Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition that may be used to form injection molded articles, including automobile interior trim. The thermoplastic resin composition has a crystalline polypropylene as the main component and has a melt flow index of 25 to 35 g/10 minutes and a flexural modulus at 23° C. of not less than 20,000 kg/cm2 and comprises, in specific proportion: (A) A specific crystalline polypropylene; (B) A specific ethylene-butene-1 copolymer rubber, (C) a specific ethylene-propylene copolymer rubber or (D) a specific vinyl aromatic compound-containing rubber; (E) Talc; And optionally, Fibrous magnesium oxysulfate.

Abstract: According to this invention, there is provided a thermoplastic resin composition using a crystalline polypropylene as the main component, satisfying the impact strength and rigidity required as an automobile interior trim material in respect of physical properties, has high flow and good balance between impact strength and rigidity as compared with conventionally used ethylene-propylene copolymer rubber compositions, and being short in molding cycle and good in surface quality in respect of injection moldability, and further provided an injection molded article using the composition, particularly an injection molded article for automobile interior trim.

Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition for use in automotive inner and outer trims, comprising 50 to 85% by weight of a crystalline polypropylene (A) having an MFR (230° C.) of 7 to 70 g/10 min, 2 to 16% by weight of a hydrogenated block copolymer (B) obtained by hydrogenating at a hydrogenation ratio of at least 90% an aromatic vinyl/conjugated diene block copolymer which contains an aromatic vinyl block polymer unit in an amount of 22% by weight or less and has an MFR (230° C.) of at least 5 g/10 min, and 5 to 25% by weight of an inorganic filler (G) having an average particle size of 0.1 to 3 &mgr;m as essential components. This composition may contain, as optional components, another hydrogenated block copolymer (C), an aromatic hydrocarbon copolymer (D), a crystalline polyethylene (E) and a soft ethylene/&agr;-olefin copolymer (F). This composition is excellent in heat resistance, rigidity and impact resistance and can provide a molding having beautiful appearance.

Abstract: A high rigidity ethylene-propylene block copolymer which is composed of (I) a crystalline polypropylene portion and (II) an ethylene-propylene random copolymer portion, and in which the crystalline polypropylene portion (I) has a Q value of not more than 5 which is the weight average molecular weight (Mw)/number average molecular weight (Mn) ratio obtained by a gel permeation chromatography (GPC) method, an isotactic pentad fraction of not less than 0.98 as calculated from 13C-NMR, and an intrinsic viscosity of 0.6 to 0.88 dl/g as measured at 135° C. in tetralin; the ethylene-propylene random copolymer portion (II) has an intrinsic viscosity of 4.0 to 6.0 dl/g as measured at 135° C. in tetralin and an ethylene/propylene ratio of 25/75 to 35/65 by weight; and when the total of the above polymers ((I)+(II)) is taken as 100% by weight, the content of the ethylene-propylene random copolymer portion (II) is 8 to 22% by weight, and a process for producing the same.

Abstract: There is provided a thermoplastic resin composition comprising the following components (A) to (E): component (A): 50 to 74.7% by weight of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst sequentially polymerized blend of a propylene homopolymer and an ethylene-propylene copolymer, component (B): 5 to 10% by weight of an ethylene-octene random copolymer, component (C): 5 to 10% by weight of an ethylene-butene random copolymer, component (D): 0.3 to 5% by weight of an elastomer.

Abstract: A propylene-ethylene copolymer composition is obtained which has good moldability and an excellent balance of rigidity, toughness, and impact-strength. The composition has a melt flow rate of 10 to 300 g/10 minutes and is obtained by producing 60 to 95% by weight, based on the weight of whole polymer, of a propylene polymer having a melt flow rate (ASTM D1238) in the range of 100 to 1,000 g/10 minutes and having a ratio (Cf) of integrated values of the propylene polymer dissolved in o-dichlorobenzene at a temperature of lower than 112.degree. C., and a temperature of 112.degree. C. or higher, respectively, of 0.5 or less, by carrying out polymerization of propylene in the presence of a highly stereoregular catalyst and hydrogen in a polymerization step (I), and then producing 5 to 40% by weight, based on the weight of whole polymer, of an ethylene-propylene copolymer by feeding ethylene and propylene to the propylene polymer to react so that the content of ethylene becomes 30 to 80% by weight.

Abstract: There is provided a sheet-shaped product of a thermoplastic elastomer provided with an embossed pattern on the surface thereof, comprising as a base material a component (II) comprising a thermoplastic elastomer, said elastomer being obtained by subjecting a composition (I) comprising the following components (A) and (B) to dynamic heat treatment carried out in the presence of an organic peroxide: component (A): from 10 to 75% by weight of an olefin resin containing 50 to 100% by weight of a crystalline propylene polymer resin, and component (B): from 90 to 25% by weight of an olefin copolymer rubber containing 10 to 100% by weight of an olefin-propylene copolymer rubber whose propylene content is from 65 to 90% by weight.

