Patents by Inventor Motonori Hochi

Motonori Hochi 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: 11046061
    Abstract: A laminate has better handling properties achieved when it is attached to an adherend and which allows the solubility irregularity of the water-soluble material layer to be suppressed. The laminate includes: a 10 to 500 nm thick biodegradable material layer containing an aliphatic polyester and a water-soluble material layer disposed on at least one side of the biodegradable material layer, in which the water-soluble material layer is constituted of a 1 to 20 ?m thick first layer containing a water-soluble polymer (a), a 10 ?m to 10 mm thick fabric structure containing a water-soluble polymer (b), and a 1 to 20 ?m thick second layer containing a water-soluble polymer (c), which are layered in this order from the biodegradable material layer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuki Sekido, Motonori Hochi, Mao Fujii
  • Patent number: 10940229
    Abstract: A material for adhesion prevention can be adhered to biological tissue with certainty and has improved tissue adhesiveness and biodegradability. Such material for adhesion prevention is composed of: a 1- to 1,000-?m-thick water-soluble support layer comprising a water-soluble polymer; and a 1- to 1,000-?m-thick adhesion prevention layer comprising a biodegradable polymer. The biodegradable polymer has a structure in which a branched polyalkylene glycol comprising 3 to 8 terminal hydroxyl groups per molecule is bound to a polyhydroxy alkanoic acid, and a mass ratio of the branched polyalkylene glycol relative to the total mass is 1% to 30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: Toray Industries, Inc., Nanotheta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Saito, Megumi Nakanishi, Kazuhiro Tanahashi, Toru Arakane, Motonori Hochi, Ai Suzuki, Koji Okabayashi, Shinji Takeoka, Toshinori Fujie, Yuya Ishiduka, Shinya Ohtsubo
  • Patent number: 10786980
    Abstract: A laminate has at least one polylactic acid resin-containing layer (C) with a thickness of 10-500 nm on at least one surface of a fibrous structure (B) containing a water-soluble resin (A). A production method for the laminate is characterized in that water or an aqueous solution is applied to the joining surface of the fibrous structure (B) and the polylactic acid resin-containing layer (C). The laminate exhibits excellent followability, adherence and coatability relative to flexible, curved adherends, exhibits excellent compatibility to organs such as skin and internal organs, and, because the fibrous structure (B) containing a water-soluble resin (A) can easily be removed from the polylactic acid resin-containing layer (C) by the aqueous solution, is adapted for use in materials for external use on the skin, such as wound-dressing materials, adhesion-preventing materials, and skin care products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuki Sekido, Motonori Hochi, Toru Arakane, Yoshikazu Yakake, Teruhisa Sato
  • Patent number: 10563025
    Abstract: A polymer film has an average film thickness T0 along a straight line D passing through the center of gravity of a two-dimensional projection such that the area of the polymer film is maximized, satisfies equation (a), the average value L of distances 1 from the center of gravity to edges satisfies equation (b), the Young's modulus E satisfies equation (c), and the thickness deviation ? defined by equation (d) satisfies equation (e); and a dispersion liquid and an agglomerate using the same. (a) 10 nm?T0?1000 nm, (b) 0.1 ?m?L?500 ?m, (c) 0.01 GPa?E?4.3 GPa, (d) ?=1?T1/T2, (e) 0.346E×10?9?1.499<?<?0.073E×10?9+0.316.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignees: Toray Industries, Inc., Nanotheta Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motonori Hochi, Yuki Sekido, Ichiro Itagaki, Toru Arakane, Shinya Ohtsubo, Shinji Takeoka, Atsushi Murata, Mao Fujii, Yuya Ishizuka, Shuichi Shoji, Jun Mizuno, Takashi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 10531988
    Abstract: A laminated film includes a polylactic acid-based resin layer and one or more acetylated hyaluronic acid layers laminated on a side of the polylactic acid-based resin layer, is highly flexible and easy to handle and, when stuck to an adherend with curved surface, the laminated film has excellent followability, adhesiveness and coating properties to the adherend, since the acetylated hyaluronic acid layer(s) can be removed easily with an aqueous solution from the polylactic acid-based resin layer in a thin film shape. The acetylated hyaluronic acid and the polylactic acid-based resin are biodegradable and, therefore, the laminated film is highly compatible with skin and organs such as visceral organs. The laminated film is optimally usable as a dermal material for external application such as a wound coating material, an adhesion inhibitor and skin care articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: Toray Industries, Inc., NANOTHETA CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Motonori Hochi, Yuki Sekido, Akihiro Saito, Shinji Takeoka, Shinya Ohtsubo, Akinari Hinoki, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 10456503
