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20110095395 | Inductors and Methods for Integrated Circuits - Inductors and methods for integrated circuits that result in inductors of a size compatible with integrated circuits, allowing the fabrication of inductors, with or without additional circuitry on a first wafer and the bonding of that wafer to a second wafer without wasting of wafer area. The inductors in the first wafer are comprised of coils formed by conductors at each surface of the first wafer coupled to conductors in holes passing through the first wafer. Various embodiments are disclosed. | 04-28-2011 |
20130071983 | Inductors and Methods for Integrated Circuits - Inductors and methods for integrated circuits that result in inductors of a size compatible with integrated circuits, allowing the fabrication of inductors, with or without additional circuitry on a first wafer and the bonding of that wafer to a second wafer without wasting of wafer area. The inductors in the first wafer are comprised of coils formed by conductors at each surface of the first wafer coupled to conductors in holes passing through the first wafer. Various embodiments are disclosed. | 03-21-2013 |
20130161792 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING TRENCH CAPACITOR STRUCTURE INTEGRATED THEREIN - Semiconductor devices are described that include a capacitor integrated therein. In an implementation, the semiconductor devices include a substrate. The substrate includes multiple capacitor regions, such as a first capacitor region and a second capacitor region that are adjacent to one another. Each capacitor region includes trenches that are formed within the substrate. A metal-insulator-metal capacitor is formed within the trenches and at least partially over the substrate. The trenches disposed within the first capacitor region are at least substantially perpendicular to the trenches disposed within the second capacitor region. | 06-27-2013 |
20130175666 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING CAPACITOR INTEGRATED THEREIN - Semiconductor devices are described that include a capacitor integrated therein. In an implementation, the semiconductor devices include a substrate including a dopant material of a first conductivity type. A plurality of trenches are formed within the substrate. The semiconductor devices also include a diffusion region having dopant material of a second conductivity type formed proximate to the trenches. A capacitor is formed within the trenches and at least partially over the substrate. The capacitor includes at least a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric material formed between the first and second electrodes. | 07-11-2013 |
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20100137521 | Thermoplastic Polymer Compositions, Methods for Making the Same, and Articles Made Therefrom - Provided are thermoplastic polymer compositions having a single melting point, articles made therefrom, and methods for elevating the melting point of low melting point polymers. Thermoplastic polymer compositions are composed of one or more high melting point polyolefins and a thermoplastic component that includes a low melting point polypropylene. High melting point polyolefins are composed of a stereoregular polypropylene having a tacticity similar to the low melting point polypropylene. The low melting point polypropylene includes, for example, propylene homopolymers and copolymers composed of propylene and one or more comonomers. Thermoplastic polymer compositions may also optionally contain any of the various additives commonly used in such polymer compositions, such as for example oils, etc. In one embodiment, thermoplastic polymer compositions are thermoplastic elastomer compositions that include an elastomeric component composed of an elastomer or rubber. The elastomeric component may be substantially or partially crosslinked to form a thermoplastic vulcanizate. | 06-03-2010 |
20110124814 | Thermoset Compositions with Dispersed Thermoplastic Resin Therein and Process for Making Them - A rubber composition comprising: a cured rubber; and thermoplastic resin, where the thermoplastic resin is in the form of discrete domains dispersed within a continuous phase of the cured rubber, and where the cured rubber includes silicon-containing crosslinks. | 05-26-2011 |
20110275764 | Peroxide Cured TPV - Thermoplastic elastomer compositions and methods for making same. The elastomer composition can include at least one partially cured rubber component that is an ethylene-alpha-olefin-vinyl norbornene elastomeric polymer, and at least one thermoplastic component. The rubber component is at least partially cured using a peroxide curative in an amount effective to yield a cure level of the rubber component of at least 85%. The rubber component has a molecular weight distribution (MWD) less than 6, and a branching index greater than 0.60. | 11-10-2011 |
20120035325 | Thermoplastic Elastomeric Compositions - A dynamically vulcanized alloy contains at least one isobutylene-containing elastomer and at least one thermoplastic resin, wherein the elastomer is present as a dispersed phase of small particles in a continuous phase of the thermoplastic resin. The elastomer in the alloy is cured by means of a cure system comprising an increased amount of curative and preferably with no cure accelerators present in the cure system. The elastomer obtains at least seventy five percent cure in not more than 15 minutes at temperatures 220° C. or greater. | 02-09-2012 |
