Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated

Masahiro Kaneko

Hiroaki Narisawa

Mitsuo Kawata

Makoto Someda

Shinichi Asai

Kyoji Kuroda

Tadashi Asanuma

Tetsunosuke Shiomura

Nobutaka Uchikawa

Toshihiko Ando

Mune Iwamoto

Teruo Yuasa

Minoru Hattori

Masato Takaku

Ichiro Fujio

Akihiko Nakajima

Masanobu Maeda

Kouzou Ichikawa

Syuichi Yamaguchi

A phenolic resin composition which is stable against an environmental moisture change and, further, excellent in fast curing property, flexibility and heat resistance. The phenolic resin composition contains 70-97% by weight of a phenolic resin and 3-30% by weight of a silicone-based rubber component and has a ratio of an ortho-bonding to a para-bonding at a methylene bonding in the phenolic resin of 2-9.

Phenolic resin composition

Preparation process for a novolak aralkyl resin having excellent heat resistance and curing property by reacting 0.4 to 0.8 mol of an aralkyl compound based on one mol of the low molecular weight novolak containing 90% by weight or more of bi-nuclear novolak in the presence of an acidic catalyst, the process comprising at first melting the low molecular weight novolak, heating it up to a reaction temperature, then adding 0.001 to 0.05% by weight of the acidic catalyst to the total amount of the low molecular weight novolak and the aralkyl compound, then continuously adding the aralkyl compound for reaction, neutralizing the residual acidic catalyst after the completion of the reaction, a novolak aralkyl resin obtained by the preparation process and a novolak aralkyl resin composition containing said resin.

Novolak aralkyl resin, preparation process thereof and composition containing said resin

A nitrile resin for a carrier resulting from graft-copolymerization of 100 parts by weight of a monomer mixture containing unsaturated nitrile and alkyl acrylate in the presence of 1 to 30 parts by weight of a rubber-like polymer containing 50% by weight or more of conjugated diene units. The nitrile resin comprises having a glass transition temperature of 50 to 69.degree. C., having a matrix component except rubber ingredient containing 45 to 80% by weight of unsaturated nitrile units and 20 to 55% by weight of alkyl acrylate units and having a weight average molecular weight of 30,000 to 150,000. The invention further relates to a preparation process of nitrile resin and an electrophotographic carrier containing the nitrile resin. The nitrile resin for a carrier of the invention has an excellent processing ability in the carrier preparation step and good balance of electrostatic charge stability of the carrier. Consequently, the resin is highly suitable for use in the electrophotographic carrier.

Nitrile resin for electro-photographic carrier and preparation process

A nitrile resin composition having excellent transparency, antistatic properties and practical physical properties. The composition comprises (A) 80 to 97 wt. % of a nitrile resin which is obtained by graft copolymerization, in the presence of 3 to 30 parts by weight of a rubbery polymer containing at least 50 wt. % of a conjugated diene unit, of 100 parts by weight of a monomer mixture containing an unsaturated nitrile and an alkyl methacrylate, and has, as a matrix component, 65 to 80 wt. % of an unsaturated nitrile unit and 20 to 35 wt. % in total of an alkyl (meth)acrylate unit and a unit of a further monomer copolymerizable with the unsaturated nitrile and alkyl (meth)acrylate; and (B) 3 to 20 wt. % of a polyether ester amide, wherein the ratio of the melt viscosity of the component (A) to that of the component (B) at 210.degree. C. is 0.5 to 5 at a shear rate of 10.sup.2 sec.sup.-1 and 0.5 to 3 at a shear rate of 10.sup.3 sec.sup.-1 and the difference of the refractive index between the matrix component (A) to the component (B) is 0.2 or less.

Nitrile resin composition

A heat-resistant high-nitrile polymer composition obtained by the graft copolymerization of 100 parts by weight of a monomer mixture comprising 50 to 80% by weight of an unsaturated nitrile monomer, a maleimide monomer, an aromatic vinyl monomer, and a monomer copolymerizable with the foregoing monomers, in the presence of 1 to 40 parts by weight of a conjugated diene-based synthetic rubber containing not less than 50% by weight of a conjugated diene monomer unit, wherein the concentration of residual maleimide monomer in the polymer composition is not greater than 200 ppm by weight. This polymer composition is suitable for use as a molding material for extrusion molding, blow molding, injection molding and the like, and is useful in applications which require gas barrier properties, chemical resistance, non-adsorptive properties and the like, and which require use in automobiles, heat resistance sufficient for heat filling, and safety and hygienic properties.

Heat-resistant high-nitrile polymer compositions and process for

A rubber modified styrenic resin composition which can be obtained by dispersing rubber-like polymer particles in a homopolymer or a copolymer of a styrenic monomer. The rubber modified styrenic resin composition has: (a) a volume-average particle size of the rubber-like polymer particles is in the range of from 0.2 to 0.8 .mu.m, (b) a particle size distribution curve on the basis of the volume of the rubber-like polymer particles has one peak, (c) a ratio of a 5% value to a 95% value of the cumulative distribution of the particle size on the basis of the volume of the rubber-like polymer particles is in the range of from 3 to 45. The rubber-like polymer particles comprise (i) a styrene-butadiene block copolymer (I), and (ii)(1) a styrene-butadiene block copolymer (II), (2) a polybutadiene (III), or (3) a styrene-butadiene block copolymer (IV) and polybutadiene (V), wherein (I) contains 25-50 % styrene, (II) and (IV) contain 5-20% styrene, the weight ratio of: (I)/(II), (I)/(III) and (I)/(IV) is from 95/5 to 40/60 and {(I)+(IV)}/(V) is from 99/1 to 70/30 and (I) to (V) are of specified styrene solution viscosity.

Rubber modified styrenic resin composition having high gloss and impact

Method of adding water and a hydroxide of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal to a washing solvent such as an alkylamide and/or alkylsulfoxide when washing and removing high molecular substances stuck on the interior of a production apparatus or molding machine for an aromatic vinyl-acrylonitrile copolymer. A method for regenerating and recovering the washing solvent used for the above-mentioned washing and removal by means of an evaporator and distillation tower.

Washing and removal method of high molecular substances

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Masahiro Kaneko