Patents by Inventor Teruhiko Doi

Teruhiko Doi 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: 6384122
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition that may be used to form injection molded articles, including automobile interior trim. The thermoplastic resin composition has a crystalline polypropylene as the main component and has a melt flow index of 25 to 35 g/10 minutes and a flexural modulus at 23° C. of not less than 20,000 kg/cm2 and comprises, in specific proportion: (A) A specific crystalline polypropylene; (B) A specific ethylene-butene-1 copolymer rubber, (C) a specific ethylene-propylene copolymer rubber or (D) a specific vinyl aromatic compound-containing rubber; (E) Talc; And optionally, Fibrous magnesium oxysulfate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignees: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Hirakawa, Kenichi Ohkawa, Teruhiko Doi, Tetsuya Hisayama, Yuichi Miyake, Takeyoshi Nishio
  • Publication number: 20020035191
    Abstract: According to this invention, there is provided a thermoplastic resin composition using a crystalline polypropylene as the main component, satisfying the impact strength and rigidity required as an automobile interior trim material in respect of physical properties, has high flow and good balance between impact strength and rigidity as compared with conventionally used ethylene-propylene copolymer rubber compositions, and being short in molding cycle and good in surface quality in respect of injection moldability, and further provided an injection molded article using the composition, particularly an injection molded article for automobile interior trim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 1998
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Inventors: MANABU HIRAKAWA, KENICHI OHKAWA, TERUHIKO DOI, TETSUYA HISAYAMA, YUICHI MIYAKE, TAKEYOSHI NISHIO
  • Patent number: 6204336
    Abstract: A high rigidity ethylene-propylene block copolymer which is composed of (I) a crystalline polypropylene portion and (II) an ethylene-propylene random copolymer portion, and in which the crystalline polypropylene portion (I) has a Q value of not more than 5 which is the weight average molecular weight (Mw)/number average molecular weight (Mn) ratio obtained by a gel permeation chromatography (GPC) method, an isotactic pentad fraction of not less than 0.98 as calculated from 13C-NMR, and an intrinsic viscosity of 0.6 to 0.88 dl/g as measured at 135° C. in tetralin; the ethylene-propylene random copolymer portion (II) has an intrinsic viscosity of 4.0 to 6.0 dl/g as measured at 135° C. in tetralin and an ethylene/propylene ratio of 25/75 to 35/65 by weight; and when the total of the above polymers ((I)+(II)) is taken as 100% by weight, the content of the ethylene-propylene random copolymer portion (II) is 8 to 22% by weight, and a process for producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignees: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Hirakawa, Kenichi Ohkawa, Teruhiko Doi, Tetsuya Hisayama, Yuichi Miyake, Takeyoshi Nishio
  • Patent number: 6031034
    Abstract: A polypropylene-based resin composition comprising:(A) 50% by weight or more of a polypropylene-based resin;(B) 1 to 40% by weight of an inorganic filler; and(C) 0 to 40% by weight of an ethylene-.alpha.-olefin random copolymer rubber and/or a vinyl aromatic compound-containing rubber, the total amount of (A), (B) and (C) being 100% by weight, and(D) as antistatic agents, a glycerin C.sub.16 -C.sub.18 monofatty acid ester wherein the C.sub.18 content is 50% by weight or more; a diglycerin C.sub.16 -C.sub.18 fatty acid ester wherein the C.sub.18 content C.sub.16 -C.sub.18 alkyldiethanolamine wherein the C.sub.18 content is 50% by weight or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Akihiro Morimoto, Teruhiko Doi, Kenichi Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 5914363
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition which has a melt flow rate of 25 to 30 g/10 min and a flexural modulus at 23.degree. C. of 20,000 kg/cm.sup.2 or more and which comprises (1) 78 to 87% by weight of a specific crystalline polypropylene ?referred to hereinafter as (A)! in which the propylene homopolymer portion has a Q value of 3.0 to 5.0, an isotactic pentad fraction of 0.975 or more and an intrinsic viscosity ?.eta.! of 1.00 to 1.10 dl/g as measured at 135.degree. C. in tetralin, (2) 3 to 10% by weight of at least two specific rubber components selected from the group consisting of (B) 1 to 9% by weight of an ethylene-butene-1 copolymer rubber, (C) 1 to 9% by weight of an ethylene-propylene copolymer rubber and (D) 1 to 9% by weight of an alkenyl aromatic compound-containing rubber; and (3) 10 to 12% by weight of talc having an average particle diameter of 4 .mu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignees: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hajime Sadatoshi, Kenichi Ohkawa, Teruhiko Doi, Yuichi Miyake, Takao Nomura, Takeyoshi Nishio
  • Patent number: 5723527
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition which has a melt flow rate of 20 to 30 g/10 min and a flexural modulus at 23.degree. C. of 30,000 kg/cm.sup.2 or more and which comprises (A) 60 to 75% by weight of a specific crystalline polypropylene in which the propylene homopolymer portion has a Q value of 3.0 to 5.0, an isotactic pentad fraction of 0.975 or more and an intrinsic viscosity ?.eta.! of 0.95 to 1.15 dl/g as measured at 135.degree. C. in tetralin, (B) 2 to 8% by weight of an ethylene-butene-1 copolymer rubber, (C) 2 to 8% by weight of an ethylene-propylene copolymer rubber, (D) 10 to 20% by weight of talc having an average particle diameter of 4 .mu.m or less, and (E) 5 to 20% by weight of fibrous magnesium oxysulfate, and an injection molded article of the thermoplastic resin composition, said thermoplastic resin composition satisfying the impact strength and rigidity required as a material for an instrumental panel and having a short molding cycle and good surface quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignees: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hajime Sadatoshi, Kenichi Ohkawa, Teruhiko Doi, Yuichi Miyake, Takao Nomura, Takeyoshi Nishio