Patents by Inventor Toru Nishimura
Toru Nishimura 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).
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Patent number: 8173568Abstract: The invention provides a method of using an alcohol and a primary or secondary amine as the starting material to produce the corresponding secondary amine easily at a high yield and a catalyst used therein. The invention relates to a film-type catalyst for production of a tertiary amine, which is used in producing a tertiary amine from an alcohol and a primary or secondary amine as the starting material, and a process for producing a tertiary amine, which includes reacting an alcohol with a primary or secondary amine in the presence of the film-type catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2004Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Toru Nishimura, Shoji Hasegawa, Osamu Tabata, Kunio Matsui
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Patent number: 8119843Abstract: A reaction apparatus which is used for conducting a gas-liquid chemical reaction in a state that a liquid is in a continuous phase, wherein its reactor has therein a shear type stirring impeller for dispersing a raw reaction gas or a carrier gas and a film-formed catalyst, which apparatus is capable of producing a target reaction product; and a process for producing a tertiary amine in such reaction apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2010Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Atsushi Hirota, Toru Nishimura
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Patent number: 7915453Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a tertiary amine from a primary or secondary amine and alcohol as corresponding starting materials, which includes step (i) of dehydrogenating an alcohol to obtain an aldehyde, step (ii) of reacting the aldehyde with a primary or secondary amine to obtain a primary or secondary amine adduct, and step (iii) of hydrogenating the primary or secondary amine adduct to obtain a tertiary amine, wherein step (ii) is carried out independently of the other steps.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2006Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Shoji Hasegawa, Toru Nishimura, Atsushi Hirota
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Publication number: 20100305363Abstract: A reaction apparatus which is used for conducting a gas-liquid chemical reaction in a state that a liquid is in a continuous phase, wherein its reactor has therein a shear type stirring impeller for dispersing a raw reaction gas or a carrier gas and a film-formed catalyst, which apparatus is capable of producing a target reaction product; and a process for producing a tertiary amine in such reaction apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: Kao CorporationInventors: Atsushi HIROTA, Toru Nishimura
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Publication number: 20100298608Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a tertiary amine from a primary or secondary amine and alcohol as corresponding starting materials, which includes step (i) of dehydrogenating an alcohol to obtain an aldehyde, step (ii) of reacting the aldehyde with a primary or secondary amine to obtain a primary or secondary amine adduct, and step (iii) of hydrogenating the primary or secondary amine adduct to obtain a tertiary amine, wherein step (ii) is carried out independently of the other steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2006Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Shoji Hasegawa, Toru Nishimura, Atsushi Hirota
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Publication number: 20100285948Abstract: A process for the pre-treatment of Mo/ZSM-5 and Mo/MCM-22 catalysts is provided, which process comprises heating the catalyst at 500° C. in the presence of propane. The treated catalyst, when used in the non-oxidative dehydrogenation of methane demonstrates improved benzene yield and catalyst stability as compared to catalysts pre-treated with He, methane or H2.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicants: AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH, MITSUI CHEMICALS INC.Inventors: Yan Liu, Toru Nishimura
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Publication number: 20100185034Abstract: Provided is a process for producing an aromatic hydrocarbon using a molybdenum-containing solid catalyst, more specifically a process for producing an aromatic hydrocarbon efficiently from a lower hydrocarbon gas essentially containing methane by activating the molybdenum-containing solid catalyst with maintaining a high yield for a long period of time. The process comprises a pre-contacting step of allowing a molybdenum-containing solid catalyst to contact with a pre-contacting gas comprising at least one selected from a lower hydrocarbon and a hydrogen gas; and a reaction step of allowing the pre-contacted catalyst to contact with a raw material gas essentially containing methane, to generate an aromatic hydrocarbon, wherein the starting temperature in the pre-contacting step is lower than the reaction temperature, and the temperature during the pre-contacting step from the beginning to the end is not over the reaction temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2008Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Toru Nishimura, Shinobu Aoki, Yan Liu
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Publication number: 20100056829Abstract: The present invention provides a film catalyst having a catalyst layer containing a powdery catalyst and a binder and a substrate on which the catalyst layer is formed, wherein the catalyst layer has a pore size distribution with two or more different mode values as determined by mercury porosimetry. The present invention also provides a method for producing a film catalyst containing a catalyst layer and a substrate on which the layer is formed, containing: preparing a coating composition containing a powdery catalyst, a binder and a solvent; and forming the catalyst layer on the substrate with the coating composition to give a catalyst intermediate, wherein the resultant film catalyst satisfies the formula (2-I): 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2007Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: Kao CorporationInventors: Kunio Matsui, Toru Nishimura, Masayasu Sato
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Patent number: 7615666Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a tertiary amine from its corresponding primary or secondary amine and alcohol as the raw materials by using a film type catalyst. Disclosed is a process for producing a tertiary amine from an alcohol and a primary or secondary amine, which including conducting the reaction, while circulating a reaction solution at least 3 times/hour in a reactor loaded with a film type catalyst in an external circulating line ancillary to a tank.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2006Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Toru Nishimura, Atsushi Hirota, Shoji Hasegawa
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Patent number: 7608666Abstract: This invention is a polyester resin composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a resin composition consisting of 60 to 95 wt % of (a) a polyester resin and 5 to 40 wt % of (b) an olefin-based resin, and 0.5 to 30 parts by weight of (c) one or more resins selected from polyphenylene sulfide resins and liquid crystal resins, wherein said olefin-based resin (b) is composed of (b-1) a functional group-containing olefin copolymer having at least one kind of functional groups selected from carboxylic acid groups, carboxylic anhydride groups, carboxylic ester groups, metal carboxylate groups and epoxy groups and (b-2) an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer obtained by copolymerizing ethylene and an a-olefin with 3 to 20 carbon atoms; and the polyester resin (a) forms a continuous phase, while the olefin-based resin (b) is dispersed as particles with an average particle size of 0.01 to 2 ?m in the composition.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2004Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Hideo Matsuoka, Mitsushige Hamaguchi, Toru Nishimura
