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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
James Day, Scotia, NY (US);
Bhaskar Bhairavnath Idage, Pune, IN;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
528404 ; 528196 ; 528198 ;
Abstract
Amorphous precursor polycarbonates, such as oligomers, are converted to high molecular weight polycarbonates in a unitary series of operations that includes contact with an alkanol having a boiling point up to about 180.degree. C. and heating the resulting wetted particles so as to effect solid state polymerization. Heating is at progressively increasing temperatures from below the boiling point of the alkanol to a final level between the Tg and the melting temperature of said enhanced crystallinity polycarbonate.