Coated abrasive articles having spacer particles are formed by providing a production tool having a dispensing surface with a plurality of cavities, guiding the production tool past an abrasive particle feeder, dispensing shaped abrasive particles onto the dispensing surface and into the plurality of cavities of the production tool, guiding a resin coated backing sheet adjacent the production tool past a spacer particle feeder, and dispensing spacer particles onto the resin coated backing sheet and/or the production tool after the abrasive particle feeder prior to a deposit point for the shaped abrasive particles. The spacer particles are selected to have a thickness that is greater than a thickness of a resin coating of the resin coating backing sheet and a thickness and density once dispensed that are sufficient to substantially prevent the production tool from contacting the resin coated backing sheet at the deposit point.
An optical ferrule includes an input surface for receiving and transmitting a central light ray from an optical fiber attached to the optical ferrule. A light redirecting side receives, along a first direction, the central light ray transmitted by the input surface and redirects the received light along a different second direction. The redirected central light ray exits the optical ferrule through an output surface of the optical ferrule. As the central light ray propagates in the optical ferrule from the input surface to the output surface, the central light ray propagates through distinct first and second portions of the optical ferrule having different respective first and second compositions.
Disclosed herein is a thioester-containing (meth)acrylate compound comprising at least two thioester moieties and at least 2 (meth)acrylate moieties and a method for making such compounds. These compounds can be used in (meth)acrylic resins as a crosslinking agent. Upon exposure to a nucleophilic solvent, cured (meth)acrylic resins derived from these thioester-containing (meth)acrylate compounds can be degraded.
C08F 220/18 - Esters of monohydric alcohols or phenols of phenols or of alcohols containing two or more carbon atoms with acrylic or methacrylic acids
C08F 220/20 - Esters of polyhydric alcohols or phenols
C08F 230/02 - Copolymers of compounds having one or more unsaturated aliphatic radicals, each having only one carbon-to-carbon double bond, and containing phosphorus, selenium, tellurium or a metal containing phosphorus
A thermal imaging system configured for use with a respirator mask is presented that include an in-mask display unit configured to be mounted within an interior volume of a respirator mask and including an in-mask micro-display. The system also includes a wearable thermal imaging camera that is configured to capture a thermal image and to communicate at least a portion of the captured thermal image to the in-mask micro-display. The system also includes an image processing system including a processor and memory, the system being configured to: detect an object in the thermal image, generate a callout to indicate the detected object, and compile a composite image, the composite image includes the thermal image and the generated callout.
A shielded cable includes a plurality of conductor sets extending along a length of the cable and substantially surrounded, in one-to-one correspondence, by a plurality of electrically conductive inner shields. The conductor sets and the inner shields, in combination, are substantially surrounded by an electrically conductive outer shield. Each of the conductor sets includes two or more insulated conductors extending along the length of the cable. Each of the two or more insulated conductors includes an electrically conductive central conductor surrounded by an electrically insulative material. The outer shield is intentionally and substantially uniformly wrinkled along at least the length of the outer shield.
H01B 7/18 - Protection against damage caused by external factors, e.g. sheaths or armouring by wear, mechanical force or pressure
H01B 13/22 - SheathingArmouringScreeningApplying other protective layers
H01B 7/295 - Protection against damage caused by external factors, e.g. sheaths or armouring by extremes of temperature or by flame using material resistant to flame
A (meth)acrylated hyperbranched polymer consists of C, H, Si, optionally O, and optionally F atoms. The (meth)acrylated hyperbranched polymer comprises end groups, and at least some of the end groups comprise (meth)acryloyloxy groups. A method of making and a curable composition including the (meth)acrylated hyperbranched polymer are also disclosed. An electronic device includes an at least partially cured form of curable composition.
C08F 230/08 - Copolymers of compounds having one or more unsaturated aliphatic radicals, each having only one carbon-to-carbon double bond, and containing phosphorus, selenium, tellurium or a metal containing a metal containing silicon
C08F 2/50 - Polymerisation initiated by wave energy or particle radiation by ultraviolet or visible light with sensitising agents
A shielded electrical cable includes conductor sets extending along a length of the cable and spaced apart from each other along a width of the cable. First and second shielding films are disposed on opposite sides of the cable and include cover portions and pinched portions arranged such that, in transverse cross section, the cover portions of the films in combination substantially surround each conductor set. An adhesive layer bonds the shielding films together in the pinched portions of the cable. A transverse bending of the cable at a cable location of no more than 180 degrees over an inner radius of at most 2 mm causes a cable impedance of the selected insulated conductor proximate the cable location to vary by no more than 2 percent from an initial cable impedance measured at the cable location in an unbent configuration.
H01B 11/04 - Cables with twisted pairs or quads with pairs or quads mutually positioned to reduce cross-talk
H01B 11/10 - Screens specially adapted for reducing interference from external sources
H01B 11/20 - Cables having a multiplicity of coaxial lines
H01R 9/05 - Connectors arranged to contact a plurality of the conductors of a multiconductor cable for coaxial cables
H01R 12/53 - Fixed connections for rigid printed circuits or like structures connecting to cables except for flat or ribbon cables
H01R 12/59 - Fixed connections for flexible printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables or like structures
H01R 13/58 - Means for relieving strain on wire connection, e.g. cord grip
H04L 41/28 - Restricting access to network management systems or functions, e.g. using authorisation function to access network configuration
H04L 43/0811 - Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters by checking availability by checking connectivity
H04L 43/0817 - Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters by checking availability by checking functioning
H04W 4/70 - Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
H04W 24/04 - Arrangements for maintaining operational condition
H04W 84/18 - Self-organising networks, e.g. ad hoc networks or sensor networks
A cooling film for use in passively cooling an antenna includes an antisoiling layer secured to a first major surface of a reflective microporous layer. The reflective microporous layer comprises a first fluoropolymer and is diffusely reflective of electromagnetic radiation over a majority of wavelengths in the range of 400 to 2500 nanometers. The film can also include an infrared-absorptive layer secured to a second major surface of the film opposite the first major surface, and the infrared-absorptive layer is optionally metallized. The film is shaped into a self-supporting three-dimensional structure, such as fins, and a thermally conductive material is inside the structure and secured to a portion of the antenna, either the front side of the antenna for the non-metallized film or the back side of the antenna for the metallized film.
H01Q 1/02 - Arrangements for de-icingArrangements for drying-out
B32B 3/30 - Layered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shapeLayered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by a particular shape of the outline of the cross-section of a continuous layerLayered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shapeLayered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by a layer with cavities or internal voids characterised by a layer formed with recesses or projections, e.g. grooved, ribbed
B32B 15/09 - Layered products essentially comprising metal comprising metal as the main or only constituent of a layer, next to another layer of a specific substance of synthetic resin comprising polyesters
B32B 15/20 - Layered products essentially comprising metal comprising aluminium or copper
B32B 27/08 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin as the main or only constituent of a layer next to another layer of a specific substance of synthetic resin of a different kind
An optical grating for optically coupling a light ray propagating within an optical waveguide by total internal reflection to a light ray propagating outside, and toward or away from, the waveguide is provided. The optical grating includes an optically transparent adhesive layer including a plurality of substantially parallel linear adhesive prisms and an overcoat disposed on the plurality of substantially parallel linear adhesive prisms. For at least a first visible wavelength in a visible wavelength range extending from about 420 nm to about 680 nm, the optically transparent adhesive layer and the overcoat have respective indices n1 and n2, where n1 ≥ 1.2, n2/n1 > 1. For a substantially normally incident collimated light beam having the at least the first visible wavelength, and for at least a first polarization state, a first order diffraction efficiency of the multilayer grating is greater than about 40%.
A system includes processing circuitry and a drone that includes a marking mount that receives a marking device, a motion guide that provides a sliding framework for a reciprocating motion of the marking mount, and a shock absorption sub-assembly positioned between the marking mount and the motion guide. Control logic of the drone is configured to navigate, based on navigation instructions received from the processing circuitry, the drone to an area associated with a misapplication of a tape as applied to a substrate or a substrate defect, such that a distal tip of the marking device makes contact with the area associated with the tape misapplication or the substrate defect, while activating the shock absorption sub-assembly to at least partially absorb a shock caused by the contact between the distal tip of the marking device and the area associated with the tape misapplication or the substrate defect.
An article of personal protective equipment (PPE) includes a battery, a charging circuit, and a controller. The battery is configured to power one or more components of the article of PPE. The charging circuit is configured to receive electrical power from a power supply and supply an electric current to the battery. The controller is configured to determine a plurality of thresholds of one or more electrical parameters of the battery. The plurality of thresholds has progressively increasing values. The controller is further configured to determine the one or more electrical parameters of the battery and control the charging circuit to progressively decrease a magnitude of the electric current supplied to the battery when the one or more electrical parameters progressively increase above each threshold from the plurality of thresholds.
