Patents by Inventor Masanori Uesugi

Masanori Uesugi 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: 10109896
    Abstract: A heat insulating member includes a wall member. The wall member includes a high-density portion provided at one end edge in a direction orthogonal to a thickness direction of the wall member and having density of above 0.45 g/cm3 and a low-density portion provided midway in the direction orthogonal to the thickness direction, having heat-insulating properties, and having density of 0.45 g/cm3 or less. The high-density portion is provided over the entire one end edge and the thickness of the high-density portion is thinner than that of the low-density portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Kato, Masanori Uesugi, Junki Miyoshi, Masashi Nishino
  • Publication number: 20170301965
    Abstract: A heat insulating member includes a wall member. The wall member includes a high-density portion provided at one end edge in a direction orthogonal to a thickness direction of the wall member and having density of above 0.45 g/cm3 and a low-density portion provided midway in the direction orthogonal to the thickness direction, having heat-insulating properties, and having density of 0.45 g/cm3 or less. The high-density portion is provided over the entire one end edge and the thickness of the high-density portion is thinner than that of the low-density portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu KATO, Masanori UESUGI, Junki MIYOSHI, Masashi NISHINO
  • Patent number: 8901242
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a composite film having light-curing property and weather resistance. [Means for solving] A composite film is one that comprises at least a urethane polymer, wherein both an initial b* value of the composite film measured by a spectrocolorimeter (value at an angle of 15 degrees) and a b* value after performing an accelerated weathering test for 120 hours (value at an angle of 15 degrees) are 4.0 or less, and a non-volatile component after heating the composite film at 130° C. for two hours is 96% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Hidenori Suzuki, Masanori Uesugi, Makoto Kai, Mitsuyoshi Shirai
  • Patent number: 8545978
    Abstract: To provide a composite film having low-temperature flexibility. The composite film including an acrylic polymer and a urethane polymer, in which the acrylic polymer includes an acryl component containing at least an acrylic acid-based monomer and a monofunctional acrylic monomer whose homopolymer has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 273 K or more; the content of said acrylic acid-based monomer in said composite film is from 0.5 to 15 wt %; the glass transition temperature (Tg ac) of the acrylic polymer is 273 K or more; the glass transition temperature (Tg ur) of the urethane polymer is 273 K or less; and the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the composite film is 269 K or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Hidenori Suzuki, Masanori Uesugi, Makoto Kai, Mitsuyoshi Shirai
  • Patent number: 8530046
    Abstract: To provide an adhesive sheet for protecting coating films which is excellent in the adhesion between a coating layer and a composite film, and has weather resistance. The adhesive sheet for protecting coating films is one comprising a base layer and an adhesive layer, and the base layer has a coating layer produced by using the fluoroethylene vinyl ether alternating copolymer having a specific structure on one surface of a composite film containing an acrylic polymer and a urethane polymer. It is preferable that the coating layer is cross-linked with a composite film and has cross-linked points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Kai, Kenichi Shibata, Mitsuyoshi Shirai, Masanori Uesugi, Hidenori Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120231269
    Abstract: [PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED] To provide a composite film having photo-curable property and weather resistance [MEANS FOR SOLVING] A composite film is one that includes at least a urethane polymer, wherein a ?b* value (value at an acceptance angle of 15 degrees) measured by a spectrocolorimeter after 120 hours in an accelerated weathering test and a ?b* value (value at an acceptance angle of 15 degrees) in an accelerated heat resistance test in a dark place under an atmosphere of 80° C. are both 4.0 or less. The composite film preferably has a ?b* value (value at an acceptance angle of 15 degrees) in an accelerated moist-heat resistance test in a dark place under an atmosphere of 85° C. and 85% relative humidity of 6.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio Nakagawa, Yasunori Yamamoto, Masanori Uesugi, Makoto Kai, Yuka Oosawa
  • Patent number: 8168035
    Abstract: Provided is an adhesive method of pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for vehicle coatings, giving a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet highly adhesive even to a coating surface easily causing the low adhesion by bleed-out of leveling agent or the like. The adhesive method of pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for vehicle coatings according to the present invention is characterized in that the difference (absolute value) between the solubility parameter (SP value) of a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (X) formed on the side of the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet in contact with the vehicle coating and the solubility parameter (SP value) of the surface control agent contained in the vehicle coating is 0.6 (cal/cm3)1/2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Uesugi, Mitsuyoshi Shirai, Takashi Kondou, Masayuki Okamoto, Masahito Niwa
  • Publication number: 20120070659
