Patents by Inventor Yoshio Irie
Yoshio Irie 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).
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Patent number: 7622535Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for continuous production of a water-absorbent resin by use of an continuous polymerization device having a charge part of a monomer aqueous solution; an endless belt on which the monomer and a hydropolymer formed are conveyed; and a discharge part of the hydropolymer, wherein the continuous polymerization device has side walls and a ceiling, and the space ratio in the device represented by the equation, “space ratio in the device=B/A”, is in the range of 1.2 to 20. In the equation, A is a maximum cross-sectional area (cm2) of the hydropolymer during the polymerization in the width direction of the endless belt, and B is a maximum cross-sectional area (cm2) of the space between the endless belt of the continuous polymerization device and the ceiling of the continuous polymerization device in the width direction of the endless belt.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2005Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Nippon Shokuba Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yorimichi Dairoku, Yoshio Irie, Shinichi Fujino, Yasuhiro Fujita, Kenji Tada, Hiroki Inoue, Makoto Nagasawa, Hirofumi Shibata
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Patent number: 7595428Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a particulate water-absorbing composition, a production process therefor, and an absorbent article comprising this particulate water-absorbing composition, wherein the particulate water-absorbing composition causes little coloring of other materials and further is of high safety, and can provide excellent deodorizability and excellent absorption properties to absorbent articles such as diapers in the case where combined into the absorbent articles.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2001Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroko Ueda, Katsuyuki Wada, Yoshio Irie
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Patent number: 7582705Abstract: A particulate water absorbing agent of the present invention includes a water absorbent resin, having a cross-linking structure, whose surface has been cross-linked by adding a surface treatment agent, wherein: (i) a mass average particle diameter (D50) ranges from 200 to 600 ?m and 95 to 100 wt % of a particulate water absorbing agent whose particle diameter ranges from less than 850 ?m to not less than 150 ?m is contained with respect to 100 wt % of whole the particulate water absorbing agent, and (ii) a logarithmic standard deviation (??) of particle size distribution ranges from 0.25 to 0.45, and (iii) a compressibility rate defined by a following equation ranges from 0 to 18%, and (iv) a surface tension of a supernatant liquid obtained in 4 minutes after dispersing 0.5 g of the particulate water absorbing agent in 50 ml of physiological saline whose temperature is 20° C.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2008Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yorimichi Dairoku, Yoshifumi Adachi, Kozo Nogi, Hiroki Inoue, Katsuyuki Wada, Yoshio Irie
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Patent number: 7473739Abstract: A particulate water absorbing agent of the present invention includes a water absorbent resin, having a cross-linking structure, whose surface has been cross-linked by adding a surface treatment agent, wherein: (i) a mass average particle diameter (D50) ranges from 200 to 600 ?m and 95 to 100 wt % of a particulate water absorbing agent whose particle diameter ranges from less than 850 ?m to not less than 150 ?m is contained with respect to 100 wt % of whole the particulate water absorbing agent, and (ii) a logarithmic standard deviation (??) of particle size distribution ranges from 0.25 to 0.45, and (iii) a compressibility rate defined by a following equation ranges from 0 to 18%, and (iv) a surface tension of a supernatant liquid obtained in 4 minutes after dispersing 0.5 g of the particulate water absorbing agent in 50 ml of physiological saline whose temperature is 20° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2005Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yorimichi Dairoku, Yoshifumi Adachi, Kozo Nogi, Hiroki Inoue, Katsuyuki Wada, Yoshio Irie
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Publication number: 20080269372Abstract: A particulate water absorbing agent of the present invention includes a water absorbent resin, having a cross-linking structure, whose surface has been cross-linked by adding a surface treatment agent, wherein: (i) a mass average particle diameter (D50) ranges from 200 to 600 ?m and 95 to 100 wt % of a particulate water absorbing agent whose particle diameter ranges from less than 850 ?m to not less than 150 ?m is contained with respect to 100 wt % of whole the particulate water absorbing agent, and (ii) a logarithmic standard deviation (??) of particle size distribution ranges from 0.25 to 0.45, and (iii) a compressibility rate defined by a following equation ranges from 0 to 18%, and (iv) a surface tension of a supernatant liquid obtained in 4 minutes after dispersing 0.5 g of the particulate water absorbing agent in 50 ml of physiological saline whose temperature is 20° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Inventors: Yorimichi Dairoku, Yoshifumi Adachi, Kozo Nogi, Hiroki Inoue, Katsuyuki Wada, Yoshio Irie
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Patent number: 7288601Abstract: A method for mixing a water-absorbent resin and a surface cross-linking agent-containing solution to repress aggregates is equipped. The water-absorbent resin and the surface cross-linking agent-containing solution is mixed with a plow-shaped mixing device which is equipped with an inner wall formed of material manifesting an interfacial contact angle of not less than 60° to water and possessing a temperature of heat distortion of not lower than 70° C., a plow-shaped stirring vane and a disintegrating blade.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2004Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kozo Nogi, Masazumi Sasabe, Kenji Kadonaga, Yoshio Irie, Shigeru Sakamoto, Koji Miyake
