Patents by Inventor Masahiro Ohkura

Masahiro Ohkura 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: 20220195099
    Abstract: A method of producing a fluorine-containing compound is a method of producing a compound (30) having partial structure (3) by an insertion reaction of compound (20) into compound (10) that has partial structure (1), in the presence of an ionic catalyst formed from a specific monovalent anion and a counter cation. In the formulas, * represents a bonding site, and X1 and R1 to R4 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a chlorine atom, or an organic group having a carbon number of 1 to 20 which may have a substituent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro OHKURA, Shun WATANUKI
  • Patent number: 10961332
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a polymer including: polymerizing a compound represented by the following formula (3); or copolymerizing the compound represented by the following formula (3) with a compound (6) having a reactive carbon-carbon double bond and differing from the compound represented by the following formula (3), in a presence of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following formula (1) and compounds represented by the following formula (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ohkura, Kenta Natsukawa
  • Patent number: 10858466
    Abstract: A curable composition capable of being cured at a low temperature of from room temperature to 150° C. is provided. The curable composition comprises a fluorinated polymer containing at least three functional groups represented by the following formula (F) and at least one curing agent selected from the group consisting of an isocyanate-type curing agent, a blocked isocyanate-type curing agent and an amino resin-type curing agent: —Rf1COZ1??(F) (in the formula (1), Rf1 is a fluoroalkylene group, or a fluoroalkylene group with at least two carbon atoms having an etheric oxygen atom between carbon-carbon atoms, Z1 is NR1NR2H or NR3OR4, and R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ohkura, Norihide Sugiyama, Takeshi Eriguchi
  • Patent number: 10759887
    Abstract: An electric wire and coil covered with a cured product of a heat- or photo-curable fluorinated polymer and having high insulating properties and high productivity. An electric wire having a conductor wire and a covering layer covering the outer periphery of the conductor wire. The covering layer is made of a cured product of a curable composition which has a fluorinated polymer containing at least three functional groups represented by the following formula (F): —Rf1COZ1 (F). In formula (F), Rf1 is a single bond, a fluoroalkylene group, or a fluoroalkylene group with at least two carbon atoms having an etheric oxygen atom between carbon-carbon atoms, Z1 is NR1NR2H, NR3OR4 or OR5, and R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ohkura, Norihide Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20200238277
    Abstract: To provide a microchannel chip which is a chip provided internally with an inner space that can be used as a flow channel, and which is excellent in drug non-absorption properties of the channel. The microchannel chip has formed therein a plurality of openings H1, H2 and an inner space S connecting the plurality of openings H1, H2, and at least a part of the surface in contact with the inner space S is made of a fluorinated copolymer containing from 5 to 99 mol % of units based on CF2?CFX (X is a fluorine atom, a chlorine atom or CF3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro OHKURA, Daisuke TAGUCHI, Masamichi IDE, Naoki MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20190389983
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a polymer including: polymerizing a compound represented by the following formula (3); or copolymerizing the compound represented by the following formula (3) with a compound (6) having a reactive carbon-carbon double bond and differing from the compound represented by the following formula (3), in a presence of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following formula (1) and compounds represented by the following formula (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro OHKURA, Kenta NATSUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190315896
    Abstract: To provide an electric wire and coil covered with a cured product of a heat- or photo-curable fluorinated polymer and having high insulating properties and high productivity. An electric wire comprising a conductor wire and a covering layer covering the outer periphery of the conductor wire, wherein the covering layer is made of a cured product of a curable composition comprising a fluorinated polymer containing at least three functional groups represented by the following formula (F): —Rf1COZ1??(F) (in the formula (F), Rf1 is a single bond, a fluoroalkylene group, or a fluoroalkylene group with at least two carbon atoms having an etheric oxygen atom between carbon-carbon atoms, Z1 is NR1NR2H, NR3OR4 or OR5, and R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro OHKURA, Norihide SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190309111
    Abstract: A curable composition capable of being cured at a low temperature of from room temperature to 150° C. is provided. The curable composition comprises a fluorinated polymer containing at least three functional groups represented by the following formula (F) and at least one curing agent selected from the group consisting of an isocyanate-type curing agent, a blocked isocyanate-type curing agent and an amino resin-type curing agent: —Rf1COZ1 ??(F) (in the formula (1), Rf1 is a fluoroalkylene group, or a fluoroalkylene group with at least two carbon atoms having an etheric oxygen atom between carbon-carbon atoms, Z1 is NR1NR2H or NR3OR4, and R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro OHKURA, Norihide SUGIYAMA, Takeshi ERIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10214619
    Abstract: To provide a process for producing a fluorinated crosslinked product which is excellent in stability and produces less HF. A process for producing a fluorinated crosslinked product, which comprises irradiating a fluorinated polymer having a unit represented by the following formula (1), with active energy rays having a wavelength of from 150 to 300 nm: wherein X1 and X2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom, Rf1 is a fluoroalkylene group or a fluoroalkylene group having at least two carbon atoms and an etheric oxygen atom between carbon-carbon atoms, Q1 is a single bond or an etheric oxygen atom, and Z1 is OH, OR1 or NR2R3, wherein R1 is an alkyl group, and R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Norihide Sugiyama, Ryujiro Yamasaki, Susumu Saito, Akihiko Asakawa, Masahiro Ohkura, Shinji Wada
