Patents Assigned to Toyo Seikan Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20220077529
    Abstract: A sealer for use in an all-solid-state secondary battery provided with a sulfur-containing solid electrolyte, characterized in that the sealer contains a resin and a particulate fatty acid metal salt dispersed in the resin, and the particulate fatty acid metal salt is a particulate fatty acid metal salt in which a fatty acid is coordinated on the surfaces of the metal particles having a mean particle diameter of not more than 1000 nm. The all-solid-state secondary battery is capable of suppressing the generation of the hydrogen sulfide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicants: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD., TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomokazu KOBAYSHI, Daisuke IMODA, Shuji NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220033142
    Abstract: A method of producing a directly blow-formed container. The method includes subjecting a multilayered parison having an inner surface formed of an olefin resin to direct blow forming, the olefin resin containing (i) an organic bleeding lubricant having a melting point of not higher than 50° C. in an amount of 5 to 10% by mass, and (ii) a high silica zeolite having a silica/alumina mole ratio of not less than 80 in an amount of 0.2 to 3.0% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicants: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD., TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ikuo Komatsu, Yosuke Akutsu, Keisuke Nyuu, Satomi Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20220032670
    Abstract: Easy reading of a read code is enabled without matching a read range with a specific print section, and without impairing designability of a cylindrical container and clarity of a display print. A cylindrical container has, on the outer surface thereof, a print layer. The print layer has an electronic watermark layer including an electronic watermark image printed thereon, and a blindfold layer that renders the electronic watermark image difficult to be visually recognized. The print area of the blindfold layer matches a part or entirety of the print area of the electronic watermark layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicants: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD., TOYO SEIHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji YAMADA, Zen KANAYAMA, Kenichirou YAMAMOTO, Kazuhiro OKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220024660
    Abstract: A packaging bag including a polyester-based multilayer film. The multilayer film includes at least: an innermost layer formed of a biaxially stretched polyethylene terephthalate film; a layer formed of polybutylene terephthalate; and/or a layer formed of a blend of polyethylene terephthalate and polybutylene terephthalate. The biaxially stretched polyethylene terephthalate film has a heat sealing portion that is amorphized or low-crystallized by laser light irradiation. The packaging bag is formed by allowing the innermost layers of the polyester-based multilayer film to be opposed to and superimposed on each other, and heat sealing the heat sealing portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicants: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD., TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro HONGO, Takahiro KUROSAWA, Takashi MIURA, Kazuaki OHASHI, Yoshiyuki YUASA, Takahiro AKAHANE
  • Publication number: 20220017258
    Abstract: Provided are a preform for manufacturing a synthetic resin container, in which a decorative layer (60) having three-dimensional design different from the conventional one is formed on the surface of a container main body (10a), and a synthetic resin container. In a preform (1) including a preform main body (1a) of a bottomed cylindrical shape that is opened to have a mouth portion (2) on one end side thereof, and a covering layer (6) configured to cover the preform main body (1a) except for a part thereof on a mouth portion (2) side, and a container (10) obtained by subjecting the preform to blow molding, a distal end side of the covering layer (6) (decorative layer (60)) is formed so as to reach a peripheral end edge of a neck ring (22) while covering a lower surface of the neck ring (22) that is provided on a lower end side of the mouth portion (2) and protrudes annularly along a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu KIYOTO, Hajime INAGAKI, Hideto MONZEN, Hiroki YASUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210362928
    Abstract: To provide a pouch for achieving a reduced storage space with a simple configuration and a method for manufacturing the pouch. A pouch (10) including a gusset portion (22) includes a pouch main body (20) and an inner supporting member (70) disposed inside the pouch main body (20). The pouch main body (20) includes a content containing portion (21), and a first fixture portion (24) and a second fixture portion (25) that face each other across the content containing portion (21). The inner supporting member (70) includes a first fixing portion (71) fixed to the first fixture portion (24) and a second fixing portion (72) fixed to the second fixture portion (25).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Toyo Seikan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Tanaka, Takahiro Yasuumi, Takahiro Kurosawa, Masahiro Takenaka
  • Patent number: 11180357
