Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation

Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Japan Elastomer Co., Ltd.

Takahiro Hisasue

Shigeru Sasaki

Katsumi Suzuki

Toshinori Shiraki

Takashi Sato

Nobuaki Kubo

Shigeki Takayama

Masahiro Sasagawa

Yoshifumi Araki

Shigeo Nakajima

Kazuo Moritou

Kenta Shibuya

Yukinori Nakamichi

Kosuke Nakatani

Takeshi Aoyagi

Yasuhiro Kusanose

Takahiro Tsuji

Tadashi Matsushita

Masahiro Fujiwara

Toshikazu Hoshina

Hiroyuki Ichino

Atsushi Yasumoto

Kenji Ebara

Noriko Yagi

Mika Horiuchi

Ippei Kameda

Katumi Suzuki

Hydrogenated copolymer, adhesive film, resin composition, and molded article

A thermoplastic elastomer composition including:

Thermoplastic elastomer composition, plug body and container

A block copolymer composition including: 10% by mass or more and 90% by mass or less of a component (a), and 10% by mass or more and 90% by mass or less of a component (b), wherein the component (a) is a block copolymer containing a polymer block (A) primarily including a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and a polymer block (B) primarily including a conjugated diene monomer unit, wherein the block copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of 30,000 or higher and 150,000 or lower; and the component (b) is a block copolymer containing a polymer block (A) primarily including a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and a polymer block (B) primarily including a conjugated diene monomer unit.

Block copolymer composition and adhesive composition

Disclosure provides a block copolymer composition having 20% by mass or more and 90% by mass or less of a component (A) and 10% by mass or more and 80% by mass or less of a component (B), wherein the component (A) is a block copolymer having a polymer block mainly comprising a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and a polymer block mainly comprising a conjugated diene monomer unit, and having a weight-average molecular weight of 30,000 or higher and 190,000 or lower; and the component (B) is a block copolymer having a polymer block mainly comprising a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and a polymer block mainly comprising a conjugated diene monomer unit, and having a weight-average molecular weight of 60,000 or higher and 500,000 or lower.

Block copolymer and adhesive composition

A hydrogenated block copolymer composition, comprising:

Hydrogenated block copolymer composition and pressure-sensitive adhesive composition

It is an object to provide a block copolymer composition for a viscous adhesive, which will be a viscous adhesive composition excellent in balance of the adhesive properties such as tack strength and tackiness, having a low melt viscosity, and excellent solubility, coating properties, ejection stability, and surface skin quality. The block copolymer composition for a viscous adhesive having:

Block copolymer composition for viscous adhesive, and adhesive composition

The present invention provides a resin composition that simultaneously (1) supports high productivities, (2) is resistant to bleed out by the flame retardant present in the composition, (3) is resistant to migration of its components to another resin, (4) exhibits a high flame retardancy, and (5) exhibits high flexibility. The resin composition includes components (A) a polyphenylene ether, (B) a hydrogenated copolymer, (C) a styrene resin and/or olefin resin, and (D) a metal phosphinate, wherein the component (B) includes (B1) a polymer block principally comprising an aromatic vinyl monomer unit, and (B2) a hydrogenated copolymer block principally comprising an aromatic vinyl monomer unit and a conjugated diene monomer unit, and a content of the aromatic vinyl monomer unit in the (B2) is 20 to 95% by weight, and a content of the aromatic vinyl monomer unit in the (B) is 35 to 80% by weight.

Flame-retardant resin composition

The present invention provides an elastomer composition comprising a mixture (a) of a hydrogenated block copolymer (a-1) and a hydrogenated block copolymer (a-2); a polypropylene resin (b); and a hydrocarbon oil (c). The hydrogenated block copolymer (a-1) has a specific structure, a specified number average molecular weight and a specified block content. The hydrogenated block copolymer (a-2) has a specific structure, a specified number average molecular weight, a specified block content, a specified vinyl bond content before hydrogenation and a specified MFR. The polypropylene resin (b) has a specified MFR. The present invention also provides a storage cover of airbag devices which is made of the elastomer composition.

Elastomer composition and storage cover of airbag devices

A hydrogenated copolymer obtained by hydrogenating an unhydrogenated copolymer comprising conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, the hydrogenated copolymer containing at least one hydrogenated copolymer block (B) which is obtained by hydrogenating an unhydrogenated random copolymer block comprised of conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, wherein the hydrogenated copolymer has the following characteristics: the hydrogenated copolymer has a content of the vinyl aromatic monomer units of from more than 40% by weight to less than 95% by weight; at least one peak of loss tangent (tan &#x3b4;) is observed at &#x2212;10 to 80&#xb0; C. in a dynamic viscoelastic spectrum obtained with respect to the hydrogenated copolymer; and substantially no crystallization peak ascribed to the copolymer block (B) is observed at &#x2212;20 to 80&#xb0; C. in a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) chart obtained with respect to the hydrogenated copolymer.

Hydrogenated copolymer and composition containing the same

An object of the present invention is to provide a hydrogenated block copolymer having excellent flexibility, heat resistance, abrasion resistance and surface texture (no stickiness, oil bleeding etc.) and good processability, and a composition thereof. The present invention provides a hydrogenated block copolymer that has therein at least one of each of a vinyl aromatic compound polymer block A, a hydrogenated polymer block B of a random copolymer comprising a conjugated diene and a vinyl aromatic compound, and a hydrogenated polymer block C of a conjugated diene polymer having a vinyl bond content of not less than 30%, the hydrogenated block copolymer having a vinyl aromatic compound content of more than 50 wt % and less than 95 wt %, and a composition containing the hydrogenated block copolymer.

Hydrogenated block copolymer and composition thereof

Hydrogenated copolymer and composition thereof

A modified hydrogenated copolymer comprising a hydrogenated copolymer and a functional group-containing modifier group bonded to the hydrogenated copolymer, wherein the hydrogenated copolymer is obtained by hydrogenating an unhydrogenated copolymer comprising conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, the unhydrogenated copolymer having at least one polymer block (H) of the vinyl aromatic monomer units, and wherein the modified hydrogenated copolymer has the following characteristics (1) to (4): (1) a content of the vinyl aromatic monomer units of from more than 60% by weight to less than 90% by weight, based on the weight of the hydrogenated copolymer, (2) a content of the polymer block (H) of from 0.1 to 40% by weight, based on the weight of the unhydrogenated copolymer, (3) a weight average molecular weight of from more than 100,000 to 1,000,000, and (4) a hydrogenation ratio of 70% or more, as measured with respect to the double bonds in the conjugated diene monomer units.

Modified hydrogenated copolymer

Disclosed is a hydrogenated copolymer obtained by hydrogenating an unhydrogenated copolymer comprising conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, the unhydrogenated copolymer having at least one polymer block (H) of vinyl aromatic monomer units, wherein the hydrogenated copolymer has the following characteristics (1) to (5): (1) a content of the vinyl aromatic monomer units of from more than 60% by weight to less than 90% by weight, based on the weight of the hydrogenated copolymer; (2) a content of the polymer block (H) of from 1 to 40% by weight, based on the weight of the unhydrogenated copolymer; (3) a weight average molecular weight of from more than 100,000 to 1,000,000; (4) a hydrogenation ratio of 85% or more, as measured with respect to the double bonds in the conjugated diene monomer units; and (5) substantially no crystallization peak observed at &#x2212;50 to 100&#xb0; C. in a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) chart obtained with respect to the hydrogenated copolymer.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takahiro Hisasue