Patents Assigned to Japan Chemical Innovation Institute
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Patent number: 7052917Abstract: The present invention is to prepare a novel polymerizable biotin derivative represented by formula (I) shown below and make it possible to synthesize or design a polyfunctional or multifunctional polymer using the derivative. In formula (I), R2 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, R3 and R4 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group, T represents an oxygen atom or ?NH, W represents a single bond, a carbonyl group, a thiocarbonyl group or a C1-5 alkylene group, U represents a single bond or —NH—, X represents a single bond, a C1-8 hydrocarbon bond, an oxygen atom or —NH—, Y represents a single bond, a carbonyl group, a thiocarbonyl group, —NH—, a 1,2-dioxyethylene group or a 1,2-diaminoethylene group, Z represents a single bond, a carbonyl group, a thiocarbonyl group, a C1-5 alkylene group, an oxygen atom or —NH—, and V represents a single bond or a C1-5 alkylene group.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2000Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Chemical Innovation InstituteInventors: Noriyuki Ohnishi, Mikiko Yoshida, Kazunori Kataoka, Katsuhiko Ueno
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Patent number: 7026406Abstract: A syndiotactic styrenic polymer having a narrow molecular weight distribution which is a (co)polymer comprising at least one structural unit represented by the following Formula (1): wherein C1 of a phenyl group thereof has a tacticity of 30% or more in terms of a racemic pentad determined by 13C-NMR, and Ra and m are as defined in the specification. The disclosure is also directed to a block copolymer comprising the above polymer as one segment, to a block graft polymer prepared by modifying one block of the above polymer with a nitrogen-containing aromatic polymer, and to a process for preparing a syndiotactic styrenic polymer in which a styrenic monomer is polymerized in the presence of a catalyst comprising a reaction product of a transition metal compound and at least one co-catalyst selected from organic aluminunoxy compounds.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2000Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Chemical Innovation InstituteInventors: Masanao Kawabe, Masahide Murata, Toshio Kase, Hiroyuki Ozaki, Yoshifumi Fukui, The Ban Hoang, Jizhu Jin, Akira Miyazawa, Hideaki Hagihara, Kenji Tsuchihara, Yasuzo Suzuki, Michihiko Asai, Hisae Soga, Kazuo Soga
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Patent number: 6858694Abstract: A stimuli-responsive polymer derivative utilizing keto-enol tautomerization. Also disclosed are a simple process for producing an N-acyl(meth)acrylamide derivative which can be used as a monomer for the stimuli-responsive polymer, a process for the production of an intermediate thereof, and an intermediate thus produced.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2004Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignees: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology MITI, Japan Chemical Innovation InstituteInventors: Noriyuki Ohnishi, Kazumi Aoshima, Kazunori Kataoka, Katsuhiko Ueno
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Patent number: 6852819Abstract: A stimuli-responsive polymer derivative utilizing keto-enol tautomerization. Also disclosed are a simple process for producing an N-acyl(meth)acrylamide derivative which can be used as a monomer for the stimuli-responsive polymer, a process for the production of an intermediate thereof, and an intermediate thus produced.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2002Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignees: Agency of Industrial Science & Technology MITI, Japan Chemical Innovation InstituteInventors: Noriyuki Ohnishi, Kazumi Aoshima, Kazunori Kataoka, Katsuhiko Ueno
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Patent number: 6841650Abstract: There is disclosed a crystallizable poly(2,5-di-substituted-1,4-phenylene oxide), which exhibits an exothermic peak for crystallization of not less than 5 J/g at 150° C. or over when cooled after melting, and/or an endothermic peak, at the time of melting of crystals thereof, of not less than 5 J/g at 150° C. or over when re-heated after cooling of the melt, and which comprises a recurring unit of the following formula (I), and a method of preparing the same by polymerization of a 2,5-di-substituted-phenol of the following formula (II) by use of a copper complex catalyst made of a tridentate ligand of which nitrogen atoms coordinate to a copper atom in coexistence with oxygen: wherein R1's independently represent a hydrocarbon group or a substituted hydrocarbon group, and they may be the same or different. The crystallizable poly(2,5-di-substituted-1,4-phenylene oxide) is able to provide a melt molding which has a reduced degree of coloration and good heat resistance.