Resin composition having electromagnetic wave shielding effort

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a resin composition having an electromagnetic wave shielding effect, and more particularly to a resin composition for shielding the transmission of electromagnetic waves thereby to prevent disorders or troubles caused by electromagnetic waves.

2. Prior Art

In the conventional systems, electronic instruments, such as business machines, electronic computers and television receivers, generate electromagnetic waves by themselves to cause malfunctions and/or noises in the neighbouring electronic instruments.

On the other hand, the electronic instruments are affected by the electromagnetic waves emitted from the adjacent electronic instruments, leading to malfunction thereof or generation of noises therefrom.

Troubles by the electromagnetic waves have been obviated at some extent when the housing of such electronic instruments are made of metal plates or aluminum die castings which can shield the transmission of electromagnetic waves.

However, plastics materials have been predominantly used for the housings of electronic instruments in recent years, because of the merits that they are easily molded to have various designs and that they are light in weight.

However, the plastics materials are generally poor in conductivity and have substantially no electromagnetic wave shielding effect. It is, thus, necessitated to process the plastics materials to provide them with electromagnetic wave shielding effect when they are used for the housing of electronic instruments.

Particularly, in recent years, radiation of electromagnetic waves has been severely prohibited by the domestic and foreign regulations. Under these circumstances, there is an increasing demand for the plastics materials provided with electromagnetic wave shielding effects.

Various methods for providing the plastic materials with the electromagnetic wave shielding effect have hitherto been investigated, the known methods including application of an aluminum foil or a conductive tape, flame spraying with molten zinc, coating with a conductive paint, metal plating on the plastics materials, vacuum evaporation coating, spattering ion plating and molding a conductive plastic material added with a conductive filler.

However, the method of application of an aluminum foil or a conductive tape for the provision of electromagnetic wave shielding effect is not used practically, since it has the disadvantages that extreme skillfullness is required and that it is not suited for the housings having complicated shapes.

The method of flame spraying with molten zinc and the method of coating with a conductive paint have been predominantly used at the present time. However, these methods have the disadvantages that the thickness of the lining or coating becomes uneven when the housing has a complicated shape and that the adhesiveness of the lining or coating to the substrate is insufficient to result in exfoliation of the conductive layer, leading to the loss of the electromagnetic wave shielding effect or even causing a risk of firing.

Although the durability and adhesiveness of the metal plated on the plastics materials are satisfactory, only few kinds of plastics materials can be plated with metals and the articles to be plated are limited to those of small dimensions.

Satisfactory electromagnetic wave shielding effect can be provided by the metal evaporation techniques including the vacuum evaporation coating, spattering and ion plating. However, these techniques have not been applied for commercial scale productions, since they require expensive apparatuses and skillful operations.

Contrary to the aforementioned methods wherein conductive layers are formed on the surfaces of molded plastics materials to provide the electromagnetic wave shielding effect, the molded products made of a composite conductive plastics material containing a conductive filler mixed and dispersed in a matrix plastics material is averted from the impairment of electromagnetic wave shielding effect or from the risk of firing caused by exfoliation of conductive layer.

However, the known conductive plastics molded articles have the disadvantages that satisfactory electromagnetic wave shielding effect cannot be obtained unless a large amount of conductive filler is added to the matrix plastics material, and that the physical properties of the resultant plastics material are deteriorated or the appearance of the molded article is impaired with serious increase in cost as the quantity of the filler added to the matrix plastic material is increased.

Particularly, as the amount of added conductive filler is increased, the dispersibility of the filler is lowered to result in uneven dispersion thereof. Especially when carbon fibers are used for the conductive filler, the fibers are broken during the kneading step to lower the electromagnetic wave shielding effect. If some parts of the expensive carbon fibers are replaced by another inexpensive conductive filler in order to decrease the content of the carbon fibers, the fibrous and pulverized fillers present in the mixed condition become hardly dispersed in the matrix resin, leading to deterioration of moldability of the plastics material and deterioration of the properties of the molded articles. If the resultant plastics material is molded at a higher temperature in order to improve the moldability thereof, the matrix resin is decomposed or otherwise damaged so that the physical properties and the appearance of the molded articles are deteriorated and the coloring property of the resin becomes poor.

