Patents Assigned to Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent number: 7812623Abstract: A transparent conductive film roll which has a transparent conductive layer on at least one surface thereof and has an excellent distribution uniformity of surface resistance in longitudinal and lateral directions thereof wherein the distribution uniformity D of surface resistance defined by the following expression (1) is 0.2 or less when the surface resistance of the transparent conductive layer is measured at a total of 33 points within the film roll, and therefore, is suitable especially for a large panel, D=(Rmax?Rmin)/(Rmax+Rmin)??(1) where Rmax and Rmin represent the maximum and minimum values of 33 surface resistance measurement values.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2008Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiyuki Oya, Hideo Murakami, Chikao Morishige, Yuji Kakita, Hideki Jinbou, Kenjiro Ueda, Takahiro Kubota
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Patent number: 7811673Abstract: To provide a novel high strength polyethylene multifilament which consists of a plurality of filaments having high strengths and uniform internal structures, and showing a narrow variation in the strengths of the monofilaments, and which has been difficult to be provided by the conventional gel spinning method. A high strength polyethylene multifilament consisting of a plurality of filaments which are characterized in that the crystal size of monoclinic crystal is 9 nm or less; the stress Raman shift factor is ?5.0 cm?1/(cN/dTex) or more; the average strength is 20 CN/dTex or higher; the knot strength retention of each monofilament is 40% or higher; CV indicating a variation in the strengths of the monofilaments is 25% or lower; the elongation at break is from 2.5% inclusive to 6.0% inclusive; the fineness of each filament is 10 dTex or less; and the melting point of the filaments is 145° C. or higher.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2004Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Godo Sakamoto, Tooru Kitagawa, Yasuo Ohta, Yasunori Fukushima, Hiroki Murase
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Publication number: 20100255060Abstract: To provide a nerve regeneration-inducing tube being excellent in cell growth property, resistance to pressure, shape recovery property, and anti-kink property in a nerve regeneration-inducing tube where a collagen solution is applied on the outer surface of a tubular body knitted with ultrafine fiber comprising biodegradable and bioabsorbable polymer while collagen is filled in the inner area of the tubular body. Specifically, to provide a nerve regeneration-inducing tube where a degradation speed is adjusted so as to make it suitable for the connection of nerve gaps of more than 40 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumihiko Kajii, Hidenori Tanaka, Susumu Kashiwabara, Yuta Kawakatsu
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Publication number: 20100255380Abstract: To obtain a nonaqueous electrolyte battery that has an excellent nonaqueous electrolyte permeability into an electrode and an excellent electrolyte retentivity of the electrode and achieves a large capacity, a high energy density and a good high-temperature charge characteristic. A separator used for a nonaqueous electrolyte battery is formed by disposing a porous layer made of inorganic fine particles and a resin binder on a porous separator substrate. The resin binder is made of at least one resin selected from the group consisting of polyimide resins and polyamideimide resins, the resin having an acid value of 5.6 to 28.0 KOHmg/g and a logarithmic viscosity of 0.5 to 1.5 dl/g. The content of the resin binder in the porous layer is 5% by weight or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicants: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasunori Baba, Naoki Imachi, Atsushi Nakajima, Michihiko Irie, Masanori Nakamura
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Publication number: 20100256309Abstract: A heat-shrinkable polyester film is provided which exhibits a high shrinkability in a high-temperature range with a main shrinking direction oriented in a longitudinal direction thereof, though not shrinking in the longitudinal direction in a low-temperature range, possesses an extremely high mechanical strength in a transverse direction orthogonal to the main shrinking direction, and, in particular, can be utilized suitably as a film for forming a jacket label of a battery or in similar applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicants: TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FUJI SEAL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Takuro Endo, Masatoshi Hashimoto, Katsuhiko Nose
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Publication number: 20100249811Abstract: To provide a method for the manufacture of a nerve regeneration-inducing tube being excellent in pressure resistance, shape recovery property, anti-kink property, film exfoliation resistance, property of prevention of invasion of outer tissues and leakage resistance. The present invention is a method for the manufacture of a nerve regeneration-inducting tube in which the outer surface of the tubular body knitted with a plurality of ultrafine fibers comprising biodegradable polymer is coated by application of a collagen solution for plural times to coat and then collagen is filled in the inner area of the above tubular body, characterized in that, viscosity of the collagen solution which is firstly applied on the outer surface of the tubular body is made 2 cps to 800 cps or, preferably, 5 cps to 200 cps. Preferably, viscosity of a collagen solution to be applied later is made high as compared with that of the firstly-applied one.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumihiko Kajii, Hidenori Tanaka, Yuta Kawakatsu, Susumu Kashiwabara, Masaki Sato
