Patent 5645939 Issued on July 8, 1997. Estimated Expiration Date: June 1, 2015. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
A surface-treated substrate consisting essentially of a substrate having at least two treated surface layers wherein the first layer constituting the outermost layer among the treated surface layers is a layer obtained by treatment with a compound (I) capable of forming a surface having a contact angle of at least 70° against water and the second layer constituting an underlayer in contact with the outermost layer is a layer obtained by treatment with at least one reactive silane compound (II) selected from the group consisting of isocyanate silane compounds and hydrolyzable silane compounds.