Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Yarimizu

Kazuhiro Yarimizu 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: 11282975
    Abstract: A sheet set for encapsulating a solar battery including a first encapsulating sheet and a second encapsulating sheet which are disposed between a light-incident surface protective member and a back surface protective member, and are used to encapsulate solar battery elements is provided. When the first encapsulating sheet and the second encapsulating sheet are subjected to a heating and pressurization treatment in which the first encapsulating sheet and the second encapsulating sheet are heated and depressurized under defined conditions, a volume resistivity of the first encapsulating sheet measured under defined conditions, is higher than a volume resistivity of the second encapsulating sheet. The first encapsulating sheet is disposed between the light-incident surface protective member and the solar battery elements. The second encapsulating sheet has at least one polar group selected from a carboxyl group, an ester group, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, and an acetal group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS TOHCELLO, INC.
    Inventors: Masaaki Odoi, Nobuhiro Maruko, Kazuhiro Yarimizu, Shigenobu Ikenaga, Kaoru Ohshimizu
  • Patent number: 9761747
    Abstract: The encapsulating material for solar cell is an encapsulating material for solar cell including an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer and an organic peroxide having a one-minute half-life temperature in a range of 100° C. to 170° C. In addition, the complex viscosity of the encapsulating material for solar cell has the minimum value (?*1) of the complex viscosity at a temperature in a range of 100° C. to lower than 135° C., the minimum value (?*1) of the complex viscosity is in a range of 6.0×103 Pa·s to 4.0×104 Pa·s, the complex viscosity (?*2) of the encapsulating material for solar cell at 150° C. is in a range of 2.0×104 Pa·s to 1.0×105 Pa·s, and the content of the organic peroxide in the encapsulating material for solar cell is in a range of 0.1 parts by weight to 3 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the ethylene/?-olefin copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS TOHCELLO, INC.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Fumito Takeuchi, Tomoaki Ito, Kazuhiro Yarimizu, Kaoru Ohshimizu, Masaaki Odoi
  • Publication number: 20160254402
    Abstract: Provided is a sheet set for encapsulating a solar cell which is disposed between a light-receiving surface side protective member and a back surface side protective member, and is used for encapsulating a solar cell element and a wiring material. The sheet set for encapsulating a solar cell includes a first encapsulating material sheet disposed on a light-receiving surface side and a second encapsulating material sheet disposed on a back surface side. A storage elastic modulus (P1) of the first encapsulating material sheet before a cross-linking treatment and a storage elastic modulus (P2) of the second encapsulating material sheet before the cross-linking treatment satisfy a relationship of the following Expression (1), at 120° C. when solid viscoelasticity is measured under conditions of a measurement temperature range of 25° C. to 180° C., a frequency of 1.0 Hz, a temperature rising rate of 10° C./minute, and a shear mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS TOHCELLO, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoaki ITO, Fumito TAKEUCHI, Shigenobu IKENAGA, Kazuhiro YARIMIZU, Kaoru OHSHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20150303340
    Abstract: The encapsulating material for solar cell is an encapsulating material for solar cell including an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer and an organic peroxide having a one-minute half-life temperature in a range of 100° C. to 170° C. In addition, the complex viscosity of the encapsulating material for solar cell has the minimum value (?*1) of the complex viscosity at a temperature in a range of 100° C. to lower than 135° C., the minimum value (?*1) of the complex viscosity is in a range of 6.0×103 Pa·s to 4.0×104 Pa·s, the complex viscosity (?2) of the encapsulating material for solar cell at 150° C. is in a range of 2.0×104 Pa·s to 1.0×105 Pa·s, and the content of the organic peroxide in the encapsulating material for solar cell is in a range of 0.1 parts by weight to 3 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the ethylene/?-olefin copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigenobu IKENAGA, Fumito TAKEUCHI, Tomoaki ITO, Kazuhiro YARIMIZU, Kaoru OHSHIMIZU, Masaaki ODOI
  • Publication number: 20150171247
    Abstract: A solar cell module (10) includes a light-incident surface protective member (14), a back surface protective member (15), solar cell elements (13), and an encapsulating layer (11) that encapsulates the solar cell elements (13) between the light-incident surface protective member (14) and the back surface protective member (15). The volume resistance per square centimeter at 85° C. between the light-incident surface protective member (14) and the solar cell element (13) is in a range of 1×1013 ?·cm2 to 1×1017 ?·cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS TOHCELLO, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Maruko, Masaaki Odoi, Kazuhiro Yarimizu, Shigenobu Ikenaga
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20150013768
    Abstract: A sheet set for encapsulating a solar battery including a first encapsulating sheet and a second encapsulating sheet which are disposed between a light-incident surface protective member and a back surface protective member, and are used to encapsulate solar battery elements is provided. When the first encapsulating sheet and the second encapsulating sheet are subjected to a heating and pressurization treatment in which the first encapsulating sheet and the second encapsulating sheet are heated and depressurized under defined conditions, a volume resistivity of the first encapsulating sheet measured under defined conditions, is higher than a volume resistivity of the second encapsulating sheet. The first encapsulating sheet is disposed between the light-incident surface protective member and the solar battery elements. The second encapsulating sheet has at least one polar group selected from a carboxyl group, an ester group, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, and an acetal group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Masaaki Odoi, Nobuhiro Maruko, Kazuhiro Yarimizu, Shigenobu Ikenaga, Kaoru Ohshimizu
  • 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