Patents by Inventor Nobuhisa Miyake

Nobuhisa Miyake 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: 20120316355
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an aryloxytitanium composition that can solve the problems of the clogging of the storage tank, the piping, the pump, and the like during storage and transfer, and the like, and a decrease in catalytic activity which occurs during long-term storage, and is extremely preferred as a catalyst for the production of a diaryl carbonate. A method for producing an aryloxytitanium composition, comprising a step (1) of adding a diaryl carbonate to an organic oxytitanium composition having an R—O—Ti linkage, wherein R represents an organic group containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and evaporating a component having a lower boiling point than that of the diaryl carbonate, together with the diaryl carbonate, so as to obtain an aryloxytitanium composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventors: Nobuhisa Miyake, Budianto Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20120316357
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for continuously producing a diaryl carbonate stably for a long time with high productivity. The method for producing a diaryl carbonate according to the present invention comprises a step (1) of obtaining an alkylaryl carbonate; a step (2) of obtaining a reaction product from the alkylaryl carbonate; a step (3) of separating the diaryl carbonate and a high boiling component from the reaction product; and a step (4) of recycling the high boiling component into the steps (1) and/or (2), wherein the high boiling component recycled in the step (4) includes a particular compound, and the particular compound satisfies a particular condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventors: Budianto Nishiyama, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Patent number: 8293934
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing isocyanates, which are industrially useful compounds, without using phosgene, and to provide a process for chemically recycling waste polycarbonate resin. The present invention discloses a process enabling isocyanate compounds to be produced without using phosgene as a raw material by subjecting a carbamic acid ester compound obtained by a reaction between an aromatic polycarbonate resin and an amine compound to a thermal decomposition reaction, while at the same time disclosing a process enabling chemical recycling of aromatic polycarbonate resin by recovering a divalent aromatic hydroxy compound forming aromatic polycarbonates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Shinohata, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Patent number: 8168812
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing: a compound represented by XOR2; a dialkyl tin dialkoxide compound having one tin atom, two Sn—R1 bonds and two Sn—OR2 bonds; and/or a tetraalkyl dialkoxy distannoxane compound having one Sn—O—Sn bond, in which each tin atom of the tetraalkyl dialkoxy distannoxane compound has two Sn—R1 bonds and one Sn—OR2 bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Shinohata, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Patent number: 8138367
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the production of an aromatic carbonate, comprising the steps of: continuously feeding an aliphatic carbonate represented by following general formula (1) as a starting material, an aromatic monohydroxy compound represented by following general formula (2) as a reactant, and a metal-containing catalyst into a stage above the bottom of a first multi-stage distillation column so as to bring about reaction; continuously withdrawing from the reaction system in a gaseous form a low boiling point component containing an alcohol by-produced in the reaction; and continuously withdrawing from a lower portion of the column in a liquid form an aromatic carbonate represented by following general formula (3) obtained from the starting material and the reactant Ar1OH??(2) wherein R1 in general formulae (1) and (2) represents an aliphatic group having 4 to 6 carbon atoms, and Ar1 represents an aromatic group having 5 to 30 carbon atoms wherein R2 and Ar2 in general formu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Publication number: 20110319648
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing isocyanates, which are industrially useful compounds, without using phosgene, and to provide a process for chemically recycling waste polycarbonate resin. The present invention discloses a process enabling isocyanate compounds to be produced without using phosgene as a raw material by subjecting a carbamic acid ester compound obtained by a reaction between an aromatic polycarbonate resin and an amine compound to a thermal decomposition reaction, while at the same time disclosing a process enabling chemical recycling of aromatic polycarbonate resin by recovering a divalent aromatic hydroxy compound forming aromatic polycarbonates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Masaaki Shinohata, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Patent number: 8053595
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process that enables isocyanates to be stably produced over a long period of time at high yield without encountering various problems as found in the prior art when producing isocyanates without using phosgene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Shinohata, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Patent number: 8008518
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing a dialkyl tin compound from a composition of deactivated forms of a dialkyl tin catalyst, and to provide a process for producing the dialkyl tin catalyst from the dialkyl tin compound and using the dialkyl tin catalyst to produce a carbonic acid ester. According to the present invention, a process for producing a dialkyl tin compound is provided that subjects a composition of the deactivated forms of the dialkyl tin catalyst, formed when producing an ester compound, to an alkyl group redistribution reaction and/or dealkylation reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Shinohata, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Patent number: 7977504
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing isocyanates, which are industrially useful compounds, without using phosgene, and to provide a process for chemically recycling waste polycarbonate resin. The present invention discloses a process enabling isocyanate compounds to be produced without using phosgene as a raw material by subjecting a carbamic acid ester compound obtained by a reaction between an aromatic polycarbonate resin and an amine compound to a thermal decomposition reaction, while at the same time disclosing a process enabling chemical recycling of aromatic polycarbonate resin by recovering a divalent aromatic hydroxy compound forming aromatic polycarbonates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Shinohata, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Publication number: 20110160476
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing N-substituted carbamic acid-O-aryl ester derived from a compound having an ureido group, the method comprising the step of carrying out esterification or esterification and transesterification from the compound having the ureido group and a hydroxy composition containing one type or a plurality of types of hydroxy compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Nobuhisa Miyake, Masaaki Shinohata, Atsushi Okubo
  • Publication number: 20110133121
