Patents Assigned to Toray Industries, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20250001399
    Abstract: A cell adsorption material includes fibers or particles of a water-insoluble carrier with at least one bound nitrogen-containing compound. The nitrogen-containing compound is selected from polyamines and aliphatic amines. The fibers or particles have a region A within 1.0 ?m from an outermost surface of a cross-sectional surface of the fibers or the particles, and a region B within 0.5 ?m radius from a center of gravity of the cross-sectional surface of the fibers or the particles, a spectral intensity of 26CN? satisfies formulae (1) and (2) when a spectral intensity of 25C2H? in each of the regions measured by Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry is set to be 1:0.5?the spectral intensity of 26CN? in the region A?3.0 . . . (1); 3.0? the spectral intensity of 26CN? in the region A/the spectral intensity of 26CN? in the region B?20.0 . . . (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Mariko Yamashita, Aishan Han, Hirokazu Sakaguchi, Yoshiyuki Ueno
  • Publication number: 20250000097
    Abstract: A cerium oxide nanoparticle includes a basic amino acid, an alicyclic amine, an aromatic heterocyclic compound containing a nitrogen atom in a ring structure of the aromatic heterocyclic compound, a polymer having a heterocyclic amine skeleton, or a boron compound, as a stabilizer, wherein an APHA of a 1 mass % dispersion solution is 400 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shota Sekiguchi, Takahiro Motoshiromizu, Yoichiro Koshi, Masateru Ito, Akira Saito, Yetao Song, Hideaki Karasaki, Yoshiaki Kokubo
  • Patent number: 12180618
    Abstract: A dyeable polyolefin fiber is a polymer alloy fiber having a sea-island structure in which the sea ingredient comprises a polyolefin (A) and the island ingredient comprises a polyester (B), the fiber having a degree of elongation of 10-80%. The polyester (B) in the dyeable polyolefin fiber has an orientation parameter, as determined by Raman spectroscopy, of 1.1-10.0. The dyeable polyolefin fiber is a highly lightweight polyolefin fiber capable of being brightly and deeply colored, is excellent in terms of color fastness and evenness in dyeing, and is suitable for use as a fibrous structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Kano, Masashi Nagao, Katsuhiko Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 12185622
    Abstract: A color conversion composition that converts incident light into light having a longer wavelength than the incident light is described, the color conversion composition including the following components (A) and (B): component (A): an organic light-emitting material; and component (B): a resin whose molecular structure has a fluorene skeleton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kana Kawahara, Tatsuya Kanzaki
  • Patent number: 12185518
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a multi-layer sheet with excellent electromagnetic wave shielding properties. The multi-layer sheet includes an alternating multilayer unit with five or more A layer and B layer alternately laminated, in which the electromagnetic return loss at the peak top in the peak of return loss spectrum with the highest return loss at the peak top is 5 dB or more in a chart of the return loss in the multi-layer sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hisato Matsui, Hideaki Toyama, Wataru Gouda
  • Publication number: 20240429493
    Abstract: A polymer ion conductive film has an ion migration resistance in the film at 25° C. of 100 ? or less, and a thickness of the film after each of immersion treatments under the following conditions 1 and 2 is 2.5 times or less a thickness of the film before the immersion treatment: (condition 1) immersion at 25° C. for 24 hours in a solution obtained by mixing ethylene carbonate (EC) and diethyl carbonate (DEC) at a volume ratio of 1/1; (condition 2) immersion at 25° C. for 24 hours in a 0.1 M aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yota Okuno, Ayako Shimazu, Kei Ikoma, Hiroki Eimura
  • Publication number: 20240425933
    Abstract: This application provides a kit or a device for detection of ovarian tumor, comprising a nucleic acid(s) for detecting a miRNA(s) in a sample from a subject, and a method for detecting ovarian tumor, comprising measuring the miRNA(s) in vitro.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicants: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC., NATIONAL CANCER CENTER
    Inventors: Yuho KIDA, Satoko KOZONO, Hiroko SUDO, Satoshi KONDOU, Junpei KAWAUCHI, Hitoshi NOBUMASA, Takahiro OCHIYA, Tomoyasu KATO
  • Patent number: 12172133
    Abstract: Disclosed is a porous hollow fiber membrane containing a polysulfone-based polymer as a main component, which has an asymmetric structure in which the inner surface side is dense and the outer surface side is coarse, wherein an average of a minor axis diameter of pores of an inner surface is 20 nm or more and 40 nm or less, an open porosity of the inner surface is 10% or more and 30% or less, and a polymer including a monocarboxylic acid vinyl ester unit is supported on at least one of the outer surface and the inner surface. The present invention provides a hollow fiber membrane which has excellent removing performance of substances to be separated such as viruses, and can be used as a separation membrane having high permeability even in a treatment under low pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Hayashi, Kaori Akaike, Suguru Ushiro, Yoshiyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 12173372
