Patents by Inventor Nobuaki Kunii

Nobuaki Kunii 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: 5344874
    Abstract: A process for producing a condensed resin dispersion, which comprises subjecting an aldehyde and a compound condensable with the aldehyde, or their precondensate, to a condensation reaction in a dispersion medium consisting essentially of water and/or an organic solvent, to precipitate fine condensed resin particles which hardly settle in said dispersion medium, and then replacing the water and/or the organic solvent by an active hydrogen-containing compound having at least two active hydrogen-containing groups reactive with isocyanate groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1994
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Doi, Noriko Itaya, Masami Yamashita, Nobuaki Kunii
  • Patent number: 5196210
    Abstract: A mold for preparing window glass provided with a gasket at a peripheral portion of a glass sheet for a window includes, placing a glass sheet in the shaping mold which has two mold parts to provide an inner cavity in which resilient sealing members are attached respectively to the two mold parts so as to come in contact with surfaces of the glass sheet so that a gasket forming cavity is formed at a peripheral area of the glass sheet by the cooperation of the inner cavity of the shaping mold, the resilient sealing members and the glass sheet, the resilient sealing member is then pushed to the contacting surface constituted by the resilient sealing member and a part of the shaping mold in the inner cavity via a pushing means after the assembling of the shaping mold. The glass sheet, and a gasket material is then injected into the gasket forming cavity to form a gasket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Yoshihara, Yoshio Hosaka, Shigehito Shibata, Nobuaki Kunii
  • Patent number: 5145883
    Abstract: The present invention relates a method for producing a polyether ester polyol containing polycarboxylic acid residues in the vicinity of the terminals, by means of a doubles metal cyanide complex catalyst. Namely, the present invention is a method for producing a polyether ester polyol by reacting a polyether polyol having a hydroxyl value of at most 400, a polycarboxylic anhydride and a monoepoxide by means of a double metal cyanide complex as a catalyst.The present invention relates also to a process for producing a flexible polyurethane foam or a polyurethane elastomer using this polyether ester polyol. The flexible polyurethane foam produced has a high thermal fusing properties, and by laminating it with e.g. cloth, it is possible to obtain a laminate having high bond strength. Further, this polyurethane elastomer has superior physical properties as compared with an elastomer obtainable by using a polyether polyol or a polyester polyol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1992
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Joichi Saito, Sigeyuki Kozawa, Nobuaki Kunii, Hirotsugu Yamamoto, Hiromitsu Takeyasu
  • Patent number: 5068304
    Abstract: A moisture-curable resin composition containing a hydrolyzable silyl group-containing polyether compound as a curable component, said polyether compound comprising polyoxyalkylene chains derived from a polyoxyalkylene polyol having a hydroxyl value (x mgKOH/g) of from 5 to 35, a total degree of unsaturation (y meq/g) of not higher than 0.07 meq/g and y.ltoreq.0.9/(x-10), from 2 to 8 hydroxyl groups, and a content of oxyalkylene groups having at least 3 carbon atoms, of at least 60% by weight, and a hydrolyzable silyl group-containing terminal group present at least 1.3 terminals on the average of said polyoxyalkylene chains, said terminal group having a urethane bond linked to the polyoxyalkylene chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1991
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Higuchi, Yasuhiko Nakano, Nobuaki Kunii, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Shigeyuki Kozawa
  • Patent number: 5061429
    Abstract: A method of preparing window glass provided with a gasket at a peripheral portion of a glass sheet for a window includes placing a glass sheet in a shaping mold which has two mold parts to provide an inner cavity in which resilient sealing members are attached respectively to the two mold parts so as to come in contact with surfaces of the glass sheet so that a gasket forming cavity is formed at a peripheral area of the glass sheet by the cooperation of the inner cavity of the shaping mold, the resilient sealing members and the glass sheet. The resilient sealing member is then pushed to the contacting surface constituted by the resilient sealing member and a part of the shaping mold in the inner cavity via a pushing means after the assembling of the shaping mold and the glass sheet. A gasket material is then injected into the gasket forming cavity to form a gasket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1991
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Yoshihara, Yoshio Hosaka, Shigehito Shibata, Nobuaki Kunii
  • Patent number: 5049638
    Abstract: A coating composition for forming a substantially non-porous moisture-permeable coating layer or film of a hydrophilic polyurethane resin, which comprises a polyol combination and a poloyisocyanate compound, or a prepolymer or polyurethane resin obtained by reacting them, said polyol combination comprising:(a) from about 50 to about 98% by weight of a polyoxyethylene polyol having an oxyethylene group content of from about 50 to about 90% by weight, a hydroxyl value of from about 15 to about 60 and at least 3 hydroxyl groups; and(b) from about 2 to about 50% by weight of a diol having a molecular weight of from about 62 to about 2,000 which may contain oxyethylene groups;provided that the molar equivalent ratio of the component (b) to the component (a) is from about 0.2 to about 5, and the total oxyethylene group content in the components (a) and (b) is at least about 70% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Matsumoto, Nobuaki Kunii
  • Patent number: 5030685
    Abstract: A process for producing a condensed resin dispersion, which comprises subjecting an aldehyde and a compound condensable with the aldehyde, or their precondensate, to a condensation reaction in a dispersion medium consisting essentially of water and/or an organic solvent, to precipitate fine condensed resin particles which hardly settle in said dispersion medium, and then replacing the water and/or the organic solvent by an active hydrogen-containing compound having at least two active hydrogen-containing groups reactive with isocyanate groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Doi, Noriko Itaya, Masami Yamashita, Nobuaki Kunii