OBJECT AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

An object of this invention is to provide a resin composition having improved electromagnetic wave shielding effect, comprising a resin ingredient and carbon fibers which are uniformly dispersed in the resin ingredient and are not substantially broken or cut at the step of mixing and dispersing them.

Another object of this invention is to provide a resin composition having improved electromagnetic wave shielding effect and having improved fluidity and excellent moldability.

A further object of this invention is to provide a resin composition having improved electromagnetic wave shielding effect, which can be molded at a reasonably low melting temperature to avoid deterioration of physical properties, appearance and couloring property of the matrix resin.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a resin composition having improved electromagnetic wave shielding effect, which has a flame-retarding property and is improved in thermal and mechanical properties.

Yet a further object of this invention is to provide a resin composition, which has an extremely high electromagnetic wave shielding effect and may be coloured freely.

The above and other objects of this invention will become apparent from the following description.

The resin composition having an electromagnetic wave shielding effect, according to the present invention, comprises 35 to 90 wt % of a compolymer of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile, a diene rubber and an aromatic vinyl compound or a mixture of said copolymer with another copolymer of ethylenic unsaturated nitrile and an aromatic vinyl compound; 1 to 25 wt % of a plasticizer; and 5 to 40 wt % of carbon fibers.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

The single figure appended to the specification is a schematic illustration showing the tester for the determination of the electromagnetic wave shielding effect of the plastics molded article made of the resin composition according to the invention.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention will be described in detail hereinbelow.

The matrix resin for the resin composition having an electromagnetic wave shielding effect, according to the present invention, is a copolymer of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile, a diene rubber and an aromatic vinyl compound or a mixture thereof with another copolymer of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile and an aromatic vinyl compound.

The ethylenic unsaturated nitrile used in the invention includes, for example, acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile, ethacrylonitrile and methyl methacrylonitrile. The particularly preferred are acrylonitrile and methacrylonitrile.

The diene rubber used in the invention includes one or more of conjugated 1,3-dienes, such as butadiene, isoprene, 2-chloro-1,3-butadiene, 1-chloro-1,3-butadiene and piperylene, which form rubbery polymers, the particularly preferred being butadiene.

The aromatic vinyl compound used in the invention includes, for example, styrene, .alpha.-methylstyrene, vinyltoluene, divinylbenzene and chlorostyrene, which may be used singly or in combination. A favourable result can be obtained, in the present invention, when styrene is used singly as the aromatic vinyl compound.

A more favourable result may be obtained when the copolymer of the ethylenic unsaturated nitrile, the diene rubber and the aromatic vinyl compound is a graft copolymer prepared by graft-copolymerizing 20 to 75 parts, preferably 20 to 60 parts, by weight of a diene rubber or a diene-containing polymer containing not less than 50 wt % of diene rubber with 80 to 25 parts, preferably 80 to 40 parts, by weight of a mixture of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile and an aromatic vinyl compound.

If a mixture of a copolymer of ethylenic unsaturated nitrile, a diene rubber and an aromatic vinyl compound with another copolymer of an ethyleneic unsaturated nitrile and an aromatic vinyl compound is used, the mixing ratio of the former to the latter may range within 25 to 99 parts by weight of the former to 1 to 75 parts by weight of the latter, preferably within 35 to 65 parts by weight of the former to 65 to 35 parts by weight of the latter. If the mixing ratio is out of the aforementioned range, the moldability and the properties of the resultant composition are deteriorated. The process for the preparation of the copolymers and the mixture thereof are well-known in the art, and disclosed, for example, in the specification of Japanese Patent Publication No. 37675/1976. The description of the prior publication referred to above will be incorporated herein as a reference.

Specific examples of the plasticizers used in the composition of the invention include phthalic acid esters, such as dibutyl phthalate and di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate; fatty acid esters, such as di-2-ethylhexyl adipate, dibutyl sebacate, di-2-ethylhexyl sebacate and di-2-ethylhexyl azelate; epoxides, such as epoxidized fatty acid monoesters, epoxidized soybean oil and epoxidized linseed oil; phosphoric acid esters, such as tricresyl phosphate, tri-2-ethylhexyl phosphate and tributoxyethyl phosphate; ethers, such as triethyleneglycol di-2-ethyl butylate, dibutylcarbitol adipate and dibutylcarbitol formal; polyesters, such as adipic acid polyesters, sebacic acid polyesters and azelaic acid polyesters; and chlorinated plasticizers, such as chlorinated aliphatic esters and chlorinated paraffins. Particularly preferred plasticizers are phthalic acid esters, phosphoric acid esters and fatty acid esters.

