Patents Assigned to Toyobo Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20230295421
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a cavity-containing polyester film which exhibits excellent concealability, degree of whiteness and printability, and which is still free from the occurrence of a wrinkle, distortion and the like in cases where, for example, the cavity-containing polyester film is used for a roll label, and a label is delivered therefrom or wound around a product. [Solution] A cavity-containing polyester film which comprises a layer A that internally contains a cavity, and layers B that are arranged on both surfaces of the layer A, wherein: the layer A is formed of a composition A that contains a polyester resin A and a polypropylene resin; the layers B are formed of a composition B that contains inorganic particles and a polyester resin B; and the amount of self-weight deflection of the film is from 60 mm to 100 mm at least in one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mei Matsumura, Shotaro Nishio, Akira Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20230287613
    Abstract: This long-fiber woven fabric comprises long fibers formed by two-component conjugate spinning from poly(ethylene terephthalate) and a copolyester, and has an apparent density of 0.1-0.25 g/cc and a recovery from 50% elongation of 55% or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Yoshida, Shinichi Minemura, Shinichiro Inatomi, Hiroyasu Sakaguchi, Masahiro Saijo
  • Publication number: 20230271367
    Abstract: Provided is a laminate that is useful as a temporary support for producing a large-area, high-definition, flexible electronic device, the laminate having stably low adhesive strength between a heat-resistant polymer film and an inorganic substrate even in the case of a large surface area, and having few blister defects. This laminate has an inorganic substrate, a silane coupling agent layer that includes amino groups, and a heat-resistant polymer film in the stated order, the laminate being characterized in that the elemental nitrogen component ratio in an inorganic-substrate-side peel surface after the heat-resistant polymer film has been peeled from the inorganic substrate at 90° is greater than 3.5 at % and no greater than 11 at %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo OKUYAMA, Kazuyuki OUYA, Kaya TOKUDA
  • Publication number: 20230265251
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an inorganic reinforced polyamide resin composition that achieves incompatible mechanical properties, i.e., high stiffness and impact resistance (high toughness), has excellent flowability, and further has excellent long-term wear resistance (high sliding performance) to an inorganic fiber reinforcing material used as a sliding counterpart material. An inorganic reinforced polyamide resin composition containing: 10 to 55 mass% of a crystalline polyamide resin (A); 1 to 20 mass% of an amorphous polyamide resin (B); 40 to 70 mass% of an inorganic reinforcing material (C); and 0.5 to 10 mass% of a modified polyolefin resin (D) having a reactive functional group that is capable of reacting with a terminal group and/or a main-chain amide group of a polyamide resin, characterized in that a blending mass ratio between the components (A) and (D) satisfies 0.01 ? (D)/(A) ? 0.2, and a blending mass ratio between the components (A) and (B) satisfies 0.05 ? (B)/(A) ? 0.7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro YOSHIMURA, Kazuki IWAMURA, Yoshitaka AYUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230257533
    Abstract: [PROBLEMS] It is an object of the present invention to provide a heat-shrinkable polyester-based film roll which can reduce defects caused during a heat shrinking step due to the variation of a heat shrinkage rate in the heat-shrinkable polyester-based film roll having the longitudinal direction as the main shrinkage direction, specifically, defects of the film when covering an object by a wrap-around method and heat-shrunk. [SOLUTIONS] A heat-shrinkable polyester-based film roll, comprising a core; and a heat-shrinkable polyester-based film having a longitudinal direction as a main shrinkage direction that is wound around the core; wherein the film (roll) satisfy predetermined polyester composition, and all samples cutout every about 100 m have a heat shrinkage rate measured by immersion in hot water of 90° C. for 10 seconds of 30% or more and 80% or less and ±3% or less of an average in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro ISHIMARU, Masayuki HARUTA
  • Publication number: 20230249388
    Abstract: The invention provides a laminated film comprising a surface layer (B) at a surface on one side of a substrate layer (A) comprising a polypropylenic resin as primary constituent, and a surface layer (C) at a surface on the other side of the substrate layer (A), and in which an inorganic thin film layer (D) is further laminated over the surface layer (B), the laminated film being characterized in that haze of the laminated film is not greater than 5%, and in that a surface on the inorganic thin film layer (D) side of the laminated film satisfies (I) through (IV), below; (I) arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) by a scanning probe microscope is 4.5-9.0 nm; (II) Martens hardness is not greater than 310 N/mm2; (III) water contact angle is not greater than 75°; and (IV) center plane average roughness (SRa) by a three-dimensional profilometer is 0.010-0.040 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi YAMAZAKI, Mahiro NAKANO, Koichi SUGIMORI, Mitsuhiro KASHIWA
  • Publication number: 20230250228