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2002Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Chemical Innovation InstituteInventors: Hideyuki Higashimura, Kiyoshi Fujisawa, Yoshihiko Moro-Oka, Shiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6805793Abstract: A novel method for separating a target substance, for example, metal ion, drug or biological component is provided. According to the method, the surface of a packing undergoes a chemical or physical environmental change under a physical stimulus so that the interaction of a substance interacting with the target substance is reversibly changed in an aqueous solution, thus effecting separation.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2003Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Assignees: Japan Chemical Innovation Institute, The Agency of Industrial Science and Technology of the Ministry of International Trade and IndustryInventors: Kimihiro Yoshizako, Yoshikatsu Akiyama, Katsuhiko Ueno, Teruo Okano
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Patent number: 6787617Abstract: A process for preparing olefinic living polymers having a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 1 to 1.3, comprising polymerizing an olefinic monomer having 2 to 20 carbon atoms at low temperatures in the presence of a catalyst comprising (A) a hafnium or zirconium-containing compound having one or two cyclopentadienyl backbones, (B) a triphenyl boron compound or a tetraphenyl borate compound and optionally (C) a specific mono-, di- or trialkylaluminum compound. When the catalyst comprising the zirconium-containing compound is prepared by further using a titanium-containing compound (D), the polymerization temperature can be raised.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2001Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignees: Japan as represented by Director General of the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Chemical Innovation InstituteInventors: Kazuo Soga, Takeshi Shiono, Michihiko Asai, Yasuzo Suzuki, Akira Miyazawa, Kenji Tsuchihara, Masahide Murata, Hiroyuki Ozaki, Masanao Kawabe, Toshio Kase, Jizhu Jin, Hideaki Hagiwara, Yoshifumi Fukui
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Patent number: 6653430Abstract: A butadiene polymer (i) having a cis bond unit content of at least 50% based on the total butadiene units, a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 1,000 to 10,000,000, and at least 80%, based on the total molecular chains, of living chains containing a transition metal of group IV of the Periodic table at a terminal thereof; a polymer (ii) obtained by modifying terminals of the polymer (i); and a polymer (iii) obtained by coupling the polymers (i). These polymers (i), (ii) and (iii) are obtained by polymerizing a conjugated diene monomer alone or with a copolymerizable monomer at a specific temperature in the presence of a catalyst comprising a compound (A) of a transition metal of group IV of the periodic table having a cyclopentadienyl structure and a co-catalyst (B) selected from organoaluminum-oxy compound (a) and others and optionally further by contacting the resultant polymer with a terminal modifier or a coupling agent.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2001Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignees: Japan as Represented by Director General of the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Chemical Innovation InstituteInventors: Kazuo Soga, Michihiko Asai, Yasuzo Suzuki, Akira Miyazawa, Kenji Tsuchihara, Masahide Murata, Hiroyuki Ozaki, Masanao Kawabe, Yoshifumi Fukui, Jizhy Jin, Hideaki Hagihara, Toshio Kase
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Patent number: 6641735Abstract: A novel method for separating a target substance, for example, metal ion, drug or biological component is provided. According to the method, the surface of a packing undergoes a chemical or physical environmental change under a physical stimulus so that the interaction of a substance interacting with the target substance is reversibly changed in an aqueous solution, thus effecting separation.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2000Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignees: Japan Chemical Innovation Institute, The Agency of Industrial Science and Technology the Ministry of International Trade and IndustryInventors: Kimihiro Yoshizako, Yoshikatsu Akiyama, Katsuhiko Ueno, Teruo Okano
