Patents by Inventor Shigeru Komeda

Shigeru Komeda 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: 8137817
    Abstract: A polyamide based resin film roll is provided. The polyamide based resin film roll comprising: a first sample cutout portion within 2 m from the winding end of film; and a final cutout portion within 2 m from the winding start of film, wherein when a sample cutout portion is set up in approximately every 100 m from the first sample cutout portion, in all samples cut out from each of the cutout portions, mechanical properties such as boiling water shrinkage percentage and refraction index in the thickness direction are adjusted within a given range of variation width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadashi Nishi, Yoshinori Miyaguchi, Naonobu Oda, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Patent number: 7939174
    Abstract: A film roll of a heat-shrinkable polyester film characterized in that the heat-shrinkable polyester film meets the following requirements (1) and (2). (1) When samples are cut off therefrom at an almost equal interval along the longitudinal direction, and immersed in hot water at 85° C. for 10 seconds, subsequently in water at 25° C. and withdrawn, heat-shrinkage percentages in the maximum shrinkage direction of all the samples are 20% or more. (2) When raw polymers used for production of the film above comprises of a major constitutional unit and one or more sub constitutional units different therefrom; and the content of the primary sub constitutional unit is determined, the content of the primary sub constitutional unit in each sample is more than 7 mole % in 100% of all constitutional units, and when an average of the contents of the primary sub constitutional unit is calculated, the contents thereof of all the samples fall within a range of ±2 mole % relative to the average.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayakawa, Norimi Tabota, Yoshinori Takegawa, Katsuya Ito, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Patent number: 7749584
    Abstract: In heat-shrinkable polyester films, the content of 1,4-cyclohexane dimethanol is 10 to 50% by mole based on the polyhydric alcohol component and that the heat shrinkage factors of a 10 cm square sample of the films in (A) hot water of 75° C., (B) hot water of 85° C., and (C) hot water of 95° C. are 30 to 40%, 50 to 60%, and 65 to 77%, respectively. The films can be produced by drawing under specified conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayakawa, Norimi Tabota, Yoshinori Takegawa, Katsuya Ito, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20080284057
    Abstract: A film roll of a heat-shrinkable polyester film meeting the following requirements: (1) when samples are cut off therefrom at an almost equal interval along the longitudinal direction, and immersed in hot water at 85° C. for 10 seconds, subsequently in water at 25° C. and withdrawn, heat-shrinkage percentages in the maximum shrinkage direction of all the samples are 20% or more; and (2) when raw polymers used for production of the film above comprises of a major constitutional unit and one or more sub constitutional units different therefrom, and the content of the primary sub constitutional unit in each sample is more than 7 mole % in 100% of all constitutional units, and the contents of the primary sub constitutional unit of all the samples fall within a range of ±2 mole % relative to the average.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayakawa, Norimi Tabota, Yoshinori Takegawa, Katsuya Ito, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20070259164
    Abstract: A polyamide based resin film roll is provided. The polyamide based resin film roll comprising: a first sample cutout portion within 2 m from the winding end of film; and a final cutout portion within 2 m from the winding start of film, wherein when a sample cutout portion is set up in approximately every 100 m from the first sample cutout portion, in all samples cut out from each of the cutout portions, mechanical properties such as boiling water shrinkage percentage and refraction index in the thickness direction are adjusted within a given range of variation width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Tadashi Nishi, Yoshinori Miyaguchi, Naonobu Oda, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Patent number: 7001651
    Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-shrinkable polyester film having a specific composition. A heat shrinkage factor of a 10 cm square sample of the film in a maximal shrinkage direction of the film is not less than 20% under the condition that the sample is immersed in hot water of 85° C. for 10 seconds, and then in water of 25° C. for 10 seconds. The number of test pieces of the film having a rupture ratio of not more than 5% is not more than 10% to the total number of the test pieces under the condition that a tensile test of drawing the film in a direction orthogonal to the maximal shrinkage direction of the film is conducted with a distance between corresponding chucks of 100 mm, each test piece having 15 mm in width, a temperature of 23° C., and a drawing rate of 200 mm/min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayakawa, Norimi Tabota, Yoshinori Takegawa, Katsuya Ito, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20050236731
    Abstract: A film roll of a heat-shrinkable polyester film characterized in that the heat-shrinkable polyester film meets the following requirements (1) and (2). (1) When samples are cut off therefrom at an almost equal interval along the longitudinal direction, and immersed in hot water at 85° C. for 10 seconds, subsequently in water at 25° C. and withdrawn, heat-shrinkage percentages in the maximum shrinkage direction of all the samples are 20% or more. (2) When raw polymers used for production of the film above comprises of a major constitutional unit and one or more sub constitutional units different therefrom; and the content of the primary sub constitutional unit is determined, the content of the primary sub constitutional unit in each sample is more than 7 mole % in 100% of all constitutional units, and when an average of the contents of the primary sub constitutional unit is calculated, the contents thereof of all the samples fall within a range of ±2 mole % relative to the average.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayakawa, Norimi Tabota, Yoshinori Takegawa, Katsuya Ito, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Patent number: 6958178
    Abstract: The heat-shrinkable polyester film rolls according to the present invention is characterized in that the film rolls have (1) a heat shrinkage percentage at 85° C. in the maximum shrinkage direction of 20% or more; (2) a melt resistivity at a temperature of 275° C. of 0.70×108 ?·cm or less; (3) when samples thereof are cut off at an interval of about 100 m and the fluctuation in thickness in the maximum shrinkage direction is measured, a thickness distribution width represented by the following formula of respective samples of 7% or less. Thickness distribution width=(Maximum thickness?Minimum thickness)/Average thickness×100 Container-wrapping films excellent in processability and printability can be produced from the heat-shrinkable polyester film rolls in high yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayakawa, Norimi Tabota, Yoshinori Takegawa, Katsuya Ito, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Patent number: 6939616
    Abstract: A film roll of a heat-shrinkable polyester film characterized in that the heat-shrinkable polyester film meets the following requirements (1) and (2). (1) When samples are cut off therefrom at an almost equal interval along the longitudinal direction, and immersed in hot water at 85° C. for 10 seconds, subsequently in water at 25° C. and withdrawn, heat-shrinkage percentages in the maximum shrinkage direction of all the samples are 20% or more. (2) When raw polymers used for production of the film above comprises of a major constitutional unit and one or more sub constitutional units different therefrom; and the content of the primary sub constitutional unit is determined, the content of the primary sub constitutional unit in each sample is more than 7 mole % in 100% of all constitutional units, and when an average of the contents of the primary sub constitutional unit is calculated, the contents thereof of all the samples fall within a range of ±2 mole % relative to the average.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayakawa, Norimi Tabota, Yoshinori Takegawa, Katsuya Ito, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20050019514
    Abstract: A film roll comprising a heat-shrinkable polystyrene based resin film wound into a roll, characterized in that, each of the samples taken out from the roll exhibits, in a heat shrinkage test under the condition of the immersion in a hot water at 85° C. for 10 sec, a heat shrinkage rate in the main shrinking direction of within ±5% relative to an average rate of the total samples; a heat-shrinkable polystyrene based resin film taken from the roll; a heat-shrinkable label comprising the film; a method for producing the heat-shrinkable polystyrene based resin film roll which comprises using raw material chips having a specific form, or using a hopper having a specific shape for feeding raw material chips to an extruder, or limiting the variation of the surface temperature of a film in a specific production step to a specific range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2002
