Patents by Inventor Toshio Kase

Toshio Kase 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: 8362155
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a conjugated diene polymer cyclized product free from coloring, a conjugated diene polymer cyclized product that has a narrow molecular weight distribution and is free from coloring, and a method for producing these conjugated diene polymer cyclized products. [Means for Resolution] A conjugated diene polymer cyclized product having a Gardner color scale of not more than 3.0. A conjugated diene polymer cyclized product having a Gardner color scale of not more than 3.0 and a ratio of weight average molecular weight/number average molecular weight of not more than 1.5. A method for producing a conjugated diene polymer cyclized product includes adding water to a conjugated diene polymer solution obtained by polymerizing a conjugated diene in a solvent by using an organoalkali metal compound as an initiator, thereby terminating the polymerization and then subjecting the subject conjugated diene polymer to a cyclization reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Zeon Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio Kase
  • Publication number: 20090171033
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a conjugated diene polymer cyclized product free from coloring, a conjugated diene polymer cyclized product that has a narrow molecular weight distribution and is free from coloring, and a method for producing these conjugated diene polymer cyclized products. [Means for Resolution] A conjugated diene polymer cyclized product having a Gardner color scale of not more than 3.0. A conjugated diene polymer cyclized product having a Gardner color scale of not more than 3.0 and a ratio of weight average molecular weight/number average molecular weight of not more than 1.5. A method for producing a conjugated diene polymer cyclized product includes adding water to a conjugated diene polymer solution obtained by polymerizing a conjugated diene in a solvent by using an organoalkali metal compound as an initiator, thereby terminating the polymerization and then subjecting the subject conjugated diene polymer to a cyclization reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventor: Toshio Kase
  • Patent number: 7279533
    Abstract: A main object of the invention is to provide a polar-group-containing cyclized rubber making it possible to improve remarkable the adhesiveness between paint and a molded product made of a nonpolar polymer such as polypropylene or polyethylene, and a process for producing the same. In order to attain the object, the invention provides a polar-group-containing cyclized rubber which has a polar group at a terminal of a polymer chain thereof, has a weight-average molecular weight of 1000 to 1,000,000, and is obtained by cyclizing a conjugated diene polymer having the polar group at a terminal of a polymer chain thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Zeon Corporation
    Inventors: Shizuo Kitahara, Toshio Kase
  • Patent number: 7026406
    Abstract: A syndiotactic styrenic polymer having a narrow molecular weight distribution which is a (co)polymer comprising at least one structural unit represented by the following Formula (1): wherein C1 of a phenyl group thereof has a tacticity of 30% or more in terms of a racemic pentad determined by 13C-NMR, and Ra and m are as defined in the specification. The disclosure is also directed to a block copolymer comprising the above polymer as one segment, to a block graft polymer prepared by modifying one block of the above polymer with a nitrogen-containing aromatic polymer, and to a process for preparing a syndiotactic styrenic polymer in which a styrenic monomer is polymerized in the presence of a catalyst comprising a reaction product of a transition metal compound and at least one co-catalyst selected from organic aluminunoxy compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Chemical Innovation Institute
    Inventors: Masanao Kawabe, Masahide Murata, Toshio Kase, Hiroyuki Ozaki, Yoshifumi Fukui, The Ban Hoang, Jizhu Jin, Akira Miyazawa, Hideaki Hagihara, Kenji Tsuchihara, Yasuzo Suzuki, Michihiko Asai, Hisae Soga, Kazuo Soga
  • Publication number: 20060063890
    Abstract: A main object of the invention is to provide a polar-group-containing cyclized rubber making it possible to improve remarkably the adhesiveness between paint and a molded product made of a nonpolar polymer such as polypropylene or polyethylene, and a process for producing the same. In order to attain the object, the invention provides a polar-group-containing cyclized rubber which has a polar group at a terminal of a polymer chain thereof, has a weight-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 1,000,000, and is obtained by cyclizing a conjugated diene polymer having the polar group at a terminal of a polymer chain thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shizuo Kitahara, Toshio Kase
