Patents by Inventor Tadayoshi Itoh
Tadayoshi Itoh 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: 11453207Abstract: Provided is a heat-shrinkable multilayer film including: an outer surface layer including a thermoplastic resin; an intermediate layer including a polyamide resin; and an inner surface layer including a sealable resin; the total thickness of the heat-shrinkable multilayer film being from 95 to 160 ?m; the thickness of the intermediate layer including the polyamide resin being from 17 to 47 ?m; the thickness of the inner surface layer being 55 ?m or greater; and the ratio of the thickness of the intermediate layer including the polyamide resin to the total thickness of the heat-shrinkable multilayer film being from 18 to 29%. The heat-shrinkable multilayer film of the present invention has high strength and excellent flexibility. Therefore, the heat-shrinkable multilayer film of the present invention is easily stretched and formed, and can be suitably used as a variety of packaging materials including a food packaging material.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: KUREHA CORPORATIONInventors: Shota Nambu, Ichiro Kitada, Tadayoshi Itoh
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Patent number: 11345124Abstract: A heat-shrinkable multilayer film according to the present invention is obtained by laminating an inner surface layer that contacts contents, an adhesive layer, and an intermediate layer that is adjacent to the adhesive layer, in this order from an inner side to an outer side. The inner surface layer contains an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, the adhesive layer contains an acid-modified ethylene-based copolymer, and the intermediate layer contains a polyamide-based resin.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: KUREHA CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro Kitada, Tadayoshi Itoh, Shota Nambu
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Publication number: 20200055290Abstract: Provided is a heat-shrinkable multilayer film including: an outer surface layer including a thermoplastic resin; an intermediate layer including a polyamide resin; and an inner surface layer including a sealable resin; the total thickness of the heat-shrinkable multilayer film being from 95 to 160 ?m; the thickness of the intermediate layer including the polyamide resin being from 17 to 47 ?m; the thickness of the inner surface layer being 55 ?m or greater; and the ratio of the thickness of the intermediate layer including the polyamide resin to the total thickness of the heat-shrinkable multilayer film being from 18 to 29%. The heat-shrinkable multilayer film of the present invention has high strength and excellent flexibility. Therefore, the heat-shrinkable multilayer film of the present invention is easily stretched and formed, and can be suitably used as a variety of packaging materials including a food packaging material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: KUREHA CORPORATIONInventors: Shota NAMBU, Ichiro KITADA, Tadayoshi ITOH
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Publication number: 20190375200Abstract: A heat-shrinkable multilayer film according to the present invention is obtained by laminating an inner surface layer that contacts contents, an adhesive layer, and an intermediate layer that is adjacent to the adhesive layer, in this order from an inner side to an outer side. The inner surface layer contains an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, the adhesive layer contains an acid-modified ethylene-based copolymer, and the intermediate layer contains a polyamide-based resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2018Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventors: Ichiro KITADA, Tadayoshi ITOH, Shota NAMBU
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Patent number: 10414565Abstract: A heat-shrinkable multilayer film for being filled with contents, comprising an outer surface layer (A) comprising a heat-resistant thermoplastic resin, an intermediate layer (B) comprising a polyamide-based resin, an inner surface layer (D) comprising an ethylene-based copolymer, and adhesion strength between inner surface layers after treatment with 80° C. hot water being not less than 10 N/15 mm. The polyamide-based heat-shrinkable multilayer film obtained in this manner has optimal characteristics for applications that primarily require strength, and has greatly improved self-weldability demanded in packaging films for meat products such as fresh and processed meats.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: KUREHA CORPORATIONInventors: Tadayoshi Itoh, Yuta Sekiya, Hisanori Tobita
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Publication number: 20190077562Abstract: A heat shrinkable stretched multilayer film for skin packaging comprising a crosslinked resin layer, a gas barrier resin layer, and a heat sealing resin layer sequentially arranged in this order from the outer side, and having dry thermal shrinkage rate of 10 to 55% in each of the machine direction (MD) and of the transverse direction (TD) at 120° C., and tensile elongation at break of 190% or greater in the machine direction at 120° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Applicant: KUREHA CORPORATIONInventors: Shota NAMBU, Hisanori TOBITA, Tadayoshi ITOH
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Publication number: 20170355500Abstract: A heat shrinkable stretched multilayer film for skin packaging comprising a crosslinked resin layer, a gas barrier resin layer, and a heat sealing resin layer sequentially arranged in this order from the outer side, and having dry thermal shrinkage rate of 10 to 55% in each of the machine direction (MD) and of the transverse direction (TD) at 120° C., and tensile elongation at break of 190% or greater in the machine direction at 120° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2015Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: SHOTA NAMBU, HISANORI TOBITA, TADAYOSHI ITOH
