Patents by Inventor Naofumi Kosaka

Naofumi Kosaka 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: 20240139887
    Abstract: A bonding sheet according to the present invention contains a matrix resin; solder particles; and a fluxing agent. The bonding sheet has a surface with a surface roughness Sa of 2.5 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Ayumi NITTA, Masatoshi KATO, Naofumi KOSAKA
  • Patent number: 11970644
    Abstract: Provided is a method for peeling a PSA sheet adhered on a polarizing plate. The PSA sheet has a PSA layer. The PSA layer includes a layer A forming at least one surface of the PSA layer. Of the polarizing plate, the surface to which the PSA sheet is adhered is corona-treated or plasma-treated. The peeling method includes a water-peel step in which the PSA sheet is peeled from the polarizing plate, in a state where an aqueous liquid exits at the interface between the polarizing plate and the PSA sheet at the front line of peeling the PSA sheet from the polarizing plate, with the aqueous liquid allowed to further enter the interface following the movement of the peel front line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naofumi Kosaka, Yosuke Shimizu, Satoshi Honda, Taiki Shimokuri, Shou Takarada, Masayuki Satake, Kenichi Okada, Atsushi Takashima, Ginji Mizuhara
  • Patent number: 11795350
    Abstract: Provided is an optical PSA composition that can be easily peeled using an aqueous liquid such as water and has sufficient adhesive strength. An optical PSA composition comprising an acrylic polymer is provided. The PSA composition comprises at least one species of compound A selected among surfactants and compounds having polyoxyalkylene backbones. The monomers forming the acrylic polymer comprises less than 20 wt % alkoxyalkyl (meth)acrylate and less than 20 wt % alkoxypolyalkylene glycol (meth)acrylate. Alternatively, the compound A content is less than 1 part by weight to 100 parts by weight of the acrylic polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Okamoto, Naofumi Kosaka, Satoshi Honda, Yosuke Shimizu, Ryoko Asai
  • Publication number: 20230312990
    Abstract: To provide a separation method for a joined object for display device, by which PSA can be peeled off even when the PSA is tightly bonded to a member in the joined object. Provided is a method for separating a joined object for display device. In this method, the joined object comprises two members joined with a PSA comprising a hydrophilicity enhancer. The method comprises a step of peeling the PSA from the member by supplying steam towards the PSA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naofumi KOSAKA, Yosuke SHIMIZU, Kenta KUMAKURA
  • Publication number: 20230144464
    Abstract: Provided is a PSA sheet that can combine bonding reliability and peeling removability, and further can be peeled off without causing deformation or damage to the adherend in various peeling modes. The PSA sheet provided by this invention has a PSA layer. The PSA sheet has a water-peel strength of 2 N/10 mm or less. The PSA sheet further has a stress at 100 % elongation of less than 30 MPa as well as a multiplication product (?f-?f) of fracture stress ?f (MPa) and fracture strain ?f (%) of 250 or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Yosuke SHIMIZU, Naofumi KOSAKA, Ryoko ASAI, Kenta KUMAKURA
  • Publication number: 20230102613
    Abstract: An adhesive layer (20a) has a creep deformation rate when a stress of 10000 Pa is applied at 50° C. for 1 second is 10% or less, and a creep deformation rate when a stress of 10000 Pa is applied at 50° C. for 30 minutes is 16% or less, in a creep test using a rotational rheometer, and has a 180° peel adhesive strength of 10 mN/20 mm or more with respect to a PMMA film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizuho MIZUNO, Akiko TANAKA, Naofumi KOSAKA, Kozo NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220282129
    Abstract: Provided is an optical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition that gives a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer having such heating reworkability as to be easily removed from a component such as cover glass at a temperature higher than the service temperature of an image display device. The optical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition of the present invention gives a release force X of 4.0 N/20 mm or less, where the release force X is a release force determined by applying a film to a glass plate through a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer made from the optical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, and puling the film at a temperature of 100° C., a peel angle of 180 degrees, and a tensile speed of 50 mm/min.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya YAMAMOTO, Sho TAKARADA, Naofumi KOSAKA, Takahiro NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20220275250
    Abstract: Provided is a photo-crosslinkable PSA comprising a polymer having side-chain benzophenone structures. The photo-crosslinkable PSA is a cured product of a PSA composition comprising an ethylenically unsaturated compound and a benzophenone structure-containing component. The photo-crosslinkable PSA has VOC emissions of 500 ?g/g or less. Also provided is a PSA sheet having a PSA layer formed from the photo-crosslinkable PSA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Ryoko ASAI, Naofumi KOSAKA, Yosuke SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20220275254
