Patents by Inventor Takeshi Watase
Takeshi Watase 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: 20240083364Abstract: A vehicle article storage structure includes an article storage box (13) provided with an opening (33a) on the upper side forgetting articles in and out, a housing unit (15) provided on the lower side of an instrument panel (3) to house the article storage box (13), and links (35, 37, and 39) configured to movably support the article storage box (13) along a range from a housed position at which the article storage box (13) is housed in the housing unit (15) to a drawn position at which the article storage box (13) is drawn in a vehicle compartment rearward direction from the housed position via an intermediate position at which the article storage box (13) is located between the housed position and the drawn position, the intermediate position being located below the housed position and the drawn position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2020Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Marelli CorporationInventors: Takeshi Nishimura, Shota Watase, Tomohiro Watanabe, Masato Abe, Masami Kikuchi
-
Patent number: 11897230Abstract: The present invention relates to a surface-treated metal sheet for polyolefin resin bonding having a metal substrate and an adhesive layer laminated on at least one surface of the metal substrate with a chemical conversion coating film interposed between the metal substrate and the adhesive layer. This surface-treated metal sheet for polyolefin resin bonding is characterized in that a coating liquid for forming the chemical conversion coating film contains an acid-modified polyolefin resin, a colloidal silica, and a silane coupling agent; a coating amount of the chemical conversion coating film is 0.05 to 3 g/m2 in terms of dry mass; the adhesive layer contains an acid-modified polyolefin resin; and the adhesive layer has a thickness of 5 to 100 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Hirano, Takeshi Watase, Tetsuya Yamamoto
-
Patent number: 11642871Abstract: A surface-treated metal sheet for adhesion to polyolefin includes a metal sheet, and a resin layer provided on at least one surface of the metal sheet. The resin layer contains an acid- modified polyolefin, the acid-modified polyolefin contains a first acid-modified polyolefin having an acid value of 5 mgKOH/g or less, particularly 4 to 5 mgKOH/g, and a second acid- modified polyolefin having an acid value of 20 mgKOH/g or more and a melting point of higher than 90° C., and a difference between a melting point of the first acid-modified polyolefin and the melting point of the second acid-modified polyolefin is 0° C. or more and less than 40° C. The resin layer has a surface roughness of 12 ?m or less in terms of arithmetic average roughness Ra.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Hirano, Tatsuhiko Iwa, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Takeshi Watase
-
Patent number: 10982330Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a chemical conversion coated metal sheet for non-condensed thermoplastic resin bonding, the chemical conversion coated metal sheet including a metal substrate and a chemical conversion coating film disposed on at least one surface of the metal substrate, in which the chemical conversion coating film is obtained by coating the metal substrate with a coating liquid that contains an ethylene-acrylic acid copolymer, colloidal silica, and a silane coupling agent. The ethylene-acrylic acid copolymer has an acrylic acid content of 10 mass % or more and a melt flow rate of 80 g/10 min or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Hirano, Takeshi Watase, Tetsuya Yamamoto
-
Publication number: 20200316912Abstract: The present invention relates to a surface-treated metal sheet for polyolefin resin bonding having a metal substrate and an adhesive layer laminated on at least one surface of the metal substrate with a chemical conversion coating film interposed between the metal substrate and the adhesive layer. This surface-treated metal sheet for polyolefin resin bonding is characterized in that a coating liquid for forming the chemical conversion coating film contains an acid-modified polyolefin resin, a colloidal silica, and a silane coupling agent; a coating amount of the chemical conversion coating film is 0.05 to 3 g/m2 in terms of dry mass; the adhesive layer contains an acid-modified polyolefin resin; and the adhesive layer has a thickness of 5 to 100 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2017Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Yasuo HIRANO, Takeshi WATASE, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO
-
Publication number: 20200023616Abstract: A surface-treated metal sheet for adhesion to polyolefin includes a metal sheet, and a resin layer provided on at least one surface of the metal sheet. The resin layer contains an acid-modified polyolefin, the acid-modified polyolefin contains a first acid-modified polyolefin having an acid value of 5 mgKOH/g or less and a second acid-modified polyolefin having an acid value of 20 mgKOH/g or more and a melting point of higher than 90° C., and a difference between a melting point of the first acid-modified polyolefin and the melting point of the second acid-modified polyolefin is 0° C. or more and less than 40° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Yasuo HIRANO, Tatsuhiko IWA, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Takeshi WATASE
-
