Patents by Inventor Toshiya Mizuno

Toshiya Mizuno 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).

  • Publication number: 20140226294
    Abstract: A display system in which no space for housing an external terminal device is created on a board is provided. This display device includes: a display panel; a board; a back cover which covers the board at least partially and which has an opening; and a slot structure which is arranged inside the opening and into which an external terminal device is inserted. The slot structure includes a guide which holds the external terminal device inserted so that the external terminal device defines a predetermined angle with respect to the board and a terminal which electrically connects the external terminal device to the board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuho Sakurai, Toshiya Mizuno, Isshin Kinugawa
  • Publication number: 20110031180
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a hollow fiber module that makes it possible to decrease the spacing between a plurality of hollow fiber sheets and facilitate the formation of a potting portion with a two-layer structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tada, Masayuki Hino, Takaaki Mukumoto, Toshiya Mizuno, Teizo Mozutani
  • Publication number: 20100224548
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide: a screen-like object made of hollow fibers, a method of manufacturing a hollow fiber bundle, a cylindrical module of hollow fiber membrane, and an immersion type module of hollow fiber membrane wherein the hollow fibers are easy to bundle while keeping fiber-to-fiber intervals. The screen-like object made of hollow fibers includes: porous hollow fibers 10 disposed parallel at even intervals, tapes 26 for tying together the hollow fibers respectively at both ends of the hollow fibers, and a water-soluble tape for tying together the hollow fibers at a position apart from both ends of the hollow fibers across the hollow fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tada, Yasushi Ebihara, Masayuki Hino, Toshiya Mizuno, Takaaki Mukumoto
  • Patent number: 7780014
    Abstract: A composition is formed by blending a vinylidene fluoride resin having a relatively high molecular weight and an improved crystallinity represented by a difference Tm2?Tc of at most 32° C. between an inherent melting point Tm2 and a crystallization temperature Tc of the resin with a plasticizer and a good solvent for vinylidene fluoride resin, and the composition is melt-extruded into a hollow fiber-form. The hollow fiber-form extrudate is then cooled to be solidified from an outside thereof by introduction into cooling medium and subjected to extraction of the plasticizer and stretching, thereby forming a hollow fiber porous membrane of vinylidene fluoride resin characterized by co-presence of crystal oriented portion and crystal non-oriented portion recognizable by X-ray diffraction method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Kureha Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tada, Takeo Takahashi, Masayuki Hino, Shingo Taniguchi, Kenichi Suzuki, Toshiya Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20100133169
    Abstract: A hollow-fiber porous membrane, comprising a hollow fiber-form porous membrane of vinylidene fluoride resin providing: a ratio F (L=200 mm, v=70%)/Pm4 of at least 7×105 (m/day·?m4), wherein the ratio F (L=200 mm, v=70%)/Pm4 denotes a ratio between F (L=200 mm, v=70%) which is a value normalized to a porosity v=70% of a water permeation rate F (100 kPa, L=200 mm) measured at a test length L=200 mm under the conditions of a pressure difference of 100 kPa and a water temperature of 25° C. and a 4-th order value Pm4 of an average pore size Pm. The hollow-fiber porous membrane has an average pore size smaller than before leading to an improved ability of removing fine particles, while suppressing the lowering in water permeability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tada, Takeo Takahashi, Toshiya Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20090301959
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide: a hollow fiber bundle, a method of manufacturing the hollow fiber bundle, a cylindrical module of hollow fiber membrane, and an immersion type module of hollow fiber membrane wherein the hollow fibers are easy to apply scrubbing while maintaining specified intervals among the hollow fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: KUREHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tada, Yasushi Ebihara, Masayuki Hino, Takafumi Kato, Toshiya Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20090295038
