General Electric Company

Katsuhisa Kumagai

Robert Hossan

Geoffrey Henry Riding

Kim G Balfour

Stephen Shuler

Frank Robert Mooijman

Alok Nanda

Takaaki Nemoto

A D Shaleena

A poly(arylene ether)/polystyrene blend may be prepared by melt kneading a carboxylic acid compound, a poly(arylene ether), and a polystyrene to form an intimate blend, and steam stripping the intimate blend, where melt kneading is conducted with a specific energy consumption of about 0.1 to about 0.3 kilowatt-hour per kilogram of blend. The method allows the formation of an intimate resin blend while minimizing the styrene monomer content of the final blend.

Method of reducing the styrene content of a poly(arylene ether)/polystyrene blend, and articles comprising the resulting thermoplastic resin

A bumper system for an automobile vehicle includes, in an exemplary embodiment, a first beam configured to attached to the vehicle and a first energy absorber coupled to the first beam. The first energy absorber is tunable for meeting predetermined criteria for both low speed and pedestrian impacts, and includes a plurality of tunable lobes. The lobes are tuned so that a stiffness of the first energy absorber varies from a center of the first energy absorber to each end.

Bumper assembly including twin energy absorbers

Growing community of inventors

Funabashi, Japan

Katsuhisa Kumagai