Abstract: Functional films comprising a thermoplastic resin having formed thereon a coating layer and a process for their production are disclosed. The films have improved properties including improved heat resistance, are inexpensive, and are for general-purpose. They are produced by baking a thin film of a phenol resin, an epoxy resin, a silicone resin, etc., onto a thermoplastic resin substrate and can be utilized for flexible printed circuit base, insulating tapes, etc.

Abstract: Functional films comprising a thermoplastic resin having formed thereon a coating layer and a process for their production are disclosed. The films have improved properties including improved heat resistance, are inexpensive, and are for general-purpose. They are produced by baking a thin film of a phenol resin, an epoxy resin, a silicone resin, etc., onto a thermoplastic resin substrate and can be utilized for flexible printed circuit base, insulating tapes, etc.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a sheet having a chip-like design composed of a plurality of chips densely aligned in a plane without overlapping and a solidified binder uniformly filling the interstices among the chips and firmly and integrally bonding the chips to one another in sheet form. The sheet is useful as a floor material, wall material, and the like.

Abstract: A process for producing a photodegradable rubber foamed products of excellent softness, which comprises mixing 1,2-polybutadiene with 0.1 to 3.0% of a photosensitizer and with a thermally decomposable foaming agent, irradiating with ultraviolet ray of a wavelength of 240 to 400 m.mu. for 10 minutes or less to form a cross-linked material having a gel fraction of 30 to 80% (in boiling toluene; 7 hours), and heating to 150 to 230.degree. C. to form a foamed product. In particularly preferred embodiments of this invention, the foaming agent is p,p'-oxybis (benzenesulfonylhydrazide).

Abstract: A process for producing an open cell foam by irradiating a composition comprising (a) a thermoplastic resin polymer blend including 1,2-polybutadiene as one component, (b) a photosensitizing agent and (c) a thermally decomposable foaming agent, with ultraviolet light having a wavelength ranging from about 254 to about 400 m.mu. to thereby cross-link mainly the 1,2-polybutadiene, and subsequently foaming the composition at a temperature higher than the softening point of the 1,2-polybutadiene and that of the thermoplastic resin polymer blended therewith and higher than the decomposition temperature of the foaming agent.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing synthetic resin sheets having geometric decorative patterns extending through the thickness of the sheet as a substantially identical pattern image corresponding to the image portions of the exposed surfaces thereof, wherein differently colored resin particles are selectively introduced into individual pattern spaces which are confined by enclosing members on a support to provide a regular pattern of differently colored resin particle masses over the surface of the support in a regular pattern, the differently colored resin particle masses are then converted into a pre-formed sheet on the support, the regular color pattern still being retained, and the resulting assembly then being heated at a temperature sufficient to cause fusion or sintering together of the masses of differently colored resin particles comprising the sheet, wherein the original differently colored resin particle masses exist as a repeating pattern of differently colored areas which extend through the th

Abstract: Synthetic leather comprising cross-linked foamed syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene as a main ingredient.