Patents by Inventor Yoichi Kawai

Yoichi Kawai 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: 4705818
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a polypropylene-base resin composition obtained by heating at a temperature of 170.degree. C.-280.degree. C. a mixture containing a crystalline ethylene-propylene block copolymer having a specific composition, an ethylene-propylene copolymer rubber having a specific composition and viscosity, an inorganic filler having a specific particle size, and an organic peroxide, all in specified amounts. The thus-obtained polypropylene-base resin composition has high molding fluidity and are inexpensive and their moldings have excellent low-temperature impact resistance and paintability along with high stiffness. They are thus suitable for use in the production of large moldings such as automobile bumpers, fenders and body sidemembers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated
    Inventors: Yoichi Kawai, Masaru Abe, Akio Yoshihara, Shigeru Hayashi, Katsumi Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 4663369
    Abstract: A glass-fiber reinforced polypropylene composition having superior adhesion of glass fibers therein, stiffness, high-impact properties and molding properties is provided, which composition comprises a graft polypropylene resin obtained by graft-polymerizing a radically polymerizable unsaturated compound onto a crystalline polypropylene resin with an organic peroxide catalyst in a hydrocarbon solvent or a blend of the graft polypropylene with a crystalline polypropylene resin, glass fibers treated with an organic silane or titanium compound, Ca stearate and an alkaline earth metal compound, the respective quantities of the above components being specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1987
    Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Kawai, Masaru Abe, Masami Maki, Koutarou Suzuki, Minoru Hoshino
  • Patent number: 4626565
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a preparation process for polypropylene-base resin compositions, which process comprises heating at a temperature of 170.degree.-280.degree. C. a mixture containing a crystalline ethylenepropylene block copolymer having a specific composition, an ethylene-propylene copolymer rubber having a specific composition and viscosity, an inorganic filler having a specific particle size, and an organic peroxide, all in specified amounts. The thus-obtained polypropylene-base resin compositions are suitable for use in the production of large moldings such as automobile bumpers, fenders and body sidemembers because of their excellent low-temperature impact resistance, high molding fluidity, good paintability and high stiffness as well as their low preparation cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated
    Inventors: Yoichi Kawai, Masaru Abe, Katsumi Sekiguchi, Akio Yoshihara, Shigeru Hayashi
  • Patent number: 4600748
    Abstract: A polyolefin composition comprising 100 parts by weight of polyolefin, not less than 0.5 part by weight of a polyamide selected from the group consisting of nylon 6 and nylon 66, and from 3 to 30 percent by weight of novolak based on the weight of the polyamide; and a method of making polyolefin molded articles having surface improved in secondary processable property, which is characterized by treating the surface of molded articles of the polyolefin composition with a solution comprising: (a) not less than 2 percent by weight of a monomer having at least one carbon-carbon double bond and a glycidyl group, (b) 1 to 5 percent by weight of chlorinated polyolefin, and (c) not more than 97 percent by weight of a mixed solvent of 30 to 70 percent by weight of terpenic solvent and 70 to 30 percent by weight of aromatic or chlorinated hydrocarbon solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1986
    Assignees: Daiwa Company Limited, Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals Inc.
    Inventors: Kaneyuki Takagi, Yoichi Kawai, Yoshiyasu Kamiya
  • Patent number: 4553413
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to detect instantaneous variations in the current flowing through a motor (5), instantaneous variations in the rotation of an agitating body (4), or instantaneous variations in the rotation of the motor (5) to thereby detect the washing load size. On the basis of the detection signal, the washing process is controlled to make it possible to properly set the washing bath ratio, detergent concentration, washing time, and number of revolutions of the fabrics being washed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1985
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Genji, Wataru Takahashi, Masatatsu Nakamura, Yoichi Kawai
  • Patent number: 4510079
    Abstract: An electrically-conductive polyolefin resin composition having excellent resin flow properties which comprises (a) a polyolefin resin, (b) sulfur, (c) a plate adhesion promoter, (d) an electrically-conductive carbon black, and (e) a flow improver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Kawai, Yoshihisa Gotoh, Sachio Yokote, Masami Maki, Katsumi Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 4481131
    Abstract: An electroconductive polyolefin composition comprising (1) 100 parts by weight of a polyolefin resin, (2) 10 to 60 parts by weight of carbon black, (3) 0.1 to 6 parts by weight of sulfur and (4) at least 0.1 part by weight of one or two specified accelerators, and optionally containing 5 to 60 parts by weight of atactic polypropylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Kawai, Yoshihisa Gotoh, Masami Maki, Sachio Yokote, Katsumi Sekiguchi, Katsuyoshi Sasagawa, Masao Imai
  • Patent number: 4480065
    Abstract: A polypropylene-base resin composition which comprises:(a) 80-60 wt. % of a crystalline ethylenepropylene block copolymer having an ethylene content of 11-30 wt. % and specific physical data;(b) 5-35 wt. % of an ethylene-propylene copolymer rubber having a propylene content of 20-50 wt. % and a specific Mooney viscosity;(c) 5-35 wt. % of an ethylene-propylene-a specific diene terpolymer having a propylene content of 20-50 wt. % and a specific Mooney viscosity; and(d) 2-5 wt. %, based on the total weight of the above resin components (a), (b) and (c), of an inorganic filler having a particle size of 3 .mu.m or smaller.The composition has excellent paintability and high stiffness, impact resistance and molding fluidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated
    Inventors: Yoichi Kawai, Yoshihisa Gotoh, Masami Maki, Akio Yoshihara, Minoru Hoshino, Katsumi Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 4425262
    Abstract: An electroconductive polyolefin composition comprising (a) 100 parts by weight of a polyolefin resin, (b) 10 to 60 parts by weight of carbon black, (c) 0.1 to 6 parts by weight of sulfur and (d) 0.1 to 5 parts by weight of trithiolcyanuric acid, and optionally containing 5 to 60 parts by weight of atactic polypropylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Kawai, Yoshiro Nakamura, Yoshihisa Gotoh, Masami Maki, Sachio Yokote, Katsumi Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 4314039
    Abstract: A composition having improved transparency and being substantially free from a bleeding phenomenon comprising 100 parts by weight of polypropylene and 0.005 to 8 parts by weight of a 1.3,2.4-di(alkylbenzylidene) sorbitol with each alkyl group having 2 to 18 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1982
    Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Kawai, Katsuyoshi Sasagawa, Masami Maki, Hozumi Ueda, Masayoshi Miyamoto