Patents by Inventor Jun Okabe

Jun Okabe 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: 20160243503
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composite semipermeable membrane achieving high permeate amount and having high capability to inhibit adhesion of foulants to the membrane surface. The present invention relates to a composite semipermeable membrane including: a supporting membrane which includes a substrate and a porous supporting layer; and a polyamide separation functional layer formed on the porous supporting layer, in which an acidic group-containing hydrophilic polymer is introduced onto the surface of the separation functional layer via amide linkage, and relates to a method for producing such a composite semipermeable membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jun OKABE, Koji NAKATSUJI, Keisuke YONEDA, Tsuyoshi HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20150343393
    Abstract: Provided is a composite semipermeable membrane having a high salt removal rate and a high water permeability. The composite semipermeable membrane comprises a substrate, a porous support layer formed on the substrate, and a separation functional layer formed on the porous support layer, the hydrophilic macromolecule concentration on the substrate-side surface of the porous support layer being higher than that on the separation functional layer-side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Keisuke Yoneda, Jun Okabe, Takao Sasaki, Masahiro Kimura, Masahiro Henmi
  • Patent number: 9013049
    Abstract: To provide a resin composition for sealing an optical semiconductor, which is a raw material for a sealing resin layer having good curability and excellent storage stability; preferably a raw material for a sealing resin layer further having excellent weather resistance. The surface sealant for an optical semiconductor of Embodiment 1 according to the present invention contains epoxy resin (a) having two or more epoxy groups in a molecule, and metal complex (b1) which contains at least one metal ion selected from the group consisting of Zn, Bi, Ca, Al, Cd, La and Zr, a tertiary amine capable of forming a complex with the metal ion and having no N—H bond and an anionic ligand having a molecular weight of 17 to 200, in which the surface sealant has a viscosity of 10 to 10000 mPa·s, as measured by E-type viscometer at 25° C. and 1.0 rpm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yugo Yamamoto, Jun Okabe, Setsuko Oike
  • Publication number: 20150014244
    Abstract: To provide a composite semipermeable membrane capable of maintaining high removal performance even after its supporting membrane has come into contact with an aqueous solution high in salt concentration. A composite semipermeable membrane including: a supporting membrane which includes a substrate and a porous supporting layer; and a separation functional layer provided on the porous supporting layer, in which a strength to peel the porous supporting layer away from the substrate is 1.1 N/25 mm or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Harutoki Shimura, Jun Okabe, Kiyohiko Takaya, Masahiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20140377460
    Abstract: In order to obtain a composite separation membrane which has excellent chemical resistance, separation performance and water permeability at the same time, the present invention provides a composite separation membrane comprising a separation function layer on a porous supporting membrane, characterized in that the separation function layer contains at least a polymer of a polyhedral silsesquioxane represented by the following general formula (a) and a hydrophilic monomer. (R1SiO1.5)n(R2SiO1.5)m ??General Formula (a) (In the formula, R1 includes a polymerizable reactive moiety; R2 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, which may be substituted; and n and m each represent an integer satisfying n>2 or m>0, with n+m being 8, 10 or 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jun OKABE, Hiroki TOMIOKA, Masahiro HENMI
  • Publication number: 20140367670
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the issue of providing a surface sealing agent which can be cured at low temperatures and which exhibits excellent storage stability. In order to resolve this issue, provided is a surface sealing agent for an organic EL element, the surface sealing agent including an epoxy resin (A) having at least two epoxy groups in a molecule, and a curing accelerator (B) which is a salt of a specific quaternary ammonium ion, wherein 0.1-10 parts by weight of the curing accelerator (B) is contained relative to 100 parts by weight of the surface sealing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Yugo Yamamoto, Jun Okabe
  • Publication number: 20140339152
