Patents by Inventor Atsushi Horihata
Atsushi Horihata 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).
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Patent number: 12123110Abstract: A fiber for artificial hair is constituted of a resin composition containing an aliphatic polyamide and inorganic particles, and in a particle size distribution of the inorganic particles measured by a laser diffraction method, a ratio (D50/D10) of D50, which is a particle size equivalent to a cumulative percentage of 50% based on volume, to D10, which is a particle size equivalent to a cumulative percentage of 10% based on volume, is 1.8 or more and 3.0 or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi Horihata, Takashi Muraoka, Atsushi Takei
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Patent number: 12073722Abstract: A parking lot identification system includes a control apparatus mounted to each of a plurality of vehicles and a central apparatus that communicates with the control apparatus of each of the plurality of vehicles. In the control apparatus of each of the plurality of vehicles, a parking determination unit is configured to determine whether a parking action of the vehicle is recognized, a parking-related data acquisition unit is configured to, in response to the parking action of the vehicle being recognized, acquire parking-related data including data of a location and an orientation of the vehicle during the parking action, and a parking-related data transmission unit is configured to transmit the parking-related data to the central apparatus. The central apparatus is configured to identify a parking lot area based on the parking-related data transmitted from the plurality of vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Baba, Yasuhiko Mukai, Kyoichi Sugahara, Satoshi Horihata
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Patent number: 12031240Abstract: A fiber for artificial hair formed of a polyvinyl chloride-based resin composition. The fiber for artificial hair has a value X1 of a loss tangent tans at 70° C. of 0.06 or more and 0.12 or less, when dynamic viscoelasticity is measured under the following conditions, and has a peak in a temperature range of 90° C. or higher and 110° C. or lower. (Dynamic viscoelasticity measurement conditions) The measurement is performed by sandwiching a bundle of 40 fibers for artificial hair that are arranged at a heating rate of 4° C./min and a frequency of 1 Hz.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi Horihata, Atsushi Takei
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Patent number: 11873583Abstract: A fiber for artificial hair constituted of a resin composition containing an aliphatic polyamide. A weight average molecular weight Mw of a dissolved component obtained when the fiber for artificial hair is dissolved in hexafluoroisopropanol is 46,000 or more and less than 65,000.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi Horihata, Atsushi Takei
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Patent number: 11807747Abstract: The present invention provides a fiber for artificial hair and a hair decorating product having superior combing property. A fiber for artificial hair includes vinyl chloride based resin, vinyl based copolymer, and vinyl chloride based acrylic graft copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Denka Company LimitedInventors: Atsushi Horihata, Masamich Kanaoka, Atsushi Takei, Masashi Kume
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Publication number: 20220290366Abstract: A fiber treatment agent can provide artificial hair fiber with smooth and dry texture. A fiber treatment agent includes water; silicone oil; and ionic liquid. Content of the sum of the silicone oil and the ionic liquid with respect to the water is 2 parts by weight or more and less than 10 parts by weight. Content of the silicone oil with respect to the weight of the water is more than 0.5 parts by weight and 9.5 parts by weight or less. Content of the ionic liquid with respect to the weight of the water is 0.2 parts by weight or more and 5.0 parts by weight or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi HORIHATA, Masamichi KANAOKA, Atsushi TAKEI
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Publication number: 20220275570Abstract: A fiber treatment agent can provide artificial hair fiber with softness. The fiber treatment agent includes a cationic polymer having a structural unit derived from diallyldimethylammonium chloride (DADMAC), and content of the cationic polymer is 0.02 to 0.5 weight %. The cationic polymer preferably has a structural unit derived from acrylamide. Preferably, the fiber treatment agent further includes an antistatic agent, and content of the antistatic agent is 0.2 to 5.0 weight %.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi HORIHATA, Masamichi KANAOKA, Atsushi TAKEI
