Patents by Inventor Tohru Yukumoto

Tohru Yukumoto 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: 7967187
    Abstract: An easy-open packaging body 1 includes: a container body 10 with a flange 14 formed on a circumference of an opening 13, and a cover 20 heat-sealed to the flange 14 to close the opening 13. Inner and outer notches 15A and 15B enclosing the opening 13 are formed respectively on inner and outer circumferential sides on the flange 14. The flange 14 and the cover 20 are heat-sealed by a first seal part 16A having a predetermined width and formed between the inner and outer notches 15A and 15B to enclose the opening 13 and a second seal part 16B having a width narrower than that of the first seal part 16A and formed within an area of the first seal part 16A to enclose the opening 13 along the first seal part 16A, the second seal part 16B having a projected seal part 17 projected outward relative to the other part on a position corresponding to a tab 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Idemitsu Unitech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tohru Yukumoto, Hiroyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20060175387
    Abstract: An easy-open packaging body 1 includes: a container body 10 with a flange 14 formed on a circumference of an opening 13, and a cover 20 heat-sealed to the flange 14 to close the opening 13. Inner and outer notches 15A and 15B enclosing the opening 13 are formed respectively on inner and outer circumferential sides on the flange 14. The flange 14 and the cover 20 are heat-sealed by a first seal part 16A having a predetermined width and formed between the inner and outer notches 15A and 15B to enclose the opening 13 and a second seal part 16B having a width narrower than that of the first seal part 16A and formed within an area of the first seal part 16A to enclose the opening 13 along the first seal part 16A, the second seal part 16B having a projected seal part 17 projected outward relative to the other part on a position corresponding to a tab 21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2004
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Applicant: Idemitsu Unitech Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tohru Yukumoto, Hiroyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6756002
    Abstract: A producing apparatus is used, in which a metallic endless belt having a mirror face is wound on and extends between a first cooling roller covered with an elastic member and a second cooling roller, and a third cooling roller having a mirror face on its surface and touching the first cooling roller through a molten thermoplastic resin sheet and the endless belt oriented therebetween to hold the molten thermoplastic resin sheet pressed with the endless belt. While the temperature of the third cooling roller and the endless belt directly touching the molten thermoplastic resin sheet is retained at less than 50° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujii, Akira Funaki, Tohru Yukumoto, Katsumi Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20040113316
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a micro embossed sheet having a fine emboss pattern, in which a sheet, to which an emboss pattern is overlaid on a sheet0fed embossing plate with a emboss pattern formed thereon, said embossing plate and said sheet are held and pressed by a pair of rolls provided in the top and rear surface sides of said embossing plate to transcribed the emboss pattern onto said sheet, and said sheet is separated from the embossing plate after the transcription.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2004
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujii, Tohru Yukumoto, Toyokazu Takubo, Kazuyoshi Tanaka, Kouzaburou Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 6372324
    Abstract: A polyethylene type soft transparent resin sheet according to the present invention includes a layer made of a polyethylene resin and has the following characteristics: (a) tensile modulus of 20 to 1000 MPa; (b) number of foreign substances having a refractivity different from the amorphous resin composition occupying a major part of the volume fraction of the sheet at any cross section of the sheet is less than or the same as 500/mm2 and the average length of the foreign substance being less than or the same as 10 &mgr;m; and (c) the surface roughness Ra of at least one surface is less than or the same as 0.2 &mgr;m. The polyethylene type resin is a copolymer of ethylene and a polar group substituted ethylene such as ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, ethylene-ethylacrylate copolymer and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujii, Tohru Yukumoto, Kenichi Fujiwara, Tomohiro Nagao
  • Publication number: 20020027309
    Abstract: A producing apparatus is used, in which a metallic endless belt having a mirror face is wound on and extends between a first cooling roller covered with an elastic member and a second cooling roller, and a third cooling roller having a mirror face on its surface and touching the first cooling roller through a molten thermoplastic resin sheet and the endless belt oriented therebetween to hold the molten thermoplastic resin sheet pressed with the endless belt. While the temperature of the third cooling roller and the endless belt directly touching the molten thermoplastic resin sheet is retained at less than 50° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Applicant: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujii, Akira Funaki, Tohru Yukumoto, Katsumi Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20020028340
    Abstract: A soft transparent polyolefin resin sheet according to the present invention is characterized by including the following properties (a) to (c): (a) a modulus of elasticity ranges from 20 MPa to 1,000 MPa; (b) an average length of a foreign substance that has a different refractive index from a non-crystalline resin composition occupying the most volume fraction is less than 10 &mgr;m, and the number of foreign substances in any section of the sheet is less than 500 foreign substances/mm2; and (c) a surface-roughness Ra of at least one of faces of the sheet is less than 0.2 &mgr;m. The soft transparent polyolefin resin sheet may have a multilayered structure, in which at least one of outer faces of the multilayered structures can be made of a hard polypropylene type resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujii, Tohru Yukumoto, Kenichi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 6306327
