Patents by Inventor Tomoyo Okubo

Tomoyo Okubo 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: 11958939
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution contains: an aqueous solvent containing water; particles; and a polyimide precursor, wherein the polyimide precursor has a high molecular weight region A containing a high molecular weight side maximum value and a low molecular weight region B containing a low molecular weight side maximum value in an elution curve obtained by gel permeation chromatography, a weight average molecular weight in the high molecular weight region A is 50,000 or more, a weight average molecular weight in the low molecular weight region B is 10,000 or more and 30,000 or less, and a value of a/(a+b) is 0.60 or more and 0.98 or less in which a represents an area of the high molecular weight region A and b represents an area of the low molecular weight region B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kosuke Nakada, Shigeru Seitoku, Takeshi Iwanaga, Tomoyo Okubo, Hajime Sugahara, Hidekazu Hirose
  • Publication number: 20240092073
    Abstract: A method for producing a three-dimensional object includes: forming an adhesive part on a portion of a sheet-shaped print medium by an electrophotographic system using a pressure-induced phase transition resin toner that exhibits adhesion when undergoing phase transition under pressure; and forming a three-dimensional part by folding part of the print medium so that the portion of the print medium that has the adhesive part formed thereon is bonded to a different portion of the print medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomoyo Okubo, Shiori Chonan, Kiyohiro Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 11680140
    Abstract: A particle-dispersed polyimide precursor solution contains: a polyimide precursor consisting of a polymer of a tetracarboxylic dianhydride and a diamine containing a fluorene-based diamine having a fluorene skeleton; particles; and an aqueous solvent containing water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hajime Sugahara, Hidekazu Hirose, Kosaku Yoshimura, Tomoya Sasaki, Yasunobu Kashima, Kosuke Nakada, Tomoyo Okubo
  • Publication number: 20220305739
    Abstract: A polyimide porous film includes: a polyimide porous film body; and at least one of resin particles and a resin porous film, the at least one of the resin particles and the resin porous film adhering to one surface or both surfaces of the polyimide porous film body, and containing a fluorine-based resin or containing a fluorine-based resin and an acrylic resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Takeshi IWANAGA, Shigeru SEITOKU, Kosuke NAKADA, Tomoyo OKUBO, Hidekazu HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20220306806
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor film contains a polyimide precursor, in which a total content of a solvent containing water and a solvent other than water in the polyimide precursor film is 5 mass % or more and 40 mass % or less, and a mass ratio of water to the solvent other than water in the polyimide precursor film is 0 or more and 2.5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomoyo OKUBO, Takeshi IWANAGA, Hidekazu HIROSE, Kosuke NAKADA, Hajime SUGAHARA, Shigeru SEITOKU
  • Publication number: 20220267527
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution contains: an aqueous solvent containing water; particles; and a polyimide precursor, wherein the polyimide precursor has a high molecular weight region A containing a high molecular weight side maximum value and a low molecular weight region B containing a low molecular weight side maximum value in an elution curve obtained by gel permeation chromatography, a weight average molecular weight in the high molecular weight region A is 50,000 or more, a weight average molecular weight in the low molecular weight region B is 10,000 or more and 30,000 or less, and a value of a/(a+b) is 0.60 or more and 0.98 or less in which a represents an area of the high molecular weight region A and b represents an area of the low molecular weight region B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kosuke NAKADA, Shigeru SEITOKU, Takeshi IWANAGA, Tomoyo OKUBO, Hajime SUGAHARA, Hidekazu HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20220119596
    Abstract: A particle-dispersed polyimide precursor solution contains a polyimide precursor having a unit represented by the following formula (I), particles, and a solvent, in which the particle-dispersed polyimide precursor solution satisfies both the following conditions (1) and (2), (in the formula (I), A represents a tetravalent organic group, and B represents a divalent organic group represented by any of the following formulas (B1) to (B4)), (in the formulas (B1) to (B4), Ar1, Ar10, and Ar11 each independently represent a trivalent aromatic group which may have a substituent, Ar2, Ar4, Ar5, Ar7 and Ar8 each independently represent a divalent aromatic group which may have a substituent, Ar3 and Ar6 each independently represent a tetravalent aromatic group which may have a substituent or a group represented by the following formula (II), Ar9 represents a divalent aromatic group which may have a substituent or a group represented by the following formula (III), X1 to X7 each independently represent N
