Patents by Inventor Takamichi GOTO

Takamichi GOTO 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).

  • Publication number: 20250188234
    Abstract: The invention provides a polyamide film having excellent water resistance as a packaging bag, excellent cold formability, and excellent warp resistance and that inhibits dimensional accuracy from being reduced due to springback after forming. The polyamide film is a biaxially oriented polyamide film comprising 5-90 mass % of polyamide 6 and 10-95 mass % of polyamide resin derived from biomass, wherein a content of radiocarbon (C14) is 10%-95% with respect to a total content of carbon, the biaxially oriented polyamide film has a piercing strength of 0.71-1.0 N/?m, the biaxially oriented polyamide film has a piercing strength of 0.40 N/?m or more after retort treatment is performed at 115° C. for 30 minutes, and the biaxially oriented polyamide film has a heat shrinkage rate of 3.0% or less in each of an MD direction and a TD direction after being heated at 160° C. for ten minutes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamichi GOTO, Noboru TAMARI, Ayame TORII
  • Publication number: 20250187306
    Abstract: It is provided that a polyamide film which has excellent cold formability regardless of a position in the width direction at which the film is taken, and further inhibits dimensional accuracy from being reduced due to springback after forming, and has excellent warp resistance. A biaxially oriented polyamide film comprising 60 mass % or more of polyamide 6, and satisfying (a) a piercing strength measured in accordance with JIS Z 7102 is 0.5 N/?m or more and 1.0 N/?m or less, (b) a heat shrinkage rate at 160° C. is 3.0% or less in each of an MD direction and a TD direction, and (c) a stress attenuation rate is 12.0% or more in each of the MD direction and the TD direction in a tensile stress relaxation test at 25° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamichi GOTO, Kazushige UEDA, Ayame TORII
  • Publication number: 20250162295
    Abstract: Provided is a polyamide film that not only has excellent cold formability regardless of the film's position in the width direction, but also has excellent warpage resistance with less deterioration in dimensional accuracy after forming due to springback. In particular, the invention provides a biaxially oriented polyamide film containing 60% by mass or more of polyamide 6, (a) having a piercing strength of 0.5 N/?m or more and 1.0 N/?m or less measured in accordance with JIS Z 7102, (b) having a heat shrinkage rate at 160° C. of 3.0% or less in each of the MD direction and the TD direction, and (c) having a stress attenuation rate of 12.0% or more in each of the MD direction and the TD direction in the tensile stress relaxation test at 25° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamichi Goto, Noboru Tamari, Ayame Torii
  • Publication number: 20250073977
    Abstract: The invention provides a carbon-neutral biaxially stretched polyamide film containing a raw material derived from biomass and having high heat-resistance, impact resistance, and folding pinhole resistance, as well as decreased variability in a degree of biomass in the mechanical (longitudinal) direction. The biaxially stretched polyamide film roll contains biaxially stretched polyamide film containing 70-99% by mass of polyamide 6 resin and 1-30% by mass of a polyamide resin in which at least a part of a raw material is derived from biomass, wherein the film roll has a winding length of from 1,000 m to 60,000 m, a width of from 400 mm to 3,000 mm, and variability in a degree of biomass of 15% or less based on radiocarbon 14C measurement of a biaxially stretched polyamide film sample taken from a surface to a core of the film roll at an interval of 1000 m in an MD direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayame TORII, Takamichi GOTO
  • Patent number: 12221518
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a biaxially stretched polyamide film that is excellent in an impact resistance, a folding pinhole resistance and a friction pinhole resistance and that is produced from a raw material derived from a biomass. The present invention relates to a biaxially stretched polyamide film, comprising 99 to 70 mass % of a Polyamide 6 resin and 1 to 30 mass % of a polyamide resin, wherein at least a part of a raw material of the polyamide resin is derived from a biomass, and the biaxially stretched polyamide film meets the following (a) and (b): (a) the number of Gelbo pinhole defect is 10 or less after the biaxially stretched polyamide film is twisted and bent 1000 times at 1° C. using a Gelbo flex tester, (b) a distance leading to a pinhole formation by a friction resistance pinhole test is 2900 cm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuro Endo, Kosuke Hama, Takamichi Goto, Shigetomo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20240359386
