The aim is to provide an adhesive tape that effectively protects an electronic construction from permeants, especially water, and that at the same time has good gap-filling qualities. To solve this problem an adhesive tape is proposed that has in the following order:—a carrier layer without barrier effect at least towards water and with a WVTR of at least 1 g/(m.sup.2*d) (38° C., 90% relative humidity, 50 μm layer thickness); —a layer comprising at least one getter material capable of sorbing at least water; —a water barrier ply; and—a layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive, where the carrier layer bears an outward-facing release layer and/or the layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive is lined with a release liner which has a release layer lying on the layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive.

Methods of preparing extended content labels from prefabricated adhesive assemblies are described. The methods do not require delamination or relamination of the prefabricated adhesive assemblies. The prefabricated adhesive assemblies include a transparent face layer and an adhesive layer sensitive to radiant energy. Extended content printing is applied to a front face of the face layer. A mask is positioned between the adhesive layer and a radiant energy source. Radiant energy not blocked by the mask reduces the adhesion of irradiated portions of the adhesive layer. A floodcoat is applied over the extended content indicia, and front side indicia is applied over the floodcoat and is visible through the face layer and adhesive layer from a back side of the face layer.

An adhesive article that remains securely bonded to a substrate until a stimuli is applied. The article may be embodied as an adhesive tape, a bandage, or as other articles. The stimuli may be a change in temperature or application of a reduction that causes a structure within the article to break, creak, or otherwise disrupt to expose the adhesive to a solvent, such as via a difference in Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE) or by exposing the article to a glass transition temperature.

A linerless thermal label web includes layers in the following order: a release layer, a thermal paper comprising a heat sensitive part, and an adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer includes an adhesive deadening varnish at longitudinal edge areas of the linerless thermal web so as to reduce the tackiness of the adhesive layer in the longitudinal edge areas. A thermal label can be produced from the label web and the label web can be used for variable information printing applications.

An article comprising a flexible polymer substrate having two major surfaces, a surface layer comprising metal, metal oxide, silicon flexible polymer substrate; and a coating disposed on at least one surface layer, wherein the coating comprises a fluorinated polymer bonded to the surface layer; wherein the fluorinated polymer has the following general formula (I), where n=6 to 120; and where n=6 to 120; and where m=1 to 25 (R1); (R2); or where m=1 to 25 (R3).

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Provided is a substrate-free transfer tape including: a release liner including a heavy peel surface and a light peel surface; and a transfer film layer provided on the heavy peel surface, in which release peel force between the heavy peel surface and the transfer film layer is from 10 g/in to 70 g/in or less at the time of peeling the transfer film layer at a rate of 3 m/min.

Provided is a substrate-free transfer tape including: a release liner including a heavy peel surface and a light peel surface; and a transfer film layer provided on the heavy peel surface, in which release peel force between the heavy peel surface and the transfer film layer is from 10 g/in to 70 g/in or less at the time of peeling the transfer film layer at a rate of 3 m/min.

Adhesive tape with an extended liner tab. A method of making a tape with an extended liner tab, by (A) providing a release liner-backed double-sided adhesive tape; (B) isolating a tape slug from the adhesive tape; (C) removing the tape slug so as to expose an underlying length of the release liner; and (D) cutting through the release liner so as to form the extended liner tab. Apparatus for performing the method, and release liner-backed double-sided adhesive tape comprising a plurality of spaced apart finite lengths of an adhesive tape and a release liner, with an exposed length of release liner disposed between adjacent lengths of adhesive tape.

An adhesive film, an optical member including the same, and an optical display apparatus including the same are provided. An adhesive film is formed of an adhesive composition including a (meth)acrylic copolymer, a curing agent, a mono- or higher functional monomer, a light-to-heat conversion material, and an initiator, and has a peel strength increase rate of 5.0 or more, as calculated according to Equation 1 herein.

An adhesive film, an optical member including the same, and an optical display apparatus including the same are provided. An adhesive film is formed of an adhesive composition including a (meth)acrylic copolymer, a curing agent, a mono- or higher functional monomer, a binder having a melting point of about 30° C. to about 60° C., and an initiator, and has a peel strength increase rate of 7.0 or more, as calculated according to Equation 1 herein.