Patents by Inventor Kenichi Senda
Kenichi Senda 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).
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Patent number: 9494041Abstract: In a part-fastening structure, one of respective threads of a first nut member for fastening a first part and a second nut member for fastening a second part, is a right-hand thread, and the other is a left-hand thread. The members are connected together by a connecting member against relative rotation. Thus, rotation of the first member in its loosening direction acts in a direction of fastening the second member via the connecting member, and rotation of the second member in its loosening direction acts in a direction of fastening the first member via the connecting member, so that looseness of both the members is prevented, while reducing the number of locking parts to minimize an increase in an axial dimension.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2015Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Fukutani, Kenichi Senda
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Publication number: 20150260231Abstract: In a part-fastening structure, one of respective threads of a first nut member for fastening a first part and a second nut member for fastening a second part, is a right-hand thread, and the other is a left-hand thread. The members are connected together by a connecting member against relative rotation. Thus, rotation of the first member in its loosening direction acts in a direction of fastening the second member via the connecting member, and rotation of the second member in its loosening direction acts in a direction of fastening the first member via the connecting member, so that looseness of both the members is prevented, while reducing the number of locking parts to minimize an increase in an axial dimension.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2015Publication date: September 17, 2015Inventors: Masayuki Fukutani, Kenichi Senda
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Patent number: 9040599Abstract: Polypropylene resin expanded particles include polypropylene resin as base material resin having at least two melting peaks on a DSC curve, the at least two melting peaks including (i) a lowest-temperature melting peak of 100° C. or more but 130° C. or less and (ii) a highest-temperature melting peak of 140° C. or more but 160° C. or less, so that the expanded particles: produce an in-mold foaming molded product at a very low mold heating steam pressure; exhibit low distortion, low shrinkage, and a wide range of heating condition for molding, even if the mold heating steam pressure is increased; have satisfactory moldability when the expanded particles are molded by using a mold having a complicated shape or a large mold; and maintain properties such as compressive strength, substantially unimpaired, when the expanded particles make the in-mold foaming molded product.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2010Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventor: Kenichi Senda
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Patent number: 8889750Abstract: Polypropylene resin expanded particles comprises a polypropylene resin as a base material resin, the polypropylene resin having at least three melting peaks on a DSC curve for a second temperature rise measured at a heating rate of 10 g/min with use of a heat flux differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), the at least three melting peaks including (i) a lowest temperature melting peak of 100° C. to 130° C. and (ii) a highest temperature melting peak of 140° C. to 160° C., the polypropylene resin having a resin DSC ratio change rate of 0.5%/° C. to 3.0%/° C., the expanded particles having two melting peaks in a DSC measurement made at a first temperature rise at the heating rate of 10 g/min, the two melting peaks including, (i) on a lower temperature side, a melting peak temperature of 100° C. to 130° C. and, (ii) on a higher temperature side, a melting peak temperature of 140° C. to 160° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventor: Kenichi Senda
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Patent number: 8598242Abstract: Disclosed is an expanded polypropylene copolymer resin particle whose base resin is a polypropylene random copolymer resin having a melting point of not more than 145° C., the base resin having a H/W ratio of not more than 8 where H (%) is a maximum height of an elution peak and W (° C.) is a peak width at half a height of the peak in an elution curve obtained from a differential value of eluted content measured by cross fractionation chromatography, and a ratio (Mw/Mn) of a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) and a number-average molecular weight (Mn) being not less than 3.5 in a molecular weight distribution measurement of a whole of eluted components. With such an expanded polypropylene copolymer resin particle, it is possible to provide expanded polypropylene copolymer resin particles which are capable of producing an in-mold expansion-molded article with a low molding heating vapor pressure, and which causes few deformation or shrinkage of an obtained in-mold expansion-molded article (i.e.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventor: Kenichi Senda