    Abstract: A laminated film which has a coating layer and inorganic thin-film layer on one surface of a base material film, and which is characterized by satisfying requirements (a) to (d): (a) The base material film contains a polyester resin that has been chemically recycled from PET bottles. (b) The surface hardness of the laminated film on the inorganic thin-film layer surface is 120 N/mm2 or less. (c) The coefficient of static friction us and the coefficient of dynamic friction ?d of the inorganic thin-film layer surface/opposite-side surface of the laminated film are both within the range of 0.20 to 0.40. (d) The arithmetic mean roughness Ra across a 2 ?m square on the laminated film is within the range of 2.0 to 6.0 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi YAMAZAKI, Takamichi GOTO, Yuya YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240316909
    Abstract: The invention provides a carbon neutral heat-sealable layered film that is excellent in heat resistance, impact resistance, and bending pinhole resistance. The layered film has at least a base material layer and a sealant layer, wherein the base material layer is a biaxially stretched polyamide film in which a layer B is laminated on at least one surface of a layer A, the layer A contains 70%-99% by mass of a polyamide 6 resin, and 1%-30% by mass of a polyamide resin containing a raw material derived from biomass, the layer B contains 70%-100% by mass of a polyamide 6 resin, the sealant layer is an unstretched polyolefin film, and the unstretched polyolefin film contains 70%-95% by mass of a polypropylene-based resin, and 5%-30% by mass of a linear low-density polyethylene resin in which at least a part of a raw material thereof is derived from biomass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayame NAGASAKA, Takamichi GOTO
  • Publication number: 20240218148
    Abstract: The invention provides a biaxially oriented polyester film that is formed of a polyester resin composition containing polyester resin employing recycled PET bottles and particles, and meets all of requirements (1) to (4): (1) crystallization temperature is 120-139° C., (2) amount of change in orientation angle with respect to the film transverse direction is 0-10° per 0.5 m, (3) heat shrinkage rate at 150° C. for 30 minutes is 0.5-2.0% in the machine direction and ?1.0-1.0% in the transverse direction, and (4) content rate of an isophthalic acid component with respect to 100 mol % of total dicarboxylic acid components in the polyester resin composition is 0.01-3.0 mol %. Maximum and minimum values of data for each measurement position are within the range in the requirement (3), and a maximum value of each amount of change between two adjacent sample collection positions is within the range in the requirement (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki MANABE, Takamichi GOTO, Masayuki HARUTA
  • Publication number: 20240165935
    Abstract: A biaxially stretched polyamide film, comprising a layer A containing 50 to 90% by mass of polyamide 6 and 10 to 50% by mass of polyamide 6 copolymer, a layer B containing 5 to 30% by mass of polyamide 6, 70 to 95% by mass of polyamide 6 copolymer and 0 to 0.10% by mass of organic lubricant, and a layer C containing 70% by mass or more of polyamide 6 and 0.05 to 1% by mass of fine particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 10 ?m, wherein layer B, layer A, and layer C are formed in this order; a critical surface tension on the layer B is 27.0 mN/m or higher; and on the surface of the layer B, a dispersion component ?d of surface free energy is 27.0 mJ/m2 or higher and a hydrogen bond component ?h is 10.0 mJ/m2 or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamichi GOTO, Takuro ENDO
  • Publication number: 20230365804
    Abstract: The invention provides a biaxially oriented polyester film roll which has excellent transparency and mechanical characteristics, as well as an excellent ability to be wound up into a roll and/or lubricity during film manufacturing operations, which is environmentally friendly, and which exhibits little variation in physical properties in the machine direction thereof even when in the form of a long film roll, i.e., a roll of long wound length, and a production method therefor. In particular, the invention provides a biaxially oriented polyester film roll, wound up at which there is a biaxially oriented polyester film comprising a polyester resin composition comprising particles and polyester resin recycled by the market and/or society and including PET bottles, the biaxially oriented polyester film roll satisfying predetermined ranges of haze, purge time for air, arithmetic mean height Sa, maximum projecting height Sp, and variation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki MANABE, Takamichi GOTO, Masayuki HARUTA
