Patents by Inventor Eiichi Imoto

Eiichi Imoto 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: 20220363940
    Abstract: Provided is a paint-protective coating material formed from an acrylic coating composition comprising an acrylic polymer as base polymer. The acrylic polymer-forming monomers includes a monomer (mT) having a homopolymer Tg of 90° C. or higher and a monomer (mL) having a homopolymer Tg of ?30° C. or lower. The monomer (mT) includes at least acrylonitrile. In the monomers, the monomers (mT) and (mL) have a molar ratio (mT/mL) of 0.8 or higher and 1.5 or lower. The paint-protective coating material has storage moduli of 150 MPa or higher and 1000 MPa or lower at 23° C., and 0.40 MPa or higher at 70° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi IGARASHI, Eiichi IMOTO, Chihiro YOSHIDA, Koki HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220041900
    Abstract: An objective is to provide a surface-protective PSA sheet capable of reducing adherend damage and well maintaining appearance, etc. The surface-protective PSA sheet capable of reducing adherend damage and well maintaining appearance, etc., comprises a surface layer, a resin substrate layer and a PSA layer, and has a multilayer structure with the resin substrate layer placed between the surface layer and the PSA layer, wherein the surface layer is a layer obtainable by curing a heat-curable composition comprising the following components: (a) a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylic copolymer having a glass transition temperature of ?40° C. to 30° C.; (b) an allophanate polyisocyanate and/or a biuret polyisocyanate; and (c) a polysiloxane comprising a hydroxyl group-containing hydrocarbon group and/or polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita KUME, Yuki HASHIMOTO, Akihiro YAMAZAKI, Toru HIGASHIMOTO, Eiichi IMOTO, Yoshio NAKAGAWA, Shota TANAKA, Kenichi NISHIKAWA, Chihiro YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210012934
    Abstract: Provided are: a sintered body that forms a rare-earth magnet and is configured in a manner such that the divergence between the orientation angles of the easy axes of magnetization of magnet material particles and the orientation axis angle of the magnet material particles is kept within a prescribed range in an arbitrary micro-section of a magnet cross-section; and a rare-earth sintered magnet. This sintered body for forming a rare-earth magnet has two or more different regions exhibiting an orientation axis angle of at least 20°, given that the orientation axis angle is defined as the highest-frequency orientation angle among the orientation angles of the easy magnetization axes, relative to a pre-set reference line, of a plurality of magnet material particles in a rectangular section at an arbitrary position in a plane including the thickness direction and the widthwise direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Kenichi FUJIKAWA, Takashi YAMAMOTO, Hirofumi EBE, Makoto FUJIHARA, Eiichi IMOTO, Tomohiro OMURE
  • Patent number: 10867729
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a sintered body that forms a rare-earth permanent magnet, has a single sintered structure and an arbitrary shape, and has easy magnetization axis orientations of different directions applied to the magnet material particles in a plurality of arbitrary regions. This method forms a three-dimensional first molded article from a composite material formed by mixing a resin material and magnet material particles containing a rare-earth substance. The first molded article is then subjected to a deforming force and a second molded article is formed in which the orientation direction of the easy magnetization axis of the magnet material particles in at least the one section of the horizontal cross-section is changed to a direction which differs from the orientation direction of the first molded article. The second molded article is heated to a sintering temperature and kept at the temperature for a period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Fujikawa, Katsuya Kume, Kazuo Ouchi, Toshinobu Hoshino, Masakazu Morimoto, Hirofumi Ono, Katsuyuki Nakabayashi, Miho Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Matsuo, Toshiaki Okuno, Makoto Fujihara, Eiichi Imoto, Hirofumi Ebe, Tomohiro Omure, Izumi Ozeki, Takashi Yamamoto, Yuki Kato, Tomoya Matsuda, Shoichiro Saito
  • Patent number: 10392533
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an adhesive sheet having a surface sliding property and stainproof property. [Means for solving] An adhesive sheet is one that comprises at least a substrate and an adhesive layer, a static friction coefficient of the substrate is 0.05 or more and 1.50 or less, and an absolute value of a ?L* value of the substrate is 0.01 or more and 45.00 or less. A load at a time of 5% elongation of the substrate is preferably 1 N/cm or more and 15 N/cm or less. And a stress relaxation rate of the substrate by elongating to 10%, stopping the elongation at that state and after lapsing 600 seconds is preferably 40% or more and 100% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichi Imoto, Yoshio Nakagawa, Kenichi Nishikawa, Yasunori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10000668