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Yoshinori Takegawa, Katsuya Ito, Satoshi Hayakawa, Norimi Tabota, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20040241470
    Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-shrinkable polyester film having a specific composition. A heat shrinkage factor of a 10 cm square sample of the film in a maximal shrinkage direction of the film is not less than 20% under the condition that the sample is immersed in hot water of 85° C. for 10 seconds, and then in water of 25° C. for 10 seconds. The number of test pieces of the film having a rupture ratio of not more than 5% is not more than 10% to the total number of the test pieces under the condition that a tensile test of drawing the film in a direction orthogonal to the maximal shrinkage direction of the film is conducted with a distance between corresponding chucks of 100 mm, each test piece having 15 mm in width, a temperature of 23° C., and a drawing rate of 200 mm/min.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayakawa, Norimi Tabota, Yoshinori Takegawa, Katsuya Ito, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20040191493
    Abstract: The heat-shrinkable polyester film rolls according to the present invention is characterized in that the film rolls have (1) a heat shrinkage percentage at 85° C. in the maximum shrinkage direction of 20% or more; (2) a melt resistivity at a temperature of 275° C. of 0.70×108 &OHgr;·cm or less; (3) when samples thereof are cut off at an interval of about 100 m and the fluctuation in thickness in the maximum shrinkage direction is measured, a thickness distribution width represented by the following formula of respective samples of 7% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayakawa, Norimi Tabota, Yoshinori Takegawa, Katsuya Ito, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20040180229
    Abstract: In heat-shrinkable polyester films, the content of 1,4-cyclohexane dimethanol is 10 to 50% by mole based on the polyhydric alcohol component and that the heat shrinkage factors of a 10 cm square sample of the films in (A) hot water of 75° C., (B) hot water of 85° C., and (C) hot water of 95° C. are 30 to 40%, 50 to 60%, and 65 to 77%, respectively. The films can be produced by drawing under specified conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayakawa, Norimi Tabota, Yoshinori Takegawa, Katsuya Ito, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Publication number: 20030165658
    Abstract: A film roll of a heat-shrinkable polyester film characterized in that the heat-shrinkable polyester film meets the following requirements (1) and (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2002
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayakawa, Norimi Tabota, Yoshinori Takegawa, Katsuya Ito, Shigeru Komeda, Katsuhiko Nose
  • Patent number: 6376093
    Abstract: A polyamide film satisfying (a) a haze value of not more than 5.0%, (b) a coefficient of kinetic friction (A) of not more than 1.0 under 50% humidity, the coefficient (A) being measured with regard to fiction between the same two polyamide films, and (c) a ratio of coefficients of kinetic friction (B)/(A) of not more than 1.5, the (B) being a coefficient of kinetic friction at 65% humidity, a billy oriented polyamide film showing an average dimensional change of not more than 3.0% and a difference between the smallest dimensional change and the largest dimensional change of not more than 2.0%, between before immersion in hot water at 95° C. and during the immersion, and an average dimensional change of not more than 4.0% and a difference between the smallest dimensional change and the largest dimensional change of not more than 2.0%, between the film without treatment and the film after withdrawal from said hot water; and a polyamide laminate film containing the film as a substrate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Fujita, Masaki Sugimoto, Shigeru Komeda, Masazumi Iwanishi, Masayoshi Satoh, Chikao Morishige, Kiyoshi Iseki, Seiichiro Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 5939205
    Abstract: A gas barrier film comprising a polyamide film and an inorganic deposited layer laminated thereon, wherein the maximum shrinkage percentage after boiling treatment at 95.degree. C. for 30 minutes is not more than 3.5%. The gas barrier film of the present invention has excellent gas barrier property and water vapor-proof property even after boiling or retort treatment. Hence, the film of the present invention can serve well as a wrapping material for a wide range of objects that require high gas barrier property, such as food, medical products, industrial materials and the like, and has great industrial value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiichiro Yokoyama, Shigeru Komeda, Kiyoshi Iseki, Yozo Yamada, Chikao Morishige, Hideyuki Mitamura, Satoshi Osame, Shinji Fujita