Patents by Inventor Ryoji Mori

Ryoji Mori 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: 20080292896
    Abstract: A polypropylene composite film having a propylene/1-butene random copolymer which has 60 to 90 mol % of propylene units and 10 to 40 mol % of 1-butene units and has a triad isotacticity of not less than 85% and not more than 97.5%, a molecular weight distribution of from 1 to 3, an intrinsic viscosity of from 0.1 to 12 dl/g, a melting point of from 40 to 75° C. and a crystallization rate at 45° C. of 10 minutes or less, and satisfying the following relation, 146 exp (?0.022M)?Tm ?125 exp (?0.032M), and an olefin catalyst for preparation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Keiji Okada, Hiroshi Takayasu, Norihide Inoue, Naritoshi Hirota, Hiromu Kaneyoshi, Munehito Funaya, Koji Kawai, Nobuo Kawahara, Shinichi Kojoh, Norio Kashiwa, Ryoji Mori
  • Publication number: 20080281046
    Abstract: Disclosed is a propylene based resin composition comprising 1 to 99% by weight of a specific propylene based polymer (A) and 99 to 1% by weight of an olefin based block copolymer (B) comprising specific polymer segments (B1), (B1?) and (B2) (wherein the total amount of the propylene based polymer (A) and the olefin based block copolymer (B) is 100% by weight).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Ryoji Mori, Kouichi Kizu, Tomoaki Matsugi, Shinichi Kojoh
  • Patent number: 7449533
    Abstract: The metallocene compound according to the invention and the olefin polymerization catalyst containing the compound are intended to produce a catalyst capable of preparing an isotactic polymer with a high polymerization activity. The metallocene compound contains a substituted cyclopentadienyl group and a (substituted) fluorenyl group and has a structure wherein these groups are bridged by a hydrocarbon group or the like. The process for preparing a metallocene compound according to the invention is intended to selectively prepare a specific metallocene compound so as not to produce an isomer, and in this process an intermediate product is synthesized by a specific method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Kawai, Masahiro Yamashita, Yasushi Tohi, Nobuo Kawahara, Kenji Michiue, Hiromu Kaneyoshi, Ryoji Mori
  • Publication number: 20080220193
    Abstract: A catalyst for olefin polymerization, comprising: (A-1) a bridged metallocene compound represented by the following Formula [1-1], and (b) at least one compound selected from: (b-1) an organoaluminum oxy compound, (b-2) a compound which forms an ion pair, and (b-3) an organoaluminum compound: wherein in Formula [1-1], R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R8, R9, and R12 are each selected from a hydrogen, a hydrocarbon group and a silicon-containing group; the four groups of R6, R7, R10, and R11 are not hydrogen atoms, and are each selected from a hydrocarbon group or a silicon-containing group; R13 and R14 are each a hydrocarbon group or the like, excluding a hydrogen atom and a methyl group; M is Ti, Zr or the like; Y is carbon or the like; Q is a halogen or the like; and j is an integer from 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Yasushi Tohi, Masahiko Okamoto, Ryoji Mori, Tatsuya Nakamura, Takashi Yukita, Takashi Nakagawa, Miyuki Konno, Yuichi Yamamura, Shigenobu Ikenaga, Mayumi Hiwara, Naritoshi Hirota, Hiromasa Marubayashi, Kouji Nagahashi, Shiro Otsuzuki, Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Masashi Higuchi, Yasuo Ichiki, Takayuki Kajihara
  • Publication number: 20080215016
    Abstract: Medical tubes are well balanced in transparency, flexibility, heat resistance, scratch resistance and rubber elasticity. The medical tubes including a propylene polymer composition (A) that contains a polymer with propylene units, at least part of the polymer having an isotactic structure and the total of the propylene units of the polymer being in an amount of 65 to 82 mol % (the total of the structural units of the polymer in the composition is 100 mol %), and that satisfies the following (a1), (a2) and (b1): (a1) the modulus in tension is in the range of 5 to 25 MPa as determined in accordance with JIS K 6301; (a2) the penetration temperature is 120° C. or above as determined in accordance with JIS K 7196; and (b1) when a tube being made of the composition (A) and having an inner diameter of 2.1 mm, an outer diameter of 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicants: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC., OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL FACTORY, INC.
