Patents Assigned to Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki-Kaisha
  • Patent number: 11345777
    Abstract: Provided are an epoxy resin composition, a prepreg, a resin sheet, and a carbon fiber-reinforced composite material, which have high heat resistance, a high elastic modulus, low water absorption, and excellent flame resistance. This epoxy resin is a para-cresol novolac epoxy resin represented by General formula (1), in which a content ratio of components represented by n=1 as measured by gel permeation chromatography is less than 10% by area, and a content ratio of components represented by n=2 as measured by gel permeation chromatography is at least 1% by area and less than 40% by area. (In the formula, plural R's each independently represent a C1-6 alkyl group, n represents a real number of 1 to 10, and G represents a substituted or unsubstituted glycidyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Kawano, Masataka Nakanishi, Kazuma Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220154397
    Abstract: Provided is an ink set for textile printing giving a good reproducible color gamut. The ink set includes a cyan ink and a violet ink that each contain a water-insoluble colorant and water. The cyan ink contains at least a compound represented by formula (1) below as the water-insoluble colorant, and the violet ink contains at least one selected from the group consisting of C.I. Disperse Violet 27 and C.I. Disperse Violet 28 as the water-insoluble colorant, where R1, R2, and R3 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-C4 alkyl group; at least two of R1, R2, and R3 are C1-C4 alkyl groups; the number of carbon atoms in R1, R2, and R3 is 4 to 12 in total; and X represents an oxygen atom or an imino group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Rima AKANUMA, Makoto TERANISHI, Takashi YONEDA
  • Patent number: 11333964
    Abstract: An organic compound represented by general formula (1) is a novel organic compound having an absorption band in the near infrared region, and is useful for infrared absorbing dyes, optical films, and organic electronic devices such as photoelectric conversion elements, wherein R1 to R18 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a halogen atom, a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, a mercapto group, an alkylthio group, a nitro group, a substituted amino group, an amide group, an acyl group, a carboxyl group, an acyloxy group, a cyano group, a sulfo group, a sulfamoyl group, an alkylsulfamoyl group, a carbamoyl group, or an alkylcarbamoyl group; and X represents a substituted or unsubstituted methine group, a silylidyne group, a germylidyne group, a stannylidyne group, a nitrogen atom, a phosphorus atom, an arsenic atom, or an antimony atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Aotake, Toshifumi Inouchi, Hidenori Yakushiji, Tatsuya Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220126784
    Abstract: A gas generator includes a substantially cylindrical cup with bottom where a gas generating agent is accommodated, the cup including one axial end as an opening end, and a substantially columnar holder to which the cup is coaxially assembled to close the opening end, the holder holding an igniter such that an ignition portion faces the gas generating agent. An annular step portion is provided at a periphery of an axial end of the holder on a side facing the cup. The cup is fixed to the holder by fitting the opening end to the annular step portion and providing an annular welded portion at the opening end, the annular welded portion being joined to the annular step portion so as to extend along a circumferential direction of the cup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya YABUUCHI, Yoshiki TSUTSUMI, Kouichi NAKAMURA, Petr HOLUB, Radek SIMARA
  • Patent number: 11294177
    Abstract: A head-up display system including an optical laminate having at least one substrate material and a half-wave plate, and a display unit that makes display light representing a display image into S-polarized light or P-polarized light and emits the S-polarized light or the P-polarized light. In the head-up display system, an angle formed by a polarization axis of the S-polarized light or the P-polarized light incident from a position inclined at not less than 45° and not more than 65° with respect to an axis perpendicular to a surface of the optical laminate and a slow axis of the half-wave plate is not less than 35° and not more than 44°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kouichi Tanaka, Tomoyuki Hayasaki
  • Patent number: 11286051
    Abstract: An aerial vehicle safety apparatus includes an expandable object, an ejection apparatus, a bag-shaped member, and a gas generator. The expandable object is wound or folded in a non-expanded state and generates at least any of lift and buoyancy in an expanded state. The ejection apparatus is coupled to the expandable object by a coupling member and ejects the non-expanded expandable object into air. The bag-shaped member is provided in the expandable object and wound or folded together with or separately from the non-expanded expandable object, and expands the non-expanded expandable object by at least partially being inflated like a tube. The gas generator is provided in the expandable object and inflates the bag-shaped member by causing gas generated at the time of activation to flow into the bag-shaped member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Yagihashi, Hiroshi Nakamura, Koichi Sasamoto, Dairi Kubo, Takahiro Ooi
  • Patent number: 11254634
