US 4,871,799 AGrant
Thermoplastic Polymer Composition
Issue Date:1989-10-03
•8 Claims
Abstract
A thermoplastic polymer composition containing (a) a polyester or polyamide thermoplastic polymer and (b) a block graft copolymer which comprises (i) as the backbone portion at least one of a block copolymer or a hydrogenated block copolymer containing blocks of a styrene-type polymer and blocks of a butadiene-type polymer, and (ii) as the graft portion a radical disintegrative polymer, said block graft copolymer having been chemically modified with molecular units containing a functional group which will combine or interact with said thermoplastic polymer a). The thermoplastic polymer composition is superior in flexibility, resistance to chemicals and oil, impact resistance, moldability and elasticity.
Metadata
Assignee
- Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
Inventors
- Shigeo Kobayashi
- Takashi Nishida
Application Information
Application Number:US 2460165
Filing Date:1988-09-14
Priority Date:1985-10-28
Art Unit:151
Classifications
IPC:
C08L 6700C08L 7700
Field of Search:
52564;66;92
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Description
The present invention will be illustrated more specifically with reference to the following reference examples, examples and comparative examples.
Examples 1 and 2 and Comparative Examples 1 to 4
100 Parts by weight of SEBS, a hydrogenated block copolymer, (Kraton G-1657; a product of Showa Shell Chemical Co.) and butyl rubber, a radical disintegrative polymer, (Butyl 065; a product of Nippon Synthetic Rubber Co.), maleic anhydride and dicumyl peroxide in the respective amounts shown in Table 1, were mixed and then melt blended and reacted on a 40 mm.phi. single-screw extruder in which the cylinder temperature was set at 220.degree. C. to obtain modified block.graft copolymers A to E. In this case, the copolymer E was prepared using SEBS previously modified with maleic anhydride.
The modified block.graft copolymers A to E thus obtained were each mixed with polyamide in a proportion shown in Table 2, and melt blended and extruded into pellets at a cylinder temperature of 240.degree. C. on a 30 mm.phi. twin-screw extruder. And the physical properties were measured, and the results are shown in Table 3.
The polyamide used in every example is nylon 6 having a relative viscosity of 2.53 (1 g of nylon/100 cc of 98% sulfuric acid, 25.degree. C.), and it was vacuum-dried before use at 100.degree. C. for 16 hours.
The polyamide compositions obtained by every example and comparative example in Table 2 were dried for 16 hours in a vacuum drier kept at a temperature of 70.degree. C. and subjected to various physical property measurements described below. The results are shown in Table 3.
Tensile break strength:
Test pieces in the form of dumb-bell No.3 specified in JIS K 6301 were conditioned at room temperature for 16 to 24 hours before testing, and the test was conducted using a 20 mm span at a crosshead speed of 500 mm/min. The tensile break strength was calculated from the measurement values using the equations given in ASTM D 638.
Elongation at break:
The same procedure as above.
Melt-fluidity:
Test pieces were injection-molded, at an injection pressure of 1000 kg/cm.sup.2 and a cylinder temperature of 250.degree. C., into a snake flow mold kept at a temperature of 70.degree. C., and the flow length was measured.
Melt viscosity:
According to the reference test in JIS K 7210, test was carried out on a Koka flow tester using a die of 1 mm in diameter and 10 mm in thickness and a load of 100 kg/cm.sup.2.
Low-temperature impact resistance:
Test was carried out according to ASTM D-256-73. Samples were injection-molded at a temperature of 250.degree. C. into the form of bars, 63.5 mm.times.12.7 mm.times.12.7 mm in size, be notched. Before testing, the bars thus obtained were conditioned at room temperature for 96 hours and then at -30.degree. C. for 1 hour. Five bars were used for each test, and the result was expressed by a mean value.
Whitening upon stretching:
The test pieces in the form of dumb-bell No. 3 were folded at the center, and the degree of whitening at the bent portion was judged with naked eyes.
