Patents Assigned to Toray Industries, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11851542
    Abstract: A laminated film has a resin layer on at least one surface of a polyester film, in which the resin layer is on at least one surface layer, the water contact angle of the resin layer is 85°-100°, inclusive, and |H2-H1|?1.0 (%) is satisfied, H1 (%) being the haze of the laminated film and H2 (%) being the haze of the laminated film after being immersed in a solvent and subjected to a rub test. This laminated film has excellent coating and releasability properties with respect to ceramic slurry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Haruki Aono, Tadahiko Iwaya, Keiko Sawamoto, Yu Abe
  • Publication number: 20230406994
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a thermosetting epoxy resin composition that is excellent in terms of both pot life and fast curability at low temperatures and also a molded article that is prepared by thermally curing the thermosetting epoxy resin composition and is excellent in terms of both wet heat resistance and toughness. In order to achieve the purpose, the thermosetting epoxy resin composition of the present invention includes the following components [a], [b], [c], and [d], wherein the stoichiometric ratio of [b] to [a] is in the range from 0.5 to 2.0: [a] an epoxy resin; [b] an isocyanate curing agent; [c] a hydroxyl group capping agent; [d] an epoxy curing catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ko MATSUKAWA, Daisuke KONISHI, Nobuyuki TOMIOKA
  • Publication number: 20230405967
    Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin substrate is described in which a plurality of resins having differing properties are strongly composited, wherein the fiber-reinforced resin substrate is obtained by impregnating a thermoplastic resin (A) and a thermoplastic resin (B) into continuous reinforcement fibers, wherein a thermoplastic resin (A) layer, which comprises the thermoplastic resin (A) and is exposed at one surface, and a thermoplastic resin (B) layer, which comprises the thermoplastic resin (B) and is exposed at the other surface, form a boundary region, where at least some of the continuous reinforcement fibers exist in a manner spanning across the boundary region and both the thermoplastic resin (A) and the thermoplastic resin (B) are crystalline resins having a melting point of not less than 200° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Fujioka, Masato Honma, Yoshifumi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20230406997
    Abstract: An epoxy resin composition is provided that is resistant to decomposition at high temperatures and a fiber-reinforced resin molding is provided that hardly suffers significant damage while being welded to another member even in the case where it is combined with a thermoplastic resin layer having a high melting point that works as an adhesive layer, as well as a prepreg that serves as a precursor therefor, where the epoxy resin composition includes an epoxy resin (A) that has a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon skeleton or a biphenyl skeleton and that has an epoxy equivalent weight of 220 g/eq or more and 290 g/eq or less and a polyamine compound having an average active hydrogen equivalent weight of 55 g/eq or more and 100 g/eq or less wherein the average epoxy equivalent weight over all epoxy resins contained is 160 g/eq or more and 255 g/eq or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Misumi, Masato Honma, Kyoko Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20230408711
    Abstract: Disclosed is a scintillator panel comprising a substrate, a grid-like barrier rib formed on the substrate, a phosphor layer in cells divided by the barrier rib, and a reflective layer surrounding the side and the bottom of the phosphor layer, the scintillator panel comprising a part where the reflective layer surrounding the side of the phosphor layer is curved and a part where opposing surfaces of the reflective layer at the side of the phosphor layer are approximately parallel, wherein a ratio in a width direction of a part where the reflective layer at the bottom of the phosphor layer is curved to a part where the reflective layer at the bottom of the phosphor layer is flat is 10.0:0 to 1.0:9.0. The brightness of the scintillator panel is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Sho Miyao, Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Takahiro Tanino
  • Publication number: 20230407024
    Abstract: A prepreg is described having good handleability and a low resin flow, facilitating the work in the process of a molded body and improving the dimensional accuracy of the molded body, where the prepreg includes a fiber substrate; and a resin layer containing a thermosetting resin composition containing at least components [A] and [B] below, stacked on one surface of the fiber substrate, wherein the fiber substrate is impregnated with a part of the thermosetting resin composition of the resin layer, the thermosetting resin composition having a complex viscosity ?3*24 at 24° C. of 20,000 to 100,000 Pa·s and a complex viscosity ?3*70 at 70° C. of 100 to 5,000 Pa·s, and a volatile amount of the thermosetting resin composition is 1 mass % or less when a total mass of the prepreg is 100 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Ginpei Machida, Ichiro Taketa, Hiroaki Sakata
