Patents by Inventor Mikio Hashimoto
Mikio Hashimoto 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).
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Publication number: 20020051536Abstract: In a microprocessor, a program key for decrypting a program and a data key for encrypting/decrypting data processed by the program are handled as cryptographically inseparable pair inside the microprocessor, so that it becomes possible for the microprocessor to protect processes that actually execute the program, without an intervention of the operating system, and it becomes possible to conceal secret information of the program not only from the other user program but also from the operating system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2001Publication date: May 2, 2002Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kenji Shirakawa, Mikio Hashimoto, Keiichi Teramoto, Satoshi Ozaki, Kensaku Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20020043643Abstract: A modified polypropylene has a melt flow rate of 0.1 to 10 g/10 min, a melt tension of 3 to 20 g and a gel fraction, as determined by boiling paraxylene extraction, of 0.01 to 25% by weight. The modified polypropylene, a process for preparing the modified polypropylene, and a modified polypropylene composition containing the modified polypropylene are capable of producing a foamed product having excellent foam properties and food hygienic qualities. The foamed product obtained from the modified polypropylene or the modified polypropylene composition is lightweight, highly rigid and excellent in chemical resistance and food hygienic qualities, and hence it can be used for food packaging containers and trays, particularly containers of noodles or ice cream and trays of fish or meat, for which polystyrene has been heretofore used.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2001Publication date: April 18, 2002Inventors: Kinzo Korehisa, Mikio Hashimoto, Naoya Akiyama, Youichi Wakita
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Publication number: 20020045712Abstract: A propylene polymer composition comprising a propylene polymer prepared by using a zirconocene catalyst having two aryl-substituted indenyl group and having a melt flow rate (MFR) of 0.01 to 30 g/10 min and a second propylene polymer prepared by using a zirconocene catalyst having a melt flow rate (MFR) of 30 to 1,000 g/l 0 min and, if desired, a soft polymer, a ratio of the MFR of the second propylene polymer to the MFR of the second propylene polymer being not less than 30. These propylene polymer compositions are excellent in heat resistance, mechanical strength, tensile elongation at break, etc., and hence they can be favorably used for various structural materials such as those of automobile and electrical appliances, daily necessaries, various films and sheets.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2001Publication date: April 18, 2002Inventors: Mikio Hashimoto, Takasi Ueda, Masaaki Kawasaki, Satoru Moriya, Akira Mizuno, Daisuke Fukuoka, Junichi Imuta, Keiji Hirose, Junji Saito, Yoshihisa Kiso
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Patent number: 6350828Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition exibiting a high melt tension and superior moldability, which can be molded efficiently by a high-speed molding into scarcely deformable larger molded articles of better appearance with high stiffness and which comprises polypropylene as a main component and has the following characteristic features 1) to 4), namely, 1) that a melt flow rate (MFR, determined at 230° C. under a load of 2.16 kg) is in the range of 0.01 to 5 g/10 min., 2) that a content of a high molecular weight polypropylene exhibiting an intrinsic viscosity [&eegr;], determined at 135° C. in decalin, of 8-13 dl/g is in the range of 15 to 50% by weight, 3) that a gel areal density in number is 3,000/450 cm2 or less and 4) that a molecular weight distribution determined by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) is 6-20, as expressed by Mw/Mn, and is 3.5 or higher, as expressed by Mz/Mw.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1999Date of Patent: February 26, 2002Assignee: Grand Polymer Co LtdInventors: Tohru Takaoka, Ikunori Sakai, Hideki Nakagawa, Mikio Hashimoto, Satoshi Matsuura, Takashi Shimizu
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Publication number: 20020013392Abstract: A flame-retarding thermoplastic resin composition which is composed essentially ofType: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2001Publication date: January 31, 2002Applicant: GRAND POLYMER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Matsuda, Mikio Hashimoto, Ikunori Sakai
