Patents by Inventor Tomoko YAMAGISHI

Tomoko YAMAGISHI 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: 11981566
    Abstract: Provided is a production method of a carbon sheet having a structure intertwining only carbon nanotubes and having a porosity of 5% to 90%. The method comprises: removing a solvent from a dispersion liquid containing carbon nanotubes, spacer particles, and the solvent to obtain a primary sheet containing the carbon nanotubes and the spacer particles; and removing the spacer particles from the primary sheet. Alternatively, the method comprises: impregnating a porous substrate made from carbon with a dispersion liquid containing carbon nanotubes and a solvent, to obtain a dispersion liquid-impregnated porous substrate; and removing the solvent from the dispersion liquid-impregnated porous substrate. Alternatively, the method comprises: dispersing carbon nanotubes in a solvent to obtain a dispersion liquid, wherein an average bundle diameter of the carbon nanotubes in the dispersion liquid is 0.5 ?m or more and 1,000 ?m or less; and removing the solvent from the dispersion liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko Yamagishi, Mitsugu Uejima
  • Publication number: 20240140801
    Abstract: A carbon film excellent in electromagnetic shielding performance is provided. The carbon film is made of a carbon nanotube assembly and has a fractal dimension of 2.6 or more and 4 or less in a wavenumber range of 0.0001 (1/?) or more and 0.001 (1/?) or less when a scattering profile obtained by performing ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering on at least one surface of the carbon film is fitted to the Beaucage equation, while having a porosity of 80% or more and 95% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko YAMAGISHI, Yoshihisa TAKEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230416094
    Abstract: A carbon film is formed from carbon nanotube assemblies. In the carbon film, a pore distribution curve indicating the relationship between the pore size and the Log differential pore capacity obtained based on mercury intrusion porosimetry has at least one peak with a log differential pore capacity of 1.0 cm3/g or more within a pore size range of 10 nm or more and 100 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko YAMAGISHI, Mitsugu UEJIMA
  • Patent number: 11839069
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet which includes a sheet-shaped fibrous substrate and carbon nanotubes positioned in a space inside in a thickness direction of the sheet-shaped fibrous substrate, wherein the fibrous substrate is composed of organic fibers, the carbon nanotubes comprise single-walled carbon nanotubes as a main component, and the electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet has an electrical conductivity of 0.7 S/cm or more and 20 S/cm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko Yamagishi, Mitsugu Uejima
  • Publication number: 20230271835
    Abstract: Provided is a production method of a carbon sheet having a structure intertwining only carbon nanotubes and having a porosity of 5% to 90%. The method comprises: removing a solvent from a dispersion liquid containing carbon nanotubes, spacer particles, and the solvent to obtain a primary sheet containing the carbon nanotubes and the spacer particles; and removing the spacer particles from the primary sheet. Alternatively, the method comprises: impregnating a porous substrate made from carbon with a dispersion liquid containing carbon nanotubes and a solvent, to obtain a dispersion liquid-impregnated porous substrate; and removing the solvent from the dispersion liquid-impregnated porous substrate. Alternatively, the method comprises: dispersing carbon nanotubes in a solvent to obtain a dispersion liquid, wherein an average bundle diameter of the carbon nanotubes in the dispersion liquid is 0.5 ?m or more and 1,000 ?m or less; and removing the solvent from the dispersion liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko YAMAGISHI, Mitsugu UEJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230080840
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to providing a carbon film having an excellent shield performance against electromagnetic waves. The carbon film of the present disclosure is a carbon film made of a carbon nanotube assembly, wherein a pore distribution curve of the carbon film indicating the relationship between the pore size and the Log differential pore capacity obtained from an adsorption isotherm at 77 K of liquid nitrogen based on the Barrett-Joyner-Halenda method has a peak in which the Log differential pore capacity is maximized within a pore size range of 10 nm or more and 100 nm or less, and the value of the Log differential pore capacity at the peak is 1.2 cm3/g or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko YAMAGISHI, Mitsugu UEJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230073662
    Abstract: A carbon nanotube assembly satisfies at least one of the following conditions (1) to (3): (1) an FT-IR spectrum of a CNT dispersion obtained by dispersing the CNT assembly has a peak based on plasmon resonance of the CNTs in a wave number range of greater than 300 cm?1 and 2000 cm?1 or less; (2) the highest peak in a differential pore capacity distribution of the CNT assembly is located within a pore size range of more than 100 nm and less than 400 nm; and (3) a two-dimensional spatial frequency spectrum of an electronic micrographic image of the CNT assembly has at least one peak within a range of 1 ?m?1 or more and 100 ?m?1 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiyoshi SHIBUYA, Tomoko YAMAGISHI
  • Publication number: 20220185669
    Abstract: Provided is a material that has excellent handleability and processability, and that when used as a support for a different material, enables support of the different material up to an inner part thereof. A carbon sheet contains one or more carbon nanotubes and has a porosity of not less than 48% and not more than 90%. The carbon sheet preferably includes: a porous substrate made from carbon; and the carbon nanotubes, attached to the porous substrate. The carbon nanotubes contained in the carbon sheet are preferably single-walled carbon nanotubes. Moreover, the carbon nanotubes contained in the carbon sheet preferably have a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of 600 m2/g or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko YAMAGISHI, Mitsugu UEJIMA
  • Patent number: 11305996
