Patents by Inventor Kyoko Shinohara

Kyoko Shinohara 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: 11878478
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a prepreg for producing a laminate suitable as a structural material, and a laminate, which have excellent tensile shear joining strength, fatigue joining strength, and interlaminar fractural toughness values, and can be firmly integrated with another structural member by welding. The present invention is a prepreg including the following structural components [A], [B], and [C], wherein [C] is present on a surface of the prepreg, [C] is a crystalline thermoplastic resin having a glass transition temperature of 100° C. or higher or an amorphous thermoplastic resin having a glass transition temperature of 180° C. or higher, and the reinforcing fibers [A] are present which are included in a resin area including [B] and a resin area including [C] across an interface between the two resin areas: [A] reinforcing fibers; [B] a thermosetting resin; and [C] a thermoplastic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jun Misumi, Masato Honma, Kyoko Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20230407018
    Abstract: An object is to provide a fiber-reinforced resin that can be welded to another member via a thermoplastic resin and that is less likely to be damaged even when welded at a high temperature, wherein the fiber-reinforced resin includes a reinforcing fiber and has a cured epoxy resin region and a thermoplastic resin region disposed at the surface wherein aromatic rings account for 50% or more and 90% or less of the cured epoxy resin present in the cured epoxy resin region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Misumi, Kyoko Shinohara, Masato Honma
  • Publication number: 20230406997
    Abstract: An epoxy resin composition is provided that is resistant to decomposition at high temperatures and a fiber-reinforced resin molding is provided that hardly suffers significant damage while being welded to another member even in the case where it is combined with a thermoplastic resin layer having a high melting point that works as an adhesive layer, as well as a prepreg that serves as a precursor therefor, where the epoxy resin composition includes an epoxy resin (A) that has a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon skeleton or a biphenyl skeleton and that has an epoxy equivalent weight of 220 g/eq or more and 290 g/eq or less and a polyamine compound having an average active hydrogen equivalent weight of 55 g/eq or more and 100 g/eq or less wherein the average epoxy equivalent weight over all epoxy resins contained is 160 g/eq or more and 255 g/eq or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Misumi, Masato Honma, Kyoko Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11840612
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a prepreg and a laminate for producing a laminate suitable as a structural material, which have excellent compressive strength and interlaminar fractural toughness values, and can be firmly integrated with another structural member by welding. The present invention provides a prepreg including the following structural components [A] reinforcing fibers, [B] a thermosetting resin, and [C] a thermoplastic resin, in which [B] has a rubbery state elastic modulus of 10 MPa or more at a temperature obtained by adding 50° C. to a glass transition temperature in a state in which a degree of cure is 90% or more, [C] is present in a surface of the prepreg, and the reinforcing fibers [A] are present, which are included in a resin area including {B] and a resin area including [C] across an interface between the two resin areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jun Misumi, Masato Honma, Kyoko Shinohara, Noriyuki Hirano
  • Publication number: 20230106362
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fiber-reinforced resin which has excellent tensile shear joining strength and is able to be integrated with another structural member with high productivity by means of thermal welding, thereby being suitable as a structural material. The present invention is a fiber-reinforced resin which contains constituents (A), (B) and (C), while having a multilayer structure that is composed of a thermosetting resin layer that is formed of (B) a thermosetting resin, a thermoplastic resin layer that is formed of (C) a thermoplastic resin, and a mixed layer that is present between the thermoplastic resin layer and the thermosetting resin layer, while being obtained by mixing the thermoplastic resin (C) and the thermosetting resin (B), in such a manner that the thermoplastic resin layer is present in the surface. With respect to this fiber-reinforced resin, at least some of (A) reinforcing fibers are present in the mixed layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Misumi, Masato Honma, Genki Matsubara, Kyoko Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20230017689
    Abstract: A prepreg includes composition elements [A], [B], and [C] described below, [A] a reinforcing fiber, [B] a thermosetting resin, and [C] a thermoplastic resin. [C] is present on a surface of the prepreg, [B] contains a first curing agent [b1] and a second curing agent [b2], and the reinforcing fiber of [A] that crosses over a boundary surface between a resin region containing [B] and a resin region containing [C] and that is in contact with both resin regions is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Misumi, Masato Honma, Kyoko Shinohara, Koji Furukawa, Atsuhito Arai