  • Publication number: 20230340261
    Abstract: It is provided that a biaxially stretched polyamide film that has excellent resistance to pinhole formation due to bending, has excellent resistance to pinhole formation due to repeated contact, has excellent piercing resistance, and further can suppress generation of foreign matter during film formation. A biaxially stretched polyimide film comprising a functional layer (layer B) laminated on at least one surface of a base layer (layer A), wherein the base layer (layer A) contains at least (a) 70 to 99% by mass of a polyamide 6 resin, and (b) 1 to 20% by mass of an aliphatic or aromatic-aliphatic polyester resin, and the functional layer (layer B) contains at least 70% by mass or more of a polyamide 6 resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige UEDA, Takamichi GOTO, Takuro ENDO
  • Patent number: 11794457
    Abstract: A multilayered stretched polyamide film which is biaxially stretched, and comprises three layers composed of a polyamide resin composition and comprising layer B as an easily adhesive layer, layer A as a base layer, and layer C as an easily slippery layer in this order, wherein the film satisfies the following (1) to (4); (1) the layer A contains 50 to 90% by mass of polyamide 6 and 10 to 50% by mass of a polyamide 6 copolymer in which a ratio of a copolymerization component in the copolymer is 3 to 35% by mass; (2) the layer B contains 0 to 40% by mass of polyamide 6 and 60 to 100% by mass of the polyamide 6 copolymer in which a ratio of the copolymerization component in the copolymer is 3 to 35% by mass; (3) the layer C contains 70% by mass or more of polyamide 6 and 0.05 to 1% by mass of fine particles having an average diameter of 0.1 to 10 ?m; (4) the film has tensile strength at break of 150 MPa or more both in MD direction and TD direction; and (5) the film has laminate strength of 3.3 N/15 mm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamichi Goto, Takuro Endo
  • Publication number: 20220339921
    Abstract: It is provided that a biaxially stretched polyamide film that is excellent in oxygen gas barrier property, impact resistance, and bending fatigue resistance, which are film qualities necessary for a packaging film and that is carbon-neutral by using a raw material derived from biomass; and a laminated body using the biaxially stretched polyamide film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamichi GOTO, Takuro ENDO
  • Patent number: 11433653
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a packaging bag having excellent dimensional stability, processability, bag breakage resistance, and chemical resistance, and causing less transfer of an extract to contents. A packaging bag includes a laminated body in which a layer of biaxially stretched polybutylene terephthalate film, having a thickness of 8 to 25 ?m and a polyolefin film sealant layer having a thickness of 10 to 100 ?m are laminated. The biaxially stretched polybutylene terephthalate film satisfies (a) to (c) below: (a) the biaxially stretched polybutylene terephthalate film contains 60% by mass or more of a polybutylene terephthalate resin; (b) a thermal shrinkage of the biaxially stretched polybutylene terephthalate film at 150° C. for 30 minutes is ?2 to +4%; and (c) a total amount of 1,4-butanediol and THF volatilized during heating at a temperature of 135° C. for 60 minutes is 2000 ppb or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takamichi Goto
  • Publication number: 20220266580
    Abstract: A multilayered stretched polyamide film which is biaxially stretched, and comprises three layers composed of a polyamide resin composition and comprising layer B as an easily adhesive layer, layer A as a base layer, and layer C as an easily slippery layer in this order, wherein the film satisfies the following (1) to (4); (1) the layer A contains 50 to 90% by mass of polyamide 6 and 10 to 50% by mass of a polyamide 6 copolymer in which a ratio of a copolymerization component in the copolymer is 3 to 35% by mass; (2) the layer B contains 0 to 40% by mass of polyamide 6 and 60 to 100% by mass of the polyamide 6 copolymer in which a ratio of the copolymerization component in the copolymer is 3 to 35% by mass; (3) the layer C contains 70% by mass or more of polyamide 6 and 0.05 to 1% by mass of fine particles having an average diameter of 0.1 to 10 ?m; (4) the film has tensile strength at break of 150 MPa or more both in MD direction and TD direction; and (5) the film has laminate strength of 3.3 N/15 mm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamichi GOTO, Takuro ENDO
