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US 9,868,574 · App. 15/506,816 · Granted Jan 16, 2018

Water-soluble packaging film

Inventors: Yasuyuki Ieda (Aichi, JP); Shintaro Moriguchi (Shiga, JP)
Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
B65D65/46C08J5/18C08K3/10C08K5/053C08J2329/04
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Patent No.
US 9,868,574
App. No.
15/506,816
Granted
Jan 16, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a water-soluble packaging film which is capable of packaging chemicals while maintaining appropriate flexibility without changes in the appearance or offensive odors over a long period of time, which takes much less time to dissolve in water, and which can achieve excellent water solubility, excellent visibility, and excellent chemical resistance. The present invention relates to a water-soluble packaging film containing: polyvinyl alcohol; a plasticizer; and an alkali metal, the water-soluble packaging film containing 3 to 15 parts by weight of the plasticizer based on 100 parts by weight of the polyvinyl alcohol, the water-soluble packaging film containing 0.3 to 5% by weight of the alkali metal based on 100% by weight of the water-soluble packaging film.

Claims (18)

1. A water-soluble packaging film comprising:

polyvinyl alcohol;

a plasticizer; and

an alkali metal,

wherein the water-soluble packaging film contains 3 to 15 parts by weight of the plasticizer based on 100 parts by weight of the polyvinyl alcohol,

wherein the water-soluble packaging film contains 0.3 to 5% by weight of the alkali metal and 83.8 to 97% by weight of the polyvinyl alcohol based on 100% by weight of the water-soluble packaging film,

wherein the polyvinyl alcohol has a saponification degree of 80.0 to 99.9 mol %, and

wherein a content of the alkali metal per unit area is 0.06 to 10 g/m 2 .

2. The water-soluble packaging film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the alkali metal is sodium.

3. The water-soluble packaging film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the polyvinyl alcohol has a standard deviation (σ) of saponification degree distribution of 0.1 to 1.0 mol %.

4. The water-soluble packaging film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the water-soluble packaging film has a tensile strength in a tensile test at an elongation of 100% of 5 to 30 MPa.

5. The water-soluble packaging film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the polyvinyl alcohol is modified with at least one hydrophilic group selected from the group consisting of a sulfonic acid group, a pyrrolidone ring group, an amino group, and a carboxyl group.

6. The water-soluble packaging film according to claim 5 ,

wherein the polyvinyl alcohol contains a constitutional unit having the hydrophilic group in an amount of 0.1 to 15 mol %.

Assignments (2)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ATTORNEY DOCKET NUMBER. PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 041984 FRAME: 0026. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Apr 17, 2017
From: IEDA, YASUYUKI; MORIGUCHI, SHINTARO
To: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 042269/0318 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 12, 2017
From: IEDA, YASUYUKI; MORIGUCHI, SHINTARO
To: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 041984/0026 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2014-177522 · Sep 1, 2014 · national
JP 2015-032186 · Feb 20, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
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