Abstract:
Expanded, substantially non-crosslinked polypropylene resin beads capable of producing a high rididity foamed molding at a relatively low temperature. The beads are produced by a process including a step of dispersing substantially non-crosslinked polypropylene resin particles in a dispersing medium containing an organic peroxide to obtain a dispersion, a step of heating the dispersion to decompose the organic peroxide and to modify the surface of the surface-modified polypropylene resin particles, and a step of expanding the non-crosslinked, surface-modified polypropylene resin particles using a blowing agent.
Abstract:
A process of producing a foamed molding, wherein expanded, substantially non-crosslinked polypropylene-based resin beads are heated in a mold to fuse-bond the beads together into a unitary body. Each of the expanded beads has been surface-modified with an organic peroxide.
Abstract:
Expanded, substantially non-crosslinked polypropylene resin beads capable of producing a high rididity foamed molding at a relatively low temperature. The beads are produced by a process including a step of dispersing substantially non-crosslinked polypropylene resin particles in a dispersing medium containing an organic peroxide to obtain a dispersion, a step of heating the dispersion to decompose the organic peroxide and to modify the surface of the surface-modified polypropylene resin particles, and a step of expanding the non-crosslinked, surface-modified polypropylene resin particles using a blowing agent.
Abstract:
A foamed body produced by using expandable particles, and having communicating pores has sound absorption characteristics, and can be used as a sound absorptive material. However, a sound absorptive material comprising such a foamed body could not attain a high sound absorbing coefficient in a wide acoustic frequency band. The subject mold body is produced by using resin particles and has sound absorption characteristics, the resin particles having through pores and a porosity in a most densely packed state of 45-80 %. The void ratio of the molded body is 10-60 %, and the bulk density thereof 0.01-0.6 g/cm . The molded body has not less than 3 continuous central frequency measuring points at which the sound absorbing coefficient is not less than 70 %, and not less than 7 continuous central frequency measuring points at which the sound absorbing coefficient is not less than 50 % in the sound absorbing coefficients at the central frequencies of 250, 315, 400, 500, 630, 800, 1000, 1250, 1600, 2000, 2500 and 3150 (Hz) which are determined by a sound absorbing coefficient measuring method according to the reverberation method under JIS A1409.
Abstract:
Foamed particles of cross-linked aliphatic polyester resins having a gel fraction of at least 5 % by weight. The foamed particles can be obtained by cross-linking non-cross-linked aliphatic polyester resin particles with a cross-linking agent containing an organic peroxide to obtain cross-linked resin particles having a gel fraction of at least 5 % by weight, and foaming the cross-linked resin particles. Biodegradable foamed moldings are obtained by thermally foaming the foamed cross-linked aliphatic polyester resin particles in a mold.
Abstract:
A conventional shock absorbing material formed from a foamed molding of polypropylene resin particles has an excellent cushioning property and impact resilience as compared with shock absorbing materials formed of other material resins, but is not satisfactory in terms of rigidity and energy absorbing efficiency. The present invention provides a shock absorbing material formed from an in-mold formed molding manufactured by using foamed particles, of which a base material resin is a propylene homopolymer prepared with the use of a metallocene polymerization catalyst. The base material resin has a tensile elastic modulus of 15000 kgf/cm2 or more, and the in-mold formed molding has such a crystal structure that an intrinsic peak a and a high temperature peak b appear as endothermic peaks in the DSC curve obtained by differential scanning calorimetry of the molding. The high temperature peak b appears on a higher temperature side than the inherent peak a does, and has a heat quantity of 25 J/g or more.
Abstract:
Expandable beads comprising as the base resin a propylene random copolymer prepared by copolymerizing propylene with one or more comonomers selected from the group consisting of ethylene and α-olefins having 4 or more carbon atoms in the presence of a metallocene polymerization catalyst, wherein the propylene random copolymer is an isotactic one having a melting point exceeding 140 °C and a melt flow rate of 12 g/10 min or below. For example, propylene/ethylene random copolymers are suitably usable as the base resin. Products of in-mold expansion are produced by packing the expandable beads in a mold and expanding the beads by steam heating to fuse the beads with each other into a cavity-shaped product.
Abstract:
A method for producing polypropylene type resin foamed particles wherein polypropylene type resin particles impregnated with a physical foaming agent and heated together with an aqueous medium and a dispersing agent are released out of a closed vessel to a low pressure region, to produce foamed particles, characterized in that the aqueous medium has an electric conductivity of 0.00 mS/m to 20.00 mS/m. The method can be used for producing good polyolefin resin foamed particles free from the mutual adhesion during its production with almost same amounts, independent of locations of plants for production, of a dispersing agent added for preventing the adhesion of particles in a heat treatment process for impregnating resin particles dispersed in an aqueous medium in a closed vessel with a foaming agent, and of the dispersing agent attached to the resultant foamed articles. The above polyolefin resin foamed particles exhibit good melting and mutual adhesion in a step of forming them and can provide a formed article having excellent mechanical strength, and further can be produced with stability.
Abstract:
When it is intended to obtain foamed particles having a high expansion ratio upon the production of foamed particles of a polyolefin resin, there has been a problem that foamed particles uneven in cell diameter are produced. Any molded article produced with such foamed particles has involved a drawback that it is poor in dimensional stability, and its surface profile becomes uneven. The invention relates to foamed particles comprising a polyolefin resin as a base resin, wherein the base resin contains a metal salt (excluding alkali metal salts) of boric acid in such a manner that the content of the metal salt of boric acid in the raw resin amounts to 50-50,000 ppm. Zinc borate, magnesium borate or the like is used as the metal salt of boric acid. The foamed particles are obtained by using a polyolefin resin containing the metal salt of boric acid to prepare resin particles, dispersing the resin particles in a dispersion medium in a closed vessel and at the same time impregnating the resin particles with a foaming agent, holding the resin particles in a heated and pressurized atmosphere, and then releasing the resin particles together with the dispersion medium into an atmosphere of a pressure lower than the internal pressure of the vessel to expand the resin particles.
Abstract:
A polycarbonate resin foam having a density D of 0.6g/cm3 or less, and also having a value of E¿80?/D which is obtained by dividing an energy absorbance at 50 % compression at 80 °C, E80 kg.cm/cm?3¿, by the density of the foam, of 30 (kg.cm/cm?3)/(g/cm3¿) or more. A shock absorber for a vehicle comprises a core made of this resin foam and a skin covering the surface of the core.