Abstract: It is provided smooth polyurethane particles for oil absorption under producing, treating, keeping and transporting. A polyurethane particle consists of a body of the polyurethane particle and hydrophilic fine silica powders existing on the body. The body is obtained by three-dimensionally polymerizing an isocyanate-terminated urethane prepolymer with trifunctional or more functional amines. The isocyanate-terminated urethane prepolymer is obtained by reacting polyisocyanates and polyols including a poly(tetramethylene ether)glycol. The polyurethane particles are obtained by spray-drying a mixed aqueous dispersion in which the hydrophilic fine silica powders and the polyurethane spheres are dispersed in a water.

Abstract: A strip of metallic fasteners in which a plurality of metallic fastener materials are aligned and adhered to each other, wherein a coating agent for adhering adjacent metallic fastener materials to each other includes 100 parts by weight of an acid group-containing styrene-butadiene base rubber and 10 to 100 parts by weight of a resin having a softening point of 120° C. or more, both being dissolved by an organic solvent. The strip of metallic fasteners are adhered to each other by a coating that does not contain a halogen compound. The strip of metallic fasteners has improved blocking resistance.

Abstract: It is provided a method for producing a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or sheet which is superior in a heat-resistance. A mixture is prepared by uniformly mixing a specific polymer having hydrolyzable silyl end groups and urethane linkages and/or urea linkages in the main chains or side chains with tackifying resins. A fluorine-containing compound selected from the group consisting of boron trifluoride, complex of boron trifluoride, fluorinating agent and alkali metal salt of fluorine-containing inorganic acid is uniformly mixed into the mixture to obtain a precursor of a pressure-sensitive adhesive agent. The adhesive precursor is applied on the surface of a tape substrate or sheet substrate. It is obtained a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer having three-dimensional reticulation structures by curing the specific polymer having hydrolyzable silyl end groups. Thereby, it is obtained the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or sheet.

Abstract: Disclosed is a strippable floor coating which includes an undercoat layer (A) to be applied to a floor surface, and a strippable overcoat layer (B) over the undercoat layer (A). The undercoat layer (A) is formed from an undercoating agent mainly containing a wax or analogue thereto and having film-formability. The overcoat layer (B) is formed from a floor polish composition mainly containing an aqueous emulsion. The undercoat layer (A) has greater adhesion to the floor surface than to the overcoat layer (B). Even when applied to various flooring materials, this strippable floor coating does not peel off practically and is excellent in soiling resistance and wear resistance to retain a beautiful appearance over long time. If necessary, the coating can be easily stripped off.

Abstract: Disclosed is a moisture-curing type curable resin composition containing: a curable resin intramolecularly having a silicon-containing functional group; and a Lewis acid or a complex of the Lewis acid as a curing catalyst, the Lewis acid being selected from the group consisting of metal halides and boron halides, which is rapidly cured at room temperature. The silicon-containing functional group is represented by general formula: —SiX1X2X3 or —SiR1X1 X2 (wherein, X1, X2 and X3 respectively represent a hydrolytic group and may be the same as or different from each other, and R1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted organic group having 1 to 20 carbons). If the silicon-containing functional group is —SiR1X1 X2, the curable resin further contains intramolecularly a polar component that is one of urethane, thiourethane, urea, thiourea, substituted urea, substituted thiourea, amide, and sulfide bonds, and hydroxyl, secondary amino and tertiary amino groups.

Abstract: To provide vinyl-urethane copolymers that can form cured articles having excellent hot-water resistance, water resistance, heat resistance, and weather resistance, and to provide production methods thereof. A vinyl-urethane copolymer contains at least one vinyl polymer chain and at least one urethane polymer chain, in which the vinyl polymer chain is combined with the urethane polymer chain through a linkage segment having a silicon-oxygen bond.

Abstract: To provide a strip of metallic fasteners adhered to each other using a coating agent that needs no halogenated substance, as represented by vinyl chloride resin, at all, achieves performance equivalent to or better than that of a conventional coating agent for metallic fasteners, and has an improved blocking resistance, which used to be insufficient with the conventional products, whereby helping productivity to increase and to reduce load on environment. A strip of metallic fasteners in which a plurality of metallic fastener materials are aligned and adhered to each other, wherein a coating agent for adhering adjacent metallic fastener materials to each other comprises 100 parts by weight of an acid group-containing styrene-butadiene base rubber and 10 to 100 parts by weight of a resin having a softening point of 120° C. or more, both being dissolved in an organic solvent.

