Kuraray Co., Ltd.

Fukuvi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

Kuraray Cc., Ltd.

Hiroshi Oshima

Kenichi Hamada

Yoshihiro Morishita

Toyoaki Kurihara

Kanayo Nakada

Akiko Ide

Toshiaki Sugawara

Dai Kataoka

Shinya Oshita

Naoto Fukuhara

Toshiyuki Zento

Kazunori Watanabe

Masaji Kato

Tatsufumi Watanabe

Tomokazu Ise

Eiji Iwasa

Naoaki Kanamori

Susumu Matsunaga

Jun Nagai

Tatsuo Morotomi

The invention provides a laminating acrylic thermoplastic polymer composition which is favorably laminated together with a layer including a plasticizer-containing polymer composition while ensuring that the migration of the plasticizer into the acrylic thermoplastic polymer composition layer is small and the resultant laminate attains excellent durability, and also provides a laminate obtained by laminating a layer including the laminating acrylic thermoplastic polymer composition onto one or both sides of a layer including the plasticizer-containing polymer composition. Further, the invention provides a polymer composition which, when the plasticizer-containing polymer described above is a vinyl chloride-based polymer, can keep sufficient adhesive force after being adhered to a layer including such a vinyl chloride-based polymer, and also provides an adhesive product using the composition. The laminating acrylic thermoplastic polymer composition is a composition for lamination with a layer including a plasticizer-containing polymer composition. The acrylic thermoplastic polymer composition includes an acrylic block copolymer (I) including at least one polymer block (A) containing methacrylic acid ester units and at least one polymer block (B) containing acrylic acid ester units; and the acrylic acid ester units constituting the polymer block (B) in the acrylic block copolymer (I) include an acrylic acid ester (1) unit represented by the general formula CH&#x2550;CH&#x2014;COOR(1) (wherein Ris an organic group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms).

Laminating acrylic thermoplastic polymer compositions

A circumferentially light-emitting thermoplastic resin molded body which can be bent for use according to the type of optical ornaments or the shape of an object to be decorated and which allows the overall luminance of the emitted light to improve and restrains the luminescent color from being yellowed at the distal locations of such body with regard to the light source. The thermoplastic resin molded body has a core layer made from a thermoplastic elastomer; and a first clad layer made from a thermoplastic resin whose refractive index is smaller than the thermoplastic elastomer from which the core layer is made, in which a light diffusing agent is added to the thermoplastic elastomer from which the core layer is made and the thermoplastic resin from which the first clad layer is made respectively; and the total light transmittance of the first clad layer is defined as less than 70%.

Circumferentially light-emitting type thermoplastic resin molded body

The invention provides an acrylic block copolymer which has excellent transparency, profile extrusion properties and surface smoothness of shaped articles, and which is also excellent in light guiding properties. The acrylic block copolymer includes a polymer block (a1) predominantly containing methacrylic acid ester units and a polymer block (a2) predominantly containing acrylic acid ester units, and has a refractive index of 1.485 to 1.495 and an order-disorder transition temperature (ODTT) of not more than 260&#xb0; C.

Acrylic block copolymer, resin composition and shaped article including the same, and optical component

Provided is a thermoplastic polymer composition containing an aromatic vinyl-based block copolymer (a-1) having a number average molecular weight of 30,000 to 200,000, the aromatic vinyl-based block copolymer containing a polymer block F containing a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl-based monomer as a main component and a hydrogenated or non-hydrogenated polymer block G containing a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene monomer or an isobutylene monomer as a main component; an acrylic polymer (a-2); an olefin-based polymer containing polar groups (a-3); and a softening agent (a-4), at the proportions that satisfy the following Expressions (1) to (3):0.05&#x2264;&#x2264;9&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)0.1&#x3c;/()&#x2264;0.9&#x2003;&#x2003;(2), and0&#x2264;/()&#x2264;0.5&#x2003;&#x2003;(3)wherein W, W, Wand Wrepresent the contents (on a mass basis) of the aromatic vinyl-based block copolymer (a-1), acrylic polymer (a-2), olefin-based polymer containing polar groups (a-3) and softening agent (a-4), respectively, in the thermoplastic polymer composition.

