Mitsubishi Rayon Company, Limited

Kazumasa Kamata

Kazuo Ueda

Kiyokazu Kitai

Kazuo Kishida

Yoshio Nakai

Norihisa Osaka

Masamitsu Tateyama

Yasunori Shimomura

Am impact modifier comprising a blend of 100 parts by weight of a graft copolymer (A) obtained by graft-polymerizing in a single or more stages a monomer or monomer mixture consisting of 95 to 100% by weight of at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of alkyl acrylates, alkyl methacrylates, aromatic vinyl compounds and vinyl cyanide compounds and 0 to 5% by weight of a polyfunctional crosslinking agent on an acrylic elastomer mainly composed of an alkyl acrylate and containing 0.1 to 5% by weight of a polyfunctional crosslinking agent and/or a butadiene elastomer composed of a polybutadiene or a copolymer of 50% by weight or more of a butadiene and 50% by weight or less of other vinyl compound copolymerizable therewith and containing 0 to 5% by weight of a polyfunctional crosslinking agent, and 0.1 to 20 parts by weight of a copolymer (B) obtained by copolymerizing 3 to 30% by weight of an unsaturated acid monomer and 97 to 70% by weight of a vinyl monomer copolymerizable therewith, and a thermoplastic resin composition having high impact resistance and excellent moldability and workability comprising 3 to 50 parts by weight of the modifier set forth above and 100 parts of weight of a thermoplastic resin.

Impact modifier and thermoplastic resin composition using the same

An impact modifier comprising a blend of 100 parts by weight of a multi-layer graft copolymer composed of monomers selected from the group consisting of alkyl acrylates, alkyl methacrylates, aromatic vinyl compounds, vinyl cyanide compounds and butadienes and having a multi-layer structure consisting of at least three layers (A), (B) and (C) in which the glass transition temperature of the polymer composing the outermost layer (A) is 0.degree. C. or below, the glass transition temperature of the polymer composing the second layer (B) from the outermost layer (A) is 60.degree. C. or above and the glass transition temperature of the polymer composing the third layer (C) from the outermost layer (A) is 0.degree. C. or below, each of the layers containing a polyfunctional crosslinking agent in an amount of 0 to 5% by weight based on the weight of the layer, and 0.1 to 20 parts by weight of a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing 3 to 30% by weight of an unsaturated acid monomer and 97 to 70% by weight of a vinyl monomer copolymerizable therewith, and a thermoplastic resin composition having excellent impact resistance and molding workability comprising 3 to 50 parts by weight of the modifier set forth above and 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin.

There is provided a heat-resistant methacrylic resin composition, which comprises 1 to 99% by weight of a copolymer [I] obtained by copolymerizing methyl methacrylate, an aromatic vinyl compound and maleic anhydride and 99 to 1% by weight of a copolymer [II] obtained by copolymerizing 80 to 100% by weight of methyl methacrylate and 0 to 20% by weight of other copolymerizable ethylenic monomer. The resin composition according to the present invention is excellent in characteristics such as optical characteristics, mechanical properties, weathering resistance and molding processability as well as in productivity.

Methacrylic resin composition

An impact-resistant methacrylic resin composition comprising a multilayer structure methacrylic resin [II] is provided. The resin [II] is obtained by the following sequential four polymerization stages (i) through (iv):

Impact-resistant methacrylic resin composition

A composition with high impact resistance and little fish eyes content, comprising 97 to 60 parts by weight of a polyvinyl chloride-base resin and 3 to 40 parts by weight of a graft copolymer obtained by the three-stage graft-polymerization of 65 to 25 parts by weight of a monomer combination (B) comprising 12 to 57% by weight of methyl methacrylate, 1 to 24% by weight of at least one of alkyl acrylates having a C.sub.1-8 -alkyl group, 80 to 40% by weight of styrene and 0 to 3% by weight of a polyfunctional crosslinking agent having one or more alkyl groups in the molecule onto 35 to 75 parts by weight of a butadiene-base elastomer (A) containing 30% by weight or more of 1,3-butadiene units, said three-stage graft polymerization being carried out in the following way: at first at least one member selected from the group consisting of electrolytes and carboxyl-containing polymer latices is added to the reaction system; then in the first stage monomer mixture consisting of major amount of methyl methacrylate and minor amount of an alkyl acrylate or acrylates, which has a proportion of 50 to 90% by weight based on total weight of methyl methacrylate and alkyl acrylate or acrylates, and, if included in said monomer combination, a polyfunctional crosslinking agent are graft-polymerized; in the second stage, styrene is graft-polymerized; and in the third stage, the remaining 10 to 50% by weight of methyl methacrylate and an alkyl acrylate or acrylates are graft-polymerized.

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Koganei, Japan

Kazumasa Kamata