Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited of
  • METHOD FOR CONTROLLING NOXIOUS ORGANISMS
    Publication number: 20150223455
    Abstract: To provide a method which exerts excellent controlling effects on noxious organisms in a field of soybean, corn or cotton. A method for controlling noxious organisms in a field of soybean, corn or cotton, wherein at least one PPO inhibitor compound selected from the group consisting of flumioxazin, sulfentrazone, saflufenacil, oxyfluorfen, fomesafen-sodium, and a compound represented by formula (I): is applied to the field before, at or after sowing a soybean, corn or cotton seed treated with ethaboxam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Hajime IKEDA
  • Pest control composition and method for controlling pest
    Patent number: 9101137
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a pest control composition having an excellent controlling activity on pests. [Solution] A pest control composition comprising pyribencarb and at least one insecticide compound selected from Group (A) has an excellent controlling activity on pests: Group (A): the group consisting of cartap hydrochloride, etofenprox, silafluofen, permethrin, ethiprole, clothianidin, dinotefuran, thiamethoxam and nitenpyram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukuchi, Naomi Tokoro
  • Polypropylene resin composition and molded article comprising the same
    Patent number: 9102820
    Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition is disclosed which contains a propylene polymer (A) selected from the group consisting of propylene homopolymers (A-1) and propylene-ethylene block copolymers (A-2) which are propylene-ethylene block copolymers each of which is composed of a propylene homopolymer component and a propylene-ethylene random copolymer component and has an intrinsic viscosity of from 2 to 8 dl/g, an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer (B) defined below, the amount of the polymer (A) and the amount of the copolymer (B) each being based on the combined amount of the polymer (A) and the copolymer (B) which is an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer having a melt index, as measured at 190° C., of from 1 to 40 g/10 min, and a petroleum resin (C-1) or a terpene resin (C-2) having a glass transition temperature of 90° C. or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Nakajima, Takashi Fujimoto
  • Method for producing flame-retardant thermoplastic elastomer composition
    Patent number: 9102809
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a flame retardant thermoplastic elastomer composition, wherein the method includes (1) a step of preparing a thermoplastic elastomer composition by dynamically vulcanizing a thermoplastic elastomer composition precursor containing (A) an ethylene-?-olefin-based copolymer rubber, (B) a propylene-based polymer and (C) a mineral oil-based softening agent in the presence of (D) a crosslinking agent, and (2) a step of kneading the thermoplastic elastomer composition, (E) a halogen-free flame retardant, (F) a zinc oxide, and optionally (G) a polyhydric compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Ryosuke Kurokawa, Nobuhiro Natsuyama
  • Method for producing propylene oxide
    Patent number: 9102641
    Abstract: A method for producing propylene oxide in which the concentration of an organic peroxide in a reaction solution after an epoxidation step is from 20 to 5,000 ppm by weight based on the amount excluding propylene in the reaction solution, the method comprising an epoxidation step of reacting an organic peroxide with propylene in the presence of a catalyst to obtain propylene oxide and an alcohol, a propylene recovery step of recovering the unreacted propylene in the epoxidation step and recycling the resulting propylene as a raw material of the epoxidation step, and a propylene oxide purification step of distilling the propylene oxide obtained in the epoxidation step to obtain purified propylene oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Yamamoto, Shigeru Goto
  • Cyclohexanone compounds and herbicides comprising the same
    Patent number: 9101140
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having an excellent efficacy for controlling weeds. A cyclohexanone compound of the formula (I): wherein m is an integer of 1, 2 or 3; n is an integer of any one of 1 to 5; X represents CH2, O, S, S(O) or S(O)2; R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R2 and R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group and the like; R4 represents a C6-10 aryl group or a five- to six-membered heteroaryl group; G represents a hydrogen atom and the like; Z represents a halogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group, a phenyl group, a C1-6 alkyl group and the like; is useful as an active ingredient for herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yosuke Nakashima, Yoshinobu Jin, Masato Konobe
  • Plant disease controlling composition and use thereof
    Patent number: 9101139
    Abstract: A plant disease controlling composition containing a pyridazine compound represented by formula (I): wherein R1 represents a chlorine atom, a bromine atom, a cyano group, or a methyl group, and R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom; and at least one carboxamide compound selected from the group consisting of bixafen, isopyrazam, boscalid, fluopyram, fluxapyroxad, sedaxane, penflufen, flutolanil, mepronil, carboxin, thifluzamide, penthiopyrad, and furametpyr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventor: Yuichi Matsuzaki
  • Magnetic shielding material for superconducting magnet
    Patent number: 9103005
    Abstract: A magnetic shielding material which can decrease the thickness by having excellent conductivity even at low temperatures of, for example, 77 K or lower, in a strong magnetic field of a magnetic flux density of 1 T or more is provide. A magnetic shielding material to be used at low temperatures of 77 K or lower in the magnetic field of a magnetic flux density of 1 T or more, comprises aluminum having a purity of 99.999% by mass or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignees: INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takayuki Tomaru, Kenichi Sasaki, Hiroaki Hoshikawa, Hiroshi Tabuchi
  • LIQUID CRYSTAL CURED LAYER
    Publication number: 20150218453
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal cured layer wherein a transferring is easily performed, resulting in reducing the occurrence of defects and exhibiting excellent transparency. A liquid crystal cured layer formed from a polymerizable liquid crystal compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond and an aromatic ring and satisfying a formula (Y). 0.95>P1/P2>0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tadahiro KOBAYASHI, Takahiro KOBAYASHI, Tatsuaki KASAI
  • OPTICALLY ANISOTROPIC SHEET FOR TRANSFER
    Publication number: 20150219811
