Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Okushita

Hiroshi Okushita 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: 9090738
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing a polyoxamide resin by one-step polymerization without performing a pre-polycondensation step in a solvent, which is necessary in the conventional production of a polyoxamide resin. A method of mixing an oxalic acid diester and a diamine in a pressure-resistant vessel and subjecting the mixture to polymerization under pressure in the presence of an alcohol produced by a polycondensation reaction and then to melt polymerization at a temperature not lower than the melting point of the produced polymer preferably while extracting the alcohol, thereby producing a polyoxamide resin by one-step polymerization without using a solvent except for an alcohol that is produced by polycondensation of raw materials in the production process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okushita, Kouichirou Kurachi, Masato Shimokawa
  • Publication number: 20130172520
    Abstract: Provided is a polyoxamide resin which has excellent impact resistance and is characterized in that the polyoxamide resin is obtained from a diamine in which the diamine component has 10 to 18 carbons and in that the polyoxamide resin has a relative viscosity (?r) of 2.1 or greater as determined at 25° C. using 96% sulfuric acid as a solvent and a solution having a concentration of 1.0 g/dL, and also provided is an impact-resistant part comprising this resin. The polyoxamide resin has a higher molecular weight than a conventional polyoxamide resin, a large moldable temperature range as estimated from the difference between the melting point and the thermal decomposition temperature and therefore excellent molten moldability, and furthermore excellent impact resistance when compared to a conventional aliphatic polyoxamide resin without losing the low water absorbency, chemical resistance, hydrolysis resistance, high elasticity, and high strength seen with aliphatic straight-chain polyoxamide resins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Maeda, Kouichiro Kurachi, Hiroshi Okushita, Yasunari Hanaoka, Naoyasu Yabu, Tomoyuki Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20100113737
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing a polyoxamide resin by one-step polymerization without performing a pre-polycondensation step in a solvent, which is necessary in the conventional production of a polyoxamide resin. A method of mixing an oxalic acid diester and a diamine in a pressure-resistant vessel and subjecting the mixture to polymerization under pressure in the presence of an alcohol produced by a polycondensation reaction and then to melt polymerization at a temperature not lower than the melting point of the produced polymer preferably while extracting the alcohol, thereby producing a polyoxamide resin by one-step polymerization without using a solvent except for an alcohol that is produced by polycondensation of raw materials in the production process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okushita, Kouichirou Kurachi, Masato Shimokawa
  • Publication number: 20100113738
    Abstract: A molding material for fuel parts (particularly a molding material for fuel parts of automobiles), ensuring excellent fuel barrier property against not only gasoline fuel, but also an alcohol mixed fuel, is provided. A molding material for fuel parts and a fuel part, comprising a polyamide containing an oxamide bond unit represented by —NH—R—NHC(?O)C(?O)—.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okushita, Kouichiro Kurachi, Yukio Kaneko, Masato Shimokawa
  • Publication number: 20100098893
    Abstract: There is provided a polyamide resin that can achieve a sufficiently high molecular weight compared to conventional polyamide 92, has a broad moldable temperature range or width estimated from a difference between melting point and thermal decomposition temperature, exhibits excellent melt moldability and has excellent chemical resistance and hydrolysis resistance compared to conventional aliphatic polyamide resins without impairing low water absorption property of an aliphatic linear polyoxamide resin. A polyamide resin in which the dicarboxylic acid component is oxalic acid and the diamine component is a diamine component composed of 1,9-nonanediamine and 2-methyl-1,8-octanediamine, with the molar ratio between 1,9-nonanediamine and 2-methyl-1,8-octanediamine being from 6:94 to 99:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okushita, Kouichiro Kurachi, Masato Shimokawa, Shouichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20090274913
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polyether polyamide elastomer particularly excellent in transparency while retaining properties such as dynamic physical properties, stiffness and bending-fatigue resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okushita, Shouichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20070197766
    Abstract: A method of producing a polyoxalate resin including polycondensing a dialkyl oxalate represented by formula (2): wherein R represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, with a saturated aliphatic diol represented by formula (3): HO-A-OH, wherein A represents a divalent saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, in which polycondensation reaction product, the molar amount of the dialkyl oxalate [M1] and the molar amount of the saturated aliphatic diol [M2] satisfy relationship (I): 0.5?[M2]/[M1]<1 while controlling the total content of water in the starting reaction mixture to 2,000 ppm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: Ube Industries, Ltd. a corporation of Japan
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okushita, Kouichiro Kurachi, Shouichi Tanaka, Fumio Adachi, Hideho Tanaka, Youtaro Fujiwara, Youichi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 6864348
    Abstract: Polyetherpolyamide elastomer showing a low water absorption, a high stress relaxation, and a high elastic recovery percentage of elongation is obtainable by polymerizing an aminocarboxylic acid compound and/or a lactam compound, a triblock polyetherdiamine compound having the following formula, and a dicarboxylic acid compound: [x is a value of 1 to 20, y is a value of 4 to 50, z is a value of 1 to 20].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: UBE Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okushita, Tadao Muramatsu, Teruaki Fujii
  • Publication number: 20050027081
    Abstract: A biodegradable polyoxalate resin having a high melt-formability by the formula: X?O-A-O—CO—CO?nY in which A=C3-C12 divalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group, X=H; R—OCOCO— or OHC— group, Y=—OR, —OAOH or —OAOCHO when X=H—, or —OR or —OAOCHO when X=R—OCOCO— or OHC—, R=C1-C4 alkyl, and is usable in a resinous composition with a poly(lactic acid) resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Applicant: Ube Industries, Ltd., a corporation of Japan
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okushita, Kouichiro Kurachi, Shouichi Tanaka, Fumio Adachi, Hideho Tanaka, Youtaro Fujiwara, Youichi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 6767988
    Abstract: Polyamide elastomer comprising a hard segment derived from polyamide having no divalent aromatic group and a soft segment derived from polycarbonate diol having no divalent aromatic group has high flexibility and high heat resistance in addition to good physical characteristics of the known polyamide elastomers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: UBE Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okushita, Tadao Muramatsu
  • Publication number: 20030144462
    Abstract: Polyetherpolyamide elastomer showing a low water absorption, a high stress relaxation, and a high elastic recovery percentage of elongation is obtainable by polymerizing an aminocarboxylic acid compound and/or a lactam compound, a triblock polyetherdiamine compound having the following formula, and a dicarboxylic acid compound: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okushita, Tadao Muramatsu, Teruaki Fujii
  • Publication number: 20020183480
    Abstract: Polyamide elastomer comprising a hard segment derived from polyamide having no divalent aromatic group and a soft segment derived from polycarbonate diol having no divalent aromatic group has high flexibility and high heat resistance in addition to good physical characteristics of the known polyamide elastomers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okushita, Tadao Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 6297345
    Abstract: A polyamide with excellent stretching properties is disclosed, which comprises 50 to 99.8 mol % of a unit derived from a lactam and/or an aminocarboxylic acid, 0.1 to 25 mol % of a unit derived from a dicarboxylic acid, and 0.1 to 25 mol % of a unit derived from a diamine component containing 10 to 100 mol % of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a branched saturated diamine having 6 to 22 carbon atoms, a branched alicyclic diamine having 6 to 16 carbon atoms, and a norbornanediamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okushita, Shoichi Tanaka