Patents by Inventor Atsushi Ishiguro

Atsushi Ishiguro 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: 10889091
    Abstract: The present invention is a laminated glass which is prepared by inserting a resin intermediate film between glass plates and adhering the glass plates to integrate them, having a bending deflection at 90° C. is 7.3 N/mm2 or higher, a weight per unit area is 7.5 kg/m2 or less, wherein the resin intermediate film contains a modified hydrogenated block copolymer [E] obtained by introducing an alkoxysilyl group into a hydrogenated block copolymer [D], storage elastic moduli in the dynamic viscoelastic properties of the resin intermediate film are 5×108 Pa or lower at a temperature of ?20° C. and 2×107 Pa or higher at a temperature of 90° C., and the hydrogenated block copolymer [D] is obtained by hydrogenating 90% or more of carbon-carbon unsaturated bonds on a main chain and side chains and carbon-carbon unsaturated bonds on an aromatic ring in a specific block copolymer [C].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kanda, Atsushi Ishiguro, Teiji Kohara
  • Patent number: 10707442
    Abstract: A composite gas barrier multilayer body, wherein a gas barrier multilayer body (A) having a film (a) of an alicyclic polyolefin resin and an inorganic layer (a) formed on at least one surface of the film (a) and a gas barrier multilayer body (B) having a film (b) of an alicyclic polyolefin resin and an inorganic layer (b) formed on at least one surface of the film (b) are bonded via a layer of a styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer resin so that the inorganic layer (a) and the inorganic layer (b) face to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Inoue, Atsushi Ishiguro, Yohei Koide
  • Patent number: 10559778
    Abstract: A composite gas barrier layered body for an organic electroluminescent light-emitting element, including: a gas barrier layered body (A) having a film (a) of an alicyclic polyolefin resin and one or more inorganic barrier layers (a) directly provided on at least one surface of the film (a); a film (b) formed of an alicyclic polyolefin resin having a thickness that is equal to or less than a thickness of the film (a); and a heat-melting layer that is interposed between the inorganic barrier layer (a) and the film (b) to bond the inorganic barrier layer (a) to the film (b), wherein a glass transition temperature of the heat-melting layer is lower than a glass transition temperature of the alicyclic polyolefin resin constituting the film (a) and the film (b) by 25° C. or more; and production method therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Inoue, Atsushi Ishiguro, Yohei Koide
  • Patent number: 10374190
    Abstract: A sealing film including a substrate film, a sealing layer, and an adhesive layer in this order, wherein the sealing film has a tensile elastic modulus of equal to or higher than 1,000 MPa, and retardation of a layer portion provided at the sealing layer side relative to the substrate film in the sealing film after sealing is equal to or smaller than 20 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Tazaki, Hiroyasu Inoue, Atsushi Ishiguro, Yohei Koide
  • Patent number: 10239966
    Abstract: The present invention is a hydrogenated block copolymer obtained by hydrogenating a block copolymer [C] that comprises polymer blocks [A] and polymer block [B], a ratio (wA:wB) of a weight fraction wA of the polymer blocks [A] and a weight fraction wB of the polymer block [B] in the block copolymer [C] being 45:55 to 65:35, a ratio (w[IB]:w[IIB]) of a weight fraction w[IB] of the repeating unit [I] derived from an aromatic vinyl compound and a weight fraction w[IIB] of the repeating unit [II] derived from a linear conjugated diene compound in the polymer block [B] being 40:60 to 55:45, 90% of more of unsaturated bonds included in the block copolymer [C] having been hydrogenated, a weight average molecular weight of 60,000 to 150,000, a low-temperature-side glass transition temperature [Tg1] of 0° C. or more and a high-temperature-side glass transition temperature [Tg2] of 135° C. or more, and a stretched film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Saito, Yosuke Harauchi, Atsushi Ishiguro, Teiji Kohara
  • Publication number: 20190016106
    Abstract: The present invention provides: an assembly obtained by bonding a sheet made of a modified hydrogenated block copolymer having an alkoxysilyl group introduced therein with a thermoplastic resin sheet, wherein a peel strength of the adherend surface is 4 N/cm or higher; a method for producing an assembly by bonding a sheet made of a modified hydrogenated block copolymer having an alkoxysilyl group introduced therein with a thermoplastic resin sheet, the method comprising steps of: (1) activating an adherend surface of the thermoplastic resin sheet with at least one selected from plasma exposure, excimer UV exposure and corona discharge; and (2) superposing the sheet made of the modified hydrogenated block copolymer having the alkoxysilyl group introduced therein with the adherend surface of the thermoplastic resin sheet to be subjected to thermally press-bonding; and a sheet made of a modified hydrogenated block copolymer, comprising at least one surface activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi ISHIGURO, Daido CHIBA, Teiji KOHARA, Ryuta KURIHARA
