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Flexible, microporous rubber base articles
Assignee: MPI ACQUISITION CORP A DE CORP
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Filing: 1978-06-16
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Granted: 1980-10-07
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Expires: 1998-06-16
Abstract
Abstract As an article of manufacture, a microporous flexible shape or sheet of a sulfur-free, cured polymeric material of a curable rubber, an ethylene-propylene copolymer or mixtures of the curable rubber and ethylene-propylene copolymer; the article possesses an average pore size of less than 2 microns, a predetermined flexibility, and improved toughness, when compared to prior art sulfur cured articles.
Inventors
- 👤 Bruce S. Goldberg
- 👤 Mahendra Shah
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 23:48
CPC Classifications
C; C08; C08J; C08J9/00; C08J9/28; C08F; C08F291/00; C08F291/02; H; H01; H01M; H01M50/00; H01M50/40; H01M50/409; H01M50/411; H01M50/414; H01M50/417; H01M50/489; H01M50/491; H01M50/494; C08J2321/00; H01M50/403; H01M50/406; Y; Y02; Y02E; Y02E60/00; Y02E60/10
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 37
Claim 1
Independent Claim
56 words
As an article of manufacture, a microporous, flexible shape of a sulfur-free, cured polymeric material selected from the group consisting of natural rubber, ethylenepropylene rubber, polyisoprene, styrene butadiene, nitrile-butadiene, and mixtures thereof, and a polyol acrylate, methacrylate, or mixtures thereof, as precursor curative, of a pore size less than 2 microns and of a predetermined flexibility.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
56 words
As an article of manufacture, a microporous, flexible shape of a sulfur-free, cured polymeric material selected from the group consisting of natural rubber, ethylenepropylene rubber, polyisoprene, styrene butadiene, nitrile-butadiene, and mixtures thereof, and a polyol acrylate, methacrylate, or mixtures thereof, as precursor curative, of a pore size less than 2 microns and of a predetermined flexibility.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
99 words
As an article of manufacture, a microporous, flexible shape of a sulfur-free, cured polymeric material selected from the group consisting of curable rubber, ethylene-propylene rubber, polyisoprene, styrene-butadiene, nitrile-butadiene, or mixtures thereof, and a polyol acrylate, methacrylate of at least two acrylate or methacrylate groups, or mixtures thereof, as precursor curative, of a pore size less than 2 microns and of a predetermined flexibility wherein said article has a backing material of an inert, nonwoven heat-bonded fibrous polymer, said backing material having a shelf-life resistance to an electrolyte for electrical storage batteries of at least equivalent to said microporous article.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
99 words
As an article of manufacture, a microporous, flexible shape of a sulfur-free, cured polymeric material selected from the group consisting of curable rubber, ethylene-propylene rubber, polyisoprene, styrene-butadiene, nitrile-butadiene, or mixtures thereof, and a polyol acrylate, methacrylate of at least two acrylate or methacrylate groups, or mixtures thereof, as precursor curative, of a pore size less than 2 microns and of a predetermined flexibility wherein said article has a backing material of an inert, nonwoven heat-bonded fibrous polymer, said backing material having a shelf-life resistance to an electrolyte for electrical storage batteries of at least equivalent to said microporous article.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
20 words
The article as defined in claim 1, wherein the polymeric microporous article is a sulfur-free, cross-linked composition of natural rubber.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
25 words
The article as defined in claim 1, wherein the polymeric microporous article is a sulfur-free, cross-linked composition of natural rubber, ethylene-propylene rubber, or mixtures thereof.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
22 words
The article as defined in claim 1, wherein said material is cross-linked styrene-butadiene rubber, nitrile-butadiene rubber, a polyisoprene or mixtures of same.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
22 words
The article as defined in claim 2, wherein said material is cross-linked styrene-butadiene rubber, nitrile-butadiene rubber, a polyisoprene or mixtures of same.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
37 words
The article of manufacture as defined in claim 1, wherein the microporous polymeric article a sulfur-free, cross-linked polymeric material of natural rubber, and ethylene-propylene rubber of 95 to 75% natural rubber to 5 to 25% ethylene-propylene rubber.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
44 words
The article of manufacture as defined in claim 1, wherein the microporous polymeric article is a sulfur-free, cross-linked polymeric material of natural rubber and ethylene-propylene rubber in percent by weight of natural rubber to ethylene-propylene rubber of 80% natural rubber to 20% ethylene-propylene rubber.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
31 words
The article of manufacture as defined in claim 2, wherein the microporous polymeric article is a sulfur-free, cross-linked polymeric material of natural rubber, or ethylene-propylene polymer rubber or mixtures of same.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
49 words
The article of manufacture as defined in claim 2, wherein the microporous polymeric article is a sulfur-free, cross-linked polymeric material of natural rubber and ethylene-propylene rubber in percent by weight of natural rubber to ethylene-propylene rubber from 95 to 75% natural rubber to 5 to 25% ethylene propylene rubber.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
17 words
The article of manufacture as defined in claim 1, wherein the same contains an ultraviolet light stabilizer.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
23 words
The article of manufacture as defined in claim 1, wherein the microporous polymeric material has a pore size of less than 1 micron.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
17 words
The article of manufacture as defined in claim 1, wherein the microporous polymeric material contains carbon black.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