  • Publication number: 20220259431
    Abstract: Provided is a gas-barrier polyamide film that has excellent bending pinhole resistance and friction pinhole resistance at the same time, that has excellent gas barrier properties, and that is suitable for use for packaging materials. In addition, the environmental load is reduced by using a plant-derived resin as a raw material. A gas-harrier polyamide film comprising an inorganic thin film layer on at least one surface of a biaxially stretched polyamide film containing 99 to 70% by mass of a polyamide 6 resin and 1 to 30% by mass of a polyamide resin in which at least a part of raw material is derived from biomass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuro ENDO, Takamichi GOTO, Atsushi YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220135752
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a biaxially stretched polyamide film that is excellent in an impact resistance, a folding pinhole resistance and a friction pinhole resistance and that is produced from a raw material derived from a biomass. The present invention relates to a biaxially stretched polyamide film, comprising 99 to 70 mass % of a Polyamide 6 resin and 1 to 30 mass % of a polyamide resin, wherein at least a part of a raw material of the polyamide resin is derived from a biomass, and the biaxially stretched polyamide film meets the following (a) and (b): (a) the number of Gelbo pinhole defect is 10 or less after the biaxially stretched polyamide film is twisted and bent 1000 times at 1° C. using a Gelbo flex tester, (b) a distance leading to a pinhole formation by a friction resistance pinhole test is 2900 cm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuro ENDO, Kosuke HAMA, Takamichi GOTO, Shigetomo YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220064393
    Abstract: The invention provides a laminated film containing at least a base material layer, a covering layer, and an inorganic thin-film layer in this order, wherein (a) the base material layer comprises a resin composition that contains at least 70 mass % of polybutylene terephthalate resin; (b) the laminated film has a piercing strength of 0.6 N/?m or more as measured in accordance with JIS Z 1707 after having undergone a 95° C.-boiling treatment for 30 minutes; (c) the base material layer has a surface orientation degree of 0.144-0.160; and (d) when the value of oxygen transmission rate obtained by measuring the laminated film under a 23° C.×65% RH condition is defined as (A) and the value of oxygen transmission rate obtained by measuring same under a 40° C.×90% RH condition is defined as (B), the barrier value deterioration rate of the laminated film, as calculated as (B/A)×100, is 300% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi YAMAZAKI, Takamichi GOTO, Yukihiro NUMATA
  • Patent number: 11260634
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a packaging bag which is produced from a laminate, which is excellent in straight cut property and which hardly cause a parting, even if the laminate contains a biaxially stretched PBT film having a large distortedness of a molecular orientation axis. The laminate has a biaxially stretched film substrate consisting of a polyester resin composition and a sealant film consisting of a polyolefin resin composition, and has a straight cut property in a longitudinal direction of 5 mm or less. The polyester resin composition contains 60 wt % or more of a polybutylene telephthalate resin, and the polyolefin resin composition contains 40 wt % to 97 wt % of a propylene-ethylene block copolymer, 3 wt % to 10 wt % of an ethylene-propylene copolymer elastomer, and 0 wt % to 50 wt % of an ethylene-?olefin random copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wakato Tomatsu, Takamichi Goto, Tadashi Nishi
  • Publication number: 20210283889
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a packaging bag which is produced from a laminate, which is excellent in straight cut property and which hardly cause a parting, even if the laminate contains a biaxially stretched PBT film having a large distortedness of a molecular orientation axis. The laminate has a biaxially stretched film substrate consisting of a polyester resin composition and a sealant film consisting of a polyolefin resin composition, and has a straight cut property in a longitudinal direction of 5 mm or less. The polyester resin composition contains 60 wt % or more of a polybutylene telephthalate resin, and the polyolefin resin composition contains 40 wt % to 97 wt % of a propylene-ethylene block copolymer, 3 wt % to 10 wt % of an ethylene-propylene copolymer elastomer, and 0 wt % to 50 wt % of an ethylene-?olefin random copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wakato TOMATSU, Takamichi GOTO, Tadashi NISHI