumigant is injected. According to a first variant, the invention also relates to a film comprising the above layer (A) and a layer (B) consisting essentially of a polyolefin. According to a second variant, the invention also relates to a film comprising the above layer (A) placed between two layers (B). A coextrusion binder may optionally be placed between the layers (A) and (B) in the two variants. The invention also relates to a process for the treatment of soils by fumigation.

Abstract: A polypropylene-laminated steel sheet is provided which is less liable to cause whitening on receiving impact shock and is superior in resistance to corrosion. A process for producing the polypropylene-laminated steel sheet is also provided. The polypropylene-laminated steel sheet comprises, at least on one side of the steel sheet, a layer (A) of modified polypropylene grafted with an unsaturated carboxylic acid, and, if desired, a layer (B) of polypropylene formed additionally on the layer (A), the modified polypropylene of the layer (A) and the polypropylene of the layer (B) having crystallinity of not more than 55%.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming a multi-layer coating film by applying a colored clear coating (B) containing a color pigment and/or a glittering material, on the film of a leafing type aluminum flake-containing metallic coating (A), wherein the colored clear coating (B) also contains a polymer formed from an unsaturated monomer having a phosphoric acid group represented by --O--PO(OH)(R.sub.1) (wherein R.sub.1 is a hydroxyl group, a phenyl group or a C.sub.1-20 alkyl group) and a hydroxyl group-containing unsaturated monomer.The method can form a multi-layer coating film improved in interlayer adhesivity between the metallic coating film and the colored clear coating film, without reducing the excellent effects and metallic feeling provided by a metallic coating film containing leafing type aluminum flake.

Abstract: A metallized film substrate having a core layer comprising a film-forming base polymer, a metal receiving skin layer of an ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH) on a surface of the core layer, the film substrate containing a metal deposit, e.g., aluminum, on the EVOH copolymer surface, and a polymeric low temperature sealable coating comprising a copolymer of about 10 to 35 wt. % of at least one .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid with about 65 to 90 wt. % of ethylene, an alkyl acrylate or methacrylate, acrylonitrile, or mixtures thereof, on the surface of said metal deposit. For adhesion of the EVOH, the core layer may either (i) be blended with a maleic anhydride modified polyolefin or (ii) have an adhesion-promoting tie layer of a maleic anhydride-modified polyolefin on a surface which is in contact with the EVOH.

Abstract: New and improved lubrifying coatings for reducing the coefficients of friction of surfaces on medical devices include hydrophilic copolymers derived monoethylenically-unsaturated monomers including some monomers having pendant primary amine functionality and some monomers having pendant tertiary amine functionality. The lubricious hydrogel coatings are covalently bondable to epoxy functionalized surfaces on the medical equipment to provide firmly adherent hydrogel coatings that are slippery when wet. Epoxy functionalized surfaces are provided by epoxy functional or epoxy group containing silane coupling agents. The pendant tertiary amine moieties are readily convertible at alkaline pH to quaternary ammonium cations to which anionic anti-thrombogenic agents may be bonded. Three dimensional copolymer matrices may also be provided as coatings on the surfaces by crosslinking the copolymers before or after attachment to the surface being treated.

Abstract: A release film which is a polymeric film coated with a release resin which is a water soluble copolymer containing styrene is disclosed. The release film is especially suitable for receiving a layer(s) of metal for release of the metal flakes. The released metal flakes possess enhanced optical properties.

Abstract: An electrostatic chuck includes a pedestal having a metallic upper surface, and a layer of a porous dielectric material formed on said upper surface of the pedestal. The dielectric layer is impregnated with a plasma-resistant sealant.

Abstract: In a charging device included in an image forming apparatus for charging an image carrier uniformly, a charge roller has an elastic layer and a surface layer. The elastic layer is made of a substance having a medium electric resistance and having no conductive particles dispersed therein. The surface layer is made of a non-adhering substance having a greater non-adhering property than the substance constituting the elastic layer.

Abstract: An adhesive composite material comprises an expanded fluoropolymer with nodes and interconnected fibrils, the fluoropolymer having a void volume which is at least partially filled with a mixture containing a thermoset or thermoplastic adhesive and a particulate inorganic filler. The composite material contains sufficient adhesive and filler such that the composite contains between about 5 to about 40 volume percent expanded fluoropolymer; 5-85 volume percent inorganic filler; and 10-95 volume percent of adhesive and filler, the adhesive and filler being contained within the voids of the expanded fluoropolymer. In the composite, the ratio of the mean flow pore size of the expanded fluoropolymer to the largest particle size of the filler is at least about 2 and/or the ratio of the minimum pore size of the expanded fluoropolymer to the largest particle size of the filler is at least about 1.4.

