Patents by Inventor Yoshinobu Kotera

Yoshinobu Kotera 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: 11142847
    Abstract: A spinning nozzle which has a perforated part in which ejection holes have been arranged in a density as high as 600-1,200 holes/mm2. This process for producing a fibrous bundle comprises ejecting a spinning dope having a viscosity as measured at 50° C. of 30-200 P from the ejection holes of the spinning nozzle to produce a fibrous bundle. This fibrous bundle has a single-fiber fineness of 0.005-0.01 dtex. By the wet-process direct spinning, a mass of nanofibers which are stably uniform and continuous can be produced at a high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Kotera, Yukio Onohara, Shima Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20180051391
    Abstract: A spinning nozzle which has a perforated part in which ejection holes have been arranged in a density as high as 600-1,200 holes/mm2. This process for producing a fibrous bundle comprises ejecting a spinning dope having a viscosity as measured at 50° C. of 30-200 P from the ejection holes of the spinning nozzle to produce a fibrous bundle. This fibrous bundle has a single-fiber fineness of 0.005-0.01 dtex. By the wet-process direct spinning, a mass of nanofibers which are stably uniform and continuous can be produced at a high efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Kotera, Yukio Onohara, Shima Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 9834864
    Abstract: A spinning nozzle which has a perforated part in which ejection holes have been arranged in a density as high as 600-1,200 holes/mm2. This process for producing a fibrous bundle comprises ejecting a spinning dope having a viscosity as measured at 50° C. of 30-200 P from the ejection holes of the spinning nozzle to produce a fibrous bundle. This fibrous bundle has a single-fiber fineness of 0.005-0.01 dtex. By the wet-process direct spinning, a mass of nanofibers which are stably uniform and continuous can be produced at a high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Kotera, Yukio Onohara, Shima Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20160060793
    Abstract: A carbon fiber bundle having high total fineness and extremely fine single fiber fineness is provided. The carbon fiber bundle includes continuous single fibers and satisfying the following (1) to (4): (1) a fineness of the single fiber is 0.0035-0.056 dtex; (2) a number of the single fibers in one carbon fiber bundle is 300-2500 thousand; (3) a strand strength of the carbon fiber bundle is 3000-10000 MPa; and (4) a strand elastic modulus of the carbon fiber bundle is 200-400 GPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: NAOKI SUGIURA, YOSHINOBU KOTERA, YUKIO ONOHARA
  • Publication number: 20150376815
    Abstract: A spinning nozzle which has a perforated part in which ejection holes have been arranged in a density as high as 600-1,200 holes/mm2. This process for producing a fibrous bundle comprises ejecting a spinning dope having a viscosity as measured at 50° C. of 30-200 P from the ejection holes of the spinning nozzle to produce a fibrous bundle. This fibrous bundle has a single-fiber fineness of 0.005-0.01 dtex. By the wet-process direct spinning, a mass of nanofibers which are stably uniform and continuous can be produced at a high efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu KOTERA, Yukio ONOHARA, Shima NAKANISHI
  • Patent number: 4455347
    Abstract: An acrylic fiber having an irregular form section and a ramie-like feeling, wherein the section of the fiber has unmethodical surface unevenness and has at least two concave parts which has a ratio of the length l of a perpendicular from a tangental line between adjacent convex parts of said unevenness to the deepest part of the concave part to the diameter D.sub.1 of a circumscribed circle: l/D.sub.1 of 0.05 or more, and the surface of said fiber is covered with many discontinuous creases having an average width of 1.mu. or more provided along the lengthwise direction of the fiber, and process for producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi Ochi, Yoshinobu Kotera, Masaki Sugiyama