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing at least one of an unsaturated aldehyde and an unsaturated carboxylic acid from an alkene by an oxidation reaction, in which a n-layered catalyst layer (n?2) is provided in a gas flow direction in a reaction tube, two or more kinds of catalysts having different activities are used; and the catalysts are packed in such a manner that dT?20° C. is satisfied, when a difference between a temperature PTn of an exothermic peak in a n-th layer as counted from a gas inlet and a minimum value mTn?1 of a temperature of a catalyst layer which appears between an exothermic peak in a (n-1)th layer and an exothermic peak in a n-th layer from the gas inlet is represented as dT (=PTn?mTn?1), and the change rate of dT is 2.5 or less at a reaction bath temperature within a range of ±6° C. of a reaction bath temperature at which the highest yield is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota Hiraoka, Shogo Yasuda, Tomoyuki Kawamura, Takanori Nakano
  • Patent number: 11247164
    Abstract: A filter for gas generator has an outer geometry substantially of a hollow cylinder and it is formed by a wound body of a metal wire. The metal wire is made of an elongated member having a V-shaped cross-section orthogonal to a direction of extension thereof. A V-shaped groove defined in the metal wire faces a hollow portion in the filter for gas generator and an angle ? of the V-shaped groove is not smaller than 130[°] and not greater than 140[°].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11198698
    Abstract: In the present invention, a composition comprising two types of thienothiophene compounds selected from the group consisting of the compounds indicated by formulas (1) to (4) (in formulas (1) to (4), either one of R1 and R2 represents an alkyl group, an aromatic hydrocarbon group having an alkyl group or a heterocyclic group having an alkyl group, and the other represents a hydrogen atom, an aromatic hydrocarbon group, a heterocyclic group or a substituent represented by formula (5) (in formula (5), R3 represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group or a heterocyclic group)) can form an organic thin film which is homogeneous over a large area, and an organic semiconductor device including the organic thin film is capable of exhibiting high mobility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunto Arai, Tatsuo Hasegawa, Satoru Inoue
  • Patent number: 11155727
    Abstract: An ink composition for inkjet textile printing containing a urethane resin, a dispersant and a disperse dye, in which the content of the urethane resin is greater than 0.035 mass % but less than 6 mass %, and a method for textile printing of hydrophobic fibers using the ink composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keijyou Sasaki, Rima Akanuma, Hiroko Higuchi, Katsunori Fujii, Makoto Teranishi
  • Patent number: 11130585
    Abstract: An aerial vehicle includes an airframe, a canopy capable of adjusting a speed of falling during falling, a brake cord having one end connected to the canopy, a wind-up apparatus provided in the airframe and being capable of winding up the other end of the brake cord, a sensor unit that detects a distance to an external object, and a controller that controls an operation of the wind-up apparatus based on a result of detection by the sensor unit. The wind-up apparatus includes a gas generator as a drive source. The controller has the wind-up apparatus operate to wind up the other end of the brake cord by activating the gas generator when the distance detected by the sensor unit is equal to or smaller than a prescribed value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Yasuhiko Yagihashi, Koichi Sasamoto
  • Patent number: 11110885
    Abstract: A gas generator includes an igniter, a cup-shaped member, and a fixing member. The cup-shaped member accommodating an enhancer agent bursts or melts at the time of activation. The fixing member fixing a filter does not burst and melt even at the time of activation. Ra and Ha satisfy a condition of Ra/Ha 1.00 where Ra represents an inner diameter of a sidewall portion of the cup-shaped member and Ha represents a distance between a top wall portion of the cup-shaped member and the igniter. The sidewall portion includes a first region surrounded by a partition wall portion of the fixing member and a second region not surrounded by the partition wall portion. The partition wall portion has an end portion arranged closer to a top plate portion than the igniter. A gas generating agent is arranged to face the top wall portion, the second region, and the partition wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Koyama, Shinya Ueda, Satoshi Ohsugi, Makoto Tsuruta, Motohiro Kanaji, Hirotaka Mukunoki
  • Publication number: 20210221324
    Abstract: A gas generator includes a housing constructed by combining and joining a plurality of shell members. One of the plurality of shell members includes a cylindrical portion and a flange portion. The cylindrical portion is provided with a plurality of gas discharge openings including gas discharge openings different in opening area from one another. The flange portion is shaped such that a distance from an axial line of the cylindrical portion to an outer edge of the flange portion is non-uniform. When a perpendicular line is drawn to the axial line from a maximum outer geometry position in the outer edge of the flange portion most distant from the axial line, a gas discharge opening arranged closest to the perpendicular line is a gas discharge opening other than a gas discharge opening largest in opening area among the plurality of gas discharge openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya UEDA, Satoshi OHSUGI, Hiroaki KOYAMA, Haruki TAKIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11052865
