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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1996
Gautam Ambalal Patel, Clifton Park, NY (US);
James Edward Pickett, Schenectady, NY (US);
Gregory Ronald Gillette, Clifton Park, NY (US);
George Frederic Medford, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides the discovery of an improved radiation curable coating composition comprising at least one acrylic monomer, a photoinitiator, and an ultraviolet light absorber selected from triazine or a dibenzoyl resorcinol derivative or a mixture thereof, the dibenzoyl resorcinol derivative having the formula ##STR1## where Ar and Ar' are independently substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic or polycyclic aryl groups and R' is H or a linear or branched alkyl chain having less than about 10 carbons bearing a --Si(OR.sup.2).sub.3, where R.sup.2 is a C.sub.1 to C.sub.6 alkyl group.