Core for insulation material, manufacturing method therefor, and slim insulating material using same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016010249-A1
Application number	US-201414771940-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 28, 2014
Priority date	Mar 7, 2013
Publication date	Jan 14, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided are an insulator core, a method of manufacturing the same, and a slim insulator using the same, in which the insulator core is provided with a plurality of fine pores of a three-dimensional structure capable of trapping air by using, as a core member, a multi-layered laminate of nanowebs made of nanofibers that are obtained by electrospinning a polymer material with a low thermal conductivity, and has excellent heat insulating performance even with a thin film. Accordingly, the insulator core includes porous nanowebs which are made of a polymer with a low thermal conductivity and integrated by nanofibers having a diameter of 3 μm or less to be spun, thus having a three-dimensional fine-pore structure.

First claim

1 . An insulator core comprising porous nanowebs which are made of a polymer with a low thermal conductivity and integrated by nanofibers having a diameter of less than 3 μm to be spun, thus having a three-dimensional fine-pore structure.

2 . The insulator core according to claim 1 , further comprising a porous substrate on one or both sides of which the porous nanowebs are formed, and acting as a support role.

3 . The insulator core according to claim 2 , wherein the porous substrate comprises a nonwoven fabric made of a polyolefin-based resin.

4 . The insulator core according to claim 1 , wherein the polymer comprises a mixture polymer of a polymer with a low thermal conductivity and a heat-resistant polymer.

5 . The insulator core according to claim 1 , wherein each of the porous nanowebs comprises a structure of a laminate of a first nanoweb layer made of a polymer with a low thermal conductivity and a second nanoweb layer made of a heat-resistant polymer or a polymer having an excellent adhesiveness.

6 . The insulator core according to claim 1 , wherein each of the porous nanowebs a structure that is obtained by spinning a first nanoweb layer made of a polymer with a low thermal conductivity and a second nanoweb layer made of a heat-resistant polymer or a polymer having an excellent adhesiveness in a crosslink way.

7 . The insulator core according to claim 1 , wherein the fine pores of each of the porous nanowebs are set in a range of 100 nm to 3 μm.

8 . The insulator core according to claim 7 , wherein the fine pores of each of the porous nanowebs are set in a range of 600 nm to 800 nm.

9 . The insulator core according to claim 1 , wherein the polymer having a low thermal conductivity is at least one selected from the group consisting of polyurethane (PU), polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, cellulose acetate, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), polyacrylonitrile (PAN), polymethyl methacrylate, polyvinylacetate, polyvinyl alcohol and polyimide.

10 . The insulator core according to claim 1 , wherein the thermal conductivity of the polymer is set to less than 0.1 W/mK.

11 . The insulator core according to claim 1 , further comprising the inorganic particles that are spun together with the nanofibers.

12 . An insulator comprising a core that is encapsulated inside a shell, wherein the core is made of porous nanowebs which are made of a polymer with a low thermal conductivity and integrated by nanofibers having a diameter of less than 3 μm to be spun, thus having a three-dimensional fine-pore structure.

13 . The insulator according to claim 12 , wherein the core has a structure of folding the porous nanowebs a number of times in a plate-like form or winding the porous nanowebs in a plate-like form by a winding machine, or cutting a plurality of the porous nanowebs to have a desired shape and then laminating the porous nanowebs in multiple layers.

14 . An insulator comprising a core and a getter member that are encapsulated inside a shell member, wherein the core is made of porous nanowebs which are made of a polymer with a low thermal conductivity and integrated by nanofibers having a diameter of less than 3 μm to be spun, thus having a three-dimensional fine-pore structure, and the inside of the shell member is formed in the state of a vacuum or a reduced pressure.

15 . A method of manufacturing an insulator core, the method comprising the steps of:
dissolving a polymer with a low thermal conductivity in a solvent to thus form a spinning solution; forming porous nanowebs made of nanofibers and having a three-dimensional fine-pore structure by spinning the spinning solution; and laminating a plurality of layers of the porous nanowebs to thereby form the core.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the step of forming the porous nanowebs comprises the step of spinning the spinning solution on one or both surfaces of a porous substrate playing a support role, to thus form the porous nanowebs.

17 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising the step of laminating the porous nanowebs on one or both sides of the porous substrate playing a support role, before the step of laminating a plurality of layers of the porous nanowebs thereby forming the core.

18 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the step of forming the porous nanowebs comprises the step of spinning the spinning solution on a transfer sheet to thus form the porous nanowebs on the transfer sheet, and further comprises the step of laminating the porous nanowebs on one or both sides of the porous substrate playing a support role, to then remove the transfer sheet.

Assignees

• Amogreentech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hwang Seung Jae

Classifications

• B32B5/26

  another layer {next to it} also being fibrous or filamentary {(relative arrangement of fibres or filaments of different layers B32B5/12)} · CPC title

• D01D5/003

  the material being a polymer solution or dispersion (D01D5/0053 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B32B2307/304

  Insulating · CPC title

• B32B2307/54

  Yield strength; Tensile strength · CPC title

• B32B3/28

  characterised by a layer comprising a deformed thin sheet {, i.e. the layer having its entire thickness deformed out of the plane}, e.g. corrugated, crumpled (B32B29/08 takes precedence) · CPC title