Patents by Inventor Takashi Kodama
Takashi Kodama 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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Publication number: 20100195311Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an optical layered body which can attain properties such as an antiglare property, scintillation prevention and black color reproducibility such as gloss blackness simultaneously. An optical layered body comprising a light-transmitting substrate and an antiglare layer provided on the light-transmitting substrate, wherein the antiglare layer has a surface roughness on the outermost surface, and wherein in the optical layered body, a mean spacing of tops of local peak of profile S is 0.045 mm or more and 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2007Publication date: August 5, 2010Inventors: Gen Furui, Yukimitsu Iwata, Takashi Kodama, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Koichi Mikami
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Publication number: 20100097705Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing an optical laminate in which properties such as a glare-proof property, an antidazzle property, and a black reproducible property for obtaining, for example, glossy black, can be simultaneously obtained. Manufacturing equipment for the optical laminate is also provided. The method for manufacturing an optical laminate having a light-transmitting substrate and a glare-proof layer formed on the light-transmitting substrate comprises a step of forming the glare-proof layer having an uneven shape on the light-transmitting substrate. When an average pitch of the surface unevenness of the optical laminate is denoted by Sm, an average slope angle of the unevenness by ?a, and an average roughness of the unevenness by Rz, the uneven shape satisfies the following conditions: Sm is greater than or equal to 50 ?m and less than 100 ?m; ?a is greater than or equal to 0.1 degrees and less than or equal to 1.0 degree; and Rz exceeds 0.2 ?m and is less than or equal to 1.0 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2007Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co. LTdInventors: Gen Furui, Yukimitsu Iwata, Takashi Kodama, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Koichi Mikami
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Publication number: 20100091374Abstract: There is provided an optical laminate which has anti-dazzling properties and can realize excellent glare preventive properties and black reproducibility (gradation rendering of black at low brightness). The optical laminate comprises: a light transparent base material and an anti-dazzling layer or a light diffusion layer provided on the light transparent base material, wherein the outermost surface of the anti-dazzling layer or light diffusion layer has a concavoconvex surface, and the anti-dazzling layer satisfies the following requirements: Sm is not less than 100 ?m and not more than 600 ?m, ?a is not less than 0.1 degree and not more than 1.2 degrees, and Rz is more than 0.2 ?m and not more than 1 ?m, wherein Sm represents the average spacing of concavoconvexes in the anti-dazzling layer; ?a represents the average inclination angle of the concavoconvexes; and Rz represents the average roughness of the concavoconvexes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2006Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co, Ltd.Inventors: Yukimitsu Iwata, Koichi Mikami, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Takashi Kodama
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Patent number: 7661832Abstract: An optical laminate having a light transparent base material and an anti-dazzling layer provided on the light transparent base material, wherein the outermost surface of the anti-dazzling layer has a concavoconvex surface. The concavoconvex shape simultaneously satisfies the following formulae (I) 1.2??a?2.5 and (II) 0.004???0.18, wherein ?a represents the average inclination angle of the concavoconvex part; Rz represents the average roughness of concavoconvexes; Sm represents the average spacing of the concavoconvexes; and ? represents the ratio, between Rz and Sm, defined by ?=Rz/Sm. The optical laminate has an internal haze value of not less than 0% and not more than 50%, and the optical laminate has a surface haze value of not less than 0.5% and not more than 4.5%.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2006Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukimitsu Iwata, Koichi Mikami, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Takashi Kodama
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Publication number: 20090268299Abstract: Disclosed is an anti-dazzling laminate which has anti-dazzling properties and can realize excellent glare preventive properties and black color reproducibility (gradation rendering of black color at low brightness). The anti-dazzling laminate is an optical laminate comprises a light transparent base material and an anti-dazzling layer provided on the light transparent base material, wherein the outermost surface of the anti-dazzling layer has a concavoconvex shape, and the optical laminate satisfies the following requirements: Ha is more than 0% and less than 90%, Hi is more than 0% and less than 90%, and Hi/Ha is not less than 0.8 and less than 1.0, wherein Ha represents the whole haze value of the optical laminate; and Hi represents the internal haze value of the optical laminate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2007Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gen Furui, Yukimitsu Iwata, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Takashi Kodama
