Thermally conductive silicone rubber composition

Claim 1

A thermally conductive silicone rubber composition consisting essentially of (a) 100 parts by weight of a polyorganosiloxane having a viscosity at 25° C. of from 0.1 to 100 Pa.sup.. s and having an average unit formula R.sub.a R.sub.b 'SiO.sub.(4-a-b)/2 wherein each R represents a monovalent hydro-carbon radical free of aliphatic unsaturation or a halogenated monovalent hydrocarbon radical free of aliphatic unsaturation, each R' represents a monovalent aliphatically unsaturated hydrocarbon radical, a has a value from 1.90 to 2.05, b has a value from 0.0005 to 0.1, and the sum of a+b has a value from 1.91 to 2.06, (b) a polyorganohydrogensiloxane having a viscosity at 25° C. of 0.0007 to 5 Pa.sup.. s and having an average unit formula R.sub.c H.sub.d SiO.sub.(4-c-d)/2 wherein R is defined above, the sum of c+d has a value of 1.001 to 3, there is at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per molecule, and said polyorganohydrogensiloxane is present in an amount such that there are 0.5 to 10 equivalents of silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per equivalent of aliphatically unsaturated hydrocarbon radical in (a), (c) from 100 to 500 parts by weight of alumina powder having an average particle size of 2μ to 10μ and an oil absorption of ≧15 mL/g, and (d) a catalytic quantity of a platinum-group compound as a catalyst.