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Patent number: 9566768Abstract: The invention has for its object to provide a heat-shrinkable laminated film for deep drawing, which has an increased carbon dioxide transmission rate (CO2TR) and an enhanced ratio (CO2TR/O2TR) of carbon dioxide transmission rate-to-oxygen transmission rate (O2TR), and is less susceptible to pinholes. In the inventive heat-shrinkable laminated film for deep drawing, a polyamide resin composition layer (a) containing a polyamide resin mixture comprising 60 to 95% by mass of an aliphatic polyamide resin (A) and 5 to 40% by mass of a polyamide base resin (B) having a heat of crystalline fusion of 5 to 40 J/g is laminated onto a heat-sealing resin layer (a) containing a polyolefin resin via an adhesive resin layer (b).Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: KUREHA CORPORATIONInventors: Seiichi Ibe, Tadayoshi Itoh, Hitoshi Ishii
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Publication number: 20160152390Abstract: A heat-shrinkable multilayer film for being filled with contents, comprising an outer surface layer (A) comprising a heat-resistant thermoplastic resin, an intermediate layer (B) comprising a polyamide-based resin, an inner surface layer (D) comprising an ethylene-based copolymer, and adhesion strength between inner surface layers after treatment with 80° C. hot water being not less than 10 N/15 mm. The polyamide-based heat-shrinkable multilayer film obtained in this manner has optimal characteristics for applications that primarily require strength, and has greatly improved self-weldability demanded in packaging films for meat products such as fresh and processed meats.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2014Publication date: June 2, 2016Inventors: TADAYOSHI ITOH, YUTA SEKIYA, HISANORI TOBITA
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Patent number: 9352395Abstract: A polyamide resin-based heat-shrinkable multilayer film having excellent heat shrinkability and strength, as well as a high degree of deep A polyamide resin-based heat-shrinkable multilayer film having excellent heat shrinkability and strength, as well as a high degree of deep drawability as represented a shorter side-basis draw ratio (D/L) in excess of 0.6 between a maximum draw depth (D) and a shorter side length (L) of a mold opening is provided. The multilayer film is characterized by including a surface layer (a) comprising a thermoplastic resin, an intermediate layer (b) comprising a polyamide resin, and a surface layer (c) comprising a sealable resin, wherein (A) the intermediate layer (b) comprises a mixture of an aliphatic polyamide having a melting point of at least 180° C., and an amorphous aromatic polyamide comprising a polycondensation product of an aliphatic diamine with is ophthalmic acid and terephthalic acid as main acid components, including 25-45 wt.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: KUREHA CORPORATIONInventors: Takahisa Ueyama, Tadayoshi Itoh, Yuta Sekiya
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Patent number: 9204666Abstract: A food packaging method is provided in which food is packaged in a package with use of carbon dioxide to benefit from bacteriostatic effects and the food package contains the minimum reduced gas spaces and thereby has a volume substantially equal to the food volume. Tightly-fitting food packages are obtained by the method. A tightly-fitting food package is obtained by: placing at least one kind of foods selected from the group consisting of meats and processed meats in a plastic film package; blowing a carbon dioxide gas in the package to fill the package with the carbon dioxide gas in a volume of 10 to 45 cm3 per 100 g of the food as measured at 0° C. and 1 atm; and sealing and refrigerating the package.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: KUREHA CORPORATIONInventors: Seiichi Ibe, Tsuyoshi Ayaki, Hitoshi Ishii, Tadayoshi Itoh, Akihiro Tayama
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Publication number: 20140041337Abstract: A food packaging method is provided in which food is packaged in a package with use of carbon dioxide to benefit from bacteriostatic effects and the food package contains the minimum reduced gas spaces and thereby has a volume substantially equal to the food volume. Tightly-fitting food packages are obtained by the method. A tightly-fitting food package is obtained by: placing at least one kind of foods selected from the group consisting of meats and processed meats in a plastic film package; blowing a carbon dioxide gas in the package to fill the package with the carbon dioxide gas in a volume of 10 to 45 cm3 per 100 g of the food as measured at 0° C. and 1 atm; and sealing and refrigerating the package.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: Kureha CorporationInventors: Seiichi Ibe, Tsuyoshi Ayaki, Hitoshi Ishii, Tadayoshi Itoh, Akihiro Tayama
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Publication number: 20130136906Abstract: A polyamide resin-based heat-shrinkable multilayer film having excellent heat shrinkability and strength, as well as a high degree of deep A polyamide resin-based heat-shrinkable multilayer film having excellent heat shrinkability and strength, as well as a high degree of deep drawability as represented a shorter side-basis draw ratio (D/L) in excess of 0.6 between a maximum draw depth (D) and a shorter side length (L) of a mold opening is provided. The multilayer film is characterized by including a surface layer (a) comprising a thermoplastic resin, an intermediate layer (b) comprising a polyamide resin, and a surface layer (c) comprising a sealable resin, wherein (A) the intermediate layer (b) comprises a mixture of an aliphatic polyamide having a melting point of at least 180° C., and an amorphous aromatic polyamide comprising a polycondensation product of an aliphatic diamine with is ophthalmic acid and terephthalic acid as main acid components, including 25-45 wt.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2010Publication date: May 30, 2013Inventors: Takahisa Ueyama, Tadayoshi Itoh, Yuta Sekiya
