Medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, process for producing the same, and medical tape

Abstract

A medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition having excellent re-adhesion property, and also excellence in both the peel adhesion property and the low skin stimulus property, a process for producing the same, and a medical tape are provided. In the medical tape, a medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing acrylic polymer and acrylic oligomer is laminated on a substrate, wherein the medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is prepared by cross-linking an intermediate composition containing an acrylic polymer having a cross-linkable functional group and an acrylic oligomer containing 10 to 40 percent by mole of vinyl monomer with a lactam ring through the use of a cross-linking agent, and wherein this medical tape is made by compounding the acrylic oligomer in the range of 50 to 700 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of acrylic polymer, while the number average molecular weight of the acrylic polymer is set at a value within the range of 300,000 to 1,500,000, and the number average molecular weight of the acrylic oligomer is set at a value within the range of 1,000 to 10,000.

1 . A medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, in which an intermediate composition is cross-linked through the use of a cross-linking agent, wherein the intermediate composition contains an acrylic polymer having a cross-linkable functional group and an acrylic oligomer prepared by polymerization of monomers containing 10 to 40 percent by weight of vinyl monomer with a lactam ring, while the number average molecular weight of the acrylic polymer is set at a value within the range of 300,000 to 1,500,000, the number average molecular weight of the acrylic oligomer is set at a value within the range of 1,000 to 10,000, and the medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is made by compounding the acrylic oligomer in the range of 50 to 700 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of acrylic polymer.  
     
     
         2 . The medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition according to  claim 1 , wherein an acrylic polymer having no cross-linkable functional group is included other than the acrylic polymer having a cross-linkable functional group, and the additional amount of this acrylic polymer is set at a value within the range of 1 to 50 percent by weight, relative to the whole amount of the medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition.  
     
     
         3 . The medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition according to  claim 1 , wherein the acrylic oligomer contains a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester monomer as a monomer component, and the molar fraction of this (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester monomer is set at a value within the range of 60 to 90 percent by mole relative to the whole amount of the oligomer.  
     
     
         4 . The medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition according to  claim 1 , wherein the acrylic oligomer includes 2-ethylhexylacrylic ester and N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone as monomer components.  
     
     
         5 . The medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition according to  claim 1 , wherein the viscosity (25° C.) of the acrylic oligomer is set at a value within the range of 10 to 1,000 dPa·s.  
     
     
         6 . The medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition according  claim 1 , wherein a medicament is included at content within the range of 0.1 to 30 percent by weight relative to the whole amount of medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition.  
     
     
         7 . A process for producing a medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition including the following steps (1) to (4); 
 (1) a step for preparing an acrylic polymer that has a number average molecular weight of 300,000 to 1,500,000 and has cross-linkable functional groups    (2) a step for preparing an acrylic oligomer that contains 10 to 40 percent by mole of vinyl monomer with a lactam ring as a monomer component    (3) a step for preparing an intermediate composition by compounding an acrylic oligomer within the range of 50 to 700 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of acrylic polymer and    (4) a step for adding a cross-linking agent into the intermediate composition obtained from the step (3) so as to carry out the cross-linking    
     
     
         8 . A medical tape, in which a medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is laminated on a substrate, wherein the medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is prepared by cross-linking an intermediate composition containing an acrylic polymer having a cross-linkable functional group and an acrylic oligomer prepared by polymerization of monomers containing 10 to 40 percent by mole of vinyl monomer with a lactam ring through the use of a cross-linking agent, and wherein this medical tape is made by compounding the acrylic oligomer in the range of 50 to 700 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of acrylic polymer, while the number average molecular weight of the acrylic polymer is set at a value within the range of 300,000 to 1,500,000, and the number average molecular weight of the acrylic oligomer is set at a value within the range of 1,000 to 10,000.