Patents by Inventor Isao Hirose

Isao Hirose 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: 9341758
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical laminated body having a patterning polarizer layer in which a more complicated pattern can be set. The optical laminated body 1A of the present invention has a patterning polarizer layer 3A having at least two polarizing regions 31A and 32A having different single transmittances, and a substrate 2A. The two polarizing regions 31A and 32A are different in thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichi Matsuda, Tadayuki Kameyama, Hiroshi Tomohisa, Yoshiaki Asanoi, Isao Hirose, Yoshihiro Kitamura, Kanji Nishida
  • Patent number: 9061312
    Abstract: An inner deckle for a die includes a shaft-shaped deckle main body and a sheet- or film-shaped deckle auxiliary portion extending from the deckle main body. The inner deckle is arranged at each end of a die. The die includes a die piece and is formed with a manifold and a slit. The deckle main body includes a seal reinforcing portion. A liquid material is supplied into the manifold. The seal reinforcing portion includes at least one sealing member having two or more films. The films slide and are simultaneously elastically deformed against an inner wall of the manifold when a position of the inner deckle is moved with respect to the die. The films cooperate with each other and are closely attached to the inner wall by an elastic restoring force when the position of the inner deckle is fixed with respect to the die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kitani, Minoru Yagi, Yoshihiro Kitamura, Isao Hirose, Hiroshi Matsuo, Tetsuo Nasu, Tadao Horie, Shogo Sasaki, Hiroo Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20150153495
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical laminated body having a patterning polarizer layer in which a more complicated pattern can be set. The optical laminated body 1A of the present invention has a patterning polarizer layer 3A having at least two polarizing regions 31A and 32A having different single transmittances, and a substrate 2A. The two polarizing regions 31A and 32A are different in thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichi Matsuda, Tadayuki Kameyama, Hiroshi Tomohisa, Yoshiaki Asanoi, Isao Hirose, Yoshihiro Kitamura, Kanji Nishida
  • Publication number: 20140234539
    Abstract: A die-type coating device includes a supply roll, a die, a rewinding roll, web widthwise end position detection devices, and layer widthwise end position detection devices. The die includes a pair of inner deckles which adjust a coating width. The inner deckle is arranged at one of two end portions of the die and configured to be easily moved in the die in a longitudinal direction of the die. The die includes a drive device which drives and moves the inner deckles. The drive device is driven on a basis of information on both widthwise end positions of the web detected by the web widthwise end position detection devices and information on both widthwise end positions of the layer of the coating liquid or the coating layer detected by the layer widthwise end position detection devices so that respective positions of the inner deckles relative to the die are changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kitani, Satoru Saki, Yoshihiro Kitamura, Isao Hirose, Hiroshi Matsuo, Tetsuo Nasu
  • Patent number: 8794292
    Abstract: Provided is double-faced adhesive tape joining apparatus that allows accurate joining of a double-faced adhesive tape on a tape joining surface of a workpiece in a curved or bent shape with no damage on a surface of a separator joined to the double-faced adhesive tape and no floating of the separator. Specifically, a hand-operable base includes a tape guide for guiding the double-faced adhesive tape successively supplied, and a joining head for pressing against the joining surface of the workpiece the double-faced adhesive tape supplied to a front end of the base. The base and the joining head are configured as to rotate relatively about a support axis toward a longitudinal tape direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Inokuchi, Kazuhiko Kinpara, Naoto Kato, Isao Hirose
  • Publication number: 20140102360
    Abstract: An inner deckle for a die includes a shaft-shaped deckle main body and a sheet- or film-shaped deckle auxiliary portion extending from the deckle main body. The inner deckle is arranged at each end of a die. The die includes a die piece and is formed with a manifold and a slit. The deckle main body includes a seal reinforcing portion. A liquid material is supplied into the manifold. The seal reinforcing portion includes at least one sealing member having two or more films. The films slide and are simultaneously elastically deformed against an inner wall of the manifold when a position of the inner deckle is moved with respect to the die. The films cooperate with each other and are closely attached to the inner wall by an elastic restoring force when the position of the inner deckle is fixed with respect to the die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kitani, Minoru Yagi, Yoshihiro Kitamura, Isao Hirose, Hiroshi Matsuo, Tetsuo Nasu, Tadao Horie, Shogo Sasaki, Hiroo Igarashi
  • Patent number: 8623485
    Abstract: The present invention provides an adhesive unit for emblem, which includes: a plurality of double-faced adhesive pieces each having a shape corresponding to a shape of a respective one of a plurality of emblem pieces; a first release film attached to a face of each of the plurality of double-faced adhesive pieces to be adhered to an emblem, so that a mutual positional relationship of the plurality of double-faced adhesive pieces is maintained; and a second release film attached to the other face of each of the plurality of double-faced adhesive pieces opposite to the face to be adhered to the emblem. The present invention also provides a method of producing the adhesive unit for emblem, a jig for adhering emblem, and an emblem for adhesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignees: Nitto Denko Corporation, Nissho Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Asano, Isao Hirose, Shinji Inokuchi, Tokuhisa Kosaka
