Patent ID: 7442434

Claim:
A fibre composite impregnated with a curable, solvent-free epoxy resin matrix composition, said composition comprising: (a) a liquid epoxy resin or a liquid mixture of epoxy resins, (b) a benzylidenamine compound obtained by reacting a benzaldehyde of the formula (I) in which R 1 is hydrogen, C 1 -C 5 alkyl or C 1 -C 5 alkoxy, with a primary amine, (c) an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic primary monoamine and/or disecondary diamine, and (d) a catalytically curing tertiary amine, the curable epoxy resin matrix composition containing from 0.15 to 0.8 amine hydrogen equivalent of the amine component (c) and from 0.01 to 0.1 mol of the tertiary amine (d) per epoxide equivalent of the epoxy resin (a).