  • Publication number: 20230001651
    Abstract: A prepreg includes composition elements [A], [B], and [C] described below, [A] a reinforcing fiber, [B] a thermosetting resin, and [C] a thermoplastic resin. [B] contains a thermoplastic resin having an aromatic ring with an amount of 10% or more by mass, a resin region containing [B] is present on one surface of the prepreg, a resin region containing [C] is present on another surface of the prepreg, and [A] that crosses over a boundary surface between the resin region containing [B] and the resin region containing [C] and that is in contact with both resin regions is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoko Shinohara, Masato Honma, Jun Misumi
  • Publication number: 20220388289
    Abstract: A prepreg includes [A], [B], and [C] described below. The [B] further comprises [B?]; a ratio of a mole number of an active hydrogen contained in [B?] to a mole number of an epoxy group in an epoxy resin contained in [B] is in a range of 0.6 to 1.1 both inclusive; [C] is present on a surface of the prepreg; and [A] that crosses over a boundary surface between a resin region containing [B] and a resin region containing [C] and that is in contact with both resin regions is present: [A] a reinforcing fiber; [B] an epoxy resin composition; an amine compound; and [C] a thermoplastic resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Misumi, Masato Honma, Kyoko Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20220324184
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a prepreg and a laminate for producing a laminate suitable as a structural material, which have excellent compressive strength and interlaminar fractural toughness values, and can be firmly integrated with another structural member by welding. The present invention provides a prepreg including the following structural components [A] reinforcing fibers, [B] a thermosetting resin, and [C] a thermoplastic resin, in which [B] has a rubbery state elastic modulus of 10 MPa or more at a temperature obtained by adding 50° C. to a glass transition temperature in a state in which a degree of cure is 90% or more, [C] is present in a surface of the prepreg, and the reinforcing fibers [A] are present, which are included in a resin area including {B] and a resin area including [C] across an interface between the two resin areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Misumi, Masato Honma, Kyoko Shinohara, Noriyuki Hirano
  • Publication number: 20220315762
    Abstract: The present invention has an object of providing a prepreg for producing a laminate suitable as a structural material, and a laminate, which have excellent combustion resistance, compressive strength and interlaminar fractural toughness values, and can be firmly integrated with another structural member by welding. The present invention is a prepreg including structural components: [A] reinforcing fibers, [B] a thermosetting resin, and [C] a thermoplastic resin [C], wherein [B] includes at least one resin selected from a cyanate ester resin having an average cyanate equivalent of 220 or less, a bismaleimide resin having an average maleimide equivalent of 210 or less, and a benzoxazine resin having an average oxazine equivalent of 300 or less, [C] is present on a surface of the prepreg, and the reinforcing fibers [A] are present which are included in a resin area including [B] and a resin area including [C] across an interface between the two resin areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoko Shinohara, Masato Honma, Jun Misumi
  • Publication number: 20220251317
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a prepreg and a laminate for producing a laminate suitable as a structural material, which have excellent joining strength and interlaminar fractural toughness values and can be firmly integrated with another structural member by welding. The present invention provides a prepreg including the following structural components, [A] reinforcing fibers, [B] an epoxy resin, and [C] a thermoplastic resin, wherein all epoxy resins included in [B] have an average epoxy value of 2.0 meq./g or more and 5.0 meq./g or less, [C] is present in a surface of the prepreg, and the reinforcing fibers [A] are present, which are included in a resin area including [B] and a resin area including [C] across an interface between the two resin areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Misumi, Masato Honma, Kyoko Shinohara, Noriyuki Hirano
  • Publication number: 20220213284
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a prepreg for producing a laminate suitable as a structural material, and a laminate, which have excellent tensile shear joining strength, fatigue joining strength, and interlaminar fractural toughness values, and can be firmly integrated with another structural member by welding. The present invention is a prepreg including the following structural components [A], [B], and [C], wherein [C] is present on a surface of the prepreg, [C] is a crystalline thermoplastic resin having a glass transition temperature of 100° C. or higher or an amorphous thermoplastic resin having a glass transition temperature of 180° C. or higher, and the reinforcing fibers [A] are present which are included in a resin area including [B] and a resin area including [C] across an interface between the two resin areas: [A] reinforcing fibers; [B] a thermosetting resin; and [C] a thermoplastic resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Misumi, Masato Honma, Kyoko Shinohara