Patents Assigned to Showa Denko K.K.
  • Publication number: 20220251009
    Abstract: A method for producing an alcohol by hydrating an olefin using a heteropolyacid catalyst is provided, in which the catalyst can be stably used over a long period. The method is for producing an alcohol by supplying water and an olefin having 2-5 carbon atoms to a reactor and hydrating the olefin in a gas phase using a solid acid catalyst loaded with a heteropolyacid or a salt thereof, and is characterized in that a raw-material mixture to be supplied to the reactor has an aldehyde compound content of 70 mol ppm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Gen INOUE, Toshihiro KIMURA, Masafumi KOYANO
  • Publication number: 20220251026
    Abstract: A method for producing a highly polymerizable N-vinyl carboxylic acid amide monomer includes (A) melting a crude N-vinyl carboxylic acid amide monomer including 50 to 88 mass % of an N-vinyl carboxylic acid amide monomer by heating, followed by cooling for precipitation, and subjecting precipitated N-vinyl carboxylic acid amide monomer crystals to solid-liquid separation (step (A)), and (B) further dissolving the N-vinyl carboxylic acid amide monomer crystals separated in step (A) in a mixed solvent of 1,2-dimethoxyethane and an aliphatic hydrocarbon having 6 to 7 carbon atoms, then performing crystallization, performing solid-liquid separation, and recovering an N-vinyl carboxylic acid amide monomer purified product (step (B)), wherein a mass ratio of 1,2-dimethoxyethane/N-vinyl carboxylic acid amide monomer crystal in step (B) is 0.01 to 0.5, and a mass ratio of aliphatic hydrocarbon having 6 to 7 carbon atoms/N-vinyl carboxylic acid amide monomer crystal in step (B) is 0.5 to 3.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Takamitsu KOBAYASHI, Naoyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220251703
    Abstract: A gas supply method for supplying a gas compound obtained by vaporizing a liquid compound stored in a storage vessel to a target location through a gas compound supply pipeline, the gas supply method including adjusting a temperature of the liquid compound or the gas compound within the storage vessel to be equal to or lower than a surrounding temperature of the gas compound supply pipeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Takanori AOKI, Katsumi Mikami
  • Patent number: 11407960
    Abstract: A method for producing a lubricating oil composition includes: a step of mixing a base oil and fullerene, dissolving a soluble component of the fullerene in the base oil, and obtaining a mixture of the base oil and fullerene; a step of removing an insoluble component included in the mixture and obtaining a fullerene solution; and a step of heat-treating the fullerene solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: SHOWA DENKO K.K., MITSUBISHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuji Monden, Yu Gao, Kunio Kondo, Masumi Kuritani
  • Patent number: 11408841
    Abstract: A thermal conductivity measuring device includes a sample container that has a plurality of storage sections; a drive unit that is configured to move the plurality of storage sections of the sample container; and a radiation thermometer that is configured to measure the temperature of a predetermined position of the sample container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Yohei Fujikawa
  • Publication number: 20220242979
    Abstract: A method for producing a chloroprene-based polymer latex which can efficiently remove a residual volatile organic substance from the chloroprene-based polymer latex while suppressing the deposition of agglomerates is provided. In the method for producing a chloroprene-based polymer latex of the present invention, when the residual volatile organic substance comprised in the latex is volatilized and removed, a mixed fluid of one or more gases selected from the group consisting of inert gases and air, and water is contacted with the latex at a gas pressure higher than the saturated water vapor pressure, and a temperature of the mixed fluid is a temperature lower than a boiling point of water at the gas pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yuki MIURA, Yuji HASHIMOTO, Keiichi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220243128
    Abstract: A method for removing a metal compound capable of selectively removing an oxide of a metal, a nitride of a metal, or an oxynitride of a metal while suppressing the removal of silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, polysilicon, a simple substance of a metal, or the like. The method includes bringing at least one metal compound selected from oxides of a metal, nitrides of a metal, and oxynitrides of a metal into contact with a treatment liquid to remove it from a treatment object. The metal is at least one selected from tungsten, cobalt, nickel, tantalum, titanium, iron, copper, and molybdenum. The treatment liquid is an aqueous solution containing at least one compound for removal selected from carboxylic acids and salts thereof and contains the compound(s) for removal at a total concentration of 2 mass % or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Kazuma MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20220242987
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a chloroprene copolymer latex composition, a molded article of chloroprene copolymer rubber, or a dip-molded product, and the chloroprene copolymer latex composition includes a chloroprene copolymer (A) and a vulcanization accelerator (B). The chloroprene copolymer (A) includes monomer units derived from chloroprene and from 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene. The chloroprene copolymer latex composition includes a carbamate-based vulcanization accelerator and a thiazole-based vulcanization accelerator as the vulcanization accelerator (B). The chloroprene copolymer latex composition enables production of a molded article having high flexibility and high tensile strength without use of a vulcanization accelerator that is feared to have skin sensitization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shu KANEKO, Masahiro OGAWA, Akira SHIBUYA
