Patents Assigned to Idemitsu Petrochemical Company Limited
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Patent number: 6117950Abstract: A polyarylene sulfide resin composition contains a polyarylene sulfide containing at least one group selected from a group consisting of an amino group and an amide group, a polyamide resin, an epoxy resin and, as needed, a filler. A further composition contains 100 parts by weight of the polyarylene sulfide, 0.05 to 5 parts of the epoxy resin, and 5 to 400 parts of the filler. Another type of the resin composition contains the polyarylene sulfide, the polyamide, a compound selected from an acid, an acid anhydride and an acid halide, each having in its molecule not less than two functional groups reactive with the amino group or the amide group, and, as needed, the filler. A further type of the resin composition contains the polyarylene sulfide, the compound and, as needed, an inorganic filler subjected to surface treatment with a silane type coupling agent. A still further type of the resin composition contains the polyarylene sulfide and the compound.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1999Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventors: Shinobu Yamao, Wataru Kosaka
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Patent number: 6037422Abstract: A polyarylene sulfide resin composition contains a polyarylene sulfide containing at least one group selected from a group consisting of an amino group and an amide group, a polyamide resin, an epoxy resin and, as needed, a filler. A further composition contains 100 parts by weight of the polyarylene sulfide, 0.05 to 5 parts of the epoxy resin, and 5 to 400 parts of the filler. Another type of the resin composition contains the polyarylene sulfide, the polyamide, a compound selected from an acid, an acid anhydride and an acid halide, each having in its molecule not less than two functional groups reactive with the amino group or the amide group, and, as needed, the filler. A further type of the resin composition contains the polyarylene sulfide, the compound and, as needed, an inorganic filler subjected to surface treatment with a silane type coupling agent. A still further type of the resin composition contains the polyarylene sulfide and the compound.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 1993Date of Patent: March 14, 2000Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventors: Shinobu Yamao, Wataru Kosaka
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Patent number: 5683645Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 1996Date of Patent: November 4, 1997Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventors: Masahiro Akamatsu, Osamu Tohya, Tohru Yukumoto
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Patent number: 5494982Abstract: A process for the preparation of an ethylenic polymer composition having excellent physical properties such as high impact properties, environmental stress cracking resistance, pinch-off fusing characteristics and having an intrinsic viscosity ranging from 3.2 to 4.5 dl/g and a density ranging from 0.943 g/cm.sup.3 to 0.958 g/cm.sup.3.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1994Date of Patent: February 27, 1996Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company, LimitedInventors: Kenji Nakacho, Norio Shimakura, Tsutomu Akimaru, Tsuyoshi Ohta, Hideo Funabashi, Isamu Yamamoto
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Patent number: 5354820Abstract: This invention relates to a process of producing an olefin polymer having stereoregularity by polymerizing an olefin in the presence of a catalyst obtained from (A) a solid catalyst component obtained by reacting a dialkoxymagnesium represented by the general formula: Mg(OR.sup.1).sub.m X.sup.1.sub.2-m, wherein R.sup.1 represents a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, or an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, X.sup.1 represents an halogen atom, and m is 1 to 2, an organic acid ester, a silicon compound represented by the general formula: Si(OR.sup.2).sub.n X.sup.2.sub.4-n, wherein R.sup.2 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, or an aryl group, X.sup.2 represents a halogen atom such as chlorine and bromine, and n is a real number of 0 to 3.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1992Date of Patent: October 11, 1994Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventor: Hideo Funabashi
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Patent number: 5346771Abstract: A curable phosphazene composition contains a curable phosphazene compound and a silicone-modified curable compound. The curable phosphazene composition is coated on a substrate and cured to form a coated article. The cured coating is excellent in surface hardness, slip properties and water repellency.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1993Date of Patent: September 13, 1994Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventors: Akihiko Kurahashi, Masahiro Kitayama
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Patent number: 5344973Abstract: A novel process for preparing lithium N-methylaminobutyrate, which is useful for preparation of poly(arylene sulfide) such as poly(phenylene sulfide). The process comprises reacting N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone with a hydroxide of an alkali metal other than lithium in an aprotic organic solvent, reacting the resulting reaction product mixture with lithium chloride after removing water therefrom and removing the alkali metal chloride formed as a by-product. According to this process, lithium N-methylaminobutyrate lithium free from alkali metal other than lithium, is easily prepared, which is easily recovered and recycled in the production of said polymers.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1993Date of Patent: September 6, 1994Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventors: Makoto Wakabayashi, Minoru Senga, Yoshinari Koyama
