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Granted Patent B2
US 12,485,399 · App. 17/778,520 · Granted Dec 2, 2025

Hollow particles, resin composition and molded body

Inventor: Masashi Watanabe (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
B01J13/18C08F2/18C08F220/14
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Patent No.
US 12,485,399
App. No.
17/778,520
Granted
Dec 2, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are hollow particles which have a high void ratio, hardly collapse, and have a reduced amount of volatile compounds. The hollow particles comprising a shell and a hollow portion surrounded by the shell, and having a void ratio of 50% or more and 90% or less, wherein the shell has a thickness of 0.2 μm or more and 0.9 μm or less, and the shell contains a polymer derived from a polymerizable monomer for shell, which is composed of 70% by mass or more and 100% by mass or less of a crosslinkable monomer and 0% by mass or more and 30% by mass or less of a non-crosslinkable monomer, and a polar resin selected from the group consisting of polymers containing a repeating unit which contains a hetero atom.

Claims (10)

1 . Hollow particles comprising:

a shell having a thickness of 0.2 μm or more and 0.9 μm or less, wherein the shell comprises:

a polymer derived from a polymerizable monomer for shell, which is composed of 70% by mass or more and 100% by mass or less of a crosslinkable monomer and 0% by mass or more and 30% by mass or less of a non-crosslinkable monomer; and

a polar resin selected from the group consisting of polymers containing a repeating unit which contains a hetero atom, wherein a content of the polar resin is 0.1 parts by mass or more and 10.0 parts by mass or less per 100 parts by mass of the polymerizable monomer for shell; and

a hollow portion surrounded by the shell,

wherein the hollow particles have a void ratio of 50% or more and 90% or less.

2 . The hollow particles according to claim 1 , wherein the polar resin is an acrylic resin.

3 . The hollow particles according to claim 2 , wherein the acrylic resin as the polar resin is a copolymer derived from polymerizable monomers for polar resin, wherein the polymerizable monomers for polar resin comprise 50.0% by mass or more and 99.9% by mass or less of a methyl methacrylate and 0.1% by mass or more and 5.0% by mass or less of a polar group-containing monomer containing at least one polar group selected from a carboxyl group, a hydroxyl group, a sulfonic acid group, an amino group, a polyoxyethylene group and an epoxy group.

4 . A resin composition comprising the hollow particles defined by claim 1 , and a resin.

5 . A molded body of the resin composition defined by claim 4 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 20, 2022
From: WATANABE, MASASHI
To: ZEON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 059971/0954 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2019-221624 · Dec 6, 2019 · national
JP 2020-097935 · Jun 4, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220410111A1 · Dec 29, 2022
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