Biaxially oriented polyamide film and polyamide film mill roll
To provide a gas barrier biaxially oriented polyamide film and a polyamide film mill roll, even as a product that is close to an end of a mill roll, having favorable mechanical characteristics, thermal characteristics, and few S-shape curling due to moisture absorption after being made into a bag. A biaxially oriented polyamide film having at least one layer formed of a polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of poly(m-xylylene adipamide), wherein a molecular orientation angle of the film is not smaller than 20°, a strain at moisture absorption of the film is not higher than 1.3%, an impact strength of the film is not lower than 0.7 J/15 μm, and a heat shrinkage rate, after heating for ten minutes at 160° C., of the film is 0.6 to 3.0% in both an MD direction and a TD direction.
1. A biaxially oriented polyamide film having at least one layer formed of a polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of poly(m-xylylene adipamide), wherein
a molecular orientation angle of the film is not smaller than 20°,
a strain at moisture absorption of the film is not higher than 1.3%,
an impact strength of the film is not lower than 0.7 J/15 μm, and
a heat shrinkage rate, after heating for ten minutes at 160° C., of the film is 0.6 to 3.0% in both an MD direction and a TD direction.
2. The biaxially oriented polyamide film according to claim 1 , wherein an oxygen permeability of the biaxially oriented polyamide film is 60 to 140 ml/m 2 ·day·MPa.
3. The biaxially oriented polyamide film according to claim 2 , wherein a strain at thermal shrinkage, after heating for ten minutes at 160° C., of the film is not higher than 2.0%.
4. The biaxially oriented polyamide film according to claim 3 , wherein a layer formed of a polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of polyamide 6 is laminated on at least one surface of the layer formed of the polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of poly(m-xylylene adipamide).
5. The biaxially oriented polyamide film according to claim 4 , wherein a layer formed of a polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of polyamide 6 is laminated on each of both surfaces of the layer formed of the polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of poly(m-xylylene adipamide).
6. The biaxially oriented polyamide film according to claim 1 , wherein a strain at thermal shrinkage, after heating for ten minutes at 160° C., of the film is not higher than 2.0%.
7. The biaxially oriented polyamide film according to claim 1 , wherein a layer formed of a polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of polyamide 6 is laminated on at least one surface of the layer formed of the polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of poly(m-xylylene adipamide).
8. The biaxially oriented polyamide film according to claim 1 , wherein a layer formed of a polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of polyamide 6 is laminated on each of both surfaces of the layer formed of the polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of poly(m-xylylene adipamide).
9. A polyamide film mill roll of a biaxially oriented polyamide film having at least one layer formed of a polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of poly(m-xylylene adipamide), wherein
a molecular orientation angle of the film at each of positions that are inward by 300 mm from a right end and a left end in a transverse direction of the film mill roll is not smaller than 20°,
an impact strength of the film at each position is not lower than 0.7 J/15 μm,
a strain at moisture absorption of the film at each position is not higher than 1.3%, and
a heat shrinkage rate, after heating for ten minutes at 160° C., of the film at each position is 0.6 to 3.0% in both an MD direction and a TD direction.
10. The polyamide film mill roll according to claim 9 , wherein an oxygen permeability of the biaxially oriented polyamide film is 60 to 140 ml/m 2 ·day·MPa.
11. The polyamide film mill roll according to claim 10 , wherein a strain at thermal shrinkage, after heating for ten minutes at 160° C., of the film at each of the positions that are inward by 300 mm from the right end and the left end in the transverse direction of the polyamide film mill roll is not higher than 2.0%.
12. The polyamide film mill roll according to claim 11 , wherein, in the biaxially oriented polyamide film, a layer formed of a polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of polyamide 6 is laminated on at least one surface of the layer formed of the polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of poly(m-xylylene adipamide).
13. The polyamide film mill roll according to claim 12 , wherein, in the biaxially oriented polyamide film, a layer formed of a polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of polyamide 6 is laminated on each of both surfaces of the layer formed of the polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of poly(m-xylylene adipamide).
14. The polyamide film mill roll according to claim 9 , wherein a strain at thermal shrinkage, after heating for ten minutes at 160° C., of the film at each of the positions that are inward by 300 mm from the right end and the left end in the transverse direction of the polyamide film mill roll is not higher than 2.0%.
15. The polyamide film mill roll according to claim 9 , wherein, in the biaxially oriented polyamide film, a layer formed of a polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of polyamide 6 is laminated on at least one surface of the layer formed of the polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of poly(m-xylylene adipamide).
16. The polyamide film mill roll according to claim 9 , wherein, in the biaxially oriented polyamide film, a layer formed of a polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of polyamide 6 is laminated on each of both surfaces of the layer formed of the polyamide resin containing not lower than 60% by mass of poly(m-xylylene adipamide).