    Abstract: A method for producing polyester resin containing an ethylene terephthalate structural unit of not less than 85 mol%, the method comprising: a melt-polymerization step of continuously performing melt-polymerization in two or more polymerization vessels by using an aluminium compound and a phosphorus compound as a polymerization catalyst; and a solid phase polymerization step of performing solid phase polymerization after the melt-polymerization step, wherein a polymerization in a final polymerization vessel of the melt-polymerization step satisfies a condition represented by the following formula: 410?T*RT*(P/Al)?580, wherein T represents a temperature (°C) in the final polymerization vessel, RT represents residence time (hour) in the final polymerization vessel, and P/Al represents a molar ratio of phosphorus element to aluminium element in the polyester resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru NAKAGAWA, Kosuke UOTANI, Shinya KANETAKA
  • Publication number: 20230235135
    Abstract: Provided is a biaxially oriented polypropylene film that has high stiffness and can easily retain a bag shape when made into a packaging bag even if the film is made thinner, and at the same time, that can maintain water vapor barrier properties even if the film is made thinner, and has few wrinkles in and around the sealed portion when heat-sealed to make a packaging body. The biaxially oriented polypropylene film satisfies the following (1) and (2): (1) a half width of a peak derived from an oriented crystal in a width direction in angular dependency of a (110) plane of polypropylene?-type crystal obtained by wide-angle X-ray diffraction measurement is 26° or smaller; (2) the ratio of (III) to the total of a crystalline component (I), a restrained amorphous component (II), and an unrestrained amorphous component (III) classified by pulse NMR according to solid-echo method is 7% or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhito HORINOUCHI, Kouji YAMADA, Kensuke TANEKI, Toru IMAI
  • Publication number: 20230227697
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a heat-resistant film that is suitable for protection of a surface provided with electrical conduction, decoration or the like in a plastic product, a glass product, a ceramic product, and the like, or that is suitable for holding a semiconductor, dies, and the like in producing dies through dicing and singulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mikiya HAYASHIBARA
  • Publication number: 20230211584
    Abstract: Provided is a layered product that uses a high temperature-resistant transparent film having sufficient heat resistance, and that is capable of being mechanically released from an inorganic substrate after various processes are performed on the inorganic substrate since the adhesive strength between the high temperature-resistant transparent film and the inorganic substrate is appropriately weak, and that is less warped along with the inorganic substrate. In this layered product, no adhesive is used between the high temperature-resistant transparent film and the inorganic substrate, the release strength between the high temperature-resistant transparent film and the inorganic substrate is at most 0.3 N/cm, and the warpage amount of the layered product when heated at 300° C. is at most 400 µm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo OKUYAMA, Makoto NAKAMURA, Denichirou MIZUGUCHI, Harumi YONEMUSHI, Hiroyuki WAKUI, Kaya TOKUDA
  • Publication number: 20230212361
    Abstract: Provided is a biaxially oriented polypropylene film that can enhance function of having high stiffness, having excellent heat resistance at a high temperature of 150° C., easily maintaining a bag shape when being made into a packaging bag, having less pitch shift during printing or fewer wrinkles in a sealed portion when being heat-sealed, and improving lamination strength. A biaxially oriented polypropylene film comprising a base layer (A), an intermediate layer (B), and a surface layer (C), wherein a stress at 5% elongation (F5) at 23° C. of the biaxially oriented polypropylene film is not lower than 40 MPa in a longitudinal direction and not lower than 160 MPa in a width direction, and a heat shrinkage rate at 150° C. of the biaxially oriented polypropylene film is not higher than 10% in the longitudinal direction and not higher than 30% in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mahiro NAKANO, Toru IMAI
  • Publication number: 20230212362
    Abstract: Provided is a biaxially oriented polypropylene film that has high stiffness, has excellent heat resistance at a high temperature of 150° C., easily maintains a bag shape when being made into a packaging bag, and has less pitch shift during printing or fewer wrinkles in a sealed portion when being heat-sealed. A biaxially oriented polypropylene film, wherein a stress at 5% elongation (F5) at 23° C. of the biaxially oriented polypropylene film is not lower than 40 MPa in a longitudinal direction and not lower than 160 MPa in a width direction, and a heat shrinkage rate at 150° C. of the biaxially oriented polypropylene film is not higher than 7% in the longitudinal direction and not higher than 16% in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mahiro NAKANO, Toru IMAI
  • Publication number: 20230203257
    Abstract: The present invention provides a biaxially-oriented polypropylene film having high stiffness, excellent heat resistance to high temperature as high as 150° C., easiness of maintaining its bag shape when made into a packaging bag, less printing pitch shift at the time of printing, and less wrinkles of heat sealed part when heat sealed. The biaxially-oriented polypropylene film satisfies the following formulae (1) to (3): (1) a half width of a peak derived from an oriented crystal in a width direction of the film in an azimuth dependence of a (110) plane of polypropylene ?-type crystal through measurement with wide-angle X rays diffraction is 25° or less; (2) the film has a heat-shrinkage ratio at 150° C. of 10% or less in a longitudinal direction and 24% or less in a width direction; and (3) the film has a tensile elongation at break at 23° C. of 195% or more in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke TANEKI, Toru IMAI, Kouji YAMADA, Kazuhito HORINOUCHI, Mahiro NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20230191763
