Patents Assigned to Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10836926
    Abstract: A method for producing an antistatic molded article according to the present invention includes: a conductive film preparation step to obtain a conductive film by coating, and drying, a conductive polymer dispersion liquid containing a conductive composite that contains a ?-conjugated conductive polymer and a polyanion, a polyvinyl alcohol, a binder component, and a dispersion medium for dispersing the conductive composite on at least one surface of a film substrate; and a molding step for subjecting the conductive film to molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU POLYMER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sou Matsubayashi
  • Publication number: 20200321144
    Abstract: An electric connector is disposed between a connection terminal of a first device and a connection terminal of a second device, and electrically connects these connection terminals. The electric connector includes a resin layer, and a plurality of metal wires extending through the resin layer in a thickness direction, and having a rectangular shape on surfaces to be connected to the connection terminals. At least first sides of the rectangular shapes of the metal wires are arranged at equal intervals along the same direction. The length of short sides of the rectangular shapes are less than 5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi TSUCHIYA, Atsuya SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20200286761
    Abstract: A substrate storage container includes a container main body having an opening at the front, a support portion for supporting a substrate in the interior thereof, and a substrate receiving portion positioned more toward a rear wall than the support portion, an a lid on which a substrate pressing portion for pressing the substrate is formed. The substrate receiving portion and the substrate pressing portion are present within a range of greater than or equal to 0 mm and less than or equal to 80 mm in the horizontal direction from a vertical center line that passes through the center of the container main body when the lid is viewed from the front.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumasa ONUKI, Hiroshi MIMURA, Junya TODA, Takashi SUDA
  • Patent number: 10772213
    Abstract: An adhesive substrate is disclosed, which includes a base substrate and a heat-resistant elastomer layer formed on the base substrate, wherein the base substrate is flexible and has a thickness of 0.2 mm or more and 2 mm or less, wherein the adhesive substrate is used as part of a method for physically separating an object that has been held immovable in such a manner that the object has been adhered to by the heat-resistant elastomer layer and the object is anchored from the upper side, and wherein by starting to physically separate the end portion of the adhesive substrate downward the object is able to be separated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Irisawa, Toshiaki Hatsumi
  • Publication number: 20200279761
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a substrate storage container equipped with a container main body that has an opening portion formed by an opening frame at a front surface and is capable of storing a plurality of substrates and a lid that closes the opening portion. The container main body is of a box-like shape having the opening frame, a rear wall, a right wall, a left wall, a top wall, and a bottom wall. Each of the walls has a thickness which is thinner at a side toward the opening frame at the front surface than at a side toward the rear wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Osamu OGAWA
  • Patent number: 10763052
    Abstract: In a contact member, a mesh-like contact including one or more layers of a metal other than a noble metal is embedded in such a manner as to be exposed from one of the surfaces of a rubbery elastic body. The contact member includes a highly conductive metal coat layer only in the regions of the mesh-like contact which are exposed from the rubbery elastic body, the coat layer having conductivity higher than that of the metal on the outermost surfaces of the mesh-like contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU POLYMER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazunobu Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10761667
    Abstract: A capacitive three-dimensional sensor includes: a light-guide unit having a side surface and an operation surface, the side surface being formed along the Z direction and including a light entering portion, through which light from a light source enters, the operation surface being configured to input the inputs and including a light output portion, from which the light exits; a sheet-like X-Y electrode body configured to sense the inputs in the plane X and Y directions; a deformable body including a sheet-like elastic body; and a sheet-like Z electrode body configured to sense the input in the Z direction. The light-guide unit includes an optional decorative sheet, and a light-guide sheet to guide the light that has entered the light-guide unit from the side surface and output the light toward the light output portion. A total of bending stiffnesses of the light-guide sheet and decorative sheet is less than 256.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU POLYMER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kobayashi, Yuta Ishii
  • Patent number: 10727129
