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Energy absorbing blends

US8387170B2 · kind B2 · utility

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24References

38Claims

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Assignee

Design Blue Ltd. · GB

Inventors

Philip Charles Green · Stevenage, GB
Richard Martin Palmer · Hemel Hempstead, GB

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 8, 2009
Grant date	Mar 5, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 8, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC08L2207/066
WIPO fieldMacromolecular chemistry, polymers
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A composite material which is elastic, which exhibits a resistive load under deformation which increases with the rate of deformation, which is unfoamed or foamed, comminuted or uncomminuted and which comprises i) a first polymer-based elastic material and ii) a second polymer-based material, different from i), which exhibits dilatancy in the absence of i) wherein ii) is entrapped in a solid matrix of i), the composite material being unfoamed or, when foamed, preparable by incorporating ii) with i) prior to foaming.

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