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Granted Patent B2
US 11,511,473 · App. 16/490,205 · Granted Nov 29, 2022

Method for producing polyester film having furandicarboxylate unit

Inventors: Shota Hayakawa (Otsu, JP); Yukihiro Numata (Otsu, JP); Katsuya Ito (Otsu, JP); Jun Inagaki (Osaka, JP); Toshiyuki Shimizu (Inuyama, JP); Shoichi Gyobu (Osaka, JP); Chikao Morishige (Osaka, JP); Jesper Gabriel Van Berkel (Amsterdam, NL)
Assignees: TOYOBO CO., LTD.; FURANIX TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
B29C48/305B29C48/0018B29C48/08B29C55/12B29C71/0063B29C71/0072B29C71/02B29C48/885B29C2071/022B29C2948/92152B29K2067/00B29K2995/0053
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Patent No.
US 11,511,473
App. No.
16/490,205
Granted
Nov 29, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

It is provided that a method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film that can be used for industrial and packaging applications. A method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film, comprising: a step of feeding a polyester resin into an extruder, a step of extruding the molten polyester resin from an extruder to obtain a molten resin sheet at 250 to 310° C., a step of attaching the molten resin sheet closely to a cooling roll by an electrostatic application method to obtain an unstretched sheet, and a step of biaxially stretching the unstretched sheet, wherein the polyester resin fulfills the following (A) to (C): (A) the polyester resin comprises a polyethylene furandicarboxylate resin composed of a furandicarboxylic acid and ethylene glycol; (B) an intrinsic viscosity of the polyester resin is 0.50 dL/g or more; (C) a melt specific resistance value at 250° C. of the polyester resin is 3.0×10 7 Ω·cm or less.

Claims (28)

1. A method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film, comprising:

a step of feeding a polyester resin into an extruder to form a molten polyester resin,

a step of extruding the molten polyester resin from the extruder to obtain a molten resin sheet at 250 to 310° C.,

a step of attaching the molten resin sheet to a cooling roll by an electrostatic application method to obtain an unstretched sheet,

a step of biaxially stretching the unstretched sheet in a machine direction at 4.5 to 10.0 times, and then in a direction perpendicular to the machine direction to obtain a stretched film,

a step of heat fixing while the stretched film is kept stretched in the direction perpendicular to the machine direction, and

a step of relaxing in the direction perpendicular to the machine direction at a relaxation ratio of 0.5 to 10%,

wherein

the step of heat fixing is followed by the step of relaxing,

an intrinsic viscosity of the molten resin sheet is 0.60 to 1.20 dL/g, and

a plane orientation coefficient of the biaxially oriented polyester film is 0.100-0.200, and

the polyester resin fulfills the following (A) to (C):

(A) the polyester resin comprises a polyethylene furandicarboxylate resin composed of a furandicarboxylic acid and ethylene glycol;

(B) an intrinsic viscosity of the polyester resin is 0.50 dL/g or more; and

(C) a melt specific resistance value at 250° C. of the polyester resin is 3.0×10 7 Ω·cm or less.

2. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 1 , wherein a melt specific resistance value of the molten resin sheet is 2.5×10 7 Ω·cm or less at a temperature at which the molten resin sheet is extruded from the extruder.

3. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 2 , wherein the melt specific resistance value of the polyester resin at 275° C. is 2.5×10 7 Ω·cm or less.

4. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 3 , wherein the step of obtaining an unstretched sheet and the step of biaxially stretching the unstretched sheet are carried out continuously.

5. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 4 , wherein a thickness of the film is 1 μm or more and 300 μm or less.

6. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 5 , wherein the polyester film has a heat shrinkage rate of 0.01% or more and 50% or less when the polyester film is heated at 150° C. for 30 minutes.

7. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 6 , wherein the film has an oxygen transmission of 1 mL/m 2 /day/MPa or more and 200 mL/m 2 /day/MPa or less per 50 μm of film thickness at a temperature of 23° C. and a relative humidity of 65%.

8. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 7 , wherein both a refractive index (nx) of the film in a flow direction in the film plane and a refractive index (ny) of the film in a transverse direction perpendicular to the flow direction in the film plane are 1.5700 or more and 1.7000 or less.

9. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 1 , wherein the melt specific resistance value of the polyester resin at 275° C. is 2.5×10 7 106 ·cm or less.

10. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 1 , wherein the step of obtaining an unstretched sheet and the step of biaxially stretching the unstretched sheet are carried out continuously.

11. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the film is 1 μm or more and 300 μm or less.

12. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 1 , wherein the polyester film has a heat shrinkage rate of 0.01% or more and 50% or less when the polyester film is heated at 150° C. for 30 minutes.

13. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 1 , wherein the film has an oxygen transmission of 1 mL/m 2 /day/MPa or more and 200 mL/m 2 /day/MPa or less per 50 μm of film thickness at a temperature of 23° C. and a relative humidity of 65%.

14. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 1 , wherein both a refractive index (nx) of the film in a flow direction in the film plane and a refractive index (ny) of the film in a transverse direction perpendicular to the flow direction in the film plane are 1.5700 or more and 1.7000 or less.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 23, 2020
From: SYNVINA C.V.
To: FURANIX TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
Reel/Frame 053864/0859 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 30, 2019
From: VAN BERKEL, JESPER GABRIEL
To: SYNVINA C.V.
Reel/Frame 050224/0142 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 30, 2019
From: HAYAKAWA, SHOTA; NUMATA, YUKIHIRO; ITO, KATSUYA; INAGAKI, JUN; SHIMIZU, TOSHIYUKI; GYOBU, SHOICHI; MORISHIGE, CHIKAO
To: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 050224/0174 →
Priority Claims (1)
WO PCT/JP2017/008200 · Mar 1, 2017 · international
Continuity (1)
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