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Title:
ARTIFICIAL LEATHER EXCELLENT IN EXPANDABILITY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2003/027380
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
An artificial leather being composed of an entangled fiber material and an polymeric elastomer and excellent in expandability, characterized in that it exhibits an elongation percentage in the longitudinal direction of 15 % or more and an elongation recovery in the longitudinal direction of 80 % or more&semi and a method for producing the artificial leather, which comprises integrating a fiber web and a shrinkable sheet, attaching a polymeric elastomer to the integrated sheet, subjecting the resulting sheet to a shrinking treatment, and then removing the shrinkable sheet. The artificial leather exhibits excellent expandability, in particular, excellent expandability in the longitudinal direction which has not been achieved by a conventional artificial leather, without lowering the surface quality thereof.

Inventors:
HANAOKA JUN (JP)
IIJIMA HIROMICHI (JP)
IKEYAMA MASAMI (JP)
WATANABE KOJI (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2002/009456
Publication Date:
April 03, 2003
Filing Date:
September 13, 2002
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Assignee:
TORAY INDUSTRIES (JP)
HANAOKA JUN (JP)
IIJIMA HIROMICHI (JP)
IKEYAMA MASAMI (JP)
WATANABE KOJI (JP)
International Classes:
B32B7/06; B32B27/12; B32B37/14; D06N3/00; B29C61/02; (IPC1-7): D06N3/00
Foreign References:
JP2000336581A2000-12-05
JP2001214377A2001-08-07
JPS5247901A1977-04-16
JP2000303365A2000-10-31
JPS61132684A1986-06-20
JP2001164477A2001-06-19
JPS62289602A1987-12-16
JPS62289603A1987-12-16
US4515854A1985-05-07
Other References:
See also references of EP 1437440A4
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Sato, Kenji c/o Shiga, Branch (TORAY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXPERTS CO. LTD. 1-, Sonoyama 1-chome Otsu-shi Shiga, JP)
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