    Abstract: To reduce an amount of use of a replacement gas used for replacing air in a container. A gas replacement system includes: a washing machine that washes the container with water; a filling machine that fills the container with a content fluid; a sealing machine that seals the container transferred from the filling machine; a chamber that covers the filling machine and the sealing machine, and contains a replacement gas; and a water discharge mechanism (washing machine) that discharges the water in the container having been carried into the chamber while containing the water out of the container in the chamber. The water in the container is replaced with an ambient gas in the chamber along with the discharge of the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD., TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidehiko Yuse, Kazuyuki Kurosawa, Yukio Takada, Shinji Ishikura, Norio Inukai, Katsumi Sembon
  • Patent number: 11180305
    Abstract: To provide a microwave pouch that favorably prevents both of hole formation of the pouch and spurting of contents, with a simple structure. A microwave pouch (10) includes a self-venting mechanism (20). The self-venting mechanism (20) has an annular venting seal (30), a steam release part (40) surrounded by the venting seal (30), and a movable piece (60) defined by a slit (50) formed in the steam release part (40). The venting seal (30) has a seal peel initiation part (31) where peeling is started by steam generated inside the pouch (10) during heating. The slit (50) includes slit both ends (51), and a slit intermediate part (52) formed to extend from the slit both ends (51) toward a region away from the seal peel initiation part (31) and connecting the slit both ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Miura, Kazumi Ozawa, Masahiro Hongou, Shie Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20210347144
    Abstract: Provided is a packaging bag in which the difficulty of tearing caused by temperature rising is resolved. The easy to open packaging bag for sealing a laminated film by heat sealing, wherein the laminated film includes an inner layer film, an intermediate layer film having an opening induction flaw formed thereon, and an outer layer film including a biaxially oriented film, and wherein a molecular orientation angle of the outer layer film is less than 49°. Also provided are a laminated film and a pouch having easy to open properties while maintaining excellent barrier properties. The laminated film is obtained by laminating (a) an outer layer film, (b) a barrier layer having an opening induction flaw, and (c) an inner layer film, and has a barrier ink covering the opening induction flaw in the barrier layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro HONGOU, Shie MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20210308736
    Abstract: An apparatus and tool set forming a three-dimensionally shaped portion on a shoulder of a can including an inner roll having a receiver for receiving the shoulder from inside; an outer roll for pressing the shoulder from outside; and a rotating unit for rotating the inner roll and the outer roll relative to the can. The shoulder is formed on a side of an upper end of a cylindrical body of the can in a can axis direction to be reduced in a diameter toward a side of a mouth of the can and to have a thickness of 0.1 to 0.3 mm. The receptor of the inner roll has at least one of a concave portion and a convex portion, and has a diameter reduced portion corresponding to a shape of the shoulder. Further, the inner roll and the outer roll are rotated by the rotating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyosumi MANITA, Mitsuhiko AOYAGI
  • Publication number: 20210309430
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a film and a pouch having basic characteristics such as a strength and barrier properties and achieving good openability. A film (10) according to the present invention includes at least a sealant layer (11), the film is formed with a cut guide line (G), and the cut guide line includes an impression (11A) formed in a surface of the sealant layer. In a pouch (30), the films are superimposed in a state where the sealant layers face each other, and peripheral edge parts are heat-sealed. The cut guide line is placed extending across at least a position where heat seal is not performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Toyo Seikan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hongo, Shie Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20210308737
    Abstract: A can is provided. The can may include a shoulder, which is formed on a side of an upper end of a cylindrical body of the can in a can axis direction to be reduced in a diameter toward a side of a mouth of the can and to have a thickness of 0.1 to 0.3 mm, and has at least one of a concave portion and a convex portion. An inside diameter of the mouth may be 25 to 60 mm, a maximum outside diameter of the shoulder may be 50 to 70 mm, and a ratio of the maximum outside diameter of the shoulder to the inside diameter of the mouth may be 1.05 to 1.58.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyosumi Manita, Mitsuhiko Aoyagi
  • Patent number: 11130607
    Abstract: The present application improves the shape of a curl part of a bottle can to secure high sealability even under high pressure in the can and during heat sterilization, makes bubbling-over occur less during cap opening, and suppresses misrecognition of reseal. A bottle can has a curl part provided at an opening end of a mouth part. The curl part includes an outer wall part extending downward from an upper end bent part. The outer wall part includes a first bent part shaping a locking part that extends continuously and downwardly from the upper end bent part and shapes an outwardly-protruding convex, and a second bent part that extends continuously and downwardly from the first bent part and shapes an inwardly-protruding convex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Hasegawa, Masaomi Tamura, Tomohiko Nakamura, Nobuhiro Sasajima, Takeshi Murase
  • Publication number: 20210284375
