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US 6,655,414 B2Granted
Fuel hose
AssigneeAsahi Glass Company, Limited
InventorsEiichi Nishi, Masako Nagashima
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Abstract
A fuel hose having a two layer structure comprising an inner layer made of a fluororesin and an outer layer adjacent thereto, made of a thermoplastic resin other than a fluororesin, wherein the fluororesin has a tensile strength at break of higher than 21 MPa, and the fluororesin of the inner layer has a melt adhesiveness with the thermoplastic resin of the outer layer.
Claims18
A hose having a two layer structure comprising an inner
- layer comprising a fluororesin and an outer layer disposed thereon, comprising a thermoplastic resin other than the fluororesin, wherein the fluororesin is an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer having a melt flow rate of more than 40 and an infrared absorbance of at least 0.002 between 1720 to 1800 cm−1 and the fluororesin is prepared by a method selected from the group consisting of irradiating an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer having a melt flow rate of less than 40 with high energy rays, heat treating an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer having a melt flow rate of less than 40 at a temperature of 330 to 400° C. for 5 to 30 minutes, and melt kneading a mixture consisting essentially of an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer having a melt flow rate of less than 40 and a peroxide at a temperature higher than the decomposition temperature of the peroxide, and the fluororesin has melt adhesiveness with the thermoplastic resin of the outer layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.