  • Publication number: 20130228267
    Abstract: A double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape does not generate wrinkles or floating on a release liner even when the tape is attached to an adherend having a bend or curve, with the release liner held and with the tape bent in a width direction. A method is for attaching the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape to an adherend having a bend and/or curve. The double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape of the present invention includes, on at least one side of a pressure-sensitive adhesive body, a release liner having a notch and/or slit in at least one edge in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsubaki, Kazuhiko Kinpara, Isao Hirose
  • Publication number: 20120279645
    Abstract: A double-faced adhesive tape is accurately joined to a bent tape joining face of a workpiece while a separator on an upper surface remains without separation of the separator. Specifically, the double-faced adhesive tape has the separator on the upper surface remaining and a separator on a lower surface being separated, and a rotary cutter forms slits at given intervals along sides of the separator on the double-faced adhesive tape that is to be supplied to a tape joining position. Then, the double-faced adhesive tape having the separator with the slits formed therein is guided to the tape joining position at a front end of apparatus, and is successively joined to a front face of the workpiece while being pressed with a joining roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventors: Shinji Inokuchi, Kazuhiko Kinpara, Naoto Kato, Isao Hirose
  • Publication number: 20120216948
    Abstract: Provided is a process for producing a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet by laminating layers of active-energy-ray-curable compositions and irradiating the laminate with an active energy ray. The processes gives a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet with less defects at low production cost and is applicable to the production of pressure-sensitive adhesive sheets of various kinds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Isao Hirose, Shuzo Fujiwara, Yuuta Shimazaki, Tetsuya Hirose
  • Patent number: 8173237
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for joining two strips, where the two strips each include a laminate of a release liner and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and the release liner extends from the corresponding pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in a longitudinal end region of at least one of the two strips. The method includes butting cross-sections of longitudinal ends of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layers of the two strips to bond the two pressure-sensitive adhesive layers; and superposing end regions of the release liners of the two strips and fixing the release liners so that surfaces of the release liners in portions at least 1 mm long inward from the longitudinal ends are not in contact with surfaces of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layers. This method gives a continuous strip from which the release liner can be smoothly removed without “binding” even at the joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Tokuhisa Kosaka, Masatoshi Mamiya, Isao Hirose, Shinji Inokuchi
  • Publication number: 20120055635
    Abstract: Provided is double-faced adhesive tape joining apparatus that allows accurate joining of a double-faced adhesive tape on a tape joining surface of a workpiece in a curved or bent shape with no damage on a surface of a separator joined to the double-faced adhesive tape and no floating of the separator. Specifically, a hand-operable base includes a tape guide for guiding the double-faced adhesive tape successively supplied, and a joining head for pressing against the joining surface of the workpiece the double-faced adhesive tape supplied to a front end of the base. The base and the joining head are configured as to rotate relatively about a support axis toward a longitudinal tape direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Shinji Inokuchi, Kazuhiko Kinpara, Naoto Kato, Isao Hirose
  • Patent number: 8093310
    Abstract: A multilayer body 20 formed by applying a layer between sheet-like bases 2 and 3 using an application portion 5 is conveyed at a predetermined speed by a conveying roll 11, and a polymerization reaction is induced in the layer of photoreactive product 8 by irradiating the multilayer body 20 that has been conveyed in an irradiation chamber 10 with ultraviolet rays emitted from ultraviolet ray emitting LEDs 25, and furthermore, low temperature air is blown out from cooling apparatuses 17, and thus, the multilayer body 20, which becomes of a high temperature state as a result of the polymerization reaction of the layer of photoreactive product 8, is cooled in the configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventor: Isao Hirose
  • Publication number: 20110244230
    Abstract: A double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape is used for fixing decorative panels and includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing bubbles and/or hollow microspheres. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is preferably formed from an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive, particularly an active-energy-ray-curable acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive. The double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape for fixing decorative panels preferably has a toluene emission of 15 ?g/g or less and preferably has a surface lightness L* of 60 to 30. The adhesive tape can be a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape for fixing decorative panels, which excels in conformability to curved surfaces and bumps, resilience resistance, and adhesiveness and which may thereby show excellent adhesive properties even when used for fixing a decorative panel to an adherend of a complicated shape with a curved surface or bumps or for fixing a narrow decorative panel to an adherend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsubaki, Shinji Inokuchi, Isao Hirose, Tokuhisa Kosaka