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a kit or device for the detection of liver cancer and a method for detecting liver cancer. The present invention relates to a kit or device for the detection of liver cancer, comprising a nucleic acid capable of specifically binding to miRNA in a sample of a subject, and a method for detecting liver cancer, comprising measuring the miRNA in vitro.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC., NATIONAL CANCER CENTER
    Inventors: Satoshi Kondou, Hitoshi Nobumasa, Satoko Kozono, Hiroko Sudo, Junpei Kawauchi, Atsushi Ochiai, Motohiro Kojima
  • Patent number: 12171846
    Abstract: Provided is a nonwoven fabric for skin care products. The nonwoven fabric includes: a thermoplastic resin fiber having a single fiber diameter of 50 nm or more and 800 nm or less; and a cellulose fiber. A tensile strength of the cellulose fiber measured in accordance with JIS L 1015:2010 8.7.2 is 1.9 cN/dtex or less, a total content of the thermoplastic resin fiber and the cellulose fiber is 85% by mass or more relative to a total mass of the nonwoven fabric for skin care products, a content ratio by mass of the thermoplastic resin fiber and the cellulose fiber (thermoplastic resin fiber/cellulose fiber) is 0.23 to 1.50, and a density of the nonwoven fabric for skin care products is 0.08 g/cm3 to 0.16 g/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kumi Oyama, Hiroshi Kajiyama, Makoto Nakahara
  • Patent number: 12172341
    Abstract: A method produces thermoplastic resin-impregnated sheet-shaped reinforcing fiber bundle obtained by impregnating reinforcing fibers made from continuous fibers with a thermoplastic resin, said method including: an application step in which a sheet-shaped reinforcing fiber bundle obtained by arranging reinforcing fibers made from continuous fibers in one direction is passed through an application section which retains thermoplastic resin, and the thermoplastic resin is applied to the sheet-shaped reinforcing fiber bundle to constitute a thermoplastic resin-impregnated sheet-shaped reinforcing fiber bundle; a further impregnation step in which the applied thermoplastic resin is further impregnated into the inside of the thermoplastic resin-impregnated sheet-shaped reinforcing fiber bundle; and a shaping step in which the thermoplastic resin-impregnated sheet-shaped reinforcing fiber bundle is shaped and solidified by cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masayuki Koshi, Shoma Ishida, Yoshihiro Naruse
  • Publication number: 20240417861
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrode assembly for water electrolysis, in which an electrolyte membrane is kept from being deteriorated. The present invention provides an electrode structure for water electrolysis, including an anode electrode and a cathode electrode disposed to face each other, characterized in that at least one of the anode electrode and the cathode electrode includes a porous component and a reticular component in order from the facing surface side, and the standard deviation of a pressure distribution at the surface of contact between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode, determined by the following measurement method, is 2.7 MPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kenta MINAMIBAYASHI, Daisuke IZUHARA, Takashi KONISHI, Shusuke SHIRAI
  • Publication number: 20240417577
    Abstract: To provide a composition having excellent corrosion resistance and durability. Provided is a composition containing a curable resin and/or a precursor thereof, inorganic particles, and graphene, wherein the graphene has an average thickness of 0.30 nm to 50 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kato, Eiichiro Tamaki
  • Publication number: 20240417804
    Abstract: Provided are a kit or device for detecting ovarian cancer, and an ovarian cancer detection method. The kit or device for detecting ovarian cancer comprises a nucleic acid capable of bonding specifically with miRNA in a sample derived from a subject, and the ovarian cancer detection method comprises measuring the miRNA in vitro.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Osamu WAKAO, Chie IWASAKI, Hiroko SUDO
  • Publication number: 20240408553
    Abstract: A hollow fiber membrane, hollow fiber membrane module and vesicle-containing solution that includes a hollow fiber membrane and a hollow fiber membrane module capable of efficiently removing extracellular vesicles (vesicles) from a liquid, particularly from blood. One aspect of the hollow fiber membrane for achieving the above object is a hollow fiber membrane, in which particles having a particle size of 0.15 ?m have a permeability of 50% or more and 100% or less, and an average pore size of an inner surface of the hollow fiber membrane is 0.50 ?m or more and 3.00 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kojiro Naito, Akihiro Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Ueno, Mie Kaino
