Patents by Inventor Kahoru Niimi

Kahoru Niimi 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: 20230109620
    Abstract: A transparent double-sided self-adhesive sheet is provided which, when bonding to an adherend, not only excels in the ability to conform to steps or surface irregularities caused by a printing site, but also excels in workability such as cutting processability. A transparent double-sided self-adhesive sheet is proposed, having an intermediate resin layer (A) and pressure-sensitive adhesive layers (B) as front and reverse side layers, each of the layers being a layer having one or more species of (meth)acrylic acid ester series (co)polymer as the base resin, in which transparent double-sided self-adhesive sheet, the shear storage elastic modulus (G?(A)) at a frequency of 1 Hz of the intermediate resin layer (A) is higher than the pressure-sensitive adhesive layers (B) in a temperature range of 0° C. to 100° C., and, the indentation hardness (ASKER C2 hardness) of the entire sheet is 10 to 80.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kahoru NIIMI, Hidejirou YOSHIKAWA, Tetsuya YAMAOKA, Makoto INENAGA
  • Patent number: 10611932
    Abstract: A photocurable adhesive sheet that can be photocured even if there are places such as print-concealed sections that are difficult for light to reach, and even if the adhesive sheet has a certain degree of thickness, the entire sheet can be cured. A transparent adhesive sheet formed from an adhesive composition containing: (A) a thermoplastic resin; (B) a crosslinking agent; (C) a photopolymerization initiator that reacts with light having a wavelength of at least 380 to 430 nm; and (D) a wavelength conversion agent that is excited by light having a wavelength shorter than 380 nm and that emits light having a wavelength of 380 to 550 nm. The transparent adhesive sheet is characterized by the adhesive sheet absorbance X at a wavelength of 390 nm and the adhesive sheet thickness Y satisfying relational formula (1): 0.5?X/Y?12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Kahoru Niimi, Makoto Inenaga
  • Publication number: 20190329536
    Abstract: A transparent double-sided self-adhesive sheet is provided which, when bonding to an adherend, not only excels in the ability to conform to steps or surface irregularities caused by a printing site, but also excels in workability such as cutting processability. A transparent double-sided self-adhesive sheet is proposed, having an intermediate resin layer (A) and pressure-sensitive adhesive layers (B) as front and reverse side layers, each of the layers being a layer having one or more species of (meth)acrylic acid ester series (co)polymer as the base resin, in which transparent double-sided self-adhesive sheet, the shear storage elastic modulus (G?(A)) at a frequency of 1 Hz of the intermediate resin layer (A) is higher than the pressure-sensitive adhesive layers (B) in a temperature range of 0° C. to 100° C., and, the indentation hardness (ASKER C2 hardness) of the entire sheet is 10 to 80.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kahoru Niimi, Hidejirou Yoshikawa, Tetsuya Yamaoka, Makoto Inenaga
  • Patent number: 10280337
    Abstract: A method for recycling optical device constituent members, wherein a transparent adhesive material is softened by heating and is crosslinked by light irradiation, an optical device constituent laminate having a constitution in which two optical device constituent members are bonded via a transparent adhesive material in a pre-crosslinked state is used as a recycle starting material, and the method including: heating at least the transparent adhesive material of the optical device constituent laminate; standing the optical device constituent laminate; hanging a linear member along an end edge of the transparent adhesive material located at an upper end edge of the optical device constituent laminate; dividing the transparent adhesive material by applying a load by the linear member; and producing the two optical device constituent members to which a divided one-side transparent adhesive material adheres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Kahoru Niimi, Makoto Inenaga
  • Patent number: 9809731
    Abstract: There is provided a new pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition that can have adhesiveness to the extent of being peelable in a room temperature condition, has fluidity by hot-melting, and can finally be crosslinked to firmly bond adherends to each other. There is proposed a pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition comprising 100 parts by mass of an acrylic copolymer (A), 0.5 to 20 parts by mass of a crosslinking agent (B), and 0.1 to 5 parts by mass of a photopolymerization initiator (C), wherein the acrylic copolymer (A) is a graft copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of 5.0×104 to 5.0×105, contains as a trunk component of the graft copolymer a repeating unit derived from a (meth)acrylate, contains as a branch component of the graft copolymer a repeating unit derived from a macromonomer having a number average molecular weight of 5.0×102 or more and less than 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Kahoru Niimi, Makoto Inenaga, Junichi Nakamura, Eri Kawai
  • Publication number: 20170198175
