Patents by Inventor Kozo Takahashi

Kozo Takahashi 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: 20240045088
    Abstract: A radiation detector according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels arranged on the substrate, the plurality of pixels each including a switching element and a photoelectric conversion element, a scintillator arranged to cover the photoelectric conversion element of each of the plurality of pixels, and a storage device configured to store inspection image data acquired by irradiating the plurality of pixels with visible light before forming the scintillator or a calibration parameter based on the inspection image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Kozo TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220215976
    Abstract: In the present invention, a nuclear power plant using U235 as nuclear fuel is converted into a nuclear power plant that uses spent nuclear fuel rods as the Nt source and that uses Th as nuclear fuel. The nuclear power plant using U235 as nuclear fuel is converted into a nuclear power plant using Th as nuclear fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventor: Kozo TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 9777110
    Abstract: A polyester film has a maximum surface height on a surface A side (SRmaxA) of 1500 nm to 7000 nm, a maximum surface height on a surface B side (SRmaxB) of 5 nm or more but less than 7000 nm, the SRmaxA and the SRmaxB satisfying the following relation (1), and a strength at break at 25° C. of 200 MPa to 330 MPa in both the longitudinal direction and the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Isao Manabe, Atsushi Shiomi, Kozo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9776383
    Abstract: A biaxially oriented polyester film for molding, wherein the film lengthwise-direction and widthwise-direction storage elastic moduli at 100° C. are each greater than or equal to 100 MPa and less than or equal to 1000 MPa, the film lengthwise-direction and width-wise direction storage elastic moduli at 180° C. are each greater than or equal to 41 MPa and less than or equal to 400 MPa, and the stresses at the time of 100% elongation (F100 values) in the film lengthwise direction and width direction at 150° C. are each greater than or equal to 5 MPa and less than or equal to 60 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Isao Manabe, Hideo Shoji, Kozo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9649829
    Abstract: The present invention provides a film for forming which exhibits both excellent dimensional stability in processing and excellent formability as well as excellent appearance of surfaces and can thus be suitably applied to a variety of forming members through forming and used in forming decoration applications. Provided is a film for forming comprising a cyclic olefin-based resin as a main component, wherein the storage modulus at 120° C. is 101 MPa to 3,000 MPa and the storage modulus at 170° C. is 100 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Inventors: Isao Manabe, Mitsutaka Sakamoto, Kozo Takahashi, Toshiya Ieki, Nobuyuki Sato, Shinji Takauchi
  • Patent number: 9530917
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a polyester film whose wet heat resistance is not reduced even when incorporated into a solar cell backsheet or solar cell. The polyester film according to the present invention has a peak count SPc_L (400 nm) of 100 to 700 and a peak count SPc_H (4,000 nm) of not more than 10 on at least one surface, the polyester film having an amount of terminal carboxyl groups of 0 to 20 eq/ton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Masato Horie, Tadamasa Suzuki, Tomohide Masuda, Kozo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9492987
    Abstract: A polyester film suitable for use in battery packages, particularly for use in deep drawn packages of lithium ion secondary batteries that includes an electrolyte (in a solid state or in a liquid state), and which is also suitable for use in packages of pharmaceutical products that have various shapes. The polyester film is characterized in that the stresses at 5% elongation (F5 values) and the stresses at 10% elongation (F10 values) of the film in the longitudinal direction and in the transverse direction at 25° C., respectively, satisfy (I) and (II): 1.5?F10MD/F5MD?1??(I) 1.5?F10TD/F5TD?1??(II).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Isao Manabe, Teruya Tanaka, Kozo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9396836
    Abstract: A polyester composition contains polyester, a phosphoric acid and an alkali metal phosphate, a phosphorous element content P (mol/t) is 1.8 mol/t or more and 5.0 mol/t or less relative to the whole of the polyester composition. The polyester composition contains at least one metal element of Mn and Ca, any divalent metal element content other than Mn and Ca is 5 ppm or less, and when an alkali metal element content relative to the polyester composition is denoted by M1 (mol/t), and a total amount of Mn element content and Ca element content relative to the polyester composition is denoted by M2 (mol/t), a metal element content M (mol/t) in the polyester composition which is calculated by expression (i) below and the phosphorous element content P (mol/t) satisfy expression (ii): (i) M=M1/2+M2 and (ii) 1.1?M/P?3.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tadamasa Suzuki, Shigeru Aoyama, Hiroji Kojima, Kozo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150232611
    Abstract: A polyester film has a maximum surface height on a surface A side (SRmaxA) of 1500 nm to 7000 nm, a maximum surface height on a surface B side (SRmaxB) of 5 nm or more but less than 7000 nm, the SRmaxA and the SRmaxB satisfying the following relation (1), and a strength at break at 25° C. of 200 MPa to 330 MPa in both the longitudinal direction and the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Isao Manabe, Atsushi Shiomi, Kozo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8981212
    Abstract: A polyester film includes particles and two kinds of crystalline polyester resins in which a sea-island structure is formed, wherein, if a crystallization temperature of a crystalline polyester resin A that forms a continuous phase or matrix phase in the polyester film is represented by TccA and a crystallization temperature of a crystalline polyester resin B that forms a dispersion phase or domain phase in the polyester film is represented by TccB, expression (1) below is satisfied, and a degree of flatness of the dispersion phase is 3 or more, and 70% or more of a total number of the particles present in the dispersion phase or are in contact with the dispersion phase: TccA?TccB?5° C.??Expression (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeru Aoyama, Ayako Shimazu, Atsushi Shiomi, Kozo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150023054