  • Patent number: 4987271
    Abstract: A method for purifying a polyoxyalkylene alcohol, which comprises treating with a treating agent consisting essentially of a pH buffer, a polyoxyalkylene alcohol containing a double metal cyanide complex catalyst, synthesized by ring-opening polymerization of an alkylene oxide in the presence of said catalyst, and then removing the catalyst and the treating agent from the polyoxyalkylene alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1991
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Watabe, Hiromitsu Takeyasu, Takao Doi, Nobuaki Kunii
  • Patent number: 4957959
    Abstract: Prepolymer composition which comprises 10 to 95% by weight of a first isocyanate-group-containing prepolymer (A) obtained by reacting an excess equivalent of an aromatic diisocyanate (c) containing an isocyanate group directly bonded to the aromatic nucleus with an oxyethylene-group-containing polyoxyalkylene polyol (a) of a relatively high molecular weight; 90 to 5% by weight of a second isocyanate-group-containing prepolymer (B) obtained by reacting an excess equivalent of an organic diisocyanate (d) not containing an isocyanate group directly bonded to the aromatic nucleus with an oxyethylene-group-containing polyoxyalkylene polyol (b) of a relatively high molecular weight; and, as the case may be, an unreacted substance of diisocyanate which has been used in the production of the respective prepolymers (A) and (B), the prepolymer composition containing the isocyanate group in a range of from 3 to 15% by weight, wherein the polyoxyalkylene polyol (a) and the polyoxyalkylene polyol (b) are either same or di
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Matsumoto, Nobuaki Kunii
  • Patent number: 4945149
    Abstract: A coating composition for forming a substantially non-porous moisture-permeable coating layer or film of a hydrophilic polyurethane resin, which comprises a polyol combination and a polyisocyanate compound, or a prepolymer or polyurethane resin obtained by reacting them, said polyol combination comprising:(a) from about 50 to about 98% by weight of a polyoxyethylene polyol having an oxyethylene group content of from about 50 to about 90% by weight, a hydroxyl valve of from about 15 to about 60 and at least 3 hydroxyl groups; and(b) from about 2 to about 50% by weight of a diol having a molecular weight of from about 62 to about 2,000 which may contain oxyethylene groups;provided that the molar equivalent ratio of the component (b) to the component (a) is from about 0.2 to about 5, and the total oxyethylene group content in the components (a) and (b) is at least about 70% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Matsumoto, Nobuaki Kunii
  • Patent number: 4808636
    Abstract: A process for producing a shaped article of a non-cellular or microcellular polyurethane elastomer by reaction injection molding by using a high molecular weight active hydrogen compound component (A), a chain extender component (B) and a polyisocyanate compound component (C) as starting materials,wherein(I) the high molecular weight active hydrogen compound component (A) comprises(1) at least one polyoxyalkylene polyol (a-1) having an average molecular weight per hydroxyl group of from 800 to 4000 and an average number of hydroxyl groups per molecule of from 2 to 8 and containing at least 5% by weight of oxyethylene groups at the terminal portions of its molecules,(2) a high molecular weight amine (a-2) having from 2 to 8 active hydrogen-containing groups, and optionally(3) a high molecular weight polyol (a-3) other than the polyalkylene polyol (a-1), and(II) the chain extender component (B) comprises(1) a low molecular weight polyol (b-1) having from 2 to 4 hydroxyl groups and a molecular weight of at most
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Joichi Saito, Hiroshi Wada, Shigehito Shibata, Takashi Watabe, Kiyoshi Tanabe, Nobuaki Kunii
  • Patent number: 4647595
    Abstract: A process for producing a urethane-modified polyisocyanurate foam by using at least four components of a polyol, a polyisocyanate compound in an excess amount relative to the polyol, an isocyanate trimerizing catalyst and a foaming agent, as the essential starting materials, wherein a polyester ether polyol comprising, as the constituting units, residues of polyhydric phenols and/or polyhydric alcohols, residues of polybasic carboxylic acids and oxyalkylene groups and having a hydroxyl value of from about 100 to about 500, is employed as at least a part of said polyol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1987
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Kozawa, Nobuaki Kunii, Yukio Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 4342840
    Abstract: A polymer polyol is produced by polymerizing a monomer having a polymerizable unsaturated group in a nitrogen bond-containing unsaturated polyol or polyol mixture having at least two nitrogen-containing bonds formed by reacting isocyanate groups with active hydrogen groups, at least one polymerizable unsaturated group and at least 1.7 hydroxyl groups, as average.A polymer polyol is produced by polymerizing a monomer having a polymerizable unsaturated group in a nitrogen bond-containing unsaturated polyol or polyol mixture having at least 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1982
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Kozawa, Takao Doi, Nobuaki Kunii
  • Patent number: 4110308
    Abstract: Ethylene-tetrafluorethylene copolymer compositions are stabilized against thermal degradation by incorporating therein a small amount of a copper compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1978
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Abe, Masahiko Ichimura, Makoto Noshiro, Nobuaki Kunii, Yasumichi Ito
  • Patent number: 4107356
    Abstract: A powder lining method which comprises coating a substrate with a synthetic resin powder containing 2 to 50 wt. % of a carbon fiber having a length of less than 1000 microns and subsequently baking. The use of a synthetic resin powder containing carbon fibers makes possible the preparation of significantly thicker linings in a single step than was possible previously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1978
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ukihashi, Tetsuya Uchino, Takeshi Abe, Nobuaki Kunii