Claims
- 1. An electric wire having coated thereon a halogen-containing polyester resin composition, comprising:
- (i) a flame retardant aromatic polyester copolymer having a halogen content of 0.5-30% by weight which is produced by a condensation polymerization reaction of the following groups:
- (A) an aromatic dicarboxylic acid or an ester-forming derivative thereof,
- (B) an aliphatic glycol or an ester-forming derivative thereof, and
- (C) an ester-forming compound containing a halogen, and, in mixture with the polyester of group (i),
- (ii) 0.1-10% by weight of a bisoxazoline compound relative to the total weight of the composition.
- 2. The electric wire as set forth in claim 1, wherein the halogen of the resin composition is bromine.
- 3. The electric wire as set forth in claim 1 or 2, wherein the aliphatic glycol (B) is a low molecular weight glycol of C.sub.2 -C.sub.8.
- 4. The electric wire as set forth in claim 1 or 2, wherein the aliphatic glycol (B) comprises a low molecular weight glycol of C.sub.2 -C.sub.8 and a polyalkylene glycol oxide having a molecular weight of 200-4000.
- 5. The electric wire as set forth in claim 3, wherein the low molecular weight glycol of C.sub.2 -C.sub.8 comprises a glycol selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol, 1,4-butylene glycol, 1,4-butene glycol and mixtures thereof.
- 6. The electric wire as set forth in claim 1, wherein the bisoxazoline is an m-phenylene bisoxazoline.
- 7. The electric wire as set forth in claim 1, wherein said composition further contains 0.1-3% by weight of a stabilizer relative to the total weight thereof.
- 8. The electric wire as set forth in claim 1, wherein group (A) is a terephthalic acid or a derivative thereof.
- 9. The electric wire as set forth in claim 1, wherein the halogen containing compound of group (C) is selected from the group consisting of formulas (1)-(8): ##STR5## R.sub.3, R.sub.4 ; --C.sub.2 H.sub.4 --, --C.sub.3 H.sub.6 --, --(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.n --, --(C.sub.3 H.sub.6 O).sub.n --
- X: halogen
- 1. m: 1-4
- n: integer of 1 or above.
- 10. The electric wire as set forth in claim 1, wherein the molecular weight of the ester-forming compound containing a halogen is greater than 390.
- 11. The electric wire as set forth in claim 1, wherein the halogen content of said composition is 2-20 wt%.
- 12. The electric wire as set forth in claim 1, wherein an ester forming functional group in the halogen compound for group (C) is an alcohol group and the proportion of groups (B) and (C) is 90-200 mol relative to 100 mol of group (A).
- 13. The electric wire as set forth in claim 1, wherein an ester forming functional group in the halogen compound for group (C) is a carboxylic acid group and the proportion of group (B) is 90-200 mol relative to 100 mol of groups (A) and (C).
- 14. The electric wire as set forth in claim 1, wherein the bisoxazoline compound is represented by formula (9): ##STR6## wherein, R represents a bivalent organic group, p represents an integer of 0 or 1; and hydrogen atoms may be replaced by alkyl or aryl groups.
- 15. The electric wire as set forth in claim 1, wherein the bisoxazoline compound is selected from the group consisting of 2,2'-methylene-bis(2-oxazoline), 2,2'-ethylene-bis(2-oxazoline), 2,2'-ethylene-bis(4-methyl-2oxazoline), 2,2'-propylene-bis(2-oxazoline), 2,2'-tetramethylene-bis(2-oxazoline), 2,2'-hexamethylene-bis(2-oxazoline), 2,2'-octamethylene-bis(2-oxazoline), 2,2'-p-phenylene-bis(2-oxazoline), 2,2'-p-phenylene-bis(4-methyl-2-oxazoline), 2,2'-p-phenylene-bis(4,4-dimethyl-2-oxazoline), 2,2'-p-phenylene-bis(4-phenyl-2-oxazoline), 2,2'-m-phenylene-bis(2-oxazoline), 2,2'-m-phenylene-bis(4-methyl-2-oxazoline), 2,2'-m-phenylene-bis(4,4-dimethyl-2-oxazoline), 2,2'-m-phenylene-bis(4-phenyl-2-oxazoline), 2,2'-o-phenylene-bis(2-oxazoline), 2,2'-phenyl-bis(4-methyl-2-oxazoline), 2,2'-bis(2-oxazoline), 2,2'-bis(4-methyl-2-oxazoline), 2,2'-bis(4-ethyl-2-oxazoline), 2,2'-bis(4phenyl-2-oxazoline) and combinations thereof.
- 16. The electric wire as set forth in claim 1, wherein group (A) further comprises an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid or ester-forming derivative thereof, or an aromatic hydroxy-carboxylic acid or ester-forming derivative thereof.
- 17. The electric wire as set forth in claim 1, wherein group (B) further comprises an aromatic alcohol or ester-forming derivative thereof, an alkylene oxide adduct alcohol or ester-forming derivative thereof, glycerin or ester-forming derivative thereof, or pentaerythritol or ester-forming derivative thereof.
- 18. The electric wire as set forth in claim 3, wherein group (B) further comprises a high molecular weight glycol.
- 19. The electric wire according to claim 1, wherein the halogen is bromine.
- 20. The electric wire according to claim 1 or 19, wherein the electric wire is a low-voltage wire.
- 21. The electric wire according to claim 20, wherein the electric wire is an automotive low-voltage wire.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This application is a divisional of copending application Ser. NO. 07/151,802 filed on Feb. 3, 1988, is now U.S. Pat. No. 4,987,167.
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Divisions (1)
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