Patents Assigned to Unitika Ltd.
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Publication number: 20250108589Abstract: A gas barrier laminate with a total thickness of 100 ?m or less, including a plastic base material (I) and a gas barrier layer (II) laminated on said plastic base material, wherein (1) plastic base material (I) includes a metal-containing layer including at least one metal and a metal compound and a resin component, (2) the total content of metal and metal compound in said metal-containing layer is 0.1 to 70% by mass, (3) gas barrier layer (II) contains polycarboxylic acid, (4) metal-containing layer and gas barrier layer are laminated so that they are in direct contact with each other, and (5) gas barrier laminate is treated at a temperature of 95° C. for 30 minutes. (5) the gas barrier laminate has an oxygen transmission rate of 300 ml/(m2·day·MPa) or less under a temperature of 40° C. and a humidity of 90% RH after hot water treatment for 30 minutes at 95° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Ashihara, Goro Araki, Atsushi Maehara
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Patent number: 12264420Abstract: Provided is a thermal molding method for producing a thermally molded article having excellent abrasion resistance at its melt-fused part. Polyamide 6 and a copolyester are prepared separately. The copolyester contains terephthalic acid, ethylene glycol, and 1,4-butanediol as copolymerization units. The copolyester may further contain ?-caprolactone and/or diethylene glycol as a copolymerization unit. A multifilament yarn in which core-sheath type composite filaments each containing a core component and a sheath component at a ratio of 1 to 4:1 by mass are bundled is produced by a composite melt-spinning method using the polyamide 6 as the core component and the copolyester as the sheath component. Using the multifilament yarn, a product of filaments is produced by weaving, knitting, knitting and braiding, or braiding.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Kohei Ikeda, Mariko Honda, Yuta Mizuno, Shohei Ikegami
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Patent number: 12234162Abstract: A water purification cartridge includes a casing with a tubular shape that has an inflow portion for raw water to flow in and an outflow portion for purified water to flow out, and a filter member for filtering the raw water, the filter member being accommodating within the casing. The filter member is formed to have a cylindrical shape having a hollow portion, and has a first face and a second face at respective ends in an axial direction. The casing has a first cover portion, a second cover portion, and a side wall portion. The first cover portion covers the first face. The second cover covers the second face. The side wall portion covers an outer circumferential face of the filter member. In the first cover portion, a first contact portion is formed that annularly comes into contact with the first face and that press the filter member in the axial direction to elastically deform the filter member.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Shinji Taniguchi, Norihiro Naito
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Publication number: 20250018702Abstract: Provided is a thermoplastic resin film having a haze of 13% or less, wherein a loop stiffness value in at least one direction on a film plane as measured by a loop stiffness tester is 140 mN/cm or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2022Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Shuhei YAMANE, Takashi OKABE
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Patent number: 12180339Abstract: A flexible polyamide including a unit formed from an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid (A1) having 18 or more carbon atoms and/or a unit formed from an aliphatic diamine (B1) having 18 or more carbon atoms, wherein the polyamide has a total content of 10 to 90% by mass of the unit formed from (A1) and the unit formed from (B1) and has a melting point of 240° C. or higher.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Makoto Nakai, Yuki Takubo, Yusuke Yagi
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Patent number: 12180347Abstract: A laminated film having a resin layer laminated on at least one surface of a base film. The laminated film is characterized by: the base film being a semi-aromatic polyamide film that has been at least uniaxially stretched; the resin layer containing fine particles; the thermal shrinkage factor in the longitudinal direction SMD and the thermal shrinkage factor in the width direction STD of the film measured under conditions of 250° C.×5 minutes each being ?1.0 to 1.5%; the tensile elongations at break in the longitudinal direction and in the width direction each being 70% or more; and the haze being 3% or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Takashi Okabe, Nobuyasu Okumura, Kumi Ashihara
