Unitika Ltd.

Tsuneo Tamura

Koji Fujimoto

Sachiko Kokuryo

Kazushige Kojima

Eiji Y Yamamoto

Kenji Yasue

Minoru Kishida

Takashi Ida

Katsuyuki Touma

Yoshiaki Kozuka

Mioko Watanabe

Izumi Yoshida

Hiroyuki Matsuda

Hayami Ohnishi

Akira Menjyu

Shouji Nishimoto

Masaki Yoshikawa

Shinichiro Katahira

The present invention provides a polyamide resin composition in which silicate layers originating from a layered silicate and having the below-described property {circle around (1)} are uniformly dispersed on a molecular level in a polyamide resin to accomplish high strength, high modulus, high heat resistance, high toughness, excellent dimensional stability, and high tensile elongation with a small deviation. {circle around (1)}: average particle size from a photograph observation of transmission electron microscopy is 0.1 &mgr;m or less and not including a maximum particle size of 30 &mgr;m or higher.

Polyamide resin composition and process for producing the same

A polyamide resin composition comprising a copolyamide and silicate layers originating from a swellable fluoromica, dispersed in said copolyamide on a molecular level, wherein an average thickness and an average aspect ratio (length/thickness) of the silicate layers are within specific ranges. Also disclosed is a process for preparing the polyamide resin composition.

A polyamide resin composition comprising (A) a reinforced polyamide resin which comprises 100 parts by weight of a nylon 6 homopolymer or copolymer and 1 to 20 parts by weight of a layered silicate uniformly dispersed in the polymer on the molecular level and (B) a non-reinforced polyamide resin, a test specimen of said composition having a tensile weld strength of 45 MPa or higher and a flexural modulus of 4 GPa or higher.

Polyamide resin composition and molded articles

A reinforced polyamide resin composition which involves 100 parts by weight of a polyamide and from 0.01 to 100 parts by weight of fluoromica-based mineral with swelling characteristics. A process for producing the reinforced polyamide resin composition involving polymerizing a monomer in a state where from 0.01 to 100 parts by weight of fluoromica-based mineral with swelling characteristics is present per the monomer in an amount of forming 100 parts by weight of a polyamide. The reinforced polyamide resin composition is excellent in mechanical strength, toughness, heat resistance and dimensional stability.

Reinforced polyamide resin composition and process for producing the same

A surface-roughened film and methods for fabricating same. The film has good transparency/exceptional clarity and high lubricity so that it is useful for a photoengraving material, label, packaging film, magnetic recording film, or clear film. The film has a composition including thermoplastic polyester resin (a) and a thermoplastic resin (b), such as an amorphous nylon, having glass transition temperature preferably 10.degree. C. higher than that of the thermoplastic polyester resin (a) and a critical surface tension more than 0.1 dyne/cm different from that of the thermoplastic polyester resin (a). Resin (b) further has a melt viscosity, at a temperature of 280.degree. C. and shear rate of 10.sup.2 sec.sup.-1, in the range of 500 to 50,000 poise. One or more particulate inert inorganic compound may be added and the film may be laminated to layers of other polymers with the film of the foregoing composition on at least one surface thereof. On the film surface, microprotuberances cored with the thermoplastic resin (b) are formed. In addition, there are also provided methods for fabricating the surface-roughened film including drawing the film in at least one direction by a factor of at least one and one-half at a temperature between Tg of (a) and Tg of (b).

Surface-roughened polyester film

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Tsuneo Tamura