    Abstract: A substrate manufacturing method includes: a first step of disposing a condenser for condensing a laser beam in a non-contact manner on a surface 20r of a magnesium oxide single crystal substrate 20 to be irradiated; and a second step of irradiating a laser beam to a surface of the magnesium oxide single crystal substrate 20 and condensing the laser beam into an inner portion of the single crystal member under designated irradiation conditions using the condenser, and at a same time, two-dimensionally moving the condenser and the magnesium oxide single crystal substrate 20 relatively to each other, and sequentially forming processing marks to sequentially allow planar peeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignees: SHIN-ETSU POLYMER CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAITAMA UNIVERSITY, SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Ikeno, Yohei Yamada, Hideki Suzuki, Hitoshi Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10727099
    Abstract: A substrate storage container with increased mounting force of the conveyance component is provided. The substrate storage container comprises a container body having an opening closed by a lid and capable of storing a plurality of substrates, and a conveyance component detachably attached to the container body via a mounting mechanism, wherein the mounting mechanism includes at least one first mounting portion on the opening side of the container body and at least one second mounting portion on the side away from the opening. Furthermore, the conveyance component has at least one engaging portion to be engaged with the mounting mechanism, and the at least one engaging portion includes at least one first engaging portions displaced and engaged in a predetermined direction and at least one second engaging portion displaced and engaged in a direction different from the predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mimura, Junya Toda
  • Patent number: 10717842
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sponge roller comprising a shaft body and an elastic layer formed on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft body, wherein the elastic layer is formed of a millable silicone rubber, unexpanded microballoon cells and chemical blowing agent cells, and an image forming apparatus comprising the sponge roller. The sponge roller has high durability, excellent surface smoothness and small permanent compression set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sadao Murayama
  • Patent number: 10720681
    Abstract: There is provided a heat dissipation structure adaptable to various forms of a heat source, light in weight, and excellent in heat dissipation efficiency, and a battery provided with the heat dissipation structure. The present invention relates to a heat dissipation structure for enhancing heat dissipation from a heat source, including: a heat conduction sheet in a spirally wound shape for conducting heat from the heat source; a cushion member provided on an annular back surface of the heat conduction sheet, and easily deformed corresponding to a surface shape of the heat source compared to the heat conduction sheet; and a through passage penetrating in a direction in which the heat conduction sheet in the wound shape runs, and a battery provided with the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU POLYMER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takao Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10647858
    Abstract: A conductive polymer dispersion of this disclosure includes: a conductive composite containing a ?-conjugated conductive polymer and a polyanion; an isocyanurate-based compound; and a dispersion medium for dispersing the conductive composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU POLYMER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sou Matsubayashi
  • Patent number: 10640627
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing an amine adduct of a conductive composite, including: adding an amine compound to a conductive polymer dispersion liquid which contains water and a conductive composite containing a ? conjugated conductive polymer and a polyanion at a mass ratio of the ? conjugated conductive polymer to the polyanion of 1:3 to 1:7.5 to precipitate an amine adduct of the conductive composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignees: SHIN-ETSU POLYMER CO., LTD., NISSIN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sou Matsubayashi, Takanori Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200060986
    Abstract: A transdermal therapeutic system including: a support layer of a flexible tape; an adhesive layer that is permeable and laminated in a surface of the support layer; a drug that is transdermally absorbable and stored in each of a plurality of storage cavities in the surface of at least the support layer among the support layer and the adhesive layer; and a liner layer detachably laminated in an adhesive surface of the adhesive layer, wherein when a polyether ether ketone resin film having low irritancy is used as the support layer, the polyether ether ketone resin film is used as a sample, and an intradermal reaction test is carried out by using an extract extracted under predetermined conditions in a physiological saline or sesame oil, a difference in average scores of an extract administration site and a blank extract administration site is 1.0 or less in any of extraction media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Gonda, Naoyuki Yaguchi
  • Patent number: 10559484
