Patents Assigned to Nippon Petrochemicals Company
  • Patent number: 6180079
    Abstract: In wet oxidizing process of an aqueous alkali waste which contains absorbed hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide, a convenient method for improving the safety in oxidizing operation and the efficiency in oxidation reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventor: Isoo Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6165481
    Abstract: Highly pure squalane in which the content of pristane is reduced to 10 wt ppm or less, can be obtained by refining the squalane of animal oil or fat origin through thin film distillation, said highly pure squalane is useful as a raw material for producing cosmetics and medical and pharmaceutical preparations and especially, it is quite effective as a lubricating agent for condoms and as a component of adjuvant composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kaiya, Tomio Nakamura, Hironaka Wada
  • Patent number: 6136414
    Abstract: An embossed sheet which is excellent in embossing properties, whitening resistance and transparency, can be prepared by using a resin composition containing specific ratios of (A) polypropylene having a specific melting point of 125.degree. C. or higher, (B) ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer having specific properties and (C) random copolymer of aromatic vinyl compound and conjugated diene compound having specific properties. Further, the present invention provides the laminates which is made using the above embossed sheet and the method for producing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignees: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuo Aizawa, Masahiro Yamazoe, Ikuma Nishimura, Kazuhiko Ohta, Toshio Inoue, Tokuhito Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6132661
    Abstract: A longitudinally stretched nonwoven fabric and a method for producing the same, which nonwoven fabric is a web mainly composed of long fiber filaments of 3 .mu.m to 15 .mu.m in diameter and made by short distance stretching in one direction at a stretching ratio of at least 5, and which production method is characterized in the steps of: maintaining the spun filaments in a draftable state; cooling the filaments with a cooling fluid, then guiding the filaments onto a conveyer with inclining the flow of filaments toward the transferring direction, and sucking by a reduced pressure from the back side of said conveyer, and further subjecting the web of filaments to short distance stretching in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignees: Nippon Petrochemical Company, Limited, Polymer Processing Research Inst., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kurihara, Hiroshi Yazawa, Shuichi Murakami, Yoichi Mazawa, Yuki Kuroiwa, Yukio Matsumura, Kazuhiro Yabe, Shin'ichi Umejima
  • Patent number: 6124001
    Abstract: A controlled elastic composite material which is produced by forming a flexible elastomer layer or layers on one or both surfaces of at least one member selected from the group consisting of (a) a longitudinally monoaxially oriented reticular web, (b) a transversally monoaxially oriented reticular web, (c) a woven or non-woven fabric composed of monoaxially oriented tapes, and (d) a stretched long fiber web in which long fibers are aligned almost in one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company Limited
    Inventors: Yukio Sugita, Kintaro Aihara, Sadayuki Ishiyama, Jun Yamada
  • Patent number: 6106924
    Abstract: A laminate material and a uniaxially oriented laminate which contains an additive but does not suffer from the trouble caused by the exudation of said additive, and the laminate material comprises an inner layer composed of an orientable resin A containing an additive and coating layers composed of a resin B and being applied onto both surfaces of said inner layer to prevent the additive from exudation and the uniaxially oriented laminate is prepared by uniaxially stretching the above laminate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventor: Shinji Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 6093762
    Abstract: A vehicle for lithographic printing ink is prepared by using an improved binder resin of petroleum resin-modified phenol resin, in which the melt viscosity of the binder resin is maintained below a certain level to improve the workability in polymerization process and the misting in printing press is reduced by using the improved binder resin. In the preparation of the binder resin, acid modified hydrocarbon resin (A) is prepared by reacting components (a) mainly comprising five-membered cyclic compounds or their Diels-Alder reaction products with the components (b) comprising unsaturated carboxylic acids or their anhydrides, and said acid modified hydrocarbon resin (A) is then reacted with phenol resin (B) in which portions of the phenol resin are fed one after another, thereby producing said binder resin having the properties of: high weight average molecular weight, low melt viscosity and low ratio of melt viscosity to solution viscosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company Limited