    Abstract: A polymer laminate has 2-100 layers each containing a biodegradable resin and having a thickness of 10 nm-400 nm that are laminated, the thickness of at least one of the outermost layers is 10 nm-180 nm, and the outermost layers are joined to each other. A polymer laminate excellent in biocompatibility and mechanical strength and suitable to medical applications such as wound dressings and antiadhesive materials can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: Toray University Educational System, Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yosuke Okamura, Yu Nagase, Takuya Komachi, Motonori Hochi, Yuki Sekido, Toru Arakane
  • Publication number: 20190216971
    Abstract: A material for adhesion prevention can be adhered to biological tissue with certainty and has improved tissue adhesiveness and biodegradability. Such material for adhesion prevention is composed of: a 1- to 1,000-?m-thick water-soluble support layer comprising a water-soluble polymer; and a 1- to 1,000-?m-thick adhesion prevention layer comprising a biodegradable polymer. The biodegradable polymer has a structure in which a branched polyalkylene glycol comprising 3 to 8 terminal hydroxyl groups per molecule is bound to a polyhydroxy alkanoic acid, and a mass ratio of the branched polyalkylene glycol relative to the total mass is 1% to 30%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Akihiro Saito, Megumi Nakanishi, Kazuhiro Tanahashi, Toru Arakane, Motonori Hochi, Ai Suzuki, Koji Okabayashi, Shinji Takeoka, Toshinori Fujie, Yuya Ishizuka, Shinya Ohtsubo
  • Publication number: 20190099990
    Abstract: A laminate has better handling properties achieved when it is attached to an adherend and which allows the solubility irregularity of the water-soluble material layer to be suppressed. The laminate includes: a 10 to 500 nm thick biodegradable material layer containing an aliphatic polyester and a water-soluble material layer disposed on at least one side of the biodegradable material layer, in which the water-soluble material layer is constituted of a 1 to 20 ?m thick first layer containing a water-soluble polymer (a), a 10 ?m to 10 mm thick fabric structure containing a water-soluble polymer (b), and a 1 to 20 ?m thick second layer containing a water-soluble polymer (c), which are layered in this order from the biodegradable material layer side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Yuki Sekido, Motonori Hochi, Mao Fujii
  • Publication number: 20180338865
    Abstract: A laminated film includes a polylactic acid-based resin layer and one or more acetylated hyaluronic acid layers laminated on a side of the polylactic acid-based resin layer, is highly flexible and easy to handle and, when stuck to an adherend with curved surface, the laminated film has excellent followability, adhesiveness and coating properties to the adherend, since the acetylated hyaluronic acid layer(s) can be removed easily with an aqueous solution from the polylactic acid-based resin layer in a thin film shape. The acetylated hyaluronic acid and the polylactic acid-based resin are biodegradable and, therefore, the laminated film is highly compatible with skin and organs such as visceral organs. The laminated film is optimally usable as a dermal material for external application such as a wound coating material, an adhesion inhibitor and skin care articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Motonori Hochi, Yuki Sekido, Akihiro Saito, Shinji Takeoka, Shinya Ohtsubo, Akinari Hinoki, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 10119000
    Abstract: Our invention is a laminate film comprising a water-soluble resin layer and a polylactic acid-based resin layer laminated on at least one side of a substrate film, the water-soluble resin layer has a thickness of 0.1 to 15 ?m, the polylactic acid-based resin layer has a thickness of 10 to 500 nm. Such a configuration provides a laminate film of which the water-soluble resin layer and the polylactic acid-based resin layer are easily separated from the substrate film and which is excellent in coating ability, adherence and followability to a soft and curved adherend, as well as compatibility to skin and organs such as viscera, so as to be suitable for wound dressing, adhesion prevention material and a skin external agent such as skin-care product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC., NANOTHETA CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Motonori Hochi, Yuki Goto, Katsuhiro Minomo, Naomi Tamimiya
