Patents by Inventor Atsushi Shibahara

Atsushi Shibahara 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: 20080125555
    Abstract: A catalyst for olefin polymerization of the present invention includes a solid titanium catalyst component (I) including titanium, magnesium, halogen, and a cyclic ester compound (a) represented by the following formula (1): wherein n is an integer of 5 to 10; R2 and R3 are each independently COOR1 or R, and at least one of R2 and R3 is COOR1; a single bond (excluding Ca—Ca bonds, and a Ca—Cb bond in the case where R3 is R) in the cyclic backbone may be replaced with a double bond; a plurality of R1's are each independently a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; and a plurality of R's are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituent, but at least one of R's is not a hydrogen atom, and an organometal compound catalyst component (II). When this catalyst for olefin polymerization is used, an olefin polymer having a broad molecular weight distribution can be produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Matsunaga, Hisao Hashida, Toshiyuki Tsutsui, Kunio Yamamoto, Atsushi Shibahara, Tetsunori Shinozaki
  • Publication number: 20080097050
    Abstract: A solid titanium catalyst component (I) of the present invention is characterized in that it contains titanium, magnesium, halogen, and a cyclic ester compound (a) represented by the following formula (1): wherein n is an integer of 5 to 10; R2 and R3 are each independently COOR1 or R, and at least one of R2 and R3 is COOR1; a single bond (excluding Ca—Ca bonds, and a Ca—Cb bond in the case where R3 is R) in the cyclic backbone may be replaced with a double bond; a plurality of R1's are each independently a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; and a plurality of R's are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituent, but at least one of R's is not a hydrogen atom. When using this solid titanium catalyst component (I), an olefin polymer having a broad molecular weight distribution can be produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Matsunaga, Hisao Hashida, Toshiyuki Tsutsui, Kunio Yamamoto, Atsushi Shibahara, Tetsunori Shinozaki
  • Publication number: 20080004412
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing an ?-olefin polymer comprising polymerizing or copolymerizing (a) C3 or higher ?-olefin(s) in the presence of an olefin polymerization catalyst comprising solid titanium catalyst component (I) containing titanium, magnesium, halogen, and a compound with a specific structure having two or more ether linkages and organometallic catalyst component (II) with high catalytic activity. In this process, particularly even in (co)polymerizing (a) higher olefin(s), demineralization is unnecessary. A 4-methyl-1-pentene-based polymer obtained by polymerization using the catalyst of the present invention is excellent in tacticity, transparency, heat resistance, and releasability, and the polymer is particularly suitable for a release film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Matsumoto, Toshiyuki Tsutsui, Kisu Ro, Kourei Kuroiwa, Takushi Nagata, Atsushi Shibahara, Tatsuya Nakamura, Tooru Tanaka, Tetsunori Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 6762259
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide polymerization catalyst which can produce quite efficiently (co)polymer having number average molecular weight and number of molecules which are accurately controlled in producing method of (co)polymer by the polymerization of polar unsaturated compound, and provide living polymerized (co)polymer obtained according to the producing method. For the purpose, polymerization catalyst composition which comprises the composition comprising organic oxysalt compound and hydroxycarbonyl compound having at least both an alcoholic hydroxyl group and a carbonyl group in the same molecule is provided and the polar unsaturated compound is polymerized by using the polymerization catalyst composition. The composition containing the obtained (co)polymer were able to provide thermosetting powder coating composition having particularly excellent characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Tadahito Nobori, Katsuhiko Funaki, Atsushi Shibahara, Makoto Suzuki, Kazumi Mizutani, Hiromi Jouyama, Isao Hara, Takaomi Hayashi, Shinji Kiyono, Setsuko Fujiyoshi, Hiroyuki Sakayama, Mitsuyuki Mizoguchi, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Yoshiharu Hirose
  • Patent number: 6528599
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of preparing a polymer, which comprises subjecting a monomer containing at least a polar unsaturated compound to anionic polymerization in the presence of a phosphazenium compound represented by the formula (1): (wherein Z− is an anion of an active hydrogen compound in the form where a proton is eliminated from the active hydrogen compound and transferred to the anion; a, b, c and d each represents 1 or 0, but all of them are not simultaneously 0; and R may the same or different and each represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and two R(s) on the same nitrogen atom are optionally combined each other to form a cyclic structure), or in the presence of the phosphazenium compound and the active hydrogen compound. The resulting polymer is characterized by narrow molecular weight distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Tadahito Nobori, Atsushi Shibahara, Shinji Kiyono, Takaomi Hayashi, Katsuhiko Funaki, Isao Hara, Kazumi Mizutani, Usaji Takaki
