Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

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Takeda Chemical Industries, Inc.

Tonen Chemical Corporation

Ube Industries, Inc.

Mitsui Petrochemical Industries, Ltd.

Takemoto Yushi Kabushiki Kaisha

Japan Polychem Corporation

Fts Co., Ltd.

Grand Polymer Co., Ltd.

Hisayuki Iwai

Takao Nomura

Takayuki Nagai

Takeyoshi Nishio

Masatoshi Matsuda

Ken Hatta

Kenichi Nishino

Yasuhiro Mishima

Mitsuhiro Murayama

Sanzi Aoki

Kunio Iwanami

Yuji Fujita

Ikunori Sakai

Takashi Shibata

Michihisa Tasaka

Susumu Kanzaki

Tatsuhiko Ozaki

Yukihito Zanka

Kenichi Ohkawa

Kenji Kawazu

Shizuo Miyazaki

Osamu Kito

Yoshiharu Saito

Kitsusho Kitano

Masao Sakaizawa

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Mitsuo Kinoshita

Mikio Hashimoto

Masaru Nakagawa

Hajime Sadatoshi

Yoshiro Umemoto

Hironari Sano

Yoshihiro Sobajima

Yutaka Obata

Koichi Akiyama

Kouhei Ueno

Osamu Fukui

Moriyasu Shimojo

Koki Hirano

Hirotaka Wada

Yasuhisa Sugita

Yoshifumi Nakano

Akihiko Yamamoto

Ryuta Aoe

Sanji Aoki

Izumi Ishii

Akira Kobayashi

Hiroki Satoh

Yasuhrio Mishima

Kazuaki Naito

Hisamitsu Kato

Katsuhiro Kajikawa

Hiroshi Taniguchi

Shoichi Ichikawa

An automobile fuel tank includes an outer wall including a main body of a multiple-layered synthetic resin, in which the outer wall includes at least an outer body layer, an outer adhesive layer, a barrier layer, an inner adhesive layer, and an inner body layer. The outer body layer and the inner body layer include a high density polyethylene (HDPE) as a main ingredient. Each of the outer adhesive layer and the inner adhesive layer includes a synthetic resin having adhesiveness against both the high density polyethylene (HDPE) and the barrier layer. The barrier layer includes a synthetic resin.

Automobile fuel tank

A thermoplastic composition which is obtained by melt-kneading (1) 55 to 75 wt. % crystalline polypropylene resin together with (2) 10 to 30 wt. % elastomer comprising either a rubber containing a vinyl aromatic compound or a mixture thereof with an ethylene/&agr;-olefin random copolymer rubber and (3) 15 to 25 wt. % talc having an average particle diameter of 3 &mgr;m or smaller. The composition satisfies specific requirements with respect to: the long period obtained by X-ray small-angle scattering attributable to the vinyl aromatic-containing rubber in a blend obtained by melt-kneading the ingredients (1) and (2); the shape and diameter of the elastomer particles present near the polypropylene/elastomer interface in the blend; and the difference between the glass transition point of the ingredient (1) and that of the composition attributable to the crystalline polypropylene homopolymer parts. The composition has a satisfactory balance between impact resistance and rigidity and has excellent injection moldability.

Thermoplastic resin composition and injection-molded object thereof

The present invention provides a resin composition high in melting flow, exhibiting good properties, excellent in moldability and shrinkage properties, and hence suitable for automobile exteriors, by including (A) propylene/ethylene block copolymer having a melt flow rate (MFR) of 100 to 200 g/10 min., its propylene homopolymer component having an MFR of 210 to 400 g/10 min. and isotactic pentad fraction of 0.98 or more, and its copolymer portion containing propylene at 65 to 85% by weight; 50 to 70% by weight, (B) ethylene/octene and/or ethylene/butene random copolymer; 10 to 25% by weight, (C) styrene-based hydrogenated block copolymer rubber; 4 to 9% by weight and (D) talc; 16 to 24% by weight.

Propylene resin composition excellent in moldability and physical properties

There are disclosed a polypropylene composition for automotive parts which has a melt index at 230&deg; C. and at 2.16 kgf of at least 30 g/10 minutes and which comprises 55 to 60% by weight of (1) propylene/ethylene block copolymer; 20 to 25% by weight of (2) rubber comprising a styrene/ethylene/propylene/styrene block copolymer and/or a styrene/ethylene/1-butene/styrene block copolymer and an olefinic elastomer; and 18 to 23% by weight of (3) talc, and also an automotive part which comprises the above polypropylene composition.

Polypropylene compositions for automotive parts

Polypropylene-base resin composition and products of injection molding thereof

There is provided a thermoplastic resin composition comprising the following components (A) to (E): component (A): 50 to 74.7% by weight of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst sequentially polymerized blend of a propylene homopolymer and an ethylene-propylene copolymer, component (B): 5 to 10% by weight of an ethylene-octene random copolymer, component (C): 5 to 10% by weight of an ethylene-butene random copolymer, component (D): 0.3 to 5% by weight of an elastomer.

