Patents by Inventor Takeshi Iwanaga

Takeshi Iwanaga 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: 11958939
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution contains: an aqueous solvent containing water; particles; and a polyimide precursor, wherein the polyimide precursor has a high molecular weight region A containing a high molecular weight side maximum value and a low molecular weight region B containing a low molecular weight side maximum value in an elution curve obtained by gel permeation chromatography, a weight average molecular weight in the high molecular weight region A is 50,000 or more, a weight average molecular weight in the low molecular weight region B is 10,000 or more and 30,000 or less, and a value of a/(a+b) is 0.60 or more and 0.98 or less in which a represents an area of the high molecular weight region A and b represents an area of the low molecular weight region B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kosuke Nakada, Shigeru Seitoku, Takeshi Iwanaga, Tomoyo Okubo, Hajime Sugahara, Hidekazu Hirose
  • Patent number: 11796928
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive support and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive support. A top surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member includes fluorine-containing resin particles, a fluorine-containing dispersant, and two or more charge transporting materials. When the charge transporting materials are listed in order of decreasing HOMO energy levels, a difference in HOMO energy level between each adjacent two of the charge The ratio A of the amount of each of the charge transporting materials to the total amount of the charge transporting materials satisfies the condition 1 below, [(100/N)?(100/N×0.3)]?A?[(100/N)+(100/N×0.3)]??Condition 1 where N represents the number of types of the charge transporting materials included in the top surface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kenta Shingu, Yoshiteru Yamada, Akihiro Kawasaki, Keisuke Kusano, Kohei Hashimoto, Yuto Okazaki, Takeshi Iwanaga, Wataru Yamada, Hirohito Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 11787942
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution includes: a polyimide precursor; polyester resin particles containing a polyester resin and having a volume average particle diameter of from 3 ?m to 50 ?m inclusive and an average circularity of 0.970 or more; and a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru Seitoku, Kosuke Nakada, Takeshi Iwanaga, Hidekazu Hirose
  • Publication number: 20230103101
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive toner includes toner particles containing a composite resin that includes a styrene-based resin and a (meth)acrylate-based resin. The difference between a lowest glass transition temperature of the composite resin and a highest glass transition temperature thereof is 30° C. or more, and the toner particles have a gel fraction of from 1.0% by mass to 8.0% by mass inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takeshi IWANAGA, Takako KOBAYASHI, Mieko SEKI, Kiyohiro YAMANAKA, Satoshi KAMIWAKI
  • Publication number: 20230077397
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution includes an aqueous solvent including water, a polyimide precursor, resin particles, and an ionization agent X having a boiling point of 100° C. or more and 130° C. or less and an ionization agent Y having a boiling point of 250° C. or more and 300° C. or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takeshi IWANAGA, Shigeru SEITOKU, Kosuke NAKADA, Hidekazu HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20230080755
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution includes: a polyimide precursor; polyester resin particles containing a polyester resin and having a volume average particle diameter of from 3 ?m to 50 ?m inclusive and an average circularity of 0.970 or more; and a solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru SEITOKU, Kosuke NAKADA, Takeshi IWANAGA, Hidekazu HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20230076583
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution includes: a polyimide precursor that is a polymer of a tetracarboxylic dianhydride and a diamine compound; particles; a solvent; and a compound having at least four carboxy groups per molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kosuke NAKADA, Shigeru SEITOKU, Takeshi IWANAGA, Hidekazu HIROSE
  • Patent number: 11547069
    Abstract: Water purification particles have porous particles and photocatalyst particles formed of titanium-based compound particles that are supported on the porous particles, have absorption at a wavelength of 500 nm in a visible absorption spectrum, and have an absorption peak at 2,700 cm?1 to 3,000 cm?1 in an infrared absorption spectrum, and a metal compound having a metal atom and a hydrocarbon group is bonded to the surface of each of the titanium-based compound particles through an oxygen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takeshi Iwanaga, Hiroyoshi Okuno, Hideaki Yoshikawa, Sakae Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20220308486