    Inventors: Kouichi Igarashi, Sadamu Shirokuma, Ryoji Mori, Isamu Tateishi, Hitoshi Mori, Rie Ishii
  • Patent number: 7388051
    Abstract: The invention provides a propylene polymer composition well balanced and excellent in transparency, flexibility, heat resistance, scratch resistance and rubber elasticity, and a medical tube made from the propylene polymer composition. The propylene polymer composition satisfies all the following properties (A), (B), (C) and (D): (A) the composition shows a loss tangent (tan ?) peak at a temperature in the range of ?20 to 25° C. according to dynamic viscoelasticity measurement (10 rad/s) in a torsion mode, and the peak is 0.5 or above; (B) the storage elastic modulus G? at 20° C. from the dynamic viscoelasticity measurement is in the range of 1.0×107 to 4.9×108 dyn/cm2; (C) the penetration temperature (° C.) determined in accordance with JIS K 7196 is in the range of 60 to 160° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryoji Mori, Takashi Nakagawa, Mamoru Kagami, Akira Todo
  • Publication number: 20080097055
    Abstract: A high molecular weight propylene polymer exhibiting high stereoregularity (isotactic) and high position selectivity can be effectively produced by polymerizing at least one monomer selected from propylene, ?-olefins and polyenes in the presence of a catalyst for olefin polymerization comprising: (A) a bridged metallocene compound represented by the General Formula [I] given in claims (diphenylmethylene(3-tert-butyl-5-ethyl-cyclopentadienyl)(fluorenyl)zirconium dichloride, etc.); and (B) one or more compound(s) selected from (b-1) an organoaluminumoxy compound (b-2) a compound which reacts with the bridged metallocene compound (A) to form an ion pair, and (b-3) an organoaluminum compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Munehito Funaya, Naritoshi Hirota, Mayumi Hiwara, Yasushi Tohi, Koji Kawai, Ryoji Mori, Masahiko Okamoto, Shigenobu Ikenaga, Hiromasa Marubayashi
  • Publication number: 20080085977
    Abstract: The propylene-based polymer composition of the present invention includes 41 to 95 parts by weight of a propylene-based polymer (A) having a Tm measured by DSC of not less than 120° C. and not more than 170° C., and 59 to 5 parts by weight (provided that the total of (A) and (B) is 100 parts by weight) of a propylene/ethylene/?-olefin copolymer (B) that contains 84.0 to 60.0 mol % of constitutional units derived from propylene, 15.0 to 30.0 mol % of constitutional units derived from ethylene, and 1.0 to 10.0 mol % of constitutional units derived from an ?-olefin having 4 to 20 carbon atoms and has a B-value of not less than 0.9 and not more than 1.5. This polymer composition is excellent in transparency, low-temperature impact resistance, and mechanical properties (flexibility or rigidity, etc.) and also excellent in heat resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Inventors: Masahiko Okamoto, Ryoji Mori, Takashi Nakagawa, Hiromasa Marubayashi, Shigenobu Ikenaga, Yasushi Tohi, Kouji Nagahashi
  • Publication number: 20070225431
    Abstract: A composition having excellent transparency, flexibility, rubber elasticity, thermal resistance, impact resistance, abrasion resistance and the like, a composition having excellent rigidity and impact resistance as well as excellently balanced in whitening resistance, abrasion resistance and heat sealability, and a composition having excellent rubbery properties, thermal resistance, abrasion resistance and flexibility are provided. A composition comprising a specific propylene•?-olefin copolymer for which, in a signal chart measured by 13C-NMR and predetermined such that the peak present at the highest magnetic field among the signals originating from CH (methine) of the constituent unit derived from an ?-olefin having 4 to 20 carbon atoms is to be at 34.4 ppm, an absorption intensity A at about 22.0 to 20.9 ppm and an absorption intensity B at about 19.0 to 20.6 ppm satisfy the following relational expressions (i) and (ii) with respect to an absorption intensity C at about 19.0 to 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2005
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.,
    Inventors: Ryoji Mori, Takashi Nakagawa, Shigenobu Ikenaga, Hiromasa Marubayashi, Masahiko Okamoto, Yasushi Tohi, Kouji Nagahashi
  • Patent number: 7253234
    Abstract: A syndiotactic propylene-based polymer composition which retains the inherent features of the conventional non-crosslinked or partially crosslinked olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer, and also has excellent abrasion resistance and flexibility. The syndiotactic propylene-based polymer composition comprises 1 to 40 parts by weight of the syndiotactic polypropylene (B), and 5 to 60 parts by weight of the syndiotactic structured propylene-?-olefin copolymer (C) comprising 95 to 65 mol % of a syndiotactic structured propylene component and 5 to 35 mol % of an ?-olefin (except propylene) component having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, based on 100 parts by weight of the non-crosslinked or partially crosslinked olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryoji Mori, Takashi Nakagawa, Akira Todo
