Patent ID: 9534098
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: A47C,A47G,C08J,C08K,C09K

Claim:
1. A thermally conductive (TC) foam comprising: a flexible cellular foam, and a plurality of metal material particulates dispersed in the flexible cellular foam in an amount ranging from about 0.5 wt % to about 25 wt % in the TC foam to improve the thermal conductivity of the flexible cellular foam, where the metal material is selected from the group consisting of aluminum, copper, iron, steel, silver, gold, platinum, nickel, tin, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten, derivatives of these metal materials combined with an element selected from the group consisting of oxygen, halogens, carbon, silicon and combinations thereof, and combinations of any of these, and where the metal material particulates have an average particle size range of between about 1 to about 1000 microns, where the TC foam has improved thermal conductivity as compared to an otherwise identical flexible cellular foam with an absence of the metal material particulates, where the improved thermal conductivity is at least 0.01 W/(m-° K) higher than the flexible cellular foam with an absence of the metal material particles.