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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 1995
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1993
Hideki Kuwabara, Utsunomiya, JP;
Kazuo Tsurugai, Utsunomiya, JP;
Masaharu Oikawa, Utsunomiya, JP;
Hidehiro Sasaki, Utsunomiya, JP;
Satoru Shioya, Utsunomiya, JP;
JSP Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method of producing foamed particles of an ethylene-based resin, which have a high expansion ratio and are free from the formation of fine cells, by dispersing particles of the uncrosslinked ethylene-based resin, which are obtained using, as a base resin, an ethylene/.alpha.-olefin copolymer containing, as a comonomer component, 1.0-10 wt. % of an .alpha.-olefin having 4-10 carbon atoms, in a dispersion medium in the presence of a foaming agent in a closed vessel, heating the resultant dispersion to impregnate the resin particles with the foaming agent, and then releasing the resin particles into a region of a pressure lower than the internal pressure of the vessel at a foaming temperature not lower than the softening temperature of the resin particles, thereby expanding the resin particles. An aliphatic hydrocarbon and/or an alicyclic hydrocarbon and carbon dioxide are used in admixture as the foaming agent in amounts satisfying the following equations (1) and (2) at the same time: