Abstract: A system for assessing grip security, the system comprising: a contact surface having at least a first contact surface region and a second contact surface region, the first contact surface region being configured to resist slip less than the second contact surface region, a sensor for detecting slip in the first contact region.

Abstract: Water-based pressure sensitive adhesive composition and methods of make the same are provided. The water-based pressure sensitive adhesive composition comprises at least one interpolymer dispersed within an aqueous medium, the interpolymer comprising at least one unsaturated monomer and at least one compound selected from a group consisting of at least one conjugated acid, at least one ester of a conjugated acid, and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: A composite fiber for use in additive manufacturing such as fused filament fabrication is described along with methods of its construction and use. The composite fiber includes a single continuous fiber (e.g., a continuous carbon roving) and a polymer (e.g., a high glass transition polymer) in intimate contact. The composite fiber is formed through immersion of the continuous fiber in a series of two or more solutions that together include monomer(s), catalysts, or other materials for generating the polymer as the continuous fiber moves through the solutions.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a coated textile product comprising a fabric substrate layer; a resin-based intermediate layer; and a protecting coating upper layer, wherein the protective layer comprises at least a first primer sublayer, a second printing sublayer, a third transparent sublayer, and a fourth protection sublayer, wherein the first sublayer is on top of the resin-based intermediate layer, and the protection sublayer is the most external layer of the textile product. In addition, the invention refers to a manufacture process to produce the coated textile product, including the surface treatment of the intermediate layer carried out to improve the adhesion of top coating layers avoiding the use of foams or adhesives.

Abstract: A feedthrough module for cables, cable bundles, cable trays, pipes, pipelines, empty pipes and/or combinations thereof contains hardwood, softwood or mixtures thereof and is intended for installation in a tested and/or approved wooden wall and/or wooden ceiling construction in buildings. The tested and/or approved wooden wall and/or wooden ceiling construction has an equal or lower burn rate than the feedthrough module. The feedthrough module has a cuboid body having edge lengths a, b, c, wherein c represents the edge length corresponding to the installation thickness (D) of the feedthrough module, and wherein the feedthrough module has a nominal burn rate of 0.7 mm/min or less.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pneumatic tire comprising (A) reinforcing layer comprising a plurality of reinforcing cords or wires coated with a rubber composition, wherein (B) a film layer, (C) an elastomer layer, and (D) a film layer comprising ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer are sequentially laminated on the tire inner surface side of reinforcing layer (A), and the product of Young's modulus Eb (MPa) and thickness Gb (mm) of film layer (B) is equal to or more than 5 kN/m, wherein the reinforcing layer having improved durability.

Abstract: Waterproof engineered floor and wall planks have a wear layer, an underlayer about an extruded dust and plastic composite core and a click-lock edge fastening system.

Abstract: A composite board includes a polystyrene board having a first side, and a first tough board is bonded to the first side of the polystyrene board. The first tough board is preferably made of a material selected from the group consisting of ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA), polyethylene vinyl acetate (PEVA), polyethylene (PE), plastic foam, and rubber. The composite board can further include a second tough board bonded to a second side of the polystyrene board opposite to the first side.

Abstract: A low permeability rubber laminate having an excellent bondability, air pressure retaining property and durability and containing (A) at least one low permeability resin layer having an average thickness d of 0.05 ?m<d<5 ?m containing an ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer having an ethylene composition ratio of 20 to 50 mol % and a degree of saponification of 90% or more and (B) at least one diene-based rubber composition layer containing 1 to 25 parts by weight of a silane-based coupling agent having a functional group reactive with rubber and having an alkoxysilyl group, based upon 100 parts by weight of the diene-based rubber and a pneumatic tire using the same as an inner liner.

Abstract: The invention provides stretch film laminant adhesives, methods of using the adhesives to bond substrates together, and to articles of manufacture comprising the adhesives. It has been discovered that a stretch film lamination adhesive, which comprises a metallocene catalyzed polyolefin copolymer with a density greater or equal to 0.870 g/cm3 and a peak melting point greater than 100° C., a plasticizer having a number average molecular weight greater than 1,000 g/mol, and a tackifier with a softening point greater than 110° C., has high creep resistance and low plasticizer migration and bleed-through making them particularly well suited for disposable personal care garments.

