Resin-coated seamless can

• US 6,565,937 B2
• Filed: 03/02/2001
• Issued: 05/20/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: TOYO Seikan Kaisha Limited (Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: TOYO Seikan Kaisha Limited (Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sato, Kazuhiro, Funagi, Yuji, Morofuji, Akihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Nolan, Sandra M.
• Application Number:
  US09/796,525
• Publication Number:
  US 20010031327A1
• Time in Patent Office: 809 Days
• Field of Search: 428/35.9, 428/212, 428/458
• US Class Current: 428/35.9
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 15/08 of synthetic resin
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 27/36 comprising polyesters
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/1355 Elemental metal containing [e.g., substrate, foil, film, coating, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/1359 Three or more layers [continuous layer]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24942 including components having same physical characteristic in differing degree
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31681 Next to polyester, polyamide or polyimide [e.g., alkyd, glue, or nylon, etc.]

Abstract

A resin-coated seamless can satisfying such properties as high degree of workability, adhesiveness of film, resistance against high temperatures and wet heated condition, corrosion resistance and resistance against being dented. The resin-coated seamless can is formed of a resin-coated metal plate having substantially unoriented two layers including a lower layer on the inside of the can and a surface layer on the lower layer, wherein both of the layers comprise a polyethylene terephthalate/isophthalate having an intrinsic viscosity [η] of not smaller than 0.7, and the surface layer contains an isophthalic acid in an amount of from 3 to 13 mol %, and the lower layer contains the isophthalic acid in an amount of from 8 to 25 mol %, which is larger than that of the surface layer, and the degree of crystallization of the surface layer is larger than the degree of crystallization of the lower layer in the upper part of the can wall.

Claims

1. A resin-coated seamless can formed of a resin-coated metal plate having substantially unoriented two resin layers including a lower layer on the inside of the can and a surface layer on the lower layer, wherein the surface layer comprises a polyethylene terephthalate/isophthalate containing an isophthalic acid in an amount of from 3 to 13 mol % and having an intrinsic viscosity [η

] of not smaller than 0.7, and the lower layer comprises a polyethylene terephthalate/isophthalate containing the isophthalic acid in an amount of from 8 to 25 mol %, which is larger than that of the surface layer, and having an intrinsic viscosity [η

] of not smaller than 0.7, the resin layer on the inside of the upper part of the can satisfying the following formula (1),

2. A resin-coated seamless can according to claim 1, wherein the coefficient of surface orientation of the resin layer on the inside of the bottom of the can is not larger than 0.05.

3. A resin-coated seamless can according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the half-crystallization time of the lower layer at 160°

C. is not shorter than 100 seconds.

4. A resin-coated seamless can according to claim 1, wherein the polyethylene terephthalate/isophthalate of the surface layer and of the lower layer is formed by the solid-phase polymerization method.

5. A resin-coated seamless can according to claim 1, wherein the surface layer (A) and the lower layer (B) have a thickness ratio of,

6. A resin-coated seamless can according to claim 1, wherein the surface layer and the lower layer are laminated by the lamination of multi-layer cast films.

7. A resin-coated seamless can according to claim 1, wherein the surface layer and the lower layer are formed by the co-extruded coating.

8. A resin-coated seamless can according to claim 1, wherein said resin-coated seamless can is obtained by drawing, stretch-drawing, or by these forming methods in combination with ironing.

9. A resin-coated seamless can according to claim 1, wherein the surface layer and the lower layer, in an upper part of the can, have an amorphous parameter (F) defined by the following formula (2),