Patent 7592558 was granted and assigned to E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus in which an electrically conductive contact is in slidable contact with a polymeric composition comprising thermoplastic polymer, a fibrous reinforcing agent, and a mineral filler. The Mohs hardness of the electrically conductive contact is within 1 unit of the Mohs hardness of the mineral filler.