Abstract: Mirror resin backings containing antioxidant pigments which are cyanamide derivatives of metals, are protective backing coatings for glass substrates and mirrors. The resin backings are melamine based resin coatings which provide anti-corrosion protection for the metal layers with metal cyanamide antioxidant pigments.

Abstract: A protective coating and a metal protected by the coating is provided as well as laminates and thermoplastic films useful for making the protected metal surfaces. The coating comprises a multilayer or dual-film coating. The first film is an adhesive layer to hold the second film as a protective coating to the metal surface. The first film may be either a monolayer or dual-layer film of ethylene acrylic acid and carboxy-modified polyethylene. The second film is extruded over the first and comprises a low density polyethylene. The protective coating provides increased abrasion resistance and superior adhesion as demonstrated by peel strengths between both the film to extrudate interface and the film to metal interface.

Abstract: The present invention is a laminate comprising a first substrate adhesively bonded to a second substrate through an adhesion promoter. The first substrate comprises a substantially linear olefin copolymer and the adhesion promoter comprises a polar group functionalized substantially linear olefin copolymer. The present invention is also an adhesion promoter that comprises a mixture of a copolymer of a C.sub.2-20 olefin and an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or acid anhydride and a polar group functionalized substantially linear olefin copolymer or a polar group functionalized copolymer of ethylene and a C.sub.3-20 olefin having a narrow molecular weight distribution, a random distribution of comonomer units along the polymer backbone, and a homogeneity index of at least 75. The present invention is useful in a variety of applications such as bathroom scales, shoe soles, carpet-backing, and automobile windshields.

Abstract: Lubricious coatings comprising a binder polymer having a vinyl moiety and a carboxylic acid moiety and a hydrophilic polymer are disclosed. The coatings can be applied to a variety of substrates such as, for example, catheters, stents, dilatation balloons, guide wires, endotracheal tubes, instruments, implants and other biomedical devices and can provide exceptional lubricity and abrasion resistance. Processes for applying the lubricious coatings in either one or two coating steps are also disclosed.

Abstract: A coated donor roll comprises a core with a coating, the coating comprising a charge transporting polymer, an organic acid metal salt compound, and iodine.

Abstract: A metallized film combination of an oriented polymeric substrate layer having on one surface thereof a coating of a blend of (a) a vinyl alcohol homopolymer or copolymer and (b) a vinylidene chloride copolymer, the coating blend having a metal layer thereon. The method involves coating the substrate after the substrate has been machine direction oriented and before the combination is transverse direction oriented followed by TD orientation and finally by depositing a metal layer on the blend surface.

Abstract: This adhesive for laminating vinyl face stock to solid substrates has good initial peel strength, retains peel strength and is emulsion polymerized and compounded in the absence of sodium or lithium cations.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the need to effectively heat seal various polymeric materials to each other. The invention is particularly useful in solving the problems associated with sealing dissimilar materials together. A bonded polymer structure and method for preparing the structure are provided. The bonded polymer structure comprises a first polymeric panel, a second polymeric panel, and a one layer adhesive or two layer adhesive structure which binds them together. The two layer adhesive structure comprises a tie layer and a sealant layer disposed between the first polymeric panel and the second polymeric panel, the tie layer contacting the first polymeric panel and the sealant layer, and the sealant layer contacting the layer and the inner side of the second polymeric panel. A closure arrangement may be integrally formed with the first polymeric panel.

Abstract: A composite deposited film including (A) a polymeric film substrate; (B) a deposit of an inorganic material formed on at least one side of the polymeric film substrate (A); and (C) a water-resistant film laminated on the deposit (B) and formed from a mixture containing a polycarboxylic acid or a partially neutralized product thereof and a saccharide in a weight ratio of 95:5 to 20:80 is provided. A production process of a composite deposited film, which includes the steps of forming a deposit (B) of an inorganic material on at least one side of a polymeric film substrate (A); casting a solution of a mixture containing a polycarboxylic acid or a partially neutralized product thereof and a saccharide in a weight ratio of 95:5 to 20:80 on the deposit (B); drying the mixture to form a film; and then subjecting the resultant dry film to a heat treatment at a temperature not lower than 100.degree. C. (373 K), thereby forming a water-resistant film (C) on the deposit (B), is also provided.

Abstract: A method of making a fuser member such as a fuser roller, pressure roller, or fuser belt, comprising of bonding an outermost fluoropolymer resin layer to an inner fluoroelastomer layer by means of a fluoropolymer-containing polyamide-imide primer layer.

