Patents by Inventor Nobutsugu Chigira

Nobutsugu Chigira 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: 8647097
    Abstract: An intermittent film forming system is provided, comprising a mold having a fine projections and depressions shape formed on the surface, a press for pressing a film to the surface of the mold, a transportation for carrying the film, and a releasing device for releasing the film from the mold surface. The releasing device is provided with a stripper roll for stripping the film, a means for rotary driving the stripper roll, an auxiliary roll arranged substantially in parallel with the stripper roll across a film path line, a means for moving the auxiliary roll on the periphery of the stripper roll such that the film embraces the stripper roll, and a guide for moving the stripper roll and the auxiliary roll in the vicinity of the surface of the mold in parallel therewith, while maintaining the relative positional relationship that the film embraces the stripper roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Minoura, Nobutsugu Chigira, Fumiyasu Nomura
  • Publication number: 20120273998
    Abstract: An intermittent film forming system is provided, comprising a mold having a fine projections and depressions shape formed on the surface, a press for pressing a film to the surface of the mold, a transportation for carrying the film, and a releasing device for releasing the film from the mold surface. The releasing device is provided with a stripper roll for stripping the film, a means for rotary driving the stripper roll, an auxiliary roll arranged substantially in parallel with the stripper roll across a film path line, a means for moving the auxiliary roll on the periphery of the stripper roll such that the film embraces the stripper roll, and a guide for moving the stripper roll and the auxiliary roll in the vicinity of the surface of the mold in parallel therewith, while maintaining the relative positional relationship that the film embraces the stripper roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Minoura, Nobutsugu Chigira, Fumiyasu Nomura
  • Patent number: 8231372
    Abstract: An intermittent film forming system is provided, comprising a mold having a fine projections and depressions shape formed on the surface, a press for pressing a film to the surface of the mold, a transportation for carrying the film, and a releasing device for releasing the film from the mold surface. The releasing device is provided with a stripper roll for stripping the film, a means for rotary driving the stripper roll, an auxiliary roll arranged substantially in parallel with the stripper roll across a film path line, a means for moving the auxiliary roll on the periphery of the stripper roll such that the film embraces the stripper roll, and a guide for moving the stripper roll and the auxiliary roll in the vicinity of the surface of the mold in parallel therewith, while maintaining the relative positional relationship that the film embraces the stripper roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Minoura, Nobutsugu Chigira, Fumiyasu Nomura
  • Patent number: 7858006
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for manufacturing a laminated sheet wherein different molten resins are alternately laminated by providing a multitude of slits arranged at intervals and permitting the different molten resins to flow out from the adjacent slits. A value of a shortest flow path length (L1) to a longest flow path length (L2) of the molten resin that flows from an inlet to an outlet of the slit, which is a ratio of (L1)/(L2), is 0.5 or more. The slits include slits having different slit lengths. A flow quantity of the molten resin at the slit is changed by changing the intervals of the slits, length of the slits or by changing the temperature of the molten resin at the slits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Furuno, Fumiyasu Nomura, Nobutsugu Chigira
  • Publication number: 20090315212
    Abstract: An intermittent film forming system is provided, comprising a mold having a fine projections and depressions shape formed on the surface, a press for pressing a film to the surface of the mold, a transportation for carrying the film, and a releasing device for releasing the film from the mold surface. The releasing device is provided with a stripper roll for stripping the film, a means for rotary driving the stripper roll, an auxiliary roll arranged substantially in parallel with the stripper roll across a film path line, a means for moving the auxiliary roll on the periphery of the stripper roll such that the film embraces the stripper roll, and a guide for moving the stripper roll and the auxiliary roll in the vicinity of the surface of the mold in parallel therewith, while maintaining the relative positional relationship that the film embraces the stripper roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Minoura, Nobutsugu Chigira, Fumiyasu Nomura
  • Publication number: 20080277059
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for manufacturing a laminated sheet wherein different molten resins are alternately laminated by providing a multitude of slits arranged at intervals and permitting the different molten resins to flow out from the adjacent slits. A value of a shortest flow path length (L1) to a longest flow path length (L2) of the molten resin that flows from an inlet to an outlet of the slit, which is a ratio of (L1)/(L2), is 0.5 or more. The slits include slits having different slit lengths. A flow quantity of the molten resin at the slit is changed by changing the intervals of the slits, length of the slits or by changing the temperature of the molten resin at the slits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Furuno, Fumiyasu Nomura, Nobutsugu Chigira
  • Publication number: 20020036362
    Abstract: An object of the present invention to provide a sheet manufacturing method and a sheet manufacturing die, in which a process of extruding a molten material from the die and winding it around a cooling roller can be performed at a high speed such as 60 m/min or more, and with which a sheet having a uniform thickness and a smooth surface can be obtained. In order to effectively charge the sheet with static electricity, the distance between paths of product portion and end portions of the sheet from a die to a cooling roller is reduced by adjusting the temperature of the sheet at the end portions thereof. The die is constructed such that the sheet is not influenced by deformation of a slit formed in the die, which is caused by heat expansion of the die and adjustment operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Inventors: Nobutsugu Chigira, Fumiyasu Nomura, Hidetoshi Okashiro, Takao Sano, Masaharu Toyama
  • Patent number: 6221301
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for producing thermoplastic resin film which allows a biaxially oriented polyester film to be formed at a high speed of 400 m/min or more. In the method, a molten thermoplastic resin film is brought into contact with a cooling medium, to be cooled and solidified, for producing a cast film. The method is characterized by keeping the surface temperature of the cooling medium in the region immediately before the melt reaching position at not lower than the glass transition temperature and not higher than the melting point of the thermoplastic resin. The apparatus is characterized by a cooling medium having a heater and a cooler to ensure that the surface temperature of the cooling medium in the region immediately before the melt reaching position is kept at the requisite temperature, and by a surface temperature of the cooling drum in the region immediately before the film leaving position being maintained lower than the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenji Tsunashima, Masaharu Toyama, Katsutoshi Miyakawa, Shunichi Osada, Nobutsugu Chigira, Hiroshi Yoshimura