    Abstract: A composite semipermeable membrane includes: a supporting membrane having a substrate and a porous supporting layer; and a separation functional layer provided on the supporting membrane, in which, when any 10 cross sections of the composite semipermeable membrane, having a length of 2.0 ?m in a membrane surface direction, are observed using an electron microscope, an average number density of projections on the separation functional layer, which have a height equivalent to or higher than ? of a 10-point average surface roughness of the separation functional layer, is 10.0 pieces/?m or more, in each cross section, and an average height of the projections is 100 nm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Jun Okabe, Yoshie Marutani, Kiyohiko Takaya, Harutoki Shimura, Takao Sasaki, Masahiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 8657123
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composite semipermeable membrane which has excellent chemical resistance, separation performance, and water permeability, and the composite semipermeable membrane has the following structure. The present invention provides a composite semipermeable membrane in which an separation function layer is formed on a microporous supporting membrane, wherein the separation function layer is formed from (A) a silicon compound in which a reactive group having an ethylenically unsaturated group and a hydrolyzable group are directly bonded to silicon atoms, and (B) a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated group other than the silicon compound, by condensation of the hydrolyzable group of the silicon compound (A) and polymerization of the ethylenically unsaturated group of the silicon compound (A) and the ethylenically unsaturated group of the compound (B) having the ethylenically unsaturated group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Okabe, Hiroki Tomioka, Masahiro Henmi
  • Publication number: 20130153880
    Abstract: To provide a resin composition for sealing an optical semiconductor, which is a raw material for a sealing resin layer having good curability and excellent storage stability; preferably a raw material for a sealing resin layer further having excellent weather resistance. The surface sealant for an optical semiconductor of Embodiment 1 according to the present invention contains epoxy resin (a) having two or more epoxy groups in a molecule, and metal complex (b1) which contains at least one metal ion selected from the group consisting of Zn, Bi, Ca, Al, Cd, La and Zr, a tertiary amine capable of forming a complex with the metal ion and having no N—H bond and an anionic ligand having a molecular weight of 17 to 200, in which the surface sealant has a viscosity of 10 to 10000 mPa·s, as measured by E-type viscometer at 25° C. and 1.0 rpm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yugo Yamamoto, Jun Okabe, Setsuko Oike
  • Publication number: 20110139708
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composite semipermeable membrane which has excellent chemical resistance, separation performance, and water permeability, and the composite semipermeable membrane has the following structure. The present invention provides a composite semipermeable membrane in which an separation function layer is formed on a microporous supporting membrane, wherein the separation function layer is formed from (A) a silicon compound in which a reactive group having an ethylenically unsaturated group and a hydrolyzable group are directly bonded to silicon atoms, and (B) a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated group other than the silicon compound, by condensation of the hydrolyzable group of the silicon compound (A) and polymerization of the ethylenically unsaturated group of the silicon compound (A) and the ethylenically unsaturated group of the compound (B) having the ethylenically unsaturated group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jun Okabe, Hiroki Tomioka, Masahiro Henmi
  • Publication number: 20110017662
    Abstract: In order to obtain a composite separation membrane which has excellent chemical resistance, separation performance and water permeability at the same time, the present invention provides a composite separation membrane comprising a separation function layer on a porous supporting membrane, characterized in that the separation function layer contains at least a polymer of a polyhedral silsesquioxane represented by the following general formula (a) and a hydrophilic monomer. (R1SiO1.5)n(R2SiO1.5)m??General Formula (a) (In the formula, R1 includes a polymerizable reactive moiety; R2 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, which may be substituted; and n and m each represent an integer satisfying n?2 or m?0, with n+m being 8, 10 or 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jun Okabe, Hiroki Tomioka, Masahiro Henmi
  • Patent number: 7501466