Thermoplastic polypropylene composition

This invention provides polypropylene resin compositions which have sharply improved balance of physical properties in comparison with the related polypropylene materials, are materials that can be used in both interior and exterior parts of automobiles, have excellent thin-wall moldability and can sharply reduce generation of flow marks. Particularly, it provides a polypropylene resin composition which comprises specified amounts of (A) a specified ethylene-propylene block copolymer, (B) a specified thermoplastic elastomer and (C) talc, wherein it has specified values of physical properties measured by ASTM and has a degree of b-axis orientation of 720 or more which is calculated from the ratio of differential peak intensities measured by wide-angle X-ray diffraction of the central area of an ASTM No. 1 dumbbell prepared by injection molding.

Polypropylene resin composition

A crystalline propyleiie block-copolymer composition exhibiting superior flowability upon molding for use in automobile parts, which composition comprises 41 to 71% by weight of a crystalline propylene block-copolymer composed of a propylene homopolymer portion (Fp) and an ethylene/propylene random copolymer portion (Fc) and having an ethylene content of 1 to 10% by weight and a melt flow rate (MFR) of 20 to 100 g/10 min.; 12 to 22% by weight of a first hydrogenated product of a block-copolymer having a relatively smaller stylene content; 2 to 12% by weight of a second hydrogenated product of a block-copolymer having a relatively greater stylene content; and 15 to 25% by weight of talc, wherein the propylene homopolymer portion (Fp) contains 20 to 50% by weight of a low molecular weight propylene homopolymer having an MFR of 400 to 1,000 g/10 min., the average MFR being 100 to 350 g/10 min. and the isotactic pentad fraction being at least 98%, and wherein the said (Fc) has an intrinsic viscosity of 7 dl/g or higher.

Crystalline propylene block-copolymer composition for use in automobile

Propylene polymer compositions of the present invention comprising a specific propylene block copolymer, specific ethylene-propylene copolymer rubber, specific ethylene-propylene-diene copolymer rubber, specific ethylene-butene-1 copolymer rubber, and talc in specific proportions are provided. The propylene polymer compositions of the invention are capable of providing therefrom molded products excellent in balance between stiffness and impact resistance, and having high surface hardness with excellent scratch resistance.

Propylene polymer composition

A resin composition having excellent paint coatability containing (a) 50-80 weight % of a multi-stage polymerized propylene-ethylene block copolymer consisting essentially of (i) a propylene homopolymer portion, (ii) a propylene-ethylene random copolymer portion, and (iii) an ethylene homopolymer portion, (b) 20-40 weight % of an ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer elastomer, and (c) 20 weight % or less of an inorganic filler, components in the components (a) and (b), which are soluble in p-xylene at a room temperature, having a number-average molecular weight of 4.times.10.sup.4 or more and a weight-average molecular weight of 20.times.10.sup.4 or more.

Resin composition having excellent paint coatability

A polypropylene resin composition comprising:

Curable unsaturated polyester resin compositions from which molded products with superior surface smoothness can be obtained include a block copolymer of a specified form, an unsaturated polyester, a vinyl monomer, a filler, a curing catalyst and a reinforcing fiber. The block copolymer is of the form A--(B).sub.n where A is non-hydrogenated polyisoprene block having viscosity average molecular weight of 10000 or more, B is saturated polyester block obtainable by condensation of organic dicarboxylic anhydride and 1,2-epoxide, more than 50 mol % of terminal groups of the polyester block being carboxylic acid group, A and B are connected by ester linkage and n is not less than 2. Block copolymers of this type can be formed by starting with carboxylic acid or hydroxyl group in polyisoprene and by alternate condensation of organic dicarboxylic anhydride and 1,2-epoxide.

Curable unsaturated polyester dresin composition

A quickly curable unsaturated polyester composition with high surface quality contains an unsaturated polyester, a vinyl monomer, either an alkane polyol polyacrylate or an alkane polyol polymethylacrylate, a thermoplastic resin, and one or more curing catalysts selected from t-butylperoxy benzoate, t-butylperoxy octoate and 2,5-dimethyl-2,5-di(benzoilperoxy) hexane. Molding compounds are obtained by impregnating glass fibers with such composition and molded products obtained by curing such molding material have improved surface smoothness.

Unsaturated polyester compositions molding materials therefrom and

A curable unsaturated polyester resin composition contains graft copolymers each having 10-60 weight % of a first constituent given by ##STR1## 38-89.7 weight % of a second constituent given by ##STR2## and 0.3-2 weight % of a third constituent which is a vinyl monomer unit having carboxylic acid or carboxylic anhydride groups, unsaturated polyester, vinyl monomer, a filler, a curing catalyst, and reinforcing fibers, where either of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is H, the other being either H or CH.sub.3, R.sub.3 is ethylene group or propylene group, R.sup.4 is hydrocarbon group with 1-18 carbton atoms, R.sup.5 is alkyl group with 1-4 carbon atoms, R.sup.6 is alkyl group with 1-3 carbon atoms, m is 6-90 and n is 1-5.

Curable unsaturated polyester resin composition

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Hisayuki Iwai