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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:
Dec. 26, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Rose Ann Ryntz, Clinton Township, MI (US);
Assignee:
Visteon Global Technologies, Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08F / ; C08L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
525191 ; 525197 ; 525240 ;
Abstract
A painted thermoplastic olefin (TPO) comprising a blend of elastomer and polypropylene. The polypropylene has a number average molecular weight of about 35,000 to about 70,000 and a polypropylene percent crystallinity of about 45 to about 70%. The elastomer has a number average molecular weight of about 20,000 to about 60,000 and an elastomer crystallinity of about 14 to about 60%. The TPO has a polypropylene to elastomer viscosity ratio of about 0.2:1 to about 30:1.