Patents by Inventor Yoshimasa Sakata
Yoshimasa Sakata 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).
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Publication number: 20120028013Abstract: The present invention to provide a conductive polarized film that has excellent see-through visibility and heat resistance, and low resistivity. The conductive polarized film of the present invention has a support film, an organic dye film, a silicon nitride layer and a transparent conductive film, in that order.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Shoichi MATSUDA, Yoshimasa SAKATA, Tadayuki KAMEYAMA
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Publication number: 20110244225Abstract: There is provided a transparent substrate which can be reduced in thickness, which is excellent in adhesiveness between an inorganic glass and a resin layer under a high-temperature and high-humidity environment, bending property, flexibility, and impact resistance, and which significantly prevents the progress of a crack in a glass. A transparent substrate according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an inorganic glass; and a resin layer, which is obtained by applying a solution of a thermoplastic resin onto one side or both sides of the inorganic glass, wherein: the solution comprises a first thermoplastic resin having a hydroxy group at a terminal; the inorganic glass and the resin layer comprise an epoxy group-terminated coupling agent layer therebetween; the coupling agent layer is directly formed on the inorganic glass; and the resin layer is directly formed on the coupling agent layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2009Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Hattori, Takeshi Murashige, Yoshimasa Sakata, Takashi Yamaoka, Tatsuki Nagatsuka
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Publication number: 20110114160Abstract: There is provided a transparent substrate which is excellent in dimensional stability, which significantly prevents the progress of a crack in an inorganic glass and the rupture of the inorganic glass, and which is excellent in flexibility. A transparent substrate according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an inorganic glass having a thickness of 10 ?m to 100 ?m; and a resin layer on one side, or each of both sides, of the inorganic glass, wherein: a ratio of a total thickness of the resin layer to a thickness of the inorganic glass is 0.9 to 4; the resin layer has a modulus of elasticity at 25° C. of 1.5 GPa to 10 GPa; and the resin layer has a fracture toughness value at 25° C. of 1.5 MPa·m1/2 to 10 MPa·m1/2.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2009Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Murashige, Daisuke Hattori, Yoshimasa Sakata, Takashi Yamaoka, Tatsuki Nagatsuka
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Publication number: 20110039097Abstract: There is provided a flexible substrate having excellent flexibility and gas barrier properties. A flexible substrate 100 according to the present invention includes: a base material 20 including an inorganic glass 10 and resin layers 11 and 11? placed on both sides of the inorganic glass 10; and an inorganic thin film 12 placed on a side of one of the resin layers where the inorganic glass is not placed, wherein the inorganic thin film 12 is formed on at least a peripheral edge of one surface of the base material.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2009Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Murashige, Takashi Yamaoka, Daisuke Hattori, Yoshimasa Sakata, Tatsuki Nagatsuka
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Patent number: 7714976Abstract: An optical resin sheet includes a cured resin layer containing glass fiber, wherein the ratio of the elastic modulus of the glass fiber to the elastic modulus of a cured resin material, which forms the cured resin layer, is 25 or more. With the thus arranged optical resin sheet, stress is applied to the glass fiber, thereby reducing the phenomenon of occurrence of birefringence, and when it is applied to a display device, there is achieved a significantly small light leakage in an oblique direction. The optical resin sheet is capable of achieving excellent display quality of an image display device such as a liquid crystal display device, as well as keeping the coefficient of thermal expansion lower and the mechanical strength higher.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2004Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Kiichi Shimodaira, Yoshimasa Sakata, Yuuzou Akada, Tadaaki Harada
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Publication number: 20100062234Abstract: There is provided a substrate for a display device that has excellent gas barrier properties, flexibility, heat resistance and transparency, and has excellent dimensional stability, operability, and secondary processing characteristics. A substrate for a display device according to the present invention includes: an inorganic glass; and resin layers placed on both sides of the inorganic glass. Preferably, a ratio drsum/dg between a total thickness drsum of the resin layer and a thickness dg of the inorganic glass is 0.5 to 2.2. Preferably, the resin layers on both sides of the inorganic glass are each composed of the same material, each have the same thickness, and a thickness of each of the resin layers is equal to the thickness of the inorganic glass. Preferably, an average coefficient of linear expansion at 170° C. of the substrate for a display device is 20 ppm° C.?1 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2007Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi MURASHIGE, Yoshimasa SAKATA, Tatsuki NAGATSUKA
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Publication number: 20090015781Abstract: An optical resin sheet includes a cured resin layer containing glass fiber, wherein the ratio of the elastic modulus of the glass fiber to the elastic modulus of a cured resin material, which forms the cured resin layer, is 25 or more. With the thus arranged optical resin sheet, stress is applied to the glass fiber, thereby reducing the phenomenon of occurrence of birefringence, and when it is applied to a display device, there is achieved a significantly small light leakage in an oblique direction. The optical resin sheet is capable of achieving excellent display quality of an image display device such as a liquid crystal display device, as well as keeping the coefficient of thermal expansion lower and the mechanical strength higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2004Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kiichi Shimodaira, Yoshimasa Sakata, Yuuzou Akada, Tadaaki Harada
