Patents by Inventor Seigo Kotera

Seigo Kotera 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: 20230395398
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a film including at least a substrate and an antistatic layer, in which a ratio of a peeled area when a tape peeling test is performed under the following conditions after 300% uniaxial stretching at 25° C. is less than 5%, the tape peeling test is that: Cellotape® is pressure-bonded to a surface of the film on an antistatic layer side using a roller through 5 reciprocations with a load of 4 kg, and the Cellotape® is peeled off at a speed of 100 m/min in a direction of 180° with respect to the film within 5 minutes, thereby obtaining a ratio of a peeled area of the film to an area of an adhesive portion of the Cellotape®.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Seigo KOTERA, Satoshi TAKENAKA, Tetsuya HASEGAWA, Takatoshi YAOITA, Masayuki MORINO, Mio TOKUNAGA, Yuki HAYASAKA
  • Publication number: 20230348759
    Abstract: A film including a substrate, a base layer, and an adhesive layer in this order, in which the base layer includes a reaction cured product of a (meth)acrylic polymer and a curing agent, and the base layer has an elongation rate of 90% or more as measured by a tensile test at 25° C. and a speed of 100 mm/min and determined by the following formula, Elongation rate (%)=(elongation (mm) at break)×100/(distance (mm) between grippers before applying tension).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKENAKA, Seigo KOTERA, Tetsuya HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 11565510
    Abstract: To provide a laminate which has a heat sealing property, a barrier property and mechanical strength, of which elution of impurities from the surface to be in contact with a chemical solution is suppressed, and of which peeling and the like hardly occur at the sealed portion of a bag and at the interfaces between the layers of the laminate when exposed to high temperature, a bag using it and a lithium ion battery. A laminate 10 comprising a first layer 12 containing a fluororesin, a second layer 14 containing a barrier material, a third layer 16 containing a fluororesin and a fourth layer 18 containing a polyamide in this order, wherein each of the fluororesin in the first layer 12 and the fluororesin in the third layer 16 is a fluororesin having a melting point of from 160 to 230° C. and having adhesive functional groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Higuchi, Seigo Kotera
  • Patent number: 11318641
    Abstract: To provide a film capable of suppressing both of formation of wrinkles when a release film is suction-attached to a cavity surface in compression molding, and formation of wrinkles when the cavity bottom surface to which the release film has been suction-attached is raised; and a method for producing a semiconductor element by using said film. A laminated film 1 comprises a layer 3 of shrinkable film, of which the storage elastic modulus E? at 180° C. is at least 70 MPa, and the thermal shrinkage in 30 minutes at 180° C., with reference to 20° C., in each of the machine direction (MD) and the transverse direction (TD), is at least 3%, and a fluororesin layer 5 present on one side or both sides of the shrinkable film layer 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Seigo Kotera
  • Publication number: 20220118742
    Abstract: As an exemplary configuration, a long film is configured by thermomeltable polymers including a first unit based on tetrafluoroethylene and a second unit based on perfluoro (alkyl vinyl ether), including spherulites of the thermomeltable polymers, wherein radius of each spherulite is 10 ?m or less. As another exemplary configuration, a long film is configured by tetrafluoroethylene polymers having a melt flow rate within a range of 5 to 40 g/10 min. The long film is heated at 180° C. for 30 minutes so as to measure the thermal expansion rate, and when letting thermal expansion rate in a first direction, which extends at a 45-degree angle to a melt flow direction be A, and thermal expansion rate in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction be B, A and B are respectively within the range of ?2 to +1%, and |A?B| is 1% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Wataru KASAI, Yuya HORIGUCHI, Seigo KOTERA, Tomoya HOSODA
  • Publication number: 20200407524
    Abstract: To provide a dielectric film which is excellent in dielectric properties and stability in the electric corrosion test and which is suitable for producing a high-precision printed board. A roll film comprising a melt-processable fluororesin as the main component and having a thickness of from 1 to 100 ?m, the dimensional change rate of which is less than 1.0%, in terms of an absolute value, in each of MD and TD, when heated at 150° C. for 30 minutes and then cooled to 25° C., based on the dimension at 25° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Seigo KOTERA, Wataru KASAI, Junetsu NAKAMURA, Takatoshi YAOITA
  • Patent number: 10730219
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing a fluororesin film, whereby defects due to deterioration (such as fish-eyes due to gelation) of a melt-processable fluororesin are less likely to occur during the production. A method for producing a fluororesin film, which comprises extruding a fluororesin material containing a melt-processable fluororesin through an extruder die, wherein the temperature of the extruder die is from 305 to 355° C., and the average flow velocity v0.95 of the fluororesin material as obtained by v0.95=Q0.95/A0.95, is at least 1×10?4 m/sec. Here, when the distance from the flow inlet 22 of the extruder die to the end of the manifold 24 of the extruder die is set to be x=1, Q0.95 is the flow rate (m3/sec) of the fluororesin material flowing in the manifold 24 at a position of x=0.95 from the flow inlet 22, and A0.95 is the cross-sectional area (m2) of the manifold 24 at a position of x=0.95 from the flow inlet 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Higuchi, Seigo Kotera