Publication number: 20190375194Abstract: A surface-treated metal sheet for polyolefin adhesion is provided with a metal sheet, a first layer provided on at least one surface of the metal sheet, and a second layer provided on the first layer, wherein the first layer containing an epoxy resin and a blocked isocyanate, the second layer containing an acid-modified polyolefin resin, the thickness of the first layer being 15 to 40 ?m, and the thickness of the second layer being 4 to 30 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2018Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)Inventors: Yasuo HIRANO, Tatsuhiko IWA, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Takeshi WATASE
-
Patent number: 10399300Abstract: Provided are: a surface-treated metal sheet that is useful when integrating a molded plastic (resin) article and a metal sheet during injection molding; and a metal sheet-resin composite molded article in which the metal sheet and a resin molded article are integrated. The surface-treated metal sheet consists of a laminate having a metal substrate, a chemical conversion coating film and an adhesive layer in order, and is characterized in that the chemical conversion coating film contains colloidal silica and a thermosetting resin.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: KOBE STEEL, LTD.Inventors: Yasuo Hirano, Takeshi Watase, Tatsuhiko Iwa
-
Publication number: 20190112714Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a chemical conversion coated metal sheet for non-condensed thermoplastic resin bonding, the chemical conversion coated metal sheet including a metal substrate and a chemical conversion coating film disposed on at least one surface of the metal substrate, in which the chemical conversion coating film is obtained by coating the metal substrate with a coating liquid that contains an ethylene-acrylic acid copolymer, colloidal silica, and a silane coupling agent. The ethylene-acrylic acid copolymer has an acrylic acid content of 10 mass % or more and a melt flow rate of 80 g/10 min or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2017Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Yasuo HIRANO, Takeshi WATASE, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO
-
Publication number: 20190084274Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a chemical conversion coated metal sheet including a metal substrate and a chemical conversion coating film laminated on at least one surface of the metal substrate, in which the chemical conversion coating film contains a water-soluble resin, and a lubricant having carbon-oxygen bonds; a thickness of the chemical conversion coating film is 0.2 to 1?m; and the lubricant includes 1 atom % or more of carbon atoms configuring the carbon-oxygen bonds relative to a total of carbon atoms contained in the lubricant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Yasuo HIRANO, Takeshi WATASE, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO
-
Publication number: 20180123065Abstract: An organic electronic device provided with an organic electronic element on one surface of a substrate, wherein the substrate has a metal layer and an insulating layer overlaid on at least one face side of the metal layer, and the one face of the substrate does not have an irregularity peak having a K value of equal to or lower than ?0.07 as calculated by expression (1). In the expression (1), x represents an irregularity peak position when a line roughness analysis is conducted on a 10 ?m square on the one face of the substrate with an interval of 2.45 nm, f(x) represents a surface irregularity height (nm) at x, and dx represents an infinitesimal change in x. K=[f(x+dx)?2f(x)+f(x?dx)]/dx2 . . .Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2016Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Yoko SHIDA, Masao MIZUNO, Yasuo HIRANO, Tatsuhiko IWA, Takeshi WATASE
-
Publication number: 20180079178Abstract: A surface-treated metal sheet which is used for insert molding and in which a hot melt adhesive layer is laminated on at least one side of a metal substrate, where the hot melt adhesive layer has a thickness of 10 to 100 ?m; the hot melt adhesive layer contains a high melting point crystalline modified polypropylene having a melting point of 120° C. or higher and a low melting point crystalline modified polypropylene having a melting point of lower than 120° C.; and the rate of change of tensile shear adhesion strength measured at 23° C. of a metal sheet-resin composite molded article obtained when uniting a polypropylene-based resin and the surface-treated metal sheet by insert molding while varying mold temperature is 2 MPa or less per ° C. of mold temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Tatsuhiko IWA, Takeshi WATASE, Yasuo HIRANO
-
Publication number: 20160243794Abstract: Provided are: a surface-treated metal sheet that is useful when integrating a molded plastic (resin) article and a metal sheet during injection molding; and a metal sheet-resin composite molded article in which the metal sheet and a resin molded article are integrated. The surface-treated metal sheet consists of a laminate having a metal substrate, a chemical conversion coating film and an adhesive layer in order, and is characterized in that the chemical conversion coating film contains colloidal silica and a thermosetting resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2014Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Yasuo HIRANO, Takeshi WATASE, Tatsuhiko IWA
-
Patent number: 7279218Abstract: Disclosed is a coated body for members of an electronic device, comprising a substrate covered, on the surface side and back side thereof, with respective thermal radiative coatings having thermal radiation property, wherein a difference ?T1 (=T1B?T1A) between Temperature T1A, at Position T1, of the coated body used as a sample and Temperature T1B, at Position T2, of the substrate not covered with a coating used as another sample is 1.5° C. or greater, said temperatures being measured using a thermal radiation property evaluating apparatus illustrated in FIG. 1; and whereby satisfying its essential properties (maintenance of air tightness to block water or dust and reduction in size and weight), while reducing the temperature inside of the members of an electronic device (thermal radiation property).Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2004Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Watase, Yasuo Hirano, Kazuo Okumura, Tetsuya Yamamoto
