Patents by Inventor Katsuhiko Nose

Katsuhiko Nose 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).

  • Patent number: 7749584
    Abstract: In heat-shrinkable polyester films, the content of 1,4-cyclohexane dimethanol is 10 to 50% by mole based on the polyhydric alcohol component and that the heat shrinkage factors of a 10 cm square sample of the films in (A) hot water of 75° C., (B) hot water of 85° C., and (C) hot water of 95° C. are 30 to 40%, 50 to 60%, and 65 to 77%, respectively. The films can be produced by drawing under specified conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayakawa, Norimi Tabota, Yoshinori Takegawa, Katsuya Ito, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20100093938
    Abstract: The inventive heat-shrinkable polystyrene film is high in shrinkability in the longitudinal direction that is its main shrinkage direction, is excellent in perforated line openability, and has high toughness. The heat-shrinkable polystyrene film is characterized by particular values with respect to hot-water heat shrinkage ratio in the longitudinal and width directions, right angle tear strength in the width direction, and breaking energies in the longitudinal and width directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukinobu Mukoyama, Shota Hayakawa, Naonobu Oda, Masayuki Haruta, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20100093965
    Abstract: The inventive heat-shrinkable polyolefin film is high in shrinkability in the longitudinal direction that is its main shrinkage direction and excellent in finish properties after shrinkage, perforated line openability, and thermal blocking resistance. The heat-shrinkable polyolefin film is characterized by particular values with respect to hot-water heat shrinkage ratio in the longitudinal and width directions, right angle tear strength in the width direction, and heat-resistant peel strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigetomo Yamamoto, Yukinobu Mukoyama, Kyoko Inagaki, Kenji Kawai, Masatoshi Hashimoto, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20090324884
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polyamide based mixed resin laminated film roll formed by winding up a polyamide based mixed resin laminated film comprising a plurality of polyamide mixed resin sheets stacked on top of each other. A first sample cutout portion is provided within 2 m from the winding end of film, and a final sample cutout portion is provided within 2 m from the winding start of film. The roll is regulated so that, when sample cutout portions are provided at intervals of about 100 m from the first sample cutout portion, for all samples cutout from the cutout portions, the elastomer content, tensile modulus of elasticity, thickness unevenness in the longitudinal direction and other properties fall within a predetermined variation range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadashi Nishi, Yoshinori Miyaguchi, Naonobu Oda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Patent number: 7638052
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polysulfone type hollow fiber membrane which is reliable in safety and stability of performance and is easily incorporated into a module, and thus can be suitably used in a highly water permeable blood purifier for use in a therapy of chronic renal failure. The present invention relates to a polysulfone type selectively permeable hollow fiber membrane comprising a polysulfone type resin and a hydrophilic polymer as main components, and characterized in that (A) the content of the hydrophilic polymer in the uppermost layer of a surface of the polysulfone type hollow fiber membrane on the blood-contacting side is at least 1.1 times larger than the content of the hydrophilic polymer in the proximate layer of the surface on the blood-contacting side, and (B) the content of the hydrophilic polymer in the uppermost layer of the other surface of the polysulfone type hollow fiber membrane, i.e., the reverse side of the surface on the blood-contacting side, is at least 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kimihiro Mabuchi, Noriyuki Tamamura, Hidehiko Sakurai, Noriaki Kato, Hiroshi Shibano, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20090304997
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat-shrinkable polyester film with very good perforation-tear property and also very high productivity. A heat-shrinkable polyester film made of a polyester resin including ethylene terephthalate as a main constituent and containing 15% by mole or more of at least one monomer capable of forming an amorphous component in the whole components of the polyester resin, which exhibits specific heat shrinkage properties and specific mechanical properties after the heat shrinkage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Haruta, Norimi Tabota, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20090270584
    Abstract: In the heat-shrinkable polyester film of the present invention, the main shrinkage direction is the longitudinal direction. In addition, the hot-water heat shrinkage ratios in the longitudinal direction and the width direction when the film is treated in hot water at 90° C. for 10 seconds, the refractive indexes in the longitudinal direction and the width direction and the natural shrinkage ratio after aging at 40° C. and 65% RH for 700 hours or more are each controlled in predetermined ranges. The heat-shrinkable polyester film of the present invention is manufactured by stretching an unstretched film at a ratio of 2.5 times or more and 6.0 times or less in the width direction at a temperature of Tg+5° C. or more and Tg+40° C. or less, passing the film in an intermediate zone that does not execute an active heating operation, heat-treating the film at a temperature of 100° C. or more and 170° C. or less over a period of 1.0 second or more and 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takurou Endo, Masayuki Haruta, Norimi Tabota, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20090191369
