Patents by Inventor Mitsunari Sotokawa

Mitsunari Sotokawa 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: 10087327
    Abstract: A resin composition includes 90 to 50% by weight of (A) a polyamide having 7 or more average carbon atoms per amide functional group and containing no aromatic ring; 10 to 50% by weight of (B) a polyamide having an aromatic ring and being crystalline, based on 100% by weight of the total of the component (A) and the component (B); and 5 to 75 parts by weight of (C) a carbon fiber, based on 100 parts by weight of the polyamide including (A) and (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Toray Industries, inc.
    Inventors: Mitsunari Sotokawa, Hiroo Karasawa
  • Publication number: 20140288229
    Abstract: A resin composition includes 90 to 50% by weight of (A) a polyamide having 7 or more average carbon atoms per amide functional group and containing no aromatic ring; 10 to 50% by weight of (B) a polyamide having an aromatic ring and being crystalline, based on 100% by weight of the total of the component (A) and the component (B); and 5 to 75 parts by weight of (C) a carbon fiber, based on 100 parts by weight of the polyamide including (A) and (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsunari Sotokawa, Hiroo Karasawa
  • Patent number: 6617381
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polyamide resin composition, a method for producing the composition, and articles from the composition. The polyamide resin composition polyamide resin composition is formed by melt-kneading (A) 100 parts by weight of nylon resin, and (B) 5-150 parts by weight of at least one of a non-fibrous inorganic filler having an average particle diameter of 0.05-10 &mgr;m and a fibrous inorganic filler, excluding glass fiber, having a fiber diameter of 0.05-10 &mgr;m. In the polyamide resin composition, an amount of a polyamide resin component deposit remaining on the inorganic filler when the inorganic filler is recovered by dissolving the polyamide resin composition into hexafluoroisopropanol is at least 4 g/m2 per unit surface area of the inorganic filler measured by a BET method. The nylon resin composition is excellent in rigidity and toughness and particularly excellent in high-speed surface impact fracture characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiro Kumaki, Mitsunari Sotokawa, Kouzou Murata, Koya Kato
  • Patent number: 5852108
    Abstract: A composite particulate material for resin reinforcement which comprises an inorganic particulate material (A) and an elastic polymer (B) having a glass transition temperature of -10.degree. C. or below and also having functional groups capable of forming chemical bonds with resins to be reinforced, said components (A) and (B) accounting for 50-99 wt % and 50-1 wt %, respectively, of their total amount. A process for producing said composite particulate material. A reinforced resin composition incorporated with said composite particulate material. The resin composition yields molded articles which are improved in mutually contradicting properties (that is, impact strength vs. stiffness and elongation at break vs. heat resistance) and which have mechanical properties with less anisotropy. It offers good characteristic properties which are hardly attained by conventional engineering plastic materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Yamanaka, Mitsunari Sotokawa, Shinobu Nakashima