Patents by Inventor Shigeyuki Yasui

Shigeyuki Yasui 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: 11492471
    Abstract: A propylene polymer satisfying (a) below, a soft propylene copolymer satisfying (b) below, and a polyolefin containing a structural unit derived from an unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof, wherein (a) a melting point is 100° C. or more, and (b) an MFR is in the range of 0.01 to 100 g/10 min, at least one of the following requirements (b-1) and (b-2) is satisfied: (b-1) a syndiotactic triad fraction s 60% or more, and (b-2) a structural unit derived from propylene is 55 to 90 mol % and a structural unit derived from at least one olefin having 2 to 20 carbon atoms (excluding propylene) is contained at 10 to 45 mol % (with provisos), and the relation between an intrinsic viscosity [?] (dL/g) and the MFR satisfies the relation: 1.50×MFR?0.20?[?]?2.65×MFR?0.20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiko Iwashita, Shigeyuki Yasui
  • Publication number: 20190375903
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a filler-reinforced resin structure, and the structure is a structure containing a carbodiimide-modified polyolefin (A) having a carbodiimide group content of 1 to 200 mmol/100 g; or a structure containing a carbodiimide-modified polyolefin (A) having a carbodiimide group content of 1 to 200 mmol/100 g, a polypropylene resin, and a carbon fiber, and the structure containing 0.0001 to 140 mmol of the carbodiimide group based on 100 g of resin components in the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Ryohei SHIGA, Takashi SAKUMA, Shigeyuki YASUI
  • Publication number: 20190300688
    Abstract: A propylene polymer satisfying (a) below, a soft propylene copolymer satisfying (b) below, and a polyolefin containing a structural unit derived from an unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof, wherein (a) a melting point is 100° C. or more, and (b) an MFR is in the range of 0.01 to 100 g/10 min, at least one of the following requirements (b-1) and (b-2) is satisfied: (b-1) a syndiotactic triad fraction s 60% or more, and (b-2) a structural unit derived from propylene is 55 to 90 mol % and a structural unit derived from at least one olefin having 2 to 20 carbon atoms (excluding propylene) is contained at 10 to 45 mol % (with provisos), and the relation between an intrinsic viscosity [?] (dL/g) and the MFR satisfies the relation: 1.50×MFR?0.20?[?]?2.65×MFR?0.20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiko IWASHITA, Shigeyuki YASUI
  • Publication number: 20180334593
    Abstract: A laminate comprising: a layer (A) comprising a resin not having active hydrogen in a main molecular skeleton thereof; and an adhesive layer (B) being at least in partial contact with the layer (A) and comprising a composition for adhesion, wherein the composition for adhesion satisfies the following requirements (i) to (iii): (i) comprising a polyolefin being a product of reaction between polyolefin (a) having a group that reacts with a carbodiimide group and a carbodiimide group-containing compound (b); (ii) comprising a carbodiimide group in an amount of 0.1 to 50 mmol per 100 g of the composition for adhesion; and (iii) having a density of 0.870 to 0.940 g/cm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Ryohei SHIGA, Takashi YAMASAKI, Yoshiyuki OGAWA, Shigeyuki YASUI, Akihide MORI, Tadashi IMAI, Yasuhiro ISAJI
  • Patent number: 8563138
    Abstract: Provided is a polypropylene-based adhesive having an MFR of 2.7 g/10 min or higher, as measured at 230 ° C. under a load of 2.16 kg, comprising a composition which contains 5-95 parts by weight of (A) an isotactic polypropylene, 95-5 parts by weight of (B) a propylene/ethylene random copolymer, and 0-40 parts by weight of (C) an ethylene/propylene random copolymer, wherein 100 parts by weight of the composition is graft modified with 0.001-5 parts by weight of an unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof, and wherein (B) is characterized by the following (i) to (iii): (i) the propylene/ethylene random copolymer (B) contains 60-90 mol % units derived from propylene and 10-40 mol % units derived from ethylene; (ii) the melting point (Tm) is in the range of 40-120 ° C.; and (iii) the molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) is in the range of 1.0-3.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Yasui, Seiji Ota, Takashi Sakuma
  • Patent number: 8445582
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide polypropylene adhesives which have excellent adhesion to polar materials and exhibit particularly excellent adhesion after high-speed cast film processing, stretching or extrusion coating, and are excellent in blushing resistance, and multilayer structures having the adhesives. The adhesive resin composition is a grafted resin composition comprising a polypropylene component (A), an ethylene/propylene/?-olefin copolymer component (B), an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer component (C), and an unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof (D), and which contains the component (A) at 5 to 80 parts by mass, the component (B) at 5 to 70 parts by mass and the component (C) at 1 to 40 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the components (A), (B) and (C) combined and has an ethylene/propylene/?-olefin ratio in n-decane-soluble components of 5-95/5-95/1-50 mol % and a graft ratio of 0.01 to 5 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Yasui, Setsuko Funaki, Yuichiro Terashi
