Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Kato

Mitsuru Kato 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).

  • Publication number: 20250153304
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polishing layer containing a polyurethane, in which an elongation at break of the polyurethane at a tensile speed of 50 mm/min after saturated and swollen by water of 50° C. is less than 100%, a polishing pad equipped with the polishing layer and a method for producing thereof, and a polishing method which uses the polishing pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Azusa SUNAYAMA, Yuko GOSHI, Mitsuru KATO
  • Publication number: 20250091260
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a resin sheet containing at least the following step P, Step P: a step of applying pressure (p) to a sheet-shaped resin modeled article formed by a 3D printer while heating, and deforming the sheet-shaped resin modeled article to obtain a compressed sheet; and relates to a polishing pad containing a polishing layer obtained by using the method for producing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru KATO, Takashi SUGIOKA
  • Patent number: 12252634
    Abstract: Disclosed are a polyurethane for use in a polishing layer, and a polishing layer and a polishing pad using the same, the polyurethane including a terminal group represented by the following formula (I): R—(OX)n— (I) wherein R represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms that may be substituted with a heteroatom or may be interrupted by a heteroatom, X represents an alkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, 90 to 100% of the alkylene group being an ethylene group, and n represents a number from 8 to 120.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kato, Chihiro Okamoto, Shinya Kato
  • Publication number: 20250083278
    Abstract: A polishing pad is provided with a spiral groove or concentric grooves disposed spanning from a central region to a peripheral edge region of a polishing surface of the polishing pad, and radial grooves including line segment-shaped grooves extending from the central region toward the peripheral edge region. The line segment-shaped grooves have a first end portion and a second end portion, positioned at a distance of 5 to 10% and at a distance of 35 to 70% of the radius of the polishing surface from a center of the radial grooves, respectively, and the line segment-shaped grooves have an average length of 30 to 65% of the radius of the polishing surface. A cross-sectional area Sa (mm2) of the line segment-shaped grooves and a cross-sectional area Sb (mm2) of the spiral groove or the concentric grooves satisfy 0.1?Sb/Sa<1.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Azusa SUNAYAMA, Mitsuru KATO, Minori TAKEGOSHI
  • Patent number: 12186855
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polishing pad including a polishing layer having a polishing surface, wherein the polishing surface includes a deep-groove region having a first pattern formed by a deep groove or hole having a depth of 0.3 mm or more, and a land region that is a region other than the deep-groove region, and the land region includes shallow recesses having a second pattern and a depth of 0.01 to 0.1 mm, and a plurality of island-like land portions surrounded by the shallow recesses and having a maximum distance in a horizontal direction of 8 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kato, Hirofumi Kikuchi, Chihiro Okamoto, Shinya Kato
  • Publication number: 20240399530
    Abstract: A thermoplastic polyurethane for polishing layer, in which a D hardness after saturated and swollen by water of 50° C. in a sheet with a thickness of 2 mm is less than 50, and a contact angle with water in a sheet with a thickness of 200 ?m is 70° or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Azusa SUNAYAMA, Yuko GOSHI, Mitsuru KATO
  • Publication number: 20240383097
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polishing pad including a polishing layer that is a molded body of a polyurethane composition, wherein the polyurethane composition contains 90 to 99.9 mass % of a thermoplastic polyurethane including a non-alicyclic diisocyanate unit as an organic diisocyanate unit, and 0.1 to 10 mass % of a hygroscopic polymer, and the molded body has a hardness of 60 or more and less than 75, as measured with a type-D durometer compliant with JIS K 7215.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuko GOSHI, Mitsuru KATO, Takashi SUGIOKA
  • Publication number: 20240375239
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polishing pad including a polishing layer that is a molded body of a polyurethane composition, wherein the polyurethane composition contains 90 to 99.9 mass % of a thermoplastic polyurethane including a non-alicyclic diisocyanate unit as an organic diisocyanate unit, and 0.1 to 10 mass % of a hygroscopic polymer, and the molded body has a hardness of 75 to 90, as measured with a type-D durometer compliant with JIS K 7215.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuko GOSHI, Mitsuru KATO, Takashi SUGIOKA
  • Publication number: 20240342858
    Abstract: A modification method of a polyurethane, including the steps of: preparing a polyurethane having an ethylenically unsaturated bond; and treating the polyurethane with a liquid containing a compound having a conjugated double bond, or a modification method of a polyurethane, including the steps of: preparing a polyurethane having a conjugated double bond; and treating the polyurethane with a liquid containing a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Azusa OSHITA, Mitsuru KATO, Minori TAKEGOSHI, Chihiro OKAMOTO, Shinya KATO
  • Patent number: 12109665
    Abstract: A modification method of a polyurethane, including the steps of: preparing a polyurethane having an ethylenically unsaturated bond; and treating the polyurethane with a liquid containing a compound having a conjugated double bond, or a modification method of a polyurethane, including the steps of: preparing a polyurethane having a conjugated double bond; and treating the polyurethane with a liquid containing a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Azusa Oshita, Mitsuru Kato, Minori Takegoshi, Chihiro Okamoto, Shinya Kato
  • Patent number: 11975946
    Abstract: An elevator rope monitoring device, provided with: line sensor cameras 1a, 1b for imaging the entire circumference of the traveling elevator rope 5; a speed/position detecting device 4 for detecting the traveling speed and traveling position of the elevator rope 5; an image recording part 3a for inputting the image acquired by the line sensor cameras 1a, 1b in association with the traveling position of the elevator rope 5 detected by the speed/position detecting means 4; an image creating part 3b for creating an entire circumferential image of the elevator rope 5 from the image imaged by the line sensor cameras 1a, 1b; and an image processing part 3c for detecting an abnormality in the elevator rope 5 by analyzing the entire circumferential image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: MEIDENSHA CORPORATION, OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Yusuke Watabe, Makoto Niwakawa, Mitsuru Kato, Ryuji Onoda, Hirotomo Tanaka, Takashi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11787894
