Patents by Inventor Akihiro Masuda

Akihiro Masuda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20190099738
    Abstract: The present invention provides an oxygen absorber composition containing a hydrocarbon resin; an iron particle having an average particle diameter of 1.0 ?m or more and 200 ?m or less and having a BET specific surface area of 10 m2/g or more; and an aldehyde absorber capable of absorbing at least aldehyde compound, wherein the iron particle contains iron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Ryuichiro KAWAI, Takashi KUBO, Jungo TAGUCHI, Daiki SATO, Kenichi NIIMI, Akihiro MASUDA
  • Patent number: 10081480
    Abstract: An oxygen-absorbing container includes a container body having a multilayer structure constituted by an innermost layer, an outermost layer and an intermediate layer therebetween, the container body having an opening part on an upper part thereof; and a sealing member bonded to an upper end surface of the opening part of the container body to seal an opening of the opening part. The innermost layer and the intermediate layer are bent outward at an upper end of the opening part and form a flat part and a surface of the flat part forms the upper end surface of the opening part. When the sealing member is unsealed, part of the innermost layer on the upper end surface of the opening part is configured to be peeled off so as to leave an unsealed mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi Niimi, Kiyonori Michiba, Takashi Kubo, Kazuyuki Minato, Yoshiki Itou, Takayoshi Itoh, Jungo Taguchi, Akihiro Masuda, Tatsuo Iwai
  • Patent number: 9644774
    Abstract: A synthetic resin-made welding joint that has a pipe end portion into which an end portion of a synthetic resin-made tube is to be fitted and inserted, and that is configured so that the pipe end portion and the tube end portion which is fitted and inserted thereinto are enabled to be welded together by heating of heating means which externally surrounds the pipe end portion, therefore, a synthetic resin-made holder which is fitted and attached onto the pipe end portion is disposed, and a flange for ensuring a radial expansion gap with respect to the heating means is integrally formed in the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Imanishi, Masaru Misaki, Masateru Yamada, Takehiro Nakamura, Akihiro Masuda
  • Patent number: 9506163
    Abstract: To provide a method of electroplating with Sn-alloy in which a problem of deposition of metals on an anode when electroplating with Sn-alloy such as Sn—Ag based-alloy or the like is performed is solved and a soluble anode is enabled to be used. Dividing an inside of a plating tank into a cathode cell and an anode cell by an anion-exchange membrane; supplying plating solution including Sn ions to the cathode cell; supplying acid solution to the anode cell; electroplating by energizing an object to be plated in the cathode cell and an anode made of Sn in the anode cell; and using the acid solution including Sn ions liquated out form the anode made of Sn along with progress of plating as replenishing solution of Sn ions for plating solution in the cathode cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Hatta, Akihiro Masuda
  • Publication number: 20160325909
    Abstract: An oxygen-absorbing container includes a container body having a multilayer structure constituted by an innermost layer, an outermost layer and an intermediate layer therebetween, the container body having an opening part on an upper part thereof; and a sealing member bonded to an upper end surface of the opening part of the container body to seal an opening of the opening part. The innermost layer and the intermediate layer are bent outward at an upper end of the opening part and form a flat part and a surface of the flat part forms the upper end surface of the opening part. When the sealing member is unsealed, part of the innermost layer on the upper end surface of the opening part is configured to be peeled off so as to leave an unsealed mark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi NIIMI, Kiyonori MICHIBA, Takashi KUBO, Kazuyuki MINATO, Yoshiki ITOU, Takayoshi ITOH, Jungo TAGUCHI, Akihiro MASUDA, Tatsuo IWAI
  • Patent number: 9334377
    Abstract: There is provided a process for producing a resin composition in a safe and cost-effective manner, the resin composition being a dispersion of active particles reactive with oxygen in a thermoplastic resin. The process is one for producing a resin composition containing at least a thermoplastic resin and active particles that have been dispersed in the thermoplastic resin and are reactive with oxygen in an atmosphere, the process comprising the steps of: protecting the active particles with a dispersion medium to prevent oxygen in the atmosphere from contacting with the active particles; removing the dispersion medium while melt-kneading the thermoplastic resin and the active particles protected with the dispersion medium to replace the dispersion medium with the thermoplastic resin; and cooling and solidifying the thermoplastic resin with the active particles dispersed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Masuda, Yoshiki Itou, Kiyonori Michiba
  • Patent number: 9260596
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition which is excellent in an oxygen-absorbing performance, a resin strength and a resin processability. The oxygen-absorbing resin composition is characterized by containing a polyolefin resin, a transition metal catalyst and a polyamide resin obtained by polycondensation of aromatic diamine and dicarboxylic acid, wherein an end amino group concentration of the above polyamide resin is 30 ?eq/g or less, and a total content of the transition metal catalyst and the polyamide resin is 15 to 60% by weight based on a whole amount of the oxygen-absorbing resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Kashiba, Satoshi Okada, Shinpei Iwamoto, Akihiro Masuda, Kiyonori Michiba