  • Publication number: 20230407533
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a fabric having superior water absorbency and sweat absorption/rapid drying while having anti-pilling qualities and a cotton-like texture. A woven/knitted article and a textile product material with good aesthetic properties and functionality, and good general physical properties are obtained which have anti-pilling qualities not obtained in conventional fabrics having a high synthetic fiber blend ratio, and functionality such as water absorbency, water absorption/rapid drying, and quick drying after laundering, which cannot be obtained in conventional cotton fabrics. The present invention is a woven/knitted article comprising one or more fibers selected from synthetic fibers, regenerated fibers, and semisynthetic fibers, the woven/knitted article including a spun yarn, which contains mass % or more of an aliphatic polyamide short fiber A having a single-fiber fineness of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Fumiya KISHITA, Jiro TABATA, Hayato IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230407018
    Abstract: An object is to provide a fiber-reinforced resin that can be welded to another member via a thermoplastic resin and that is less likely to be damaged even when welded at a high temperature, wherein the fiber-reinforced resin includes a reinforcing fiber and has a cured epoxy resin region and a thermoplastic resin region disposed at the surface wherein aromatic rings account for 50% or more and 90% or less of the cured epoxy resin present in the cured epoxy resin region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Misumi, Kyoko Shinohara, Masato Honma
  • Publication number: 20230407558
    Abstract: Provided is an artificial leather that achieves both a soft texture and excellent durability, and a method for manufacturing the same, the leather comprising: a fibrous base material formed from superfine fibers having an average single fiber diameter of 0.1-10 ?m; and a polymeric elastic body, where the polymer elastic body comprises a compound having a hydrophilic group and a compound having an ethylene oxide skeleton, the content of the compound in the polymeric elastic body of the artificial leather being 0.1-5 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the polymeric elastic body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takuya Shibano, Shunichi Kimura, Satoshi Yanagisawa, Yukihiro Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 11845629
    Abstract: A partially separated fiber bundle includes a separated fiber section and an unseparated fiber section, being configured to give a ratio Amax/Amin of 1.1 or larger and 3 or smaller, when the number of fiber bundles contained in the width direction of the partially separated fiber bundle (fiber separating number: Nn) measured at a freely selected point Pn (where, n represents an integer of 1 to 100, and freely selected points Pn and Pn+1, excluding n=100, being 50 cm or more away from each other), is divided by a full width of Wn of the partially separated fiber bundle, to calculate the fiber separating number per unit width An, and assuming its maximum value as Amax and its minimum value as Amin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiko Matsui, Masaru Tateyama, Satoshi Seike, Mitsuki Fuse, Hiroshi Hirano, Kazuma Ura
  • Patent number: 11840612
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a prepreg and a laminate for producing a laminate suitable as a structural material, which have excellent compressive strength and interlaminar fractural toughness values, and can be firmly integrated with another structural member by welding. The present invention provides a prepreg including the following structural components [A] reinforcing fibers, [B] a thermosetting resin, and [C] a thermoplastic resin, in which [B] has a rubbery state elastic modulus of 10 MPa or more at a temperature obtained by adding 50° C. to a glass transition temperature in a state in which a degree of cure is 90% or more, [C] is present in a surface of the prepreg, and the reinforcing fibers [A] are present, which are included in a resin area including {B] and a resin area including [C] across an interface between the two resin areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jun Misumi, Masato Honma, Kyoko Shinohara, Noriyuki Hirano
  • Patent number: 11841332
    Abstract: An inspection apparatus and method are described for detecting, with high accuracy, whether a structure contains defects, where the inspection apparatus comprises: an X-ray emitting means (1a, 1b) for emitting X-rays through two or more paths; one or more X-ray detection means (3) for detecting the X-rays passing through the a structure (2); a multiple position distance measurement means (4) for measuring the distance from the X-ray emitting means to the structure at a plurality of positions; and an image processing means (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki Sugihara, Takahiro Tanino
  • Publication number: 20230390734
