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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 1980
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1978
Leon C Glover, Los Altos, CA (US);
Eugene F Lopez, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Raychem Corporation, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
An improved method for indicating the temperature to which a heat-deformable polymeric material coated with a thermochromic paint has been heated is disclosed. The improvement comprises the addition to the thermochromic paint of a non-thermochromic compound selected from the group consisting of the sulfates, hydrated sulfates and nitrides of boron, aluminum, tin, lead, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, zinc and phosphorus; the sulfides and hydrated sulfides of boron, aluminum, bismuth and phosphorus; the oxides and hydrated oxides of boron, arsenic, antimony and phosphorus and the salts, organic derivatives and free acids of the oxyanions of boron, arsenic, antimony and phosphorus.