Patents Assigned to Kao Corporation
  • Publication number: 20230173782
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pouch-type packaging material includes: a first folding process; a first cutting process of cutting the top-side sheet material, a second sub-region, a first main region, and a first sub-region along a first cutting line that extends from a portion where the top-side sheet material and the second sub-region overlap to a portion closer toward a bottom side in a z direction beyond a first boundary line; a second folding process; a second cutting process of cutting the top-side sheet material, the first sub-region, the first main region, and a second main region along a second cutting line to form a top-side sheet from the top-side sheet material, where the second cutting line extends from a portion where the top-side sheet material and the first sub-region overlap to a portion closer toward the bottom side in the z direction beyond the second boundary line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicants: FUJI SEAL INTERNATIONAL, INC., KAO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takao KANO
  • Publication number: 20230172835
    Abstract: A composition for external preparation for skin including the following components (A), (B), and (C). (A) includes from 1 to 30 mass % of a polymer having a silicone moiety in which a ratio of deformation is 0.3 or more and 1 or less, and in a bend resistance test using a cylindrical mandrel method a minimum diameter of a cylindrical mandrel which causes no cracks in a polymer film is 2 mm or longer and 25 mm or shorter. (B) includes a volatile oil having a volatilization rate of 14% or more after drying at 1 atmosphere, at 40° C., and an R.H. of 60% for 30 minutes. (C) includes a cation-modified clay mineral and a mass ratio of the component (A) to the component (C), (A)/(C), is from 5 to 23.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki IIDA, Yukihiro MIYAZAKI, Motoaki ITO
  • Publication number: 20230172836
    Abstract: A method for makeup including (A) applying to skin a composition X including components (A1) and (A2). (A1) includes a polymer containing a norbornane moiety and/or a silicone-modified Pullulan and (A2) includes a volatile oil. The method further includes (B) applying to the skin a composition Y including a component (B1), other than the composition X, where (B1) includes one or more selected from the group consisting of polyols and liquid oils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki IIDA, Motoaki ITO, Yoko HANADA, Yukihiro MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230166277
    Abstract: A foam discharge container, including a container main body for accommodating a liquid composition and a foam discharge device which mixes the liquid composition with air and discharges it in a foam form. The foam discharge device has a plurality of porous bodies through which the liquid composition passes when the liquid composition is discharged, the plurality of porous bodies include a tip side porous body arranged in a vicinity of a discharge port of the foam discharge device, and the tip side porous body is composed of polyethylene terephthalate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Shiqing MA, Yadong XIA, Chanjia HE, Songjie ZHANG, Beibei ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230165763
    Abstract: A water-in-oil emulsified sunscreen cosmetic including the following components (A1), (A2), (B), and (C), with a content of (D) a non-volatile silicone oil being 0.1 mass % or more and 4 mass % or less, (A1) 5 mass % or more of a hydrophobized titanium dioxide fine particle, (A2) 10 mass % or more of a hydrophobized zinc oxide fine particle, (B) a divalent polyol, and (C) 2 mass % or more and 14 mass % or less of a non-volatile hydrocarbon oil, wherein each mass % is with respect to 100 mass % of the water-in-oil emulsified sunscreen cosmetic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jia SHI
  • Patent number: 11661605
    Abstract: Provided is a method for intracellularly producing a large amount of a Cry protein in a Bacillus bacterium. A method for producing a Cry protein or a culture product comprising the Cry protein, comprising transforming a Bacillus bacterium with an expression plasmid incorporating a gene encoding the Cry protein operably linked to a regulatory region comprising a ?A-dependent promoter or a ?H-dependent promoter, and culturing the transformed cell, wherein the expression plasmid comprises a polynucleotide encoding a replication protein consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 9 or a protein having an identity of 80% or more or more with the amino acid sequence of the replication protein and involved in replication initiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Shenghao Liu, Yasushi Kageyama, Mika Terai
  • Publication number: 20230158768
