Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Higashira

Toshihiro Higashira 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: 11856695
    Abstract: Provided is a method for forming a through-hole including: forming a laminated body including a fluororesin layer having a first main surface and a second main surface, a first adhesive layer, a first reinforcing resin layer and a first conductor layer provided on the first main surface, a second adhesive layer, a second reinforcing resin layer and a second conductor layer provided on the second main surface; forming an opening in the first conductor layer and irradiating the opening with a laser beam to form a bottomed conduction hole with the second conductor layer exposed on a bottom surface of the conduction hole, wherein a thermal decomposition temperature of the second cured adhesive layer is lower than those of the first reinforcing resin layer and the second reinforcing resin layer, and a thickness of the second cured adhesive layer is 10 ?m or more and 200 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON MEKTRON, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Higashira, Fuki Hatano
  • Patent number: 11310917
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a substrate for flexible printed wiring board, comprising a laminated body forming step and an integration step, wherein in the laminated body forming step, on an upper surface and a lower surface of a fluororesin layer having a modified surface, a first and second reinforcing resin layers having a coefficient of thermal expansion smaller than that of the fluororesin layer are respectively stacked through a first thermosetting adhesive, on the first reinforcing resin layer and/or the second reinforcing resin layer, a conductor layer is stacked through a second thermosetting adhesive, to form a laminated body, and in the integration step, the laminated body is heated and integrated at a temperature not lower than a curing temperature of the first and second thermosetting adhesives and lower than a melting point of the fluororesin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON MEKTRON, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Higashira, Fuki Hatano
  • Publication number: 20220117085
    Abstract: Provided is a method for forming a through-hole including: forming a laminated body including a fluororesin layer having a first main surface and a second main surface, a first adhesive layer, a first reinforcing resin layer and a first conductor layer provided on the first main surface, a second adhesive layer, a second reinforcing resin layer and a second conductor layer provided on the second main surface; forming an opening in the first conductor layer and irradiating the opening with a laser beam to form a bottomed conduction hole with the second conductor layer exposed on a bottom surface of the conduction hole, wherein a thermal decomposition temperature of the second cured adhesive layer is lower than those of the first reinforcing resin layer and the second reinforcing resin layer, and a thickness of the second cured adhesive layer is 10 ?m or more and 200 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON MEKTRON, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro HIGASHIRA, Fuki HATANO
  • Publication number: 20210084768
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a substrate for flexible printed wiring board, comprising a laminated body forming step and an integration step, wherein in the laminated body forming step, on an upper surface and a lower surface of a fluororesin layer having a modified surface, a first and second reinforcing resin layers having a coefficient of thermal expansion smaller than that of the fluororesin layer are respectively stacked through a first thermosetting adhesive, on the first reinforcing resin layer and/or the second reinforcing resin layer, a conductor layer is stacked through a second thermosetting adhesive, to form a laminated body, and in the integration step, the laminated body is heated and integrated at a temperature not lower than a curing temperature of the first and second thermosetting adhesives and lower than a melting point of the fluororesin layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON MEKTRON, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro HIGASHIRA, Fuki HATANO
  • Patent number: 10466615
    Abstract: A rubber member for coating a developing roll which is obtained by coating a coating layer component around a developing roll having a rubber substrate layer and curing the coating layer component is described. The coating layer component contains: (A) a liquid binder containing at least a polyol, an isocyanate compound and reactive silicone oil; (B) silicone rubber particles having a hardness according to JIS K6253: 1997 by Durometer A, measured instantaneously, of 20 to 80 degrees, and a rubber particle size of 0.2 to 10 pm; and a diluting solvent. A ratio of a thickness of the coating layer after curing and a particle size of the rubber satisfies: the rubber particle size/a coating layer thickness <0.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: NOK Corporation, Synztec Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Higashira, Atsushi Ikeda, Nozomu Suzuki, Tomohiro Kondo, Shinobu Kanzaki, Goki Inukai, Lei Wang, Huu Viet Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10047697
    Abstract: Disclosed is a metal-rubber laminate material comprising a metal plate, a rubber layer formed on the surface of the metal plate, and a solid lubricant layer formed on the rubber layer, the solid lubricant layer comprising an isocyanate group-containing urethane prepolymer, a synthetic wax having a softening point of 40 to 150° C., a fatty acid amide having a softening point of 60 to 170° C., graphite, and optionally a fluororesin. The metal-rubber laminate material, in which the metal plate and the rubber layer are bonded through a primer layer and an adhesive layer in this order, exhibits excellent effects, such as fretting resistance, when used as a metal gasket in an internal combustion engine for an automobile engine, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Kojima, Atsushi Yokoto, Toshihiro Higashira
  • Patent number: 10030163
    Abstract: A coating agent aqueous dispersion comprising, as solid matters, 20 to 80 wt. %, preferably 29 to 70 wt. %, of PTFE, 10 to 50 wt. %, preferably 14 to 36 wt. %, of acrylic resin, and 10 to 50 wt. %, preferably 20 to 45 wt. %, of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin. When the coating agent aqueous dispersion of the present invention is used as a surface-treating agent for rubber-made sealing materials, etc., a reduction in stickiness to the sealing mate material and the prevention of blooming on the surface of the rubber material are obtained. Combined with the flexibility, the adhesion balance between the rubber material and the coating agent is excellent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro Higashira
  • Patent number: 10025246
    Abstract: A silicone rubber-fluororesin laminate comprising a substrate, and a vulcanized silicone rubber layer and a fluororesin layer that are sequentially formed on the substrate; wherein the fluororesin layer is formed after an epoxy resin-containing silane based primer layer and a fluororesin based primer layer are sequentially formed on the vulcanized silicone rubber layer, and the epoxy resin-containing silane based primer layer contains 30 to 80 wt % of an epoxy resin and 70 to 20 wt % of a silane coupling agent. The silicone rubber-fluororesin laminate does not cause a reduction not only in the initial adhesion, but also in the adhesion between the vulcanized silicone rubber and the fluororesin even in a heated environment, such as a hot state or long-term heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Yoshitake, Toshihiro Higashira, Katsumi Abe
  • Patent number: 9964890
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a development roll rubber member that has a uniformly roughened surface on a rubber member surface, that is capable of ensuring a sufficient thickness without contaminating a peripheral portion while maintaining a flexibility in a coating layer and a convex portion without impairing softness of a rubber substrate layer, and that has the coating layer achieving non-tackiness and low friction, and a method of manufacturing the same, and the object is achieved by putting a reactive silicone oil, an isocyanate compound, and a diluent solvent capable of dissolving both the reactive silicone oil and the isocyanate compound into a reaction container, by causing a prepolymerization reaction in which the reactive silicone oil and the isocyanate compound are reacted into a polymerized state in the diluent solvent in the reaction container while dissolution in the solvent is maintained, by subsequently mixing a polyol and an isocyanate compound solution and using silic
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: NOK Corporation, Synztec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Higashira, Atsushi Ikeda, Tomohiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 9828497
    Abstract: Disclosed is a coating agent composition comprising (A) a polytetrafluoroethylene resin emulsion, (B) an urethane resin emulsion, and (C) a hydrogenated NBR emulsion, and preferably further comprising (D) an acrylic resin emulsion and/or an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin emulsion. When this coating agent composition is used as a surface coating agent for general vulcanized rubber-molded products, evaluation of adhesion to rubber by an adhesion test is hardly impaired, and bleeding evaluation, evaluation of the flexibility of the coating agent by a bending test, and evaluation of the reduction in adhesion to rubber due to bloom from the rubber by a high-temperature and high-humidity test are all satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro Higashira