    Abstract: A particle set for producing a printed matter includes: a chromatic color toner containing toner particles A; and pressure-responsive particles containing base particles B, in which the base particles B contain a styrene resin containing, as polymerization components, styrene and a vinyl monomer other than styrene, and a (meth)acrylate resin containing, as a polymerization component, a (meth)acrylate, a mass ratio of the styrene resin to the (meth)acrylate resin (styrene resin:(meth)acrylate resin) is 80:20 to 20:80, a difference between the lowest glass transition temperature and the highest glass transition temperature of the pressure-responsive particles is 30° C. or more, and when the toner particles A have a volume average particle diameter D50A and the base particles B have a volume average particle diameter D50B, the D50A and the D50B satisfy formula 1-1: 1.5 ?m<(D50B?D50A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi IIDA, Takashi HASEGAWA, Satoshi KAMIWAKI, Takako KOBAYASHI, Satoshi INOUE, Sumiaki YAMASAKI, Mieko SEKI, Kiyohiro YAMANAKA, Takeshi IWANAGA
  • Publication number: 20220308478
    Abstract: A method for producing pressure-responsive particles includes: adding an aggregating agent and a dispersion containing silica particles to a dispersion containing composite resin particles containing a styrene-based resin including a styrene compound and a vinyl monomer other than the styrene compound as polymer components and a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin including a (meth)acrylic acid ester compound as a polymer component to cause aggregation so as to form aggregated particles; and heating and fusing the aggregated particles to form pressure-responsive particles. The amount of the silica particles added by the dispersion containing the silica particles is 0.5 mass % or more and 10 mass % or less relative to a total mass of the composite resin particles. The mass ratio of the styrene-based resin to the (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin in the pressure-responsive particles is from 80:20 to 20:80.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kiyohiro YAMANAKA, Satoshi KAMIWAKI, Takeshi IWANAGA, Sumiaki YAMASAKI, Satoshi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20220306913
    Abstract: A method for producing pressure-responsive particles includes: adding an aggregating agent to a dispersion containing composite resin particles containing a styrene-based resin including a styrene compound and a vinyl monomer other than the styrene compound as polymer components and a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin including a (meth)acrylic acid ester compound as a polymer component to aggregate the composite resin particles so as to form aggregated particles A; forming a shell by adding an aggregating agent and styrene-based resin particles containing a styrene compound and a vinyl monomer other than the styrene compound as polymer components to a dispersion containing the aggregated particles A to aggregate the styrene-based resin particles so as to form aggregated particles B; and heating and fusing the aggregated particles B to form pressure-responsive particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kamiwaki, Sumiaki Yamasaki, Takeshi Iwanaga, Kiyohiro Yamanaka, Satoshi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220306806
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor film contains a polyimide precursor, in which a total content of a solvent containing water and a solvent other than water in the polyimide precursor film is 5 mass % or more and 40 mass % or less, and a mass ratio of water to the solvent other than water in the polyimide precursor film is 0 or more and 2.5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomoyo OKUBO, Takeshi IWANAGA, Hidekazu HIROSE, Kosuke NAKADA, Hajime SUGAHARA, Shigeru SEITOKU
  • Publication number: 20220305739
    Abstract: A polyimide porous film includes: a polyimide porous film body; and at least one of resin particles and a resin porous film, the at least one of the resin particles and the resin porous film adhering to one surface or both surfaces of the polyimide porous film body, and containing a fluorine-based resin or containing a fluorine-based resin and an acrylic resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Takeshi IWANAGA, Shigeru SEITOKU, Kosuke NAKADA, Tomoyo OKUBO, Hidekazu HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20220308473
