Patents by Inventor Shoji Furuta

Shoji Furuta 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: 10934235
    Abstract: The method of purifying 1224yd (Z) includes: distilling a composition comprising 1224yd (Z) and 244bb in a presence of an extracting solvent comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of an alcohol, an ether, a nitrile, a ketone, a carbonate ester, an amide, an ester, a sulfoxide, a hydrocarbon, a chlorohydrocarbon, and a fluorohydrocarbon; and thereby, separating at least a part of 244bb from the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Hidefumi Shiota, Shoji Furuta
  • Publication number: 20200277245
    Abstract: The method of purifying 1224yd (Z) includes: distilling a composition comprising 1224yd (Z) and 244bb in a presence of an extracting solvent comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of an alcohol, an ether, a nitrile, a ketone, a carbonate ester, an amide, an ester, a sulfoxide, a hydrocarbon, a chlorohydrocarbon, and a fluorohydrocarbon; and thereby, separating at least a part of 244bb from the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Hidefumi SHIOTA, Shoji FURUTA
  • Patent number: 10399915
    Abstract: There is provided an economically advantageous manufacturing method capable of efficiently obtaining 1-chloro-2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene by using 1,2-dichloro-2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropane as a raw material. A manufacturing method of 1-chloro-2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene is characterized in that it includes subjecting 1,2-dichloro-2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropane to a dehydrochlorination reaction in a liquid phase in a presence of a base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Taniguchi, Shoji Furuta, Hidefumi Shiota
  • Publication number: 20180297918
    Abstract: There is provided an economically advantageous manufacturing method capable of efficiently obtaining 1-chloro-2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene by using 1,2-dichloro-2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropane as a raw material. A manufacturing method of 1-chloro-2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene is characterized in that it includes subjecting 1,2-dichloro-2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropane to a dehydrochlorination reaction in a liquid phase in a presence of a base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoaki Taniguchi, Shoji Furuta, Hidefumi Shiota
  • Patent number: 10081749
    Abstract: A composition is provided containing HFO-1123 having a low GWP, which is useful as a heat transfer composition, an aerosol sprayer, a foaming agent, a blowing agent, a solvent or the like. A composition containing HFO-1123, and at least one first compound selected from the group consisting of HFO-1132, HFO-1132a, CFO-1113, HCFO-1122, HCFO-1122a, HFC-143 and methane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Taniguchi, Hidekazu Okamoto, Shoji Furuta, Yu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9834633
    Abstract: To provide a liquid repellent composition which is excellent in liquid repellency and durability and an article having a liquid repelling film. A liquid repellent composition comprising a copolymer (I) and a copolymer (II), characterized in that the copolymer (I) containing from 65 to 95 mass % of a polymerized unit (a) (referred to as “[a1]”) and from 1 to 30 mass % of a polymerized unit (b); and the copolymer (II) containing from 25 to 80 mass % of a polymerized unit (a) (referred to as “[a2]”) and from 1 to 50 mass % of a polymerized unit (c) are contained in an amount of the copolymer (I)/the copolymer (II)=10/90 to 95/5 (mass ratio), and [a1]?[a2]?10 (mass %).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shoji Furuta, Minako Shimada, Kyouichi Kaneko, Kazunori Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 9676688
    Abstract: To provide a method for obtaining 1,1-dichloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropane by reacting 1,1-difluoroethylene with dichlorofluoromethane, which suppresses the production of chloroform as a by-product and achieves a product having a high R-243fa concentration. This method is characterized by obtaining 1,1-dichloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropane by reacting 1,1-difluoroethylene with dichlorofluoromethane in the presence of trifluoromethane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yu Takeuchi, Shoji Furuta
  • Publication number: 20170081264
    Abstract: To provide a method for obtaining 1,1-dichloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropane by reacting 1,1-difluoroethylene with dichlorofluoromethane, which suppresses the production of chloroform as a by-product and achieves a product having a high R-243fa concentration. This method is characterized by obtaining 1,1-dichloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropane by reacting 1,1-difluoroethylene with dichlorofluoromethane in the presence of trifluoromethane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: YU TAKEUCHI, SHOJI FURUTA
  • Patent number: 9315432
