Patents by Inventor Kensuke OSHIMA

Kensuke OSHIMA 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: 11960056
    Abstract: Provided is an optical lens formed by integrally molding a lens part that is an optically effective portion and has a light incidence/emission surface, and a lens edge part that is an optically ineffective portion and has a surface thereof except the light incidence/emission surface. The lens edge part includes a non-transparent region in part or all thereof, the lens part and the lens edge part include a thermoplastic resin, and the non-transparent region in the lens edge part contains a total of 0.1-5 mass % of one or more of a black dye and a black pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi Motegi, Kentaro Ishihara, Katsushi Nishimori, Shinya Ikeda, Noriyuki Kato, Mitsuteru Kondo, Kensuke Oshima, Masahiro Kanda, Shoko Suzuki, Tatsunobu Ogata, Mitsutake Suematsu
  • Patent number: 11952460
    Abstract: A polycarbonate resin having a high refractive index, a low Abbe number and a high moisture and heat resistance is provided. In an embodiment, a polycarbonate resin including a structural unit represented by general formula (1) below is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Munenori Shiratake, Kentaro Ishihara, Koji Hirose, Shinya Ikeda, Noriyuki Kato, Mitsuteru Kondo, Shoko Suzuki, Kensuke Oshima, Shuya Nagayama
  • Publication number: 20230391704
    Abstract: The present invention relates to triarylmethane compounds of the formula (I), which suitable as monomers for preparing thermoplastic resins having beneficial optical properties and which can be used for producing optical devices. R1 , R2 are e.g. hydrogen; Y is an alkylene group having 2, 3 or 4 carbon atoms, Ar is selected from mono- or polycyclic aryl and mono- or polycyclic hetaryl; X1, X2, X3, X4 are CH, C—Rx or N, provided that in each ring at most two of X1, X2, X3, X4 are N; Rx is e.g. halogen, CN or CH?CH2. The invention also relates to thermoplastic resins comprising a polymerized unit of the compound of formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Karl REUTER, Vasyl ANDRUSHKO, Mark KANTOR, Florian STOLZ, Munenori SHIRATAKE, Kentaro ISHIHARA, Koji HIROSE, Shinya IKEDA, Noriyuki KATO, Mitsuteru KONDO, Shoko MURATA, Kensuke OSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230294760
    Abstract: A vehicle driving support apparatus to be applied to a vehicle comprises a running environment recognizer; a preceding vehicle information acquirer that detects a vehicle class and variation in behavior of a preceding vehicle; an amount-of-steering control calculator that calculates an amount of steering control to cause the vehicle to run along a target path of travel set on a lane; a disturbance estimation control calculator that estimates lateral-direction disturbance to calculate an amount of steering against the disturbance based on the estimated disturbance; and a coordination controller that corrects the amount of steering control with the amount of steering. If a rolling direction and a lateral motion direction of the preceding vehicle coincide with each other, the disturbance estimation control calculator determines that the variation in the behavior of the preceding vehicle is caused by the disturbance, and calculates the amount of steering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Kensuke OSHIMA, Makoto NAKAUCHI, Masaya SAKAMOTO, Yuki YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11760712
    Abstract: The present invention relates to triarylmethane compounds of the formula (I), which suitable as monomers for preparing thermoplastic resins having beneficial optical properties and which can be used for producing optical devices. R1, R2 are e.g. hydrogen; Y is an alkylene group having 2, 3 or 4 carbon atoms, Ar is selected from mono- or polycyclic aryl and mono- or polycyclic hetaryl; X1, X2, X3, X4 are CH, C—Rx or N, provided that in each ring at most two of X1, X2, X3, X4 are N; Rx is e.g. halogen, CN or CH?CH2. The invention also relates to thermoplastic resins comprising a polymerized unit of the compound of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl Reuter, Vasyl Andrushko, Mark Kantor, Florian Stolz, Munenori Shiratake, Kentaro Ishihara, Koji Hirose, Shinya Ikeda, Noriyuki Kato, Mitsuteru Kondo, Shoko Murata, Kensuke Oshima