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Publication number: 20120101294Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a (fluoroalkylthio)acetic acid ester represented by the formula (3) wherein R, R1 and R2 have the same meanings as defined below, which comprises reacting a thioglycolic acid ester represented by the formula (1) wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, with fluoroolefin represented by the formula (2) wherein R2 represents a fluoroalkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, in the presence of a radical generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Inventors: Masaji Hirota, Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Tadayoshi Itoh
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Patent number: 7993713Abstract: A heat shrinkable multilayer film comprising an outer surface layer (a) formed of a thermoplastic resin, a first intermediate layer (b1) formed of a polyamide resin, a second intermediate layer (b2) formed of a saponified product of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, and an inner surface layer (c) formed of a polyolefin resin, wherein the shrink of the heat shrinkable multilayer film in water at 90° C. is within a range of from 3 to 45% in each of machine and transverse directions, and the polyamide resin is a mixture of 60 to 90% by weight of an aliphatic polyamide having a melting point of 210° C. or higher and 10 to 40% by weight of an aromatic polyamide comprising isophthalic acid and terephthalic acid as main components.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Kureha CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Ishii, Seiichi Ibe, Tadayoshi Itoh, Shigeyoshi Nakaki
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Publication number: 20110129576Abstract: The invention has for its object to provide a heat-shrinkable laminated film for deep drawing, which has an increased carbon dioxide transmission rate (CO2TR) and an enhanced ratio (CO2TR/O2TR) of carbon dioxide transmission rate-to-oxygen transmission rate (O2TR), and is less susceptible to pinholes. In the inventive heat-shrinkable laminated film for deep drawing, a polyamide resin composition layer (a) containing a polyamide resin mixture comprising 60 to 95% by mass of an aliphatic polyamide resin (A) and 5 to 40% by mass of a polyamide base resin (B) having a heat of crystalline fusion of 5 to 40 J/g is laminated onto a heat-sealing resin layer (a) containing a polyolefin resin via an adhesive resin layer (b).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2008Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: Kureha CorporationInventors: Seiichi Ibe, Tadayoshi Itoh, Hitoshi Ishii
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Patent number: 7887903Abstract: The present invention provides a laminated film including at least two layers of an outer layer having a printed portion on a surface and an inner layer subjected to an antifogging treatment in which principal resin comprising a solid content of the printed portion is made of chlorinated polypropylene-based resin or urethane-based resin. This antifog laminated film hardly degrades in an antifogging property even when the antifog laminated film subjected to printing on the outer layer of a surface subjected to the antifogging treatment and the printed surface are strongly brought into contact with each other due to an operation of winding the film into a roll or the like.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2005Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Kureha CorporationInventors: Tsutomu Uehara, Takeo Omori, Tadayoshi Itoh
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Publication number: 20100104701Abstract: A food packaging method is provided in which food is packaged in a package with use of carbon dioxide to benefit from bacteriostatic effects and the food package contains the minimum reduced gas spaces and thereby has a volume substantially equal to the food volume. Tightly-fitting food packages are obtained by the method. A tightly-fitting food package is obtained by: placing at least one kind of foods selected from the group consisting of meats and processed meats in a plastic film package; blowing a carbon dioxide gas in the package to fill the package with the carbon dioxide gas in a volume of 10 to 45 cm3 per 100 g of the food as measured at 0° C. and 1 atm; and sealing and refrigerating the package.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Inventors: Seiichi Ibe, Tsuyoshi Ayaki, Hitoshi Ishii, Tadayoshi Itoh, Akihiro Tayama
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Publication number: 20090136726Abstract: A heat shrinkable multilayer film comprising an outer surface layer (a) formed of a thermoplastic resin, a first intermediate layer (b1) formed of a polyamide resin, a second intermediate layer (b2) formed of a saponified product of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, and an inner surface layer (c) formed of a polyolefin resin, wherein the shrink of the heat shrinkable multilayer film in water at 90° C. is within a range of from 3 to 45% in each of machine and transverse directions, and the polyamide resin is a mixture of 60 to 90% by weight of an aliphatic polyamide having a melting point of 210° C. or higher and 10 to 40% by weight of an aromatic polyamide comprising isophthalic acid and terephthalic acid as main components.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2007Publication date: May 28, 2009Applicant: Kureha CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Ishii, Seiichi Ibe, Tadayoshi Itoh, Shigeyoshi Nakaki
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Publication number: 20070212549Abstract: The present invention provides a laminated film including at least two layers of an outer layer having a printed portion on a surface and an inner layer subjected to an antifogging treatment in which principal resin comprising a solid content of the printed portion is made of chlorinated polypropylene-based resin or urethane-based resin. This antifog laminated film hardly degrades in an antifogging property even when the antifog laminated film subjected to printing on the outer layer of a surface subjected to the antifogging treatment and the printed surface are strongly brought into contact with each other due to an operation of winding the film into a roll or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2005Publication date: September 13, 2007Inventors: Tsutomu Uehara, Takeo Omori, Tadayoshi Itoh