Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Imai

Hirofumi Imai 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).

  • Publication number: 20190023953
    Abstract: An adhesive composition contains (a) a resin consisting of (i) a block copolymer or (ii) 35% by weight or greater and less than 100% of the block copolymer and 65% by weight or less of a random copolymer, the block copolymer having a weight average molecular weight in a range of 50,000 to 150,000, wherein the block copolymer is a diblock copolymer, a triblock copolymer, or a combination thereof, and includes a styrene group, both terminals of a main chain of the triblock copolymer are styrene groups; (b) a solvent which includes a condensed polycyclic hydrocarbon, wherein an adhesive layer formed by using the adhesive composition has a Young's modulus of 0.1 GPa or greater at 23° C., a storage modulus (G?) of 1.5×105 Pa or less at 220° C., and a loss factor (tan ?) of 1.3 or less at 220° C.; and (c) a thermal polymerization inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Koki Tamura, Hirofumi Imai, Toshiyuki Ogata, Atsushi Kubo, Takahiro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 10130563
    Abstract: Provided are dental polymerizable monomer compositions that can give cured products having high toughness and high rigidity, and dental compositions containing such dental polymerizable monomer compositions and cured products thereof having high mechanical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC., SHOFU INC., SUN MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshinaga, Hiroshi Naruse, Mitsuji Teramae, Kiyomi Fuchigami, Hidefumi Fujimura, Masuji Tsuchikawa, Hirofumi Imai
  • Patent number: 10131018
    Abstract: A grain-oriented magnetic steel sheet includes grooves each of which extends in a direction intersecting a transportation direction, the grooves being formed at predetermined pitches PL in the transportation direction by laser beam irradiation, in which a relationship between a standard deviation value D and the pitch PL satisfies the following expression (1), the standard deviation value D being a standard deviation of distances between a linear approximation line, which is obtained from a center line of each of the grooves in a groove width direction by a least-squares method, and respective positions on the center line, and an average angle formed between tangent lines of the respective positions on the center line and a direction perpendicular to the transportation direction is more than 0° to 30°. [Expression 1] 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Hirano, Satoshi Arai, Hideyuki Hamamura, Hirofumi Imai
  • Patent number: 10130564
    Abstract: Provided are dental polymerizable monomers that can give cured products having high toughness and high rigidity, dental polymerizable monomer compositions containing the polymerizable monomers, and dental compositions containing the dental polymerizable monomer compositions, and cured products thereof having high mechanical properties. The dental polymerizable monomer (A) which includes a urethane acrylate obtained from an appropriately rigid diisocyanate and an appropriately flexible hydroxyacrylate is used to prepare a dental polymerizable monomer composition containing the dental polymerizable monomer, and a dental composition containing the dental polymerizable monomer composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC., SHOFU INC., SUN MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshinaga, Hiroshi Naruse, Mitsuji Teramae, Kiyomi Fuchigami, Hidefumi Fujimura, Masuji Tsuchikawa, Hirofumi Imai
  • Patent number: 9944049
    Abstract: A laminate is formed by laminating a substrate and a support plate through an adhesive layer and a release layer. The release layer is formed by applying a composition containing a reactive polysilsesquioxane and a crosslinkable group-containing siloxane onto the surface of the support plate or the surface of the substrate and heating the composition to polymerize the reactive polysilsesquioxane and the crosslinkable group-containing siloxane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoshioka, Koki Tamura, Hirofumi Imai, Atsushi Kubo
  • Publication number: 20180095366
    Abstract: A negative photosensitive composition including an epoxy group-containing resin; and a cationic polymerization initiator containing one or more types of the following cationic polymerization initiators: a compound represented by formula (b0-1) and a compound represented by formula (b0-2), and a cationic polymerization initiator which generates an acid having a pKa of ?3 or more. In the formulae, Rb01 to Rb04 are each independently a fluorine atom or an aryl group which may have a substituent, Rb05 is a fluorine atom or a fluorinated alkyl group which may have a substituent, a plurality of Rb05's may be the same as or different from each other, q is an integer of 1 or more, and Qq+'s are each independently a q-valent organic cation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Hirofumi IMAI, Tomoyuki ANDO