  • Publication number: 20240408841
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sandwich structure with excellent lightness and mechanical properties, and a member for electronic device housings. A main object of the present invention is to provide a sandwich structure including: a plate-like fiber-reinforced composite material member (core material) having a portion formed into a shape in which wavy corrugations extend unidirectionally or multidirectionally; and two plate-like fiber-reinforced composite material members (skin materials) that are bonded to the core material at tops or bottoms of the corrugation of the core material, while having interspaces between the member and the rest part of the core material, and are bonded to each other or through a part of the core material without wavy corrugations formed therein at a peripheral part of the corrugation formed in the core material, so as to seal the formed corrugation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro ADACHI, Hidetoshi SAKAI, Masato HONMA
  • Patent number: 12161978
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite semipermeable membrane including: a support membrane; and a separation functional layer provided on the support membrane, in which the separation functional layer includes a thin membrane, the thin membrane has a fold structure including a plurality of protrusions having a height of 10 nm or more, and in the fold structure, a ratio (T100/T25) is less than 0.95, where T25 is a thickness of the thin membrane in a region of 0% to 25% of the height of the protrusion and T100 is a thickness of the thin membrane in a region of 50% to 100% of the height of the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Okanishi, Shunsuke Tabayashi, Yuta Amano, Takao Sasaki, Masaki Higashi, Takashi Yoshino, Hiroki Minehara, Hiroaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12162186
    Abstract: A method is described for producing a fiber-reinforced plastic substrate that simultaneously satisfies three points of joinability, mechanical characteristics, and productivity, the method including the following components [A], [B], and [C], wherein at least the following drawing step, first impregnating step, second impregnating step, and take-up step are continuously and sequentially performed while the component [A] is caused to run: [A] a reinforcing fiber [B] a thermoplastic resin [C] a thermosetting resin <drawing step> step of drawing a continuous reinforcing fiber sheet containing the component [A]; <first impregnating step> step of impregnating either the component [B] or the component [C] from one surface of the continuous reinforcing fiber sheet to obtain a fiber-reinforced plastic intermediate in which either the component [B] or the component [C] is disposed on a first surface; <second impregnating step> step of impregnating the other of the component [B] or the component [
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kotaro Shinohara, Yoshiki Takebe, Yoshihumi Nakayama, Masato Honma
  • Publication number: 20240400775
    Abstract: A prepreg and a fiber-reinforced resin molded article are provided that have excellent joint strength with other members, appropriately control the resin flow at the time of welding, and show excellent dimensional stability at the time of welding, where the prepreg includes a thermoplastic resin layer containing reinforcing fibers and a thermoplastic resin, in which the thermoplastic resin layer is present on at least one surface of the prepreg, and where the thermoplastic resin layer contains 65.0 to 99.5% by mass of a constituting unit of the thermoplastic resin and 0.5 to 35.0% by mass of a total amount of a constituting unit of a thermosetting resin and a constituting unit of a curing agent with respect to 100% by mass of a total amount of the constituting unit of the thermoplastic resin, the constituting unit of the thermosetting resin, and the constituting unit of the curing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kobayashi, Masato Honma, Kotaro Shinohara, Hideki Hanabusa
  • Publication number: 20240400794
    Abstract: A fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin composition includes 5 to 50 parts by weight of reinforcing fibers (A) containing at least carbon fibers, 20 to 94.5 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin (B), and 0.5 to 30 parts by weight of a rosin resin (C), wherein the rosin resin (C) has an acid value and/or hydroxyl value of 100 mgKOH/g or more. Since the fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin composition contains the reinforcing fibers containing at least carbon fibers and the specific rosin resin, a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin molded article high in reinforcing effect due to the reinforcing fibers and excellent in tensile strength, impact strength and appearance quality, particularly blackness, can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shin Hirata, Mitsushige Hamaguchi