H01M 10/653 - Means for temperature control structurally associated with the cells characterised by electrically insulating or thermally conductive materials
H01M 10/6563 - Gases with forced flow, e.g. by blowers
H02J 7/00 - Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
A protective assembly including a singly-curved optically clear substrate and a laser-protective stack adhesively laminated to the substrate. The laser-protective stack includes a multilayer optical film configured to exhibit a light-transmission of 10% or less in a preselected wavelength range of the visible spectrum; the laser-protective stack will nevertheless exhibit an overall transmission of at least 60% over the visible spectrum. The laser-protective stack may also include an optically clear pressure-sensitive adhesive that adhesively bonds the multilayer optical film to the substrate, and may also include an optically clear physical-protection layer in front of the multilayer optical film.
A reflective polarizer includes a plurality of alternating first and second layers. For a substantially normally incident light, the plurality of first and second layers has an average reflectance Rs0 of at least 50% when the incident light is polarized along a first direction and an average reflectance Rp0 of greater than 1% and at most 40% when the incident light is polarized along an orthogonal second direction. When the reflective polarizer is heated to a temperature that is greater than a glass transition temperature of the second layers and less than a melting temperature of the first layers for a time of at least about 1 second, a birefringence of the second layers, but not the first layers, is reduced by at least 20% and/or Rp0 decreases by at least a factor of 1.3 while Rs0 remains at least 50%. The reflective polarizer can be shaped via thermoforming.
A respirator includes a mask body, a cover attached to the mask body, and a yoke. The cover includes a bottom cover portion and a top cover portion including a pair of top slots spaced apart from each other. The respirator includes a pair of head straps corresponding to the pair of top slots and separate from each other. Each of the pair of head straps is secured to the yoke. Each of the pair of head straps is slidably received through the corresponding top slot from the pair of top slots of the cover. In the donned configuration, the yoke at least partially engages with and detachably attaches to the bottom cover portion. In the drop-down configuration, the yoke fully disconnects from the cover, such that the cover is slidable along the pair of head straps to move the mask body away from a head of a user.
An optical film includes a plurality of alternating first and second polymeric layers disposed on a first protective layer. Each of the first and second polymeric layers has an average thickness less than about 500 nm and the first protective layer has an average thickness greater than about 750 nm. An olefin layer can be disposed on the first protective layer opposite the plurality of alternating first and second polymeric layers. The olefin layer includes cyclic olefin copolymer, cyclic olefin polymer, or a blend thereof. The olefin layer can have an unstructured major surface opposite the first protective layer. A bonding layer is disposed between, and bonds together, the olefin layer and the first protective layer. The optical film is integrally formed.
G02B 1/111 - Anti-reflection coatings using layers comprising organic materials
B29C 48/00 - Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired formApparatus therefor
B29C 48/18 - Articles comprising two or more components, e.g. co-extruded layers the components being layers
B29C 48/21 - Articles comprising two or more components, e.g. co-extruded layers the components being layers the layers being joined at their surfaces
B29C 48/22 - Articles comprising two or more components, e.g. co-extruded layers the components being layers with means connecting the layers, e.g. tie layers or undercuts
B29K 23/00 - Use of polyalkenes as moulding material
B29K 105/00 - Condition, form or state of moulded material
B29L 11/00 - Optical elements, e.g. lenses, prisms
An SCBA harness including a backframe and a reducer mounted on the lower end of the backframe. A delivery hose that is connected to a mask-mountable regulator, and a high-pressure gauge hose that is connected to a pressure gauge, are respectively connected to a primary air-delivery outlet of the reducer and to a high-pressure gauge air outlet of the reducer. The primary air-delivery outlet defines a first hose-end direction along which a first end of the delivery hose is oriented, and the high-pressure gauge air outlet defines a second hose-end direction along which a first end of the high-pressure gauge hose is oriented. The first and second hose-end directions are each oriented upward, at an included angle of from 20 to 70 degrees relative to a vertical axis of the backframe, and are oriented at an angle of from 40 to 140 degrees relative to each other.
A coated abrasive article having a plurality of formed ceramic abrasive particles each having a surface feature. The plurality of formed ceramic abrasive particles attached to a flexible backing by a make coat comprising a resinous adhesive forming an abrasive layer. The surface feature having a specified z-direction rotational orientation, and the specified z-direction rotational orientation occurs more frequently in the abrasive layer than would occur by a random z-direction rotational orientation of the surface feature.
B24D 3/00 - Physical features of abrasive bodies, or sheets, e.g. abrasive surfaces of special natureAbrasive bodies or sheets characterised by their constituents
A personal protective equipment (PPE) fit testing system is presented that includes a scanning device configured to capture a first scan data of a user wearing an article of PPE. The system also includes a fit test module configured to: detect, using a PPE detector, a model of the article of PPE, retrieve a second scan data of the user without the article of PPE, compare the first and second scan data, using a comparison module, and based on the comparison, generate a fit test result. The system also includes a communication component configured to communicate the generated fit test result to a device with a display.
The present disclosure relates to a curable precursor of an adhesive composition, wherein the curable precursor comprises (a) a radically (co)polymerizable compound, (b) a vanadium compound, (c) a beta-dicarbonyl compound, and (d) a quaternary ammonium halide. The present disclosure further relates to a method of curing the said curable precursor.
The present disclosure provides a curable adhesive composition precursor, comprising a first part (A) comprising (i) at least one first epoxy curing agent selected from diamines: (ii) at least one second epoxy curing agent selected from phenalkamides and/or phenalkamines: (iii) at least one first curing aid selected from metal salt hydrates: (iv) at least one second curing aid selected from phenolic amines: a second part (B) comprising (i) at least one epoxy resin: (ii) at least one first impact modifier; (iii) at least one second impact modifier different from the at least one first impact modifier: (iv) at least one amphoteric corrosion inhibitor selected from phosphonate compounds and phosphosilicate compounds.
A thiol-containing compound having at least two terminal groups of formula —NH—CO—CO—NH—R1—SH where R1 is an alkylene, reaction mixtures containing the thiol-containing compound and an epoxy resin, and compositions containing a polymerized product of the reaction mixture are provided. The compositions that contain the polymerized product of the reaction mixture can be used, for example, as an adhesive or sealant.
C07C 323/41 - Y being a hydrogen or an acyclic carbon atom
C08G 69/42 - Polyamides containing atoms other than carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen
C09J 177/00 - Adhesives based on polyamides obtained by reactions forming a carboxylic amide link in the main chainAdhesives based on derivatives of such polymers
Curable adhesive films, primers for adhesion of curable adhesive films, and adhesive systems comprising adhesive films and primers are provided. In some embodiments, an adhesive system comprises: I) a curable adhesive free-standing film comprising a blend of a) a first film-forming polymer or oligomer; b) a first species comprising first unsaturated free-radically polymerizable groups, which may be a) or a species other than a); and c) a first transition metal cation; and II) a primer for adhesion of a curable adhesive free-standing film to a first substrate comprising an oxidizing agent. In some embodiments, an adhesive system comprises: I) a curable adhesive free-standing film comprising an outer surface bearing embossed air bleed channels capable of aiding in escape of air during application of the outer surface to a primed substrate; and II) a primer comprising components that initiate cure of the curable adhesive free-standing film.
C09J 5/04 - Adhesive processes in generalAdhesive processes not provided for elsewhere, e.g. relating to primers involving separate application of adhesive ingredients to the different surfaces to be joined
C09J 7/20 - Adhesives in the form of films or foils characterised by their carriers
C09J 7/30 - Adhesives in the form of films or foils characterised by the adhesive composition
Object Provided is a long chain alkyl-based release agent useful in production of a light release liner that can be used in a light release surface of an adhesive transfer tape. Solution means An acrylic polymer release agent according to an embodiment includes a polymerization product of a polymerizable precursor composition containing an acrylate monomer having a branched alkyl group having 24 or more carbon atoms and an acrylic monomer having a benzophenone structure.
C09J 7/40 - Adhesives in the form of films or foils characterised by release liners
C09D 5/20 - Coating compositions, e.g. paints, varnishes or lacquers, characterised by their physical nature or the effects producedFilling pastes for coatings strippable as coherent films, e.g. temporary coatings strippable as coherent films
C09D 133/08 - Homopolymers or copolymers of acrylic acid esters
Provided is a patterned adhesive useful in foldable electronic display applications. The patterned adhesive includes a central adhesive layer and a pair of peripheral adhesive layers. The pair of peripheral adhesive layers extending alongside, and adjacent to, opposing sides of the central adhesive layer in an alternating stripe pattern. Optionally, the ratio of shear modulus between central adhesive layer and each peripheral adhesive layer is from 2:1 to 10:1 or vice versa, the shear modulus measured by dynamic mechanical analysis at a frequency of 1 Hz and a temperature of 25°C. Further, the central adhesive layer displays a refractive index within 0.015 that of the peripheral adhesive layers as measured for a light wavelength of 532 nm, and each of the central adhesive layer and peripheral adhesive layers displays a glass transition temperature of at most -30°C.
