Patents by Inventor Shoji Fukuoka
Shoji Fukuoka 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: 11898661Abstract: Provided is a fluororubber composition capable of providing a crosslinked fluororubber article that exhibits not only heat resistance, but also excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures. The fluororubber composition includes a fluororubber (A), a carbon black (B), and an aromatic petroleum resin (E), and the fluororubber composition has a difference ?G? (G? (1%)?G? (100%)) of not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G? (1%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 1%, G? (100%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 100%, and G? (1%) and G? (100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test carried out on an unvulcanised rubber with a rubber process analyzer (RPA) in a condition that the measurement frequency is 1 Hz and the measurement temperature is 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Mayuko Taeda, Masanori Kitaichi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Michiko Doi, Shoji Fukuoka
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Patent number: 11054066Abstract: The present invention provides a hose excellent in mechanical properties at high temperatures. The hose of the present invention comprises a cross-linked fluororubber layer obtainable by cross-linking a fluororubber composition containing a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B). The cross-linked fluororubber layer has a loss modulus E? of 400 kPa or higher and 6,000 kPa or lower determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test (measurement temperature: 160° C., tensile strain: 1%, initial force: 157 cN, frequency: 10 Hz).Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Junpei Terada, Daisuke Ota, Masanori Kitaichi, Yutaka Ueta, Shigeru Morita, Kazuyoshi Kawasaki, Tatsuya Morikawa, Satoshi Kawai, Shoji Fukuoka
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Patent number: 10421257Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a laminate in which a fluororesin layer and a fluororubber layer are firmly bonded even when the fluororesin layer contains a fluororesin having excellently low fuel permeability. The present invention relates to a laminate including a fluororubber layer (A) and a fluororesin layer (B) stacked on the fluororubber layer (A). The fluororubber layer (A) is a layer formed from a fluororubber composition. The fluororubber composition contains a fluororubber (a1) and a basic multifunctional compound having at least two nitrogen atoms in the molecule with a distance between the nitrogen atoms in the molecule of 5.70 ? or greater. The fluororubber (a1) has an absorption coefficient at 1720 cm?1, determined after being brought into contact with triethyl amine, of 0.35 or lower. The fluororesin layer (B) is formed from a fluororesin (b1) having a fuel permeability coefficient of 2.0 g·mm/m2/day or lower.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2014Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yuuki Kuwajima, Shoji Fukuoka, Kozue Komazawa, Mayuko Taeda, Junpei Terada
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Patent number: 10227430Abstract: An aqueous perfluoroelastomer dispersion and method for producing a perfluoroelastomer using a specific fluorosurfactant and capable of achieving a sufficient number of particles and a sufficient polymerization rate. The method includes providing an aqueous dispersion containing perfluoroelastomer particles by emulsion-polymerizing a perfluoromonomer in an aqueous medium in the presence of a specific fluorosurfactant in an amount of 2 parts by mass or more for 100 parts by mass of the aqueous medium.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Morikawa, Junpei Terada, Shoji Fukuoka
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Patent number: 10000619Abstract: A diaphragm including a cross-linked fluororubber layer obtained by cross-linking a fluororubber composition containing a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B), the cross-linked fluororubber layer having a loss modulus E? of 400 kPa or higher and 6,000 kPa or lower determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test under conditions of measurement temperature: 160° C., tensile strain: 1%, static tension under a constant static load condition for measuring strain distribution: 157 cN, and frequency: 10 Hz.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2012Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Junpei Terada, Daisuke Ota, Masanori Kitaichi, Shoji Fukuoka
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Patent number: 9976016Abstract: A fluororubber composition including a fluororubber having an iodine content of 10 to 90 mol % for the total mole of the polymer end groups and a carbon black (B), wherein a difference (?G?), represented by G?(1%)-G?(100%), is not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G?(1%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 1% under an uncrosslinked state and G?(100%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 100% under an uncrosslinked state, and G?(1%) and G?(100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test with a rubber process analyzer (RPA) in a condition that the measurement frequency is 1 Hz and the measurement temperature is 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Shigeru Morita, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Masanori Kitaichi, Michiko Doi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Shoji Fukuoka, Mayuko Taeda
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Publication number: 20160347895Abstract: An aqueous perfluoroelastomer dispersion and method for producing a perfluoroelastomer using a specific fluorosurfactant and capable of achieving a sufficient number of particles and a sufficient polymerization rate. The method includes providing an aqueous dispersion containing perfluoroelastomer particles by emulsion-polymerizing a perfluoromonomer in an aqueous medium in the presence of a specific fluorosurfactant in an amount of 2 parts by mass or more for 100 parts by mass of the aqueous medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2015Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya MORIKAWA, Junpei TERADA, Shoji FUKUOKA