    Abstract: [Problem] This is to provide an adhesive sheet having curved surface followability and chemical resistance. [Means for solving] The adhesive sheet is an adhesive sheet having at least a substrate and an adhesive layer, a load at the time of 5% elongation of the substrate is 15 N/cm or less, a stress relaxation rate of the substrate by elongating to 10%, stopping the elongation at that state and after lapsing 600 seconds is 40% or more and 100% or less, and a chemical weight increased ratio of the substrate is 60% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichi Imoto, Yoshio Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20180130581
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a sintered body that forms a rare-earth permanent magnet, has a single sintered structure and an arbitrary shape, and has easy magnetization axis orientations of different directions applied to the magnet material particles in a plurality of arbitrary regions. This method forms a three-dimensional first molded article from a composite material formed by mixing a resin material and magnet material particles containing a rare-earth substance. The first molded article is then subjected to a deforming force and a second molded article is formed in which the orientation direction of the easy magnetization axis of the magnet material particles in at least the one section of the horizontal cross-section is changed to a direction which differs from the orientation direction of the first molded article. The second molded article is heated to a sintering temperature and kept at the temperature for a period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Kenichi FUJIKAWA, Katsuya KUME, Kazuo OUCHI, Toshinobu HOSHINO, Masakazu MORIMOTO, Hirofumi ONO, Katsuyuki NAKABAYASHI, Miho YAMAGUCHI, Hiroshi MATSUO, Toshiaki OKUNO, Makoto FUJIHARA, Eiichi IMOTO, Hirofumi EBE, Tomohiro OMURE, Izumi OZEKI, Takashi YAMAMOTO, Yuki KATO, Tomoya MATSUDA, Shoichiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20180108464
    Abstract: Provided are: a sintered body that forms a rare-earth magnet and is configured in a manner such that the divergence between the orientation angles of the easy axes of magnetization of magnet material particles and the orientation axis angle of the magnet material particles is kept within a prescribed range in an arbitrary micro-section of a magnet cross-section; and a rare-earth sintered magnet. This sintered body for forming a rare-earth magnet has two or more different regions exhibiting an orientation axis angle of at least 20°, given that the orientation axis angle is defined as the highest-frequency orientation angle among the orientation angles of the easy magnetization axes, relative to a pre-set reference line, of a plurality of magnet material particles in a rectangular section at an arbitrary position in a plane including the thickness direction and the widthwise direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Kenichi FUJIKAWA, Takashi YAMAMOTO, Hirofumi EBE, Makoto FUJIHARA, Eiichi IMOTO, Tomohiro OMURE
  • Publication number: 20170187258
    Abstract: Raw material magnet is milled to magnet powder, and the magnet powder thus milled is mixed with a binder to form a compound 12. Then, the compound 12 thus formed is molded to a green sheet 14 having a sheet shape. Thereafter, a magnetic field orientation is carried out by applying a magnetic field to the green sheet 14 thus molded, and then, the green sheet 14 having been subjected to the magnetic field orientation is shaped to a product shape by deforming thereof. Thereafter, the permanent magnet 1 is produced by sintering thereof. The permanent magnet 1 has a ring shape, and is constituted such that an axis of easy magnetization may be orientated at a slant so as to converge in a direction along a converging axis P which is set to a radius direction as well as to a center direction of the ring shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi FUJIKAWA, Katsuya KUME, Toshinobu HOSHINO, Miho YAMAGUCHI, Masakazu MORIMOTO, Makoto FUJIHARA, Toshiaki OKUNO, Eiichi IMOTO, Hirofumi EBE, Tomohiro OMURE, Izumi OZEKI, Yuki KATO, Takashi YAMAMOTO, Shoichiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20160272851
    Abstract: [Problem] This is to provide an adhesive sheet having curved surface followability and chemical resistance. [Means for solving] The adhesive sheet is an adhesive sheet having at least a substrate and an adhesive layer, a load at the time of 5% elongation of the substrate is 15 N/cm or less, a stress relaxation rate of the substrate by elongating to 10%, stopping the elongation at that state and after lapsing 600 seconds is 40% or more and 100% or less, and a chemical weight increased ratio of the substrate is 60% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichi Imoto, Yoshio Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20160168425
