Patents by Inventor Yasushi Takada

Yasushi Takada 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: 10962198
    Abstract: There is provided a reflector having tray shapes excellent in shape retention, specifically, a reflector having tray shapes which change little even when exposed to a moist heat environment for a long period of time and is suitable for a direct type backlight unit, an LED lighting unit, and an illumination for a plant factory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hirohito Uchida, Yasushi Takada, Takashi Isozaki
  • Patent number: 10589490
    Abstract: A laminated polyester film includes a pigment-containing polyester layer A and wax-containing polyester layers B1 and B2 on both sides of the polyester layer A, wherein the film satisfies formulae (I) and (II), and the coefficient of variation of water contact angle for each layer B1 and layer B2 is not less than 0% and not more than 10%, when the contact angle with water is measured 10 times at arbitrary defined positions within the range of 200 mm×200 mm: Wb1>Wa??(I) Wb2>Wa??(II) wherein Wb1 and Wb2 represent the wax content per unit area of the layer B1 and layer B2 respectively, and Wa represents the wax content per unit area of the layer A, and wherein the coefficient of variation represents a value obtained by dividing the standard deviation in values measured 10 times by the average value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsutaka Sakamoto, Mayumi Nakamura, Isao Manabe, Yasushi Takada, Satoshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200011505
    Abstract: There is provided a reflector having tray shapes excellent in shape retention, specifically, a reflector having tray shapes which change little even when exposed to a moist heat environment for a long period of time and is suitable for a direct type backlight unit, an LED lighting unit, and an illumination for a plant factory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hirohito UCHIDA, Yasushi TAKADA, Takashi ISOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20180272679
    Abstract: A laminated polyester film includes a pigment-containing polyester layer A and wax-containing polyester layers B1 and B2 on both sides of the polyester layer A, wherein the film satisfies formulae (I) and (II), and the coefficient of variation of water contact angle for each layer B1 and layer B2 is not less than 0% and not more than 10%, when the contact angle with water is measured 10 times at arbitrary defined positions within the range of 200 mm×200 mm: Wb1>Wa??(I) Wb2>Wa??(II) wherein Wb1 and Wb2 represent the wax content per unit area of the layer B1 and layer B2 respectively, and Wa represents the wax content per unit area of the layer A, and wherein the coefficient of variation represents a value obtained by dividing the standard deviation in values measured 10 times by the average value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Mitsutaka Sakamoto, Mayumi Nakamura, Isao Manabe, Yasushi Takada, Satoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9771491
    Abstract: The present invention provides a laminated film comprising a polyester film having a resin layer on at least one side thereof, wherein said resin layer contains at least metal oxide particles (A) having a number average particle diameter of 3 nm or more and 50 nm or less, and an acrylic resin (B), and a component (C1) derived from an oxazoline-based compound and/or a component (C2) derived from a melamine-based compound, and wherein said acrylic resin (B) contains a monomer unit (b1), a monomer unit (b2) and a monomer unit (b3). The present invention provides a laminated film which is excellent in transparency, suppression of interference pattern upon lamination of a high refractive index hard coat layer, adhesive property to a high refractive index hard coat layer, and adhesion under high temperature and high humidity conditions (adhesion under high temperature and high humidity conditions), at a low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yu Abe, Masami Ogata, Yasushi Takada
  • Patent number: 9604435
    Abstract: Provided is a multilayer film, in which a resin layer obtained using a resin (?) is provided on at least one surface of a polyester film, and which satisfies the conditions (I)-(IV) described below. (I) The resin layer has a thickness of 80-500 nm. (II) The resin layer has a pencil hardness of F or higher. (III) The multilayer film has a haze of 3.0% or less. (IV) The resin (?) is a resin that is obtained by heating a resin composition, which contains a resin (A) that has a hydroxyl group and an acryloyl group and a melamine compound (B) that has a methylol group, at 150° C. or higher. This multilayer film has a transparent resin layer that has a predominantly thin thickness of 500 nm or less, while having high hardness and excellent oligomer precipitation inhibiting properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ota, Yu Abe, Yasushi Takada
  • Patent number: 9371467
