Patents by Inventor Kanta Tanabe

Kanta Tanabe 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: 20220290332
    Abstract: A fiber structure includes a biodegradable polymer fiber, the fiber structure having two or more peaks in a molecular weight distribution obtained by GPC measurement of the biodegradable polymer, and the fiber structure having one or more peaks in each of a region of 100,000 or less of molecular weight and a region of more than 100,000 of molecular weight in the molecular weight distribution obtained by GPC measurement of the biodegradable polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Kenichi Harimoto, Kanta Tanabe, Hirokazu Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220251372
    Abstract: A polymer composition contains polylactic acid and a dilactide/?-caprolactone copolymer, in which a content of the polylactic acid relative to a total of 100 mass % of the polylactic acid and the dilactide/?-caprolactone copolymer is 20 to 40 mass %, and in which the dilactide/?-caprolactone copolymer satisfies (1) an R value represented by a following formula is 0.45 or more and 0.99 or less: R = [ AB ] ? / ? ( 2 ? [ A ] ? [ B ] ) × 100 where [A] is a molar fraction (%) of a dilactide residue in the dilactide/?-caprolactone copolymer, [B] is a molar fraction (%) of an ?-caprolactone residue in the dilactide/?-caprolactone copolymer, and [AB] is a molar fraction (%) of a structure in which a dilactide residue and an ?-caprolactone residue are adjacent to each other (A-B and B-A) in the dilactide/?-caprolactone copolymer, and (2) at least one of the dilactide residue and the ?-caprolactone residue has a degree of crystallization of less than 14%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Kenichi Harimoto, Kanta Tanabe, Kazuhiro Tanahashi, Hirokazu Sakaguchi