An optical system is disclosed. The optical system includes a display configured to form an image, a partial reflector, and a reflective polarizer defining an optical cavity therebetween. The optical system further includes a positive lens and a negative lens, at least one of which is disposed inside the optical cavity. The positive lens and the negative lens may both be disposed inside the optical cavity. The optical system may include a folded optical lens assembly including the partial reflector, the reflective polarizer, the positive lens, and the negative lens. The positive lens has an Abbe number having a magnitude Ap and a positive focal length Fp at a visible wavelength extending from about 420 nm to about 680 nm, the negative lens has an Abbe number having a magnitude An and a negative focal length having a magnitude Fn at the visible wavelength, Fn/Fp > Ap/An.
A slip-resistant article includes a traction layer, a substrate layer, and an adhesive layer. The traction layer includes a polyolefin resin and a halogen-free flame retardant and has a first major surface with static coefficient of friction greater than or equal to 0.6.
B32B 27/18 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin characterised by the use of special additives
B32B 3/30 - Layered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shapeLayered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by a particular shape of the outline of the cross-section of a continuous layerLayered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shapeLayered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by a layer with cavities or internal voids characterised by a layer formed with recesses or projections, e.g. grooved, ribbed
B32B 7/12 - Interconnection of layers using interposed adhesives or interposed materials with bonding properties
B32B 27/08 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin as the main or only constituent of a layer next to another layer of a specific substance of synthetic resin of a different kind
A barrier article comprises a multilayer article that includes a plurality of core layers and a plurality of binder layers, wherein at least one core layer includes a woven or nonwoven fiber mat or fabric, and wherein at least one binder layer includes a silicone material. The plurality of core layers and binder layers are arranged in an alternating manner. The barrier article is operatively adapted to survive or withstand at least seven cycles of the Torch and Grit Test. The barrier article can be flexible and can provide a thermal insulation and blast protection barrier in, for example, a rechargeable electrical energy storage system.
H01M 10/658 - Means for temperature control structurally associated with the cells by thermal insulation or shielding
B32B 5/02 - Layered products characterised by the non-homogeneity or physical structure of a layer characterised by structural features of a layer comprising fibres or filaments
B32B 5/26 - Layered products characterised by the non-homogeneity or physical structure of a layer characterised by the presence of two or more layers which comprise fibres, filaments, granules, or powder, or are foamed or specifically porous one layer being a fibrous or filamentary layer another layer also being fibrous or filamentary
B32B 37/12 - Methods or apparatus for laminating, e.g. by curing or by ultrasonic bonding characterised by using adhesives
H01M 10/651 - Means for temperature control structurally associated with the cells characterised by parameters specified by a numeric value or mathematical formula, e.g. ratios, sizes or concentrations
H01M 50/131 - Primary casingsJackets or wrappings characterised by physical properties, e.g. gas permeability, size or heat resistance
29.
PROTECTION CIRCUIT, METHOD FOR PROTECTING ELECTRICAL LOAD, AND SYSTEM
A protection circuit for use with a power source includes a Zener diode, a first resistor, and a second resistor, which together define its maximum voltage threshold. The power source is configured to provide an input voltage to an electrical load. The protection circuit further includes a shorting device and a current-limiting safety device. When the input voltage is less than the maximum voltage threshold, the shorting device is maintained in an off-state, causing the input voltage to be provided to the electrical load. When the input voltage is greater than or equal to the maximum voltage threshold, the shorting device switches to the on-state and electrically shorts the power source to a ground, causing the current-limiting safety device to break an electrical connection between the power source and an input point electrically connected to the electrical load, such that the electrical load is electrically disconnected from the power source.
H02H 3/20 - Emergency protective circuit arrangements for automatic disconnection directly responsive to an undesired change from normal electric working condition, with or without subsequent reconnection responsive to excess voltage
H02H 9/02 - Emergency protective circuit arrangements for limiting excess current or voltage without disconnection responsive to excess current
30.
ARTICLES COMPRISING ADHESIVE AND FILM SUITABLE FOR DISASSEMBLY AND METHODS
Articles are described comprising a first substrate and a second substrate. At least one adhesive layer is disposed between the first and second substrates. The article further comprises a multilayer film within at least a portion of the adhesive layer(s). Also described is a method of disassembly comprising providing an adhesively bonded article as described herein; and separating the first substrate from the second substrate by delaminating the (e.g. multilayer) film. In other embodiments, adhesive articles (e.g. tape) are described comprising a (e.g. multilayer) film and methods of making adhesively bonded articles that comprise a (e.g. multilayer) film. Also described are methods of reworking, repairing, repurposing, or recycling an article, and articles.
A light control construction film includes a light control film disposed between first and second multilayer optical films. For a substantially collimated incident light, an UV wavelength range extending from about 300 nm to about 420 nm, a visible wavelength range extending from about 420 nm to about 680 nm, and a first incident angle of less than about 10 degrees: in the UV wavelength range, the light control film has an average optical transmittance T1, and the first multilayer optical film has an average optical transmittance of between about 5% and about 20% and an average optical reflectance of less than about 95%. For the substantially collimated incident light, the UV wavelength range, and a second incident angle of less than about 75 degrees, the light control film has an average optical transmittance T1/3 and the first multilayer optical film has an average optical transmittance of at least T1/2.
A hearing protection device is presented that includes a microphone, a speaker, processing circuitry and memory. When actuated, the processing circuitry is configured to: receive a sound signal, analyze the sound signal, based on the analysis, apply a gain adjustment to the sound signal, and communicate the adjusted sound signal. The hearing protection device is configured to operate in a full-duplex mode and in a half-duplex mode.
H04R 3/02 - Circuits for transducers for preventing acoustic reaction
A61F 11/14 - Protective devices for the ears external, e.g. earcaps or earmuffs
H04M 9/08 - Two-way loud-speaking telephone systems with means for conditioning the signal, e.g. for suppressing echoes for one or both directions of traffic
H04B 3/23 - Reducing echo effects or singingOpening or closing transmitting pathConditioning for transmission in one direction or the other using a replica of transmitted signal in the time domain, e.g. echo cancellers
33.
CURABLE COMPOSITION, CURABLE ADHESIVE FILM AND ADHESIVE TAPE
The present invention provides a curable composition, a curable adhesive film, and an adhesive tape. Specifically, the curable composition comprises, based on the total weight thereof as 100 wt %: 15-50 wt % of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer; 10-40 wt % of polyvinyl butyral; and 20-60 wt % of an epoxy resin. The curable adhesive film according to the technical solution of the present invention has no tackiness at room temperature, which enables the curable adhesive film to have the ability to reposition even after being laminated on a substrate, making the curable adhesive film applicable to substrates with irregular shapes. Once initiated by UV radiation, the curable adhesive film is flowable and tacky at elevated temperatures. The cured adhesive has good bonding strength at high temperatures. The curable adhesive film features high bond strength and low odor, and can be used for void filling, especially for side panel bonding of electric vehicle battery modules in the electric vehicle (EV) market.
A copolymer is described comprising siloxane polymerized unit and second polymerized unit represented by
A copolymer is described comprising siloxane polymerized unit and second polymerized unit represented by
wherein:
each R6 is independently methylene, ethylene, or propylene; and
X is independently a functional group selected from epoxy, hydroxyl, or isocyanate group; and
c) optionally other comonomers. Also described is an article comprising a substrate and a copolymer disposed on at least a portion of the substrate.
D06M 15/356 - Macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds of other unsaturated compounds containing nitrogen, sulfur, silicon or phosphorus atoms
The present disclosure relates generally to tension-activated, expanding articles, films, and sheets including a multi-slit pattern. In some embodiments, these articles, films, and/or sheets are used as cushioning films and/or packaging materials. The present disclosure also relates to methods of making and using these tension-activated, expanding articles, films, and sheets.
