Patents by Inventor Masahiro Ohura

Masahiro Ohura 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: 7390544
    Abstract: The thermosetting adhesive or pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or sheet has a structure in which a thermosetting adhesive or pressure-sensitive adhesive layer made of a thermosetting adhesive or pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing an acrylic polymer (X) containing at least an alkyl(meth)acrylate (a) in which the alkyl moiety thereof has from 2 to 14 carbon atoms and a cyano group-containing monomer (b) as monomer components and a phenol resin (Y) is protected by a release liner which does not substantially contain a silicone component. The acrylic polymer (X) may further contain a carboxyl group-containing monomer (c) as a monomer component. A release liner having a release layer made of polyethylene is suitable as the release liner which does not substantially contain a silicone component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Nonaka, Miyoko Sonobe, Masahiro Ohura
  • Patent number: 7312265
    Abstract: Provided is an acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive composition excellent in pressure sensitive adhesive characteristics and removability and a pressure sensitive adhesive tape using the acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive composition. An acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive composition containing an acrylic polymer obtained by at least copolymerizing a (meth) acrylic acid alkyl ester with an alkyl group having 2 to 14 carbon atoms and a carboxyl group containing unsaturated monomer copolymerizable with the (meth) acrylic acid alkyl ester, and tackifier resins, wherein the tackifier resins are respective resins each containing a natural product as a raw material, include at least 4 kinds of the resins different in a molecular structure from one another and a content of each of the tackifier resins is in the range of 5 parts by weight or more and 20 parts by weight or less relative to 100 parts by weight of the acrylic polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Wada, Michio Umeda, Koichi Ikeda, Masahiro Ohura
  • Publication number: 20070104913
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive label has a base having an information indication portion on its one surface thereof, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on another surface of the base. After peeling a release liner, the label is stuck on an outer surface of a housing of the hard disk drive to reduce noise generated when the hard disk drive is driven. The release liner for coating the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has an antistatic function and a cut line. The adhesive force of the adhesive layer is reduced by heating. The label has a surface density of not lower than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventors: Takahiro Nonaka, Yasuyuki Tokunaga, Naoyuki Nishiyama, Shinji Inokuchi, Masahiro Ohura, Akihisa Murata, Yasunori Sugihara
  • Patent number: 7196867
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive label has a base having an information indication portion on its one surface thereof, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on another surface of the base. After peeling a release liner, the label is stuck on an outer surface of a housing of the hard disk drive to reduce noise generated when the hard disk drive is driven. The release liner for coating the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has an antistatic function and a cut line. The adhesive force of the adhesive layer is reduced by heating. The label has a surface density of not lower than 0.18 (kg/m2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Nonaka, Yasuyuki Tokunaga, Naoyuki Nishiyama, Shinji Inokuchi, Masahiro Ohura, Akihisa Murata, Yasunori Sugihara
  • Patent number: 7097903
    Abstract: A double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for fixing a touch panel to a display device wherein one surface of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is stuck to the surface of the touch panel while the other surface of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is stuck to a display surface of the display device, the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet including: a transparent base; a first transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on one surface of the transparent base; and a second transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on the other surface of the transparent base; wherein the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is releasable and re-stickable to the display surface while being stuck to the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kishioka, Masahiro Ohura
  • Publication number: 20050209380
    Abstract: Provided is an acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive composition excellent in pressure sensitive adhesive characteristics and removability and a pressure sensitive adhesive tape using the acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive composition. An acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive composition containing an acrylic polymer obtained by at least copolymerizing a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester with an alkyl group having 2 to 14 carbon atoms and a carboxyl group containing unsaturated monomer copolymerizable with the (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester, and tackifier resins, wherein the tackifier resins are respective resins each containing a natural product as a raw material, include at least 4 kinds of the resins-different in a molecular structure from one another and a content of each of the tackifier resins is in the range of 5 parts by weight or more and 20 parts by weight or less relative to 100 parts by weight of the acrylic polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Inventors: Hiroshi Wada, Michio Umeda, Koichi Ikeda, Masahiro Ohura