    Abstract: The polyamide based resin laminated film roll of the present invention has physical properties such as boiling water shrinkage percentage, surface roughness, refractive index in the thickness direction, etc., adjusted to achieve a predetermined range of degree of variability, when the polyamide based resin laminated film has a first sample cutout portion set up within 2 m from the winding end of film and final cutout portion within 2 m from the winding start of film, and at the same time, has a sample cutout portion set up at approximately every 100 m from the first sample cutout portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadashi Nishi, Yoshinori Miyaguchi, Naonobu Oda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Patent number: 7531238
    Abstract: The present invention provides a laminated thermoplastic resin film which is excellent in adhesion and blocking resistance. A laminated thermoplastic resin film has a covering layer containing a copolymerized polyester resin and a polyurethane resin on one side or both sides of a thermoplastic resin film, characterized in that the covering layer has a microphase-separated or nanophase-separated structure in polyester (PE) phase A comprising a copolymerized polyester resin as a main component and polyurethane (PU) phase B comprising a polyurethane resin as a main component, and when the covering layer is observed by a scanning probe microscopy in phase measurement mode, an area ration (surface fraction of PEs) of polyester phase A (which indicates a dark phase in phase image) of the surface of the covering layer defined by following the formula (1) is 35% or more and less than 90% per 20 a measurement area of 5 ?m×5 ?m. Surface fraction of PEs (%)=(area of PEs phase A/measurement area)×100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Mizuno, Shigenori Iwade, Hideki Sugihara, Chikao Morishige, Yasuhiro Nishino, Katsuhiko Nose, Toshitake Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20090085259
    Abstract: A production process of a film roll according to the present invention includes a step of melt-extruding and cooling wherein polyamide based resin is melt-extruded and cooled in a sheet form onto a movable cooling material surface to obtain an unstretched sheet; a step of biaxial stretching wherein an unstretched sheet is stretched biaxially in the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction; and a winding-up step of taking up the biaxially stretched film in a roll form. And in the step of melt-extruding and cooling, corona discharge in a streamer corona state is performed between an electrode applied with high dc voltage and the polyamide based resin sheet in the melted state, and sufficient electric charges that enable the polyamide based resin sheet in the melted state to come in close contact with the movable cooling material surface are imparted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Inventors: Tadashi Nishi, Toshifumi Nagata, Yoshinori Miyaguchi, Naonobu Oda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20090065979
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for production of a polyamide based resin film roll comprising a step of melt-extruding and cooling wherein polyamide based resin is melt-extruded and cooled in a sheet form onto a mobile cooling material surface to obtain an unstretched sheet; a step of biaxial stretching wherein an unstretched sheet is stretched biaxially in the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction; and a step of winding up the biaxially stretched film that is biaxially stretched in a form of roll. Then, in the step of melt-extruding and cooling polyamide based resin onto a mobile cooling material surface, corona discharge in a streamer corona state is performed between an electrode applied with high DC voltage and the polyamide based resin sheet in the melted state, and sufficient electric charges that enable the polyamide based resin sheet in the melted state to come in close contact with the mobile cooling material surface are imparted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: Tadashi Nishi, Toshifumi Nagata, Yoshinori Miyaguchi, Naonobu Oda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20080284057
    Abstract: A film roll of a heat-shrinkable polyester film meeting the following requirements: (1) when samples are cut off therefrom at an almost equal interval along the longitudinal direction, and immersed in hot water at 85° C. for 10 seconds, subsequently in water at 25° C. and withdrawn, heat-shrinkage percentages in the maximum shrinkage direction of all the samples are 20% or more; and (2) when raw polymers used for production of the film above comprises of a major constitutional unit and one or more sub constitutional units different therefrom, and the content of the primary sub constitutional unit in each sample is more than 7 mole % in 100% of all constitutional units, and the contents of the primary sub constitutional unit of all the samples fall within a range of ±2 mole % relative to the average.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayakawa, Norimi Tabota, Yoshinori Takegawa, Katsuya Ito, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Patent number: 7442302
    Abstract: The present invention provides a highly water permeable hollow fiber membrane type blood purifier for medical use, which is excellent in safety and module-assembling ease and which has a high water permeability suitable for use in therapy of chronic renal failure. The present invention relates to a highly water-permeable hollow fiber type blood purifier comprising hydrophobic polymer hollow fiber membranes each of which contains a hydrophilic polymer, characterized in that the amount of the hydrophilic polymer eluted from the hollow fiber membrane is 10 ppm or less; in that the ratio of the hydrophilic polymer in the outer surface of the hollow fiber membrane is 25 to 50 mass %; in that the burst pressure of the hollow fiber membrane is 0.5 MPa or higher; and in that the coefficient of water permeability of the blood purifier is 150 ml/m2/hr./mmHg or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kimihiro Mabuchi, Noriyuki Tamamura, Hidehiko Sakurai, Noriko Monden, Shinya Koyama, Hiroshi Shibano, Katsuaki Kuze, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20080254259
    Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a biaxially oriented polyamide based mixed resin film roll with which bag forming processing by lamination is able to be performed smoothly and with high yield ratio and at the same time with which packages free of S-shaped curls can be obtained efficiently. A solution for the problem concerns the polyamide based mixed resin film roll of the present invention which includes a first sample cutout portion within 2 m from the winding end of film and a final cutout portion within 2 m from the winding start of film, and when a sample cutout portion is set up in approximately every 100 m from the first sample cutout portion, in all samples cut out from each of the cutout portions, physical properties such as elastomer content, elastic modulus in tension, boiling water shrinkage percentage and refraction index in the thickness direction are adjusted to be within a predetermined range of variation range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadashi Nishi, Yoshinori Miyaguchi, Naonobu Oda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20080206556
    Abstract: A coated film having an overall thickness of 5-50 ?m is provided. A substrate made of a polymer resin composition may be laminated with a coating layer including a melamine series compound and a poly (vinyl alcohol)-based polymer to form the coated film. Further, an inorganic thin film layer may be vapor-deposited on the coating layer of the coated film to form a vapor-deposited film. Certain embodiments of the vapor-deposited film may have oxygen permeability and moisture vapor permeability before and after the gelbo test that satisfies the following formula: ( permeability ? ? after ? ? gelbo ? ? test - permeability ? ? before ? ? gelbo ? ? test ) ( permeability ? ? before ? ? gelbo ? ? test ) ? 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kuwahara, Tadashi Nishi, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20080131704
    Abstract: [PROBLEMS] The present invention provides a laminated thermoplastic resin film which is excellent in adhesion and blocking resistance. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A laminated thermoplastic resin film has a covering layer containing a copolymerized polyester resin and a polyurethane resin on one side or both sides of a thermoplastic resin film, characterized in that the covering layer has a microphase-separated or nanophase-separated structure in PEs phase A comprising a copolymerized PE resin as a main component and PU phase B comprising a PU resin as a main component, and when the covering layer is observed by a scanning probe microscopy in phase measurement mode, an area ratio (surface fraction of PEs) of PEs phase A (which indicates a dark phase in phase image) of the surface of the covering layer defined by following formula (1) is 35% or more and less than 90% per a measurement area of 5 ?m×5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Naoki Mizuno, Shigenori Iwade, Hideki Sugihara, Chikao Morishige, Yasuhiro Nishino, Katsuhiko Nose, Toshitake Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20070259164
    Abstract: A polyamide based resin film roll is provided. The polyamide based resin film roll comprising: a first sample cutout portion within 2 m from the winding end of film; and a final cutout portion within 2 m from the winding start of film, wherein when a sample cutout portion is set up in approximately every 100 m from the first sample cutout portion, in all samples cut out from each of the cutout portions, mechanical properties such as boiling water shrinkage percentage and refraction index in the thickness direction are adjusted within a given range of variation width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Tadashi Nishi, Yoshinori Miyaguchi, Naonobu Oda, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20070199891
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a permselective separation membrane that can be used in blood purifying treatment. More particularly, the present invention relates to a polysulfone-based permselective separation membrane which has well-balanced separation properties, highly stable safety and performance, and also can be smoothly assembled into a module, and a method for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Kimihiro Mabuchi, Hideyuki Yokota, Katsuaki Kuze, Noriyuki Tamamura, Makoto Ono, Noriko Monden, Noriaki Kato, Hiroshi Shibano, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20070187320
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polysulfone permselective hollow fiber membrane bundle which has high safety and high reliability in performance and which is particularly suitable for use in a blood purifier or the like, a process for manufacturing the same, and a blood purifier comprising the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Kimihiro Mabuchi, Hideyuki Yokota, Katsuaki Kuze, Noriyuki Tamamura, Makoto Ono, Noriko Monden, Noriaki Kato, Hiroshi Shibano, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20070114167
    Abstract: The present invention provides polysulfone-based hollow fiber membranes having high water permeable performance and for use in therapy of chronic renal failures, said hollow fiber membranes having high safety and high stability in performance and being excellent in module-fabricating workability. The present invention also provides a process for manufacturing the same. The present invention relates to a bundle of a plurality of selectively permeable polysulfone-based hollow fiber membranes wherein the amount of a hydrophilic polymer eluting from each hollow fiber membrane is not larger than 10 ppm, and wherein the content of the hydrophilic polymer in the outer surface of the hollow fiber membrane is 25 to 50 mass %, and this bundle is characterized in that any of extracted solutions from ten fractions of said bundle, obtained by dividing the bundle at substantially regular intervals along the lengthwise direction, shows a maximum value of smaller than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Kimihiro Mabuchi, Noriyuki Tamamura, Hidehiko Sakurai, Noriaki Kato, Hiroshi Shibano, Katsuhiko Nose