Thermoplastic vulcanizates with improved mechanical properties
US7858689B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 12, 2007 |
| Grant date | Dec 28, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 24, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC08L2312/08
- WIPO fieldMacromolecular chemistry, polymers
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A thermoplastic vulcanizate comprising a dynamically-cured rubber, where the rubber is selected from the group consisting of ethylene-propylene-non-conjugated diene rubber, propylene-based rubbery copolymers with units derived from non-conjugated diene monomers, butyl rubber and styrene-butadiene rubber, where dynamic vulcanization is effected with a phenolic resin or a silicon-containing curative, and where the rubber is dynamically cured to an extent where greater than 94% by weight of the rubber is insoluble in cyclohexane at 23° C., and from about 25 to about 250 parts by weight of a thermoplastic polymer phase per 100 parts by weight rubber, where about 85% to about 50% by weight of the thermoplastic polymer phase includes a propylene-based polymer, and where from about 15% to about 50% by weight of the thermoplastic polymer phase includes a butene-1-based polymer.
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