Patents by Inventor Shigenobu Ikenaga
Shigenobu Ikenaga 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).
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Patent number: 8802779Abstract: The propylene-based polymer composition of the present invention includes 41 to 95 parts by weight of a propylene-based polymer (A) having a Tm measured by DSC of not less than 120° C. and not more than 170° C., and 59 to 5 parts by weight (provided that the total of (A) and (B) is 100 parts by weight) of a propylene/ethylene/?-olefin copolymer (B) that contains 84.0 to 60.0 mol % of constitutional units derived from propylene, 15.0 to 30.0 mol % of constitutional units derived from ethylene, and 1.0 to 10.0 mol % of constitutional units derived from an ?-olefin having 4 to 20 carbon atoms and has a B-value of not less than 0.9 and not more than 1.5. This polymer composition is excellent in transparency, low-temperature impact resistance, and mechanical properties (flexibility or rigidity, etc.) and also excellent in heat resistance.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Masahiko Okamoto, Ryoji Mori, Takashi Nakagawa, Hiromasa Marubayashi, Shigenobu Ikenaga, Yasushi Tohi, Kouji Nagahashi
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Publication number: 20140202536Abstract: An encapsulating material for solar cell containing an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer satisfying the following a1) and a2), and a specific peroxyketal having a 1-hour half-life temperature in a range of 100 to 135 degrees centigrade; the peroxyketal being contained in an amount of 0.1 to less than 0.8 weight parts relative to 100 weight parts of the ethylene/?-olefin copolymer. a1) the shore A hardness is from 60 to 85 as measured in accordance with ASTM D2240. a2) MFR is from 2 to 50 g/10 minutes as measured under the conditions of a temperature of 190 degrees centigrade and a load of 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Fumito Takeuchi, Keiji Watanabe, Tomoaki Ito
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Patent number: 8772625Abstract: Disclosed is an encapsulating material for solar cell containing an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer satisfying the following requirements (a1) to (a4): (a1) the content ratio of structural units derived from ethylene is from 80 to 90 mol % and the content ratio of structural units derived from ?-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms is from 10 to 20 mol %; (a2) MFR is from 10 to 50 g/10 minutes as measured under the conditions of a temperature of 190 degrees centigrade and a load of 2.16 kg in accordance with ASTM D1238; (a3) the density is from 0.865 to 0.884 g/cm3 as measured in accordance with ASTM D1505; and (a4) the shore A hardness is from 60 to 85 as measured in accordance with ASTM D2240.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignees: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello, Inc.Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Fumito Takeuchi, Keiji Watanabe, Jun Tokuhiro, Takanobu Murofushi, Kazuhiro Yarimizu, Tomoaki Ito, Nobuhiro Maruko
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Publication number: 20130233376Abstract: A solar-cell sealant that has excellent properties such as transparency, flexibility, adhesiveness, heat resistance, appearance, cross-linking characteristics, electrical characteristics, and calenderability. A solar-cell sealant that contains an ethylene/?-olefin/unconjugated-polyene copolymer satisfying requirements (a1) through (a3). Requirement (a1) is that constituent units derived from ethylene constitute 80-90 mol %, constituent units derived from C3-20 ?-olefin constitute 9.99-19.99 mol %, and constituent units derived from an unconjugated polyene constitute 0.01-5.0 mol % of said copolymer. Requirement (a2) is that the MFR of said copolymer, as measured in accordance with ASTM D1238 at 190° C. under a 2.16 kg load, be at least 2 g/10 min. and less than 10 g/10 min. Requirement (a3) is that the Shore A hardness of said copolymer, as measured in accordance with ASTM D2240, be 60 to 85.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2011Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Fumito Takeuchi, Keiji Watanabe, Tomoaki Ito
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Publication number: 20130213471Abstract: An encapsulating material for solar cell excellent in a balance among properties including transparency, flexibility, adhesiveness, heat resistance, appearance, crosslinking properties, electrical properties and calender moldability. The encapsulating material includes an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer satisfying the following requirements: (a1) the content ratio of structural units derived from ethylene is from 80 to 90 mol % and the content ratio of structural units derived from ?-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms is from 10 to 20 mol %; (a2) MFR is equal to or more than 2 g/10 minutes and less than 10 g/10 minutes as measured under the conditions of a temperature of 190 degrees centigrade and a load of 2.16 kg in accordance with ASTM D1238; (a3) the density is from 0.865 to 0.884 g/cm3 as measured in accordance with ASTM D1505; and (a4) the shore A hardness is from 60 to 85 as measured in accordance with ASTM D2240.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2011Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Fumito Takeuchi, Keiji Watanabe, Tomoaki Ito