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sheet material container where the sheet material container includes one or a plurality of sheet members including a main-body forming sheet member that has an outer film layer and an inner film layer which are mutually stacked, a containing region that accommodates contents, and a container body that is configured from the main-body forming sheet member and that surrounds the containing region, and the main-body forming sheet member having a main-body sealing portion, which is an attached region between the outer film layer and the inner film layer, and a non-attached region where the outer film layer and the inner film layer are partially not attached, and further having a filling portion where a filler is enclosed between the layers of the outer film layer and the inner film layer in the non-attached region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro OTSUKA, Tsubasa OYAMA
  • Patent number: 11655384
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-based ink containing a pigment (A), a water-soluble organic solvent (C), a surfactant (D) and water, in which a content of water in the water-based ink is not less than 40% by mass and not more than 65% by mass, a boiling point of the water-soluble organic solvent (C) is not higher than 230° C., and a content of a high-boiling point organic solvent having a boiling point of not lower than 250° C. in the water-based ink is not more than 4% by mass, and the surfactant (D) contains a silicone-based surfactant (d-1) and an acetylene glycol-based surfactant (d-2) which satisfy the following conditions 1 and 2: Condition 1: [(content of component (d-1))/(content of component (C))]×100=0.15 to 4; and Condition 2: [(content of component (d-2))/(content of component (C))]×100=0.35 to 1.65.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Azusa Kuroda, Yuta Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11655434
    Abstract: The present invention relates a composition capable of enhancing cleaning properties of a soil during cleaning by treating an object. The composition is a composition containing a modified hydroxyalkyl cellulose and at least one selected from an anionic surfactant and a nonionic surfactant, the modified hydroxyalkyl cellulose being one in which a cationic group and a hydrophobic group represented by the formula (1) are bound to a group resulting from eliminating a hydrogen atom from a hydroxy group of a hydroxyalkyl cellulose. *—Z—R1??(1) wherein, Z represents a single bond or a hydrocarbon group having an oxygen atom; R1 represents a hydrocarbon group having 2 or more carbon atoms; and * represents a binding position to a group resulting from eliminating a hydrogen atom from a hydroxy group of a hydroxyalkyl cellulose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Saito, Yoichiro Imori, Akihiro Koyama, Yukiko Yamawaki
  • Patent number: 11655435
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a soil release agent capable of enhancing cleaning properties for removing a soil during cleaning through treatment of an object, and a soil release composition containing the soil release agent. The soil release agent is a soil release agent including a modified hydroxyalkyl cellulose in which a hydroxyalkyl cellulose is bound to at least one selected from a cationic group and a hydrophobic group including a hydrocarbon group having 4 or more carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Saito, Yoichiro Imori, Akihiro Koyama, Yukiko Yamawaki
  • Publication number: 20230150743
    Abstract: A sheet member container including one or more sheet members, including a main-body forming sheet member having an outer film layer and an inner film layer laminated on each other. The sheet member container has a containing portion that accommodates contents, a container main body including the main-body forming sheet member, and a peripheral edge sealing portion in which the one or more sheet members are folded along a folding line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro OTSUKA, Daisuke KODAMA, Akira KURAGANO
  • Publication number: 20230149272
    Abstract: A composition for external preparation for skin including the following components (A), (B), and (C). (A) includes from 1 to 30 mass % of a polymer having a silicone moiety in which a ratio of deformation is 0.3 or more and 1 or less, and in a bend resistance test using a cylindrical mandrel method a minimum diameter of a cylindrical mandrel which causes no cracks in a polymer film is 2 mm or longer and 25 mm or shorter. (B) includes a volatile oil having a volatilization rate of 14% or more after drying at 1 atmosphere, at 40° C., and an R.H. of 60% for 30 minutes. (C) includes a polyol and a mass ratio of the component (A) to the component (C), (A)/(C), is from 3 to 200.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki IIDA, Yukihiro MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230144067