  • Patent number: 6787617
    Abstract: A process for preparing olefinic living polymers having a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 1 to 1.3, comprising polymerizing an olefinic monomer having 2 to 20 carbon atoms at low temperatures in the presence of a catalyst comprising (A) a hafnium or zirconium-containing compound having one or two cyclopentadienyl backbones, (B) a triphenyl boron compound or a tetraphenyl borate compound and optionally (C) a specific mono-, di- or trialkylaluminum compound. When the catalyst comprising the zirconium-containing compound is prepared by further using a titanium-containing compound (D), the polymerization temperature can be raised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignees: Japan as represented by Director General of the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Chemical Innovation Institute
    Inventors: Kazuo Soga, Takeshi Shiono, Michihiko Asai, Yasuzo Suzuki, Akira Miyazawa, Kenji Tsuchihara, Masahide Murata, Hiroyuki Ozaki, Masanao Kawabe, Toshio Kase, Jizhu Jin, Hideaki Hagiwara, Yoshifumi Fukui
  • Patent number: 6653430
    Abstract: A butadiene polymer (i) having a cis bond unit content of at least 50% based on the total butadiene units, a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 1,000 to 10,000,000, and at least 80%, based on the total molecular chains, of living chains containing a transition metal of group IV of the Periodic table at a terminal thereof; a polymer (ii) obtained by modifying terminals of the polymer (i); and a polymer (iii) obtained by coupling the polymers (i). These polymers (i), (ii) and (iii) are obtained by polymerizing a conjugated diene monomer alone or with a copolymerizable monomer at a specific temperature in the presence of a catalyst comprising a compound (A) of a transition metal of group IV of the periodic table having a cyclopentadienyl structure and a co-catalyst (B) selected from organoaluminum-oxy compound (a) and others and optionally further by contacting the resultant polymer with a terminal modifier or a coupling agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignees: Japan as Represented by Director General of the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Chemical Innovation Institute
    Inventors: Kazuo Soga, Michihiko Asai, Yasuzo Suzuki, Akira Miyazawa, Kenji Tsuchihara, Masahide Murata, Hiroyuki Ozaki, Masanao Kawabe, Yoshifumi Fukui, Jizhy Jin, Hideaki Hagihara, Toshio Kase
  • Patent number: 4647625
    Abstract: A process for modifying a polymer of a conjugated diene, which comprises reacting a polymer of a conjugated diene containing at least one metal selected from alkali metals and alkaline earth metals with a compound having a linkage of the following formula ##STR1## wherein X represents an oxygen or sulfur atom, in the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1987
    Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Aonuma, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Haruki Kawada, Kohkichi Noguchi, Akio Ueda, Shuichi Akita, Tetsuo Ohyama, Toshio Kase
  • Patent number: 4616069
    Abstract: A process for making a diene polymer rubber which comprises reacting an active diene polymer rubber having alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal terminals, which is obtained by polymerizing a conjugated diene monomer alone or together with an aromatic vinyl monomer in a hydrocarbon solvent, using an alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal initiator, with(1) a tin compound expressed by the general formula R.sub.a S.sub.n X.sub.b (in which R stands for an alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl or aromatic hydrocarbon group; X is a halogen atom; a is an integer of 0-2, and b is an integer of 2-4), and(2) at least one organic compound selected from the group consisting of aminoaldehydes, aminoketones, aminothioaldehydes, aminothioketones and the organic compounds having in their molecules ##STR1## (in which A stands for an oxygen or sulfur atom).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1986
    Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Watanabe, Kohkichi Noguchi, Toshio Kase, Shuichi Akita
  • Patent number: 4614771
    Abstract: A process for making a diene copolymer rubber having improved rebound, which comprises polymerizing a conjugated diene monomer with an aromatic vinyl monomer in a hydrocarbon solvent in the presence of an alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal initiator, to form a dienyl-metal terminated, conjugated diene-aromatic vinyl copolymer rubber, and thereafter reacting the copolymer rubber with at least one reactant selected from the group consisting of aminoaldehydes, aminoketones, aminothioaldehydes and aminothioketones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1986
    Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Watanabe, Kohkichi Noguchi, Toshio Kase, Shuichi Akita