Patents by Inventor Hiroji Yoshida

Hiroji Yoshida 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: 20110288268
    Abstract: A flat yarn includes a linear polylactic acid resin prepared from lactic acid monomers, wherein at least 95 mol % of the lactic acid is an L-isomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroji Yoshida, Toichi Ogura
  • Patent number: 7989061
    Abstract: A polylactic acid monofilament includes a linear polylactic acid with a relative viscosity ?rel of in the range of 2.7 to 4.5, prepared from lactic acid monomers wherein at least 95 mol % of the lactic acid is an L-isomer, and wherein the resin contains 0 to 30 ppm of Sn and 0 to 0.5% by weight of residual monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroji Yoshida, Toichi Ogura
  • Publication number: 20100234558
    Abstract: A polylactic acid monofilament includes a linear polylactic acid with a relative viscosity ?rel of in the range of 2.7 to 4.5, prepared from lactic acid monomers wherein at least 95 mol % of the lactic acid is an L-isomer, and wherein the resin contains 0 to 30 ppm of Sn and 0 to 0.5% by weight of residual monomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroji Yoshida, Toichi Ogura
  • Patent number: 7608329
    Abstract: A polylactic acid resin suitable for use especially in textile products; textile products obtained from the resin as a raw material (a fiber, multifilament, monofilament, staple, false-twist yarn, long-fiber nonwoven fabric, etc.); and processes for producing these textile products. The polylactic acid resin is a resin consisting mainly of a polylactic acid and is characterized in that it is linear, has an L-isomer content of 95 mol % or higher, an Sn content of 30 ppm or lower, a monomer content of 0.50 wt. % or lower, and has a relative viscosity of 2.7 to 3.9 or has a weight-average molecular weight of 120,000 to 220,000 and a number-average molecular weight of 60,000 to 110,000. Each of the textile products comprises the polylactic acid resin as the main material. The textile products each comprises a polylactic acid that is excellent in processability and excellent fiber properties. The free textile products are problems in practical use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kaijiyama, Hideo Ueda, Hiroji Yoshida, Toichi Ogura
  • Publication number: 20090208695
    Abstract: A spun-dyed textured polylacted filament yarn according to the present invention comprises a textured polylacted filament yarn, wherein the textured polylacted filament yarn includes a filament having an approximately circular or circular cross-section and has a relative viscosity of 2.5 to 3.8, wherein the textured polylacted filament yarn contains a coloring agent in an amount of 0.01 to 3 mass %, and wherein the textured polylacted filament yarn is 1.75 to 3.5 cN/dtex in tenacity, 35 to 60% in elongation, 500 to 3,500 dtex in total fineness, 2.5 to 25 dtex in a filament fineness, 2 to 8% in hot water shrinkage ratio, and 5 to 25% in dry heat crimp ratio. By employing the above structure, a spun-dyed textured polylacted filament yarn excellent in loftiness, toughness and abrasion resistance can be obtained. It is preferable that the cross-section of the filament has a degree of deformation less than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: Suminoe Textile Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Funatsu, Yoshihiko Okamoto, Yoshiki Hayashi, Hiroji Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20090035571
    Abstract: A polylactic acid resin suitable for use especially in textile products; textile products obtained from the resin as a raw material (a fiber, multifilament, monofilament, staple, false-twist yarn, long-fiber nonwoven fabric, etc.); and processes for producing these textile products. The polylactic acid resin is a resin consisting mainly of a polylactic acid and is characterized in that it is linear, has an L-isomer content of 95 mol % or higher, an Sn content of 30 ppm or lower, a monomer content of 0.50 wt. % or lower, and has a relative viscosity of 2.7 to 3.9 or has a weight-average molecular weight of 120,000 to 220,000 and a number-average molecular weight of 60,000 to 110,000. Each of the textile products comprises the polylactic acid resin as the main material. The textile products each comprises a polylactic acid that is excellent in processability and excellent fiber properties. The free textile products are problems in practical use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kaijiyama, Hideo Ueda, Hiroji Yoshida, Toichi Ogura
  • Patent number: 7445841
    Abstract: A polylactic acid resin suitable for use especially in textile products; textile products obtained from the resin as a raw material (a fiber, multifilament, monofilament, staple, false-twist yarn, long-fiber nonwoven fabric, etc.); and processes for producing these textile products. The polylactic acid resin is a resin consisting mainly of a polylactic acid and is characterized in that it is linear, has an L-isomer content of 95 mol % or higher, an Sn content of 30 ppm or lower, a monomer content of 0.50 wt. % or lower, and has a relative viscosity of 2.7 to 3.9 or has a weight-average molecular weight of 120,000 to 220,000 and a number-average molecular weight of 60,000 to 110,000. Each of the textile products comprises the polylactic acid resin as the main material. The textile products each comprises a polylactic acid that is excellent in processability and excellent fiber properties. The free textile products are problems in practical use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kaijiyama, Hideo Ueda, Hiroji Yoshida, Toichi Ogura