    Abstract: A laminated body obtained by laminating a sealant layer on one surface of a laminated film including an inorganic thin film layer on one surface of a substrate film and a protective layer on the inorganic thin film layer, wherein (a) the substrate film contains 10% by weight or less of a polyester resin recycled from PET bottles; (b) the protective layer of the laminated film contains a urethane resin, and surface free energy of a surface of the protective layer is 45 to 60 mN/m; (c) the laminated body has a lamination strength of 1.5 N/15 mm or more, and a lamination strength of 1.0 N/15 mm or less after being immersed in 1-methoxy-2-propanol at 40° C. for 72 hours; and (d) the laminated body has a lamination strength of 1.5 N/15 mm or more after a boiling sterilization treatment at 90° C. for 30 minutes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi YAMAZAKI, Yuya YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230191820
    Abstract: [PROBLEM] To provide a packaging and a display material which permit printing in distinct fashion by a laser, and which are of high transparency. [SOLUTION MEANS] A display material having at least one layer permitting printing as a result of laser irradiation, the display material being such that the printing occurs due to change in color caused by the laser irradiation in at least one region of said layer; when a digital microscope is used to carry out cross-sectional observation of said printed region and a nonprinted region, a significant difference in at least any one of RGB values indicating color elements is observed; and thickness of said printed region is not less than 5?m but not greater than 200 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro ISHIMARU, Masayuki HARUTA
  • Publication number: 20230192974
    Abstract: In order to provide a foldable display that is suitable for mass production and that has no risk of image distortion at its folding portion after the display is repeatedly folded, the invention provides a polyester film for foldable displays in which no cracks occurs in the folding portion. In particular, the invention provides a polyester film for a foldable display, the film having a thickness of 10-125 ?m and a high-temperature hold angle in a bending direction of 70° or more, wherein the high-temperature hold angle refers to an angle of a crease formed after fixing the film at a heating temperature of 85° C. for 18 hours in such a manner that a strain of 1.7% is applied to both surfaces of a bent portion of the film, and the bending direction refers to a direction that is orthogonal to a folding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro NISHIO, Mei MATSUMURA, Akira SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230180865
    Abstract: An object is to provide a garment-type biological information measurement device having a biological contact-type electrode and having excellent durability against washing. A garment-type biological information measurement device comprising an electrode, wherein the electrode comprises a stretchable conductive layer containing a flexible resin and a conductive filler, a stretchable adhesion acceleration layer, a stretchable hot melt adhesive layer, and a garment fabric, in this order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michihiko IRIE, Yusuke SHIMIZU, Yuichiro OMOTE, Satoshi MAEDA
  • Patent number: 11672481
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a biological information measuring garment having excellent exterior design, and yet with high measurement accuracy. A biological information measuring garment is provided with an electrode support portion which is joined to a garment body with an amount of freedom and which preferably has a covered-binding structure (looped structure), wherein the amount of freedom of the electrode support portion is set in a predetermined range such that, even when an electrode is in contact with the skin and in a semi-fixed state, the outer side of the garment can accommodate natural movements. In addition, a garment includes at least: a cup portion which covers the female breasts; and a front body, the garment further including on the inside thereof an electrode support portion provided with an electrode for biological information measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuko Kitazawa, Yuichiro Omote
  • Publication number: 20230173731
    Abstract: The invention provides a flame-retardant biaxially-oriented polyester film which is porous, and has high reflectance. The flame-retardant biaxially-oriented polyester film contains a polymer component containing polyethylene terephthalate and a flame retardant. The polyester film has an intrinsic viscosity of 0.50 to 0.64 dL/g and a density of 1.21 to 1.27 g/cm3. A content of the polyethylene terephthalate in the polyester film is 70 to 97% by mass. The flame retardant contains at least one phosphorus-based flame retardant selected from the group consisting of a phosphinate and a diphosphinate. A content of the phosphorus-based flame retardant in the polyester film is 3 to 8% by mass. The polyester film is a porous film having an average reflectance of 60 to 74% at a wavelength of 400 to 700 nm. The polyester film has a thickness of 15 to 45 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hisao OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20230174837
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermally conductive resin composition excellent in toughness and thermal conductivity. The thermally conductive resin composition comprises a thermoplastic resin (A) and scale-like graphite (B), and is free from a polyester elastomer, wherein a content of the thermoplastic resin (A) is 45 to 60 parts by mass and a content of the scale-like graphite (B) is 40 to 55 parts by mass (based on 100 parts by mass in total of the thermoplastic resin (A) and the scale-like graphite (B)), the scale-like graphite (B) comprises scale-like graphite (B1) having a mean particle diameter D50 of 150 to 400 ?m and scale-like graphite (B2) having a mean particle diameter D50 of 10 to 40 ?m, a mass ratio B1:B2 is 94:6 to 60:40, and thermal conductivity in a plane direction of a molded article obtained from the thermally conductive resin composition is 8 W/(m·K) or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motonobu KAMIYA, Takahiro SHIMIZU