Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Masanori Kitaichi

Daisuke Ota

Mitsuru Kishine

Shoji Fukuoka

Shigeru Morita

Yutaka Ueta

Tatsuya Morikawa

Junpei Terada

Kazuyoshi Kawasaki

Mayuko Taeda

Akinori Ueda

Kazuhiro Yamamura

Michiko Doi

Yuu Kadowaki

Hideya Saito

Yoshiyuki Tanaka

Toshio Sogabe

Sadashige Irie

Yoshiki Tanaka

Tomizo Sota

Shouji Fukuoka

Takayuki Araki

Tsuyoshi Noguchi

Yoshito Tanaka

Manabu Fujisawa

Masahiko Oka

Hiroshi Aihara

Mitsuo Tsukamoto

Katsuhide Otani

Satoshi Kawai

Yasuji Iwasaki

Yousuke Nishimura

Yoshiki Maruya

Shintarou Ogata

Terada Junpei

Morita Shigeru

Provided is a fluororubber composition capable of providing a crosslinked fluororubber article that exhibits not only heat resistance, but also excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures. The fluororubber composition includes a fluororubber (A), a carbon black (B), and an aromatic petroleum resin (E), and the fluororubber composition has a difference δG′ (G′ (1%)−G′ (100%)) of not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G′ (1%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 1%, G′ (100%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 100%, and G′ (1%) and G′ (100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test carried out on an unvulcanised rubber with a rubber process analyzer (RPA) in a condition that the measurement frequency is 1 Hz and the measurement temperature is 100° C.

Fluororubber composition

The present invention provides a hose excellent in mechanical properties at high temperatures. The hose of the present invention comprises a cross-linked fluororubber layer obtainable by cross-linking a fluororubber composition containing a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B). The cross-linked fluororubber layer has a loss modulus E&#x2033; of 400 kPa or higher and 6,000 kPa or lower determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test (measurement temperature: 160&#xb0; C., tensile strain: 1%, initial force: 157 cN, frequency: 10 Hz).

Hose

A diaphragm including a cross-linked fluororubber layer obtained by cross-linking a fluororubber composition containing a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B), the cross-linked fluororubber layer having a loss modulus E&#x2033; of 400 kPa or higher and 6,000 kPa or lower determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test under conditions of measurement temperature: 160&#xb0; C., tensile strain: 1%, static tension under a constant static load condition for measuring strain distribution: 157 cN, and frequency: 10 Hz.

Diaphragm

A fluororubber composition including a fluororubber having an iodine content of 10 to 90 mol % for the total mole of the polymer end groups and a carbon black (B), wherein a difference (&#x3b4;G'), represented by G&#x2032;(1%)-G&#x2032;(100%), is not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G&#x2032;(1%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 1% under an uncrosslinked state and G&#x2032;(100%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 100% under an uncrosslinked state, and G&#x2032;(1%) and G&#x2032;(100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test with a rubber process analyzer (RPA) in a condition that the measurement frequency is 1 Hz and the measurement temperature is 100&#xb0; C.

A fluororubber composition which includes a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B). The fluororubber (A) is a vinylidene fluoride-based fluororubber including a structural unit (VdF unit) derived from vinylidene fluoride and a structural unit derived from at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of hexafluoropropylene (HFP), 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro propylene, and perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) (PAVE). The molar ratio of the VdF unit to the structural unit derived from at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of HFP, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro propylene, and PAVE is 50/50 to 78/22. The fluororubber composition has a difference &#x3b4;G' (G&#x2032; (1%)-G&#x2032; (100%)) of not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G&#x2032; (1%) denotes a modulus of shearing elasticity at a dynamic strain of 1%, G&#x2032; (100%) denotes a modulus of shearing elasticity at a dynamic strain of 100%, and G&#x2032; (1%) and G&#x2032; (100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test.

The invention provides a fluororubber composition able to produce a crosslinked fluororubber article that exhibits not only heat resistance, but also excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures, and a method for producing same. The fluororubber composition contains: a fluororubber (A); and carbon black (B), wherein when the aforementioned fluororubber composition is immersed for 160 hours in an extraction solvent of acetone and hexane at an acetone:hexane mass ratio of 42.29:57.71 at 40&#xb0; C. and an extraction residue that is not extracted and remains as a solid is separated from the aforementioned extraction solvent and dried and then the dry weight of the extraction residue is measured, the quantity of a solvent-insoluble polymer is not lower than 5%.

