Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated

Mitsui Toatsu Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsui Toatsu Chem., Inc.)

Nobuki Kobayashi

Hiroshi Ozawa

Koji Ishikawa

Kuniomi Hirota

Akio Masumoto

Teruo Honda

Yoshinori Torii

Takashi Yamamoto

Sadao Kobayashi

Masaaki Shin

Yoshio Kikuta

Yoku Shiraishi

Yasuo Okita

Kenichi Nakane

A continuous method of treating a polymer reaction mixture for continuously separating a styrene polymer and volatile ingredient by flowing down, for example, a mixture of low molecular weight styrene polisher and high molecular weight styrene polymer through a circular-ring-shaped space formed between a jacketed double pipe and a concentrically located inner pipe of a heat-exchanger, and flashing into a vacuum chamber connected with said heat-exchanger, is provided. The polymer is useful for the preparation of electrophotographic toner.

Continuous method of treating polymer reaction mixture

An electrophotographic toner comprising a constituent resin and a colorant, in which the constituent resin has a softening point ranging from room temperature to 170.degree. C. and comprises (a) a copolymer of cinnamic acid and one or more vinyl monomers, (b) a mixture of a copolymer as defined in (a) and a polymer having good compatibility therewith, (c) a mixture of a copolymer as defined in (a) and cinnamic acid, (d) a mixture of a polymer as defined in (b) and cinnamic acid, or (e) a mixture of a mixture as defined in (b) and cinnamic acid, the cinnamic acid content of the constituent resin being from 1 to 25 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the constituent resin in the case of cinnamic acid copolymerized with one or more vinyl monomers and from 0.1 to 25 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the constituent resin in the case of cinnamic acid present in the uncombined state.

Electrophotographic toner comprising cinnamic acid

A process for forming a coating with a metallic finish, which comprises

Process for forming metallic finish coatings

A process for forming a coating having a metallic finish, which comprises (I) coating an undercoat paint (A) by electrodeposition on an article to be coated, (II) coating a water-thinnable intermediate coat paint (B) containing metallic scales on the coated surface of the undercoat before the undercoat is baked, (III) baking the undercoat and the intermediate coat, (IV) coating a powdery top coat paint (C) on the baked surface of the intermediate coat, and then (V) baking the top coat, said intermediate coat paint (B) containing a solid resin component at least 60% by weight of the entire resin solids which consists of a (meth)acrylate ester copolymer containing at least 0.1 equivalent, per 1,000 g of the solids content of the copolymer, of carboxyl or carboxyl ion groups and having a number average molecular weight of at least 3,000, and said top coat paint (C) containing a (meth)acrylate ester copolymer containing a glycidyl or .beta.-methlglycidyl group and a polycarboxylic acid.

Process for forming a coating having a metallic finish

A metallic tone powder coating composition of acrylic resin series which prises a polymer-capsulated metal powder composite material wherein a vinyl monomer is chemically combined with a powder of a metal such as aluminum and a copolymer having a glass transition temperature of at least 20.degree. C wherein the sum of an acrylic ester and a methacrylic ester is at least 30% by weight of the total monomer constituting the copolymer. This powder coating composition provides a coating film having excellent weather-resistance and beautiful appearance and is suited for use in electrostatic powder spraying.

Metallic tone powder coating composition

Solid copolymers are produced by copolymerizing a mixture of: (A) at least 30% by weight of a monomer having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is H or CH.sub.3 and R.sub.2 is an alkyl radical containing from 1 to 14 carbon atoms; (B) from 3 to 20% by weight of an ethylenic .alpha., .beta. unsaturated carboxylic acid or anhydride thereof, or from 3 to 40% by weight of glycidyl acrylate or glycidyl methacrylate; and (C) from 0 to 67% by weight of a monomer copolymerizable with said monomers (A) and (B). Preferably, the mixture is first bulk-polymerized until conversion to the copolymer is from 10 to 80% by weight and the polymerization is completed by suspension-polymerization. Thermosetting solid coating compositions are produced by mixing a major proportion of a solid copolymer so produced with a minor proportion of a cross-linking compound or with an epoxy resin containing at least 2 epoxy radicals in the molecule in presence of a tertiary amine curing accelerator.

Process for producing thermosetting finishing powders

Solid copolymers are produced by copolymerizing a mixture of: (A) at least 30% by weight of a monomer having the formula: ##EQU1## wherein R.sub.1 is H or CH.sub.3 and R.sub.2 is an alkyl radical containing from 1 to 14 carbon atoms; (B) from 3 to 20% by weight of an ethylenic .alpha., .beta. unsaturated carboxylic acid or anhydride thereof, or from 3 to 40% by weight of glycidyl acrylate or glycidyl methacrylate; and (C) from 0 to 67% by weight of a monomer copolymerizable with said monomers (A) and (B). Preferably, the mixture is first bulk-polymerized until conversion to the copolymer is from 10% to 80% by weight and the polymerization is completed by suspension-polymerization. Thermosetting solid coating compositions are produced by mixing and melting 60 to 95 parts by weight of the solid copolymer and 40 to 5 parts by weight of a cross-linking compound or of an epoxy resin containing at least 2 epoxy radicals in the molecule in presence of a tertiary amine curing accelerator.

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