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May 05, 2013 - UV Crosslinkable Hot Melt PUR Adhesive - Patent
This invention describes a radiation-crosslinkable hot-melt adhesive containing more than 50% of polyurethane polymers which contains at least one...
Feb 10, 2013 - Non-MDI Moisture Cure Hot melt Adhesive for Bookbinding - Patent
The present invention relates to new improved adhesives for binding books and related articles and the production of such adhesives. In particular,...
Feb 02, 2013 - Heat sealable label for in-mold molding. - Patent
This invention describes a label for in-mold molding. It comprises a laminate film comprising a substrate layer (A) and a heat-sealable resin layer...
Sep 19, 2012 - Air-assisted Dispensing Systems for Hot melt Adhesives - Patent
This invention describes systems for dispensing heated liquids, such as hot melt adhesives, with the assistance of process air. The dispensing system...
Sep 01, 2012 - An Overview of the Science and Technology of Adhesives - Technical Paper
This chapter presents an overview of the science and technology of adhesives and sealants. The chapter describes the chemistry of pressure-sensitive...
Jul 28, 2012 - Moisture-curable HMA for Integrated Circuit Smart Cards - Patent
Provided in this invention is a moisture-curing hot melt adhesive, which has superior overall performance, including heat resistance, adhesiveness,...
Jun 30, 2012 - Peelable Thermoplastic Sealant for Packaging Film - Patent
A peelable sealing structure includes a sealing layer and one or more optional additional layers. The peelable sealing structure includes a sealing...
Jun 10, 2012 - Olefin Interpolymers for Hot-melt Adhesives - Patent
The invention relates to an ethylene/α-olefin interpolymer product comprising at least one α-olefin interpolymerized with ethylene and, characterized...
May 04, 2012 - Hot melt adhesive pad for polishing monocrystalline silicon. - Technical Paper
This study has developed a new polishing pad and an accompanying group of parameters for polishing monocrystalline silicon. A hot melt adhesive...
Jan 01, 2012 - Polyolefin Fuel Cell Adhesive for Cell Stack Manufacture - Patent
A fuel cell stack typically comprises a series of fuel cell stack components which are stacked face-to-face in a particular order to form multiple...
Oct 31, 2011 - Bi-layer Adhesive for Laminating Optical Lens - Patent
This invention describes a method for laminating a film onto an optical article and a bi-layer adhesive for use in the method. The bi-layer adhesive...
Jul 09, 2011 - Peelable Thermoplastic Sealants in Packaging Films - Patent
A peelable sealing structure includes a sealing layer and one or more optional additional layers. The peelable sealing structure includes a sealing...
Apr 23, 2011 - Hot Melt Composition for Temporary Wafer Bonding - Patent
New compositions and methods of using cyclic olefins as bonding compositions are provided in this patent application. The compositions comprise a...
Apr 09, 2011 - Biodegradable Hot Melt Adhesives - Patent
The invention is directed to a method for preparing an environmentally degradable polymeric compound as well as to such a compound per se and to its...
Apr 02, 2011 - Use of hot melt system for the assembly of microsystems. - Technical Paper
Adhesive bonding is gaining importance as a key technology for precision engineering and microsystem technology. New packaging and bonding processes...
Feb 27, 2011 - Hot Melt Materials for Sealing a Solar Battery - Patent
A solar battery is a power generation system which converts light energy into electricity. A solar battery is manufactured by protecting a solar...
Feb 19, 2011 - Hot melt laminating adhesives having an extended open time. - Patent
This invention relates to hot melt adhesive compositions which comprise at least one thermoplastic, silane-grafted poly-alpha-olefin which is solid at...
Jan 08, 2011 - Non-woven material useful for acoustic ceiling tiles. - Patent
A non-woven material that can be formed into an acoustic ceiling tile is described. The material includes a substantially planar and self-supporting...
Nov 29, 2010 - Method for forming a thermofusable textile fabric. - Patent
A method for forming a thermofusible sheet material is described. It includes providing a backing ply of textile material and applying a mixture of a...
Oct 13, 2011 - Renewable Hot melt is Kinder to Environment and Skin - Patent
Hydrogenated palm-oil plasticisers can enable hot-melt adhesives offering both more renewable content and lower energy use than conventional products....
Sep 08, 2011 - Vegetable Wax Promises Renewable Hotmelt Enhancements - Patent
Researchers in the US claim to have overcome the drawbacks associated with renewable waxes used in hot melt adhesives with an enhanced production...
Jul 23, 2011 - Hot melt sealing glass compositions. - Patent
This invention describes hot-melt sealing glass compositions that include one or more glass frits dispersed in a polymeric binder system. The...
Jun 06, 2011 - Bookbinding Adhesive Processes Used for Paperback Books - Technical Paper
The major commercial bookbinding technique in use today is perfect binding (or adhesive binding). This process was originally used for paperback...
Jun 06, 2011 - Method of Attaching a Solar Module to a Substrate - Patent
A method of attaching a solar module to a substrate includes first applying an adhesive to the substrate. The adhesive is preferably a liquid or hot...
May 30, 2011 - Polyamide Hot Melts Combine Open Time and Strength - Patent
Researchers at adhesive giant Henkel have developed hot melt adhesives with both increased open time and mechanical strength – two properties where...
Apr 28, 2011 - Plant-polymer Adhesives Allow Green Diapers - Patent
Adhesives made from corn starch or fermented sugars and fats can help raise the “green” material content of diapers above 50 per cent. While...
Jan 08, 2011 - Styrene butadiene copolymers with high cohesive values. - Patent
The invention refers to styrene butadiene copolymers (SBR) that are prepared using aqueous emulsion polymerization technology and are intended for the...
