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US 7,462,671 · App. 10/547,887 · Granted Dec 9, 2008

Thermoplastic resin composition, molded article, and film

Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 7,462,671
App. No.
10/547,887
Granted
Dec 9, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a thermoplastic resin composition which contains a thermoplastic polymer (A) containing a glutaric anhydride-containing component shown in the following general formula (1), where R 1 and R 2 are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and a rubber-containing polymer compound (B), and satisfies the following conditions of (I) and/or (II), (I) a total light transmittance per 2 mm of the thickness of the thermoplastic resin composition is more than 90%, (II) a weight-average molecular weight of a thermoplastic polymer (A) is from 30,000 to 150,000 and a glass transition temperature is at least 130° C. According to the present invention, a thermoplastic composition having high heat resistance, superior mechanical properties, colorless transparency, optical isotropy and moldability, as well as solvent resistance, is provided.

Claims (16)

1. A molded product containing a thermoplastic resin composition comprising a thermoplastic polymer (A) containing a glutaric anhydride-containing component shown in general formula (1),

where R 1 and R 2 are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and a multilayered polymer (B-1) comprising a rubber core and a covalently attached shell comprising a polymer containing the glutaric anhydride-containing component shown in general formula (1),

wherein the glutaric anhydride-containing component is covalently attached to the rubber core and said molded product has a total light transmittance per 2 mm of the thickness of the molded product of more than 90%.

2. The molded product according to claim 1 , wherein the weight-average molecular weight of the thermoplastic polymer (A) is from 30,000 to 150,000 and the glass transition temperature is more than 130° C.

3. The molded product according to claim 1 , wherein haze per 2 mm of the thickness is 3% or less.

4. The molded product according to claim 1 , wherein heat distortion temperature is at least 100° C.

5. The molded product according to claim 1 wherein said polymer is coploymer-containing 10 percent by weight or less of an unsaturated carboxylic acid component (iii), and/or 10 percent by weight or less of another vinyl monomer component (iv), in addition to the above (i) and (ii) components.

6. The molded product according to claim 1 , wherein a number average particle size of the multilayered polymer (B-1) is 0.05 to 1 μm.

7. The molded product according to claim 6 , wherein the difference in refractive indexes of the thermoplastic polymer (A) and the rubber polymer (B) is 0.01 or less.

8. The molded product according to claim 1 , wherein the difference in refractive indexes of the thermoplastic polymer (A) and the rubber polymer (B) is 0.02 or less.

9. The molded product according to claim 1 , wherein a stress optical coefficient is 5×10 −12 Pa −1 or less.

10. The molded product according to claim 1 , wherein the thermoplastic polymer (A) is a copolymer containing 25 to 50 percent by weight of the glutaric anhydride-containing component (1) shown in the above formula (1), and 50 to 75 percent by weight of an alkyl unsaturated carboxylate component (ii).

11. The molded product according to claim 5 , wherein the content of an aromatic vinyl monomer component in the other vinyl monomer component (iv) is 5 percent by weight or less.

12. The molded product according to claim 1 , wherein the multilayered polymer (B-1) contains an alkyl acrylate component and a substituted or unsubstituted styrene component.

13. The molded product according to claim 1 , wherein the rubber core also contains an alkyl acrylate component and a substituted or unsubstituted styrene component.

14. The molded product according to claim 1 , wherein the molded product is a film.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 31, 2005
From: MATSUMOTO, HIDEKI; SATO, DAISUKE; TANAKA, AKIKO; YAMANAKA, TORU
To: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
Reel/Frame 016957/0812 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2003-066497 · Mar 12, 2003 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20060100391A1 · May 11, 2006