Patents by Inventor Tomoharu Hirose

Tomoharu Hirose 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: 10947666
    Abstract: A leather-like fabric has a feel of natural nubuck leather and a napped feel and air permeability of suede leather, as well as high wear resistance. The leather-like fabric includes a fibrous structure including ultrafine fibers having an average monofilament fineness of 0.0001 dtex or more and 0.5 dtex or less, at least one surface of the fibrous structure being napped, the napped surface having resin layers located discontinuously, and each of the resin layers containing two or more layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoharu Hirose, Akihito Tsukamoto, Katsuya Okajima, Masaru Masaki
  • Patent number: 10435838
    Abstract: A dyed artificial leather includes a fibrous base containing ultrafine fibers with a filament fineness of 2 decitex or less and a polymeric elastomer, and characterized in that the lightness difference ?L* between the ultrafine fibers and the polymeric elastomer represented by the following equation meet the requirement of ?16??L*?5: ?L*=(average lightness L* of ultrafine fibers)?(average lightness L* of polymeric elastomer). A production method for dyed artificial leather includes a first dying step in which artificial leather constituted mainly of a fibrous base containing ultrafine fibers with a filament fineness of 2 decitex or less and a polymeric elastomer is dyed using a dye and a subsequent second dyeing step performed at a dye concentration that is 0.1% to 30% of the dye concentration (owf) in the first dyeing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaru Masaki, Katsuya Okajima, Tomoharu Hirose, Ai Suzuki, Satoshi Yanagisawa
  • Publication number: 20190210335
    Abstract: A composite sheet includes: a skin sheet including a sheet product made of ultrafine fibers having an average monofilament diameter of 0.1 to 10 ?m and an elastomer, and a woven or knitted fabric that are laminated on each other, and the skin sheet and the woven or knitted fabric are laminated on each other with a resin layer containing a flame retardant and an adhesive layer interposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Shunichi Kimura, Tomoharu Hirose, Yukihiro Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20180230645
    Abstract: A leather-like fabric has a feel of natural nubuck leather and a napped feel and air permeability of suede leather, as well as high wear resistance. The leather-like fabric includes a fibrous structure including ultrafine fibers having an average monofilament fineness of 0.0001 dtex or more and 0.5 dtex or less, at least one surface of the fibrous structure being napped, the napped surface having resin layers located discontinuously, and each of the resin layers containing two or more layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Tomoharu Hirose, Akihito Tsukamoto, Katsuya Okajima, Masaru Masaki
  • Publication number: 20170183815
    Abstract: The present invention provides an artificial leather including an entangled fiber mass of ultrafine fibers having a monofilament fineness of 0.01 dtex or more and 0.50 dtex or less and a polymeric elastomer; wherein at least one surface is napped; the cross-sectional profile curve of the napped surface has an arithmetic mean height Pa of 26 ?m or more and 100 ?m or less; the arithmetic mean height Pa of the cross-sectional profile curve of the opposite surface is 20% or more and 80% or less of the cross-sectional roughness Pa of the napped side; the existence frequency of asperity peaks found in the cross-sectional profile curve of the napped surface is 1.8 or more and 20 or less per 1.0 mm; and a woven or knitted fabric lamination is present near the opposite surface at a depth position of 10% or more and 50% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Akito Kuroda, Tomoharu Hirose, Masaru Ueno, Koji Yamano, Katsuya Okajima, Yukihiro Matsuzaki, Yu Matsuoka, Hajime Nishimura, Satoshi Yanagisawa
  • Publication number: 20170022659
    Abstract: A dyed artificial leather includes a fibrous base containing ultrafine fibers with a filament fineness of 2 decitex or less and a polymeric elastomer, and characterized in that the lightness difference ?L* between the ultrafine fibers and the polymeric elastomer represented by the following equation meet the requirement of ?16??L*?5: ?L*=(average lightness L* of ultrafine fibers)?(average lightness L* of polymeric elastomer). A production method for dyed artificial leather includes a first dying step in which artificial leather constituted mainly of a fibrous base containing ultrafine fibers with a filament fineness of 2 decitex or less and a polymeric elastomer is dyed using a dye and a subsequent second dyeing step performed at a dye concentration that is 0.1% to 30% of the dye concentration (owf) in the first dyeing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Masaru Masaki, Katsuya Okajima, Tomoharu Hirose, Ai Suzuki, Satoshi Yanagisawa