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APICAL
World-- Real World Applications
Featured
Application: CERN, LHC, Colliding Protons and APICAL®
Films
Apical Division - Kaneka Texas Corporation has improved upon traditional Polyimide
film to provide a product and service that are unequaled.
In fact, it may surprise you to find out how many industries
consistently rely upon the extraordinary properties of
APICAL Polyimide as an integral part of their product
design. These industries include flexible printed circuits,
wire and cable, motors, generators and transformers, pressure
sensitive tape, and specialty fabricated products.
The
APICAL World section of our Web site offers a glimpse
at some of the industries and applications that are using
APICAL Polyimide Film as their preferred choice.
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Aircraft
& Aerospace
APICAL Polyimide film is used as the material of
choice in wire and cable insulation in commercial
and military aircraft, space vehicles, satellites,
and missiles. FEP- or PTFE -- coated or laminated,
narrow-width APICAL Polyimide tapes produce insulation
that offers superior heat-sealability, and improved
abrasion and cut-through resistance, combined with
excellent dielectric and thermal properties. |
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Flexible
Printed Circuitry
Flexible printed circuits are found in everything
from automobiles, VCR's camcorders, portable phones,
and SLR cameras to sophisticated military and avionics
systems. Something as common as a notebook computer
wouldn't be possible without flexible printed circuit
technology that allows hundreds of tiny components
to be electronically connected in a three dimensional
array. |
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Motors
& Generators
A typical locomotive traction motor when stalled
can reach a temperature of 400 to 500C in just a
short period of time. High performance motors, generators
and transformers are often integrated into systems
that must operate under extremely harsh conditions.
Yet used within these devices, APICAL Polyimide
film easily endures this heat without loss of mechanical
or dielectric strength. |
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Mining
and Drilling
In the petroleum industry, submersible down-hole
pumps and cables must operate at depths of 20,000
feet, in environments filled with superheated brine,
hydrogen sulfide, and petrochemicals, as well as
in the arctic cold of the Alaskan oil fields. It's
a hostile world with no room for downtime. And it's
where APICAL Polyimide delivers space saving smaller
cable cross-sections and unprecedented reliability. |
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Pressure
Sensitive Tapes
Pressure sensitive tape is yet another major application
for APICAL Polyimide film. These tapes usually employ
one or two mils thick APICAL Polyimide and use different
types of adhesive depending upon the application.
In the electronics industry, where about half of
all the pressure sensitive tape is used, APICAL
Polyimide provides the perfect masking needed to
protect plated leads on printed circuit boards during
wave soldering where temperatures can reach 750C.
APICAL Polyimide is also used in electrical applications
for wrapping armature coils and as a splicing or
overwrap tape in insulating applicationS. |
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Specialty
Fabricated Products
APICAL Polyimide film is used in a wide range of
unusual applications due to its unique high and
low operating temperature capability. These applications
include: bar code labels, speaker coils, spiral
wrapped tubing, gaskets and diaphragms, aircraft
shim stock, space blankets, nuclear linear accelerator
insulation, carrier and transport belts, and sensors.
There is no end to the new applications that are
found every day for this exceptional high performance
polymer film! |
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