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Patent number: 7595276Abstract: The present invention provides a catalytic composition for oxychlorination excellent in the fluidity, the capability of suppressing lowering of the fluidity, and the attrition resistance as well as in the selectivity for EDC and the capability of suppressing combustion of ethylene. The catalytic composition for oxychlorination contains silica alumina particles in the range from 5 to 40 wt % when expressed as an oxide thereof, copper in the range from 5 to 20 wt % when expressed as an oxide thereof (CuO), and alumina as a carrier in the range from 40 to 90 wt % when expressed as that of Al2O3. The silica alumina particles are prepared by coating silica particles with alumina, and have the average particle diameter in the range from 3 to 100 nm. A content of alumina in the silica alumina particles is in the range from 0.1 to 10 wt %.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2008Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: JGC Catalysts and Chemicals Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Kodama, Tsuguo Koyanagi
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Publication number: 20090075074Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an optical layered body which is produced at low cost and is superior in all an antistatic property, hardness and optical properties such as haze and a total light transmittance. An optical layered body comprising a light-transmitting substrate and a hard coat layer formed on the light-transmitting substrate, wherein the hard coat layer is a resin layer formed from a hard coat layer-forming composition containing a quaternary ammonium salt having a weight average molecular weight of 1000 to 50000, a tri- or morefunctional (meth)acrylate compound having a weight average molecular weight of 700 or less, and a permeable solvent; and a content of the quaternary ammonium salt in the hard coat layer is 0.5 to 18% by weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyuki Horio, Yukimitsu Iwata, Takashi Kodama, Mariko Hayashi, Kenji Ueno, Atsuhiro Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Ogawa, Yuichi Takaura, Junya Eguchi, Kiyotaka Matsui
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Publication number: 20090061165Abstract: The present invention provides an anti-dazzling laminate which has anti-dazzling properties and can realize excellent glare preventive properties and black color reproducibility (gradation rendering of black color at low brightness). The optical laminate comprises a light transparent base material and an anti-dazzling layer provided on the light transparent base material. The outermost surface of the anti-dazzling layer has a concavoconvex surface, and the average spacing S determined by calculation based on data obtained by measuring a roughness curve of a concacoconvex shape of the anti-dazzling layer is not less than 0.04 mm and not more than 0.30 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2006Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukimitsu Iwata, Koichi Mikami, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Takashi Kodama
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Publication number: 20090052043Abstract: An optical laminate having a light transparent base material and an anti-dazzling layer provided on the light transparent base material, wherein the outermost surface of the anti-dazzling layer has a concavoconvex surface. The concavoconvex shape simultaneously satisfies the following formulae (I) 1.2??a?2.5 and (II) 0.004???0.18, wherein ?a represents the average inclination angle of the concavoconvex part; Rz represents the average roughness of concavoconvexes; Sm represents the average spacing of the concavoconvexes; and ? represents the ratio, between Rz and Sm, defined by ?=Rz/Sm. The optical laminate has an internal haze value of not less than 0% and not more than 50%, and the optical laminate has a surface haze value of not less than 0.5% and not more than 4.5%.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2006Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukimitsu Iwata, Koichi Mikami, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Takashi Kodama
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Publication number: 20090036299Abstract: The present invention provides a catalytic composition for oxychlorination excellent in the fluidity, the capability of suppressing lowering of the fluidity, and the attrition resistance as well as in the selectivity for EDC and the capability of suppressing combustion of ethylene. The catalytic composition for oxychlorination contains silica alumina particles in the range from 5 to 40 wt % when expressed as an oxide thereof, copper in the range from 5 to 20 wt % when expressed as an oxide thereof (CuO), and alumina as a carrier in the range from 40 to 90 wt % when expressed as that of Al2O3. The silica alumina particles are prepared by coating silica particles with alumina, and have the average particle diameter in the range from 3 to 100 nm. A content of alumina in the silica alumina particles is in the range from 0.1 to 10 wt %.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: JGC CATALYSTS AND CHEMICALS LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kodama, Tsuguo Koyanagi