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet containing: a substrate layer comprising a film which contains at least a urethane polymer, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, in which the substrate layer has: (a) a work of 35 to 160 N·mm, the work being calculated from a product of a move amount and a stress until 10% elongation when the substrate layer is elongated at a tensile speed of 200 mm/min; and (b) a stress relaxation time of 30 sec or less, the stress relaxation time being a time for which the stress, after the substrate layer is elongated until 10% at a tensile speed of 200 mm/min and the elongation is held in that state, decreases to 36.8% of the maximum stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio NAKAGAWA, Yasunori YAMAMOTO, Masanori UESUGI, Yuka OOSAWA
  • Publication number: 20120028040
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an application tape, which has a function of improving an application workability when a protective pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is applied to an adherend, in which the application tape has a surface that has a coefficient of static friction for a PET film of 0.05-1.0 in the case where the PET film is slid on the application tape having a size of 30 mm×30 mm under a condition of a load of 100 g and a rate of 100 mm/min, and the application tape has a Young's modulus of 300 MPa or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto KAI, Yoshio NAKAGAWA, Masanori UESUGI, Yuka OOSAWA, Yasunori YAMOMOTO, Kenichi NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20120021208
    Abstract: To provide a composite film having low-temperature flexibility. The composite film is a composite film including an acrylic polymer and a urethane polymer, in which the acrylic polymer includes an acryl component containing at least an acrylic acid-based monomer and a monofunctional acrylic monomer whose homopolymer has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 273 K or more; the content of the acrylic acid-based monomer in the composite film is from 0.5 to 15 wt %; the glass transition temperature (Tg ac) of the acrylic polymer is 273 K or more; the glass transition temperature (Tg ur) of the urethane polymer is 273 K or less; and the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the composite film is 269 K or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidenori Suzuki, Masanori Uesugi, Makoto Kai, Mitsuyoshi Shirai
  • Publication number: 20110171477
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer sheet including a substrate layer and a coat layer arranged on at least one side of the substrate layer and formed using a fluoroethylene vinyl ether alternating copolymer represented by the following formula in which X represents fluorine, chlorine or bromine, Ra represents hydrogen or a C1-C10 alkyl group, Rb represents a C1-C16 alkyl group, Re represents a C1-C16 alkylene group, each of m and n is an integral number, and a weight average molecular weight of the fluoroethylene vinyl ether alternating copolymer is selected within the range of from 1,000 to 2,000,000, in which the substrate layer includes a film including a urethane polymer:
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto KAI, Yoshio NAKAGAWA, Masanori UESUGI, Yuka OOSAWA, Yasunori YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20110171410
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a release liner-attached pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet including a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet having a substrate and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and a release liner arranged on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, in which the substrate includes a composite film containing a urethane polymer, the release liner is a layered product including a layer A which constitutes a surface of a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer side and a layer B that supports the layer A, and the release liner has an average linear expansion coefficient between 25° C. and 40° C. of 7×10?5/° C. or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio NAKAGAWA, Masanori UESUGI, Makoto KAI, Yuka OOSAWA, Yasunori YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20110117364
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet including: a substrate layer including a film which contains at least a urethane polymer; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer disposed on at least one side of the substrate layer, in which the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet has a residual stress of 23 N/cm or lower after having been held in a 10% elongated state for 60 seconds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori UESUGI, Yoshio NAKAGAWA, Hidenori SUZUKI, Makoto KAI, Yuka OOSAWA, Yasunori YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20110064946
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an adhesive sheet for protecting coating films which is excellent in the adhesion between a coating layer and a composite film, and has weather resistance. [Means for solving] The adhesive sheet for protecting coating films is one comprising a base layer and an adhesive layer, and the base layer has a coating layer produced by using the fluoroethylene vinyl ether alternating copolymer having a specific structure on one surface of a composite film containing an acrylic polymer and a urethane polymer. It is preferable that the coating layer is cross-linked with a composite film and has cross-linked points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Kai, Kenichi Shibata, Mitsuyoshi Shirai, Masanori Uesugi, Hidenori Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20110064900
