Patents by Inventor Akio Tamura

Akio Tamura 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).

  • Patent number: 11939462
    Abstract: The present invention provides a functional film including a copolymer that contains a repeating unit represented by Formula (I) and a repeating unit represented by Formula (II) shown in the description, or a crosslinked reaction product derived from the copolymer; a polarizing plate having this functional film; and a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Taketo Otani, Daiki Wakizaka, Reiko Fukagawa, Akio Tamura
  • Publication number: 20240079722
    Abstract: A method of producing an all-solid-state battery comprises preparing a second slurry which is a solid electrolyte slurry, and applying the second slurry to a foundation layer using a die head to form a solid electrolyte layer. A pressure P of the second slurry and a viscosity ? of the second slurry inside the die head at a predetermined shear rate satisfy a relationship of P/4?<4. The foundation layer has a porosity within a range of 30% to 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya OTSU, Akio Kaneyama, Takaaki Tamura
  • Patent number: 11869559
    Abstract: The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. A fluorine-containing compound is included in a portion on the non-magnetic support on a magnetic layer side, and a ratio ?r of a water contact angle measured on a surface of the magnetic layer after sliding on a magnetic head to a water contact angle measured on the surface of the magnetic layer before sliding on the magnetic head is 0.70 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Noriko Oyanagi, Wataru Kikuchi, Akio Tamura
  • Patent number: 11827727
    Abstract: A photo-alignment polymer has a repeating unit represented by Formula (1), in Formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, X represents —O—, —S—, or —NR2—, in which R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, L1 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, P represents a photo-aligned group, and A represents an acid-cleavage group which is decomposed by an action of acid to produce a polar group
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Soichiro Watanabe, Yutaka Nozoe, Takashi Iizumi, Akio Tamura, Tomoaki Yokota, Keisuke Yoshimasa, Ayako Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230167216
    Abstract: A photo-alignment polymer has a repeating unit represented by Formula (1), in Formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, X represents —O—, —S—, or —NR2—, in which R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, L1 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, P represents a photo-aligned group, and A represents an acid-cleavage group which is decomposed by an action of acid to produce a polar group
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Soichiro WATANABE, Yutaka NOZOE, Takashi IIZUMI, Akio TAMURA, Tomoaki YOKOTA, Keisuke YOSHIMASA, Ayako MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230143665
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing polymer includes a repeating unit represented by General Formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akio TAMURA, Nobuyuki AKUTAGAWA, Yuta FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230135489
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing polymer includes at least one repeating unit represented by any of General Formulae (I) to (III):
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akio TAMURA, Hiroyuki HAGIO, Reiko INUSHIMA, Mayumi NOJIRI, Nobuyuki AKUTAGAWA, Yuta FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230125445
    Abstract: A first object of the present invention is to provide a composition having excellent coatability. In addition, a second object of the present invention is to provide a composition, a transfer film, a manufacturing method for a laminate, a manufacturing method for a circuit wire, and an electronic device, which are related to the composition. A composition of the present invention includes a compound A having one or more specific structures selected from the group consisting of (a), (b), and (c), and a resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru YAMADA, Akio TAMURA, Kazumasa MOROZUMI, Tatsuya SHIMOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230109172
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sealing method using a cover film where a problem of odor is not likely to occur and quick drying properties and sealability are high. The sealing method according to the present invention is a sealing method that is performed using at least a cover film and a sealing solvent, the cover film including a polymer layer provided on a transparent support, in which the sealing solvent is a solvent including at least one kind selected from the group consisting of an ester, an alcohol, a ketone, an ether, and an aromatic hydrocarbon, in a case where the sealing solvent is an ester, an alcohol, a ketone, or an ether, a boiling point of the sealing solvent is 80° C. to 170° C., and in a case where the sealing solvent is an aromatic hydrocarbon, a boiling point of the sealing solvent is 150° C. to 170° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Umehara, Tetsuro Mitsui, Miyoko Hara, Kana Sasahara, Akio Tamura, Reiko Inushima
  • Publication number: 20230101868
    Abstract: The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. A fluorine-containing compound is included in a portion on the non-magnetic support on a magnetic layer side, and a ratio ?r of a water contact angle measured on a surface of the magnetic layer after sliding on a magnetic head to a water contact angle measured on the surface of the magnetic layer before sliding on the magnetic head is 0.70 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Noriko OYANAGI, Wataru KIKUCHI, Akio Tamura
  • Patent number: 11613596
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing copolymer composition includes repeating units derived from a fluorine-containing monomer represented by Formula (I) and from a monomer having at least two polymerizable groups, in which the latter is 3% by mass or more with respect to a total mass of the fluorine-containing copolymer, and the former is 15% by mass or more with respect to a total solid content in the composition, in the Formula (I), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; R2 represents a group having at least one fluorine atom; and L1 represents a divalent linking group including at least one selected from the group consisting of —O—, —(C?O)O—, —O(C?O)—, —(C?O)NH—, —NH(C?O)—, a divalent aromatic group which may have a substituent, a divalent aliphatic chain group which may have a substituent, and a divalent aliphatic cyclic group which may have a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Fukagawa, Akio Tamura, Taketo Otani
