US Patent Issued to KURARAY on Oct. 14 for "Thermoplastic elastomer composition, laminate structure and method for producing said laminate structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,878, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Okayama, Japan).

"Thermoplastic elastomer composition, laminate structure and method for producing said laminate structure" was invented by Moe Kawahara (Ibaraki, Japan), Makoto Akai (Ibaraki, Japan), Daisuke Konishi (Ibaraki, Japan) and Hiromitsu Sasaki (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoplastic elastomer composition including an acrylic block copolymer (I) and a hydrogenated block copolymer (II). The content of the acrylic block copolymer (I) is 70 to 300 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the hydrogenated block copolymer (II); the hydroge...