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optically anisotropic sheet for transfer, comprising a substrate, and a liquid crystal cured layer laminated together, wherein the liquid crystal cured layer is to be transferred from the substrate to a receiver via an active energy ray-curable adhesive, and when the transmittance of the optically anisotropic sheet for transfer at a wavelength of 800 nm is taken as 100%, the transmittance or the optically anisotropic sheet for transfer at wavelength of 390 nm is more than 35% and less than 45%, the transmittance at a wavelength of 400 nm is more than 75% and less than 85%, and the transmittance at a wavelength of 550 nm is more than 95% and less than 100%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tadahiro KOBAYASHI, Tatsuaki KASAI
  • OPTICALLY ANISOTROPIC SHEET
    Publication number: 20150219812
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optically anisotropic sheet comprising a substrate and a liquid crystal cured layer laminated together, wherein the substrate has a surface roughness of 1.0 nm or less in a field of view of 1 ?m2 and a water contact angle of 70° or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Tadahiro KOBAYASHI
  • OPTICALLY ANISOTROPIC SHEET FOR TRANSFER
    Publication number: 20150218454
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optically anisotropic sheet for transfer comprising a substrate and a liquid crystal cured layer laminated together, wherein the liquid crystal cured layer is to be transferred from the substrate to a receiver, and the liquid crystal cured layer is formed from a composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound A having a local maximum absorption wavelength in a range of a wavelength of 330 to 380 nm, and 5 to 70 mol of a polymerizable liquid crystal compound B having a local maximum absorption wavelength in a wavelength range of 250 to 300 nm, with respect to 100 mol of the polymerizable liquid crystal compound A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tadahiro KOBAYASHI, Haruki OKAWA
  • Insecticide compositions
    Patent number: 9095137
    Abstract: Insecticide compositions which comprise one or not less than two kinds of compounds being selected from a compound represented by the formula [I]: or a salt thereof, and a neonicotinoid compound represented by the formula [II]: The insecticide compositions can produce higher insecticidal effects than would be expected when each of the active ingredients is used singly, namely a synergistic effect, thus enabling reductions in the rate or number of application of agrochemicals and pesticides to be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuichi Ohkawara
  • Herbicidal composition
    Patent number: 9095139
    Abstract: In a herbicidal composition containing a sulfonylurea compound of the formula (I): a carboxymethylcellulose salt, a ligninsulfonic acid salt, a surfactant and water, growth of particle of the sulfonylurea compound suspended in the herbicidal composition scarcely occurs after the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yukio Okada, Motofumi Mizutani
  • Organic electroluminescent element and method for producing the same
    Patent number: 9099667
    Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to prolong the luminance half life of an organic EL element. A means for solving the problem is a method for producing an organic electroluminescent element comprising a first electrode that is formed first, a second electrode that is formed later, and a light-emitting layer that is formed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the method comprising the steps of applying a solution containing a light-emitting organic material to a surface of a layer located below to form an applied film; calcining the applied film in an inert gas atmosphere or in a vacuum atmosphere to form a light-emitting layer; holding the surrounding of the formed light-emitting layer in an inert gas atmosphere or in a vacuum atmosphere; and forming a layer located on the light-emitting layer in an inert gas atmosphere or in a vacuum atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Masataka Iwasaki
  • Organic light-emitting device
    Patent number: 9099666
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device comprising an anode; a cathode; a first light-emitting layer between the anode and the cathode; and a second light-emitting layer between the first light-emitting layer and the cathode, wherein: the first light-emitting layer comprises a hole-transporting material and a first phosphorescent material, the second light-emitting layer comprises a second phosphorescent material; and the lowest triplet excited state energy level of the hole-transporting material is: (a) lower than the lowest triplet excited state of the second phosphorescent material, and (b) the same as or higher than the lowest triplet excited state energy level of the first phosphorescent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignees: Cambridge Display Technology, Ltd., Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited
    Inventors: Simon King, David Mohamad
  • Encapsulation process and structure for electronic devices
    Patent number: 9099679
    Abstract: Electronic devices, such as photovoltaic, transistor or doped light-emitting devices, can be manufactured with an air-based manufacturing process and device structure that encapsulates the device with air-stable electrodes and active layers that are reasonably stable in their unexcited state. A sheet of flexible material may act as a substrate and a second sheet of material acts as a cover. Getter materials are included in the encapsulated device, with the getter latent or unreactive during the manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited
    Inventors: John Devin MacKenzie, Yuko Nakazawa, Eric Jones
  • Pyridazinone compound and use thereof
    Patent number: 9096534
    Abstract: A pyridazinone compound represented by the formula (I) has excellent effect on weed control and is useful as an active ingredient of herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kiji, Takafumi Fusaka
  • Propylene resin composition and injection-molded article of same
    Patent number: 9096749
    Abstract: A propylene resin composition contains a specific propylene resin (A), a specific copolymer (B), an inorganic filler (C), a fatty acid amide (D), and carbon black (E), wherein the propylene resin (A) has a content of 52% to 72% by weight, the copolymer (B) has a content of 10% to 20% by weight, and the inorganic filler (C) has a content of 18% to 28% by weight. The total of weights of the propylene resin (A), the copolymer (B) of ethylene and an ?-olefin having not less than 4 carbons, and the inorganic filler (C) is taken as 100% by weight. The fatty acid amide (D) is contained at 0.2 to 0.7 parts by weight, and the carbon black (E) is contained at 0.8 to 2.2 parts by weight, relative to 100 parts by weight of the total of the weights of (A), (B) and (C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignees: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Nakajima, Toshio Watanabe, Shuji Nakagawa
  • Pyridazinone compound and use thereof
    Patent number: 9096533
    Abstract: A pyridazinone compound represented by the formula (I) has excellent effect on weed control and is useful as an active ingredient of herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kiji, Takafumi Fusaka