Patents by Inventor Shota TAKAGI

Shota TAKAGI 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: 12344737
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cylindrical expanded thermoplastic elastomer beads provided with through-holes, the expanded thermoplastic elastomer beads including a core layer in an foamed state constituted of a base polymer containing a thermoplastic elastomer and a cover layer covering the core layer and constituted of a thermoplastic polymer, wherein a coefficient of dynamic friction of the thermoplastic polymer is 0.8 or less, and a difference between a melting point (Tmc) of the base polymer and a melting point (Tms) of the thermoplastic polymer is ?20° C. or more and 20° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: JSP Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Takagi, Akinobu Hira
  • Patent number: 12295105
    Abstract: The simulation device includes a simulation section and an output section. The simulation section is configured to simulate an operating status of a board work machine configured to perform predetermined board work on a board and produce a board product, and an operating status of an article moving device configured to supply an article needed for production of the board product to the board work machine based on a production plan of the board product. The output section is configured to output time series information indicating a temporal change of the operating status of the board work machine and a temporal change of the operating status of the article moving device, which are results of simulation by the simulation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Takagi, Kohei Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 12202951
    Abstract: A modified expanded bead that includes an expanded bead which includes a specific base polymer (?) and a coating layer which includes a specific base polymer (?). The coating layer covers at least part of an outer surface of the expanded bead. The melting point T? of the base polymer (?) and the melting point T? of the base polymer (?) satisfy a relationship of 0?T??T??20. When the modified expanded bead is cut into two halves along a cutting plane to form two half portions and thereafter one of the two half portions is cut along planes perpendicular to the cutting plane to form ten small pieces, outermost pieces among the ten small pieces have a xylene-insoluble content (B) which is less than a xylene-insoluble content (A) in the half portion and the xylene-insoluble content (A) is 10-80% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: JSP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobumasa Koshita, Hajime Ohta, Shota Takagi
  • Patent number: 11952474
    Abstract: Expanded beads are those including a mixture of an olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer and a polyethylene-based resin, wherein a melt flow rate MFR(I) of the olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer is 2-10 g/10 min; a difference ((MFR(II))?(MFR(I))) between a melt flow rate MFR(II) of the polyethylene-based resin and the melt flow rate MFR(I) of the olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer is 1-35 g/10 min; and a content of the polyethylene-based resin in the mixture is 3-40% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: JSP Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Takagi, Akinobu Hira
  • Publication number: 20240002623
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an in-mold expanded beads molded article of expanded beads of an olefin thermoplastic elastomer, a cushion for shoe sole, and a method of producing expanded beads provided with through-holes and composed of a block copolymer of a polyethylene block and an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer block, and with respect to the in-mold expanded beads molded article of expanded beads of an olefin thermoplastic elastomer, a voidage of the expanded beads molded article is 5 to 40%; a density of the expanded beads molded article is 30 to 150 g/L; and a flexural modulus of the olefin thermoplastic elastomer that constitutes the expanded beads molded article is 10 to 100 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Shota TAKAGI, Masaharu OIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11795286
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an in-mold expanded beads molded article of expanded beads of an olefin thermoplastic elastomer, a cushion for shoe sole, and a method of producing expanded beads provided with through-holes and composed of a block copolymer of a polyethylene block and an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer block, and with respect to the in-mold expanded beads molded article of expanded beads of an olefin thermoplastic elastomer, a voidage of the expanded beads molded article is 5 to 40%; a density of the expanded beads molded article is 30 to 150 g/L; and a flexural modulus of the olefin thermoplastic elastomer that constitutes the expanded beads molded article is 10 to 100 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: JSP Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Takagi, Masaharu Oikawa
  • Patent number: 11643519
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an expanded beads molded article containing a block copolymer of a polyethylene block and an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer block and having a density of 30 kg/m3 or more and less than 150 kg/m3 and a modulus of repulsion elasticity of 60% or more. The sole member of the present invention includes the expanded beads molded article of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: JSP Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Takagi, Masaharu Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20230107047
    Abstract: A thermoplastic olefinic elastomer expanded bead, which is an expanded bead including a thermoplastic olefinic elastomer as a main component, wherein the expanded bead has an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 5 mm, the expanded bead has a heat of fusion of 60 to 80 J/g, and a difference [Tm?Tc] between a melting point (Tm) and a crystallization temperature (Tc) of the expanded bead is 20° C. or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventor: Shota TAKAGI
  • Patent number: 11597127
    Abstract: An expanded beads molded article containing a block copolymer of a polyethylene block and an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer block and having a density of 150 kg/m3 or more and 500 kg/m3 or less and a tensile strength of 0.5 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: JSP Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Takagi, Masaharu Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20230069611
    Abstract: The simulation device includes a simulation section and an output section. The simulation section is configured to simulate an operating status of a board work machine configured to perform predetermined board work on a board and produce a board product, and an operating status of an article moving device configured to supply an article needed for production of the board product to the board work machine based on a production plan of the board product. The output section is configured to output time series information indicating a temporal change of the operating status of the board work machine and a temporal change of the operating status of the article moving device, which are results of simulation by the simulation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota TAKAGI, Kohei ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11466137
