Patents Assigned to Toray Industríes, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9956751
    Abstract: A thin film polymer structure having a functional substance on the face (A surface) and reverse face (B surface) of the film, obtained by the steps of: (a) causing polyfunctional molecules to adsorb to an area of an arbitrary shape in an interface between a substrate body and a liquid phase; (b) polymerizing and/or crosslinking the adsorbing polyfunctional molecules to form a polymer thin film; (c) bonding a functional substance to the A surface of the formed thin film and then (d) forming a soluble support film thereon; exfoliating the thin film and the soluble support film from the substrate body; (e) bonding to the B surface of the thin film a functional substance identical to or different from the abovementioned functional substance and then dissolving the soluble support film with a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignees: NANOTHETA CO, LTD., TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Shinji Takeoka, Yosuke Okamura, Toshinori Fujie, Saori Utsunomiya, Takahiro Goto
  • Patent number: 9960400
    Abstract: A separator includes a monolayer-type polyolefin-based micro-porous film having a porosity of 40 to 60%, an average pore diameter of 60 nm or less, and an air permeability of 350 s/100 mL or less; and a porous coating layer formed on at least one surface of the micro-porous film and made of a mixture of a plurality of inorganic particles and a binder polymer. An electrochemical device having the above separator has excellent thermal stability and allows a high power while minimizing the occurrence of leak current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignees: LG CHEM, LTD., TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yoon-Jung Bae, In-Chul Kim, Seung-Taek Hong, Jong-Hwan Kim, Han-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9957387
    Abstract: An epoxy resin composition having components (A), (B), (C), and (D), wherein the epoxy resin composition has a viscosity at 40° C. of about 1×103 to about 1×104 Pa·s, a curing start temperature of about 90 to about 110° C., and a minimum viscosity at the curing start temperature of about 2 to about 20 Pa·s, wherein the components (A), (B), (C), and (D) are as follows: (A) About 60 weight parts or more of a tetraglycidyl amine type epoxy resin per 100 weight parts of the epoxy resin blend; (B) Dicyandiamide; (C) Diaminodiphenyl sulfone and (D) Urea compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Arai, Alfred P. Haro, Jonathan C. Hughes, Norimitsu Natsume
  • Patent number: 9957377
    Abstract: A polyphenylene sulfide resin composition has excellent heat resistance, flowability and lightweight property as well as surface smoothness and impact resistance. The polyphenylene sulfide resin composition includes 1 to 30 parts by weight of a mica (b) having an aspect ratio of not less than 80, relative to 100 parts by weight of a polyphenylene sulfide resin (a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignees: Toray Industries, Inc., Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoya Ouchiyama, Kei Saitoh, Hideyuki Umetsu, Hideki Matsumoto, Hidetaka Anma, Daisuke Mochizuki, Hiroaki Hara, Masayuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9950479
    Abstract: A method of producing FRP includes disposing a preform made of a reinforcing fiber base material in a cavity of a mold, providing a resin injection path and a suction path that sucks at least air to the mold, and causing resin from the resin injection path to flow in a direction toward the suction path in the cavity to be impregnated into the preform, wherein 1) a high flow resistance region for partially making the resin flowing in the preform hardly flow is formed in the preform itself, 2) a flow front of the resin flowing in the direction toward the suction path through the high flow resistance region is controlled to settle within a permitted region that has been predetermined relative to a shape of a product to be molded, 3) the resin injection path is formed from a runner provided around the preform and the suction path is disposed at a central portion of the preform, and the high flow resistance region is formed at a corresponding part corresponding to a part around the suction path as a high flow resi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kohnosuke Yamamoto, Seiji Tsuji, Kazuya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9954210
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a separator includes (S1) preparing a porous substrate having pores, (S2) coating at least one surface of the porous substrate with a first solvent, (S3) coating the first solvent with a slurry containing inorganic particles dispersed therein and formed by dissolving a binder polymer in a second solvent, (S4) drying the first and second solvents simultaneously to form a porous organic-inorganic composite layer on the porous substrate. Since the phenomenon that the pores of the porous substrate are closing by the binder polymer is minimized, it is possible to prevent the resistance of the separator from increasing due to the formation of the porous organic-inorganic composite layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignees: LG Chem, Ltd., TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Joo Sung Lee, Jang-Hyuk Hong, Jong-Hun Kim
  • Patent number: 9951203
    Abstract: A polyester resin composition having excellent hydrolysis resistance and excellent transparency and a method of producing the same are provided. There is provided a polyester resin composition comprising a polyester resin that is obtained from a dicarboxylic acid or an ester-forming derivative thereof and a diol as main raw material; and a copper-containing compound and a chelate ligand compound having a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic structure or a tertiary amine structure that are mixed with the polyester resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Masato Akahira, Ken Sudo, Eri Yasutake, Koya Kato
