Nissan Motor Company Limited

Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated

Shin Fujii

Takashi Seino

Koue Ohkawa

Akira Oyamada

Satoshi Ambe

Nobuhiko Okoshi

Koue Ookawa

Shigeyoshi Nakagawa

A resin composition for bonding of foundry sand, said composition comprising as a resin component a crystalline unsaturated polyester being solid and substantially tack-free at room temperature and having an acid value of 15 to 100, said unsaturated polyester being prepared by polymerizing (A) a dicarboxylic acid component containing 10 to 50 mole % of terephthalic acid, an alkyl terephthalate, isophthalic acid or an alkyl isophthalate and 50 to 90 mole % of fumaric acid and (B) a glycol component containing at least 90 mole % of ethylene glycol, trimethylene glycol, neopentyl glycol, hydrogenated bisphenol A or 2,2-d-(4-hydroxypropoxyphenyl)propane.

Resin composition for bonding foundry sand

Resin coated foundry sand, using a binder composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a crystalline unsaturated polyester and, as a cross-linking agent, 5 to 30 parts by weight of diallyl phthalate monomer. The binder is a scarcely tacky solid at room temperature but at a temperature somewhat above its softening temperature assumes a fluid state and exhibits a viscosity below about 500 poises. The resin coated sand is prepared by mixing heated foundry sand with the binder composition, with the addition of an organic peroxide which serves as a curing catalyst. Moulds and cores formed of this resin coated sand are high in initial strength but, nevertheless, can easily be disintegrated at the shake-off stage even when a relatively low pouring temperature is employed as in an aluminum alloy casting process.

Resin coated foundry sand using crystalline unsaturated polyester as

A crystalline unsaturated polyester composition for binding foundry sand, said composition comprising:

A method of producing a large-sized body of a ceramic honeycomb structure, comprising the steps of integrating unfired unit blocks each having a prismatic shape and a honeycomb structure with axial gas passages into a large-sized body by bonding the unit blocks to one another with a bonding agent and firing this body. The unit blocks are formed of a ceramic composition consisting of a powdered ceramic material and completely gasifiable substances, and essential components of the bonding agent are also completely gasifiable substances such as a combination of an organic binder material used in the ceramic composition and a solvent for this binder material. The gasifiable substances present in the large-sized body are completely dissipated by heating before the occurrence of sintering of the ceramic material by firing, so that the fired product is a wholly and homogeneously ceramic body of a honeycomb structure highly resistant to thermal shocks.

Method of producing large-sized ceramic honeycomb structure body by

A binder composition for binding foundry sand particles to form molds and cores in sand mold casting processes which may be aluminum alloy casting processes, comprising a thermosetting resin and powdery zinc carbonate which is dispersed in the resin and, while the molds and cores are heated by the poured molten metal, undergoes thermal decomposition with generation of carbon dioxide gas which aids the molds and cores to become readily disintegratable.

Binder composition for foundry sand containing zinc carbonate dispersed

A crystalline unsaturated polyester, which is a scarcely tacky solid at room temperature but at a temperature somewhat above its softening temperature assumes a fluid state with a viscosity below about 500 poises, is used as a principal component of a binder for the preparation of a resin coated casting sand for use in shell mold casting of, particularly, aluminum alloys with an aim of facilitating the disintegration of molds and cores. The binder is mixed with a conventional foundry sand at an appropriately elevated temperature in the presence of an organic peroxide as a polymerization catalyst. The binder may preferably contain a cross-linking agent such as diallyl phthalate and optionally a silane as a coupling agent and/or a cross-linking accelerator.

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Shin Fujii