US 12,104,284 B2
Crimped multi-component fibers
Yinglong Chen, Lake Jackson, TX (US); Akanksha Garg, Pearland, TX (US); Yijian Lin, Pearland, TX (US); Sanjib Biswas, Manvel, TX (US); Jeffrey D. Weinhold, Lake Jackson, TX (US); Pavan Kumar Valavala, Missouri City, TX (US); Fabricio Arteaga Larios, Sugarland, TX (US); Jill Martin, Pearland, TX (US); Didem Oner-Deliormanli, Bellaire, TX (US); and Mehmet Demirors, Pearland, TX (US)
Assigned to DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, Midland, MI (US)
Appl. No. 17/293,202
Filed by DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, Midland, MI (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 20, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/062339
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 12, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/106800, PCT Pub. Date May 28, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/769,615, filed on Nov. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0049377 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. D01D 5/32 (2006.01); C08F 10/06 (2006.01); C08F 210/16 (2006.01); D01D 5/22 (2006.01); D01F 8/06 (2006.01)
CPC D01D 5/32 (2013.01) [C08F 10/06 (2013.01); C08F 210/16 (2013.01); D01D 5/22 (2013.01); D01F 8/06 (2013.01); C08F 2500/05 (2013.01); C08F 2500/12 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A curly fiber having a fiber centroid and comprising a first region having a first centroid and a second region having a second centroid wherein the first region comprises an ethylene/alpha olefin interpolymer composition in an amount of at least 75 weight percent based on total weight of the first region and wherein the ethylene/alpha olefin interpolymer composition is characterized by a low temperature peak and a high temperature peak on an elution profile via improved comonomer composition distribution (ICCD) procedure, and a full width at half maximum of the high temperature peak is less than 6.0° C. and the second region is a material comprising a polymer which is different from the ethylene/alpha-olefin interpolymer of the first region and wherein the regions are arranged such that at least one of the first centroid and the second centroid is not the same as the fiber centroid, wherein the ethylene/alpha olefin interpolymer composition is further characterized by a density in the range of 0.930 to 0.965 g/cm3, a melt index (I2) in the range of from 10 to 60 g/10 minutes, wherein the I2 is measured according to ASTM D1238, 190° C., 2.16 kg, a molecular weight distribution expressed as the ratio of the weight average molecular weight to number average molecular weight in the range of from 1.5 to 2.5, and a tan delta at 1 radian/second of at least 50, wherein the tan delta is determined at 190° C. over a frequency range from 0.1 to 100 radian/second at five points per decade interval and strain amplitude is constant at 10%.