  • Publication number: 20180118905
    Abstract: A polymer film has an average film thickness T0 along a straight line D passing through the center of gravity of a two-dimensional projection such that the area of the polymer film is maximized, satisfies equation (a), the average value L of distances 1 from the center of gravity to edges satisfies equation (b), the Young's modulus E satisfies equation (c), and the thickness deviation ? defined by equation (d) satisfies equation (e); and a dispersion liquid and an agglomerate using the same. (a) 10 nm?T0?1000 nm, (b) 0.1 ?m?L?500 ?m, (c) 0.01 GPa?E?4.3 GPa, (d) ?=1?T1/T2, (e) 0.346E×10?9?1.499<?<?0.073E×10?9+0.316.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Motonori Hochi, Yuki Sekido, Ichiro Itagaki, Toru Arakane, Shinya Ohtsubo, Shinji Takeoka, Atsushi Murata, Mao Fujii, Yuya Ishizuka, Shuichi Shoji, Jun Mizuno, Takashi Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20170072669
    Abstract: A laminate has at least one polylactic acid resin-containing layer (C) with a thickness of 10-500 nm on at least one surface of a fibrous structure (B) containing a water-soluble resin (A). A production method for the laminate is characterized in that water or an aqueous solution is applied to the joining surface of the fibrous structure (B) and the polylactic acid resin-containing layer (C). The laminate exhibits excellent followability, adherence and coatability relative to flexible, curved adherends, exhibits excellent compatibility to organs such as skin and internal organs, and, because the fibrous structure (B) containing a water-soluble resin (A) can easily be removed from the polylactic acid resin-containing layer (C) by the aqueous solution, is adapted for use in materials for external use on the skin, such as wound-dressing materials, adhesion-preventing materials, and skin care products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Yuki SEKIDO, Motonori HOCHI, Toru ARAKANE, Yoshikazu YAKAKE, Teruhisa SATO
  • Publication number: 20170043062
    Abstract: A polymer laminate has 2-100 layers each containing a biodegradable resin and having a thickness of 10 nm-400 nm that are laminated, the thickness of at least one of the outermost layers is 10 nm-180 nm, and the outermost layers are joined to each other. A polymer laminate excellent in biocompatibility and mechanical strength and suitable to medical applications such as wound dressings and antiadhesive materials can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Yosuke Okamura, Yu Nagase, Takuya Komachi, Motonori Hochi, Yuki Sekido, Toru Arakane
  • Publication number: 20160002422
    Abstract: Our invention is a laminate film comprising a water-soluble resin layer and a polylactic acid-based resin layer laminated on at least one side of a substrate film, the water-soluble resin layer has a thickness of 0.1 to 15 ?m, the polylactic acid-based resin layer has a thickness of 10 to 500 nm. Such a configuration provides a laminate film of which the water-soluble resin layer and the polylactic acid-based resin layer are easily separated from the substrate film and which is excellent in coating ability, adherence and followability to a soft and curved adherend, as well as compatibility to skin and organs such as viscera, so as to be suitable for wound dressing, adhesion prevention material and a skin external agent such as skin-care product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicants: NANOTHETA CO, LTD., TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Motonori HOCHI, Yuki GOTO, Katsuhiro MINOMO, Naomi TAMIMIYA
  • Patent number: 6727001
    Abstract: A laminated film is provided which is constituted essentially of a resin substrate and a coated film disposed thereon. The coated film comprises a montmorillonite containing a cation exchanger other than sodium ions and a water-soluble polymer. The laminated film offers a high oxygen-permeability barrier at high humidity and firm bonding between the coated film and the resin substrate at high humidity. A packaging material derived from the laminated film is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Motonori Hochi, Shigeru Tanaka, Kusato Hirota
  • Publication number: 20030031883
    Abstract: A laminated film is provided which is constituted essentially of a resin substrate and a coated film disposed thereon. The coated film comprises a montmorillonite containing a cation exchanger other than sodium ions and a water-soluble polymer. The laminated film offers a high oxygen-permeability barrier at high humidity and firm bonding between the coated film and the resin substrate at high humidity. A packaging material derived from the laminated film is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Motonori Hochi, Shigeru Tanaka, Kusato Hirota