Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Nonaka

Yasuhiro Nonaka 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: 11865815
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition containing polymethallyl alcohol (A) having a repeating structural unit represented by the following formula (1) in an amount of greater than or equal to 30 mol %, and a component (B) that is at least one of an acid component having a pKa of 3.5 to 7.5 and an anion of the acid component, the pKa being a logarithmic value of a reciprocal of an acid dissociation constant at 25° C., a content of the component (B) being greater than or equal to 0.01 ?mol per 1 g of the polymethallyl alcohol (A); a method of producing the resin composition; and a molding containing the resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nonaka, Yasutaka Inubushi
  • Patent number: 11813825
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a laminate having a gas barrier layer and a polyurethane layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nonaka, Tatsuya Oshita
  • Patent number: 11718074
    Abstract: A film with a gas barrier resin having a glass transition temperature of 70° C. or below and an elastomer, and having an oxygen permeability coefficient of 200 mL/(m2·day·atm) or less. In a case where tension is applied to stretch the film in a machine direction (MD) at 20° C. such that a twofold increase in length of the film is kept for 30 seconds, and then the tension is released, a ratio L2/L1 is 1.5 or less, where L1 denotes the length of the film prior to application of the tension and L2 denotes the length of the film subsequent to release of the tension. An elongation ratio at break ETD/EMD of the film is preferably 0.9 or more and 1.7 or less, there EMD denotes the elongation at break in MD and ETD denotes the elongation at break in the transverse direction (TD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nonaka, Makoto Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230090237
    Abstract: Provided are: a resin composition which inhibits the generation of aggregates at the time of melt molding and enables obtaining a molded product which has sufficient heat/light resistance and is unlikely to break down into microplastics after being discarded, the above-mentioned characteristics being sufficiently improved compared to a resin composition obtained using the same ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH), and the like. The resin composition contains: an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A); and an aluminum ion (B), wherein at least a part of the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) comprises, at a polymer end, at least one of a carboxylic acid unit (I) and a lactone ring unit (II), a total content (i+ii) of the carboxylic acid unit (I) and the lactone ring unit (II) per gram of the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) is 14 ?mol/g or more and 78 ?mol/g or less, and a content (b) of the aluminum ion (B) per gram of the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) is 0.002 ?mol/g or more and 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mizuko Oshita, Yasuhiro Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20220396060
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multilayer structure having a gas barrier layer and a polyurethane layer; a molded product having such a multilayer structure; and a method for producing the molded product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nonaka, Tatsuya Oshita
  • Publication number: 20220388286
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a laminate having a gas barrier layer and a polyurethane layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nonaka, Tatsuya Oshita
  • Patent number: 11407880
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition containing polymethallyl alcohol (A) having a repeating structural unit represented by the following formula (1) in an amount of greater than or equal to 30 mol %, and a metal ion (B), a content of the metal ion (B) being greater than or equal to 0.05 ?mol per 1 g of the polymethallyl alcohol (A); a method of producing the resin composition; and a molding containing the resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Nonaka
  • Patent number: 11020942
    Abstract: Provided are: a laminate having an outer surface thereof that is highly adhesive to a rubber material, and having sufficient gas barrier properties, interlayer adhesiveness and flex resistance; a multilayered structure including such a laminate; and a method for producing the same. A laminate including: a plurality of gas barrier layers (A) formed from a polymer including a gas barrier resin; and an elastomer layer (B) including at least one adhesive layer (B1), wherein a sum of number of the gas barrier layers (A) and number of the elastomer layer (B) is 5 or greater and 300 or less, the adhesive layer (B1) is laminated as at least an outermost layer, and the adhesive layer (B1) includes a styrene elastomer and is formed from a polymer having an iodine value of 200 or greater and 300 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Suzuki, Yasuhiro Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20200324525
    Abstract: A film with a gas barrier resin having a glass transition temperature of 70° C. or below and an elastomer, and having an oxygen permeability coefficient of 200 mL/(m2·day·atm) or less. In a case where tension is applied to stretch the film in a machine direction (MD) at 20° C. such that a twofold increase in length of the film is kept for 30 seconds, and then the tension is released, a ratio L2/L1 is 1.5 or less, where L1 denotes the length of the film prior to application of the tension and L2 denotes the length of the film subsequent to release of the tension. An elongation ratio at break ETD/EMD of the film is preferably 0.9 or more and 1.7 or less, there EMD denotes the elongation at break in MD and ETD denotes the elongation at break in the transverse direction (TD).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro NONAKA, Makoto SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200316920
    Abstract: Provided are: a laminate having an outer surface thereof that is highly adhesive to a rubber material, and having sufficient gas barrier properties, interlayer adhesiveness and flex resistance; a multilayered structure including such a laminate; and a method for producing the same. A laminate including: a plurality of gas barrier layers (A) formed from a polymer including a gas barrier resin; and an elastomer layer (B) including at least one adhesive layer (B1), wherein a sum of number of the gas barrier layers (A) and number of the elastomer layer (B) is 5 or greater and 300 or less, the adhesive layer (B1) is laminated as at least an outermost layer, and the adhesive layer (B1) includes a styrene elastomer and is formed from a polymer having an iodine value of 200 or greater and 300 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto SUZUKI, Yasuhiro NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20200316997
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an inner liner of a pneumatic tire having high adhesiveness to an adjacent rubber member, which is an inner liner (100) of a pneumatic tire including a film layer (10) having at least a gas barrier layer (11) and an adhesion layer (20) disposed on at least one side of the film layer (10), where the gas barrier layer (11) contains at least a thermoplastic resin, the adhesion layer (20) contains at least a polystyrene-based thermoplastic elastomer, and the polystyrene-based thermoplastic elastomer has a styrene content of 40 mass % to 55 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicants: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION, KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro KAYASHIMA, Hiroyuki YOKOKURA, Toshikazu SUGIMOTO, Yasuhiro NONAKA, Makoto SUZUKI, Nahoto HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10448584
