1. The use of thermoplastic starch in the manufacture of an adhesive and ultrathin waterproof-breathable film, said thermoplastic starch being provided in the form of an alloy with hydrophilic TPE comprising at least 10% by weight of polyethylene glycol (PEG), with regard to the weight of the TPE.
2. The use as claimed in claim 1, in which the percentage of thermoplastic starch represents from 10% to 90% of the weight of the alloy.
3. The use as claimed in claim 1, in which the hydrophilic TPE comprises:
from 1% to 100% of copolymer comprising polyurethane blocks and PEG blocks (TPUs) and
from 99% to 0% of at least one other hydrophilic TPE chosen from copolymers comprising polyamide blocks and PEG blocks (PEBAs), copolymers comprising polyester blocks and PEG blocks (COPEs) and their blends, with regard to the weight of the hydrophilic TPE.
4. An adhesive and ultrathin waterproof-breathable film, wherein it comprises an alloy of thermoplastic starch and of hydrophilic TPE, said TPE comprising at least 10% by weight of polyethylene glycol (PEG), with regard to the weight of the TPE.
5. The film as claimed in claim 4, in which:
the percentage of thermoplastic starch represents from 10% to 90%,
the percentage of hydrophilic TPE represents from 90% to 10%, of the weight of the alloy.
6. The film as claimed in claim 4, additionally comprising a functionalized polyolefin comprising a grafting by a monomer chosen from the group consisting of unsaturated carboxylic acids, unsaturated carboxylic anhydrides, vinyl monomers, acrylic monomers and a mixture of these.
7. The waterproof-breathable film as claimed in claim 6, in which the functionalized polyolefin is chosen from the group consisting of ethyleneacrylic ester copolymers, ethyleneacrylic estermaleic anhydride copolymers and ethyleneacrylic esterglycidyl methacrylate copolymers.
8. The waterproof-breathable film as claimed in claim 4, in which the film has a thickness of less than or equal to 25 \u03bcm.
9. A process for the manufacture of the film as claimed in claim 4, comprising the stages of:
a) making available a blend of starch, of plasticizer and of water;
b) making available the hydrophilic TPE;
c) extruding the blend of stage a) and then adding the TPE of stage b) to the blend at the end of extrusion;
d) drawing the blend in order to form a film.
10. The process as claimed in claim 9, in which the stage of drawing the blend is carried out by extrusionblow molding.
11. The process as claimed in claim 9, in which the stage of drawing the blend is carried out by cast film extrusion.
12. The process as claimed in claim 9, in which stage c) is carried out at a temperature within the range from 100\xb0 C. to 300\xb0 C.
13. A laminated product comprising at least one textile material and at least one waterproof-breathable film as claimed in claim 4, said film adhering to at least one surface of the textile material with a peel strength within the range from 0.5 to 50 N.
14. The laminate as claimed in claim 13, in which said at least one textile material is provided in the form of a porous membrane, of a woven textile or of a nonwoven textile.
15. The laminate as claimed in claim 13, in which said at least one textile material comprises synthetic fibers, natural fibers, artificial fibers manufactured from natural starting materials, mineral fibers andor metal fibers.
16. The laminate as claimed in claim 13, in which said at least one textile material constitutes a felt, a filter, a film, a gauze, a cloth, a dressing, a layer, a fabric, an item of knitwear, an item of clothing, a garment, an item of bedding, an item of furniture, a curtain, a compartment covering, a functional technical textile, a geotextile andor an agrotextile.
17. The use of a film as claimed in claim 4 in the medical field, hygiene, luggage, the clothing industry, the garment industry, domestic or household equipment, furniture, fitted carpets, the automobile industry, industrial filtration, agriculture andor the construction industry.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to:
identify a plurality of candidate output addresses from an address range for an intermediate entity;
provide a data packet to a candidate output address from the plurality of candidate output addresses;
determine whether a response to the data packet was provided from an input address of that intermediate entity; and
define the candidate output address as an output address of the intermediate entity if the response to the data packet was provided from the input address of the intermediate entity.
2. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, further storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to discard the candidate output address if the response to the data packet was not provided from the input address of the intermediate entity.
3. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, further storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to generate the address range based on an input address associated with a subsequent intermediate entity of the intermediate entity.
4. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, further storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to:
request an address mask from a subsequent intermediate entity; and
generate the address range based on the address mask and an input address associated with a subsequent intermediate entity.
5. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, further storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to provide a probe request to each candidate output address from the plurality of candidate output addresses before the data packet is provided to the candidate output address.
6. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the data packet includes a port identifier that is not associated with a resource at the candidate output address.
7. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the response is a port unreachable response.
8. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, further storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to repeat the identifying, providing, determining, and defining for each intermediate device in a communications link.
9. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, further storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to determine that the candidate output address is an active address.
10. A communications path discovery system, comprising:
an address collection module to identify an input address for each intermediate entity from a plurality of intermediate entities in a communications link;
an identification module to identify a plurality of candidate output addresses for each intermediate entity; and
a correlation module to define a candidate output address from the plurality of candidate output addresses for each intermediate entity as an output address of that intermediate entity if a response to a data packet provided to that candidate output address is received from the input address of that intermediate entity.
11. The system of claim 10, further comprising a probe module to:
provide probe requests to the plurality of candidate output addresses for each intermediate entity;
receive responses to the probe requests; and
provide information associated with the probe requests to the identification module.
12. The system of claim 10, further comprising an aggregation module to generate a communications path descriptor based on the input address of each intermediate entity and output address of each intermediate entity.
13. A processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to, for each intermediate entity from a plurality of intermediate entities in a communications link:
identify an input address for that intermediate entity;
identify a plurality of candidate output addresses from an address range for that intermediate entity;
provide data packets to each candidate output address from the plurality of candidate output addresses for that intermediate entity until a response to a data packet from the data packets provided to a candidate output address is provided from the input address of that intermediate entity or a data packet is provided to each candidate output address from the plurality of candidate output addresses for that intermediate entity; and
define the candidate output address as an output address of the intermediate entity.
15. The processor-readable medium of claim 13, further storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to define a communications path including the input address of each intermediate entity and the output address of each intermediate entity.
16. The processor-readable medium of claim 13, further storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to, for each intermediate entity, determine the address range.
17. The processor-readable medium of claim 13, further storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to, for each intermediate entity:
request an address mask from a subsequent intermediate entity; and
determine the address range based on the address mask.
18. The processor-readable medium of claim 13, wherein, for each intermediate entity, the data packet includes a port identifier at which no resource is available at that intermediate entity.
19. The processor-readable medium of claim 13, wherein, for each intermediate entity, the identifying the plurality of candidate output addresses includes determining that the plurality of candidate output addresses are active addresses.
20. The processor-readable medium of claim 13, wherein, for each intermediate entity, the response to the data packet provided to the candidate output address is a port unreachable response.