Nippon Zeon Company, Ltd.

Kenji Otoi

Teruhiko Suzuki

Kazuyuki Obuchi

Hajime Tanisho

Masaharu Tokoro

A flat plate made of a cycloolefin polymer comprising at least 30% by weight, based on the cycloolefin polymer, of repeating units (A) having an alicyclic structure. The repeating units (A) comprises at least 30% by weight, based on the repeating units (A), of repeating units (A-i) having no norbornane structure. The cycloolefin polymer has a weight average molecular weight of 5,000 to 50,000. The flat plate is especially useful as a light guide plate.

Flat plate and light guide plate

A flat plate made of a cycloolefin polymer comprising at least 30% by weight, based on the cyclopolefin polymer, of repeating units (A) having an alicyclic structure. The repeating units (A) comprises at least 30% by weight, based on the repeating units (A), of repeating units (A-i) having no norbornane structure. The cycloolefin polymer has a weight average molecular weight of 5,000 to 50,000. The flat plate is especially useful as a light guide plate.

A container comprising a body made of a thermoplastic resin and a lid made of a thermoplastic resin, characterized in that at least one of the body and the lid is molded from a thermoplastic cyclic olefin resin. Said container hardly causes contamination of the content therein with water or organic substances permeating through the container from the outside or released from the container per se, and, besides, hardly causes contamination of the content with fine dust in handling.

Contamination resistant cyclic olefin container

A thermoplastic dicyclopentadiene ring-opening polymer obtained by ring-opening polymerization of a monomer component containing a dicyclopentadiene monomer, characterized in that polycyclic rings which are repeating units of the polymer are bonded in cis-position relative to the carbon-carbon double bond of the main chain of the polymer in 50 mol % or more of the repeating units based on the total repeating units and the content of a low-molecular weight component of 2,000 or less in molecular weight is 10% by weight or less based on the total polymer components, and a hydrogenation product obtained by hydrogenating the carbon-carbon unsaturated bond of the thermoplastic dicyclopentadiene ring-opening polymer.

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Kenji Otoi