Patents by Inventor Kimito Washiya

Kimito Washiya 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: 20220322615
    Abstract: A greenhouse has a daylighting member supported by a frame. The daylighting member partitions a growing space for agricultural products from an outside world, and emits light, which has entered from a light incident surface on one side, from a light emitting surface on the other side. The daylighting member has a transparent substrate layer and a transparent light emitting layer provided closer to a light emitting surface side than the substrate layer. The light emitting layer has a refractive index of 1.54 or less, water absorbability, and an equilibrium moisture content of 10% or greater at 25° C. and a relative humidity of 80%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kimito WASHIYA, Shogo KATANO, Yusuke FUJIHARA
  • Publication number: 20210084833
    Abstract: The agricultural material includes a cellulose acylate layer and a polymer layer. The cellulose acylate layer is formed of cellulose acylate. The polymer layer is provided on a first CA surface, which is one surface of the cellulose acylate layer. The polymer layer has a moisture permeation resistance of at most 7.5×10?4 m2·day/g per 1 ?m of thickness and is formed of a polymer different from cellulose acylate. The agricultural material has a tear strength of at least 0.10 N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji ISHII, Shogo KATANO, Kimito WASHIYA
  • Publication number: 20200170196
    Abstract: Objects of the present invention are to provide a film for an agricultural greenhouse that can maintain a CO2 concentration necessary for the photosynthesis of plants even when ventilation is not performed and to provide an agricultural greenhouse using the film. The film for an agricultural greenhouse of the present invention is a cellulose film which contains a cellulose acylate resin and has an equilibrium moisture content of 4% to 8% at a temperature of 25° C., a relative humidity of 80% and a thickness of 60 to 200 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo KATANO, Yui OMI, Kimito WASHIYA, Akihiro IKEYAMA, Eiji ISHII
  • Patent number: 10595472
    Abstract: Objects of the present invention are to provide a film for an agricultural greenhouse that can maintain a CO2 concentration necessary for the photosynthesis of plants even when ventilation is not performed and to provide an agricultural greenhouse using the film. The film for an agricultural greenhouse of the present invention is a cellulose film which contains a cellulose acylate resin and has an equilibrium moisture content of 4% to 8% at a temperature of 25° C., a relative humidity of 80% and a thickness of 60 to 200 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Katano, Yui Omi, Kimito Washiya, Akihiro Ikeyama, Eiji Ishii
  • Publication number: 20190135533
    Abstract: A packaging material for fruits and vegetables contains cellulose acylate having an acyl group. The cellulose acylate is cellulose acylate in which the hydroxy group of cellulose is esterified with a carboxylic acid, and has an acyl group. In the cellulose acylate of the packaging material for fruits and vegetable, an acyl group substitution degree, which is a rate of esterification of the hydroxy group of cellulose with a carboxylic acid, is within a range of from 2.00 to 2.97.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro IKEYAMA, Kimito WASHIYA
  • Publication number: 20170280637
    Abstract: Objects of the present invention are to provide a film for an agricultural greenhouse that can maintain a CO2 concentration necessary for the photosynthesis of plants even when ventilation is not performed and to provide an agricultural greenhouse using the film. The film for an agricultural greenhouse of the present invention is a cellulose film which contains a cellulose acylate resin and has an equilibrium moisture content of 4% to 8% at a temperature of 25° C., a relative humidity of 80% and a thickness of 60 to 200 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo KATANO, Yui OMI, Kimito WASHIYA, Akihiro IKEYAMA, Eiji ISHII
  • Patent number: 7763109
    Abstract: A cellulose acylate film producing method of producing cellulose acylate film by casting dope containing cellulose acylate and solvent is provided. The cellulose acylate film producing method includes adding a magnesium salt to the dope to satisfy a condition of a value of M2/M1 being equal to or more than 1×10?6 and equal to or less than 1×10?3, where M1 is a weight of the cellulose acylate, and M2 is a weight of magnesium in the magnesium salt. If the dope contains a calcium ion, the magnesium salt suppresses creation of insoluble precipitate of a calcium salt of a fatty acid from a fatty acid ion in the dope. Preferably, the magnesium salt is magnesium sulfate. A value of M3/M2 is equal to or more than 1×10?3 and equal to or less than 10, where M3 is a weight of calcium contained in the dope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kimito Washiya
  • Publication number: 20080237928
    Abstract: A casting dope is cast onto a casting belt to form a casting film, and then the casting film is peeled as a wet film from the casting belt. The wet film is guided through a transfer area toward a tenter drying device. In the tenter drying device, a tenter performs sequentially the drying, the stretching and the relaxation of the wet film during transporting the wet film. On the wet film, a bowing phenomena occurs by the relaxation to generate a first disorientation of an optical axis, and therefore the orientation of slow axed becomes not uniform. The stretching provide a second disorientation of the optical axis so as to cancel the first disorientation. Thus in the obtained film, the nonuniformity of the orientation of the slow axes is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kimito Washiya, Tomoaki Nagahara
  • Publication number: 20080200667
    Abstract: Cellulose with a calcium (Ca) content of at most 10 ppm is used as a raw material of cellulose acylate. The cellulose acylate is synthesized by esterification of cellulose with carboxylic acid such as acetic acid. A dope containing the cellulose acylate and a solvent is continuously cast onto a belt, which is a support, to form a casting film. The casting film is peeled off from the belt as a film, and then the film is dried.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nagahara, Kimito Washiya
  • Publication number: 20080054215
    Abstract: A cellulose acylate film producing method of producing cellulose acylate film by casting dope containing cellulose acylate and solvent is provided. The cellulose acylate film producing method includes adding a magnesium salt to the dope to satisfy a condition of a value of M2/M1 being equal to or more than 1×10?6 and equal to or less than 1×10?3, where M1 is a weight of the cellulose acylate, and M2 is a weight of magnesium in the magnesium salt. If the dope contains a calcium ion, the magnesium salt suppresses creation of insoluble precipitate of a calcium salt of a fatty acid from a fatty acid ion in the dope. Preferably, the magnesium salt is magnesium sulfate. A value of M3/M2 is equal to or more than 1×10?3 and equal to or less than 10, where M3 is a weight of calcium contained in the dope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kimito WASHIYA