Sep 20, 2010 - Cross-link control improves blood adhesives - Patent
Changing how polymers are made from blood could allow cheaper thermoplastic protein-based adhesives, scientists in New Zealand have found. Soy-based...
Sep 05, 2010 - Heat sealable polyurethane compositions. - Patent
Many polyurethane foams are severely restricted in certain applications since they are unsuitable for heat bonding. This invention attempts to...
Sep 05, 2010 - Radio frequency heating to bond two materials. - Patent
A method is described for bonding two materials that uses radio frequency (RF) energy to swiftly induce heat in a high permeability material. This...
Aug 22, 2010 - Heat activated adhesives for bag closures. - Patent
A polymeric woven bag has a first panel and a second panel and an open end of the bag to be pinched closed. A first layer of heat activated adhesive...
Jul 25, 2010 - Microelectronic assembly using hot melt adhesive processes. - Technical Paper
The production of 3D MEMS and MOEMS is carried out using hybrid integration of single components. In this field adhesive bonding is one of the major...
Jul 15, 2010 - Three-polymer adhesive strengthens flexible wiring boards - Patent
Hitachi Chemical researchers have created a flexible wiring board adhesive that combines polyamide, polyimide, and epoxy chemistries to provide...
May 29, 2010 - Fast setting hot melt adhesive for roll-applied labels. - Patent
Disclosed are hot melt adhesives prepared from aromatic-aliphatic polyesters containing terephthalic acid in combination with adipic acid, glutaric...
May 15, 2010 - Hot melt adhesive laminating film. - Patent
The invention comprises a film useful as a laminating adhesive, a composition useful to make the film, and a laminate comprising the film with at...
May 03, 2010 - Renewable material enhances hot-melt performance - Patent
Scientists at French chemical company Arkema are set to overturn the poor-quality perception of hot-melt adhesives made from renewable feedstocks by...
Apr 23, 2010 - Hot melt adhesive for nonwoven hygienic articles. - Patent
An adhesive composition is described that is particularly useful for application to the plastic nonwoven materials used in personal hygienic articles....
Mar 29, 2010 - Renewable hotmelts enable non-deforming laminates - Patent
Laminate structures assembled without the use of any solvent can withstand wide temperature variations over a long period of time without their shape...
Feb 19, 2010 - Method of sealing seams on an asphalt road. - Patent
This invention describes a seam sealer for sealing seams in an asphalt paving operation. The sealer has electric heaters and heats a seam area that...
Feb 01, 2010 - Lactic acid polyol improves polyurethane properties - Patent
Japanese researchers have applied to patent a way to readily produce renewable polyurethane adhesives that are strong and flexible. Osaka University,...
Jan 25, 2010 - Renewable laminates exploit hotmelts and polyurethanes - Patent
Careful choice of adhesives can help completely avoid concerns around the toxicity of PVC and phenol-formaldehyde wood glue used to produce...
Jan 23, 2010 - Sealing of components for use in solar cells. - Patent
Thermoplastic resin composition for sealing of solar cell components was derived from propylene based polymers and other components. The...
Nov 28, 2009 - Method for producing a heat sealable label. - Patent
This patent describes a method of producing a heat sealable label. The label consists of a textile substrate which is made of synthetic polymeric...
Nov 14, 2009 - Polyalphaolfefin adhesives with long open time. - Patent
This invention describes hot melt adhesive compositions that are suitable for laminating adhesives and have a long open time even in thin layers. ...
Oct 05, 2009 - Information on the adhesives industry in China. - Technical Paper
The article offers information on the adhesives industry in China for the year 2007. Sales of various adhesive sand sealants rose by 12.76% over...
Sep 10, 2009 - In-line bonding accelerates RFID manufacturing - Patent
Manufacturing equipment supplier Hallys Corporation has applied to patent a method to reduce the number of production lines needed in assembling...
Aug 29, 2009 - Bonding polytetrafluoroethylene substrates with a hot melt. - Patent
Hot melt adhesives described in this patent include a thermoplastic terpolymer of vinylidene fluoride, tetrafluoroethylene and hexafluoropropylene and...
Aug 08, 2009 - Heat sealable wrapper for paper. - Patent
When a wrapper is formed around a ream of paper, the inner layer overlaps and contacts the outer layer along a longitudinal seam. The polyethylene...
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Aug 08, 2009 - Nanocomposite heat sealants for peelable easy-open packaging. - Technical Paper
A novel heat sealing performance is achieved by polyethylene nanocomposites reinforced by ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) and montmorillonite (MMT). ...
Jun 13, 2009 - Method of dispensing precise amount of hot melt adhesive. - Patent
An apparatus and method for dispensing controlled precise amounts of hot melt adhesive is disclosed. A positive displacement dispenser which is...
Jun 07, 2009 - Additives for pressure sensitive hot melt adhesives. - Conference
Fumed metal oxides and silanes have long been known to improve the performance of chemically curing and solvent based adhesives and sealants. This...
Jun 07, 2009 - An adhesive that is released by microwave oven energy. - Patent
A method is described in this patent for a hot melt adhesive that can be released (unbonded) by microwave heating. The adhesive is based on...
Jun 07, 2009 - Building filters in-situ. - Patent
Oil is often filtered through gravel packs to remove particulates during a pumping operation. Some 40% of the world’s reservoirs require filtration. ...
Jun 07, 2009 - Hot melt adhesive for zipper flanges in packaging. - Patent
This disclosure relates to the use of two adhesive layers for the attachment of zipper flanges to reclosable packages. A first adhesive is typically...
