Poly(arylene sulfide) sheet and production process thereof

摘要

A poly(arylene sulfide) sheet excellent in planarity and smoothness is formed of a composition composed at least principally of a substantially linear, high molecular poly(arylene sulfide) having a melt viscosity of at least 1,000 poises. It has an elongation at break of at least 10% at 23 DEG C and a Young's modulus of at least 5 kg/mm2 at 200 DEG C, and per area of 1 cm x 2 cm on at least one of its surfaces, contains not more than 1 convex or concave whose angle of elevation or depression is at least 2 DEG and whose height or depth is at least 10 mu m. The sheet is produced by melting the composition, extruding the melt through a slit die, cooling and solidifying the extrudate into a sheet, preheating the sheet for 3-100 seconds in a temperature range of from a temperature 20 DEG C lower than the glass transition temperature of the polymer to a temperature 25 DEG C higher than the glass transition temperature, and then causing the thus-preheated sheet to pass between a heating roll heated at a temperature in a range of 120-200 DEG C and a pinch roll under a pinch pressure of 0.05-10 kg/cm, whereby the sheet is continuously pressed under linear pressure, is subjected to a heat treatment for 3-100 seconds and is crystallized.