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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joseph D. Lichtenhan, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Jeffrey W. Gilman, Mt. Airy, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08F 8/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C08F 8/00 ;
Abstract
An ecological fire retardant blend of thermoplastics is provided. That is, to one or more organic polymers is added one or more preceramic oligomers or preceramic polymers to provide a blend of polymers of reduced flammability which do not significantly increase the levels of smoke, carbon monoxide or other toxics during combustion. In one example a preceramic polymer, eg. a polysilane resin is added to a polyolefin to provide an ecological fire retardant blend per the invention.