  • Publication number: 20170210934
    Abstract: A coating agent aqueous dispersion comprising, as solid matters, 20 to 80 wt. %, preferably 29 to 70 wt. %, of PTFE, 10 to 50 wt. %, preferably 14 to 36 wt. %, of acrylic resin, and 10 to 50 wt. %, preferably 20 to 45 wt. %, of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin. When the coating agent aqueous dispersion of the present invention is used as a surface-treating agent for rubber-made sealing materials, etc., a reduction in stickiness to the sealing mate material and the prevention of blooming on the surface of the rubber material are obtained. Combined with the flexibility, the adhesion balance between the rubber material and the coating agent is excellent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshihiro HIGASHIRA
  • Publication number: 20170190933
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a surface modification treatment agent capable of achieving lower tackiness and lower friction, a member for an image forming apparatus and a toner fixing mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicants: NOK Corporation, Synztec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro HIGASHIRA, Atsushi IKEDA
  • Patent number: 9688834
    Abstract: An NBR composition including an NBR polymer, a vulcanizing agent, a vulcanizing accelerator, and carbon black, wherein the carbon black includes a combination of MT carbon black and carbon black having an iodine absorption number of 20 mg/g or less and a DBP absorption number of 40 cm3/100 g or more, and has a total added amount of 110 to 250 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the NBR polymer, and the amount of the MT carbon black is larger than that of the carbon black having an iodine absorption number of 20 mg/g or less and a DBP absorption number of 40 cm3/100 g or more and the amount of the carbon black having an iodine absorption number of 20 mg/g or less and a DBP absorption number of 40 cm3/100 g or more is 10 to 70 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the NBR polymer, and a metal laminate obtained by laminating the NBR composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Yokota, Toshihiro Higashira
  • Patent number: 9665061
    Abstract: In a cleaning blade 1 having an elastic body 11, which is a molded article of a rubber material, the elastic body 11 having at least a surface-treated layer 12 formed at least on an abutting part with an object of contact, the surface-treated layer 12 is formed by impregnating the elastic body 11 with a surface treatment liquid which contains a bi-functional isocyanate compound, a tri-functional polyol, and an organic solvent, or with a surface treatment liquid which contains an organic solvent and an isocyanate-group-containing compound having an isocyanate group yielded through reaction between the bi-functional isocyanate compound and the tri-functional polyol, followed by curing; the ratio between an isocyanate group contained in the bi-functional isocyanate compound and a hydroxyl group contained in the tri-functional polyol (NCO group/OH group) is 1.0 to 1.5; and the surface-treated layer has a thickness of 10 ?m to 100 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: NOK CORPORATION, SYNZTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Natsumi Kimura, Miyuki Abe, Toshihiro Higashira, Katsumi Abe
  • Publication number: 20170146412
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pressure-sensitive responsive laminate excellent in durability at the repeated use, and further which can ensure change in resistance values at the unloaded time and at the time of applying a load with a large width, a coating layer which can be used for the pressure-sensitive responsive laminate, and a pressure-sensitive responsivity-imparting material which imparts pressure-sensitive responsivity to a conductive substrate, and the object can be solved by a pressure-sensitive responsive laminate which comprises a coating layer being laminated onto a conductive substrate, and unevenness derived from non-conductive particles included in the coating layer being formed onto a surface of the coating layer; a coating layer which comprises non-conductive particles, unevenness derived from the non-conductive particles being formed onto a surface thereof, and pressure-sensitive responsivity being imparted by being laminated onto a conductive substrate; and a pressure
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro HIGUMA, Toshihiro HIGASHIRA
  • Publication number: 20170045840