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Publication number: 20130167911Abstract: Disclosed is an encapsulating material for solar cell containing an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer satisfying the following requirements (a1) to (a4): (a1) the content ratio of structural units derived from ethylene is from 80 to 90 mol % and the content ratio of structural units derived from ?-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms is from 10 to 20 mol %; (a2) MFR is from 10 to 50 g/10 minutes as measured under the conditions of a temperature of 190 degrees centigrade and a load of 2.16 kg in accordance with ASTM D1238; (a3) the density is from 0.865 to 0.884 g/cm3 as measured in accordance with ASTM D1505; and (a4) the shore A hardness is from 60 to 85 as measured in accordance with ASTM D2240.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2011Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Fumito Takeuchi, Keiji Watanabe, Jun Tokuhiro, Takanobu Murofushi, Kazuhiro Yarimizu, Tomoaki Ito, Nobuhiro Maruko
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Patent number: 8329848Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel ethylene-?-olefin copolymer excellent in crosslinking properties; a foamed molded article having a low specific gravity and a low compression set (CS) and a composition capable of producing the foamed molded article, footwear parts composed of a foamed molded article; an ethylenic copolymer composition excellent in balance between weather resistance and mechanical strength, and an electric wire coating material and an electric wire sheath using the ethylenic copolymer composition; and a thermoplastic elastomer capable of producing a molded article excellent in balance between mechanical strength and toughness. The ethylenic copolymer (A) of the present invention is a copolymer composed of only ethylene and an ?-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, and is characterized in that vinyl-group content (a) per 1000 carbon atoms as measured by infrared absorption spectroscopy, MFR10/MFR2.16 (b), and the specific gravity (c) are within a specific range.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Takayuki Kajihara, Hiroshi Uehara, Shigenobu Ikenaga, Kiminori Noda, Masayoshi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8329825Abstract: A material for vibration control of the invention includes a propylene polymer (A) containing a constitutional unit (a) derived from propylene in the proportion of 40 to 100 mol % and a constitutional unit (b) derived from ?-olefin having 2 to 20 carbon atoms excluding propylene in the proportion of 60 to 0 mol % [provided that the total of (a) and (b) is 100 mol %], and having a melting point measured by DSC of 90° C. or below or no observed melting point, and the material has excellent vibration controllability such as vibration damping property, vibration preventing property, sound insulating property, and sound absorbing property.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2006Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Ryoji Mori, Masahiko Okamoto, Takashi Nakagawa, Shigenobu Ikenaga
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Patent number: 8188191Abstract: The present invention is a polyolefin polymer containing vinyl groups at both ends thereof, and a composition and a molded product containing the polymer, wherein the polymer contains a constitutional unit derived from at least one selected from the group consisting of ethylene (a), an ?-olefin (b) having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, and a cyclic olefin (c), and (1) a ratio of terminal vinylation is 70% or more relative to all of both ends of molecular chains, and (2) an intrinsic viscosity [?] is in the range of 0.01 to 10 dl/g as measured in a decalin solution at 135° C. The polymer of the present invention may be molded by a LIM molding, an injection molding, a transfer molding, a compression molding, and the like, and is excellent in acid resistance, gas permeation resistance, hydrolysis resistance, and dynamic fatigue resistance. From the polymer, a thermoplastic resin composition and a crosslinkable resin composition, and a crosslinked composition having excellent mechanical characteristics are obtained.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2007Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Keiji Okada, Yoshiki Shimokawatoko, Akihiro Matsuda, Shigekazu Matsui, Masahiro Enna