  • Publication number: 20030023003
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide polymerization catalyst which can produce quite efficiently (co)polymer having number average molecular weight and number of molecules which are accurately controlled in producing method of (co)polymer by the polymerization of polar unsaturated compound, and provide living polymerized (co)polymer obtained according to the producing method. For the purpose, polymerization catalyst composition which comprises the composition comprising organic oxysalt compound and hydroxycarbonyl compound having at least both an alcoholic hydroxyl group and a carbonyl group in the same molecule is provided and the polar unsaturated compound is polymerized by using the polymerization catalyst composition. The composition containing the obtained (co)polymer were able to provide thermosetting powder coating composition having particularly excellent characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Tadahito Nobori, Katsuhiko Funaki, Atsushi Shibahara, Makoto Suzuki, Kazumi Mizutani, Hiromi Jouyama, Isao Hara, Takaomi Hayashi, Shinji Kiyono, Setsuko Fujiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20020161227
    Abstract: A substituted aromatic compound substituted with Q is obtained by reacting a phosphazenium compound represented by formula (1) 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Tadahito Nobori, Setsuko Fujiyoshi, Isao Hara, Takaomi Hayashi, Atsushi Shibahara, Katsuhiko Funaki, Kazumi Mizutani, Shinji Kiyono
  • Patent number: 6469224
    Abstract: A substituted aromatic compound substituted with Q is obtained by reacting a phosphazenium compound represented by formula (1) (in the formula, Q− represents an anion in a form derived by elimination of a proton from an inorganic acid, or an active hydrogen compound having an active hydrogen on an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom or a sulfur atom; a, b, c and d, each independently, is 0 or 1, but all of them are not 0 simultaneously; and R groups represent the same or different hydrocarbon groups having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or two Rs on each common nitrogen atom may be bonded together to form a ring structure) with a halogenated aromatic compound having halogen atoms; whereby, at least one halogen atom in the halogenated aromatic compound is substituted with Q (where, Q represents an inorganic group or an organic group in a form derived by elimination of one electron from Q− in formula (1)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Tadahito Nobori, Setsuko Fujiyoshi, Isao Hara, Takaomi Hayashi, Atsushi Shibahara, Katsuhiko Funaki, Kazumi Mizutani, Shinji Kiyono
  • Patent number: 6444847
    Abstract: A process for preparing phosphine oxides by reacting iminophosphoranes with phosphorus oxytrichloride by which highly purified phosphine oxides can be obtained industrially in a higher yield. Specifically, phosphine oxides are prepared in such a manner that iminophosphoranes are reacted with phosphorus oxytrichloride using an aprotic organic solvent with permittivity 2.2 or more at 20° C. as a solvent under special reaction conditions to give a liquid reaction product containing phosphine oxides and aminophosphonium chlorides which are yielded as a by-product at the same time as the phosphine oxides, and the above described chlorides are removed from the above described liquid reaction product by a solid-liquid separation process, and the solution having been subjected to the solid-liquid separation process is washed with water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Tadahito Nobori, Isao Hara, Katsuhiko Funaki, Takaomi Hayashi, Atsushi Shibahara, Shinji Kiyono, Kazumi Mizutani, Usaji Takaki
  • Publication number: 20020016504
    Abstract: To provide a process for preparing phosphine oxides comprising reacting iminophosphoranes with phosphorus oxytrichloride by which highly purified phosphine oxides can be obtained industrially in a higher yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: Tadahito Nobori, Isao Hara, Katsuhiko Funaki, Takaomi Hayashi, Atsushi Shibahara, Shinji Kiyono, Kazumi Mizutani, Usaji Takaki
  • Patent number: 6303815
    Abstract: A process for preparing phosphine oxides by reacting iminophosphoranes with phosphorus oxytrichloride by which highly purified phosphine oxides can be obtained industrially in a higher yield. Specifically, phosphine oxides are prepared in such a manner that iminophosphoranes are reacted with phosphorus oxytrichloride using an aprotic organic solvent with permittivity 2.2 or more at 20° C. as a solvent under special reaction conditions to give a liquid reaction product containing phosphine oxides and aminophosphonium chlorides which are yielded as a by-product at the same time as the phosphine oxides, and the above described chlorides are removed from the above described liquid reaction product by a solid-liquid separation process, and the solution having been subjected to the solid-liquid separation process is washed with water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Tadahito Nobori, Isao Hara, Katsuhiko Funaki, Takaomi Hayashi, Atsushi Shibahara, Shinji Kiyono, Kazumi Mizutani, Usaji Takaki
