Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.

Idemitsu Kosan Company, Limited

Shigeki Kuze

Ryozo Okumura

Masaya Okamoto

Noriyuki Kunishi

Seiji Takahashi

Kenji Tanaka

Hideo Kusuyama

Masayuki Shinohara

Yoshinobu Suwabe

Akio Nodera

Hiroshi Kawato

Akihiro Shishikura

Naoki Mitsuta

Eiichi Terada

Yoshikatsu Seino

Takashi Komatsu

Mitsunori Ito

Jiro Chiba

Shiro Kozakura

Kouichi Suga

Hiroshi Akamine

Naoko Seino

Misako Ishikawa

Tsuyoshi Murakami

Kouichi Kurosawa

Taisuke Nakashima

Provided is an aromatic polycarbonate resin composition which comprises 100 parts by mass of an aromatic polycarbonate resin and from 0.001 to 1 part by mass of an additional thermoplastic resin that differs from the aromatic polycarbonate resin in the refractive index by at least 0.001 and which is so designed that the ratio (X)/(Y) is at least 0.5 wherein (X) indicates the spectral transmittance at 320 nm through a sample plate of the resin composition having a thickness of 2 mm and (Y) indicates the spectral transmittance at 633 nm through it. Having realized further increase in the transparency of aromatic polycarbonate resin, the resin composition gives moldings of which the transparency is comparable to that of acrylic resin for optical use, and the resin moldings have good impact resistance and heat resistance.

Aromatic polycarbonate resin composition and moldings

Disclosed are an optical waveguide that comprises (A) a copolyester carbonate having aliphatic segment(s), and a method for producing it; and an optical waveguide made from a polycarbonate resin composition that comprises (A) a copolyester carbonate having aliphatic segment(s) and (B) an aromatic polycarbonate, and a method for producing it. The polycarbonate resin composition for the optical waveguide has the advantages of high mechanical strength and improved flowability.

Light guide plates and process for producing the same

Disclosed are a flame-retardant polycarbonate resin composition comprising, as the essential ingredients, (A) a polycarbonate resin, (B) a specific styrenic resin, and (C) a specific phosphate compound, and its moldings. Containing no halogen, the resin composition and its moldings have good flame retardancy, impact strength, heat-resistant stability, thermal aging resistance, and wet heat resistance.

Flame-retardant polycarbonate resin composition and molded product

Disclosed are polycarbonates which are obtained by preparing a polycarbonate prepolymer through prepolymerization followed by polymerizing it through solid-phase, swollen solid-phase or thin film melt-phase transesterification, and have a remaining monomer content of smaller than 100 ppm, especially a dihydroxy compound content of smaller than 100 ppm, or have an acetone soluble content of at most 3.5 or at most 3.0% by weight, or have a terminal hydroxyl fraction of smaller than 2 or smaller than 15 mol %; and optical materials and blow molding materials comprising the polycarbonate. The polycarbonates contain a reduced amount of impurities such as remaining monomers, oligomers and others and have improved physical properties including impact strength, and these are useful as optical materials and blow molding materials.

Polycarbonate and optical material

Provided are a polycarbonate resin composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate and from 0.001 to 15 parts by weight of a benzotriazole-type UV absorbent and/or a benzophenone-type UV absorbent, and having a sulfur content of at most 50 ppb; and its sheet moldings. The resin composition and its sheet moldings have good weather resistance and heat stability.

Polycarbonate resin composition and products of sheet forming thereof

Provided are a method for producing polycarbonates through melt transesterification, wherein is used a polymerization catalyst comprising a phosphorus-containing basic compound and a quaternary phosphonium salt having a specific structure; and a method for producing polycarbonates, which comprises pre-polymerization to prepare polycarbonate prepolymers followed by final polymerization of said prepolymers in a solid phase or in a swollen solid phase to produce the products, polycarbonates, and in which (1) a catalyst comprising a phosphorus-containing basic compound and a quaternary phosphonium salt having a specific structure is used in the pre-polymerization and in the final polymerization, or (2) a catalyst of a tri-valent or penta-valent phosphorus compound or a nitrogen-containing organic basic compound is used in the final polymerization, or (3) the final polymerization is effected in a vapor-phase atmosphere having an oxygen concentration of not larger than 2 ppm. In those methods, high-quality polycarbonates having good appearance, high heat resistance and high hydrolysis resistance are produced extremely efficiently.

Processes for the production of polycarbonate

A digital video disk substrate of a polycarbonate having a viscosity average molecular weight (Mv) of 10,000 to 17,000 and a weight average molecular weight (Mw)/number average molecular weight (Mn) of not smaller than 2.3, and a digital video disk substrate of a polycarbonate having a viscosity average molecular weight (Mv) of 1,000 to 17,000 obtained by the transesterification of a divalent phenol such as 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl) propane with a carbonic acid diester such as diphenyl carbonate. The digital video disk substrate is little cracked at the time of molding, and exhibits small birefringence and excellent transcriptional property.

Digital video disk substrate

Process for producing polycarbonate

Process for preparing polycarbonate

A process for producing a branched polycarbonate which comprises using a branching agent containing 200 ppm or less of sulfur; a branched polycarbonate which is prepared by the interfacial method and contains 1.0 ppm or less of residual sulfur as an impurity; and a branched polycarbonate which is prepared by the melting method and contains 2.0 ppm or less of residual sulfur as an impurity; are provided. When the branched polycarbonate is produced by the interfacial method, the branched polycarbonate produced does not show deterioration in heat stability or cause mold corrosion. When the branched polycarbonate is produced by the melting method, the branched polycarbonate produced does not show deterioration in heat stability or in color tone.

Branched polycarbonate

Process for producing a branched polycarbonate

Anisotropically oriented phase difference compensation film of a

A process for producing a polycarbonate, which comprises transesterifying, in the presence of an antioxidant, (A) a dihydroxy compound or a precursor thereof and (B) a carbonic acid diester having, as an impurity, a chlorine content derived from chloroformate group of at most 30 ppm, which is determined by subtracting the chlorine content extracted with water using ion chromatography from the total chlorine content contained in said carbonic acid diester determined by potentiometric titration.

Process for producing polycarbonate having reduced residual

A polycarbonate having desirable color tone or transparency, as well as desirable heat resistance and water resistance, in which the amounts of residual metals in the polycarbonate are 10 ppm or less in total of Fe, Cr and Mo and 50 ppm or less in total of Ni and Cr. The polycarbonate is obtained by transesterification of (A) a dihydroxy compound and (B) a carbonic diester in a reactor made of a metallic material containing at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Fe, Cr, Mo, Ni and Cu, and controlling the water content in the reactor to 500 ppm or less.

Polycarbonate and process for producing the same

There is disclosed a process for producing a polycarbonate which comprises reacting, by the melt method, (A) a dihydroxy compound with (B) a carbonic diester having a chloride contempt derived from chloroformate group of not more than a prescribed level. According to the above process, a polycarbonate which is excellent in transparency, tone of color, heat resistance and water resistance can be efficiently and economically produced.

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Shigeki Kuze