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Patent number: 6341127Abstract: A router device for controlling label switching path set up is disclosed. In the router device, a,policy information indicating a permitted starting point of a label switching path is stored, and a request message that contains a starting point information indicating a starting point node/network of the requested label switching path and a stream information indicating a desired packet stream to be transferred through the requested label switching path is received. Then, whether or not to permit the set up of the requested label switching path is judged by comparing the starting point information contained in the request message with the stored policy information, and the requested label switching path through the router device for the desired packet stream indicated by the stream information contained in the request message is set up when the set up of the requested label switching path is judged as permitted.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1998Date of Patent: January 22, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yasuhiro Katsube, Takeshi Saito, Yoshiaki Takabatake, Mikio Hashimoto, Hisako Tanaka
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Patent number: 6320009Abstract: The present invention provides a polypropylene-based resin composition which is light weighing, has a very high values of stiffness and heat resistance, exhibits superior scratchproof property and is superior in the processibility with better flowability upon molding thereof, especially that can favorably be used for injection molding. The polypropylene-based resin composition according to the present invention is constituted predominantly of polypropylene and has the following characteristic features A and B: A: a melt flow rate (MFR), determined at 230° C. under a load of 2.16 kg, in the range of 5-50 g/10 min. and B: a content of a high molecular weight polypropylene having an intrinsic viscosity [&eegr;] of 9-13 dl/g in the range of 15-30% by weight.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1999Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Grand Polymer Co LtdInventors: Yoshifumi Nakano, Yoshiyuki Sakuda, Mikio Hashimoto, Hideki Nakagawa, Hiroshi Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 6306973Abstract: Polypropylene block-copolymer resin exhibiting high melt tension and improved moldability with balanced stiffness and impact resistance may be molded at high speed into large-sized articles, including, stretched films, with good appearance and resistance to deformation. The block copolymer includes a higher molecular weight polypropylene segment, a lower molecular weight polypropylene segment and an ethylene &agr;-olefin copolymer segment. When subjected to dissolution fractionation m paraxylene, a large proportion is insoluble at 23° C. but soluble at 135° C., and a smaller portion is soluble at 23° C. The block copolymer has a melt flow rate of 0.01 to 5 g/10 min at 230 C. (2.16 kg) and a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of 6-20 and Mz/Mw of at least 3.5. A continuous multistage polymerization may be used to form the block copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2000Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: Grand Polymer Co. Ltd.Inventors: Tohru Takaoka, Mikio Hashimoto, Nobuyosi Momoda
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Publication number: 20010018736Abstract: Under a multi-task environment, a tamper resistant microprocessor saves a context information for one program whose execution is to be interrupted, where the context information contains information indicating an execution state of that one program and the execution code encryption key of that one program. An execution of that one program can be restarted by recovering the execution state of that one program from the saved context information. The context information can be encrypted by using the public key of the microprocessor, and then decrypted by using the secret key of the microprocessor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2001Publication date: August 30, 2001Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Mikio Hashimoto, Keiichi Teramoto, Takeshi Saito, Kenji Shirakawa, Kensaku Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20010014870Abstract: An electronic coupon sending/collecting scheme that can be realized without utilizing communication providers is disclosed. In this scheme, an electronic coupon is sent from one radio base station provided in the facility to the radio portable terminal by using the radio LAN, either automatically or in response to a request for acquiring coupon made by the user. Then, the electronic coupon is collected from the radio portable terminal at that one radio base station or another radio base station provided in the facility by using the radio LAN, and a service corresponding to the electronic coupon is provided to the user of the radio portable terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2001Publication date: August 16, 2001Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takeshi Saito, Yoshiaki Takabatake, Mikio Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20010014157Abstract: A scheme for distributing executable programs through a network from a program distribution device to a client device having a tamper resistant processor which is provided with a unique secret key and a unique public key corresponding to the unique secret key in advance is disclosed. In this scheme, a first communication path is set up between the program distribution device and the client device, and a second communication path directly connecting the program distribution device and the tamper resistant processor is set up on the first communication path. Then, the encrypted program is transmitted from the program distribution device to the tamper resistant processor through the second communication path.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2001Publication date: August 16, 2001Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Mikio Hashimoto, Kensaku Fujimoto, Kenji Shirakawa, Keiichi Teramoto, Takeshi Saito
