Methacrylic resin, method for producing methacrylic resin, shaped article and automobile

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11072673-B2
Application number	US-201615743818-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 1, 2016
Priority date	Jul 14, 2015
Publication date	Jul 27, 2021
Grant date	Jul 27, 2021

Abstract

A methacrylic resin excellent in moldability, solvent resistance, mechanical properties and heat resistance is provided. A method for producing a methacrylic resin excellent in productivity is provided. A methacrylic resin having 99.1% by mass or more and 99.9% by mass or less of a repeating unit derived from methyl methacrylate, 0.1% by mass or more and 0.9% by mass or less of a repeating unit derived from alkyl acrylate, and a proportion of the molecular weight component of ⅕ or less of the peak molecular weight Mph in the high molecular weight region side obtained from an elution curve by a gel permeation chromatography of the methacrylic resin is 7% or more and 40% or less.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A methacrylic resin, comprising:
99.1% by mass or more and 99.9% by mass or less of a repeating unit derived from methyl methacrylate;
0.1% by mass or more and 0.9% by mass or less of a repeating unit derived from an alkyl acrylate,
wherein a proportion of molecular weight component of ⅕ or less of a peak molecular weight Mph in a high molecular weight region side obtained from an elution curve by a gel permeation chromatography of the methacrylic resin is 7% or more and 40% or less.

2. The resin of claim 1 , having a weight average molecular weight Mw of 50,000 or more and 200,000 or less.

3. The resin of claim 1 , having a molecular weight distribution of 2.5 or more and 6.0 or less.

4. The resin of claim 1 , comprising:
99.6% by mass or more and 99.9% by mass or less of the repeating unit derived from methyl methacrylate; and
0.1% by mass or more and 0.4% by mass or less of the repeating unit derived from alkyl acrylate.

5. The resin of claim 1 , wherein the elution curve has at least two peaks.

6. The resin of claim 5 , wherein a peak molecular weight Mph in the highest molecular weight region side is 100,000 or more and 180,000 or less.

7. The resin of claim 5 , having a peak molecular weight Mpl in the lowest molecular weight region side of 8,000 or more and 30,000 or less.

8. The resin of claim 1 , having a spiral flow length of 130 mm or more.

9. The resin of claim 1 , having a rupture time in a cantilever test is 120 seconds or more.

10. The resin of claim 1 , having a bending fracture strength of 135 MPa or more.

11. The resin of claim 1 , having a deflection temperature under load of 98° C. or more.

12. A methacrylic resin, having a spiral flow length of 130 mm or more and a bending fracture strength of 135 MPa or more.

13. The resin of claim 12 , having a rupture time in the cantilever test of 120 seconds or more.

14. A method for producing the resin of claim 1 , the method comprising performing a continuous bulk polymerization of a monomer mixture comprising the methyl methacrylate and the alkyl acrylate.

15. A shaped article, formed by shaping the resin of claim 1 .

16. A automobile, comprising the article of claim 15 .

17. The resin of claim 1 , having a weight average molecular weight Mw of 70,000 or more and 150,000 or less.

18. The resin of claim 1 , having a weight average molecular weight Mw of 80,000 or more and 120,000 or less.

19. The resin of claim 1 , having a molecular weight distribution of 3.0 or more and 5.0 or less.

20. The resin of claim 1 , having a molecular weight distribution of 3.5 or more and 4.5 or less.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Chem Corp

Inventors

• Marutani Takao
• Morooka Masahiko
• Nakanishi Hiroshi
• Murayama Yoshiaki

Classifications

• C08J5/00

  Manufacture of articles or shaped materials containing macromolecular substances (manufacture of semi-permeable membranes B01D67/00 - B01D71/00) · CPC title

• C08F2/38

  Polymerisation using regulators, e.g. chain terminating agents {, e.g. telomerisation} · CPC title

• C08F2/02

  Polymerisation in bulk · CPC title

• C08F220/14 Primary

  Methyl esters {, e.g. methyl (meth)acrylate} · CPC title