Patents by Inventor Munehiro Nishimoto

Munehiro Nishimoto 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: 10153067
    Abstract: There are provided: an electrically conductive thermoplastic elastomer composition which can be produced with higher productivity at lower costs by means of a simple arrangement and has excellent extrudability and a lower resistance required for a driving roller; a production method for the composition; a driving roller produced by employing the electrically conductive thermoplastic elastomer composition; and an image forming apparatus incorporating the driving roller. In the electrically conductive thermoplastic elastomer composition, 5 to 15 parts by mass of Ketjen black is finely dispersed in 100 parts by mass of a mixture of an ester type urethane thermoplastic elastomer and a plasticizer or in 100 parts by mass of a polyester thermoplastic elastomer. In the production method, the ingredient other than the Ketjen black is first kneaded, and then the Ketjen black is added to and further kneaded with the ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Mine, Munehiro Nishimoto, Masashi Hamakubo, Masahiro Yoshizato
  • Publication number: 20160266524
    Abstract: There are provided: an electrically conductive thermoplastic elastomer composition which can be produced with higher productivity at lower costs by means of a simple arrangement and has excellent extrudability and a lower resistance required for a driving roller; a production method for the composition; a driving roller produced by employing the electrically conductive thermoplastic elastomer composition; and an image forming apparatus incorporating the driving roller. In the electrically conductive thermoplastic elastomer composition, 5 to 15 parts by mass of Ketjen black is finely dispersed in 100 parts by mass of a mixture of an ester type urethane thermoplastic elastomer and a plasticizer or in 100 parts by mass of a polyester thermoplastic elastomer. In the production method, the ingredient other than the Ketjen black is first kneaded, and then the Ketjen black is added to and further kneaded with the ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro MINE, Munehiro NISHIMOTO, Masashi HAMAKUBO, Masahiro YOSHIZATO
  • Publication number: 20120189840
    Abstract: The OA roller according to the present invention includes a roller body made of a metal and a coating layer formed on an outside surface of the roller body, while the coating layer is composed by applying a coating material containing binder resin having hardenability, a pigment, amino resin as a crosslinking agent for the binder resin, and attapulgite of not less than 1 part by mass and not more than 8 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the binder resin to the outside surface of the roller body and hardening and crosslinking the binder resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventor: Munehiro NISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20060293408
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antifouling paint composition having a non-aqueous dispersion resin having a core-shell structure which is constituted of (a) a hydrophilic core component comprising a polymer of ethylenically unsaturated monomers of which 5-75% by weight comprise free acid groups and ?3% by weight comprises silyl ester groups, (b) a shell component having a polymer of ethylenically unsaturated monomers of which <3% by weight comprises free acid groups or silyl ester groups, said resin having an acid value 15-400 mg KOH/g wherein the core component accounts for ?80% of the acid value of the resin, said paint composition having rosin wherein ?90% by weight of the rosin has conjugated, non-aromatic double bonds, and ?25% thereof being metal resinate which constitutes 1-40% by wet weight of the composition, the dry weight ratio between (i) NAD resin and (ii) rosin and metal resinates being 100:15 to 15:100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Hiroaki Omoto, Toshiya Takahashi, Hiroki Hayashi, Tomohiro Tanabe, Hiroyuki Tanabe, Tohru Taki, Yoshiyuki Iwase, Chugo Yokochi, Munehiro Nishimoto, Santiago Codolar, Michael Pedersen, Antoni Badia, Frants Buchwald
  • Publication number: 20050080159
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antifouling pain composition comprising a non-dispersion resin having a core-shell structure which is constituted of (a) a hydrophilic core component comprising a polymer of ethylenically unsaturated monomers of which 5-75% by weight comprise free acid groups and ?3% by weight comprises silyl ester groups, (b) a shell component comprising a polymer of ethylenically unsaturated monomers of which <3% by weight comprises free acid groups or silyl ester groups, said resin having an acid value 15-400 mg KOH/g wherein the core component accounts for ?80% of the acid value of the resin, said paint composition comprising rosin wherein S90% by weight of the rosin has conjugated, non-aromatic double bonds, and ?25% thereof being metal resinate which constitutes 1-40% by wet weight of the composition, the dry weight ratio between (i) NAD and (ii) rosin and metal resinates being 100:15 to 15:100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventors: Hiroaki Omoto, Toshiya Takahashi, Hiroki Hayashi, Tomohiro Tanabe, Hiroyuki Tanabe, Tohru Taki, Yoshiyuki Iwase, Chugo Yokochi, Munehiro Nishimoto