Patents by Inventor Rika Akiyoshi

Rika Akiyoshi 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: 4985502
    Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer with well-balanced physical properties is prepared by treating a rubber/resin composition comprised of (a) 45-90 wt. parts of a rubbery component and (b) 10-55 wt. parts of a polyolefin resin, with a curing agent. The rubbery component (a) is comprised of 5-100 wt. % of an ethylene-propylene copolymer rubber having an ethylene content of 60-78 mole %, a crystallinity of 4 to 20%, a maximum peak temperature of melting of at least 100.degree. C., an MFI of less than 0.01 at 230.degree. C., an HLMFI/MFI of at least 35, an Mw/Mn of at least 4, and a tensile strength at break of at least 100 kg/cm.sup.2, and 95-0% by weight of an ethylene-propylene-nonconjugated diene copolymer. The rubbery component in the cured product has a gel content more than 80 wt. % and less than 97 wt. % as determined by immersion in cyclohexane at 23.degree. C. for 48 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Zenichiro Izumi, Shigeru Kurosawa, Rika Akiyoshi