Patents by Inventor Shintaro Yamazaki

Shintaro Yamazaki 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: 10196777
    Abstract: A shoe press belt with excellent mechanical properties, in particular excellent wear resistance is provided, and a method of manufacturing the shoe press belt for use in a papermaking machine is also provided. The belt is constituted by a resin layer and includes an outer circumferential layer surface contacting a felt. The outer circumferential layer surface is formed with a surface-treated layer, in which part of the resin layer is modified by coating a composition including an isocyanate compound onto a semi-finished outer circumferential layer and by performing a curing treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chie Umehara, Shintaro Yamazaki, Yuya Takamori
  • Patent number: 9732470
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a shoe press belt which exhibits improvement in mechanical characteristics such as crack resistance, wear resistance, delamination resistance and bending fatigue resistance, particularly in the surface wear resistance of the shoe press belt and the crack resistance of the bottom regions of water receiving parts. A shoe press belt which is produced by integrating a reinforcing substrate with a polyurethane layer including at least a felt-side layer and in which water-receiving parts are formed in the felt-side layer, wherein the polyurethane equivalent value of the second resin layer including the bottom regions of the water-receiving parts is adjusted so as to be larger than that of the first resin layer including a surface which is to be brought into contact with a felt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Yamazaki, Yuya Takamori, Chie Umehara, Mitsuyoshi Matsuno, Nobuharu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20160208437
    Abstract: The object is to provide a shoe press belt with excellent mechanical properties, in particular excellent wear resistance, and to provide a method of manufacturing said shoe press belt. The shoe press belt 1 is a shoe press belt 1 for use in a papermaking machine, wherein it is constituted by a resin layer 22 and it comprises an outer circumferential layer surface 222 contacting a felt, and wherein the outer circumferential layer surface 222 is formed with a surface-treated layer 24, in which part of the resin layer 22 is modified by coating a composition 25 comprising an isocyanate compound onto a semi-finished outer circumferential layer 221 and by performing a curing treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chie UMEHARA, Shintaro YAMAZAKI, Yuya TAKAMORI
  • Publication number: 20160130755
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a shoe press belt which exhibits improvement in mechanical characteristics such as crack resistance, wear resistance, delamination resistance and bending fatigue resistance, particularly in the surface wear resistance of the shoe press belt and the crack resistance of the bottom regions of water receiving parts. A shoe press belt which is produced by integrating a reinforcing substrate with a polyurethane layer including at least a felt-side layer and in which water-receiving parts are formed in the felt-side layer, wherein the polyurethane equivalent value of the second resin layer including the bottom regions of the water-receiving parts is adjusted so as to be larger than that of the first resin layer including a surface which is to be brought into contact with a felt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro YAMAZAKI, Yuya TAKAMORI, Chie UMEHARA, Mitsuyoshi MATSUNO, Nobuharu SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20130192787
    Abstract: A paper making shoe press belt includes a reinforcing fiber substrate and a polyurethane laminate. The reinforcing fiber substrate is embedded in at least one layer of the polyurethane laminate. At least one layer of the polyurethane laminate includes a polyurethane obtained by heat-curing a urethane prepolymer together with a mixed curing agent. The urethane prepolymer includes a terminal isocyanate group and is obtained by reacting a diisocyanate compound and a long-chain polyol. The diisocyanate compound includes at least one of toluene-diisocyanate, diphenylmethane-diisocyanate, and paraphenylene-diisocyanate. The mixed curing agent includes 70-99.5 mol % of dimethylthiotoluenediamine and 0.5-30 mol % of a curing agent. The curing agent includes at least one of 4,4?-methylenebis(2,6-diethyl-3-chloroaniline), 4,4?-methylenedianiline, and 1,4-butanediol. An equivalent ratio of active hydrogen groups of the mixed curing agent to isocyanate groups of the urethane prepolymer is from 1.02 to 1.15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao YAZAKI, Shintaro YAMAZAKI, Yuya TAKAMORI
  • Publication number: 20130192788
    Abstract: A paper making shoe press belt includes a reinforcing fiber substrate and a polyurethane laminate. The reinforcing fiber substrate is embedded in at least one layer of the polyurethane laminate. At least one layer of the polyurethane laminate includes a polyurethane obtained by heat-curing a urethane prepolymer together with a mixed curing agent. The urethane prepolymer includes a terminal isocyanate group and is obtained by reacting a diisocyanate compound and a long-chain polyol. The diisocyanate compound includes at least one of toluene-diisocyanate, diphenylmethane-diisocyanate, and paraphenylene-diisocyanate. The mixed curing agent includes 70-99.5 mol % of dimethylthiotoluenediamine and 0.5-30 mol % of a curing agent. The curing agent includes at least one of diethyltoluenediamine and hydroquinone bis (?-hydroxyethyl) ether. An equivalent ratio of active hydrogen groups of the mixed curing agent to isocyanate groups of the urethane prepolymer is from 1.02 to 1.15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Yazaki, Shintaro Yamazaki, Yuya Takamori