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Publication number: 20240282490Abstract: The present invention provides a soft magnetic nanowire having a sufficiently high saturation magnetization, a sufficiently high relative magnetic permeability and a sufficiently low coercivity force. The present invention relates to a soft magnetic nanowire, comprising an iron and a boron and having an average length of 5 ?m or more and an iron/boron molar ratio in the nanowire of less than 5, wherein the iron/boron molar ratio is measured by a SEM-EDS method.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2022Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka TAKEDA, Masumi MIYO, Naho TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 12048914Abstract: There is provided a deodorizing material having particularly high deodorization capabilities for ammonia, acetaldehyde, and toluene. The deodorizing material of the present invention comprises fibrous activated carbon; and (A) an aromatic amine and a sulfate of the aromatic amine or (B) an aromatic amine, a sulfate of the aromatic amine, and sulfuric acid, supported on the fibrous activated carbon, wherein a total substance amount of the aromatic amine and the sulfate of the aromatic amine supported per gram of the fibrous activated carbon is 0.85 to 1.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Masao Sunahara, Hiroki Fujiki
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Patent number: 12012491Abstract: To provide a method for producing a polyamide resin film by using a polyamide resin obtained through polymerization of a regenerated monomer used as a recycled material. Provided is a method for producing a polyamide resin film, including: (1) a step of producing a monomer from a raw material (A) for depolymerization, (2) a step of producing a polyamide resin (B) through polymerization using a raw material containing the monomer. (3) a step of refining the polyamide resin (B), and (4) a step of producing an unstretched film using a starting material containing the refined polyamide resin (B), and stretching the unstretched film.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Akiko Kurosawa, Atsuko Noda
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Patent number: 11965072Abstract: Provided is a semiaromatic polyamide fil having an average linear expansion coefficient in the width direction, measured under conditions of 20 to 125° C., of ?90 to 0 ppm/° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Yuki Aoyama, Takashi Okabe, Shuhei Yamane, Tomoko Yamanaka
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Patent number: 11958806Abstract: An object is to provide a method for easily producing maleimide (MI) in which trace amounts of residual acid components as impurities in a crude MI are efficiently reduced, that is, the acid value is sufficiently reduced. <1> A method for producing purified MI, comprising reducing an acid value of crude MI by 50% or more, by adding carbodiimide (CDI) to a solution comprising the crude MI to react an acid component in the crude MI with the CDI. <2> The method for producing purified MI, comprising adding 0.5% by mass or more and 8% by mass or less of the CDI with respect to a mass of the crude MI for reaction. <3> The method for producing purified MI, wherein the CDI is N,N?-diisopropyl carbodiimide (DIC). <4> The method for producing purified MI, comprising removing a urea derivative of the CDI (CDI-U) by-produced when reacting the acid component in the crude MI with the CDI.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Yuki Yamada, Tatsuya Morikita, Yosuke Sugimoto, Takeshi Yoshida, Akira Shigeta, Yoshiaki Echigo
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Patent number: 11932758Abstract: The present invention provides a polyarylate resin composition sufficiently excellent in heat resistance, transparency, heat discoloration resistance and moist heat resistance, and a molded article made of the same. The present invention relates to a polyarylate resin composition containing 0.005˜5 parts by mass of a silane compound (C) with a boiling point of 200° C. or more, based on 100 parts by mass of the total of a polyarylate resin (A) and a polycarbonate resin (B), a content ratio of the polyarylate resin (A) and the polycarbonate resin (B) being 5/95 to 95/5 (mass ratio).Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Toshiki Nagahata, Takatoshi Murakami
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Publication number: 20240026151Abstract: The present invention provides a resin composition, from which a molded product excellent in a dust-generating resistance property, heat-resisting properties, a dimensional stability, sliding properties, mechanical properties and external appearance properties can be molded and which is excellent in a molding stability, and a molded product which is obtained by molding the same. The present invention relates to a resin composition comprising a polyarylate resin, a polycarbonate resin, silica particles having an average particle diameter of 0.4 to 12 ?m, fluorine atom-containing polymer particles having an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 20 ?m, and a particular phosphite ester compound, wherein a mass ratio of the polyarylate resin and the polycarbonate resin is 25/75 to 92/8, a content of the silica particles is 4 to 65 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of a total amount of the polyarylate resin and the polycarbonate resin, a content of the fluorine atom-containing polymer particles is 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2020Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.Inventor: Yutaka NABESHIMA