    Abstract: An object is to provide a rubber member for coating a developing roll which is formed a uniform rough surface at a surface of the developing roll, does exert neither damage nor toner stress to the mating member or the toner while maintaining flexibility, is possible to secure a thickness which can sufficiently avoid the effect of the rubber, and can realize non-tackiness and low friction, which can be solved by a rubber member for coating a developing roll which is the rubber member for coating a developing roll obtained by coating a coating layer 13 component at around a developing roll having a rubber substrate layer 12 and curing the same, wherein the coating layer 13 component comprises a liquid binder which contains at least a polyol, an isocyanate compound and reactive silicone oil, silicone rubber particles 101 having a hardness (JIS K6253: 1997) by Durometer A (instantaneous) of 20 to 80 degree and a rubber particle size of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicants: NOK Corporation, Synztec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro HIGASHIRA, Atsushi IKEDA, Nozomu SUZUKI, Tomohiro KONDO, Shinobu KANZAKI, Goki INUKAI, Lei WANG, Huu Viet NGUYEN
  • Publication number: 20170023876
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a development roll rubber member that has a uniformly roughened surface on a rubber member surface, that is capable of ensuring a sufficient thickness without contaminating a peripheral portion while maintaining a flexibility in a coating layer and a convex portion without impairing softness of a rubber substrate layer, and that has the coating layer achieving non-tackiness and low friction, and a method of manufacturing the same, and the object is achieved by putting a reactive silicone oil, an isocyanate compound, and a diluent solvent capable of dissolving both the reactive silicone oil and the isocyanate compound into a reaction container, by causing a prepolymerization reaction in which the reactive silicone oil and the isocyanate compound are reacted into a polymerized state in the diluent solvent in the reaction container while dissolution in the solvent is maintained, by subsequently mixing a polyol and an isocyanate compound solution and using silic
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicants: NOK Corporation, Synztec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro HIGASHIRA, Atsushi IKEDA, Tomohiro KONDO
  • Publication number: 20160313690
    Abstract: In a cleaning blade 1 having an elastic body 11, which is a molded article of a rubber material, the elastic body 11 having at least a surface-treated layer 12 formed at least on an abutting part with an object of contact, the surface-treated layer 12 is formed by impregnating the elastic body 11 with a surface treatment liquid which contains a bi-functional isocyanate compound, a tri-functional polyol, and an organic solvent, or with a surface treatment liquid which contains an organic solvent and an isocyanate-group-containing compound having an isocyanate group yielded through reaction between the bi-functional isocyanate compound and the tri-functional polyol, followed by curing; the ratio between an isocyanate group contained in the bi-functional isocyanate compound and a hydroxyl group contained in the tri-functional polyol (NCO group/OH group) is 1.0 to 1.5; and the surface-treated layer has a thickness of 10 ?m to 100 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Natsumi KIMURA, Miyuki ABE, Toshihiro HIGASHIRA, Katsumi ABE
  • Publication number: 20160216655
    Abstract: A silicone rubber-fluororesin laminate comprising a substrate, and a vulcanized silicone rubber layer and a fluororesin layer that are sequentially formed on the substrate; wherein the fluororesin layer is formed after an epoxy resin-containing silane based primer layer and a fluororesin based primer layer are sequentially formed on the vulcanized silicone rubber layer, and the epoxy resin-containing silane based primer layer contains 30 to 80 wt % of an epoxy resin and 70 to 20 wt % of a silane coupling agent. The silicone rubber-fluororesin laminate does not cause a reduction not only in the initial adhesion, but also in the adhesion between the vulcanized silicone rubber and the fluororesin even in a heated environment, such as a hot state or long-term heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Isao Yoshitake, Toshihiro Higashira, Katsumi Abe
  • Patent number: 9156998
    Abstract: A coating agent, which comprises a cellulose derivative, an isocyanate group-containing 1,2-polybutadiene, a synthetic wax having a softening point of 100°-150° C., a fatty acid amide having a softening point of 60°-170° C., and graphite, can satisfy desired performances, when applied to rubbery elastomers, etc. such as prevention of sticking, adhesion and blocking, and improvement of abrasion resistance, and also can serve as a surface-treating agent for vulcanized rubber without peeling of coating films due to adhesion under high-temperature compression or friction-abrasion under high specific pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Higashira, Atsushi Yokota