  • Publication number: 20230250211
    Abstract: A method for producing an oxymethylene copolymer, in which a copolymer starting material containing a trioxane and a comonomer is subjected to a polymerization reaction in the presence of a polymerization initiator that contains an acidic compound (A), and where: the copolymer starting material contains a basic compound (B); an acidic compound (C) that is different from the acidic compound (A) is added into the copolymer starting material before performing the polymerization reaction, thereby causing a reaction between the basic compound (B) and the acidic compound (C) in advance; and the polymerization reaction is carried out by means of melt polymerization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Toru TAKAHASHI, Daigo NAKAYA, Kensuke OSHIMA, Daisuke SUNAGA
  • Patent number: 11667745
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method for producing an oxymethylene copolymer, which is capable of producing an oxymethylene copolymer having a high molecular weight with high yield and high economic efficiency. This problem is able to be solved by a method for producing an oxymethylene copolymer, in which a copolymer starting material containing a trioxane and a comonomer is subjected to a polymerization reaction in the presence of a polymerization initiator that contains an acidic compound (A), and wherein: the copolymer starting material contains a basic compound (B); an acidic compound (C) that is different from the acidic compound (A) is added into the copolymer starting material before performing the polymerization reaction, thereby causing a reaction between the basic compound (B) and the acidic compound (C) in advance; and the polymerization reaction is carried out by means of melt polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Daigo Nakaya, Kensuke Oshima, Daisuke Sunaga
  • Publication number: 20220380532
    Abstract: A polycarbonate resin having a high refractive index, a low Abbe number and a high moisture and heat resistance is provided. In an embodiment, a polycarbonate resin including a structural unit represented by general formula (1) below is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Munenori SHIRATAKE, Kentaro ISHIHARA, Koji HIROSE, Shinya IKEDA, Noriyuki KATO, Mitsuteru KONDO, Shoko SUZUKI, Kensuke OSHIMA, Shuya NAGAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11440991
    Abstract: The present application provides a polycarbonate resin composition which has a high refractive index and a low Abbe number, and high thermal stability. The polycarbonate resin composition according to one embodiment of the present application includes a polycarbonate resin and an antioxidant, wherein the polycarbonate resin contains a constituent unit represented by general formula (1) (in general formula (1), X represents an alkylene group having 1-4 carbon atoms, and a and b each independently represent an integer of 1-10), and the antioxidant content is 1-3000 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Munenori Shiratake, Kentaro Ishihara, Koji Hirose, Shinya Ikeda, Noriyuki Kato, Mitsuteru Kondo, Shoko Suzuki, Kensuke Oshima, Shuya Nagayama
  • Patent number: 11434327
    Abstract: A polycarbonate resin having a high refractive index, a low Abbe number and a high moisture and heat resistance is provided. In an embodiment, a polycarbonate resin including a structural unit represented by general formula (1) below is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Munenori Shiratake, Kentaro Ishihara, Koji Hirose, Shinya Ikeda, Noriyuki Kato, Mitsuteru Kondo, Shoko Suzuki, Kensuke Oshima, Shuya Nagayama
  • Patent number: 11306180
    Abstract: Provided are a polycarbonate having an appropriate refractive index and an appropriate Abbe number, and comprehensively excelling in heat resistance, total light transmittance, and hue, and a molded article thereof. The polycarbonate includes a constituent unit represented by Formula [I] and a constituent unit having a hydrocarbon group containing a cyclic structure. In Formula [I], R1 and R2 each independently denote a hydrocarbon group, and each R3 independently denotes a hydrogen atom, a heteroatom-containing group, a halogen atom-containing group, a linear alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a branched alkyl group having from 3 to 6 carbon atoms, or a group including an aryl group and having from 6 to 12 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Munenori Shiratake, Kentaro Ishihara, Koji Hirose, Shinya Ikeda, Noriyuki Kato, Mitsuteru Kondo, Shoko Suzuki, Kensuke Oshima, Shuya Nagayama, Masahiro Kanda