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Patent number: 6576800Abstract: An oxidation polymer of a substituted phenol, obtained by oxidative polymerization of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a compound of formula (Ia) and a compound of formula (Ib), in which the oxidation polymer has a number-average polymerization degree of 3 or more: wherein R1 to R4 each represent a hydrogen atom and the like; provided that at least one of R1 to R4 represents a substituted or unsubstituted, saturated hydrocarbon group having 10 or more carbon atoms, and R1 and/or R4 represent a hydrogen atom; wherein R11 represents a substituted or unsubstituted, saturated hydrocarbon group having 15 or more carbon atoms, and R12 is the same as R11, or when R12 is different from R11, R12 represents a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon group and the like.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2001Date of Patent: June 10, 2003Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Chemical Innovation InstituteInventors: Hideyuki Higashimura, Shiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6541185Abstract: A polarized element formed by arranging a dichroic molecule in a micropattern form on a thin film layer of a liquid crystalline resin having a photoactive group irradiated by a linearly polarized light. The micropattern polarized element can be produced without need of a very high position-matching precision as sticking.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2000Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignees: Japan Chemical Innovation Institute, Agency of Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Daisaku Matsunaga, Kunihiro Ichimura, Takashi Tamaki
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Patent number: 6541596Abstract: There is disclosed a crystallizable poly(2,5-di-substituted-1,4-phenylene oxide), which exhibits an exothermic peak for crystallization of not less than 5 J/g at 150° C. or over when cooled after melting, and/or an endothermic peak, at the time of melting of crystals thereof, of not less than 5 J/g at 150° C. or over when re-heated after cooling of the melt, and which comprises a recurring unit of the following formula (I), and a method of preparing the same by polymerization of a 2,5-di-substituted-phenol of the following formula (II) by use of a copper complex catalyst made of a tridentate ligand of which nitrogen atoms coordinate to a copper atom in coexistence with oxygen: wherein R1's independently represent a hydrocarbon group or a substituted hydrocarbon group, and they may be the same or different. The crystallizable poly(2,5-di-substituted-1,4-phenylene oxide) is able to provide a melt molding which has a reduced degree of coloration and good heat resistance.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2000Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignees: Secretary of Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Chemical Innovation InstituteInventors: Hideyuki Higashimura, Kiyoshi Fujisawa, Yoshihiko Moro-oka, Shiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6471940Abstract: A process is provided for preparing zeolite, particularly [Al]-SSZ-31, which comprises the steps of providing a mixture of a zeolite source, an aluminum-containing material, an organic structure directing substance, preferably at least one selected from the group consisting of N,N′-bis-triethyl-1,6-hexanediyl-diammonium dihydroxide, N,N′-bis-triethyl-1,7-heptanediyl-diammonium dihydroxide, N,N′-bis-triethyl-1,8-octanediyl-diammonium dihydroxide, N,N′-bis-triethyl-1,9-nonanediyl-diammonium dihydroxide, N,N′-bis-triethyl-1,10-decanediyl-diammonium dihydroxide, and their salts, and water; drying said mixture to form a powdered dry gel; and contacting and reacting said dry gel with steam at a saturated vapor pressure to produce an aluminum-containing zeolite [Al]-SSZ-31.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2000Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignees: Japan Chemical Innovation Institute, Secretary of Agency of Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Yohei Kurata, Hideaki Hamada, Takaaki Hanaoka, Yoshihiro Sugi, Yoshihiro Kubota
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Patent number: 6455649Abstract: A catalyst comprising an organoaluminum compound and a vanadium chelate compound having the lability to cause olefins to undergo living coordination polymerization is contacted with a terminal diolefin to obtain a catalyst for living polymer production. When the above contact is:conducted in the presence of a cycloolefin or an internal olefin, the yield of a living polymer can be improved. By modifying all ends of the living polymer obtained, a telechelic olefin polymer is obtained in which all the polymer chains are modified with functional groups.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2000Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignees: Japan as represented by Director General of Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Chemical Innovation InstituteInventors: Yoshihumi Fukui, Masahide Murata, Kazuo Soga, Michihiko Asai, Yasuzou Suzuki, Akira Miyazawa, Kenji Tsuchihara, Hiroyuki Ozaki, Masanao Kawabe, Naoya Kishi
