Patents Assigned to Toyobo Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20240173952
    Abstract: The invention provides a film having at least a base material layer and an easily adhesive layer each containing a polyester as a main component, stacked in an order of the easily adhesive layer/the base material layer/the easily adhesive layer, and satisfying all of (1) to (4): (1) a difference between reversible heat capacity differences ?Cp at around glass transition temperatures of the easily adhesive layer and the base material layer is 0.10 or more and 0.45 or less; (2) heat sealing strength between the easily adhesive layers of said two films is 0.5 N/15 mm or less; (3) a stress at 10% elongation F10 in each of an MID direction and a TD direction is 90 MPa or more and 160 MPa or less; and (4) a molecular orientation ratio measured by using a molecular orientation meter is 1.0 or more and 1.3 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru TAMARI, Masayuki HARUTA
  • Patent number: 11997916
    Abstract: Provided is a polyester film for foldable displays that is unlikely to have cracks in the folding portion with the aim of providing a foldable display that is excellent in mass production applicability, and that does not have image distortion that may appear in the folding portion after the display is repeatedly folded. The polyester film has a thickness of 10 to 80 ?m, a refractive index in the bending direction of 1.590 to 1.620, a refractive index in the direction of a folding portion of 1.670 to 1.700, a refractive index in the thickness direction of 1.520 or less, and a density of 1.380 g/cm3 or more, wherein the bending direction refers to a direction orthogonal to the folding portion of the polyester film to be folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro Nishio, Kiwamu Kawai, Akira Shimizu, Katsuya Ito
  • Publication number: 20240165138
    Abstract: Provided is an antiviral agent that is suitable not only for application in articles but also for application in living organisms, and that is safer for living organisms. The antiviral agent contains mannosylerythritol lipids (MELs) as an active ingredient, preferably in an amount of 0.000001 to 100 wt %, and is applicable to living organisms and/or articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akio KAWAHARA, Shuhei YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240165935
    Abstract: A biaxially stretched polyamide film, comprising a layer A containing 50 to 90% by mass of polyamide 6 and 10 to 50% by mass of polyamide 6 copolymer, a layer B containing 5 to 30% by mass of polyamide 6, 70 to 95% by mass of polyamide 6 copolymer and 0 to 0.10% by mass of organic lubricant, and a layer C containing 70% by mass or more of polyamide 6 and 0.05 to 1% by mass of fine particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 10 ?m, wherein layer B, layer A, and layer C are formed in this order; a critical surface tension on the layer B is 27.0 mN/m or higher; and on the surface of the layer B, a dispersion component ?d of surface free energy is 27.0 mJ/m2 or higher and a hydrogen bond component ?h is 10.0 mJ/m2 or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamichi GOTO, Takuro ENDO
  • Patent number: 11982049
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a polyester fabric for airbags formed from a polyester fiber, which can reduce costs, and the polyester fabric for airbags has high restraint performance for receiving the occupant during deployment and maintains the performance at high levels even after aging, while maintaining the mechanical characteristics as a fabric for airbags. A polyester fabric for airbags has a resin provided on at least one surface wherein the polyester fabric has an optimized crimp ratio and has a scrubbing test count of 400 or more after aging treatment at 70° C. at 95% RH for 408 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuhei Takeuchi, Masahiro Sakai
  • Publication number: 20240149568
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a laser-printable laminate display body in which printing is not peeled off even when an external stimulus such as rubbing is applied, and to provide a laminate display body which can afford high-quality laser printing such that characters can be clearly visually recognized by high density and fineness of printing and does not cause defects such as perforation due to laser printing. A laminate display body including at least one printing layer that can undergo printing by laser irradiation, in which the laser printing layer includes a laser-printed portion printed by laser and a non-printed portion, at least one laser non-absorbing layer is laminated on the printing layer, and the absolute value of the difference in color L* value between the laser-printed portion and the non-printed portion is 1.0 or more and 10.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro ISHIMARU, Masayuki HARUTA
  • Publication number: 20240153785
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for releasing a first polymer film, wherein a layered body is prepared by adhering, to each other, an inorganic substrate and a first polymer film on which an electronic device has been formed; the first polymer film side of the layered body is placed and fixed so as to be in contact with a vacuum suction plate, a partition wall is provided on a side surface of the layered body, and a second polymer film that is larger than the inorganic substrate is layered onto the inorganic substrate side of the layered body, so as to provide an enclosed space formed by the vacuum suction plate, the second polymer film, and the partition wall; and a releasing portion is provided between the first polymer film and the inorganic substrate and air is injected into this releasing portion to release the first polymer film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo OKUYAMA, Yoshihiro TSURUNO
