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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1999
Tomoaki Shimoda, Ichihara, JP;
Takeshi Sakashita, Ichihara, JP;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
To provide a method with which a polycarbonate can be manufactured efficiently without any pipe clogging or foreign material admixture in the course of the continuous manufacture of a polycarbonate. A continuous method for manufacturing a polycarbonate, characterized in that, in the continuous manufacture of a polycarbonate by transesterification from a dihydroxy compound and a carbonic diester, the crystallization of a polycarbonate lower polycondensate produced in the intermediate stage of a polycondensation reaction whose intrinsic viscosity (IV) measured at,° C. in methylene chloride is between,and,dL/g is suppressed by setting the temperature to be at least,° C. on the surface of the reactor equipment in contact with the polycarbonate lower polycondensate.