Patent ID: 7087302
Filing Date: 2006-08-08
Classification: C03C,C08J,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A fiber-reinforced plastic comprising a plastic resin and glass fibers, where the plastic resin is selected from the group consisting of epoxy, epoxy novalac resin, and low-styrene epoxy resins, and wherein said glass fibers have directly coated thereon a film-forming functional copolymer composition comprising: a) 0.1 to 30 percent by weight of functional monomer units selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl functional monomer units, phenyl functional monomer units, alkoxylated functional monomer units, and mixtures thereof, wherein the alkoxylated functional monomer has a group with the formula —(RO) b) 70 to 99.9 percent by weight of one or more non-functional ethylenically unsaturated monomer units, wherein said functional polymer has a molecular weight of greater than 55,000, wherein said fiber-reinforced plastic exhibits less white glass as compared with a like fiber-reinforced plastic which contains glass fiber which is sized with a like film-forming composition without said functional monomer units.