Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Akamatsu

Yoshinori Akamatsu 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: 11964034
    Abstract: A double-structured stick cosmetic includes a solid-form outer layer containing a first oil composition, and an inner core containing a second oil composition, in which the first oil composition contains (A) an alkyl-modified silicone having an alkyl group having 16 to 50 carbon atoms and (B) a wax in a solid-form at 25° C. other than (A). The component (A) may have a melting point of 25° C. or higher and 50° C. or lower. A mass ratio [(A)/(B)] of the component (A) to the component (B) contained in the first oil composition may be 0.2 or larger and 1.5 or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOKIWA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Kawai, Yoshinori Akamatsu
  • Publication number: 20240081509
    Abstract: A rod-shaped cosmetic includes a rod-shaped main body part composed of a cosmetic composition, and a cavity part extending in the longitudinal direction of the rod-shaped main body part and opening at one end or at both ends of the rod-shaped main body part is provided inside the rod-shaped main body part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOKIWA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinori AKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20240074948
    Abstract: A stick-shaped cosmetic material including two or more regions divided in a longitudinal direction of the stick-shaped cosmetic material, in which the two or more regions include a first region containing a first cosmetic composition containing a wax (A1) having a melting point of 65° C. or higher as an oil component in the first cosmetic composition, and a second region containing a second cosmetic composition containing, as oil components in the second cosmetic composition, the wax (A1) and a fatty acid triglyceride (A2) having a melting point of 30° C. or higher, the first region and the second region are adjacent to each other, and when content ratios (mass %) of the wax (A1) based on a total amount of the oil components in the first cosmetic composition and the second cosmetic composition are defined as M1 and M2, respectively, M1>M2 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshinori AKAMATSU, Natsuko MOMOKITA
  • Publication number: 20230053578
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a double-structured stick cosmetic, including: a solid-form outer layer containing a first oil composition; and an inner core containing a second oil composition, in which the first oil composition contains (A) an alkyl-modified silicone having an alkyl group having 16 to 50 carbon atoms and (B) a wax in a solid-form at 25° C. other than (A). the component (A) may have a melting point of 25° C. or higher and 50° C. or lower. A mass ratio [(A)/(B)] of the component (A) to the component (B) contained in the first oil composition may be 0.2 or larger and 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Seiji KAWAI, Yoshinori AKAMATSU
  • Patent number: 11441821
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a heat pump that can use, as a refrigerant, a substance with which a geometric isomer exists, and a method for designing the same. The present invention is a method for designing a heat pump (1) whose closed circuit configured by connecting a compressor (2), a condenser (3), an expansion valve (4), and an evaporator (5) in this order is filled with a refrigerant containing a refrigerant substance with which a geometric isomer may exist, the method including obtaining an upper limit of stable temperature at which isomerization of the refrigerant substance does not proceed, and setting an upper limit usage temperature of the heat pump (1) so as not to exceed the upper limit of the stable temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal System, Ltd., Central Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Suemitsu, Kenji Ueda, Yasushi Hasegawa, Kazuki Wajima, Yoshinori Akamatsu, Fuyuhiko Sakyu, Kanako Osafune
  • Publication number: 20190390878
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a heat pump that can use, as a refrigerant, a substance with which a geometric isomer exists, and a method for designing the same. The present invention is a method for designing a heat pump (1) whose closed circuit configured by connecting a compressor (2), a condenser (3), an expansion valve (4), and an evaporator (5) in this order is filled with a refrigerant containing a refrigerant substance with which a geometric isomer may exist, the method including obtaining an upper limit of stable temperature at which isomerization of the refrigerant substance does not proceed, and setting an upper limit usage temperature of the heat pump (1) so as not to exceed the upper limit of the stable temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD., CENTRAL GLASS COMPANY, LTD
    Inventors: Ryosuke SUEMITSU, Kenji UEDA, Yasushi HASEGAWA, Kazuki WAJIMA, Yoshinori AKAMATSU, Fuyuhiko SAKYU, Kanako OSAFUNE
  • Patent number: 10465959
    Abstract: A heat pump device and an organic Rankine cycle device that are capable of maintaining a stable thermal cycle even when an HFO or HCFO is used as the refrigerant. The refrigerant circulation device uses a refrigerant, wherein the refrigerant includes a hydrofluoroolefin or hydrochlorofluoroolefin having a carbon-carbon double bond within the molecular structure, and a reaction suppression unit which suppresses an isomerization reaction of the refrigerant is provided within the refrigerant circulation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD., CENTRAL GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Ueda, Naoki Kobayashi, Yoshinori Akamatsu, Fuyuhiko Sakyu, Yoshio Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 10443912
