Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Saint-gobain Performance Plastics Corporation

Kevin George Hetzler

Thea E Lubrecht

Ann Louise McCormack

Roger Groskopf

Rob Lee Jacobs

Viktor Skatchkov

Michael Tod Morman

Susan Elaine Shawver

Peter Michailovich Kobylivker

Lavada Campbell Boggs

Glynis Allicia Walton

Glen Thomas Mildenhall

Dan Kenneth Schiffer

Vasily Aramovich Topolkaraev

Charles John Morell

Gwo S Swei

Gunilla Elsa Gillberg-LaForce

Lance James Garrett, Jr

Karen Lynn English

Alexander Tukachinsky

Xixian Zhou

Paul W Ortiz

Billy Ray Jones, Jr

Sandy Chi-Ching Tan

Kevin Matthew Harrington

Sandy Chi-Ching Ying

Gordon Vincent Sharps, Jr

Boris M Friedman

Wiliam Bela Haffner

Gwo Shin Swei

A multilayer polymer film includes first and second polymer layers. The first polymer layer includes a first ultraviolet radiation absorber. The second polymer layer overlies the first polymer layer and includes a second ultraviolet radiation absorber. The first ultraviolet radiation absorber has a peak absorbtivity wavelength less than 300 nm and the second ultraviolet radiation absorber has a peak absorbtivity wavelength greater than 300 nm.

Weatherable multilayer film

A method of fusing a component to a sterilized storage or delivery device formed of a cyclic olefin polymer which includes forming the storage or delivery device from a cyclic olefin polymer, forming a second member or component having at least a surface layer formed of the second polymer, wherein the Hansen relative energy distance Ra/Ro of the second polymer relative to the cyclic olefin polymer is equal to or less than 0.7, applying the second member to the storage or delivery device, and heating the assembly to the sterilization temperature, thereby causing the second polymer to chemically interact with the cyclic olefin polymer, fusing the second component to the storage or delivery device. The preferred embodiment of the invention is a medical container, such as a vial, wherein the vial is formed of a cyclic olefin polymer and the cap, closure or collar is formed of a second polymer heat fused to the vial or container.

Method of fusing a component to a medical storage or transfer device and container assembly

Aspects of the invention are found in a multilayer film comprising a first polymer layer and a second polymer layer. The first polymer layer comprises a blend of a first fluoropolymer having a first average molecular weight and a second fluoropolymer having a second average molecular weight. The first average molecular weight is greater than the second average molecular weight.

Draw resonance resistant multilayer films

The disclosure is directed to a polymer film including a first layer and a second layer. The first layer includes a first fluoropolymer and has a melting point less than 135&#xb0; C. The second layer overlies the first layer and includes a second fluoropolymer. The second layer has a melting point greater than 135&#xb0; C.

Multi-layer polymer film

The disclosure is directed to a multilayer film including a first layer and a second layer. The first layer has a fluorinated polymer. The second layer has a melt strain-hardening component and forms no more than about 30% by volume of the multilayer film.

Draw resonant resistant multilayer films

Method of fusing a component to a medical storage of transfer device and container assembly

Composite nonwoven webs are provided having two distinct regions extending adjacent one another in the machine direction of the web; the first region is formed from first continuous filaments and the second region is formed from second continuous filaments. The interface of the first and second region is formed from a mixture the first and second continuous filaments in a confluent relationship with one another and such that the two distinct regions form a unitary nonwoven web. The respective first and second regions can have distinct physical attributes as a result of utilizing first and second filaments which are different from one another. The first and second continuous filaments can vary with respect to average fiber denier, cross-sectional shape, cross-sectional configuration, polymer composition, crimp level, and additive composition.

Regionally distinct nonwoven webs

A medical transfer or storage device for delivery or storage of a medicament, drug or vaccine, wherein a first component, preferably the major component, is formed of a cyclic olefin polymer, and a second component in contact with the first component is formed of a second polymer which does not chemically interact with the cyclic olefin polymeric component at elevated temperatures, including sterilization. More specifically, the relative energy distance Ra/Ro of the polymer selected for the second component relative to the cyclic olefin polymer is greater than 0.75 and the molecular weight of the second polymer is at least 5,000 to prevent adhesion of the second component to the cyclic olefin component and stress cracking at elevated temperatures. The most preferred embodiment is a syringe assembly having a cyclic olefin polymeric barrel and a resilient stopper formed of the second polymer.

Sterilizable transfer or storage device for medicaments, drugs and vaccines

Disclosed herein is a low gauge, multilayer film which may be laminated to other materials such as, for example, fibrous nonwoven webs. The multilayer film may include one or more skin layers which in certain configurations comprise no more than about 15 percent of the overall thickness and in other configurations no more than about 10 percent of the overall thickness of the multilayer film. Such films and laminates have a wide variety of uses including, but not limited to, personal care absorbent products, articles of clothing and health care related items such as surgical drapes and gowns.

Low gauge films and film/nonwoven laminates

A breathable film having improved processing properties and reduced cost includes a breathable film-forming layer composition including a matrix polymer, a particulate organic filler, and a compatibilizer. The particulate organic filler is incompatible with the matrix polymer and tends to agglomerate when mixed with the matrix polymer alone. The compatibilizer achieves thermodynamic equilibrium between the matrix polymer and filler within a defined filler particle size range suitable for producing stretched breathable film. The film processes more easily than breathable films containing inorganic fillers, and is less expensive to manufacture.

Breathable film having organic filler

Unitary films are provided having at least first and second film segments which extend adjacent one another and are permanently joined together. The first and second segments have different compositions whereby the unitary film includes distinct segments having varied physical properties such as, for example, varied levels of high water-vapor transmission rates and/or elasticity. The unitary films and laminates thereof are well suited for use as outer covers in personal care articles and various other barrier articles.

Segmented conformable breathable films

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Sparta, NJ, United States of America

Kevin George Hetzler