Patents Assigned to Mitsui
  • Publication number: 20180016835
    Abstract: An opening and closing system includes a drive unit which drives a closing openable member of a vehicle to be opened or closed, an opening and closing control unit which controls the drive unit to open or close the closing openable member, an image capturing unit which captures an image of a periphery of the closing openable member, and a detecting unit which detects an obstacle proximity to the closing openable member based on an image captured by the image capturing unit. When the detecting unit detects an obstacle, the opening and closing unit stops the closing openable member before it comes into contact with the obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mikio ICHINOSE
  • Publication number: 20180020013
    Abstract: The present invention provides a program, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing method which can effectively prevent malware attacks. A predetermined process is judged as a ransomware, when a first condition that a file read function for reading a file included in a same file path as a file path written by a file write function called from the predetermined process has been already called from the predetermined process; and a second condition that the file write function rewrites a header of a file of the file path: are satisfied. A predetermined process is judged as a ransomware, when a first condition that an actual file on a disk is mapped as a virtual file on a memory by the predetermined process; a second condition that the virtual file is unmapped by the predetermined process; and a third condition that a file structure of the actual file or the virtual file when unmapping is rewritten to inappropriate status: are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi YOSHIKAWA, Kei SUGAWARA, Masaru SEKIHARA
  • Patent number: 9861099
    Abstract: Provided is a composition that enhances the effects of monosaccharides. The composition is a composition comprising a monosaccharide as an active ingredient thereof and comprising at least one or more assistants selected from a nonionic surfactant (excluding acetylene glycol-based surfactants, fluorine-based surfactants and silicone-based surfactants), an anionic surfactant (excluding lignin sulfonate), a cationic surfactant, an amphoteric surfactant, a water-soluble polymer, an amino acid, an amino sugar, a disaccharide alcohol and a salt, and is effective as an agricultural control composition against plant disease, particularly plant disease caused by fungi and plant disease caused by bacteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignees: MITSUI CHEMICALS AGRO, INC., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KAGAWA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Toshiaki Ohara, Kiyoko Tanaka, Shuji Ishizaki, Shigehiro Kato, Kazuya Akimitsu, Ken Izumori
  • Patent number: 9865752
    Abstract: An encapsulating material for solar cell of the invention contains an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer, and a content of a fluorine element in the ethylene/?-olefin copolymer, which is determined using a combustion method and an ion chromatograph method, is equal to or less than 30 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignees: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC., MITSUI CHEMICALS TOHCELLO, INC.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Fumito Takeuchi, Tomoaki Ito
  • Patent number: 9862852
    Abstract: [Object of this invention] To provide the amorphous fluorine-containing resin composition that has superior film-forming ability, and has a small impact on the global environment due to its very small global warming potential, and can fully satisfy the requirement from the perspective of the environmental protection of the earth; and to provide the article that contains the coating that is formed from the thin films that are made from this amorphous fluorine-containing resin. composition. [Means to solve the problems] The amorphous fluorine-containing resin composition that dissolves the amorphous fluorine-containing resin in alkoxy fluoroalkene. This invention also provides the article that contains the coating that is formed from the thin films that are made from this amorphous fluorine-containing resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: DUPONT-MITSUI FLUOROCHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Mugisawa, Yuji Mochizuki, Jeong Chang Lee
  • Patent number: 9862557
    Abstract: Provided are a container terminal and a control method therefor that enhance a cargo handling efficiency by reducing a movement of each yard crane to a minimum possible extent. The container terminal is provided with a first transfer area 44 outside one end portion of a storage lane 20, and a second transfer area 47 outside the other end portion. When a circulating transport vehicle 31 and a shuttle vehicle 32 transfer a container k therebetween via a first yard crane 13 in the first transfer area 44, the shuttle vehicle 32 transports the container k to a second yard crane 14, and the second yard crane 14 handles the container in an unloading container area 46 of the storage lane 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI ENGINEERING & SHIPBUILDING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kasai, Nobuya Kayasuga
