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US 12,421,386 · App. 18/074,897 · Granted Sep 23, 2025

Thermoplastic resin composition having improved bend/wrinkle resistant properties and formed article thereof

Inventor: Yuuki Omata (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: TECHNO-UMG CO., LTD.
C08L55/02C08K3/34C08L51/04C08L69/00
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Patent No.
US 12,421,386
App. No.
18/074,897
Granted
Sep 23, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A thermoplastic resin composition includes 7% to 64% by mass of rubber-containing graft copolymer (A), 2% to 35% by mass of thermoplastic elastomer (B), 0.5% to 90% by mass of polycarbonate-based resins (C), and 0.5% to 20% by mass of inorganic compound (D) having volume average particle diameter (MV) of 1 to 200 μm (where a total of (A), (B), (C), and (D) (hereafter referred to as “total of a component (A) to a component (D)”) is 100% by mass). The rubber-containing graft copolymer (A) is a graft copolymer in which 35 to 80 parts by mass of rubber-like polymer selected from diene-based rubber, acrylic rubber, and ethylene-based rubber is graft-polymerized with 20 to 65 parts by mass of vinyl-based monomer mixture containing an aromatic-vinyl-based monomer and a vinyl-cyanide-based monomer (where a total of the rubber-like polymer and the vinyl-based monomer mixture is 100% by mass).

Claims (17)

1. A thermoplastic resin composition consisting essentially of:

7% to 64% by mass of rubber-containing graft copolymer (A),

8% to 33% by mass of thermoplastic elastomer (B),

0.5% to 90% by mass of polycarbonate-based resins (C), and

0.5% to 20% by mass of inorganic compound (D) having a volume average particle diameter (MV) of 1 to 200 μm (where a total of (A), (B), (C), and (D) (hereafter referred to as “total of a component (A) to a component (D)”) is 100% by mass),

wherein a volume average particle diameter of the rubber-like polymer (A) is 100 to 1,500 nm, the rubber-containing graft copolymer (A) is a graft copolymer in which 35 to 80 parts by mass of rubberlike polymer selected from diene-based rubber, acrylic rubber, and ethylene-based rubber is graft-polymerized with 20 to 65 parts by mass of vinyl-based monomer mixture containing an aromatic-vinyl-based monomer and a vinylcyanide-based monomer (where a total of the rubber-like polymer and the vinyl-based monomer mixture is 100% by mass),

the thermoplastic elastomer (B) is a styrene-based elastomer which is a block copolymer containing at least one polymer block P of an aromatic vinyl compound and at least one polymer block Q of a conjugated diene compound and/or a hydrogenation product thereof, and a difference between the content (% by mass) of the rubber-like polymer in the total 100% by mass of the component (A) to the component (D) and the content (% by mass) of the thermoplastic elastomer (B) is within 15% by mass.

2. The thermoplastic resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of the aromatic-vinyl-based monomer to the vinyl-cyanide-based monomer in 100% by mass of the vinyl-based monomer mixture is aromatic-vinyl-based monomer/vinyl-cyanide-based monomer=50% to 95% by mass/50% to 5% by mass, and the graft rate of the rubber-containing graft copolymer (A) is 20% to 100% by mass.

3. The thermoplastic resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the MFR (200° C., 49.0 N) of the thermoplastic elastomer (B) is 1 to 25 g/10 min, and the MFR (230° C., 21.2 N) is 3 to 30 g/10 min.

4. The thermoplastic resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the thermoplastic elastomer (B) is the styrenebased elastomer having a content of the polymer block P of 5% to 60% by mass, and a content of the polymer block Q of 95% to 40% by mass.

5. The thermoplastic resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the inorganic compound (D) is muscovite.

6. A thermoplastic resin formed article produced by forming the thermoplastic resin composition and molding the same into an article according to claim 1 .

7. The thermoplastic resin composition according to claim 2 , wherein the MFR (200° C., 49.0 N) of the thermoplastic elastomer (B) is 1 to 25 g/10 min, and the MFR (230° C., 21.2 N) is 3 to 30 g/10 min.

8. The thermoplastic resin composition according to claim 2 , wherein the thermoplastic elastomer (B) is the styrenebased elastomer having a content of the polymer block P of 5% to 60% by mass, and a content of the polymer block Q of 95% to 40% by mass.

9. The thermoplastic resin composition according to claim 3 , wherein the thermoplastic elastomer (B) is the styrenebased elastomer having a content of the polymer block P of 5% to 60% by mass, and a content of the polymer block Q of 95% to 40% by mass.

10. A thermoplastic resin formed article produced by forming the thermoplastic resin composition and molding the same into an article according to claim 2 .

11. The thermoplastic resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein a difference between the content (% by mass) of the rubber-like polymer in the total 100% by mass of the component (A) to the component (D) and the content (% by mass) of the thermoplastic elastomer (B) is within 5% by mass.

Priority Claims (2)
JP 2020-069838 · Apr 8, 2020 · national
JP 2020-140258 · Aug 21, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 17616910
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