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Publication number: 20020114973Abstract: Provided is a new molecular compound excellent in luminous property, which has a molecular structure wherein a thiophene ring and a benzene (or naphthalene) ring are directly bonded to each other, as a molecular compound making it possible to control its luminous color relatively easily and realize highly efficient and bright luminescence. In this compound, its color tone of emitted light can be variously changed by altering the number of the thiophenering and the benzene (or naphthalene)-ring and the bonding order of the rings. Thus, if this molecular compound is used as a luminous material, it is possible to easily cope with both control of its luminous color and realization of highly efficient and bright luminescence. Use of a luminous material using this molecular compound makes it possible to realize luminescence having wide colors from violet to red highly efficiently.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2001Publication date: August 22, 2002Applicant: Japan Chemical Innovation InstituteInventors: Shu Hotta, Takashi Tamaki
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Patent number: 6383636Abstract: There is disclosed a (2,5-disubstituted-1,4-phenylene oxide) block copolymer which comprises one or more block structural units represented by formula (I) and at least one particular divalent structural unit in a molecule. There is also disclosed a (2,5-disubstituted-1,4-phenylene oxide) graft polymer which comprises one or more structural units of formula (IV), or three or more of structural unit of formula (IV) and particular divalent structural unit, in a molecule. (wherein R1 represents an unsubstituted or substituted hydrocarbon group, and the two R1s may be the same or different; a represents a number average degree of polymerization and is 5 or more; R4 represents a trifunctional unsubstituted or substituted hydrocarbon group; U represents —CO—, —OCO—, or —NHCO—; and f is 1 or 0.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2001Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignees: Director-General of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan Chemical Innovation InstituteInventors: Hideyuki Higashimura, Shuhei Namekawa, Shiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6355365Abstract: Provided is a new molecular compound excellent in luminous property, which has a molecular structure wherein a thiophene ring and a benzene (or naphthalene) ring are directly bonded to each other, as a molecular compound making it possible to control its luminous color relatively easily and realize highly efficient and bright luminescence. In this compound, its color tone of emitted light can be variously changed by altering the number of the thiophene ring and the benzene (or naphthalene) ring and the bonding order of the rings. Thus, if this molecular compound is used as a luminous material, it is possible to easily cope with both control of its luminous color and realization of highly efficient and bright luminescence. Use of a luminous material using this molecular compound makes it possible to realize luminescence having wide colors from violet to red highly efficiently.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 1999Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignees: Japan Chemical Innovation Institute, Agency of Industrial Science & TechnologyInventors: Shu Hotta, Takashi Tamaki
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Patent number: 6344516Abstract: A curable resin composition, which comprises a resin formed, in the presence of a transition metal complex, by polymerizing an oxidative-polymerizable compound that contains a phenol-compound-containing vegetable oil. A method for producing a curable resin composition comprising a resin formed, in the presence of a catalyst, by polymerizing an oxidative-polymerizable compound that contains a phenol-compound-containing vegetable oil, wherein the catalyst is a transition metal complex. The curable resin composition is useful as a raw material for a urushi-like coating, a friction material, a brake lining material, a brake pad material, a material for forming a coating film, a compound for a recording material, a raw material for an ink, a raw material for a coating,.a raw material for a adhesive, a raw material for an epoxy resin, a raw material for a photoresist or antioxidant, and a starting material for a functional polymer.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2001Date of Patent: February 5, 2002Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Chemical Innovation InstituteInventors: Ryohei Ikeda, Shiro Kobayashi, Hiroshi Uyama