Patents by Inventor Gen Kanai

Gen Kanai 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: 8877310
    Abstract: The invention discloses a multilayer propylene resin sheet and a heat-treatable packaging material which have an excellent transparency, flexibility and very-low-temperature impact resistance, and which reduce the thickness variation during lamination, suppress appearance defects such as interfacial roughness and mitigate thinning during fabrication. The multilayer propylene resin sheet is composed of at least two layers, which are (1) an inner layer and (2) an outer layer. The inner layer (1) is made of a resin composition containing 40 to 89 wt % of a specific propylene resin composition (A), 10 to 40 wt % of a specific ethylene-?-olefin copolymer (B), and 1 to 20 wt % of a specific propylene resin (C). The outer layer (2) is made of a specific propylene resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Polypropylene Corporation
    Inventors: Gen Kanai, Yuji Kadowaki
  • Patent number: 8859062
    Abstract: The invention provides a multilayer sheet and a heat-treatable packaging material which have excellent flexibility, transparency, impact resistance, heat resistance, heat-sealability and cleanliness, which are endowed with a good formability without readily incurring drawbacks such as external defects and thickness fluctuations when subjected to multilayer formation, and which, even at a reduced thickness, have an excellent sheet substrate strength decrease-inhibiting effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Polypropylene Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Kadowaki, Gen Kanai
  • Publication number: 20130171389
    Abstract: The invention discloses a multilayer propylene resin sheet and a heat-treatable packaging material which have an excellent transparency, flexibility and very-low-temperature impact resistance, and which reduce the thickness variation during lamination, suppress appearance defects such as interfacial roughness and mitigate thinning during fabrication. The multilayer propylene resin sheet is composed of at least two layers, which are (1) an inner layer and (2) an outer layer. The inner layer (1) is made of a resin composition containing 40 to 89 wt % of a specific propylene resin composition (A), 10 to 40 wt % of a specific ethylene-?-olefin copolymer (B), and 1 to 20 wt % of a specific propylene resin (C). The outer layer (2) is made of a specific propylene resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Japan Polypropylene Corporation
    Inventors: Gen Kanai, Yuji Kadowaki
  • Publication number: 20110311742
    Abstract: The invention provides a multilayer sheet and a heat-treatable packaging material which have excellent flexibility, transparency, impact resistance, heat resistance, heat-sealability and cleanliness, which are endowed with a good formability without readily incurring drawbacks such as external defects and thickness fluctuations when subjected to multilayer formation, and which, even at a reduced thickness, have an excellent sheet substrate strength decrease-inhibiting effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: JAPAN POLYPROPYLENE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Kadowaki, Gen Kanai
  • Patent number: 7662888
    Abstract: A polypropylene based heat shrinkable film obtained by using a propylene-ethylene block copolymer (A) which satisfies the following requirements (A-i) to (A-iv), and having heat shrinkability imparted by orientation in at least one direction: (A-i) it is a propylene-ethylene block copolymer obtained through sequential polymerization catalyzed by a metallocene catalyst which is composed of 30 to 95 wt % of a propylene homopolymer or propylene-ethylene random copolymer component (A1) having an ethylene content of at most 7 wt % produced in a first step and 70 to 5 wt % of a propylene-ethylene random copolymer component (A2) produced in a second step having an ethylene content higher by 3 to 20 wt % than that of the component (A1); (A-ii) it has a melt flow rate (MFR: 2.16 kg, 230° C.) within a range of 0.1 to 30 g/10 min; (A-iii) a temperature-loss tangent (tan ?) curve obtained by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) has a single peak at a temperature of at most 0° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Polypropylene Corporation
    Inventors: Gen Kanai, Kuninori Takahashi, Shinichi Kitade, Iku Kouzai
  • Patent number: 7341794
    Abstract: A laminated film of a propylene resin layer and an ethylene resin layer is provided, which does not require solvent removal and recovery devices, etc., is low in influences against working environments and a danger of occurrence of fire, and has a high interlaminar adhesive force. That is, the invention relates to a laminated film prepared by melt extrusion laminating, without via an anchor coating agent, an ethylene based resin mainly comprising a linear ethylene/?-olefin copolymer having: a density of from 0.870 to 0.910 g/cm3; and an MFR of from 1 to 100 g/10 min., the copolymer being obtained by copolymerizing ethylene and an ?-olefin having from 3 to 20 carbon atoms, on the surface of a propylene based resin film formed from a crystalline propylene based random copolymer resin having a melting peak temperature of not higher than 140° C., as prepared using a metallocene catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Japan Polypropylene Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yamashita, Gen Kanai
  • Publication number: 20060246308
    Abstract: A polypropylene based heat shrinkable film obtained by using a propylene-ethylene block copolymer (A) which satisfies the following requirements (A-i) to (A-iv), and having heat shrinkability imparted by orientation in at least one direction: (A-i) it is a propylene-ethylene block copolymer obtained through sequential polymerization catalyzed by a metallocene catalyst which is composed of 30 to 95 wt % of a propylene homopolymer or propylene-ethylene random copolymer component (A1) having an ethylene content of at most 7 wt % produced in a first step and 70 to 5 wt % of a propylene-ethylene random copolymer component (A2) produced in a second step having an ethylene content higher by 3 to 20 wt % than that of the component (A1); (A-ii) it has a melt flow rate (MFR: 2.16 kg, 230° C.) within a range of 0.1 to 30 g/10 min; (A-iii) a temperature-loss tangent (tan ?) curve obtained by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) has a single peak at a temperature of at most 0° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: JAPAN POLYPROPYLENE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gen Kanai, Kuninori Takahashi, Shinichi Kitade, Iku Kouzai
  • Patent number: 6875485
    Abstract: A resin composition for heat-shrinkable polypropylene shrink label, comprises: from 50 to 95% by weight of a crystalline propylene-?-olefin random copolymer mainly comprising propylene and from 5 to 50% by weight of an alicyclic hydrocarbon resin having a softening temperature of not lower than 110 degrees Celsius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Japan Polychem Corporation
    Inventors: Gen Kanai, Takao Tayano, Tadashi Sezume
  • Publication number: 20040216846
    Abstract: A laminated film of a propylene resin layer and an ethylene resin layer is provided, which does not require solvent removal and recovery devices, etc., is low in influences against working environments and a danger of occurrence of fire, and has a high interlaminar adhesive force. That is, the invention relates to a laminated film prepared by melt extrusion laminating, without via an anchor coating agent, an ethylene based resin mainly comprising a linear ethylene/&agr;-olefin copolymer having: a density of from 0.870 to 0.910 g/cm3; and an MFR of from 1 to 100 g/10 min., the copolymer being obtained by copolymerizing ethylene and an &agr;-olefin having from 3 to 20 carbon atoms, on the surface of a propylene based resin film formed from a crystalline propylene based random copolymer resin having a melting peak temperature of not higher than 140° C., as prepared using a metallocene catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventors: Takashi Yamashita, Gen Kanai
  • Publication number: 20020064611
    Abstract: A resin composition for heat-shrinkable polypropylene shrink label, comprises: from 50 to 95% by weight of a crystalline propylene-&agr;-olefin random copolymer mainly comprising propylene, the copolymer satisfying the following requirements (1) to (3); and from 5 to 50% by weight of an alicyclic hydrocarbon resin having a softening temperature of not lower than 110° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Applicant: JAPAN POLYCHEM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gen Kanai, Takao Tayano, Tadashi Sezume