Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Nemoto

Tomoyuki Nemoto 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: 9115277
    Abstract: The purpose is to provide a porous polyolefin resin film which has high gas permeability and a high porosity, and which can exhibit excellent properties including break down properties when used as a separator for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. The present invention relates to a porous polyolefin resin film which is produced from a resin composition (a) containing a polyolefin resin as the main component and additionally containing organic-inorganic hybrid particles (f).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Takagi, Takatoshi Muta, Tomoyuki Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20150233955
    Abstract: In a conventional conveyor line, an empty specimen rack conveyor line is provided separately from a specimen rack conveyor line having a specimen mounted thereon. However, crossing of the conveyor lines leads to the decrease in processing speed. Also, when a specimen rack conveyor line and an empty specimen rack conveyor line are configured on two stages, a vertical movement mechanism or the like needs to be added in order to connect the upper-stage conveyor line and the lower-stage conveyor line, and there is a possibility that the system is complicated and the cost thereof is increased. In the present invention, by connecting an empty holder conveyor line and a main conveyor line disposed up and down on two stages via one conveyor line having a horizontal part and an inclined part, crossing of the conveyor lines can be eliminated and an inexpensive structure can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nemoto, Tatsuya Fukugaki, Naoto Tsujimura
  • Publication number: 20150231865
    Abstract: There is provided a novel non-chlorine-based stretch packaging film capable of exhibiting a good packaging suitability such as a high packaging efficiency and neat packaging finish even when carrying out the packaging using an automatic packaging machine adapted for polyvinyl chloride. The stretch packaging film comprises a laminated film having at least three layers, which comprises opposite outermost surface layers each comprising an ethylene-based resin (A) as a main component and an intermediate layer comprising a propylene-based resin (B) as a main component, the stretch packaging film having an average loss tangent (tan ?) at ?40 to 0° C. of not less than 0.12 and a loss tangent (tan ?) at 20° C. of not less than 0.20 as measured at an oscillation frequency of 10 Hz and a distortion of 0.1% by a dynamic viscoelasticity measuring method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Ryo Mogawa, Tomoyuki Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20150111109
    Abstract: There is provided a multilayer porous film that includes a covering layer formed from a coating liquid on at least one surface of a porous film. The coating liquid has high stability and coatability. The covering layer does not decrease the intrinsic high air permeability of the porous film and has high heat resistance and adhesiveness. The multilayer porous film has excellent handleability as a battery separator without causing curling. The multilayer porous film includes the covering layer on at least one surface of a porous polyolefin resin film. The covering layer is formed from a coating liquid and contains a filler and a resin binder. The multilayer porous film satisfies the following conditions 1) and 2): 1) the filler has an average circularity of 0.3 or more and less than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroto Yamada, Tomoyuki Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20150044541
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laminated porous film which has both gas permeability and heat resistance and can exhibit excellent smoothness and excellent pin extraction properties when used as a separator for a battery. The laminated porous film is characterized by having a heat-resistant layer laminated on at least one surface of a polyolefin resin porous film, wherein the heat-resistant layer comprises a filler and a resin binder, and wherein the surface of the heat-resistant layer has a static friction coefficient of 0.45 or less, a gas permeability degree of 2000 sec/100 ml or less and a tensile elastic modulus of 400 to 1000 MPa when the film is stretched in the lengthwise direction at a stretching rate of 3%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Takagi, Satoru Imanaka, Tomoyuki Nemoto, Yasushi Usami
  • Publication number: 20140234538
    Abstract: The present invention produces a laminated porous film which improves the stability of an aqueous dispersion of a metal oxide without lowering battery characteristics, while having high binding properties and excellent heat resistance. This laminated porous film exhibits excellent characteristics when used as a separator for batteries. This laminated porous film is produced by forming a porous coating layer on at least one outer surface of a resin porous film, which is formed of a single layer or a laminate of a plurality of layers, by applying a coating liquid that contains a metal oxide, a resin binder and a volatile acid thereto and drying the applied coating liquid. The coating liquid is prepared so that the difference between the pH (pH1) of the coating liquid and the pH (pH2) of the coating layer is not less than 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroto Yamada, Tomoyuki Nemoto
  • Patent number: 8785032