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive support and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive support. A top surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member includes fluorine-containing resin particles, a fluorine-containing dispersant, and two or more charge transporting materials. When the charge transporting materials are listed in order of decreasing HOMO energy levels, a difference in HOMO energy level between each adjacent two of the charge The ratio A of the amount of each of the charge transporting materials to the total amount of the charge transporting materials satisfies the condition 1 below, [(100/N)?(100/N×0.3)]?A?[(100/N)+(100/N×0.3)]??Condition 1 where N represents the number of types of the charge transporting materials included in the top surface layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kenta SHINGU, Yoshiteru Yamada, Akihiro Kawasaki, Keisuke Kusano, Kohei Hashimoto, Yuto Okazaki, Takeshi Iwanaga, Wataru Yamada, Hirohito Yoneyama
  • Publication number: 20220267527
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution contains: an aqueous solvent containing water; particles; and a polyimide precursor, wherein the polyimide precursor has a high molecular weight region A containing a high molecular weight side maximum value and a low molecular weight region B containing a low molecular weight side maximum value in an elution curve obtained by gel permeation chromatography, a weight average molecular weight in the high molecular weight region A is 50,000 or more, a weight average molecular weight in the low molecular weight region B is 10,000 or more and 30,000 or less, and a value of a/(a+b) is 0.60 or more and 0.98 or less in which a represents an area of the high molecular weight region A and b represents an area of the low molecular weight region B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kosuke NAKADA, Shigeru SEITOKU, Takeshi IWANAGA, Tomoyo OKUBO, Hajime SUGAHARA, Hidekazu HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20220227906
    Abstract: Pressure-responsive particles include pressure-responsive base particles and silica particles, in which the pressure-responsive base particles contain a styrene-based resin that contains styrene and other vinyl monomers as polymerization components and a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin that contains at least two kinds of (meth)acrylic acid esters as polymerization components and in which a ratio of a mass of the (meth)acrylic acid esters to a total mass of polymerization components is 90% by mass or more, the pressure-responsive particles have at least two glass transition temperatures, a difference between a lowest glass transition temperature and a highest glass transition temperature is 30° C. or higher, and a ratio of a surface coating rate Cs2 by the silica particles after application of the following first stress to a surface coating rate Cs1 by the silica particles before application of stress satisfies a relationship of 0.4?Cs2/Cs1?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi IIDA, Takako KOBAYASHI, Takashi HASEGAWA, Kiyohiro YAMANAKA, Takeshi IWANAGA, Satoshi KAMIWAKI, Mieko SEKI, Sumiaki YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210403660
    Abstract: A biodegradable resin particle, includes: a base particle containing a biodegradable resin; a first layer on a surface of the base particle, the first layer containing at least one cationic resin of a polyalkyleneimine, a polyallylamine and a polyvinylamine; and a second layer on the first layer, the second layer containing an anionic or nonionic hydrophobic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Masahiro OKI, Kenji YAO, Hideaki YOSHIKAWA, Takeshi IWANAGA, Kazusei YOSHIDA, Tetsuya TAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11148951
    Abstract: A silica-titania composite has a BET specific surface area, as determined by BET analysis of a water vapor adsorption isotherm, in the range of 250 m2/g to 500 m2/g and a contact angle with water of 100° or greater. In the water vapor adsorption isotherm, an adsorbed amount at relative pressure P/P0=0.1 is in a range of 65 cm3/g to 120 cm3/g, an adsorbed amount at relative pressure P/P0=0.5 is in a range of 150 cm3/g to 300 cm3/g, and an adsorbed amount at relative pressure P/P0=0.9 is in a range of 350 cm3/g to 500 cm3/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuka Zenitani, Hiroyoshi Okuno, Hideaki Yoshikawa, Takeshi Iwanaga, Shunsuke Nozaki, Sakae Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11090632
    Abstract: A filter includes resin particles and photocatalyst particles having absorption at wavelengths of 450 nm and 750 nm in the visible absorption spectrum. The photocatalyst particles have a high photocatalytic function and are present on the surface of the resin particle. The filter is air permeable, transmits visible light, and has high deodorizing performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Sakae Takeuchi, Hideaki Yoshikawa, Hiroyoshi Okuno, Yoshitake Ogura, Takeshi Iwanaga
  • Patent number: 11083200
    Abstract: A plant protection agent includes a photocatalyst particle containing a titanium oxide compound. The surface of the photocatalyst particle is modified with a metal compound that includes a metal atom and a hydrocarbon group. The photocatalyst particle has absorption at a wavelength of 550 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Okuno, Hideaki Yoshikawa, Takeshi Iwanaga, Sakae Takeuchi, Yuka Zenitani, Yasuhiro Kusumoto