  • Patent number: 10196467
    Abstract: To provide a curable fluorinated polymer excellent in solubility in an alcohol, a method for its production and a cured product of the fluorinated polymer. A fluorinated polymer comprising units represented by the following formula (1), wherein in at least some of the units represented by the formula (1), Z1 is NR1NR2H or NR3OR4: in the formula (1), X1 and X2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom, Q1 is a single bond or an etheric oxygen atom, Rf1 is a fluoroalkylene group, or a fluoroalkylene group with at least 2 carbon atoms, having an etheric oxygen atom between carbon-carbon atoms, Z1 is NR1NR2H, NR3OR4 or OR5, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and R5 is an alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Norihide Sugiyama, Masahiro Ohkura
  • Publication number: 20180162974
    Abstract: To provide a curable fluorinated polymer excellent in solubility in an alcohol, a method for its production and a cured product of the fluorinated polymer. A fluorinated polymer comprising units represented by the following formula (1), wherein in at least some of the units represented by the formula (1), Z1 is NR1NR2H or NR3OR4: in the formula (1), X1 and X2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom, Q1 is a single bond or an etheric oxygen atom, Rf1 is a fluoroalkylene group, or a fluoroalkylene group with at least 2 carbon atoms, having an etheric oxygen atom between carbon-carbon atoms, Z1 is NR1NR2H, NR3OR4 or OR5, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and R5 is an alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Norihide SUGIYAMA, Masahiro Ohkura
  • Publication number: 20160280865
    Abstract: To provide a process for producing a fluorinated crosslinked product which is excellent in stability and produces less HF. A process for producing a fluorinated crosslinked product, which comprises irradiating a fluorinated polymer having a unit represented by the following formula (1), with active energy rays having a wavelength of from 150 to 300 nm: wherein X1 and X2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom, Rf1 is a fluoroalkylene group or a fluoroalkylene group having at least two carbon atoms and an etheric oxygen atom between carbon-carbon atoms, Q1 is a single bond or an etheric oxygen atom, and Z1 is OH, OR1 or NR2R3, wherein R1 is an alkyl group, and R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Norihide SUGIYAMA, Ryujiro Yamasaki, Susumu Saito, Akihiko Asakawa, Masahiro Ohkura, Shinji Wada
  • Publication number: 20150141604
    Abstract: To provide a curable fluorinated polymer which is excellent in curability, and a fluorinated polymer cured product which is excellent in heat resistance and chemical resistance and which exhibits excellent properties as an elastomer. A curable fluorinated polymer having constituent units (A) based on fluoromonoenes (a) and constituent units (B) based on a non-cyclopolymerizable fluorodiene (b), in which the content of polymerizable double bonds is from 0.01 to 0.5 mmol/g, and of which the intrinsic viscosity is from 0.1 to 1 dL/g, and a fluorinated polymer cured product obtained by curing the curable fluorinated polymer in the presence of an organic peroxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Norihide SUGIYAMA, Hiromasa YAMAMOTO, Akinobu KUNIMOTO, Masahiro OHKURA
  • Patent number: 7847028
    Abstract: The present invention provides a curable composition which can yield a fluorinated cured product excellent in transparency, light resistance, heat resistance, and mechanical strength, and minimally damaged by stress concentration. The invention relates to a curable composition comprising a perfluoro polymer (a) containing a unit derived from a perfluorodiene having two polymerizable carbon-carbon double bonds, wherein two carbon atoms in one carbon-carbon double bond form the main chain, and the other carbon-carbon double bond forms a side chain; a perfluorocyclic monoene (b) having at least 8 carbon atoms, which has an alicyclic structure made of carbon atoms and optionally containing an oxygen atom, and one polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond, wherein at least one of two carbon atoms forming the carbon-carbon double bond is a carbon atom constituting the alicyclic structure; and a polymerization initiator (i).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Norihide Sugiyama, Masahiro Ohkura
  • Publication number: 20100240791
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a curable composition which has a high curing rate and is excellent in productivity, and from which a fluorinated cured product having excellent dimensional stability can be obtained by suppressing volume shrinkage by bubbling during the curing reaction, and a process for producing such a curable composition. A curable composition comprising a polymerizable compound having a polymerizable double bond, wherein the mass ratio of a polymerizable compound (P) having a molecular weight of at least 1,000 is at least 90 mass % to all polymerizable compounds in the curable composition, and the polymerizable compound (P) contains a fluoropolymer (X) having a molecular weight of at least 1,000 having specific repeating units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Norihide SUGIYAMA, Masahiro Ohkura, Yoshitomi Morizawa
  • Publication number: 20090118429
    Abstract: To provide a curable composition which provides a fluorinated cured product excellent in transparency, light resistance, heat resistance and mechanical strength and hardly damaged by stress concentration. A curable composition comprising a perfluoro polymer (a) containing a unit derived from a perfluorodiene having two polymerizable carbon-carbon double bonds, wherein two carbon atoms in one carbon-carbon double bond form the main chain, and the other carbon-carbon double bond forms a side chain; a perfluorocyclic monoene (b) having at least 8 carbon atoms, which has an alicyclic structure made of carbon atoms and optionally containing an oxygen atom, and one polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond, wherein at least one of two carbon atoms forming the carbon-carbon double bond is a carbon atom constituting the alicyclic structure; and a polymerization initiator (i).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Norihide SUGIYAMA, Masahiro Ohkura