    Abstract: An acrylic elastomer composition comprising (A) a halogen-containing acrylic elastomer, (B) a polyvalent carboxylic acid, (C) a quaternary onium salt and (D) a hydrotalcite can be vulcanized within a shorter vulcanization time to give a vulcanization product having distinguished normal state physical properties and compression set characteristics, even without any secondary vulcanization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Nippon Mextron, Limited
    Inventors: Tamotsu Yoshida, Jun Okabe
  • Publication number: 20070179228
    Abstract: An acrylic elastomer composition comprising (A) a halogen-containing acrylic elastomer, (B) a polyvalent carboxylic acid, (C) a quaternary onium salt and (D) a hydrotalcite can be vulcanized within a shorter vulcanization time to give a vulcanization product having distinguished normal state physical properties and compression set characteristics, even without any secondary vulcanization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Tamotsu Yoshida, Jun Okabe
  • Patent number: 6914098
    Abstract: A butenedioic acid monoalkyl ester-copolymerized acrylic elastomer containing 0.1-30% by mole of unreacted butenedioic acid monoalkyl ester on the basis of carboxyl groups copolymerized in the acrylic elastomer or its cross-linkable composition. The cross-linkable composition can give cross-linking products having distinguished vulcanization characteristics and stably showing good compression set characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Mekiron, Limited
    Inventors: Iwao Moriyama, Jun Okabe
  • Publication number: 20040122156
    Abstract: An acrylic elastomer composition comprising (A) a halogen-containing acrylic elastomer, (B) a polyvalent carboxylic acid, (C) a quaternary onium salt and (D) a hydrotalcite can be vulcanized within a shorter vulcanization time to give a vulcanization product having distinguished normal state physical properties and compression set characteristics, even without any secondary vulcanization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: Tamotsu Yoshida, Jun Okabe
  • Publication number: 20040087729
    Abstract: A butenedioic acid monoalkyl ester-copolymerized acrylic elastomer containing 0.1-30% by mole of unreacted butenedioic acid monoalkyl ester on the basis of carboxyl groups copolymerized in the acrylic elastomer or its cross-linkable composition. The cross-linkable composition can give cross-linking products having distinguished vulcanization characteristics and stably showing good compression set characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventors: Iwao Moriyama, Jun Okabe
  • Publication number: 20040019154
    Abstract: A butenedioic acid monoalkyl ester-copolymerized acrylic elastomer containing 0.1-30% by mole of unreacted butenedioic acid monoalkyl ester on the basis of carboxyl groups copolymerized in the acrylic elastomer or its cross-linkable composition. The cross-linkable composition can give cross-linking products having distinguished vulcanization characteristics and stably showing good compression set characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventors: Iwao Moriyama, Jun Okabe
  • Patent number: 6380318
    Abstract: A modified acrylic rubber having distinguished molding characteristics and O-ring compression set characteristic is produced by mixing an acrylic rubber having reactive functional groups such as active chlorine groups, carboxylic groups, epoxy groups, active ester groups, etc. with an unsaturated compound reactive with the reactive functional group with heating in the absence of a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Limited
    Inventors: Kuniyoshi Saito, Eiji Komiya, Jun Okabe
  • Publication number: 20010005742
    Abstract: A butenedioic acid monoalkyl ester-copolymerized acrylic elastomer containing 0.1-30% by mole of unreacted butenedioic acid monoalkyl ester on the basis of carboxyl groups copolymerized in the acrylic elastomer or its cross-linkable composition. The cross-linkable composition can give cross-linking products having distinguished vulcanization characteristics and stably showing good compression set characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Publication date: June 28, 2001
    Applicant: Nippon Mektron, Limited
    Inventors: Iwao Moriyama, Jun Okabe
  • Patent number: 6156849
    Abstract: An acrylic elastomer composition, which comprises an acrylic elastomer obtained by copolymerization with 0.1 to 10% by weight of fumaric acid mono-lower alkyl ester on the basis of total monomer mixture, an aromatic diamine compound vulcanizing agent and a guanidine compound vulcanization promoter is distinguished in metal corrosion resistance, oil resistance, compression set characteristics, etc. and is effectively applicable as a vulcanization molding material for seal members or hose members to be used at contact sites with metal members, oil, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Limited
    Inventors: Iwao Moriyama, Jun Okabe