  • Publication number: 20220243101
    Abstract: There is provided an adhesive agent exhibiting high adhesive strength to polyolefin. An adhesive agent contains a chloroprene copolymer latex containing a chloroprene copolymer (A) and a metal oxide (B). The chloroprene copolymer (A) is a copolymer of a monomer group containing chloroprene (A-1), ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid (A-2), and 2,3-dichloro-1,3-butadiene (A-3). The chloroprene copolymer (A) has a tetrahydrofuran-soluble component soluble in tetrahydrofuran and the weight average molecular weight of the tetrahydrofuran-soluble component is 80000 or more and 140000 or less. When the amount of the metal oxide (B) based on 100 parts by mass of the chloroprene copolymer (A) is defined as Y part(s) by mass and the weight average molecular weight of the tetrahydrofuran-soluble component is defined as X, the content of the metal oxide (B) satisfies Formula: ?1.2×X/100000+1.6<Y<?4.2×X/100000+5.7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Naoki SEKIOKA, Akira SHIBUYA, Noriko OGAWA, Ryo MAKIO
  • Publication number: 20220246447
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a passivation film, which includes a passivation process in which a substrate on the surface of which at least one of germanium and molybdenum is contained is treated with a passivation gas containing an oxygen-containing compound, which is a compound containing an oxygen atom in the molecule, and hydrogen sulfide to form a passivation film containing a sulfur atom on the surface of the substrate. The concentration of the oxygen-containing compound in the passivation gas is from 0.001 mole ppm to less than 75 mole ppm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Yosuke TANIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220243072
    Abstract: A corrosion-resistant member including: a metal base material (10); and a corrosion-resistant coating (30) formed on the surface of the base material (10). The corrosion-resistant coating (30) is a stack of a magnesium fluoride layer (31) and an aluminum fluoride layer (32) in order from the base material (10) side. The aluminum fluoride layer (32) has a first crystalline region (32A) and a second crystalline region (32B) containing crystalline aluminum fluoride. The first crystalline region (32A) is a region in which diffraction spot arrays having regularity are observed in an electron beam diffraction image obtained by irradiation with electron beams having a beam diameter of 10 nm to 20 nm. The second crystalline region (32B) is a region in which a plurality of diffraction spots is observed but diffraction spot arrays having regularity are not observed in an electron beam diffraction image obtained by irradiation with the above-described electron beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: So MIYAISHI, Masahiro OKUBO, Masayuki YOSHIMURA, Wataru SAKANE, Teppei TANAKA, Saeko NAKAMURA, Saori YAMAKI
  • Patent number: 11401237
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition excellent in stability during storage and stability during utilization, and relates to a method of producing the composition. The composition includes a compound (A) represented by general formula (1) and a compound (B) represented by general formula (2), and includes 0.00002 to 0.2 parts by mass of the compound (B) with respect to 100 parts by mass of the compound (A), (R1—COO)n—R2—(NCO)m??(1) (R1—COO)n—R2—(R3—R1)m??(2) wherein in general formulae (1) and (2), R1 is an ethylenically unsaturated group having 2 to 7 carbon atoms; R2 is a (m+n)-valent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms and optionally contains an ether group; R1 and R2 in the general formula (1) are the same as R1 and R2 in the general formula (2); in general formula (2), R3 is —NHC(?O)—; and n and m each represent an integer of one or two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Norihito Nishimura, Katsutoshi Ohno
  • Publication number: 20220235437
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy member forms a fluoride film thereon, which does not form a black dot-shaped bulged portion and, therefore, has excellent smoothness and excellent corrosion resistance against a corrosive gas, plasma, and others. An aluminum alloy member for forming a fluoride film thereon, consists of: Si: 0.01 mass % to 0.3 mass %; Mg: 0.5 mass % to 5.0 mass %; Fe: 0.05 mass % to 0.5 mass %; Cu: 0.5 mass % or less; Mn: 0.30 mass % or less; Cr: 0.30 mass % or less, and the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein when an average major diameter of Fe-based crystallized products in the aluminum alloy member is “D” (?m), and an average crystalline particle diameter in the aluminum alloy member is “Y” (?m), a relational expression: Log10 Y<?0.320D+4.60 . . . (1) is satisfied. A fluoride film is formed on at least a part of a surface of the aluminum alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Isao MURASE
  • Publication number: 20220235471
    Abstract: A method for producing fluorine gas including electrolyzing an electrolyte in an electrolytic cell, measuring an electric energy accumulated after the electrolyte is placed in the electrolytic cell, and the electrolyzing is started, and sending a fluid generated in the inside of the electrolytic cell in the electrolyzing the electrolyte, to the outside of the electrolytic cell through a flow path. In the sending, the flow path is switched in accordance with the electric energy measured in the measuring an electric energy, such that the fluid is sent to a first flow path that sends the fluid to a first outside when the electric energy measured in the measuring an electric energy is not less than a predetermined reference value, or the fluid is sent to a second flow path that sends the fluid to a second outside when the electric energy is less than the predetermined reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Katsumi MIKAMI, Yohsuke FUKUCHI, Nozomi KUSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220235468
