Polyester-based fiber for artificial hair and hair ornament product including the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9315922-B2
Application number	US-201314402970-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 31, 2013
Priority date	May 31, 2012
Publication date	Apr 19, 2016
Grant date	Apr 19, 2016

Abstract

A polyester-based fiber for artificial hair of the present invention is a polyester-based fiber for artificial hair formed of a polyester resin composition. The polyester resin composition contains 5 to 40 parts by weight of a brominated epoxy flame retardant and 0.05 to 5 parts by weight of an acidic compound with respect to 100 parts by weight of a polyester resin. The polyester resin is one or more kind of resin selected from the group consisting of polyalkylene terephthalate and copolymerized polyester containing polyalkylene terephthalate as a main component. The acidic compound is an acidic phosphorus-based compound having a pH of 3.5 or less. A hair ornament product of the present invention contains the polyester-based fiber for artificial hair.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A polyester-based fiber for artificial hair formed of a polyester resin composition,
wherein the polyester resin composition contains 5 to 40 parts by weight of a brominated epoxy flame retardant and 0.05 to 5 parts by weight of an acidic compound with respect to 100 parts by weight of a polyester resin,
the polyester resin is one or more kind of resin selected from the group consisting of polyalkylene terephthalate and copolymerized polyester containing polyalkylene terephthalate as a main component, and
the acidic compound is an acidic phosphorus-based compound having a pH of 3.5 or less.

2. The polyester-based fiber for artificial hair according to claim 1 , wherein the acidic phosphorus-based compound is one or more kind selected from the group consisting of a phosphoric acid compound having one or more hydroxyl group and a phosphonic acid compound having one or more hydroxyl group.

3. The polyester-based fiber for artificial hair according to claim 1 , wherein the polyester resin composition contains 0.1 to 5 parts by weight of a thickener with respect to 100 parts by weight of the polyester resin.

4. The polyester-based fiber for artificial hair according to claim 1 , wherein the polyester resin composition contains 0 to 5 parts by weight of an antimony compound with respect to 100 parts by weight of the polyester resin.

5. The polyester-based fiber for artificial hair according to claim 1 , wherein the polyalkylene terephthalate is at least one kind of a polymer selected from the group consisting of polyethylene terephthalate, polypropylene terephthalate, polybutylene terephthalate, and polycyclohexanedimethylene terephthalate.

6. The polyester-based fiber for artificial hair according to claim 1 , wherein the brominated epoxy flame retardant is a flame retardant represented by the following general formula (1):

wherein, in the general formula (1), m is 1 to 1,000.

7. The polyester-based fiber for artificial hair according to claim 6 , wherein the brominated epoxy flame retardant has a weight-average molecular weight of 2,000 to 40,000.

8. The polyester-based fiber for artificial hair according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of a component having a molecular weight of 50,000 or more in the brominated epoxy flame retardant is 25% or more in the polyester-based fiber for artificial hair.

9. The polyester-based fiber for artificial hair according to claim 1 , wherein the brominated epoxy flame retardant is present in a structure represented by the following general formula (2) in the polyester-based fiber for artificial hair:

wherein, in the general formula (2), m is 1 to 1,000, and R 1 and R 2 are any one of functional groups represented by the following general formulae (3) to (10) and may or may not be identical with each other; wherein, in the following general formulae (7) to (10), m is 1 to 1,000, and n is 1 to 200;

10. The polyester-based fiber for artificial hair according to claim 3 , wherein the thickener is an organic compound having three or more at least one kind of a functional group selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group, an ester group, an epoxy group, and a carboxylic acid group in a molecule.

11. A hair ornament product comprising the polyester-based fiber for artificial hair according to claim 1 .

12. The polyester-based fiber for artificial hair according to claim 1 , wherein the acidic phosphorus-based compound has a molecular weight of 200 or more.

13. The polyester-based fiber for artificial hair according to claim 1 , wherein the acidic phosphorus-based compound is one or more selected from the group consisting of monolauryl phosphate, monostearyl phosphate, monooleyl phosphate, monotetracosyl phosphate, monophenyl phosphate, monocresyl phosphate, mono2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenoxy phosphate, di(2-ethylhexyl)phosphate, dilauryl phosphate, distearyl phosphate, dioleyl phosphate, ditetracosyl phosphate, diphenyl phosphate, dicresyl phosphate, lauryl phosphonate, stearyl phosphonate, oleyl phosphonate, tetracosyl phosphonate, phenyl phosphonate, cresyl phosphonate, 1-hydroxyethane-1,1-diphosphonic acid, nitrilotris (methylenephosphonic acid), 2-phosphonobutane-1,2,4-tricarboxylic acid, N,N,N′,N′-ethylenediaminetetrakis(methylenephosphonic acid), monopotassium dihydrogen pyrophosphate, monomagnesium dihydrogen pyrophosphate, mono zinc dihydrogen pyrophosphate, tripolyphosphoric acid, and mono aluminum dihydrogen tripolyphosphate.

Assignees

• Kaneka Corp

Inventors

• Hashimoto Tomomichi
• Higami Tomokazu
• YORIZANE Mika
• Kawamura Kohei

Classifications

• A41G5/00

  Hair pieces, inserts, rolls, pads, or the like; Toupées · CPC title

• D01F1/07

  for making fire- or flame-proof filaments · CPC title

• D01F6/62

  from polyesters · CPC title

• D01F6/92 Primary

  of polyesters · CPC title

• C08K5/53

  bound to oxygen and to carbon only · CPC title