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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2000
Niles Richard Rosenquist, Evansville, IN (US);
Rajendra Kashinath Singh, Evansville, IN (US);
Jeffrey Hayward Wengrovius, Scotia, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Pittsfield, MA (US);
Abstract
Improved fire-retarded properties can be imparted to polycarbonate resin composition by incorporating into the polycarbonate a fire-retardant component containing a perfluoroallkane sulfonate such as potassium perfluorobutane sulfonate and a cyclic siloxane such as octaphenylcyclotetrasiloxane. The fire-retardant component is suitably added at levels to form a polycarbonate composition in which the perfluoroalkane sulfonate is present in an amount of from 0.02 to 0.1 phr relative to the composition as a whole, and the cyclic siloxane is present in an amount of at least 0.02 relative to the composition as a whole.