US Patent Issued to KURARAY on Aug. 12 for "Thermoplastic elastomer composition, formed product, layered structure, and method for producing the layered structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,912, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Kurashiki, Japan).

"Thermoplastic elastomer composition, formed product, layered structure, and method for producing the layered structure" was invented by Moe Kawahara (Tsukuba, Japan), Shutaro Hirakata (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Tomohiro Ono (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoplastic elastomer composition including 100 parts by mass of a hydrogenated block copolymer (A), 20 to 180 parts by mass of an acrylic block copolymer (B), 5 to 45 parts by mass of an aromatic polymer (C), and 70 to 250 parts by mass of a softener (D). The hydrogenated block copolymer (...