    Abstract: A forming material having a layer on at least one of surfaces of a support substrate material, wherein the layer contains a fluorine-containing compound, and has a 60-degree specular gloss level prescribed in JIS Z8741 (1997 edition) greater than or equal to 60%, and the layer has a surface property with a number of peaks exceeding a root-mean-square roughness (Rq) observed under an atomic force microscope (AFM) greater than or equal to 500 and less than or equal to 1500 per 25 ?m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Ishida, Tadahiko Iwaya, Takashi Mimura, Yasushi Takada
  • Patent number: 9299477
    Abstract: An electrically conductive film has an electrically conductive layer on at least one side, which is a thermoplastic resin film in which the electrically conductive layer contains a carbon nanotube (A), a carbon nanotube dispersant (B) and a binder resin (C), the total of contents of (A), (B) and (C) in the electrically conductive layer is 90% by weight or more relative to the entire electrically conductive layer, and weight rates of (A), (B) and (C) satisfy the following, and a weight ratio of (B) and (A) ((B)/(A)) is 0.5 or more and 15.0 or less: (A) 1.0 to 40.0% by weight, (B) 0.5 to 90.0% by weight, and (C) 4.0 to 98.5% by weight (provided that the total of contents of (A), (B) and (C) is let to be 100% by weight).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ota, Yasushi Takada, Shotaro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9248629
    Abstract: A laminated polyester film provided on at least one side with layer (X) made from acrylic urethane copolymer resin (A), isocyanate compound (B), epoxy compound (C), compound (d-1) having a polythiophene structure and compound (d-2) having an anion structure, wherein the layer (X) has a continuous phase structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masami Ogata, Yu Abe, Yasushi Takada
  • Patent number: 9200174
    Abstract: A laminated body is a laminated body that has in this order a second layer and a first layer with different indices of refraction on at least one surface of a supporting base material, and the first layer contains particles X (particles X being particles having at least an inorganic particle part), with the second layer containing particles Y (particles Y being particles having at least an inorganic particle part) and is characterized by the number average particle size (DX in the following) for the inorganic particle parts for the particles X being 5-25 nm and by Equations 1 and 2 being satisfied: 1.4?(LX/DX)?3??1 SLX?7??2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Michiko Kai, Yasuyuki Ishida, Tadahiko Iwaya, Yasushi Takada
  • Patent number: 9200126
    Abstract: A laminated film includes a resin layer provided on at least one surface of a thermoplastic resin film substrate, wherein the resin layer comprises an acrylic-modified polyester whose acrylic resin component has a glass-transition temperature of not lower than 67° C. and a sugar alcohol and/or a sugar alcohol derivative; the mass ratio of the acrylic-modified polyester to the sugar alcohol and the sugar alcohol derivative (the mass of the acrylic-modified polyester/the total mass of the sugar alcohol and the sugar alcohol derivative) is from 75/25 to 97/3; the total content of the acrylic-modified polyester and the sugar alcohol and sugar alcohol derivative is 65% by mass or more based on the total resin layer; and the haze value of the laminated film is not more than 2.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ota, Masato Yanagibashi, Yasushi Takada, Yu Abe
  • Publication number: 20150191621
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a laminated polyester film which has excellent translucency and excellent suppression of an iris-like pattern (interference fringe), i.e., excellent visibility, when a hard coat layer is laminated; has excellent initial adhesion to the hard coat layer, adhesiveness at high temperatures and high humidity (wet heat-resistant adhesion), and UV-resistant adhesion (adhesion after UV irradiation); and has excellent adhesion when immersed in boiling water (boiling-resistant adhesion) and boiling-resistant translucency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yu Abe, Masami Ogata, Yasushi Takada
  • Publication number: 20150152279
    Abstract: A laminated body is a laminated body that has in this order a second layer and a first layer with different indices of refraction on at least one surface of a supporting base material, and the first layer contains particles X (particles X being particles having at least an inorganic particle part), with the second layer containing particles Y (particles Y being particles having at least an inorganic particle part) and is characterized by the number average particle size (DX in the following) for the inorganic particle parts for the particles X being 5-25 nm and by Equations 1 and 2 being satisfied: 1.4?(LX/DX)?3??1 SLX?7??2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Michiko Kai, Yasuyuki Ishida, Tadahiko Iwaya, Yasushi Takada
  • Publication number: 20150086777