    Abstract: Provided are a method of detecting severity of premenstrual syndrome simply and with less burdening a subject, a marker allowing detection of the severity of premenstrual syndrome, and a method of detecting the severity of premenstrual syndrome of a subject using the marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Natsumi NAGAMORI, Takayoshi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230143138
    Abstract: A makeup application method including (A) applying to skin a composition X including components (A1) and (A2). (A1) includes a polymer containing a norbornane structure and/or a silicone-modified Pullulan and (A2) includes a volatile oil. The method further includes (B) applying to the skin a composition Y including a component (B1), other than the composition X, where (B1) includes one or more powders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki IIDA, Sachiyo KAWAMOTO, Ryota NAKAJIMA, Yukihiro MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11642288
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid skin external composition which allows a poorly water-soluble component to be applied to a skin in a liquid state. An assembly of fiber for use in production of a liquid skin external composition, the assembly of fiber comprising (a) a polymer soluble in water and an alcohol or a ketone in a content of 50 mass % or more and 98 mass % or less with respect to the whole assembly of fiber and (b) a poorly water-soluble component in a content of 2 mass % or more and 40 mass % or less with respect to the whole assembly of fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naomi Amari, Takuji Kume, Makoto Onoo, Takehiko Tojo, Rui Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20230136205
    Abstract: A cosmetic handy ink-jet printer including an ink-jet head for ejecting an ink containing an inorganic pigment, an ink circulation device for circulating the ink, and a body deelectrification device for removing static electricity from a body of the printer. The ink circulation device includes an ink receptacle in which the ink is accommodated, and an ink circulation path through which the ink is circulated. The body deelectrification device is a capacitor or a grounded circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventor: Teruyuki FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20230136012
    Abstract: The present invention is an evaporation inhibitor for plant treatment agents composed of at least one compound selected from (A1) a compound obtained by adding a predetermined amount of at least one alkylene oxide (hereinafter referred to as AO) selected from ethylene oxide (hereinafter referred to as EO) and propylene oxide (hereinafter referred to as PO) to a predetermined alcohol, (A2) a compound obtained by adding a predetermined amount of at least one AO selected from EO and PO to a predetermined carboxylic acid, (A3) a compound obtained by adding a predetermined amount of at least one AO selected from EO and PO to a monoester of a fatty acid with 10 or more and 20 or less carbons and sorbitan, (A4) a polyalkylene glycol with a weight average molecular weight of 100 or more and 3000 or less, (A5) a predetermined ester compound, and (A6) a predetermined carboxylic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi TOMITA, Takahito UI, Shota YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230137989
    Abstract: A soil improving agent containing (A) a lignocellulosic biomass with a lignin content of more than 60 mass % and 80 mass % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yumi MOCHIZUKI, Akihiro TANOUE, Ryosuke YASUI, Ryosuke KOBE
  • Patent number: 11638682
    Abstract: Provided is a rinse-off-type hair cosmetic composition used by being applied to hair and then washed away, the hair cosmetic composition comprising: the ingredients (A) to (C) below, and water, wherein a molar ratio of the ingredient. (B) to the ingredient (A), (B)/(A), is less than 3, and a mass ratio of the ingredient (C) to the ingredient (A), (C)/(A), is less than 1: (A) an amido-cationic surfactant represented by formula (1) wherein R1 represents a C11-17-alkyl group or alkenyl group, R2 represents a C2-4-alkylene group, R3, R4, and R5 independently represent a C1-3-alkyl group, an alkenyl group, or hydroxyalkyl group, and X? represents an anion; (B) a fatty alcohol having 14 to 18 carbon atoms; and (C) a silicone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoki Morioka
  • Publication number: 20230125112
    Abstract: An oil-in-water emulsion cosmetic material containing the following component (A) to (C): Component (A): a hydrophobized fine-particulate metal oxide having an average primary particle diameter of less than 100 nm, Component (B): an aqueous phase thickener containing a structure derived from 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid, Component (C): an amphoteric surfactant, wherein the content of the component (A) is 7% by mass or more and 30% by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro INOUE