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Patent number: 5334453Abstract: A diamond-coated body is prepared by coating a diamond film on the surface of a sintered body by means of vapor phase synthesis, the sintered body being so prepared by subjecting a sintered body prepared from ceramics based on silicon nitride to heat treatment at the temperature of 1,400.degree. C. to 1,700.degree. C. as to give a crystalline intergranular phase. The resulting diamond-coated body has excellent adhesion between the diamond film and the substrate and it is appropriately employed for cutting tools and so on because, when applied to the cutting tools, they can be used for cutting for a long period of time.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1992Date of Patent: August 2, 1994Assignees: NGK Spark Plug Company Limited, Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventors: Satoshi Iio, Masakazu Watanabe, Toshimichi Ito, Masaya Tsubokawa
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Patent number: 5318836Abstract: The present invention is directed to a diamond-coated body having a diamond coat film formed on the surface of a ceramic substrate containing acicular grains having a thickness of 0.2 .mu.m to 1 .mu.m and an aspect ratio of 2 or higher at the two-dimensional density of 30% or higher, and the diamond coat film has good adhesion to the ceramic substrate. Thus the diamond-coated body is superior in durability and can be appropriately utilized as cutting tools and so on.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1992Date of Patent: June 7, 1994Assignees: NGK Spark Plug Company Limited, Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventors: Toshimichi Ito, Masaya Tsubokawa, Masakazu Watanabe, Satoshi Iio
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Patent number: 5304249Abstract: In forming a diamond film on a surface of substrate by means of plasma method, there is employed in a plasma reacting chamber a supporting member having a top surface for placing the substrate so disposed as to be smaller than a bottom surface of the substrate and having engagement means for engaging with the substrate. When the substrate (particularly substrate for a cutting tool) placed on the top surface of the supporting member is brought into contact with plasma obtainable by exciting raw material gases, a diamond film is coated on the face, land and flank of the substrate for the cutting tool with a uniform film thickness.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1992Date of Patent: April 19, 1994Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventor: Munehiro Chosa
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Patent number: 5280090Abstract: A curable phosphazene composition contains a curable phosphazene compound and a silicone-modified curable compound. The curable phosphazene composition is coated on a substrate and cured to form a coated article. The cured coating is excellent in surface hardness, slip properties and water repellency.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 1990Date of Patent: January 18, 1994Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company, LimitedInventors: Akihiko Kurahashi, Masahiro Kitayama
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Patent number: 5278283Abstract: Disclosed is a process for preparing a polyarylene sulfide, which involves polycondensing a dihalogenated aromatic compound with a source of sulfur in an organic polar solvent while dehydrating at pressure under which polycondensation is performed. This process avoids dehydration operation of the raw materials, particularly the source of sulfur, prior to polycondensation, thereby resulting in the production of the polyarylene sulfide having a high molecular weight.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1992Date of Patent: January 11, 1994Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company, LimitedInventors: Akira Miyoshi, Minoru Senga
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Patent number: 5239029Abstract: A curable resin composition is a blend of a curable phosphazene compound with a pentaerythritol acrylate compound and/or a bis(4-acryloxydialkoxyphenyl)alkane compound in a ratio of the former to the latter ranging from 90 to 10 to 5 to 95. The curable resin composition is provided with excellent properties such as a surface hardness, transparency and so on, and it can be cured at an improved curing rate.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1989Date of Patent: August 24, 1993Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventor: Atsunori Yaguchi
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Patent number: 5237013Abstract: Disclosed is a composition of polybutene-1 comprised of a polymer resulting from preliminarily polymerization of a small amount of an .alpha.-olefin, which has an intrinsic viscosity [.eta.]p of 7 dl/gram or lower, as measured at 135.degree. C. in a decalin solution; and a homopolymer of butene-1 or a copolymer of butene-1 and 20% by weight of an .alpha.-olefin other than butene-1, the composition of polybutene-1 having an intrinisic viscosity [.eta.]t of 0.5-7.0 dl/gram, when measured at 135.degree. C. in a decalin solution, and satisfying the following relationship with respect to the intrinsic viscosity [.eta.]p:[.eta.]p.ltoreq.2.5.times.[.eta.]r. The composition provides resulting films with highly improved appearance and with a lesser number of gel and fish eyes.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1992Date of Patent: August 17, 1993Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventors: Masatoshi Toda, Masahiko Kondo, Nobumasa Kita