  • Patent number: 9951393
    Abstract: A method of producing a sugar liquid includes filtering a cellulose-derived sugar liquid through one or more separation membranes selected from the group consisting of an ultrafiltration membrane, a nanofiltration membrane and a reverse osmosis membrane and washing the separation membrane(s) after filtration with washing water containing an alkaline substance and an aromatic compound at 10° C. or more and less than 50° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jumpei Kishimoto, Hiroyuki Kurihara, Atsushi Minamino, Katsushige Yamada
  • Patent number: 9954211
    Abstract: A separator includes a porous substrate, a porous organic-inorganic coating layer formed on at least one surface of the porous substrate, and an organic coating layer formed on the surface of the organic-inorganic coating layer. The porous organic-inorganic coating layer includes a mixture of inorganic particles and a first binder polymer. The first binder polymer contains a copolymer including (a) a first monomer unit including either at least one amine group or at least one amide group or both in the side chain thereof and (b) a (meth)acrylate having a C1-C14 alkyl group as a second monomer unit. The organic coating layer is formed by dispersing a second binder polymer on the surface of the organic-inorganic coating layer, leaving scattered uncoated areas. The porous organic-inorganic coating layer of the separator has a high packing density, enabling the fabrication of a thin battery in an easy manner without losing stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignees: LG CHEM, LTD., TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC
    Inventors: Jeong-Min Ha, No-Ma Kim, Byeong-Gyu Cho, Kee-Young Kim, Sun-Mi Jin
  • Patent number: 9943424
    Abstract: An artificial blood vessel includes a tubular woven fabric composed of a multifilament yarn A including a first polyester and a multifilament yarn B including a second polyester, and has an inner diameter of 8 mm or less and a layer thickness of 50 ?m or more and 250 ?m or less, wherein the multifilament yarn A has a single fiber fineness of 1.0 dtex or more and a total fineness of 33 dtex or less, the multifilament yarn B has a single fiber fineness of 0.08 dtex or less and a total fineness of 66 dtex or less, and the multifilament yarn B forms loops on an inner wall surface of the tubular woven fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamada, Hiroshi Tsuchikura, Nobuaki Tanaka, Kazuhiro Tanahashi, Yuka Sakaguchi, Masaki Fujita, Koji Kadowaki
  • Patent number: 9947433
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition includes 0.1 to 20 parts by weight of a carbon black relative to 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin, wherein the carbon black is dispersed in the thermoplastic resin composition to have a maximum particle diameter of not greater than 50 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shingo Fujino, Takayuki Hase, Satoshi Matsubara
  • Patent number: 9944976
    Abstract: A method of stirring a test substance-containing solution injected into an analysis chip, wherein said analysis chip includes a recess to which said test substance-containing solution is injected; and a selective binding substance, which selectively binds to said test substance, is immobilized on the entirety or a part of the bottom surface of said recess, said method including injecting said test substance-containing solution to the space in said recess of said analysis chip such that said space is partially left unfilled; and rotating said analysis chip to which said test substance-containing solution is injected applying a centrifugal acceleration of not less than 1×g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Kuroda, Hitoshi Nobumasa
  • Publication number: 20180099476
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a waterproof moisture-permeable fabric suppressed in appearance abnormality and deterioration in barrier properties. A waterproof moisture-permeable fabric including a protective layer and a polyethylene microporous film that are stacked on each other with a synthetic rubber-based hot-melt adhesive, an olefinic hot-melt adhesive, or a composite hot-melt adhesive interposed therebetween, having a nonpolar oil content of 2 g/m2 or less, and a polar oil content of 0.01 g/m2 or more and 6 g/m2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Taketoshi NAKAMURA, Yuichiro HAYASHI, Masanobu TAKEDA
  • Patent number: 9938384
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a porous ultra-thin polymer film, and a method for producing said porous ultra-thin polymer film. The present invention provides a porous ultra-thin polymer film with a film thickness of 10 nm-1000 nm. In addition, the present invention provides a method for producing a porous ultra-thin polymer film, comprising the steps of: dissolving two types of mutually-immiscible polymers in a first solvent in an arbitrary proportion to obtain a solution; applying the solution onto a substrate and then removing the first solvent from the solution applied onto the substrate to obtain a phase-separated ultra-thin polymer film that has been phase-separated into a sea-island structure; and immersing the ultra-thin polymer film in a second solvent which is a good solvent for the polymer of the island parts but a poor solvent for a polymer other than the island parts to remove the island parts, thereby obtaining a porous ultra-thin polymer film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignees: Nanotheta Co, Ltd., Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinji Takeoka, Akihiro Saito, Hong Zhang, Natsuki Takamizawa
