Compositions of polypropylene having excellent tactile sensation and dimensional stability

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10550250-B2
Application number	US-201615374252-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 9, 2016
Priority date	May 2, 2016
Publication date	Feb 4, 2020
Grant date	Feb 4, 2020

Abstract

The compositions of polypropylene composite resin provided herein also have excellent impact strength and rigidity as well as excellent tactile sensation such as a thermoplastic rubber and low shrinkage anisotropy. Thus, they exhibit excellent moldability and the compositions can be molded into a vehicle component. Furthermore, the compositions of polypropylene composite resin have excellent tactile sensation and can be used as a high-quality material that does not require separate painting and maintains excellent physical properties and dimensional stability as a vehicle component.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A composition of rigid polypropylene composite resin having tactile sensation and dimensional stability, the composition comprising:
a polypropylene resin composition A comprising
(a-1) from 23 wt % to 60 wt % of polypropylene resin, wherein the polypropylene resin is one or more selected from the group consisting of homopolypropylene and a propylene-ethylene copolymer having an ethylene content of from 5 wt % to 30 wt %,
(a-2) from 1 wt % to 7 wt % of modified polypropylene to which 5 wt % to 10 wt % of a polar group is introduced, and
(a-3) from 38 wt % to 70 wt % of a long-fiber reinforcing material; and
a polypropylene resin composition B comprising
(b-1) from 16 wt % to 30 wt % of a propylene-ethylene copolymer having an ethylene content of 5 to 30 wt %,
(b-2) from 30 wt % to 50 wt % of thermoplastic rubber having a crystal area size of 10 to 50 nm,
(b-3) from 17 wt % to 28 wt % of propylene-ethylene random polypropylene, and
(b-4) from 6 wt % to 15 wt % of an inorganic filler, wherein a weight ratio of the polypropylene resin composition A to the polypropylene resin composition B is 1:3.5 to 1:1, and
wherein the one or more polar groups of the modified polypropylene (a-2) is selected from the group consisting of unsaturated carboxylic acids, derivatives of unsaturated carboxylic acids, and organic silane compounds.

2. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the homopolypropylene has a melt index of 40 g/10 min to 1,300 g/10 min (@2 30° C., 2.16 kg) and a poly-diversity index (PDI) of 2 to 4.

3. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the propylene-ethylene copolymer of (a-1) and the propylene-ethylene copolymer (b-1) have a specific gravity of 0.89 to 0.91 g/cm 3 and a melt index of 25 g/10 min to 130 g/10 min (@230° C., 2.16 kg).

4. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the propylene-ethylene copolymer of (a-1) has the ethylene content of 5 wt % to 20 wt % and the propylene-ethylene copolymer of (b-1) has the ethylene content of 15 wt % to 30 wt %.

5. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the polar group in the modified polypropylene is from 5 wt % to 8.5 wt % and the modified polypropylene is from 1 wt % to 6.5 wt %.

6. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the long-fiber reinforcing material of (a-3) is one or more selected from the group consisting of glass fibers, carbon fibers, polymer fibers, basalt fibers, natural fibers, and metal fibers.

7. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the long-fiber reinforcing material of (a-3) has a length of 4 to 21 mm.

8. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the thermoplastic rubber of (b-2) is an ethylene-α-olefin copolymer having carbon atoms (α) of 4 or more, and a melt index of 0.1 g/10 min to 15 g/10 min (@230° C., 2.16 kg), a melting point (Tm) of 130° C. to 170° C., and a specific gravity of 0.86 to 0.87 g/cm 3 .

9. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the thermoplastic rubber of (b-2) is from 37 wt % to 48 wt %.

10. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the random polypropylene of (b-3) has a melt index of from 70 g/10 min to 100 g/10 min (@ 230° C., 2.16 kg).

11. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the inorganic filler has an average particle size of 10 microns or less, and is one or more selected from the group consisting of talc, calcium carbonate, barium sulfate, glass bubbles, and glass beads.

12. A molded article prepared from the composition of polypropylene composite resin of claim 1 .

13. The molded article of claim 12 , wherein the molded article is a vehicle interior material or an exterior material.

14. A method for preparing a molded article from the composition of polypropylene composite resin of claim 1 comprising:
mixing and injecting a pellet prepared from the polypropylene resin composition A of claim 1 and a pellet prepared from the polypropylene resin composition B of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp
• Gs Caltex
• Seoyon E Hwa

Inventors

• Lee Han Ki
• Noh Jung Gyun
• Kim Hak Soo
• Jang Kyung Soon
• Kim Yong Ho
• Kim Dong Han
• Boo Woong Jae
• Kang Byung Wook
• Lee Seung Joon
• Kim Won Gil

Classifications

• C08J2323/08

  Copolymers of ethene (C08J2323/16 takes precedence) · CPC title

• C08L23/26

  modified by chemical after-treatment (saponified copolymers C08L23/0861; unsaturated acid salts C08L23/0876) · CPC title

• C08L23/16

  Ethylene-propylene or ethylene-propylene-diene copolymers · CPC title

• C08F210/06

  Propene · CPC title

• C08L23/12 Primary

  Polypropene · CPC title