Fluororubber composition and method for producing same

The present invention provides a method for producing a fluoroelastomer using an emulsifier which is inexpensive and hardly remains in product polymers. The present invention is related to a method for producing a fluoroelastomer, wherein vinylidene fluoride and at least one fluoroolefin monomer other than vinylidene fluoride are copolymerized in the manner of an emulsion polymerization in the presence of an emulsifier represented by CFCOOM, wherein M represents H, NHor an alkali metal.

Method for producing a fluoroelastomer

To provide a sealing material which is excellent in sealability under high-temperature conditions as well as crack resistance at high temperatures and high compression. A sealing material comprising a cross-linked fluororubber layer obtainable by cross-linking a fluororubber composition containing a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B), the cross-linked fluororubber layer having a loss modulus E&#x2033; of 600 kPa or higher and 6,000 kPa or lower determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test under conditions of measurement temperature: 160&#xb0; C., tensile strain: 1%, initial force: 157 cN, and frequency: 10 Hz.

Sealing material

The present invention provides a fluororubber composition that has excellent heat resistance and excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures. The fluororubber composition comprises a peroxide cross-linkable fluororubber (A); a carbon black (B); a peroxide cross-linking agent (C); and a low-self-polymerizing cross-linking accelerator (D), wherein to 100 parts by mass of the fluororubber (A), the amount of the carbon black (B) is 5 to 50 parts by mass, the amount of the cross-linking agent (C) is 0.01 to 10 parts by mass, and the amount of the cross-linking accelerator (D) is 2.5 parts by mass or smaller.

A noncrystalline fluoroelastomer which is a copolymer consisting essentially of vinylidene fluoride and a fluoromonomer represented by the general formula (1):CH&#x2550;CFR&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)wherein Ris a straight or branched fluoroalkyl group containing 1 to 12 carbon atoms, and has a vinylidene fluoride units/fluoromonomer units mol ratio of 78/22 to 22/78 and a glass transition temperature of not higher than 25&#xb0; C.

Fluoroelastomer, curable composition and cured rubber article

The present invention provides a complex-shaped fluororubber formed product having excellent demoldability in molding. The complex-shaped fluororubber formed product of the present invention comprises a cross-linked fluororubber layer obtainable by cross-linking a fluororubber composition containing a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B). The cross-linked fluororubber layer has a loss modulus E&#x2033; of 400 kPa or higher and 6,000 kPa or lower determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test (measurement temperature: 160&#xb0; C., tensile strain: 1%, initial force: 157 cN, frequency: 10 Hz).

Complex-shaped fluororubber formed product

The present invention provides a belt excellent in mechanical properties at high temperatures. The belt of the present invention comprises a cross-linked fluororubber layer obtainable by cross-linking a fluororubber composition containing a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B). The cross-linked fluororubber layer has a loss modulus E&#x2033; of 400 kPa or higher and 6,000 kPa or lower determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test (measurement temperature: 160&#xb0; C., tensile strain: 1%, initial force: 157 cN, frequency: 10 Hz).

Belt

The present invention provides a method of producing a fluoroelastomer excellent in dispersion stability at low cost, at a high rate of polymerization and in high yields. The present invention is a method of producing a fluoroelastomer comprising an emulsion polymerization of a fluorinated monomer in the presence of a water-soluble radical polymerization initiator, wherein the emulsion polymerization is carried out in the presence of a compound (1) containing a functional group reactive in radical polymerization and a hydrophilic group and a fluorinated compound (2) containing a fluorocarbon group comprising 1 to 6 continuously united carbon atom with fluorine atom directly bound to each of them as well as a hydrophilic group.

Method for producing fluorine-containing elastomer

A process for preparing a fluorine-containing polymer which includes a first step for preparing a dispersion of fluorine-containing emulsified particles (A) having ionic functional groups where a fluorine-containing monomer mixture (i) is polymerized by using a water soluble radical polymerization initiator (a) without addition of an emulsifying agent, and a second step for preparing a fluorine-containing polymer (b) having a small amount of ionic functional groups where fluorine-containing monomers (ii) are emulsion-polymerized by using a radical polymerization initiator (b) in the presence of the fluorine-containing emulsified particles (A) having ionic functional groups without addition of an emulsifying agent.

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