    Abstract: The present invention provides a laminated film comprising a polyester film having a resin layer on at least one side thereof, wherein said resin layer contains at least metal oxide particles (A) having a number average particle diameter of 3 nm or more and 50 nm or less, and an acrylic resin (B), and a component (C1) derived from an oxazoline-based compound and/or a component (C2) derived from a melamine-based compound, and wherein said acrylic resin (B) contains a monomer unit (b1), a monomer unit (b2) and a monomer unit (b3). The present invention provides a laminated film which is excellent in transparency, suppression of interference pattern upon lamination of a high refractive index hard coat layer, adhesive property to a high refractive index hard coat layer, and adhesion under high temperature and high humidity conditions (adhesion under high temperature and high humidity conditions), at a low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yu Abe, Masami Ogata, Yasushi Takada
  • Publication number: 20150072140
    Abstract: Provided is a multilayer film, in which a resin layer obtained using a resin (?) is provided on at least one surface of a polyester film, and which satisfies the conditions (I)-(IV) described below. (I) The resin layer has a thickness of 80-500 nm. (II) The resin layer has a pencil hardness of F or higher. (III) The multilayer film has a haze of 3.0% or less. (IV) The resin (?) is a resin that is obtained by heating a resin composition, which contains a resin (A) that has a hydroxyl group and an acryloyl group and a melamine compound (B) that has a methylol group, at 150° C. or higher. This multilayer film has a transparent resin layer that has a predominantly thin thickness of 500 nm or less, while having high hardness and excellent oligomer precipitation inhibiting properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ota, Yu Abe, Yasushi Takada
  • Patent number: 8778484
    Abstract: A laminated polyester film includes a layer (S) of polyester and a layer (C) including a polyester resin (A) having a fluorene backbone, wherein a surface of the layer (C) has an adhesive index after a heat and wet test of 3 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masami Nemoto, Mitsuhiro Horiuchi, Yasushi Takada
  • Publication number: 20140148547
    Abstract: A forming material having a layer on at least one of surfaces of a support substrate material, wherein the layer contains a fluorine-containing compound, and has a 60-degree specular gloss level prescribed in JIS Z8741 (1997 edition) greater than or equal to 60%, and the layer has a surface property with a number of peaks exceeding a root-mean-square roughness (Rq) observed under an atomic force microscope (AFM) greater than or equal to 500 and less than or equal to 1500 per 25 ?m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Ishida, Tadahiko Iwaya, Takashi Mimura, Yasushi Takada
  • Publication number: 20130344320
    Abstract: A laminated polyester film provided on at least one side with layer (X) made from acrylic urethane copolymer resin (A), isocyanate compound (B), epoxy compound (C), compound (d-1) having a polythiophene structure and compound (d-2) having an anion structure, wherein the layer (X) has a continuous phase structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masami Ogata, Yu Abe, Yasushi Takada
  • Publication number: 20130264525
    Abstract: An electrically conductive film has an electrically conductive layer on at least one side, which is a thermoplastic resin film in which the electrically conductive layer contains a carbon nanotube (A), a carbon nanotube dispersant (B) and a binder resin (C), the total of contents of (A), (B) and (C) in the electrically conductive layer is 90% by weight or more relative to the entire electrically conductive layer, and weight rates of (A), (B) and (C) satisfy the following, and a weight ratio of (B) and (A) ((B)/(A)) is 0.5 or more and 15.0 or less: (A) 1.0 to 40.0% by weight, (B) 0.5 to 90.0% by weight, and (C) 4.0 to 98.5% by weight (provided that the total of contents of (A), (B) and (C) is let to be 100% by weight).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ota, Yasushi Takada, Shotaro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8414964
    Abstract: An electrically conductive film has an electrically conductive layer on at least one side, which is a thermoplastic resin film in which the electrically conductive layer contains a carbon nanotube (A), a carbon nanotube dispersant (B) and a binder resin (C), the total of contents of (A), (B) and (C) in the electrically conductive layer is 90% by weight or more relative to the entire electrically conductive layer, and weight rates of (A), (B) and (C) satisfy the following, and a weight ratio of (B) and (A) ((B)/(A)) is 0.5 or more and 15.0 or less: (A) 1.0 to 40.0% by weight, (B) 0.5 to 90.0% by weight, and (C) 4.0 to 98.5% by weight (provided that the total of contents of (A), (B) and (C) is let to be 100% by weight).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ota, Yasushi Takada, Shotaro Tanaka