Abstract: Provided is a viscoelastic article which exerts different properties between one surface and the other surface thereof, which has a transparent appearance, and which less causes staining of objects to which the viscoelastic article is adopted. The viscoelastic article is an article having a multilayer structure including a polymer layer, and a monomer-absorptive layer capable of absorbing at least one of monomer component(s) constituting the polymer, in which the polymer layer is a polymer layer containing an elastomer unevenly distributed and enriched at an interface, or in the vicinity thereof, opposite to the monomer-absorptive layer. The vicinity of the interface opposite to the monomer-absorptive layer is preferably a region ranging from the interface opposite to the other interface with the monomer-absorptive layer and occupying, in a thickness direction, 50% or less of the total thickness.

Abstract: In a pneumatic tire containing as an inner liner material a laminate of a film of a thermoplastic resin or a thermoplastic elastomer composition and a layer of a rubber composition for improving the adhesive strength between the film and the rubber composition, the rubber composition comprises 100 parts by weight of a rubber component, 0.5 to 20 parts by weight of a condensate between a compound expressed by formula (1): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are hydrogen, a hydroxyl group or a C1 to C8 alkyl group, and formaldehyde, 0.25 to 200 parts by weight of a methylene donor, and a vulcanizing agent; and a weight ratio of the methylene donor content to the condensate content is 0.5 to 10.

Abstract: A circuit subassembly, comprising: a conductive layer, a dielectric layer formed from a thermosetting composition, wherein the thermosetting composition comprises, based on the total weight of the thermosetting composition a polybutadiene or polyisoprene resin, about 30 to about 70 percent by weight of a magnesium hydroxide having less than about 1000 ppm of ionic contaminants, and about 5 to about 15 percent by weight of a nitrogen-containing compound, wherein the nitrogen-containing compound comprises at least about 15 weight percent of nitrogen; and an adhesive layer disposed between and in intimate contact with the conductive layer and the dielectric layer, wherein the adhesive comprises a poly(arylene ether), wherein the circuit subassembly has a UL-94 rating of at least V-1.

Abstract: A soil resistant laminate composition and a soil resistant treatment use composition are provided. In particular, a laminate composition comprising a multilayer composition of a clean surface and a dried layer of a soil resistant agent are disclosed. Soil resistant agents according to the invention include copolymers of a maleic/olefin, an olefin/acrylate and combinations thereof and are suitable for delivery with a water or other organic solvent carrier. A kit and methods for treating a clean surface using a soil resistant laminate composition and a soil resistant treatment use composition are provided by the present invention.

Abstract: Polyacetal compositions and blends toughened with polyvinylbutyral having enhanced adhesive surface properties, including enhanced surface adhesion and low surface gloss, are disclosed. Also disclosed are articles of manufacture comprising the polyacetal compositions described herein.

Abstract: The present invention describes a floor decoration kit comprising two elements, on the one hand a removable surface covering (2) and on the other an anchoring sublayer (3) while the composition of said anchoring sublayer (3) is PVC-based and comprises at least 60% by weight of a plasticizer.

Abstract: Provided is a viscoelastic article which exerts different properties between one surface and the other surface thereof, which has a transparent appearance, and which less causes staining of objects to which the viscoelastic article is adopted. The viscoelastic article is an article having a multilayer structure including a polymer layer, and a monomer-absorptive layer capable of absorbing at least one of monomer component(s) constituting the polymer, in which the polymer layer is a polymer layer containing an elastomer unevenly distributed and enriched at an interface, or in the vicinity thereof, opposite to the monomer-absorptive layer. The vicinity of the interface opposite to the monomer-absorptive layer is preferably a region ranging from the interface opposite to the other interface with the monomer-absorptive layer and occupying, in a thickness direction, 50% or less of the total thickness.

Abstract: A torsional vibration damper or other vibration damping device with a rubber vibration absorbing element. The rubber element is a peroxide-cured composition based on 100 parts of ethylene-alpha-olefin elastomer, and 5 to 100 parts of polyvinyl butyral polymer which may have a molecular weight from about 40,000 to about 250,000. The composition may also include a compatibilizer or homogenizer, such as chlorinated polyethylene. The polyvinyl butyral increases the damping of the composition, and the compatibilizer improves the temperature stability of the damping.

Abstract: A rubber-reinforcing cord (12) as a rubber-reinforcing member of the present invention is a rubber-reinforcing member for reinforcing a rubber product (such as a toothed belt (1)). The rubber-reinforcing cord (12) includes a reinforcing fiber or a reinforcing fiber sheet, and a first coating film provided on a surface of the reinforcing fiber or a surface of the reinforcing fiber sheet. The first coating film is formed by applying a first treatment agent containing polyvinyl alcohol and a crosslinking agent to the reinforcing fiber or the reinforcing fiber sheet and drying the first treatment agent. In the reinforcing member of the present invention, a second coating film as a primary coating film may be provided on the surface of the reinforcing fiber or the surface of the reinforcing fiber sheet. The second coating film can be produced using a second treatment agent containing a rubber latex, for example.