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Publication number: 20220117341Abstract: A fiber for artificial hair is constituted of a resin composition containing an aliphatic polyamide and inorganic particles, and in a particle size distribution of the inorganic particles measured by a laser diffraction method, a ratio (D50/D10) of D50, which is a particle size equivalent to a cumulative percentage of 50% based on volume, to D10, which is a particle size equivalent to a cumulative percentage of 10% based on volume, is 1.8 or more and 3.0 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi HORIHATA, Takashi MURAOKA, Atsushi TAKEI
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Publication number: 20220095727Abstract: An artificial hair fiber is superior in productivity and flame retardance, and is suppressed in color unevenness. An artificial hair fiber, including polyamide; and 5 to 40 parts by mass of bromine flame retardant and 0.01 to 10 parts by mass of pigment processing pigment with respect to 100 parts by mass of the polyamide; wherein the pigment processing pigment includes a colorant and a dispersant; the dispersant is contained by 20 to 80 mass % with respect to 100 mass % of total amount of the colorant and the dispersant; the dispersant includes one or more selected from the group consisting of montanoic acid metallic salt, montanoic acid wax, polyethylene wax, and fluorine wax, is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi Horihata, Atsushi Takei
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Publication number: 20220074079Abstract: A fiber for artificial hair constituted of a resin composition containing an aliphatic polyamide. A weight average molecular weight Mw of a dissolved component obtained when the fiber for artificial hair is dissolved in hexafluoroisopropanol is 46,000 or more and less than 65,000.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2019Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi HORIHATA, Atsushi TAKEI
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Publication number: 20220018041Abstract: A fiber for artificial hair formed of a polyvinyl chloride-based resin composition. The fiber for artificial hair has a value X1 of a loss tangent tans at 70° C. of 0.06 or more and 0.12 or less, when dynamic viscoelasticity is measured under the following conditions, and has a peak in a temperature range of 90° C. or higher and 110° C. or lower. (Dynamic viscoelasticity measurement conditions)The measurement is performed by sandwiching a bundle of 40 fibers for artificial hair that are arranged at a heating rate of 4° C./min and a frequency of 1 Hz.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2019Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi HORIHATA, Atsushi TAKEI
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Publication number: 20210246294Abstract: A fiber for artificial hair, the fiber containing 50 parts by mass or more and 95 parts by mass or less of a vinyl chloride-based resin and 5 parts by mass or more and 50 parts by mass or less of a vinyl-based copolymer resin, in which the vinyl-based copolymer resin contains 60% by mass or more and less than 70% by mass of a styrene-based monomer unit and more than 30% by mass and 40% by mass or less of an acrylonitrile-based monomer unit on the basis of the entire vinyl-based copolymer resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi HORIHATA, Masamichi KANAOKA, Masashi KUME, Atsushi TAKEI
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Publication number: 20210171754Abstract: The present invention provides a fiber for artificial hair and a hair decorating product having superior combing property. A fiber for artificial hair includes vinyl chloride based resin, vinyl based copolymer, and vinyl chloride based acrylic graft copolymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2019Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: Denka Company LimitedInventors: Atsushi HORIHATA, Masamich KANAOKA, Atsushi TAKEI, Masashi KUME
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Patent number: 10905183Abstract: A resin composition for flame retardant artificial hair which has favorable transparency and combability similar to those of human hair and exhibits excellent flame retardancy. A resin composition for flame retardant artificial hair is obtained by configuring a resin composition including 100 parts by mass of a polyester (A) and 5-40 parts by mass of a bromine-containing flame retardant (B) including at least one kind selected from poly(pentabromobenzyl acrylate), a brominated phenol resin, and polydibromophenylene oxide, wherein the melt viscosity of the polyester (A) is 80-300 Pa·s.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Megumi Tsukahara, Atsushi Horihata, Atsushi Takei