  • Patent number: 11970549
    Abstract: The invention provides an antibody that specifically binds to a 5? to 3? exonuclease domain of a DNA polymerase, or a fragment thereof. The antibody inhibits the 5? to 3? exonuclease activity of a DNA polymerase, or a fragment thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOBO CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA
    Inventors: Takafumi Yoshikane, Nobuyuki Kurosawa, Masaharu Isobe
  • Patent number: 11970802
    Abstract: The present invention provides a network structure having excellent repeated compression durability, the network structure having a low repeated compression residual strain and a high hardness retention after repeated compression. A network structure comprising a three-dimensional random loop bonded structure obtained by forming random loops with curling treatment of a continuous linear structure including a polyester-based thermoplastic elastomer and having a fineness of not less than 100 dtex and not more than 60000 dtex, and by making each loop mutually contact in a molten state, wherein the network structure has an apparent density of 0.005 g/cm3 to 0.20 g/cm3, a 50%-constant displacement repeated compression residual strain of not more than 15%, and a 50%-compression hardness retention of not less than 85% after 50%-constant displacement repeated compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruyuki Taninaka, Shinichi Kobuchi, Hiroyuki Wakui
  • Publication number: 20240132683
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a heat-shrinkable polyester film that contains a PET bottle recycled raw material but that has sufficient shrinkability, a low shrinkage stress, and a high solvent adhesion strength. The present invention provides a heat shrinkable polyester film, wherein a polyester of the polyester film contains recycled raw material from a PET bottle and an acid component of the polyester comprises isophthalic acid, and the film satisfies a shrinkage rate in a main shrinkage direction, a maximum shrinkage stress in the main shrinkage direction, a melting heat amount, a solvent adhesion strength, and a limiting viscosity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi INOUE, Masayuki HARUTA
  • Publication number: 20240132708
    Abstract: To solve the problems described herein, this invention provides a resin emulsion for primers capable of suitably controlling sagging when a base coating is applied and capable of obtaining a smooth appearance in aqueous paint systems for plastics. The invention provides an aqueous dispersion comprising an acid-modified polyolefin resin (A), a nitrogen-containing non-ionic emulsifier (B), and water, wherein the acid-modified polyolefin resin (A) is a propylene-?-olefin copolymer having a butene content of 2 to 35 mass % in a polyolefin component, and wherein a coating film after baking at 80° C. has a pure water contact angle of 40° to 90°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi YAMANE, Kenji KASHIHARA, Keitaro MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20240124705
    Abstract: The invention provides a biaxially oriented polyester film, which exhibits excellent transparency, is easily subjected to secondary processing, is an environmentally friendly polyester film, and has little variations in physical properties in the machine direction, and a production method therefor. The biaxially oriented polyester film is formed of a polyester resin composition containing particles and 50% by weight or more of a polyester resin composed of biomass-derived ethylene glycol and fossil fuel-derived dicarboxylic acid units, wherein at least one surface of the biaxially oriented polyester film meets requirements (1) to (3): (1) a number of fine protrusions each having a height of less than 3 nm per area of 4×10?12 m2 is 250-600; (2) a number of fine protrusions each having a height of 3 nm or more per area of 4×1012 m2 is 300-600; and (3) an arithmetic mean height Sa is 0.010-0.025 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki MANABE, Masayuki HARUTA
  • Patent number: 11959162
    Abstract: An object to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a gas barrier film having excellent acid resistance, transparency, and gas barrier properties. The gas barrier laminated body of the present invention is a laminate, in which an inorganic thin-film layer is laminated onto at least one of surfaces of a polymer substrate, and the inorganic thin-film layer mainly contains Al and Si, and a ratio of an Al content amount between before and after treatment of immersing the laminate into aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid that has concentration of 1 mol/L for one hour satisfies a formula of (Al Content Amount After Treatment)/(Al Content Amount Before Treatment)×100?75.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kashiwa, Yukihiro Numata, Kiyoshi Iseki
  • Publication number: 20240116274
    Abstract: An inorganic substrate/polymer film laminate with an attached protective film that allows for easy individual removal even when stored in a stacked state for a long period of time is provided. A first laminate is characterized by including an inorganic substrate, a polymer film layer and a first protective film, in that order, wherein the surface roughness Ra of the surface of the inorganic substrate opposite of the polymer film layer is 0.02-1.2 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaya TOKUDA, Satoshi MAEDA, Tetsuo OKUYAMA, Naoki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240115776
