Abstract: Provided are: a polycarbonate resin composition which has excellent mechanical properties and wet heat resistance while being free from the problem of mold contamination due to mold deposits; and a production method which is capable of producing this polycarbonate resin composition with high productivity. A polycarbonate resin composition containing 60% to 95% by mass of a polycarbonate resin (A) and 40% to 5% by mass of an emulsion polymerized styrene-based resin (B), based on 100% by mass of a total of (A) and (B), wherein the emulsion polymerized styrene-based resin (B) is a graft copolymer of a styrenic monomer-vinyl cyanide monomer and/or an alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer-rubbery polymer; and a total amount of gas in a case where the resin composition is heated at 280° C. for 10 minutes is 3000 ppm or less in terms of mass of decane.

Abstract: Provided are: a polycarbonate resin composition which has excellent mechanical properties and wet heat resistance while being free from the problem of mold contamination due to mold deposits; and a production method which is capable of producing this polycarbonate resin composition with high productivity. A polycarbonate resin composition containing 60% to 95% by mass of a polycarbonate resin (A) and 40% to 5% by mass of an emulsion polymerized styrene-based resin (B), based on 100% by mass of a total of (A) and (B), wherein the emulsion polymerized styrene-based resin (B) is a graft copolymer of a styrenic monomer-vinyl cyanide monomer and/or an alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer-rubbery polymer; and a total amount of gas in a case where the resin composition is heated at 280° C. for 10 minutes is 3000 ppm or less in terms of mass of decane.

Abstract: To provide a polycarbonate resin composition excellent in surface hardness and impact strength. A polycarbonate resin composition comprising at least a polycarbonate resin (a) and a polycarbonate resin (b) having structural units different from the polycarbonate resin (a), which satisfies the requirements: (i) the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (a) as specified by ISO15184 is higher than the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (b) as specified by ISO15184; (ii) the weight ratio of the polycarbonate resin (a) to the polycarbonate resin (b) in the polycarbonate resin is from 1:99 to 45:55; (iii) the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin composition as specified by ISO15184 is higher by at least two ranks than the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (b) as specified by ISO15184; and (iv) the Charpy impact strength of the polycarbonate resin composition is higher than the Charpy impact strength of the polycarbonate resin (a).

Abstract: To provide a polycarbonate resin composition excellent in the surface hardness, the heat resistance, the moldability and the flame retardancy. A polycarbonate resin composition comprising at least a polycarbonate resin (a) and a polycarbonate resin (b) having structural units different from the polycarbonate resin (a), which satisfies the following requirements: (i) the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (a) as specified by ISO 15184 is higher than the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (b) as specified by ISO 15184; (ii) the glass transition point Tg(a) of the polycarbonate resin (a) and the glass transition point Tg(b) of the polycarbonate resin (b) satisfy the relation of the following (Formula 1): Tg(b)?45° C. <Tg(a)<Tg(b)?10° C.??(Formula 1): and (iii) the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin composition as specified by ISO 15184 is higher by at least two ranks than the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (b) as specified by ISO 15184.

Abstract: To provide a polycarbonate resin composition excellent in the surface hardness, the heat resistance, the moldability and the flame retardancy. A polycarbonate resin composition comprising at least a polycarbonate resin (a) and a polycarbonate resin (b) having structural units different from the polycarbonate resin (a), which satisfies the following requirements: (i) the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (a) as specified by ISO 15184 is higher than the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (b) as specified by ISO 15184; (ii) the glass transition point Tg(a) of the polycarbonate resin (a) and the glass transition point Tg(b) of the polycarbonate resin (b) satisfy the relation of the following (Formula 1): Tg(b)?45° C.<Tg(a)<Tg(b)?10° C.??(Formula 1) and (iii) the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin composition as specified by ISO 15184 is higher by at least two ranks than the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (b) as specified by ISO 15184.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a production method for an aromatic polycarbonate, in which eye boogers at the time of extrusion molding are reduced, and a continuous operation for a long period of time is possible. The present invention relates to a method when an extrusion molding is produced using an extruder in which a tapered part 1 has a half apex angle of from 4 to 20° formed at the outlet part of a die hole 9, and outlet parts of plural die holes 9 are arranged in a staggered state at the resin discharge surface side of a die plate 10, the shear rate ? at the extruder outlet is from 100 to 500 sec?1, and the shear stress ? is from 50 to 200 kPa.

