Patents by Inventor Tomoaki Shinchi

Tomoaki Shinchi 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: 20240101774
    Abstract: The method includes: a) a step of stacking and shaping a prepreg according to the shape of a surface of the structure; b) a step of vacuum-pressurizing the stacked and shaped prepreg; c) a step of heating and curing the vacuum-pressurized prepreg to produce a cured product of the prepreg; and d) a step of bonding the cured product to the surface of the structure. The prepreg includes: a resin composition including an ethylenically unsaturated group-containing resin (A) and a polymerization initiator (B); and reinforcement fibers (C). The polymerization initiator (B) has a 10-hour half-life temperature of 60° C. to 75° C. This method for reinforcing and repairing the structure allows a structure having excellent workability and excellent mechanical strength to be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoaki Shinchi
  • Publication number: 20240101776
    Abstract: Provided is a prepreg including: a resin composition including a urethane (meth)acrylate (A), a polymerization initiator (B), and an amine catalyst (C); and reinforcement fibers (D). The urethane (meth)acrylate (A) is a reaction product of a polyisocyanate compound (al) and a hydroxyl group-containing compound (a2), the polyisocyanate compound (a1) including polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanate and diphenylmethane diisocyanate, the hydroxyl group-containing compound (a2) including a compound having a hydroxyl group and a (meth)acryloyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Katou, Tomoaki Shinchi
  • Patent number: 11760849
    Abstract: Provided is a prepreg resin composition, containing: a urethane (meth)acrylate (A) that is a reaction product of polyisocyanate (a1), polyol (a2), and hydroxy alkyl (meth)acrylate (a3); a polymerization initiator (B); and a thermoplastic resin (C), as an essential component, in which the polyisocyanate (a1) is at least one polyisocyanate selected from 2,4?-diphenyl methane diisocyanate, 4,4?-diphenyl methane diisocyanate, a carbodiimide modified product of 4,4?-diphenyl methane diisocyanate, and polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanate. The prepreg resin composition of the invention is excellent in molding properties, and is capable of forming a molded article excellent in various physical properties such as flexibility, impact resistance, and heat resistance, and thus, can be preferably used in a prepreg and a molded article thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuko Takikawa, Tomoaki Shinchi
  • Publication number: 20230278299
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a molded article obtained by double belt press molding a thermosetting prepreg, in which the thermosetting prepreg is coated with a release film during molding, and a width of the prepreg is 1 to 25 mm smaller than that of the release film. This manufacturing method suppresses burr generation and fiber twisting, and is excellent in width restriction, and thus can be suitably used for, for example, automobile members, railroad vehicle members, aerospace machine members, ship members, household equipment members, sporting goods members, light vehicle members, building and civil engineering members, and housings for OA equipment and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoaki SHINCHI
  • Publication number: 20230108269
    Abstract: The present invention provides a prepreg including a radical polymerizable resin composition, containing at least a radical polymerizable resin and a polymerization initiator, and a fiber substrate. The prepreg is characterized in that both surfaces of the prepreg are coated with a film having an oxygen permeability of 200 (ml/m2·24 h·atm) or less. The prepreg can suppress the delay of the proceeding of curing reaction after storage at room temperature, can allow curing reaction to properly proceed during heating of the prepreg, can suppress the occurrence of a molding defect, and can produce a molded product having excellent workability, and thus can be preferably used for an automobile member, a rail vehicle member, an aerospace plane member, a civil engineering and construction member, a casing of an OA device, and the like, and can be particularly preferably used for an automobile member, a housing equipment member, a sport member, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Shinchi, Takashi Yasumura
  • Publication number: 20230042045
    Abstract: Provided is a prepreg containing a urethane (meth)acrylate (A), a polymerization initiator (B), and reinforcement fibers (C), characterized in that the polymerization initiator (B) is an alkyl peroxy ester compound having a 10-hour half-life temperature of 60° C. or higher and lower than 70° C. The prepreg has excellent storage stability and excellent moldability, even under the low-temperature molding condition of 110° C. or lower, and enables to obtain a molded article having excellent physical properties such as interlaminar shear strength. Therefore, the prepreg can be suitably used in automobile components, railway vehicle components, aerospace craft components, ship components, housing equipment components, sporting components, light vehicle components, building and civil engineering components, and casings of OA equipment and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Katou, Tomoaki Shinchi
  • Publication number: 20220403126
