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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 1993
Filed:
Sep. 06, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard G Sinclair, Columbus, OH (US);
Joseph Preston, Radnor, OH (US);
Assignee:
BioPak Technology, Ltd., Golden, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08L / ; C08L / ; C08L / ; C08L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
524108 ; 524310 ; 524320 ; 525 92 ; 525186 ; 525190 ; 5253329 ; 5253331 ; 525386 ; 525411 ; 525415 ; 525437 ; 525450 ; 525454 ; 525938 ;
Abstract
An environmentally degradable composition comprises blends of a physical mixture of a poly(lactic acid), comprising about 1 to 99 weight percent of the composition, and an elastomeric blend compatible polymer, such as a segmented polyester, that provides improved impact resistance to the poly(lactic acid) and is discrete and intimately bound; plasticizer is added to the blend that is selected from the group consisting of lactide monomer, lactic acid oligomer, lactic acid, and mixtures thereof. Other plasticizer that may be added includes one or more derivatives of an oligomer of lactic acid, its esters and copolymer.