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Publication number: 20120073631Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an ethylene resin composition which has excellent properties including adhesion properties, electrically insulating properties, transparency, moldability and process stability and can be produced without requiring any cross-linking procedure if necessary to improve productivity; and others. The ethylene resin composition contains a modified product produced by modifying an ethylene polymer (A) that meets all of the requirements a) to e) mentioned below with an ethylenically unsaturated silane compound (B). a) The density is 900 to 940 kg/m3. b) The melting peak temperature is 90 to 125 DEG C as determined by DSC. c) The melt flow rate (MFR2) is 0.1 to 100 g/10 minutes as measured at 190° C. and a load of 2.16 kg in accordance with JIS K-6721. d) The Mw/Mn ratio is 1.2 to 3.5. e) The content of metal residues is 0.1 to 50 ppm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2010Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Takashi Hakuta, Kazuhiro Yarimizu, Hiroshi Mori, Takanobu Murofushi, Hirofumi Zenkoh, Jun Tokuhiro, Fumito Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20120073655Abstract: A package for storing or transporting a solar cell sealing film includes: the solar cell sealing film containing a silane compound and/or a silane-modified resin; and a package bag packaging the solar cell sealing film. The absolute humidity inside the package is 1 to 15 g/m3. The package can store or transport the solar cell sealing film while adhesive force thereof with a substrate, solar cells, etc. is kept at a practicable level or higher. Furthermore, the package can reduce the breakage of the solar cells caused by an external shock while a solar cell module operates and the corrosion of electrodes caused by water etc. from the atmosphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Mori, Takanobu Murofushi, Shigenobu Ikenaga, Takashi Hakuta, Hirofumi Zenkoh
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Patent number: 8017705Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a syndiotactic propylene polymer having a syndiotactic pentad fraction (rrrr fraction) of not less than 85%, a melting point (Tm) within the range of 145-170° C. and a limiting viscosity [?] within the range of 0.1-10 dl/g by a solution polymerization method using a group 4 crosslinked metallocene compound, which is not accompanied by precipitation of a polymer (excluding white turbidity). Also disclosed is a production method which enables to continuously perform such a production.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Junpei Tanaka, Shiro Otsuzuki, Yasushi Tohi, Kouji Nagahashi, Nobukazu Yamahira, Shigenobu Ikenaga, Sunil Krzysztof Moorthi, Kazunori Kamio
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Publication number: 20110177328Abstract: [Problem] To provide an ionomer resin capable of forming a polyolefin molded product having well-balanced two properties of molding processability and mechanical property, a resin composition including the ionomer resin and a molded product formed from the ionomer resin or the resin composition. [Solution to problem] An ionomer resin (X1) formed from 100 parts by weight of (A) an olefin polymer having constitutional units derived from an ?-olefin of 2 to 20 carbon atoms and having a functional group (a) and 0.01 to 100 parts by weight of (B) a metal salt having two or more functional groups (b).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2009Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Hirokazu Tanaka, Takayuki Onogi, Hiroyasu Oochi, Shigenobu Ikenaga
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Patent number: 7879960Abstract: A high molecular weight propylene polymer exhibiting high stereoregularity (isotactic) and high position selectivity can be effectively produced by polymerizing at least one monomer selected from propylene, ?-olefins and polyenes in the presence of a catalyst for olefin polymerization comprising: (A) a bridged metallocene compound represented by the General Formula [I] given in claims (diphenylmethylene(3-tert-butyl-5-ethyl-cyclopentadienyl)(fluorenyl)zirconium dichloride, etc.); and (B) one or more compound(s) selected from (b-1) an organoaluminumoxy compound (b-2) a compound which reacts with the bridged metallocene compound (A) to form an ion pair, and (b-3) an organoaluminum compound.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2005Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Munehito Funaya, Naritoshi Hirota, Mayumi Hiwara, Yasushi Tohi, Koji Kawai, Ryoji Mori, Masahiko Okamoto, Shigenobu Ikenaga, Hiromasa Marubayashi
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Patent number: 7847040Abstract: A composition having excellent transparency, flexibility, rubber elasticity, thermal resistance, impact resistance, abrasion resistance and the like, a composition having excellent rigidity and impact resistance as well as excellently balanced in whitening resistance, abrasion resistance and heat sealability, and a composition having excellent rubbery properties, thermal resistance, abrasion resistance and flexibility are provided. A composition comprising a specific propylene•?-olefin copolymer for which, in a signal chart measured by 13C-NMR and predetermined such that the peak present at the highest magnetic field among the signals originating from CH (methine) of the constituent unit derived from an ?-olefin having 4 to 20 carbon atoms is to be at 34.4 ppm, an absorption intensity A at about 22.0 to 20.9 ppm and an absorption intensity B at about 19.0 to 20.6 ppm satisfy the following relational expressions (i) and (ii) with respect to an absorption intensity C at about 19.0 to 22.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2005Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Mitsu Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Ryoji Mori, Takashi Nakagawa, Shigenobu Ikenaga, Hiromasa Marubayashi, Masahiko Okamoto, Yasushi Tohi, Kouji Nagahashi