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photocurable adhesive sheet. Provided is a new adhesive sheet that can be photocured even if there are places such as print-concealed sections that are difficult for light to reach, and even if the adhesive sheet has a certain degree of thickness, the entire sheet can be cured. Proposed is a transparent adhesive sheet formed from an adhesive composition containing: (A) a thermoplastic resin; (B) a crosslinking agent; (C) a photopolymerization initiator that reacts with light having a wavelength of at least 380 to 430 nm; and (D) a wavelength conversion agent that is excited by light having a wavelength shorter than 380 nm and that emits light having a wavelength of 380 to 550 nm. The transparent adhesive sheet is characterized by the adhesive sheet absorbance X at a wavelength of 390 nm and the adhesive sheet thickness Y satisfying relational formula (1). 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kahoru NIIMI, Makoto INENAGA
  • Publication number: 20170152404
    Abstract: A method for recycling optical device constituent members, wherein a transparent adhesive material is softened by heating and is crosslinked by light irradiation, an optical device constituent laminate having a constitution in which two optical device constituent members are bonded via a transparent adhesive material in a pre-crosslinked state is used as a recycle starting material, and the method including: heating at least the transparent adhesive material of the optical device constituent laminate; standing the optical device constituent laminate; hanging a linear member along an end edge of the transparent adhesive material located at an upper end edge of the optical device constituent laminate; dividing the transparent adhesive material by applying a load by the linear member; and producing the two optical device constituent members to which a divided one-side transparent adhesive material adheres.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kahoru NIIMI, Makoto INENAGA
  • Patent number: 9574111
    Abstract: A novel transparent double-sided adhesive sheet for image display device is provided, that, under the constraint of holding down the thickness of the adhesive sheet to 250 ?m or less, can relieve a distortion arising within the adhesive sheet after laminating even if a member has a stepped portion of 50 ?m to 100 ?m in height on the laminating surface. Proposed is a transparent double-sided adhesive sheet for image display device which is used for the purpose of laminating an image display device constitutive member having on a laminating surface a stepped portion of 50 ?m to 100 ?m in height and a flat surface portion, and another image display device constitutive member, wherein a thickness of the maximum thickness portion of the adhesive sheet is 250 ?m or less, and a gel fraction (a) at a position in contact with a stepped portion after laminating is 10% or greater and smaller than a gel fraction (b) at a position in contact with a flat surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kahoru Niimi, Hidejirou Yoshikawa, Takahisa Uchida, Makoto Inenaga
  • Patent number: 9481154
    Abstract: A method for producing a laminate for configuring an image display device is provided, capable of realizing simultaneously unevenness followability and anti-bubble reliability. A method for producing a laminate for configuring an image display device is proposed, comprising the following steps (1) and (2): (1) The step of forming an adhesive composition into the form of a monolayer or a multilayer sheet, and by UV-crosslinking, primary-curing this thereby forming a pre-secondary curing transparent double-sided adhesive sheet. (2) The step of layering two image display device-constituting members via the pre-secondary curing transparent double-sided adhesive sheet and then irradiating ultraviolet light from at least a first image display device-constituting member side, UV-crosslinking through this member and secondary-curing the pre-secondary curing transparent double-sided adhesive sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kahoru Niimi, Makoto Inenaga, Takahisa Uchida
  • Patent number: 9481155
    Abstract: A method for producing a laminate for configuring an image display device is provided, capable of realizing simultaneously unevenness followability and anti-bubble reliability. A method for producing a laminate for configuring an image display device is proposed, comprising the following steps (1) and (2): (1) The step of forming an adhesive composition into the form of a monolayer or a multilayer sheet, and by UV-crosslinking, primary-curing this thereby forming a pre-secondary curing transparent double-sided adhesive sheet. (2) The step of layering two image display device-constituting members via the pre-secondary curing transparent double-sided adhesive sheet and then irradiating ultraviolet light from at least a first image display device-constituting member side, UV-crosslinking through this member and secondary-curing the pre-secondary curing transparent double-sided adhesive sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kahoru Niimi, Makoto Inenaga, Takahisa Uchida
  • Publication number: 20160298007
