Patents by Inventor Hidetake Hozumi

Hidetake Hozumi 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: 7482409
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing an ethylene-?-olefin-polyene copolymer by continuous multistage polymerization which can give an ethylene-?-olefin-polyene copolymer excellent in a form retention property during extrusion. The process for producing an ethylene-?-olefin-polyene copolymer comprises continuously polymerizing ethylene, ?-olefin, and the following polyene (A) and polyene (B) in a solvent in the presence of an olefin polymerization catalyst using a polymerization reaction apparatus comprising two tanks of polymerization reactors connected in series, wherein the polymerization is carried out under specific conditions: polyene (A): at least one polyene selected from norbornadienes and vinylnorbornenes, polyene (B): polyene other than the polyene (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hisakatsu Hama, Hidetake Hozumi
  • Publication number: 20080207852
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer by continuous multistage polymerization which can give an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer excellent in a form retention property during extrusion. The process for producing an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer comprises continuously polymerizing ethylene and ?-olefin in a solvent in the presence of an olefin polymerization catalyst using a polymerization reaction apparatus comprising two tanks of polymerization reactors connected in series, wherein the polymerization is carried out under the following polymerization conditions etc.: a ratio (?1/?2) of average residence time in the first tank (?1, unit: hr) to average residence time in the second tank (?2, unit: hr): from 1.2 to 10, and a value G of the following formula: from 0 to 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hisakatsu HAMA, Hidetake Hozumi
  • Publication number: 20080182947
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing an ethylene-?-olefin-polyene copolymer by continuous multistage polymerization which can give an ethylene-?-olefin-polyene copolymer excellent in a form retention property during extrusion. The process for producing an ethylene-?-olefin-polyene copolymer comprises continuously polymerizing ethylene, ?-olefin, and the following polyene (A) and polyene (B) in a solvent in the presence of an olefin polymerization catalyst using a polymerization reaction apparatus comprising two tanks of polymerization reactors connected in series, wherein the polymerization is carried out under specific conditions: polyene (A): at least one polyene selected from norbornadienes and vinylnorbornenes, polyene (B): polyene other than the polyene (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hisakatsu HAMA, Hidetake Hozumi
  • Patent number: 6858676
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an olefin derived copolymer and a thermoplastic resin composition using the olefin derived copolymer satisfying the following (1) and (2): (1) tensile strength at break measured based on JIS K6251 is 2.0 or less MPa; and (2) tensile elongation at break EB (%) of a resin composition obtained satisfies the following relational expression (expression 1) and (expression 2), when blended with a polypropylene derived resin that has 20 degree C. xylene soluble component of not more than 20 wt %. R[3/5]?R[2/6]?0.15??(expression 1) S[2/6]??800??(expression 2) (R[3/5] and R[2/6] are obtained by the following methods: a curve is obtained by plotting tensile elongation at break EB (%) (based on JIS K6251) of resin composition taken as vertical axis, and weight part rate Pa of a content of an olefin derived copolymer contained in a resin composition taken as horizontal axis; a multiple regression curve in section regions of Pa=0.30-0.50 and Pa=0.20-0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Johoji, Hidetake Hozumi, Atsuko Ogawa, Tadaaki Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 6773808
    Abstract: There is provided an adhesive film comprising: (i) a substrate layer, which comprises a thermoplastic resin, and (ii) an adhesive layer, which comprises an olefin copolymer, wherein the olefin copolymer comprises polymerization units of at least two olefins selected from the group consisting of ethylene and &agr;-olefins having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, and the olefin copolymer satisfies the requirements: (a) the olefin copolymer has neither a peak of crystal melting calorie of not less than 1 J/g, nor a peak of crystallization calorie of not less than 1 J/g in a differential scanning calorimetry according to JIS K 7122, and (b) a molecular weight distribution of the olefin copolymer, Mw/Mn, is not more than 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuko Ogawa, Akihiro Ichige, Hidetake Hozumi
  • Publication number: 20040097650
    Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising the following components (A) and (B), wherein a weight ratio of the component (A)/the component (B) is from 5/95 to 95/5:
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Atsuko Ogawa, Tadaaki Nishiyama, Hidetake Hozumi
  • Patent number: 6632541
    Abstract: An olefin based copolymer composition having excellent weather resistance and excellent recycling properties having an olefin based copolymer obtained by copolymerizing two or more olefins, wherein the olefins are selected from the group consisting of ethylene, propylene and alpha olefins having 4 to 20 carbon atoms, and the total number of carbon atoms of the two or more selected olefins is 6 or more in combination with other component(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hirofumi Johoji, Hidetake Hozumi, Tadaaki Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 6562907
