Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Hosokawa Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

Nobuhiro Usui

Masahito Matsumoto

Takahisa Hara

Shigeyoshi Matubara

Takeo Kitayama

Yoshitaka Kobayashi

Shohei Masui

Toshihiro Hosokawa

Shigeyoshi Matsubara

Ryuichi Ishitsubo

Akihiro Furuta

Syohei Masui

Tadashi Hikasa

Satoshi Hanada

Hiroaki Mendori

Satoru Gotoh

Seiji Terashima

Takashi Sanada

Yoshiaki Togawa

Hiroyuki Harada

Satoru Funakoshi

Kiyoshi Mitsui

Kazuo Hieda

Hitoshi Nakada

Kenichi Higashi

Kanemitsu Oishi

Toru Inoue

Sigeyoshi Mathubara

Tetsuya Hisayama

Makoto Hirai

Shoichi Kohara

Disclosed is a polypropylene resin composition comprising from 50 to 95 wt. % of propylene homopolymer component (A) and from 5 to 50 wt. % of ethylene-&#x3b1;-olefin copolymer component (B1), the polypropylene resin composition having a melt index of not less than 40 g/10 min but less than 500 g/10 min, provided that the percentages by weight are based on the combined weight of the components (A) and (B1), wherein the homopolymer component (A) has an intrinsic viscosity [&#x3b7;]of from 0.5 to 1.4 dl/g, and wherein the ratio of the intrinsic viscosity [&#x3b7;]of the copolymer component (B1) to the intrinsic viscosity [&#x3b7;]of the homopolymer component (A), [&#x3b7;]/[&#x3b7;], is from 0.5 to 3. This composition may be modified by addition of a resin component selected from the group consisting of ethylene homopolymer and aromatic vinyl compound-containing rubber. These components are advantageously used for injection foam molding.

Polypropylene resin composition and foamed article produced therefrom

The present invention provides a thermoplastic resin-molded article comprising a thermoplastic resin functional member fused partially to a foamed sheet made of thermoplastic resin shaped in a predetermined form, as well as a process for producing the same. The thermoplastic molded article is preferably used mainly as an interior part in automobiles. According to the present invention, thermoplastic resin molded articles having less variability of the drawing strength of thermoplastic resin functional members from thermoplastic resin foamed sheets can be provided, and these used in interior parts in automobiles. Such molded articles made of thermoplastic resin can be produced efficiently according to the process of the present invention.

Thermoplastic resin-molded article and a process for producing the same

An inventive mold is adapted to adhere skin materials having a boundary portion and a resin to each other, and is provided with a resin blocking member which is so embedded as to extend substantially along the boundary portion of the skin materials placed in the mold, and a movable member for projecting the resin blocking member from a molding surface. If such a mold is used, a flow of the resin supplied into the mold can be controlled by projecting the resin blocking member to thereby control an arrival timing of the resin at the boundary portion. Thus, displacement of the boundary portion and wrinkling can be securely prevented from occurring.

Mold for producing a multilayer molded article and a method for producing a multilayer molded article

Disclosed is a multilayer molded article comprising a thermoplastic resin substrate and at least two kinds of skin materials laminated on a surface of the substrate, the at least two kinds of skin materials including a pair of skin materials adjacent to each other wherein the pair of skin materials are folded toward the substrate to have folded edges which separate the substrate at least partly to define two portions, wherein the separated portions of the substrate are combined together via a plurality of ribs of the thermoplastic resin molded integrally with the substrate, the ribs enclosing therein a part of the folded edges of the pair of skin materials.

Multilayer molded articles

Disclosed is a system in which carbon dioxide is supplied to a pressure chamber of a molten resin preparing apparatus which has established a certain temperature environment to diffuse the carbon dioxide in a material synthetic resin in a molten state. After turning the material synthetic resin into a gas-dissolving-resin in the pressure chamber, the gas-dissolving-resin is supplied to a mold space of a molding apparatus for compression molding. The pressure inside the mold space is quickly lowered by raising an upper mold of the molding apparatus quickly, whereby a foamed article is produced from the gas-dissolving-resin in the mold space.

System for producing foamed article, a molten resin preparing apparatus and a molding apparatus for use in foamed article production system

The present invention provides a hollow foamed polyolefin-based resin container comprising an inner layer and an outer layer, at least one of the inner and outer layers being formed of a foamed polyolefin-based resin sheet, wherein at least a side wall part of the container has a hollow portion between the inner and outer layer and a process for produciong the same, and the like. The hollow foamed polyolefin-based resin container can be used as containers for retorted food products and other containers.

