Patents by Inventor Syunichi Osada

Syunichi Osada 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: 9527266
    Abstract: A multi-layer laminated film includes layers composed using a thermoplastic resin A and layers composed using a thermoplastic resin B, which A layers and B layers are alternately laminated in 51 or more layers, wherein the film has: a heat shrinkage stress of 0.5 MPa to 5 MPa at 150° C. in the longitudinal and width directions of the film; and a heat shrinkage stress kick-off temperature of 110° C. or lower in at least one of the longitudinal and width directions of the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Matsuo, Takayuki Uto, Syunichi Osada, Wataru Goda
  • Patent number: 9469789
    Abstract: A laminated film has a layer (A) on at least one side of a base film, wherein resin contained in the layer (A) has (1) a (poly)caprolactone segment and (2) a urethane bond and, in measurement using a micro hardness tester, a maximum displacement amount in a thickness direction of the layer (A) is 1.0 to 3.0 ?m and a creep displacement amount in the thickness direction of the layer (A) is 0.2 to 0.5 ?m when a load of 0.5 mN is applied for 10 seconds, and a permanent displacement amount in the thickness direction of the layer (A) is 0.3 to 0.65 ?m when the load is released to 0 mN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazumori Sonoda, Syunichi Osada, Takashi Mimura, Yoshihiro Masuda, Norifumi Miwa, Takayoshi Kirimoto, Ippei Ozeki
  • Patent number: 9452590
    Abstract: A multilayer film includes 50 or more layers of each of two or more thermoplastic resins having different optical properties are alternately laminated with each other, wherein the average reflectance in a wavelength range of 900 to 1,200 nm is 70% or higher; both of the differences between the a* values (?a*) and between the b* values (?b*), respectively, of transmitted light incoming at an angle of 12° and of transmitted light incoming at an angle of 45° are 10 or less; and the multilayer film comprises a bandwidth of not less than 50 nm where the transmittance is 80% or lower in a wavelength range of 400 to 800 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Uto, Syunichi Osada, Wataru Gouda, Yuji Matsuo
  • Patent number: 9327439
    Abstract: An extrusion die for laminating at least two kinds of resins in the width direction is provided. The extrusion die has not less than 10 nozzles arranged in the width direction and not less than 10 holes such that the holes surround each of the arranged nozzles, or alternatively, the extrusion die has not less than 10 holes arranged in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Toray Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Uto, Syunichi Osada
  • Patent number: 9199403
    Abstract: A width-direction multilayer laminated film having a large area and uniform optical properties is provided. A light guide, a light diffusion film, a light collecting film, a viewing angle control film, and an optical waveguide film, which are low cost and have excellent optical properties, as well as an illuminating device, a communication device, and a display using these films. The laminated film may include at least a structure in which a layer made of resin A (layer A) and a layer made of resin B (layer B) are alternately laminated in the width direction, wherein the width of the film is 400 mm or more and the number of layer Bs, each having a cross-sectional width from 0.1 ?m to 10,000 ?m, is 10 or larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Uto, Syunichi Osada
  • Patent number: 9080053
    Abstract: A laminated film includes a substrate film and layer A provided at least on one side thereof, layer A containing (1) a (poly)caprolactone segment and (2) a urethane bond, wherein a distilled water contact angle on layer A and a diiodomethane contact angle on layer A are 95° or more, but less than 120° and 70° or more, but less than 87°, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Masuda, Syunichi Osada, Kazumori Sonoda, Takashi Mimura
  • Publication number: 20150175843
    Abstract: A first multilayer film is a multilayer film which contains a layer A on at least one surface of a base film, in which the layer A has (1) a polycaprolactone segment, (2) a polysiloxane segment and/or a polydimethyl siloxane segment, and (3) a urethane bond, and the layer A has a glass transition temperature of from ?30 to 0° C. A second multilayer film contains a layer A on at least one surface of a base film, in which the layer A has a scratch recovery time of 3 seconds or less at a temperature of 10° C. A third multilayer film contains a layer B on at least one surface of a base film, in which the layer B has a polycaprolactone segment and a urethane bond, and the layer B has average elongation at break of 65% or more at 80° C. to 150° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: KAZUMORI SONODA, SYUNICHI OSADA, TAKASHI MIMURA
  • Publication number: 20150086671