When it is desired to provide the resin composition of the present invention with the flame-retarding property, a plasticizer selected from phosphoric acid derivatives and ethylene/propylene terpolymers is used.

Specific examples of the flame-retarding plasticizers of phosphoric acid derivatives are tri(2-ethylhexyl) phosphate, 2-ethylhexyl diphenyl phosphate, tributoxyethyl phosphate, triphenyl phosphate, cresyl diphenyl phosphate, isodecyl diphenyl phosphate, tricresyl phosphate, trixylenyl phosphate, mixed aryl phosphates, phenyl/isopropyl phenyl phosphate, mixed triaryl phosphates and tris(chloroethyl) phosphate. Particularly preferred results can be obtained by using 2-ethylhexyl diphenyl phosphate and tricresyl phosphate singly or in combination.

Favorite flame-retarding property may be obtained by using the ethylene/propylene terpolymer as the plasticizer in the resin composition of the invention. The ethylene/propylene terpolymer used as the plasticizer include copolymers of ethylene and propylene polymerized with a small amount of unsaturated compound as the third component. The terpolymer may be composed to 50 to 80 mol % of ethylene, 20 to 50 mol % of propylene and 0.5 to 10 mol % of an unsaturated third compound, and the most preferable composition contains 60 to 70 mol % of ethylene, 30 to 40 mol % of propylene and 0.5 to 5 mol % of an unsaturated third compound.

Dienes and/or trienes may be generally used as the third unsaturated compound, inter alia 1,4-hexadiene, dicyclopentadiene and ethylidene norbornene are particularly preferred because of their excellent copolymerizability and low cost.

The content of the plasticizer in the resin composition of the invention may range within 1 to 25 wt %, preferably within 2 to 15 wt %. If the content of the plasticizer is less than 1 wt %, the viscosity of the molten resin composition at the kneading step becomes too high to cause breakdown of the carbon fibers and to result in insufficient dispersion of the fibers, thereby to lower the electromagnetic wave shielding effect and to deteriorate the moldability of the resultant resin composition. On the contrary, if the content of the plasticizer is more than 25 wt %, the physical properties including the resistance to heat of the resin composition are lowered and the molded products become sticky due to bleeding of the plasticizer. When the flame-retarding plasticizer is used, satisfactory flame-retarding effect cannot be expected if the content thereof is less than 1 wt %. When a phosphoric acid derivative is used as the flame-retarding plasticizer, particularly preferable content thereof ranges within 2 to 8 wt %. On the other hand, when the ethylene/propylene terpolymer is used as the plasticizer, particularly preferable content thereof ranges within 5 to 10 wt %.

One or a mixture of two or more of carbonized polyacrylonitrile fibers, carbonized pitch fibers and carbonized phenolic compound fibers may be used in the resin composition of the invention. Superior electromagnetic wave shielding effect can be attained by using the carbonized polyacrylonitrile fibers singly.

It is desirous that the length of individual carbon fiber be preferably in the range of from 0.5 to 20 mm, most preferably in the range of from 2 to 10 mm. If the length of individual fiber is less than 0.5 mm, the conductivity of the resin composition is lowered to an unsatisfactory level due to excessively small aspect ratio of the fibers. On the contrary, if the length of individual fiber is longer than 20 mm, the fluidity of the resin composition is extremely lowered to deteriorate the moldability thereof significantly with attendant deterioration of the appearance and mechanical properties of the molded products. In addition, the conductivity of the resin composition is rather lowered, since the fibers are not evenly dispersed throughout the composition. The carbon fibers may preferably have the diameters ranging within 3 to 25.mu., more preferably within 5 to 12.mu.. The fibers are apt to be broken under the shearing action at the kneading step to lessen the aspect ratio of the fibers or to be entangled with each other to form fiber balls to lessen the dispersibility thereof, resulting in unsatisfactory conductivity of the resin composition, if the diameter of individual fibers is less than 3.mu.. On the contrary, if the diameter of individual fibers is more than 25.mu., the conductivity of the resin composition becomes unsatisfactory since the aspect ratio of the fibers is too small. The bundle count of the carbon fibers may range preferably within 1,000 to 20,000, more preferably within 3,000 to 15,000. If the bundle count is less than 1,000, the bundled fibers are apt to be entangled with each other to form fiber balls to lessen the dispersibility thereof and to result in unsatisfactory conductivity of the resultant resin composition. On the contrary, if the bundle count is more than 20,000, the fiber bundles cannot be cloven effectively even by the shearing action at the kneading step, leading to uneven dispersion of the fibers to result in inferior conductivity of the resin composition.

