Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Shirai

Yoshihiro Shirai 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: 6911498
    Abstract: A curing composition of a fluororubber comprising a fluororubber which is curable with an organic peroxide, for example, an iodine-containing fluororubber, a polyfunctional unsaturated compound, and an organic peroxide, for example, dicumyl peroxide, in which the total amount of acetone and tert.-butanol contained in the decomposed products of the organic peroxide, which are generated at a curing temperature, is 2 moles or less per one mole of the decomposed products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Daikin Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Shirai
  • Patent number: 6730385
    Abstract: A laminate, which is in the form of an O-ring, a square ring, a rubber roll, a diaphragm, a rubber hose, a rubber tube or a vial stopper, comprising a layer of a perfluororubber, a layer of other rubber and an adhesive layer containing a polyfunctional compound which adheres the rubber layers by vulcanization is produced by coating a polyfunctional compound on a surface of at least one of the perfluororubber layer or the other rubber layer, laminating the layers with the coated surface facing the other layer, and vulcanizing the layers to adhere them. Thereby, the adhesion strength between the layer of perfluororubber and the layer of the other rubber is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tanaka, Shoji Kawachi, Masanori Yamashita, Yoshihiro Shirai, Yutaka Ueta
  • Patent number: 6610761
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ionizing radiation irradiated rubber molded product and a process for preparing the same, the rubber molded product being prepared by irradiating with an ionizing radiation a preform comprising 5 to 95% by weight of a fluororubber containing vinylidene fluoride copolymerized therein in a proportion of 45 to 88 mole % and having a number average molecular weight of 5,000 to 200,000, and 95 to 5% by weight of an acrylic rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Shirai
  • Publication number: 20030149184
    Abstract: A curing composition of a fluororubber comprising a fluororubber which is curable with an organic peroxide, for example, an iodine-containing fluororubber, a polyfunctional unsaturated compound, and an organic peroxide, for example, dicumyl peroxide, in which the total amount of acetone and tert.-butanol contained in the decomposed products of the organic peroxide, which are generated at a curing temperature, is 2 moles or less per one mole of the decomposed products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 1999
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventors: KOJI MATSUMOTO, YOSHIHIRO SHIRAI
  • Patent number: 6239855
    Abstract: A method for producing a liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes the steps of: forming a plurality of injection seals on at least one of a pair of substrates, the injection seals defining a liquid crystal injection area; forming a dummy seal of dispersed sealant particles outside the liquid crystal injection area; attaching the substrates to each other thereby sandwiching the injection seal and the dummy seal therebetween; and injecting a liquid crystal material into the liquid crystal injection area formed between the pair of substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Nakahara, Kyouhei Isohata, Daisuke Ikesugi, Manabu Ano, Kazuya Yoshimura, Yoshihiro Shirai
  • Patent number: 6228943
    Abstract: A peroxide-curable fluorine-containing elastomer composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a fluorine-containing block polymer comprising at least one elastomeric polymer chain segment and at least one non-elastomeric polymer chain segment in which the content of said non-elastomeric polymer chain segment is less than 5% by weight, 0.05 to 10 parts by weight, preferably 0.3 to 5 parts by weight, more preferably 1 to 5 parts by weight, of an organic peroxide, and 0.1 to 10 parts by weight, preferably 0.5 to 8 parts by weight, more preferably 0.5 to 5 parts by weight, of a polyfunctional co-crosslinking agent. This composition has improved processing properties during curing and molding, while it has good tensile properties, heat resistance, oil resistance and high temperature sealing properties comparable to those of conventional peroxide-curable fluorine-containing elastomer compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Daikin Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Morikawa, Mitsuru Kishine, Yoshihiro Shirai, Koji Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 5729319
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates opposed to each other, polymeric walls patterned in a predetermined pattern, and a liquid crystal layer at least a part of which is surrounded by the polymeric wall, and the polymeric wall and the liquid crystal layer are interposed between the substrates, wherein the polymeric wall has a predetermined rotatory polarization corresponding to an alignment regulating force of the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ippei Inou, Yoshihiro Shirai, Makoto Shiomi
  • Patent number: 5709447