    Abstract: Provided is a PSA sheet having a PSA layer. The PSA layer has a multilayer structure comprising a layer A forming one face of the PSA layer and a layer B placed on the backside of the layer A. The layer B is a photo-crosslinkable PSA layer comprising a photo-crosslinkable polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Ryoko ASAI, Naofumi KOSAKA, Yosuke SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20220169002
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a laminate including a two-dimensional material and an adhesive sheet having a base material and an adhesive layer whose adhesive force decreases due to ultraviolet rays or heat, in which an adhesive force A at 25° C. of the adhesive layer before the ultraviolet rays or heat applies, to a silicon wafer is 1.0 N/20 mm to 20.0 N/20 mm when the adhesive layer is subjected to 180° peeling at a tensile speed of 300 mm/min, and a surface roughness of an adhesive surface of the adhesive layer after the ultraviolet rays or heat has been applied is 0.01 ?m to 8.00 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi HONDA, Naofumi KOSAKA, Shotaro MASUDA, Atsushi YASUI, Hiroki AGO, Kenji KAWAHARA, Shun OYAMA
  • Patent number: 11236254
    Abstract: A separator containing a substrate and a release layer formed on at least one side of the substrate wherein the separator shows a strain of not more than 7% when a load of 5N/20 mm is applied for one minute in the pulling direction, and when the substrate is cut in half in the thickness direction to divide the separator into two, an apparent elastic modulus in the pulling direction of one of the divided separators is larger than an apparent elastic modulus in the pulling direction of the other divided separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naofumi Kosaka, Keisuke Shimokita, Hironao Ootake, Asami Doi, Mizuho Chiba, Akiko Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210348036
    Abstract: Provided is an optical PSA composition that can be easily peeled using an aqueous liquid such as water and has sufficient adhesive strength. An optical PSA composition comprising an acrylic polymer is provided. The PSA composition comprises at least one species of compound A selected among surfactants and compounds having polyoxyalkylene backbones. The monomers forming the acrylic polymer comprises less than 20 wt % alkoxyalkyl (meth)acrylate and less than 20 wt % alkoxypolyalkylene glycol (meth)acrylate. Alternatively, the compound A content is less than 1 part by weight to 100 parts by weight of the acrylic polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Masayuki OKAMOTO, Naofumi KOSAKA, Satoshi HONDA, Yosuke SHIMIZU, Ryoko ASAI
  • Publication number: 20210230455
    Abstract: Provided is a method for peeling a PSA sheet adhered on a polarizing plate. The PSA sheet has a PSA layer. The PSA layer includes a layer A forming at least one surface of the PSA layer. Of the polarizing plate, the surface to which the PSA sheet is adhered is corona-treated or plasma-treated. The peeling method includes a water-peel step in which the PSA sheet is peeled from the polarizing plate, in a state where an aqueous liquid exits at the interface between the polarizing plate and the PSA sheet at the front line of peeling the PSA sheet from the polarizing plate, with the aqueous liquid allowed to further enter the interface following the movement of the peel front line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Naofumi KOSAKA, Yosuke SHIMIZU, Satoshi HONDA, Taiki SHIMOKURI, Shou TAKARADA, Masayuki SATAKE, Kenichi OKADA, Atsushi TAKASHIMA, Ginji MIZUHARA
  • Publication number: 20210214587
    Abstract: Provided is a PSA sheet having a PSA layer. The PSA layer includes a layer A forming at least one surface thereof. The PSA sheet has an adhesive strength N0 of 2.0 N/10 mm or greater, after one day at room temperature following application of the layer A side to a surface of an alkaline float glass plate as an adherend having a contact angle of 5°-10° with distilled water; has an N1 to N0 reduction rate of 30% or lower, wherein N1 is a water-resistant adhesive strength measured after stored at room temperature for one day, immersed in water for 30 minutes, taken out from the water and then residual water is wiped off; and has an N2 to N0 reduction rate of 40% or higher, wherein N2 is a water-peel strength measured after stored at room temperature for one day, 20 ?L distilled water is dropped onto the adherend and is allowed to enter a PSA layer/adherend interfacial edge. N2 is measured at a tensile speed of 300 mm/min at a peel angle of 180°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Naofumi KOSAKA, Yosuke SHIMIZU, Satoshi HONDA, Taiki SHIMOKURI, Shou TAKARADA, Masayuki SATAKE, Kenichi OKADA, Atsushi TAKASHIMA, Ginji MIZUHARA, Masayuki OKAMOTO, Ryoko ASAI
  • Publication number: 20200270483