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Patent number: 10888132Abstract: The present invention is to provide a fiber for artificial hair which can freely change the hairstyle at home while maintaining the wave shape of the fiber. A fiber for artificial hair having a bending rigidity maintaining ratio defined by formula (1) is 40 to 80% and a heat shrinkage ratio defined by formula (2) is 0.0 to 5.0% is provided. bending rigidity maintaining ratio (%)=100×{(bending rigidity in a state after conditioning for 24 hours at 30° C.×90% RH)/(bending rigidity in a state after conditioning for 24 hours at 23° C.×50% RH)}??(1) heat shrinkage ratio (%)=100×{(length before heat treatment)?(length after heat treatment for 5 min at 155° C.)}/(length before heat treatment)??(2).Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi Horihata, Atsushi Takei, Rentaroh Suzuki
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Patent number: 10856598Abstract: Provided is an artificial hair fiber which can prevent detachment between core and sheath, having superior texture close to human hair, and having superior curl retention. An artificial hair fiber has a core-sheath structure, including: a core; and a sheath covering the core; and: the core includes a core resin composition including polyester; the sheath includes a sheath resin composition including polyamide; the core and the sheath have a core/sheath mass ratio of 40/60 to 90/10; and when a melt viscosity of the polyester of the core is expressed as a, and a melt viscosity of the polyamide of the sheath is expressed as b, a viscosity ratio a/b is 0.5 to 2.5.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Koji Miyata, Atsushi Horihata, Kazuhito Sonoda, Atsushi Takei
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Publication number: 20200288801Abstract: A fiber bundle for artificial hair that has good curl setting characteristics, good combing property, tactile sensation and glossiness similar to human hair, and flame retardancy is provided. According to the present invention, provided is a fiber bundle for artificial hair is comprising 20 to 90 parts by mass of a polyester fiber and 10 to 80 parts by mass of a polyamide fiber, wherein the polyester fiber contains a polyester resin (A), a flame retardant (C1) and an auxiliary flame retardant (D1), and the polyamide fiber contains a polyamide resin (B), a flame retardant (C2) and an auxiliary flame retardant (D2).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Takashi Muraoka, Atsushi Horihata, Atsushi Takei
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Publication number: 20190307192Abstract: The present invention is to provide a fiber for artificial hair which can freely change the hairstyle at home while maintaining the wave shape of the fiber. A fiber for artificial hair having a bending rigidity maintaining ratio defined by formula (1) is 40 to 80% and a heat shrinkage ratio defined by formula (2) is 0.0 to 5.0% is provided. bending rigidity maintaining ratio (%)=100×{(bending rigidity in a state after conditioning for 24 hours at 30° C.×90% RH)/(bending rigidity in a state after conditioning for 24 hours at 23° C.×50% RH)}??(1) heat shrinkage ratio (%)=100×{(length before heat treatment)?(length after heat treatment for 5 min at 155° C.)}/(length before heat treatment)??(2).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2017Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi Horihata, Atsushi Takei, Rentaroh Suzuki
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Patent number: 10385209Abstract: Polyamide-based fiber for artificial hair that is excellent in drip resistance, texture, and productivity is provided. According to the present invention, provided is fiber for artificial hair, including a resin composition containing: aliphatic polyamide; semi-aromatic polyamide with a skeleton obtained by polycondensation of aliphatic diamine and aromatic dicarboxylic acid; and a bromine-based flame retardant.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Denka Company LimitedInventors: Yudai Ogawa, Kouta Nagaoka, Atsushi Horihata, Shigeharu Yoshii, Atsushi Takei
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Publication number: 20190125020Abstract: A resin composition for flame retardant artificial hair which has favorable transparency and combability similar to those of human hair and exhibits excellent flame retardancy. A resin composition for flame retardant artificial hair is obtained by configuring a resin composition including 100 parts by mass of a polyester (A) and 5-40 parts by mass of a bromine-containing flame retardant (B) including at least one kind selected from poly(pentabromobenzyl acrylate), a brominated phenol resin, and polydibromophenylene oxide, wherein the melt viscosity of the polyester (A) is 80-300 Pa·s.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Megumi TSUKAHARA, Atsushi HORIHATA, Atsushi TAKEI