  • Publication number: 20180066334
    Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including a steel sheet having a steel sheet surface in which a groove, which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction and of which a groove depth direction matches a sheet thickness direction, is formed. In a case where the groove is seen on a longitudinal groove cross-section including a groove extension direction and the sheet thickness direction, an arithmetic average height Ra of a roughness curve, which constitutes a contour of a groove bottom region of the groove, is 1 ?m to 3 ?m, and an average length RSm of a roughness curve element, which constitutes the contour of the groove bottom region, is 10 ?m to 150 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi MOGI, Fumiaki TAKAHASHI, Hideyuki HAMAMURA, Tatsuhiko SAKAI, Hirofumi IMAI, Shunsuke OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20180043474
    Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including a steel sheet having a steel sheet surface in which a groove, which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction and of which a groove depth direction matches a sheet thickness direction, is formed. When an average value of a groove depth in a sheet thickness direction at a central portion of the groove in a longitudinal groove direction is set as an average groove depth D, a straight line, which connects a first point at which a groove depth in the sheet thickness direction becomes 0.05×D and a second point at which the groove depth becomes 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki HAMAMURA, Tatsuhiko SAKAI, Fumiaki TAKAHASHI, Hisashi MOGI, Shunsuke OKUMURA, Hirofumi IMAI
  • Publication number: 20180036838
    Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including a steel sheet having a steel sheet surface in which a groove, which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction and of which a groove depth direction matches a sheet thickness direction, is formed. In a case where the steel sheet surface is seen from the sheet thickness direction, the steel sheet surface is provided with a groove group that is constituted by a plurality of the grooves arranged in a sheet width direction, the grooves, which constitute the groove group, arc arranged in such a manner that adjacent grooves overlap each other on a projection plane perpendicular to the rolling direction, and a plurality of the groove groups are arranged with an interval in the rolling direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki HAMAMURA, Tatsuhiko SAKAI, Hisashi MOGI, Fumiaki TAKAHASHI, Hirofumi IMAI, Shunsuke OKUMURA
  • Patent number: 9881829
    Abstract: An adhesive composition for temporarily attaching a substrate to a support plate which supports the substrate, including a thermoplastic resin and a release agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoshioka, Koki Tamura, Hirofumi Imai, Atsushi Kubo, Yasumasa Iwata, Shingo Ishida
  • Publication number: 20170326850
    Abstract: A production method of a laminate including a substrate and a light-transmitting support plate that are laminated each other via an adhesive layer and a release layer that is altered through absorption of light, the method including a release layer forming step of coating a reactive polysilsesquioxane on a surface of the support plate, the surface being opposed to the substrate, and heating the reactive polysilsesquioxane to perform polymerization, thereby forming the release layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: Tokyo Ohka Kogy Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro YOSHIOKA, Koki TAMURA, Hirofumi IMAI, Atsushi KUBO
  • Publication number: 20170181932
    Abstract: Provided are dental polymerizable monomer compositions that can give cured products having high toughness and high rigidity, and dental compositions containing such dental polymerizable monomer compositions and cured products thereof having high mechanical properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicants: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC., SHOFU INC., SUN MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHINAGA, Hiroshi NARUSE, Mitsuji TERAMAE, Kiyomi FUCHIGAMI, Hidefumi FUJIMURA, Masuji TSUCHIKAWA, Hirofumi IMAI
  • Publication number: 20170174621
    Abstract: Provided are dental polymerizable monomers that can give cured products having high toughness and high rigidity, dental polymerizable monomer compositions containing the polymerizable monomers, and dental compositions containing the dental polymerizable monomer compositions, and cured products thereof having high mechanical properties. The dental polymerizable monomer (A) which includes a urethane acrylate obtained from an appropriately rigid diisocyanate and an appropriately flexible hydroxyacrylate is used to prepare a dental polymerizable monomer composition containing the dental polymerizable monomer, and a dental composition containing the dental polymerizable monomer composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicants: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC., SHOFU INC., SUN MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHINAGA, Hiroshi NARUSE, Mitsuji TERAMAE, Kiyomi FUCHIGAMI, Hidefumi FUJIMURA, Masuji TSUCHIKAWA, Hirofumi IMAI
