Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Uebayashi

Hiroyuki Uebayashi 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: 10844186
    Abstract: A gas barrier film including a polymer base, an undercoat layer that contains, as the main component, an acrylic resin having at least one side chain selected from the group consisting of the side chains (I) to (III) mentioned below, and an inorganic layer, wherein the undercoat layer and the inorganic layer are arranged in this order on at least one surface of the polymer base in such a manner that the undercoat layer and the inorganic layer are in contact with each other: (I) a side chain having an acrylic polymer skeleton; (II) a side chain having a dimethylsiloxane skeleton; and (III) a side chain having a skeleton containing a fluorine atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke Tsukamura, Hiroyuki Uebayashi, Minoru Yoshida, Motoyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10829643
    Abstract: The gas barrier film includes a polymer base having an inorganic layer [A] and a silicon compound layer [B] stacked in this order at least on one side of the polymer base, the inorganic layer [A] containing a zinc compound and silicon oxide, the silicon compound layer [B] containing silicon oxynitride, and the inorganic layer [A] and the silicon compound layer [B] being in contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro Mori, Hiroyuki Uebayashi
  • Publication number: 20170190858
    Abstract: A gas barrier film including a polymer base, an undercoat layer that contains, as the main component, an acrylic resin having at least one side chain selected from the group consisting of the side chains (I) to (III) mentioned below, and an inorganic layer, wherein the undercoat layer and the inorganic layer are arranged in this order on at least one surface of the polymer base in such a manner that the undercoat layer and the inorganic layer are in contact with each other: (I) a side chain having an acrylic polymer skeleton; (II) a side chain having a dimethylsiloxane skeleton; and (III) a side chain having a skeleton containing a fluorine atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke Tsukamura, Hiroyuki Uebayashi, Minoru Yoshida, Motoyuki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20160076134
    Abstract: A gas barrier film is provided including a polymer film substrate and a gas barrier layer containing at least zinc oxide and silicon dioxide on at least one surface of the polymer film substrate, wherein the gas barrier layer satisfies at least one of the following [I] to [III]: [I] with regard to X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectrum at K absorption edge of zinc, the value of (spectrum intensity at 9664.0 eV)/(spectrum intensity at 9668.0 eV) is in the range of 0.910 to 1.000; [II] the value obtained by dividing atomic concentration of zinc with atomic concentration of silicon is in the range of 0.1 to 1.5, and structural density index represented by the following equation: structural density index={density of the gas barrier layer obtained by X-ray reflectometry (XRR)}/{(theoretical density calculated from compositional ratio determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)} is 1.20 to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kodai Tokunaga, Hiroyuki Uebayashi, Hikaru Satake, Motoyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9219018
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a gas barrier characteristic film that has a gas barrier characteristic and that is excellent in the repetitive reproducibility of the gas barrier characteristic. The film is a gas barrier characteristic film in which an [A] layer and a [B] layer mentioned below are sequentially layered on at least one surface of a macromolecular base, the [A] layer being a crosslinked resin layer whose pencil hardness is greater than or equal to H and whose surface free energy is less than or equal to 45 mN/m, and the [B] layer being a silicon-containing inorganic layer whose thickness is 10 to 1000 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uebayashi, Yusuke Tsukamura, Osamu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150337139
    Abstract: The gas barrier film includes a polymer base having an inorganic layer [A] and a silicon compound layer [B] stacked in this order at least on one side of the polymer base, the inorganic layer [A] containing a zinc compound and silicon oxide, the silicon compound layer [B] containing silicon oxynitride, and the inorganic layer [A] and the silicon compound layer [B] being in contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro Mori, Hiroyuki Uebayashi
  • Publication number: 20150291753
    Abstract: [Problem] The purpose of the present invention is to provide a gas barrier film having high gas barrier performance and excellent repeated reproducibility of gas barrier performance. [Solution] A gas barrier film comprising a polymer base, an undercoat layer that contains, as the main component, an acrylic resin having at least one side chain selected from the group consisting of the side chains (I) to (III) mentioned below, and an inorganic layer, wherein the undercoat layer and the inorganic layer are arranged in this order on at least one surface of the polymer base in such a manner that the undercoat layer and the inorganic layer are in contact with each other: (I) a side chain having an acrylic polymer skeleton; (II) a side chain having a dimethylsioxane skeleton; and (III) a side chain having a skeleton containing a fluorine atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke Tsukamura, Hiroyuki Uebayashi, Minoru Yoshida, Motoyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9090780
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas barrier film which has high gas barrier performance and excellent repeated reproducibility of the gas barrier performance. A gas barrier film of the present invention comprises three inorganic compound layers (layer [A], layer [B] and layer [C]) that are sequentially arranged in this order on at least one surface of a polymer film base. The layer [B] has a thickness of 0.2-20 nm and a density that is higher than those of the layer [A] and the layer [C].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uebayashi, Minoru Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9079381
    Abstract: A gas barrier film is provided comprising a base film of polyester provided, on at least one of its surfaces, with a deposited layer of an inorganic compound and a gas barrier layer of a copolymer resin composition formed on the former. The gas barrier layer is produced from a mixture of a base material composed at least of the two components of (a) an unsaturated nitrile that accounts for 10% to 30% by mass of the copolymer and (b) an unsaturated compound with a hydroxyl group that accounts for 30% to 70% by mass of the copolymer; (c) a curing agent that contains a compound with an isocyanate group; and (d) a compound that has either two or more carboxylic acid groups or one or more carboxylic anhydride groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uebayashi, Takashi Arai, Kusato Hirota
  • Publication number: 20140370260
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas barrier film which has high gas barrier performance and excellent repeated reproducibility of the gas barrier performance. A gas barrier film of the present invention comprises three inorganic compound layers (layer [A], layer [B] and layer [C]) that are sequentially arranged in this order on at least one surface of a polymer film base. The layer [B] has a thickness of 0.2-20 nm and a density that is higher than those of the layer [A] and the layer [C].
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uebayashi, Minoru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20140026961
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a gas barrier characteristic film that has a gas barrier characteristic and that is excellent in the repetitive reproducibility of the gas barrier characteristic. The film is a gas barrier characteristic film in which an [A] layer and a [B] layer mentioned below are sequentially layered on at least one surface of a macromolecular base, the [A] layer being a crosslinked resin layer whose pencil hardness is greater than or equal to H and whose surface free energy is less than or equal to 45 mN/m, and the [B] layer being a silicon-containing inorganic layer whose thickness is 10 to 1000 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uebayashi, Yusuke Tskamura, Osamu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20110236706
    Abstract: A gas barrier film is provided comprising a base film of polyester provided, on at least one of its surfaces, with a deposited layer of an inorganic compound and a gas barrier layer of a copolymer resin composition formed on the former. The gas barrier layer is produced from a mixture of a base material composed at least of the two components of (a) an unsaturated nitrile that accounts for 10% to 30% by mass of the copolymer and (b) an unsaturated compound with a hydroxyl group that accounts for 30% to 70% by mass of the copolymer; (c) a curing agent that contains a compound with an isocyanate group; and (d) a compound that has either two or more carboxylic acid groups or one or more carboxylic anhydride groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uebayashi, Takashi Arai, Kusato Hirota