Patents by Inventor Kazuhito HORINOUCHI

Kazuhito HORINOUCHI 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: 20230235135
    Abstract: Provided is a biaxially oriented polypropylene film that has high stiffness and can easily retain a bag shape when made into a packaging bag even if the film is made thinner, and at the same time, that can maintain water vapor barrier properties even if the film is made thinner, and has few wrinkles in and around the sealed portion when heat-sealed to make a packaging body. The biaxially oriented polypropylene film satisfies the following (1) and (2): (1) a half width of a peak derived from an oriented crystal in a width direction in angular dependency of a (110) plane of polypropylene?-type crystal obtained by wide-angle X-ray diffraction measurement is 26° or smaller; (2) the ratio of (III) to the total of a crystalline component (I), a restrained amorphous component (II), and an unrestrained amorphous component (III) classified by pulse NMR according to solid-echo method is 7% or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhito HORINOUCHI, Kouji YAMADA, Kensuke TANEKI, Toru IMAI
  • Publication number: 20230203257
    Abstract: The present invention provides a biaxially-oriented polypropylene film having high stiffness, excellent heat resistance to high temperature as high as 150° C., easiness of maintaining its bag shape when made into a packaging bag, less printing pitch shift at the time of printing, and less wrinkles of heat sealed part when heat sealed. The biaxially-oriented polypropylene film satisfies the following formulae (1) to (3): (1) a half width of a peak derived from an oriented crystal in a width direction of the film in an azimuth dependence of a (110) plane of polypropylene ?-type crystal through measurement with wide-angle X rays diffraction is 25° or less; (2) the film has a heat-shrinkage ratio at 150° C. of 10% or less in a longitudinal direction and 24% or less in a width direction; and (3) the film has a tensile elongation at break at 23° C. of 195% or more in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke TANEKI, Toru IMAI, Kouji YAMADA, Kazuhito HORINOUCHI, Mahiro NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20230167255
    Abstract: Provided is a biaxially oriented polypropylene film that has high stiffness and can easily retain a bag shape when made into a packaging bag even if made thinner, and at the same time, that can maintain water vapor barrier properties even if made thinner, and has few wrinkles in and around the sealed portion when heat-sealed to make a packaging bag. The biaxially oriented polypropylene film satisfies the following (1), (2), and (3): (1) the heat shrinkage ratio at 150° C. is 10% or lower in the longitudinal direction and 30% or lower in the width direction; (2) the tensile elastic modulus at 23° C. in the width direction is 6.0 GPa or more; (3) the heat shrinkage ratio (%) at 150° C. and the tensile elastic modulus (GPa) at 23° C. in the width direction satisfy the following formula. Tensile elastic modulus (GPa)?Heat shrinkage ratio (%)×0.1+6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhito HORINOUCHI, Kouji YAMADA, Kensuke TANEKI, Toru IMAI
  • Publication number: 20220089822
    Abstract: Provided is a biaxially oriented polypropylene film that has high stiffness, has excellent heat resistance at a high temperature of 150° C., easily maintains a bag shape when being made into a packaging bag, and has less pitch shift during printing or fewer wrinkles in a sealed portion when being heat-sealed. A biaxially oriented polypropylene film, wherein a half width of a peak derived from an oriented crystal in a width direction in azimuth dependence of a (110) plane of polypropylene ?-type crystal obtained by wide-angle X-ray diffraction measurement is not larger than 27°, and a tan ? area in the width direction obtained from a ratio (E?E?) of a storage elastic modulus (E?) to a loss elastic modulus (E?) obtained by dynamic viscoelasticity measurement is not smaller than 0.2 and not larger than 0.4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji YAMADA, Kazuhito HORINOUCHI, Mahiro NAKANO, Toru IMAI
  • Publication number: 20220081521
    Abstract: The invention provides a biaxially oriented polypropylene film, wherein a relationship between a loop stiffness stress (S [mN]) in a longitudinal direction and a thickness (t [?m]) satisfies the formula S?0.00020×t3, a relationship between a loop stiffness stress (S [mN]) in a width direction and the thickness (t [?m]) satisfies the formula S?0.0010×t3, and a heat shrinkage rate of the biaxially oriented polypropylene film at 150° C. is not higher than 10% in the longitudinal direction and not higher than 30% in the width direction, a heat shrinkage rate of the biaxially oriented polypropylene film at 120° C. is not higher than 2.0% in the longitudinal direction and not higher than 5.0% in the width direction, and the heat shrinkage rate at 120° C. in the longitudinal direction is lower than the heat shrinkage rate at 120° C. in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji YAMADA, Kazuhito HORINOUCHI, Mahiro NAKANO, Toru IMAI
  • Publication number: 20220073690
    Abstract: Provided is a biaxially oriented polypropylene film that has high stiffness, has excellent heat resistance at a high temperature of 150° C., easily maintains a bag shape when being made into a packaging bag, and has less pitch shift during printing or fewer wrinkles in a sealed portion when being heat-sealed. A biaxially oriented polypropylene film, wherein a stress at 5% elongation (F5) of the biaxially oriented polypropylene film at 23° C. is not lower than 40 MPa in a longitudinal direction and not lower than 160 MPa in a width direction, and a heat shrinkage rate of the biaxially oriented polypropylene film at 150° C. is not higher than 10% in the longitudinal direction and not higher than 30% in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji YAMADA, Kazuhito HORINOUCHI, Mahiro NAKANO, Toru IMAI
  • Publication number: 20220064388
    Abstract: Provided is a biaxially oriented polypropylene film that has high stiffness, has excellent heat resistance at a high temperature of 150° C., easily maintains a bag shape when being made into a packaging bag, and has less pitch shift during printing or fewer wrinkles in a sealed portion when being heat-sealed. A biaxially oriented polypropylene film, wherein a maximum elongation of the biaxially oriented polypropylene film at 150° C. or lower measured by a thermomechanical analyzer (TMA) is not larger than 1.5 mm in a longitudinal direction and not larger than 0.1 mm in a width direction, and a heat shrinkage rate of the biaxially oriented polypropylene film at 150° C. is not higher than 10% in the longitudinal direction and not higher than 30% in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji YAMADA, Kazuhito HORINOUCHI, Mahiro NAKANO, Toru IMAI
  • Publication number: 20210388193
    Abstract: The invention provides a biaxially oriented polypropylene film with a storage elastic modulus (E?-23) of at least 2.0 GPa in a longitudinal direction and at least 6.0 GPa in a width direction, a storage elastic modulus E? (E?-80) of at least 1.0 GPa in the longitudinal direction and at least 3.0 GPa in the width direction, a ratio (E?-80/E?-23) of E?-80 to E?-23 of at least 0.4 in both the longitudinal direction and the width direction, a heat shrinkage rate at 150° C. of not higher than 10% in the longitudinal direction and not higher than 30% in the width direction, a heat shrinkage rate at 120° C. of not higher than 2.0% in the longitudinal direction and not higher than 5.0% in the width direction, and a heat shrinkage rate at 120° C. in the longitudinal direction that is lower than the heat shrinkage rate at 120° C. in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji YAMADA, Kazuhito HORINOUCHI, Mahiro NAKANO, Toru IMAI