Abstract: Self-curable water-based solid adhesives of this invention include the following components (A), (B), (C), and (D): (A) an anionic-group-containing polymer terminally having an alkoxysilyl group, the polymer being a reaction product of a compound (A1) containing no anionic group and having plural isocyanate-reactive groups, a compound (A2) having an anionic group and plural isocyanate-reactive groups, a polyisocyanate compound (A3), and an alkoxysilane compound (A4) containing an isocyanate-reactive group; (B) a basic compound; (C) water; and (D) a gelling agent. The self-curable water-based solid adhesives of the present invention can be applied with good workability, have good fitting after attachment, have good adhesion to plastics, metals and glass and exhibit excellent heat resistance and water resistance after curing. They are highly safe to humans and the environment. They also have excellent shape retention and slidability and can be easily applied.

Abstract: Provided is a hair cosmetic that can exhibit hair styling capability, natural finishing capability, and hair style retentivity respectively at superior levels. The hair cosmetic contains a urethane-modified acrylic polymer having a structure in which a urethane polymer chain is bonded to an acrylic polymer chain through a linkage segment having a silicon-oxygen bond, in which the acrylic polymer chain is a residue of an acrylic polymer derived at least from an acrylic monomer (A) and a compound (B1) and/or a compound (B2), where the compound (B1) has a hydrolyzable silicon-containing group and an ethylenically unsaturated bond-containing group, and the compound (B2) has a hydrolyzable silicon-containing group and a mercapto group, and the urethane polymer chain is a residue of a urethane polymer (C) having a hydrolyzable silicon-containing group. The linkage segment in the urethane-modified acrylic polymer is preferably a silicone polymer chain.

Abstract: Disclosed is a moisture-curing type curable resin composition containing: a curable resin intramolecularly having a silicon-containing functional group; and a Lewis acid or a complex of the Lewis acid as a curing catalyst, the Lewis acid being selected from the group consisting of metal halides and boron halides, which is rapidly cured at room temperature. The silicon-containing functional group is represented by general formula: —SiX1X2X3 or —SiR1X1 X2 (wherein, X1, X2 and X3 respectively represent a hydrolytic group and may be the same as or different from each other, and R1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted organic group having 1 to 20 carbons). If the silicon-containing functional group is —SiR1X1 X2, the curable resin further contains intramolecularly a polar component that is one of urethane, thiourethane, urea, thiourea, substituted urea, substituted thiourea, amide, and sulfide bonds, and hydroxyl, secondary amino and tertiary amino groups.

Abstract: Disclosed is a moisture-curing type curable resin composition containing: a curable resin intramolecularly having a silicon-containing functional group; and a Lewis acid or a complex of the Lewis acid as a curing catalyst, the Lewis acid being selected from the group consisting of metal halides and boron halides, which is rapidly cured at room temperature. The silicon-containing functional group is represented by general formula: —SiX1X2X3 or —SiR1X1X2 (wherein, X1, X2 and X3 respectively represent a hydrolytic group and may be the same as or different from each other, and R1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted organic group having 1 to 20 carbons). If the silicon-containing functional group is —SiR1X1X2, the curable resin further contains intramolecularly a polar component that is one of urethane, thiourethane, urea, thiourea, substituted urea, substituted thiourea, amide, and sulfide bonds, and hydroxyl, secondary amino and tertiary amino groups.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a curable resin having a silyl group at the terminal that is also moisture-hardening resin which has lower in viscosity when it is used and provides superior adhesiveness when it is utilized for adhesive, sealant, and paint. The object of the invention could be achieved by a curable resin that has silicon atom-containing groups having a silicon atom bound to one or more hydrolysable groups such as alkoxy groups, acetoxy groups and oxim groups at the ends of the molecule, thioether and hydroxyl groups in the molecule, and a polymer having a polyoxyalkylene, (meth)acrylic ester, or hydrocarbon polymer as the main chain skeleton.

