Patents by Inventor Masakazu Hirayama

Masakazu Hirayama 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).

  • Metal can label and metal can having metal can label applied thereto
    Patent number: 6553700
    Abstract: A metal-can label is bonded to a metal can by heating. The label has a thermally stable transparent label substrate; and adhesive layer composed of a thermosetting resin; and either a printer layer or a deposited metal layer or both. These layers are formed between the transparent label layer and the adhesive layer. The label has, at its edge, a clear portion having a predetermined width in which the transparent label substrate and the adhesive layer are laminated without the interposition of either the print layer or the deposited metal layer. A can having rolled top covering the clear portion of the label is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Seal Inc.
    Inventors: Masakazu Hirayama, Takahiro Nakagawa, Yoshinori Hotta
  • Heat sensitive jacket label for battery and battery with the same
    Patent number: 5725966
    Abstract: A heat sensitive jacket label for a battery is disclosed. It comprises a base made of a heat-shrinking film, a metal layer provided on a back surface of the base, a heat-resistant insulating layer provided on the metal layer, and a heat sensitive adhesive on the insulating layer. The base heat-shrinks at a temperature at least 15.degree. C. higher than a temperature for effecting adhesion of the heat sensitive adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Fuji Seal Inc.
    Inventors: Masanobu Abe, Takeshi Okubo, Carl David Walton, Junichi Asaoka, Yasuhiko Shoji, Tetsuo Hata, Masakazu Hirayama, Takeshi Kyogane
  • Heat sensitive label for packaging a dry-cell battery
    Patent number: 5665443
    Abstract: A heat sensitive label for packaging a dry-cell battery includes a label substrate, a heat sensitive adhesive layer provided on one surface of the label substrate and a printing layer provided on an opposite surface of the label substrate, in which an ultraviolet ray curing ink is applied for the printing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Seal, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Hata, Takeshi Kyogane, Masakazu Hirayama, Hiroyuki Fujita