20130102721 | Thermoplastic Vulcanizate Composition - The disclosure is directed to a thermoplastic vulcanizate composition comprising a dynamically-cured rubber; from about 20 to about 300 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin per 100 parts by weight rubber and from about 30 to about 250 parts by weight additional oil per 100 parts by weight rubber; wherein the rubber comprises a multimodal polymer composition cured with a curing agent, the multimodal polymer composition comprising 45 to 75 wt % of a first polymer fraction and 25 to 55 wt % of a second polymer fraction, each comprising ethylene, a C | 04-25-2013 |
20140309371 | Elastomeric Compositions and Their Use in Articles - A dynamically vulcanized alloy contains at least one isobutylene-containing elastomer, at least one thermoplastic resin, and an anhydride functionalized oligomer grafted to the thermoplastic resin. In the alloy, the elastomer is present as a dispersed phase of small vulcanized or partially vulcanized particles in a continuous phase of the thermoplastic resin and the alloy is substantially absent of any sulfonamides. | 10-16-2014 |
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20090043048 | Peroxide-Cured Thermoplastic Vulcanizates Prepared With Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Plastics - A thermoplastic vulcanizate comprising a dynamically cured rubber, where the rubber is peroxide cured, and a thermoplastic phase, where at least 10% by weight of the thermoplastic phase includes an ultrahigh molecular weight plastic, where the ultrahigh molecular weight plastic is characterized by a M | 02-12-2009 |
20100324161 | Thermoplastic Vulcanizates and Processes for Making the Same - A process for producing thermoplastic vulcanizates, the process comprising (i) dynamically vulcanizing a rubber with a curative in a first stage, where the rubber is within a blend that includes the rubber, a thermoplastic resin, and the curative, where said step of dynamically vulcanizing occurs at a temperature at or above the melting point of the thermoplastic resin, where said step of dynamically vulcanizing employs a peroxide curative, and where said rubber includes polymeric units deriving from 5-vinyl-2-norbornene, (ii) continuing said step of dynamically vulcanizing to cause phase inversion of the blend to thereby convert the thermoplastic resin into a continuous phase, (iii) maintaining the blend at or above the melting point of the thermoplastic resin after the phase inversion, and (iv) introducing molten thermoplastic resin into the blend in a second stage, where said step of introducing molten thermoplastic resin occurs after phase inversion but before the blend is cooled to a temperature below the melting point of the thermoplastic resin. | 12-23-2010 |
20110028637 | Method for Preparing Thermoplastic Vulcanizates - A method for preparing a thermoplastic vulcanizate, the method comprising introducing an elastomer and a thermoplastic resin to a reaction extruder, where the elastomer is not prepared by gas-phase polymerization methods, and where less than 75 parts by weight oil, per 100 parts by weight elastomer, is added to the extruder with the elastomer, introducing a curative to the extruder after said step of introducing an elastomer, introducing an oil to the extruder after said step of introducing an elastomer but before or together with said step of introducing a curative, and introducing an oil to the extruder after said step of introducing a curative. | 02-03-2011 |
20110112238 | Thermoplastic Vulcanizates - A process for preparing a thermoplastic vulcanizate, the process comprising: charging a reactor with an olefinic copolymer rubber, where the olefinic copolymer rubber is characterized by a multimodal molecular weight, an average branching index of greater than 0.8, includes less than 10 parts by weight oil per 100 parts by weight rubber, includes less than 1 parts by weight non-rubber particulate, per 100 parts by weight rubber, and is in the form of granules having a particle size less than 8 mm; charging the reactor, contemporaneously or sequentially with respect to the rubber, with a thermoplastic resin, an oil, and a cure system; melt mixing the rubber, the thermoplastic resin, the oil, and the cure system; and dynamically vulcanizing the rubber. | 05-12-2011 |
20120232210 | Dynamically Vulcanized Thermoplastic Elastomer Film - A dynamically vulcanized alloy containing an elastomer and a thermoplastic resin is prepared by a process wherein supercritical fluid is injected into the thermoplastic elastomeric material as the material is mixed in an extruder. The material is mixed under conditions such that the thermoplastic elastomeric material is dynamically vulcanized wherein the elastomer forms a discontinuous dispersed of small particles in a continuous phase of the thermoplastic resin. The DVA material may then be directly formed into film or sheets by the use of at least one set of rolls located adjacent to the extruder outlet. | 09-13-2012 |