  • Patent number: 11530334
    Abstract: A hardcoat film includes a substrate; a hardcoat layer; and an anti-scratch layer, where the hardcoat layer includes a cured product of polyorganosilsesquioxane, the polyorganosilsesquioxane has a siloxane constitutional unit containing a (meth)acryloyl group and a siloxane constitutional unit containing an epoxy group and is represented by the General Formula (1), a film thickness of the anti-scratch layer is 0.05 to 5 ?m, and the anti-scratch layer includes a cured product of a compound having two or more (meth)acryloyl groups in one molecule, where Ra represents a group containing a (meth)acryloyl group; Rb represents a group containing an epoxy group; Rc represents a monovalent substituent; p, q, and r represent a proportion of Ra, Rb, and Rc in the General Formula (1) respectively; p+q+r is 100; p and q are greater than 0; r is equal to or greater than 0; p/q is 0.01 to 99.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsu Kitamura, Akio Tamura, Yuta Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11319393
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a photo-alignable polymer which has excellent coating properties, is capable of suppressing film thickness unevenness, and has excellent upper layer coating properties and good liquid crystal alignment properties after being formed as a layer; a binder composition; a binder layer; an optical laminate; a method for producing an optical laminate; and an image display device. The photo-alignable polymer of an embodiment of the present invention is a photo-alignable polymer having a repeating unit A including a cleavage group capable of decomposing by an action of at least one selected from the group consisting of light, heat, an acid, and a base to generate a polar group, in which the repeating unit A has the cleavage group in a side chain, has a fluorine atom or a silicon atom on a side closer to a terminal than the cleavage group in the side chain, and the photo-alignable polymer satisfies Condition 1 or Condition 2 shown below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Tamura, Reiko Inushima, Takashi Iizumi, Yutaka Nozoe, Hideyuki Nishikawa, Kazushige Nakagawa, Kunihiro Atsumi
  • Publication number: 20220115580
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer-based piezoelectric composite material from which a piezoelectric film capable of outputting a higher sound pressure is obtained in a case of using a piezoelectric speaker, a piezoelectric film formed of the polymer-based piezoelectric composite material, and a piezoelectric speaker and a flexible display which are formed of the piezoelectric film. The polymer-based piezoelectric composite material of the present invention is a polymer-based piezoelectric composite material including a polymer matrix which contains a polymer having a unit represented by Formula (1), and at least one unit selected from the group consisting of, a unit represented by Formula (2-1), a unit represented by Formula (2-2), and a unit represented by Formula (2-3), and piezoelectric particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Akio TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220056228
    Abstract: A hardcoat film includes: a substrate; and a hardcoat layer, in which the hardcoat film satisfies the following Formulas (i) and (ii), (i) E?(0.4)HC×dHC?8,000 MPa·?m, (ii) E?(4)HC×dHC?4,000 MPa·?m, E?(0.4)HC is an elastic modulus of the hardcoat layer obtained in a case where an elongation rate is 0.4%, E?(4)HC is an elastic modulus of the hardcoat layer obtained in a case where an elongation rate is 4%, and dHC is a film thickness of the hardcoat layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki AKUTAGAWA, Ayako MATSUMOTO, Yuta FUKUSHIMA, Akio TAMURA, Tetsu KITAMURA, Yuzo NAGATA
  • Patent number: 11230669
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal film having an optically anisotropic layer having excellent alignment and excellent adhesiveness. The present invention further provides an optical laminate, a circularly polarizing plate, and an organic EL display device, each of which uses the optically anisotropic layer. The liquid crystal film of an embodiment of the present invention is a liquid crystal film having at least an optically anisotropic layer formed with a liquid crystal composition including a polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a fluoroaliphatic group-containing copolymer, and a support, in which the fluoroaliphatic group-containing copolymer has a repeating unit derived from a fluoroaliphatic group-containing monomer represented by General Formula (1) and a repeating unit having a polymerizable group polymerizable with the polymerizable liquid crystal compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Akutagawa, Keisuke Yoshimasa, Akio Tamura, Reiko Inushima, Tetsu Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20220019101
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a laminated glass having excellent impact resistance and a projection image display system. The laminated glass of the present invention includes a first glass plate, an alignment film containing a vinyl alcohol resin, a retardation layer formed of a composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a compound represented by Formula (1), a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and a second glass plate in this order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsu KITAMURA, Shusuke ARITA, Akio TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210363306
    Abstract: A polyorganosilsesquioxane includes: a constitutional unit (a) having a fluorine atom-containing group; a constitutional unit (b) having a cationically polymerizable group; and a constitutional unit (c) having a radically polymerizable group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yuzo NAGATA, Tetsu KITAMURA, Reiko INUSHIMA, Akio TAMURA, Nobuyuki AKUTAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210284866
    Abstract: A hardcoat film has a substrate, a hardcoat layer, and an anti-scratch layer in this order. The anti-scratch layer contains a cured product of polyorganosilsesquioxane (c1) having a group containing a radically polymerizable double bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta FUKUSHIMA, Akio TAMURA, Tetsu KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 11111437
    Abstract: A liquid crystal composition contains a liquid crystal compound; a photo-alignment compound; and a polymer obtained by polymerizing a monomer having two or more radically polymerizable double bonds and one or more hydroxyl groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Akio Tamura