Abstract: A resin composition comprises a resin, a vulcanization-activating agent, and a stabilizer. The vulcanization-activating agent may be a compound having a plurality of polymerizable unsaturated bonds (e.g., a compound having a plurality of (meth)acryloyl groups). The stabilizer may be an antioxidant, or a light stabilizer (particularly, a stabilizer is capable of capturing a radical). Use of the resin composition as a resin material ensures to directly join between a resin and a rubber certainly and firmly. The proportion of the vulcanization-activating agent may be about 0.1 to 10 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the resin. The proportion of the stabilizer may be about 0.01 to 5 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the resin. The present invention provides a resin composition excellent in adhesiveness to a rubber.

Abstract: A circuit subassembly, comprising: a conductive layer, a dielectric layer formed from a thermosetting composition, wherein the thermosetting composition comprises, based on the total weight of the thermosetting composition a polybutadiene or polyisoprene resin, about 30 to about 70 percent by weight of a magnesium hydroxide having less than about 1000 ppm of ionic contaminants, and about 5 to about 15 percent by weight of a nitrogen-containing compound, wherein the nitrogen-containing compound comprises at least about 15 weight percent of nitrogen; and an adhesive layer disposed between and in intimate contact with the conductive layer and the dielectric layer, wherein the adhesive comprises a poly(arylene ether), wherein the circuit subassembly has a UL-94 rating of at least V-1.

Abstract: The invention concerns an article for protecting the user from risks associated with the handling of chemicals, and comprising: (i) at least one inner layer of a material selected among natural and synthetic latexes; (ii) at least one partly hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) layer, having an hydrolysis rate ranging between 70 and 95%; (iii) at least one self-crosslinking synthetic latex layer.

Abstract: Provided is a composition thermoplastic elastomer structure comprising (1) a first component comprising a first elastomeric component comprising an at least partially vulcanized rubber and a thermoplastic resin, (2) an adhesive later comprising a grafted random propylene copolymer and (3) a third component comprising a polyamide or polyester. The third component is at least partially adhered to the adhesive component, which is in turn, partially adhered to the first component. The structure has superior adhesive properties between structures. Also provided are articles made from the structures, particularly automotive weather seals, glass run channels, a noise attenuating device, automotive interior part, automotive belt, automotive hose, industrial belt, industrial hose, packaging material, construction material, decorative building material, and other consumer goods.

Abstract: The invention is directed to joint assemblies comprising at least two adjacent panels and a jointing composition adhering to and positioned between the at least two adjacent panels, methods for installing joint assemblies, and jointing compositions. The jointing compositions include a sealant composition and a long chain ester in an amount of about 0.1% to about 15% by weight, based on the weight of the sealant composition in the jointing composition.

Abstract: A self-adhesive tape comprising an oriented polyolefin film, one side of which is coated with an adhesive layer formed from a mixture of 30-65 wt. % of a natural rubber latex and 35-70 wt. % of an aqueous dispersion of a hydrocarbon resin, and the opposite side of which has no surface treatment.

Abstract: A synthetic material and articles incorporating the same are disclosed. The synthetic material includes a base material, which is at least partially tacky. Preferably, a powder is dispensed upon the base material for providing a substantially non-tacky surface to the synthetic material.

Abstract: A belt or a roller for OA apparatus, in which a top layer includes a base material formed from PTFE, PFA or a mixture thereof and having a continuous structure and the PTFE, the PFA or the mixture thereof occupies at least 70% of the base material in weight excluding a conductive agent, is provided. The belt or the roller for OA apparatus can attain sufficient toner detachability with respect to toner including chemical toner, and has excellent resistance to physical and/or mechanical stress and resistance to electrical stress. A method of manufacturing the belt or the roller for OA apparatus and an OA apparatus employing the belt or the roller are also provided.

Abstract: A composite sheet material that includes at least one porous core layer including a thermoplastic material and from about 20 weight percent to about 80 weight percent fibers based on a total weight of the porous core layer, and at least one skin covering a surface of the core layer. The skin includes at least one of a thermoplastic film, a fiber based scrim, a non-woven fabric, and a woven fabric.