B65D 81/03 - Wrappers or envelopes with shock-absorbing properties, e.g. bubble films
B31D 3/02 - Making articles of cellular structure, e.g. insulating board honeycombed structures
B31D 5/00 - Multiple-step processes for making three-dimensional articles
B32B 5/04 - Layered products characterised by the non-homogeneity or physical structure of a layer characterised by structural features of a layer comprising fibres or filaments characterised by a layer being specifically extensible by reason of its structure or arrangement
B65B 11/00 - Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material
B65D 81/05 - Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents specially adapted to protect contents from mechanical damage maintaining contents at spaced relation from package walls, or from other contents
Techniques, systems and articles are described for preparing electrical cables for connections to a power grid. In one example, a system includes a cable preparation device configured to cut one or more layers of an electrical cable and a computing device configured to control the cable preparation device to cut the one or more layers of the electrical cable. The computing device may determine one or more target cutting distances and determine whether an actual cutting distance satisfies the target cutting distance. The computing device may detect defects in the electrical cable. The computing device may further determine whether the cable preparation device should be serviced.
H02G 1/12 - Methods or apparatus specially adapted for installing, maintaining, repairing, or dismantling electric cables or lines for removing insulation or armouring from cables, e.g. from the end thereof
37.
LIGHT CONTROL FILM WITH TURNING FILM AND LENTICULAR DIFFUSER FOR VIEW ENHANCEMENT IN THE HORIZONTAL PLANE
An optical system comprises a turning film and a lenticular diffuser. The lenticular diffuser comprises a structured surface comprising a plurality of microstructures comprises a plurality of lenticular prisms separated by substantially flat land areas, the lenticular prisms having a rounded tip and two sides comprising a linear base section and a linear tip section connected by a polynomial blend section.
A microphone assembly including a microphone mounted to a rear side of a printed circuit board so that a sound-receiving port of a housing of the microphone is aligned with a rear opening of a through-passage of the printed circuit board. The microphone assembly also includes a shielding membrane mounted on a front side of the printed circuit board, an area of the shielding membrane being acoustically transparent and occlusively covering a front opening of the through-passage of the printed circuit board. The microphone assembly also includes a molded encapsulating shell that surrounds the printed circuit board and the microphone excepting that a front side the molded encapsulating shell comprises a through-orifice.
A multilayer optical film includes a plurality of optical repeat units. For an angle of incidence less than about 10 degrees and for each of two mutually orthogonal polarization states, the multilayer optical film has a first order reflection band comprising an average reflectance of greater than about 70 percent in an infrared wavelength range and an average reflectance of less than about 15 percent in a visible wavelength range. For a p-polarized incident light and a predetermined angle of incidence, the multilayer optical film has an average reflectance in a range of about 18 percent to about 35 percent in the visible wavelength range where a standard deviation of reflectance of the multilayer optical film over the visible wavelength range is less than about 0.15 times the average reflectance in the visible wavelength range. A display system includes the optical film and an image projector.
Described herein is an adhesive composite composition. The composition comprises: a plurality of polymeric microspheres dispersed within a (meth)acrylate-based matrix, wherein the polymeric microspheres are derived from 20-100 wt % of a (meth)acrylate monomer having a Tg above room temperature; and the (meth)acrylate-based matrix is derived from a C1 to C20 (meth)acrylate ester monomer and a (meth)acrylate macromer. In some embodiments, these composite adhesives show good impact resistance and good shear.
Described herein is a curable composition derived from (i) a hyperbranched polymer comprising a plurality of first terminal carbon-carbon double bonds, wherein the hyperbranched polymer comprises a reaction product of components: (a) at least one unsaturated compound consisting of C, H, and optionally Si atoms, O atoms, or Si and O atoms, and having p second terminal carbon-carbon double bonds, wherein each p is independently an integer greater than or equal to 2; (b) at least one organosilane compound consisting of C,H, Si, and optionally O atoms and having q Si-H groups, wherein each q is independently an integer greater than or equal to 2; and (c) at least one hydrosilylation reaction catalyst, wherein p/q is at least 2.1; and (ii) at least one multifunctional thiol comprising at least 2 thiol groups. These curable compositions when cured have a refractive index of at least 1.610 (when measured at 450nm).
An optical ferrule assembly (100) includes an optical ferrule (100) including an attachment area (130), a light input surface (142) and a light output surface (141); an optical fiber (132) having a fiber end (133) where the light input surface and the fiber end defines a gap (g) therebetween substantially filled with an adhesive (150) comprising nanoparticles (155) therein, such that light (170) propagating along the optical fiber and having a peak intensity II 1.5 <= GW/m2, exits the fiber end and enters the optical ferrule through the light input surface after traversing the gap through the adhesive, and exits the optical ferrule through the light output surface. The exiting light has a first beam size (W1), such that after at least 100 hours of aging of the optical ferrule assembly, any change in the first beam size due to a photodegradation of the adhesive is no ore than about 10%.
A method includes determining a plurality of molecular descriptors, each molecular descriptor of the plurality of molecular descriptors associated with at least one of an atomic scale property, a molecular scale property, and a compound-scale property. The method further includes selecting, by a selection operator and based on a minimization of an error, a subset of the plurality of molecular descriptors that affect a polymer surface energy, training a machine learning model to predict a polymer surface energy of a given polymer based on the subset of molecular descriptors and predicting, via the trained machine learning model, a surface energy of an input polymer.
G16C 20/30 - Prediction of properties of chemical compounds, compositions or mixtures
G16C 20/70 - Machine learning, data mining or chemometrics
G16C 60/00 - Computational materials science, i.e. ICT specially adapted for investigating the physical or chemical properties of materials or phenomena associated with their design, synthesis, processing, characterisation or utilisation
Described herein is an adhesive composite composition. The composition comprises: a plurality of polymeric microspheres dispersed within a (meth)acrylate-based matrix, wherein the polymeric microspheres are derived from 20 to 99 wt % of a (meth)acrylate monomer having a Tg above room temperature and at least 1 wt % of a polar (meth)acrylate monomer; and the (meth)acrylate-based matrix is derived from a C1 to C20 (meth)acrylate ester monomer and at least 1 wt % of a (meth)acrylate macromer. In some embodiments, these composite adhesives show good impact resistance and good shear. In one embodiment, an ionic liquid is added to the adhesive composite composition to aid in electro-debonding of articles.
An optical ferrule includes an optical coupling member with a light redirecting element that redirects input light from a waveguide toward an output window. The optical coupling member has a mating surface configured to slidably mate with a mating optical coupling member along a longitudinal axis of the optical ferrule. The optical ferrule also includes at least one stacking member along a longitudinal edge of the optical coupling member. The stacking member has a distal end extending beyond one of the mating surface and a top surface opposed to the mating surface. The stacking member also has a contact surface opposed to the distal end. The contact surface is configured to rotatably interface with a corresponding distal end of a of an adjacently stacked optical ferrule.
An optical system for displaying an image to a viewer includes a partial reflector, a reflective polarizer, and a first retarder layer. A light ray propagates along the optical axis and passes through the plurality of optical lenses, the partial reflector, the reflective polarizer, and the first retarder layer without being substantially refracted. For a cone of light incident on the optical system from an object comprising a spatial frequency of about 70, 60, 50, 40, or 30 line pairs per millimeter and filling the exit pupil with a chief ray of the cone of light passing through a center of the opening of the exit pupil of the optical system and making an angle of about 20 degrees with the optical axis, a modulation transfer function of the optical system is greater than about 0.2.
An optical construction includes a reflective polarizer and an optical film. The optical film includes a matrix and a plurality of first particles dispersed in the matrix. Each of the matrix and the plurality of first particles includes a silicone polyoxamide and an acrylate polymer. For substantially normally incident light and for at least a first wavelength in a first wavelength range, the reflective polarizer reflects about 60% for a first polarization state and transmits about 40% for an orthogonal second polarization state. For at least a second wavelength in a second wavelength range, each of the reflective polarizer and the optical film transmits about 60% of an incident light for each of the first and second polarization states. For at least the first wavelength, optical film has an optical haze and a depolarization ratio. A ratio of the depolarization ratio to the optical haze is less than 0.1.
G02B 1/04 - Optical elements characterised by the material of which they are madeOptical coatings for optical elements made of organic materials, e.g. plastics
A light control film includes an optically transparent unitary film, a light absorbing interface layer, and an optically transparent adhesive material. The optically transparent unitary film includes spaced-apart structures arranged along the unitary film and defining a plurality of openings therebetween, and a first continuous land portion. The light absorbing interface layer is disposed between each pair of adjacent structure and opening. The interface layer covers at least 50% of one or more sides of the structure. The optically transparent adhesive material fills the openings between the structures such that the light absorbing interface layers are between the adhesive material and the sides of the structures. The adhesive material forms a second continuous adhesive land portion opposite the first continuous land portion. Each of the first and second continuous land portions extend across the length and the width of the unitary film and join the structures and the openings.
