15676 results about "Polycarbonate" patented technology

A surgical implant is provided that includes first and second abutment surfaces between which are positioned a force imparting mechanism. A sheath is positioned between the first and second abutment surfaces, and surrounds the force imparting mechanism. The sheath is fabricated from a material that accommodates relative movement of the abutment members, while exhibiting substantially inert behavior relative to surrounding anatomical structures. The sheath is generally fabricated from expanded polytetrafluoroethylene, ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene, a copolymer of polycarbonate and a urethane, or a blend of a polycarbonate and a urethane. The force imparting member may include one or more springs, e.g., a pair of nested springs. The surgical implant may be a dynamic spine stabilizing member that is advantageously incorporated into a spine stabilization system to offer clinically efficacious results.

Advanced Smart Cards and similar form factors (e.g. documents, tags) having high quality external surfaces of Polyvinylchloride (PVC), Polycarbonate (PC), synthetic paper or other suitable material can be made with highly sophisticated electronic components (e.g. Integrated Circuit chips, batteries, microprocessors, Light Emitting Diodes, Liquid Crystal Displays, polymer dome switches, and antennae), integrated in the bottom layer of the card structure, through use of injection molded thermosetting or thermoplastic material that becomes the core layer of said Advanced Smart Cards. A lamination finishing process can provide a high quality lower surface, and the encapsulation of the electronic components in the thermosetting or thermoplastic material provides protection from the lamination heat and pressure.

A fully curable jettable composition having a viscosity less than 30 cps at a temperature within the range of 15-180° C., more preferably at a temperature of 15-100° C., e.g. 60-80° C. the composition comprising: (A) at least one low viscosity reactive resin selected from the group consisting of compounds containing an oxetane ring, cycloaliphatic epoxy resins, tetrahydrofurans, hexahydropyrans and mono-functional (meth)acrylates, said resin having a molecular weight of not greater than 300 Daltons, e.g. 250 Daltons or less, and a viscosity at a temperature in the said range of less than 30 cps, e.g. 5 to 15 cps; (B) at least one higher viscosity resin selected from the group consisting of epoxy resins, compounds containing an oxetane ring and acrylates, which resin acts to thicken the low viscosity resin and strengthen a jetted deposit of the composition, the higher viscosity resin having: a viscosity greater than twice that of the low viscosity resin at the said temperature in the range stated above, and a functionality of greater than or equal to 2; (C) at least one curable toughener, preferably having a functionality of at least 2, such as hydroxy, epoxy, acrylic or other reactive functionalised polymer/oligomer (e.g. derived by functionalising poly(tetrahydrofuran), polycaprolactone, polycarbonate diol, or a dendrimeric polyol; (D) at least one initiator for the polymerisation of the resins, and (E) at least one stabiliser for delaying the curing of the resins of the composition; wherein the low viscosity resin is slower to react than the higher viscosity resin and acts to solvate the higher viscosity resin prior to curing and at least partly during curing and wherein at least 30% of the components A and B are cationically curable resins. The composition can be jetted from piezo electric printing heads under the control of a computer program to form a multi-layered article, e.g. a three dimensional article, in which the adjacent droplets merge and are cured homogeneously together.

An optical relay device, comprising a substrate, and at least one diffractive optical element is disclosed. The substrate is made, at least in part, of a light transmissive polymeric material characterized by a birefringence, Δn, satisfying the inequality |Δn|<ε, where ε is lower than the birefringence of polycarbonate. In a preferred embodiment, the light transmissive polymeric material comprises a cycloolefin polymer or a cycloolefin copolymer.

Chemical vapor deposition is performed using a plurality of expanding thermal plasma generating means to produce a coating on a substrate, such as a thermoplastic and especially a polycarbonate substrate. The substrate is preferably moved past the generating means. Included are methods which coat both sides of the substrate or which employ multiple sets of generating means, either in a single deposition chamber or in a plurality of chambers for deposition of successive coatings. The substrate surfaces spaced from the axes of the generating means are preferably heated to promote coating uniformity.

This invention relates to rapid prototyping systems, specifically, a composition for a release film comprising one or more base materials selected from the group consisting of silicone, polycarbonate, polyethylene, and polypropylene; and one or more free-radical inhibitors.

A process for the production of a branched aromatic polycarbonate that includes adding a branching agent to a polycarbonate oligomer, and producing a branched aromatic polycarbonate having a melt index ratio greater than an aromatic polycarbonate produced from the polycarbonate oligomer without the addition of the branching agent. The branching agent has the formula (I):wherein A is a C1-20 polymethylene, C2-20 alkylene or alkylidene, C5-36 cycloalkylene or cycloalkylidene, C6-36 arylene or alkylarylene, or C3-36 arylalkylene, wherein G is a monovalent C6-C30 hydrocarbon having at least one hydroxyl group bonded directly to an aromatic or cycloaliphatic ring and y is an integer greater than 2, and wherein each G may be the same or different.

