Patents by Inventor Hideo Funabashi

Hideo Funabashi 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: 20240218087
    Abstract: To provide a solid catalyst component for polymerization of an olefin, which can easily produce a polymer of an olefin, which is excellent in fluidity and also is high in rigidity even though the molecular weight distribution is narrow, without performing complicated polymerization treatment. A solid catalyst component for polymerization of an olefin includes magnesium, titanium and halogen, and further includes an aromatic carboxylic acid ester and a 1,3-diether compound as internal electron-donating compounds, wherein a content ratio of the titanium is 0.5 to 2.0% by mass, a content ratio of the aromatic carboxylic acid ester in a total content of the internal electron-donating compounds is 40 to 60 mol %, and a content ratio of the 1,3-diether compound in the total content of the internal electron-donating compounds is 40 to 60 mol %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: TOHO TITANIUM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Funabashi, Kunihiko Tashino, Hayashi Ogawa, Hirokazu Soga
  • Publication number: 20090215973
    Abstract: A propylenic polymer according to the present invention or a composition thereof have an excellent melt flowability and contains a less amount of stickiness-causing components, and also has a low modulus and is pliable, and is capable of providing a transparent molded article, thus being useful as a substitute for a pliable vinyl chloride resin. In addition, a molded article made therefrom exhibits an excellent heat seal performance at a low temperature, and is excellent in terms of transparency and rigidity. Specifically, it has an isotactic pentad fraction (mmmm), which indicates a stereoregularity, of 30 to 80%, a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 3.5 or less and an intrinsic viscosity [?] of 0.8 to 5 dl/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Minami, Masato Kijima, Takuji Okamoto, Yasushi Seta, Yasuhiro Mogi, Tsuyoshi Ota, Hideo Funabashi, Takashi Kashiwamura, Noriyuki Tani, Masami Kanamaru, Koji Kakigami
  • Patent number: 7544758
    Abstract: A propylenic polymer according to the present invention or a composition thereof have an excellent melt flowability and contains a less amount of stickiness-causing components, and also has a low modulus and is pliable, and is capable of providing a transparent molded article, thus being useful as a substitute for a pliable vinyl chloride resin. In addition, a molded article made therefrom exhibits an excellent heat seal performance at a low temperature, and is excellent in terms of transparency and rigidity. Specifically, it has an isotactic pentad fraction (mmmm), which indicates a stereoregulariry, of 30 to 80%, a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 3.5 or less and an intrinsic viscosity [?] of 0.8 to 5 dl/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Minami, Masato Kijima, Takuji Okamoto, Yasushi Seta, Yasuhiro Mogi, Tsuyoshi Ota, Hideo Funabashi, Takashi Kashiwamura, Noriyuki Tani, Masami Kanamaru, Koji Kakigami
  • Publication number: 20080188687
    Abstract: A magnesium compound obtained by reacting metallic magnesium having a sphericity (S) of less than 4.00, the sphericity (S) being represented by the following formula (I), an alcohol, and a halogen and/or a halogen-containing compound containing halogen atoms in an amount of 0.0001 gram atom or more relative to one gram atom of the metallic magnesium, S=(L1/L2)3 ??(I) wherein L1 represents the maximum diameter of projection views of metallic magnesium determined by photographing with a scanning electron microscope and thereafter an image processing, and L2 represents a diameter of a circle having an area equal to the area of the projection view of metallic magnesium. A solid catalyst component is obtained from the magnesium compound and a titanium compound, and a catalyst for olefin polymerization is obtained using the solid catalyst component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shojiro Tanase, Takanori Sadashima, Hideo Funabashi, Masahiko Kuramoto
  • Patent number: 7387979
    Abstract: A magnesium compound obtained by reacting metallic magnesium having a sphericity (S) of less than 4.00, the sphericity (S) being represented by the following formula (I), an alcohol, and a halogen and/or a halogen-containing compound containing halogen atoms in an amount of 0.0001 gram atom or more relative to one gram atom of the metallic magnesium, S=(L1/L2)3??(I) wherein L1 represents the maximum diameter of projection views of metallic magnesium determined by photographing with a scanning electron microscope and thereafter an image processing, and L2 represents a diameter of a circle having an area equal to the area of the projection view of metallic magnesium. A solid catalyst component is obtained from the magnesium compound and a titanium compound, and a catalyst for olefin polymerization is obtained using the solid catalyst component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shojiro Tanase, Takanori Sadashima, Hideo Funabashi, Masahiko KJuramoto