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Patent number: 5213880Abstract: A laminated film contains a base film having a conductive layer on one side thereof and a layer obtained by curing a curable phosphazene composition coated on the other side thereof. The laminated film is suitable for use in a touch panel having a switching function when pressing an operating section of the touch panel, the operating section being made from the cured layer of the phosphazene composition. The laminated film has a remarkably balanced combination of the properties, i.e., adhesion, surface hardness and appearance on the coat surface (shrinkage upon curing).Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 1990Date of Patent: May 25, 1993Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company, LimitedInventor: Atsunori Yaguchi
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Patent number: 5206302Abstract: The rubber-modified styrene-based resin composition, which is a composite of a styrene-based resin as a continuum of the matrix phase and a diene-based rubbery polymer as a dispersed particulate phase in the matrix, is characterized by the parameters including an average particle diameter of the particles of the rubbery polymer in the range from 0.08 to 1.00 .mu.m, peripheral parameter thereof in the range from 0.1 to 2.5 (.mu.m).sup.-1. (% by weight).sup.-1 and relaxation time T.sub.2 thereof in the range from 300 to 2000 .mu. seconds as the determinant factors of the moldability of the resin composition as well as the impact strength and surface gloss of the shaped articles prepared from the composition.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1990Date of Patent: April 27, 1993Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventors: Tuneaki Kohsaka, Kazuo Sato, Yutaka Tsubokura, Takashi Kanezaki
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Patent number: 5188862Abstract: A microwave plasma generating apparatus for generating plasma by radiating microwave into a space in which electric discharge takes place contains a plurality of microwave radiating means for radiating a plurality of microwaves having different directions of electric fields from each other. This microwave plasma generating apparatus can produce a diamond thin film by exciting a carbon source gas supplied into the space and bringing the excited gas into contact with a substrate to be formed thereon with the diamond thin film, the substrate being disposed in the space in which the electric discharge is performed. This apparatus can produce a large volume of plasma in a stable fashion and, as a result, provide a diamond thin film in a large area as a whole.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1990Date of Patent: February 23, 1993Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventors: Ryohei Itatani, Kazuyuki Fukumoto
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Patent number: 5180780Abstract: The rubber-modified styrene-based copolymeric resin of the invention comprises a matrix phase of a copolymer of styrene and acrylonitrile and a dispersed phase of particles of an S-B type block-copolymeric rubber of styrene and butadiene as prepared by the bulk-suspension polymerization method or continuous bulk polymerization of the monomers in the presence of the rubber. The rubber-modified styrene-based copolymeric resin is imparted with excellent rigidity, impact strength and appearance, in particular, in welded portions when it is prepared by adequately selecting several parameters including the weight proportion of the moieties derived from styrene and acrylonitrile in the matrix phase and content of styrene, solution viscosity, content of 1,2-unsaturated linkages, particle size and distribution thereof in the rubber constituting the dispersed phase.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1992Date of Patent: January 19, 1993Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Yutaka Tubokura, Eiichi Terada
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Patent number: 5180571Abstract: An interrupting layer of inorganic powder other than diamond is formed on the surface of a substrate and a surface of the interrupting layer is contacted with excited raw material gases containing a carbon source, under conditions suited to depositing of diamond on the interrupting layer. The diamond which is synthesized is separated from the substrate. The use of the interrupting layer, composed of the inorganic fine powders, allows ready separation of the diamond from the substrate and the diamond separated is suitable for diaphragms for speakers, heat conductive plates, cutting tools, semiconductors, etc. by appropriately choosing shapes of the substrate. Further, the resulting diamond film can be pulverized, thereby yielding diamond powders which are useful for abrasive tools, cutting tools, etc.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1991Date of Patent: January 19, 1993Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventors: Ikuo Hosoya, Yasuhiro Yoneyama
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Patent number: 5143554Abstract: A process for washing a powdery and/or granular resin involves bringing the powdery and/or granular resin into contact with a washing liquid in a counterflow fashion in a tubular body with a plurality of static mixing elements disposed continuously in series, thereby removing impurities adhering to the powdery and/or granular resin and producing the powdery and/or granular resin with a less content of impurities. A washing device for use with the washing process contains a tubular body in which the static mixing elements are disposed continuously in series, and this construction is simpler than conventional ones and does not require a stirring power and mechanism to remove the impurities from the powdery and/or granular resin.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1990Date of Patent: September 1, 1992Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company LimitedInventors: Yoshinari Koyama, Daigo Shirota