Abstract:
A light splitting optical module that converts incident light into electrical energy, the module including a solid optical element comprising an input end for receiving light, a first side, and a second side spaced from the first side, a first solar cell adjacent to the first side of the solid optical element, and a second solar cell adjacent to the second side of the solid optical element. The first solar cell is positioned to absorb a first subset of incident light and reflect a first remainder of the incident light to the second solar cell through the solid optical element.
Abstract:
A lens-forming thermoplastic composition of matter has a crystallinity, as determined in accord with differential scanning calorimetry of from 0 percent to less than 1 percent when the composition comprises a hydrogenated vinyl aromatic/isoprene block copolymer or a crystallinity, as determined in accord with differential scanning calorimetry of from more than 0 percent to less than 1 percent when the composition comprises a hydrogenated vinyl aromatic/butadiene block copolymer. The composition has a birefringence, measured at a wavelength of 633 nanometers, within a range of from 0 to less than 6 x 10 -6 . Molding a melt of these compositions occurs at temperatures within a range from the hydrogenated block copolymer's glass transition minus 20°C to the glass transition temperature minus 90°C. The compositions suitably form lenses such as an optical pick-up lens, which may be aspherical or have at least one of an irregular surface configuration, a non-uniform thickness or an irregular and non-uniform cross-section.
Abstract:
The present invention is a bulk light diffuser material based upon a hydrogenated block copolymer, but including a particulate light diffusing component. The material may be in the form of a film, a sheet or a molded article. When present as a sheet having a thickness of 2 millimeters, the sheet has a percent total transmittance of at least 50% and a haze of at least 70%, measured according to the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard D 1003.
Abstract:
A window envelope that includes a window patch formed from a low gloss polymer film based upon a rubber-modified vinyl aromatic polymer or a blend of a rubber- modified vinyl aromatic polymer and a vinyl aromatic polymer. The film may be a monolayer film or an external layer of a multilayer film. The film optionally includes an inorganic coating applied to either surface of the film where the film is a monolayer film or to an outermost surface of the film where the film is an external layer of a multilayer film. When an inorganic coating is applied to a film surface, the film need not include a rubber- modified vinyl aromatic polymer and may be based solely upon a vinyl aromatic polymer.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a light diffusing composition and its use for imparting light diffusing properties to a thermoplastic polymer. The present invention further relates to a polymer composition containing said novel light diffusing composition and to a compounded composition or formed article produced therefrom such as a cover. Said thermoplastic light diffusing composition comprises a) an inorganic particle, b) a polymeric particle differs in refractive index n at 589 nm by at least 0.05 from that of the thermoplastic resin polymer, and one or more of c), d), or mixtures thereof wherein c) is a wavelength downshifting material, and d) is an interference pigment. Further, the present invention relates to a luminous device comprising a light source, preferably one or more LED and a formed cover comprising said light diffusing composition.
Abstract:
A synthetic leather is made by impregnating or coating a non-woven or woven textile with an aqueous polyurethane dispersion comprised of a nonionizable polyurethane and an external stabilizing surfactant. The impregnated textile is then exposed to water containing a coagulant for a coagulation time sufficient to coagulate the dispersion. The coated textile is heated to from a poromeric layer. The method may be used to form a synthetic leather having excellent wet ply adhesion and may contain an insoluble multivalent cation salt of an organic acid.
Abstract:
Plastic optical fibers or plastic optical fiber cores with good high temperature resistance to optical attenuation loss are prepared from a cyclic block copolymer characterized by a: A. Weight ratio of hydrogenated conjugated diene polymer block to hydrogenated vinyl aromatic polymer block of 35:65 to 10:90; B. Number average molecular weight (Mn) of from 40,000 to 150,000, grams per mole (g/mol); and C. Hydrogenation level such that each hydrogenated vinyl aromatic polymer block and each hydrogenated conjugated diene polymer block has a hydrogenation level of at least 95 percent.
Abstract:
A thermoplastic, hydrogenated vinyl aromatic/conjugated diene block polymer composition, especially a hydrogenated styrene/butadiene triblock composition, functions well as a LED encapsulating material in that it provides one or more of optical clarity, thermal stability, ultraviolet light resistance, melt-processability and injection-moldability. The resulting LED resists deformation after setting or hardening under typical solder reflow conditions.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a light diffusing thermoplastic resin composition comprising polycaprolactone, specific silicone rubber particles, and, when desired, a fluorescent brightening agent, an antioxidant and/or an ultraviolet light absorber. A light diffusion sheet can be obtained by molding the light diffusing thermoplastic resin composition, which has superior light diffusion properties, luminance, mechanical strength, thermal stability and light resistance
Abstract:
A polycarbonate resin film, which is prepared by molding a resin composition, which comprises 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin (A), 0.10 to 0.18 parts by weight of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt compound (B) of a perfluoroalkane sulfonic acid and 0.05 to 0.35 parts by weight of a silicone compound (C), wherein a main chain of the silicone compound (C) is branched and the film has: (1) an average thickness of 200 to 500 μm, (2) a degree of haze of 5% or lower as measured according to the conditions specified in JIS K7105, and (3) a flame retardance of VTM-1 or VTM-O at a thickness of 300 μm as measured according to the UL94 test specified by the Underwriters Laboratories (UL). The polycarbonate resin film of the present invention exhibits excellent flame retardance without using a flame retarding agent comprising a halogen or phosphorus and has extremely excellent environmental compatibility with no concern for generating a halogen containing gas during combustion. In addition the film has a high degree of clarity and contributes to make the assembly work more efficient, for example, by shortening the time requirement when the film is utilized as an electrical insulating film.