  • Patent number: 10088605
    Abstract: An optical film includes a hydrogenated block copolymer-[2] obtained by hydrogenating 90% or more of unsaturated bonds of block copolymer-[1] that includes at least two polymer blocks-[A] and at least one polymer block-[B], the polymer block-[A] including a repeating unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound as main component, the polymer block-[B] including repeating unit derived from a linear conjugated diene compound as main component, ratio (wA:wB) of weight fraction wA of the polymer block-[A] in block copolymer-[1] to weight fraction wB of polymer block-[B] in block copolymer-[1] being 40:60 to 80:20, height from peak of ridge of a die line is formed in longitudinal direction of the optical film to a valley bottom point that is contiguous to the ridge being 100 nm or less over the optical film entire surface, and slope of the die line being 300 nm/mm or less over the optical film entire surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishiguro, Daisuke Saito, Teiji Kohara
  • Patent number: 10005924
    Abstract: The present invention is a transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet that is formed of a resin composition [F], and has a storage modulus at 25° C. of 1×106 to 1×108 Pa, the resin composition [F] comprising a modified hydrogenated block copolymer [E] as a main component, the modified hydrogenated block copolymer [E] being obtained by introducing an alkoxysilyl group into a hydrogenated block copolymer [D], the hydrogenated block copolymer [D] being obtained by hydrogenating 90% or more of unsaturated bonds of a block copolymer [C] that comprises at least two polymer blocks [A] comprising a specific compound and at least one polymer block [B] comprising a specific compound, and a ratio (wA:wB) of a total weight fraction wA of the polymer block [A] in the block copolymer [C] to a total weight fraction wB of the polymer block [B] in the block copolymer [C] being 20:80 to 60:40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishiguro, Daisuke Saitou, Teiji Kohara
  • Publication number: 20180170007
    Abstract: The present invention is a resin composition comprising a specific modified hydrogenated block copolymer [E] prepared by introducing an alkoxysilyl group and a crosslinking aid; a resin laminate prepared by laminating a layer including the resin composition on at least one side of a polyimide-based resin film; and a resin laminated metallic foil prepared by laminating a metallic foil on at least one side of the polyimide-based resin film through the layer including the resin composition. The present invention provides: a resin composition excellent in adhesiveness to a polyimide-based resin film and a metallic foil with low surface roughness and excellent in electrical insulation; a resin laminate prepared by laminating the resin composition and a polyimide-based resin film; and a resin laminated metallic foil in which the polyimide-based resin film and a metallic foil with a low surface roughness are laminated by using the resin composition as an adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daido CHIBA, Atsushi ISHIGURO, Teiji KOHARA
  • Publication number: 20180171057
    Abstract: The present invention is a hydrogenated block copolymer [D] obtained by hydrogenating a block copolymer [C] that comprises two or more polymer blocks [A] and one or more polymer blocks [B], the block [A] comprising a monomer unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound, and the block [B] comprising a monomer unit derived from a linear conjugated diene compound, the copolymer [D] having a low-temperature-side tan ? peak temperature of ?20 to 20° C. and a high-temperature-side tan ? peak temperature of 100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicants: ZEON CORPORATION, ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youhei KOIDE, Yosuke HARAUCHI, Atsushi ISHIGURO, Teiji KOHARA
  • Publication number: 20180099486
    Abstract: The present invention is a laminated glass which is prepared by inserting a resin intermediate film between glass plates and adhering the glass plates to integrate them, having a bending deflection at 90° C. is 7.3 N/mm2 or higher, a weight per unit area is 7.5 kg/m2 or less, wherein the resin intermediate film contains a modified hydrogenated block copolymer [E] obtained by introducing an alkoxysilyl group into a hydrogenated block copolymer [D], storage elastic moduli in the dynamic viscoelastic properties of the resin intermediate film are 5×108 Pa or lower at a temperature of ?20° C. and 2×107 Pa or higher at a temperature of 90° C., and the hydrogenated block copolymer [D] is obtained by hydrogenating 90% or more of carbon-carbon unsaturated bonds on a main chain and side chains and carbon-carbon unsaturated bonds on an aromatic ring in a specific block copolymer [C].