Abstract: The method for making a graphic representation on objects made of a polyolefin polymer, consists of printing a graphic representation on a face of a first film made of a stretched polymer, chosen among a polyester polymer and an acrylic polymer, associating the first film with a second film in order to obtain a membrane formed by the associated first and second films containing the graphic representation between them, transferring the membrane inside an injection mold and injecting a polyolefin polymer in the mold for forming the object, obtaining at least a partial melting of the second film so that the membrane forms one body with said object.

Abstract: A fuser system member having a supporting substrate and a basic metal oxide-free outer surface layer of the reaction product of a fluoroelastomer, a polymerization initiator, a polyorganosiloxane and an amino silane.

Abstract: The present invention in broadest terms includes plastic composites comprising at least two layers comprising: (1) a first layer comprising a polymeric blend comprising at least one fluoropolymer and at least one polymeric material selected from the group consisting of terpolymers; and (2) at least one substrate material.

Abstract: An electrical component comprising an electrical component having an exterior protective layer on at least a portion of a surface. The layer is a cured copolymer of a reaction between at least one oligomer having a terminal ethylenically unsaturated group and at least one monomer having a terminal ethylenically unsaturated group. Alternatively, the layer is a cured copolymer of a reaction between at least two oligomers having a terminal ethylenically unsaturated group. The copolymerization reaction is preferably in the presence of a free radical initiator curing agent and a transition metal catalyst.

Abstract: A porous polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) structure particularly for use as a liquid filter comprises particles of granular-type PTFE fused together to form a porous integral network. The structure is formed by spraying an aqueous suspension of granular PTFE particles and baking at a temperature of 335.degree.-350.degree. C. Typically the specific gravity is 0.8 to 1.54. The crystallinity is less than 95%. The structure may be supported on a perforate substrate such as stainless steel mesh.

Abstract: A plastic foil for hot leaf stamping includes a layer of metal having a thickness in the range of 20 millimicrons to 100 millimicrons, a lacquer coating having a thickness in the range of 0.5 microns to 3 microns and a heat activatible adhesive. The metal layer lacquer coating and heat activatible adhesive are caused to be adhered to the substrate forming the final article during a stamping operation which releases said metal layer, lacquer coating and heat activatible adhesive from a plastic carrier film to which had initially been applied. Methods for forming such foil and for forming a decoration image on a substrate using such foil are also provided.

Abstract: Patterned cookware coatings can be obtained with colors not readily available from reflective pigments by additive color mixing of interference colors using oxide coated mica.

Abstract: Thermosetting composition comprises a compound having in the molecule two or more carboxyl groups blocked by a vinyl ether compound, a vinyl thioether compound or a hetero compound having a vinyl type double bond and oxygen or sulfur as the hetero atom, a compound having two or more reactive functional groups which can form a chemical bond with the blocked carboxyl compound by heating, a specific vinyl ether or vinyl thioether and a thermal latent acid catalyst. The blocked carboxyl group of the first compound and the reactive functional group of the second compound may be comprised in the same molecule. The thermosetting composition gives cured products having excellent chemical properties, physical properties, weathering resistance and storage stability and is advantageously utilized for coating compositions, ink, adhesive and molded plastics.

Abstract: Disclosed is an elastic metallized film composed of an elastic film and a metallic coating substantially covering at least a portion of at least one side of the film. The elastic film may be formed from a thermoset elastic material, a thermoplastic elastic material or a naturally occurring polymeric elastic material. The film may also be microporous and/or micropertured. The elastic metallized film has a metallic coating with an thickness ranging from about 1 nanometer to about 5 microns and which remains on the film when the film is stretched at least about 25 percent. The elastic metallized film may be joined with other materials to form multi-layer materials. Also disclosed is a process of making an elastic metallized film.

Abstract: An enhanced protective coating to prevent interaction between constituents of the environment and devices that can be damaged by those constituents. This coating is provided by applying a synergistic combination of diffusion barrier and physical barrier materials. These materials can be, for example, in the form of a plurality of layers of a diffusion barrier and a physical barrier, with these barrier layers being alternated. Further protection in certain instances is provided by including at least one layer of a getter material to actually react with one or more of the deleterious constituents. The coating is illustrated by using alternating layers of an organic coating (such as Parylene-C.TM.) as the diffusion barrier, and a metal coating (such as aluminum) as the physical barrier. For best results there needs to be more than one of at least one of the constituent layers.

