Dow Corning Toray Silicone Company Limited

Dow Corning Toray Company, Ltd.

Itn Energy Systems, Inc.

Hidekatsu Hatanaka

Koji Nakanishi

Yoshitsugu Morita

Haruhiko Furukawa

Hiroshi Ueki

Seiji Hori

Koji Shiromoto

Masayuki Onishi

Hiroji Enami

Harumi Kodama

Bizhong Zhu

Dimitris Katsoulis

Michitaka Suto

Toshio Saruyama

Joseph H Armstrong

Maki Itoh

Lawrence M Woods

Thomas Duncan Barnard

Herschel Henry Reese

Yukinari Harimoto

Nicole Anderson

Noriyuki Suganuma

Rosine M Ribelin

In an embodiment, one reinforced substrate for use in a photovoltaic device includes a polymer base material and a reinforcing structure bonded with the base material. The reinforced substrate presents a surface in a condition that is made-ready for deposition of thin film layers of the photovoltaic device. A thin film photovoltaic device includes the reinforced substrate, a back contact layer formed on the surface of the reinforced substrate, and a solar absorber layer formed on the back contact layer. A plurality of thin film photovoltaic devices may be formed on a common reinforced substrate. A process of producing a reinforced substrate includes combining a fluid base material and a fiber reinforcing structure to form an impregnated fiber reinforcement. The impregnated fiber reinforcement is cured to form the reinforced substrate, and the reinforced substrate is annealed.

Reinforcing structures for thin-film photovoltaic device substrates, and associated methods

A room-temperature-curable organopolysiloxane composition comprising:

Room-temperature-curable organopolysiloxane composition

A flame-retardant thermoplastic resin composition comprising (A) 100 weight parts of a thermoplastic resin, (B) 10 to 300 weight parts of particulate metal hydroxide; (C) 0.01 to 50 weight parts of a branched polyorganosiloxane having alkoxy groups and described by average unit formula R (R O) SiO , where R and R are monovalent hydrocarbon groups selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkenyl, and aryl groups, a is 0 or a positive number; b is a positive number; and a&plus;b is a number from 0.75 to 2.5; (D) 0.01 to 50 weight parts of a branched polyorganosiloxane having silanol groups and described by average unit formula R (HO) SiO , where R is a monovalent hydrocarbon group selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkenyl, and aryl groups, a is 0 or a positive number, b is a positive number, and a&plus;b is a number from 0.75 to 2.5; and (E) 0.01 to 10 weight parts of a condensation reaction promoting catalyst. The present invention further relates to a method for manufacturing the flame-retardant thermoplastic resin composition.

Flame-retardant thermoplastic resin composition and manufacturing method thereof

Flame retardant organic resin composition

Flame-retardant polyolefin-type resin composition, method for the preparation thereof, and flame retardant cables

A room-temperature-curable silicone elastomer composition obtained from diorganopolysiloxane that is endblocked by silanol at both molecular chain terminals and diorganopolysiloxane that is endblocked at one molecular chain terminal by silanol and at the other terminal by trialkylsiloxy; an alkoxy functional silane; an organopolysiloxane resin; a curing catalyst; and a diorganopolysiloxane that contains at least 2 carboxyl groups. The room-temperature-curable silicone elastomer composition has an excellent pre-cure workability and cures into a low-modulus, high-elongation silicone elastomer.

Room-temperature-curable silicone elastomer composition

A room temperature curing silicone elastomer composition with superior workability before curing which forms a silicone elastomer of a low modulus and high elongation after curing. A room temperature curing silicone elastomer composition prepared from a diorganopolysiloxane having both terminals of the molecular chains blocked by silanol groups, a diorganopolysiloxane having one terminal of the molecular chain blocked by a silanol group and the other terminal blocked by a trialkylsiloxy group, (B) an organosilane, (C) an organopolysiloxane resin, (D) a curing catalyst and (E) a higher fatty acid.

Room temperature curing silicone elastomer composition

A room temperature-curing silicone elastomer composition which has excellent workability before curing and forms a silicone elastomer after curing which exhibits low modulus and high elongation. This composition contains a hydroxyl-capped polydiorganosiloxane, a siloxane chain extender of the formula

Room temperature-curing silicone elastomer composition

A room-temperature-curable organopolysiloxane composition having a highly durable adhesion that bonds well to various substrates, e.g. glass, plastics, and metals, through contact-curing and exhibits an excellent early-cure adhesiveness and that cures to give a silicone rubber that is highly water-resistant and exhibits long-term retention of its bonding strength even in hostile ambients, e.g. immersion in hot water, comprises a composition of a hydroxyl-terminated or alkoxy-terminated organopolysiloxane, an inorganic filler, a rosin ester in which the ester is a polyol, a reaction mixture from aminoalkylalkoxysilane and epoxyalkylalkoxysilane, and a curing catalyst.

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Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Hidekatsu Hatanaka