  • Publication number: 20220106483
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition that cuts visible light and has infrared light transmittance. A thermoplastic resin composition including a thermoplastic resin and a coloring material, wherein the refractive index at a wavelength of 894 nm is 1.60 or greater, and when the thickness of the thermoplastic resin composition is 1 mm, the maximum value of the transmittance of wavelengths of 380 nm-630 nm is greater than 0% and less than or equal to 1.00%, and the average transmittance of wavelengths of 840 nm-940 nm is greater than or equal to 80%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi MOTEGI, Kentaro ISHIHARA, Katsushi NISHIMORI, Shinya IKEDA, Noriyuki KATO, Mitsuteru KONDO, Kensuke OSHIMA, Masahiro KANDA, Shoko SUZUKI, Tatsunobu OGATA, Mitsutake SUEMATSU
  • Patent number: 11286342
    Abstract: A polycarbonate resin having a high refractive index, low Abbe number, and high moist heat resistance that includes structural units represented by general formula (1):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Kato, Mitsuteru Kondo, Kentaro Ishihara, Munenori Shiratake, Koji Hirose, Shinya Ikeda, Kensuke Oshima, Shuya Nagayama, Shoko Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20220043183
    Abstract: Provided is an optical lens formed by integrally molding a lens part that is an optically effective portion and has a light incidence/emission surface, and a lens edge part that is an optically ineffective portion and has a surface thereof except the light incidence/emission surface. The lens edge part includes a non-transparent region in part or all thereof, the lens part and the lens edge part include a thermoplastic resin, and the non-transparent region in the lens edge part contains a total of 0.1-5 mass % of one or more of a black dye and a black pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi MOTEGI, Kentaro ISHIHARA, Katsushi NISHIMORI, Shinya IKEDA, Noriyuki KATO, Mitsuteru KONDO, Kensuke OSHIMA, Masahiro KANDA, Shoko SUZUKI, Tatsunobu OGATA, Mitsutake SUEMATSU
  • Publication number: 20220025110
    Abstract: Provided is an optical resin composition for lenses that contains a resin having a structural unit represented by formula (1), and a binaphthalene compound and/or a binaphthalene compound oligomer having a structural unit represented by formula (2). A, p, K1, K2, Z, and q in formula (1) are as described in the present specification. R1-R10, a, and b in formula (2) are as described in the present specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Mitsutake SUEMATSU, Atsushi MOTEGI, Kentaro ISHIHARA, Katsushi NISHIMORI, Shinya IKEDA, Noriyuki KATO, Mitsuteru KONDO, Kensuke OSHIMA, Masahiro KANDA, Shoko SUZUKI, Tatsunobu OGATA
  • Publication number: 20210371367
    Abstract: The present invention relates to triarylmethane compounds of the formula (I), which suitable as monomers for preparing thermoplastic resins having beneficial optical properties and which can be used for producing optical devices. R1, R2 are e.g. hydrogen; Y is an alkylene group having 2, 3 or 4 carbon atoms, Ar is selected from mono- or polycyclic aryl and mono- or polycyclic hetaryl; X1, X2, X3, X4 are CH, C—Rx or N, provided that in each ring at most two of X1, X2, X3, X4 are N; Rx is e.g. halogen, CN or CH?CH2. The invention also relates to thermoplastic resins comprising a polymerized unit of the compound of formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Karl Reuter, Vasyl Andrushko, Mark Kantor, Florian Stolz, Munenori Shiratake, Kentaro Ishihara, Koji Hirose, Shinya Ikeda, Noriyuki Kato, Mitsuteru Kondo, Shoko Suzuki, Kensuke Oshima
  • Publication number: 20210363295
