Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Hayato Tsuda

Yumi Zenke

Yukari Yamamoto

Takahisa Aoyama

Yuuki Kuwajima

Hiroyuki Hamada

Tadaharu Isaka

Masamichi Sukegawa

Takeshi Inaba

Hitoshi Imamura

Kenji Ichikawa

Kazuki Hosoda

Jihong Liu

Yuuko Iwamatsu

Provided is a pipe joint including a cylindrical hollow, wherein the wall thickness of a part having the largest wall thickness of the pipe joint is 2 to 7 mm, the ratio of the length of the hollow in the axial direction (L) to the diameter of the hollow (D), (L/D), is 5 or less, the pipe joint contains a copolymer containing tetrafluoroethylene unit and a fluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) unit, the content of the fluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) unit of the copolymer is 2.8 to 6.0% by mass with respect to the whole of the monomer units, the melt flow rate at 372° C. of the copolymer is 4.0 g/10 min or higher and lower than 11.0 g/10 min, and the number of functional groups of the copolymer is 50 or less.

Pipe joint and manufacturing method of pipe joint

Provided is an injection molded article containing a copolymer containing tetrafluoroethylene unit and a fluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) unit, wherein the content of the fluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) unit of the copolymer is 4.7 to 7.0% by mass with respect to the whole of the monomer units, the melt flow rate at 372° C. of the copolymer is 11.0 to 22.0 g/10 min, the melting point of the copolymer is 296 to 305° C., and the amount of fluorine ions dissolving out from the injection molded article into water is 7,500 μg/mor lower.

Injection-molded body and production method therefor

Provided is an injection molded article containing a copolymer containing tetrafluoroethylene unit and a fluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) unit, wherein the content of the fluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) unit of the copolymer is 3.9 to 4.8% by mass with respect to the whole of the monomer units, the melt flow rate at 372° C. of the copolymer is 11.0 to 19.0 g/10 min, the melting point of the copolymer is 296 to 305° C., and the amount of fluorine ions dissolving out from the injection molded article into water is 7,500 μg/mor lower.

There is provided an injection molded article obtained by injection molding a copolymer using a mold provided with a gate, wherein the copolymer contains tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) unit and a fluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) (FAVE) unit, the content of the fluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) unit of the copolymer is 5.2 to 6.3% by mass with respect to the whole of the monomer units, the melt flow rate at 372° C. of the copolymer is 19.0 to 35.0 g/10 min, the number of functional groups of the copolymer is 50 or less per 10main-chain carbon atoms, and the injection molded article has a gate section corresponding to the gate of the mold, and the ratio of the maximum flow length (a) from the gate section of the injection molded article to the average value (b) of the product thickness on the maximum flow length, ((a)/(b)), is 80 to 200.

Provided an injection molded article obtained by injection molding a copolymer using a mold provided with a gate, wherein the copolymer contains tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) unit and a fluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) (PAVE) unit, the content of the fluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) unit of the copolymer is 3.5 to 4.7% by mass with respect to the whole of the monomer units, the melt flow rate at 372° C. of the copolymer is 22.0 to 35.0 g/10 min, the number of functional groups of the copolymer is 20 or less per 10main-chain carbon atoms, and the injection molded article has a gate section corresponding to the gate of the mold, and the ratio of the maximum flow length from the gate section of the injection molded article (a) to the average value of the product thickness on the maximum flow length (b), ((a)/(b)), is 80 to 200.

A member for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery containing a copolymer containing a tetrafluoroethylene unit and a fluoroalkyl vinyl ether unit, in which the number of functional groups per 10carbon atoms of a main chain of the copolymer is 100 or less, and a melt flow rate of the copolymer is less than 20 g/10 minutes.

Member for nonaqueous electrolyte batteries

Provided is an injection molding method for obtaining an injection molded article using an injection molding machine by means of filling a mold cavity of a mold with a molten copolymer from a nozzle of the injection molding machine, wherein the minimum thickness of the mold cavity is 0.8 mm or less, the total projected area of the mold is 1 cmor more, and the copolymer is a copolymer containing a tetrafluoroethylene unit and a fluoroalkyl vinyl ether unit, wherein the number of functional groups is 100 or less per 10main-chain carbon atoms of the copolymer.

Injection molding method

A member to be compressed for an electrochemical device, including a copolymer containing a tetrafluoroethylene unit and a fluoroalkyl vinyl ether unit, the copolymer having a content of the fluoroalkyl vinyl ether unit based on all the monomer units of the copolymer of 4.3% by mass or more and less than 5.5% by mass, and having a melt flow rate of 10 to 23 g/10 min.

Member to be compressed for electrochemical devices

A sealing structure for a battery includes a plate shaped member having a through hole, a polymer molding, and an electrode. The polymer molding has a tube portion provided along an entire edge of the through hole and a base portion provided on the tube portion. The electrode has a column portion disposed on an inner periphery of the tube portion and a plate portion provided on the column portion. A back surface of the plate shaped member contacts a front surface of the base portion. A front surface of the plate portion contacts a back surface of the base portion. The back surface of the plate shaped member has an annular first projection provided around the through hole and projecting toward the base portion. The front surface of the plate portion has an annular second projection provided around the through hole and projecting toward the base portion.

Sealing structure for battery

Provided is a method for testing a melt-fabricable fluororesin injection-molded article which enables easy determination of whether or not a tested article is a defective article due to a crack or delamination. The method for testing a melt-fabricable fluororesin injection-molded article includes determining whether or not a melt-fabricable fluororesin injection-molded article is defective due to a crack or delamination based on a stress-strain curve or tensile strength-strain curve obtained by a tensile test performed on the injection-molded article.

Method for testing melt-processible fluororesin injection-molded product and method for producing melt-processible fluororesin injection-molded product

A fluororesin including a vinylidene fluoride unit and a tetrafluoroethylene unit. The fluororesin has a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry total ion chromatogram including a peak which is assigned to a component having a molecular weight of 202 to 903 and which has a peak intensity of 1000 or lower. Also disclosed is a molded article formed from the fluororesin.

Fluororesin and molded object

A sheet containing a carbon fiber and a fluororesin layer disposed around a carbon monofilament constituting the carbon fiber. A fluororesin constituting the fluororesin layer is polyvinylidene fluoride. Further, the sheet has a tensile strength of 400 MPa or higher. Also disclosed is a laminate including a first layer and a second layer that is disposed on the first layer and that includes the sheet; a pipe including the laminate; a riser tube including the pipe and a flowline including the pipe.

Sheet, laminate, pipe, riser tube, and flowline

Provided is a fiber-reinforced composite material having a greater maximum stress, maximum elongation, and tensile modulus, which are determined by a tensile test, than conventional fiber-reinforced composite materials containing a fluororesin as a matrix. The invention relates to a fiber-reinforced composite material including a fluororesin and a reinforcing fiber, the fluororesin containing a tetrafluoroethylene unit and a vinylidene fluoride unit, the tetrafluoroethylene unit representing 55 to 95 mol % of all the monomer units constituting the fluororesin, the vinylidene fluoride unit representing 45 to 5 mol % of all the monomer units constituting the fluororesin.

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Osaka, Japan

Hayato Tsuda