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an adhesive sheet for protecting coating films having excellent flexibility. [Means for Solving] The adhesive sheet for protecting coating films comprises an adhesive layer and a base layer provided with a composite film containing at least a urethane polymer, and the adhesive sheet has a 10% modulus at 20° C. of 35 N/cm or less, and a 100% modulus at 20° C. of 8 N/cm or more. A breaking strength of the adhesive sheet for protecting coating films is preferably 40 N/cm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Uesugi, Mitsuyoshi Shirai, Makoto Kai, Hidenori Suzuki, Eiichi Imoto
  • Publication number: 20100196704
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a composite film having light-curing property and weather resistance. [Means for solving] A composite film is one that comprises at least a urethane polymer, wherein both an initial b* value of the composite film measured by a spectrocolorimeter (value at an angle of 15 degrees) and a b* value after performing an accelerated weathering test for 120 hours (value at an angle of 15 degrees) are 4.0 or less, and a non-volatile component after heating the composite film at 130° C. for two hours is 96% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Hidenori Suzuki, Masanori Uesugi, Makoto Kai, Mitsuyoshi Shirai
  • Publication number: 20100136321
    Abstract: Disclosed is a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet to be applied to a surface-conditioner-bearing surface of a vehicle coating. The sheet includes an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (Y) as a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer to be in contact with the surface of the vehicle coating. The layer (Y) has been polymerized from an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition through the application of active energy rays, the composition includes a vinyl monomer mainly containing an alkyl (meth)acrylate (a1) whose alkyl moiety having 2 to 14 carbon atoms, or a prepolymer thereof (a); an active-energy-ray-activatable polymerization initiator (b); a multifunctional (meth)acrylate (c); and a (meth)acrylate oligomer (d) having a weight-average molecular weight of 1000 to 30000 and containing 1 to 50 parts by weight of a rosin-modified (meth)acrylate (d1) per 100 parts by weight of total monomer components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Uesugi, Mitsuyoshi Shirai, Takashi Kondou, Masayuki Okamoto, Masahito Niwa
  • Publication number: 20100116432
    Abstract: Provided is an adhesive method of pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for vehicle coatings, giving a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet highly adhesive even to a coating surface easily causing the low adhesion by bleed-out of leveling agent or the like. The adhesive method of pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for vehicle coatings according to the present invention is characterized in that the difference (absolute value) between the solubility parameter (SP value) of a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (X) formed on the side of the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet in contact with the vehicle coating and the solubility parameter (SP value) of the surface control agent contained in the vehicle coating is 0.6 (cal/cm3)1/2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Uesugi, Mitsuyoshi Shirai, Takashi Kondou, Masayuki Okamoto, Masahito Niwa
  • Publication number: 20100112346
    Abstract: Provided is an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or sheet highly adhesive to hard-to-adhere adherends such as coatings having the surface control agent bleeding thereon. The acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or sheet, according to the present invention, having a viscoelastic layer (X) containing microspheres and an acrylic polymer containing an alkyl (meth)acrylate as the principal monomer component as the base polymer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (Y) formed at least on one side of the viscoelastic layer (X) by irradiation of an acrylic monomer mixture or a prepolymer of the acrylic monomer mixture with active energy ray, wherein the amount of acrylic acid in the acrylic monomer mixture for the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (Y) or a prepolymer of the acrylic monomer mixture is 6 to 12 wt % with respect to all monomer components and the amount of n-butyl acrylate is 35 to 65 wt % with respect to the total amount of 2-ethylhexyl acrylate and n-butyl acrylate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Kondou, Mitsuyoshi Shirai, Masanori Uesugi, Masayuki Okamoto, Kazuhisa Maeda
  • Publication number: 20100101723
    Abstract: Disclosed is an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition that gives a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer exhibiting superior adhesiveness even to coatings, which are likely to cause low adhesion due to bleeding typically of a surface conditioner, without requiring, for example, washing process. The acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition contains a vinyl monomer or a partial polymer thereof (a); and a (meth)acrylate co-oligomer (b), in which the vinyl monomer contains, as a main component, an alkyl(meth)acrylate monomer (a1) having an alkyl group with 2 to 14 carbon atoms, and the (meth)acrylate co-oligomer (b) has a weight-average molecular weight of from 1000 to 30000 and contains, as monomer components, 96 to 99.5 percent by weight of an alkyl(meth)acrylate (b1) and 0.1 to 4 percent by weight of a (meth)acryloyl group-containing silicone oil (b2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Okamoto, Mitsuyoshi Shirai, Masanori Uesugi, Takashi Kondou, Masahito Niwa, Shinji Inokuchi