Patent 7816014 was granted and assigned to Sumitomo Chemical on October, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention provides a liquid crystalline polyester comprising (a) a repeating unit derived from aromatic hydroxycarboxylic acid, (b) a repeating unit derived from aromatic dicarboxylic acid and (c) a repeating unit represented by —X—Ar1-O—Ar1-Y—, wherein Ar1 represents 1,4-phenylene which may be substituted by a halogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms or an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, and X and Y independently represent O or NH. The polyester in the preset invention has a sufficiently low dielectric constant and/or is a sufficiently high resistance in hydrolysis.