    Inventors: Kazuo Kawai, Takaaki Takeshita, Hironobu Soeda
  • Patent number: 6084144
    Abstract: A boron trifluoride complex can be recovered without changing its molar coordination ratio, by applying a direct and/or alternating voltage to an electrically-nonconductive fluid in which at least a part of boron trifluoride complex is dispersed and/or dissolved, and separating the boron trifluoride complex by settling from the electrically-nonconductive fluid. By utilizing this method for the preparation of olefin oligomer using a boron trifluoride complex catalyst, it is possible to reuse the recovered catalyst as it stands for the reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tsutomu Takashima, Yoshisuke Kakuyama, Shigeru Nishikida, Yuichi Tokumoto, Kouji Fujimura
  • Patent number: 6063717
    Abstract: A reinforced hydroentangled nonwoven fabric having small thickness and weight, draping characteristics and flexibility, and improved balance of longitudinal and transverse strength, and more particularly a thin, light-weight, reinforced, hydroentangled nonwoven fabric (9) obtained by entangling the fiber of a reinforcing support base (2) or the fiber of a fiber web laminated on the fiber of the support base (2) with the support base (2) and uniting them by ejecting high-pressure thin water jet streams (5a, 5b) against these materials, characterized in that the reinforcing support base (2) comprises a stretched unidirectionally oriented nonwoven fabric obtained by stretching a nonwoven fabric of long fiber, which is produced by spinning a thermoplastic resin, in the direction with the fiber oriented substantially in one direction, or stretched, crossed, laminated, nonwoven fabric obtained by cross-laminating the stretched unidirectionally oriented nonwoven fabric; and a method of producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Ishiyama, Jun Yamada
  • Patent number: 6063492
    Abstract: A base fabric used for producing an adhesive tape and the adhesive tape with the same, which adhesive tape has good transversely tearable property and small in thickness, said base fabric being composed of at least one longitudinal base material of stretched unidirectionally aligned nonwoven fabric which is made by spinning a thermoplastic resin into a long filament nonwoven fabric and stretching it in one direction so as to aligne its filaments almost in one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignees: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Ltd, Polymer Processing Research Inst., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kurihara, Hiroshi Yazawa, Masato Kimura, Jun Yamada
  • Patent number: 6048808
    Abstract: The invention provides a nonwoven fabric of stretched filaments of different kind polymers, having a strength equal to that of a woven fabric and features including an elongation, a uniformity, good feeling, a bulkiness and a thinness, characterized in that the nonwoven fabric is provided with stretched filament webs comprising long filaments formed out of a plural kinds of thermoplastic polymers of different properties, the long filaments as a whole being aligned in one direction, and a method for manufacturing the same. The invention provides also a nonwoven fabric of stretched filaments having a high strength as well as a high bulkiness and comprising different kind polymers which is provided with a first web layer of crimped filaments and a second web layer of substantially non-crimped, stretched long filaments, and a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignees: Polymer Processing Research Inst., Ltd., Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kurihara, Hiroshi Yazawa, Toshikazu Ohishi, Yoichi Mazawa, Yuki Kuroiwa, Shuichi Murakami, Sadayuki Ishiyama, Jun Yamada
  • Patent number: 6045349
    Abstract: A wrinkleless plastic film having excellent quality without the reduction of width can be manufactured with high productivity using a rolling apparatus in which a plastic film is rolled stepwise at two rolling deformation points formed by two driving rolls and a follower roll, which rolls are brought into continuous contact with each other along the passage of the plastic film and said follower roll is driven by the rotation of said two driving rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Ishida, Tadayoshi Kato
  • Patent number: 6037403
    Abstract: A high viscosity fluid composition having a specific gravity of 1 or more, the physical properties of said fluid composition is not impaired for the use of a long period of time, and a vibration energy damping device which is filled with said high viscosity fluid composition. The high viscosity fluid composition comprises a high viscosity hydrocarbon fluid and an inorganic filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company Limited
    Inventors: Haruhisa Katase, Sakae Kanai
  • Patent number: 6003581
