Patents by Inventor Akira Esaki

Akira Esaki 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).

  • Patent number: 10194596
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an organism cultivation facility suitable for industrial, economical, and large-scale cultivation of an organism by efficient air conditioning which is required for the cultivation of the organism. The object can be achieved with an organism cultivation facility comprising, in a building: a cultivation unit having organism containers capable of storing organisms, and a support structure that supports the organism containers; and a conveying device for the organism containers; wherein the organism cultivation facility has a partition wall(s) that can divide the space of the operating area of the conveying device into two or more spaces in the height direction, and at least a part of the partition wall is movable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Esaki, Akitoshi Yoshimoto, Kazuhiro Yatsukawa, Kazuhiro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20160014977
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an organism cultivation facility suitable for industrial, economical, and large-scale cultivation of an organism by efficient air conditioning which is required for the cultivation of the organism. The object can be achieved with an organism cultivation facility comprising, in a building: a cultivation unit having organism containers capable of storing organisms, and a support structure that supports the organism containers; and a conveying device for the organism containers; wherein the organism cultivation facility has a partition wall(s) that can divide the space of the operating area of the conveying device into two or more spaces in the height direction, and at least a part of the partition wall is movable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira ESAKI, Akitoshi YOSHIMOTO, Kazuhiro YATSUKAWA, Kazuhiro HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8221865
    Abstract: To provide an optical recording medium excellent in the balance of characteristics, which has a sufficient surface hardness and of which the deformation when the environmental temperature and the environmental humidity change is small. An optical recording medium comprising a resin substrate, a recording and reading layer, a cover coat layer which is a cured product of a radiation-curable composition containing a urethane (meth)acrylate (A) and a (meth)acrylate compound (B) other than the urethane (meth)acrylate (A), and a hard coat layer having a surface hardness of at least B in this order, wherein of the cover coat layer, the ratio of the elastic modulus in tension upon absorbing water to saturation to the elastic modulus in tension at 25° C. under a humidity of 45% is at least 0.20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Esaki, Yuuki Ono, Yuuji Soejima, Kentarou Uchino, Makoto Terauchi, Takeshi Kuriwada
  • Patent number: 8018825
    Abstract: To provide an optical recording medium of which mechanical properties and storage stability will not be impaired, and which will show little deterioration in signal properties even after being left to stand at high temperature under high humidity. An optical recording medium to perform recording/reading by means of blue laser, which has a value of 10 or less as obtained by “error rate after its environmental resistance test/error rate before its environmental resistance test” in error rates obtained before and after its environmental resistance test carried out by leaving the medium to stand for 500 hours at a temperature of 80° C. under a relative humidity of 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Esaki, Takeshi Kuriwada, Tomokazu Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20100214901
    Abstract: To provide an optical recording medium of which mechanical properties and storage stability will not be impaired, and which will show little deterioration in signal properties even after being left to stand at high temperature under high humidity. An optical recording medium to perform recording/reading by means of blue laser, which has a value of 10 or less as obtained by “error rate after its environmental resistance test/error rate before its environmental resistance test” in error rates obtained before and after its environmental resistance test carried out by leaving the medium to stand for 500 hours at a temperature of 80° C. under a relative humidity of 80%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Esaki, Takeshi Kuriwada, Tomokazu Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20100055377
    Abstract: To provide an optical recording medium excellent in the balance of characteristics, which has a sufficient surface hardness and of which the deformation when the environmental temperature and the environmental humidity change is small. An optical recording medium comprising a resin substrate, a recording and reading layer, a cover coat layer which is a cured product of a radiation-curable composition containing a urethane (meth)acrylate (A) and a (meth)acrylate compound (B) other than the urethane (meth)acrylate (A), and a hard coat layer having a surface hardness of at least B in this order, wherein of the cover coat layer, the ratio of the elastic modulus in tension upon absorbing water to saturation to the elastic modulus in tension at 25° C. under a humidity of 45% is at least 0.20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Akira Esaki, Yuuki Ono, Yuuji Soejima, Kentarou Uchino, Makoto Terauchi, Takeshi Kuriwada
  • Publication number: 20100016520
    Abstract: In order to provide a radiation-curable composition which exhibits corrosion proof while maintaining mechanical properties and preservation stability and an optical recording medium using the composition, the radiation-curable composition for an optical recording medium comprises a urethane (meth)acrylate compound (A) and a compound (C) containing one or more epoxy groups, and has an acid content of 1.0×10?4 eq/g or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Esaki, Tomoaki Hiwatashi