    Abstract: A Schiff base-containing chain extender may be a diol having a Schiff base or a derivative thereof, as well as a polyurethane produced using the same and a modification method thereof, and a polishing layer including a polyurethane and a polishing method using the polishing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Azusa Oshita, Minori Takegoshi, Mitsuru Kato, Chihiro Okamoto, Shinya Kato
  • Patent number: 11505431
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a cleaning head for cleaning a plurality of hoisting belts and/or at least one sheave of an elevator system is provided. The at least one sheave includes a plurality of grooves for receiving each of the hoisting belts. The cleaning head comprises a base plate and a plurality of wipers fixed to an upper end of the base plate to project outwards from the base plate. The cleaning head may be used to clean the plurality of hoisting belts at once and/or the plurality of grooves of the at least one sheave at once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kato, Hirotomo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11465879
    Abstract: During a maintenance inspection, an optical rope diameter measuring device is provided at a predetermined position along a path of a wire rope, rope diameter is measured at multiple measuring points while the elevator is driven in test mode, and diameter reduction at each measuring point is determined and stored as a first diameter reduction (S2_S6). During a subsequent maintenance inspection, rope diameter is similarly measured at each measuring point to determine diameter reduction constituting a second diameter reduction (S7_S11). Based on these two diameter reductions, the time at which diameter reduction will reach a predetermined threshold value is predicted for each measuring point, and the earliest time is displayed as a rope replacement time (S12_S14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: NIPPON OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, MEIDENSHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kato, Hirotomo Tanaka, Takashi Takeuchi, Ryuji Onoda, Yusuke Watabe, Yoshiki Nota, Kazuaki Chida
  • Patent number: 11454836
    Abstract: A laser processing apparatus disclosed in the present application includes: an optical deflection unit capable of changing a deflection direction of and outgoing energy of an incoming laser pulse by changes of a frequency of and an amplitude of a driving signal to be supplied; and a control unit configured to supply driving signals with amplitudes corresponding to respective frequencies. In a laser processing apparatus configured to process a workpiece by leading outgoing laser pulse of the optical deflection unit to the workpiece and irradiating the workpiece with the laser pulse, as the amplitude corresponding to each of the frequencies, the control unit supplies an amplitude having the ratio that is close to the lowest ratio among ratios of the outgoing energy with respect to the incoming energy of the laser pulse at an amplitude having the largest outgoing energy of the optical deflection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: VIA MECHANICS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Matsumoto, Kazuo Watanabe, Atsushi Sakamoto, Masanori Sato, Mitsuru Kato, Masaru Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20220226962
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polishing pad including a polishing layer having a polishing surface, wherein the polishing surface includes a deep-groove region having a first pattern formed by a deep groove or hole having a depth of 0.3 mm or more, and a land region that is a region other than the deep-groove region, and the land region includes shallow recesses having a second pattern and a depth of 0.01 to 0.1 mm, and a plurality of island-like land portions surrounded by the shallow recesses and having a maximum distance in a horizontal direction of 8 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru KATO, Hirofumi KIKUCHI, Chihiro OKAMOTO, Shinya KATO
  • Publication number: 20210388234
    Abstract: Disclosed are a polyurethane for use in a polishing layer, and a polishing layer and a polishing pad using the same, the polyurethane including a terminal group represented by the following formula (I): R—(OX)n— (I) wherein R represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms that may be substituted with a heteroatom or may be interrupted by a heteroatom, X represents an alkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, 90 to 100% of the alkylene group being an ethylene group, and n represents a number from 8 to 120.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru KATO, Chihiro OKAMOTO, Shinya KATO
  • Publication number: 20210380845
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polyurethane for use in a polishing layer, including a carboxylic acid ester group, and a polyurethane preferably having a carboxylic acid ester group in at least one of a side chain, a main chain terminal, and a main chain skeleton is preferably used. Also disclosed is a method for modifying a polishing layer, including the steps of: preparing a polishing layer including a polyurethane having a carboxylic acid ester group; and hydrolyzing the carboxylic acid ester group of the polyurethane, to produce a carboxyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Azusa SUNAYAMA, Mitsuru KATO, Minori TAKEGOSHI, Chihiro OKAMOTO, Shinya KATO
  • Patent number: 11154960
    Abstract: Provided is a polishing pad including a polishing surface having a zeta potential of +0.1 mV or more at a pH of 10.0. Preferably, a polishing pad including a polyurethane having a tertiary amine is provided. Further preferably, the polyurethane having a tertiary amine is a reaction product of a polyurethane reaction raw material containing at least a chain extender having a tertiary amine. A polishing method using the polishing pads is also provided, wherein the method is performed while supplying an alkaline polishing slurry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minori Takegoshi, Mitsuru Kato, Chihiro Okamoto, Shinya Kato
  • Publication number: 20210309794
    Abstract: There is used a polyurethane for polishing layers that can be used as a material of a polishing layer of a polishing pad, the polyurethane including a thermoplastic polyurethane that is a reaction product of a polyurethane raw material including a polymer diol, an organic diisocyanate, and a chain extender, wherein the chain extender contains 50 mass % or more of a first chain extender including a straight-chain carbon backbone having 7 to 12 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyofumi KADOWAKI, Mitsuru KATO, Minori TAKEGOSHI, Chihiro OKAMOTO, Shinya KATO