    Abstract: A monofilament obtained by smelt-spinning and stretching of a vinylidene fluoride resin is subjected to a high-temperature relaxation treatment for an extremely short period of 0.05-0.5 sec. within a high-temperature heating oil bath at a temperature of 140-175° C., thereby producing a vinylidene fluoride resin monofilament, which comprises a vinylidene fluoride resin having an inherent viscosity of at least 1.40 dl/g, and has a knot strength (JIS L1013) of at least 600 MPa and excellent anti-twist property represented by a twist index of at least 0.90 when measured after the monofilament being subjected to application for 1 minute of a tensile load equal to approximately 50% of a maximum tensile load (JIS K7113), removal of the load, and standing for 3 hours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Satoshi Hashimoto, Masaru Satou, Masayuki Hino, Toshiya Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20090261034
    Abstract: A hollow-fiber porous membrane comprising a hollow-fiber form of vinylidene fluoride resin and satisfying the following properties (A) and (B), is provided as a hollow-fiber porous membrane of vinylidene fluoride resin having an average pore size and a further uniform pore size distribution (A) and a large water permeation rate regardless of good efficiency of blocking minute particles (bacteria) (B), as represented by: (A) a ratio Pmax (1 m)/Pm of at most 4.0 between a maximum pore size Pmax (1 m) measured at a test length of 1 m according to the bubble point method and an average pore size Pm of 0.05-0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Takeo Takahashi, Yasuhiro Tada, Kenichi Suzuki, Masayuki Hino, Toshiya Mizuno
  • Patent number: 7597957
    Abstract: [Object] In a fishing line for capturing large fishes made by a polyvinylidenefluoride resin filament, a polyvinylidenefluoride resin filament wherein even by enhancing the tensile strength at break by enlarging the filament diameter than that of usual fishing line, an appropriate tensile elongation at break can be obtained, so that the rapid and enormous impact generated when large fishes have taken the bait can be reduced, and that has a homogenous fiber structure which generates almost no inner cavity when forming a filament with a large diameter, is developed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Kureha Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Matsui, Hiroshi Ochiai, Masaru Satou, Satoshi Hashimoto, Toshiya Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20090206035
    Abstract: A hollow-fiber porous membrane, comprising a hollow fiber-form porous membrane in a network texture of vinylidene fluoride resin showing a pore size distribution in a direction of its membrane thickness including an outer surface-average pore size P1 as measured by a scanning electron microscope and a membrane layer-average pore size P2 as measured by half-dry method giving a ratio P1/P2 of at least 2.5. The hollow-fiber porous membrane is excellent in long-term water filtration performance including efficiency of regeneration by air scrubbing. The hollow-fiber porous membrane is produced through a process, wherein a mixture of vinylidene fluoride resin, a plasticizer and a good solvent for vinylidene fluoride resin, is melt-extruded in a hollow-fiber film and cooled and formed into a solidified film within a cooling medium containing at least a certain proportion of a good solvent for vinylidene fluoride resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: KUREHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeo Takahashi, Yasuhiro Tada, Kenichi Suzuki, Masayuki Hino, Shingo Taniguchi, Toshiya Mizuno
  • Patent number: 7569145
    Abstract: There is provided a porous hollow fiber of vinylidene fluoride resin which has a water permeation rate that is large per fiber and little dependent on the length, has a large treatment capacity per volume of a filtering module, and is therefore suitable as a microfilter element. That is, a porous hollow fiber, comprising a vinylidene fluoride resin having a weight-average molecular weight of at least 3×105, having a water permeation rate F (m3/m2·day) measured at a pressure difference of 100 kPa and at a water temperature of 25° C. in a range of test length L=0.2-0.8 (m) and expressed in a linear relationship with the test length L of: F=C·L+F0 (formula 1) and satisfying requirements (a)-(d) shown below: (a) a average slope C (/day) of: ?20?C?0, (b) an intercept (basic permeability) F0 (m3/m2·day) of: F0?30, (c) a relation between F0 (m3/m2·day) and an average pore diameter P (?m) according to half-dry method of F0/P?300, and (d) an outer diameter of at most 3 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Kureha Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tada, Takeo Takahashi, Masayuki Hino, Toshiya Mizuno, Kosuke Abe