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Publication number: 20240018316Abstract: A polyester film includes a polyester (A) composed mainly of polybutylene terephthalate and a polyester (B) composed mainly of polyethylene terephthalate, wherein a mass ratio (A/B) between the polyesters (A) and (B) is 70/30 to 55/45, a dry heat shrinkage rate (B) through heat treatment at 200° C. for 15 minutes is 35% or less in any of four directions (0°, 45° 90° and 135°) on the film surface, a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of these dry heat shrinkage rates is 5% or less, a thickness variation in the four directions is 10% or less, and a crystallization index shown in DSC measurement is 25 to 55 J/g.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Ashihara, Takayoshi Okuzu, Ken Akamatsu, Akiko Kurosawa, Goro Araki, Akito Kajita
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Patent number: 11873235Abstract: There is provided an activated carbon having a high total trihalomethane filtration capacity, even in water treatment by passing water at a high superficial velocity (SV). In the activated carbon of the present invention, a pore volume A of pores with a size of 1.0 nm or less, of pore volumes calculated by the QSDFT method, is 0.3 cc/g or more, and a pore volume B of pores with a size of 3.0 nm or more and 3.5 nm or less, of pore volumes calculated by the QSDFT method, is 0.009 cc/g or more.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignees: AD'ALL CO., LTD., UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Tomoyasu Nakano, Hirokazu Shimizu, Akinori Kawachi, Keiji Sakai
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Patent number: 11840477Abstract: The present disclosure provides a novel glass composition that has a low permittivity and is suitable for mass production. A glass composition provided satisfies, in wt %, for example, 40?SiO2?60, 25?B2O3?45, 0<Al2O3?18, 0<R2O?5, and 0?RO?12, and satisfies at least one of: i) SiO2+B2O3?80 and SiO2+B2O3+Al2O3?99.9; and ii) SiO2+B2O3?78, SiO2+B2O3+Al2O3?99.9, and 0<RO<10. Another glass composition provided includes SiO2, B2O3, Al2O3, R2O, and 3<RO<8 at the same contents as the above, and satisfies SiO2+B2O3?75 and SiO2+B2O3+Al2O3<97, where R2O=Li2O+Na2O+K2O and RO=MgO+CaO+SrO.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignees: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED, UNITIKA LTD., UNITIKA GLASS FIBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Aya Nakamura, Hidetoshi Fukuchi, Junji Kurachi, Riku Sawai, Takaharu Miyazaki, Yoshito Nawa, Kohji Hattori
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Publication number: 20230347409Abstract: The present invention provides a nickel nanowire, which is resistant to break by stress. The present invention relates to a nickel nanowire having a face-centered cubic lattice structure and a crystallite size in a direction of a (111) lattice plane of 10 nm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka TAKEDA, Chikako YAMADA
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Publication number: 20230347411Abstract: The present invention provides nickel a nanowire, which is able to form a structure such as non-woven fabric adequately excellent in high-temperature resistance properties and is adequately excellent in magnetic properties. The present invention relates to a nickel nanowire having a face-centered cubic lattice structure, a crystallite size in a direction of a (111) lattice plane of 15 nm or more and a saturation magnetization of 20 emu/g or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka TAKEDA, Chikako YAMADA
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Publication number: 20230331987Abstract: The present invention provides a polyamide and a polyamide film which are more sufficiently superior in all of heat-resisting properties, flexibility properties and rubber elastic properties. The present invention relates to a polyamide comprising a unit comprised of an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid (A) having 18 or more carbon atoms, a unit comprised of an aliphatic diamine (B) having 18 or more carbon atoms, a unit comprised of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid (C) having 12 or less carbon atoms and a unit comprised of an aliphatic diamine (D) having 12 or less carbon atoms, wherein the polyamide has a melting point of 240° C. or more, a crystalline melting enthalpy of 20 J/g or more and an elongation recovery rate of 50% or more in a hysteresis test, and a polyamide film comprising the polyamide.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Yusuke YAGI, Ami HIROTA, Makoto NAKAI, Takeshi MARUO, Naoki TAKAISHI
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Patent number: 11773009Abstract: The present disclosure provides a novel glass composition that has a low permittivity and is suitable for mass production. A glass composition provided satisfies, in wt %, for example, 40?SiO2?60, 25?B2O3?45, 0<Al2O3?18, 0<R2O?5, and 0?RO?12, and satisfies at least one of: i) SiO2+B2O3?80 and SiO2+B2O3+Al2O3?99.9; and ii) SiO2+B2O3?78, SiO2+B2O3+Al2O3?99.9, and 0<RO<10. Another glass composition provided includes SiO2, B2O3, Al2O3, R2O, and 3<RO<8 at the same contents as the above, and satisfies SiO2+B2O3?75 and SiO2+B2O3+Al2O3<97, where R2O?Li2O+Na2O+K2O and RO?MgO+CaO+SrO.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignees: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED, UNITIKA LTD., UNITIKA GLASS FIBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Aya Nakamura, Hidetoshi Fukuchi, Junji Kurachi, Riku Sawai, Takaharu Miyazaki, Yoshito Nawa, Kohji Hattori