Dichroic polarizer films include at least one film that may be a multi-layer reflective polarizer film and an absorptive polarizer film. The absorptive polarizer film is a modified film. The modified film is an oriented polyvinyl alcohol film containing a dichroic material, where the oriented polyvinyl alcohol film has been crosslinked, end capped or both with a polyphenol compound, a nano-platelet material, a hydrogen bonding polymer, a non-phenolic polyacid, or a combination thereof.
A security film includes a substrate including thermoplastic polyurethane; an optically clear pressure sensitive adhesive layer disposed on the substrate; and a polymeric liner releasably attached to the substrate via the optically clear pressure sensitive adhesive layer. The substrate, the optically clear pressure sensitive adhesive layer, and the polymeric liner are substantially coextensive with one another. The substrate includes an outermost major surface of the security film and has a thickness in a range of 480 to 760 micrometers and a Graves tear resistance of greater than 2.75 joules with a maximum extension of greater than 7.5 cm as determined according to ASTM D1004-21 except with an initial grip separation of 3.8 cm and with a strain rate of 1.27 m/min. The security film can increase forced-entry resistance of a window. A forced-entry resistant window includes the security film, with the polymeric liner removed, laminated to a glass pane.
B32B 7/06 - Interconnection of layers permitting easy separation
B32B 7/12 - Interconnection of layers using interposed adhesives or interposed materials with bonding properties
B32B 17/10 - Layered products essentially comprising sheet glass, or fibres of glass, slag or the like comprising glass as the main or only constituent of a layer, next to another layer of a specific substance of synthetic resin
B32B 27/08 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin as the main or only constituent of a layer next to another layer of a specific substance of synthetic resin of a different kind
A biodegradable adhesive tape, a biodegradable adhesive composition, and a production method for the biodegradable adhesive tape. The biodegradable adhesive tape comprises: the biodegradable adhesive composition, comprising an acrylic acid adhesive and a polyurethane dispersant, wherein the ratio of the dry weight of the polyurethane dispersant to the wet weight of the biodegradable adhesive composition is at least 8% or above, and the ratio of the dry weight of the polyurethane dispersant to the dry weight of the acrylic acid adhesive is not more than 40%; and a biodegradable backing film. The compostable degradation rate of the biodegradable adhesive tape tested according to GB/T 19277.1 is at least greater than or equal to 90% in 180 days. The adhesive tape and the adhesive composition have the advantages that the raw materials are easy to obtain, the preparation is simple and convenient, and a good adhesion effect and a biodegradation effect are both achieved.
C09J 7/30 - Adhesives in the form of films or foils characterised by the adhesive composition
C09J 7/25 - PlasticsMetallised plastics based on macromolecular compounds obtained otherwise than by reactions involving only carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds
C09J 133/00 - Adhesives based on homopolymers or copolymers of compounds having one or more unsaturated aliphatic radicals, each having only one carbon-to-carbon double bond, and at least one being terminated by only one carboxyl radical, or of salts, anhydrides, esters, amides, imides, or nitriles thereofAdhesives based on derivatives of such polymers
Polarizing beam splitter plates and systems incorporating such beam splitter plates are described. The polarizing beam splitter plate includes a first substrate and a multilayer optical film reflective polarizer that is disposed on the first substrate. The polarizing beam splitter plate includes a first outermost major surface and an opposing second outermost major surface that makes an angle of less than about 20 degrees with the first outermost major surface. The polarizing beam splitter plate is adapted to reflect an imaged light received from an imager towards a viewer or screen with the reflected imaged light having an effective pixel resolution of less than 12 microns.
G02B 27/28 - Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups , for polarising
B32B 37/00 - Methods or apparatus for laminating, e.g. by curing or by ultrasonic bonding
B32B 37/10 - Methods or apparatus for laminating, e.g. by curing or by ultrasonic bonding characterised by the pressing technique, e.g. using direct action of vacuum or fluid pressure
B32B 37/12 - Methods or apparatus for laminating, e.g. by curing or by ultrasonic bonding characterised by using adhesives
B32B 37/18 - Methods or apparatus for laminating, e.g. by curing or by ultrasonic bonding characterised by the properties of the layers with all layers existing as coherent layers before laminating involving the assembly of discrete sheets or panels only
B32B 38/10 - Removing layers, or parts of layers, mechanically or chemically
The present disclosure relates to darkening filters 10, 10′ which are suitable for selectively darkening an optically transmissive window 20 for protection from light, in particular from high intensity light. The darkening filter 10, 10′ is mounted in a forward-facing optically transmissive window 20 and comprises a non-uniform pattern 30 of switchable shutters 32 capable of being switching to at least a dark state and a light state by a shutter control system 40. The present disclosure also relates to a method of operating such darkening filters 10, 10′. The present disclosure furthermore relates to vision-protective 10 headgears 100, 100′, welding shields 110 and panes 120 comprising the darkening filters 10, 10′ according to the present disclosure.
B60J 3/04 - Antiglare equipment associated with windows or windscreensSun visors for vehicles adjustable in transparency
E06B 9/24 - Screens or other constructions affording protection against light, especially against sunshineSimilar screens for privacy or appearance
G02F 1/01 - Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulatingNon-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour
58.
INTEGRATED POWER ELECTRONICS COMPONENT WITH SHARED CORE
An integrated inductor-transformer includes a first transformer and an inductor sharing a common magnetically permeable core. The first transformer includes a first primary coil and a first secondary coil wound around a same first core portion of the core. The inductor includes an inductor coil wound around a second core portion of the core. When the first primary coil is energized, a first magnetic flux generated by the first transformer in the first core portion is cancelled in the second core portion, and a second magnetic flux generated by the inductor in the second core portion is cancelled in the first core portion.
H01F 41/02 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing or assembling magnets, inductances or transformersApparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing materials characterised by their magnetic properties for manufacturing cores, coils or magnets
H01F 27/38 - Auxiliary core membersAuxiliary coils or windings
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SHEET COMPRISING A COMPOSITE MATERIAL OF A POLYMER, THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE PARTICLES AND ELECTROMAGNETICALLY ABSORBING PARTICLES AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING THE SAME
The present disclosure relates to a sheet comprising a thermally conductive electromagnetically absorbing composite material comprising a polymer, electromagnetically absorbing particles and thermally conductive particles, wherein the thermally conductive particles comprise platelet-shaped thermally conductive particles, and wherein the platelet-shaped thermally conductive particles are oriented in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the plane of the sheet, and wherein the thermally conductive particles are electrically insulating, and wherein the composite material comprises at least 30 percent by weight of the thermally conductive particles, based on the total weight of the composite material, and wherein the sheet has a through-plane thermal conductivity of more than 12 W/m*K. The present disclosure further relates to processes for producing said sheet.
B29C 41/00 - Shaping by coating a mould, core or other substrate, i.e. by depositing material and stripping-off the shaped articleApparatus therefor
B29C 70/62 - Shaping composites, i.e. plastics material comprising reinforcements, fillers or preformed parts, e.g. inserts comprising fillers only the filler being oriented during moulding
B29C 70/88 - Shaping composites, i.e. plastics material comprising reinforcements, fillers or preformed parts, e.g. inserts characterised primarily by possessing specific properties, e.g. electrically conductive or locally reinforced
A curable adhesive is provided. The curable adhesive comprises a poly(meth)acrylate or (meth)acrylate-containing polyurethane; one or more (meth)acrylate monomers and/or (meth)acrylate-containing oligomers; a free radical initiator; and polyvinylpyrrolidone or copolymer thereof. The inclusion of polyvinylpyrrolidone and certain reactive oligomers can enable both high adhesive modulus and excellent mechanical performance to be achieved. Optical films coupled to the provided adhesive can also resist undesirable changes in flatness during assembly.
Provided are a decorative laminate for three-dimensional molding processing excellent in corrosion resistance, impact resistance, adhesion, and opening resistance after three-dimensional molding processing, and a method of producing the decorative laminate. Solution Means A method of producing a decorative laminate for three-dimensional molding processing according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: preparing a metal layer; applying a primer layer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of an organosilicon compound and a (meth)acrylic resin to the metal layer; applying a two-component curable polyurethane precursor layer containing a polyol and an isocyanate directly to the primer layer; and causing the two-component curable polyurethane precursor layer to react to form a polyurethane layer.
B32B 15/08 - Layered products essentially comprising metal comprising metal as the main or only constituent of a layer, next to another layer of a specific substance of synthetic resin
B32B 15/095 - Layered products essentially comprising metal comprising metal as the main or only constituent of a layer, next to another layer of a specific substance of synthetic resin comprising polyurethanes
62.
HIGH TRANSMISSION AIR FILTRATION MEDIA AND TRANSPARENT FACE MASK
The present invention is an electrospun web including a carrier substrate and an electrostatically charged nanofiber. The electrospun web has a pressure drop of about 5 mmH2O or less, a percent penetration of about 50% or less, and a clarity of about 80% or more.