Thermoplastic polymer composition, layered body, and protective film

[Object] Provided are a sheet-like molded article having excellent surface smoothness, moldability, flexibility, and a high transmittance of short-wavelength light, and a thermoplastic polymer composition used to produce the sheet-like molded article. [Solution] A thermoplastic polymer composition containing an acrylic block copolymer (A) and an acrylic resin (B), in which the acrylic block copolymer (A) has, in its molecule, at least one structure where polymer blocks (a2) mainly composed of a methacrylic ester unit are bonded to both ends of a polymer block (a1) mainly composed of an acrylic ester unit, the acrylic block copolymer (A) having a specific weight-average molecular weight range, the acrylic block copolymer (A) contains an acrylic block copolymer (A1) having a polymer block (a2) content of 40% by mass or more and not less than 80% by mass and contains an acrylic block copolymer (A2) having a polymer block (a2) content of 10% by mass or more and less than 40% by mass, the acrylic resin (B) is mainly composed of a methacrylic ester unit, and the mass ratio [(A)/(B)] is in the range of 97/3 to 10/90.

Thermoplastic polymer composition and sheet-like molded article therefrom

[PROBLEMS] To provide a polymer composition that simultaneously has excellent paintability and high oil resistance and is also excellent in thin-wall moldability and flexibility; and a molded article produced by injection-molding of the composition and being suitable for composite-molded grips, automotive interior and exterior trims, and so on. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A polymer composition and a molded article that are comprising 33 to 67% by mass of a polybutylene terephthalate-based resin (A) and 67 to 33% by mass of an acrylic block copolymer (B); and in the acrylic block copolymer (B), two polymer blocks (b2) comprising a unit of methacrylic ester such as methyl methacrylate are bonded to the both ends of a polymer block (b1) comprising a unit of acrylic ester such as butyl acrylate, the total mass of the polymer block (b2) is 20 to 35% by mass with respect to the acrylic block copolymer (B), the weight-average molecular weight is 50000 to 100000, and the order-disorder transition temperature is 180 to 230&#xb0; C.

Acrylic block copolymer composition and molded article thereof

The present invention relates to a method of obtaining a (meth)acrylate-based polymer from a reaction solution containing the (meth)acrylate-based polymer, the method including (a) adding an acid to the reaction solution containing the (meth)acrylate-based polymer which is obtained by polymerizing a monomer composed mainly of a (meth)acrylate in a water-insoluble organic solvent in the presence of a metal compound, (b) washing the reaction solution to which the acid has been added by admixing water at 90&#xb0; C. or more, (c) separating the mixed solution of the reaction solution and water generated by the washing in (b) into an organic solvent solution layer and an aqueous solution layer, and (d) isolating each of the organic solvent solution layer and the aqueous solution layer in order to obtain the (meth)acrylate-based polymer from the isolated organic solvent solution layer.

Method of taking (meth)acrylic ester polymer out of liquid reaction mixture

A polylactic acid composition comprising (A) a polylactic acid-series resin and (B) an acrylic triblock copolymer is prepared. The composition fulfills the following requirements: (1) the acrylic triblock copolymer (B) is a triblock polymer comprising (B1) a polymer block having a glass-transition temperature of not higher than 25&#xb0; C., (B2a) a polymer block which has a glass-transition temperature of not lower than 60&#xb0; C. and is bound to a terminal of the polymer block (B1), and (B2b) a polymer block which has a glass-transition temperature of not lower than 60&#xb0; C. and is bound to another terminal thereof; (2) the polymer block (B1) comprises a main structural unit derived from an acrylate, and the polymer block (B2a) and the polymer block (B2b) independently comprise a main structural unit derived from a methacrylate; and (3) both of the weight-average molecular weights of the polymer block (B2a) and polymer block (B2b) are smaller than the weight-average molecular weight of the polymer block (B1). The polylactic acid-series resin (A) and the acrylic triblock copolymer (B) may form a phase separation structure.

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