    Abstract: A gas generator includes a housing and a gastight container which accommodates a gas generating agent. The gastight container includes a cup body and a cover body. The cover body includes a bottom portion and a fold-over portion which covers an opening end of the cup body. The cover body is fixed to the cup body by providing, in the fold-over portion in a portion covering an outer circumferential surface of the opening end of the cup body, a first swaging portion in a portion of the fold-over portion which corresponds to a sidewall portion of the cup body and defines a gas generating agent accommodation chamber at a position adjacent to the bottom portion and a second swaging portion in a portion opposed to a portion of the fold-over portion which covers an inner circumferential surface of the opening end of the cup body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaki Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 11042058
    Abstract: An image display device includes a wavelength conversion layer containing quantum dots and a light reflecting layer provided on an observer side with respect to the wavelength conversion layer. The light reflecting layer includes, in a reflection wavelength region, a peak wavelength of a light source that emits excitation light to be used for emission of the quantum dots. The light reflecting layer is a polarizing reflective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kouichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11034849
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ink emulsion composition that, when used as an ink composition, retains a high concentration of a colorant and exhibits good re-dispersibility after drying, and that causes no change in the physical properties of the ink when stored for a long period of time. The ink emulsion composition contains: (A) a dye and/or a pigment; (B) a styrene-(meth)acrylic copolymer; and (C) a compound in an amount of more than 0.18 mass %, the compound (C) being represented by formula (1): where t represents 1 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keijyou Sasaki, Shinsuke Shimizu, Shunta Misawa, Junya Maseki, Hiroko Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11033577
    Abstract: A DDS preparation of a platinum complex, which selectively releases a highly active platinum complex in cells that are under reducing conditions, and exhibits high antitumor activity that is required from a medicine, is still not available, and there is a demand for a novel DDS preparation of a platinum complex that may be used in clinical fields. There is provided a polymer conjugate of a hexa-coordinated platinum complex, the polymer conjugate comprising a block copolymer having a polyethylene glycol structural moiety and a polyaspartic acid moiety or a polyglutamic acid moiety; and a hexa-coordinated platinum complex having a halogen atom and a hydroxyl group at the axial positions, the hexa-coordinated platinum complex being bonded, directly or via a spacer, to a side-chain carboxyl group of the block copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaharu Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Fukuda, Yusaku Kikuchi, Chihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11022732
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical film for eyewear that allows, when used by a person feeling stressed, easy of production of a space having a color tone that the person psychologically feels healing, and a functional film for eyewear, an optical laminate, and eyewear that each include the optical film. The optical film for eyewear including an optical functional layer, and has that transmitted light from a light source of white light has a pale tone, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Saki Abe, Yoshiyuki Yahagi, Kouichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210155569
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing at least one of an unsaturated aldehyde and an unsaturated carboxylic acid from an alkene by an oxidation reaction, in which a n-layered catalyst layer (n?2) is provided in a gas flow direction in a reaction tube, two or more kinds of catalysts having different activities are used; and the catalysts are packed in such a manner that dT?20° C. is satisfied, when a difference between a temperature PTn of an exothermic peak in a n-th layer as counted from a gas inlet and a minimum value mTn-1 of a temperature of a catalyst layer which appears between an exothermic peak in a (n?1)th layer and an exothermic peak in a n-th layer from the gas inlet is represented as dT (=PTn?mTn-1), and the change rate of dT is 2.5 or less at a reaction bath temperature within a range of ±6° C. of a reaction bath temperature at which the highest yield is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota HIRAOKA, Shogo YASUDA, Tomoyuki KAWAMURA, Takanori NAKANO
  • Patent number: 11001224
    Abstract: A gas generator includes a housing constructed by combining and joining a plurality of shell members. One of the plurality of shell members includes a cylindrical portion and a flange portion. The cylindrical portion is provided with a plurality of gas discharge openings including gas discharge openings different in opening area from one another. The flange portion is shaped such that a distance from an axial line of the cylindrical portion to an outer edge of the flange portion is non-uniform. When a perpendicular line is drawn to the axial line from a maximum outer geometry position in the outer edge of the flange portion most distant from the axial line, a gas discharge opening arranged closest to the perpendicular line is a gas discharge opening other than a gas discharge opening largest in opening area among the plurality of gas discharge openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Ueda, Satoshi Ohsugi, Hiroaki Koyama, Haruki Takizawa