  • Patent number: 6255537
    Abstract: There is provided a process for preparing a poly(alkylene oxide) by using a polymerization initiator which does not cause any problem on preparing and handling in the preparation of the polyalkylene oxide by polymerizing an alkylene oxide compound and does not require a special treatment before the initiation of the polymerization. That is, it is a process of polymerizing the alkylene oxide compound in the presence of a phosphine oxide compound represented by the formula (1): wherein R is the same or different and each represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and x represents an amount of water molecules contained in terms of a molar ratio and is within a range from 0 to 5.0, or in the presence of said phosphine oxide compound and an active hydrogen compound selected from water or an organic compound having a partial structural formula —OH or —NH—.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Takaomi Hayashi, Katsuhiko Funaki, Atsushi Shibahara, Kazumi Mizutani, Isao Hara, Shinji Kiyono, Tadahito Nobori, Usaji Takaki
  • Patent number: 6177593
    Abstract: The compound [tris(dimethylamino)phosphonioamino]tris[tris(dimethylamino)phosphoranylideneamino]phosphonium dichloride can be prepared by contacting hydrogen chloride with tetrakis[tris(dimethylamino)phosphoranylideneamino]phosphonium chloride. The phosphonium dichloride compound can be used in a process wherein it is brought into contact with an OH−-form ion exchange resin to prepare tetrakis[tris(dimethylamino)phosphoranylideneamino]phosphonium hydroxide. Separate processes for separating or isolating the phosphonium chloride compound or isolating the phosphonium hydroxide compound from feed solutions wherein an extraction step is used are also set forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Tadahito Nobori, Takaomi Hayashi, Katsuhiko Funaki, Atsushi Shibahara, Isao Hara, Shinji Kiyono, Kazumi Mizutani, Usaji Takaki
  • Patent number: 6153794
    Abstract: An organic compound which is basic and soluble in an organic solvent, does not have a problem in preparation or handling and exhibits catalytic activity as a basic compound, i.e., a phosphine sulfide represented by formula (1), and a manufacturing process therefor, i.e., manufacturing a phosphine sulfide represented by formula (1), by reacting one molecule of thiophosphoryl chloride with three molecules of a phosphorane represented by formula (2). The phosphine sulfide can be used in a process for effectively manufacturing a poly(alkylene oxide) by polymerizing an alkylene oxide in the presence of the phosphine sulfide or of the phosphine sulfide and an active hydrogen compound selected from water and organic compounds having a partial structure of --OH or --NH--; and 2) a process for manufacturing a 1,2-dioxyethane derivative from an epoxy compound, i.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Funaki, Isao Hara, Takaomi Hayashi, Shinji Kiyono, Atsushi Shibahara, Kazumi Mizutani, Tadahito Nobori, Usaji Takaki
  • Patent number: 6130346
    Abstract: A process for preparing an organic compound, comprising conducting an organic reaction in the presence of a phosphine oxide represented by formula (1); ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is the same or different and each represents a hydrogen or hydrocarbon group with 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and x is the amount of water as a molar ratio which is 0 to 5.0, exhibiting a high catalytic performance especially in an organic reaction involving an alkylene oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Tadahito Nobori, Takaomi Hayashi, Isao Hara, Shinji Kiyono, Atsushi Shibahara, Katsuhiko Funaki, Tatsuhiro Urakami, Keisuke Takuma, Usaji Takaki
  • Patent number: 6090980
    Abstract: A process is provided for preparing iminotris(dimethylamino)phosphorane at high purity and high yield from aminotris(dimethylamino)phosphonium chloride. Aminotris(dimethylamino)phosphonium chloride is first reacted with an aqueous solution of the hydroxide of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal in the presence of a solvent in which the chloride and hydroxide of the alkali metal or alkaline earth metal are sparingly soluble, whereby iminotris(dimethylamino)phosphorane is formed. After water is dissolved off at a temperature of 70.degree. C. or lower from the reaction mixture, solids are removed from the thus-concentrated reaction mixture by solid-liquid separation. The resultant mother liquor is then distilled to obtain iminotris(dimethylamino)phosphorane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Tadahito Nobori, Takaomi Hayashi, Katsuhiko Funaki, Atsushi Shibahara, Isao Hara, Shinji Kiyono, Kazumi Mizutani, Usaji Takaki