Composition of the hot-melt adhesive improved cold resistance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9505956-B2
Application number	US-201414208603-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 13, 2014
Priority date	Mar 14, 2013
Publication date	Nov 29, 2016
Grant date	Nov 29, 2016

Abstract

Provided is a hot-melt adhesive composition having a cold resistance, and more particularly, a hot-melt adhesive composition including an aliphatic polycarbonate resin obtained by copolymerization of carbon dioxide and polypropylene oxide, and a cold resistance improver.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A hot-melt adhesive composition comprising:
an aliphatic polycarbonate resin, a cold resistance improver, and a tackifying resin,
wherein a tensile strength at −10° C. is 1 to 50 MPa, a tensile elongation at −10° C. is 5 to 300%, the cold resistance improver is selected from the group consisting of a thermoplastic polyester elastomer and a mixture of a thermoplastic polyester elastomer and a thermoplastic polyurethane, and the cold resistance improver is contained in the composition at 5 to 100 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the aliphatic polycarbonate resin.

2. The hot-melt adhesive composition of claim 1 , wherein the composition satisfies the following Equations 1 and 2:
0≦T SD ≦15  [Equation 1]

0≦T ED ≦300  [Equation 2]

in Equation 1 above, T SD is a value (MPa) showing a difference in tensile strength measured between −10° C. and 20° C., and in Equation 2 above, T ED is a value (%) showing a difference in tensile elongation measured between −10° C. and 20° C.

3. The hot-melt adhesive composition of claim 1 , wherein the aliphatic polycarbonate resin is a polyalkylene carbonate resin.

4. The hot-melt adhesive composition of claim 3 , wherein the polyalkylene carbonate resin has a weight average molecular weight of 5,000 to 100,000 g/mol.

5. The hot-melt adhesive composition of claim 3 , wherein the polyalkylene carbonate resin is polyethylene carbonate, polypropylene carbonate, or polybutylene carbonate.

6. The hot-melt adhesive composition of claim 5 , wherein the thermoplastic polyester elastomer is a copolymer of polyester (A) consisting of an aromatic dihydroxy compound and an aliphatic diol and polyether ester (B) consisting of an aromatic dihydroxy compound and an aliphatic polyol.

7. The hot-melt adhesive composition of claim 6 , wherein the thermoplastic polyester elastomer is represented by the following Chemical Formula 1:

in Chemical Formula 1 above, n and m are each independently an integer of 2 to 20, a is an integer of 2 to 50, and X and Y are each independently an integer of 1 to 100.

8. The hot-melt adhesive composition of claim 1 , wherein the thermoplastic polyurethane is a copolymer of a hard segment (C) formed of polyurethane consisting of diisocyanate and an aliphatic or aromatic diol and a soft segment (B) formed of polyether ester consisting of an aromatic dihydroxy compound and an aliphatic polyol.

9. The hot-melt adhesive composition of claim 1 , wherein the thermoplastic polyurethane in the mixture of the thermoplastic polyester elastomer and the thermoplastic polyurethane is contained in 20 to 500 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the thermoplastic polyester elastomer.

10. The hot-melt adhesive composition of claim 1 , further comprising one or more additives selected from the group consisting of: plasticizers, waxes, antioxidants, elastomers, pigments, dyes, fillers, UV protecting agents, anti-static agents, anti-blocking agents, slip agents, inorganic fillers, kneading agents, stabilizers, modified resins, leveling agents, fluorescent brightening agents, dispersants, heat stabilizers, light stabilizers, ultraviolet light absorbers, and lubricants.

Assignees

• Sk Innovation Co Ltd
• Sk Global Chemical Co Ltd

Inventors

• Park Jae Young
• Chung Kwang Jin
• Hong Seung Gweon

Classifications

• C09J167/00

  Adhesives based on polyesters obtained by reactions forming a carboxylic ester link in the main chain (based on polyester-amides C09J177/12; based on polyester-imides C09J179/08); Adhesives based on derivatives of such polymers · CPC title

• C09J11/08 Primary

  Macromolecular additives · CPC title

• C08L75/04

  Polyurethanes · CPC title

• C08G18/44 Primary

  Polycarbonates · CPC title

• C09J175/06

  from polyesters · CPC title