Patents by Inventor Jun Tokuhiro

Jun Tokuhiro 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: 20230040092
    Abstract: A solar cell sealing material of the present invention is a solar cell sealing material that is used to seal a solar cell element and includes an ethylene.?-olefin copolymer, an organic peroxide (A) having a one-hour half-life temperature in a range of equal to or higher than 100° C. and equal to or lower than 130° C., and an organic peroxide (B) having a one-hour half-life temperature in a range of higher than 130° C. and equal to or lower than 160° C., and a ratio (X2/X1) of a content X2 of the organic peroxide (B) to a content X1 of the organic peroxide (A) in the solar cell sealing material is equal to or more than 0.05 and equal to or less than 1.10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS TOHCELLO, INC.
    Inventors: Rie KURIHARA, Yasuo OEDA, Jun TOKUHIRO
  • Publication number: 20200266315
    Abstract: A solar cell sealing material of the present invention is a solar cell sealing material that is used to seal a solar cell element and includes an ethylene.?-olefin copolymer, an organic peroxide (A) having a one-hour half-life temperature in a range of equal to or higher than 100° C. and equal to or lower than 130° C., and an organic peroxide (B) having a one-hour half-life temperature in a range of higher than 130° C. and equal to or lower than 160° C., and a ratio (X2/X1) of a content X2 of the organic peroxide (B) to a content X1 of the organic peroxide (A) in the solar cell sealing material is equal to or more than 0.05 and equal to or less than 1.10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS TOHCELLO, INC.
    Inventors: Rie KURIHARA, Yasuo OEDA, Jun TOKUHIRO
  • Publication number: 20180337297
    Abstract: A solar cell module includes a light-receiving surface-side protective member, a rear surface-side protective member, solar cell elements, and an encapsulating layer that encapsulates the solar cell elements between the light-receiving surface-side protective member and the rear surface-side protective member. The light-receiving surface-side protective member has a plurality of fine recess portions and a plurality of fine protrusion portions on at least a solar cell element side surface, busbar electrodes are provided to the solar cell elements on at least a light-receiving surface-side surface. The encapsulating layer has a light-receiving surface side-encapsulating layer having an effective thickness of 0.01 mm to less than 0.25 mm and a rear surface-side encapsulating layer, and the solar cell elements are encapsulated between the light-receiving surface side-encapsulating layer and the rear surface-side encapsulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello, Inc.
    Inventors: Takanobu MUROFUSHI, Jun TOKUHIRO
  • Publication number: 20180237620
    Abstract: A photo-crosslinkable ethylene-based resin composition of the present invention includes an ethylene-based copolymer having a Shore A hardness measured in accordance with ASTM D2240 of equal to or more than 55 and equal to or less than 95, a photo-crosslinking initiator, and a crosslinking aid, in which the content of the crosslinking aid is equal to or more than 0.1 parts by mass and less than 2.0 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the ethylene-based copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS TOHCELLO, INC.
    Inventors: Takanobu MUROFUSHI, Jun TOKUHIRO, Shigenobu IKENAGA
  • Publication number: 20170317222
    Abstract: Disclosed is a solar cell module including an n-type crystalline silicon-based solar cell element as a power generation element, in which at least one surface of the n-type crystalline silicon-based solar cell element is encapsulated with a solar-cell encapsulating material including an ethylene•?-olefin copolymer satisfying the following requirements a1) to a4). a1) A content proportion of a structural unit derived from ethylene is in a range of 80 to 90 mol %, and a content proportion of a structural unit derived from an ?-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms is in a range of 10 to 20 mol %. a2) MFR measured under defined conditions is in a range of 0.1 to 50 g/10 minutes. a3) A density, which is measured under defined conditions in a range of 0.865 to 0.884 g/cm3. a4) A Shore A hardness, which is measured under defined conditions is in a range of 60 to 85.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS TOHCELLO, INC.
    Inventors: Takanobu MUROFUSHI, Jun TOKUHIRO
  • Publication number: 20170204249
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a resin composition for a solar-cell encapsulating material includes an ethylene•?-olefin copolymer of which an MFR measured based on ASTM D1238 under conditions of 190° C. and a load of 2.16 kg is equal to or less than 10 g/10 minutes, a silane coupling agent, and a hindered amine-based photostabilizer. pH of the hindered amine-based photostabilizer, which is measured by using the following measuring method is equal to or less than 9.0. In the measuring method, the pH is measured by using a potential difference measuring device and by using a solution which contains 10 g of acetone, 1 g of water, and 0.01 g of the hindered amine-based photostabilizer, as a sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS TOHCELLO, INC.