D04H 1/4382 - Stretched reticular film fibresComposite fibresMixed fibresUltrafine fibresFibres for artificial leather
D04H 1/728 - Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres characterised by the method of forming fleeces or layers, e.g. reorientation of fibres the fibres being randomly arranged by electro-spinning
A solid effervescent cleaning composition is described comprising one or more acids and a gas generator; wherein a 1 wt. % aqueous solution of the solid cleaning composition has a pH in a range of 4 to 9; and at least one antimicrobial compound. In some embodiments, a 1 wt. % aqueous solution of the solid effervescent cleaning composition provides at least a 3 log reduction for both gram position and gram negative bacteria. In some embodiments, the antimicrobial compound is selected from aromatic alcohols; aliphatic alcohols, optionally further comprising an ester moiety; and combinations thereof. Also described is a (e.g. dry) wipe comprising a woven or nonwoven substrate further comprising the solid effervescent cleaning composition described herein; and cleaning tools with handles.
Arrangements for suspending one or more items from a ceiling. Such arrangements may use a base plate along with prong-bearing insert plates that are attached to the ceiling. At least one item may be connected to a load-bearing connector of the base plate, so that a load that is applied to the base plate as a result of the mass of the item produces a force vector that is at least generally aligned with a normal axis of the base plate.
F16M 13/02 - Other supports for positioning apparatus or articlesMeans for steadying hand-held apparatus or articles for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle
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STORAGE ACCESSORIES WITH AESTHETIC COVER AND REMOVABLE WALL MOUNT
The present disclosure provides adhesive mounting assemblies that can be removed from surfaces without damage by having reduced contribution of a hardgood to the peel force generated by the adhesive article during removal. In some instances, this can be accomplished by a mounting plate that includes one or more mounting bodies that are flexible in a peel direction and rigid in a weight hanging direction. The mounting assemblies may further include a cover to stabilize the assembly during use and obscure aspects of the mounting plate.
A liquid composition including clay containing at least one selected from the group consisting of a montmorillonite, mica, hectorite, and fluorosilicate; and a dimer or higher phosphate is described. Such liquid compositions are capable of forming a fireproof layer having high fireproof performance on a surface of a base material to which a film for wallpaper or the like is applied. A fireproof layer which can be formed using the liquid composition, a laminated structure including the fireproof layer, and a fireproofing method using the liquid composition are also described.
A magnetic film includes iron and copper distributed between opposing first and second major surfaces of the magnetic film. The copper has a first atomic concentration C1 at a first depth d1 from the first major surface and a peak second atomic concentration C2 at a second depth d2 from the first major surface, d2>d1, C2/C1≥5.
A light control film is described comprising alternating transmissive regions and absorptive regions disposed between the light input surface and the light output surface. The absorptive regions have an aspect ratio of at least 30. In some embodiments, an absorptive layer or reflective layer is disposed between the alternating transmissive regions and absorptive regions and the light input surface and/or light output surface. In another embodiment, the alternating transmissive regions comprise an absorptive material. The light control film can exhibit low transmission of visible light and high transmission of near infrared light. Also described is a light detection system comprising such light control films and a microstructured film.
A system is described comprising a solar article (110) that comprises a first major surface (that faces the sun during daytime use) and an opposing second major surface. The protective film (150) comprises a first major surface (that faces the sun during daytime use) and an opposing second major surface. The first major surface of the solar article (110) and/or the opposing second major surface of the protective film (150) comprises surface structures (153). The surface structures (153) are microstructures and/or nanostructures having at least two dimensions less than 1 mm. The structures can provide/maintain an air interface (175) between the first major surface of the solar article (110) and the second major surface of the protective film (150). Also described is a structured polyolefin film suitable for use as a protective film (150) for a solar article, as described herein and a method of improving the efficiency of a solar article.
A cable assembly includes a circuit board including a plurality of electrically conductive pads disposed on a first major surface of the circuit board. The cable assembly further includes a cable set including a plurality of first insulated conductors and one or more first uninsulated conductors. Each of the first insulated conductors includes an electrical first conductor surrounded by an electrically first insulating material. The first insulating material is stripped between an insulation-end location on the first insulated conductor and a free end of the first insulated conductor to form a stripped section next to an unstripped section. The stripped section includes a terminated stripped end-section including the free end and terminated at a corresponding one of the conductive pads. The terminated stripped end-section leaves a remaining unterminated stripped middle-section of the stripped section extending from the insulation-end location to the terminated stripped end-section.
A backlight includes an extended illumination source configured to emit light including an emitted spectrum including an emitted peak at an emitted peak wavelength and a corresponding emitted FWHM. The backlight includes one or more light converting films including blue, green, and red emission spectra including respective blue, green, and red peaks at corresponding respective blue, green, and red peak wavelengths and corresponding non-overlapping blue, green, and red FWHMs. The backlight includes an optical film. For a substantially collimated incident light and for each of mutually orthogonal in-plane first and second polarization states, the optical film has: for wavelengths across the emitted FWHM, an average optical reflectance of greater than about 20% and less than about 80% for a first incident angle of less than about 10 degrees, and an average optical reflectance of less than about 20% for a second incident angle of no less than about 40 degrees.
An adhesive film includes a first (meth)acrylate copolymer containing at least 55 weight percent (wt. %) of linear or branched alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer units, from 15 to 40 wt. % of (meth)acrylic acid monomer units, and 0.1 to 5 wt. % of monomer units of a crosslinking monomer having more than one (meth)acrylate group. If the first (meth)acrylate copolymer comprises 15 wt. % (meth)acrylic acid monomer units, the first (meth)acrylate copolymer comprises at least five wt. % monomer units of a high Tg monomer. The adhesive film comprises not more than five wt. % of a further (meth)acrylate copolymer comprising from 0.1 to 15 wt. % of (meth)acrylic acid monomer units. The adhesive film can be a multilayer adhesive assembly including a first layer of the first (meth)acrylate copolymer and a second adhesive layer adjacent to the first layer. A process for making and a system including the adhesive film and a primer are also described.
In some examples, a system includes: an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) that includes a communication component; a computing device communicatively coupled to the article of PPE, wherein the computing device: receives context data that is based on one or more of the article of PPE, a work environment for the article of PPE, or a worker assigned to the article of PPE; selects, based at least in part on the context data, a set of programmable safety rules that are contextually associated with the at least one article of PPE; sends the programmable safety rules to one or more of the article of PPE or a data hub communicatively coupled to the article of PPE; and wherein the programmable safety rules are configured at the article of PPE or the data hub to perform one or more operations based at least in part on PPE data.
G08B 21/02 - Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
A41D 13/002 - Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches with controlled internal environment
A62B 9/00 - Component parts for respiratory or breathing apparatus
A62B 18/08 - Component parts for gas-masks or gas-helmets, e.g. windows, straps, speech transmitters, signal-devices
G06Q 10/0635 - Risk analysis of enterprise or organisation activities
G06Q 10/0639 - Performance analysis of employeesPerformance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
G08B 7/06 - Signalling systems according to more than one of groups Personal calling systems according to more than one of groups using electric transmission
G08B 21/12 - Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons responsive to undesired emission of substances, e.g. pollution alarms
An optical system includes a display and an optical film. For a substantially collimated incident light, a red wavelength range extending from about 590 nm to about 670 nm, a visible wavelength range extending from about 420 nm to about 680 nm, an infrared wavelength range extending from about 850 nm to about 1600 nm, and for at least one of mutually orthogonal in-plane first and second polarization states: for an angle of incidence of less than about 10 degrees, the plurality of polymeric microlayers has an average optical transmittance of greater than about 60% in the visible wavelength range and an average optical transmittance of less than about 70% in the infrared wavelength range; and for an angle of incidence of at least about 70 degrees, the plurality of polymeric microlayers has an average optical transmittance of greater than about 50% in the red wavelength range.
Systems and techniques are described for detecting surface profile defects within a moving web. An example system includes a conveyor configured to translate the web, along a downweb direction and at a translation speed, relative to an inspection area; a point light source configured to emit light, wherein the point light source is positioned and oriented relative to the conveyor to illuminate a portion of the web positioned within the inspection area; a diffusing screen positioned and oriented relative to the conveyor to receive the light reflected from the web as the web is translated through the inspection area; an image capture device configured to capture images of the diffusing screen; and a computing device configured to: identify, based on the images, a surface profile defect in a surface of web; and output data indicating a relative location of the defect within the web.
