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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:
Aug. 01, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., Hyogo-ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B / ; A63B / ; C08L / ; C08J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
525192 ; 525197 ; 525194 ; 5253319 ; 5253299 ; 473378 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a thermoplastic elastomer composition having characteristics of both thermoplastic resin and rubber, and a golf ball using the thermoplastic elastomer composition as the cover. The thermoplastic elastomer composition of the present invention comprises a thermoplastic resin and crosslinked diene rubber particles having an average diameter of not more than 10 .mu.m dispersed in the thermoplastic resin, which is prepared by dynamic crosslinking diene rubber dispersed in the thermoplastic resin with crosslinking agent.