Patents by Inventor Kentaro Kajiwara

Kentaro Kajiwara 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: 7998887
    Abstract: To provide a nonwoven fabric containing ultra-fine fibers suitable as a leather-like sheet, and also a leather-like sheet with an excellent compactness. A nonwoven fabric containing ultra-fine fibers, characterized in that it contains staple fibers with a fiber fineness of 0.0001 to 0.5 decitex and a fiber length of 10 cm or less, and has a weight per unit area of 100 to 550 g/m2, an apparent density of 0.280 to 0.700 g/cm3, a tensile strength of 70 N/cm or more, and a tear strength of 3 to 50 N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Horiguchi, Kyoko Yokoi, Kentaro Kajiwara
  • Publication number: 20110045231
    Abstract: This invention provides a leather-like sheet excellent in hand softness and appearance durability, as a composite sheet consisting of a nonwoven fabric composed of ultrafine long fibers in which ultrafine fibers with a fiber fineness of 0.0001 to 0.5 dtex are entangled with each other, and a woven or knitted fabric, characterized in that at least some of the aforementioned ultrafine fibers pass through the woven or knitted fabric, that the appearance is grade 3 or higher while the abrasion loss is 10 mg or less in the evaluation of abrasion resistance, and that the sheet is substantially composed of only a fiber material of a non-elastic polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro Kajiwara, Tomoyuki Horiguchi, Satoru Shimoyama, Kenji Sekine
  • Patent number: 7820568
    Abstract: A leather-like sheet excellent in repulsive feeling is provided by a leather-like sheet substantially including a fibrous material which is a leather-like sheet in which a staple fiber nonwoven fabric (A) in which ultra-fine fibers of an average single fiber fineness of 0.0001 to 0.5 dtex and an average fiber length of 1 to 10 cm are entangled with each other and a woven or knitted fabric (B) including a conjugate fiber in which two or more polyesters are disposed in side-by-side or eccentric sheath-core relationship are laminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Horiguchi, Kentaro Kajiwara, Satoru Shimoyama
  • Publication number: 20090130371
    Abstract: A leather-like sheet excellent in repulsive feeling is provided by a leather-like sheet substantially including a fibrous material which is a leather-like sheet in which a staple fiber nonwoven fabric (A) in which ultra-fine fibers of an average single fiber fineness of 0.0001 to 0.5 dtex and an average fiber length of 1 to 10 cm are entangled with each other and a woven or knitted fabric (B) including a conjugate fiber in which two or more polyesters are disposed in side-by-side or eccentric sheath-core relationship are laminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Horiguchi, Kentaro Kajiwara, Satoru Shimoyama
  • Publication number: 20060234587
    Abstract: To provide a nonwoven fabric containing ultra-fine fibers suitable as a leather-like sheet, and also a leather-like sheet with an excellent compactness. A nonwoven fabric containing ultra-fine fibers, characterized in that it contains staple fibers with a fiber fineness of 0.0001 to 0.5 decitex and a fiber length of 10 cm or less, and has a weight per unit area of 100 to 550 g/m2, an apparent density of 0.280 to 0.700 g/cm3, a tensile strength of 70 N/cm or more, and a tear strength of 3 to 50 N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Horiguchi, Kyoko Yokoi, Kentaro Kajiwara