    Abstract: The present invention provides a medium for plant cultivation including a thermoplastic resin containing at least one of an ethylene unit and a propylene unit, wherein an extract obtained by treating 10 g of the thermoplastic resin with 50 mL of ion-exchange water at 95° C. for 4 hours has a pH at 25° C. not less than 4 and not more than 9; a medium for plant cultivation allowing a plant to be efficiently grown regardless of the type of the plant with an apparatus and a method for plant cultivation including the medium for plant cultivation; and an apparatus and a method for plant cultivation including the medium for plant cultivation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyo Nishimura, Yasuhiro Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10047204
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition that achieves superior appearance characteristics such as a color of a film end (or a roll end) after melt molding, film-breaking resistance, blocking resistance, vapor deposition defects-inhibiting properties, and adhesive strength of a vapor deposition layer. The resin composition contains: an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer; inorganic particles; and an aliphatic carbonyl compound having 3 to 8 carbon atoms, in which the content of the inorganic particles is 50 ppm or greater and 5,000 ppm or less, the aliphatic carbonyl compound is at least one selected from the group consisting of a saturated aldehyde, an unsaturated aldehyde and a saturated ketone, and the content of the aliphatic carbonyl compound is 0.01 ppm or greater and 100 ppm or less. The inorganic particles preferably contain a metal element which is at least one selected from the group consisting of silicon, aluminum, magnesium, zirconium, cerium, tungsten and molybdenum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawai, Yasuhiro Nonaka
  • Patent number: 9951199
    Abstract: Provided by the present invention is an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin composition having superior appearance characteristics (particularly decreased coloring and unevenness of the hue), and is accompanied by suppressed occurrence of yellowing, etc., in melt molding. An ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin composition containing an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) and a compound having an enediol structure (B), in which a molar ratio of the compound (B) to vinyl alcohol units of the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) is 2.70×10?9 or greater and 2.70×10?5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nonaka, Yoshio Yamamoto, Yoshikazu Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20170369671
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition containing polymethallyl alcohol (A) having a repeating structural unit represented by the following formula (1) in an amount of greater than or equal to 30 mol %, and a metal ion (B), a content of the metal ion (B) being greater than or equal to 0.05 ?mol per 1 g of the polymethallyl alcohol (A); a method of producing the resin composition; and a molding containing the resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20170361581
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition containing polymethallyl alcohol (A) having a repeating structural unit represented by the following formula (1) in an amount of greater than or equal to 30 mol %, and a component (B) that is at least one of an acid component having a pKa of 3.5 to 7.5 and an anion of the acid component, the pKa being a logarithmic value of a reciprocal of an acid dissociation constant at 25° C., a content of the component (B) being greater than or equal to 0.01 ?mol per 1 g of the polymethallyl alcohol (A); a method of producing the resin composition; and a molding containing the resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro NONAKA, Yasutaka INUBUSHI
  • Publication number: 20170361591
    Abstract: Provided is a polymethallyl alcohol copolymer having a structural unit (A) represented by the following formula (A) and a structural unit (B) represented by the following formula (B), a molar ratio (A)/(B) of the structural unit (A) to the structural unit (B) being greater than or equal to 0.5; a method of producing the copolymer; and a molding containing the copolymer. In the formula (B), X represents at least one selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkoxy group, a hydroxy group, and an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20170183426
    Abstract: Provided are an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer, a resin composition and a molded product thereof being superior in long-run stability of melt molding, with inhibited coloring and generation of film forming defects such as flaws in formed film and streaks, and also being superior in appearance characteristics. An ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) obtained by saponifying a copolymer of ethylene and a vinyl ester, in which molecular weights determined by using gel permeation chromatography with a differential refractive index detector and an ultraviolet and visible absorbance detector after a heat treatment in a nitrogen atmosphere at 220° C. for 50 hrs satisfy the inequality (1): (Ma?Mb)/Ma<0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi KAWAI, Yasuhiro NONAKA, Syunsuke FUJIOKA, Hatsuyo MIYAKE
  • Publication number: 20160249541
    Abstract: The present invention provides a medium for plant cultivation including a thermoplastic resin containing at least one of an ethylene unit and a propylene unit, wherein an extract obtained by treating 10 g of the thermoplastic resin with 50 mL of ion-exchange water at 95° C. for 4 hours has a pH at 25° C. not less than 4 and not more than 9; a medium for plant cultivation allowing a plant to be efficiently grown regardless of the type of the plant with an apparatus and a method for plant cultivation including the medium for plant cultivation; and an apparatus and a method for plant cultivation including the medium for plant cultivation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyo NISHIMURA, Yasuhiro NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20160108193
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition that achieves superior appearance characteristics such as a color of a film end (or a roll end) after melt molding, film-breaking resistance, blocking resistance, vapor deposition defects-inhibiting properties, and adhesive strength of a vapor deposition layer. The resin composition contains: an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer; inorganic particles; and an aliphatic carbonyl compound having 3 to 8 carbon atoms, in which the content of the inorganic particles is 50 ppm or greater and 5,000 ppm or less, the aliphatic carbonyl compound is at least one selected from the group consisting of a saturated aldehyde, an unsaturated aldehyde and a saturated ketone, and the content of the aliphatic carbonyl compound is 0.01 ppm or greater and 100 ppm or less. The inorganic particles preferably contain a metal element which is at least one selected from the group consisting of silicon, aluminum, magnesium, zirconium, cerium, tungsten and molybdenum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi KAWAI, Yasuhiro NONAKA