Abstract: To provide a polycarbonate resin composition excellent in the surface hardness, the heat resistance, the moldability and the flame retardancy. A polycarbonate resin composition comprising at least a polycarbonate resin (a) and a polycarbonate resin (b) having structural units different from the polycarbonate resin (a), which satisfies the following requirements: (i) the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (a) as specified by ISO 15184 is higher than the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (b) as specified by ISO 15184; (ii) the glass transition point Tg(a) of the polycarbonate resin (a) and the glass transition point Tg(b) of the polycarbonate resin (b) satisfy the relation of the following (Formula 1): Tg(b)?45° C.<Tg(a)<Tg(b)?10° C.??(Formula 1) (iii) the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin composition as specified by ISO 15184 is higher by at least two ranks than the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (b) as specified by ISO 15184.

Abstract: To provide a polycarbonate resin composition having improved flame retardancy and moldability. A polycarbonate resin having a ratio of the melt viscosity ?10 measured at 300° C. at a shear rate of 10 sec?1 to the melt viscosity ?1000 measured at 300° C. at a shear rate of 1000 sec?1 (?10/?1000) of at least 3 and at most 8, a branch parameter G=[?]/[?]lin of at least 0.80 and at most 0.94, and a pencil hardness of at least HB.

Abstract: To provide a polycarbonate resin composition having improved flame retardancy and moldability. A polycarbonate resin having a ratio of the melt viscosity ?10 measured at 300° C. at a shear rate of 10 sec?1 to the melt viscosity ?1000 measured at 300° C. at a shear rate of 1000 sec?1 (?10/?1000) of at least 3 and at most 8, a branch parameter G=[?]/[?]lin of at least 0.80 and at most 0.94, and a pencil hardness of at least HB.

Abstract: To provide a polycarbonate resin composition excellent in surface hardness and impact strength. A polycarbonate resin composition comprising at least a polycarbonate resin (a) and a polycarbonate resin (b) having structural units different from the polycarbonate resin (a), which satisfies the requirements: (i) the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (a) as specified by ISO15184 is higher than the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (b) as specified by ISO15184; (ii) the weight ratio of the polycarbonate resin (a) to the polycarbonate resin (b) in the polycarbonate resin is from 1:99 to 45:55; (iii) the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin composition as specified by ISO15184 is higher by at least two ranks than the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (b) as specified by ISO15184; and (iv) the Charpy impact strength of the polycarbonate resin composition is higher than the Charpy impact strength of the polycarbonate resin (a).

Abstract: To provide a polycarbonate resin composition excellent in the surface hardness, the heat resistance, the moldability and the flame retardancy. A polycarbonate resin composition comprising at least a polycarbonate resin (a) and a polycarbonate resin (b) having structural units different from the polycarbonate resin (a), which satisfies the following requirements: (i) the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (a) as specified by ISO 15184 is higher than the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (b) as specified by ISO 15184; (ii) the glass transition point Tg(a) of the polycarbonate resin (a) and the glass transition point Tg(b) of the polycarbonate resin (b) satisfy the relation of the following (Formula 1): Tg(b)?45° C.<Tg(a)<Tg(b)?10° C.??(Formula 1) and (iii) the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin composition as specified by ISO 15184 is higher by at least two ranks than the pencil hardness of the polycarbonate resin (b) as specified by ISO 15184.