Abstract: A composite of a resin member bonded to a vulcanized rubber member is obtained with using a rubber member vulcanized with a radical-generating agent (e.g., an organic peroxide) and a thermoplastic resin having at least 2 atoms, on average, selected from H and S atom per molecule, each atom having not less than 0.006 of an orbital interaction energy coefficient S represented by the following formula (1): S=(CHOMO,n)2/|Ec?EHOMO,n|+(CLUMO,n)2/|Ec?ELUMO,n| ??(1) wherein Ec: an orbital energy (eV) of a radical, CHOMO,n: a molecular-orbital coefficient of a highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of an n-th H or S atom constituting a basic unit of the resin, EHOMO,n: an orbital energy (eV) of the HOMO, CLUMO,n: a molecular-orbital coefficient of a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of the n-th H or S atom constituting the basic unit of the resin, ELUMO,n: an orbital energy (eV) of the LUMO, and above all represent a value calculated by a semiempirical molecular orbital method MOPACPM3.

Abstract: An elastomeric article includes a substrate body formed from an elastomeric material. The substrate body has a first surface, and a donning layer overlying at least a portion of the first surface. The donning layer is formed from a modified vinyl acetate polymer.

Abstract: An elastomeric article includes a substrate body formed from an elastomeric material, and a plurality of functionalized beads covalently bonded to the elastomeric material.

Abstract: A material for a gasket used in a vehicular engine comprising a steel plate, a coating film which is formed on one or both sides of said steel plate, and a rubber layer formed on said coating film, wherein the coating film comprises an acid, water-dispersible silica, a titanium compound, and a water-soluble polymer represented by a specific formula.

Abstract: A synthetic material comprises a base material providing at least one tacky surface that is tacky at a temperature of less than about 80° C.; and a powder layered upon the base material which has a substantially non-tacky surface at a temperature of up to about 40° C. and exhibits adhesiveness at a temperature of greater than 120° C. The powder includes one or more correspondence components such as an epoxy resin which is either i) substantially identical to a component of the base material, or ii) the monomer or oligomer configuration of the correspondence component is substantially identical to a component of the base material but may have a greater molecular weight or longer polymer chain structure, or iii) is insubstatantially different from a component of the base material (e.g. has the same characteristics and a similar structure but a higher molecular weight).

Abstract: A film includes first and second outer layers, a core layer, and first and second substrate layers, each layer including a polymer; at least one of the substrate layers includes an amidic wax, and at least one of the outer layers includes an amidic wax present in an amount of 1% to 50% of the amount of wax in the first and second substrate layers respectively. The wax can be blended with a transition metal salt of stearic acid, or ester of stearic acid. Alternatively, a film includes first and second outer layers, and a substrate layer, each layer including a polymer; at least one of the first outer layer, second outer layer, and substrate layer including a blend of an amidic wax, and a transition metal salt of stearic acid, or ester of stearic acid.

Abstract: Film-bitumen combination with at least three layers is used in particular as a membrane to cover roof areas. At least two film layers of the combination are made from different materials.

Abstract: A fender protective structure having an inner layer of resilient plastic/elastomer alloy having a delayed elastic response, having voids to reduce weight and allow the inner layer to expand upon impact. A relatively hard top layer is also provided.

Abstract: An article includes a reinforced thermoplastic composition containing specific amounts of a poly(arylene ether), a homopolymer of an alkenyl aromatic monomer, a polyolefin, a hydrogenated block copolymer with a high styrene content, an unhydrogenated block copolymer, and glass fibers. The composition contributes very high stiffness and high impact strength to the article.

Abstract: A flexible rubber article such as a neck or cuff seal (1) for a drysuit is made of natural rubber in a conventional way, by dipping a former into a sensitized rubber latex. The application describes applying a thin thermoplastics layer e.g. about 25 &mgr;m thick on the surface of the natural rubber so that it can conveniently be welded to another thermoplastics component such as a hot-melt tape. The thermoplastics layer (4,5) may cover the whole or only a marginal part of the rubber article. It may be formed by dipping into a thermoplastics latex. The thermoplastics layer may cover the whole or only a margin of the rubber article. Polyurethane is one suitable material. By providing a non-tacky weldable region the invention is more convenient to use than previous proposals using adhesives.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a hard magnetic recording layer and a soft magnetic underlayer adjacent the hard magnetic recording layer. The soft magnetic underlayer includes first and second ferromagnetically coupled multilayer structures and a coupling layer positioned between the first and second multilayer structures for antiferromagnetically coupling the first and second multilayer structures. A magnetic disc drive storage system incorporating such a perpendicular magnetic recording medium and a method of making such a perpendicular magnetic recording medium are also included.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a release composition for molds and formers used in the production of natural and synthetic latex articles. The release coating contains a water-borne, high Tg polymer formed from at least one hydrophobic monomer and at least one hydrophilic monomer, where the Tg of the polymer is at least −10° C. One advantage of the release composition is that it is compatible with a coagulant solution used in the formation of latex gloves.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a release composition for molds and formers used in the production of natural and synthetic latex articles. The release coating contains a water-borne, high Tg polymer formed from at least one hydrophobic monomer and at least one hydrophilic monomer, where the Tg of the polymer is at least −10° C. One advantage of the release composition is that it is compatible with a coagulant solution used in the formation of latex gloves.