    Abstract: Provided is a prepreg containing a urethane (meth)acrylate (A), an ethylenically unsaturated monomer (B), a polymerization initiator (C), and reinforcement fibers (D), characterized in that the urethane (meth)acrylate (A) is a reaction product of a polyisocyanate (a1) and a polyol (a2) having an ethylenically unsaturated group and an aromatic skeleton, and/or a reaction product of a polyisocyanate (a1), a polyol (a3) not having an ethylenically unsaturated group but having an aromatic skeleton, and a hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate (a4), and that the ethylenically unsaturated monomer (B) has a molecular weight of 320 or more and a weight reduction rate (%) of less than 2 when heated under atmospheric pressure at 150° C. for 3 minutes. The prepreg has excellent moldability and enables to produce a molded article having excellent physical properties such as flexural strength and interlaminar shear strength, and therefore the prepreg can be suitably used in automobile components and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yasumura, Tomoaki Shinchi
  • Patent number: 11479630
    Abstract: Provided is a prepeg resin composition, containing: a urethane (meth)acrylate (A) that is a reaction product of polyisocyanate (a1), polyol (a2), and hydroxy alkyl (meth)acrylate (a3); and a polymerization initiator (B), as an essential component, in which the polyisocyanate (a1) is at least one polyisocyanate selected from 2,4?-diphenyl methane diisocyanate, 4,4?-diphenyl methane diisocyanate, a carbodiimide modified product of 4,4?-diphenyl methane diisocyanate, and polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanate, and the polyol (a2) has an aromatic-ring and an oxyalkylene structure. The prepreg resin composition of the invention is excellent in workability and molding properties, and is capable of forming a molded article excellent in various physical properties such as external appearance and heat resistance, and thus, can be preferably used in a prepreg and a molded article thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuko Takikawa, Tomoaki Shinchi
  • Publication number: 20200385539
    Abstract: Provided is a prepreg resin composition, containing: a urethane (meth)acrylate (A) that is a reaction product of polyisocyanate (a1), polyol (a2), and hydroxy alkyl (meth)acrylate (a3); a polymerization initiator (B); and a thermoplastic resin (C), as an essential component, in which the polyisocyanate (a1) is at least one polyisocyanate selected from 2,4?-diphenyl methane diisocyanate, 4,4?-diphenyl methane diisocyanate, a carbodiimide modified product of 4,4?-diphenyl methane diisocyanate, and polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanate. The prepreg resin composition of the invention is excellent in molding properties, and is capable of forming a molded article excellent in various physical properties such as flexibility, impact resistance, and heat resistance, and thus, can be preferably used in a prepreg and a molded article thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Yuko Takikawa, Tomoaki Shinchi
  • Patent number: 10793690
    Abstract: Provided is a prepreg including: a urethane (meth)acrylate that is a reaction product of a polyisocyanate compound comprising a polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanate as an essential component with a hydroxyl group-containing compound comprising, as an essential component, a compound having a hydroxyl group and a (meth)acryloyl group; a polymerization initiator; and carbon fibers. The prepreg is excellent in workability and molding property and can form molded products excellent in various physical properties such as interlayer shear strength and heat resistance. Thus, the prepreg is suitable for use in various molded articles including automotive members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuko Takikawa, Tomoaki Shinchi, Iwao Hattori
  • Publication number: 20200270410
    Abstract: Provided is a prepeg resin composition, containing: a urethane (meth)acrylate (A) that is a reaction product of polyisocyanate (a1), polyol (a2), and hydroxy alkyl (meth)acrylate (a3); and a polymerization initiator (B), as an essential component, in which the polyisocyanate (a1) is at least one polyisocyanate selected from 2,4?-diphenyl methane diisocyanate, 4,4?-diphenyl methane diisocyanate, a carbodiimide modified product of 4,4?-diphenyl methane diisocyanate, and polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanate, and the polyol (a2) has an aromatic-ring and an oxyalkylene structure. The prepreg resin composition of the invention is excellent in workability and molding properties, and is capable of forming a molded article excellent in various physical properties such as external appearance and heat resistance, and thus, can be preferably used in a prepreg and a molded article thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Yuko Takikawa, Tomoaki Shinchi
  • Publication number: 20200198221
    Abstract: Provided is a sheet winding molding method including winding a thermosetting prepreg around a substrate while heating the thermosetting prepreg, wherein the time taken to form a next layer of the thermosetting prepreg on a layer of the wound thermosetting prepreg is shorter than the gel time of the prepreg at the temperature of the wound thermosetting prepreg. The sheet winding molding method is advantageous not only in that the method has excellent productivity, but also in that a molded article having excellent physical properties, such as excellent interlaminar shear strength, can be obtained by the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Tomoaki SHINCHI, Yasushi KAWANO, Shinichi NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20190092915
