Patents Assigned to Toray Industries, Inc.
  • METHOD FOR OPERATING SEPARATION MEMBRANE MODULE, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON, AND WATER PRODUCTION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20230285904
    Abstract: A method for operating a separation membrane module including identifying a clogged portion of the separation membrane module based on a resistance of a lower portion of the separation membrane module, a filtration resistance of a separation membrane portion, and a resistance of an upper portion of the separation membrane module, in a water production system for obtaining treated water by filtering water-to-be-treated with the separation membrane module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Daishi Tateoka, Kazuki Hagawa, Genki Inagaki
  • COATED SILICONE MEMBER MANUFACTURING METHOD
    Publication number: 20230287191
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a coated silicone member manufacturing method which enables, even when a highly water-repellent silicone member having a water surface contact angle of more than 110° is processed at a low temperature, formation of, on the surface, a coating having a sufficiently low surface contact angle with respect to an aqueous solution containing a salt and a protein. The present invention provides a coated silicone member manufacturing method comprising: (A) a degradative reaction step for degrading the surface of a silicone member; (B) a contact step b for bringing a solution b containing a polycarbodiimide into contact with the surface-degraded silicone member; and (C) a contact step c for bringing a solution c containing a polymer C into contact with the surface-degraded silicone member. The polymer C has an alkyl amide group and hydroxyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hirokazu IIMORI, Masataka NAKAMURA
  • ARTIFICIAL LEATHER
    Publication number: 20230287625
    Abstract: An artificial leather is provided that has supple flexibility, moderate resilience while being dense and satisfactory thickness, where the artificial leather includes, as constituent elements, a nonwoven fabric containing ultrafine fibers having an average single-fiber diameter of 0.1 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less, and an elastomer, the artificial leather satisfying Formulas (a) and (b) below: 0.5?FA/FB<1??(a) 0.5?FC/FB<1??(b) where FA, FB, and FC are respectively the fiber density (g/cm3) in a layer on one surface side, the fiber density (g/cm3) in a layer at the center in the thickness direction, and the fiber density (g/cm3) in a layer on the other surface side when the artificial leather is trisected in the thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaru Ueno, Sonosuke Tachibana, Norihiro Taguchi
  • WOVEN/KNITTED FABRIC AND GARMENT CONTAINING SAME
    Publication number: 20230287604
    Abstract: Objects of the present invention are to provide a woven/knitted fabric that does not inhibit movement of the body and that has excellent wearing feel, and is particularly suitable for use in garments, as well as garments using the woven/knitted fabric. Provided is a woven/knitted fabric at least partially including a false-twist yarn composed of an eccentric sheath-core type polyamide composite fiber having an equilibrium moisture content of 6.3% or less, the woven/knitted fabric having a stress ratio at 15% elongation in the warp direction to the weft direction of from 0.25 to 2.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinya Nakamichi, Kojiro Inada
  • Polyolefin resin foam and production method thereof and adhesive tape
    Patent number: 11753513
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a polyolefin resin foam sheet suitable as a sealing substrate having both flexibility and heat resistance despite its thinness, and an adhesive tape in which the polyolefin resin foam sheet is used. In order to achieve this, the polyolefin resin foam includes a thermoplastic elastomer, wherein the endothermic peaks measured by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) occur in the range of at least 110° C. or more and 143° C. or less and at 153° C. or more, and the thermoplastic elastomer resin is contained at a ratio of 30% by mass or more and 60% by mass or less in 100% by mass of the polyolefin resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Taiyo Honda, Yusuke Kojima, Tadafumi Akiyama
  • Method for producing 3-Oxoadipic acid
    Patent number: 11753662
    Abstract: A method of producing 3-oxoadipic acid from an aliphatic compound easily utilizable by a microorganism, such as a saccharide, by utilization of a metabolic pathway of the microorganism is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kyohei Isobe, Kenji Kawamura, Masateru Ito, Katsushige Yamada
  • Gas diffusion electrode medium and method for producing the same, gas diffusion electrode, membrane electrode assembly, and polymer electrolyte fuel cell
    Patent number: 11757103
    Abstract: In order to provide a gas diffusion electrode medium having high thermal conductivity despite having low density and excellent both in handleability and cell performance, provided is a gas diffusion electrode medium including carbon fiber felt including carbon fibers having an average fiber diameter of 5 to 20 ?m, wherein at least a part of the carbon fibers that constitute the carbon fiber felt have a flat part in which, in a plane view of a surface of the carbon fiber felt, a maximum value of a fiber diameter is observed to be 10 to 50% larger than the average fiber diameter, and a frequency of the flat parts at the surface of the carbon fiber felt is 50 to 200/mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Masamichi Utsunomiya, Satoru Shimoyama, Fumitaka Watanabe
  • EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION, PREPREG, AND FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20230279219
    Abstract: An epoxy resin composition is provided that has an elastic modulus, deformability, fracture toughness, and heat resistance in good balance. A prepreg produced from the epoxy resin composition and a fiber-reinforced composite material produced by curing the prepreg are also provided, where the epoxy resin composition includes the components [A], [B], and [C] and satisfies all of the requirements (1), (2), and (3) as described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Yamakita, Daisuke Konishi, Hideki Hanabusa, Noriyuki Hirano, Reo Takaiwa
  • Gas diffusion layer, membrane electrode assembly, and fuel cell
    Patent number: 11749810
    Abstract: A gas diffusion layer comprises a carbon sheet and a microporous layer disposed on at least one surface of the carbon sheet, and meeting the requirement “C is equal to or greater than 0”, wherein: C, referred to as “index for simultaneous realization of a required in-plane oxygen permeation coefficient and electrical resistance”, is calculated by subtracting the product of B multiplied by 60 from A and adding 310 to the difference, A, is the rate of oxygen permeation in an in-plane direction in a gas diffusion layer that occurs when a pressure of 0.5 MPa is applied in the through-plane direction to a surface of the gas diffusion layer to compress an arbitrarily selected region having a width of 10 mm and a depth of 3 mm in the gas diffusion layer, and B is the “electrical resistance” that occurs when the gas diffusion layer is compressed by applying a pressure of 2 MPa in the through-plane direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Umi Yamamoto, Masamichi Utsunomiya, Isamu Shigemoto, Yasuaki Tanimura
  • Fiber-reinforced resin molding material and molded article
    Patent number: 11746200
    Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin molding material is obtained by impregnating a chopped fiber bundle with a matrix resin, has a layered structure including three or more layers in a thickness direction thereof, and satisfies the relationships Lao>Lam and Wao>Wam, where Lao and Wao represent the number average fiber length and the number average fiber bundle width, respectively, of the chopped fiber bundle in the outermost layer thereof, and Lam and Wam represent the number average fiber length and the number average fiber bundle width, respectively, of the chopped fiber bundle in a middle layer thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasukazu Ono, Takafumi Hashimoto, Akira Shimoyama, Tetsuya Motohashi
  • Fiber-reinforced polymer alloy substrate and molded article using same
    Patent number: 11739185
    Abstract: A fiber-reinforced polymer alloy substrate, in which continuous reinforcing fibers are arranged in parallel and are impregnated with a polymer alloy, is characterized in that: a polymer alloy obtained by combining thermoplastic resins of at least two types is used as the polymer alloy; the fiber volume content is in the range of 40 to 70% by volume; and the dispersion parameter D of the fibers is 90% or more. In the obtained fiber-reinforced polymer alloy substrate, the reinforcing fibers are dispersed with high uniformity, and high mechanical properties and heat resistance are stably exhibited with low variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masayuki Koshi, Naoya Ouchiyama, Yoshihiro Naruse
  • Porous film, separator for secondary batteries, and secondary battery
    Patent number: 11742514
    Abstract: A porous film includes a porous substrate, and a porous layer laminated on at least one surface of the porous substrate. The porous layer contains an organic resin different from a resin constituting the porous substrate. A height of a projection of the porous layer in an interface between the porous substrate and the porous layer is 200 nm or more, and a distance between projections is 1 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kei Ikoma, Nobuyasu Kai, Akimitsu Tsukuda
  • Kit, device, and method for detecting bladder cancer
    Patent number: 11732307
    Abstract: An embodiment according to the present invention provides a kit or device for detection of bladder cancer, and a method for detecting bladder cancer. An embodiment according to the present invention relates to: a kit or device for detection of bladder cancer, including a nucleic acid(s) capable of specifically binding to an miRNA(s) or a complementary strand(s) thereof in a sample from a subject; and a method for detecting bladder cancer, including measuring the miRNA(s) in vitro.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC., NATIONAL CANCER CENTER
    Inventors: Makiko Yoshimoto, Hiroko Sudo, Satoko Kozono, Junpei Kawauchi, Takahiro Ochiya, Hiroyuki Fujimoto, Wataru Usuba, Juntaro Matsuzaki
  • mutant strain, and method of producing protein
    Patent number: 11732284
    Abstract: A mutant strain of Trichoderma reesei has a mutation that eliminates or reduces a function of a polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2. A method produces a protein, the method including a step of cultivating the mutant strain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kagawa, Shingo Hiramatsu, Katsushige Yamada
  • Method and kit for the detection of pancreatic dysfunction