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Publication number: 20130310476Abstract: Polypropylene resin expanded particles comprising: a polypropylene resin as a base material resin, the propylene resin having at least two melting peaks on a DSC curve for a second temperature rise measured at a heating rate of 10 g/min with use of a heat flux differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), the at least two melting peaks including (i) a lowest temperature melting peak of not lower than 100° C. and not higher than 130° C. and (ii) a highest temperature melting peak of not lower than 140° C. and not higher than 160° C., the propylene resin having a resin DSC ratio change rate of 0.5%/° C. to 3.0%/° C., the expanded particles having two melting peaks in a DSC measurement made at a first temperature rise at the heating rate of 10 g/min, the two melting peaks including, (i) on a lower temperature side, a melting peak temperature of not lower than 100° C. and not higher than 130° C. and, (ii) on a higher temperature side, a melting peak temperature of not lower than 140° C. and not higher than 160° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventor: Kenichi Senda
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Publication number: 20120214890Abstract: Polypropylene resin expanded particles include polypropylene resin as base material resin having at least two melting peaks on a DSC curve, the at least two melting peaks including (i) a lowest-temperature melting peak of 100° C. or more but 130° C. or less and (ii) a highest-temperature melting peak of 140° C. or more but 160° C. or less, so that the expanded particles: produce an in-mold foaming molded product at a very low mold heating steam pressure; exhibit low distortion, low shrinkage, and a wide range of heating condition for molding, even if the mold heating steam pressure is increased; have satisfactory moldability when the expanded particles are molded by using a mold having a complicated shape or a large mold; and maintain properties such as compressive strength, substantially unimpaired, when the expanded particles make the in-mold foaming molded product.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2010Publication date: August 23, 2012Inventor: Kenichi Senda
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Patent number: 8148439Abstract: It is intended to provide resin foamed particles having a high environmental compatibility. Furthermore, it is intended to provide an economical and easy-to-use method of producing resin foamed particles having biodegradability without using a crosslinking agent, which should be handled with care, in the step of producing foamed resin particles. It is also intended to provide a molded article made of foamed particles having an extremely high heat insulating property and a biodegradability. Thermoplastic polyester-type resin foamed particles, in which the ratio of cells with diameter of 50 ?m or less amounts to 20% or more in an arbitrary two-dimensional section of a thermoplastic polyester-type resin foamed particles, are first produced and then a molded article is produced with the use of these resin foamed particles.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2006Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Meredian, Inc.Inventors: Fuminobu Hirose, Toshio Miyagawa, Kenichi Senda
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Publication number: 20120029101Abstract: Disclosed is an expanded polypropylene copolymer resin particle whose base resin is a polypropylene random copolymer resin having a melting point of not more than 145° C., the base resin having a H/W ratio of not more than 8 where H (%) is a maximum height of an elution peak and W (° C.) is a peak width at half a height of the peak in an elution curve obtained from a differential value of eluted content measured by cross fractionation chromatography, and a ratio (Mw/Mn) of a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) and a number-average molecular weight (Mn) being not less than 3.5 in a molecular weight distribution measurement of a whole of eluted components. With such an expanded polypropylene copolymer resin particle, it is possible to provide expanded polypropylene copolymer resin particles which are capable of producing an in-mold expansion-molded article with a low molding heating vapor pressure, and which causes few deformation or shrinkage of an obtained in-mold expansion-molded article (i.e.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventor: Kenichi Senda
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Patent number: 8076381Abstract: The object is to provide a molded product of foamed particles obtained by charging biodegradable resin foamed particles which are of vegetable origin and excellent in environmental compatibility into a mold, followed by heat molding, which molded product is not accompanied by post shrinkage after the molding with a wide range of variation of processing in the molding. Further, P3HA resin foamed particles being composed of a resin composition that comprises an isocyanate compound, and a polymer, poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate), having a recurring unit represented by the general formula (1): [—O—CHR—CH2—CO—]??(1) (wherein R represents an alkyl group represented by CnH2n+1, wherein n is an integer of from 1 to 15) produced by a microorganism are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2006Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignees: Kaneka Corporation, Meredian, Inc.Inventors: Toshio Miyagawa, Fuminobu Hirose, Kenichi Senda