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Patent number: 9499678Abstract: A fluororubber composition which includes a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B). The fluororubber (A) is a vinylidene fluoride-based fluororubber including a structural unit (VdF unit) derived from vinylidene fluoride and a structural unit derived from at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of hexafluoropropylene (HFP), 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro propylene, and perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) (PAVE). The molar ratio of the VdF unit to the structural unit derived from at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of HFP, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro propylene, and PAVE is 50/50 to 78/22. The fluororubber composition has a difference ?G? (G? (1%)-G? (100%)) of not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G? (1%) denotes a modulus of shearing elasticity at a dynamic strain of 1%, G? (100%) denotes a modulus of shearing elasticity at a dynamic strain of 100%, and G? (1%) and G? (100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Mayuko Taeda, Masanori Kitaichi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Michiko Doi, Shoji Fukuoka
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Publication number: 20160288461Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a laminate in which a fluororesin layer and a fluororubber layer are firmly bonded even when the fluororesin layer contains a fluororesin having excellently low fuel permeability. The present invention relates to a laminate including a fluororubber layer (A) and a fluororesin layer (B) stacked on the fluororubber layer (A). The fluororubber layer (A) is a layer formed from a fluororubber composition. The fluororubber composition contains a fluororubber (a1) and a basic multifunctional compound having at least two nitrogen atoms in the molecule with a distance between the nitrogen atoms in the molecule of 5.70 ? or greater. The fluororubber (a1) has an absorption coefficient at 1720 cm?1, determined after being brought into contact with triethyl amine, of 0.35 or lower. The fluororesin layer (B) is formed from a fluororesin (b1) having a fuel permeability coefficient of 2.0 g·mm/m2/day or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yuuki KUWAJIMA, Shoji FUKUOKA, Kozue KOMAZAWA, Mayuko TAEDA, Junpei TERADA
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Patent number: 9403954Abstract: The invention provides a fluororubber composition able to produce a crosslinked fluororubber article that exhibits not only heat resistance, but also excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures, and a method for producing same. The fluororubber composition contains: a fluororubber (A); and carbon black (B), wherein when the aforementioned fluororubber composition is immersed for 160 hours in an extraction solvent of acetone and hexane at an acetone:hexane mass ratio of 42.29:57.71 at 40° C. and an extraction residue that is not extracted and remains as a solid is separated from the aforementioned extraction solvent and dried and then the dry weight of the extraction residue is measured, the quantity of a solvent-insoluble polymer is not lower than 5%.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Mayuko Taeda, Masanori Kitaichi, Michiko Doi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Shoji Fukuoka
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Publication number: 20150330537Abstract: Provided is a fluororubber composition capable of providing a crosslinked fluororubber article that exhibits not only heat resistance, but also excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures. The fluororubber composition includes a fluororubber (A), a carbon black (B), and an aromatic petroleum resin (E), and the fluororubber composition has a difference ?G? (G? (1%)?G? (100%)) of not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G? (1%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 1%, G? (100%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 100%, and G? (1%) and G? (100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test carried out on an unvulcanised rubber with a rubber process analyzer (RPA) in a condition that the measurement frequency is 1 Hz and the measurement temperature is 100° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2013Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke OTA, Akinori UEDA, Yuu KADOWAKI, Mayuko TAEDA, Masanori KITAICHI, Kazuhiro YAMAMURA, Michiko DOI, Shoji FUKUOKA
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Patent number: 9068653Abstract: To provide a sealing material which is excellent in sealability under high-temperature conditions as well as crack resistance at high temperatures and high compression. A sealing material comprising a cross-linked fluororubber layer obtainable by cross-linking a fluororubber composition containing a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B), the cross-linked fluororubber layer having a loss modulus E? of 600 kPa or higher and 6,000 kPa or lower determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test under conditions of measurement temperature: 160° C., tensile strain: 1%, initial force: 157 cN, and frequency: 10 Hz.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Junpei Terada, Daisuke Ota, Masanori Kitaichi, Yutaka Ueta, Shigeru Morita, Kazuyoshi Kawasaki, Tatsuya Morikawa, Shoji Fukuoka
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Patent number: 9045614Abstract: The present invention provides a fluororubber composition that has excellent heat resistance and excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures. The fluororubber composition comprises a peroxide cross-linkable fluororubber (A); a carbon black (B); a peroxide cross-linking agent (C); and a low-self-polymerizing cross-linking accelerator (D), wherein to 100 parts by mass of the fluororubber (A), the amount of the carbon black (B) is 5 to 50 parts by mass, the amount of the cross-linking agent (C) is 0.01 to 10 parts by mass, and the amount of the cross-linking accelerator (D) is 2.5 parts by mass or smaller.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Yutaka Ueta, Masanori Kitaichi, Shoji Fukuoka