Abstract: For the fixing adjusting tools of the plate material to the structural body, the female member has a base plate with a through hole in a center and an external cylinder fixed vertically on the base plate. The male member has a base plate with a through hole in a center and an internal cylinder fixed vertically on the base plate. The communicating section is formed in the base of the female member communicating with the gap. The guide cylinder is formed protruding on the base plate of the male member to guide the nozzle for injecting adhesive. Resultantly, the adhesive injected through the guide cylinder into the rear surface of the base plate of the female member, reach the gap between the internal and external cylinders passing the communicating section.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of urethane resins, which comprises the steps of: preparing a product(A) having a hydrolysable group directly bonded to 1–10 silicon atoms and having less than two secondary amino groups in one molecule; preparing a product(B) having a terminal isocyanate group in an amount 4% or less by weight of said product(B); and reacting said product(A) with said product(B) in proportions of at least 0.5 equivalent of the product(A) per free NCO group of said product(B). The process can readily give urethane resins which exhibit excellent storage stability and are enhanced in the degrees of freedom of physical properties of products of curing.

Abstract: To provide vinyl-urethane copolymers that can form cured articles having excellent hot-water resistance, water resistance, heat resistance, and weather resistance, and to provide production methods thereof. A vinyl-urethane copolymer contains at least one vinyl polymer chain and at least one urethane polymer chain, in which the vinyl polymer chain is combined with the urethane polymer chain through a linkage segment having a silicon-oxygen bond.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of urethane resins, which comprises the steps of: preparing a product (A) having a hydrolysable group directly bonded to 1–10 silicon atoms and having less than two secondary amino groups in one molecule; preparing a product (B) having a terminal isocyanate group in an amount 4% or less by weight of the product (B); and reacting the product (A) with the product (B) in proportions of at least 0.5 equivalent of the product (A) per free NCO group of the product (B). The process readily gives urethane resins, which exhibit excellent storage stability and are enhanced in the degrees of freedom of the physical properties of the products of curing.

Abstract: Self-curable water-based solid adhesives of this invention include the following components (A), (B), (C), and (D): (A) an anionic-group-containing polymer terminally having an alkoxysilyl group, the polymer being a reaction product of a compound (A1) containing no anionic group and having plural isocyanate-reactive groups, a compound (A2) having an anionic group and plural isocyanate-reactive groups, a polyisocyanate compound (A3), and an alkoxysilane compound (A4) containing an isocyanate-reactive group; (B) a basic compound; (C) water; and (D) a gelling agent. The self-curable water-based solid adhesives of the present invention can be applied with good workability, have good fitting after attachment, have good adhesion to plastics, metals and glass and exhibit excellent heat resistance and water resistance after curing. They are highly safe to humans and the environment. They also have excellent shape retention and slidability and can be easily applied.

Abstract: A one-pack moisture-curing epoxy resin composition which can be cured at ordinary temperatures and is improved in storage stability without impairing the quickness of curing, i.e., is excellent in two properties incompatible with each other. This composition includes one ore more members selected from the group consisting of vinyl carboxylates of the general formula (1) and epoxy-containing silyl compounds of the general formula (2), one or more members selected from the group consisting of ketimines and oxazolidines, and an epoxy resin.

Abstract: A laminate with a peelable top layer is provided. The laminate comprises a substrate such as a porous board, the top layer such as a plastic top layer or a decorated metal plate, and a bonding layer between the top layer and the substrate. At least one of the substrate and the top layer is porous. An adhesive for forming the bonding layer comprises (A) an aqueous dispersion containing a polymer, which demonstrates properties that a dried film of the aqueous dispersion has a tensile strength of 1 to 28 MPa and a percentage elongation of 100 to 2000%, and (B) a water-based adhesive composition containing microspheres with thermal expansion capability, each of which is composed of a polymer shell encapsulating a gas. By use of this adhesive, the bonding layer provides a high bonding strength between the top layer and the substrate. When irradiating the laminate with ultraviolet or far infrared, while heating, the top layer can be easily peeled off from the laminate.

Abstract: There is provided a composition comprising a sililated urethane resin having a polyoxyalkylene polymer as its main chain, having a reactive silicon group at a terminal of the molecule and having a substituted urea bond in the molecule, a diluent (B) having a boiling point of not lower than 250° C. and a curing catalyst (C), wherein the curing catalyst (C) is a reaction product of a poly(dialkylstannoxane) dicarboxylate represented by the following general formula (1) and a silicate compound represented by the general formula R3nSi(OR4)4-n (2).