Patent ID: 8273840

Claim:
A gel composition comprising a silicone polyether elastomer from the reaction of: A) an organohydrogensiloxane prepared by a hydrosilylation reaction of; a) an organohydrogencyclosiloxane having the formula [(CH 3 )HSiO] g where g is 3-8 and, B) a compound or mixture of compounds having at least two aliphatic unsaturated hydrocarbon groups in its molecule selected from a vinyl functional or hexenyl functional polydimethylsiloxane having the average formula, CH 2 ═CH(Me) 2 SiO[Me 2 SiO] x Si(Me) 2 CH═CH 2 CH 2 ═CH—(CH 2 ) 4 (Me) 2 SiO[Me 2 SiO] x Si(Me) 2 -(CH 2 ) 4 —CH═CH 2 , or Me 3 SiO[(Me) 2 SiO] x [CH 2 ═CH(Me)SiO] y SiMe 3 , wherein Me is methyl, x≧0 and y≧2, and wherein the molar ratio of SiH units to unsaturated group ranges from 2/1 to 8/1, B 3 ) a polyether compound or mixture of polyether compounds having the formula R 2 —Y—R 2 where R 2 is a monovalent unsaturated aliphatic group and Y is a polyoxyalkylene group having the formula —[(C 2 H 4 O) c (C 3 H 6 O) d (C 4 H 8 O) e ]— where c, d, and e may each independently range from 0 to 200, providing the sum of c+d+e is greater than 2 C) a hydrosilylation catalyst, and D) a carrier fluid selected from decamethylcyclopentasiloxane, isododecane, or isodecyl neopentanoate, wherein the gel composition has a compression hardness of at least 200 Newton/m 2 .