When it is desired to provide the resin composition with especially high conductivity thereby to improve the electromagnetic shielding effect, carbon fibers with metallized surfaces may be used as the carbon fibers added to the matrix resin. Such carbon fibers may be produced by coating the surfaces of the carbon fibers with a metal, such as Ni, Cu or Al, by the plating, vacuum evaporation coating or spattering processes.

The content of the carbon fibers in the resin composition should range within 5 to 40 wt %, preferably 10 to 25 wt %. If the content thereof is less than 5 wt %, substantial electromagnetic wave shielding effect cannot be provided. On the contrary, if the content thereof exceeds 40 wt %, the resultant resin composition is hardly molded through extrusion or injection molding and the physical properties of the molded products are deteriorated.

In the present invention, a conductive carbon black may be added to the composition in addition to the aforementioned carbon fibers. Specific examples of the conductive carbon black include furnace black, channel black and the like such as S.C.F. (Super Conductive Furnace) black, E.C.F. (Electric Conductive Furnace) black, a by-product black such as "Ketchen Black" available from Nippon E. C. Co., Ltd. and acetylene black. It is preferred that the carbon black satisfies at least one of the following features of:

(1) Having highly developed structure;

(2) Having small particle size;

(3) Having large specific surface area;

(4) Containing only a small amount of impurities which capture electrons; and

(5) Having high degree of graphitization.

The preferable quantity of the carbon black added to the composition varies depending on the kind of the used carbon black, particularly on the specific surface area thereof, and may range within 2 to 30 wt %, more preferably 3 to 15 wt %. If the added amount of the carbon black is less than 2 wt %, the volume resistivity of the molded product becomes uneven to result in inferior electromagnetic wave shielding effect. On the contrary, if the added amount of the carbon black exceeds 30 wt %, the resin composition is hardly molded by extrusion or injection molding and the physical properties of the molded product become inferior.

An alkylamine antistatic agent may also be added to the resin composition. Preferable antistatic agents are amine compounds having hydroxyethyl groups and represented by the following formula of: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an alkyl or alkenyl group having 8 to 22 carbon atoms, and m and n are integers of 1 to 10.

The compounds set forth above are well-known in the art, and it is preferred to use those represented by the aforementioned formula wherein 2.ltoreq.m+n.ltoreq.10.

Representative amine compounds having hydroxyethyl groups are N,N-bis(hydroxyethyl) tallow amine, polyoxyethylene lauryl amine and fatty acid esters of polyoxyethylene lauryl amine. Amongst them, N,N-bis(hydroxyethyl) tallow amine is the most preferred.

The amount of the added alkyl amine antistatic agent may range within 0.5 to 10 wt %, preferably 1 to 5 wt %. The effect of lowering the volume resistivity of the molded product cannot be expected when the added amount of alkyl amine antistatic agent is less than 0.5 wt % so that the electromagnetic wave shielding effect is not improved. On the contrary, if the amount of the added alkyl amine antistatic agent is more than 10 wt %, the resin composition is excessively lubricated to affect adversely the dispersibility of the carbon fibers at the compounding step so that the resin composition becomes hardly molded through extrusion or injection molding with attendant undesirable results that the physical properties and the electromagnetic wave shielding effect of the molded product become inferior.