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki KANDA, Atsushi ISHIGURO, Teiji KOHARA
  • Patent number: 9814792
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for producing a sterilized medical formed article that includes applying high-energy rays to a medical formed article at an exposure E. The medical formed article is formed of a resin composition that includes a hydrogenated block copolymer and a phenol-based antioxidant. The hydrogenated block copolymer is obtained by hydrogenating 99% or more of unsaturated bonds of a block copolymer that includes at least two polymer blocks [A] and at least one polymer block [B], the polymer block [A] including a repeating unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound as a main component, the polymer block [B] including a repeating unit derived from a linear conjugated diene compound as a main component, and a ratio (wA:wB) of a weight fraction wA of the polymer block [A] to a weight fraction wB of the polymer block [B] being 30:70 to 70:30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teiji Kohara, Atsushi Ishiguro
  • Publication number: 20170291966
    Abstract: The present invention is a hydrogenated block copolymer obtained by hydrogenating a block copolymer [C] that comprises polymer blocks [A] and polymer block [B], a ratio (wA:wB) of a weight fraction wA of the polymer blocks [A] and a weight fraction wB of the polymer block [B] in the block copolymer [C] being 45:55 to 65:35, a ratio (w[IB]:w[IIB]) of a weight fraction w[IB] of the repeating unit [I] derived from an aromatic vinyl compound and a weight fraction w[IIB] of the repeating unit [II] derived from a linear conjugated diene compound in the polymer block [B] being 40:60 to 55:45, 90% of more of unsaturated bonds included in the block copolymer [C] having been hydrogenated, a weight average molecular weight of 60,000 to 150,000, a low-temperature-side glass transition temperature [Tg1] of 0° C. or more and a high-temperature-side glass transition temperature [Tg2] of 135° C. or more, and a stretched film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke SAITO, Yosuke HARAUCHI, Atsushi ISHIGURO, Teiji KOHARA
  • Publication number: 20170058148
    Abstract: The present invention is a transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet that is formed of a resin composition [F], and has a storage modulus at 25° C. of 1×106 to 1×108 Pa, the resin composition [F] comprising a modified hydrogenated block copolymer [E] as a main component, the modified hydrogenated block copolymer [E] being obtained by introducing an alkoxysilyl group into a hydrogenated block copolymer [D], the hydrogenated block copolymer [D] being obtained by hydrogenating 90% or more of unsaturated bonds of a block copolymer [C] that comprises at least two polymer blocks [A] comprising a specific compound and at least one polymer block [B] comprising a specific compound, and a ratio (wA:wB) of a total weight fraction wA of the polymer block [A] in the block copolymer [C] to a total weight fraction wB of the polymer block [B] in the block copolymer [C] being 20:80 to 60:40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi ISHIGURO, Daisuke SAITOU, Teiji KOHARA
  • Publication number: 20170037157
    Abstract: Provided are: an alkoxysilyl group-containing hydrogenated block copolymer produced by introducing an alkoxysilyl group into a hydrogenated block copolymer that is obtained by hydrogenating 90% or more of unsaturated bonds of a block copolymer that includes at least two polymer blocks [A] and at least one polymer block [B], the polymer block [A] including a repeating unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound as a main component, the polymer block [B] including a repeating unit derived from a linear conjugated diene compound as a main component, and a ratio (wA:wB) of a weight fraction wA of the polymer block [A] in the block copolymer to a weight fraction wB of the polymer block [B] in the block copolymer being 20:80 to 60:40; a method for producing the same; a solar cell element encapsulating material; a sheet; a laminated sheet; a multilayer sheet; and a method for encapsulating a solar cell element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teiji Kohara, Atsushi Ishiguro, Ryuta Kurihara
  • Publication number: 20160343970