  • Patent number: 9682541
    Abstract: A bonding method which includes a pressing step of bonding a substrate and a support plate for supporting the substrate to each other through an adhesive layer and pressing the bonded substrate and support plate using a plate member; and, after the pressing step, a pressure adjusting step of placing the substrate and the support plate bonded to each other through the adhesive layer in an environment having higher pressure than pressure of an environment in which the pressing step is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: TOKOY OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Imai, Atsushi Kubo, Takahiro Yoshioka, Kimihiro Nakada, Shigeru Kato, Yasumasa Iwata
  • Patent number: 9682532
    Abstract: A laminate including a supporting member which is light transmissive; a supported substrate which is supported by the supporting member; an adhesive layer which is provided on a surface of the supported substrate on which surface the supported substrate is supported by the supporting member; and a release layer, which (i) is provided between the supporting member and the supported substrate and (ii) contains a polymer including, in a repeating unit, a structure having a light absorption property, a property of the polymer being changed when the polymer absorbs light irradiated via the supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kubo, Hirofumi Imai, Koki Tamura, Takahiro Yoshioka, Yasushi Fujii, Yoshihiro Inao
  • Publication number: 20170157706
    Abstract: In a laser processing apparatus for refining magnetic domains of a grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet by setting a laser beam to be focused on the grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet and scanned in a scanning direction, the laser beam focused on the grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet is linearly polarized light, and the angle between the linear polarization direction and the scanning direction is equal to or higher than 0° and lower than 45°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji HIRANO, Hirofumi IMAI, Hideyuki HAMAMURA, Tatsuhiko SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20170148659
    Abstract: An adhesive composition for temporarily attaching a substrate to a support plate which supports the substrate, including a thermoplastic resin and a release agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Takahiro YOSHIOKA, Koki TAMURA, Hirofumi IMAI, Atsushi KUBO, Yasumasa IWATA, Shingo ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20170136575
    Abstract: In a laser processing apparatus for refining magnetic domains of a grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet by setting a laser beam to be focused on the grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet and scanned in a scanning direction, the laser beam focused on the grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet is linearly polarized light, and an angle between a linear polarization direction and the scanning direction is higher than 45° and equal to or lower than 90°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji HIRANO, Hirofumi IMAI, Hideyuki HAMAMURA, Tatsuhiko SAKAI
  • Patent number: 9607875
    Abstract: An adhesive composition for temporarily attaching a substrate to a support plate which supports the substrate, and includes a thermoplastic resin and a release agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoshioka, Koki Tamura, Hirofumi Imai, Atsushi Kubo, Yasumasa Iwata, Shingo Ishida
  • Patent number: 9607744
    Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a laser irradiation unit has a structure providing an intensity distribution of the laser beam focused on the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet on a cross-section in a direction perpendicular to the scanning direction on the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet so as to satisfy Ib/Ia?2, where Ra1 and Ra2 are distances between the centroid of the intensity distribution and positions at which the intensity integration value from the centroid of the intensity distribution is 43% of the total intensity integration value, beam intensities Ia1 and Ia2 are intensities of the laser beam corresponding to Ra1 and Ra2, respectively, Ia is the average value of Ia1 and Ia2 and Ib is the beam intensity at the centroid of the intensity distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Hirano, Hirofumi Imai, Hideyuki Hamamura