    Abstract: A width-direction multilayer laminated film having a large area and uniform optical properties is provided. A light guide, a light diffusion film, a light collecting film, a viewing angle control film, and an optical waveguide film, which are low cost and have excellent optical properties, as well as an illuminating device, a communication device, and a display using these films. The laminated film may include at least a structure in which a layer made of resin A (layer A) and a layer made of resin B (layer B) are alternately laminated in the width direction, wherein the width of the film is 400 nm or more and the number of layer Bs, each having a cross-sectional width from 0.1 ?m to 10,000 ?m, is 10 or larger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: TAKAYUKI UTO, SYUNICHI OSADA
  • Patent number: 8980432
    Abstract: A first multilayer film is a multilayer film which contains a layer A on at least one surface of a base film, in which the layer A has (1) a polycaprolactone segment, (2) a polysiloxane segment and/or a polydimethyl siloxane segment, and (3) a urethane bond, and the layer A has a glass transition temperature of from ?30 to 0° C. A second multilayer film contains a layer A on at least one surface of a base film, in which the layer A has a scratch recovery time of 3 seconds or less at a temperature of 10° C. A third multilayer film contains a layer B on at least one surface of a base film, in which the layer B has a polycaprolactone segment and a urethane bond, and the layer B has average elongation at break of 65% or more at 80° C. to 150° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazumori Sonoda, Syunichi Osada, Takashi Mimura
  • Publication number: 20150064428
    Abstract: A multi-layer laminated film includes layers composed using a thermoplastic resin A and layers composed using a thermoplastic resin B, which A layers and B layers are alternately laminated in 51 or more layers, wherein the film has: a heat shrinkage stress of 0.5 MPa to 5 MPa at 150° C. in the longitudinal and width directions of the film; and a heat shrinkage stress kick-off temperature of 110° C. or lower in at least one of the longitudinal and width directions of the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yuji Matsuo, Takayuki Uto, Syunichi Osada, Wataru Goda
  • Publication number: 20150023054
    Abstract: A reflective film includes a first section in which a layer including a resin A and a layer including a resin B are alternately laminated in 200 layers or more, and a second section including a resin C which meets at least one of (I) to (III), the sections arranged laminatedly in the thickness direction, wherein relative average reflectance at a wavelength of 400 to 700 nm of light incident upon the first section side arranged laminatedly is 70% or more, and the reflectance of a specular reflection component is 10% or more of the relative average reflectance: (I) voidage in the second section is 5% to 90%; (II) content of inorganic particles in the second section is 5% to 50% by mass; and (III) content of organic particles in the second section is 3% to 45% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Wataru Goda, Shigetoshi Maekawa, Syunichi Osada, Kozo Takahashi, Hitomi Furukawa, Teruya Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20140303316
    Abstract: A laminated film has a layer (A) on at least one side of a base film, wherein resin contained in the layer (A) has (1) a (poly)caprolactone segment and (2) a urethane bond and, in measurement using a micro hardness tester, a maximum displacement amount in a thickness direction of the layer (A) is 1.0 to 3.0 ?m and a creep displacement amount in the thickness direction of the layer (A) is 0.2 to 0.5 ?m when a load of 0.5 mN is applied for 10 seconds, and a permanent displacement amount in the thickness direction of the layer (A) is 0.3 to 0.65 ?m when the load is released to 0 mN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Kazumori Sonoda, Syunichi Osada, Takashi Mimura, Yoshihiro Masuda, Norifumi Miwa, Takayoshi Kirimoto, Ippei Ozeki
  • Publication number: 20140171598
    Abstract: A laminated film includes a substrate film and layer A provided at least on one side thereof, layer A containing (1) a (poly)caprolactone segment and (2) a urethane bond, wherein a distilled water contact angle on layer A and a diiodomethane contact angle on layer A are 95° or more, but less than 120° and 70° or more, but less than 87°, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Masuda, Syunichi Osada, Kazumori Sonoda, Takashi Mimura
  • Publication number: 20140127485