  • Patent number: 7259215
    Abstract: A process for producing a propylene-ethylene block copolymer in a good morphology using a catalyst system comprising a metallocene catalyst (1) preparing high crystalline polypropylene, a metallocene catalyst (2) preparing low crystalline polypropylene, a porous carrier (3), aluminoxane (4) or a compound (4) which can be reacted with the metallocene catalysts described above to form an ionic complex and, if necessary, an organic aluminum compound (5) and a propylene-ethylene block copolymer. The resultant compound has a high transparency and a low elastic modulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Kanamaru, Hideo Funabashi
  • Patent number: 7250211
    Abstract: Heat-sealing polypropylene films having specific characteristics, and being well-balanced between a tensile modulus and a heat seal temperature, less tacky, and excellent in processability, transparency and impact resistance, as well as being excellent in resistance to whitening due to peeling, softness and impact resistance. A multilayered heat-sealing polyolefin resin laminate having at least one outermost layer produced from the above heat-sealing propylene polymers exhibits excellent low-temperature heat sealability and sufficient interlaminar strength without the use of an adhesive. The heat-sealing propylene polymers are produced by polymerizing propylene or polymerizing propylene with ethylene and/or C4-C20 ?-olefin in the presence of a polymerization catalyst containing a transition metal compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein A1, A2, E1, E2, M, X, Y, q and r are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Minami, Masami Kanamaru, Hideo Funabashi, Yasushi Seta, Masahiko Endoh
  • Patent number: 7220694
    Abstract: The invention relates to a magnesium compound effective in producing olefin polymers having an increased bulk density and a narrowed particle size distribution, not lowering the stereospecificity of the polymers produced and not lowering the polymerization activity in producing the polymers, to an olefin polymerization catalyst comprising the compound, and to a method for producing such olefin polymers. The olefin polymerization catalyst comprises (A) a solid catalyst component prepared by contacting a magnesium compound having a specific particle size distribution index (P), a titanium compound and an electron donor compound with each other, (B) an organometallic compound, and (C) an electron donor. The olefin polymerization method comprises polymerizing an olefin in the presence of the catalyst to give olefin polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shohjiroh Tanase, Takehiro Tsuda, Tsuyoshi Ota, Hideo Funabashi
  • Patent number: 7199202
    Abstract: A propylenic polymer according to the present invention or a composition thereof have an excellent melt flowability and contains a less amount of stickiness-causing components, and also has a low modulus and is pliable, and is capable of providing a transparent molded article, thus being useful as a substitute for a pliable vinyl chloride resin. In addition, a molded article made therefrom exhibits an excellent heat seal performance at a low temperature, and is excellent in terms of transparency and rigidity. Specifically, it has an isotactic pentad fraction (mmmm), which indicates a stereoregulariry, of 30 to 80%, a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 3.5 or less and an intrinsic viscosity [?] of 0.8 to 5 dl/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Minami, Masato Kijima, Takuji Okamoto, Yasushi Seta, Yasuhiro Mogi, Tsuyoshi Ota, Hideo Funabashi, Takashi Kashiwamura, Noriyuki Tani, Masami Kanamaru, Koji Kakigami
  • Publication number: 20060293471
    Abstract: A propylenic polymer according to the present invention or a composition thereof have an excellent melt flowability and contains a less amount of stickiness-causing components, and also has a low modulus and is pliable, and is capable of providing a transparent molded article, thus being useful as a substitute for a pliable vinyl chloride resin. In addition, a molded article made therefrom exhibits an excellent heat seal performance at a low temperature, and is excellent in terms of transparency and rigidity. Specifically, it has an isotactic pentad fraction (mmmm), which indicates a stereoregulariry, of 30 to 80%, a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 3.5 or less and an intrinsic viscosity [?] of 0.8 to 5 dl/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Minami, Masato Kijima, Takuji Okamoto, Yasushi Seta, Yasuhiro Mogi, Tsuyoshi Ota, Hideo Funabashi, Takashi Kashiwamura, Noriyuki Tani, Masami Kanamaru, Koji Kakigami
