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US 9,437,348 B2Granted
Electrical insulation material
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsRobert H. Turpin, David S. Stankes, Martin H. Fox, Mitchell T. Huang
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Abstract
Provided in at least one embodiment is a nonwoven paper layer directly fused on one or both sides with a nonwoven fabric layer wherein one or both of the nonwoven paper and nonwoven fabric are electrically insulating.
Claims13
An article comprising:
- a nonwoven paper layer directly fused on one or both sides with a nonwoven fabric layer wherein one or both of the nonwoven paper and nonwoven fabric are electrically insulating,
- wherein the nonwoven paper comprises:
- about 50 wt % to about 80 wt % of an inorganic filler selected from the group consisting of kaolin clay, talc, calcium carbonate, alumina trihydrate, montmorillonite, smectite, bentonite, illite, chlorite, sepiolite, attapulgite, halloysite, vermiculite, laponite, rectorite, perlite, aluminum nitride, silicon carbide, boron nitride, and combinations thereof, and
- about 3 wt % to about 10 wt % polymer latex binder, and
- wherein the nonwoven fabric comprises:
- about 20 wt % to about 70 wt % binder fibers, wherein the binder fibers comprise at least one of bicomponent binder fibers and undrawn binder fibers, and
- about 30 wt % to about 80 wt % staple fibers, wherein the staple fibers comprise para-aramid staple fibers.
4 more elements
The article of claiml wherein the nonwoven fabric layer comprises more than one sheet of nonwoven fabric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.