Patents by Inventor Akinori Ueda
Akinori Ueda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11999842Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition including a fluororesin (A) and a crosslinked fluoroelastomer (B), wherein the fluororesin (A) is a copolymer that contains a chlorotrifluoroethylene unit and a tetrafluoroethylene unit and that has at least one functional group selected from a carbonyl group, an olefinic group and an amino group at a main chain terminal or side chain terminal of the polymer. The crosslinked fluoroelastomer (B) is obtained by subjecting a fluoroelastomer (b) to a dynamic crosslinking treatment along with a polyamine compound (c) having a thermal decomposition temperature of 210° C. or higher and a crosslinking accelerator (d) in the presence of the fluororesin (A) under conditions for melting the fluororesin (A). Also disclosed is a method for producing the thermoplastic composition, a molded article formed from the thermoplastic composition, and a laminated product including a resin layer formed from the thermoplastic composition.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Akinori Ueda, Tsuyoshi Ono, Katsusada Tokuhira
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Patent number: 11898661Abstract: Provided is a fluororubber composition capable of providing a crosslinked fluororubber article that exhibits not only heat resistance, but also excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures. The fluororubber composition includes a fluororubber (A), a carbon black (B), and an aromatic petroleum resin (E), and the fluororubber composition has a difference ?G? (G? (1%)?G? (100%)) of not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G? (1%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 1%, G? (100%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 100%, and G? (1%) and G? (100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test carried out on an unvulcanised rubber with a rubber process analyzer (RPA) in a condition that the measurement frequency is 1 Hz and the measurement temperature is 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Mayuko Taeda, Masanori Kitaichi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Michiko Doi, Shoji Fukuoka
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Patent number: 11787927Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition including a fluororesin (A) and a crosslinked fluoroelastomer (B). The fluororesin (A) is a copolymer containing a chlorotrifluoroethylene unit and a tetrafluoroethylene unit and having at least one functional group selected from a carbonyl group, an olefinic group and an amino group at a main chain terminal or side chain terminal of the polymer. The crosslinked fluoroelastomer (B) is obtained by subjecting a fluoroelastomer (b) to a dynamic crosslinking treatment along with a polyamine compound (c) having a thermal decomposition temperature of 210° C. or higher and a crosslinking accelerator (d) in the presence of the fluororesin (A) under conditions for melting the fluororesin (A). Further, a mass ratio between the fluororesin (A) and the fluoroelastomer (b) (fluororesin (A)/fluoroelastomer (b)) is less than 70/30 and 20/80 or more. Also disclosed is a method for producing the composition as well as various molded and laminated products formed therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Akinori Ueda, Tsuyoshi Ono, Katsusada Tokuhira
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Publication number: 20230192984Abstract: A bladder for tire vulcanizing containing a crosslinked fluoroelastomer obtained by peroxide-crosslinking a fluoroelastomer composition including a peroxide-crosslinkable fluoroelastomer (A), a carbon black (B), and a peroxide cross-linking agent (C), wherein the crosslinked fluoroelastomer has a hardness at 25° C. of 60 to 90, a number of foreign particles selected from the group consisting of lumps of carbon and carbon grit having an aspect ratio of 1.1 or less and a Heywood diameter of 5 ?m or more present on a fracture surface obtained by tensile fracture of the crosslinked fluoroelastomer at 170° C. is 10/mm2 or less, and the fluoroelastomer (A) includes a vinylidene fluoride (VdF) fluoroelastomer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicants: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi ARAI, Daisuke OHTA, Akinori UEDA, Yasuhiro ODA, Junichi ORIDE
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Publication number: 20210301118Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition including a fluororesin (A) and a crosslinked fluoroelastomer (B). The fluororesin (A) is a copolymer containing a chlorotrifluoroethylene unit and a tetrafluoroethylene unit and having at least one functional group selected from a carbonyl group, an olefinic group and an amino group at a main chain terminal or side chain terminal of the polymer. The crosslinked fluoroelastomer (B) is obtained by subjecting a fluoroelastomer (b) to a dynamic crosslinking treatment along with a polyamine compound (c) having a thermal decomposition temperature of 210° C. or higher and a crosslinking accelerator (d) in the presence of the fluororesin (A) under conditions for melting the fluororesin (A). Further, a mass ratio between the fluororesin (A) and the fluoroelastomer (b) (fluororesin (A)/fluoroelastomer (b)) is less than 70/30 and 20/80 or more. Also disclosed is a method for producing the composition as well as various molded and laminated products formed therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2019Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Akinori UEDA, Tsuyoshi ONO, Katsusada TOKUHIRA