G01N 21/89 - Investigating the presence of flaws, defects or contamination in moving material, e.g. paper, textiles
G01N 21/88 - Investigating the presence of flaws, defects or contamination
G01N 21/892 - Investigating the presence of flaws, defects or contamination in moving material, e.g. paper, textiles characterised by the flaw, defect or object feature examined
The present disclosure relates to a curable precursor of an adhesive composition, the curable precursor comprising a maleimide-terminated polyamide-imide polymer. The present disclosure further relates to an adhesive composition comprising a cured adhesive, wherein the cured adhesive is the reaction product of said curable precursor, and to a process for making said curable precursor of an adhesive composition, the process comprising reacting an amine-terminated polyamide with a bis-maleimide by a poly-Michael-Addition.
A shock absorber assembly (10, 10′, 10″) for a personal protective equipment and a deformable element (10a, 10a′, 10a″) for such a shock absorber assembly (10, 10′, 10″). The shock absorber assembly (10, 10′, 10″) comprises a deformable element; (10a, 10a′, 10a″) exhibiting a mechanical resistance against deformation and a flexible strap (16, 17) comprising a middle portion (16b) and two free end portions (16a) facing away from each other. The middle portion (16b) is tightly wrapped around the deformable element (10a, 10a′, 10a″) such that pulling the free end portions (16a) away from each other deforms the deformable element (10a, 10a′, 10a″). A protective helmet (100), a welding helmet (200), a face shield (400) or a respiratory device (300) comprising a hard shell (110, 210, 310, 410) and a shock absorber assembly (10, 10′, 10″) according to the present disclosure, wherein the hard shell (110, 210, 310, 410) of the protective helmet (100) comprises attachment means (130) for connecting the strap (16, 17) of the shock absorber assembly (10, 10′, 10″) to the hard shell (110, 210, 310, 410).
A system includes personal protective equipment (PPE) configured to be worn by an agent. The PPE includes a sensor assembly configured to generate sensor data including one or more of motion data, heading data, and inertial data. The system also includes at least one computing device configured to receive the sensor data from the sensor assembly. The at least one computing device is also configured to generate pose data of the agent based on the sensor data in response to a series of movements by the agent away from an arrival point. The pose data includes an agent location, an agent heading, and a movement activity type for each pose in a series of poses. The at least one computing device is further configured to generate a navigation path based on the pose data.
G01C 21/16 - NavigationNavigational instruments not provided for in groups by using measurement of speed or acceleration executed aboard the object being navigatedDead reckoning by integrating acceleration or speed, i.e. inertial navigation
Thermally de-bondable adhesives are formed from curable compositions that have a two-stage curing mechanism. The first stage of curing forms a pressure sensitive adhesive and the second stage of curing, reduces the adhesion of the adhesive. The curable composition includes a curable composition and a thermally de-bonding composition. The curable composition includes a first alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer with 4-12 carbon atoms, a second hydroxyl-functional (meth)acrylate monomer, a crosslinker, and an initiator. The thermally de-bonding composition includes a blocked multi-functional isocyanate, and a metal salt catalyst. The Peel Adhesion of the cured adhesive upon heating to at least 180° C. for 1 hour is reduced by at least 15%.
C09J 5/06 - Adhesive processes in generalAdhesive processes not provided for elsewhere, e.g. relating to primers involving heating of the applied adhesive
An air filter with an expandable pleated air filter media assembly and with first and second end frame pieces permanently attached to first and second ends of the pleated air filter media assembly; and, with first and second side frame pieces that are removably nested onto the first and second end frame pieces. The first and second side frame pieces can be removed from their nested positions on the first and second end frame pieces and mounted on first and second corrugated edges of the pleated air filter media assembly, whereupon the first and second side frame pieces, and the first and second end frame pieces, collectively form a perimeter support frame.
A computer-implemented method for evaluating a minimum clearance distance between a first conductive element and a second conductive element included in a printed circuit board (PCB) is provided. The PCB comprises a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of conductive elements, where each conductive layer comprises one or more conductive elements. The plurality of conductive layers comprises one or more outer conductive layers. The method comprises selecting a first conductive element (A) disposed on a first outer conductive layer and a second conductive element (B) disposed on a second outer conductive layer of the PCB, a clearance between which has a minimum spacing requirement. The method also comprises creating polygons of the first and second conductive elements, wherein a polygon of the first conductive element is A′ and a polygon of the second conductive element is B′. The method also comprises determining if there is at least one conductive layer disposed between A′ and B′. If no conductive layer is disposed between A′ and B′, then A″ and B″ are created on an evaluation layer. The method further comprises calculating a shortest unshielded distance (dxy) between A″ and B″. The method also comprises using a distance between the conductive layers (dz), and calculating a distance (d), wherein d=√{square root over (dxy2+dz2)}. If the calculated distance d is less than the minimum spacing requirement, a violation is indicated.
B32B 7/00 - Layered products characterised by the relation between layers Layered products characterised by the relative orientation of features between layers, or by the relative values of a measurable parameter between layers, i.e. products comprising layers having different physical, chemical or physicochemical properties Layered products characterised by the interconnection of layers
B32B 7/02 - Physical, chemical or physicochemical properties
B32B 7/12 - Interconnection of layers using interposed adhesives or interposed materials with bonding properties
B32B 17/10 - Layered products essentially comprising sheet glass, or fibres of glass, slag or the like comprising glass as the main or only constituent of a layer, next to another layer of a specific substance of synthetic resin
B60J 1/02 - WindowsWindscreensAccessories therefor arranged at the vehicle front
A fall-protection system including a harness and a fall-protection apparatus with a lifeline bearing a connector configured to be connected to the harness; and, a fall-protection monitoring system with a base unit and with at least one sensor module configured to sense a condition of the connector and to communicate a signal indicative of the condition of the connector to the base unit.
A62B 35/00 - Safety belts or body harnessesSimilar equipment for limiting displacement of the human body, especially in case of sudden changes of motion
B66F 17/00 - Safety devices, e.g. for limiting or indicating lifting force
G08B 7/06 - Signalling systems according to more than one of groups Personal calling systems according to more than one of groups using electric transmission
G08B 21/02 - Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
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PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT SAFETY SYSTEM USING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION FROM INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS
In some examples, a system includes an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) that includes a communication component; an industrial controller device that is configured to control an industrial device and includes a communication component; and a computing device communicatively coupled to the article of PPE and the industrial controller device, wherein the computing device is configured to: receive PPE data from the article of PPE and industrial controller data from the industrial controller device; determine, based at least in part on a set of the PPE data that temporally corresponds to a set of the industrial controller data, an occurrence of a safety event; and perform, based at least in part on the determination of the safety event, at least one operation.
A62B 99/00 - Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
G05B 19/042 - Programme control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers using digital processors
G06F 18/214 - Generating training patternsBootstrap methods, e.g. bagging or boosting
G06Q 10/0639 - Performance analysis of employeesPerformance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
G07C 1/10 - Registering, indicating, or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people together with the recording, indicating or registering of other data, e.g. of signs of identity
G08B 21/04 - Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons responsive to non-activity, e.g. of elderly persons
G16H 40/40 - ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilitiesICT specially adapted for the management or operation of medical equipment or devices for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
G16H 40/67 - ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilitiesICT specially adapted for the management or operation of medical equipment or devices for the operation of medical equipment or devices for remote operation
H04Q 9/00 - Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom
Organic light emitting diode (OLED) devices are disclosed that include a first layer; a backfill layer having a structured first side and a second side; a planarization layer having a structured first side and a second side; and a second layer; wherein the second side of the backfill layer is coincident with and adjacent to the first layer, the second side of the planarization layer is coincident with and adjacent to the second layer, the structured first side of the backfill layer and structured first side of the planarization layer form a structured interface, the refractive index of the backfill layer is index matched to the first layer, and the refractive index of the planarization layer is index matched to the second layer.
B32B 3/26 - Layered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shapeLayered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by a particular shape of the outline of the cross-section of a continuous layerLayered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shapeLayered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by a layer with cavities or internal voids
B82Y 40/00 - Manufacture or treatment of nanostructures
C03C 17/28 - Surface treatment of glass, e.g. of devitrified glass, not in the form of fibres or filaments, by coating with organic material
C03C 17/34 - Surface treatment of glass, e.g. of devitrified glass, not in the form of fibres or filaments, by coating with at least two coatings having different compositions
G03F 7/00 - Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printed surfacesMaterials therefor, e.g. comprising photoresistsApparatus specially adapted therefor
A method of making an article is described comprising providing a substrate; applying a primer layer to the substrate; wherein the primer layer comprises the reaction product of a polymerizable resin comprising at least one monomer with at least two ethylenically unsaturated groups; and applying a plurality of layers deposited by layer-by-layer self-assembly to the primer layer. An article is described comprising a substrate; a primer layer disposed on the substrate; wherein the primer layer comprises the reaction product of a polymerizable resin comprising at least one monomer with at least two ethylenically unsaturated groups; and an ionically bonded polymer matrix disposed on the primer layer.