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a surface treatment agent that is excellent in antithrombogenicity and biocompatibility and has higher hydrophilicity compared to conventional medical materials. The present invention is an antithrombogenic material containing a (meth)acrylate copolymer consisting of a hydrophobic (meth)acrylate and a hydrophilic (meth)acrylate, in which the hydrophobic (meth)acrylate is a silicone (meth)acrylate and/or an alkyl (meth)acrylate, the (meth)acrylate copolymer having a residual monomer content of 4,000 ppm or less, a reduced viscosity (?sp/c) of 0.18 dl/g or more and 3.00 dl/g or less, and being water-insoluble, and being a viscous liquid at room temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Kawakatsu, Shohei Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11945201
    Abstract: A cavity-containing polyester film is disclosed, including a layer (layer A) which has therein cavities, and layers (layers B) which each include a polyester resin containing inorganic particles and which are laminated, respectively, over both surfaces of the layer A. The layer A includes a composition including a polyester resin and a polypropylene resin. The polypropylene resin satisfies requirements of: (1) the melt flow rate (MFR) ranges from 1.0 to 10 g/10-minutes (at a temperature of 230° C. under a load of 2.16 kg); (2) the deflection temperature is 85° C. or higher under load (at a bending stress of 0.45 MPa); and (3) the weight-average molecular weight Mw ranges from 200,000 to 450000 (measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC)); and the molecular weight distribution ranges from 2 to 6 (being represented as the ratio of the weight-average molecular weight Mw to the number-average molecular weight Mn of the polypropylene resin (Mw/Mn)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Deguchi, Shunichiro Baba
  • Publication number: 20240101770
    Abstract: The invention provides a biaxially oriented polyester film, which exhibits excellent transparency, is easily subjected to secondary processing, and is produced using a polyester resin obtained without using an antimony compound as a polymerization catalyst, and a production method therefor. At least one surface of the biaxially oriented polyester film meets requirements (1) to (4): (1) a number of fine protrusions each having a height of less than 3 nm per area of 4×10?12 m2 is 250 or more and 600 or less; (2) a number of fine protrusions each having a height of 3 nm or more per area of 4×10?12 m2 is 300 or more and 600 or less; (3) an arithmetic mean height Sa is 0.010 ?m or more and 0.025 ?m or less; and (4) an antimony content in the film is 10 ppm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki MANABE, Masayuki HARUTA
  • Patent number: 11939499
    Abstract: Provided is a laminated film for a foldable display, the laminated film being free of occurrence of a fold mark or a crack at a folding portion thereof, in order to provide, for example, a foldable display excellent in mass productivity, and free of a risk of causing distortion in an image displayed at a folding portion thereof after being repeatedly folded. The laminated film for a foldable display includes: a polyester film having a thickness of from 10 ?m to 100 ?m; and an adhesive layer formed on at least one surface of the polyester film, wherein the polyester film satisfies the following conditions: (1) a refractive index in a bending direction is from 1.590 to 1.620; (2) a refractive index in a folding portion direction is from 1.670 to 1.700; (3) a refractive index in a thickness direction is 1.520 or less; and (4) a density is 1.380 g/cm3 or more, wherein the bending direction refers to a direction orthogonal to a folding portion of the polyester film at a time when the polyester film is folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro Nishio, Kiwamu Kawai, Akira Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20240096774
    Abstract: This method for producing a layered body includes: a step A for preparing a first layered body by layering a first resin film and a patterned metal layer; a step B for preparing a second resin film having indentations corresponding to the metal layer pattern; and a step C for mating the metal layer pattern and the indentations in the second resin film and bonding together the first layered body and second resin film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo OKUYAMA, Keisuke MATSUO
  • Patent number: 11934226
    Abstract: Provided is a foldable display that is excellent in mass production applicability and unlikely to have image distortion at the folding portion of the display after repeated folding, as well as a mobile device equipped therewith. The foldable display contains a surface protection film and a polarizer. The surface protection film is composed of a polyester film, and the angle made by the slow axis of the polyester film with the absorption axis of the polarizer is 10 to 80°. The polyester film has a refractive index in the bending direction of 1.590 to 1.620, a refractive index in the direction of a folding portion of 1.670 to 1.700, a refractive index in the thickness direction of 1.520 or less, and a density of 1.380 g/cm3 or more, wherein the bending direction refers to a direction orthogonal to the folding portion of the polyester film to be folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro Nishio, Kiwamu Kawai, Akira Shimizu, Katsuya Ito