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Publication number: 20210040302Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition including a fluororesin (A) and a crosslinked fluoroelastomer (B), wherein the fluororesin (A) is a copolymer that contains a chlorotrifluoroethylene unit and a tetrafluoroethylene unit and that has at least one functional group selected from a carbonyl group, an olefinic group and an amino group at a main chain terminal or side chain terminal of the polymer. The crosslinked fluoroelastomer (B) is obtained by subjecting a fluoroelastomer (b) to a dynamic crosslinking treatment along with a polyamine compound (c) having a thermal decomposition temperature of 210° C. or higher and a crosslinking accelerator (d) in the presence of the fluororesin (A) under conditions for melting the fluororesin (A). Also disclosed is a method for producing the thermoplastic composition, a molded article formed from the thermoplastic composition, and a laminated product including a resin layer formed from the thermoplastic composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2019Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Akinori UEDA, Tsuyoshi ONO, Katsusada TOKUHIRA
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Publication number: 20200392304Abstract: A fluoroelastomer composition, and a crosslinked fluoroelastomer obtained by crosslinking the fluoroelastomer composition. The fluoroelastomer composition contains 10 to 60 parts by mass of a carbon black (B) and 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of a peroxide cross-linking agent (C) per 100 parts by mass of a peroxide-crosslinkable fluoroelastomer (A). The carbon black (B) has a number of foreign particles of 30/mm2 or less measured as described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2019Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicants: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi ARAI, Daisuke OHTA, Akinori UEDA, Yasuhiro ODA, Junichi ORIDE
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Patent number: 9976016Abstract: A fluororubber composition including a fluororubber having an iodine content of 10 to 90 mol % for the total mole of the polymer end groups and a carbon black (B), wherein a difference (?G?), represented by G?(1%)-G?(100%), is not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G?(1%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 1% under an uncrosslinked state and G?(100%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 100% under an uncrosslinked state, and G?(1%) and G?(100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test with a rubber process analyzer (RPA) in a condition that the measurement frequency is 1 Hz and the measurement temperature is 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Shigeru Morita, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Masanori Kitaichi, Michiko Doi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Shoji Fukuoka, Mayuko Taeda
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Patent number: 9499678Abstract: A fluororubber composition which includes a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B). The fluororubber (A) is a vinylidene fluoride-based fluororubber including a structural unit (VdF unit) derived from vinylidene fluoride and a structural unit derived from at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of hexafluoropropylene (HFP), 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro propylene, and perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) (PAVE). The molar ratio of the VdF unit to the structural unit derived from at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of HFP, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro propylene, and PAVE is 50/50 to 78/22. The fluororubber composition has a difference ?G? (G? (1%)-G? (100%)) of not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G? (1%) denotes a modulus of shearing elasticity at a dynamic strain of 1%, G? (100%) denotes a modulus of shearing elasticity at a dynamic strain of 100%, and G? (1%) and G? (100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Mayuko Taeda, Masanori Kitaichi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Michiko Doi, Shoji Fukuoka
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Patent number: 9403954Abstract: The invention provides a fluororubber composition able to produce a crosslinked fluororubber article that exhibits not only heat resistance, but also excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures, and a method for producing same. The fluororubber composition contains: a fluororubber (A); and carbon black (B), wherein when the aforementioned fluororubber composition is immersed for 160 hours in an extraction solvent of acetone and hexane at an acetone:hexane mass ratio of 42.29:57.71 at 40° C. and an extraction residue that is not extracted and remains as a solid is separated from the aforementioned extraction solvent and dried and then the dry weight of the extraction residue is measured, the quantity of a solvent-insoluble polymer is not lower than 5%.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Mayuko Taeda, Masanori Kitaichi, Michiko Doi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Shoji Fukuoka