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Publication number: 20090030236Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a tertiary amine from its corresponding primary or secondary amine and alcohol as the raw materials by using a film type catalyst. Disclosed is a process for producing a tertiary amine from an alcohol and a primary or secondary amine, which including conducting the reaction, while circulating a reaction solution at least 3 times/hour in a reactor loaded with a film type catalyst in an external circulating line ancillary to a tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2006Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Nishimura, Atsushi Hirota, Shoji Hasegawa
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Patent number: 7402702Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a tertiary amine, which includes reacting an alcohol with a primary or secondary amine gas in the presence of a catalyst with an agitating vessel under the stirring conditions where the ratio (Pg/P0) of agitating power at the time of the maximum flow rate of an introducing gas (Pg [W]) to agitating power at the time of no introduction of the gas (P0 [W]) becomes 10?1.8Na or more wherein Na is the gas flow number, and Na=Qg/nd3 whereupon Qg [m3/s] is the flow rate of an introducing gas, n [1/s] is the number of revolutions, and d [m] is the diameter of an agitating impeller.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2005Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Shinji Oguri, Toru Nishimura
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Patent number: 7362476Abstract: A CCD is such that a single image sensing area is produced by performing exposure four times in four areas. Four correction circuits are provided in association with respective ones of the four areas. Four items of image data obtained based upon respective ones of the four areas are input to corresponding correction circuits, which apply a correction to prevent image disturbance at the area boundaries. One frame of image data is generated from corrected image data of respective ones of the areas and the image data is recorded on a memory card.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2003Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Toru Nishimura
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Patent number: 7351866Abstract: The invention provides a method for manufacturing a tertiary amine, including reacting a tertiary amine with an alcohol and a primary or secondary amine in a reactor loaded with a film type catalyst, controlling the superficial velocity of liquid in the reactor at 0.1 cm/s or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2007Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Atsushi Hirota, Toru Nishimura
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Publication number: 20080033143Abstract: A method for producing a polyamide prepolymer including heating an aqueous solution of caprolactam having a water content of from 2 to 20% by weight, under pressure at a temperature of from 200 to 330° C. for 1 to 30 minutes, to produce polyamide prepolymer having an amino end group content of at least 0.1 mmol/g and a cyclic oligomer content of at most 0.6% by weight, and a conversion at most 40% by weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2007Publication date: February 7, 2008Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc., a corporation of JapanInventors: Yasuto Tachibana, Minoru Noda, Toru Nishimura
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Patent number: 7321288Abstract: A security remote-control system includes a mobile terminal, a central server, and a key unit controlling the state of a lock. The mobile terminal has a positional-information detecting unit capable of detecting its own position, and automatically transmits a first email for requesting notification of the state of the lock to the central server when the mobile terminal is outside a predetermined area including a specific position specified by a user. The central server confirms the state of the lock through the key unit, when the central server receives the first email, and transmits to the mobile terminal a state notification email indicating the state of the lock. The mobile terminal automatically transmits to the central server a second email for instructing shutting of the lock when determining that the lock is not shut. The central server transmits to the key unit a locking instruction signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2004Date of Patent: January 22, 2008Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Toru Nishimura
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Publication number: 20080004472Abstract: The invention provides a method of using an alcohol and a primary or secondary amine as the starting material to produce the corresponding secondary amine easily at a high yield and a catalyst used therein. The invention relates to a film-type catalyst for production of a tertiary amine, which is used in producing a tertiary amine from an alcohol and a primary or secondary amine as the starting material, and a process for producing a tertiary amine, which includes reacting an alcohol with a primary or secondary amine in the presence of the film-type catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2004Publication date: January 3, 2008Inventors: Toru Nishimura, Shoji Hasegawa, Osamu Tabata, Kunio Matsui
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Publication number: 20070179320Abstract: The invention provides a method for manufacturing a tertiary amine, including reacting a tertiary amine with an alcohol and a primary or secondary amine in a reactor loaded with a film type catalyst, controlling the superficial velocity of liquid in the reactor at 0.1 cm/s or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2007Publication date: August 2, 2007Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Hirota, Toru Nishimura
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Patent number: 7235701Abstract: The invention provides a film-type dehydrogenation reaction catalyst for aldehyde production, which is used in producing an aldehyde from an alcohol as a starting material, as well as a process for producing an aldehyde, which includes reacting an alcohol in the presence of the film-type dehydrogenation reaction catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2005Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Shoji Hasegawa, Toru Nishimura, Osamu Tabata
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Patent number: 7235612Abstract: This invention is a method for manufacturing a polymer alloy, by making at least two resins used as components miscible, and inducing the spinodal decomposition for causing phase separation, for forming a co-continuous structure with a wavelength of concentration fluctuation of 0.001 to 1 ?m or a dispersed structure with a distance between particles of 0.001 to 1 ?m. This invention is also a polymer alloy manufactured by the method. The polymer alloy of this invention can provide a molded article, film, fibers and the like respectively with excellent mechanical properties at high productivity.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2004Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Sadayuki Kobayashi, Jiro Kumaki, Akira Hirai, Toru Nishimura