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for producing an N-substituted carbamic acid ester derived from an organic amine from an organic amine, a carbonic acid derivative and a hydroxy composition containing one or more types of hydroxy compounds, wherein the organic amine, the carbonic acid derivative and the hydroxy composition are reacted using a urethane production reaction vessel provided with a condenser, a gas containing the hydroxy composition, the compound having the carbonyl group derived from the carbonic acid derivative, and an ammonia formed as a by-product in the reaction, is introduced into the condenser provided in the urethane production reaction vessel, and the hydroxy composition and the compound having the carbonyl group derived from the carbonic acid derivative are condensed, and wherein a stoichiometric ratio of a hydroxy compound contained in the condensed hydroxy composition to the condensed compound having the carbonyl group derived from the carbonic acid derivative is 1 or more, and a rati
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: Masaaki Shinohata, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Publication number: 20110092731
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process that enables isocyanate to be produced stably over a long period of time and at high yield without encountering problems of the prior art during production of isocyanate without using phosgene. The present invention discloses a process for producing an isocyanate by subjecting a carbamic acid ester to a thermal decomposition reaction, including the steps of: recovering a low boiling point component in a form of a gaseous phase component from a thermal decomposition reaction vessel in which the thermal decomposition reaction is carried out; recovering a liquid phase component containing a carbamic acid ester from a bottom of the thermal decomposition reaction vessel; and supplying all or a portion of the liquid phase component to an upper portion of the thermal decomposition reaction vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Shinohata, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Publication number: 20110054211
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process that enables isocyanate to be produced stably over a long period of time and at high yield without encountering problems of the prior art during production of isocyanate without using phosgene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Masaaki Shinohata, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Patent number: 7842828
    Abstract: For an alkyltin alkoxide catalyst composition used in carbonate production, there is a problem that the alkyltin alkoxide catalyst composition is thermally decomposed by being heated in the production process, changing into an undistillable alkyltin alkoxide catalyst composition containing a high boiling deactivated component and an active component. The present invention provides a method for separating out and recovering the active component from the alkyltin alkoxide catalyst composition as a useful dialkyltin dialkoxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Budianto Bijanto, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Publication number: 20100292496
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing: a compound represented by XOR2; a dialkyl tin dialkoxide compound having one tin atom, two Sn—R1 bonds and two Sn—OR2 bonds; and/or a tetraalkyl dialkoxy distannoxane compound having one Sn—O—Sn bond, in which each tin atom of the tetraalkyl dialkoxy distannoxane compound has two Sn—R1 bonds and one Sn—OR2 bond, the process comprising reacting in the absence of a catalyst at least one alkyl tin compound selected from the group consisting of i) and ii) below: i) a dialkyl tin compound having one tin atom, two Sn—R1 (wherein R1 represents an alkyl group) bonds, and two Sn—OX bonds (wherein OX is a group in which HOX that is a conjugate acid of OX is a Bronsted acid having a pKa of from 0 to 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Masaaki Shinohata, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Publication number: 20100274047
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing isocyanates, which are industrially useful compounds, without using phosgene, and to provide a process for chemically recycling waste polycarbonate resin. The present invention discloses a process enabling isocyanate compounds to be produced without using phosgene as a raw material by subjecting a carbamic acid ester compound obtained by a reaction between an aromatic polycarbonate resin and an amine compound to a thermal decomposition reaction, while at the same time disclosing a process enabling chemical recycling of aromatic polycarbonate resin by recovering a divalent aromatic hydroxy compound forming aromatic polycarbonates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Masaaki Shinohata, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Publication number: 20100160662
    Abstract: For an alkyltin alkoxide catalyst composition used in carbonate production, there is a problem that the alkyltin alkoxide catalyst composition is thermally decomposed by being heated in the production process, changing into an undistillable alkyltin alkoxide catalyst composition containing a high boiling deactivated component and an active component. The present invention provides a method for separating out and recovering the active component from the alkyltin alkoxide catalyst composition as a useful dialkyltin dialkoxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2007
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Budianto Bijanto, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Publication number: 20100113823
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an isocyanate production process, which is free of the various problems found in the prior art, and which uses a composition containing a carbamic acid ester and an aromatic hydroxy compound when producing isocyanate without using phosgene, as well as a carbamic acid ester composition for transferring or storing carbamic acid ester. The present invention discloses an isocyanate production process including specific steps and using a composition containing a carbamic acid ester and an aromatic hydroxy compound, as well as a composition for transfer or storage of carbamic acid ester comprising the carbamic acid ester and the specific aromatic hydroxy compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Masaaki Shinohata, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Publication number: 20100069665
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process allowing long-term, stable production of isocyanates at a high yield without the various problems found in the prior art during production of isocyanates without using phosgene. The present invention discloses a process for producing an isocyanate by subjecting a carbamic acid ester to a decomposition reaction in the presence of a compound having an active proton and a carbonic acid derivative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: AHAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Shinohata, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Publication number: 20100041908
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing a dialkyl tin compound from a composition of deactivated forms of a dialkyl tin catalyst, and to provide a process for producing the dialkyl tin catalyst from the dialkyl tin compound and using the dialkyl tin catalyst to produce a carbonic acid ester. According to the present invention, a process for producing a dialkyl tin compound is provided that subjects a composition of the deactivated forms of the dialkyl tin catalyst, formed when producing an ester compound, to an alkyl group redistribution reaction and/or dealkylation reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Masaaki Shinohata, Nobuhisa Miyake