Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Hashino

Masatoshi Hashino 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: 11338253
    Abstract: The porous hollow fiber membrane of the present invention contains a thermoplastic resin, and includes a surface having a surface porosity of 32 to 60% and a fine pore diameter of 300 nm or less, and has a compressive strength of 0.7 MPa or more. The porous hollow fiber membrane of the present invention may include at least two layers, and in this case, the surface of one layer has a thickness of backbone of 0.3 to 20 ?m and a fine pore diameter of 0.3 to 10 ?m, and the surface of the other layer has a surface porosity of 32 to 60% and a fine pore diameter of 0.05 to 0.3 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Okamura, Yuki Miki, Masatoshi Hashino
  • Patent number: 10974204
    Abstract: A porous membrane has a thickness of 150 ?m or greater. The pore diameters of a first surface are smaller than the pore diameters of a second surface. The average value of the pore diameters of the first surface is 60 nm or less, and the coefficient of variation of the pore diameters is 10% or greater and 50% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Miki, Daisuke Okamura, Hirokazu Fujimura, Masatoshi Hashino
  • Publication number: 20200346173
    Abstract: The porous hollow fiber membrane of the present invention contains a thermoplastic resin, and includes a surface having a surface porosity of 32 to 60% and a fine pore diameter of 300 nm or less, and has a compressive strength of 0.7 MPa or more. The porous hollow fiber membrane of the present invention may include at least two layers, and in this case, the surface of one layer has a thickness of backbone of 0.3 to 20 ?m and a fine pore diameter of 0.3 to 10 ?m, and the surface of the other layer has a surface porosity of 32 to 60% and a fine pore diameter of 0.05 to 0.3 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke OKAMURA, Yuki MIKI, Masatoshi HASHINO
  • Patent number: 10751671
    Abstract: The porous hollow fiber membrane of the present invention contains a thermoplastic resin, and includes a surface having a surface porosity of 32 to 60% and a fine pore diameter of 300 nm or less, and has a compressive strength of 0.7 MPa or more. The porous hollow fiber membrane of the present invention may include at least two layers, and in this case, the surface of one layer has a thickness of backbone of 0.3 to 20 ?m and a fine pore diameter of 0.3 to 10 ?m, and the surface of the other layer has a surface porosity of 32 to 60% and a fine pore diameter of 0.05 to 0.3 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Okamura, Yuki Miki, Masatoshi Hashino
  • Publication number: 20190247801
    Abstract: A porous membrane has a thickness of 150 ?m or greater. The pore diameters of a first surface are smaller than the pore diameters of a second surface. The average value of the pore diameters of the first surface is 60 nm or less, and the coefficient of variation of the pore diameters is 10% or greater and 50% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki MIKI, Daisuke OKAMURA, Hirokazu FUJIMURA, Masatoshi HASHINO
  • Publication number: 20190076790
    Abstract: When the porous membrane, which has two surfaces of a surface A and a surface C, is equally divided in the thickness direction of the porous membrane into three layers of a first layer including the surface A, a second layer that is a central layer in the thickness direction, and a third layer including the surface C, an average trunk size of the third layer is larger than an average trunk size of the second layer, and when a continuous layer from the surface A having a thickness of 10 ?m in the first layer is a first layer component, a continuous layer component having a thickness of 10 ?m and an average trunk size smaller than an average trunk size of the first layer component is present in the first layer, the second layer, and the third layer other than the first layer component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chihiro SAKAKIBARA, Masatoshi HASHINO, Hirokazu FUJIMURA
  • Patent number: 9821501
    Abstract: Methods of producing a deformed porous hollow fiber membrane by thermally induced phase separation, particularly by discharging a fusion kneaded product containing a thermoplastic resin and an organic liquid through an orifice of a hollow fiber-forming deformed nozzle; cooling and solidifying the fusion kneaded product discharged through the deformed nozzle to form the product into a hollow fiber-like material having a deformed cross section at a cross section vertical to a discharging direction; and extracting away the organic liquid from the hollow fiber-like material to obtain the deformed porous hollow fiber membrane, wherein an inorganic fine powder is kneaded in the fusion kneaded product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu Fujimura, Masatoshi Hashino, Noboru Kubota, Hideto Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 9511529
    Abstract: A porous hollow fiber membrane that is suitable for treatment of liquid containing an inorganic substance and/or an organic substance, is obtained at a low cost performance, and has high water permeability performance, fretting resistance, and drying resistance. A deformed porous hollow fiber membrane according to the present invention is composed of a thermoplastic resin and includes a continuous asperity provided on the periphery in the longitudinal direction of the membrane, in which the periphery of the hollow fiber membrane in the circumferential direction includes continuous projected and depressed parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu Fujimura, Masatoshi Hashino, Noboru Kubota, Hideto Matsuyama
  • Publication number: 20160325237