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat pump device and an organic Rankine cycle device that are capable of maintaining a stable thermal cycle even when an HFO is used as the refrigerant in an environment in which the operating temperature reaches a high temperature. The refrigerant circulation device is filled with a refrigerant comprising a hydrofluoroolefin or hydrochlorofluoroolefin having a carbon-carbon double bond within the molecular structure, and has a region in the refrigerant circulation circuit where the operating temperature of the refrigerant reaches 175° C. or higher, wherein an acid suppression unit which suppresses any increase in the acid concentration in the refrigerant is provided in the region where the operating temperature of the refrigerant can reach 175° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD., CENTRAL GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Ueda, Naoki Kobayashi, Yoshinori Akamatsu, Fuyuhiko Sakyu, Yoshio Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 10236175
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid chemical for forming a water-repellent protecting film on a wafer. The liquid chemical is a liquid chemical containing a water-repellent-protecting-film-forming agent for forming the water-repellent protecting film, at the time of cleaning the wafer which has a finely uneven pattern at its surface and contains at least at a part of a surface of a recessed portion of the uneven pattern at least one kind of matter selected from the group consisting of titanium, titanium nitride, tungsten, aluminum, copper, tin, tantalum nitride, ruthenium and silicon, at least on the surface of the recessed portion. The liquid chemical is characterized in that the water-repellent-protecting-film-forming agent is a water-insoluble surfactant. The water-repellent protecting film formed with the liquid chemical is capable of preventing a pattern collapse of the wafer, in a cleaning step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Central Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masanori Saito, Shinobu Arata, Takashi Saio, Soichi Kumon, Hidehisa Nanai, Yoshinori Akamatsu
  • Publication number: 20180347860
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a heat source machine that can reduce the environmental load and can output the thermal energy with high temperature, and a method for operating the heat source machine. A heat source machine of the present invention includes a centrifugal compressor, condensers, expansion valves, and an evaporator, in which a refrigerant enclosed in a refrigerant circulation circuit configured by sequentially connecting the centrifugal compressor, the condensers, the expansion valves, and the evaporator contains a composition A, a composition B, or a composition C, the composition A has 4 or 5 carbon atoms, 6 or more fluorine atoms, and one or more oxygen atoms, the composition B has 4 or 5 carbon atoms and 6 or more fluorine atoms, the composition C has 3 carbon atoms, 2 chlorine atoms, 3 fluorine atoms, and an intramolecular double bond, and the composition A, the composition B, or the composition C has a boiling point of 20° C. or more and a critical temperature of 180° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD., CENTRAL GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED.
    Inventors: Kazuki WAJIMA, Noriyuki MATSUKURA, Kenji UEDA, Naoki KOBAYASHI, Ryosuke SUEMITSU, Yoshinori AKAMATSU, Fuyuhiko SAKYU, Kanako OSAFUNE, Masanori TAMURA, Hiroyuki SUDA, Junji MIZUKADO, Kenji TAKIZAWA, Liang CHEN, Heng-dao QUAN
  • Patent number: 9748092
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid chemical for forming a water-repellent protecting film at least on a surface of a recessed portion of an uneven pattern at the time of cleaning a wafer having a finely uneven pattern at its surface and containing silicon at at least a part of the uneven pattern. This liquid chemical contains a silicon compound A represented by the general formula: R1aSi(H)bX4-a-b and an acid A, the acid A being at least one selected from the group consisting of trimethylsilyl trifluoroactate, trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate, dimethylsilyl trifluoroactate, dimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate, butyldimethylsilyl trifluoroactate, butyldimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate, hexyldimethylsilyl trifluoroacetate, hexyldimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate, octyldimethylsilyl trifluoroactate, octyldimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate, decyldimethylsilyl trifluoroacetate and decyldimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Central Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Soichi Kumon, Takashi Saio, Shinobu Arata, Masanori Saito, Atsushi Ryokawa, Shuhei Yamada, Hidehisa Nanai, Yoshinori Akamatsu
  • Patent number: 9691603
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid chemical for forming a water repellent protective film on a wafer that has at its surface a finely uneven pattern and contains silicon element at least at a part of the uneven pattern, the water repellent protective film being formed at least on surfaces of recessed portions of the uneven pattern at the time of cleaning the wafer. The liquid chemical contains: a silicon compound (A) represented by the general formula R1aSi(H)b(X)4?a?b and an acid; or a silicon compound (C) represented by the general formula R7gSi(H)h(CH3)w(Z)4?g?h?w and a base that contains no more than 35 mass % of water. The total amount of water in the liquid chemical is no greater than 1000 mass ppm relative to the total amount of the liquid chemical. The liquid chemical can improve a cleaning step that easily induces pattern collapse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Central Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Soichi Kumon, Takashi Saio, Shinobu Arata, Masanori Saito, Atsushi Ryokawa, Shuhei Yamada, Hidehisa Nanai, Yoshinori Akamatsu
  • Publication number: 20170004963