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Patent number: 6251997Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition, which is light weighing, has very high values for the stiffness and heat resistance and is superior in the scratch-proof property with better moldability upon molding and which can be injection-molded into formed articles without occurrence of cracking, comprising 5-25% by weight of a higher molecular weight polypropylene (A) having an intrinsic viscosity [&eegr;], determined in decalin at 135° C., in the range from 6 to 11 dl/g and 95-75% by weight of a lower molecular weight polypropylene (B) having an intrinsic viscosity [&eegr;], determined in decalin at 135° C., in the range from 0.6 to 1.6 dl/g, wherein the said resin composition has the following charactristic features <<1>> and <<2>>, namely, <<1>> an isotactic pentad fraction (mmmm-fraction), determined by 13C-NMR, of at least 96.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2000Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Grand Polymer Co LtdInventors: Tadashi Imai, Mikio Hashimoto, Shigeru Harima
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Patent number: 6223286Abstract: A multicast message transmission device and a message receiving protocol device for guaranteeing a fair message delivery time for a multicast message. At the receiving protocol device, a release time of the received multicast message is set to a prescribed time specified to all receiving protocol devices of the same multicast group, and the received multicast message is stored until the release time, and then released to a corresponding upper level device. At the transmission device, each receiving protocol device is authenticated, and then the encrypted multicast messages are transmitted to the receiving protocol devices, while a prescribed decryption key corresponding to the encryption key of the encrypted multicast message is distributed the authenticated receiving protocol devices prior to transmissions of the multicast messages.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1997Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Mikio Hashimoto
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Patent number: 6156844Abstract: A propylene polymer composition is prepared by mixing a first propylene polymer prepared using an olefin polymerization catalyst containing a specific metallocene catalyst component of formula (I), e.g., rac-dimethylsilylene-bis{1-(2-ethyl-4-phenylindenyl)} zirconium dichloride, and an organoaluminum-oxy cocatalyst, with a second propylene polymer component. The compositions are excellent in heat resistance, mechanical strength, tensile elongation at break, and other properties and can be used to produce various structural materials, sheets and films.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1994Date of Patent: December 5, 2000Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals IncInventors: Mikio Hashimoto, Takasi Ueda, Masaaki Kawasaki, Satoru Moriya, Akira Mizuno, Daisuke Fukuoka, Junichi Imuta, Keiji Hirose, Junji Saito, Yoshihisa Kiso
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Patent number: 6121363Abstract: A crystalline propyleiie block-copolymer composition exhibiting superior flowability upon molding for use in automobile parts, which composition comprises 41 to 71% by weight of a crystalline propylene block-copolymer composed of a propylene homopolymer portion (Fp) and an ethylene/propylene random copolymer portion (Fc) and having an ethylene content of 1 to 10% by weight and a melt flow rate (MFR) of 20 to 100 g/10 min.; 12 to 22% by weight of a first hydrogenated product of a block-copolymer having a relatively smaller stylene content; 2 to 12% by weight of a second hydrogenated product of a block-copolymer having a relatively greater stylene content; and 15 to 25% by weight of talc, wherein the propylene homopolymer portion (Fp) contains 20 to 50% by weight of a low molecular weight propylene homopolymer having an MFR of 400 to 1,000 g/10 min., the average MFR being 100 to 350 g/10 min.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1999Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignees: Grand Polymer Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ikunori Sakai, Mikio Hashimoto, Takayuki Nagai, Takao Nomura, Masatoshi Matsuda, Osamu Kito, Hisayuki Iwai
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Patent number: 5998039Abstract: Disclosed is a polypropylene composition comprising (A) polypropylene and (B) a specific propylene-1-butene random copolymer in a specific amount ratio. The propylene-1-butene random copolymer (B) is characterized in that: (1) the copolymer contains 50 to 95% by mol of constituent units from propylene and 50 to 5% by mol of constituent units from 1-butene, (2) the intrinsic viscosity, as measured in decahydronaphthalene at 135.degree. C., is in the range of 0.1 to 12 dl/g, (3) the molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn), as determined measured by GPC, is not more than 3, and (4) the parameter B value indicating randomness of the copolymerized monomer sequence distribution is in the range of 1.0 to 1.5. Also disclosed is a polypropylene composite film comprising (I) a crystalline polypropylene layer and (II) a layer formed from the polypropylene composition, which is laminated on at least one surface of the crystalline polypropylene layer (I).Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1997Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Tatsuya Tanizaki, Mikio Hashimoto, Masahiro Sugi, Toshiyuki Tsutsui, Yasuo Tanaka, Mamoru Kagami