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an adhesive sheet having a surface sliding property and stainproof property. [Means for solving] An adhesive sheet is one that comprises at least a substrate and an adhesive layer, a static friction coefficient of the substrate is 0.05 or more and 1.50 or less, and an absolute value of a ?L* value of the substrate is 0.01 or more and 45.00 or less. A load at a time of 5% elongation of the substrate is preferably 1 N/cm or more and 15 N/cm or less. And a stress relaxation rate of the substrate by elongating to 10%, stopping the elongation at that state and after lapsing 600 seconds is preferably 40% or more and 100% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichi IMOTO, Yoshio NAKAGAWA, Kenichi NISHIKAWA, Yasunori YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8697767
    Abstract: Provided is a production method for a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition capable of sufficiently expressing each of “attachment position correction workability” that enables a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape containing the composition to be easily aligned by the expression of good temporary attachment property, “reworkability” that enables the tape to be easily reattached, and “temperature-sensitive strong pressure-sensitive adhesiveness” that enables the tape to express strong temperature-sensitive pressure-sensitive adhesiveness. The production method for a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is a production method for a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing a cross-linked polymer in which an acrylic copolymer (A) is cross-linked by a polyurethane(meth)acrylate (B), the method including irradiating a monomer mixed liquid essentially containing a (meth)acrylate and a (meth)acrylamide with an active energy ray in the presence of the polyurethane(meth)acrylate (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Tadatoshi Nakanishi, Eiichi Imoto
  • Patent number: 8546958
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for protecting a semiconductor wafer, which does not cause curve (warpage) in the semiconductor wafer, when the semiconductor wafer is ground, is excellent in followability to a pattern, has adequate stress dispersibility in a grinding operation, suppresses the crack in a wafer and chipping in a wafer edge, and does not leave a residue of a tackiness agent on the surface of the wafer. The protective sheet has one face having tackiness, does not have an interface existing between a substrate and the tackiness agent and is made of one layer, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet has different tack strengths on both faces from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Habu, Fumiteru Asai, Tomokazu Takahashi, Eiichi Imoto, Yuta Shimazaki
  • Publication number: 20130216814
    Abstract: Provided is a W/O emulsion, including a continuous oil phase component and an aqueous phase component immiscible with the continuous oil phase component, in which: the continuous oil phase component includes a hydrophilic polyurethane-based polymer and an ethylenically unsaturated monomer; the hydrophilic polyurethane-based polymer includes a polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene unit derived from polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene glycol; and the polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene unit includes 5 wt % to 25 wt % of polyoxyethylene. Also provided is a foam, including a hydrophilic polyurethane-based polymer, in which: the foam has an open-cell structure in which through-holes are present between adjacent spherical cells; the spherical cells each have an average pore diameter of less than 20 ?m; the through-holes each have an average pore diameter of 5 ?m or less; and the foam has surface openings each having an average pore diameter of 20 ?m or less in a surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Hirao, Kohei Doi, Azusa Iseki, Yusuke Nakayama, Kunio Nagasaki, Eiichi Imoto
  • Publication number: 20130085202
    Abstract: Provided is a production method for a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition capable of sufficiently expressing each of “attachment position correction workability” that enables a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape containing the composition to be easily aligned by the expression of good temporary attachment property, “reworkability” that enables the tape to be easily reattached, and “temperature-sensitive strong pressure-sensitive adhesiveness” that enables the tape to express strong temperature-sensitive pressure-sensitive adhesiveness. The production method for a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is a production method for a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing a cross-linked polymer in which an acrylic copolymer (A) is cross-linked by a polyurethane (meth)acrylate (B), the method including irradiating a monomer mixed liquid essentially containing a (meth)acrylate and a (meth)acrylamide with an active energy ray in the presence of the polyurethane (meth)acrylate (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Tadatoshi NAKANISHI, Eiichi IMOTO
  • Publication number: 20130085250