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Publication number: 20090215914Abstract: It is intended to provide resin foamed particles having a high environmental compatibility. Furthermore, it is intended to provide an economical and easy-to-use method of producing resin foamed particles having biodegradability without using a crosslinking agent, which should be handled with care, in the step of producing foamed resin particles. It is also intended to provide a molded article made of foamed particles having an extremely high heat insulating property and a biodegradability. Thermoplastic polyester-type resin foamed particles, in which the ratio of cells with diameter of 50 ?m or less amounts to 20% or more in an arbitrary two-dimensional section of a thermoplastic polyester-type resin foamed particles, are first produced and then a molded article is produced with the use of these resin foamed particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2006Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Fuminobu Hirose, Toshio Miyagawa, Kenichi Senda
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Publication number: 20090197982Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide expanded polyhydroxyalkanoate resin beads which are satisfactory and have biodegradability, the molded product thereof, and process for producing the expanded resin beads. The object can be achieved by expanded poly(3-hydroxyalkaonate) (abbreviated to P3HA) resin beads obtained from a P3HA resin composition comprising: a copolymer which comprises repeating units of one or more kinds represented by the formula (1): [—O—CHR—CH2—CO—] (wherein R is alkyl represented by CnH2n+1, provided that n is an integer of 1-15) and is yielded by a microorganism (this copolymer is P3HA); and an isocyanate compound, and having a melt viscosity of 500 Pa·s or higher when examined under the conditions of a shear rate of 122 sec?1 and a temperature of from Tm1 to Tm2, wherein Tm1 is the melting temperature of the P3HA resin composition and Tm2=Tm1+20° C., provided that Tm2<180° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2006Publication date: August 6, 2009Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Toshio Miyagawa, Fuminobu Hirose, Kenichi Senda
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Publication number: 20090192236Abstract: It is intended to provide polyhydroxyalkanoate resin foamed particles having a biodegradability and favorable properties, a molded article thereof and a method of producing these resin foamed particles. Namely, resin foamed particles obtained by foaming a copolymer (hereinafter referred to as poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate); abbreviated as P3HA), which is produced by a microorganism, has a weight-average molecular weight of from 50000 to 2000000 and has a repeating unit represented by the general formula (1): [—CHR—CH2—CO—O—] (wherein R represents an alkyl group represented by CnH2n+1 and n is an integer of from 1 to 15), a molded article formed by using these foamed particles and a method of producing these foamed particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2006Publication date: July 30, 2009Applicant: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Toshio Miyagawa, Fuminobu Hirose, Kenichi Senda
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Publication number: 20090176900Abstract: It is intended to provide an easy-to-use, energy-saving and economical method of producing foamed resin particles having a high environmental compatibility by using an ether, which generates neither sulfur oxide nor sot in the course of disposal and incineration and enables considerable reduction in nitrogen oxide formation, and further using a resin which originates in a plant and contributes to the carbon dioxide fixation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2006Publication date: July 9, 2009Applicants: KANEKA CORPORATION, Meredian, Inc.Inventors: Fuminobu Hirose, Toshio Miyagawa, Kenichi Senda
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Publication number: 20090149560Abstract: The object is to provide a molded product of foamed particles obtained by charging biodegradable resin foamed particles which are of vegetable origin and excellent in environmental compatibility into a mold, followed by heat molding, which molded product is not accompanied by post shrinkage after the molding with a wide range of variation of processing in the molding. Further, P3HA resin foamed particles being composed of a resin composition that comprises an isocyanate compound, and a polymer, poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate), having a recurring unit represented by the general formula (1): [—O—CHR—CH2—CO—]??(1) (wherein R represents an alkyl group represented by CnH2n+1, wherein n is an integer of from 1 to 15) produced by a microorganism are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2006Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Toshio Miyagawa, Fuminobu Hirose, Kenichi Senda