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Patent number: 5969049Abstract: A process for preparing a propylene polymer composition having excellent rigidity, heat resistance and impact resistance, the process comprising conducting multistage polymerization including a step (a) for preparing a propylene (co)polymer (a), a step (b) for preparing a propylene-olefin copolymer (b) and a step (c) for preparing an ethylene-olefin copolymer (c) in the presence of (A) a transition metal compound and (B) a compound activating the transition metal compound (A), in which the steps (a), (b) and (c) may be carried out in any order, each of the second and subsequent stage polymerizations is carried out in the presence of a polymer or polymers obtained by the preceding stage or stages, respectively, and the resulting propylene polymer composition contains the propylene (co)polymer (a) in an amount of 20 to 90% by weight, the propylene-olefin copolymer (b) in an amount of 5 to 75% by weight and the ethylene-olefin copolymer (c) in an amount of 5 to 75% by weight, and has MFR, as measured at 230.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1997Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Takashi Ueda, Mikio Hashimoto, Masaaki Kawasaki, Daisuke Fukuoka, Junichi Imuta
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Patent number: 5948860Abstract: Disclosed is a propylene polymer composition comprising (a) a propylene polymer, (b) an olefin type elastomer and (c) a polar group-containing olefin polymer composition obtained by heating (c-1) an olefin polymer containing a carboxyl group or an acid anhydrous group in its molecule and (c-2) an amino compound, each in a specific amount. Also disclosed is a propylene polymer composition comprising (a) a propylene polymer, (b) an olefin type elastomer, (c-1) an olefin polymer containing a carboxyl group or an acid anhydrous group in its molecule and (c-2) an amino compound, each in a specific amount. The propylene polymer compositions of the present invention are excellent in properties of being coated with various coatings.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1997Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Shoji Hiraoka, Masayoshi Yamaguchi, Hajime Inagaki, Mikio Hashimoto
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Patent number: 5936053Abstract: A propylene polymer is excellent in rigidity, heat resistance, surface hardness, glossiness, transparency and impact resistance. A propylene copolymer (wherein the amount of monomer units derived from an .alpha.-olefin other than propylene is not more than 5% by mol) is excellent in transparency, rigidity, surface hardness, heat resistance, heat-sealing property, anti-blocking property, anti-bleedout property and impact strength. A propylene copolymer (wherein the amount of monomer units derived from an .alpha.-olefin other than propylene is not less than 5% by mol) is excellent in transparency, environmental aging property, and effective in improving heat-sealing property at low temperature and impact strength. A propylene elastomer is excellent in heat resistance, impact absorbing capacity, transparency, heat-sealing properties and anti-blocking properties.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1997Date of Patent: August 10, 1999Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Daisuke Fukuoka, Takashi Tashiro, Koji Kawaai, Takashi Ueda, Yoshihisa Kiso, Akira Mizuno, Masaaki Kawasaki, Masaaki Itoh, Mikio Hashimoto
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Patent number: 5854354Abstract: A process for preparing a propylene polymer composition comprising conducting multistage polymerization including a step (a) for preparing a propylene (co)polymer (a) and a step (b) for preparing an ethylene copolymer (b) in the presence of (A) a transition metal compound and (B) a compound activating the transition metal compound (A), in which the steps (a) and (b) may be carried out in any order, and the resulting propylene polymer composition contains the propylene (co)polymer (a) in an amount of 20 to 90% by weight and the ethylene copolymer (b) in an amount of 10 to 80% by weight and has MFR, as measured at 230.degree. C. under a load of 2.16 kg, of 0.01 to 500 g/10 min; and a propylene polymer composition prepared by this process. The process according to the invention can prepare a propylene polymer composition having excellent rigidity, heat resistance and impact resistance.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: December 29, 1998Assignee: Mitsui Petrochemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Ueda, Mikio Hashimoto, Masaaki Kawasaki, Daisuke Fukuoka, Junichi Imuta