Patents by Inventor Hirotaka Shiota

Hirotaka Shiota 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: 20240043630
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of producing water-containing EVOH pellets introducing a water-containing EVOH into an extruder for melt kneading; and cutting the water-containing EVOH extruded from the extruder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Shiota
  • Patent number: 11352477
    Abstract: A resin composition comprises: a modified EVOH (A) that is represented by a following formula (I), has contents (mol %) of a, b, and c based on the total monomer units satisfying following formulae (1) through (3), and has a degree of saponification (DS) defined by a following formula (4) of 90 mol % or more; and inorganic oxide particles (B), wherein a content of the inorganic oxide particles (B) is from 5 to 5000 ppm. Such a resin composition is improved in adhesion to a resin other than EVOH, secondary processability, and flexibility without decreasing the performances originally possessed by EVOH, such as gas barrier properties, transparency, flavor retention, solvent resistance, and oil resistance. Accordingly, the resin is preferably used as a molded article, a film, a sheet, a heat shrinkable film, a thermoformed article, a multilayer structure, a coinjection stretch blow molded container, a fuel container, and the like. 18?a?55??(1) 0.01?c?20??(2) [100?(a+c)]×0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Okamoto, Hirotaka Shiota, Makoto Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190345309
    Abstract: A resin composition comprises: a modified EVOH (A) that is represented by a following formula (I), has contents (mol %) of a, b, and c based on the total monomer units satisfying following formulae (1) through (3), and has a degree of saponification (DS) defined by a following formula (4) of 90 mol % or more; and inorganic oxide particles (B), wherein a content of the inorganic oxide particles (B) is from 5 to 5000 ppm. Such a resin composition is improved in adhesion to a resin other than EVOH, secondary processability, and flexibility without decreasing the performances originally possessed by EVOH, such as gas barrier properties, transparency, flavor retention, solvent resistance, and oil resistance. Accordingly, the resin is preferably used as a molded article, a film, a sheet, a heat shrinkable film, a thermoformed article, a multilayer structure, a coinjection stretch blow molded container, a fuel container, and the like. 18?a?55??(1) 0.01?c?20??(2) [100?(a+c)]×0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto OKAMOTO, Hirotaka SHIOTA, Makoto SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 5973106
    Abstract: Disclosed are a hot-melting acrylonitrile (AN) polymer composition comprising a non-volatile component modified from AN alone or a AN monomer composition through chemical reaction, an AN polymer and water, a method for producing the composition, and a method for producing a shaped article of AN polymer by melting the composition under heat followed by shaping the melt. The composition and the shaped article do not contain toxic AN and AN monomer mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Japan Exlan Company Limited
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shiota, Ryosuke Nishida, Takahisa Kida, Noriyuki Kohara, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Ryuichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 5681512
    Abstract: A process for producing a homogeneous phase melt of polyacrylonitrile suitable for extrusion molding and melt spinning, by the steps of preparing polymer/water crumb containing 30-60 wt % of polyacrylonitrile and dewatering the crumb in a molten state with stirring at temperatures above 140.degree. C. and at pressures above autogenous pressure until the concentration of the polymer in the crumb exceeds 70% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: Japan Exlan Company Limited
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shiota, Ryosuke Nishida, Takahisa Kida, Noriyuki Kohara, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Ryuichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 5674975
    Abstract: Saturated or superheated steam, or an inert gas, or a combination thereof is introduced into a gas phase above a molten acrylonitrile polymer in a vessel having a stirrer, while the polymer has a temperature of at least 120.degree. C. and a pressure at least equal to its autogenous pressure. Any unreacted acrylonitrile monomer, or both any such monomer and any acrylonitrile monomer or water used as a plasticizer are removed by evaporation from the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: Japan Exlan Company Limited
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shiota, Ryosuke Nishida, Takahisa Kida, Noriyuki Kohara, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Ryuichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 4130525
    Abstract: A stable aqueous emulsion of an acrylonitrile polymer which comprises a dispersion system of said acrylonitrile polymer having a particle size of substantially less than 1.mu. in water and contains substantially no emulsifying agent nor dispersing agent. Said emulsion is produced by a process comprising; polymerizing acrylonitrile alone or in a monomer mixture comprising more than 60% by weight of acrylonitrile and as another component, at least one other ethylenically unsaturated compound, under stirring at a temperature higher than 120.degree. C and at least autogenous pressure, in an aqueous system consisting essentially of water in an amount of 45 to 95% by weight based on the total weight of water and monomer(s), to thereby introduce at least 2.times.10.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1978
    Assignee: Japan Exlan Company Limited
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kobashi, Hirotaka Shiota, Haruki Umetani
  • Patent number: 4022710
    Abstract: Colloidal antimony oxide is continuously produced by passing an aqueous dispersion containing antimony trioxide and hydrogen peroxide through a heated tube-type reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1977
    Assignee: Japan Exlan Company Limited
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kobashi, Hirotaka Shiota