Abstract: A resin-molded product includes a phenol-based oxidation inhibitor, and a thiol-based compound. The thiol-based compound reacts chemically with a coloring substance (or a compound having a quinone-type structure) resulting from the phenol-based oxidation inhibitor to interrupt a long conjugated system arising in the coloring substance. As a result, the absorption due to the coloring substance is canceled in the visible light region. Thus, the resin-molded product is inhibited from yellowing.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition which has a melt flow rate of 25 to 30 g/10 min and a flexural modulus at 23.degree. C. of 20,000 kg/cm.sup.2 or more and which comprises (1) 78 to 87% by weight of a specific crystalline polypropylene ?referred to hereinafter as (A)! in which the propylene homopolymer portion has a Q value of 3.0 to 5.0, an isotactic pentad fraction of 0.975 or more and an intrinsic viscosity ?.eta.! of 1.00 to 1.10 dl/g as measured at 135.degree. C. in tetralin, (2) 3 to 10% by weight of at least two specific rubber components selected from the group consisting of (B) 1 to 9% by weight of an ethylene-butene-1 copolymer rubber, (C) 1 to 9% by weight of an ethylene-propylene copolymer rubber and (D) 1 to 9% by weight of an alkenyl aromatic compound-containing rubber; and (3) 10 to 12% by weight of talc having an average particle diameter of 4 .mu.

Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition having excellent rigidity, impact resistance and formability (moldability) and thus useful for the interior parts of automobile, includes (A) a crystalline E/P block copolymer containing a fraction Ac soluble in p-xylene at room temperature and having an ethylene content of 18 to 22%; (B) a crystalline E/P block copolymer containing a fraction Bc soluble in p-xylene at room temperature and having an ethylene content of 27 to 40% and (C) talc particles having an average size of 3 to 5 .mu.m and largest size less than 20 .mu.m, in which composition, (a) the p-xylene-soluble fractions Ac and Bc are in contents As and Bs based on the total weight of the copolymers (A) and (B) and satisfying As+Bs=7 to 17% by weight and As/(A +Bs)=0.1 to 0.6; (b) an isotactic pentad fraction of propylene in each of copolymers (A) and (B) is 96% or more, and the mixture of the copolymers (A) and (B) has a MFR of 20 to 35 g/10 min at 230.degree. C.

Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition comprising an isotactic polypropylene component, a rubber component, and an inorganic filler component, wherein (a) the melt flow rate, according to ASTM D1238, is 20 g/10 min or more, (b) the flexural modulus, according to ASTM D790, is 2300 MPa or more, (c) the Izod impact strength, according to ASTM D256, is 180 J/m or more at 23.degree. C. and 45 J/m or more at -30.degree. C., (d) the heat deformation temperature, according to ASTM D648, is 130.degree. C. or more, and (e) there is a diffraction peak unique to polypropylene of space group P21/c in the diffraction pattern measured by the wide angle X-ray diffraction method in an injection molded article of the composition formed under a quenching condition.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition with improved low-temperature impact strength and rigidity against heat, comprising (I) 10-40% by weight of a mixture of (a) 10-50% by weight of a propylene homopolymer and/or an ethylene-propylene block copolymer (an isotactic pentad fraction of a propylene homopolymer portion being 0.98 or above) and (b) 50-90% by weight of an olefin-based copolymer rubber, said mixture having been dynamically heat treated in the presence of an organic peroxide and a crosslinking agent, (II) 20-85% by weight of a propylene homopolymer and/or an ethylene-propylene block copolymer (an isotactic pentad fraction of a propylene homopolymer portion being 0.98 or above and a melt index of the propylene homopolymer portion being 30-150 g/10 min), and (III) 5-40% by weight of an inorganic filler.

Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition comprising the following components (A), (B), (C) and (D): (A) a crystalline ethylene-propylene block copolymer containing a room-temperature-p-xylene-soluble fraction Ac having an ethylene content of 12-26% by weight and an intrinsic viscosity (measured at 135.degree. C. in decalin) of 6 dl/g or more, (B) a crystalline ethylene-propylene block copolymer containing a room-temperature-p-xylene-soluble fraction Bc having an ethylene content of 27-50% by weight and an intrinsic viscosity (measured at 135.degree. C. in decalin) of 4 dl/g or less, (C) an ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer obtained by polymerization using a single-site catalyst, having a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 2.5 or less, a melt flow ratio (MI.sub.10 /MI.sub.2.16) of 6-15 (wherein MI.sub.10 is a melt index measured at 190.degree. C. under a load of 10 kg and MI.sub.2.16 is a melt index measured at 190.degree. C. under a load of 2.16 kg) and an .alpha.