A halogen-containing organic flame retarder and an auxiliary flame-retarding agent may also be added to provide the resin composition with potent resistance to firing. Specific examples of halogen-containing organic flame retarder include chlorinated paraffins, tetrabromobisphenol-A and oligomers thereof, decabromobiphenyl ethers, hexabromobiphenyl ethers, pentabromobiphenyl ethers, pentabromotoluene, pentabromoethylbenzene, hexabromobenzene, pentabromophenol, tribromophenol derivatives, perchloropentanecyclodecane, hexabromocyclododecane,tris(2,3-dibromopropyl-1)-isocyanurate, tetrabromobisphenol-S and derivatives thereof, 1,2-bis(2,3,4,5,6-pentabromophenoxy)ethane, 1,2-bis(2,4,6-tribromophenoxy)ethane, brominated styrene oligomers, 2,2-bis-(4(2,3-dibromopropyl)-3,5-dibromophenoxy)propane, tetrachlorophthalic anhydride and tetrabromophthalic anhydride.

The auxiliary flame-retarding agents which may be used in the resin composition of the invention include antimony trioxide, sodium antimonate, zinc borate, and oxides and sulfides of zirconium and molybdenum, the most favourable result being obtained by the use of antimony trioxide.

The amount of the halogen-containing organic flame retarder added to the resin composition varies depending on the required degree of flame resistant property and also on the content of the flame-retarding plasticizer, and ranges generally from 2 to 35 wt %, preferably from 5 to 25 wt %.

The flame-retarding effect becomes insufficient if the amount of the added halogen-containing organic flame retarder is less than 2 wt %, whereas the thermal and mechanical properties of the molded product become inferior if the amount of added halogen-containing organic flame retarder exceeds 35 wt %.

The added amount of the auxiliary flame-retarding agent may be within 0.4 to 21 wt % and the ratio thereof to the halogen-containing organic flame retarder should be within the range of from 6/10 to 2/10, preferably from 5/10 to 3/10. Satisfactory synergistic effect of retarding the propagation of flame cannot be obtained if the added amount of the auxiliary flame-retarding agent is less than 0.4 wt %, whereas the mechanical properties of the molded product are deteriorated if the added amount of the auxiliary flame-retarding agent exceeds 21 wt %.

If the ratio of the auxiliary flame-retarding agent to the halogen-containing organic flame retarder is less than 2/10, synergistic flame-retarding effect cannot be realized to result in unsatisfactory flame-retarding function, whereas the mechanical properties of the molded product becomes inferior if the ratio of the former to the latter exceeds 6/10.

In order to further improve the properties of the resin composition of the invention, antioxidants, internal or external lubricants and stabilizers may be added thereto. Antioxidants which may be added to the resin composition of the invention include phenolic antioxidants, sulfur base antioxidants and phosphor base antioxidants. Specific examples of the phenolic antioxidants are 2,6-di-tert-butyl-p-cresol, 2,2'-methylenebis(4-methyl-6-tert-butylphenol), 4,4'-butylidenebis(3-methyl-6-tert-butylphenol), 4,4'-thiobis(3-methyl-6-tert-butylphenol), butylhydroxyanisole and tetrakis[methylene-3(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propionate]mathane; the specific examples of the sulfur base antioxidants are dilauryl thiodipropionate, distearyl thiodipropionate, lauryl stearyl thiodipropionate, dimyristyl thiodipropionate and distearyl .beta.,.beta.'-thiodibutylate; and the specific examples of the phosphor base antioxidants are tridecyl phosphite, diphenyl phenyl phosphite, triphenyl phosphite and trinonylphenyl phosphite. These antioxidants may be used singly or in combination. Decomposition or deterioration due to oxidation of the resin composition can be prevented by adding one or more of the aforementioned antioxidants, preferably, in an amount of 0.01 to 4 parts by weight to 100 parts by weight of the resin composition.

The internal or external lubricants which may be added to the resin composition of the invention include paraffins and hydrocarbon resins, such as paraffin waxes, liquid paraffins, paraffin base synthetic waxes and polyethylene waxes; fatty acids, such as stearic acid and hydroxystearic acid; fatty acid amides, such as stearoamide, oxystearoamide, oleyl amide, methylenebisstearoamide and methylenebisbehenamide; fatty acid esters, such as n-butyl stearate, methyl hydroxystearate and esters of saturated fatty acids; fatty acid alcohols, such as higher alcohols, and esters of higher alcohols; and partial esters of fatty acids and polyhydric alcohols, such as esters of glycerine and fatty acids, triglyceride of hydroxystearic acid and esters of sorbitan and fatty acids. One or a mixture of two or more of the internal or external lubricants set forth above may be used.

