Adhesive resin composition

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9809731-B2
Application number	US-201415038649-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 25, 2014
Priority date	Nov 29, 2013
Publication date	Nov 7, 2017
Grant date	Nov 7, 2017

Abstract

There is provided a new pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition that can have adhesiveness to the extent of being peelable in a room temperature condition, has fluidity by hot-melting, and can finally be crosslinked to firmly bond adherends to each other. There is proposed a pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition comprising 100 parts by mass of an acrylic copolymer (A), 0.5 to 20 parts by mass of a crosslinking agent (B), and 0.1 to 5 parts by mass of a photopolymerization initiator (C), wherein the acrylic copolymer (A) is a graft copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of 5.0×10 4 to 5.0×10 5 , contains as a trunk component of the graft copolymer a repeating unit derived from a (meth)acrylate, contains as a branch component of the graft copolymer a repeating unit derived from a macromonomer having a number average molecular weight of 5.0×10 2 or more and less than 6.0×10 3 , and contains the repeating unit derived from the macromonomer in the acrylic copolymer (A) in a proportion in a range of 0.1 to 3 mol %.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition, comprising:
(A) 100 parts by mass of an acrylic copolymer (A);
(B) 0.5 to 20 parts by mass of a crosslinking agent (B); and
(C) 0.1 to 5 parts by mass of a photopolymerization initiator (C),
wherein:
the acrylic copolymer (A) is a graft copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of 5.0×10 4 to 5.0×10 5 ;
the acrylic copolymer (A) comprises as a trunk component of the graft copolymer a repeating unit derived from a (meth)acrylate;
the acrylic copolymer (A) comprises as a branch component of the graft copolymer a repeating unit derived from a macromonomer having a number average molecular weight of 5.0×10 2 or more and less than 6.0×10 3 ; and
the acrylic copolymer (A) comprises the repeating unit derived from the macromonomer in the acrylic copolymer (A) in a proportion in a range of 0.1 to 3 mol %.

2. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of the number average molecular weight of the macromonomer to a number average molecular weight of the acrylic copolymer (A) is in a range of 0.0025 to 0.6.

3. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein a glass transition temperature of the macromonomer as a branch component of the acrylic copolymer (A) is higher than a glass transition temperature of a copolymer component constituting a trunk component of the acrylic copolymer (A).

4. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein a glass transition temperature of the macromonomer is 30° C. to 120° C.

5. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein a glass transition temperature of the graft copolymer constituting the trunk component of the acrylic copolymer (A) is −70 to 0° C.

6. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the acrylic copolymer (A) comprises as the trunk component a repeating unit derived from a hydrophobic (meth)acrylate and a hydrophilic (meth)acrylate.

7. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the acrylic copolymer (A) has as the trunk component a configuration obtained by random copolymerization of a hydrophobic (meth)acrylate, a hydrophilic (meth)acrylate, and a polymerizable functional group at a terminal of the macromonomer.

8. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein, when a laminated body is obtained by shaping the pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition into a sheet having a thickness of 150 μm and sandwiching the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet between a soda lime glass sheet having a thickness of 0.5 mm and a cycloolefin polymer film having a thickness of 100 μm, and the laminated body is irradiated with ultraviolet rays to cure the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, the laminated body has haze of less than 10% in accordance with JIS K7136.

9. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein, when a laminated body is obtained by shaping the pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition into a sheet having a thickness of 150 μm and sandwiching the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet between a soda lime glass sheet having a thickness of 0.5 mm and a cycloolefin polymer film having a thickness of 100 μm, irradiated with ultraviolet rays to cure the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, stored in a moist heat environment of 65° C. and 90% RH for 100 hours, and then stored in a room temperature environment of 23° C. and 50% RH for 2 hours, the laminated body has haze of less than 10% in accordance with JIS K7136.

10. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein, when the pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition is shaped into a sheet having a thickness of 150 μm, the sheet is adhered to a SUS plate with an area of 20 mm×20 mm, and a load of 500 gf is applied to the sheet in an environment of 40° C., falling time regarding holding power measured in accordance with JIS Z0237 is 20 minutes or more.

11. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the photopolymerization initiator (C) is a cleavage type photopolymerization initiator or a hydrogen abstraction type photopolymerization initiator.

12. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 2 , wherein the photopolymerization initiator (C) is a cleavage type photopolymerization initiator or a hydrogen abstraction type photopolymerization initiator.

13. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the graft copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of 1.2×10 5 to 4.5×10 5 .

14. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the repeating unit derived from the macromonomer in the graft copolymer has a number average molecular weight of 8.0×10 2 to 5.5×10 3 .

15. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the acrylic copolymer (A) comprises the repeating unit derived from the macromonomer in the acrylic copolymer (A) in a proportion in a range of 0.2 to 2.5 mol %.

16. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein 1 to 10 parts by mass of the crosslinking agent (B) is included based on 100 parts by mass of the acrylic copolymer (A).

17. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein 0.5 to 5 parts by mass of the photopolymerization initiator (C) is included based on 100 parts by mass of the acrylic copolymer (A).

18. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of the number average molecular weight of the macromonomer to a number average molecular weight of the acrylic copolymer (A) is in a range of 0.005 to 0.3.

19. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein a glass transition temperature of the macromonomer is 40° C. to 110° C.

20. The pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein a glass transition temperature of the graft copolymer constituting the trunk component of the acrylic copolymer (A) is −65 to −5° C.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Plastics Inc
• Mitsubishi Chem Corp

Inventors

• Niimi Kahoru
• Inenaga Makoto
• Nakamura Junichi
• Kawai Eri

Classifications

• C09J11/06

  organic · CPC title

• C08F220/06

  Acrylic acid; Methacrylic acid; Metal salts or ammonium salts thereof · CPC title

• C09J7/385

  Acrylic polymers · CPC title

• C09J2203/318

  for the production of liquid crystal displays · CPC title

• C09J7/00

  Adhesives in the form of films or foils · CPC title