Abstract: Microtextured elastomeric materials having at least one elastomeric core layer or region and at least one skin layer wherein the skin layer has a semi-crystalline or amorphous polymer and an elastomeric block copolymer or pressure sensitive adhesive, the combination of which is less elastic than the core layer and will undergo permanent deformation at the stretch percentage that the elastomeric laminate will undergo. The materials are suited for use in applications such as respirators.

Abstract: A rubber for a hot press cushioning pad having a value of loss tangent (tan &dgr;) in accordance with dynamic viscoelasticity measurement of at most 0.04, wherein the temperature condition is set at a hot press temperature ranging from 150° C. to 300° C., and the frequency condition is set to a time period of one press cycle ranging from 1 to 2×104 seconds.

Abstract: The present inventions teaches an optically transparent film or sheet of an extruded acrylic copolymer or terpolymer and polyethylene having a melting point of less than 275° F. and a haze not more than 5%. The resin film can be used alone or in a lamination with other polymers or glass so that the combination has a haze less than 6%.

Abstract: The performance of natural rubber based products, such as engine mounts which are susceptible to degradation caused by heat, oxidation, ozone attack or ultraviolet radiation is significantly improved by coating exposed surfaces of the product with a polymeric material having excellent heat and oxidation resistance properties. By applying such polymeric coatings having high resistance towards oxidation under excessive heat, the C.dbd.C bonds of the natural rubber are protected from oxygen and ozone attacks, thereby allowing its strain-crystallization characteristic properties to be retained.

Abstract: A medical instrument capable of maintaining medicament liquids such as pharmaceuticals, nutriments in high quality and dosing correctly and sanitarily is provided. This medical instrument comprises a material containing a resin formed of a cyclic olefin compound or a bridged polycyclic hydrocarbon compound, as a polymeric component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a nonoriented electrical steel sheet coated on both surfaces with a cured insulative coating for providing a high level of surface resistivity to minimize interlaminar power losses. The cured insulative coating on the steel sheet includes, based upon 100 parts by dry weight, 20-60 parts of aluminum phosphate, 20-70 parts of at least one inorganic particulate silicate and 10-25 parts of an acrylic resin. The cured coating is formed from an acid aqueous suspension that may include up to 1 part by weight of a water-soluble organic solvent per each part of the resin. The aqueous suspension has a pH of about 2-2.5, a silicate particle size of 0.3-60 .mu.m, a resin particle size of less than 1 .mu.m, less than about 0.5 wt. % unreacted phosphoric acid and a specific gravity of about 1.0-1.3. The silicate may be one or more from the group consisting of aluminum silicate, aluminum potassium silicate and magnesium silicate.

Abstract: A layered molding and method for making the same which has excellent antipermeability to gasoline. The layered molding is defined by a fluoroplastic and an epichlorohydrin rubber. The fluoroplastic is a copolymer formed from at least two precursors selected from the group consisting of hexafluoropropylene, tetrafluoroethylene, and vinylidene fluoride, which are selected within a plotted range to preferably form a binary or tertiary composition. The epichlorohydrin rubber contains organic phosphonium. The resulting layered molding does not require an adhesive agent.

Abstract: A paper feed roll is formed of a rubber composition comprising (A) a composite material having a low molecular weight material retained in a medium material and (B) a rubber material. The low molecular weight material has a viscosity of up to 5.times.10.sup.5 centipoise at 100.degree. C. The difference in solubility parameter between the low molecular weight material and the medium material is up to 3.0. The weight ratio of the low molecular weight material to the medium material is at least 1.0. The difference in solubility parameter between the low molecular weight material and the rubber material is up to 4.0. A paper feed apparatus comprising the paper feed roll is also provided.

Abstract: A tire inner-liner, comprising a solid rubber and a complex, said complex comprising a reactive rubber and a layered silicate clay uniformly dispersed therein. The complex comprising the clays significantly improve the low air permeability of the tire inner-liner without adversely affecting the rubber composition.