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Molded articles having hard coat layer and method for producing same

US5725960A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 7, 1995
Grant dateMar 10, 1998
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Expiry dateJun 7, 2015

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/31935
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A molded article having an adhesion of at least 50 squares per 100 squares in crosscut adhesion test and at least 40 squares per 100 squares even after kept in a warm water of 70.degree. C. for 1 hour, a haze value of 1.0% or less in Taber abrasion test and a pencil hardness of 2H or higher, said molded article being obtained by modifying the surface of a substrate formed of a thermoplastic norbornene resin to have a surface tension of 50 dynes/cm or greater by a treatment such as corona discharge treatment or the like or forming a preliminary primer layer of a modified product obtained by introducing a polar group into a copolymer of a vinyl aromatic compound and a conjugated diene, or the like; forming a primer layer for silicone hard coating agent on the modified surface or the preliminary primer layer, and then forming thereon a silicone hard coat layer, and a method for producing the molded article.

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