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Granted Patent B2
US 11,946,924 · App. 17/152,485 · Granted Apr 2, 2024

Crosslinked fluoropolymer resin and control method for same

Inventors: Kazufumi Suenaga (Tokyo, JP); Koki Hirano (Tokyo, JP); Kenta Kimura (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
G01N33/442G01N21/65G01N23/2055C08J3/24C08J2327/18G01N2201/06113G01N2223/0566G01N2223/60
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Patent No.
US 11,946,924
App. No.
17/152,485
Granted
Apr 2, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A crosslinked fluoropolymer resin is configured to include a measuring step of irradiating a surface of the crosslinked fluoropolymer resin with a laser to measure a Raman spectrum, and an acceptance or rejection decision step of determining an acceptance or a rejection of a quality of a measurement region irradiated with the laser, on the basis of an intensity of a fluorescence spectrum relative to an intensity of a Raman scattering peak, which is ascribed to a CF 2 stretching vibration, in the measured Raman spectrum.

Claims (10)

1. A quality control method for a crosslinked fluoropolymer resin, comprising:

a measuring step of irradiating a surface of the crosslinked fluoropolymer resin with a laser to measure a Raman spectrum; and

an acceptance or rejection decision step of determining an acceptance or a rejection of a quality of a measurement region irradiated with the laser, on basis of an intensity of a fluorescence spectrum relative to an intensity of a Raman scattering peak, which is ascribed to a CF 2 stretching vibration, in a measured Raman spectrum.

2. The quality control method for the crosslinked fluoropolymer resin according to claim 1 , wherein, in the acceptance or rejection decision step, if a value of a ratio of an integrated intensity in a wave number range of 767 to 794 cm −1 of the fluorescence spectrum to an integrated intensity in a wave number range of 705 to 760 cm −1 of the CF 2 stretching vibration is not more than 0.55, then the quality of the measurement region irradiated with the laser is regarded as accepted.

3. A quality control method for a crosslinked fluoropolymer resin, comprising:

a measuring step of irradiating a surface of the crosslinked fluoropolymer resin with an X-ray to measure an X-ray diffraction pattern; and

an acceptance or rejection decision step of determining an acceptance or a rejection of a quality of a measurement region irradiated with the X-ray, on basis of at least one of a difference in distribution between spacings d between adjacent lattice planes, a degree of crystallinity, and a degree of (100) preferred orientation, which have been obtained from a measured X-ray diffraction pattern.

4. The quality control method for the crosslinked fluoropolymer resin according to claim 3 , wherein, in the acceptance or rejection decision step, if at least one of the difference in distribution between the spacings d between the adjacent (100) lattice planes being not greater than nm, the degree of crystallinity being not lower than 65%, and the degree of (100) preferred orientation being not lower than 0.97 is met, then the quality of the measurement region irradiated with the X-ray is regarded as accepted.

5. The quality control method for the crosslinked fluoropolymer resin according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a step of removing the measurement region, which has been regarded as rejected in the acceptance or rejection decision step, or a step of subjecting the crosslinked fluoropolymer resin to a heat treatment, to upgrade a quality of the measurement region, which has been regarded as rejected in the acceptance or rejection decision step, to a quality to be regarded as accepted.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 24, 2023
From: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
To: PROTERIAL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 062866/0134 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 21, 2021
From: SUENAGA, KAZUFUMI; HIRANO, KOKI; KIMURA, KENTA
To: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 054986/0260 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-010430 · Jan 24, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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