  • Publication number: 20070172649
    Abstract: An adhesive material and a pressure sensitive adhesive film containing the same of the present invention are characterized in that they satisfy the following requirements (a) and (b). These adhesive material and pressure sensitive adhesive film of the present invention exhibit excellent stability against not only light and heat but also various chemicals. Consequently, they are suitable applications in surface protection uses, transport storage uses, heating treatment uses, grinding/polishing uses, cutting processing uses and transport/storage uses in the fields of electronic/semiconductor materials, optical/display materials and the like, where demands for performances and qualities are strict. The above requirements are: (a) an olefinic polymer is contained, and (b) by measurement according to a differential scanning calorimetry test, the melting temperature Tm is in the range of 80° C. to 180° C. and the heat of fusion ?H is at least 1 J/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Shin Aihara, Katsutoshi Ozaki, Ryoji Mori, Masumi Saruwatari, Takashi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20070172683
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a molded product having excellent moldability and ability to be processed into parts, as well as excellent scratch resistance. The invention provides a multilayered laminate composed of two or more layers, having a structure in which a layer (I) comprising at least one selected from an olefinic thermoplastic elastomer composition (A) and an olefinic resin (B), and a layer (II) comprising an olefinic thermoplastic elastomer composition (C) are laminated. The olefinic thermoplastic elastomer composition (C) is a composition comprising [1] a specific syndiotactic polypropylene copolymer (c), and [2] at least one selected from a polypropylene resin (d) and an olefinic thermoplastic elastomer (e).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Ito, Ryoji Mori, Takashi Nakagawa, Masakazu Jitsukata
  • Patent number: 7160949
    Abstract: Olefin block copolymers (A-1) are disclosed represented by the formula (I) PO1-g1-B1 . . . (I) wherein PO1 is a segment comprised of repeating units derived from an olefin having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, g1 is an ester, ether, amide, imide, urethane, urea, silylether or carbonyl linkage, and B1 is a segment containing an unsaturated hydrocarbon or a hetero atom. The olefin block copolymers are suitable for uses in adhesives, various molded articles such as construction and civil engineering materials, automobile interior and exterior materials, gasoline tanks, electric and electronic parts, medical care and sanitation materials, materials of miscellaneous goods, resin materials having environmental degradation properties, films and sheets, modifiers and dispersions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Seiji Ota, Satoru Moriya, Ryoji Mori, Taku Koda, Junji Tan, Shinichi Kojoh, Hideyuki Kaneko, Shunichi Hama, Tadahito Nobori, Tomoaki Matsugi, Norio Kashiwa
  • Publication number: 20060276607
    Abstract: The present invention provides a propylene/1-butene random copolymer (PBR) having excellent flexibility, impact resistance, heat resistance and low-temperature heat-seal properties, a polypropylene composition containg the copolymer, a sheet, film or stretched film comprising the composition and a composite film having a layer of the composition. The propylene/1-butene random copolymer contains 60 to 90 mol % of propylene units and 10 to 40 mol % of 1-butene units and has a triad isotacticity of not less than 85% and not more than 97.5%, a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of from 1 to 3, an intrinsic viscosity of from 0.1 to 12 dl/g, a melting point (Tm) of from 40 to 120° C., and satisfies the following relation 146 exp(?0.022M)?Tm?125 exp(?0.032M) wherein Tm represents a melting point and M (mol %) represents a content of 1-butene constituent units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2003
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Keiji Okada, Hiroshi Takayasu, Norihide Inoue, Naritoshi Hirota, Hiromu Kaneyoshi, Munehito Funaya, Koji Kawai, Nobuo Kawahara, Shinichi Kojoh, Norio Kashiwa, Ryoji Mori
  • Publication number: 20060247381
    Abstract: The present invention provides a propylene polymer composition having excellent transparency, flexibility, heat resistance, scratch resistance and rubber elasticity with a good balance. The propylene polymer composition comprises 1 to 40 parts by weight of isotactic polypropylene (i) and 60 to 99 parts by weight of a propylene/ethylene/?-olefin copolymer (ii) which contains 45 to 89% by mol of a propylene component, 10 to 25% by mol of an ethylene component, and optionally, 0 to 30% by mol of constituent units (a) derived from an ?-olefin of 4 to 20 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Ryoji Mori, Takashi Nakagawa, Akira Todo
