Patents by Inventor Akira Tanikawa

Akira Tanikawa 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: 6387506
    Abstract: A resin composition for paper-coating, which comprises (A) a cross-linked amine compound which is a reaction product of (a) an aliphatic amine, (b) a glycidyl compound having at least two glycidyl groups in the molecule and (c) a compound selected from &agr;,&bgr;-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, &agr;,&bgr;-unsaturated nitrile compounds and &agr;-halocarboxylic acid groups; and (B) at least one selected from a group consisting of (B1) non-polymer nonvolatile substances and (B2) polyhydric alcohols, is provided, and the resin composition for paper-coating can realize high quality of coated paper by being mixed with a pigment and an aqueous binder and being coated on paper, which does not cause generation of formaldehyde and which does not tend to produce disadvantages such as thickening and deterioration in flowing property, and for paper using the resin composition and a coated paper produced by using the coating composition are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Akira Kawamura, Akira Tanikawa, Toshiyuki Hasegawa, Yutaka Shibata, Toshishige Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 6039799
    Abstract: A paper coating composition which comprises:(I) a pigment,(II) an aqueous binder, and(III) a crosslinked amine compound obtainable by reacting a heterocyclic amine (a) and a glycidyl compound (b) having at least two glycidyl groups in the molecule,and a method for preparing the paper coating composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited
    Inventors: Akira Kawamura, Toshiyuki Hasegawa, Akira Tanikawa
  • Patent number: 5849856
    Abstract: A water soluble resin obtainable by reacting at least two reactants comprising a polyamine and a urea compound, or at least four reactants comprising a polyamine, a urea compound, a dibasic carboxylic acid compound and a lactam; and then reacting the reaction product with at least one compound selected from among epihalohydrins, .alpha.,.gamma.-dihalo-.beta.-hydrins, glycidyl compounds and isocyanates. The resultant the water soluble resin is useful for making a paper coating composition, such as by being mixing that resin with a pigment and an aqueous binder. The paper coating composition does not generate formaldehyde and can be used to manufacture coated papers exhibiting improved properties including excellent water resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited
    Inventors: Akira Kawamura, Akira Tanikawa, Toshiyuki Hasegawa, Sonoe Sato
  • Patent number: 5654359
    Abstract: A paper coating composition comprising (I) a pigment, (II) an aqueous binder, and (III) a water-soluble resin obtainable by the reaction of at least (a) an alkylenediamine or a polyalkylenepolyamine, (b) an urea compound, and (c) a compound selected from aldehydes, epihalohydrins and is further improved by incorporating therein, (IV) a compound selected from the group consisting of (f) amines selected from the group consisting of monoamines, diamines and their salts each having at least 4 carbon atoms, (g) quaternary organic ammonium salts, and (h) polyamides obtainable by the reaction between a dibasic carboxylic compound and a polyamine. The water-soluble resin of the component (III) may be further allowed to react with a dibasic carboxylic compound, an alicyclic amine and/or an alicyclic epoxy compound in addition to the above three ingredients. Paper coated by using the above composition is especially excellent in ink receptivity and water resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Hasegawa, Yoshifumi Yoshida, Akira Tanikawa, Fujiko Kumei
  • Patent number: 5573591
    Abstract: A monocrystal pulling apparatus according to the Czochralski technique, provided with a flow controller which guides a carrier gas supplied from the top of a pulling cheer to the surface of a melt of a material forming the monocrystal and exhausts the silicon oxide vaporizing from the surface of the melt to the outside of the pulling chamber and which surrounds the pulled monocrystal near the surface of the melt and is provided partially inside a crucible, wherein the flow controller has a tubular portion which has an outer diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the crucible and extends substantially perpendicularly along the direction of downward flow of the carrier gas, a constricted diameter portion which constricts in diameter from the bottom end of the tubular portion and forms a bottom gap with the pulled monocrystal, and an engagement portion which projects out from the top of the tubular portion and forms a top gap at the outer circumference of the tubular portion of the flow controller by suppor
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Materials Silicon Corporation, Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ikezawa, Hiroshi Yasuda, Akira Tanikawa, Hiroyuki Kojima, Koji Hosoda, Yoshifumi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5476065
    Abstract: A monocrystal pulling apparatus according to the Czochralski technique, provided with a flow controller which guides a carrier gas supplied from the top of a pulling chamber to the surface of a melt of a material forming the monocrystal and exhausts the silicon oxide vaporizing from the surface of the melt to the outside of the pulling chamber and which surrounds the pulled monocrystal near the surface of the melt and is provided partially inside a crucible, wherein the flow controller has a tubular portion which has an outer diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the crucible and extends substantially perpendicularly along the direction of downward flow of the carrier gas, a constricted diameter portion which constricts in diameter from the bottom end of the tubular portion and forms a bottom gap with the pulled monocrystal, and an engagement portion which projects out from the top of the tubular portion and forms a top gap at the outer circumference of the tubular portion of the flow controller by supp
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Materials Silicon Corp., Mitsubishi Materials Corp.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ikezawa, Hiroshi Yasuda, Akira Tanikawa, Hiroyuki Kojima, Koji Hosoda, Yoshifumi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D719924
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Ueno, Seiji Maeda, Akira Tanikawa
  • Patent number: D741819
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: HOKURIKU ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Ueno, Seiji Maeda, Akira Tanikawa