Patents Assigned to Unitika Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20250108589
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ashihara, Goro Araki, Atsushi Maehara
  • Patent number: 12264420
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Ikeda, Mariko Honda, Yuta Mizuno, Shohei Ikegami
  • Patent number: 12234162
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Taniguchi, Norihiro Naito
  • Publication number: 20250018702
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Shuhei YAMANE, Takashi OKABE
  • Patent number: 12180339
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Nakai, Yuki Takubo, Yusuke Yagi
  • Patent number: 12180347
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Okabe, Nobuyasu Okumura, Kumi Ashihara
  • Publication number: 20240282490
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka TAKEDA, Masumi MIYO, Naho TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 12048914
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Masao Sunahara, Hiroki Fujiki
  • Patent number: 12012491
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Akiko Kurosawa, Atsuko Noda
  • Patent number: 11965072
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Aoyama, Takashi Okabe, Shuhei Yamane, Tomoko Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 11958806
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Yamada, Tatsuya Morikita, Yosuke Sugimoto, Takeshi Yoshida, Akira Shigeta, Yoshiaki Echigo
  • Patent number: 11932758
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiki Nagahata, Takatoshi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20240026151
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventor: Yutaka NABESHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240018316
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ashihara, Takayoshi Okuzu, Ken Akamatsu, Akiko Kurosawa, Goro Araki, Akito Kajita
  • Patent number: 11873235
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: AD'ALL CO., LTD., UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Nakano, Hirokazu Shimizu, Akinori Kawachi, Keiji Sakai
  • Patent number: 11840477
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: 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
  • Publication number: 20230347409
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka TAKEDA, Chikako YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230347411
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka TAKEDA, Chikako YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230331987
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke YAGI, Ami HIROTA, Makoto NAKAI, Takeshi MARUO, Naoki TAKAISHI
  • Patent number: 11773009
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: 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