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an adsorbent, a filter medium, and an air filter that have good aldehyde removal performance that undergoes little deterioration over time, where the adsorbent is one in which an inorganic porous medium supports at least an amine-based compound and a compound having a sulfide group as a functional group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiki Hayashi, Yasuhiro Asada, Kengo Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20230392112
    Abstract: Disclosed are a genetically modified microorganism that can produce 3-hydroxyadipic acid and/or ?-hydromuconic acid in high yields, and the genetically modified microorganism. The genetically modified microorganism is a microorganism having an ability to produce 3-hydroxyadipic acid and/or ?-hydromuconic acid, in which the reaction to generate acetyl-CoA from pyruvic acid is enhanced and function of pyruvate kinase and/or phosphotransferase system is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kyohei ISOBE, Kenji KAWAMURA, Katsushige YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11837732
    Abstract: A porous carbon sheet including at least carbon fibers, having a thickness of 30 to 95 ?m, a gas permeation resistance of 0.5 to 8.8 Pa, and a tensile strength of 5 to 50 N/cm, and a gas diffusion electrode substrate including a porous carbon sheet containing at least carbon fibers, at least one surface thereof having a microporous layer containing at least an electric conductive filler, the gas diffusion electrode substrate being dividable in the thickness direction into a smaller pore part and a larger pore part, the larger pore part having a thickness of 3 to 60 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuya Sode, Takashi Chida, Toru Sugahara, Michio Wakatabe, Masaru Hashimoto, Tetsuya Sunahara, Yuya Umezaki
  • Patent number: 11837730
    Abstract: A secondary battery electrode is provided that may achieve a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a high energy output density with a small amount of a conductive aid. The secondary battery electrode has a mixture layer containing graphene and a secondary battery active substance. The secondary battery electrode has a mean aspect ratio of 2.0 or greater in an electric conductive material portion from a cross section of the secondary battery electrode, as specified by the method described below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Konishi, Eiichiro Tamaki
  • Patent number: 11834758
    Abstract: A carbon fiber bundle that satisfies retaining a twist count of 2 turns/m or more when suspended with one end fixed and the other end free; having a single fiber diameter of 6.1 ?m or more and a heat loss rate at 450° C. of 0.15% or less, and formula (1) wherein Lc is crystallite size and ?002 is an orientation parameter of crystallites determined from bulk measurement of the entire fiber bundle: ?002>4.0×Lc+73.2 (1); and a carbon fiber bundle that satisfies: retaining a surface layer twist angle of 0.2° or more when suspended with one end fixed and the other end free; having a single fiber diameter of 6.1 ?m or more and a heat loss rate at 450° C. of 0.15% or less, and formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Haruki Okuda, Jun Watanabe, Fumihiko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11833803
    Abstract: A fiber reinforced plastic molded body includes a layered body, a resin member, unidirectional fiber reinforced resins each constituted from a unidirectional continuous fiber, a matrix resin, and a woven fabric fiber reinforced resin of one or two or more layers, wherein when the layered body is divided into equal halves in its thickness direction, an amount of the resin member present in a region (R1) which is a side from a dividing center line whereon the woven fabric fiber reinforced resin is layered is referred to as Am1, and an amount of the resin member present in a region (R2) which is a side whereon the woven fabric fiber reinforced resin is not layered is referred to as Am2, Am2/Am1 is 2 to 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Keisuke Shiozaki, Hiroyuki Nakayama, Kosuke Shiho
  • Patent number: 11834431
    Abstract: A crystal of ethane disulfonate of (S)-1-(4-(dimethylamino)piperidin-1-yl)-3-hydroxy-3-(1-methyl-1H-imidazol-2-yl)propan-1-one, having peaks at diffraction angles 2?)(° of 12.6±0.2, 16.0±0.2, 17.7±0.2, 18.5±0.2, and 21.3±0.2 in powder X-ray diffraction; and the crystal of ethane disulfonate of (S)-1-(4-(dimethylamino)piperi din-1-yl)-3-hydroxy-3-(1-methyl-1H-imidazol-2-yl)propan-1-one, having an endothermic peak at 173° C. to 177° C. in simultaneous thermogravimetric-differential thermal analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirozumi Takahashi, Yoko Baba, Yasuhiro Morita, Katsuhiko Iseki, Naoki Izumimoto
  • Patent number: 11827941
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a kit or device for the detection of liver cancer and a method for detecting liver cancer. The present invention relates to a kit or device for the detection of liver cancer, comprising a nucleic acid capable of specifically binding to miRNA in a sample of a subject, and a method for detecting liver cancer, comprising measuring the miRNA in vitro.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC., NATIONAL CANCER CENTER
    Inventors: Satoshi Kondou, Hitoshi Nobumasa, Satoko Kozono, Hiroko Sudo, Junpei Kawauchi, Atsushi Ochiai, Motohiro Kojima