Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd.

Takayuki Tsuji

Shigekuni Nakada

Yukiya Kobayashi

Munekazu Satake

Tsuyoshi Tomosada

Hiroyuki Watanabe

Takeshi Furuta

Futoshi Kitatani

Tetsuji Kawamoto

Tomio Kawazoe

Kiyoshi Ikeda

Hiroki Mori

Katsuya Uchida

Masahiro Matsuoka

Isao Ishikawa

Kozaburo Nagata

Takao Ando

Kohei Maeda

Toru Nakanishi

Kazuya Otani

A polymer polyol (I) is provided that is formed of a polyol (A), polymer particles (B) obtained by polymerization of an ethylenically unsaturated compound (b), and an active-hydrogen-containing compound (d) having an aromatic ring and having a number-average molecular weight of 150 to 2,000, wherein a content of (d) is 1 to 20% on the basis of a weight of (B). The polymer polyol of the present invention contains polymer particles having sufficiently small particle diameters, has a low viscosity, and has excellent handleability. A polyurethane resin obtained by using the polymer polyol of the present invention has excellent mechanical strengths such as elongation at break.

Polymer polyol, method for producing the same, and method for producing polyurethane resin

A method for producing a fine-particle-dispersed polyol (I) is provided, the method including the steps (1) and (n&#x2212;1): the step (1) of polymerizing an ethylenically unsaturated monomer (b) in a polyol (a), in the presence of fine particles (P1) and a radical polymerization initiator (c), so as to obtain a fine-particle-dispersed polyol intermediate (B2); and the step (n&#x2212;1) of polymerizing (b) in a fine-particle-dispersed polyol intermediate (B(n&#x2212;1)), in the presence of (c), so as to obtain a fine-particle-dispersed polyol intermediate (Bn) or the fine-particle-dispersed polyol (I), where n represents an integer of 3 to 7, wherein (P1) have a volume-average particle diameter (R1) of 0.01 &#x3bc;m to 1.0 &#x3bc;m, and a concentration of (b) in the step (1) is 7 wt % to 40 wt %. Thus, a method for producing a fine-particle-dispersed polyol can be provided that contains polymer fine particles dispersed in a polyol having a small particle diameter, and that, when it is used for forming a polyurethane resin, allows the polyurethane resin to exhibit excellent resin properties.

Method for producing fine-particle-dispersed polyol, and method for producing polyurethane resin

A polyol composition comprising a polyol (a) and resin fine particles (b) dispersed in the polyol (a), and a method for producing the polyol composition are provided, wherein the resin fine particles (b) are particles such that an arithmetic standard deviation by volume of a particle size distribution of the particles, derived from respective values in 85 divisions of a range of 0.020 to 2000 &#x3bc;m determined by a laser diffraction/scattering particle size distribution analyzer, is not more than 0.6. A resin fine particle-dispersed polyol composition that, even if the resin particles dispersed in the polyol have a small particle diameter, allows the production of a polyurethane resin having an excellent mechanical strength such as elongation at break, and a method for producing the same, are provided.

Fine particle-dispersed polyol composition, method for producing polymer polyol, and method for producing polyurethane resin

This invention provides a polymer polyol composition (I) comprising a polyol (A) and polymer particles (B) dispersed in (A), the polymer particles (B) being formed by polymerizing an ethylenically unsaturated compound (b) in a polyol, wherein the content of (B) in (I) is from 35 to 75 mass %, based on the mass of (I), and the amount of soluble polymers (P) dissolved in (A) is not more than 5 mass %, based on the mass of (A), and provides methods for producing the polymer polyol composition (I). Further, this invention provides a method for producing a foamed or non-foamed polyurethane resin, which method comprises reacting a polyol component with a polyisocyanate component in the presence or absence of a blowing agent, wherein the above polymer polyol composition is used at least as a portion of the polyol component. A polymer polyol having a low viscosity and excellent dispersion stability is provided even when having a high concentration of polymer particles, and is used advantageously to produce polyurethane resins having excellent 25% ILD (hardness) and compression set, or foams thereof, with good operation efficiency.

Polymer polyol composition, process for producing the same, and process for producing polyurethane resin

This invention provides a polymer polyol composition (I) comprising a polyol (A) and polymer particles (B) dispersed in (A), the polymer particles (B) being formed by polymerizing an ethylenically unsaturated compound (b) in a polyol, wherein the content of (B) in (I) is from 35 to 75 mass %, based on the mass of (I), and the amount of soluble polymers (P) dissolved in (A) is not more than 5 mass %, based on the mass of (A), and provides methods for producing the polymer polyol composition (I). Further, this invention provides a method for producing a foamed or non-foamed polyurethane resin, which method comprises reacting a polyol component with a polyisocyanate component in the presence or absence of a blowing agent, wherein the above polymer polyol composition is used at least as a portion of the polyol component. A polymer polyol having a low viscosity and excellent dispersion is stability is provided even when having a high concentration of polymer particles, and is used advantageously to produce polyurethane resins having excellent 25% ILD (hardness) and compression set, or foams thereof, with good operation efficiency.

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Takayuki Tsuji