    Abstract: Provided is a prepreg including: a urethane (meth)acrylate that is a reaction product of a polyisocyanate compound comprising a polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanate as an essential component with a hydroxyl group-containing compound comprising, as an essential component, a compound having a hydroxyl group and a (meth)acryloyl group; a polymerization initiator; and carbon fibers. The prepreg is excellent in workability and molding property and can form molded products excellent in various physical properties such as interlayer shear strength and heat resistance. Thus, the prepreg is suitable for use in various molded articles including automotive members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Yuko Takikawa, Tomoaki Shinchi, Iwao Hattori
  • Publication number: 20190002659
    Abstract: Provided is a prepreg containing a urethane-modified epoxy (meth)acrylate (A) that is a reaction product of an epoxy (meth)acrylate (a1) having an average of 1.8 to 2.6 hydroxy groups and a polyisocyanate (a2) having an average of 2 to 3 isocyanate groups, an ethylenically unsaturated monomer (B), a polymerization initiator (C), and reinforcing fibers (D) as essential components, in which the molar ratio (NCO/OH) of isocyanate groups (NCO) in the polyisocyanate (a2) to hydroxy groups in the epoxy (meth)acrylate (a1) is 0.6 to 1.1, and the proportion of the ethylenically unsaturated monomer (B) in the total mass of the epoxy (meth)acrylate (a1) and the ethylenically unsaturated monomer (B) is 10% to 50% by mass. The prepreg has good workability and good moldability and can be appropriately used for various molded articles such as automotive members because various excellent physical properties such as interlaminar shear strength and heat resistance are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoaki SHINCHI, Takashi YASUMURA, Makoto KIMURA
  • Patent number: 8673991
    Abstract: The two-part curable polyurethane foam resin composition uses little or no petroleum-derived raw materials but a plant-derived raw material so that the biomass ratio can be improved, the load on the environment can be reduced, and excellent physical characteristics can be exhibited. The two-part curable polyurethane foam resin composition includes a main agent that contains an isocyanate-terminated urethane prepolymer (A) and a curing agent that contains an isocyanate-reactive compound (B), water (C), and a catalyst (D), in which a polyol component used in (A) and (B) uses a castor oil polyol (b1) having 1.5 to 2.3 functional groups on average and a polyol (b2) prepared by addition polymerization of lactone to polytetramethylene glycol and/or polytetramethylene glycol (b3), the ratio (b1)/(b2) and/or (b3)=15/85 to 60/40 on a mass basis, and a content of the castor oil polyol (b1) is 10 to 45% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Shinchi, Hiroshi Suzaki
  • Patent number: 8545292
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a two-component urethane resin composition for a polishing pad including a base resin containing an isocyanate group-terminated urethane prepolymer (A) and a curing agent containing an isocyanate group reactive compound (B), and characterized in that the prepolymer (A) is a prepolymer having an isocyanate group equivalent of 250 to 700 and being produced by reacting a polyisocyanate (a1) with an aromatic polyester polyol (a2) and a polyether polyol (a3) which are used as polyol components in combination at a mass ratio of (a2)/(a3)=5/95 to 70/30, and the aromatic polyester polyol (a2) has 2 to 11 aromatic rings in its molecular chain, and also relates to a polyurethane polishing pad using the resin composition and a method for producing a polyurethane polishing pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Shinchi, Hiroshi Suzaki
  • Publication number: 20130102697
    Abstract: The two-part curable polyurethane foam resin composition uses little or no petroleum-derived raw materials but a plant-derived raw material so that the biomass ratio can be improved, the load on the environment can be reduced, and excellent physical characteristics can be exhibited. The two-part curable polyurethane foam resin composition includes a main agent that contains an isocyanate-terminated urethane prepolymer (A) and a curing agent that contains an isocyanate-reactive compound (B), water (C), and a catalyst (D), in which a polyol component used in (A) and (B) uses a castor oil polyol (b1) having 1.5 to 2.3 functional groups on average and a polyol (b2) prepared by addition polymerization of lactone to polytetramethylene glycol and/or polytetramethylene glycol (b3), the ratio (b1)/(b2) and/or (b3)=15/85 to 60/40 on a mass basis, and a content of the castor oil polyol (b1) is 10 to 45% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki Shinchi, Hiroshi Suzaki
  • Publication number: 20120202409
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a two-component urethane resin composition for a polishing pad including a base resin containing an isocyanate group-terminated urethane prepolymer (A) and a curing agent containing an isocyanate group reactive compound (B), and characterized in that the prepolymer (A) is a prepolymer having an isocyanate group equivalent of 250 to 700 and being produced by reacting a polyisocyanate (a1) with an aromatic polyester polyol (a2) and a polyether polyol (a3) which are used as polyol components in combination at a mass ratio of (a2)/(a3)=5/95 to 70/30, and the aromatic polyester polyol (a2) has 2 to 11 aromatic rings in its molecular chain, and also relates to a polyurethane polishing pad using the resin composition and a method for producing a polyurethane polishing pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Shinchi, Hiroshi Suzaki