  • Publication number: 20050020171
    Abstract: This invention concerns a non-woven fabric obtained by interweaving fibers, and relates to non-woven fabrics in which the constituent fibers have three dimensional randomicity in view of the directionality, a production method and a production apparatus therefor, and a non-woven fabric suitable to cushion materials, filters and non-woven fabric structures using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Hiroji Yoshida, Makio Nagata, Noboru Watanabe, Hiroshi Onoue
  • Patent number: 6604464
    Abstract: An inking device for feeding ink that is fed to an ink rail to a printing plate on a plate cylinder via a group of rollers that are sequentially in contact with each other, comprising a first roller part of the outer periphery of which faces an ink feeding surface of the ink rail, a second roller that is disposed downstream of the first roller in the ink feeding process and in contact with the outer periphery of the first roller on the downstream side in the rotating direction from the position at which the first roller faces the ink feeding surface of the ink rail, a third roller that is in contact with the first roller on the downstream side in the rotating direction from the position at which the second roller comes in contact with the outer periphery of the first roller, and a fourth roller that is in contact with the outer peripheries of the second and third rollers and blocks the front side in the rotating direction of the first and second rollers at the position where the first and second rollers are i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Tokyo KiKai Seisakusho, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanobu Kawabata, Hiroji Yoshida, Kazuo Takahara
  • Patent number: 6393983
    Abstract: An ink rail for a printing press has an ink rail body, a pedestal, a supporting member and a distance adjusting means. The ink rail body has a concave curved surface and also has an ink supplying surface having plural ink supplying ports opened to the concave curved surface. The pedestal supports the ink rail body in a supporting plane parallel to the joining face of the ink rail body. The supporting member supports the pedestal so as to be angularly displaced. The ink rail body can be reciprocated along the supporting plane of the pedestal. The joining face of the ink rail body approximately conforms to a plane including a rotation central line of the fountain roller, and the concave curved surface of the ink rail body can be approached and separated from the outer circumferential surface of the fountain roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho
    Inventors: Takashi Iijima, Hiroji Yoshida, Yoshio Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20010011511
    Abstract: An inking device for feeding ink that is fed to an ink rail to a printing plate on a plate cylinder via a group of rollers that are sequentially in contact with each other, comprising a first roller part of the outer periphery of which faces an ink feeding surface of the ink rail, a second roller that is disposed downstream of the first roller in the ink feeding process and in contact with the outer periphery of the first roller on the downstream side in the rotating direction from the position at which the first roller faces the ink feeding surface of the ink rail, a third roller that is in contact with the first roller on the downstream side in the rotating direction from the position at which the second roller comes in contact with the outer periphery of the first roller, and a fourth roller that is in contact with the outer peripheries of the second and third rollers and blocks the front side in the rotating direction of the first and second rollers at the position where the first and second rollers are i
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Publication date: August 9, 2001
    Inventors: Takanobu Kawabata, Hiroji Yoshida, Kazuo Takahara
  • Patent number: 6247402
    Abstract: An ink rail 1 for a printing press has an ink rail body 5 having an ink supplying surface 53 constucted by a concave curved surface able to be opposed to the outer circumferential surface of the fountain roller F at a suitable distance C; an inclination member 4 arranged on a lower face of the ink rail body 5 and having an angle of inclination a between upper and lower faces of the inclination member and an inclining direction set to a transversal direction of the ink rail body 5; a pedestal 3 for supporting the inclination member 4; a supporting member 2 for supporting the pedestal 3; first adjusting means 6 capable of moving the ink supplying surface 53 in a thickness direction of the inclination member 4 with respect to the outer circumferential surface of the fountain roller F; and second adjusting means 7 capable of moving the ink supplying surface 53 in a direction perpendicular to a moving direction provided by the first adjusting means with respect to the outer circumferential surface of the fountain
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho
    Inventors: Takashi Iijima, Hiroji Yoshida, Yosho Kobayashi