    Abstract: The present application provides a polycarbonate resin composition which has a high refractive index and a low Abbe number, and high thermal stability. The polycarbonate resin composition according to one embodiment of the present application includes a polycarbonate resin and an antioxidant, wherein the polycarbonate resin contains a constituent unit represented by general formula (1) (in general formula (1), X represents an alkylene group having 1-4 carbon atoms, and a and b each independently represent an integer of 1-10), and the antioxidant content is 1-3000 ppm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Munenori SHIRATAKE, Kentaro ISHIHARA, Koji HIROSE, Shinya IKEDA, Noriyuki KATO, Mitsuteru KONDO, Shoko SUZUKI, Kensuke OSHIMA, Shuya NAGAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210355058
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I), which are suitable as monomers for preparing thermoplastic resins having beneficial optical properties and which can be used for producing optical devices: where A1, A2 are selected from mono- or bicyclic aromatic radicals and mono- or bicyclic heteroaromatic radicals, X represents e.g. a single bond, O, NH, CR6R7, Y is e.g. absent or represents a single bond, O, NH, CR8R9; R1, R2 are hydrogen, a radical Ar? or a radical Ra; R3 is Alk, O-Alk?-, O-Alk?-[O-Alk?]0, O—CH2—Ar—C(O)—, O—C(O)—Ar—C(O)— or O-Alk-C(O)—, where in the last five moieties the left O is bound to A1 and A2, respectively, m, n are 0, 1 or 2; o is an integer from 1 to 10; R4, R5 are e.g. selected from CN and a radical Ra; R6, R8 are e.g. selected from hydrogen, a radical Ar? and a radical Ra; R7, R9 are e.g. selected from hydrogen, C1-C4-alkyl and a radical Ar?; Ra is selected from the group consisting of C?C—R11 and Ar—C?C—R11; R11 is e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Munenori Shiratake, Kentaro Ishihara, Koji Hirose, Shinya Ikeda, Noriyuki Kato, Mitsuteru Kondo, Shoko Murata, Kensuke Oshima, Florian Stolz
  • Publication number: 20210340317
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I), which are suitable as monomers for preparing thermoplastic resins having beneficial optical properties and which can be used for producing optical devices. In Formula (I), A1, A2 are selected from mono- or bicyclic aromatic radicals and mono- or bicyclic heteroaromatic radicals; X represents e.g. a single bond, O, NH, CR6R7; Y is e.g. absent or represents a single bond, O, NH, CR8R9; R1, R2 are hydrogen, a radical Ar? or a radical Ra; R3 is Alk, O-Alk?-, O-Alk?-[O-Alk?]o, O—CH2—Ar—C(O)—, O—C(O)—Ar—C(O)— or O-Alk-C(O)—, where in the last five moieties the left O is bound to A1 and A2, respectively; m, n are 0, 1 or 2; o is an integer from 1 to 10; R4, R5 are e.g. selected from CN and a radical Ra; R6, R8 are e.g. selected from hydrogen, a radical Ar? and a radical Ra; R7, R9 are e.g. selected from hydrogen, C1-C4-alkyl and a radical Ar?; Ra is selected from the group consisting of C?C—R11 and Ar—C?C—R11; R11 is e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Karl REUTER, Vasyl ANDRUSHKO, Mark KANTOR, Florian STOLZ, Philipp KOSCHKER, Munenori SHIRATAKE, Kentaro ISHIHARA, Koji HIROSE, Shinya IKEDA, Noriyuki KATO, Mitsuteru KONDO, Shoko SUZUKI, Kensuke OSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11072573
    Abstract: The present invention relates to binaphthyl compounds of the formula (I), which are suitable as monomers for preparing polycarbonate resins having beneficial optical properties and which can be used for producing optical lenses: Formula (I) where X is C2-C4-alkandiyl or C1-C4-alkandiyl-C(O)—, where C(O) is bound to the oxygen atom of the hydroxyl group and where C2-C4-alkandiyl or C1-C4-alkandiyl, respectively, are unsubstituted or carry a phenyl ring; R and R? are identical or different and selected from mono or polycyclic aryl having from 6 to 36 carbon atoms and mono- or polycyclic hetaryl having a total of 5 to 36 atoms, which are ring members, where 1, 2, 3 or 4 of these atoms are selected from nitrogen, sulfur and oxygen, while the remainder of these atoms are carbon atoms, where mono- or polycyclic aryl and mono- or polycyclic hetaryl are unsubstituted or carry 1 or 2 radicals Ra, which are selected from the group consisting of CN, CH3, OCH3, O-phenyl, O-naphthyl, S-phenyl, S-naphthyl, CI or F; and, if
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Reuter Chemische Apparatebau E.K.
    Inventors: Karl Reuter, Vasyl Andrushko, Mark Kantor, Florian Stolz, Noriyuki Kato, Mitsuteru Kondo, Munenori Shiratake, Kentaro Ishihara, Shinya Ikeda, Shoko Suzuki, Koji Hirose, Kensuke Oshima, Shuya Nagayama