Patents by Inventor Atsuo Futami

Atsuo Futami 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).

  • Casting device, solution casting apparatus and solution casting method
    Patent number: 7588709
    Abstract: In a casting process of a film production, a casting dope is discharged through an outlet of a casting die. In the casting die, lip plates and inner deckle plates are arranged such that a lower end of each inner deckle plates may be form a protrusion at a side edge of the outlet of the casting die. Each protrusion length from a bottom of the lip plate is at most 9 ?m. Thus the retaining of the casting dope near the outlet through a dope passage in the casting die is reduced, and therefore the skinning doesn't occur in the casting dope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daisaku Abiru, Atsuo Futami
  • CASTING DEVICE, SOLUTION CASTING APPARATUS AND SOLUTION CASTING METHOD
    Publication number: 20080042315
    Abstract: In a casting process of a film production, a casting dope is discharged through an outlet of a casting die. In the casting die, lip plates and inner deckle plates are arranged such that a lower end of each inner deckle plates may be form a protrusion at a side edge of the outlet of the casting die. Each protrusion length from a bottom of the lip plate is at most 9 ?m. Thus the retaining of the casting dope near the outlet through a dope passage in the casting die is reduced, and therefore the skinning doesn't occur in the casting dope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daisaku ABIRU, Atsuo Futami
  • Method of applying single polar electro-static charges to continuously travelling long web support, and apparatus practicing same
    Patent number: 5295039
    Abstract: A charging apparatus for applying single polar electrostatic charges to a surface of a continuously travelling long web support before coating the support with a coating composition comprises a fine wire shaped corona discharging electrode connected to a electric source and a pass roller coated by a coating, the pass roller facing said corona discharging through the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Nakajima, Atsuo Futami