39 words
The article of manufacture as defined in claim 1, wherein a curative for said polymeric material is a polyol diacrylate, a polyol triacrylate, a polyol tetracrylate, a polyol dimethacrylate, a polyol trimethacrylate, a polyol tetramethacrylate, or mixtures of same.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
22 words
The article of manufacture as defined in claim 14, wherein the polyol is a trimethylol propane, pentaerythritol, triethylene glycol or 1,6-hexane diol.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
16 words
The article of manufacture as defined in claim 14, wherein the polyol is a trimethylol propane.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
39 words
The article of manufacture as defined in claim 2, wherein a curative for said polymeric material is a polyol diacrylate, a polyol triacrylate, a polyol tetracrylate, a polyol dimethacrylate, a polyol trimethacrylate, a polyol tetramethacrylate, or mixtures of same.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
22 words
The article of manufacture as defined in claim 17, wherein the polyol is a trimethylol propane, pentaerythritol, triethylene glycol, or 1-6-hexane diol.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
15 words
The article of manufacture as defined in claim 17, wherein the polyol is trimethylol propane.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
51 words
As an article of manufacture, a battery separator for an electric storage battery of a microporous, cured, flexible sulfur free polymeric material of a natural rubber, an ethylene-propylene rubber or polyisoprene, styrene-butadiene, nitrile-butadiene and mixtures of same having a 180° bend flexibility, and a pore size of less than 1 micron.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
51 words
As an article of manufacture, a battery separator for an electric storage battery of a microporous, cured, flexible sulfur free polymeric material of a natural rubber, an ethylene-propylene rubber or polyisoprene, styrene-butadiene, nitrile-butadiene and mixtures of same having a 180° bend flexibility, and a pore size of less than 1 micron.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
23 words
The battery separator as defined in claim 20, wherein the same is of a cured polymeric material of natural rubber and ethylene-propylene rubber.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
28 words
The battery separator as defined in claim 20, wherein the same is of a cured polymeric material of natural rubber, ethylene-propylene copolymer, styrene-butadiene rubber or mixtures of same.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
33 words
The battery separator as defined in claim 20, wherein the polymeric material is of a cured natural rubber and an ethylene-propylene rubber mixture in weight percent ranging from 75 to 95% natural rubber.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
35 words
The battery separator as defined in claim 20, wherein the polymeric material is 80% by weight natural rubber, 20% by weight of rubbery ethylene-propylene copolymer of about 60% ethylene monomer in said copolymer by weight.
Claim 28
Dependent Claim
17 words
The battery separator as defined in claim 20, wherein the microporous polymeric material further contains carbon black.
Claim 29
Dependent Claim
19 words
The battery separator as defined in claim 20, wherein the microporous polymeric material further contains a UV light stabilizer.
Claim 30
Dependent Claim
51 words
As an article of manufacture, a flexible, microporous battery separator of a sulfur-free, cured polymeric material of a pore size of less than 1 micron, a 180° bend test flexibility, and an electrical resistance in an electrolyte solution for an electric storage battery of less than 3.5 mΩ in. 2 /mil.
Claim 31
Dependent Claim
51 words
As an article of manufacture, a flexible, microporous battery separator of a sulfur-free, cured polymeric material of a pore size of less than 1 micron, a 180° bend test flexibility, and an electrical resistance in an electrolyte solution for an electric storage battery of less than 3.5 mΩ in. 2 /mil.
Claim 32
Dependent Claim
41 words
The article of manufacture as defined in claim 20, wherein the same has a backing of a polymer fibrous material of heat-bondable fibers having at least an equivalent resistance to an electrolyte for an electric storage battery to said polymer material.
Claim 33
Dependent Claim
22 words
The article of manufacture as defined in claim 27, wherein the backing material is a non-woven, fibrous polymeric material of a polyester.
Claim 34
Dependent Claim
48 words
A curable, sulfur-free rubber composition for microporous shapes comprising as a curable material, a curable natural rubber, ethylene-propylene rubber, or mixtures of same, and, as a curative therefor, a methacrylate or acrylate of a polyol, and rehydrated silica of 50 to 70% hydration as a micropore former therefor.
Claim 35
Dependent Claim
48 words
A curable, sulfur-free rubber composition for microporous shapes comprising as a curable material, a curable natural rubber, ethylene-propylene rubber, or mixtures of same, and, as a curative therefor, a methacrylate or acrylate of a polyol, and rehydrated silica of 50 to 70% hydration as a micropore former therefor.
Claim 36
Dependent Claim
67 words
The curable rubber composition as defined in claim 30, wherein the same comprises 80% by weight natural rubber, 20% by weight ethylene-propylene rubber having 60% by weight of ethylene as copolymer thereof, as a curative therefor trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate and rehydrated silica of a 60 to 70% hydration, carbon black and a stabilizer therefor, said curable composition being curable via electron beam irradiation at less than 6 megarads.
Claim 37
Dependent Claim
65 words
The curable rubber composition as defined in claim 30, wherein the same comprises 80% by weight natural rubber, 15% by weight ethylene-propylene rubber, and 5% by weight styrene-butadiene rubber, as a curative therefor trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate and rehydrated silica of a 60 to 70% hydration, carbon black and a stabilizer therefor, said curable rubber composition being curable via electron beam irradiation at less than 6 megarads.
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