    Abstract: The porous hollow fiber membrane of the present invention contains a thermoplastic resin, and includes a surface having a surface porosity of 32 to 60% and a fine pore diameter of 300 nm or less, and has a compressive strength of 0.7 MPa or more. The porous hollow fiber membrane of the present invention may include at least two layers, and in this case, the surface of one layer has a thickness of backbone of 0.3 to 20 ?m and a fine pore diameter of 0.3 to 10 ?m, and the surface of the other layer has a surface porosity of 32 to 60% and a fine pore diameter of 0.05 to 0.3 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke OKAMURA, Yuki MIKI, Masatoshi HASHINO
  • Publication number: 20150174809
    Abstract: Methods of producing a deformed porous hollow fiber membrane by thermally induced phase separation, particularly by discharging a fusion kneaded product containing a thermoplastic resin and an organic liquid through an orifice of a hollow fiber-forming deformed nozzle; cooling and solidifying the fusion kneaded product discharged through the deformed nozzle to form the product into a hollow fiber-like material having a deformed cross section at a cross section vertical to a discharging direction; and extracting away the organic liquid from the hollow fiber-like material to obtain the deformed porous hollow fiber membrane, wherein an inorganic fine powder is kneaded in the fusion kneaded product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu FUJIMURA, Masatoshi HASHINO, Noboru KUBOTA, Hideto MATSUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20120125850
    Abstract: A porous hollow fiber membrane that is suitable for treatment of liquid containing an inorganic substance and/or an organic substance, is obtained at a low cost performance, and has high water permeability performance, fretting resistance, and drying resistance. A deformed porous hollow fiber membrane according to the present invention is composed of a thermoplastic resin and includes a continuous asperity provided on the periphery in the longitudinal direction of the membrane, in which the periphery of the hollow fiber membrane in the circumferential direction includes continuous projected and depressed parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu Fujimura, Masatoshi Hashino, Noboru Kubota, Hideto Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 8137800
    Abstract: A porous hollow fiber membrane which has high blocking performance and high water permeability suitable for filtration and the like and exhibits excellent strength, and a process for stably producing the porous hollow fiber membrane are disclosed. The process utilizes a hollow fiber molding nozzle having two or more circular discharge ports which are disposed concentrically. Multilayer melt-extrusion is performed by discharging molten mixtures which include a thermoplastic resin and an organic liquid and differ in composition from the adjacent discharge ports. The resulting product is cooled to solidify to obtain a hollow fiber. The organic liquid is then removed from the hollow fiber by extraction to produce a porous hollow fiber membrane. The molten mixture discharged from at least one circular discharge port includes an inorganic fine powder in addition to the thermoplastic resin and the organic liquid. The inorganic fine powder is removed by extraction after cooling in addition to the organic liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Fujimura, Noboru Kubota, Masatoshi Hashino, Tetsuo Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20090297822
    Abstract: A porous hollow fiber membrane which has high blocking performance and high water permeability suitable for filtration and the like and exhibits excellent strength, and a process for stably producing the porous hollow fiber membrane are disclosed. The process utilizes a hollow fiber molding nozzle having two or more circular discharge ports which are disposed concentrically. Multilayer melt-extrusion is performed by discharging molten mixtures which include a thermoplastic resin and an organic liquid and differ in composition from the adjacent discharge ports. The resulting product is cooled to solidify to obtain a hollow fiber. The organic liquid is then removed from the hollow fiber by extraction to produce a porous hollow fiber membrane. The molten mixture discharged from at least one circular discharge port includes an inorganic fine powder in addition to the thermoplastic resin and the organic liquid. The inorganic fine powder is removed by extraction after cooling in addition to the organic liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Hirokazu Fujimura, Noboru Kubota, Masatoshi Hashino, Tetsuo Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6494223
    Abstract: A wet cleaning apparatus can remove trace heavy metals, colloidal matter or other impurities contained in ultra-pure water to be used as rinse water in semiconductor cleaning processes and suppress deposit of trace impurities such as heavy metals or other particles that would otherwise cause characteristics of such devices to deteriorate. A wet cleaning apparatus for rinsing with ultra-pure water as a rinse liquid by supplying ultra-pure water through a piping to a rinse location inside the apparatus. The rinse location is a point of use of the ultra-pure water. The wet cleaning apparatus includes a module filled with porous film in which polymer chains having at least one of an anion exchange group, a cation exchange group, and a chelating group are held in the middle of the piping positioned inside the apparatus. The wet cleaning apparatus further includes a means for adding hydrogen gas to the rinse liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignees: Organo Corporation
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ohmi, Kazuhiko Kawada, Toshihiro II, Masatoshi Hashino, Noboru Kubota
  • Patent number: D692994
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Fujimura, Masatoshi Hashino