Abstract:
A method for production of an extruded, polystyrene-based foam plate wherein a polystyrene-based resin is heated and kneaded together with a blowing agent, a flame retardant and a nucleating agent in an extruder to obtain a foamable molten composition, and the foamable molten composition is extruded through a die attached to an end of the extruder into a lower pressure zone. The blowing agent comprises not smaller than 25% by weight but not greater than 65% by weight, based on the total weight of the blowing agent, of an isobutane-containing saturated hydrocarbon; not smaller than 5% by weight but not greater than 70% by weight, based on the total weight of the blowing agent, of a dimethyl ether-containing ether; not smaller than 5% by weight but not greater than 55% by weight, based on the total weight of the blowing agent, of carbon dioxide; and 0-25% by weight, based on the total weight of the blowing agent, of other blowing agent components.
Abstract:
A method for producing expanded polypropylene resin particles wherein polypropylene resin particles impregnated with a physical blowing agent are heated along with an aqueous medium and a dispersant and are released and expanded at reduced pressure from the interior of a pressure-tight vessel, wherein the aforementioned aqueous medium has an electrical conductivity of from not less than 0.00 ms/m to not more than 20.00 mS/m. The resulting particles obtained are without inconsistencies caused by differences in the amount of dispersant adhering to the particles or the amount of dispersant added to prevent the particles from fusing together during the heat treatment step of the method.
Abstract:
A fireproof heat insulating board including a foamed resin molded body filled with a slurry, the foamed resin molded body having continuous voids, wherein the filled slurry forms a hydrate containing water of crystallization in an amount of 50 kg/m3 or more through hydration reaction after the filling, and at least a part of the surface of the board is reinforced with one or more inorganic fibers selected from the group consisting of a basalt fiber and a ceramic fiber.
Abstract:
A polypropylene-based resin expanded beads configured to include an NOR type hindered amine and has a surface on which a thermoplastic polymer layer is located, in which a blending ratio of the amine in the expanded beads is 0.03 wt % or more and 0.5 wt % or less, and a blending ratio of the amine in the thermoplastic polymer layer is less than the blending ratio of the amine in the expanded beads. Further, the method for producing the expanded beads includes a covering and foaming step, in which in the resin beads to be obtained in the covering step, a blending ratio of the amine in the resin beads is adjusted to be 0.03 wt % or more and 0.5 wt % or less, and a blending ratio of the amine in a thermoplastic polymer layer is adjusted to be lower than the blending ratio of the amine in the resin beads.
Abstract:
A core member used for a laminate in which polyurethane foam is laminated on the core member made of a thermoplastic resin expanded beads molded article, such that the molded article in which expanded beads having through holes are mutually fused, an average porosity of the expanded beads molded article is between 10% and 25%, and on a surface of the expanded beads molded article, a ratio of a total opening area of the through hole portions of the expanded beads to a surface area of the expanded beads molded article is between 2% and 5%, an average opening area of the through hole portions of the expanded beads is between 5 mm2 and 20 mm2, and the ratio of the number of through hole portions having an opening area of 2 mm2 or more to the number of through hole portions of the expanded beads is 60% or less.
Abstract:
A cushion body for sitting is provided which can offer good feeling of sitting even to many unspecified users of various body shapes and allow them to be seated more comfortably. A cushion body for sitting (1) includes: a base part (2) having a sitting surface (S1) formed of a curved surface that is curved concavely to support, from below, the buttocks of a seated person in a seated posture; and a pair of side supporting portions (3) each having a side supporting surface (S2) formed of a curved surface that is curved continuously from the sitting surface (S1) of the base part (2), where the pair of side supporting portions (3) project from sides of the base part (2) such that the side supporting portions (3) can be bent and deformed by a load applied to the side supporting surfaces (S2), so as to support both the left and right parts of the buttocks of the seated person in the seated posture.
Abstract:
A thermoplastic resin expanded bead and a molded article composed of the thermoplastic resin expanded beads are provided. The expanded bead includes a foam layer containing a thermoplastic resin. The expanded bead has a columnar shape, and has two or more and eight or less through-holes penetrating in the axial direction thereof. A ratio Ct/A of a total cross-sectional area Ct of the through-holes to a cross-sectional area A of the expanded bead in a cut surface obtained by cutting the expanded bead along a plane perpendicular to the axial direction at the center in the axial direction is 0.02 or more and 0.15 or less.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an in-mold expanded beads molded article of expanded beads of an olefin thermoplastic elastomer, a cushion for shoe sole, and a method of producing expanded beads provided with through-holes and composed of a block copolymer of a polyethylene block and an ethylene/α-olefin copolymer block, and with respect to the in-mold expanded beads molded article of expanded beads of an olefin thermoplastic elastomer, a voidage of the expanded beads molded article is 5 to 40%; a density of the expanded beads molded article is 30 to 150 g/L; and a flexural modulus of the olefin thermoplastic elastomer that constitutes the expanded beads molded article is 10 to 100 MPa.
Abstract:
An expanded bead having a through hole and including a foamed core layer which defines the through hole therein and which is constituted of a resin composition containing two kinds of polypropylene-based resins having different melting points, and a cover layer covering the foamed core layer and constituted of a polyolefin-based resin. The expanded bead gives a DSC curve in which an endothermic peak intrinsic to the resin composition and another endothermic peak on a higher temperature side thereof appear in a specific heat of fusion ratio. Molded articles include a multiplicity of the expanded beads.
Abstract:
A laminated foam sheet having a polyethylene resin foam layer and an outer layer laminated on each side of the foam layer, each outer layer being composed of an outermost surface polyethylene resin layer and an intermediate polyethylene resin layer which is positioned between the outermost surface layer and the foam layer and which contains a specific amount of a polymeric antistatic agent relative to the weight of the intermediate layer and to the basis weight of each of the intermediate layer and outermost surface layer.