Abstract:
A METHOD FOR MAKING CONDUCTING ARTICLES FROM THERMOPLASTIC MATERIALS CONTAINING NO MORE THAN 2% BY WEIGHT OF A CONDUCTING FILLER COMPRISES ROTATIONALLY MOULDING A DRY MIXTURE OF POWDER THERMOPLASTIC WITH FROM 0.1 TO 2% BY WEIGHT OF A POWDERED CONDUCTING FILLER SUCH AS CARBON BLACK AND IN PARTICULAR FURANCE BLACK. ALSO CONDUCTING ARTICLES MADE FROM A THERMOPLASTIC MATERIAL SUCH AS LOW DENSITY POLYTHENE CONTAINING NO MORE THAN 2% BY WEIGHT OF A CONDUCTING FILLER AND HAVING A VOLUME RESISTIVITY OF LESS THAN 1X10**8 OHMS.
Abstract:
A pressure sensitive adhesive tape comprises an aggressively tacky electrically insulating water insoluble visco-elastic adhesive coating bonded to an electrically insulating hydrophobic film backing by an anti-static electrically conductive primer coating. The primer coating may include an antistatic ionogenic hydrophilic film-forming polymer and may have an electrical resistivity not exceeding 1010 ohms per square when in equilibrium with air having a 50% relative humidity. The antistatic polymers may be ionizable organic polymer salts which have a hydrocarbon backbone and attached salt groups; quaternary polymer salts such as dimethylamino ethyl methacrylate homopolymer or its copolymer with butyl acrylate, and poly-4-vinyl pyridine, quaternized with methyl bromide or allyl chloride; or sodium salts of sulphonated polymers such as sodium salts of sulphonated polystyrene, sulphonated polyvinyl toluene, sulphonated polystyrene-butyl acrylate copolymers, and poly benzyl sulphonate. The primer coating may be less than 5 microns thick. The film backing may be of cellulose acetate, polyester, and rigid (essentially non-plasticized) polyvinyl chloride. The film backing may carry a hydrophobic insulative low-adhesion backsize coating e.g. of polyvinyl N-octadecyl carbamate. The adhesive may comprise natural or synthetic rubber and tackifier resins, polyacrylates and polyvinyl alkyl ethers. The primer coating may contain a copolymer of vinyl pyrrolidone and vinyl acetate or polyvinyl methyl ether.
Abstract:
Disclosed in some embodiments is a chamber component (such as an end effector body) coated with an ultrathin electrically-dissipative material to provide a dissipative path from the coating to the ground. The coating may be deposited via a chemical precursor deposition to provide a uniform, conformal, and porosity free coating in a cost effective manner. In an embodiment wherein the chamber component comprises an end effector body, the end effector body may further comprise replaceable contact pads for supporting a substrate and the contact surface of the contact pads head may also be coated with an electrically-dissipative material.
Abstract:
A displaying apparatus includes a flexible substrate, at least one composite layer disposed on the flexible substrate, and an electronic device disposed on the composite layer. The composite layer includes a stack of an organic layer and an inorganic layer, and at least one of the inorganic layer and the organic layer includes at least one anti-static material, such as anti-static particles, an anti-static agent or an anti-static layer (e.g., transparent conductive layer/transparent conductive oxide layer, or polymeric conductive layer). The displaying apparatus of the embodiment enables the electronic device, such as the flexible electronic device, to achieve the product requirements, such as the flexibility, good resistance to water and vapor, and the ability of releasing the electrostatic charges and making the overall structure to release stresses.
Abstract:
A water- and oil-repellent, antistatic composition comprises (a) at least one polymeric salt consisting of (i) at least one cation having at least one polyoxyalkylene moiety bonded to a cationic nitrogen center, and (ii) at least one weakly coordinating anion, the conjugate acid of the anion having an acidity greater than or equal to that of a hydrocarbon sulfonic acid; (b) at least one fluorochemical repellent; and (c) at least one insulating material. The composition exhibits good antistatic and repellency characteristics.