    Abstract: A multilayer film includes 50 or more layers of each of two or more thermoplastic resins having different optical properties are alternately laminated with each other, wherein the average reflectance in a wavelength range of 900 to 1,200 nm is 70% or higher; both of the differences between the a* values (?a*) and between the b* values (?b*), respectively, of transmitted light incoming at an angle of 12° and of transmitted light incoming at an angle of 45° are 10 or less; and the multilayer film comprises a bandwidth of not less than 50 nm where the transmittance is 80% or lower in a wavelength range of 400 to 800 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Uto, Syunichi Osada, Wataru Gouda, Yuji Matsuo
  • Patent number: 8404335
    Abstract: A laminated film includes a structure where each 200 layers or more of a layer composed of a resin A (A layer) and a layer composed of a resin B (B layer) are alternately laminated, wherein a relative reflectance in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 1000 nm is 30% or more, tensile stresses at 100% elongation in a longitudinal direction and a width direction of the film are 3 MPa or more and 90 MPa or less in a tensile test at 150° C., and the number of layers with a layer pair-thickness of 120 nm or more and less than 220 nm is 1.05 times or more to 2.5 times or less the number of layers with a layer-thickness of 220 nm or more and 320 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Syunichi Osada, Wataru Gouda
  • Patent number: 8388331
    Abstract: A liquid flow converging device and a method of manufacturing a multi-layer film. The converging device comprises an element (A) having a large number of slits for passing two liquid flows to be converged therethrough and an element (B) having a first converging part for converging, in a laminar form, a large number of laminar liquid flows formed by passing the liquid flows through the large number of slits to form a first laminar liquid flow. The converging device for the liquid flow comprises a first confluence forming device having two or more elements (A) installed independently of each other and two or more elements (B) installed independently of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Syunichi Osada, Yoshiharu Furuno, Fumiyasu Nomura
  • Publication number: 20130040133
    Abstract: A first multilayer film is a multilayer film which contains a layer A on at least one surface of a base film, in which the layer A has (1) a polycaprolactone segment, (2) a polysiloxane segment and/or a polydimethyl siloxane segment, and (3) a urethane bond, and the layer A has a glass transition temperature of from ?30 to 0° C. A second multilayer film contains a layer A on at least one surface of a base film, in which the layer A has a scratch recovery time of 3 seconds or less at a temperature of 10° C. A third multilayer film contains a layer B on at least one surface of a base film, in which the layer B has a polycaprolactone segment and a urethane bond, and the layer B has average elongation at break of 65% or more at 80° C. to 150° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazumori Sonoda, Syunichi Osada, Takashi Mimura
  • Patent number: 8349439
    Abstract: An ornamental film reflects an image on the surface of the film with high image clarity and having a deep and glossy jet-black color like the outer appearance of pianos. The film is a multilayered film including at least one resin layer (A layer) containing a black component; and at least one substantially colorless and transparent resin layer (B layer); the A layer having a thickness of not less than 20 ?m and not more than 300 ?m; the B layer having a thickness of not less than 0.5 ?m and not more than 200 ?m; the A layer and the B layer being arranged adjacently to each other; surface roughness Ra of at least one side surface of the film being not less than 1 nm and not more than 25 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Syunichi Osada, Kazunori Sonoda, Norifumi Matsubara
  • Patent number: 8313827
    Abstract: A laminated film with 200 or more laminated layers which include at least layers comprising a resin A and layers comprising a resin B where, taking the layers comprising the resin A having a layer thickness from 10 nm to 1000 nm as a layer group L, the layer group L has layers La, Lb and Lc and, in the direction from one surface to the other, these are arranged in the order of the layer La, the layer Lb, and the layer Lc, the thicknesses of the layers La and Lc are the same and at least 30 layers, each layer comprising the resin A, are included between the layer La and the layer Lc, and the thickness of the layer La is at least 1.4-fold or more and 0.7-hold or less the thickness of the layer Lb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Syunichi Osada, Wataru Gouda
  • Publication number: 20120171437
    Abstract: A molding film from which a laminate showing no washout of a print layer or disturbance of layers can be obtained at low cost and a molded body using such a film. In the molding film, a layer made of a resin having a glass transition temperature of not less than 150° C. is formed between a layer made of a thermoplastic resin and a print layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Uto, Syunichi Osada