IP Library Granted Patent US 7,863,378
Granted Patent B2
US 7,863,378 · App. 11/513,112 · Granted Jan 4, 2011

Thermoplastic elastomer composition and modifier composition using the same

Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
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Patent No.
US 7,863,378
App. No.
11/513,112
Granted
Jan 4, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising a thermoplastic vulcanized olefin elastomer (A) and an aromatic vinyl random copolymer (B), wherein the (A) component is a thermoplastic vulcanized elastomer composed of an ethylene-α-olefin copolymer (A-1) and a thermoplastic non-vulcanizable polymer (A-2) and the (B) component is a hydrogenated copolymer rubber composed mainly of random bonding which has an olefinic double bond hydrogenation ratio of 50% or more and comprises 10 to 49% by weight of a conjugated diene monomer and 51 to 90% by weight of an aromatic vinyl monomer.

Claims (16)

1. A thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising:

1) a thermoplastic vulcanized olefin elastomer (A),

2) an aromatic vinyl random copolymer (B), and

3) a block copolymer (D) having

a) a thermoplastic block (1) composed of either a block copolymer having an aromatic vinyl block and a conjugated diene block, or a hydrogenated product thereof, and

b) a thermoplastic block (2) of a thermoplastic polymer containing one or more functional groups selected from the group consisting of oxygen-containing functional groups, nitrogen-containing functional groups and sulfur-containing functional groups,

wherein the (A) component is a thermoplastic vulcanized elastomer composed of an ethylene-α-olefin copolymer (A-1) and a thermoplastic non-vulcanizable polymer (A-2), and the (A) component is vulcanized by a vulcanizing agent (E),

wherein the (A-1) component is an ethylene-α-olefin copolymer comprising ethylene and a C 3 to C 20 α-olefin, produced using a metallocene catalyst,

wherein the (A-2) component is at least one thermoplastic non-vulcanizable polymer selected from the group of:

a) a polyphenylene ether,

b) an olefin resin, and

c) an aromatic vinyl resin,

wherein the (B) component is a hydrogenated copolymer rubber composed mainly of random bonding which has an olefinic double bond hydrogenation ratio of 50% or more and comprises 10 to 49% by weight of a conjugated diene monomer and 51 to 90% by weight of an aromatic vinyl monomer,

wherein the (A) component consists of 1 to 99% by weight of the (A-1) component and 1 to 99% by weight of the (A-2) component based on 100% by weight of the (A) component,

wherein the proportion of the (A) component is 1 to 99 parts by weight based on the total 100 parts by weight of the (A) and (B) components, and

wherein the proportion of the (D) component is 1 to 100 parts by weight based on the total 100 parts by weight of the (A) and (B) components.

Assignments (5)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE NAME OF THE COMPANY PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 044455 FRAME 0428. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Jan 5, 2018
From: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
Reel/Frame 045909/0077 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 21, 2017
From: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
Reel/Frame 044455/0428 →
MERGER Recorded Apr 27, 2017
From: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
To: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 042349/0687 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Apr 26, 2017
From: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
To: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 042434/0651 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 14, 2006
From: NISHIHARA, HAJIME; HOSHINA, TOSHIKAZU
To: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 018517/0846 →
Continuity (1)
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