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to obtain high luminance with low power consumption. Convexes are formed on one side face of a light-guiding plate on a light source side of the light-guiding plate. The convexes are formed at minute pitches in parallel with the longitudinal direction of the one side face. An isosceles right triangle is selected as the sectional shape of the convexes. Light having entered from the one side face is diffused and reflected by a diffuse reflection layer, and light reflected by a reflection plate is emitting from a light-outgoing surface. The light having entered from the one side face is also directly emitted from the light-outgoing surface. The emitted light is diffused by a diffusion plate to irradiate, for example, the side opposite to the display side of a liquid crystal display panel in which the lighting device of the invention is to be incorporated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Murakami, Yoshihiro Shirai
  • Patent number: 5508134
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to economically and easily form light-shielding means with high accuracy. An ITO film, which is used as transparent electrodes, and a resist layer are formed in this order on a surface of a light-transmitting substrate defining an X-Y plane. Thereafter, the resist layer is exposed, using a mask having a pattern corresponding to the transparent electrodes and developed. The bared ITO film is etched in a Z-direction to form the transparent electrodes. Then the light-shielding means is formed, by the use of an electrodeposition method, in a direction parallel to the insulating substrate, starting from a side surface of the transparent electrode not covered by the resist layer. After the completion of forming the light-shielding means, the resist layer on the transparent electrodes is removed. Thus, the steps of manufacturing the light shielding means are simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Shirai
  • Patent number: 5470917
    Abstract: A vulcanizable rubber composition which contains an iodine- or bromine-containing rubber and an organic peroxide of the formula. ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, a chlorine atom or methyl group, R.sup.2 is a linear or branched alkyl group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 1 to 3, generates only a small amount of methyl iodide or methyl bromide during the vulcanization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Assignee: Daikin Industries Limited
    Inventors: Shuji Suyama, Hideyo Ishigaki, Masayasu Tomoda, Yoshihiro Shirai, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Masaharu Komai
  • Patent number: 5430103
    Abstract: The present invention provides a crosslinkable composition which comprises an internally crosslinked acrylic elastomer which is crosslinkable with a peroxide, a fluoroelastomer and a crosslinking agent for at least one of the elastomers.A crosslinkable composition of the present invention can afford a molding which are excellent in physical properties such as mechanical strength and compression set, heat resistance and workability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1995
    Assignees: Daikin Industries, Ltd., Nissin Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ohata, Satoshi Terasaki, Etsuo Minamino, Masayasu Tomoda, Yoshihiro Shirai, Tsuyoshi Noguchi, Kazuhisa Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 5296549
    Abstract: A vulcanizable rubber composition which contains an iodine- or bromine-containing rubber and an organic peroxide of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, a chlorine atoms or methyl group, R.sup.2 is a linear or branched alkyl group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 1 to 3, generates only a small amount of methyl iodide or methyl bromide during the vulcanization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Daikin Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Suyama, Hideyo Ishigaki, Masayasu Tomoda, Yoshihiro Shirai, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Masaharu Komai
  • Patent number: 4729638
    Abstract: A liquid crystal-type nonglare mirror suitable for room mirrors or for vehicles, which effectively prevents the formation of interference fringes under light sources, such as sodium lamps, halogen lamps and the like. The mirror is composed of a transparent electrode base, a liquid crystal and a reflective electrode base, in which the liquid crystal is placed between the above electrode bases. The technical effects may be provided by the limitation that rubbing directions of both electrodes are nonparallel and that the twist angle of the liquid crystal is about 360.degree.. The technical effects may also be obtained from the insertion of a silicon nitride layer in the construction of the mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Shirai
  • Patent number: 4460248
    Abstract: A two-layer guest-host liquid crystal display device is provided, each layer having a guest-host liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a pair of substrates and being provided with an electrode for applying an electric field to said liquid crystal layer, which comprises a first display layer comprising a P-type pleochroic dye material and a first liquid crystal material and a second display layer comprising an N-type pleochroic dye material and a second liquid crystal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1984
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Shirai
  • Patent number: 4405208
    Abstract: There provides a liquid crystal display device which comprises a pair of opposed substrates, a transparent electrode on at least one of the substrates, a liquid crystal composition and a characteristic orienting film of a polyimide-siloxane copolymer resin formed at least over the surface of the electrode, and which shows an excellent orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1983
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Shirai