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US 12,528,939 B2Granted
Filled polymeric resin materials and methods of making
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorStephane Bazzana
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides for articles formed of a filled polymeric resin material. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to polymeric resin materials that include a filler that includes of a mixture of cured rubber granules, foam granules, and/or textile fibers. The filler can be suspended in and/or encapsulated by the polymeric resin material. The polymeric resin material, the filler, or both can include waste or scrap material from manufacturing or from ground post-consumer waste.
Claims9
An article comprising:
- a polymeric resin material comprising a filler, wherein the filler includes cured rubber granules and foam granules, wherein the foam granules include an ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer, a styrene-ethylene-butadiene-styrene (SEBS) copolymer, or a combination, wherein the filler is suspended in and encapsulated by the polymeric resin material, wherein the polymeric resin is an elastomeric thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), wherein the article has an elongation of at least 50 percent, the article has a Shore A hardness of less than 40, or both.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.