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US 11,254,791 · App. 15/742,682 · Granted Feb 22, 2022

Polyurethane gel and production method thereof

Inventors: Daisuke Hasegawa (Yokohama, JP); Masakazu Kageoka (Kawasaki, JP); Toshihiko Nakagawa (Ichihara, JP); Goro Kuwamura (Chiba, JP); Hirokazu Morita (Chiba, JP); Satoshi Yamasaki (Chiba, JP)
Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
C08J3/075B32B27/40C08G18/10C08G18/244C08G18/282C08G18/283C08G18/3206C08G18/4812C08G18/4825C08G18/4829C08G18/4837C08G18/4854C08G18/73C08G18/755C08G18/757C08G18/758C08G18/79C08G18/792C08G18/798C08L75/04C08J2375/04C08L2201/56
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Patent No.
US 11,254,791
App. No.
15/742,682
Granted
Feb 22, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a polyurethane gel 1 including a gel layer 2 and a coat layer 3 covering the gel layer 2, the gel layer 2 is produced by allowing at least aliphatic polyisocyanate having an average functionality of more than 2.0 to react with polyol having an average functionality of 3.0 or less, and the coat layer 3 is produced by allowing at least aliphatic diisocyanate and/or alicyclic diisocyanate to react with bifunctional active hydrogen compound.

Claims (29)

1. A polyurethane gel comprising a gel layer and a coat layer covering the gel layer,

wherein the gel layer is produced by allowing at least aliphatic polyisocyanate having an average functionality of more than 2.0 to react with polyol having an average functionality of 3.0 or less,

the coat layer is produced by allowing at least aliphatic diisocyanate and/or alicyclic diisocyanate to react with a bifunctional active hydrogen compound,

the aliphatic polyisocyanate having an average functionality of more than 2.0 is an isocyanurate derivative of pentamethylene diisocyanate,

an isocyanate group concentration of the aliphatic polyisocyanate having an average functionality of more than 2.0 is 20.0 mass % or more and 30.0 mass % or less,

the polyol having an average functionality of 3.0 or less contains noncrystalline polytetramethylene ether glycol,

the noncrystalline polytetramethylene ether glycol is a copolymer of tetrahydrofuran and branched glycol,

the molar ratio of the tetrahydrofuran relative to the branched glycol is 15/85 or more and 85/15 or less,

the aliphatic diisocyanate and/or alicyclic diisocyanate includes 1,4-bis(isocyanatomethyl) cyclohexane, and

the bifunctional active hydrogen compound includes polytetramethylene ether glycol.

2. The polyurethane gel according to claim 1 , wherein the aliphatic polyisocyanate having an average functionality of more than 2.0 has an average functionality of 2.5 or more and 4.0 or less.

3. The polyurethane gel according to claim 1 , wherein the aliphatic diisocyanate and/or alicyclic diisocyanate are alicyclic diisocyanate.

4. The polyurethane gel according to claim 3 , wherein the alicyclic diisocyanate is bis(isocyanatomethyl) cyclohexane.

5. The polyurethane gel according to claim 1 , wherein the polyol having an average functionality of 3.0 or less contains monol.

6. The polyurethane gel according to claim 1 , wherein the coat layer has a thickness of 500 μm or less.

7. A method for producing a polyurethane gel, the method comprising:

producing a gel layer by allowing aliphatic polyisocyanate having an average functionality of more than 2.0 to react with polyol having an average functionality of 3.0 or less, and

producing a coat layer by allowing aliphatic diisocyanate and/or alicyclic diisocyanate to react with a bifunctional active hydrogen compound,

wherein the step of producing a coat layer comprises,

producing an isocyanate group-terminated prepolymer by allowing the aliphatic diisocyanate and/or alicyclic diisocyanate to react with a portion of the bifunctional active hydrogen compound so that the equivalent ratio of the isocyanate group in the aliphatic diisocyanate and/or alicyclic diisocyanate relative to the active hydrogen group in the portion of the bifunctional active hydrogen compound is more than 1.0,

producing a coat layer by allowing the isocyanate group-terminated prepolymer to react with the remaining portion of the bifunctional active hydrogen compound,

the aliphatic polyisocyanate having an average functionality of more than 2.0 is an isocyanurate derivative of pentamethylene diisocyanate,

an isocyanate group concentration of the aliphatic polyisocyanate having an average functionality of more than 2.0 is 20.0 mass % or more and 30.0 mass % or less,

the polyol having an average functionality of 3.0 or less contains noncrystalline polytetramethylene ether glycol,

the noncrystalline polytetramethylene ether glycol is a copolymer of tetrahydrofuran and branched glycol,

the molar ratio of the tetrahydrofuran relative to the branched glycol is 15/85 or more and 85/15 or less,

the aliphatic diisocyanate and/or alicyclic diisocyanate includes 1,4-bis(isocyanatomethyl) cyclohexane, and

the bifunctional active hydrogen compound includes polytetramethylene ether glycol.

8. The polyurethane gel according to claim 1 , wherein a number average molecular weight of the noncrystalline polytetramethylene ether glycol is 500 or more and 4000 or less.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 8, 2018
From: HASEGAWA, DAISUKE; KAGEOKA, MASAKAZU; NAKAGAWA, TOSHIHIKO; KUWAMURA, GORO; MORITA, HIROKAZU; YAMASAKI, SATOSHI
To: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
Reel/Frame 044562/0272 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2015-138568 · Jul 10, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180208720A1 · Jul 26, 2018