    Abstract: [Problem] To reduce a sliding trace in a vicinity of a substrate end surface, while maintaining smooth vertical movement of a substrate in a groove of the holding section in a substrate storage container, said sliding trace being made with the holding section. [Solution] The present invention relates to a substrate storage container (1) that is provided with: a container main body (2), which stores a substrate (W), and which has at least one side open; and a removable cover body (3) capable of opening/closing an opening (5) of the container main body (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU POLYMER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kato, Hiroshi Mimura, Masaru Hagano
  • Patent number: 10483011
    Abstract: A transparent conductive film with fewer problems originating from amine compounds is provided using a conductive composition stably and pseudo-solubly dispersed in a solvent consisting mainly of an organic solvent. This invention relates to: a conductive composition which is pseudo-solubly dispersed in a solvent consisting mainly of an organic solvent and which contains (a) a ?-conjugated conductive polymer, (b) polyanions doping the ?-conjugated conductive polymer (a), and (c) a reaction product of those anions of the polyanions (b) that were not needed for doping, and an oxirane group- and/or oxetane group-containing organic compound; a production method of said conductive composition; an anti-static resin composition formed by mixing said conductive composition and a resin solution dissolved in an organic solvent; and antistatic resin film formed by curing said antistatic resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU POLYMER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironao Fujiki, Takanori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10403451
    Abstract: A pushbutton switch member has a dome-shaped movable contact and an operation key facing and separated from a movable contact. Pushing the operation key toward the movable contact causes the movable contact to electrically connect at least two contacts on a substrate. The operation key is provided with: a key; a dome connected with an outer periphery of the key, and deformable by pushing of the key toward the substrate; and a foot connected with an outer periphery of the dome, and fixed on the substrate. The movable contact is provided with: an upper contact spaced apart from a site directly below the key, and which makes contact with a contact when the key is pushed in; and an outer fixing part disposed at the upper contact, or further outside thereof in the radial direction, and fixed outside of the key in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Ito, Satoru Kitazawa, Kenichi Miyajima, Kazunobu Yokoyama, Tadashi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10377908
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a conductive polymer solution capable of forming a capacitor having a large capacitance, low ESR, and excellent long-term reliability without using treatment solutions for conductive polymer layer formation differing in composition, and without forming an inside conductive polymer layer by different approaches, the capacitor and a method for producing the capacitor [Solution] The present invention relates to: a conductive polymer solution which comprises a conductive polymer and a solvent, wherein the conductive polymer comprises a pi-conjugated conductive polymer, a polyanion with which the pi-conjugated conductive polymer has been doped, and a compound formed by reacting an oxirane or oxetane group with an anion making no contribution to the dope in the polyanion, and the solution has a pH in the range of 2.0 to 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU POLYMER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sou Matsubayashi, Ken-ichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10373775
    Abstract: A pushbutton switch includes: a dome-shaped movable contact; and an operation key on a side of the movable contact. Pushing the operation key causes the movable contact to electrically connect at least two contacts. The operation key includes: a key body; a dome connected with an exterior of the key body and deformable by pushing the key body; a foot connected with an exterior of the dome; and a protrusion on top of the key body, protruding from the top, and deformable by compression. The movable contact includes: an upper contact in contact with a site below the key body and contacting the at least two contacts when the key body is pushed; and an outer fixing part at the upper contact in a radial direction and fixed outside of the key body of the operation key in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Ito, Satoru Kitazawa, Kenichi Miyajima, Kazunobu Yokoyama, Tadashi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190217019
    Abstract: An assembly of the present invention for a syringe includes a piercing needle-attached barrel having a barrel body and a hollow piercing needle fixed to the barrel body and a seal cap for sealing a piercing needle tip. The seal cap has a hollow part and a pierceable part into which the piercing needle tip inserted into the hollow part can be pierced. The seal cap is water vapor permeable and placed in a state in which the piercing needle tip has been pierced into the pierceable part. At least the pierceable part of the seal cap is formed of an elastic material containing silicone rubber as a main material thereof, silicone particles, and a lubricant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicants: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiko KONDO, Kaori ENOMOTO, Yoshihiko ABE, Kyoko NAKAYAMA, Toru SHIBA, Yusuke YOKOYAMA, Tadashi OKUMA