  • Patent number: 9938407
    Abstract: A polyarylene sulfide resin composition includes: (A) a polyarylene sulfide resin having a carboxyl group content of more than 100 ?mol/g and less than 400 ?mol/g, and also having a weight average molecular weight of 10,000 or more and less than 100,000; and (B) a filler. The polyarylene sulfide resin composition has improved mechanical properties and chemical resistance while maintaining intrinsic high melting point of a polyarylene sulfide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Unohara, Hideki Matsumoto, Kei Saitoh, Kenichi Okunaga
  • Patent number: 9937440
    Abstract: An adsorption carrier-packed column includes a central pipe, adsorption carrier, plate A, and plate B, wherein an insertion material C is inserted between the adsorption carrier and the plate A; an insertion material D is inserted between the adsorption carrier and the plate B; the ratio of the deformation rate of the insertion material C (C1) to the deformation rate of the adsorption carrier (E0) is 1<C1/E0<10, and the ratio of the deformation rate of the insertion material D (D1) to the deformation rate of the adsorption carrier (E0) is 1<D1/E0<10; and the ratio of the thickness of the insertion material C (TC) to the distance of a gap between the adsorption carrier and the plate A (LA) is 1.1<TC/LA<4, and the ratio of the thickness of the insertion material D (TD) to the distance of a gap between the adsorption carrier and the plate B (LB) is 1.1<TD/LB<4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Naotoshi Tomita, Kaoru Shimada, Yoshiyuki Ueno
  • Publication number: 20180092967
    Abstract: This application provides an immunity-inducing agent comprising, as an active ingredient, at least one polypeptide having immunity-inducing activity and selected from (a) polypeptides consisting of amino acid sequences represented by SEQ ID NO: 8, 4, 6, 10, 12, 2 and 14, and polypeptides consisting of 7 or more consecutive amino acids in the amino acid sequences, (b) polypeptides having a sequence identity of 85% or more with the amino acid sequences represented by SEQ ID NO: 8, 4, 6, 10, 12, 2 and 14, and polypeptides consisting of 7 or more consecutive amino acids in the amino acid sequences, and (c) polypeptides comprising the polypeptides according to (a) or (b) as the partial sequences, or a recombinant vector comprising a polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide and capable of expressing the polypeptide in vivo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Akira KURIHARA, Fumiyoshi OKANO
  • Patent number: 9932296
    Abstract: A method of producing a cycloalkanone oxime by a photochemical reaction of a cycloalkane with a photo nitrosating agent in a liquid by light irradiation includes irradiating the liquid with a light source configured to emit light satisfying conditions that, in an emission energy distribution with respect to wavelength of light, a wavelength providing a maximum value of emission energy is 550 nm to 700 nm and a continuous wavelength range including the wavelength providing the maximum value and outputting energy of or over 5% of the maximum value is equal to or less than 150 nm, wherein a ratio ?E/V of a light irradiation energy ?E out of electric power E input into the light source to a reaction volume V which is a volume of a space for the photochemical reaction of the cycloalkane with the photo nitrosating agent is equal to or greater than 5.5 w/L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Yasuyoshi Nishikawa, Shoji Morita
  • Patent number: 9932705
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sheet-like material which is produced by an environmentally friendly procedure and has an elegant appearance with piloerection, good wear resistance and good texture. Specifically disclosed is a sheet-like material containing a water-dispersed polyurethane within a fibrous base that contains extra-fine fibers having an average single fiber diameter of 0.3-7 um. The inside of the water-dispersed polyurethane is provided with pores each having a diameter of 10-200 um. Also specifically disclosed is a method for producing a sheet-like material by applying a polyurethane liquid to a fibrous base, wherein the polyurethane liquid is a water-dispersed polyurethane liquid that contains a foaming agent and a dry film of the polyurethane that constitutes the polyurethane liquid has a 100% modulus of 3-8 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Gen Koide, Katsufumi Yanai
  • Patent number: 9931552
    Abstract: Provided are tubular carbon fiber reinforced composite material and having excellent cylindrical bending strength and a golf club shaft using the same. This tubular carbon fiber reinforced composite material is formed by laminating and curing a straight layer and a bias layer. The straight layer comprises carbon fibers S coated with a sizing agent S and arranged in parallel in a direction of ?20° to +20° with respect to the axis of the tubular body, and contains a thermosetting resin S. The bias layer comprises carbon fibers B coated with a sizing agent B and arranged in parallel in a direction of +25° to +65° with respect to the axis of the tubular body, and contains a thermosetting resin B. The carbon fiber reinforced composite material constituting the bias layer has an interlaminar shear strength of not less than 110 MPa. A cured product of the thermosetting resin S has an elastic modulus of not less than 4.0 GPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Yoshihiro, Mami Sakaguchi, Takayuki Fujiwara, Tomoko Ichikawa