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomoya SASAKI, Hidekazu HIROSE, Kosaku YOSHIMURA, Yasunobu KASHIMA, Hajime SUGAHARA, Kosuke NAKADA, Tomoyo OKUBO
  • Publication number: 20220089829
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution, includes: a polyimide precursor; resin particles having a volume average particle diameter of 5 nm or more and 100 nm or less, and having a volume particle size distribution wherein a ratio of a volume frequency of resin particles having a particle diameter of 150 nm or more to a volume frequency of all of the resin particles in the polyimide precursor solution is 5% or less; and an aqueous solvent containing water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Tomoyo OKUBO, Shunsuke NOZAKI, Tomoya SASAKI, Hidekazu HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20220069413
    Abstract: A separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery includes: a polyimide porous film; and adhesive resin particles that are attached to a surface of the polyimide porous film and have a responsiveness to at least one of pressure and heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Kosuke NAKADA, Yasunobu KASHIMA, Kosaku YOSHIMURA, Tomoya SASAKI, Hajime SUGAHARA, Tomoyo OKUBO, Hidekazu HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20220064379
    Abstract: A particle-dispersed polyimide precursor solution contains: a polyimide precursor consisting of a polymer of a tetracarboxylic dianhydride and a diamine containing a fluorene-based diamine having a fluorene skeleton; particles; and an aqueous solvent containing water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hajime SUGAHARA, Hidekazu HIROSE, Kosaku YOSHIMURA, Tomoya SASAKI, Yasunobu KASHIMA, Kosuke NAKADA, Tomoyo OKUBO
  • Patent number: 9957384
    Abstract: Provided is a heat-shrinkable tube having tearability, which is made of a fluororesin, particularly, a tube having excellent tear straightness and high heat-shrinkability at low temperature. The tube is a heat-shrinkable tube having tearability, which includes, as a base resin, a copolymer including at least tetrafluoroethylene and hexafluoropropylene as constituent monomers, and as a resin other than the base resin, a copolymer including at least tetrafluoroethylene and hexafluoropropylene as constituent monomers, in which a thickness of an entanglement unit of a polymer observed at a cross-section in a longitudinal direction of the tube is 9 ?m or less, and has excellent tear straightness and high heat-shrinkability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Junkosha Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Kohei Yuri, Tomoyo Okubo
  • Publication number: 20170058115
    Abstract: Provided is a heat-shrinkable tube having tearability, which is made of a fluororesin, particularly, a tube having excellent tear straightness and high heat-shrinkability at low temperature. The tube is a heat-shrinkable tube having tearability, which includes, as a base resin, a copolymer including at least tetrafluoroethylene and hexafluoropropylene as constituent monomers, and as a resin other than the base resin, a copolymer including at least tetrafluoroethylene and hexafluoropropylene as constituent monomers, in which a thickness of an entanglement unit of a polymer observed at a cross-section in a longitudinal direction of the tube is 9 ?m less, and has excellent tear straightness and high heat-shrinkability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Kohei Yuri, Tomoyo Okubo
  • Patent number: 9464149
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heat-shrinkable tube having tearability, which is made of a fluororesin, and particularly, to a heat-shrinkable tube having excellent tear straightness. Further, the present disclosure relates to a tube having high heat-shrinkage rate at low temperature. A tube including at least a fluororesin as a base resin, in which the thickness of the entanglement unit of a polymer observed on a cross-section in a longitudinal direction of the tube after being shrunk at 200° C. by 35% or more is 1 ?m to 9 ?m, has excellent tear straightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Junkosha Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Kohei Yuri, Tomoyo Okubo
  • Publication number: 20160222145
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heat-shrinkable tube having tearability, which is made of a fluororesin, and particularly, to a heat-shrinkable tube having excellent tear straightness. Further, the present disclosure relates to a tube having high heat-shrinkage rate at low temperature. A tube including at least a fluororesin as a base resin, in which the thickness of the entanglement unit of a polymer observed on a cross-section in a longitudinal direction of the tube after being shrunk at 200° C. by 35% or more is 1 ?m to 9 ?m, has excellent tear straightness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Kohei Yuri, Tomoyo Okubo