A task is to provide a woven fabric for airbags for protecting drivers and passengers of an automobile and the like, wherein the woven fabric for airbags has excellent flexibility, tear strength, and elongation at break, and means for solution is a woven fabric for airbags comprising a polyester multifilament, wherein the polyester multifilament has a total fineness in the range of 140 to 580 dtex, and has the number of filaments in the range of 96 to 192, wherein the difference between the total fineness of warp yarns constituting the woven fabric and the total fineness of weft yarns constituting the woven fabric is 5 dtex or less, and the number of warp yarns per unit length is smaller than the number of weft yarns per unit length.

The present invention relates to a coated fabric for airbags for use in automobiles, and provides a coated fabric that has eliminated or reduced coating agent dots, which are not solved in traditional techniques, and that has a smaller difference in physical properties in tear strength in the width direction of the fabric. The coated fabric for airbags that exhibit excellent fabric properties and appearance such that there is little variation in physical properties in the width direction of the fabric, and such that there are fewer coating agent dots can be provided by a production method characterized by the use of a knife-on-air technique as a resin coating method, the use of a knife whose front and rear part are differently shaped, and the running angle of the fabric when the knife is pressed on the fabric being 3 to 15.

Provided is a coated fabric for airbags that exhibits a small variation in air permeability of the fabric in the width direction, and a method for producing a coated fabric for airbags capable of reducing the variation in air permeability. The coated fabric for airbags includes a woven fabric composed of synthetic fiber filaments and has an elastomer resin applied to one surface thereof, the coated fabric having an air permeability in the width direction of the coated fabric such that the maximum value of the air permeability is 1.5 times the average value or less.

An object of this invention is to provide a coated fabric for airbags that achieves sufficient heat resistance without relying on the amount or type of resin in a coating layer.

Provided is a coated fabric for airbags, comprising a coating layer disposed on at least one surface of a woven fabric directly or with one or more other layers interposed therebetween, the coating layer containing a thermally responsive foaming agent.

A liquid silicone rubber (LSR) composition, and articles and coatings made therewith are disclosed. Also disclosed is a process to provide for the composition, and a process to coat on textile.

This invention provides a silicone-coated fabric for airbags in which creases can be easily formed by applying heat and pressure, that can be stored compactly, and that exhibits minimal damage on the coated layer when deployed. More specifically, the invention provides a silicone-coated fabric comprising a silicone-based resin coated on one surface of a synthetic fiber woven fabric, and a thermoplastic resin adhering to the silicone-based resin-coated surface, wherein the adhesive strength between the silicone-based resin-coated surfaces is 0.01 to 10 N/cm.

Provided is an addition-curable silicone rubber composition for airbags. An addition-curable silicone rubber composition which contains: 100 parts by mass of (A) an organopolysiloxane that contains two or more alkenyl groups in each molecule; (B) a cyclic organohydrogenpolysiloxane represented by formula (1),

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wherein the polysiloxane content is 50 mol % or more relative to the total amount of the component (B) when m=2; (C) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane represented by formula (2),

R.sup.2.sub.eH.sub.fSiO.sub.(4-e-f)/2(2)

which contains two or more silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atoms in each molecule, in such an amount that the number of silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atoms in the components (B) and (C) is 1 to 7 per one silicon atom-bonded alkenyl group in the component (A) and the number of silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atoms in the component (B) is 1-30% of the number of silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atoms in the components (B) and (C); 0.1-50 parts by mass of (D) a fine silica powder having a BET specific surface area of 50 m.sup.2/g or more; and an effective amount of (E) an addition reaction catalyst.

The general field of the invention is that of silicone coating compositions, in particular those of two-component or multi-component type, that can be crosslinked by polyaddition or hydrosilylation reactions to produce a support coated by a silicone elastomer as a thin layer. These silicone compositions, when they are crosslinked, are suitable, inter alia, as coatings, for example for the protection or mechanical reinforcement of various textile substrates such as for example fibrous, woven, knitted or nonwoven supports. The targeted objective is to provide a silicone elastomer coating composition that can be crosslinked by polyaddition reactions and that is useful in particular for applications in the field of inflatable safety bags for vehicles, or airbags, having, after crosslinking, optimum properties in terms of adhesion, thinness, lightness and crease and abrasion resistance, but also good mechanical properties. This silicone coating composition should also be easy to use and to apply.

Provided is a coated fabric for airbags that exhibits a small variation in air permeability of the fabric in the width direction, and a method for producing a coated fabric for airbags capable of reducing the variation in air permeability. The coated fabric for airbags includes a woven fabric composed of synthetic fiber filaments and has an elastomer resin applied to one surface thereof, the coated fabric having an air permeability in the width direction of the coated fabric such that the maximum value of the air permeability is 1.5 times the average value or less.

A process for modifying a silicone elastomeric-based surface of a textile article where the coefficient of friction (COF) of the silicone elastomeric-based surface is generally reduced by at least 5% is disclosed. The process comprises subjecting the silicone elastomeric-based surface of the textile article to vacuum ultraviolet (UV) radiation.