Disclosed is a polycarbonate composition and process from making same, wherein introduction of a chain terminator and an acyl halide other than phosgene is after at least 25 percent of the hydroxyl groups in the dihydric phenol have been converted to chloroformate groups.

A method and apparatus for making inexpensive, form-fitted, protective cases of thermal plastic or polycarbonate material that can be easily printed with decorative imagery and/or electronic circuitry for a variety of products, such as portable music players or radios, cell phones, lap-top computers, and the like. The method involves creating a tool having substantially the same surface dimensions of a product. An element is then molded from bulk film of thermoplastic material using the tool. Once the element is molded, it is trimmed from the bulk film. The resulting apparatus is a protective case intended to form-fit over the surface features and dimensions of the actual product used to define the tool.

The present invention provides a polymer membrane enhanced with cured epoxy resin for use as the outer membrane of biosensors. The membrane includes approximately 30-80% epoxy resin adhesives, 10-60% polymer such as poly(vinyl chloride), polycarbonate and polyurethane and 0-30% plasticizers and 5-15% surface modifier reagent such as polyethylene oxide-containing block copolymers. Utilizing the polymer membrane of the present invention, a three-layered sensing element has been developed. This sensing element will be particularly useful for miniaturized biosensors used for in vitro blood measurements or for continuous in vivo monitoring such as implantable biosensors. This element includes an enzyme layer, an interference-eliminating layer and the novel polymer member of the present invention as the outer polymer layer. This novel sensing element shows excellent response characteristics in solutions and has an extremely long lifetime. This technology is particularly useful for improving the lifetime of implantable biosensors.

The invention relates to a composite comprising a weight fraction of single-wall carbon nanotubes and at least one polar polymer wherein the composite has an electrical and/or thermal conductivity enhanced over that of the polymer alone. The invention also comprises a method for making this polymer composition. The present application provides composite compositions that, over a wide range of single-wall carbon nanotube loading, have electrical conductivities exceeding those known in the art by more than one order of magnitude. The electrical conductivity enhancement depends on the weight fraction (F) of the single-wall carbon nanotubes in the composite. The electrical conductivity of the composite of this invention is at least 5 Siemens per centimeter (S/cm) at (F) of 0.5 (i.e. where single-wall carbon nanotube loading weight represents half of the total composite weight), at least 1 S/cm at a F of 0.1, at least 1×10^{−4 S/cm at (F) of 0.004, at least 6×10−9} S/cm at (F) of 0.001 and at least 3×10⁻¹⁶ S/cm (F) plus the intrinsic conductivity of the polymer matrix material at of 0.0001. The thermal conductivity enhancement is in excess of 1 Watt/m-° K. The polar polymer can be polycarbonate, poly(acrylic acid), poly(acrylic acid), poly(methacrylic acid), polyoxide, polysulfide, polysulfone, polyamides, polyester, polyurethane, polyimide, poly(vinyl acetate), poly(vinyl alcohol), poly(vinyl chloride), poly(vinyl pyridine), poly(vinyl pyrrolidone), copolymers thereof and combinations thereof. The composite can further comprise a nonpolar polymer, such as, a polyolefin polymer, polyethylene, polypropylene, polybutene, polyisobutene, polyisoprene, polystyrene, copolymers thereof and combinations thereof.

A device for treating or preventing a vascular condition at a mammalian vascular site, comprises an implant formed from a compressible, reticulated elastomeric matrix in a shape conducive to delivery through a delivery instrument. One or more implants are delivered in a compressed state to the mammmalian vascular site where each implant recovers substantially to its uncompressed state following deployment from a delivery instrument. In a preferred embodiment the matrix comprises cross-linked polycarbonate polyurethane-urea or cross-linked polycarbonate polyurea-urethane. In another preferred embodiment the matrix comprises a cross-linked polycarbonate polyurethane. In a yet further embodiment, the matrix comprises thermoplastic polycarbonate polyurethane or thermoplastic polycarbonate polyurethane-urea.

The present invention relates to one kind of high activity catalyst for catalyzing and activating CO2 to react with alkane epoxide to synthesize polycarbonate. The high activity catalyst is tetradentate Schiff base metal complex with double function, i. e., it has both electrophlic center originated from the metal ion in the complex and nucleophilic center originated from the quaternary ammonium salt or quaternary phosphonium salt connected to the benzene ring in the complex. The catalyst can catalyze the reaction of CO2 and alkane epoxide effectively to prepare polycarbonate.

The present invention relates to an LED lamp in which, because the lamp has therein a heat dissipation transfer member and the power source base thereof is made of materials including polycarbonate, etc. with a high emission rate of radiation so as to enhance its surface heat dissipation constant, the power source base has sufficient heat dissipation performance and, thus, a separate insulation circuit is not necessary, thereby improving reliability and productivity of the lamp as well as reducing the cost of manufacturing.