  • Patent number: 9863067
    Abstract: The present invention provides a crimped conjugated fiber having a crimpable cross-sectional configuration wherein a cross section of the fiber comprises at least two portions: a portion (a) and a portion (b); the portion (a) comprises a propylene polymer (A) and the portion (b) comprises a propylene/?-olefin random copolymer (B); the propylene polymer (A) has Mz/Mw(A) and the propylene/?-olefin random copolymer (B) has Mz/Mw(B) wherein the difference thereof is in the range of 0.10 to 2.2; and the propylene polymer (A) has a melting point [Tm(A)] and the propylene/?-olefin random copolymer (B) has a melting point [Tm(B)] wherein the difference thereof exceeds 10° C. The present invention also provides a non-woven fabric comprising the crimped conjugated fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20180002500
    Abstract: Disclosed are a reinforcing fiber bundle composed of a carbon fiber bundle treated with an emulsion; a carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin molded body using the same; and a method for producing a reinforcing fiber bundle; wherein the emulsion contains a modified polyolefin (A1) comprising at least a metal carboxylate bonded to the polymer chain, and 0.1 to 5,000 moles of an amine compound (B) represented by the following general formula (1), per one mole of the carboxylate group in the modified polyolefin (A1); R—NH2??(1) wherein the formula (1), R is a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicants: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC., FORMOSA PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoshi NAGAI, Takeharu ISAKI, Masaki SHIMIZU, Junichi ISHIKAWA, Kazuaki KIKUCHI, Yi-Chuan CHANG, Kai-Cheng YEN, Min-Yuan LIN
  • Publication number: 20180000069
    Abstract: This invention relates to a liquid herbicidal composition comprising a non-aqueous solvent system, at least one sulfonylurea herbicide and at least one inorganic salt selected from the metal carbonates and metal phosphates. The invention also relates to the use of an inorganic salt selected from the metal carbonates and metal phosphates to improve chemical stabilisation of a sulfonylurea herbicide in a liquid composition comprising a non-aqueous solvent system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicants: Mitsui AgriScience International S.A./N.V., Battelle UK Limited
    Inventors: Oliver Egan, Andrew Goldsmith
  • Patent number: 9856399
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a high-transparency polyimide film in which the thickness-direction phase difference Rth is kept within a predetermined range. The present invention also addresses the problem of providing a polyamic acid and a varnish used to obtain the polyimide film. In order to overcome the aforementioned problem, the present invention is a polyimide film containing a polyimide obtained by bringing about a reaction between a tetracarboxylic dianhydride and a diamine, the polyimide film having (a) a thickness-direction phase difference Rth of ?5 to 100 nm per 10 ?m of thickness, (b) a transmittance of 80% or more with respect to light having a wavelength of 400 nm, (c) a haze of 3% or less, and (d) a glass transition point of 250° C. or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi Fukukawa, Masaki Okazaki, Yoshihiro Sakata, Tatsuhiro Urakami, Atsushi Okubo
  • Patent number: 9856209
    Abstract: Xylylene dicarbamate contains impurities represented by formulas (1) to (4) below at a ratio of less than 100 ppm as a total amount thereof on a mass basis. (In the above-described formulas (1) to (4), R represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Koji Takamatsu, Hideki Sone, Masaaki Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9857503
    Abstract: An optical material of the present invention has the following characteristics (1) to (4) in a transmittance curve which is measured at a thickness of 2 mm of the optical material. (1) the transmittance curve has a maximum transmittance value at 400 nm to 440 nm and the maximum transmittance thereof is 50% or more. (2) the transmittance curve has a minimum transmittance value at 471 nm to 500 nm. (3) The transmittance at 540 nm is 60% or more. (4) The minimum transmittance value at 471 nm to 500 nm is seven-tenths or less of the maximum transmittance at 400 nm to 440 nm and is seven-tenths or less of the transmittance at 540 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignees: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC., YAMAMOTO CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Kouya Kojima, Toshiya Hashimoto, Naoyuki Kakinuma, Satoshi Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9856591
