Heat-shrinkable film, heat shrink label, and package

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11608204-B2
Application number	US-201716320477-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 24, 2017
Priority date	Jul 27, 2016
Publication date	Mar 21, 2023
Grant date	Mar 21, 2023

Abstract

The invention provides a heat-shrinkable film that has (1) a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 90-140° C.; (2) shrinkage of 12% or less in a main shrinkage direction when treated in glycerin at 80° C. for 10 seconds; (3) shrinkage of 12% or less in a direction orthogonal to the main shrinkage direction when treated in glycerin at 140° C. for 10 seconds; (4) shrinkage of 30%-80% in the main shrinkage direction when treated in glycerin at 140° C. for 10 seconds; (5) a tensile elongation at break of 10% or more both in the main shrinkage direction and the orthogonal direction after aging of 672 hours at 50° C. and 70% RH; and (6) a difference of 5% or less between shrinkage at 140° C. in the main shrinkage direction after aging of 672 hours at 50° C. and 70% RH, and shrinkage at 140° C. in the main shrinkage direction before the aging.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A heat-shrinkable film which satisfies requirements (1) to (8) below:
(1) the heat-shrinkable film has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 90° C. or higher and 140° C. or lower;
(2) the heat-shrinkable film has a shrinkage of 12% or less in a main shrinkage direction of the heat-shrinkable film when treated in glycerin at 80° C. for 10 seconds;
(3) the heat-shrinkable film has a shrinkage of 12% or less in a direction orthogonal to the main shrinkage direction of the heat-shrinkable film when treated in glycerin at 140° C. for 10 seconds;
(4) the heat-shrinkable film has a shrinkage of 30% or more and 80% or less in the main shrinkage direction of the heat-shrinkable film when treated in glycerin at 140° C. for 10 seconds;
(5) the heat-shrinkable film has a tensile elongation at break of 10% or more both in the main shrinkage direction and in the direction orthogonal to the main shrinkage direction of the heat-shrinkable film after an aging of 672 hours under an atmosphere of a temperature of 50° C. and a relative humidity of 70%;
(6) the heat-shrinkable film has a difference of 5% or less between a shrinkage at 140° C. in the main shrinkage direction of the heat-shrinkable film after the aging of 672 hours under an atmosphere of a temperature of 50° C. and a relative humidity of 70%, and a shrinkage at 140° C. in the main shrinkage direction of the heat-shrinkable film before the aging;
(7) the heat-shrinkable film is a polyester film or a cyclic polyolefin film, wherein the polyester film contains a dicarboxylic acid component, a diol component, and a second alcohol component different from the diol component, wherein the dicarboxylic acid component constituting the polyester film is terephthalic acid and/or 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid, the diol component constituting the polyester film is a ethylene glycol component, wherein the second alcohol component is at least one selected from the group consisting of 1,3-propanediol, 1,4-butanediol, neopentyl glycol, 2,2-diethyl-1,3-propanediol, 1,6-hexanediol, 3-methyl-1,5-pentanediol, 2-methyl-1,5-pentanediol, 1,9-nonanediol, 1,10-decane diol, 1,4-cyclohexane dimethanol, and diethylene glycol, and wherein the cyclic polyolefin film contains a norbornene or a tetracyclododecane unit as a cycloolefin unit and a non-cyclic olefin monomer unit as a copolymerization unit and
(8) the polyester film contains 33 mass % or more and 57 mass % or less of a component derived from polyethylene naphthalate in the 100 mass % of polyester film.

2. The heat-shrinkable film according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of a tensile strength at break in the main shrinkage direction of the heat-shrinkable film and in the direction orthogonal to the main shrinkage direction (a tensile strength at break in the main shrinkage direction of the film÷a tensile strength at break in the direction orthogonal to the main shrinkage direction of the film) is 0.1 or more and 0.5 or less.

3. The heat-shrinkable film according to claim 2 , wherein a ratio of a tear propagation strength in the main shrinkage direction of the heat-shrinkable film and in the direction orthogonal to the main shrinkage direction (a tear propagation strength in the main shrinkage direction of the film÷a tear propagation strength in the direction orthogonal to the main shrinkage direction of the film) is 0.1 or more and 0.5 or less.

4. The heat-shrinkable film according to claim 3 , which has a shrinkage of 1.5% or less in the main shrinkage direction of the heat-shrinkable film after the aging of 672 hours under an atmosphere of a temperature of 50° C. and a relative humidity of 70%.

5. The heat-shrinkable film according to claim 4 , which is a monoaxially stretched film.

6. A heat-shrinkable label including the heat-shrinkable film according to claim 5 .

7. A package formed by covering at least a part of an outer periphery of an object to be packaged with the heat-shrinkable label according to claim 6 .

8. The heat-shrinkable film according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of a tear propagation strength in the main shrinkage direction of the heat-shrinkable film and in the direction orthogonal to the main shrinkage direction (a tear propagation strength in the main shrinkage direction of the film÷a tear propagation strength in the direction orthogonal to the main shrinkage direction of the film) is 0.1 or more and 0.5 or less.

9. A heat-shrinkable label including the heat-shrinkable film according to claim 8 .

10. A package formed by covering at least a part of an outer periphery of an object to be packaged with the heat-shrinkable label according to claim 9 .

11. The heat-shrinkable film according to claim 1 , which has a shrinkage of 1.5% or less in the main shrinkage direction of the heat-shrinkable film after the aging of 672 hours under an atmosphere of a temperature of 50° C. and a relative humidity of 70%.

12. A heat-shrinkable label including the heat-shrinkable film according to claim 11 .

13. A package formed by covering at least a part of an outer periphery of an object to be packaged with the heat-shrinkable label according to claim 12 .

14. The heat-shrinkable film according to claim 1 , which is a monoaxially stretched film.

15. A heat-shrinkable label including the heat-shrinkable film according to claim 14 .

16. A package formed by covering at least a part of an outer periphery of an object to be packaged with the heat-shrinkable label according to claim 15 .

17. A heat-shrinkable label including the heat-shrinkable film according to claim 1 .

18. A package formed by covering at least a part of an outer periphery of an object to be packaged with the heat-shrinkable label according to claim 17 .

19. The heat-shrinkable film according to claim 1 , wherein the content of the second alcohol component is 10 mol % or more and 40 mol % or less to 100 mol % of polyhydric alcohol component in a total polyester resin.

Assignees

• Toyo Boseki

Inventors

• Haruta Masayuki

Classifications

• B31D2201/02

  the articles being labels or tags · CPC title

• B29C61/06

  Making preforms having internal stresses, e.g. plastic memory · CPC title

• B31D1/021

  Making adhesive labels having a multilayered structure, e.g. provided on carrier webs · CPC title

• C08J5/18

  Manufacture of films or sheets · CPC title

• Y10T428/1331

  Single layer [continuous layer] · CPC title