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Publication number: 20090021834Abstract: An anti-dazzling laminate formed from an optical laminate having a light transparent base material and an anti-dazzling layer provided on the light transparent base material. The optical laminate is produced by providing the light transparent base material and forming the anti-dazzling layer having a concavoconvex shape on the light transparent base material, wherein the concavoconvex shape of the anti-dazzling layer satisfies the following requirements: Sm is not less than 100 ?m and not more than 600 ?m, ?a is not less than 0.1 degree and not more than 1.2 degrees, and Rz is more than 0.2 ?m and not more than 1 ?m, wherein Sm represents the average spacing of concavoconvexes (or profile irregularities) in the anti-dazzling layer; ?a represents the average inclination angle of the concavoconvexes (or profile irregularities); and Rz represents the average roughness of the concavoconvexes (or profile irregularities).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2006Publication date: January 22, 2009Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukimitsu Iwata, Koichi Mikami, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Takashi Kodama
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Publication number: 20090015926Abstract: In view of the above state of the art, it is an object of the present invention to provide an optical layered body which can prevent the agglomeration of silica particles and form the desired surface roughness on the surface. An optical layered body comprising a light-transmitting substrate and an antiglare layer having a surface roughness on its surface, wherein said antiglare layer is a resin layer containing an organic particle and a nonspherical silica, and a weight ratio of organic particle/nonspherical silica is from 1/10 to 60/10.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukimitsu Iwata, Gen Furui, Takashi Kodama, Mariko Hayashi, Sanae Yoshida, Kiyoshi Itoh
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Publication number: 20090011411Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide partial sequences of endogenous wheat DNA (genome) which are single copies and which allow wheat to be specifically detected without cross-reacting with other plants in PCR, and to provide primers for amplifying these partial sequences, along with a good method for detecting and quantifying endogenous DNA using these primers. The present invention provides, in a method for detecting or quantifying an endogenous wheat DNA sequence in a test sample by means of a polymerase chain reaction, a method comprising a step of using a nucleic acid in the test sample or a nucleic acid extracted from the test sample as a template to amplify the nucleic acid of a region comprising at least 80% or more of a nucleotide sequence represented by one of SEQ ID NO:1 through SEQ ID NO:7 using a primer pair capable of amplifying that region, and a step of detecting or quantifying the amplified nucleic acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2005Publication date: January 8, 2009Inventors: Akihiro Hino, Takashi Kodama, Mayu Iida, Hirohito Yamakawa, Satomi Nozaki, Katsuyuki Hayakawa
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Publication number: 20090002831Abstract: An anti-dazzling laminate made of an optical laminate including a light transparent base material and an anti-dazzling layer having a concavoconvex shape provided on the material. The laminate simultaneously satisfies formulae: 0?G100?15 (I), 0.1?Hs?5.0 (II), 0.3?Rz?1.8 (III) wherein G100 represents a scintillation value which is a standard deviation of a variation in brightness distribution at a resolution of 100 ppi measured on the surface of the laminate; Hs represents the surface haze value of the laminate; and Rz represents the average roughness of the concavoconvex shape of the anti-dazzling layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2006Publication date: January 1, 2009Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichi Mikami, Yukimitsu Iwata, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Takashi Kodama
