Dielectric raw material, antenna device, portable phone and electromagnetic wave shielding body
There are provided a high-permittivity dielectric raw material, an antenna device using the raw material and being useful as, especially, the built-in antenna device of a portable phone; a portable phone which can be reduced in weight, thickness and size, with an antenna radiation efficiency improved, and an electromagnetic wave shielding body for effectively shielding electromagnetic wave from an electric cooker. A dielectric raw material A having carbons dispersed in a silicone rubber base material 1 , wherein, in any one of dielectric raw materials A, 1) containing 150 to 300 pts.wt. of carbons per 100 pts.wt. of silicone rubber, 2) formed by crosslinking and molding a mixture of non-crosslinked silicone rubber, non-crosslinked organic polymer and carbons, and 3) formed by combining and blending at least two kinds of carbons having different shapes and selected from spherical carbon 2 , flat carbon, carbon fiber with a specific aspect ratio, carbon nanotube and conductive carbon 3 , carbons are unevenly distributed in a silicone rubber base material 1 or carbons are contained with at least part of them contacting each other.
1. A dielectric raw material comprising:
a silicone rubber base material containing a silicone rubber as a main material; and
carbon dispersed in the silicone rubber base material, wherein
the carbon is unevenly distributed in the silicone rubber base material or the carbon is contained with at least part of carbon materials contacting each other, so that conductive paths cover an area of not less than ¼ times of the surface area of the dielectric raw material, in
a dielectric raw material containing 150 to 300 parts by weight of said carbon per 100 parts by weight of said silicone rubber, wherein
the dielectric raw material is formed by crosslinking and molding a mixture of said silicone rubber in its non-crosslinked state, a non-crosslinked organic polymer, and said carbon, and the amount of the non-crosslinked organic polymer is 1 to 15 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the non-crosslinked silicone rubber, and combining and blending at least two kinds of said carbon having different shapes, wherein
said organic polymer is liquid ethylenepropylene rubber or polybutene, and wherein
the at least two kinds of said carbon are selected from the group consisting of spherical carbon, carbon nanotubes, and conductive carbon.
2. The dielectric raw material as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the dielectric raw material has a property wherein for a 1 mm-thick sheet of said dielectric raw material, the value ∈ r ′ of the real part of the complex relative permittivity ∈ r at 900 MHz is not less than 100 and the value ∈ r ” of the imaginary part of the complex relative permittivity ∈ r at 900 MHz is not less than 100.
3. The dielectric raw material as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the mixture of the silicone rubber is essentially free of a crosslinked particulate polymer.
4. The dielectric raw material as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the spherical carbon is employed in combination with carbon nanotubes or conductive carbon.
5. The dielectric raw material as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the spherical carbon is employed in combination with conductive carbon, the amount of said spherical carbon being 50 to 99 wt. % in the total amount of said carbon, and the amount of conductive carbon being 1 to 50 wt. % in the total amount of said carbon.
6. The dielectric raw material as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the conductive carbon and the carbon nanotubes are employed in combination, the amount of carbon nanotubes being 1 to 99 wt. % in the total amount of said carbon, and the amount of the conductive carbon being 1 to 99 wt. % in the total amount of said carbon.
7. The dielectric raw material as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the carbon nanotubes are employed in combination of a spherical carbon, the amount of the carbon nanotubes being 0.5 to 95 wt. % in the total amount of said carbon, and the amount of said spherical carbon being 5 to 99.5 wt. % in the total amount of said carbon.
8. The dielectric raw material as set forth in claim 1 , wherein a DBP oil absorption measured according to ASTM D 2414-79 of said conductive carbon is not less than 100 cm 3 /100 g and the BET specific surface area of said conductive carbon is not less than 30 m 2 /g.
9. The dielectric raw material as set forth in claim 1 , wherein said carbon is in the state of being present in said non-crosslinked organic polymer preferentially to being present in said non-crosslinked silicone rubber.
10. An antenna device comprising a dielectric raw material as set forth in claim 1 .
11. The antenna device as set forth in claim 10 , which is a built-in antenna device of a portable phone.
12. A portable phone equipped with an electromagnetic wave shielding body using a dielectric raw material as set forth in claim 1 .
13. An electromagnetic wave shielding body comprising a dielectric raw material as set forth in claim 1 .
14. The electromagnetic wave shielding body as set forth in claim 13 , which is an electric cooker electromagnetic wave shielding body for shielding electromagnetic waves generated from an electric cooker.