Patents by Inventor Mizue Yamasaki

Mizue Yamasaki 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: 20190271879
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel is disclosed including a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer attached polarizing film which includes a polarizing film including a polarizer and a transparent protective film formed on at least one surface of the polarizer, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed from a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition on at least one surface of the polarizing film. The polarizing film is bonded through the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer to a transparent conductive layer attached liquid crystal cell in which the transparent conductive layer contains a metal. The transparent protective film has a moisture permeability of 1000 g/(m2·24-hours) or less at 40° C. and 92% RH, the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition includes an ionic compound, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer shows a haze value difference of 5.0% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizue Yamasaki, Yusuke Toyama, Masakuni Fujita
  • Publication number: 20190218427
    Abstract: Provided are: a highly durable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer which does not cause foaming or peeling even in a wet heat environment; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition which is capable of restraining an increase in the surface resistance of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and capable of forming a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer restraining corrosion of a transparent conductive layer. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition includes a (meth)acrylic polymer; and an ionic compound having an anionic component and a cationic component, wherein the (meth)acrylic polymer includes 0.6% or more by weight of a nitrogen-containing monomer as a monomer unit, a total number of carbon atoms in the anionic component is 4 or more, and the anionic component is represented by at least one selected from (CnF2n+1SO2)2N? wherein n is an integer from 2 to 10, and CF2(CmF2mSO2)2N? wherein m is an integer from 2 to 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizue Yamasaki, Yusuke Toyama
  • Publication number: 20190211234
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for a flexible image display device which exhibits excellent bending resistance and adhesiveness, and which does not peel or break even after repeated bending; a laminate for a flexible image display device which includes the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for a flexible image display device; and a flexible image display device in which the laminate for a flexible image display device is provided. A pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for a flexible image display device formed from a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing a (meth)acrylic polymer, wherein a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of the (meth)acrylic polymer is from 1,000,000 to 2,500,000, and a glass transition temperature (Tg) of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is 0° C. or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizue Yamasaki, Yusuke Toyama, Yu Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20190193374
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a laminate for a flexible image display device by using an optical film including at least a polarizer and a plurality of specific pressure-sensitive adhesive layers, which exhibits excellent bending resistance and adhesiveness and does not peel or break even after repeated bending; and a flexible image display device in which the laminate for a flexible image display device is disposed. The laminate includes a plurality of pressure-sensitive adhesive layers and an optical film including at least a polarizer, wherein a thickness of the polarizer is 20 ?m or less, and a storage elastic modulus G? at 25° C. of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer at an outermost surface on a convex side when the laminate is folded, among the plurality of pressure-sensitive adhesive layers, is substantially equal to or lower than the storage elastic modulus G? at 25° C. of another pressure-sensitive adhesive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizue Yamasaki, Yusuke Toyama, Yu Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20190177577
    Abstract: The disclosure provides: a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for a flexible image display device; a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for a flexible image display device; a laminate for a flexible image display device, which, as a result of using the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and au optical laminate, exhibits excellent bending resistance and adhesiveness, and does not peel even after repeated bending; and a flexible image display device. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition includes a (meth)acrylic polymer including as monomer units: at least one monomer having a reactive functional group selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl group-containing monomers, carboxyl group-containing monomers, amino group-containing monomers, and amide group-containing monomers; and a (meth)acrylic monomer having a linear or branched alkyl group of 1 to 24 carbon atoms, wherein the monomer having the reactive functional group in all monomers constituting the (meth)acrylic polymer is 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizue Yamasaki, Yusuke Toyama, Yu Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10087347
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive layer-bearing polarizing film for a transparent conductive coating, includes an iodine-based polarizing film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer placed on at least one side of the polarizing film, wherein the iodine-based polarizing film includes an iodine-based polarizer containing 1 to 14% by weight of iodine and/or iodide ions and having a thickness of 2 to 40 ?m and a transparent protective film provided on at least one side of the polarizer and having a water-vapor permeability of 1,000 g/(m2·24 hours) or less at 60° C. and 90% R.H., and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a saturated water content of 3.5% by weight or less at 60° C. and 90% R.H.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizue Yamasaki, Atsushi Yasui, Yuusuke Toyama
  • Patent number: 9527944
    Abstract: Provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for a transparent conductive film having a patterned transparent conductive thin film, which has transparent as the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for transparent conductive film and can prevent the patterned transparent conductive thin film from degrading the appearance of the conductive film. A pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for a transparent conductive film having a patterned transparent conductive thin film, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is made from an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing: 100 parts by weight of an acryl-based polymer obtained by polymerization of a monomer component including an alkyl(meth)acrylate; and 30 to 150 parts by weight of a styrene-based oligomer, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a refractive index of 1.50 or more, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a haze of 2% or less as measured at a thickness of 30 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiko Tanaka, Aimi Matsuura, Katsuhiko Kamiya, Masatsugu Higashi, Mizue Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20150070603
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive layer-bearing polarizing film for a transparent conductive coating, includes an iodine-based polarizing film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer placed on at least one side of the polarizing film, wherein the iodine-based polarizing film includes an iodine-based polarizer containing 1 to 14% by weight of iodine and/or iodide ions and having a thickness of 2 to 40 ?m and a transparent protective film provided on at least one side of the polarizer and having a water-vapor permeability of 1,000 g/(m2·24 hours) or less at 60° C. and 90% R.H., and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a saturated water content of 3.5% by weight or less at 60° C. and 90% R.H.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizue Yamasaki, Atsushi Yasui, Yuusuke Toyama
  • Patent number: 8895136
    Abstract: A transparent conductive film which comprises: a transparent adhesive layer; a first polycycloolefin film laminated on one surface of the transparent adhesive layer; a second polycycloolefin film laminated on the other surface of the transparent adhesive layer; a plurality of first transparent electrode patterns formed on the first polycycloolefin film; and a plurality of second transparent electrode patterns formed on the second polycycloolefin film. The transparent conductive film shows little color phase irregularity when observed from any direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Mizue Yamasaki, Tomotake Nashiki, Kuniaki Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20130295349
    Abstract: The transparent conductive film is capable of preventing a situation in which level differences formed due to patterning exceed a design value, even when the film base used is a thin film base having a thickness of 110 ?m or less or even when the transparent conductive layer has been crystallized by heating. Transparent conductive film with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer comprises: a film base, a transparent conductive layer laminated on one surface of the film base and which is patterned and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer laminated on the other surface of the film, wherein the film base has a thickness of 10 to 110 ?m, a total thickness of the film base and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is 30 to 300 ?m, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a storage modulus measured at 23° C. of 1.2×105 or more and less than 1.0×107 Pa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizue Yamasaki, Tomotake Nashiki, Hideo Sugawara