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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2011
Applicants:
Mark Hartmann, Boulder, CO (US);
David E. Henton, Jackson, WY (US);
Inventors:
Mark Hartmann, Boulder, CO (US);
David E. Henton, Jackson, WY (US);
Assignee:
Outlast Technologies LLC, Golden, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 3/00 (2006.01); B32B 5/02 (2006.01); B32B 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In accordance with one aspect a temperature regulating article comprises a substrate and a polymeric phase change material bound to the substrate, wherein the polymeric phase change material is characterized by including a precisely branched polymer with substantially equally spaced repeating sidechains. In other embodiments the polymeric phase change material includes between 20 and 200 branches per 1000 carbon units, has a latent heat of at least 5 Joules per gram, and a transition temperature between 0° C. and 40° C.