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid chemical for forming a water-repellent protecting film on a wafer. The liquid chemical is a liquid chemical containing a water-repellent-protecting-film-forming agent for forming the water-repellent protecting film, at the time of cleaning the wafer which has a finely uneven pattern at its surface and contains at least at a part of a surface of a recessed portion of the uneven pattern at least one kind of matter selected from the group consisting of titanium, titanium nitride, tungsten, aluminum, copper, tin, tantalum nitride, ruthenium and silicon, at least on the surface of the recessed portion. The liquid chemical is characterized in that the water-repellent-protecting-film-forming agent is a water-insoluble surfactant. The water-repellent protecting film formed with the liquid chemical is capable of preventing a pattern collapse of the wafer, in a cleaning step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Masanori SAITO, Shinobu ARATA, Takashi SAIO, Soichi KUMON, Hidehisa NANAI, Yoshinori AKAMATSU
  • Patent number: 9496131
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid chemical for forming a water-repellent protecting film. The liquid chemical contains an agent for forming a water-repellent protecting film, and a solvent. The agent is for provided to form a water-repellent protecting film on a wafer after a cleaning step for the wafer and before a drying step for the wafer, the wafer having at its surface an uneven pattern and containing at least one kind element of titanium, tungsten, aluminum, copper, tin, tantalum and ruthenium at surfaces of recessed portions of the uneven pattern, the water-repellent protecting film being formed at least on the surfaces of the recessed portions. The liquid chemical is characterized in that the agent for forming a water-repellent protecting film is a compound represented by the following general formula [1].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Central Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Saio, Soichi Kumon, Masanori Saito, Shinobu Arata, Hidehisa Nanai, Yoshinori Akamatsu
  • Patent number: 9481858
    Abstract: A silicon wafer cleaning agent includes at least a water-based cleaning liquid, and a water-repellent cleaning liquid for providing water-repellent to an uneven pattern at least at recessed portions during a cleaning process. The water-repellent cleaning liquid is a liquid composed of a water-repellent compound containing a reactive moiety which is chemically bondable to Si in the silicon wafer, and a hydrophobic group, or is a liquid wherein 0.1 mass % or more of the water-repellent compound relative to the total quantity of 100 mass % of the water-repellent cleaning liquid and an organic solvent are mixed and contained therein. A cleaning process wherein a pattern collapse is easily induced can be improved by using the cleaning agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Central Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Soichi Kumon, Masanori Saito, Takashi Saio, Hidehisa Nanai, Yoshinori Akamatsu
  • Patent number: 9478407
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid chemical for forming a water-repellent protecting film on a wafer. The liquid chemical is a liquid chemical containing a water-repellent-protecting-film-forming agent for forming the water-repellent protecting film, at the time of cleaning the wafer which has a finely uneven pattern at its surface and contains at least at a part of a surface of a recessed portion of the uneven pattern at least one kind of matter selected from the group consisting of titanium, titanium nitride, tungsten, aluminum, copper, tin, tantalum nitride, ruthenium and silicon, at least on the surface of the recessed portion. The liquid chemical is characterized in that the water-repellent-protecting-film-forming agent is a water-insoluble surfactant. The water-repellent protecting film formed with the liquid chemical is capable of preventing a pattern collapse of the wafer, in a cleaning step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Central Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masanori Saito, Shinobu Arata, Takashi Saio, Soichi Kumon, Hidehisa Nanai, Yoshinori Akamatsu
  • Publication number: 20160201958
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat pump device and an organic Rankine cycle device that are capable of maintaining a stable thermal cycle even when an HFO is used as the refrigerant in an environment in which the operating temperature reaches a high temperature. The refrigerant circulation device is filled with a refrigerant comprising a hydrofluoroolefin or hydrochlorofluoroolefin having a carbon-carbon double bond within the molecular structure, and has a region in the refrigerant circulation circuit where the operating temperature of the refrigerant reaches 175° C. or higher, wherein an acid suppression unit which suppresses any increase in the acid concentration in the refrigerant is provided in the region where the operating temperature of the refrigerant can reach 175° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., CENTRAL GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji UEDA, Naoki KOBAYASHI, Yoshinori AKAMATSU, Fuyuhiko SAKYU, Yoshio NISHIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160200955
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat pump device and an organic Rankine cycle device that are capable of maintaining a stable thermal cycle even when an HFO or HCFO is used as the refrigerant. The refrigerant circulation device uses a refrigerant, wherein the refrigerant comprises a hydrofluoroolefin or hydrochlorofluoroolefin having a carbon-carbon double bond within the molecular structure, and a reaction suppression unit which suppresses an isomerization reaction of the refrigerant is provided within the refrigerant circulation circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., CENTRAL GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji UEDA, Naoki KOBAYASHI, Yoshinori AKAMATSU, Fuyuhiko SAKYU, Yoshio NISHIGUCHI
  • Patent number: D1016386
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOKIWA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinori Akamatsu
  • Patent number: D1016387
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOKIWA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinori Akamatsu