Method for producing polyester film having furandicarboxylate unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11511473-B2
Application number	US-201816490205-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2018
Priority date	Mar 1, 2017
Publication date	Nov 29, 2022
Grant date	Nov 29, 2022

Abstract

It is provided that a method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film that can be used for industrial and packaging applications. A method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film, comprising: a step of feeding a polyester resin into an extruder, a step of extruding the molten polyester resin from an extruder to obtain a molten resin sheet at 250 to 310° C., a step of attaching the molten resin sheet closely to a cooling roll by an electrostatic application method to obtain an unstretched sheet, and a step of biaxially stretching the unstretched sheet, wherein the polyester resin fulfills the following (A) to (C): (A) the polyester resin comprises a polyethylene furandicarboxylate resin composed of a furandicarboxylic acid and ethylene glycol; (B) an intrinsic viscosity of the polyester resin is 0.50 dL/g or more; (C) a melt specific resistance value at 250° C. of the polyester resin is 3.0×107 Ω·cm or less.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film, comprising:
a step of feeding a polyester resin into an extruder to form a molten polyester resin,
a step of extruding the molten polyester resin from the extruder to obtain a molten resin sheet at 250 to 310° C.,
a step of attaching the molten resin sheet to a cooling roll by an electrostatic application method to obtain an unstretched sheet,
a step of biaxially stretching the unstretched sheet in a machine direction at 4.5 to 10.0 times, and then in a direction perpendicular to the machine direction to obtain a stretched film,
a step of heat fixing while the stretched film is kept stretched in the direction perpendicular to the machine direction, and
a step of relaxing in the direction perpendicular to the machine direction at a relaxation ratio of 0.5 to 10%,
wherein
the step of heat fixing is followed by the step of relaxing,
an intrinsic viscosity of the molten resin sheet is 0.60 to 1.20 dL/g, and
a plane orientation coefficient of the biaxially oriented polyester film is 0.100-0.200, and
the polyester resin fulfills the following (A) to (C):
(A) the polyester resin comprises a polyethylene furandicarboxylate resin composed of a furandicarboxylic acid and ethylene glycol;
(B) an intrinsic viscosity of the polyester resin is 0.50 dL/g or more; and
(C) a melt specific resistance value at 250° C. of the polyester resin is 3.0×10 7 Ω·cm or less.

2. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 1 , wherein a melt specific resistance value of the molten resin sheet is 2.5×10 7 Ω·cm or less at a temperature at which the molten resin sheet is extruded from the extruder.

3. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 2 , wherein the melt specific resistance value of the polyester resin at 275° C. is 2.5×10 7 Ω·cm or less.

4. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 3 , wherein the step of obtaining an unstretched sheet and the step of biaxially stretching the unstretched sheet are carried out continuously.

5. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 4 , wherein a thickness of the film is 1 μm or more and 300 μm or less.

6. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 5 , wherein the polyester film has a heat shrinkage rate of 0.01% or more and 50% or less when the polyester film is heated at 150° C. for 30 minutes.

7. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 6 , wherein the film has an oxygen transmission of 1 mL/m 2 /day/MPa or more and 200 mL/m 2 /day/MPa or less per 50 μm of film thickness at a temperature of 23° C. and a relative humidity of 65%.

8. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 7 , wherein both a refractive index (nx) of the film in a flow direction in the film plane and a refractive index (ny) of the film in a transverse direction perpendicular to the flow direction in the film plane are 1.5700 or more and 1.7000 or less.

9. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 1 , wherein the melt specific resistance value of the polyester resin at 275° C. is 2.5×10 7 106 ·cm or less.

10. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 1 , wherein the step of obtaining an unstretched sheet and the step of biaxially stretching the unstretched sheet are carried out continuously.

11. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the film is 1 μm or more and 300 μm or less.

12. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 1 , wherein the polyester film has a heat shrinkage rate of 0.01% or more and 50% or less when the polyester film is heated at 150° C. for 30 minutes.

13. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 1 , wherein the film has an oxygen transmission of 1 mL/m 2 /day/MPa or more and 200 mL/m 2 /day/MPa or less per 50 μm of film thickness at a temperature of 23° C. and a relative humidity of 65%.

14. The method for producing a biaxially oriented polyester film according to claim 1 , wherein both a refractive index (nx) of the film in a flow direction in the film plane and a refractive index (ny) of the film in a transverse direction perpendicular to the flow direction in the film plane are 1.5700 or more and 1.7000 or less.

Assignees

• Toyo Boseki
• Furanix Technologies Bv

Inventors

• Hayakawa Shota
• Numata Yukihiro
• Ito Katsuya
• Inagaki Jun
• Shimizu Toshiyuki
• Gyobu Shoichi
• Morishige Chikao
• Van Berkel Jesper Gabriel

Classifications

• B29C55/12

  biaxial · CPC title

• B32B2439/70

  Food packaging · CPC title

• B29C48/885

  External treatment, e.g. by using air rings for cooling tubular films · CPC title

• B32B2307/726

  Permeability to liquids, absorption · CPC title

• B29C48/305 Primary

  having a wide opening, e.g. for forming sheets · CPC title