  • Patent number: 7919140
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, which includes irradiating a photopolymerizable acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition layer provided between two films with an active energy beam to polymerize the photopolymerizable acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition layer, in which the polymerization is performed while a layer of a composition for preventing polymerization inhibition which is curable with an active energy beam in the atmosphere is provided on a side surface of the photopolymerizable acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition layer. According to the process for producing a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer of the present invention, owing to the construction as discussed above, it is possible to reuse a film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Maeda, Isao Hirose, Kunio Nagasaki
  • Publication number: 20100224312
    Abstract: A double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape does not generate wrinkles or floating on a release liner even when the tape is attached to an adherend having a bend or curve, with the release liner held and with the tape bent in a width direction. A method is for attaching the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape to an adherend having a bend and/or curve. The double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape of the present invention includes, on at least one side of a pressure-sensitive adhesive body, a release liner having a notch and/or slit in at least one edge in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsubaki, Kazuhiko Kinpara, Isao Hirose
  • Patent number: 7677011
    Abstract: A solid type pressure-sensitive adhesive composition capable of being applied without the necessity of using an organic solvent or water and a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, which are excellent in both adhesive force and holding power and, in particular, undergo no decrease in low-temperature adhesive force even when the adhesive layer thickness is small. The crosslinked solid type pressure-sensitive adhesive composition comprising (a) a rubbery polymer, (b) a tackifier, and (c) a crosslinking agent comprising at least one member selected from the group consisting of thiuram vulcanizing agents, quinoid vulcanizing agents, quinone dioxime vulcanizing agents, and maleimide vulcanizing agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoo Yamaguchi, Yasunobu Ina, Isao Hirose, Shuzo Fujiwara, Yoshihiro Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20090258177
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for joining two strips, where the two strips each include a laminate of a release liner and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and the release liner extends from the corresponding pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in a longitudinal end region of at least one of the two strips. The method includes butting cross-sections of longitudinal ends of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layers of the two strips to bond the two pressure-sensitive adhesive layers; and superposing end regions of the release liners of the two strips and fixing the release liners so that surfaces of the release liners in portions at least 1 mm long inward from the longitudinal ends are not in contact with surfaces of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layers. This method gives a continuous strip from which the release liner can be smoothly removed without “binding” even at the joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tokuhisa Kosaka, Masatoshi Mamiya, Isao Hirose, Shinji Inokuchi
  • Patent number: 7534012
    Abstract: The present invention provides an illumination device including a cylindrical light source and a curved mirror for reflecting light radiated from the cylindrical light source, wherein the curved mirror has a light reflection surface which has a shape of a portion of an elliptic curve having a first focal point and a second focal point on a reference axis of the curved surface, in a cross-sectional surface perpendicular to the axial direction of the light source, and the cylindrical light source is disposed on the reference axis at a position between the first focal point and the second focal point, a light irradiation apparatus including the illumination device, and a method for producing a photoreaction product sheet using the irradiation apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventor: Isao Hirose
  • Publication number: 20090110922
    Abstract: A multilayer body 20 formed by applying a layer between sheet-like bases 2 and 3 using an application portion 5 is conveyed at a predetermined speed by a conveying roll 11, and a polymerization reaction is induced in the layer of photoreactive product 8 by irradiating the multilayer body 20 that has been conveyed in an irradiation chamber 10 with ultraviolet rays emitted from ultraviolet ray emitting LEDs 25, and furthermore, low temperature air is blown out from cooling apparatuses 17, and thus, the multilayer body 20, which becomes of a high temperature state as a result of the polymerization reaction of the layer of photoreactive product 8, is cooled in the configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventor: Isao Hirose