Abstract: A flame-retardant resin composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin, from 10 to 80 parts by weight of a bis(halogenophenyl)terephthalamide, and from 5 to 40 parts by weight of antimony trioxide; an electric wire comprising a conductor having thereon an insulating layer comprising the resin composition; and a tube or a heat-shrinkable tube comprising the resin composition.

Abstract: Pulverulent coating compositions exhibiting excellent adhesion to metal substrates are formulated from a polyamide, e.g., nylon 6, nylon 11, nylon 12, or copolyamide thereof, and minor amounts of at least one phenolic polycondensate and/or at least one polyalkyl(meth)acrylate.

Abstract: Disclosed are i) a lead-frame forming material which contains a light-sensitive material comprising (1) a diazo salt light-sensitive resin and (2) a water-insoluble but alkaline water-soluble lipophilic high molecular weight compound, ii) a lead-frame forming material which contains a light-sensitive material comprising a photodimeric light-sensitive composition, and iii) a lead-frame forming material which contains a light-sensitive material comprising (1) a water-insoluble but alkaline water-soluble resin, (2) a compound capable of generating an acid by irradiation with active rays or radiant rays, and (3) a compound containing at least one crosslinkable group by the action of the acid.

Abstract: A sheet or pad of sound deadening material comprising: (a) a polymeric component free of bitumen or asphalt such as natural or synthetic rubber, PVC, chlorinated polyethylene or ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer; (b) a filler such as calcium carbonate, barytes, talc, mica, magnesium carbonate or silica; (c) a compatibilising agent such as ricinoleic acid; and a tackifier such as pine rosin. Formulations may include a flame retardant, a polar additive, a polymer anti-oxidant, a heat stabilizer for PVC and a lubricant. Methods for forming such sheets or pads and for applying such sheets or pads to a metal panel are also provided.

Abstract: A multilayer material for sliding surface bearings comprises a metal backing layer, a sintered porous bearing layer of a bearing metal, and a low-friction layer consisting of a mixture of PTFE and 5 to 30% by volume metal filler, and fills also the pores of the bearing layer. To reduce the wear the mixture of PTFE and metal filler contains also 5 to 40% by volume PVDF.

Abstract: A peelable and heat sealable lidstock material comprises a metal or polymer substrate laminated with a film comprising a mixture of a butene-1 and ethylene copolymer, an ethylene homopolymer or copolymer, an inorganic filler and optionally, a propylene homopolymer or copolymer. The filler makes up at least about 18 wt. % of the mixture and is preferably talc having an average particle size of about 1-2 microns and a carboxylic acid surface coating.

Abstract: A precious metal foil composite comprising a precious metal foil encased, by lamination, in a transparent polymeric sheet material. The composite cards produced from this composite material are used for practical purposes by encasing the above composite together with another component having opaque decorative patterns, and finally encasing the entire assembly in a secondary hard protective covering to provide the outermost protection.

Abstract: An ultraviolet absorbing multilayer coating formed on one side of a transparent substrate includes a first layer formed on a surface of the transparent substrate and a second layer formed on the first layer. The first layer is an ultraviolet absorbing film of a hardened primer coating of a synthetic resin which is mixed with a fluorescent brightening agent and an ultraviolet absorbing agent. The second layer is a film of a siloxane polymer. An optional infrared reflecting coating is interposed between the transparent substrate and the first layer. The ultraviolet rays until the upper limit of its wavelength can be substantially absorbed by the multilayer coating.

Abstract: A process for formation of a water repellent coating which comprises applying a topcoat coating composition of a fluorine containing thermosetting resin and granular compound of 5 microns or less in mean particle size to a substrate bearing a thermosetting undercoat coating film which is semi crosslinked, and then co-curing both films by heating. The resulting cured coating has a water repellent surface, excellent adhesion to a substrate, excellent corrosion resistance, no staying of water as droplets on the surface and no foul odor. The coating is especially suitable for applying to aluminum fins of a heat exchanger.

Abstract: An automotive interior component such as an automotive door trim comprising a main body integrally combining a resin core member and a surface skin member by a mold press forming process and an attachment member attached to a part of the main body, in which the attachment member is attached to the main body by way of connecting parts of the resin core member during the process of mold press forming. The connecting part may consist of an extension of the resin core member which is pushed out of openings provided in the surface skin member and adhered to the attachment member. Alternatively, the connecting part may consist of parts of the resin core member into which engagement pawls provided in the attachment member, in particular, an attachment core member thereof are penetrated through the surface skin member. In either case, solidification of the connecting parts completes the attachment of the automotive door trim.