    Abstract: There is provided a nonwoven fabric excellent in the balance among fuzz resistance, softness and tensile strength. The nonwoven fabric comprises an embossed portion and a non-embossed portion; the embossed portion comprising an emboss pattern that comprises unit patterns each delimited by emboss lines; the emboss lines each comprising a plurality of emboss element parts that are continuously arranged with a predetermined interval; wherein in the direction in which the distance from any arbitrarily-defined point in the non-embossed portion within the unit pattern toward the outside of the emboss lines that delimit the non-embossed portion is shortest, at least one of the plurality of emboss element parts is disposed so as to block the direction in which the distance from the arbitrarily-defined point toward the outside of the emboss lines that delimit the non-embossed portion is shortest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Taro Ichikawa, Yoshihisa Kawakami
  • Patent number: 9855863
    Abstract: A lock device includes: a body having a striker insertion groove into which a striker is inserted; a hook lever shaft mounted to the body; and a hook lever rotatably mounted to the body via the hook lever shaft, and that moves to an engagement position where the hook lever is engaged with the striker inserted into the striker insertion groove, and that moves to a release position where the engagement with the striker is released. The lock device is rotatably supported by a support member so as to change an opening position of the striker insertion groove. The hook lever shaft is rotatably mounted to the body, and has a flange interposed between the body and the support member, and the body is supported by the support member so as to rotate about the hook lever shaft as a rotation shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Hanaki, Naoya Seto
  • Publication number: 20170372993
    Abstract: A substrate intermediary body includes: a substrate having a hole in a thickness direction, and a conductor being disposed in the hole; and an adhesion layer formed on a wall surface of the hole. The adhesion layer contains a reaction product of a polymer (A) having a cationic functional group and having a weight-average molecular weight of from 2,000 to 1,000,000 and a polyvalent carboxylic acid compound (B) having two or more carboxyl groups per molecule or a derivative thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa KAYABA, Shoko ONO, Hirofumi TANAKA, Koji INOUE, Hiroko WACHI
  • Patent number: 9850346
    Abstract: Provided is a polyimide excellent in heat resistance and colorless transparency and also excellent in flexibility and ultraviolet ray transmittance. The polyimide includes a structural unit represented by Formula (1a) and a structural unit represented by Formula (1b) wherein R is a specific aromatic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi Fukukawa, Masaki Okazaki, Yoshihiro Sakata, Tatsuhiro Urakami, Atsushi Okubo
  • Patent number: 9852929
    Abstract: A lead frame includes a lead frame body processed in a predetermined shape, and including a notched part provided at an end of the lead frame body, the notched part being used as a starting point of tape-removing, a resin leakproof tape stuck on a back surface of the lead frame body, and a region of a periphery of the notched part in the back surface of the lead frame body, the region being reduced in a strength of bonding between the resin leakproof tape and the lead frame body is reduced relative to other region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC.
    Inventor: Takahiro Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20170361548
    Abstract: Provided is a molded body with a hollow portion comprising tetrafluoroethylene and perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) copolymer, which is obtained by heat treating a molded body with a hollow portion obtained by melt molding tetrafluoroethylene and perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) copolymer having a melt flow rate of 0.1 to 100 g/10 min when measured with a load of 5 kg and a measurement temperature of 372±0.1° C. in accordance with ASTM D1238. The heat treatment is carried out at a temperature from 130° C. below the melting point of the copolymer to the melting point of the copolymer. The molded body exhibits excellent blister resistance when utilized in contact with harsh chemicals and under harsh operating conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: Dupont-Mitsui Fluorochemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO NISHIMURA, HITOMI NISHIMURA, CHORONG JEONG
  • Patent number: 9845373
    Abstract: A polymerizable composition for photochromic optical materials of the present invention includes a polymerizable monomer (A) having two or more ethylene-based unsaturated groups, an ethylene-based unsaturated polymerizable monomer (B) having one (meth)acrylic group and an aromatic ring, a polythiol (C) having three or more mercapto groups, and a photochromic compound (D), and the molar number of the mercapto groups included in the polythiol (C) is not more than 0.3 times with respect to the total molar number of the ethylene-based unsaturated groups included in the polymerizable monomer (A) and the polymerizable monomer (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventor: Akinori Ryu
  • Patent number: D806883
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Martin Kay, Ekaterina Obyedkova