    Abstract: There is provided a new pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition that can have adhesiveness to the extent of being peelable in a room temperature condition, has fluidity by hot-melting, and can finally be crosslinked to firmly bond adherends to each other. There is proposed a pressure-sensitive adhesive resin composition comprising 100 parts by mass of an acrylic copolymer (A), 0.5 to 20 parts by mass of a crosslinking agent (B), and 0.1 to 5 parts by mass of a photopolymerization initiator (C), wherein the acrylic copolymer (A) is a graft copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of 5.0×104 to 5.0×105, contains as a trunk component of the graft copolymer a repeating unit derived from a (meth)acrylate, contains as a branch component of the graft copolymer a repeating unit derived from a macromonomer having a number average molecular weight of 5.0×102 or more and less than 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kahoru NIIMI, Makoto INENAGA, Junichi NAKAMURA, Eri KAWAI
  • Patent number: 9441141
    Abstract: A novel transparent double-sided adhesive sheet for image display device is provided, that, under the constraint of holding down the thickness of the adhesive sheet to 250 ?m or less, can relieve a distortion arising within the adhesive sheet after laminating even if a member has a stepped portion of 50 ?m to 100 ?m in height on the laminating surface. Proposed is a transparent double-sided adhesive sheet for image display device which is used for the purpose of laminating an image display device constitutive member having on a laminating surface a stepped portion of 50 ?m to 100 ?m in height and a flat surface portion, and another image display device constitutive member, wherein a thickness of the maximum thickness portion of the adhesive sheet is 250 ?m or less, and a gel fraction (a) at a position in contact with a stepped portion after laminating is 10% or greater and smaller than a gel fraction (b) at a position in contact with a flat surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kahoru Niimi, Hidejirou Yoshikawa, Takahisa Uchida, Makoto Inenaga
  • Publication number: 20160208148
    Abstract: Provided is a new double-sided pressure-sensitive-adhesive sheet which is not only able to realize a low dielectric constant but also exhibits excellent handleability or reliability as a pressure-sensitive-adhesive sheet. Proposed is a double-sided pressure-sensitive-adhesive sheet which includes an acrylic compound (A) having a specific dielectric constant at a frequency of 100 kHz of 3.0 or less and an acrylic acid ester copolymer (B) obtained by copolymerizing a (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer having a straight-chain or branched alkyl group having from 1 to 9 carbon atoms in a side chain and/or a vinyl ether monomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kahoru NIIMI, Shinya FUKUDA, Makoto INENAGA
  • Patent number: 9353293
    Abstract: A novel transparent double-sided adhesive sheet for image display device is provided, that, under the constraint of holding down the thickness of the adhesive sheet to 250 ?m or less, can relieve a distortion arising within the adhesive sheet after laminating even if a member has a stepped portion of 50 ?m to 100 ?m in height on the laminating surface. Proposed is a transparent double-sided adhesive sheet for image display device which is used for the purpose of laminating an image display device constitutive member having on a laminating surface a stepped portion of 50 ?m to 100 ?m in height and a flat surface portion, and another image display device constitutive member, wherein a thickness of the maximum thickness portion of the adhesive sheet is 250 ?m or less, and a gel fraction (a) at a position in contact with a stepped portion after laminating is 10% or greater and smaller than a gel fraction (b) at a position in contact with a flat surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kahoru Niimi, Hidejirou Yoshikawa, Takahisa Uchida, Makoto Inenaga
  • Publication number: 20150367600
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a new transparent double-sided adhesive sheet that, in bonding of image display device-constituting members provided with a step portion on the bonding surface thereof with a transparent double-sided adhesive sheet interposed therebetween, can conform to the step portion to fill every corner therewith, can also allow strain generated in the adhesive sheet to be relaxed, and furthermore can maintain foaming resistance under a high-temperature and/or high-humidity environment without impairment of handleability. One embodiment of the present invention proposes a transparent double-sided adhesive sheet in a B-stage state, in which, first, the transparent double-sided adhesive sheet contains at least one (meth)acrylate (co)polymer, an ultraviolet polymerization initiator (A) having a molar absorptivity at a wavelength of 365 nm of 10 or more and a molar absorptivity at a wavelength of 405 nm of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kahoru NIIMI, Makoto INENAGA, Ryota YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150267089
