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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 1999
Filed:
May. 20, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary E Spilman, Evansville, IN (US);
Eric T Gohr, Evansville, IN (US);
David A Bradley, Evansville, IN (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Pittsfield, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
528196 ; 525461 ; 528198 ;
Abstract
An aromatic polycarbonate composition having less than 400 parts per billion each of ionic impurities, particularly sulfate, chloride and fluoride ions prepared by devolatilizing the ionic impurities from a polycarbonate composition employing an aqueous medium of about 1% by weight based on the weight of the polycarbonate composition. Preferably the devolatilizing is carried out in an extruder during compounding the polycarbonate composition and preferably under a vacuum. Also, the extruded strands of polycarbonate resin are quenched in a deionized water bath.