  • Patent number: 7081427
    Abstract: A solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization comprising titanium, magnesium and a compound of the general formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 are independently a C3 straight or branched hydrocarbon group, R3 is hydrogen or a C1-4 straight hydrocarbon group, R4 is a C1-4 straight or branched hydrocarbon group or a C3-4 aliphatic cyclic hydrocarbon group when R3 is hydrogen, R4 is the same C1-4 straight hydrocarbon group as R3 when R3 is a C1-4 straight hydrocarbon group, and n is an integer of 1 to 10. A catalyst for olefin polymerization, containing this catalyst component, obtains a high activity with high stereospecificity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Yabunouchi, Takanori Sadashima, Hideo Funabashi
  • Patent number: 7067604
    Abstract: 1-butene based polymer satisfying following requirements (1?) to (4?) provides formed product having low stickiness, superior flexibility and transparency. (1?) Crystalline resin having melting point (Tm?P), not observed or in the range of 0 to 100° C., wherein said melting point defined as the peak top of the peak observed in the highest temperature zone of the melting heat absorption curve obtained by heating a sample of said polymer at a rate of 10° C./minute using Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC), after melting said sample in advance at 190° for 5 minutes under nitrogen atmosphere, followed by cooling it to ?10° C. at a rate of 5° C./minutes, and keeping it at ?10° C. for 5 minutes. (2?) Stereoregularity index {(mmmm)/(mmrr+rmmr)} is at most 20. (3?) Molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) measured by Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) method is at most 4.0. (4?) Weight average molecular weight (Mw) measured by GPC method is in the range of 10,000 to 1,000,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Minami, Masami Kanamaru, Koji Kakigami, Hideo Funabashi
  • Publication number: 20060014909
    Abstract: A process for producing a propylene-ethylene block copolymer in a good morphology using a catalyst system comprising a metallocene catalyst (1) preparing high crystalline polypropylene, a metallocene catalyst (2) preparing low crystalline polypropylene, a porous carrier (3), aluminoxane (4) or a compound (4) which can be reacted with the metallocene catalysts described above to form an ionic complex and, if necessary, an organic aluminum compound (5) and a propylene-ethylene block copolymer. The resultant compound has a high transparency and a low elastic modulus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2003
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Kanamaru, Hideo Funabashi
  • Publication number: 20050227857
    Abstract: A magnesium compound obtained by reacting metallic magnesium having a sphericity (S) of less than 4.00, the sphericity (S) being represented by the following formula (I), an alcohol, and a halogen and/or a halogen-containing compound containing halogen atoms in an amount of 0.0001 gram atom or more relative to one gram atom of the metallic magnesium, S=(L1/L2)3??(I) wherein L1 represents the maximum diameter of projection views of metallic magnesium determined by photographing with a scanning electron microscope and thereafter an image processing, and L2 represents a diameter of a circle having an area equal to the area of the projection view of metallic magnesium. A solid catalyst component is obtained from the magnesium compound and a titanium compound, and a catalyst for olefin polymerization is obtained using the solid catalyst component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2003
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shojiro Tanase, Takanori Sadashima, Hideo Funabashi, Masahiko Kuramoto
  • Publication number: 20050187359
    Abstract: A solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization, which is obtained by reacting the following compounds (a), (b) and (d), or the following compounds (a), (b), (c) and (d), (a) a halogen-containing titanium compound, (b) an alkoxylated magnesium compound, (c) a halogen-containing silicon compound, (d) electron-donating compound(s) represented by the following general formula (I) and/or general formula (II), wherein n is an integer of 2 to 10, each of R1 to R8 is a substituent having at least one element selected from carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, halogen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, boron or silicon, any substituents of R1 to R8 may together form a ring other than a benzene ring, wherein each of R9 to R12 is independently a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group, or an arylalkyl group, having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, provided that the total sum of carbon atoms of R9 and R10 is 3 to 40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Shojiro Tanase, Takanori Sadashima, Nobuhiro Yabunouchi, Masahiko Kuramoto, Hideo Funabashi