  • Publication number: 20200215728
    Abstract: To provide a film capable of suppressing both of formation of wrinkles when a release film is suction-attached to a cavity surface in compression molding, and formation of wrinkles when the cavity bottom surface to which the release film has been suction-attached is raised; and a method for producing a semiconductor element by using said film. A laminated film 1 comprises a layer 3 of shrinkable film, of which the storage elastic modulus E? at 180° C. is at least 70 MPa, and the thermal shrinkage in 30 minutes at 180° C., with reference to 20° C., in each of the machine direction (MD) and the transverse direction (TD), is at least 3%, and a fluororesin layer 5 present on one side or both sides of the shrinkable film layer 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventor: Seigo KOTERA
  • Patent number: 10633529
    Abstract: To provide a resin composition having excellent mechanical strength and elongation, its melt-kneaded product and a molding product thereof. A resin composition comprising a fluororesin having a hydroxy group or a carbonyl group, an ester bond-containing resin having no fluorine atom and a transesterification catalyst, a melt-kneaded product obtained by melt-kneading the resin composition, a molding product, film or sheet obtained from the resin composition or the melt-kneaded product, a laminated product, a backsheet for a solar cell, and a method for producing a molding product using the resin composition or the melt-kneaded product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakanishi, Toshiaki Sawada, Seigo Kotera, Shinji Wada
  • Publication number: 20200113048
    Abstract: To provide a laminated body in which wrinkles and delamination are suppressed, a method for its production, and a method for producing a flexible printed circuit board in which occurrence of wrinkles and delamination is suppressed. A method for producing a laminated body comprises disposing, on one side or both sides of a first substrate composed of either one or both of a heat-resistant substrate layer and a metal foil layer, a second substrate containing a fluororesin and having a first surface of which the wetting tension is from 30 to 60 mN/m and a second surface of which the wetting tension is smaller by at least 2 mN/m than the wetting tension of the first surface, so that the first surface faces the first substrate side; and while transporting the first substrate and the second substrate, pressing them in the thickness direction at a temperature T1 of from 0 to 100° C. for lamination, to obtain a laminated body I in which the first substrate and the second substrate are directly laminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Wataru KASAI, Seigo KOTERA
  • Patent number: 10141204
    Abstract: To provide a film which is excellent in releasing property with respect to a resin sealed portion and excellent in low migration property and peeling property with respect to a semiconductor chip, a source electrode or a sealing glass and which is suitable as a mold release film for producing a semiconductor element having a part of the surface of a semiconductor chip, source electrode or sealing glass exposed. A film 1 which comprises a substrate 3 and an adhesive layer 5, wherein the storage elastic modulus at 180° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Seigo Kotera, Wataru Kasai, Masami Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180154614
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing a formed product comprising a fiber-reinforced composite material which is excellent in flame retardancy and chemical resistance and which can be formed into a complicated shape; and a laminated substrate which is used for the production method. A laminated substrate comprising at least one prepreg layer containing a reinforcing fiber sheet and a resin matrix, and at least one polymer layer containing a fluorinated polymer, wherein at least one interface where the prepreg layer and the polymer layer are in contact with each other is present, and adhesive functional groups are present in the surface of the polymer layer at the interface; and a method for producing a formed product, which comprises forming the above laminated substrate with heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tomoya HOSODA, Takashi SATO, Toru SASAKI, Yoji NAKAJIMA, Seigo KOTERA, Junetsu NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9977322
    Abstract: To provide a film or sheet and a screen excellent in visibility of a projected image, in see-through properties when an image is not projected and in bending resistance. A single-layer film or sheet comprising a fluororesin, a light-scattering agent and a light absorbing agent, characterized in that the light-scattering agent is at least one light-scattering agent selected from the group consisting of a titanium oxide-containing pigment, a zinc oxide-containing pigment and a cerium oxide-containing pigment, and the content thereof is from 0.01 to 0.175 g/m2, and the light absorbing agent is at least one light absorbing agent selected from the group consisting of carbon black, a black interference aluminum pigment, black iron oxide and titanium black, and the content thereof is from 0.0005 to 0.035 g/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Higuchi, Seigo Kotera
  • Publication number: 20180036931