  • Publication number: 20090032455
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a potting agent that enables the reduction of crawling and ensures sufficient penetration between the porous hollow fibers in stationary potting. The potting agent of the present invention is a potting agent for fixing an end portion of a porous hollow fiber group composed of a plurality of porous hollow fibers, and contains a resin material and a filler. The content of the filler is equal to or less than the content of the filler at a rising point of a variation curve of viscosity of the potting agent to filler content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tada, Masayuki Hino, Yasushi Ebihara, Toshiya Mizuno
  • Patent number: 7455772
    Abstract: A vinylidene fluoride resin having a weight-average molecular weight as relatively high as 300,000 or higher is mixed with a plasticizer and good solvent for the vinylidene fluoride resin to obtain a composition. A molten extrudate of the composition in a hollow-fiber membrane state is contacted, on its outer side, with a cooling liquid inert to the vinylidene fluoride resin to thereby cool the extrudate. During the solidification, the vinylidene fluoride resin is moderately and mildly crystallized. Thus, a hollow-fiber porous vinylidene fluoride resin membrane is produced which has a high crystallinity represented by an enthalpy of crystal melting 58 J/g or higher. The hollow-fiber porous membrane obtained is excellent in mechanical strength represented by tensile strength and elongation at break and in chemical resistance. It is effectively used as a water microfiltration membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Kureha Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tada, Takeo Takahashi, Masayuki Hino, Shingo Taniguchi, Kenichi Suzuki, Toshiya Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20080156722
    Abstract: A hollow-fiber porous membrane comprising a hollow fiber-form porous membrane of vinylidene fluoride resin and having an average pore size Pm of 0.05-0.20 ?m, a maximum pore size Pmax giving a ratio Pmax/Pm of at most 2.0 between the maximum pore size Pmax and the average pore size Pm and a standard deviation of pore size distribution of at most 0.20 ?m based on a pore size distribution according to the half dry/bubble point method (ASTM•F316 and ASTM•E1294) is provided, as a hollow-fiber porous membrane of vinylidene fluoride resin having minute pores with a size (average pore diameter) and a further uniform pore size distribution suitable for water (filtration) treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Yasuhiro Tada, Takeo Takahashi, Masayuki Hino, Kosuke Abe, Toshiya Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20080078718
    Abstract: A porous membrane for water treatment of the present invention is made of a resin composition containing 100 parts by weight of a polyvinylidene fluoride based resin, and 5 to 13 parts by weight of a polyvinyl alcohol based polymer having a degree of saponification of 10 to 80 mol %. The porous membrane has a permeation wetting tension of 38 to 72 mN/m, and a tensile strength of 7 to 20 MPa, and thus is characterized by having the excellent mechanical strength and wettability. This is a porous membrane for water treatment essentially containing the polyvinylidene fluoride based resin, which allows water treatment to be highly efficiently performed on raw water (river water, industrial waste water, and the like), in particular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tada, Shingo Taniguchi, Masayuki Hino, Takeo Takahashi, Kenichi Suzuki, Toshiya Mizuno
  • Patent number: 7351338
    Abstract: There is provided a porous membrane of vinylidene fluoride resin which has pores of appropriate size and distribution and also excellent mechanical strength represented by tensile strength and elongation at break and is useful as a microfiltration membrane or a separator for batteries. The porous membrane of vinylidene fluoride resin is characterized by the presence in mixture of a crystalline oriented portion and a crystalline non-oriented portion as confirmed by X-ray diffraction, and is produced by subjecting a melt-extruded composition obtained by mixing a vinylidene fluoride resin having a molecular weight distribution which is appropriately broad and high as a whole with a plasticizer and a good solvent for vinylidene fluoride resin, to cooling for solidification from one surface, extraction of the plasticizer and stretching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Kureha Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tada, Takeo Takahashi, Toshiya Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20070241050