  • Publication number: 20050196574
    Abstract: The thermosetting adhesive or pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or sheet has a structure in which a thermosetting adhesive or pressure-sensitive adhesive layer made of a thermosetting adhesive or pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing an acrylic polymer (X) containing at least an alkyl(meth)acrylate (a) in which the alkyl moiety thereof has from 2 to 14 carbon atoms and a cyano group-containing monomer (b) as monomer components and a phenol resin (Y) is protected by a release liner which does not substantially contain a silicone component. The acrylic polymer (X) may further contain a carboxyl group-containing monomer (c) as a monomer component. A release liner having a release layer made of polyethylene is suitable as the release liner which does not substantially contain a silicone component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2005
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Inventors: Takahiro Nonaka, Miyoko Sonobe, Masahiro Ohura
  • Publication number: 20050187348
    Abstract: The thermosetting adhesive or pressure-sensitive adhesive composition contains 100 parts by weight of an acrylic polymer (X) containing from 60 to 75% by weight, based on the total amount of monomer components, of an alkyl(meth)acrylate (a) in which the alkyl moiety thereof has from 2 to 14 carbon atoms, from 20 to 35% by weight, based on the total amount of monomer components, of a cyano group-containing monomer (b), and from 0.5 to 10% by weight, based on the total amount of monomer components, of a carboxyl group-containing monomer (c) as monomer components; and from 1 to 20 parts by weight of a carbolic acid based resol type phenol resin (Y) represented by the following formula (1): In the formula (1), R1 represents —CH2— or —CH2—O—CH2—; n represents a positive integer; and m represents an integer of from 1 to 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Inventors: Miyoko Sonobe, Masahiro Ohura
  • Patent number: 6903898
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive label has a base having an information indication portion on its one surface thereof, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on another surface of the base. After peeling a release liner, the label is stuck on an outer surface of a housing of the hard disk drive to reduce noise generated when the hard disk drive is driven. The release liner for coating the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has an antistatic function and a cut line. The adhesive force of the adhesive layer is reduced by heating. The label has a surface density of not lower than 0.18 (kg/m2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Nonaka, Yasuyuki Tokunaga, Naoyuki Nishiyama, Shinji Inokuchi, Masahiro Ohura, Akihisa Murata, Yasunori Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20050078408
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive label has a base having an information indication portion on its one surface thereof, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on another surface of the base. After peeling a release liner, the label is stuck on an outer surface of a housing of the hard disk drive to reduce noise generated when the hard disk drive is driven. The release liner for coating the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has an antistatic function and a cut line. The adhesive force of the adhesive layer is reduced by heating. The label has a surface density of not lower than 0.18 (kg/m2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventors: Takahiro Nonaka, Yasuyuki Tokunaga, Naoyuki Nishiyama, Shinji Inokuchi, Masahiro Ohura, Akihisa Murata, Yasunori Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20030232192
    Abstract: A double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for fixing a touch panel to a display device wherein one surface of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is stuck to the surface of the touch panel while the other surface of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is stuck to a display surface of the display device, the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet including: a transparent base; a first transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on one surface of the transparent base; and a second transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on the other surface of the transparent base; wherein the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is releasable and re-stickable to the display surface while being stuck to the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kishioka, Masahiro Ohura
  • Patent number: 6636378
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive label for a hard disk drive includes a substrate, an information indicator formed on one side of the substrate, and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer formed on the other side of the substrate. By applying onto the outer surface of a housing of a hard disk drive, the pressure sensitive adhesive label can reduce noise caused by operation of the hard disk drive. The pressure sensitive adhesive label for a hard disk drive can concurrently exhibit various information indicating functions and the function of reducing noise caused by operation of a hard disk drive. By using the pressure sensitive adhesive label, a method can reduce noise caused by operation of a hard disk drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Tokunaga, Naoyuki Nishiyama, Yasunori Sugihara, Hideyuki Kitai, Masahiro Ohura
  • Patent number: 6599967
