Sound absorbing and decoupling syntactic foam
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1. A sound-absorbing syntactic foam comprising expanded polystyrene microspheres, dispersed randomly in a polyurethane matrix.
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Abstract
There is disclosed a sound-absorbing syntactic foam comprising expanded polystyrene microspheres, dispersed randomly in a polyurethane matrix.
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- 1. A sound-absorbing syntactic foam comprising expanded polystyrene microspheres, dispersed randomly in a polyurethane matrix.
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30. A polyurethane syntactic foam prepared by a one-step process in which polystyrene microspheres or multicellular polystyrene microspheres are combined with at least one polyisocyanate compound and at least one polyfunctional active hydrogen containing compound in an equivalent isocyanate to hydroxyl ratio of about 1:
- 1, the blend is generally heated and held at a temperature in the range of about 20°
C. to about 100°
C. for about 1 to 10 minutes under vacuum consisting of an absolute pressure of about 1 Torr to about 100 Torr. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34)
- 1, the blend is generally heated and held at a temperature in the range of about 20°
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35. A polyurethane syntactic foam prepared by a two-step process in which according to step 1, which consists of preparing the prepolymer, at least one polyisocyanate compound is combined with at least one polyfunctional hydroxyl containing compound in an equivalent ratio of about 1.5:
- 1.0, respectively to about 5.0;
1.0, respectively and the mixture heated to about 60°
C. to about 100°
C. for about 1 hour to about 4 hours to achieve an essentially complete reaction, and then in step 2 the prepolymer of step 1 is combined with polystyrene microspheres or multicellular polystyrene microspheres and sufficient equivalents of polyfunctional active hydrogen compounds to provide a composition substantially equally balanced in isocyanate and active hydrogen equivalents, and the mixture is stirred and heated under vacuum at about 25°
C. to about 80°
C. for about 1 to about 20 minutes and then poured into a mold to produce a cured composition. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39)
- 1.0, respectively to about 5.0;
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40. A curable syntactic foam composition prepared by reacting and blending the admixture of:
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(a) a prepolymer prepared by reacting trans-1,4-cyclohexane diisocyanate with a polyoxytetramethylene glycol having a number average molecular weight of about 1000 in the equivalents ratio of about 2.0;
1.0, respectively, in the presence from 0 to about 0.3 weight percent of a catalyst(b) and up to 30% of the weight of the final foam of a flame retardant (c) about 1.5 weight percent to about 10% of the total weight of the foam of hollow preexpanded multicellular polystyrene microspheres, which have a bulk density ranging from about 12 kg/m3 to about 100 kg/m3, a mean diameter ranging from about 30 micrometers to about 700 micrometers, a weight average molecular weight polystyrene shell ranging from about 40,000 to about 1,000,000, and from 100 to 50,000 inner cells per cubic millimeter of sphere volume; and (d) about 0.85 equivalents to about 1.05 equivalents of an extender per equivalent of the prepolymer described in part (a) above, the extender comprising of trimethylol propane and 1,4-butanediol in an equivalents ratio of about 1.0;
9.0, respectively,(e) and from 0 to 30% of the weight of the final form of an intumescent agent. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78)
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79. A curable syntactic foam composition prepared by reacting a polyisocyanate, consisting of an equilibrium mixture of 4,4'"'"'-methylene-bis(phenylisocyanate)(MDI), its difunctional carbodiimide and its trifunctional cycloadduct, which is a condensation product of MDI and its difunctional carbodimide, with an oligomeric diamine, polytetramethylene oxide-di-p-aminobenzoate, in which the ratio of isocyanate to amine groups ranges from about 1.15:
- 1.00, respectively, to about 0.9;
1.00, respectively, and to which is added by preblending with either or both of the reactive components or introduced just at the time the reactive components are brought together the multicellular expanded polystyrene microspheres in a range of about 2-15 weight percent of the foam. - View Dependent Claims (80, 81, 82)
- 1.00, respectively, to about 0.9;
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