Patents by Inventor Masaaki Yanagihara

Masaaki Yanagihara 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: 20090308048
    Abstract: An unstretched filament composed of a PET-based aromatic polyester multifilament comprising a polyoxyalkylene-based polyether and an organic ionic compound is subjected to simultaneous stretching and false twisting under specified conditions to produce a polyester false twisted yarn, whereby rapid and stable false twisting can be accomplished without section deformation or fluff generation during false twisting, and the resulting yarn has a highly satisfactory hand quality and a fibrillation resistant fiber structure, while also exhibiting a highly durable antistatic property. Interlacing of the unstretched filament with an unstretched polyester filament comprising a polymethyl methacrylate-based polymer and/or polystyrene-based polymer and stretching/false twisting thereof under specified conditions allows rapid and stable production of conjugated false twisted yarn exhibiting highly satisfactory bulkiness and a spun feel with the absence of fluff, as well as a highly durable antistatic property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: TEIJIN FIBERS LIMITED
    Inventors: Masaaki Yanagihara, Suguru Nakajima
  • Patent number: 7000375
    Abstract: A polyester false-twist textured yarn, useful as a yarn for woven or knitted fabrics having excellent water-absorbing and quick drying properties, satisfies all of the requirements (1) to (3) shown below: (1) the cross-sectional profiles of a plurality of individual filaments, from which the false-twist textured multifilament yarn is constituted, each have 3 to 6 concavities, and the average number of the concavities having a ratio (H/W) of a largest depth (H) to a largest width (W) of the individual concavities of 0.3 or more is in the range of from 50 to 80% of the total number of the concavities; (2) the average of the cross-sectional profile flatness factors is in the range of from 1.5 to 3.5; and (3) the standard deviation of the cross-sectional profile flatness factors is in the range of from 0.3 to 1.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Masaaki Yanagihara, Yoshiki Shirakawa, Hiroyuki Osaka
  • Publication number: 20050102992
    Abstract: A polyester false-twist textured yarn, useful as a yarn for woven or knitted fabrics having excellent water-absorbing and quick drying properties, satisfies all of the requirements (1) to (3) shown below: (1) the cross-sectional profiles of a plurality of individual filaments, from which the false-twist textured multifilament yarn is constituted, each have 3 to 6 concavities, and the average number of the concavities having a ratio (H/W) of a largest depth (H) to a largest width (W) of the individual concavities of 0.3 or more is in the range of from 50 to 80% of the total number of the concavities; (2) the average of the cross-sectional profile flatness factors is in the range of from 1.5 to 3.5; and (3) the standard deviation of the cross-sectional profile flatness factors is in the range of from 0.3 to 1.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Masaaki Yanagihara, Yoshiki Shirakawa, Hiroyuki Osaka
  • Patent number: 5528893
    Abstract: A method for rethreading a yarn during false twist texturing of the yarn includes setting the temperature of a heater body outside a range having upper and lower limits so that if melted yarn adheres to the heater, the yarn vaporizes quickly if the temperature is above the upper limit or is easily removed by rethreading the yarn if the temperature is below the lower limit. The heater body has a total length between 0.8 and 1.2 m, the heater body and heating member divided into two pieces from upstream side to downstream side of the heat treating apparatus in ratio of length between 1:3 and 1: 1:5. The divided upstream heating member (12) is able to heat the upstream heater body (11) at a temperature higher than 370.degree. C., and the downstream heating member (22) is to heat the downstream heater body (21) at a temperature of between 200.degree. and 320.degree. C. or higher than 370.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignees: Teijin Seiki Co. Ltd., Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Masaaki Yanagihara, Kenji Kawakami, Hiroyuki Nagai, Akira Miyamoto, Fumio Tanae, Shunzo Naito
  • Patent number: 5404705
    Abstract: A heater body has a total length between 0.8 and 1.2 m, the heater body and heating member are divided into two pieces from upstream side to downstream side of the heat treating apparatus in ratio of length between 1:3 and 1:1.5, the divided upstream heating member (12) is able to heat the upstream heater body (11) at a temperature higher than 370.degree. C., and the downstream heating member (22) is to heat the downstream heater body (21) at a temperature of between 200.degree. and 320.degree. C. or higher than 370.degree. C., the upstream heater body has yarn guides (15) disposed at a longitudinal pitch of at most 30 mm, and the downstream heater body has yarn guides (24) disposed at a longitudinal pitch between 80 and 120 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1995
    Assignees: Teijin Seiki Co., Ltd., Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Masaaki Yanagihara, Kenji Kawakami, Hiroyuki Nagai, Akira Miyamoto, Fumio Tanae, Shunzo Naito
  • Patent number: 4976097
    Abstract: Disclosed is a level-dyeable mixed false-twisted filament yarn composed of larger denier multifilaments (1) having a denier of 1 to 2.5 and smaller denier multifilaments (2) having a denier of 0.6 or less, which is characterized in that (a) the yarn comprises entangled portions (I) thereof whereat the larger denier filaments and the smaller denier filaments are entangled with one another and opened portions (II) thereof comprising a core composed of the larger denier filaments and a covering composed of the smaller denier filaments, (b) in the coverings of the opened portions, net-like parts thereof are formed by the smaller denier filaments extending obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the yarn and intersecting one another, and scattered therein, (c) the length L.sub.1 of the opened portions is longer than the length L.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Masaaki Yanagihara, Katsutoshi Taniguchi, Masakazu Fujita
  • Patent number: 4955189
    Abstract: Disclosed is a worsted yarn-like false-twisted yarn composed of large-denier multifilaments having a thickness of at least 4 de and small-denier multifilaments having a thickness of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Masaaki Yanagihara, Katsutoshi Taniguchi, Muneaki Awata