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Publication number: 20100247845Abstract: The invention aims at providing a heat-shrinkable polyester film which is excellent in tearability along perforations and in break resistance after storage when used as labels of beverage bottles. The invention relates to a heat-shrinkable polyester film which is made of a polyester resin comprising ethylene terephthalate as the main constituent and containing at least 13 mol % of at least one monomer capable of forming an amorphous component in the whole polyester resin component and which has specific heat shrinkage characteristics and exhibits specific mechanical characteristics after heat shrinking treatment. The film can be produced by a sequential biaxial orientation process comprising longitudinal orientation step, intermediate heat treatment step, positive cooling step, transverse orientation step, and final heat treatment step.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki Haruta, Masatoshi Hashimoto, Masakazu Iwasaki, Katsuhiko Nose
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Publication number: 20100233451Abstract: To provide fibers which retain the excellent heat resistance and flame retardancy inherent in polybenzazole fibers and pyridobisimidazole fibers, have improved post-processability and neither necessitate considerable change in production process conditions nor require a high-temperature and long-time heating treatment. With respect to the polybenzazole fiber and pyridobisimidazole fiber, in an electron diffraction diagram of a surface layer part (from the surface to 1 ?m) of the fibers, the fibers containing a crystal present in a state satisfying that S2/S1 is in a prescribed range, wherein S1 is a diffraction peak area derived from a crystal (200) plane and S2 is a diffraction peak area derived from a plurality of other crystal planes along an equatorial direction profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2007Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tooru Kitagawa, Kohei Kiriyama, Seiji Watanuki, Yoshihiko Teramoto, Yusuke Shimizu
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Publication number: 20100233547Abstract: To obtain a separator for a nonaqueous electrolyte battery that has an excellent nonaqueous electrolyte permeability into an electrode and an excellent electrolyte retentivity of the electrode and achieves a large capacity, a high energy density and a good high-temperature charge characteristic. A separator 3 used for a nonaqueous electrolyte battery is formed by disposing a porous layer 2 made of inorganic fine particles and a resin binder on a porous separator substrate 1, the resin binder is made of at least one resin selected from the group consisting of polyimide resins, polyamide resins and polyamideimide resins and the molecular chain of the resin has a halogen atom content of 10% to 30% by weight, and the content of the resin binder in the porous layer is 5% by weight or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2008Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicants: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasunori Baba, Naoki Imachi, Atsushi Nakajima, Michihiko Irie, Masanori Nakamura
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Patent number: 7795161Abstract: A fabric for airbags which comprises a synthetic fiber woven fabric and synthetic thermoplastic resin applied on at least one side of the synthetic fiber woven fabric, characterized in that, by applying the synthetic thermoplastic resin, both edgecomb resistance and tear strength of the synthetic fiber woven fabric become 1.3 times or more as large as respective values of the synthetic fiber woven fabric before applying the synthetic thermoplastic resin. Preferably, the fabric for airbags has low air permeability and self-extinguishing property, and is capable of being repelletized with ease.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2007Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenichiro Kano, Takashi Tsuruta, Hideo Isoda
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Publication number: 20100228013Abstract: The present invention includes as an active ingredient at least one biosurfactant, in particular mannosyl alditol lipid (such as MEL and MML) or triacylated mannosyl alditol lipid. This allows providing an activator and anti-aging agent that is excellent in activating and anti-aging effects on cells and that is safe enough to be used for a long time, and also providing cosmetics, quasi-drugs, drugs, and drinks and foods including the activator and the anti-aging agent as active ingredients. Further, the present invention provides MEL whose mannosyl erythritol skeleton in a molecular structure is 1-O-?-D-mannopyranosyl-meso-erythritol and a method for producing the MEL with use of a microorganism.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2009Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicants: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Michiko Suzuki, Masaru Kitagawa, Shuhei Yamamoto, Atsushi Sogabe, Dai Kitamoto, Tomotake Morita, Tokuma Fukuoka, Tomohiro Imura
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Patent number: 7790643Abstract: A reinforcing material for urethane foam effectively protects a molded urethane foam body and suppresses fricatives with a metal spring, having high productivity and excellent handleability and being applicable to a molded urethane foam body with highly uneven shape at low cost. It is a reinforcing material for urethane foam wherein a nonwoven fabric A having single fiber linear density of 1.0 to 3.0 dtex and a nonwoven fabric B having single fiber linear density of 0.5 to 2.5 dtex are laminated by needlepunching process by inserting needles from a direction of the nonwoven fabric A with a needle density of 35 to 70 needles/cm2.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2007Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazunori Kanda, Kazuhiro Teramae, Toshiya Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20100219122Abstract: The present invention provides a hollow fiber membrane for treating liquids. When used for a hollow fiber membrane module for refining a fermented liquid such as beer or wine, the hollow fiber membrane exhibits a high filtration performance per unit area thereof, with reduced clogging of the membrane. The membrane performance is sufficiently recovered by washing. The present invention is a hollow fiber membrane for treating liquids, wherein a ratio of Flux 120 to Flux 30 is 0.45 or higher when filtration is performed by supplying a solution having a turbidity of 20 NTU into a hollow fiber membrane having an internal diameter of 500 to 1500 ?m and a membrane thickness of 100 to 500 ?m with a transmembrane pressure of 1.5 bar, the Flux 30 being flux 30 minutes after the start of the filtration, the Flux 120 being flux 120 minutes after the start of the filtration.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2008Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirofumi Ogawa, Noriaki Kato, Hideyuki Yokota, Junsuke Morita