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Patent number: 7265190Abstract: There is disclosed a process to uniformly and rapidly carry out the mixing of a monomer liquid and a polymerization initiator and thus for the resulting polymer not to adhere to the inner surface of the piping or the inside of the apparatus in an art of producing a water-absorbent resin by continuously mixing the monomer liquid and the polymerization initiator together and thereby carrying out polymerization. This process comprises the steps of: (a) continuously supplying a monomer liquid 20 to such as a supply pipe 10 to continuously stir the monomer liquid 20 in the supply pipe 10 with such as a stirring apparatus 12; (b) causing a polymerization initiator 30 to join into a flow of the monomer liquid 20 being in a stirred state, thereby obtaining a mixed liquid 40 of the monomer liquid 20 and the polymerization initiator 30; and (c) continuously supplying the mixed liquid 40 from the supply pipe line 10 to a polymerization apparatus to cause the mixed liquid 40 to run a polymerization reaction.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2003Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yorimichi Dairoku, Yasuhiro Fujita, Shinichi Fujino, Hirofumi Shibata, Kenji Tada, Yoshio Irie
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Publication number: 20070149760Abstract: A method for surface crosslinking water-absorbing resin of the present invention includes a step (1) of obtaining a wet mixture, a step (2) of obtaining a dried particulate composition, and a step (3) of carrying out a surface crosslinking reaction. With this, since a processing time of each step becomes short, it is possible to mass produce the water-absorbing resin having excellent physical properties. Moreover, a method for manufacturing the water-absorbing resin of the present invention includes a modifying step and a cooling step. The modifying step and/or the cooling step are/is carried out by using stirring means including a rotation axis having a plurality of stirring boards, and the stirring means includes the stirring board having a specific thickness and/or a scraping blade having a specific shape. With this, it is possible to suppress the generation of the fine powder in the modifying step and/or the cooling step.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2006Publication date: June 28, 2007Inventors: Kenji Kadonaga, Yorimichi Dairoku, Shin-ichi Fujino, Hiroko Okochi, Yoshio Irie, Hideyuki Tahara
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Publication number: 20070149701Abstract: The subject invention provides a hydrophilic polymer (water-absorbing resin) which is superior in performance and productivity. According to the production method of the present invention, a hydrophilichigh-molecular-weight compound is dispersed in an aqueous solution containing a hydrophilic monomer. The dispersed hydrophilic high-molecular-weight compound is dissolved by heat of neutralization (heat of hydration) and/or heat of polymerization generated in the process of producing a hydrophilic polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2006Publication date: June 28, 2007Inventors: Yorimichi Dairoku, Yoshiro Mitsukami, Yoshio Irie, Shin-ichi Fujino
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Publication number: 20070123658Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a water absorbent having excellent gel properties and showing excellent properties when used in a water-absorbing material of a sanitary/hygienic material such as paper diaper. Moreover, another object of the present invention is to provide a water absorbent which is safe and excellent in liquid permeability, and in which an amount of liquid permeability improver for improving the liquid permeability is reduced. The water absorbent is made from a water-absorbing resin prepared by a specific polymerization method and having a high degree of cross-linking, a high liquid holding property and a high gel strength (its swelling pressure of gel layer of is 35 kdyne/cm2 or more). This water absorbent is further processed to have a particular particle size distribution (95 wt % or more of its particles are less than 850ƒÊm but not less than 106ƒÊm, and logarithmic standard deviation (ƒĐƒÄ) is in a range of 0.25 to 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2004Publication date: May 31, 2007Inventors: Kazushi Torii, Hirofumi Shibata, Taku Iwamura, Yoshio Irie, Yorimichi Dairoku, Yoshiro Mitsukami, Sayaka Machida
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Patent number: 7201941Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an excellent process for production of a surface-treated particulate water-absorbent resin wherein the process adopts a surface-treatment process that can enhance the properties (which the water-absorbent resin is desired to have) to extremely high levels, and also can solve the prior problems in such as safety, and further can sufficiently carry out the treatment even at a reaction temperature near room temperature. As a means of achieving this object, the process according to the present invention for production of a surface-treated particulate water-absorbent resin is characterized by comprising the steps of: adding a treating liquid to a particulate water-absorbent resin as a base polymer, wherein the treating liquid contains a radically polymerizable compound; and then irradiating the particulate water-absorbent resin with active energy rays while fluidizing the particulate water-absorbent resin, thereby surface-treating it.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2004Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshio Irie, Takaaki Kawano