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Patent number: 9388099Abstract: This invention provides a process for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, the process comprising: (1) a first reaction step of reacting hydrogen fluoride with at least one chlorine-containing compound selected from the group consisting of a chloropropane represented by Formula (1): CClX2CHClCH2Cl, wherein each X is the same or different and is CI or F, a chloropropene represented by Formula (2): CClY2CCl?CH2, wherein each Y is the same or different and is CI or F, and a chloropropene represented by Formula (3): CZ2?CClCH2Cl, wherein each Z is the same or different and is CI or F in a gas phase in the absence of a catalyst while heating; and (2) a second reaction step of reacting hydrogen fluoride with a reaction product obtained in the first reaction step in a gas phase in the presence of a fluorination catalyst while heating. According to the process of this invention, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf) can be obtained with high selectivity, and catalyst deterioration can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Takahashi, Yuzo Komatsu, Akinori Ueda
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Publication number: 20150330537Abstract: Provided is a fluororubber composition capable of providing a crosslinked fluororubber article that exhibits not only heat resistance, but also excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures. The fluororubber composition includes a fluororubber (A), a carbon black (B), and an aromatic petroleum resin (E), and the fluororubber composition has a difference ?G? (G? (1%)?G? (100%)) of not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G? (1%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 1%, G? (100%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 100%, and G? (1%) and G? (100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test carried out on an unvulcanised rubber with a rubber process analyzer (RPA) in a condition that the measurement frequency is 1 Hz and the measurement temperature is 100° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2013Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke OTA, Akinori UEDA, Yuu KADOWAKI, Mayuko TAEDA, Masanori KITAICHI, Kazuhiro YAMAMURA, Michiko DOI, Shoji FUKUOKA
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Publication number: 20150259266Abstract: This invention provides a process for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, the process comprising: (1) a first reaction step of reacting hydrogen fluoride with at least one chlorine-containing compound selected from the group consisting of a chloropropane represented by Formula (1): CClX2CHClCH2Cl, wherein each X is the same or different and is CI or F, a chloropropene represented by Formula (2): CClY2CCl?CH2, wherein each Y is the same or different and is CI or F, and a chloropropene represented by Formula (3): CZ2?CClCH2Cl, wherein each Z is the same or different and is CI or F in a gas phase in the absence of a catalyst while heating; and (2) a second reaction step of reacting hydrogen fluoride with a reaction product obtained in the first reaction step in a gas phase in the presence of a fluorination catalyst while heating. According to the process of this invention, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf) can be obtained with high selectivity, and catalyst deterioration can be suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2015Publication date: September 17, 2015Inventors: Kazuhiro TAKAHASHI, Yuzo KOMATSU, Akinori UEDA
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Patent number: 9040760Abstract: This invention provides a process for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, the process comprising: (1) a first reaction step of reacting hydrogen fluoride with at least one chlorine-containing compound selected from the group consisting of a chloropropane represented by Formula (1): CClX2CHClCH2Cl, wherein each X is the same or different and is CI or F, a chloropropene represented by Formula (2): CClY2CCl?CH2, wherein each Y is the same or different and is CI or F, and a chloropropene represented by Formula (3): CZ2?CClCH2Cl, wherein each Z is the same or different and is CI or F in a gas phase in the absence of a catalyst while heating; and (2) a second reaction step of reacting hydrogen fluoride with a reaction product obtained in the first reaction step in a gas phase in the presence of a fluorination catalyst while heating. According to the process of this invention, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf) can be obtained with high selectivity, and catalyst deterioration can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Takahashi, Yuzo Komatsu, Akinori Ueda
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Publication number: 20150031822Abstract: A fluororubber composition which includes a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B). The fluororubber (A) is a vinylidene fluoride-based fluororubber including a structural unit (VdF unit) derived from vinylidene fluoride and a structural unit derived from at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of hexafluoropropylene (HFP), 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro propylene, and perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) (PAVE). The molar ratio of the VdF unit to the structural unit derived from at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of HFP, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro propylene, and PAVE is 50/50 to 78/22. The fluororubber composition has a difference ?G? (G? (1%)-G? (100%)) of not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G? (1%) denotes a modulus of shearing elasticity at a dynamic strain of 1%, G? (100%) denotes a modulus of shearing elasticity at a dynamic strain of 100%, and G? (1%) and G? (100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Mayuko Taeda, Masanori Kitaichi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Michiko Doi, Shoji Fukuoka