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Publication number: 20090131545Abstract: An extruded foam excelling in environmental friendliness and having biodegradability; and a stable process for producing the same. There is provided a process for producing an extruded foam of P3HA resin, characterized by melt-kneading a copolymer (poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate), P3HA) having at least one type of repeating unit of the formula: —O—CHR—CH2—CO— (1) (wherein R is an alkyl group represented by CnH2n+1 and n is an integer of 1 to 15) produced by a microorganism, a volatile foaming agent, a fatty acid amide compound and/or liquid paraffin to thereby obtain a mixture and extruding the mixture through molding die into a low-pressure zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2006Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicants: Kaneka Corporation, Meridian, Inc.,Inventors: Fuminobu Hirose, Kenichi Senda, Toshio Miyagawa
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Publication number: 20090082484Abstract: A process for producing an extruded foam of a poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) (P3HA) yielded from a microorganism. The foam has a high expansion ratio and a high open cell rate and is excellent in environmental compatibility and biodegradability. The process for producing an extruded P3HA resin foam comprises melt-kneading a P3HA together with a volatile foaming agent to produce a mixture and extruding the mixture through a molding die into a low-pressure region, and is characterized in that the resin temperature To at the time when the mixture of a P3HA and a volatile foaming agent is extruded from the extruder (resin temperature measured at the extruder ejection opening with a thermocouple) is in the range shown by the following relationship. Tc?20?To (° C.)?Tc+20 (Tc=(Tg+Tm)/2, wherein Tg represents the glass transition temperature of the P3HA and Tm represents the melting point of the P3HA.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2006Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Fuminobu Hirose, Kenichi Senda, Toshio Miyagawa
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Patent number: 7491754Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous dispersion of biodegradable polyester, which has excellent film forming properties and provides a resin coating film which is flexible, has favorable elongation and is strong to folding, when applied in coatings, adhesives, fiber processing, sheet film processing and paper processing. More specifically, the present invention provides an aqueous dispersion of biodegradable polyester comprising a copolymer of 3HB and 3HH, which has a flexural modulus of 100 to 1500 MPa and a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 to 3,000,000, wherein the copolymer within the aqueous dispersion has an average particle size of 0.1 to 50 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2003Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Kenichi Senda, Yasuhiro Miki
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Publication number: 20070123611Abstract: The present invention has for its object to obtain a composition and a molded product thereof excellent in processability, strength, impact resistance, heat resistance and water resistance and, when discarded, are biodegradable under the action of microorganisms and the like in an aerobic or anaerobic environment and, further, a plant origin composition and a molded product thereof, which can positively fix carbon dioxide on the earth. Such characteristics can hardly be attained with the above-mentioned chemically synthesized aliphatic polyesters or natural polymers such as starch. The present invention relates to a composition which comprises kenaf fibers and a poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) produced by microorganisms and comprising a repeating unit represented by the formula (1): [—O—CHR—CH2—CO—] in the formula, R represents an alkyl group represented by CnH2n+1 with n representing an integer of 1 to 15, and a molded product thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2004Publication date: May 31, 2007Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Fuminobu Hirose, Toshio Miyagawa, Kenichi Senda, Yasushi Noda
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Publication number: 20060258833Abstract: An aqueous dispersion of a biodegradable polyester, which comprises a copolymer of 3-hydroxybutylate and 3-hydroxyhexanoate having a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 to 3,000,000 and a flexural modulus of 100 to 1500 MPa, wherein the copolymer has an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 50 ?m in the aqueous dispersion. The aqueous dispersion of a biodegradable polyester is excellent in film forming characteristics and can provide a resin coating film which is soft, exhibits good elongation and is proof to bending, when it is applied to a coating material, an adhesive agent, fiber texturing, sheet or film processing, paper conversion or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2003Publication date: November 16, 2006Inventors: Kenichi Senda, Yasuhiro Miki