    Abstract: The present invention is capable of providing a multilayer porous film used as a separator for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. A multilayer porous film which is obtained by laminating a coating layer that contains a filler and a resin binder on at least one surface of a polyolefin resin porous film that serves as a base layer. The ratio of the average particle diameter (Du) of the filler within 25% of the thickness of the coating layer from the surface of the multilayer porous film to the average particle diameter (Db) of the filler within 25% of the thickness of the coating layer from the interface with the base layer, namely, Du/Db is 1.2 to 10; and the average particle diameter (Du) is 0.5 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroto Yamada, Tomoyuki Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20140193692
    Abstract: Provided is a multilayer porous film that has extremely high powder fall-off resistance and superior electrolyte solution adsorptivity and heat resistance and exhibits superior properties when used as a battery separator without decreasing the high air permeability of a porous film. The multilayer porous film includes a polyolefin-based resin porous film and a coating layer containing a filler and a resin binder on at least one surface of the polyolefin-based resin porous film. The amount of particles with particle sizes of less than 0.2 ?m (D0.2) in the filler is 1% or more, and the specific surface area of the filler is 5 m2/g or more and less than 10 m2/g. The multilayer porous film satisfies a particular condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroto Yamada, Tomoyuki Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20140099530
    Abstract: The present invention is capable of providing a multilayer porous film which has high adhesion between a base layer and a coating layer and excellent heat resistance and exhibits excellent characteristics when used as a separator for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery. A multilayer porous film which is obtained by laminating a coating layer that contains a filler and a resin binder on at least one surface of a polyolefin resin porous film that serves as a base layer. The ratio of the average particle diameter (Du) of the filler within 25% of the thickness of the coating layer from the surface of the multilayer porous film to the average particle diameter (Db) of the filler within 25% of the thickness of the coating layer from the interface with the base layer, namely, Du/Db is 1.2-10; and the average particle diameter (Du) is 0.5 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroto Yamada, Tomoyuki Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20140037503
    Abstract: The present invention performs cleaning on the inner and outer surfaces of a dispensing nozzle without reducing the processing speed of a device. To achieve the object, a feature of the invention is that a dispensing nozzle rinse tank includes a rinse liquid supply port. More specifically, by suctioning rinse liquid from the rinse liquid supply port provided on the dispensing nozzle rinse tank and discharging the rinse liquid into the rinse tank, the inner and outer surfaces of the dispensing nozzle can be rinsed in a short amount of time. According to the invention, it is only required that a rinse liquid supply port be provided on the dispensing nozzle rinse tank, the structure is simple. Moreover, because the inner and outer surfaces of the dispensing nozzle can be rinsed in a short amount of time by shortening the movement distance of the dispensing nozzle, analyses can be performed without reducing the processing speed of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Yukinori Sakashita, Katsuaki Takahashi, Tomoyuki Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20130344346
    Abstract: There is provided a packaging film which has a good suitability for use in an automatic packaging machine, and is free from occurrence of sagging even when stored in a low-temperature condition for a long period of time as well as hardly suffers from occurrence of whitening when subjected to high stretch packaging. The stretch packaging film of the present invention comprises a laminated film having at least three layers comprising opposite surface layers each comprising an ethylene-based resin (A) as a main component and an intermediate layer comprising a propylene-based resin (C) and a propylene-based resin (B) which respectively satisfy specific conditions, at a specific compounding ratio, and having a heat of crystallization (?Hc) of 10 to 60 J/g as measured at a temperature drop rate of 10° C./min using a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) and a storage elastic modulus (E?) at 20° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Maiko Suzuki, Satoshi Kitada, Tomoyuki Nemoto, Noriyuki Kobayashi, Kouichirou Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20130236793
    Abstract: The purpose is to provide a porous polyolefin resin film which has high gas permeability and a high porosity, and which can exhibit excellent properties including break down properties when used as a separator for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. The present invention relates to a porous polyolefin resin film which is produced from a resin composition (a) containing a polyolefin resin as the main component and additionally containing organic-inorganic hybrid particles (f).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Takagi, Takatoshi Muta, Tomoyuki Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20130224412