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing a fluororesin film, whereby defects due to deterioration (such as fish-eyes due to gelation) of a melt-processable fluororesin are less likely to occur during the production. A method for producing a fluororesin film, which comprises extruding a fluororesin material containing a melt-processable fluororesin through an extruder die, wherein the temperature of the extruder die is from 305 to 355° C., and the average flow velocity v0.95 of the fluororesin material as obtained by v0.95=Q0.95/A0.95, is at least 1×10?4 m/sec. Here, when the distance from the flow inlet 22 of the extruder die to the end of the manifold 24 of the extruder die is set to be x=1, Q0.95 is the flow rate (m3/sec) of the fluororesin material flowing in the manifold 24 at a position of x=0.95 from the flow inlet 22, and A0.95 is the cross-sectional area (m2) of the manifold 24 at a position of x=0.95 from the flow inlet 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiaki HIGUCHI, Seigo KOTERA
  • Publication number: 20180009204
    Abstract: To provide a laminate which has a heat sealing property, a barrier property and mechanical strength, of which elution of impurities from the surface to be in contact with a chemical solution is suppressed, and of which peeling and the like hardly occur at the sealed portion of a bag and at the interfaces between the layers of the laminate when exposed to high temperature, a bag using it and a lithium ion battery. A laminate 10 comprising a first layer 12 containing a fluororesin, a second layer 14 containing a barrier material, a third layer 16 containing a fluororesin and a fourth layer 18 containing a polyamide in this order, wherein each of the fluororesin in the first layer 12 and the fluororesin in the third layer 16 is a fluororesin having a melting point of from 160 to 230° C. and having adhesive functional groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiaki HIGUCHI, Seigo KOTERA
  • Publication number: 20180004078
    Abstract: To provide a film or sheet and a screen excellent in visibility of a projected image, in see-through properties when an image is not projected and in bending resistance. A single-layer film or sheet comprising a fluororesin, a light-scattering agent and a light absorbing agent, characterized in that the light-scattering agent is at least one light-scattering agent selected from the group consisting of a titanium oxide-containing pigment, a zinc oxide-containing pigment and a cerium oxide-containing pigment, and the content thereof is from 0.01 to 0.175 g/m2, and the light absorbing agent is at least one light absorbing agent selected from the group consisting of carbon black, a black interference aluminum pigment, black iron oxide and titanium black, and the content thereof is from 0.0005 to 0.035 g/m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiaki HIGUCHI, Seigo KOTERA
  • Publication number: 20170323805
    Abstract: To provide a film which is excellent in releasing property with respect to a resin sealed portion and excellent in low migration property and peeling property with respect to a semiconductor chip, a source electrode or a sealing glass and which is suitable as a mold release film for producing a semiconductor element having a part of the surface of a semiconductor chip, source electrode or sealing glass exposed. A film 1 which comprises a substrate 3 and an adhesive layer 5, wherein the storage elastic modulus at 180° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Seigo KOTERA, Wataru KASAI, Masami SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20160272805
    Abstract: To provide a resin composition having excellent mechanical strength and elongation, its melt-kneaded product and a molding product thereof. A resin composition comprising a fluororesin having a hydroxy group or a carbonyl group, an ester bond-containing resin having no fluorine atom and a transesterification catalyst, a melt-kneaded product obtained by melt-kneading the resin composition, a molding product, film or sheet obtained from the resin composition or the melt-kneaded product, a laminated product, a backsheet for a solar cell, and a method for producing a molding product using the resin composition or the melt-kneaded product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKANISHI, Toshiaki SAWADA, Seigo KOTERA, Shinji WADA
  • Publication number: 20150240066
    Abstract: To provide a polymer composition containing an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, which is excellent in elongation, a molded product thereof, a film and a backsheet for a solar cell. A polymer composition comprising an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, a poly(meth)acrylate and a fluoroelastomer; a molded product made of such a composition; a method for producing such a molded product; and a backsheet for a solar cell, which contains a film made of the polymer composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKANISHI, Seigo Kotera, Toshiaki Sawada
  • Publication number: 20150228829
    Abstract: To provide a blended polymer containing an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, which is excellent in weather resistance and has a high thermal deformation temperature, a molded product such as a film thereof, a back sheet for a solar cell provided with such a film, etc., and a method for producing such a molded product. A blended polymer which comprises an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer and a polymethyl methacrylate, wherein the mass ratio of the ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer to the total mass of the ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer and the polymethyl methacrylate, is from 50 to 75%, and which has a microphase-separated structure wherein the continuous phase is the ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, and the dispersed phase is the polymethyl methacrylate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Toshiaki SAWADA, Seigo Kotera, Tomoaki Nakanishi