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Patent number: 7767313Abstract: A polypropylene composite film having a propylene/1-butene random copolymer which has 60 to 90 mol % of propylene units and 10 to 40 mol % of 1-butene units and has a triad isotacticity of not less than 85% and not more than 97.5%, a molecular weight distribution of from 1 to 3, an intrinsic viscosity of from 0.1 to 12 dl/g, a melting point of from 40 to 75° C. and a crystallization rate at 45° C. of 10 minutes or less, and satisfying the following relation, 146 exp (?0.022M)?Tm?125 exp (?0.032M), and an olefin catalyst for preparation thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2008Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Keiji Okada, Hiroshi Hoya, Norihide Inoue, Nobuo Kawahara
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Patent number: 7737239Abstract: A propylene elastomer (PBER) comprising (a) 50 to 85 mol % of units derived from propylene, (b) 5 to 25 mol % of units derived from 1-butene and (c) 10 to 25 mol % of units derived from ethylene, and having a molar ratio of propylene content to ethylene content of from 89/11 to 70/30, and a modulus in tension (YM), as measured in accordance with JIS 6301, of not more than 40 Mpa.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2008Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Ryoji Mori
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Patent number: 7728078Abstract: A polypropylene composition containing a propylene/1-butene random copolymer which contains 60 to 90 mol % of propylene units and 10 to 40 mol % of 1-butene units and has a triad isotacticity of not less than 85% and not more than 97.5%, a molecular weight distribution of from 1 to 3, an intrinsic viscosity of from 0.1 to 12 dl/g, a melting point of from 40 to 75° C. and a crystallization rate at 45° C. of 10 minutes or less, and satisfying the following relation, 146 exp (?0.022M)?Tm?125 exp (?0.032M), and an olefin catalyst for preparation thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2008Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Keiji Okada, Hiroshi Hoya, Norihide Inoue
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Publication number: 20100069588Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a process for producing a syndiotactic propylene polymer with high polymerization activity and high efficiency by a solution polymerization method without deposition of polymers (excluding a white state), and a production process capable of conducting the above production continuously, provided that these processes could not be attained conventionally. The present invention is: a process for producing a syndiotactic propylene polymer having a syndiotactic pentad fraction (rrrr fraction), as measured by 13C-NMR, of at least 85%, a melting point (Tm), as measured by DSC, of from 145° C. to 170° C., and an intrinsic viscosity [?] of 0.1 to 10 dl/g, which process comprises a step (P1) of solution polymerizing propylene singly or propylene and at least one monomer selected from ethylene and an ?-olefin having 4 to 10 carbon atoms at a polymerization temperature (TR) of from 30° C. to 250° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2007Publication date: March 18, 2010Inventors: Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Junpei Tanaka, Shiro Otsuzuki, Yasushi Tohi, Kouji Nagahashi, Nobukazu Yamahira, Shigenobu Ikenaga, Sunil Krzysztof Moorthi, Kazunori Kamio
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Publication number: 20100004393Abstract: The present invention is a polyolefin polymer containing vinyl groups at both ends thereof, and a composition and a molded product containing the polymer, wherein the polymer contains a constitutional unit derived from at least one selected from the group consisting of ethylene (a), an ?-olefin (b) having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, and a cyclic olefin (c), and (1) a ratio of terminal vinylation is 70% or more relative to all of both ends of molecular chains, and (2) an intrinsic viscosity [?] is in the range of 0.01 to 10 dl/g as measured in a decalin solution at 135° C. The polymer of the present invention may be molded by a LIM molding, an injection molding, a transfer molding, a compression molding, and the like, and is excellent in acid resistance, gas permeation resistance, hydrolysis resistance, and dynamic fatigue resistance. From the polymer, a thermoplastic resin composition and a crosslinkable resin composition, and a crosslinked composition having excellent mechanical characteristics are obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2007Publication date: January 7, 2010Inventors: Shigenobu Ikenaga, Keiji Okada, Yoshiki Shimokawatoko, Akihiro Matsuda, Shigekazu Matsui, Masahiro Enna