  • Patent number: 8182925
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a carbodiimide modified polyolefin adhesive having excellent adhesive strength in a room temperature atmosphere and excellent adhesive strength in a high temperature atmosphere even in continuously molding with a practical molding machine. An adhesive (D), i.e., a carbodiimide modified polyolefin adhesive of the present invention which can solve the above problem is obtainable by allowing a polyolefin (A) having a group capable of reacting with a carbodiimide group to react with a carbodiimide group-containing compound (B) in the presence of an unmodified polyolefin (C) and having a ratio of a peak intensity at 2130 to 2140 cm?1 to a peak intensity at 1470 cm?1, as determined by infrared absorbance analysis, of not more than 60% and a density of 0.870 g/cm3 to 0.920 g/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Yasui, Akihide Mori, Seiji Ota
  • Patent number: 8106122
    Abstract: A propylene-based polymer composition for adhesive use and a laminate structure thereof are provided, wherein decrease of bonding strength is prevented when the laminate structure is formed and heat treatment is applied and whitening in bending process is suppressed. Provided are a propylene-based polymer composition (D) for adhesive use comprising (i) 40 to 92 wt % of a graft-modified polypropylene (A); (ii) 5 to 30 wt % of an ethylene.?-olefin copolymer (B) having a melt flow rate (MFR) of 0.01 to 10 g/10 min at 230° C. under a load of 2.16 kg and a density of 0.940 g/cm3 or less; and (iii) 3 to 30 wt % of a block copolymer (C) composed of an olefin crystalline segment and an ethylene.?-olefin segment, wherein the sum of (A), (B) and (C) is 100 wt %, and a laminate comprising at least one layer of the propylene-based polymer composition for adhesive use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki Mochizuki, Shigeyuki Yasui, Seiji Ota
  • Publication number: 20100183881
    Abstract: In a coextrusion molding method, a laminate having excellent interlaminar adhesion strength with a fluorocopolymer is provided, and also a laminate which can be used more than enough even at high temperatures or in applications where the laminate comes into contact with oil, gasoline or the like by controlling various properties of the adhesive layer is provided. The laminate of the present invention is a laminate of at least two or more layers comprising a structure obtained by bonding and laminating an adhesive (A) defined by the following (i) to (iii) and a fluorocopolymer (B), wherein the adhesive (A) (i) is obtained by allowing a polyolefin (a) having a group reactive with a carbodiimide group to react with a compound (b) having a carbodiimide group, (ii) has a ratio of peak intensity at 2130 to 2140 cm?1 to peak intensity at 1470 cm?1 of 60% or lower in infrared absorption spectroscopy, and (iii) has a density of 0.870 to 0.940 g/cm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Yasui, Setsuko Funaki, Koji Kitahara, Akihide Mori, Hiroyasu Oochi
  • Publication number: 20100173168
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide polypropylene adhesive excellent in both initial adhesion and adhesion after heat history; and a laminate excellent in adhesion and heat resistance. Provided is a polypropylene-based adhesive having an MFR of 2.7 g/10 min or higher as measured at 230° C. under a load of 2.16 kg, comprising a composition which contains 5-95 parts by weight of (A) an isotactic polypropylene, 95-5 parts by weight of (B) a propylene/ethylene random copolymer, and 0-40 parts by weight of (C) an ethylene/propylene random copolymer, wherein 100 parts by weight of the composition is graft modified with 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Yasui, Seiji Ota, Takashi Sakuma
  • Publication number: 20100063198
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide polypropylene adhesives which have excellent adhesion to polar materials and exhibit particularly excellent adhesion after high-speed cast film processing, stretching or extrusion coating, and are excellent in blushing resistance, and multilayer structures having the adhesives. The adhesive resin composition is a grafted resin composition comprising a polypropylene component (A), an ethylene/propylene/?-olefin copolymer component (B), an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer component (C), and an unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof (D), and which contains the component (A) at 5 to 80 parts by mass, the component (B) at 5 to 70 parts by mass and the component (C) at 1 to 40 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the components (A), (B) and (C) combined and has an ethylene/propylene/?-olefin ratio in n-decane-soluble components of 5-95/5-95/1-50 mol % and a graft ratio of 0.01 to 5 wt %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Yasui, Setsuko Funaki, Yuichiro Terashi
