A flame retardant resin composition including a base resin including 18 to 85% by mass of a high density polyethylene, 9 to 69% by mass of a low density polyethylene, and 3 to 25% by mass of an acid-modified polyolefin compound, and 25 parts by mass to 110 parts by mass of calcium carbonate particles, more than 1 part by mass to 10 parts by mass of a silicone-based compound, and 2 parts by mass to 20 parts by mass of a fatty acid-containing compound, each on the basis of 100 parts by mass of the base resin.

A thermoplastic composition includes an aromatic poly(ketone), a poly(etherimide), and a reactive additive, wherein each component is present in a particular amount as defined herein. The thermoplastic composition can be useful in an insulating layer disposed over a conductor wire to form an electrical wire. Articles including the thermoplastic composition can be particularly useful in applications including an electrical device component, a railway vehicle component, an auto-mobile component, a marine vehicle component, a construction component, construction component, a building component, or an aircraft component.

Polymer-ceramic composite articles with relatively low dissipation factor (Df) and relatively high dielectric constant (Dk), as well as polymer-ceramic core-shell powders and pellets adapted for making such composite articles. The ceramic-polymer composites, in powder and/or pellet forms, comprise a plurality of core-shell particles, where: each of the core-shell particles comprises a core and a shell around the core; the core comprises a ceramic that is selected from the group of ceramics consisting of: BaTiO.sub.3, SrTiO.sub.3, TiO.sub.2, CaTiO.sub.3, MgTiO.sub.3, and combinations of any two or more thereof; and the shell comprises a polymer selected from the group of polymers consisting of: polyetherimide (PEI), polyetherimide (PEI) copolymers, polyphenylene ether (PPE), polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), polyaryl ether ketone (PAEK), polypropylene (PP), polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), perfluoroalkoxy alkane (PFA), fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP), ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE), polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), and ethylene chlorotrifluoroethylene (ECTFE). The core-shell particles can be in a powder form (e.g., a dry powder). In pellet form, shells of adjacent core-shell particles are joined to resist separation of the adjacent core-shell particles and deformation of a respective pellet. Methods of forming a ceramic-polymer composite comprise: superheating a mixture of the polymer (PEI, PEI copolymers, PPE, PPS, PAEK, PP, PTFE, PFA, FEP, ETFE, PVDF, and/or ECTFE), solvent, and the ceramic (BaTiO.sub.3, SrTiO.sub.3, TiO.sub.2, CaTiO.sub.3, and/or MgTiO.sub.3), to dissolve the polymer in the solvent; agitating the superheated mixture while substantially maintaining the mixture at an elevated temperature and pressure; and cooling the mixture to cause the polymer to precipitate on the particles of the ceramic and thereby form a plurality of the present polymer-ceramic core-shell particles. Methods of molding a part comprise subjecting a powder or pellets of the present polymer-ceramic core-shell particles that substantially fills a mold to a first pressure while the powder is at or above a first temperature above a glass transition temperature (T.sub.g) or if no T.sub.g then above a melting temperature (T.sub.m) of the polymers.

In an embodiment, a thermoplastic composite comprises a thermoplastic polymer; and a dielectric filler having a multimodal particle size distribution; wherein a peak of a first mode of the multimodal particle size distribution is at least seven times that of a peak of a second mode of the multimodal particle size distribution; and a flow modifier.

A cable splice assembly includes a tubing encapsulated cable, an electric submersible downhole cable, where the tubing encapsulated cable and the electric submersible downhole cable are tape-spliced through a pair of respective contacts, and a thermoplastic insulator to seal the tubing encapsulated cable. A shell contains the tape-spliced tubing encapsulated cable and the electric submersible downhole cable and multiple layers of sealant tape are wrapped around at least the tubing encapsulated cable and the thermoplastic insulator inside the shell, where a number of layers of the sealant tape is selected to create a pressure blocking seal inside the shell.

A composition includes specific amounts of a poly (phenylene ether), a hydrogenated block copolymer of an alkenyl aromatic monomer and a conjugated diene, a polypropylene, a polybutene, a flame retardant, and an ultraviolet absorbing agent comprising a bis(benzotriazole) compound. The composition is particularly useful for forming the jacket layer of electrical and optical cables.

The invention relates generally to the field of insulating electrical conductors against partial discharge in the medium- and high-voltage ranges. In particular, the invention relates to an insulating system for an electric machine, in particular a rotating electric machine such as an electric motor and/or a generator. The invention provides for the first time a substitute for the conventionally used mica as a barrier material in an insulating system, such as the main insulation of rotating electric machines such as motors and/or generators. The substitute is based on a polyether-imide/siloxane copolymer, which can be processed two-dimensionally, for example by surface extrusion. In this way, sheets are produced and, after being processed in sheet form or as a laminate, can be used as planar insulating materials, or cut as strips, in insulating systems.

An insulated wire including a conductor (A) and an insulating layer (B) around the conductor (A). The insulating layer (B) contains an aromatic polyetherketone resin (I) and a fluorine-containing copolymer (II) and has a melt viscosity at 60 sec.sup.−1 and 390° C. of 0.40 to 0.75 kPa.Math.s. The aromatic polyetherketone resin (I) has a melt viscosity at 60 sec.sup.−1 and 390° C. of 0.30 kPa.Math.s or lower. The insulating layer (B) has a thickness of 30 to 300 μm.

A resin composition includes a phenoxy resin as a principal component. The phenoxy resin has a weight-average molecular weight of 40,000 or more. The phenoxy resin has, in the same or different molecules, a first structural unit derived from bisphenol S phenoxy and a second structural unit derived from a bisphenol epoxy other than the bisphenol S phenoxy. A content ratio of the first structural unit in the phenoxy resin is 20 mol% to 80 mol% relative to a total content of the first structural unit and the second structural unit constituting the phenoxy resin.

An insulated conductor including: at least one electrical conductor; and, an insulating coating covering said electrical conductor, having n layer(s), “n” being an integer greater than or equal to 1, the n.sup.th layer being the outermost layer having a pseudo-amorphous composition C.sub.n including at least 50% by weight of a polyaryletherketone. A process for manufacturing the insulated conductor, a heat-welding process using two sections of insulated conductor, and a coil capable of being obtained by heat-welding a winding of the insulated conductor.