  • Publication number: 20060057321
    Abstract: The invention provides a propylene polymer composition well balanced and excellent in transparency, flexibility, heat resistance, scratch resistance and rubber elasticity, and a medical tube made from the propylene polymer composition. The propylene polymer composition satisfies all the following properties (A), (B), (C) and (D): (A) the composition shows a loss tangent (tan ?) peak at a temperature in the range of ?20 to 25° C. according to dynamic viscoelasticity measurement (10 rad/s) in a torsion mode, and the peak is 0.5 or above; (B) the storage elastic modulus G? at 20° C. from the dynamic viscoelasticity measurement is in the range of 1.0×107 to 4.9×108 dyn/cm2; (C) the penetration temperature (° C.) determined in accordance with JIS K 7196 is in the range of 60 to 160° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Ryoji Mori, Takashi Nakagawa, Mamoru Kagami, Akira Todo
  • Publication number: 20060052543
    Abstract: A syndiotactic propylene-based polymer composition which retains the inherent features of the conventional non-crosslinked or partially crosslinked olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer, and also has excellent abrasion resistance and flexibility. The syndiotactic propylene-based polymer composition comprises 1 to 40 parts by weight of the syndiotactic polypropylene (B), and 5 to 60 parts by weight of the syndiotactic structured propylene-?-olefin copolymer (C) comprising 95 to 65 mol % of a syndiotactic structured propylene component and 5 to 35 mol % of an ?-olefin (except propylene) component having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, based on 100 parts by weight of the non-crosslinked or partially crosslinked olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Ryoji Mori, Takashi Nakagawa, Akira Todo
  • Publication number: 20050228155
    Abstract: The metallocene compound according to the invention and the olefin polymerization catalyst containing the compound are intended to produce a catalyst capable of preparing an isotactic polymer with a high polymerization activity. The metallocene compound contains a substituted cyclopentadienyl group and a (substituted) fluorenyl group and has a structure wherein these groups are bridged by a hydrocarbon group or the like. The process for preparing a metallocene compound according to the invention is intended to selectively prepare a specific metallocene compound so as not to produce an isomer, and in this process an intermediate product is synthesized by a specific method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Koji Kawai, Masahiro Yamashita, Yasushi Tohi, Nobuo Kawahara, Kenji Michiue, Hiromu Kaneyoshi, Ryoji Mori
  • Patent number: 6939928
    Abstract: The metallocene compound according to the invention and the olefin polymerization catalyst containing the compound are intended to produce a catalyst capable of preparing an isotactic polymer with a high polymerization activity. The metallocene compound contains a substituted cyclopentadienyl group and a (substituted) fluorenyl group and has a structure wherein these groups are bridged by a hydrocarbon group or the like. The process for preparing a metallocene compound according to the invention is intended to selectively prepare a specific metallocene compound so as not to produce an isomer, and in this process an intermediate product is synthesized by a specific method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Kawai, Masahiro Yamashita, Yasushi Tohi, Nobuo Kawahara, Kenji Michiue, Hiromu Kaneyoshi, Ryoji Mori
  • Patent number: 6914112
    Abstract: An ethylene-based copolymer is useful as a modifier for resins, e.g., polypropylene, and can be used in an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer composition containing the same ethylene-based copolymer. The inventive copolymer is characterize by: (a-1) having temperature (Tm) at the maximum peak in the endothermic curve, measured by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), of 40 to 90° C., (a-2) containing the component soluble in decane at normal temperature at 1 to 70% b weight, and (a-3) containing the component soluble in decane at normal temperature which comprises (i) a recurring unit derived from ethylene and (ii) a recurring unit derived from an ?-olefin of 4 or more carbon atoms, and in which a content of (i) the recurring unit derived from ethylene is 50 to 75% by mole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemical, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryoji Mori, Kouichi Kizu, Keiji Okada, Kazuyuki Takimoto