    Abstract: A pressure-bonding adhesive member having a superior positional-adjustment function relative to an adherend having a surface mainly constituted of low-polarity plastic typified by polypropylene, and capable of adhering to the adherend with a sufficiently high adhesive force after positional adjustment. The pressure-bonding adhesive member containing an adhesive layer and plural convex parts formed on one surface of the adhesive layer, wherein, when the convex parts are in contact with a polypropylene plate and the adhesive layer is not in contact with the polypropylene plate, the adhesive member shows a frictional force of not more than 0.6 N/cm2 on the polypropylene plate and a shear adhesive force of not less than 50 N/cm2 to the polypropylene plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Mizuho CHIBA, Keisuke SHIMOKITA, Asami DOI, Akiko TAKAHASHI, Hironao OOTAKE, Naofumi KOSAKA, Kensuke TANI
  • Patent number: 10570320
    Abstract: Provided is an adhesive member to be adhesively fixed through pressure which has both position adjustability and adhesiveness and is capable of producing a sufficient adhesive strength in addition to the position adjustability. The adhesive member comprises a support, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on one surface of the support, and a plurality of protrusion elements arranged, in spaced-apart relation to each other, on a principal surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on a side opposite to the support. Each of the protrusion elements is composed of an aggregation of a plurality of cohesive particles, wherein the adhesive member has a frictional force of 0.4 N/cm2 or less, with respect to a stainless steel plate serving as an adherend, as measured when the protrusion elements are in contact with a surface of the adherend, and a shear adhesive strength of 45 N/cm2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensuke Tani, Mizuho Nagata, Kaori Mizobata, Masatsugu Soga, Ryota Masuda, Masayuki Satake, Kenichi Okada, Naofumi Kosaka, Keisuke Shimokita
  • Publication number: 20190241769
    Abstract: A separator containing a substrate and a release layer formed on at least one side of the substrate wherein the separator shows a strain of not more than 7% when a load of 5N/20 mm is applied for one minute in the pulling direction, and when the substrate is cut in half in the thickness direction to divide the separator into two, an apparent elastic modulus in the pulling direction of one of the divided separators is larger than an apparent elastic modulus in the pulling direction of the other divided separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naofumi KOSAKA, Keisuke SHIMOKITA, Hironao OOTAKE, Asami DOI, Mizuho CHIBA, Akiko TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20190016923
    Abstract: Provided is an adhesive member to be adhesively fixed through pressure which has both position adjustability and adhesiveness and is capable of producing a sufficient adhesive strength in addition to the position adjustability. The adhesive member comprises a support, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on one surface of the support, and a plurality of protrusion elements arranged, in spaced-apart relation to each other, on a principal surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on a side opposite to the support. Each of the protrusion elements is composed of an aggregation of a plurality of cohesive particles, wherein the adhesive member has a frictional force of 0.4 N/cm2 or less, with respect to a stainless steel plate serving as an adherend, as measured when the protrusion elements are in contact with a surface of the adherend, and a shear adhesive strength of 45 N/cm2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensuke TANI, Mizuho NAGATA, Kaori MIZOBATA, Masatsugu SOGA, Ryota MASUDA, Masayuki SATAKE, Kenichi OKADA, Naofumi KOSAKA, Keisuke SHIMOKITA
  • Patent number: 9508971
    Abstract: A gas-permeable filter provided with oil repellency is provided. The gas-permeable filter includes a porous membrane having a surface coated with an oil-repellent agent. The oil-repellent agent includes a linear fluorine-containing hydrocarbon group represented by —R1C5F10CH2C4F9 or —R2C6F13, and the porous membrane is a stretched polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) porous membrane. Here, R1 and R2 are each independently an alkylene group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms or a phenylene group. The gas-permeable filter is provided with oil repellency without significant reduction in gas permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Ikeyama, Nobuaki Maruoka, Naofumi Kosaka, Asuka Onohara
  • Publication number: 20140023895
    Abstract: A gas-permeable filter provided with oil repellency is provided. The gas-permeable filter includes a porous membrane having a surface coated with an oil-repellent agent. The oil-repellent agent includes a linear fluorine-containing hydrocarbon group represented by —R1C5F10CH2C4F9 or —R2C6F13, and the porous membrane is a stretched polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) porous membrane. Here, R1 and R2 are each independently an alkylene group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms or a phenylene group. The gas-permeable filter is provided with oil repellency without significant reduction in gas permeability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Ikeyama, Nobuaki Maruoka, Naofumi Kosaka, Asuka Onohara