Abstract: A novel aqueous polymeric formulation is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making the polymeric formulation, and of using the polymeric formulation to produce a crosslinked polymeric surface coating on a substrate. One embodiment of the novel polymeric formulation comprises an aqueous carrier; at least one polymeric ingredient; a non-polymeric polyfunctional amine; and base. The one polymeric ingredient has both acid-functional and acetoacetoxy-type functional pendant moieties. The non-polymeric polyfunctional amine has at least two amine-functional moieties. The amount of base contained within the formulation is effective for inhibiting gellation, which would otherwise occur as a result of crosslinking between the acetoacetoxy-type functional and amine-functional moieties. Another embodiment of the novel polymeric formulation comprises at least two polymeric ingredients, one of which has acetoacetoxy-type functional pendant moieties and the other of which has acid-functional pendant moieties.

Abstract: An oriented film combination of (a) a base layer of polypropylene at least one surface of which comprises a maleic acid anhydride modified polypropylene; and (b) on at least one surface, a skin layer of an amorphous polyamide or a blend of an amorphous polyamide and a semicrystalline polyamide.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a pigment dispersion composition for depositing a multiplicity of pores existing in anodic oxide films formed on a surface of an aluminum or aluminum alloy material by way of electrophoresis for coloration, the pores being preliminarily enlarged to have a diameter of 50 nm to 250 nm. The pigment dispersion composition comprises water, a pigment dispersant and a pigment. The pigment dispersed in the pigment dispersion composition has a median particle size of not greater than 250 nm in a particle-size distribution thereof with not greater than 30% of the pigment particles being impassable through a sieve having a mesh size of 300 nm. The pigment dispersion composition is useful for coloration of the anodic oxide films, and has excellent repeated-coloration characteristics.

Abstract: A triple layered thermoplastic resin laminated metal sheet for a can stock having excellent flavor retention of packed foods and drinks, excellent formability, excellent adhesion of the thus laminated resin layer to a metal sheet and excellent denting resistance, particularly excellent denting resistance at a low temperature, which comprises formation of a triple layered thermoplastic resin layer wherein a polycarbonate resin layer is sandwiched between polyester resin outer and inner layers on one or both sides of a metal sheet covered with a single layer of hydrated chromium oxide or a double layer consisting of an upper layer of hydrated chromium oxide and a lower layer of metallic chromium by using conventional film laminating, extrusion coating or the combination of these techniques.

Abstract: A maintenance-free sliding bearing composed of a metal support and a layer which is directly applied thereto and which consists of a copolymer of ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene forming an intermediate layer to which a second sliding layer of plastics is applied.

Abstract: A primer layer for fluoropolymer non-stick coating is provided, which comprises a fluoropolymer such as PTFE, a polymer binder such as polyamic acid salt, and inorganic film hardener such as silicate compound, wherein the weight ratio of fluoropolymer to binder is 0.5 to 2.0:1 and the amount of film hardener is 5 to 30 wt % based on the weight of the baked composition. This primer layer adheres to a wide variety of smooth surfaces such as stainless steel and glass, and to the fluoropolymer overcoat on the primer layer, and provides durabilty to the coating.

Abstract: There is disclosed a fire-retardant resin composition, comprising a polypropylene-series resin (a), a modified polyethylene modified with an unsaturated carboxylic acid or its derivative (b), a metal hydrate (c), and an ethylene-series copolymer (d), in a specific ratio; and an electric wire with a cover layer formed on the circumference of a conductor, in which the cover layer is composed of a composition prepared by blending (c) a metal hydrate with, in a specific ratio, a resin mixture, containing (a) a polypropylene-series resin, (b) a modified polyethylene, and (d) an ethylene-series copolymer.The fire-retardant resin composition is excellent in tensile strength, heat resistance, extrudability, and moldability. The covered electric wire is excellent in electric-wire properties and good in the end workability.

Abstract: Coated fuser members such as a fuser roller, pressure roller, or fuser belt, and the method of making the coated fuser members are disclosed. The release coating comprises an outermost layer of fluoropolymer resin uniquely bonded to a fluoroelastomer layer by means of a fluoropolymer-containing polyamide-imide primer layer.

Abstract: Soluble salt-free, contaminant-free antioxidant pigments which are cyanamide derivatives of metals, are provided in combination with organic resin polymers, as protective mirror backing coatings.

Abstract: Amorphous tetrafluoroethylene copolymers having a hexafluoropropylene content up to 29 mol % with the hexafluoropropylene units being uniformly distributed throughout the copolymer.