    Inventors: Takanobu MUROFUSHI, Jun TOKUHIRO
  • Publication number: 20150372158
    Abstract: There are disclosed a pair of solar battery-sealing sheets composed of a light-receiving side-sealing sheet and a backside-sealing sheet for solar electricity generating elements of a solar battery module and reducing the coming-around of the backside-sealing sheet, wherein the melt peak temperature based on a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of the backside-sealing sheet is higher than the melt peak temperature based on the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of the light-receiving side-sealing sheet; and a solar battery module using the light-receiving side-sealing sheet and the backside-sealing sheet of the solar battery-sealing sheet, and a method for manufacturing the solar battery module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Masaru TANABE, Katsuhiko SHIMIZU, Jun TOKUHIRO
  • Patent number: 8945701
    Abstract: An ethylene resin composition is provided which has excellent properties including adhesion properties, electrically insulating properties, transparency, moldability and process stability and can be produced without requiring any cross-linking procedure if necessary to improve productivity; and others. The ethylene resin composition contains a modified product produced by modifying an ethylene polymer (A) that meets all of the requirements a) to e) mentioned below with an ethylenically unsaturated silane compound (B). a) The density is 900 to 940 kg/m3. b) The melting peak temperature is 90 to 125 ° C. as determined by DSC. c) The melt flow rate (MFR2) is 0.1 to 100 g/10 minutes as measured at 190 ° C. and a load of 2.16 kg in accordance with JIS K-6721. d) The Mw/Mn ratio is 1.2 to 3.5. e) The content of metal residues is 0.1 to 50 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Takashi Hakuta, Kazuhiro Yarimizu, Hiroshi Mori, Takanobu Murofushi, Hirofumi Zenkoh, Jun Tokuhiro, Fumito Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8772625
    Abstract: Disclosed is an encapsulating material for solar cell containing an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer satisfying the following requirements (a1) to (a4): (a1) the content ratio of structural units derived from ethylene is from 80 to 90 mol % and the content ratio of structural units derived from ?-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms is from 10 to 20 mol %; (a2) MFR is from 10 to 50 g/10 minutes as measured under the conditions of a temperature of 190 degrees centigrade and a load of 2.16 kg in accordance with ASTM D1238; (a3) the density is from 0.865 to 0.884 g/cm3 as measured in accordance with ASTM D1505; and (a4) the shore A hardness is from 60 to 85 as measured in accordance with ASTM D2240.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignees: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Fumito Takeuchi, Keiji Watanabe, Jun Tokuhiro, Takanobu Murofushi, Kazuhiro Yarimizu, Tomoaki Ito, Nobuhiro Maruko
  • Publication number: 20130167911
    Abstract: Disclosed is an encapsulating material for solar cell containing an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer satisfying the following requirements (a1) to (a4): (a1) the content ratio of structural units derived from ethylene is from 80 to 90 mol % and the content ratio of structural units derived from ?-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms is from 10 to 20 mol %; (a2) MFR is from 10 to 50 g/10 minutes as measured under the conditions of a temperature of 190 degrees centigrade and a load of 2.16 kg in accordance with ASTM D1238; (a3) the density is from 0.865 to 0.884 g/cm3 as measured in accordance with ASTM D1505; and (a4) the shore A hardness is from 60 to 85 as measured in accordance with ASTM D2240.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Fumito Takeuchi, Keiji Watanabe, Jun Tokuhiro, Takanobu Murofushi, Kazuhiro Yarimizu, Tomoaki Ito, Nobuhiro Maruko
  • Publication number: 20120073631
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an ethylene resin composition which has excellent properties including adhesion properties, electrically insulating properties, transparency, moldability and process stability and can be produced without requiring any cross-linking procedure if necessary to improve productivity; and others. The ethylene resin composition contains a modified product produced by modifying an ethylene polymer (A) that meets all of the requirements a) to e) mentioned below with an ethylenically unsaturated silane compound (B). a) The density is 900 to 940 kg/m3. b) The melting peak temperature is 90 to 125 DEG C as determined by DSC. c) The melt flow rate (MFR2) is 0.1 to 100 g/10 minutes as measured at 190° C. and a load of 2.16 kg in accordance with JIS K-6721. d) The Mw/Mn ratio is 1.2 to 3.5. e) The content of metal residues is 0.1 to 50 ppm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Takashi Hakuta, Kazuhiro Yarimizu, Hiroshi Mori, Takanobu Murofushi, Hirofumi Zenkoh, Jun Tokuhiro, Fumito Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20090071693
    Abstract: To provide a negative photosensitive material containing a quaternary ammonium salt in an amount of 5 to 30 weight parts based on 100 weight parts of a polyimide precursor having repeating units of the following general formula (I), wherein said quaternary ammonium salt is a photobase generator for generating a tertiary amine by irradiation with an active ray, and said tertiary amine contains one or more nitrogen atoms and oxygen atoms respectively in a molecule, wherein, in the formula (I), X is a tetravalent aliphatic group or a tetravalent aromatic group; and Y is a divalent aliphatic group or a divalent aromatic group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Jun TOKUHIRO, Hiroyuki Sekino, Mitsuaki Chida, Kenji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20060088786
    Abstract: A rewritable optical information recording medium including a recording layer composed of an organic dye film is provided, in which recording and erasing information can be performed reversibly by laser light irradiation. A rewritable optical information recording medium including at least one organic dye film which is substantially made of only at least one kind of organic dye compounds as a recording film is provided. The recording and erasure of information are performed by a reversible physical change of the organic dye film substance caused by laser light irradiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventors: Sakuya Tamada, Takashi Iwamura, Yuichi Sabi, Mitsuaki Oyamada, Masanobu Yamamoto, Tadashi Koike, Tatsumi Misawa, Akira Ogiso, Ryousuke Nara, Jun Tokuhiro, Hisashi Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 5855979
    Abstract: An optical recording medium comprising a recording layer, a light interference layer, a reflective layer and a protective layer that are laminated on a substrate, characterized in that said recording layer and said light interference layer comprise at least one organic dye, and that a light absorbent and/or a thermal decomposition promoter are/is added to said light interference layer, wherein the optical recording medium has compatibility that allows good recording and/or reproduction by using lasers of different two wavelength ranges and has good recording properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki Umehara, Jun Tokuhiro, Yuji Inatomi, Tomoyoshi Sasakawa, Tsutami Misawa, Kenichi Sugimoto, Taizo Nishimoto, Takeshi Tsuda