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US 12,351,666 B2Granted
Manufacturing method of polymer material
AssigneeNan Ya Plastics Corporation
InventorsTe-Chao Liao, Ching-Yao Yuan, Wei Tang Liao
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Abstract
A manufacturing method of a polymer material at least includes the following steps. A raw material including polyethylene terephthalate is provided. An alcoholysis reaction is performed by using the raw material with aliphatic diols to form an intermediate product, wherein the intermediate product includes bis 2-hydroxyethyl terephthalate. A polymerization reaction is performed by using the intermediate product and polytetramethylene ether glycol to form a thermoplastic polyester elastomer.
Claims15
A manufacturing method of a foamed polymer material, comprising:
- providing a raw material comprising polyethylene terephthalate (PET);
- performing an alcoholysis reaction by reacting the raw material with aliphatic diols to form an intermediate product, wherein the intermediate product comprises bis 2-hydroxyethyl terephthalate (BHET), and the alcoholysis reaction does not include a transesterification reaction;
- performing a polymerization reaction of the intermediate product and polytetramethylene ether glycol to obtain a thermoplastic polyester elastomer,
- mixing additives with the thermoplastic polyester elastomer to obtain a foamable masterbatch, and
- mixing the foamable masterbatch with a supercritical fluid through a supercritical fluid injection machine for injection molding to obtain the foamed polymer material,
- wherein an antioxidant is present in both of the alcoholysis reaction and the polymerization reaction,
- wherein a proportion of polymer repeating units derived from the BHET in the thermoplastic polyester elastomer is between 30 wt % and 80 wt %,
- wherein a proportion of polymer repeating units derived from the polytetramethylene ether glycol in the thermoplastic polyester elastomer is between 20 wt % and 70 wt %.
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