    Patent number: 11733250
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a simple and highly accurate method for detecting pancreatic exocrine dysfunction with minimal invasiveness to a subject. The method comprising in vitro measurement of two APOA2 protein variants, mutants thereof and/or fragments thereof in a body fluid sample derived from the subject and detection of the presence or absence of pancreatic exocrine dysfunction on the basis of the measured amounts, and a detection kit for pancreatic exocrine dysfunction including antibodies that can specifically bind to said proteins are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC., NATIONAL CANCER CENTER
    Inventors: Michimoto Kobayashi, Mitsuaki Sanada, Yoshiyuki Sasajima, Giman Jung, Tesshi Yamada, Kazufumi Honda
  • HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE MODULE FOR CROSS-FLOW FILTRATION AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20230256394
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hollow fiber membrane module for outside-in cross-flow filtration including: a container having at least a raw water inlet, a raw water outlet, and a filtrate outlet; and a plurality of hollow fiber membranes housed in the container, in which in the plurality of hollow fiber membranes, an end portion on a raw water inlet side is sealed and an end portion on a filtrate outlet side is opened, and the plurality of hollow fiber membranes have a potting portion fixed by an adhesive at least in the end portion on the filtrate outlet side, and a pure water permeability K (m3/m2/hr/50 kPa) of the hollow fiber membranes and an inner diameter Di (?m) of the hollow fiber membranes satisfy the following requirements: 2.0?K?20.0; and 350?D1?600.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro Kobayashi, Yoichiro Kozaki, Satoko Kanamori, Atsushi Kobayashi
  • LUNG CANCER DETECTION KIT OR DEVICE, AND DETECTION METHOD
    Publication number: 20230251281
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a kit or a device for the detection of lung cancer and a method for detecting lung cancer. The present invention provides a kit or a device for the detection of lung cancer, comprising a nucleic acid capable of specifically binding to a miRNA in a sample from a subject, and a method for detecting lung cancer, comprising measuring the miRNA in vitro.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicants: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC., NATIONAL CANCER CENTER
    Inventors: Hiroko SUDO, Hitoshi NOBUMASA, Satoko KOZONO, Satoshi KONDOU, Junpei KAWAUCHI, Atsushi OCHIAI, Motohiro KOJIMA
  • METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING MEMBRANE-CATALYST ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20230246203
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide, in the manufacture of a membrane-catalyst assembly including a polymer electrolyte membrane and a catalyst layer bonded to the polymer electrolyte membrane, a method that achieves both the relaxation of thermocompression bonding conditions and the improvement of adhesion between the catalyst layer and the electrolyte membrane with high productivity. A main object of the present invention is to provide a method of manufacturing a membrane-catalyst assembly including an electrolyte membrane and a catalyst layer bonded to the electrolyte membrane, the method including a liquid application step of applying a liquid to a surface of the catalyst layer before bonding, and a thermocompression bonding step of bonding, to the electrolyte membrane, the catalyst layer to which the liquid is applied by thermocompression bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ryuta SAKASHITA, Yuta SHINTAKU, Daisuke IZUHARA, Kiyoshi MINOURA, Mei ABE
  • ELECTRET FIBER SHEET, LAMINATE SHEET, AND FILTER
    Publication number: 20230233966
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electret fiber sheet that has high collection performance and that is suitably used in an air filter, etc. The present invention is an electret fiber sheet configured from polyolefin-based resin fibers comprising a polyolefin-based resin composition containing a high-crystalline polyolefin resin and a low-crystalline polyolefin resin, wherein the mass ratio of the low-crystalline polyolefin resin in the polyolefin-based resin composition is 0.5-10 mass % (inclusive) relative to the total mass of the high-crystalline polyolefin-based resin and the low-crystalline polyolefin resin, and a hindered-amine-based compound is included in the electret fiber sheet in an amount of 0.1-5.0 mass % (inclusive).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Rika Kameshima, Sachio Inaba, Shingo Hayashi
  • Gas diffusion electrode base material and production method therefor, and solid polymer fuel cell
    Patent number: 11710831
    Abstract: A fuel cell with high productivity, high power generation performance and high durability is described, along with a gas diffusion electrode base material having a microporous layer on one side of an electrically conductive porous base material, where the electrically conductive porous base material contains carbon fiber and resin carbide and has a density of 0.25 to 0.39 g/cm3 and a pore mode diameter in a range of 30 to 50 ?m. The microporous layer contains a carbonaceous powder and a fluororesin and has a surface roughness of 2.0 to 6.0 ?m, a porosity of 50 to 95%, and a pore mode diameter of 0.050 to 0.100 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masamichi Utsunomiya, Fumitaka Watanabe