  • Patent number: 8449723
    Abstract: A shoe press belt includes a substrate, a wet paper web-side layer provided on the outer side of the substrate; and a shoe-side layer on the inner side; the wet paper web-side layer and the shoe-side layer are made from a high-polymer elastic material. The surface layer of the wet paper web-side layer includes concave water catching parts and land parts which are projecting parts occurring due to formation of the water catching parts. The occurrence of cracks in the surface part of the land part and the bottom part and corner parts of the water catching part of the shoe press belt is suppressed by setting the hardness of the surface part of the land part at a relatively higher value than the hardness of the bottom part of the water catching part. Thereby, occurrence of cracks in the surface part of the land parts and the bottom part of the water catching part in a shoe press belt having water catching parts and land parts in the surface layer of the wet paper web-side layer can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shintaro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8137507
    Abstract: A shoe press belt for paper-making machine that reduces belt damages attributed to the friction between belt and shoe. The shoe press belt for paper-making machine having a wet paper contact surface and a shoe contact surface, is characterized in that the shoe press belt for paper-making machine has a base member and at least a polymer elastic part constituting the shoe contact surface and that the shoe contact surface of the polymer elastic part has a surface roughness (Ra) of 1.0 to 3.5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishino, Nobuharu Suzuki, Shintaro Yamazaki, Takeshi Sawada, Tomoyuki Kawamata
  • Publication number: 20110303383
    Abstract: A shoe press belt includes a substrate, a wet paper web-side layer provided on the outer side of the substrate; and a shoe-side layer on the inner side; the wet paper web-side layer and the shoe-side layer are made from a high-polymer elastic material. The surface layer of the wet paper web-side layer includes concave water catching parts and land parts which are projecting parts occurring due to formation of the water catching parts. The occurrence of cracks in the surface part of the land part and the bottom part and corner parts of the water catching part of the shoe press belt is suppressed by setting the hardness of the surface part of the land part at a relatively higher value than the hardness of the bottom part of the water catching part. Thereby, occurrence of cracks in the surface part of the land parts and the bottom part of the water catching part in a shoe press belt having water catching parts and land parts in the surface layer of the wet paper web-side layer can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shintaro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 7955475
    Abstract: A papermaking shoe press belt is formed of a reinforcing fiber base material and a polyurethane layer integrated with each other. The reinforcing fiber base material is embedded in the polyurethane layer. The papermaking shoe press belt includes, as the polyurethane layer, a polyurethane layer obtainable by curing a composition composed in combination of a urethane prepolymer and one or more curing agent. The urethane prepolymer is obtainable by reacting a p-phenylene diisocyanate compound with a long-chain polyol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Yazaki, Shintaro Yamazaki, Yuya Takamori
  • Patent number: 7947154
    Abstract: A belt for papermaking shoe press is provided which comprises a reinforcing fibrous base (6) and a polyurethane layer (2) united therewith, the reinforcing fibrous base (6) having been embedded in the polyurethane layer (2). The belt includes a polyurethane layer obtained by curing a mixture comprising: a urethane prepolymer obtained by reacting a polyisocyanate compound selected among p-phenylene-diisocyanate, 4,4?-methylene-bis(phenyl isocyanate), and tolylene-diisocyanate with a polyol compound selected among polypropylene glycol, polytetramethylene glycol, and a polycarbonate diol; a hardener selected among an aliphatic diol compound, hydroquinone-bis-?-hydroxyethyl ether, and organic polyamine compound; and an aliphatic triol compound. Due to this layer, the shoe press belt for papermaking is excellent in wearing resistance and flexing fatigue resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Yazaki, Nobuharu Suzuki, Shintaro Yamazaki, Atsushi Ishino, Yuya Takamori, Ryo Umehara, Ai Tamura
  • Patent number: 7943013
    Abstract: Disclosed is a shoe press belt (10) which comprises a reinforcing fibrous base material (6) embedded in a polyurethane layer, and has an outer circumference layer (2a, 21) and an inner circumference layer (2b, 22) each formed with a polyurethane. The polyurethane layer comprises a polyurethane which is produced by curing a composition comprising a mixture of an urethane prepolymer (A) and a curing agent (B). The urethane prepolymer (A) is produced by reacting an isocyanate compound (a) containing 55 to 100 mol % of a p-phenylene-diisocyanate compound with polytetramethylene glycol (b) and has an isocyanate group at its terminal. The curing agent (B) is selected from the group consisting of 1,4-butanediol, hydroquinone bis-?hydroxylethyl ether, 3,5-diethyltoluenediamine and 3,5-dimethylthiotoluenediamine. The belt (10) has excellent cracking resistance, bending fatigue resistance and wear resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Yazaki, Nobuharu Suzuki, Shintaro Yamazaki, Atsushi Ishino
  • Patent number: 7909965
    Abstract: Disclosed is a shoe press belt (10) which comprises a reinforcing fibrous base material (6) embedded in a polyurethane layer, and has an outer circumference layer (2a) and an inner circumference layer (2b) each formed with a polyurethane. The polyurethane layer constituting the outer circumference layer (2a) comprises a polyurethane which is cured by the reaction of an urethane prepolymer (A) with a curing agent mixture (B). The urethane prepolymer (A) is produced by reacting an isocyanate compound selected from p-phenylene-diisocyanate and 4,4?-methylenebis(phenylisocyanate) with a polytetramethylene glycol and has an isocyanate group at its terminal. The curing agent mixture (B) comprises 1,4-butanediol and an aromatic polyamine having an active hydrogen group (H). The shoe press belt has excellent wear resistance, cracking resistance and bending fatigue resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Yazaki, Nobuharu Suzuki, Shintaro Yamazaki, Atsushi Ishino
  • Publication number: 20110017419
    Abstract: A papermaking shoe press belt is formed of a reinforcing fiber base material and a polyurethane layer integrated with each other. The reinforcing fiber base material is embedded in the polyurethane layer. The papermaking shoe press belt includes, as the polyurethane layer, a polyurethane layer obtainable by curing a composition composed in combination of a urethane prepolymer and one or more curing agent. The urethane prepolymer is obtainable by reacting a p-phenylene diisocyanate compound with a long-chain polyol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Yazaki, Shintaro Yamazaki, Yuya Takamori
  • Publication number: 20100314067
    Abstract: A belt for papermaking shoe press is provided which comprises a reinforcing fibrous base (6) and a polyurethane layer (2) united therewith, the reinforcing fibrous base (6) having been embedded in the polyurethane layer (2). The belt includes a polyurethane layer obtained by curing a mixture comprising: a urethane prepolymer obtained by reacting a polyisocyanate compound selected among p-phenylene-diisocyanate, 4,4?-methylene-bis(phenyl isocyanate), and tolylene-diisocyanate with a polyol compound selected among polypropylene glycol, polytetramethylene glycol, and a polycarbonate diol; a hardener selected among an aliphatic diol compound, hydroquinone-bis-?-hydroxyethyl ether, and organic polyamine compound; and an aliphatic triol compound. Due to this layer, the shoe press belt for papermaking is excellent in wearing resistance and flexing fatigue resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Yazaki, Nobuharu Suzuki, Shintaro Yamazaki, Atsushi Ishino, Yuya Takamori, Ryo Umehara, Ai Tamura
  • Publication number: 20100186918
    Abstract: A shoe press belt for paper-making machine that reduces belt damages attributed to the friction between belt and shoe. The shoe press belt for paper-making machine having a wet paper contact surface and a shoe contact surface, is characterized in that the shoe press belt for paper-making machine has a base member and at least a polymer elastic part constituting the shoe contact surface and that the shoe contact surface of the polymer elastic part has a surface roughness (Ra) of 1.0 to 3.5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishino, Nobuharu Suzuki, Shintaro Yamazaki, Takeshi Sawada, Tomoyuki Kawamata
  • Publication number: 20100186920
    Abstract: Disclosed is a shoe press belt (10) which comprises a reinforcing fibrous base material (6) embedded in a polyurethane layer, and has an outer circumference layer (2a, 21) and an inner circumference layer (2b, 22) each formed with a polyurethane. The polyurethane layer comprises a polyurethane which is produced by curing a composition comprising a mixture of an urethane prepolymer (A) and a curing agent (B). The urethane prepolymer (A) is produced by reacting an isocyanate compound (a) containing 55 to 100 mol % of a p-phenylene-diisocyanate compound with polytetramethylene glycol (b) and has an isocyanate group at its terminal. The curing agent (B) is selected from the group consisting of 1,4-butanediol, hydroquinone bis-?hydroxylethyl ether, 3,5-diethyltoluenediamine and 3,5-dimethylthiotoluenediamine. The belt (10) has excellent cracking resistance, bending fatigue resistance and wear resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Yazaki, Nobuharu Suzuki, Shintaro Yamazaki, Atsushi Ishino
  • Publication number: 20100147480
    Abstract: Disclosed is a shoe press belt (10) which comprises a reinforcing fibrous base material (6) embedded in a polyurethane layer, and has an outer circumference layer (2a) and an inner circumference layer (2b) each formed with a polyurethane. The polyurethane layer constituting the outer circumference layer (2a) comprises a polyurethane which is cured by the reaction of an urethane prepolymer (A) with a curing agent mixture (B). The urethane prepolymer (A) is produced by reacting an isocyanate compound selected from p-phenylene-diisocyanate and 4,4?-methylenebis(phenylisocyanate) with a polytetramethylene glycol and has an isocyanate group at its terminal. The curing agent mixture (B) comprises 1,4-butanediol and an aromatic polyamine having an active hydrogen group (H). The shoe press belt has excellent wear resistance, cracking resistance and bending fatigue resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Yazaki, Nobuharu Suzuki, Shintaro Yamazaki, Atsushi Ishino