US Patent Issued to SIKA TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 21 for "Adhesive bond between a thermoplastic material and an elastomer composition" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,552, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Adhesive bond between a thermoplastic material and an elastomer composition" was invented by Andreas Kramer (Zurich, Switzerland), Urs Burckhardt (Zurich, Switzerland), Michael Schlumpf (Stallikon, Switzerland) and Martin Demmig (Quickborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adhesive bond between at least one thermoplastic and an elastomer composition containing at least one polyether having blocked hydroxyl groups as plasticizer. With the adhesive bond, it is possible to bond thermoplastics such as polycarbonate or polystyrene in particular to th...