Hollow foamed polyolefinic resin container

The present invention relates to foamed thermoplastic resin moldings which can be used, for example, as food product containers which can contain retort food products, etc., household electrical appliance parts and automotive interior parts, and to a process for producing the same, said foamed thermoplastic resin molding prepared by shaping a foamed thermoplastic resin sheet, the molding comprising a general part and a thick part wherein these parts differ from each other in thickness wherein the mean expansion ratio of the thick part is not less than 1.2 times the mean expansion ratio of the general part and wherein the maximum thickness of the thick part is not less than 1.5 times the thickness of the general part.

Foamed thermoplastic resin molding and process for producing the same

The present invention relates to a process for producing a skin material-laminated foamed thermoplastic resin molding and to foamed thermoplastic resin moldings, said process comprising a skin material and a thermoplastic resin foam integrally laminated with the skin material, wherein the process uses a mold comprising a male and female mold members which are mutually slidable and whose cavity clearance (t) is adjustable, the process comprising the following steps (1)-(5): (1) skin material supply step, (2) resin injection step, (3) compression step, (4) foaming step and (5) cooling and releasing step, and said moldings that are a panel-shaped foamed thermoplastic resin molding comprising a substrate and a projection standing on the substrate wherein the projection has a mean expansion ratio of not greater than 1.1 times and the substrate has a mean expansion ratio of not less than 1.3 times.

Process for producing a skin material-laminated foamed thermoplastic resin molding

The present invention provides a method for producing a multilayer molded article comprising a step of supplying a skin material having at least a foam layer between a pair of a male mold half and a female mold half, supplying a molten thermoplastic resin between the skin material and the molding surface of one of the male mold half and the female mold half, a step of laminating the skin material onto at least a part of the surface of a substrate made from the thermoplastic resin and a step of forming a recess in the skin material laminating region, wherein the thickness, t (mm), of the foam layer in the skin material before molding is 0.6 R or less wherein R represents the minimum radius (mm) of the recess on the skin material laminating side of the substrate in the skin material laminating region of the multilayer molded article.

Methods for producing multilayer molded articles

The present process includes a mold for producing a thermoplastic resin molded article, comprising paired sliding female and male mold members, which mutually slide at the time of mold closing. A product-forming portion and a non-product-forming portion are provided in the cavity of the mold, the mold further including a resin-supplying opening. A gate portion located at a boundary between the product-forming portion and non-product-forming portion interconnects the two portions. At closing of the mold, the width of the gate at the product-forming side is less than the thickness of the formed product, and stepwise or continuously widens toward the non-product-forming side. Using this mold, a thermoplastic resin molded article, with or without a laminated skin material, can be molded in good efficiency and low cost, further having a non-product-forming portion, which can be readily trimmed from the product-forming portion.

Process for producing a thermoplastic resin molded article

Process for producing a thermoplastic resin-molded article

The present invention provides a process for producing a multilayer molded article having a skin material laminated with at least a part of the surface of a substrate formed of a thermoplastic resin. The process has steps of supplying a skin material to between a pair of mold halves and supplying a molten thermoplastic resin to between the skin material and the molding surface of one of the mold halves. The process uses, as the skin material, a skin material which has at least a foamed urethane layer and a nonfoamed backing layer wherein the product of the density, &rgr; (g/cm ), of the foamed urethane layer and the weight, W (g/m ), of the backing layer is not less than 2. This process prevents crush of the foamed urethane layer and can produce a multilayer molded article with good appearance.

Process for producing multilayer molded article

A mold for producing a hollow thermoplastic resin molded article includes a set of female and male mold members and a gas passage provided in at least one of the mold members which opens directly onto a surface of the mold member. Alternatively, a gas introducing member for introducing gas into a cavity may be provided in communication with the gas passage such that the tip of the gas introducing member does not protrude into the cavity of the mold. A lagging material, such as an insulating material or a local heater is preferably provided in the area of the mold adjacent the gas passage or gas introducing member. A method of producing a thermoplastic resin molded article using a mold of this nature is also disclosed.

Mold for production of hollow thermoplastic resin molded article, and process for production of hollow thermoplastic resin molded article using the same

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