Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Akira Ishibashi

Shunichi Hayashi

Tetsuyoshi Ikenoue

A heat insulator made of shape memory polymer foam which has good moldability and changes greatly in elastic modulus above and below its glass transition point, and a heat insulator as mentioned above in which the polymer foam is polyurethane produced by prepolymer process from a composition containing a blowing agent, said composition being composed of a difunctional diisocyanate, a difunctional polyol, and a difunctional chain extender containing active hydrogen in a molar ratio of 2.00-1.10:1.00:1.00-0.10, said polyurethane containing approximately equal amounts of NCO groups and OH groups at the terminals of the molecular chains and having a glass transition point of -50.degree. to 60.degree. C. and crystallinity of 3 to 50 wt %.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuyoshi Ikenoue