  • Patent number: 6930160
    Abstract: 1-butene based polymer satisfying following requirements (1?) to (4?) provides formed product having low stickiness, superior flexibility and transparency. (1?) Crystalline resin having melting point (Tm?P), not observed or in the range of 0 to 100° C., wherein said melting point defined as the peak top of the peak observed in the highest temperature zone of the melting heat absorption curve obtained by heating a sample of said polymer at a rate of 10° C./minute using Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC), after melting said sample in advance at 190° for 5 minutes under nitrogen atmosphere, followed by cooling it to ?10° C. at a rate of 5° C./minutes, and keeping it at ?10° C. for 5 minutes. (2?) Stereoregularity index {(mmmm)/(mmrr+rmmr)} is at most 20. (3?) Molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) measured by Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) method is at most 4.0. (4?) Weight average molecular weight (Mw) measured by GPC method is in the range of 10,000 to 1,000,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Minami, Masami Kanamaru, Koji Kakigami, Hideo Funabashi
  • Patent number: 6906155
    Abstract: A propylenic polymer according to the present invention or a composition thereof have an excellent melt flowability and contains a less amount of stickiness-causing components, and also has a low modulus and is pliable, and is capable of providing a transparent molded article, thus being useful as a substitute for a pliable vinyl chloride resin. In addition, a molded article made therefrom exhibits an excellent heat seal performance at a low temperature, and is excellent in terms of transparency and rigidity. Specifically, it has an isotactic pentad fraction (mmmm), which indicates a stereoregulariry, of 30 to 80%, a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 3.5 or less and an intrinsic viscosity [?] of 0.8 to 5 dl/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Minami, Masato Kijima, Takuji Okamoto, Yasushi Seta, Yasuhiro Mogi, Tsuyoshi Ota, Hideo Funabashi, Takashi Kashiwamura, Noriyuki Tani
  • Publication number: 20050043495
    Abstract: A propylenic polymer according to the present invention or a composition thereof have an excellent melt flowability and contains a less amount of stickiness-causing components, and also has a low modulus and is pliable, and is capable of providing a transparent molded article, thus being useful as a substitute for a pliable vinyl chloride resin. In addition, a molded article made therefrom exhibits an excellent heat seal performance at a low temperature, and is excellent in terms of transparency and rigidity. Specifically, it has an isotactic pentad fraction (mmmm), which indicates a stereoregulariry, of 30 to 80%, a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 3.5 or less and an intrinsic viscosity [?] of 0.8 to 5 dl/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Applicant: IDEMITSU PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Minami, Masato Kijima, Takuji Okamoto, Yasushi Seta, Yasuhiro Mogi, Tsuyoshi Ota, Hideo Funabashi, Takashi Kashiwamura, Noriyuki Tani, Masami Kanamaru, Koji Kakigami
  • Publication number: 20040204552
    Abstract: 1-butene based polymer satisfying following requirements (1″) to (4″) provides formed product having low stickiness, superior flexibility and transparency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: IDEMITSU PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Minami, Masami Kanamaru, Koji Kakigami, Hideo Funabashi
  • Publication number: 20040198589
    Abstract: The invention relates to a magnesium compound effective in producing olefin polymers having an increased bulk density and a narrowed particle size distribution, not lowering the stereospecificity of the polymers produced and not lowering the polymerization activity in producing the polymers, to an olefin polymerization catalyst comprising the compound, and to a method for producing such olefin polymers. The olefin polymerization catalyst comprises (A) a solid catalyst component prepared by contacting a magnesium compound having a specific particle size distribution index (P), a titanium compound and an electron donor compound with each other, (B) an organometallic compound, and (C) an electron donor. The olefin polymerization method comprises polymerizing an olefin in the presence of the catalyst to give olefin polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: IDEMITSU PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shohjiroh Tanase, Takehiro Tsuda, Tsuyoshi Ota, Hideo Funabashi