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Patent number: 7259803Abstract: A resin sheet that is unlikely to be affected by heat and allows prevention of the occurrence of a crack is provided. A glass fiber cloth-like material is dipped into an epoxy resin solution and subjected to curing, thereby obtaining an epoxy resin-based sheet including the glass fiber cloth-like material. The resin sheet has a haze value of 10% or lower, and preferably, has a light transmittance of 88% or higher, an in-plane retardation of not more than 2 nm, a retardation in a thickness direction of 40 nm, and a surface roughness of not more than 2 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2003Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Yuuzou Akada, Toshiyuki Umehara, Nobuyoshi Yagi, Tadaaki Harada, Yoshimasa Sakata, Hidetoshi Yoshitake
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Publication number: 20070128376Abstract: There is provided a resin sheet that achieves improvement in lightweight, low-profile and high impact characteristics, suppresses thermal shrinkage and expansion and is excellent in light transparency so as to prevent the display quality or the like of a display device from being deteriorated, as well as a substrate for a display device, a display device and a substrate for a solar cell, each having the aforesaid resin sheet. A resin sheet includes a cured resin layer containing in a resin a glass fiber cloth-like material and inorganic particles, and is structured to have a haze value of 10% or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2004Publication date: June 7, 2007Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Tadaaki Harada, Yuuzou Akada, Yoshimasa Sakata
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Publication number: 20070117485Abstract: In the present invention, there is provided a laminated film that is excellent in terms of mechanical strength and low coefficient of thermal expansion. According to the present invention, there is provided a laminated film, which is characterized in that it comprises a resin sheet having a cured resin layer containing glass cloth and a polarizing plate laminated on the resin sheet, in which any one of weft yarn and warp yarn of the glass cloth is oriented at an angle of 5 degrees or less relative to an absorption axis of the polarizing plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2004Publication date: May 24, 2007Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshimasa Sakata, Yuuzou Akada, Tadaaki Harada
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Publication number: 20070042168Abstract: There is provided a resin sheet that achieves improvement in lightweight, low-profile and high impact characteristics, suppresses thermal shrinkage and expansion and is excellent in light transparency so as to prevent the display quality or the like of a display device from being deteriorated, as well as a substrate for a display device, a display device and a substrate for a solar cell, each having the aforesaid resin sheet. A resin sheet includes a cured resin layer containing a glass fiber cloth-like material and an overcoat layer laminated on the cured resin layer to have a surface roughness Rt of 200 nm or less, and is structured to have a haze value of 10% or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2004Publication date: February 22, 2007Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Tadaaki Harada, Yuuzou Akada, Yoshimasa Sakata
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Patent number: 6942906Abstract: A resin sheet containing dispersed particles which is thin and lightweight, and has excellent mechanical strength and light-diffusing properties. The resin sheets may be used in liquid crystal displays. A resin sheet having a hard coat layer, an epoxy resin layer containing 100 parts by weight of the resin to 200 parts by weight of a diffuser having a refractive index different from that of the epoxy resin and having an average particle diameter from 0.2 to 100 ?m, and a thin metal layer as a reflecting layer, wherein the diffuser localizes so as to have a concentration distribution in the direction of the thickness of the epoxy resin layer. A resin sheet having dispersed particles which is obtained by superposing a reflecting layer, an inorganic gas barrier layer, or a color filter layer thereon. A process for producing the resin sheet having a color filter layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2003Date of Patent: September 13, 2005Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Yoshimasa Sakata, Toshiyuki Umehara, Kiichi Shimodaira, Kazutaka Hara, Yoshihiro Kitamura, Katsuhiro Nakano
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Patent number: 6936313Abstract: A resin sheet containing dispersed particles which is thin, lightweight, and has excellent mechanical strength and light-diffusing properties. The resin sheets may be used in liquid crystal displays. A resin sheet having a hard coat layer, an epoxy resin layer containing 100 parts by weight of the resin to 200 parts by weight of a diffuser having a refractive index different from that of the epoxy resin and having an average particle diameter from 0.2 to 100 ?m, and a thin metal layer as a reflecting layer, wherein the diffuser localizes so as to have a concentration distribution in the direction of the thickness of the epoxy resin layer. A resin sheet having dispersed particles which is obtained by superposing a reflecting layer, an inorganic gas barrier layer, or a color filter layer thereon. A process for producing the resin sheet having a color filter layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2002Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Yoshimasa Sakata, Toshiyuki Umehara, Kiichi Shimodaira, Kazutaka Hara, Yoshihiro Kitamura, Katsuhiro Nakano