Abstract: A glass fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin excellent in providing a balance between processability, tapping strength and heat resistance. The composition comprising (A) 10 to 60% by weight of a terpolymer which comprises N-phenylmaleimide, styrene and acrylonitrile, (B) 5 to 20% by weight of a graft polymer which comprises at least one rubber selected from the group consisting of a conjugated diene rubber, an ethylene-propylene rubber and an ethylene-butylene rubber comprising ethylene and butylene, to which rubber styrene and acrylonitrile are graft polymerized, (C) 10 to 80% by weight of a copolymer which comprises styrene and acrylonitrile, and (D) 5 to 35% by weight of glass fiber, wherein(a) the terpolymer has an intrinsic viscosity of 0.20 dl/g to 0.70 dl/g, (b) the copolymer has an intrinsic viscosity of 0.40 dl/g to 1.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition comprising (A) a propylene/ethylene block copolymer, (B) a combination of a low-crystalline ethylene/butene random copolymer resin and an amorphous ethylene/butene random copolymer rubber, or a combination of an ethylene/octene copolymer rubber and an ethylene/propylene copolymer rubber, (C) a specific block elastomer, and (D) talc. This composition has good injection molding properties, can reveal excellent flexural modulus, heat resistance and surface hardness, and is suitable for producing such injection-molded products as interior automotive trims.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polypropylene resin composition for car interior fittings, comprising (a) a crystalline polypropylene, (b) particular hydrogenated block copolymer(s), (c) particular hydrogenated block copolymer(s) different from (b), and (d) a particular talc.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition which has a melt flow rate of 20 to 30 g/10 min and a flexural modulus at 23.degree. C. of 30,000 kg/cm.sup.2 or more and which comprises (A) 60 to 75% by weight of a specific crystalline polypropylene in which the propylene homopolymer portion has a Q value of 3.0 to 5.0, an isotactic pentad fraction of 0.975 or more and an intrinsic viscosity ?.eta.! of 0.95 to 1.15 dl/g as measured at 135.degree. C. in tetralin, (B) 2 to 8% by weight of an ethylene-butene-1 copolymer rubber, (C) 2 to 8% by weight of an ethylene-propylene copolymer rubber, (D) 10 to 20% by weight of talc having an average particle diameter of 4 .mu.m or less, and (E) 5 to 20% by weight of fibrous magnesium oxysulfate, and an injection molded article of the thermoplastic resin composition, said thermoplastic resin composition satisfying the impact strength and rigidity required as a material for an instrumental panel and having a short molding cycle and good surface quality.

Abstract: A polyolefin resin composition is disclosed which comprises(a) a crystalline propylene polymer in an amount of 40% or more to less than 95% by weight,(b) an ethylene/.alpha.-olefin rubber in an amount of from 5 to 40% by weight, and(c) a linear or branched specified block copolymer in an amount of from 0.1 to 20% by weight containing a polyethylene block segment A having a melting temperature as measured with a differential scanning calorimeter of from 80.degree. to 120.degree. C. and an ethylene/.alpha.-olefin copolymer block segment B,the total content of components (a), (b), and (c) being 100% by weight, which composition has excellent dispersibility of the rubber used, so that moldings having an excellent balance between rigidity and impact resistance are obtained therefrom, and is hence suitable for use in the field of moldings required to have rigidity and impact resistance.

Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition including (A) 50-90 parts by weight of a polypropylene resin including (a) 3-30 weight % of stereoblock polypropylene having a weight-average molecular weight of 5,000-1,000,000, a percentage of five continuous propylene monomer units in which all propylene bonds are meso bonds and a percentage of five continuous propylene monomer units in which all propylene bonds are racemic bonds being 70% or more and 5% or more, respectively relative to the all propylene bonds, and (b) 70-97 weight % of an ultra-high stereospecific polypropylene having a melt flow rate of 0.1-1,000 g/10 minutes, an average meso chain length Nm calculated from a triad percentage determined from .sup.13 C-NMR spectrum by the following formula of Nm=2[mm]/[mr]+1, wherein [mm] is (isotactic triad/total triad).times.100 (%) and [mr] is (heterotactic triad/total triad).times.100 (%), meeting a relation of Nm>250+29.

Abstract: The polypropylene composition of the present invention comprises polypropylene and a rubber component, and has the following characteristics that(i) the melt flow rate (MFR: 230.degree. C., 2.16 kg load), as measured in accordance with ASTM D1238, is not less than 8 g/10 min,(ii) the flexural modulus (FM), as measured in accordance with ASTM D790, is not less than 20,000 kg/cm.sup.2,(iii) the Izod impact strength (IZ), as measured in accordance with ASTM D256, is not less than 20 kg.cm/cm,(iv) the heat deflection temperature (HDT), as measured in accordance with ASTM D648, is not lower than 135.degree. C.