    Abstract: A heat-shrinkable laminated film having: (A) layer mainly having a polyester series resin; (C) layer mainly having a polystyrene series resin or mixture of polyester series and polystyrene series resins; and (B) layer mainly having polyester series and polystyrene series resins and disposed between (A) and (C) layers, the film having excellent heat-shrinkability, transparency, and interlayer-adhesiveness at room temperature, not easily peeled in a high-temperature treatment, inhibited from whitening when bent during processing, and suitable for shrinkage-packaging, shrink-bond-packaging, etc., with (B) layer having: a hard polyester series resin or mixture of hard polyester series and soft polyester series resins; and soft styrene series resin, hard styrene series resin, or mixture thereof, or with a content of the (B) layer polyester series resin smaller than that of the (A) layer one, and a content of the (C) layer polyester series resin smaller than that of the (B) layer one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Takatoshi Muta, Tomoyuki Nemoto, Jun Takagi, Kanako Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20130196208
    Abstract: The purpose is to provide a laminated porous film having shutdown characteristics, which are important in terms of ensuring safety, while also having excellent air permeation performance, which contributes to electrical performance, when used a separator for a battery. The present invention is a laminated porous film characterized by comprising: a porous film layer having a thickness of 10 um or more, the main component thereof being a thermoplastics resin composition having a crystal-melting peak temperature of 150-250° C.; and a nonwoven fiber layer having a fiber diameter of 1 um or less, the main component thereof being a thermoplastic resin composition having a crystal-melting peak temperature of 100° C. to less than 150° C.; the air permeability of the laminated porous film being 10-10,000 s/100 mL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Nemoto
  • Patent number: 8486555
    Abstract: A process for producing a porous laminate having many micropores interconnected in the thickness direction, which comprises: a step in which a laminate is produced which comprises at least three layers comprising an interlayer made of a thermoplastic resin having a hard segment and a soft segment and two nonporous outer layers made of a filler-containing resin and located as outer layers respectively on both sides of the interlayer; a step in which the laminate obtained is impregnated with a supercritical or subcritical fluid and this state is relieved to vaporize the fluid and thereby make the interlayer porous; and a step in which the two nonporous outer layers located respectively on both sides are made porous by stretching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Usami, Tomoyuki Nemoto, Jun Takagi, Satoshi Teshima
  • Publication number: 20130143095
    Abstract: A laminated porous film, where a coating layer (layer II) containing a filler (a), a resin binder (b) and an adhesive agent (c) is laminated on at least one surface of a polyolefin resin porous film (layer I), is provided. The adhesion between the polyolefin resin porous film that serves as a base film and the coating layer is high. The laminated porous film has heat resistance and exhibits excellent properties when used as a separator for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Takagi, Tomoyuki Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20130034769
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laminated porous film that simultaneously satisfies communication, heat resistance and workability and has excellent properties as a separator for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries. The laminated porous film is characterized in that a heat-resistant layer comprising a filler (a), a resin binder(b), and an extending agent(c) is laminated on at least one side of a porous polyolefin resin film, and in that the air permeability is no more than 2,000 s/100 ml.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Takagi, Satoru Imanaka, Takayuki Monoe, Tomoyuki Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20120231323
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laminated porous film which has both gas permeability and heat resistance and can exhibit excellent smoothness and excellent pin extraction properties when used as a separator for a battery. The laminated porous film is characterized by having a heat-resistant layer laminated on at least one surface of a polyolefin resin porous film, wherein the heat-resistant layer comprises a filler and a resin binder, and wherein the surface of the heat-resistant layer has a static friction coefficient of 0.45 or less, a gas permeability degree of 2000 sec/100 ml or less and a tensile elastic modulus of 400 to 1000 MPa when the film is stretched in the lengthwise direction at a stretching rate of 3%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBHISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Takagi, Satoru Imanaka, Tomoyuki Nemoto, Yasushi Usami
  • Publication number: 20110305940
    Abstract: A process for producing a porous laminate having many micropores interconnected in the thickness direction, which comprises: a step in which a laminate is produced which comprises at least three layers comprising an interlayer made of a thermoplastic resin having a hard segment and a soft segment and two nonporous outer layers made of a filler-containing resin and located as outer layers respectively on both sides of the interlayer; a step in which the laminate obtained is impregnated with a supercritical or subcritical fluid and this state is relieved to vaporize the fluid and thereby make the interlayer porous; and a step in which the two nonporous outer layers located respectively on both sides are made porous by stretching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi USAMI, Tomoyuki Nemoto, Jun Takagi, Satoshi Teshima
  • Patent number: D685703
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Nemoto