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet comprising a layer of a crosslinked pressure-sensitive adhesive, which is formed by 100 parts by weight of a homopolymer or a copolymer of a monomer containing an alkyl (meth)acrylates, as a principal component, 0.001 to 5 parts by weight of a silane-coupling agent, 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kishioka, Masahiro Ohura
  • Patent number: 6506489
    Abstract: A doublefaced pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet including an inner pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is provided. The adhesive layer includes an outer silicone-series release liner and an outer non-silicon-series release liner on the opposite side of the sheet from the silicone-series release liner. The non-silicone-series release liner includes a plastic film having at least three layers, wherein the plastic film including a releasing layer which is a surface layer including a polyethylene film, a surface film layer which is the other surface layer and is equal in coefficient of linear thermal expansion to the releasing layer, and a reinforcing layer having a melting point of 120° C. or higher as an interlayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ohura, Hitoshi Takahira
  • Publication number: 20020191331
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive label has a base having an information indication portion on its one surface thereof, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on another surface of the base. After peeling a release liner, the label is stuck on an outer surface of a housing of the hard disk drive to reduce noise generated when the hard disk drive is driven. The release liner for coating the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has an antistatic function and a cut line. The adhesive force of the adhesive layer is reduced by heating. The label has a surface density of not lower than 0.18 (kg/m2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Takahiro Nonaka, Yasuyuki Tokunaga, Naoyuki Nishiyama, Shinji Inokuchi, Masahiro Ohura, Akihisa Murata, Yasunori Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20020181147
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive label for a hard disk drive includes a substrate, an information indicator formed on one side of the substrate, and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer formed on the other side of the substrate. By applying onto the outer surface of a housing of a hard disk drive, the pressure sensitive adhesive label can reduce noise caused by operation of the hard disk drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Tokunaga, Naoyuki Nishiyama, Yasunori Sugihara, Hideyuki Kitai, Masahiro Ohura
  • Patent number: 6451156
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheets comprising a layer of a crosslinked pressure-sensitive adhesive, which is formed by an acrylic polymer made of a homopolymer or copolymer of a monomer containing a (meth)acrylate as a principal component, a silane coupling agent and a crosslinking agent, wherein a sol component of the crosslinked pressure-sensitive adhesive has a weight-average molecular weight of not less than 300,000 and a proportion of a low-molecular component having a molecular weight of not more than 100,000 in the sol component is not more than 15% by weight in the measurement of the molecular weight by the gel permeation chromatography method, which the sheet cause neither lifting nor formation of bubbles at the bonding interface even when exposed to severe conditions such as high temperature or high temperature and humidity in case a functional film is bonded/fixed to a display device, thus making it possible to maintain good appearance for a long period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kishioka, Masahiro Ohura, Takao Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 6395360
    Abstract: Provided is a release liner formed of a plastic film having a laminated structure of at least three layers, described specifically, as two surface layers, (A) a release functioning layer composed of a polyethylene film having a density of 0.88 to 0.92 g/cm3 and a melt index not greater than 10 g/10 minutes and (B) a surface film layer having a thermal linear expansion coefficient similar to that of said release functioning layer and, as an intermediate layer, (C) a reinforcement layer having a melting point not less than 120° C. By forming a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on the surface of the release functioning layer (A) of the above-described release liner, a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet can be obtained. The release liner exhibits good release function without using a silicone-base releasing agent and has heat resistance sufficient for not causing deformation such as curl even when heat is applied to the liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Takahira, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Naoyuki Nishiyama, Masahiro Ohura
  • Publication number: 20020035177
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet comprising a layer of a crosslinked pressure-sensitive adhesive, which is formed by 100 parts by weight of a homopolymer or a copolymer of a monomer containing an alkyl (meth)acrylates as a principal component, 0.001 to 5 parts by weight of a silane-coupling agent, 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kishioka, Masahiro Ohura
  • Patent number: 6312799
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pressure-sensitive acrylic adhesive composition which is excellent in the adhesion to polyester films as an adhesive material having tackiness at ordinary temperature and has such high heat resistance as withstanding solder reflow during mounting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhito Hosokawa, Masahiro Ohura