    Abstract: A reflective film includes a first section in which a layer including a resin A and a layer including a resin B are alternately laminated in 200 layers or more, and a second section including a resin C which meets at least one of (I) to (III), the sections arranged laminatedly in the thickness direction, wherein relative average reflectance at a wavelength of 400 to 700 nm of light incident upon the first section side arranged laminatedly is 70% or more, and the reflectance of a specular reflection component is 10% or more of the relative average reflectance: (I) voidage in the second section is 5% to 90%; (II) content of inorganic particles in the second section is 5% to 50% by mass; and (III) content of organic particles in the second section is 3% to 45% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Wataru Goda, Shigetoshi Maekawa, Syunichi Osada, Kozo Takahashi, Hitomi Furukawa, Teruya Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150017406
    Abstract: A biaxially oriented polyester film for molding, wherein the film lengthwise-direction and widthwise-direction storage elastic moduli at 100° C. are each greater than or equal to 100 MPa and less than or equal to 1000 MPa, the film lengthwise-direction and width-wise direction storage elastic moduli at 180° C. are each greater than or equal to 41 MPa and less than or equal to 400 MPa, and the stresses at the time of 100% elongation (F100 values) in the film lengthwise direction and width direction at 150° C. are each greater than or equal to 5 MPa and less than or equal to 60 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Isao Manabe, Hideo Shoji, Kozo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140352776
    Abstract: [Problem] An object of the present invention is to provide a polyester film whose wet heat resistance is not reduced even when incorporated into a solar cell backsheet or solar cell. [Means for Solution] The polyester film according to the present invention has a peak count SPc (400 nm) of not less than 100 and a peak count SPc (4,000 nm) of not more than 10 on at least one surface, the polyester film having an amount of terminal carboxyl groups of 0 to 25 eq/ton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Masato Horie, Tadamasa Suzuki, Tomohide Masuda, Kozo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8794798
    Abstract: A white film has reflective properties, concealing properties and film-forming stability and can be made into a thin film, a white film, which contains voids therein and satisfies the following formulae (i) to (iii) is provided: 0.6?nB/nA?0.9??(i) 20?nA??(ii) 15?nB??(iii) (wherein, nA represents the number of interfaces in 10 ?m of the surface layer in the film thickness direction; and nB represents the number of interfaces in ±5 ?m of the central part in the film thickness direction).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Ohira, Shigetoshi Maekawa, Daisuke Ogata, Masatoshi Izawa, Kozo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140209170
    Abstract: A laminate sheet including a layer containing a polyester resin as a main component (P1 layer), an adhesive resin layer (P2 layer), and a layer containing a polyolefin resin as a main component (P3 layer), wherein the laminate sheet has a total thickness of at least 30 ?m and up to 500 ?m, the P2 layer has a thickness of at least 0.1 ?m and up to 3 ?m, and a ratio of the thickness of the P1 layer (P1) to the thickness of the P3 layer (P3) (ratio P1/P3) is at least 0.2 and up to 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ayako Shimazu, Atsushi Shiomi, Shigeru Aoyama, Kozo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140170379
    Abstract: The present invention provides a film for forming which exhibits both excellent dimensional stability in processing and excellent formability as well as excellent appearance of surfaces and can thus be suitably applied to a variety of forming members through forming and used in forming decoration applications. Provided is a film for forming comprising a cyclic olefin-based resin as a main component, wherein the storage modulus at 120° C. is 101 MPa to 3,000 MPa and the storage modulus at 170° C. is 100 MPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Isao Manabe, Mitsutaka Sakamoto, Kozo Takahashi, Toshiya Ieki, Nobuyuki Sato, Shinji Takauchi
  • Publication number: 20140147666
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a film for molding which comprises a cyclic olefin polymer in an amount of 50% by mass to 100% by mass with respect to the total amount of the film and has a storage elastic modulus at 75° C. of 1,000 MPa to 3,000 MPa and a storage elastic modulus at 120° C. of not greater than 100 MPa. By the present invention, a film for molding which exhibits excellent dimensional stability during processing such as coating, lamination, printing and vapor deposition and is thus suitably used in molding transfer foil applications is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC
    Inventors: Mitsutaka Sakamoto, Isao Manabe, Kozo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140127502
    Abstract: A laminated film includes a layer A and a layer B, wherein the layer A contains a cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) as a main component, and the layer B contains a cyclic olefin polymer (COP) as a main component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsutaka Sakamoto, Isao Manabe, Kozo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8709589
    Abstract: A white polyester film has a high level of whiteness, reflectivity, lightness, or thermal dimensional stability, and a surface light source that is produced with the white polyester film and has a high level of brightness characteristics. The white polyester film includes a white polyester layer (W layer) containing a polyester resin component (A) and a component (B) incompatible with the resin component (A) and having voids inside, wherein the incompatible component (B) is a cyclic-olefin resin (b) having a glass transition temperature of 110° C. or more, and the content Z of the cyclic-olefin resin (b) in the white polyester layer (W layer) is from 5% by weight to 50% by weight, based on the amount of the white polyester layer (W layer). The surface light source is produced therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeru Aoyama, Akikazu Kikuchi, Kozo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8680206
    Abstract: A polyester film includes a polyester layer (W layer) containing an aromatic polyester resin (A) and a component (B) incompatible with the polyester resin (A), wherein the incompatible component (B) contains an acid-denaturated polyolefin resin (b2) and is dispersed as dispersion pieces with a flatness of 10 or higher in the polyester layer (W layer), and wherein volume occupancy of the dispersion pieces in the polyester layer (W layer) is 3 vol % to less than 50 vol %, and volume occupancy of voids in the polyester layer (W layer) is less than 3 vol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeru Aoyama, Akikazu Kikuchi, Kozo Takahashi