    Abstract: Provided is a heat-adherent film capable of sufficiently expressing each of “attachment position correction workability” that enables the film to be easily aligned by the expression of good temporary attachment property, “reworkability” that enables the film to be easily reattached, and “temperature-sensitive strong pressure-sensitive adhesiveness” that enables the film to express strong temperature-sensitive pressure-sensitive adhesiveness, and capable of maintaining its film shape in a state where the film is free of a base material at least at around room temperature. Also provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape containing such heat-adherent film. The heat-adherent film includes a polymer having a urethane group, an amide group, and an acrylic group, in which: the film maintains a film shape in a state where the film is free of a base material at least at 25° C.; and the film has a tensile storage modulus of elasticity at ?50° C. of 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Tadatoshi NAKANISHI, Eiichi IMOTO
  • Publication number: 20130084416
    Abstract: Provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition capable of sufficiently expressing each of “attachment position correction workability” that enables a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape containing the composition to be easily aligned by the expression of good temporary attachment property, “reworkability” that enables the tape to be easily reattached, and “temperature-sensitive strong pressure-sensitive adhesiveness” that enables the tape to express strong temperature-sensitive pressure-sensitive adhesiveness. Also provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape containing such pressure-sensitive adhesive composition. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition includes a cross-linked polymer in which an acrylic copolymer (A) is cross-linked by a polyurethane (meth)acrylate (B), in which the acrylic copolymer (A) includes a copolymer of monomers essentially containing a (meth)acrylate and a (meth)acrylamide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Tadatoshi NAKANISHI, Eiichi IMOTO
  • Publication number: 20130034737
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cured multilayer sheet production method, comprising adjacently laminating a first uncured layer formed by a first curable resin and a second uncured layer formed by a second curable resin to form a laminated body, wherein the first curable resin contains a first monomer or partial polymer thereof, and an immiscible substance, the second curable resin contains a second monomer and polymer, the first monomer concentration in the first curable resin is higher than the polymerizable monomer concentration in the second curable resin, wherein in the laminating step, the immiscible substance is eccentrically distributed on or near an interface on the side opposite to the second uncured layer, and thereafter curing the layers, so that a cured multilayer sheet, wherein a substance different from a polymer cured layer is eccentrically located on the surface of the polymer cured layer, is produced at high productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichi Imoto, Yuta Shimazaki, Tatsuya Kitahara, Kunio Nagasaki
  • Publication number: 20120156483
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet which is capable of free design of a pressure-sensitive adhesive and is peelable after use without adding special components to the pressure-sensitive adhesive, and to obtain a base material for use in such a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet. The base material for pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet according to the present invention, the base material being a composite film containing a urethane polymer having an acryloyl group at its molecular chain end and a (meth)acrylic polymer, in which the composite film has a water absorption ratio of 5% or more. A (meth)acrylic monomer for forming the (meth)acrylic polymer preferably contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylic acid and (meth)acryloylmorpholine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Shimazaki, Eiichi Imoto, Kunio Nagasaki
  • Publication number: 20120065350
    Abstract: The present invention provides a resin material which can be used for a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for protecting a semiconductor wafer and the like, does not cause curve (warpage) in the semiconductor wafer when the semiconductor wafer is ground, is excellent in followability to a pattern, has adequate stress dispersibility in a grinding operation, suppresses the crack in a wafer and chipping in a wafer edge, and does not leave a residue of a tackiness agent on the surface of the wafer in a peeling operation. The resin material shall be a viscoelastic body containing a copolymer of a urethane polymer and an acrylic polymer, which is formed through a monomer having a functional group that can form a urethane bond with a urethane polymer and having an activated carbon double bond that can copolymerize with a (meth)acryloyl group, in one molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi HABU, Fumiteru ASAI, Tomokazu TAKAHASHI, Eiichi IMOTO, Yuta SHIMAZAKI