C09D 4/00 - Coating compositions, e.g. paints, varnishes or lacquers, based on organic non-macromolecular compounds having at least one polymerisable carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bond
90.
UNSATURATED TRITHIOCYANURATE DERIVATIVES FOR CURABLE HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX COMPOSITIONS, ARTICLES THEREOF, AND METHODS OF MAKING SUCH ARTICLES
Described herein is a curable ink composition derived from at least one unsaturated trithiocyanurate derivative according to formula (I) wherein R1, R2, and R3 each independently comprise a terminal alkylene or a terminal alkyne; and at least one multifunctional thiol, wherein the curable ink composition is substantially free of solvent. These curable ink compositions can be inkjet printable and when cured have a refractive index of at least 1.70 (when measured at 450nm).
C09D 11/101 - Inks specially adapted for printing processes involving curing by wave energy or particle radiation, e.g. with UV-curing following the printing
91.
PAD CONDITIONING DISK WITH COMPRESSIBLE CIRCUMFERENTIAL LAYER
Pad conditioning disks are described. In particular, pad conditioning disks includes discrete abrasive elements and a circumferential compressible layer are described. When uncompressed, the maximum height of the circumferential compressible layer is greater than the maximum height of the discrete abrasive elements, which may provide more even wafer removal rates for in-situ polishing processes.
The present disclosure provides inventive nozzles and applicators for dispensing adhesive. These nozzle comprise: a main body cavity and a cap releasably attached to the main body cavity; wherein the cap includes spaced orifices for dispensing adhesive on an outer surface of a male pipe and a sleeve extending inwardly from the cap into the main body cavity; wherein the main body cavity includes a barrel portion, a funnel portion and a conduit, and wherein the sleeve is sized to accommodate the outer surface of a selected male pipe.
B05B 1/06 - Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to produce a jet, spray, or other discharge of particular shape or nature, e.g. in single drops in annular, tubular or hollow conical form
B05C 5/02 - Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work from an outlet device in contact, or almost in contact, with the work
C08K 5/5419 - Silicon-containing compounds containing oxygen containing at least one Si—O bond containing at least one Si—C bond
C09J 163/00 - Adhesives based on epoxy resinsAdhesives based on derivatives of epoxy resins
F16B 11/00 - Connecting constructional elements or machine parts by sticking or pressing them together, e.g. cold pressure welding
An antimicrobial article includes a supporting layer and an antimicrobial layer. The antimicrobial layer has a first major surface at least partially formed by a plurality of particles and a second major surface coupled to the supporting layer. Each particle of the plurality of particles is formed by a bead of nonconductive material. A first set of the particles include beads coated by a first conductive material.
Adhesive compositions including 20 wt. % to 80 wt. % of a polymer selected from the group consisting of a radial styrene-isoprene block copolymer, a radial styrene-butadiene block copolymer, and combinations thereof, and 3 wt. % to 80 wt. % of a liquid rubber having a molecular weight of 300 Daltons to 100,000 Daltons, where the liquid rubber is selected from the group consisting of an isoprene rubber, a butadiene rubber, and combinations thereof. Such adhesive compositions exhibit high cohesive integrity as well as high adhesion and peel properties.
C09J 4/06 - Adhesives based on organic non-macromolecular compounds having at least one polymerisable carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bond in combination with a macromolecular compound other than an unsaturated polymer of groups
C09J 5/00 - Adhesive processes in generalAdhesive processes not provided for elsewhere, e.g. relating to primers
Provided are crosslinkable compositions comprising a (meth)acrylate polymer, where the polymer has a glass transition temperature no greater than 30° C.; a crosslinking agent, the crosslinking agent comprising a photo-active Type II photoinitiator and a polymerizable group selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylate, allyl, and combinations thereof; and a UV absorbing material represented by the structure (I) where each of X1, X2, X3, and X4 is independently a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbyl group including 1 to 15 carbon atoms, preferably 12 carbon atoms, or a heterohydrocarbyl group including 1 to 15 carbon atoms, preferably 12 carbon atoms.
Provided are crosslinkable compositions comprising a (meth)acrylate polymer, where the polymer has a glass transition temperature no greater than 30° C.; a crosslinking agent, the crosslinking agent comprising a photo-active Type II photoinitiator and a polymerizable group selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylate, allyl, and combinations thereof; and a UV absorbing material represented by the structure (I) where each of X1, X2, X3, and X4 is independently a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbyl group including 1 to 15 carbon atoms, preferably 12 carbon atoms, or a heterohydrocarbyl group including 1 to 15 carbon atoms, preferably 12 carbon atoms.
A fiber optic ribbon is disclosed and includes a plurality of optical fibers extending along a first axis and arranged along an orthogonal second axis at a pitch P. Each optical fiber includes a core surrounded by a cladding surrounded by a buffer, the buffer has a nominal diameter D0 substantially equal to P. The buffer is stripped between a buffer-end location on the fiber and a free end of the fiber to form a stripped section. The buffer is distorted at the buffer-end location, such that at the buffer-end location, a width W of the buffer in the second axis is less than D0.
A substantially planar self-folding film assembly to generate a folded three-dimensional assembly. The assembly includes a flexible support substrate, adhesive elements, and folding members. The folding members include a base, a folding region, and a hinge adjacent each folding region attached at the base to the flexible support substrate by at least one of the adhesive elements. An array of polymer actuators is co-extensive, or shaped to be not co-extensive, with each of the flexible folding members. Upon activation by a patterned light to heat conversion layer, each polymer actuator is designed and configured to provide a displacement of the corresponding flexible folding member about each hinge.
B81C 1/00 - Manufacture or treatment of devices or systems in or on a substrate
B32B 7/12 - Interconnection of layers using interposed adhesives or interposed materials with bonding properties
B81B 3/00 - Devices comprising flexible or deformable elements, e.g. comprising elastic tongues or membranes
B81B 7/02 - Microstructural systems containing distinct electrical or optical devices of particular relevance for their function, e.g. microelectro-mechanical systems [MEMS]
A packaged abrasive article is presented that includes an abrasive article and an enclosure. The enclosure includes a plurality of surfaces, each surface comprising a multilayer barrier film. The multilayer barrier film has a puncture resistance of (20lbs; 88 Newtons) measured by Y. The multilayer barrier film has a MVTR less than 1.0 grams per meter squared per day measured according to ASTM F 1249 - 13. The multilayer barrier film comprises a first layer and a second layer. One of the plurality of surfaces is transparent. The enclosure comprises 20% post-consumer recycled material.
B32B 7/02 - Physical, chemical or physicochemical properties
B32B 3/02 - Layered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shapeLayered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by features of form at particular places, e.g. in edge regions
B32B 3/08 - Layered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shapeLayered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by features of form at particular places, e.g. in edge regions characterised by added members at particular parts
B32B 27/08 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin as the main or only constituent of a layer next to another layer of a specific substance of synthetic resin of a different kind
B32B 27/18 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin characterised by the use of special additives
A primer composition includes solvent, electrically conductive filler dispersed in the solvent, and a polymer at least one of dissolved or dispersed in the solvent. The polymer includes at least one of a polyurethane, polyacrylate, a polyamide, or a rubber. An adhesive system includes the electrically conductive composition and an electrically debonding adhesive including an ionic liquid. The use of the primer composition as a primer on an electrically nonconductive substrate in combination with an electrically debonding adhesive is also described. A method of making a bonded article and an article bonded with the adhesive system disclosed herein and/or made by the method disclosed herein are also described.
A connector assembly configured to mate with a mating connector along a mating direction is disclosed. The connector assembly includes a circuit board including a mating section including a plurality of electrically conductive mating pads and a cable section including pluralities of electrically conductive first, second, and third cable pads electrically connected to the mating pads. The connector assembly includes first, second, and third cable stacks. Each of the cable stacks is folded about a corresponding fold line of the cable stack that extends across the entire width of the cable stack to form a fold angle of less than about 30 degrees between first and second opposing portions of the cable stack at the fold line. The first portions extend along the mating direction and are arranged side-by-side in a substantially co-planar relationship to one another. The second portions extend substantially orthogonal to the mating direction.
H01R 12/79 - Coupling devices for flexible printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables or like structures connecting to rigid printed circuits or like structures
H01R 12/72 - Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures
H01R 12/65 - Fixed connections for flexible printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables or like structures characterised by the terminal
H01R 12/62 - Fixed connections for flexible printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables or like structures connecting to rigid printed circuits or like structures
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