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Patent number: 9006328Abstract: The present invention provides a fluororubber composition that has excellent heat resistance and excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures. The fluororubber composition comprises 100 parts by mass of a peroxide cross-linkable fluororubber (A); 5 to 50 parts by mass of a carbon black (B); 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of a peroxide cross-linking agent (C); and 10 parts by mass or smaller of a bisolefin (D).Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Shoji Fukuoka
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Publication number: 20150031822Abstract: A fluororubber composition which includes a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B). The fluororubber (A) is a vinylidene fluoride-based fluororubber including a structural unit (VdF unit) derived from vinylidene fluoride and a structural unit derived from at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of hexafluoropropylene (HFP), 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro propylene, and perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) (PAVE). The molar ratio of the VdF unit to the structural unit derived from at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of HFP, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro propylene, and PAVE is 50/50 to 78/22. The fluororubber composition has a difference ?G? (G? (1%)-G? (100%)) of not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G? (1%) denotes a modulus of shearing elasticity at a dynamic strain of 1%, G? (100%) denotes a modulus of shearing elasticity at a dynamic strain of 100%, and G? (1%) and G? (100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Mayuko Taeda, Masanori Kitaichi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Michiko Doi, Shoji Fukuoka
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Publication number: 20150017364Abstract: A fluororubber composition including a fluororubber having an iodine content of 10 to 90 mol % for the total mole of the polymer end groups and a carbon black (B), wherein a difference (?G?), represented by G?(1%)-G?(100%), is not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G?(1%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 1% under an uncrosslinked state and G?(100%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 100% under an uncrosslinked state, and G?(1%) and G?(100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test with a rubber process analyzer (RPA) in a condition that the measurement frequency is 1 Hz and the measurement temperature is 100° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Shigeru Morita, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Masanori Kitaichi, Michiko Doi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Shoji Fukuoka, Mayuko Taeda
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Publication number: 20140288226Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing a fluororubber composition that is able to give a crosslinked article that exhibits not only heat resistance, but also excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures. A method for producing a fluororubber composition includes: a step (1-1) of mixing a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B) by means of an internal mixer until the maximum temperature reaches 80 to 220° C. so as to obtain an intermediate composition; a step (1-2) of cooling the intermediate composition to a temperature of less than 50° C.; and a step (2-1) of mixing the cooled intermediate composition until the maximum temperature reaches not lower than 10° C. but lower than 80° C. so as to obtain a fluororubber composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2013Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Mayuko Taeda, Masanori Kitaichi, Michiko Doi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Shoji Fukuoka
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Publication number: 20140228482Abstract: The invention provides a fluororubber composition able to produce a crosslinked fluororubber article that exhibits not only heat resistance, but also excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures, and a method for producing same. The fluororubber composition contains: a fluororubber (A); and carbon black (B), wherein when the aforementioned fluororubber composition is immersed for 160 hours in an extraction solvent of acetone and hexane at an acetone:hexane mass ratio of 42.29:57.71 at 40° C. and an extraction residue that is not extracted and remains as a solid is separated from the aforementioned extraction solvent and dried and then the dry weight of the extraction residue is measured, the quantity of a solvent-insoluble polymer is not lower than 5%.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2013Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Mayuko Taeda, Masanori Kitaichi, Michiko Doi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Shoji Fukuoka
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Patent number: 8754161Abstract: The present invention provides a complex-shaped fluororubber formed product having excellent demoldability in molding. The complex-shaped fluororubber formed product of the present invention comprises a cross-linked fluororubber layer obtainable by cross-linking a fluororubber composition containing a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B). The cross-linked fluororubber layer has a loss modulus E? of 400 kPa or higher and 6,000 kPa or lower determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test (measurement temperature: 160° C., tensile strain: 1%, initial force: 157 cN, frequency: 10 Hz).Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Junpei Terada, Daisuke Ota, Masanori Kitaichi, Yutaka Ueta, Shigeru Morita, Kazuyoshi Kawasaki, Tatsuya Morikawa, Shoji Fukuoka
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Publication number: 20140163158Abstract: A diaphragm including a cross-linked fluororubber layer obtained by cross-linking a fluororubber composition containing a fluororubber (A) and a carbon black (B), the cross-linked fluororubber layer having a loss modulus E? of 400 kPa or higher and 6,000 kPa or lower determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test under conditions of measurement temperature: 160° C., tensile strain: 1%, static tension under a constant static load condition for measuring strain distribution: 157 cN, and frequency: 10 Hz.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2012Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Junpei Terada, Daisuke Ota, Masanori Kitaichi, Shoji Fukuoka