Abstract: An apparatus of a polycarbonate resin having polymerization tanks is provided. In supplying a molten reactant to a liquid phase in a polymerization tank, or supplying the molten reactant to a gas phase in the polymerization tank by an insertion pipe, in at least one polymerization tank, and/or producing a polycarbonate resin by an ester exchange reaction between an aromatic dihydroxy compound and a carbonic diester by using three vertical polymerization tanks and one horizontal polymerization tank, a wall surface temperature T of a distillation pipe is set higher than a boiling point t1 of by-produced phenol such that the relationship of the boiling point t1 of the by-produced phenol under a pressure in at least a third vertical polymerization tank, the wall surface temperature T of the distillation pipe and an inner temperature t2 of the third vertical polymerization tank satisfies t1<T?t2.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing plural kinds of aromatic polycarbonates by a melt process without changeover loss and quality deterioration. The present invention relates to a production method of an aromatic polycarbonate, comprising supplying a molten mixture of raw materials of an aromatic dihydroxy compound and/or a carbonic diester prepared in the absence of an ester exchange catalyst to polycondensation steps of two lines each equipped with three vertical reactors connected in series and one horizontal reactor, and at the same time, continuously conducting polycondensation reaction in the presence of an ester exchange catalyst.

Abstract: The invention aims at providing a process for the production of polycarbonate resin which is suppressed in discoloration and reduced in the content of crystalline foreign substance, gel, and so on.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a polycarbonate resin having an extremely narrow molecular weight distribution, good flowability when melting, and particularly extremely good flowability when melting that does not depend on shear rate. The present invention relates to a polycarbonate resin, characterized in that a value obtained by dividing difference between a logarithmic value log MV9.12 of a melt viscosity (Pa·s) measured at shear rate of 9.12 sec?1 and a logarithmic value log MV1824 of a melt viscosity (Pa·s) measured at shear rate of 1824 sec?, with a capillary rheometer having a die diameter of 1 mm? and an effective length of 30 mmL, by a viscosity average molecular weight Mv calculated by the following equations, viscosity difference/molecular weight ratio, is 2.0×10?5 or less. ?sp/C=[?]×(1+0.28?sp) [?]=1.23×10?4×Mv0.83 (In the above equations, ?sp is a specific viscosity measured at 20° C.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing plural kinds of aromatic polycarbonates by a melt process without changeover loss and quality deterioration. The present invention relates to a production method of an aromatic polycarbonate, comprising supplying a molten mixture of raw materials of an aromatic dihydroxy compound and/or a carbonic diester prepared in the absence of an ester exchange catalyst to polycondensation steps of two lines each equipped with three vertical reactors connected in series and one horizontal reactor, and at the same time, continuously conducting polycondensation reaction in the presence of an ester exchange catalyst.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a production method for an aromatic polycarbonate, in which eye boogers at the time of extrusion molding are reduced, and a continuous operation for a long period of time is possible. The present invention relates to a method when an extrusion molding is produced using an extruder in which a tapered part 1 has a half apex angle of from 4 to 20° formed at the outlet part of a die hole 9, and outlet parts of plural die holes 9 are arranged in a staggered state at the resin discharge surface side of a die plate 10, the shear rate ? at the extruder outlet is from 100 to 500 sec?1, and the shear stress ? is from 50 to 200 kPa.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a production method of a high molecular weight aromatic polycarbonate containing a reduced amount of a high melting point product, and having less thermal history received and excellent hue by a melt process. The present invention relates to a production method of an aromatic polycarbonate, characterized in that in producing an aromatic polycarbonate using an aromatic dihydroxy compound and a carbonic diester as raw materials and using plural reactors, a molten reactant temperature T1 (° C.) in at least one reactor A and a molten reactant temperature T2 (° C.) in a reactor B subsequent to the reactor A are satisfied with the relationship of T2<T1, and an evaporation surface area per unit treatment amount of a molten reactant in the reactor to which a molten reactant having a limiting viscosity of 0.1 dl/g or more is supplied is 1.0 m2·hr/m3 or more.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a production apparatus of a polycarbonate resin in which generation of adherents or foreign matters in a polymerization tank is reduced, and a production method of a polycarbonate resin in which crystallized foreign matters or burned foreign matters are reduced, by melt method.

Abstract: The invention aims at providing a process for the production of polycarbonate resin which is suppressed in discoloration and reduced in the content of crystalline foreign substance, gel, and so on.