As is apparent from Table 3, it can be seen that the compositions of the present invention in Examples 1 and 2 exhibit excellent melt fluidity and hardness, improved fluidity in a mold and good injection-moldability without whitening upon stretching, and besides that, in addition to these excellent properties, they have elastomeric properties of flexibility and high toughness. On the other hand, the composition in Comparative example 1 is inferior in melt fluidity, being poor in moldability, and the compositions in Comparative examples 2,3 and 4, because of their simple mixed system accompanied by no reaction, are poor in both tensile break strength and elongation at break and also show whitening upon stretching.
Examples 3 to 5
Modified block.graft copolymers were prepared in the same manner as in the foregoing examples except that the proportion of the materials was changed as shown in Table 4. Thereafter, in the same manner as in Example 2, 40 parts of each copolymer and 60 parts of the polyamide were mixed to prepare pellets, and the physical properties were measured using the pellets. The results are shown in Table 4.
Example 6
A composition of the present invention was prepared in completely the same manner as in Example 2 except that the amount of SEBS was changed to 160 parts by weight, and that 40 parts of polypropylene was used in place of butyl rubber. The physical properties of the composition obtained were as follows: Melt viscosity, 4000 cps; tensile break elongation, 180%; and low-temperature impact resistance, good (no break). Also, the composition was found to have excellent chemical resistance and oil resistance.
Effect of the Invention:
The thermoplastic polymer compositions constituted as above of the present invention are superior in both impact resistance and moldability, so that they are useful as engineering plastics, and in addition, they can be formed into fibers, films and sheets.
The polyamide resin compositions of the present invention are used, as engineering plastics having flexibility, thermal resistance, chemical resistance and mechanical properties, in wide applications ranging from extrusion-molded products (e.g. tubes, hoses, belts) to injection-molded products (e.g. sound-arresting gears). Also, the molded products obtained, even if deformed locally, show no reduction in physical properties owing to whitening at that portion, so that excellent molded products that have so far never been obtained are obtained.
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. A thermoplastic polymer composition which comprises: (a) a polyester or polyamide thermoplastic polymer; and (b) a block graft copolymer which comprises (i) as the backbone portion at least one of a block copolymer or a hydrogenated block copolymer consisting of blocks of a vinyl-substituted aromatic compound polymer in a weight range of 5 to 60 weight percent and blocks of a conjugated diene compound polymer in a range of 95 to 40 weight percent, and (ii) as the graft portion, a polymer which in the presence of radicals disintegrates into smaller molecules by the cleavage of molecular chains in preference to rebonding and crosslinking of broken molecules, said block graft copolymer having been chemically modified with molecular units containing a functional group which combines with or interact with said thermoplastic polymer (a), the block copolymer and the radical disintegrative polymer being in a ratio of 20:1 to 1:2 by weight.
2. The thermoplastic polymer composition as claimed in claim 1, wherein the thermoplastic polymer (a) is a polyamide.
3. The thermoplastic polymer composition as claimed in claim 1, wherein the molecular unit containing a functional group is maleic anhydride.
4. The thermoplastic polymer composition as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vinyl-substituted aromatic compound polymer is in a range of 10 to 30 weight percent and the conjugated diene compound is in a range of 90 to 70 weight percent.
5. The thermoplastic polymer composition as claimed in claim 1, wherein the thermoplastic polymer composition has a melting point of 150.degree.-300.degree. C.
6. The thermoplastic polymer composition as claimed in claim 5, wherein the thermoplastic polymer is a polyamide and has a relative viscosity of not less than 1.8 as measured in 98% sulfuric acid at 30.degree. C.
7. The thermoplastic polymer composition as claimed in claim 1, wherein the radical disintegrative polymer is a member selected from the group consisting of: polyisobutylene, polypropylene, poly-.alpha.-methylstyrene, polymethacrylate, polymethacrylamide, polyvinylidene chloride, cellulose, cellulose derivatives, polytetrafluoroethylene, polytrifluorochloroethylene, butyl rubber and ethylene/propylene copolymers.
8. The thermoplastic polymer composition as claimed in claim 7, wherein the radical disintegrative polymer (ii) is a butyl rubber.