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Patent number: 7781603Abstract: The present invention relate to a method for producing a trimethylsilyl azide represented by the formula (3): (CH3)3SiN3??(3) which comprises reacting a trimethylsilyl chloride represented by the formula (1): (CH3)3SiCl??(1) with an inorganic salt of hydrogen azide represented by the formula (2): M(N3)n??(2) wherein M represents an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal, and n represents 1 or 2, in the presence of a phase-transfer catalyst and an organic solvent having a high boiling point.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2005Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toru Kofukuda, Shigeto Nakazawa
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Publication number: 20100184915Abstract: The invention provides a copolymerized lactic acid type resin containing (a) not less than 90% by weight of a lactic acid residue where the molar ratio (L/D) of L-lactic acid to D-lactic acid is within a range of 1 to 9 and (b) a phosphonium sulfoisophthalate structure represented by formula [I] in a concentration of 10 to 100 eq/106 g in the resin, wherein M is a structure represented by formula [II], and R1 to R4 may be same or different and each of them is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 18 carbons.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2008Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takashi Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20100178830Abstract: A non-woven fabric which is excellent in thermal resistance, mechanical strength, and thermal dimensional stability for applications exposed to high temperature circumstance and has an extremely large surface area and exhibit an excellent filter performance is obtained. The non-woven fabric is composed of polyimide fibers which are obtained by polycondensation of at least an aromatic tetracarboxylic acid and an aromatic diamine having a benzoxazole structure and have a fiber diameter in the range of 0.001 ?m to 1 ?m. The non-woven fabric is obtained by the steps of preparing a polyamic acid by polycondensation of an aromatic tetracarboxylic acid and an aromatic diamine having a benzoxazole structure, and electro-spinning the polyamic acid to form a polyimide precursor non-woven fabric; and imidizing a polyimide precursor fiber bundle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2007Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiko Nakamori, Satoshi Maeda, Tooru Kitagawa, Hisato Kobayashi, Yasuo Ohta
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Patent number: 7754864Abstract: Disclosed is a tyrosinase activity controlling agent comprising, as an active ingredient, a compound that has tyrosinase inhibiting or promoting activity, an external preparation comprising the controlling agent, and a process for producing the compound.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Toyo Boseki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yutaka Tokiwa, Masaru Kitagawa, Kenji Yoshino, Shusaku Yanagidani, Takao Raku, Tetsuzo Totani, Hiromi Shimakawa
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Patent number: 7754844Abstract: A polyarylene ether-based compound according to the present invention includes polymer components represented in general formula (1) and general formula (2): wherein Ar indicates a divalent aromatic group, Y indicates a sulfone group or a ketone group, X indicates H or a monovalent cation species, and Ar? indicates a divalent aromatic group.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshimitsu Sakaguchi, Kota Kitamura, Shigenori Nagahara, Masahiro Yamashita, Junko Nakao
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Patent number: 7754970Abstract: A high frequency electronic part comprising a conductor wiring for transmitting an electric signal of 100 MHz to 100 GHz, and an insulation layer composed of a void containing thermoplastic resin film orientated in at least one direction by stretching. The void containing thermoplastic resin film contains voids in the range between 3% and 45% by volume, the number of voids in a thickness direction of the film is 5 or more, and a ratio of the number of voids to film thickness defined by the following equation is in the range between 0.1 and 10 voids/?m: ratio of the number of voids to film thickness (voids/?m)=the number of voids (voids) in film thickness direction/film thickness (?m).Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Sasaki, Seiichiro Yokoyama
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Patent number: 7749584Abstract: In heat-shrinkable polyester films, the content of 1,4-cyclohexane dimethanol is 10 to 50% by mole based on the polyhydric alcohol component and that the heat shrinkage factors of a 10 cm square sample of the films in (A) hot water of 75° C., (B) hot water of 85° C., and (C) hot water of 95° C. are 30 to 40%, 50 to 60%, and 65 to 77%, respectively. The films can be produced by drawing under specified conditions.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Hayakawa, Norimi Tabota, Yoshinori Takegawa, Katsuya Ito, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose