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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7442427 | Coextruded, hot-sealable and peelable polyester film, process for its production and its use This invention relates to coextruded, transparent, biaxially oriented polyester film comprising a base layer (B) and a heatsealable top layer (A) which is peelable from at least APET, the heatsealable and peelable top layer (A) consisting of a) 80-98% b... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7427430 | Polyamide blend composition having excellent gas barrier performance High gas barrier, delamination-resistant polyamide compositions suitable for extended shelf-life packaging applications are provided. Also provided are polyamide compositions exhibiting high oxygen scavenging capability. The polyamide compositions comprise mXDA-IPA ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7419726 | Gas barrier laminated film and a process for producing same Provided is a gas barrier laminated film having no fear of deterioration in transparency and excellent in transparency and gas barrier property at a high humidity as well as a process for producing same. The present invention is featured by a gas barrier laminated f... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7407699 | Extruded polypropylene sheets containing beta spherulites Improved extruded polypropylene sheets containing a high level of beta crystallinity and A process for making such sheets are disclosed herein. The polypropylene sheets comprise a resinous polymer of propylene and an effective amount of beta spherulites. Uniaxially ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7396587 | Black film comprised of thermoplastic polyester This invention relates to a single- or multilayer, oriented film formed from polyester and at least one inorganic black pigment. The inventive films include at least one layer which has, alongside polyester, an amount of from 0.5 to 75% by weight of particles incorp... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7396578 | Adhesion-promoted , heatsealable and peelable polyester film, process for its production and its use Coextruded, biaxially oriented polyester films which have a base layer (B) and have a heatsealable outer layer (A) that can be peeled from APET/CPET and from CPET, where the outer layer (A) includes a) from 60 to 99% by weight of polyester and ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7390575 | Propylene-ethylene random block copolymer and biaxially oriented multi-layer film using the same as a surface layer A polyolefin based biaxially oriented multi-layer film having at least one surface layer comprise of the propylene-ethylene random block copolymer; The propylene-ethylene random block copolymer obtained through sequential polymerization catalyzed by a metallo... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7390558 | Aliphatic polyester film and packaging material An aliphatic polyester film on which an inorganic gas-barrier film is formed by deposition to improve the gas barrier properties of the aliphatic polyester wherein the adhesion between the aliphatic polyester film and the deposited gas-barrier film has been improved... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7384690 | Biaxially oriented thermoplastic resin film In order to provide a film having excellent heat resistance, thermal dimensional stability, and mechanical properties, in particular, a film capable of satisfying required properties, e.g., higher strength in accordance with the reduction in thickness of a base film... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7384687 | Stretched resin film Disclosed is a stretched resin film comprising a layer (A) stretched in at least one axial direction and comprising 0 to 98 wt % of a polyolefinic resin, 2 wt % or more and less than 100 wt % of an amorphous resin and more than 0 wt % and 70 wt % or less of an inorg... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7378145 | Hot-embossable polyester film The present invention relates to a transparent, hot-embossable, biaxially oriented polyester film having a base layer (B), an amorphous outer layer (A) with a coating on this outer layer (A), and a crystalline outer layer (c). The invention further relates to the us... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7368160 | Packaging film A film of biodegradable polylactic acid polymers and copolymers is produced by coextrusion which displays improved winding and manufacturability and end use performance. The film is coextruded from polylactic acid (PLA) polymers and copolymers and biaxially oriented... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368165 | Process for the production of coated polymeric film A heat-sealable polymeric film includes a substrate layer of polymeric material having on a surface thereof a heat-sealable coating layer. The layer includes a copolyester and is less than 8 μm in thickness. The copolyester consists essentially of repeat units of o... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368161 | Color stable pigmented polymeric films Color-stable, pigmented optical bodies comprising a single or multiple layer core having at least one layer of a thermoplastic polymer material. The thermoplastic polymer material has dispersed within it a particulate pigment. The optical bodies generally possess hi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364786 | Biaxially oriented polyester film The biaxially oriented polyester film of the present invention contains a polyester having a primary melting point of 245 to 265° C. as the main component and exhibits a drop bag strength index at 0° C. of at least 2.0 and a strength at break in the film longitudi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364800 | Biaxially oriented polyester film with adhesion-promoting coating The invention relates to an in-line coated, biaxially oriented polyester film in which at least one surface has a coating formed from the dried residue of an aqueous coating composition, where the aqueous coating composition includes from 1 to 20% by weight (based o... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7344765 | Heat-shrinkable polyester film and heat-shrinkable label A heat-shrinkable polyester film having a multi-layer structure of at least two layers, among which at least one layer is a layer containing a PET bottle-recycled material, wherein a heat shrinkage percentage in a maximum shrinkage direction of a 10 cm square sample... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7344657 | Aromatic liquid-crystalline polyester composition and film of the same An aromatic liquid-crystalline polyester composition is provided, which comprises at least one compound selected from an aliphatic carboxylate aryl ester and an aromatic carboxylic anhydride; an aromatic liquid-crystalline polyester; and a solvent containing at leas... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7341792 | Biaxially oriented saturated polyester film, method of making the same, laminate of biaxially oriented saturated polyester film and method of making the same A biaxially oriented saturated polyester film made by a biaxial orientation method, includes a heat-seal side formed in at least one of two sides of the film, the heat-seal side being made by applying a low-temperature plasma treatment to a film surface so that the ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7329453 | White, heatsealable, peelable polyester film, process for its production and its use Coextruded, biaxially oriented polyester films which have a white base layer (B) and have a heatsealable outer layer (A) that can be peeled from APET/CPET and from CPET, where the outer layer (A) includes a) from 80 ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7323240 | Polypropylene-based wrap film An object of the invention is to provide a non-chlorine polypropylene wrap film excellent in adhesion, transparency, heat resistance, flexibility, gas barrier properties, touch and cutting properties, and disclosed is a polypropylene wrap film, a multilayer film hav... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318961 | Polyolefin film, tape or yarn The invention is directed to monoaxially drawn polyolefin multilayer film, tape or yarn of the AB or ABA type, having a stretch ratio of more than 12, having an E-modulus of at least 10 GPa, substantially consisting of a central layer (B) of a polyolefin selected fr... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7314905 | Drawn film and process for producing the same A film that has high rigidity and high heat resistance and good releasability from a roughened copper foil surface, which is subjected to surface oxidization or etching treatment with acid, such as a black oxidized copper foil surface and that is suitable as a relea... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7309740 | Biaxially oriented polypropylene film A biaxially stretched polypropylene film of the present invention has high stiffness in the film longitudinal direction and can be manufactured by a conventional longitudinal-transverse sequential biaxial stretching method, since the biaxially stretched polypropylen... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7306835 | Thermo-shrinkable polyester film The present invention relates to a thermo-shrinkable polyester film with a superior thermal shrinkage, which has an orientation angle of a molecular chain in a range of from 0° to about ±10° relative to a main shrinkage direction, and a molecular orientation rati... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7300703 | Heat-stabilised poly(ethylene naphthalate) film for flexible electronic and opto-electronic devices The use of a heat-stabilized, heat-set oriented film comprising poly(ethylene naphthalate) as a substrate in, or in the manufacture of, an electronic or opto-electronic device containing a conjugated conductive polymer, wherein said film has a shrinkage at 30 mins a... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7294396 | Adhesive tape having one side coated with an adhesive, and no surface treatment on the opposite side A self-adhesive tape comprising an oriented polyolefin film, one side of which is coated with an adhesive layer formed from a mixture of 30-65 wt. % of a natural rubber latex and 35-70 wt. % of an aqueous dispersion of a hydrocarbon resin, and the opposite side of w... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7285335 | Multilayer oriented antimicrobial and antifogging films Antimicrobial and antifogging polymeric films with preferable A/C/E structure useful for the food, medicine and agriculture applications as well as for other general packaging and non-traditional special applications. More preferably, antimicrobial and antifogging f... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7270723 | Microporous breathable elastic film laminates, methods of making same, and limited use or disposable product applications A breathable, elastic film/support layer laminate includes a thermoplastic elastomer film sheet of a thermoplastic elastomer and a filled semi crystalline predominantly linear polymer. The film includes between about 25 and 70 weight percent filler, between about 5 ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267884 | Ethylene copolymer-modified polyamide product Disclosed are films, tapes, and melt-spun fibers comprising or prepared from a composition comprising (a) at least one polyamide polymer; and (b) from about 0.1 to 20 weight % of at least one ethylene copolymer such as ethylene/vinyl acetate dipolymers, ethylene/vin... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7264884 | Barrier stretch film particularly for the packaging of food products and method for the production thereof A stretch film presenting controlled permeability to gases, manufactured by process of balloon co-extrusion and consisting of outer layers (S2) of stretchable polmeric material and by one or two inner barrier layers (S3) of a EVOH based polymeric matri... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261944 | Oriented, aminosilane-coated film capable of structuring by means of electromagnetic radiation and composed of thermoplastic polyester for the production of selectively metallized films The invention relates to a single- or multilayer, oriented, film coated with an aminosilane compound and composed of polyester which comprises an additive which, on irradiation with electromagnetic radiation, forms metal nuclei on which further metal can be deposite... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7252785 | Composition for producing a thermal insulation coating The invention relates to a composition for producing a heat-insulating coating comprising at least one radiation-absorbing compound and at least one IR-reflector component, to a heat-insulating coating comprising this oriented, cured composition, and to a process fo... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7247389 | Heat-shrinkable films A heat-shrinkable film includes outer layers containing a polyester resin, and at least one inner layer being arranged between the outer layers and containing an olefinic resin including at least one ethylene-propylene-butene terpolymer. The film has an interlayer b... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7244507 | Silicone-free multilayer shrink film for high speed packaging lines Multilayer shrink films and methods of making same that are substantially free of silicone. The multilayer shrink films of the invention are produced using film biaxial orienting means, have haze values of 5 or less and Young's modulus of 40,000 psi or greater and s... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7241507 | Hydrolysis-stable film comprising a polyester with a hydrolysis stabilizer and process for its production and its use The invention relates to a hydrolysis-stable polyester whose thickness is preferably in the range from 0.4 to 500 μm. The film comprises polyester and at least one hydrolysis stabilizer and is distinguished by its low hydrolysis rate. The invention furthermore rela... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7238411 | Multilayered polyester film and process for producing the same The present invention is a multilayer polyester film comprising a layer A and a layer B which are laminated alternately, the layer A constituting the outermost layer on both sides of the film, wherein (1) the layer A comprises a polyester A, and the layer B comprise... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238417 | Transparent film made from PET and PEN with UV protection, process for producing the film, and use of the film in packaging with extended shelf life The invention relates to a polyester film with a thickness of from about 4 to about 23 μm, which comprises, alongside polyethylene terephthalate as main constituent, from about 2 to about 20% by weight of polyethylene naphthalate (based on the weight of the film), ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238419 | White opaque film having low transparency and improved dielectric strength The invention relates to a white opaque film formed from a crystallizable thermoplastic, preferably thermo-plastic polyester in the form of polyethylene terephthalate, barium sulfate and titanium dioxide as pigments, at least one optical brightener, and optionally a... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7229696 | Multilayer, transparent film made from PET and PEN with at least one functional outer layer for producing composite packaging with UV resistance The invention relates to an at least two-layer polyester film with a total thickness of from about 5 to about 200 μm which comprises polyethylene terephthalate and from about 2 to about 20% by weight—based on the weight of the entire film—of polyethylene naphth... | 06/12/2007 |