-
Publication number: 20060182948Abstract: Disclosed is a resin coated metal sheet for use in electronic equipment components which can provide excellent microwave absorbability and workability by coating a magnetic coating film containing from 20 to 60 mass % of a magnetic powder at a thickness of 3 to 50 ?m on at least one surface of a metal sheet and, optionally, also has a favorable heat releasing property; a heat releasing property and a self-cooling property; scratch resistance and fingerprint resistance; and electrical conductivity, and which is particularly useful as a constituent material as a casing for electronic equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2004Publication date: August 17, 2006Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Takeshi Watase, Yasuo Hirano, Takuya Kusaka
-
Patent number: 6927243Abstract: The present invention relates to a photocurable resin composition which contains a photocurable component and forms on a substrate a photocurable resin layer having a viscosity of 1000-500,000 Pa·s at 23° C. and 65% RH. This resin composition is formed into a photocurable resin layer, which is laminated onto a metal sheet to give a metal sheet with a photocurable resin layer laminated thereon. This metal sheet can be worked and converted into a metal part with a high-hardness protective coating laminated thereon upon irradiation with light or electron beams after working.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2002Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Watase, Yasuo Hirano, Kazuo Okumura, Atsushi Kihara, Yukihisa Komiya, Tadashige Nakamoto, Takahiro Kobayashi, Takeshi Ohwaki, Mika Nishida, Etsuji Ueno
-
Publication number: 20050163983Abstract: Disclosed is a coated body for members of an electronic device, comprising a substrate covered, on the surface side and back side thereof, with respective thermal radiative coatings having thermal radiation property, wherein a difference ?T1 (=T1B?T1A) between Temperature T1A, at Position T1, of the coated body used as a sample and Temperature T1B, at Position T2, of the substrate not covered with a coating used as another sample is 1.5° C. or greater, said temperatures being measured using a thermal radiation property evaluating apparatus illustrated in FIG. 1; and whereby satisfying its essential properties (maintenance of air tightness to block water or dust and reduction in size and weight), while reducing the temperature inside of the members of an electronic device (thermal radiation property).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2004Publication date: July 28, 2005Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho(Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Takeshi Watase, Yasuo Hirano, Kazuo Okumura, Tetsuya Yamamoto
-
Patent number: 6607844Abstract: Provided are a Zn—Mg electroplated metal sheet excellent in corrosion resistance, formability and productivity, and a fabrication process therefor. The Zn—Mg electroplated metal sheet comprises a Zn—Mg electroplated layer including Mg and Zn, the Zn being a main component, formed on at least one surface of a metal substrate material. The Zn—Mg electroplated layer shows more excellent corrosion resistance by including a C component therein. The Zn—Mg electroplated metal sheet can be fabricated by performing electroplating with an acidic aqueous solution including metal salts of Zn and Mg, and in addition, a surface active agent.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2000Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Kuniyasu Araga, Hiroo Shige, Masatoshi Iwai, Takeshi Watase, Yutaka Kitou
-
Publication number: 20030099841Abstract: The present invention relates to a photocurable resin composition which contains a photocurable component and forms on a substrate a photocurable resin layer having a viscosity of 1000-500,000 Pa·s at 23° C. and 65% RH. This resin composition is formed into a photocurable resin layer, which is laminated onto a metal sheet to give a metal sheet with a photocurable resin layer laminated thereon. This metal sheet can be worked and converted into a metal part with a high-hardness protective coating laminated thereon upon irradiation with light or electron beams after working.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2002Publication date: May 29, 2003Inventors: Takeshi Watase, Yasuo Hirano, Kazuo Okumura, Atsushi Kihara, Yukihisa Komiya, Tadashige Nakamoto, Takahiro Kobayashi, Takeshi Ohwaki, Mika Nishida, Etsuji Ueno
-
Publication number: 20020160180Abstract: Disclosed herein is a metal sheet with anticorrosive coating which exhibits outstanding corrosion resistance, pitting corrosion resistance, and red rust resistance. It has the anticorrosive coating on at least one side thereof. The anticorrosive coating is formed from an anticorrosive paint which contains a metallic zinc powder and at least one kind of metal salt rust inhibitor. The metal salt is a salt of a metal which is more base than zinc. The metal sheet may be a steel sheet. The metal salt rust inhibitor may be a phosphate or a phosphomolybdate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2002Publication date: October 31, 2002Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd)Inventors: Takayuki Yamamoto, Hiroo Shige, Takeshi Watase, Masafumi Shimizu