  • Patent number: 9222608
    Abstract: A resin pipe joint including: a synthetic resin-made joint body including an inner cylinder portion, an external thread portion, and a radial groove m into which an end of a tube enters; and a union nut that is made of a transparentable fluorine resin, and the union nut including an internal thread portion, a seal peripheral edge which presses a tip end portion of a tube flared portion, a slipping-off prevention peripheral edge which is actable on a large-diameter portion of a flaring changing region, and a pressing inner peripheral portion which is externally fittable to a flared straight portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazukiyo Teshima, Akihiro Masuda, Takehiro Nakamura, Masateru Yamada, Takayuki Kishimoto, Toshiyuki Fukumoto, Takeshi Nakagawa, Ryo Imanishi
  • Patent number: 9199778
    Abstract: There are provided an oxygen absorbing resin composition, an oxygen absorbing multilayered body, and an oxygen absorbing hollow container that can absorb oxygen in an atmosphere even under a low-humidity atmosphere. The oxygen absorbing resin composition includes: (I) an oxygen absorbing agent consisting of a metal (a metal of (I)) obtained by subjecting an alloy comprising (A) at least one transition metal selected from the group consisting of manganese, iron, platinum, and copper group metals and (B) at least one metal selected from the group consisting of aluminum, zinc, tin, lead, magnesium, and silicon, to treatment with an acidic or alkaline aqueous solution to elute and remove at least a part of the component (B); and (II) a thermoplastic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Masuda, Kiyonori Michiba, Yoshiki Itou, Kenichi Niimi, Tatsuo Iwai, Takashi Kubo
  • Patent number: 9151427
    Abstract: In a resin pipe joint having a configuration where, by a screw advancement of a union nut caused by screwing an internal thread to an external thread in a state where a tube is externally fitted to an inner cylinder to form a flared portion, a flaring changing region is pressed by a seal pressing portion, a torque varying portion in which projecting portions of a joint body and recess portions of the union nut are fitted to or unfitted from each other by a flexural displacements of the projecting portions in the direction of the axis in accordance with fastening rotation of the union nut from the vicinity of a portion in front of an end of the screw advancement, the screw advancement being caused by pressing of the seal pressing portion against the flaring changing region is configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Imanishi, Masateru Yamada, Kazukiyo Teshima, Takehiro Nakamura, Takayuki Kishimoto, Akihiro Masuda, Takeshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9108861
    Abstract: An object and a problem of the present invention is to provide tin(II) oxide powder which has extremely high solubility in an acid or an acidic plating solution and excellent in storage stability in the air. The tin(II) oxide powder of the present invention is for replenishing a tin component of a tin-alloy plating solution, and comprises 100 to 5000 ppm of an antioxidant being contained in the powder with a mass ratio, and has such a dissolution rate that when 0.1 g of the tin(II) oxide powder is added to 100 ml of 100 g/L aqueous alkylsulfonic acid solution at a temperature of 25° C. and stirred, then the powder dissolves therein within 180 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Katase, Akihiro Masuda, Kanji Kuba
  • Patent number: 9109728
    Abstract: A resin pipe joint has: a synthetic resin-made joint body including an inner cylinder portion and an external thread portion; and a synthetic resin-made union nut including: an internal thread portion; a seal peripheral edge which is actable on a tip-end portion of a tube flared portion; a slipping-off prevention peripheral edge which is actable on a large-diameter portion of the flaring changing region; and a pressing inner peripheral portion which is externally fittable to a flared straight portion that is fitted to a straight barrel cylinder portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKAGING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazukiyo Teshima, Akihiro Masuda, Takehiro Nakamura, Masateru Yamada, Takayuki Kishimoto, Toshiyuki Fukumoto, Ryo Imanishi
  • Publication number: 20150225513
    Abstract: There is provided a process for producing a resin composition in a safe and cost-effective manner, the resin composition being a dispersion of active particles reactive with oxygen in a thermoplastic resin. The process is one for producing a resin composition containing at least a thermoplastic resin and active particles that have been dispersed in the thermoplastic resin and are reactive with oxygen in an atmosphere, the process comprising the steps of: protecting the active particles with a dispersion medium to prevent oxygen in the atmosphere from contacting with the active particles; removing the dispersion medium while melt-kneading the thermoplastic resin and the active particles protected with the dispersion medium to replace the dispersion medium with the thermoplastic resin; and cooling and solidifying the thermoplastic resin with the active particles dispersed therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Masuda, Yoshiki Itou, Kiyonori Michiba
  • Patent number: 9067800