    Abstract: A laminate including a metallic base material, a nickel-containing plating film layer formed on the metallic base material, and a gold plating film layer formed on the nickel-containing plating film layer, in which pinholes in the gold plating film layer are sealed with a passive film having a thickness of 15 nm or greater. Also disclosed is a constituent member of a semiconductor production device including the laminate and a method for producing the laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Akira FURUYA, Tadaaki KOJIMA, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Fumiaki NAKA
  • Publication number: 20220234024
    Abstract: Provided is a method for recovering, by pressure swing adsorption, unreacted olefins from a stream of a chemical reaction process in which an olefin is used as a material, the method enables desorption of gas at a relatively high desorption operation pressure, more preferably at a pressure not lower than the atmospheric pressure, and enables reuse of a separation agent. As the separation agent, a metal complex is used, in which pressure P3 at which a local maximum of dA/dP is obtained during adsorption and pressure P4 at which a local maximum of dA/dP is obtained during desorption are located between an adsorption operation pressure P1 and a desorption operation pressure P2, where dA/dP represents a value obtained by differentiating A by P, assuming that an olefin adsorption amount (A) is a function of an adsorption pressure (P), i.e., A=f(P), on an adsorption isotherm indicating the pressure (P) and the adsorption amount (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro WATANABE, Yoshikuni OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20220235151
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing purified chloroprene-based-polymer latex which enables efficiently removing a residual volatile organic substance from chloroprene-based-polymer latex while suppressing foaming and the deposition of aggregates. The method for producing purified chloroprene-based-polymer latex of the present invention has at least the following steps (I) to (III): Step (I): a step of introducing chloroprene-based-polymer latex into a container beforehand, Step (II): a step of removing a residual volatile organic substance in the chloroprene-based-polymer latex which satisfies specific requirements (1) to (4), and Step (III): a step of collecting the latex from the container after performing the step (II) at least once, to thereby obtain purified chloroprene-based-polymer latex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yuki MIURA, Keiichi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220234890
    Abstract: A method for producing fluorine gas including a fluorination step of obtaining a reaction mixture containing a major fluorinated substance that is a target component generated by fluorination of a raw material compound and by-product hydrogen fluoride, a separation step of separating the reaction mixture to obtain a main product component containing the major fluorinated substance and a by-product component containing the by-product hydrogen fluoride, a purification step of purifying the by-product component to obtain a recovered hydrogen fluoride component in which a concentration of an organic substance is reduced and a concentration of the by-product hydrogen fluoride is increased, an electrolysis step of performing electrolysis using the recovered hydrogen fluoride component as at least a part of an electrolyte to produce fluorine gas, and an introduction step of introducing the fluorine gas obtained in the electrolysis step into a reaction field for fluorination in the fluorination step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Koki FUJIMURA, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI, Yohsuke FUKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220236344
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor (1) includes: a non-magnetic substrate; and a sensitive element part (31) including plural sensitive elements (311) and (312) connected in parallel, each of the sensitive elements (311) and (312) being provided on the substrate, being composed of a soft magnetic material, having a longitudinal direction and a short direction, being provided with uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in a direction crossing the longitudinal direction, and sensing a magnetic field by a magnetic impedance effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Tatsunori SHINO
  • Patent number: 11396602
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a silicon-containing oxide-coated aluminum nitride particle; a method of manufacturing a heat dispersing resin composition containing the silicon-containing oxide-coated aluminum nitride particle; and the silicon-containing oxide-coated aluminum nitride particle. The method of manufacturing includes: a first step of covering the surface of the aluminum nitride particle with an organic silicone compound including a specific structure; and a second step of heating the aluminum nitride particle covered with the organic silicone compound at a temperature of 300° C. or more and less than 1000° C., wherein the content of carbon atoms in the silicon-containing oxide-coated aluminum nitride particle is less than 1000 ppm by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yuki Otsuka, Hidetoshi Okamoto, Naoki Minorikawa