  • Publication number: 20090280318
    Abstract: Provided is a new adhesive polyolefin resin composition, containing 1 to 100% by weight of a high polymer structure, that has good heat resistance and excellent adhesion performance to polyolefins and various polar materials, wherein a polyolefin segment (A) is bonded with an addition polymer segment (B) of a non-olefinic vinyl monomer and a reactive group is introduced into the addition polymer segment (B) and an adhesive or dispersion obtained therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Matsugi, Junji Saito, Hideyuki Kaneko, Norio Kashiwa, Shin-ichi Kojoh, Takayuki Onogi, Motoaki Isokawa, Seiji Ota, Shigeyuki Yasui
  • Publication number: 20090275700
    Abstract: A propylene-based polymer composition for adhesive use and a laminate structure thereof are provided, wherein decrease of bonding strength is prevented when the laminate structure is formed and heat treatment is applied and whitening in bending process is suppressed. Provided are a propylene-based polymer composition (D) for adhesive use comprising (i) 40 to 92 wt % of a graft-modified polypropylene (A); (ii) 5 to 30 wt % of an ethylene.?-olefin copolymer (B) having a melt flow rate (MFR) of 0.01 to 10 g/10 min at 230° C. under a load of 2.16 kg and a density of 0.940 g/cm3 or less; and (iii) 3 to 30 wt % of a block copolymer (C) composed of an olefin crystalline segment and an ethylene.?-olefin segment, wherein the sum of (A), (B) and (C) is 100 wt %, and a laminate comprising at least one layer of the propylene-based polymer composition for adhesive use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: Hideki Mochizuki, Shigeyuki Yasui, Seiji Ota
  • Publication number: 20090136774
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a resin composition excellent in mechanical properties and solvent resistance, and the resin composition (C) of the present invention comprises an polyolefin (A1) and an olefinic block polymer (A2), wherein the olefinic block polymer (A2) comprises, as a constitutional unit, a block (a) which is a polyolefin component and a block (b) which is a polymer unit composed of a vinyl monomer having a solubility parameter of from 18 to 25 J/m and the block (a) and the block (b) are bonded each other by a covalent bond. Moreover, another invention of the present invention is to provide a laminated structure having a laminated configuration in which a layer comprising an olefinic polymer layer and a layer comprising other synthetic resins, a metal and the like are strongly bonded through an adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer comprises the resin composition (C).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Takayuki Onogi, Hideyuki Kaneko, Tomoaki Matsugi, Koutarou Suzuki, Nobou Kawahara, Seiji Ota, Shigeyuki Yasui
  • Publication number: 20090110945
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a carbodiimide modified polyolefin adhesive having excellent adhesive strength in a room temperature atmosphere and excellent adhesive strength in a high temperature atmosphere even in continuously molding with a practical molding machine. An adhesive (D), i.e., a carbodiimide modified polyolefin adhesive of the present invention which can solve the above problem is obtainable by allowing a polyolefin (A) having a group capable of reacting with a carbodiimide group to react with a carbodiimide group-containing compound (B) in the presence of an unmodified polyolefin (C) and having a ratio of a peak intensity at 2130 to 2140 cm?1 to a peak intensity at 1470 cm?1, as determined by infrared absorbance analysis, of not more than 60% and a density of 0.870 g/cm3 to 0.920 g/cm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Yasui, Akihide Mori, Seiji Ota
  • Patent number: 6455170
    Abstract: The modified polypropylene composition of the invention comprises (A) modified polypropylene having been partially or wholly graft modified with an unsaturated carboxylic acid or its derivative, (B) an amorphous or low-crystalline ethylene/&agr;-olefin copolymer having a specific MFR and a specific density and (C) a styrene elastomer, in a specific ratio. The component (A) is a graft modification product of a propylene homopolymer and/or a graft modification product of a propylene/&agr;-olefin random copolymer. The laminate of the invention comprises a composition layer comprising the modified polypropylene composition and a resin layer provided on one or both surfaces of the composition layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Yasui, Yuji Sawada, Hideshi Kawachi