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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2000
Rainer von Fragstein, 83512 Wasserburg, DE;
Wolfgang Buerger, 81825 München, DE;
Rudolf Steffl, 87466 Oy-Mittelberg, DE;
Wolfgang Zehnder, 85551 Kirchheim, DE;
Other;
Abstract
This invention provides air impermeable liquid-water resistant water-vapor-permeable composites that are highly oleophobic and some of which have enhanced water-vapor-permeable properties. In its broadest aspect, the composites comprise: a layer of a microporous polymer that is water-vapor permeable and which is oleophobic, and which is liquid water-resistant. This layer is in contact with an air-impermeable, liquid water resistant, polymer layer that is permeable to water-vapor molecules. The oleophobic microporous polymer layer confers enhanced oleophobicity. In another aspect, a third layer of a microporous, water vapor permeable polymer can also be present on the other side of the air-impermeable polymer layer.