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide tin(II) oxide powder which has extremely high solubility in an acid or an acidic plating solution, excellent in storage stability in the air and can heighten oxidation-preventive effect of Sn2+ ion in the plating solution. The method for manufacturing tin(II) oxide powder of the present invention comprises Step (11) of preparing an aqueous acidic solution containing Sn2+ ions, Step (12) of neutralizing the aqueous acidic solution by adding an aqueous alkaline solution to prepare a slurry of tin(II) hydroxide, Step (13) of dehydrating the prepared slurry to obtain a slurry of tin(II) oxide, Step (14) of separating the slurry of tin(II) oxide into a solid and a liquid to obtain tin(II) oxide, Step (15) of treating the obtained tin(II) oxide with an aqueous antioxidant solution, and Step (16) of vacuum drying the tin(II) oxide treated with the aqueous antioxidant solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Katase, Akihiro Masuda, Kanji Kuba
  • Publication number: 20150034489
    Abstract: To provide a method of electroplating with Sn-alloy in which a problem of deposition of metals on an anode when electroplating with Sn-alloy such as Sn—Ag based-alloy or the like is performed is solved and a soluble anode is enabled to be used. Dividing an inside of a plating tank into a cathode cell and an anode cell by an anion-exchange membrane; supplying plating solution including Sn ions to the cathode cell; supplying acid solution to the anode cell; electroplating by energizing an object to be plated in the cathode cell and an anode made of Sn in the anode cell; and using the acid solution including Sn ions liquated out form the anode made of Sn along with progress of plating as replenishing solution of Sn ions for plating solution in the cathode cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Hatta, Akihiro Masuda
  • Publication number: 20140291178
    Abstract: There are provided an oxygen absorbing resin composition, an oxygen absorbing multilayered body, and an oxygen absorbing hollow container that can absorb oxygen in an atmosphere even under a low-humidity atmosphere. The oxygen absorbing resin composition includes: (I) an oxygen absorbing agent consisting of a metal (a metal of (I)) obtained by subjecting an alloy comprising (A) at least one transition metal selected from the group consisting of manganese, iron, platinum, and copper group metals and (B) at least one metal selected from the group consisting of aluminum, zinc, tin, lead, magnesium, and silicon, to treatment with an acidic or alkaline aqueous solution to elute and remove at least a part of the component (B); and (II) a thermoplastic resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Masuda, Kiyonori Michiba, Yoshiki Itou, Kenichi Niimi, Tatsuo Iwai, Takashi Kubo
  • Patent number: 8822326
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an Sn alloy bump, wherein composition of the Sn alloy bump can be readily controlled. The method for manufacturing an Sn alloy bump formed of an alloy composed of Sn and other one or more types of metals has a step of forming an Sn layer on an electrode pad in a resist opening formed on a substrate by electrolytic plating; a step of laminating Sn and an alloy layer on the Sn layer by electrolytic plating; and a step of forming an Sn alloy bump by melting the Sn layer and the laminated alloy layer after removal of a resist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Hatta, Akihiro Masuda
  • Publication number: 20140127109
    Abstract: An object and a problem of the present invention is to provide tin (II) oxide powder which has extremely high solubility in an acid or an acidic plating solution and excellent in storage stability in the air. The tin (II) oxide powder of the present invention is for replenishing a tin component of a tin-alloy plating solution, and comprises 100 to 5000 ppm of an antioxidant being contained in the powder with a mass ratio, and has such a dissolution rate that when 0.1 g of the tin (II) oxide powder is added to 100 ml of 100 g/L aqueous alkylsulfonic acid solution at a temperature of 25° C. and stirred, then the powder dissolves therein within 180 seconds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Katase, Akihiro Masuda, Kanji Kuba
  • Publication number: 20140079618
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide tin(II) oxide powder which has extremely high solubility in an acid or an acidic plating solution, excellent in storage stability in the air and can heighten oxidation-preventive effect of Sn2+ ion in the plating solution. The method for manufacturing tin(II) oxide powder of the present invention comprises Step (11) of preparing an aqueous acidic solution containing Sn2+ ions, Step (12) of neutralizing the aqueous acidic solution by adding an aqueous alkaline solution to prepare a slurry of tin(II) hydroxide, Step (13) of dehydrating the prepared slurry to obtain a slurry of tin(II) oxide, Step (14) of separating the slurry of tin(II) oxide into a solid and a liquid to obtain tin(II) oxide, Step (15) of treating the obtained tin(II) oxide with an aqueous antioxidant solution, and Step (16) of vacuum drying the tin(II) oxide treated with the aqueous antioxidant solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Katase, Akihiro Masuda, Kanji Kuba
  • Publication number: 20130309862
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an Sn alloy bump, wherein composition of the Sn alloy bump can be readily controlled. The method for manufacturing an Sn alloy bump formed of an alloy composed of Sn and other one or more types of metals has a step of forming an Sn layer on an electrode pad in a resist opening formed on a substrate by electrolytic plating; a step of laminating Sn and an alloy layer on the Sn layer by electrolytic plating; and a step of forming an Sn alloy bump by melting the Sn layer and the laminated alloy layer after removal of a resist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventors: Takeshi Hatta, Akihiro Masuda