  • Patent number: 7569619
    Abstract: A radiation-curable resin composition comprising an inorganic component containing a silica particle composed of a hydrolyzate of an oligomer of an alkoxysilane and a monomer and/or an oligomer thereof, wherein viscosity at 25° C. is from 1,000 to 10,000 centipoises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Esaki, Osamu Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20080102262
    Abstract: A radiation-curable composition capable of giving a cured product which has excellent transparency, mechanical strength and an excellent balance between surface hardness and resistance to deformation by heat/humidity; the cured product; and a multilayer structure which has a layer of the cured product and is suitable for use as an optical recording medium, etc, are provided A radiation-curable composition which comprises a monomer having a radiation-curable group and gives a cured product having the following properties: (1) when the cured product has a thickness of 100±5 ?m, the cured product has a light transmittance at a wavelength of 550 nm of 80% or higher; (2) a multilayer structure where a layer of the cured product having a thickness of 100±5 ?m is formed on a poly(ethylene terephthalate) film having a thickness of 100±5 ?m, has a surface hardness of HB or higher; and (3) when a multilayer structure where the cured product having a thickness of 100±5 ?m is formed on a disk made of a polycarbonate havi
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Esaki, Osamu Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20070231527
    Abstract: It is to obtain an optical recording medium having sufficient stainproof properties and adhesion in a simple and industrially advantageous process. On an optical recording medium comprising a substrate, and a recording and retrieving layer formed on the substrate, a light transmitting layer to be formed on the recording and retrieving layer formed by curing a composition containing silica particles and an oligomer having a urethane bond and capable of being cured by irradiation with radiation, and a stainproof layer to be formed on the light transmitting layer, containing an alkoxysilane compound containing a fluorine atom and/or a hydrolysate of the alkoxysilane compound, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tamaki, Akira Esaki, Takeshi Kuriwada
  • Publication number: 20050267230
    Abstract: A radiation-curable resin composition comprising an inorganic component containing a silica particle composed of a hydrolyzate of an oligomer of an alkoxysilane and a monomer and/or an oligomer thereof, wherein viscosity at 25° C. is from 1,000 to 10,000 centipoises.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Esaki, Osamu Matsuda
  • Patent number: 6759104
    Abstract: A photocurable composition, wherein a small amount of an alicyclic skeleton-containing mono(meth) acrylate is incorporated in a combination of an alicyclic skeleton-containing bis(meth)acrylate and a mercapto compound, a cured product obtained by the copolymerization thereof, and a process for producing the cured product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichiro Hayakawa, Akihiko Sakai, Akira Esaki, Yutaka Tamura
  • Publication number: 20030118941
    Abstract: A photocurable composition, wherein a small amount of an alicyclic skeleton-containing mono(meth) acrylate is incorporated in a combination of an alicyclic skeleton-containing bis(meth)acrylate and a mercapto compound, a cured product obtained by the copolymerization thereof, and a process for producing the cured product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiichiro Hayakawa, Akihiko Sakai, Akira Esaki, Yutaka Tamura
  • Patent number: 5322864
    Abstract: An epoxy resin composition comprising (a) a low-viscosity epoxy resin having a viscosity of not more than 100 poise at 25.degree. C. which contains a tri- or tetrafunctional liquid aromatic epoxy resin, (b) a liquid curing agent selected from the group consisting of an imidazole compound, the combination of a liquid alicyclic acid anhydride and an imidazole compound, the combination of a liquid alicyclic amine and an imidazole compound, (c) a metal powder having an average particle size of not more than 125 .mu.m or an inorganic powder consisted of 50 parts or more by weight of a metal powder having an average particle size of not more than 125 3/4m and less than 50 parts by weight of an inorganic filler other than a metal powder, whose average particle size is smaller than that of the metal powder, based on the total amount of the metal powder and the inorganic filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1994
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Sugimoto, Sadahiko Kawaguchi, Akira Esaki
  • Patent number: D267799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1983
    Assignee: Sharp Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Esaki, Tsutomu Yamasaki, Keiji Sakata
  • Patent number: D268677
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1983
    Assignee: Sharp Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Ohie, Akira Esaki, Masaji Sawada, Tsutomu Yamasaki
  • Patent number: D276363
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1984
    Assignee: Sharp Corporation
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Hazama, Shuzo Sawa, Matafumi Ikeda, Akira Esaki
  • Patent number: D276365
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1984
    Assignee: Sharp Corporation
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Hazama, Shuzo Sawa, Matafumi Ikeda, Akira Esaki
  • Patent number: D276366
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1984
    Assignee: Sharp Corporation
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Hazama, Shuzo Sawa, Matafumi Ikeda, Akira Esaki
  • Patent number: D277600
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1985
    Assignee: Sharp Corporation
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Hazama, Shuzo Sawa, Matafumi Ikeda, Akira Esaki