    Abstract: A laminating apparatus (20) for laminating a longitudinal web (19) on a transverse web (28) by maintaining transverse fibrous elements (62) in the transverse direction as much as possible, wherein a skew correction device (39) for correcting the skew of the transverse web in contact with both selvage portions (57, 57) of the transverse web, includes first and second rolls (101, 102) arranged on the side of one selvage portion and the other selvage portion of the transverse web, a common roll (108) arranged on the opposite side of the transverse web with respect to the first and second rolls, and a support means (60) for supporting the first roll, second roll and common roll so as to hold one selvage portion (57) of the transverse web (28) by the first or second roll and an end of the common roll. The travelling speed of at least one selvage portion (57) of the transverse web (28) can be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventor: Kintaro Aihara
  • Patent number: 5954914
    Abstract: A web lamination device for laminating a transverse web, having longitudinal fibrous elements extending generally transverse to the longitudinal conveying direction and opposite selvages, with a longitudinal web having longitudinal fibrous elements extending generally parallel to the longitudinal conveying direction at a laminating roll. The web lamination device includes skew correction means capable of contacting at least one of selvages of the transverse web running to the laminating roll of the web lamination device at a predetermined speed, for correcting the skew of the transverse web. The skew correction means includes a drive roll capable of selectively contacting one of the selvages of the transverse web, to drive one of selvages faster or slower than the conveying speed, when skew occurs in the transverse web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventor: Kintaro Aihara
  • Patent number: 5928762
    Abstract: An embossed sheet which is excellent in embossing properties, whitening resistance and transparency, can be prepared by using a resin composition containing specific ratios of (A) polypropylene having a specific melting point of 125.degree. C. or higher, (B) ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer having specific properties and (C) random copolymer of aromatic vinyl compound and conjugated diene compound having specific properties. Further, the present invention provides the laminates which is made using the above embossed sheet and the method for producing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignees: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd, Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuo Aizawa, Masahiro Yamazoe, Ikuma Nishimura, Kazuhiko Ohta, Toshio Inoue, Tokuhito Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5901619
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotary cutting tool for fabricating a sheet having transverse slits. The rotary cutting tool has a cylindrical body having generally longitudinally extending grooves, and cutting blades. The cutting blades are first fitted in the grooves with the cutting edges seated on the bottom surfaces of the grooves, and the base surfaces of the cutting blades projecting from the grooves are machined with a rotary grinding wheel while the cylindrical body is rotated. The cutting blades are then removed from the grooves and are finally fitted in the same grooves. The cutting edges of the cutting blades can be accurately arranged about an axis of the cylindrical body, and the rotary cutting tool can be easily manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventor: Kintaro Aihara
  • Patent number: 5882114
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for continuously extracting a wax component contained in a solid residue with a solvent, in which method, the solid residue obtained from the juice of sugar cane is used as a raw material. To make the extraction time uniform and to obtain the wax at a high efficiency of extraction, the solid residue and an organic solvent for extraction are mixed under shear force and agitated in directions perpendicular to the flow direction. The mixing is conducted under an agitated flow condition so as to form a substantially plug flow in the flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kazumi Fukuyo, Kouji Fujimura, Toshiharu Fusano
  • Patent number: 5877362
    Abstract: A method for producing diphenylmethane from 1,1-diphenylethane with a high yield and selectivity, wherein the 1,1-diphenylethane is reacted with hydrogen and/or water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hideyuki Dohi, Kazuo Sakamoto, Tadashi Tayanagi
  • Patent number: 5866514
    Abstract: A pesticidal composition to noxious organisms which comprises a diarylalkane and an active component effective for killing or repelling noxious organisms and the diarylalkane is at least one member selected from the group consisting of butyl diphenylmethane, butyl-1,1-diphenylethane and butyl-1,2-diphenylethane. The used diarylalkane has a high dissolving power to the effective component, a high boiling point and a high flash point with low unpleasant smell and does not deteriorate the effective component in the pesticidal composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kunio Sugisawa, Yasuo Togami, Toshikatsu Shouko