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Publication number: 20080289738Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pneumatic tire which prevents one-sided biased abrasion from being generated. A pneumatic tire according to the present invention has a non-directed rotational direction and comprises rug grooves 20 cutting across a land portion at a shoulder side of a tread portion 16 at both sides in a tire width direction. Each of the rug grooves 20 has a tapered groove portion 21 such that the groove width gradually becomes narrower such that a trapezoidal block portion 22 having a short side at the shoulder side as seen from a tire tread surface side is formed between the rug grooves 20 in a tire peripheral direction. The tapered groove portion 21 is formed so as to extend beyond a one quarter point Q from a tread end T. Accordingly, since in whichever direction the pneumatic tire 10 is rotated, a rug angle ? of a trailing end near the one quarter point Q becomes 90 degrees or less, it is possible to prevent one-sided biased abrasion from being generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2005Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Yoichi Nakamura, Takashi Kodama
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Publication number: 20080260997Abstract: There is provided an anti-dazzling laminate which has anti-dazzling properties, has a high level of transparency by virtue of freedom from a milky-white impression caused by light diffusion, and can realize excellent black color reproducibility and scintillation preventive properties. The anti-dazzling laminate is an optical laminate comprising a light transparent base material and an anti-dazzling layer provided on the light transparent base material, wherein the outermost surface of the anti-dazzling layer has a concavoconvex shape, and the optical laminate satisfies the following requirements: Ha is more than 0% and less than 8%, Hi is more than 0% and not more than 6%, and Hi/Ha is not less than 0.013 and less than 0.8, wherein Ha represents the whole haze value of the optical laminate; and Hi represents the internal haze value of the optical laminate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukimitsu Iwata, Gen Furui, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Takashi Kodama
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Publication number: 20080218865Abstract: An optical laminate produced by a process for producing an anti-dazzling laminate comprising a light transparent base material and an anti-dazzling layer provided on the light transparent base material. The process includes providing the light transparent base material and forming the anti-dazzling layer having a concavoconvex shape on the light transparent base material, wherein the concavoconvex shape of the anti-dazzling layer satisfies the following requirements: Sm is not less than 100 ?m and not more than 600 ?m, ?a is not less than 0.1 degree and not more than 1.2 degrees, and Rz is more than 0.2 ?m and not more than 1 ?m, wherein Sm represents the average spacing of concavoconvexes or profile irregularities in the anti-dazzling layer; ?a represents the average inclination angle of the concavoconvexes or profile irregularities; and Rz represents the average roughness of the concavoconvexes or profile irregularities.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2006Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukimitsu Iwata, Koichi Mikami, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Takashi Kodama
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Publication number: 20080174875Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an optical layered body which improves an preventing scintillation property, gloss blackness, color reproducibility (preventing coloring and interference fringe) while maintaining antistatic performance and an antiglare property. An optical layered body comprising an antistatic layer, an antiglare layer and a low refractive index layer in an order on a light-transmitting substrate, wherein said antistatic layer is a resin thin layer containing antimony-doped tin oxide and a diffusion filler, and having surface roughness on its surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2008Publication date: July 24, 2008Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukimitsu Iwata, Gen Furui, Takashi Kodama, Mariko Hayashi, Sanae Yoshida, Kiyoshi Itoh
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Patent number: 7161446Abstract: A noise filter includes a laminate body including magnetic layers, line conductors and ground conductors, with one line conductor and one ground conductor alternately arranged in interfaces between the magnetic layers. With an electrical signal applied to the line conductors with the ground conductors grounded, a high-frequency noise is attenuated using a magnetic loss of the magnetic layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2005Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuyuki Uchida, Hidetoshi Yamamoto, Takashi Kodama, Kazuhiko Takenaka, Takehiko Otsuki
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Publication number: 20060028303Abstract: A noise filter includes a laminate body including magnetic layers, line conductors and ground conductors, with one line conductor and one ground conductor alternately arranged in interfaces between the magnetic layers. With an electrical signal applied to the line conductors with the ground conductors grounded, a high-frequency noise is attenuated using a magnetic loss of the magnetic layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2005Publication date: February 9, 2006Inventors: Katsuyuki Uchida, Hidetoshi Yamamoto, Takashi Kodama, Kazuhiko Takenaka, Takehiko Otsuki