    Abstract: To provide an economically advantageous process for producing HFO-1234yf useful as a new refrigerant in sufficiently high yield by one reaction involving thermal decomposition. A process for producing HFO-1234yf and VdF from raw material containing R22, R40 and TFE, by a synthetic reaction involving thermal decomposition, which comprises (a) a step of supplying the R22, the R40 and the TFE to a reactor, as preliminarily mixed or separately, (b) a step of supplying a heat medium to the reactor, and (c) a step of bringing the heat medium in contact with the R22, the R40 and the TFE in the reactor to form the HFO-1234yf and the VdF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shoji Furuta, Yu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9302964
    Abstract: To provide a method for efficiently separating 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf) and chloromethane (R40) from a composition containing HFO-1234yf and R40. A method for separating HFO-1234yf containing substantially no R40, which comprises bringing an azeotropic composition or azeotrope-like composition of H FO-1234yf and R40 into contact with a specific extraction solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shoji Furuta, Tetsuo Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20160002518
    Abstract: To provide a composition containing HFO-1123 having a low GWP, useful as a heat transfer composition, an aerosol sprayer, a foaming agent, a blowing agent, a solvent or the like. A composition containing HFO-1123, and at least one first compound selected from the group consisting of HFO-1132, HFO-1132a, CFO-1113, HCFO-1122, HCFO-1122a, HFC-143 and methane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tomoaki TANIGUCHI, Hidekazu OKAMOTO, Shoji FURUTA, Yu TAKEUCHI
  • Patent number: 9206096
    Abstract: To provide an economically advantageous process for producing industrially useful HFO-1234yf efficiently and in a sufficiently controlled state by one reaction involving thermal decomposition, by using readily available raw material. A process for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene from a raw material composition containing chlorodifluoromethane and chloromethane, by a synthetic reaction involving thermal decomposition, which comprises (a) a step of supplying the chlorodifluoromethane and the chloromethane to a reactor, as preliminarily mixed or separately, in such amounts that the chloromethane would be in a ratio of from 0.01 to 3 mol to 1 mol of the chlorodifluoromethane, (b) a step of supplying a heat medium to the reactor, and (c) a step of bringing the heat medium in contact with the chlorodifluoromethane and the chloromethane in the reactor to form the 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shoji Furuta, Yu Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20150291490
    Abstract: To provide a method for efficiently separating 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf) and chloromethane (R40) from a composition containing HFO-1234yf and R40. A method for separating HFO-1234yf containing substantially no R40, which comprises bringing an azeotropic composition or azeotrope-like composition of HFO-1234yf and R40 into contact with a specific extraction solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shoji FURUTA, Tetsuo OTSUKA
  • Patent number: 9023233
    Abstract: To provide a method for efficiently separating 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf) and chloromethane (R40) from a composition comprising HFO-1234yf and R40. An azeotrope-like composition comprising from 58 to 78 mol % of HFO-1234yf and from 22 to 42 mol % of R40, and a method for producing HFO-1234yf, which comprises steps of distilling an initial mixture containing HFO-1234yf in a content exceeding 63 mol % in the total amount of HFO-1234yf and R40, thereby to separate the initial mixture into a first fraction in which the content of HFO-1234yf in the total amount of HFO-1234yf and R40 is lower than the content of HFO-1234yf in the total amount of HFO-1234yf and R40 in the initial mixture, and a second fraction in which the content of HFO-1234yf in the total amount of HFO-1234yf and R40 is higher than the content of HFO-1234yf in the total amount of HFO-1234yf and R40 in the initial mixture, and then obtaining HFO-1234yf having a reduced R40 concentration, from the second fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shoji Furuta, Tetsuo Otsuka
  • Patent number: 8957264
    Abstract: A process for producing a fluoroalkyl iodide as a telomer Rf(CF2CF2)nI (wherein Rf is a C1-10 fluoroalkyl group, and n is an integer of from 1 to 6) by telomerization from a fluoroalkyl iodide represented by the formula RfI (wherein Rf is as defined above) as a telogen and tetrafluoroethylene (CF2CF2) as a taxogen, which comprises a liquid phase telomerization step of supplying a homogeneous liquid mixture of the telogen and the taxogen from the lower portion of a tubular reactor, moving the mixture from the lower portion towards the upper portion of the reactor in the presence of a radical initiator over a retention time of at least 5 minutes while the reaction system is kept in a liquid phase state under conditions where no gas-liquid separation will take place, so that the taxogen supplied to the reactor is substantially consumed by the reaction in the reactor, and drawing the reaction product from the upper portion of the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shoji Furuta, Yusuke Sugahara, Keiko Nakase, Keisuke Mori
  • Publication number: 20150008357
    Abstract: To provide a method for efficiently separating 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf) and chloromethane (R40) from a composition comprising HFO-1234yf and R40. An azeotrope-like composition comprising from 58 to 78 mol % of HFO-1234yf and from 22 to 42 mol % of R40, and a method for producing HFO-1234yf, which comprises steps of distilling an initial mixture containing HFO-1234yf in a content exceeding 63 mol % in the total amount of HFO-1234yf and R40, thereby to separate the initial mixture into a first fraction in which the content of HFO-1234yf in the total amount of HFO-1234yf and R40 is lower than the content of HFO-1234yf in the total amount of HFO-1234yf and R40 in the initial mixture, and a second fraction in which the content of HFO-1234yf in the total amount of HFO-1234yf and R40 is higher than the content of HFO-1234yf in the total amount of HFO-1234yf and R40 in the initial mixture, and then obtaining HFO-1234yf having a reduced R40 concentration, from the second fraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shoji Furuta, Tetsuo Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20150005538
    Abstract: To provide an economically advantageous process for producing HFO-1234yf useful as a new refrigerant in sufficiently high yield by one reaction involving thermal decomposition. A process for producing HFO-1234yf and VdF from raw material containing R22, R40 and TFE, by a synthetic reaction involving thermal decomposition, which comprises (a) a step of supplying the R22, the R40 and the TFE to a reactor, as preliminarily mixed or separately, (b) a step of supplying a heat medium to the reactor, and (c) a step of bringing the heat medium in contact with the R22, the R40 and the TFE in the reactor to form the HFO-1234yf and the VdF.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shoji FURUTA, Yu TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150005537
    Abstract: To provide an economically advantageous process for producing industrially useful HFO-1234yf efficiently and in a sufficiently controlled state by one reaction involving thermal decomposition, by using readily available raw material. A process for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene from a raw material composition containing chlorodifluoromethane and chloromethane, by a synthetic reaction involving thermal decomposition, which comprises (a) a step of supplying the chlorodifluoromethane and the chloromethane to a reactor, as preliminarily mixed or separately, in such amounts that the chloromethane would be in a ratio of from 0.01 to 3 mol to 1 mol of the chlorodifluoromethane, (b) a step of supplying a heat medium to the reactor, and (c) a step of bringing the heat medium in contact with the chlorodifluoromethane and the chloromethane in the reactor to form the 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shoji FURUTA, Yu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8791310
    Abstract: To provide a process for producing a fluoroalkyl iodide, whereby the selectivity for a fluoroalkyl iodide having a desired degree of polymerization is high and the productivity is high. A process for producing a fluoroalkyl iodide (2) represented by RfCF2CF2I (wherein Rf is a fluoroalkyl group having at most 4 carbon atoms), which comprises reacting a fluoroalkyl iodide (1) represented by RfI with tetrafluoroethylene in the presence of a radical initiator, wherein a first reaction step of supplying and reacting tetrafluoroethylene and a radical initiator to the fluoroalkyl iodide (1), is followed by repeating (n?1) times (provided that n is an integer of at least 3) a subsequent reaction step of supplying and reacting a radical initiator, or a radical initiator and tetrafluoroethylene, to a reaction mixture (1) formed in the first reaction step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuo Otsuka, Shoji Furuta
  • Patent number: 8759567
    Abstract: To provide a process for safely producing a perfluoroacyl peroxide with good productivity. By supplying a perfluoroacyl halide-containing organic solvent solution, an aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide or a metal peroxide, and an aqueous basic alkali metal compound solution to a tubular reactor to allow them to react with one another, in a flow rate ratio of, as represented by molar ratio of the compounds in the solutions, from 1.00 to 1.35 of the basic alkali metal compound and from 0.60 to 40 of hydrogen peroxide or the metal peroxide per 1 of the perfluoroacyl halide, the yield of a perfluoroacyl peroxide based on the material perfluoroacyl halide can be remarkably improved as compared with conventional technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Katsuya Ueno, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Mayako Takahashi, Kazuhiko Yamada, Fusaaki Takeo, Shoji Furuta