    Abstract: There is provided an olefin polymer having an elastic recovery of from 70 to 100% defined by the following formula (1), Elastic recovery=stress-residual deformation recovery×100/stretch deformation  (1) wherein the stress-residual deformation recovery and the stretch deformation are obtained from a 100% strain hysteresis curve of a resin composition comprising 70 parts by weight of the olefin polymer and 30 parts by weight of one specific propylene-ethylene copolymer resin, provided that at least one resin composition satisfies the above-defined value of elastic recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hirofumi Johoji, Hidetake Hozumi, Tadaaki Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 6525138
    Abstract: There is disclosed a thermoplastic resin composition comprising; (A) 5 to 95% by weight of a thermoplastic resin having a melt flow rate of from 0.001 to 100 g/10 min. and a die swell ratio of not less than 1.7, and (B) 95 to 5% by weight of an olefin polymer satisfying the following formula (1), Ua≦1.5×Sa×(Ta/100)3.3  (1) wherein (i) Ua is a flexural modulus of a resin opposition for evaluation composed of 50 parts by weight of said olefin polymer and 50 parts by weight of a specific homopolypropylene resin, (ii) Sa is a flexural modulus of said homopolypropylene resin, and (iii) Ta is a containing ratio of said homopolypropylene resin in the resin composition for evaluation, provided that the sum of the component (A) and the component (B) is 100% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hirofumi Johoji, Hidetake Hozumi, Tadaaki Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20020164491
    Abstract: There is provided an adhesive film comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Atsuko Ogawa, Akihiro Ichige, Hidetake Hozumi
  • Patent number: 6458901
    Abstract: A propylene copolymer comprising propylene, at least one olefin selected from the group consisting of olefins having 2 to 20 carbon atoms except propylene, and a cyclic olefin, wherein the total number of carbon atoms of the monomers except the cyclic olefin is at least 7. This copolymer is mixed with a thermoplastic resin such as polypropylene to provide a thermoplastic resin composition having excellent flexibility, transparency, resistance to whitening on bending, scratch resistance and heat resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Keisaku Yamamoto, Hirofumi Johoji, Hidetake Hozumi
  • Publication number: 20020120065
    Abstract: There is provided an olefin polymer having an elastic recovery of from 70 to 100% defined by the following formula (1),
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirofumi Johoji, Hidetake Hozumi, Tadaaki Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20020072561
    Abstract: An olefin-based copolymer composition comprising the following component (a) in combination with any one component selected from the following components (b) to (i):
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 1999
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: HIROFUMI JOHOJI, HIDETAKE HOZUMI, TADAAKI NISHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 6391974
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive comprising an olefin-based copolymer wherein (1) the olefin-based copolymer has a tensile strength at break measured according to JIS K 6251 of 2.0 MPa or less, and (2) the elongation at break EB(%) of a resin composition obtained in blending the olefin-based copolymer with a polypropylene-based resin having a 20° C. xylene-soluble component content of 20 wt % or less satisfies the following formula 1: S[2/6]≧−800, wherein S[2/6] represents the gradient of a primary straight line, and Pa represents the weight content proportion of the olefin-based copolymer contained in the resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuko Ogawa, Tatsuo Sassa, Hirofumi Jyouhouji, Hidetake Hozumi
  • Publication number: 20020055592
    Abstract: There is disclosed a thermoplastic resin composition comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirofumi Johoji, Hidetake Hozumi, Tadaaki Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 6331360
    Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising (a) 100 wt. parts of a polyolefin resin, (b) 5 to 250 wt. parts of an ethylene-&agr;-olefin copolymer rubber in which the content of the &agr;-olefin units is at least 50 wt. %, and (c) 0 to 500 wt. parts of an ethylene-&agr;-olefin copolymer rubber in which the content of the &agr;-olefin units is less than 50 wt. %. This composition can provide a molded article which is hardly whitened when it is bent, and has good flexiblity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugimoto, Yoshihiro Nakatsuji, Hidetake Hozumi
  • Patent number: 6121401
    Abstract: A propylene copolymer obtainable by polymerizing a propylene, at least one of .alpha.-olefin having 4-20 carbon atoms, and ethylene, in the presence of a catalyst for olefin polymerizaton including the following (A), (B) and/or (C):(A) at least one transition metal complex;(B) at least one aluminum compound; and(C) boron compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Keisaku Yamamoto, Hirofumi Johoji, Hidetake Hozumi
  • Patent number: 6084048
    Abstract: A propylene-1-butene copolymer wherein a Shore A-scale hardness measured according to ASTM D2240 is not more than 70 and an intrinsic viscosity [.eta.] measured in axylene solvent at the temperature of 70.degree. C. is not less than 0.3 and which shows no crystalline melting peak and no crystallization peak in differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) mesurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetake Hozumi, Yasuhito Ijichi