    Abstract: Provided is a novel transparent double-sided adhesive sheet which has corrosion resistance reliability that an adherend can be prevented from corrosion degradation, is also furnished with antifoaming reliability that foaming at a sticking interface does not occur, and also has an optical reliability that an increase in haze is little even in a hygrothermal environment. Proposed is a transparent double-sided adhesive sheet which is firstly characterized to have an adhesive layer containing a (meth)acrylate ester copolymer containing a carboxyl group-containing monomer as a copolymerization component at less than 2% by mass and silica fine particles having an average particle size of from 4 to 500 nm or less, and secondly characterized in that the adhesive layer is curable by heat or ultraviolet light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kahoru Niimi, Makoto Inenaga
  • Publication number: 20150225625
    Abstract: Provided is a novel double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet that can achieve both the repeelability and the reliability in the pressure sensitive adhesive surface such as the occurrence of foaming. Proposed is a repeelable double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet comprising a pressure sensitive adhesive layer containing a (meth)acrylate ester copolymer as a base polymer, in which the (meth)acrylate ester copolymer has a content of a carboxyl group-containing monomer as a copolymerization component of 2% by mass or less and the pressure sensitive adhesive layer is curable by heat or ultraviolet light and satisfies the following physical properties (1) and (2): (1) a 180° peel force is 5.0 N/cm or more when one surface of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is superimposed on soda lime glass, a roller of 1 kg is reciprocated one time to crimp the two, the crimped resultant is allowed to stand for 24 hours in an environment of a temperature of 23° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kahoru Niimi, Makoto Inenaga, Takahisa Uchida, Ryota Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150044423
    Abstract: A novel transparent double-sided adhesive sheet for image display device is provided, that, under the constraint of holding down the thickness of the adhesive sheet to 250 ?m or less, can relieve a distortion arising within the adhesive sheet after laminating even if a member has a stepped portion of 50 ?m to 100 ?m in height on the laminating surface. Proposed is a transparent double-sided adhesive sheet for image display device which is used for the purpose of laminating an image display device constitutive member having on a laminating surface a stepped portion of 50 ?m to 100 ?m in height and a flat surface portion, and another image display device constitutive member, wherein a thickness of the maximum thickness portion of the adhesive sheet is 250 ?m or less, and a gel fraction (a) at a position in contact with a stepped portion after laminating is 10% or greater and smaller than a gel fraction (b) at a position in contact with a flat surface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kahoru Niimi, Hidejirou Yoshikawa, Takahisa Uchida, Makoto Inenaga
  • Publication number: 20140349100
    Abstract: A novel transparent double-sided adhesive sheet for image display device is provided, that, under the constraint of holding down the thickness of the adhesive sheet to 250 ?m or less, can relieve a distortion arising within the adhesive sheet after laminating even if a member has a stepped portion of 50 ?m to 100 ?m in height on the laminating surface. Proposed is a transparent double-sided adhesive sheet for image display device which is used for the purpose of laminating an image display device constitutive member having on a laminating surface a stepped portion of 50 ?m to 100 ?m in height and a flat surface portion, and another image display device constitutive member, wherein a thickness of the maximum thickness portion of the adhesive sheet is 250 ?m or less, and a gel fraction (a) at a position in contact with a stepped portion after laminating is 10% or greater and smaller than a gel fraction (b) at a position in contact with a flat surface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Kahoru NIIMI, Hidejirou Yoshikawa, Takahisa Uchida, Makoto Inenaga
  • Publication number: 20140349080
    Abstract: A novel transparent double-sided adhesive sheet for image display device is provided, that, under the constraint of holding down the thickness of the adhesive sheet to 250 ?m or less, can relieve a distortion arising within the adhesive sheet after laminating even if a member has a stepped portion of 50 ?m to 100 ?m in height on the laminating surface. Proposed is a transparent double-sided adhesive sheet for image display device which is used for the purpose of laminating an image display device constitutive member having on a laminating surface a stepped portion of 50 ?m to 100 ?m in height and a flat surface portion, and another image display device constitutive member, wherein a thickness of the maximum thickness portion of the adhesive sheet is 250 ?m or less, and a gel fraction (a) at a position in contact with a stepped portion after laminating is 10% or greater and smaller than a gel fraction (b) at a position in contact with a flat surface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Kahoru NIIMI, Hidejirou Yoshikawa, Takahisa Uchida, Makoto Inenaga