Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Imai

Hirofumi Imai 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: 20240103368
    Abstract: A negative photosensitive composition for forming a top plate portion of a hollow structure which contains an epoxy group-containing compound, a cationic polymerization initiator, a polyfunctional (meth)acrylate compound, and a photoradical polymerization initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kenichi Yamagata, Ryosuke Nakamura, Hirofumi Imai
  • Publication number: 20240045330
    Abstract: A negative photosensitive composition including a novolak-type polyfunctional aromatic epoxy resin (Ap), a trifunctional epoxy monomer (Am), and a sulfonium salt represented by Formula (I0). A mass ratio of (Am)/(Ap) is 5/5 to 8/2. In Formula (I0), R1 and R2 represent an aryl group, a heterocyclic hydrocarbon group, or an alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Shota Katayama, Takahiro Kondo, Kenichi Yamagata, Hirofumi Imai
  • Publication number: 20240036467
    Abstract: A method for producing a hollow package, including forming a side wall on a substrate having an aluminum wire, and forming a top plate portion on the side wall to prepare a hollow structure accommodating the aluminum wire, in which the photosensitive composition that forms the side wall and/or the top plate portion contains an anion represented by General Formula (I1-an) in which A represents a heteroatom, X represents a halogen atom, R represents a monovalent organic group, k represents an integer of 1 to 6, m represents an integer of 0 to 5, n represents an integer of 1 to 3, and m/(k+m) is 0 or greater and less than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Kenichi YAMAGATA, Takahiro KONDO, Hiroaki TAKEUCHI, Hirofumi IMAI
  • Publication number: 20230236505
    Abstract: A negative photosensitive resin composition containing an epoxy group-containing resin and a cationic polymerization initiator which includes a sulfonium salt represented by General Formula (I0). In Formula (I0), R1 and R2 represent an aryl group, a heterocyclic hydrocarbon group, or an alkyl group. R3 to R5 are an alkyl group, a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, an alkylcarbonyl group, an arylcarbonyl group, an acyloxy group, an arylthio group, an alkylthio group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic hydrocarbon group, an aryloxy group, a hydroxy(poly)alkyleneoxy group, or a halogen atom. k is an integer of 0 to 4, m is an integer of 0 to 3, and n is an integer of 1 to 4. A is a group represented by —S—, —O—, —SO—, —SO2—, or —CO—.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Takuto NAKAO, Tomoyuki SHIBAGAKI, Yuji NAKAMURA, Kenichi YAMAGATA, Takahiro KONDO, Masahiro MASUJIMA, Hirofumi IMAI
  • Publication number: 20230041025
    Abstract: A negative-working photosensitive resin composition including an epoxy group-containing resin, a metal oxide, and a cationic polymerization initiator, in which a photosensitive resin film having a film thickness of 20 ?m obtained by applying the negative-working photosensitive resin composition onto a silicon wafer and performing a bake treatment at 90° C. for 5 minutes has a Martens hardness of less than 235 [N/mm2], and when a viscoelasticity of a cured film, which is obtained by exposing the photosensitive resin film to i-rays at an irradiation amount of 200 mJ/cm2, performing a bake treatment after the exposure at 90° C. for 5 minutes, and then performing a bake treatment at 200° C. for 1 hour to cure the photosensitive resin film, is measured at a frequency of 1.0 Hz, a tensile elastic modulus (E*) of the cured film at a temperature of 175° C. is 2.1 [GPa] or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke NAKAMURA, Takahiro KONDO, Hiroaki TAKEUCHI, Hirofumi IMAI
  • Patent number: 11498156
    Abstract: In a laser processing apparatus for refining magnetic domains of a grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet by setting a laser beam to be focused on the grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet and scanned in a scanning direction, the laser beam focused on the grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet is linearly polarized light, and an angle between a linear polarization direction and the scanning direction is higher than 45° and equal to or lower than 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Hirano, Hirofumi Imai, Hideyuki Hamamura, Tatsuhiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10919755
    Abstract: A beverage discharge cock to which beverage is supplied from a beverage supply source, comprising: a valve main body including a hole and a valve seat arranged in an end portion of the hole; a valve rod slidably arranged in the hole, and including a valve body that forms a first valve together with the valve seat of the valve main body, and a first seal; and a movable part slidably arranged in the hole, and including a second seal facing the first seal, the second seal forming a second valve together with the first seal of the valve rod, wherein the valve rod includes a first channel extending through the valve body, and one or a plurality of second channels extending from the first seal to the first channel, and the second channel includes a first portion, and a second portion arranged between the first seal and the first portion, and a diameter of the second portion is smaller than a diameter of the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: ASAHI GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Takahashi, Yasuhiro Kurabe, Hirofumi Imai, Kazuya Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 10906134
    Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including a steel sheet having a steel sheet surface in which a groove, which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction and of which a groove depth direction matches a sheet thickness direction, is formed. In a case where the steel sheet surface is seen from the sheet thickness direction, the steel sheet surface is provided with a groove group that is constituted by a plurality of the grooves arranged in a sheet width direction, the grooves, which constitute the groove group, are arranged in such a manner that adjacent grooves overlap each other on a projection plane perpendicular to the rolling direction, and a plurality of the groove groups are arranged with an interval in the rolling direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Hamamura, Tatsuhiko Sakai, Hisashi Mogi, Fumiaki Takahashi, Hirofumi Imai, Shunsuke Okumura
  • Patent number: 10875275
    Abstract: A composition for forming a separation layer that separates a support base that transmits light from a laminate including the support base, a substrate, the separation layer and an adhesive layer between the support base and the substrate by irradiating the separation layer with light from the support base side and modifying the separation layer. The composition contains a resin component which has a phenol skeleton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoshioka, Hirofumi Imai, Hiroaki Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10793756
    Abstract: An adhesive composition contains (a) a resin consisting of (i) a block copolymer or (ii) 35% by weight or greater and less than 100% of the block copolymer and 65% by weight or less of a random copolymer, the block copolymer having a weight average molecular weight in a range of 50,000 to 150,000, wherein the block copolymer is a diblock copolymer, a triblock copolymer, or a combination thereof, and includes a styrene group, both terminals of a main chain of the triblock copolymer are styrene groups; (b) a solvent which includes a condensed polycyclic hydrocarbon, wherein an adhesive layer formed by using the adhesive composition has a Young's modulus of 0.1 GPa or greater at 23° C., a storage modulus (G?) of 1.5×105 Pa or less at 220° C., and a loss factor (tan ?) of 1.3 or less at 220° C.; and (c) a thermal polymerization inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koki Tamura, Hirofumi Imai, Toshiyuki Ogata, Atsushi Kubo, Takahiro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 10773338
    Abstract: In a laser processing apparatus for refining magnetic domains of a grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet by setting a laser beam to be focused on the grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet and scanned in a scanning direction, the laser beam focused on the grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet is linearly polarized light, and the angle between the linear polarization direction and the scanning direction is equal to or higher than 0° and lower than 45°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Hirano, Hirofumi Imai, Hideyuki Hamamura, Tatsuhiko Sakai
  • Publication number: 20200201181
    Abstract: A negative-tone photosensitive resin composition containing an epoxy group-containing resin, a cationic polymerization initiator, and a polyfunctional thiol compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Hirofumi IMAI, Ryuma MIZUSAWA, Ryosuke NAKAMURA, Takahiro KONDO
  • Patent number: 10662491
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a steel sheet having a surface on which grooves, in which an extending direction crosses a rolling direction and a depth direction is parallel to a sheet thickness direction, are formed, and wherein a molten solidified substance ranging in parallel to the groove exists on both sides of the groove on the surface of the steel sheet, and a height becoming a maximum frequency in a height distribution of height data in which the surface of the steel sheet in a specific area including the groove is measured at regular intervals is set as a virtual plane, and a value of V2/V1 is more than 0.10 and less than 0.80, wherein V1 is a space volume of recess parts recessed from the virtual plane and V2 is a volume of projection parts projected from the virtual plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahito Mizumura, Fumiaki Takahashi, Masato Mizokami, Hisashi Mogi, Hideyuki Hamamura, Hirofumi Imai, Shinya Hayashi, Kenichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 10434606
    Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including a steel sheet having a steel sheet surface in which a groove, which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction and of which a groove depth direction matches a sheet thickness direction, is formed. When an average value of a groove depth in a sheet thickness direction at a central portion of the groove in a longitudinal groove direction is set as an average groove depth D, a straight line, which connects a first point at which a groove depth in the sheet thickness direction becomes 0.05×D and a second point at which the groove depth becomes 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Hamamura, Tatsuhiko Sakai, Fumiaki Takahashi, Hisashi Mogi, Shunsuke Okumura, Hirofumi Imai