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Publication number: 20150017364Abstract: A fluororubber composition including a fluororubber having an iodine content of 10 to 90 mol % for the total mole of the polymer end groups and a carbon black (B), wherein a difference (?G?), represented by G?(1%)-G?(100%), is not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G?(1%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 1% under an uncrosslinked state and G?(100%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 100% under an uncrosslinked state, and G?(1%) and G?(100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test with a rubber process analyzer (RPA) in a condition that the measurement frequency is 1 Hz and the measurement temperature is 100° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Shigeru Morita, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Masanori Kitaichi, Michiko Doi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Shoji Fukuoka, Mayuko Taeda
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Publication number: 20140288226Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing a fluororubber composition that is able to give a crosslinked article that exhibits not only heat resistance, but also excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures. A method for producing a fluororubber composition includes: a step (1-1) of mixing a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B) by means of an internal mixer until the maximum temperature reaches 80 to 220° C. so as to obtain an intermediate composition; a step (1-2) of cooling the intermediate composition to a temperature of less than 50° C.; and a step (2-1) of mixing the cooled intermediate composition until the maximum temperature reaches not lower than 10° C. but lower than 80° C. so as to obtain a fluororubber composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2013Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Mayuko Taeda, Masanori Kitaichi, Michiko Doi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Shoji Fukuoka
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Publication number: 20140228482Abstract: The invention provides a fluororubber composition able to produce a crosslinked fluororubber article that exhibits not only heat resistance, but also excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures, and a method for producing same. The fluororubber composition contains: a fluororubber (A); and carbon black (B), wherein when the aforementioned fluororubber composition is immersed for 160 hours in an extraction solvent of acetone and hexane at an acetone:hexane mass ratio of 42.29:57.71 at 40° C. and an extraction residue that is not extracted and remains as a solid is separated from the aforementioned extraction solvent and dried and then the dry weight of the extraction residue is measured, the quantity of a solvent-insoluble polymer is not lower than 5%.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2013Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Mayuko Taeda, Masanori Kitaichi, Michiko Doi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Shoji Fukuoka
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Publication number: 20130217928Abstract: This invention provides a process for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, the process comprising: (1) a first reaction step of reacting hydrogen fluoride with at least one chlorine-containing compound selected from the group consisting of a chloropropane represented by Formula (1): CClX2CHClCH2Cl, wherein each X is the same or different and is CI or F, a chloropropene represented by Formula (2): CClY2CCl?CH2, wherein each Y is the same or different and is CI or F, and a chloropropene represented by Formula (3): CZ2?CClCH2Cl, wherein each Z is the same or different and is CI or F in a gas phase in the absence of a catalyst while heating; and (2) a second reaction step of reacting hydrogen fluoride with a reaction product obtained in the first reaction step in a gas phase in the presence of a fluorination catalyst while heating. According to the process of this invention, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf) can be obtained with high selectivity, and catalyst deterioration can be suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Takahashi, Yuzo Komatsu, Akinori Ueda
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Patent number: 4774429Abstract: A rotor for a superconducting rotating electric machine has pre-wound rotor coils housed in longitudinally-extending slots formed in a coil-carrying shaft. Each coil is restrained against circumferential forces by a plurality of rigid restraining members which are inserted between one side of the coil and the side of the slot in which the coil is housed. The restraining members are disposed on top of one another in layers corresponding to the number of layers in the coils. Preferably, they are made of an electrically-insulating material. A plurality of longitudinally-aligned restraining members may be employed for each layer of the coil. The restraining members for each layer may be disposed with gaps left therebetween in the longtudinal direction and packings disposed in the gaps.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 1987Date of Patent: September 27, 1988Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akinori Ueda