IP Library Granted Patent US 8,481,607
Granted Patent B2
US 8,481,607 · App. 13/558,547 · Granted Jul 9, 2013

Surface-treatment method for a fluororesin molded body, and fluororesin molded body

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Patent No.
US 8,481,607
App. No.
13/558,547
Granted
Jul 9, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A surface treatment method for a fluororesin molded body, which is a method for treating a surface of an ETFE molded body by using a glow discharge generated by a pulsed electric field having a voltage-rising time of at most 10 μsec in a nitrogen atmosphere under a pressure in the vicinity of atmospheric pressure; which comprises carrying out a plurality of glow discharge treatments at intervals of at least 0.01 sec so that the discharge density of each of the glow discharges is from 40 to 200 W·min/m 2 , and that the total discharge density of the glow discharges is from 220 to 800 W·min/m 2 . Further, an ETFE molded body subjected to a surface treatment by the surface treatment method.

Claims (6)

1. A surface treatment method for a fluororesin molded body, which is a method for treating a surface of a fluororesin molded body containing an ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer by using a glow discharge generated by a pulsed electric field having a voltage-rising time of at most 10 μsec in a nitrogen atmosphere under a pressure in the vicinity of atmospheric pressure;

which comprises carrying out a plurality of glow discharge treatments at intervals of at least 0.01 sec in a nitrogen atmosphere wherein the oxygen concentration is adjusted to be greater than 0% and at most 100 ppm and wherein, if hydrogen gas or carbon dioxide gas is present in the nitrogen atmosphere, the total amount of the hydrogen gas and the carbon dioxide gas is at most 10 mol% based on 100 mol% of the nitrogen gas, so that the discharge density of each of the glow discharges is from 40 to 200 W·min/m 2 , and that the total discharge density of the glow discharges is from 220 to 800 W·min/m 2 .

2. The surface treatment method for a fluororesin molded body according to claim 1 , wherein the molar ratio of ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene in the ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer is from 30/70 to 70/30.

3. The surface treatment method for a fluororesin molded body according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency of the pulsed electric field is from 0.5 to 100kHz.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said method is a continuous method.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, if hydrogen gas or carbon dioxide gas is present in the nitrogen atmosphere, the total amount of the hydrogen gas and the carbon dioxide gas is at most 5 mol% based on 100 mol% of the nitrogen gas.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 7, 2018
From: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
To: AGC INC.
Reel/Frame 046730/0786 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 26, 2012
From: ARUGA, HIROSHI; ODA, KOICHI
To: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
Reel/Frame 028645/0872 →