  • Publication number: 20190292039
    Abstract: A beverage discharge cock to which beverage is supplied from a beverage supply source, comprising: a valve main body including a hole and a valve seat arranged in an end portion of the hole; a valve rod slidably arranged in the hole, and including a valve body that forms a first valve together with the valve seat of the valve main body, and a first seal; and a movable part slidably arranged in the hole, and including a second seal facing the first seal, the second seal forming a second valve together with the first seal of the valve rod, wherein the valve rod includes a first channel extending through the valve body, and one or a plurality of second channels extending from the first seal to the first channel, and the second channel includes a first portion, and a second portion arranged between the first seal and the first portion, and a diameter of the second portion is smaller than a diameter of the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Tomohiro TAKAHASHI, Yasuhiro KURABE, Hirofumi IMAI, Kazuya SHIRAISHI
  • Patent number: 10385418
    Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including a steel sheet having a steel sheet surface in which a groove, which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction and of which a groove depth direction matches a sheet thickness direction, is formed. In a case where the groove is seen on a longitudinal groove cross-section including a groove extension direction and the sheet thickness direction, an arithmetic average height Ra of a roughness curve, which constitutes a contour of a groove bottom region of the groove, is 1 ?m to 3 ?m, and an average length RSm of a roughness curve element, which constitutes the contour of the groove bottom region, is 10 ?m to 150 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Mogi, Fumiaki Takahashi, Hideyuki Hamamura, Tatsuhiko Sakai, Hirofumi Imai, Shunsuke Okumura
  • Publication number: 20190091979
    Abstract: A method of producing a laminate including a substrate and a light-transmitting support plate that are laminated each other via an adhesive layer and a release layer that is altered through absorption of light, the method including coating a reactive polysilsesquioxane on a surface of the support plate, the surface being opposed to the substrate, and heating the reactive polysilsesquioxane to perform polymerization, thereby forming the release layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoshioka, Koki Tamura, Hirofumi Imai, Atsushi Kubo
  • Patent number: 10241403
    Abstract: A negative photosensitive composition including an epoxy group-containing resin; and a cationic polymerization initiator containing one or more types of the following cationic polymerization initiators: a compound represented by formula (b0-1) and a compound represented by formula (b0-2), and a cationic polymerization initiator which generates an acid having a pKa of ?3 or more. In the formulae, Rb01 to Rb04 are each independently a fluorine atom or an aryl group which may have a substituent, Rb05 is a fluorine atom or a fluorinated alkyl group which may have a substituent, a plurality of Rb05's may be the same as or different from each other, q is an integer of 1 or more, and Qq+'s are each independently a q-valent organic cation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Imai, Tomoyuki Ando
  • Publication number: 20190048434
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a steel sheet having a surface on which grooves in which an extending direction crosses a rolling direction and a depth direction is parallel to a sheet thickness direction are formed. A molten solidified substance ranging in parallel to the groove exists on both sides of the groove on a surface of the steel sheet. A height becoming a maximum frequency in a height distribution of height data in which the surface of the steel sheet in a specific area including the groove is measured at regular intervals is set as a virtual plane, and when a space volume of recess parts recessed from the virtual plane is set as V1 and a volume of projection parts projected from the virtual plane is set as V2, a value of V2/V1 is more than 0.10 and less than 0.80. A plurality of projections are formed in the specific area, and among the plurality of projections, a width of a projection closest to the groove is larger than widths of the other projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahito MIZUMURA, Fumiaki TAKAHASHI, Masato MIZOKAMI, Hisashi MOGI, Hideyuki HAMAMURA, Hirofumi IMAI, Shinya HAYASHI, Kenichi MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20190047250
    Abstract: A composition for forming a separation layer that separates a support base that transmits light from a laminate including the support base, a substrate, the separation layer and an adhesive layer between the support base and the substrate by irradiating the separation layer with light from the support base side and modifying the separation layer. The composition contains a resin component which has a phenol skeleton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Takahiro YOSHIOKA, Hirofumi IMAI, Hiroaki TAKEUCHI