To this end, the present invention provides an LED lamp comprising one or more LEDs mounted on a PCB, a floodlight cover that transmits light from the LEDs, and a power source base coupled to the floodlight cover and having a terminal at one end thereof, wherein the power source base is made of an insulation material; and the LED lamp also comprises a heat dissipation transfer member that has a heat sink in contact with the PCB on which the LEDs are mounted, and is formed and installed so as to overlap with and be in tight contact with the inner face of either the power source base or the floodlight cover or both.

A light-emitting diode reflector assembly having a heat pipe and a reflector body is provided. The assembly further includes a mounting member for mounting a circuit board having an array of light-emitting diodes. The mounting member and reflector body are made from a thermally-conductive polymer composition comprising: i) about 20% to about 80% by weight of a base polymer matrix such as polycarbonate; and ii) about 20% to about 80% by weight of a thermally-conductive material such as carbon graphite.

Compositions of matter including articles derived from (a) from 5 to 99.99 wt % of a modified polybutylene terephthalate random copolymer that (1) is derived from polyethylene terephthalate and (2) contains a at least one residue derived from polyethylene terephthalate selected from the group consisting of antimony, germanium, diethylene glycol groups, isophthalic acid groups, cis isomer of cyclohexane dimethanol, trans isomer of cyclohexane dimethanol, sodium benzoate, alkali salts, napthalane dicarboxylic acids, 1,3-propane diols, cobalt, cobalt-containing compounds, and combinations thereof, and (b) from 0.01 to 95 wt. % of a member selected from the group consisting of (1) fillers, (2) a carboxy reactive component, (3) polyethyelene terephthalate, (4) a component including a polycarbonate and an impact modifier. The articles may be derived from various conversion processes, e.g., injection molding processes, extrusion processes, thermoforming processes, melt-blown process.

A method is provided for making siloxane polycarbonate copolymers and blends of other polycarbonates with such copolymers wherein the copolymers and blends have excellent transparency and physical characteristic.

The present invention is directed to electronic components shielded from electromagnetic interference through the use of conforming shield enclosures. Conforming shield enclosures are flexible metalized thermoformed thin-wall polycarbonate polymer film substrates used to shield a radiation source. The present invention relates to conforming shielded forms for electronic component assemblies and specifically to electronic component assemblies which are shielded to protect against electromagnetic and radiofrequency interference. Specifically, the shielded electronic component assembly comprises (a) a semiconductor device to be shielded from electromagnetic frequencies; (b) a reference potential source; (c) a housing enclosing the semiconductor device within the assembly; and (d) a conforming shield enclosure electrically connected to the reference potential source. The conforming shield enclosure comprises a flexible, metalized thermoformable polymer having dimensions conforming to the inside of the housing and enclosing and thereby shielding the semiconductor device from electromagnetic frequencies. The conforming shield enclosure is prepared by paint metalization.

The invention discloses a high-activity catalyst which catalyzing and activating carbon dioxide to perform the copolymerization reaction with alkylene oxide to synthesize polycarbonate. The catalyst is characterized in that the catalyst is a tetradentate schiff base complex contains one or two organic base groups and has single active site initiation and controllable polymerization. The catalyst has the advantages that under milder conditions and at lower concentration of the catalyst, the catalyst can highly and efficiently catalyze the carbon dioxide to make the copolymerization reaction with the alkylene oxide to prepare the polycarbonate, the catalytic efficiency is 10<6>g polymer/mol catalyst, the polymer molecular weight is adjusted in the range of between 5,000 and 500,000, the molecular weight distribution is less than 2, the alternating structure is over 97 percent, and the catalyst can be degraded into small molecule compounds under certain condition. By utilizing the catalyst, the telomerization reaction between the carbon dioxide and two or more than two types of alkylene oxide can be catalyzed to synthesize a polycarbonate telomer with adjusting glass transition temperature.

A flame retardant thermoplastic composition having excellent physical properties comprises about 20 to about 90 wt. % of a polycarbonate resin; up to about 35 wt. % of an impact modifier; about 0.5 to about 30 wt. % of a polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer comprising about 8 to about 30 wt. % polydimethylsiloxane units or the equivalent molar amount of other diorganosiloxane units; and about 0.5 to about 20 wt. % of a phosphorus-containing flame retardant, each based on the total combined weight of the thermoplastic composition, exclusive of any filler. In one embodiment a sample of the thermoplastic composition having a thickness of 2.5 mm (±10 % ) achieves a UL94 5VA rating Thinner samples may also achieve this rating. The compositions are useful in forming flame retardant thin-walled articles.

Polymeric coating materials used to protect electrochromic devices from environmental and mechanical damage are provided. The protective polymeric coating materials are physically, chemically and optically compatible with the electrochromic cell layers of electrochromic devices. The polymeric coating materials are polymers having generic polymer back-bones selected from the group of polyimides, polybenzimidazoles, polybenzothiazoles, polybenzoxazoles, poly(phenylene ethers), polyquinolines, polycarbonates, and polysulfones.