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Patent number: 6818263Abstract: A resin sheet which comprises a base layer containing particles dispersed therein and hence has excellent dimensional stability; a resin sheet which comprises a base layer containing particles dispersed therein and hence has excellent light diffusion properties; resin sheets which comprise either of those resin sheets containing dispersed particles and a reflecting layer, inorganic gas barrier layer, and color filter layer respectively superposed thereon; and a liquid crystal display using any of these resin sheets containing dispersed particles. Some of the resin sheets containing dispersed particles comprise a base layer comprising a thermoplastic resin or thermoset resin and dispersed therein an inorganic oxide having an average particle diameter of 1 to 100 nm, the amount of the inorganic oxide being 0.1 to 23% by weight based on the weight of the base layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2001Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Kiichi Shimodaira, Toshiyuki Umehara, Nobuyoshi Yagi, Yoshimasa Sakata, Yoshihiro Kitamura, Katsuhiro Nakano
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Publication number: 20040121087Abstract: A resin sheet which has abase layer containing particles dispersed therein, is thin and lightweight, and has excellent mechanical strength and light-diffusing properties; a resin sheet containing dispersed particles which is obtained by superposing a reflecting layer or an inorganic gas barrier layer on that resin sheet; a resin sheet containing dispersed particles which is obtained by superposing a color filter layer on that resin sheet; processes for producing the resin sheet having a color filer layer; and liquid crystal displays employing those resin sheets. One of those resin sheets has a hard coat layer, an epoxy resin layer containing, per 100 parts by weight of the resin, up to 200 parts by weight of a diffuser having a refractive index different from that of the epoxy resin and having an average particle diameter of from 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2003Publication date: June 24, 2004Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshimasa Sakata, Toshiyuki Umehara, Kiichi Shimodaira, Kazutaka Hara, Yoshihiro Kitamura, Katsuhiro Nakano
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Patent number: 6740266Abstract: An epoxy optical sheet comprising a hardened sheet of an epoxy resin and another resin layer formed on one side thereof. The sheet has a retardation of 5 nm or less, an average thickness of 500 &mgr;m or less, a thickness accuracy of ±10% or less, a glass transition temperature of 170° C. or above, and a smooth surface. The epoxy optical sheet is made by a continuous process which comprises: successively forming a strippable resin layer on a support having a smooth surface; successively spreading an epoxy resin coating solution comprising an epoxy resin, a hardener, a hardening accelerator, and a leveling agent, on the resin layer in the form of a sheet; followed by a hardening treatment, thereby forming a hardened sheet adhering to the resin layer; and, at the same time, recovering the hardened sheet together with the resin layer from the support.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2002Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Sugawa, Kazuhiko Tahara, Shuzo Fujiwara, Nobuyoshi Yagi, Yoshimasa Sakata, Toshiyuki Umehara
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Patent number: 6710840Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a resin substrate wherein a transparent resin plate has at least a conductive layer via a transparent layer with a lower refractive index than the resin plate, and a liquid crystal display panel including at least a liquid crystal cell with a liquid crystal carried between a visible side substrate and a back side substrate that are disposed with electrodes on their substrates opposed to one another. One or both of the visible side substrate and the back side substrate is or are the resin substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2001Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Seiji Umemoto, Yoshimasa Sakata, Kiichi Shimodaira, Nobuyoshi Yagi
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Patent number: 6565975Abstract: A cured resin plate which is reduced in undulation and has excellent flatness even when having a thickness of 100 &mgr;m or larger or a size exceeding 2 inches; and a process for efficiently mass-producing the resin plate. The process comprises spreading a resinous coating fluid A on a support (5) having a smooth surface to form an unsolidified or solidified coating layer, spreading thereon a resinous coating fluid B which is the same as or different from the coating fluid A to form two or more superposed layers of the coating fluid B, and solidifying the layers (12, 22, and 42) separately or simultaneously to thereby form superposed resin layers (1, 2, and 4) adhered to each other which comprise two or more adjacent cured resin layers (1 and 2). The multilayered resin plate comprises superposed layers adhered to each other which are composed of a thermoset epoxy resin layer and superposed thereon a thermoset epoxy resin layer having a smaller thickness than that layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2000Date of Patent: May 20, 2003Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Umehara, Yoshimasa Sakata
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Publication number: 20030012957Abstract: An epoxy optical sheet having a thickness of 500 &mgr;m or less, a high thickness accuracy, a small retardation and an excellent heat resistance; and a process by which the optical sheet can be efficiently produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2002Publication date: January 16, 2003Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Sugawa, Kazuhiko Tahara, Shuzo Fujiwara, Nobuyoshi Yagi, Yoshimasa Sakata, Toshiyuki Umehara
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Patent number: 6500518Abstract: An epoxy optical sheet having a thickness of 500 &mgr;m or less, a high thickness accuracy, a small retardation and an excellent heat resistance; and a process by which the optical sheet can be efficiently produced.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1999Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Sugawa, Kazuhiko Tahara, Shuzo Fujiwara, Nobuyoshi Yagi, Yoshimasa Sakata, Toshiyuki Umehara