    Abstract: A producing apparatus is used, in which a metallic endless belt having a mirror face is wound on and extends between a first cooling roller covered with an elastic member and a second cooling roller, and a third cooling roller having a mirror face on its surface and touching the first cooling roller through a molten thermoplastic resin sheet and the endless belt oriented therebetween to hold the molten thermoplastic resin sheet pressed with the endless belt. While the temperature of the third cooling roller and the endless belt directly touching the molten thermoplastic resin sheet is retained at less than 50° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujii, Akira Funaki, Tohru Yukumoto, Katsumi Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 6296731
    Abstract: A method produces a decorative sheet with the use of an apparatus having a metallic endless belt that is wound on a first roller and a second roller, and an emboss roller that is placed to abut through the metallic endless belt onto the first roller. The method includes the steps of: adhering a first resin sheet having a pictured layer onto the metallic endless belt abutting the first roller; running the first resin sheet, adhered onto the metallic endless belt, along the outer circumferential face of the emboss roller; guiding a second resin sheet, moltenly extruded from a molten-resin extrusion means, between the emboss roller and the metallic endless belt abutted to the first roller; laminating and joining the second resin sheet to the first resin sheet; and embossing patterns onto the second resin sheet with the emboss roller during the laminating and joining step for the first and second resin sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujii, Tohru Yukumoto
  • Patent number: 5833792
    Abstract: A first thermoplastic resin film is laid on a heated endless belt to be moved together with the endless metal belt, a second thermoplastic resin film is superposed on the first thermoplastic resin film laid on the belt, and the first and second thermoplastic resin films laid on the belt are touch-rolled by a combination of the belt and a second roller to be laminated. The second thermoplastic resin film can be superposed on the first thermoplastic resin film laid on the belt after being touched to the second roller. A thermally produced molding is obtained by heat treating the laminated thermoplastic resin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Funaki, Katsumi Uchiyama, Tohru Yukumoto, Atsushi Fujii
  • Patent number: 5707478
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a thermoplastic resin sheet or film by hot-melting and then cooling a thermoplastic resin to form a sheet or film. The thermoplastic resin sheet or film is moved so that it is pressed against the outer surface of an external heated roll and against a heated, endless metal belt. The endless metal belt is disposed at one end around a moving, internal heating roll and at an opposite end thereof around a moving, internal cooling roll. The internal heating roll heats the endless metal belt to a temperature higher than the softening point of the thermoplastic resin and higher than the temperature of the external heating roll to thermally adhere the thermoplastic resin sheet or film to the external heated roll or the heated, endless metal belt. The thermoplastic resin sheet or film is then moved along on the external heated roll or belt into a high temperature zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujii, Akira Funaki, Tohru Yukumoto
  • Patent number: 5683645
    Abstract: A laminated resin sheet consisting of (a) at least one layer of an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymeric resin (EVOH resin), (b) at least one layer of a hot-melt adhesive resin and (c) at least one layer of a polystrene-based resin, the layer (b) being interposed between the layers (a) and (c) to serve to adhesively bond them together. The laminated sheet has excellent moldability only when the EVOH resin has a thermal characteristic specified in terms of the integrated value of the peak areas in a diagram obtained by the DSC (differential scanning calorimetry) measurement in the course of temperature elevation. The sheet may be formed into a vessel having a multilayered wall structure by hot molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company Limited
    Inventors: Masahiro Akamatsu, Osamu Tohya, Tohru Yukumoto
  • Patent number: 5658514
    Abstract: A method for producing a thermoplastic resin sheet or film, wherein a raw resin material containing one or more of the following additives: a nucleating agent, fine powder of a high melting point polymer, a petroleum resin, a terpene resin and an organic peroxide (and/or a crystalline polypropylenic copolymer) is melted under heat to form a resin sheet or film, the resulting resin sheet or film is brought into contact with and adhered to the outer surface of a cooling roll having a mirror-finished surface or the outer surface of an endless metal belt having a mirror-finished surface and then it is moved along with the roll or the belt, thereafter it is inserted, pressed and cooled between the outer surface of the cooling roll and the outer surface of the endless metal belt. The non-oriented sheet or film thus produced has a high surface gloss, a high surface smoothness and a high transparency and is suitable for wrapping foods and medicines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujii, Akira Funaki, Tohru Yukumoto
  • Patent number: 5352536
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laminated resin sheet consisting of (a) at least one layer of an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymeric resin (EVOH resin), (b) at least one layer of a hot-melt adhesive resin and (c) at least one layer of a polystyrene-based resin, the layer (b) being interposed between the layers (a) and (c) to serve to adhesively bond them together. The laminated sheet has excellent moldability only when the EVOH resin has a thermal characteristic specified in terms of the integrated value of the peak areas in a diagram obtained by the DSC (differential scanning calorimetry) measurement in the course of temperature elevation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Akamatsu, Osamu Tohya, Tohru Yukumoto