Liquid crystalline polyester resin for extrusion molding

• US 6,140,455 A
• Filed: 11/10/1999
• Issued: 10/31/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited
• Inventors: Mizumoto, Koichi, Nagashima, Tohru, Hirakawa, Manabu
• Primary Examiner(s): Acquah, Samuel A.
• Application Number:
  US09/437,600
• Time in Patent Office: 356 Days
• Field of Search: 528/176, 528/190, 528/193, 528/194, 528/206, 528/212, 528/219, 428/221, 428/357
• US Class Current: 528/190
• CPC Class Codes: C08G 63/605 the hydroxy and carboxylic groups being bound to aromatic rings
• CPC Class Codes: C08J 2367/02 Polyesters derived from dicarboxylic acids and dihydroxy compounds; C08J2367/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C08J 5/18 Manufacture of films or sheets
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/249921 Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/29 Coated or structually defined flake, particle, cell, strand, strand portion, rod, filament, macroscopic fiber or mass thereof

Abstract

Provided is a liquid crystalline polyester resin for extrusion molding having a solder heat resistant temperature of 250° C. or more, wherein the ratio ((viscosity 2b)/(viscosity 1b)) of the melt viscosity (viscosity 1b) under a shearing speed of 1000/sec at the flow initiation temperature and the melt viscosity (viscosity 2b) under the same shearing speed at a temperature 20° C. higher than the flow initiation temperature is from 0.10 to 0.70. The extrusion molding material of the above-described liquid crystalline polyester resin has excellent heat resistance, and can provide an extrusion molded article, especially a film having excellent appearance.

Claims

1. A liquid crystalline polyester resin for extrusion molding having a solder heat resistant temperature of 250°

C. or more, wherein the ratio ((viscosity 2b)/(viscosity 1b)) of the melt viscosity (viscosity 1b) under a shearing speed of 1000/sec at the flow beginning temperature and the melt viscosity (viscosity 2b) under the same shearing speed at a temperature 20°

C. higher than the flow beginning temperature is from 0.10 to 0.70.

2. The liquid crystalline polyester resin for extrusion molding according to claim 1 wherein the melt tension measured at a temperature 30°

C. higher than the flow beginning temperature is 10 g or more.

3. The liquid crystalline polyester resin for extrusion molding according to claim 1 or 2 wherein the resin comprises two or more of constituent units represented by the formulae (1) to (4) and the total amount of these combined constituent units is 97 mol % or more based on the whole amount:

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4. The liquid crystalline polyester resin for extrusion molding according to claim 1 or 2 wherein the resin satisfies all of the following (a) to (c):

(a);

the proportion of the constituent unit represented by the formula (1) is from 40 to 70 mol % based on the whole amount,

(b) the total amount of the constituent unit represented by the formula (2) and the constituent unit represented by the formula (3) is from 15 to 30 mol % based on the whole amount, and the proportion of the constituent unit represented by the formula (2) is from 0 to 95 mol % based on the total amount of the constituent unit represented by the formula (2) and the constituent unit represented by the formula (3), and 80 to 100 mol % of the constituent unit represented by the formula (2) is composed of constituent components in which the main chain is situated at para-position,

(c) the proportion of the constituent unit represented by the formula (4) is equivalent to the proportion of the total amount of the constituent unit represented by the formula (2) and the constituent unit represented by the formula (3), and 50 mol % or more of the constituent unit represented by the formula (4) is composed of constituent components in which the main chain is situated at para-position;

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5. An extrusion molding material wherein the material comprises a resin component, and said resin is composed of the liquid crystalline polyester resin for extrusion molding according to claim 1.

6. An extrusion molded article obtained by extrusion-molding the extrusion molding material according to claim 5.

7. The extrusion molded article according to claim 6, wherein the article is in the form of a film.