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with expanded beads that are olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer expanded beads containing a coloring agent, wherein an apparent density of the expanded beads is 40 to 300 g/L, and an average surface layer membrane thickness (a) is 3 to 25 ?m, and a molded article thereof, and is able to provide expanded beads capable of producing an expanded beads molded article which is excellent in in-mold moldability and excellent in tensile characteristics and an expanded beads molded article using the expanded beads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: JSP Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Takagi, Masaharu Oikawa
  • Patent number: 11458710
    Abstract: A laminated article includes a thermoplastic resin expanded beads molded layer A having a volume Va and a tensile modulus TMa which is 2 to 100 MPa, and a thermoplastic elastomer expanded beads molded layer B having a volume Vb and a tensile modulus TMb which is 0.05 MPa or more and less than 2 MPa, the layers A and B being laminated and bonded to each other. Va:Vb is 90:10 to 50:50 and TMb/TMa is 0.025 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: JSP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Takagi, Akinobu Hira
  • Publication number: 20220306827
    Abstract: A modified expanded bead that includes an expanded bead which includes a specific base polymer (?) and a coating layer which includes a specific base polymer (?). The coating layer covers at least part of an outer surface of the expanded bead. The melting point T? of the base polymer (?) and the melting point T? of the base polymer (?) satisfy a relationship of 0?T??T??20. When the modified expanded bead is cut into two halves along a cutting plane to form two half portions and thereafter one of the two half portions is cut along planes perpendicular to the cutting plane to form ten small pieces, outermost pieces among the ten small pieces have a xylene-insoluble content (B) which is less than a xylene-insoluble content (A) in the half portion and the xylene-insoluble content (A) is 10-80% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: JSP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobumasa KOSHITA, Hajime OHTA, Shota TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20220235216
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cylindrical expanded thermoplastic elastomer beads provided with through-holes, the expanded thermoplastic elastomer beads including a core layer in an foamed state constituted of a base polymer containing a thermoplastic elastomer and a cover layer covering the core layer and constituted of a thermoplastic polymer, wherein a coefficient of dynamic friction of the thermoplastic polymer is 0.8 or less, and a difference between a melting point (Tmc) of the base polymer and a melting point (Tms) of the thermoplastic polymer is ?20° C. or more and 20° C. or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Shota TAKAGI, Akinobu HIRA
  • Patent number: 11225562
    Abstract: The present invention provides expanded beads comprising a crosslinked multi-block copolymer containing an ethylene block and an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer block, having an apparent density of 40 to 300 g/L, a gel fraction of 30 to 70% by weight by a hot xylene extraction method, an average cell diameter (a) of 50 to 180 ?m, and an average surface layer thickness (b) of 3 to 27 ?m, and the expanded beads are excellent in in-mold moldability, and can produce an expanded beads molded article being excellent in tensile characteristics in a well balanced manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: JSP Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Takagi, Masaharu Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20210395481
    Abstract: Expanded beads are those including a mixture of an olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer and a polyethylene-based resin, wherein a melt flow rate MFR(I) of the olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer is 2-10 g/10 min; a difference ((MFR(II))?(MFR(I))) between a melt flow rate MFR(II) of the polyethylene-based resin and the melt flow rate MFR(I) of the olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer is 1-35 g/10 min; and a content of the polyethylene-based resin in the mixture is 3-40% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Shota TAKAGI, Akinobu HIRA
  • Patent number: 11174365
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with expanded beads of a block copolymer of a polyethylene block and an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer block, wherein a xylene insoluble fraction (A) of the expanded beads by a hot xylene extraction method is 10 to 70% by weight, and a ratio (A/B) of the xylene insoluble fraction (A) to a xylene insoluble fraction (B) of the expanded beads by a hot xylene extraction method when divided into two equal parts and measured is 1.0 to 1.1, and is able to provide expanded beads with excellent in-mold moldability and an expanded beads molded article with excellent fusion bondability and restorability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: JSP Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Takagi, Masaharu Oikawa
  • Patent number: 11168194
    Abstract: The present invention relates to thermoplastic olefin elastomer expanded beads, having an average aspect ratio of 1.10 or less and an average circularity of 0.985 or more. The thermoplastic olefin elastomer expanded beads preferably have a crystal structure such that a melting peak inherent in the thermoplastic olefin elastomer (inherent peak) and one or more melting peaks on a higher temperature side than the inherent peak (high temperature peaks) appear on a DSC curve obtained when heating the expanded beads from 23° C. to 200° C. at a heating rate of 10° C./min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: JSP Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Takagi, Masaharu Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20210300005
    Abstract: A laminated article includes a thermoplastic resin expanded beads molded layer A having a volume Va and a tensile modulus TMa which is 2 to 100 MPa, and a thermoplastic elastomer expanded beads molded layer B having a volume Vb and a tensile modulus TMb which is 0.05 MPa or more and less than 2 MPa, the layers A and B being laminated and bonded to each other. Va:Vb is 90:10 to 50:50 and TMb/TMa is 0.025 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: JSP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota TAKAGi, Akinobu HIRA
  • Publication number: 20210060833
    Abstract: An expanded beads molded article containing a block copolymer of a polyethylene block and an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer block and having a density of 150 kg/m3 or more and 500 kg/m3 or less and a tensile strength of 0.5 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Shota TAKAGI, Masaharu OIKAWA