Patent ID: 6437035
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: C08K,C08L

Abstract:
A thermoplastic elastomer composition for use in automotive interiors, wallcoverings, upholstery, advertising films, and tenting which comprises a major amount of a blend of thermoplastic elastomer comprising:a major amount of a thermoplastic elastomer or elastomers having a weighted average melt index of less than 6, a minor amount of polymeric elastomer, a flame retardant, selected from the group consisting of antimony trioxide, alumina tribydrate, barium metaborate, decabromodi-phenyl oxide, ethylene bis(tetrabromophthalimide), decabromodiphenyl oxide, tetradlecabromodiphenoxybenzene, ethylenebis(dibromonorbornanedicarboximide), or combinations thereof; a maleated polypropylene, a filler material; and having: a Shore A hardness of at least about 65 as measured according to ASTM D-2240, a tensile strength of at least about 900 psi as measured according to ASTM D-882, a % elongation of at least about 900% as measured according to ASTM D-882, a density of about 1.0 g/cc, and wherein the article is ductile at about âˆ’60Â° F. when measured according to ASTM D-1790 and FS 191-method 5874, and a flammability rating of VTM-0 as measured according to UL-94.