    Abstract: A package including a container body containing a fluid with leaving a head space, wherein a container body (1) has an inner surface coated with a lubricating liquid (30) immiscible with a fluid (3), and the lubricating liquid (30) is present as a coating layer interposed between the inner surface and the fluid (3), the lubricating liquid (30) forms a liquid pool at a periphery of an upper end face of the fluid (3) contained in the container body (1) in a state of being held upright, and a contact angle of the lubricating liquid (30) to the inner surface is smaller than the contact angle of the fluid (3) to the inner surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicants: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD., TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya SEITO, Kota OKAMOTO, Yosuke AKUTSU, Keisuke NYUU, Tomoyuki MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11103914
    Abstract: A can 1 is provided with a mouth part (4), a shoulder part (3), and a body part (2). The shoulder part (3) of the can (1) is decorated, without damaging the shoulder part (3), by forming at least one of a recess and a protrusion by a rotating process in which the shoulder part (3) is held between a receiver (11a), having a concave-convex shape, of an inner roll (11) and an outer roll (12) having a convex-concave shape corresponding to the concave-convex shape of the receiver (11a) of the inner roll (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyosumi Manita, Mitsuhiko Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20210261290
    Abstract: In a case where an indication is provided between a fixed part and a pulling-up part of a tab, the tab is provided with necessary rigidity and disturbance of the indication is suppressed. A tab for opening a can lid includes a pulling-up part provided on one end side in a longitudinal direction of the tab, a pressing-down part provided on another end side in the longitudinal direction, a fixed part provided between the pulling-up part and the pressing-down part and formed by being demarcated by a U-shaped slot and fixed to a can lid body, and a curl part formed continuously at a peripheral edge excluding a connected-piece-cutting trace provided at the pressing-down part, a surface between the fixed part and the pulling-up part is a display surface, and a back surface side of the display surface is an abutted surface against which a shaping tool is abutted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Saki CHIJI, Megumi YOSHIMOTO, Atsushi KOMINAMI, Ryotaro ISOMURA
  • Patent number: 11059650
    Abstract: A packaging bag composed of a multilayer film and having a steam releasing mechanism. The multilayer film has at least a base layer and a welding layer and has a moisture content of not more than 1.0% in a state in which the packaging bag is filled with a content. The steam releasing mechanism has at least a steam releasing portion formed to have a maximal width of 3 to 20 mm. The internal pressure of the packaging bag is kept to be not more than 115 kPa during a period from the time the internal pressure is released through the steam releasing portion as a result of an increase in the internal pressure caused by heating in a microwave oven to the time the heating in the microwave oven finishes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hongou, Kazumi Ozawa, Takashi Miura, Shie Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 11059619
    Abstract: A bottle can has a curl part at an opening end of a mouth part thereof. The curl part has an upper end curved part in which an upper part of a neck shoulder part of the mouth part is curved outward and an outer wall part extending downward from the upper end curved part. A predetermined angle at which an outer edge side of a lower end face of the outer wall part opens is formed between the lower end face of the outer wall part and the neck shoulder part. An inner edge of the lower end face comes into contact with the neck shoulder part when a downward load is applied to the curl part from above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Hasegawa, Masaomi Tamura, Tomohiko Nakamura, Nobuhiro Sasajima, Takeshi Murase
  • Publication number: 20210206529
    Abstract: A resin-coated steel can and method for producing the same. The resin-coated steel can is produced by drawing or draw-redrawing a resin-coated steel sheet at least having a surface serving as a can inner surface coated with a biaxially-stretched polyester film and a surface serving as a can outer surface that is coated and/or printed. The biaxially-stretched polyester film on the can inner surface side wall has a crystallinity in a range of 42 to 52%, and a shrinkage (shrinkage in the can height direction upon raising the temperature from 23° C. to 130° C. at a rate of 5° C./min.) of the biaxially-stretched polyester film on the can inner surface side wall is less than 10% of the can height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji YANADA, Mitsuhide AIHARA
  • Publication number: 20210187587
    Abstract: In order to manufacture a bottle can while eliminating the need for cleaning/drying after a mouth portion formation step, a bottle can manufacturing apparatus includes a necking processing part for carrying out a necking process while rotating a can body having a bottomed cylindrical shape around a rotational axis during formation of a mouth portion in the can; and a trimming processing part for subjecting the upper end portion of the can to slit processing and carrying out trimming while rotating the can while moving the can around the rotational axis. A plurality of necking processing parts are arranged in sequence, and the trimming processing part is arranged in sequence with at least one of the necking processing parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi ENDO, Masaomi TAMURA, Yusaku SHIMIZU