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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1998
Terry Finerman, Akron, OH (US);
Maria D. Ellul, Silver Lake Village, OH (US);
Sabet Abdou-Sabet, Akron, OH (US);
Sudhin Datta, Houston, TX (US);
Avi Gadkari, Houston, TX (US);
Other;
Abstract
Random propylene thermoplastic copolymers can be used to increase the elongation to break and toughness of thermoplastic vulcanizates. Semi-crystalline polypropylene is a preferred thermoplastic phase. The rubber can be olefinic rubbers. Random thermoplastic polypropylene copolymers are different from conventional Ziegler-Natta propylene copolymers as the compositional heterogeneity of the copolymer is greater with Ziegler-Natta copolymers. This difference results in substantial differences in properties (elongation to break and toughness) between thermoplastic vulcanizates modified with random thermoplastic propylene copolymers and those modified with conventional Ziegler-Natta propylene copolymers. An increase in elongation to break results in greater extensibility in the articles made from a thermoplastic vulcanizate.