The stabilizers which may be added to the resin composition of the invention include metallic soaps, salts of inorgnic acids, organic tin compounds and composite stabilizers. Specific examples of the metallic soaps are zinc stearate, calcium stearate, zinc laurate and cadmium 2-ethylhexoate; examples of the salts of inorganic acids being tribasic lead sulfate, basic lead sulfite and lead-barium compounds; examples of the organic tin compounds being dibutyl tin laurate, dibutyl tin dimaleate, and di-n-octyl tin maleate polymers; and examples of the composite stabilizers are calcium-zinc base stabilizers, barium-lead base stabilizers and cadmium-barium-zinc base stabilizers. These stabilizers may be used singly or in combination.

Any one or more of the aforementioned internal and/or external lubricants and/or stabilizers may be added to the resin composition, preferably, in a ratio of 0.01 to 4 parts by weight to 100 parts by weight of the resin composition to improve the fluidity of the resin composition at the molding step and to prevent decomposition or deterioration of the resinous ingredient.

The process for the preparation of the resin composition of the invention will now be described. The copolymer of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile, a diene rubber and an aromatic vinyl compound may be in the form of powder, bead or pellet. The copolymer or mixture thereof with another copolymer of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile and an aromatic vinyl compound is mixed with the plasticizer and the carbon fibers and optionally with other ingredients. In order to improve the moldability of the resin composition and to improve the properties of the molded products, it is preferred that the ethylenic unsaturated nitrile/diene rubber/aromatic vinyl compound copolymer be in the form of powder and the ethylenic unsaturated nitrile/aromatic vinyl compound copolymer be in the form of bead. In order to uniformalize or homogenize the resin composition, the mixture is mixed and kneaded using a kneader or extruder, such as Bumbury's mixer, cokneader, single spindle extruder or double spindle extruder. The mixture may be subjected to pre-mixing process using a tumbler or high speed mixer prior to the mixing and kneading step.

The mixed and kneaded resin composition is then charged in a hopper of an injection molding machine to be melted in a plasticizing cylinder of the injection molding machine, and the molten resin composition is injected into a mold and then cooled to be solidified. Solidified molded mass is removed from the mold to obtain an injection molded article made of the resin composition of the invention. Likewise, the mixed and kneaded resin composition is charged in a hopper of an extuder to be melted in a plasticizing cylinder of the extruder, and the molten resin composition is extruded through a die attached to the end of the extruding cylinder to form an extruded product made of the resin composition of the invention.

EXAMPLES OF THE INVENTION

The present invention will now be described more specifically by referring to Examples thereof.

EXAMPLES 1 to 8

A powder-form ABS resin (acrylonitrile/butadiene/styrene copolymer resin) having a composition composed of 10 wt % of acrylonitrile, 50 wt % of butadiene and 40 wt % of styrene and a bead-form AS resin (acrylonitrile/styrene copolymer resin) having a composition composed of 30 wt % of acrylonitrile and 70 wt % of styrene were used. A plasticizer available from Kao Soap Co., Ltd. under the Trade Name "VYNYCIZER #80" was used as the plasticizer in the resin composition. Carbonized polyacrylonitrile (referred to as "PAN" in the following Tables) chopped strands (Length: 6 mm, Diameter: 7.mu. Bundle Count: 12,000) available from Toho Rayon Co., Ltd. under the Trade Name "BESFIGHT HTAC6S" were used as the carbon fibers. One part, by weight, for each of an antioxidant and zinc stearate were added to 100 parts, by weight, of the resin. The compositions are shown in Table 1. Each of the compositions was put into a Bumbury's mixer heated to 140.degree. C. to be mixed and kneaded until the temperature of the mixture reached 190.degree. C. Immediately after the mixture was discharged from the mixer, it was rolled through mixing rollers to form a sheet which was cooled and then crushed into pellets.

The thus formed pellets were charged in a hopper of an 8-ounce injection molding machine to be melted in a plasticizing cylinder of the machine, and then injected into a mold.

The mold was the one provided with a 2 mm.phi. direct gate for molding a housing of 15 cm square and having an wall thickness of 3 mm.

The thus molded products had excellent physical properties, improved resistance to heat and improved electromagnetic wave shielding effect, as shown in Table 1.

EXAMPLES 9 to 11

Each of the compositions set forth in Table 1 was pelletized similarly to Example 1, a