    Abstract: A composition is formed by blending a vinylidene fluoride resin having a relatively high molecular weight and an improved crystallinity represented by a difference Tm2?Tc of at most 32° C. between an inherent melting point Tm2 and a crystallization temperature Tc of the resin with a plasticizer and a good solvent for vinylidene fluoride resin, and the composition is melt-extruded into a hollow fiber-form. The hollow fiber-form extrudate is then cooled to be solidified from an outside thereof by introduction into cooling medium and subjected to extraction of the plasticizer and stretching, thereby forming a hollow fiber porous membrane of vinylidene fluoride resin characterized by co-presence of crystal oriented portion and crystal non-oriented portion recognizable by X-ray diffraction method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2005
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tada, Takeo Takahashi, Masayuki Hino, Shingo Taniguchi, Kenichi Suzuki, Toshiya Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20070215540
    Abstract: A hollow fiber-form porous membrane of vinylidene fluoride resin having a high crystallinity as represented by a crystal melting enthalpy of at least 58 J/g is produced by forming a composition of a vinylidene fluoride resin having a relatively high weight-average molecular weight of at least 3×105 blended with a plasticizer and a good solvent for vinylidene fluoride resin, melt-extruding the composition into a hollow fiber-form film, and solidifying the film by cooling it from an outside thereof by contact with a cooling liquid inert to vinylidene fluoride resin while crystallizing the vinylidene fluoride resin at an appropriately moderate speed. The resultant hollow fiber-form porous membrane is excellent in mechanical strength represented by tensile strength and elongation at break, and also excellent in chemical resistance, thus being effectively used as a water micro-filtration membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tada, Takeo Takahashi, Masayuki Hino, Shingo Taniguchi, Kenichi Suzuki, Toshiya Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20070057395
    Abstract: A polyglycolic acid resin is used as a forming aid to efficiently produce various shapes, such as porous film, ultrafine fiber, ultrafine film and porous hollow fiber, of shaped products of substantially water-insoluble thermoplastic resins. More specifically, a shaped composite of the polyglycolic acid resin and the substantially water-insoluble thermoplastic resin is caused to contact an aqueous medium, thereby selectively removing the polyglycolic acid resin through solvolysis and extraction to leave a shaped product of the remaining thermoplastic resin. A glycolic acid aqueous produced by the solvolysis and extraction can be recycled into the polyglycolic acid resin as a forming aid via the formation of a concentrated glycolic acid oligomer and glycolide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Yamane, Toshiya Mizuno, Yukichika Kawakami, Shiro Suzuki, Yoichiro Yamanobe, Toshio Hosokawa, Takumi Katsurao
  • Publication number: 20070039872
    Abstract: There is provided a porous hollow fiber of vinylidene fluoride resin which has a water permeation rate that is large per fiber and little dependent on the length, has a large treatment capacity per volume of a filtering module, and is therefore suitable as a microfilter element. That is, a porous hollow fiber, comprising a vinylidene fluoride resin having a weight-average molecular weight of at least 3×105, having a water permeation rate F (m3/m2·day) measured at a pressure difference of 100 kPa and at a water temperature of 25° C. in a range of test length L=0.2-0.8(m) and expressed in a linear relationship with the test length L of: F=C·L+F0 (formula 1) and satisfying requirements (a)-(d) shown below: (a) a average slope C (/day) of: ?20?C?0, (b) an intercept (basic permeability) F0 (m3/m2·day) of: F0?30, (c) a relation between F0 (m3/m2·day) and an average pore diameter P (?m) according to half-dry method of F0/P?300, and (d) an outer diameter of at most 3 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventors: Yasuhro Tada, Takeo Takahashi, Masayuki Hino, Toshiya Mizuno, Kosuke Abe