    Abstract: A sealing film including a substrate film, a sealing layer, and an adhesive layer in this order, wherein the sealing film has a tensile elastic modulus of equal to or higher than 1,000 MPa, and retardation of a layer portion provided at the sealing layer side relative to the substrate film in the sealing film after sealing is equal to or smaller than 20 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi TAZAKI, Hiroyasu INOUE, Atsushi ISHIGURO, Yohei KOIDE
  • Publication number: 20160343986
    Abstract: A composite gas barrier layered body for an organic electroluminescent light-emitting element, including: a gas barrier layered body (A) having a film (a) of an alicyclic polyolefin resin and one or more inorganic barrier layers (a) directly provided on at least one surface of the film (a); a film (b) formed of an alicyclic polyolefin resin having a thickness that is equal to or less than a thickness of the film (a); and a heat-melting layer that is interposed between the inorganic barrier layer (a) and the film (b) to bond the inorganic barrier layer (a) to the film (b), wherein a glass transition temperature of the heat-melting layer is lower than a glass transition temperature of the alicyclic polyolefin resin constituting the film (a) and the film (b) by 25° C. or more; and production method therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyasu INOUE, Atsushi ISHIGURO, Yohei KOIDE
  • Patent number: 9493688
    Abstract: A resin composition including an alkoxysilyl group-containing hydrogenated block copolymer [3], and a hydrocarbon-based polymer [4] having a number average molecular weight of 300 to 5000, the resin composition including the hydrocarbon-based polymer [4] in an amount of 1 to 50 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the alkoxysilyl group-containing hydrogenated block copolymer [3], the alkoxysilyl group-containing hydrogenated block copolymer [3] being obtained by introducing an alkoxysilyl group into a hydrogenated block copolymer [2] that is obtained by hydrogenating 90% or more of unsaturated bonds of a block copolymer [1] that includes at least two polymer blocks [A] and at least one polymer block [B], and a ratio (wA:wB) of a weight fraction wA of the polymer block [A] in the block copolymer [1] to a weight fraction wB of the polymer block [B] in the block copolymer [1] being 30:70 to 65:35.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishiguro, Ryuta Kurihara, Youhei Koide, Daido Chiba
  • Publication number: 20160213796
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for producing a sterilized medical formed article that includes applying high-energy rays to a medical formed article at an exposure E. The medical formed article is formed of a resin composition that includes a hydrogenated block copolymer and a phenol-based antioxidant. The hydrogenated block copolymer is obtained by hydrogenating 99% or more of unsaturated bonds of a block copolymer that includes at least two polymer blocks [A] and at least one polymer block [B], the polymer block [A] including a repeating unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound as a main component, the polymer block [B] including a repeating unit derived from a linear conjugated diene compound as a main component, and a ratio (wA:wB) of a weight fraction wA of the polymer block [A] to a weight fraction wB of the polymer block [B] being 30:70 to 70:30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teiji KOHARA, Atsushi ISHIGURO
  • Publication number: 20160146977
    Abstract: An optical film includes a hydrogenated block copolymer-[2] obtained by hydrogenating 90% or more of unsaturated bonds of block copolymer-[1] that includes at least two polymer blocks-[A] and at least one polymer block-[B], the polymer block-[A] including a repeating unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound as main component, the polymer block-[B] including repeating unit derived from a linear conjugated diene compound as main component, ratio (wA:wB) of weight fraction wA of the polymer block-[A] in block copolymer-[1] to weight fraction wB of polymer block-[B] in block copolymer-[1] being 40:60 to 80:20, height from peak of ridge of a die line is formed in longitudinal direction of the optical film to a valley bottom point that is contiguous to the ridge being 100 nm or less over the optical film entire surface, and slope of the die line being 300 nm/mm or less over the optical film entire surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi ISHIGURO, Daisuke SAITO, Teiji KOHARA