    Abstract: Provided is a material that has excellent handleability and processability, and that when used as a support for a different material, enables support of the different material up to an inner part thereof. A carbon sheet contains one or more carbon nanotubes and has a porosity of not less than 5% and not more than 90%. The carbon sheet preferably includes: a porous substrate made from carbon; and the carbon nanotubes, attached to the porous substrate. The carbon nanotubes contained in the carbon sheet are preferably single-walled carbon nanotubes. Moreover, the carbon nanotubes contained in the carbon sheet preferably have a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of 600 m2/g or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko Yamagishi, Mitsugu Uejima
  • Publication number: 20220071068
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet includes a sheet-shaped fibrous substrate and a plurality of carbon nanotubes attached to the sheet-shaped fibrous substrate. The attached amount of the carbon nanotubes in the electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet is 5 mass % or more. The electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet has a surface resistance of 20 ?/sq. or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arinobu KATADA, Tomoko YAMAGISHI, Mitsugu UEJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220039299
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet which comprises a sheet-shaped fibrous substrate and carbon nanotubes positioned in a space inside in a thickness direction of the sheet-shaped fibrous substrate, wherein the fibrous substrate is composed of organic fibers, the carbon nanotubes comprise single-walled carbon nanotubes as a main component, and the electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet has an electrical conductivity of 0.7 S/cm or more and 20 S/cm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko YAMAGISHI, Mitsugu UEJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200277192
    Abstract: Provided is a material that has excellent handleability and processability, and that when used as a support for a different material, enables support of the different material up to an inner part thereof. A carbon sheet contains one or more carbon nanotubes and has a porosity of not less than 5% and not more than 90%. The carbon sheet preferably includes: a porous substrate made from carbon; and the carbon nanotubes, attached to the porous substrate. The carbon nanotubes contained in the carbon sheet are preferably single-walled carbon nanotubes. Moreover, the carbon nanotubes contained in the carbon sheet preferably have a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of 600 m2/g or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko YAMAGISHI, Mitsugu UEJIMA
  • Patent number: 10611640
    Abstract: Provided are a carbon film having excellent electrical conductivity and a method of producing this carbon film. The carbon film has a film surface glossiness at 60° of at least 2 and not more than 500. The method of producing the carbon film includes forming a carbon film by removing a solvent from a fibrous carbon nanostructure dispersion liquid containing the solvent and one or more fibrous carbon nanostructures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Nagamune, Mitsugu Uejima, Tomoko Yamagishi
  • Publication number: 20200102697
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sheet which comprises a fibrous substrate and carbon nanotubes attached to fibers constituting the fibrous substrate. The carbon nanotubes in the sheet comprise single-walled carbon nanotubes as a main component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicants: ZEON CORPORATION, Hirose Paper Mfg Co., Ltd., Toyota Tsusho Matex Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoko YAMAGISHI, Mitsugu UEJIMA, Tomoya NISHIUCHI, Naruaki TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10392254
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon film including: a plurality of fibrous carbon nanostructures; and a conductive carbon, wherein the plurality of fibrous carbon nanostructures has a BET specific surface area of 500 m2/g or more. Also provided is a method of producing a carbon film, the method including mixing a conductive carbon into a fibrous carbon nanostructure dispersion liquid containing a plurality of fibrous carbon nanostructures having a BET specific surface area of 500 m2/g or more, a dispersant, and a solvent, and subsequently removing the solvent to form a carbon film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko Yamagishi, Mitsugu Uejima
  • Patent number: 10207929
    Abstract: A carbon nanotube film includes an assembly of a plurality of carbon nanotubes, wherein the plurality of carbon nanotubes includes one or more carbon nanotubes having at least partially collapsed structures. A method for producing a carbon nanotube film includes forming a carbon nanotube film by removing a solvent from a carbon nanotube dispersion liquid containing the solvent, a dispersant, and a plurality of carbon nanotubes including one or more carbon nanotubes having at least partially collapsed structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko Yamagishi, Mitsugu Uejima
  • Publication number: 20180127273
    Abstract: Provided are a carbon film having excellent electrical conductivity and a method of producing this carbon film. The carbon film has a film surface glossiness at 60° of at least 2 and not more than 500. The method of producing the carbon film includes forming a carbon film by removing a solvent from a fibrous carbon nanostructure dispersion liquid containing the solvent and one or more fibrous carbon nanostructures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu NAGAMUNE, Mitsugu UEJIMA, Tomoko YAMAGISHI
  • Publication number: 20180065854
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon film including: a plurality of fibrous carbon nanostructures; and a conductive carbon, wherein the plurality of fibrous carbon nanostructures has a BET specific surface area of 500 m2/g or more. Also provided is a method of producing a carbon film, the method including mixing a conductive carbon into a fibrous carbon nanostructure dispersion liquid containing a plurality of fibrous carbon nanostructures having a BET specific surface area of 500 m2/g or more, a dispersant, and a solvent, and subsequently removing the solvent to form a carbon film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko YAMAGISHI, Mitsugu UEJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170369319
    Abstract: A carbon nanotube film includes an assembly of a plurality of carbon nanotubes, wherein the plurality of carbon nanotubes includes one or more carbon nanotubes having at least partially collapsed structures. A method for producing a carbon nanotube film includes forming a carbon nanotube film by removing a solvent from a carbon nanotube dispersion liquid containing the solvent, a dispersant, and a plurality of carbon nanotubes including one or more carbon nanotubes having at least partially collapsed structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko YAMAGISHI, Mitsugu UEJIMA