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Patent number: 7183456Abstract: In a production process for a water-absorbent resin, comprising the steps of: blending a liquid material and a water-absorbent resin; and heating the resultant mixture in order to produce a modified water-absorbent resin, the present invention is to provide: a method for uniformly and efficiently treating a water-absorbent resin favorably in view of industry, and as a result, a good-balanced water-absorbent resin having various excellent properties, such absorption capacity without a load, absorption capacity under a load, and single-layer absorption capacity under a load in contact with an aqueous liquid. The production process comprises the step of spray-blending a water-absorbent resin (A) and a liquid material (B) with a blending apparatus equipped with a spray nozzle (C), wherein the liquid material (B) is sprayed from the spray nozzle (C) and its spray pattern is a circular and hollow cone shape or a double-convex-lens and elliptic cone shape.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2004Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takumi Hatsuda, Yoshio Irie, Masatoshi Nakamura, Katsuyuki Wada, Shinichi Fujino, Kazuki Kimura, Kunihiko Ishizaki
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Publication number: 20070041796Abstract: The subject invention produces a water-absorbent resin by carrying out stationary polymerization of an ethylenically-unsaturated monomer containing acrylic acid and/or acrylate; cutting the resulting hydrous gelatinous polymer; and drying the hydrous gelatinous polymer which mainly contains angular particles having 6 smooth planes. The resulting water-absorbent resin particles are not aggregate, and can be efficiently dried. By coating at least a part of the surface of each of the particles with an adhesion block agent before, after, and/or at the time of cutting process, the adhesion preventing effect further increases.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2006Publication date: February 22, 2007Applicant: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshio Irie, Masazumi Sasabe, Seiji Kato, Yorimichi Dairoku
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Publication number: 20060229370Abstract: The present invention provides a production process by which a water-absorbent resin of excellent quality can be obtained at a low cost by reasonable steps in aqueous solution polymerization. The process for producing a water-absorbent resin comprises the step of polymerizing an aqueous solution of water-absorbent resin-forming monomers including acrylic acid and/or its sodium salt as major components, wherein: (1) the aqueous solution has a monomer component concentration of not less than 45 weight %; (2) the polymerization is carried out while water is evaporated so that the ratio (concentration ratio) between a solid component concentration in a hydropolymer as formed by the polymerization and a solid component concentration in the aqueous monomer solution will not be less than 1.10; and (3) the solid component concentration in the hydropolymer as formed by the polymerization is not more than 80 weight %.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2006Publication date: October 12, 2006Applicant: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yorimichi Dairoku, Yoshio Irie, Shinichi Fujino, Yasuhiro Fujita, Takashi Azumi, Kunihiko Ishizaki
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Patent number: 7091253Abstract: The present invention provides a production process by which a water-absorbent resin of excellent quality can be obtained at a low cost by reasonable steps in aqueous solution polymerization. The process for producing a water-absorbent resin comprises the step of polymerizing an aqueous solution of water-absorbent resin-forming monomers including acrylic acid and/or its sodium salt as major components, wherein: (1) the aqueous solution has a monomer component concentration of not less than 45 weight %; (2) the polymerization is carried out while water is evaporated so that the ratio (concentration ratio) between a solid component concentration in a hydropolymer as formed by the polymerization and a solid component concentration in the aqueous monomer solution will not be less than 1.10; and (3) the solid component concentration in the hydropolymer as formed by the polymerization is not more than 80 weight %.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2004Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yorimichi Dairoku, Yoshio Irie, Shinichi Fujino, Yasuhiro Fujita, Takashi Azumi, Kunihiko Ishizaki
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Patent number: 7078458Abstract: In the production of an acrylate polymer by the steps of preparing a water-soluble unsaturated monomer having a ratio of neutralization in the range of 30 to 100 mol % and containing 50 to 100 mol % of an acrylate and then polymerizing the monomer, a method for the production of a hydrophilic resin which comprises using a water-soluble unsaturated monomer having a ?-hydroxy propionic acid (salt) content of not more than 1,000 ppm. The hydrophilic resin obtained by this method exhibits excellent physical properties and has only a small residual monomer content. Further, a residual monomer content neither occurs nor increases in any using conditions.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2004Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshio Irie, Katsuhiro Kajikawa, Kunihiko Ishizaki, Takumi Hatsuda
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Patent number: 6998447Abstract: In the production of an acrylate polymer by the steps of preparing a water-soluble unsaturated monomer having a ratio of neutralization in the range of 30 to 100 mol % and containing 50 to 100 mol % of an acrylate and then polymerizing the monomer, a method for the production of a hydrophilic resin which comprises using a water-soluble unsaturated monomer having a ?-hydroxy propionic acid (salt) content of not more than 1,000 ppm. The hydrophilic resin obtained by this method exhibits excellent physical properties and has only a small residual monomer content. Further, a residual monomer content neither occurs nor increases in any using conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2002Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshio Irie, Katsuhiro Kajikawa, Kunihiko Ishizaki, Takumi Hatsuda
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Publication number: 20050215734Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for continuous production of a water-absorbent resin by use of an continuous polymerization device having a charge part of a monomer aqueous solution; an endless belt on which the monomer and a hydropolymer formed are conveyed; and a discharge part of the hydropolymer, wherein the continuous polymerization device has side walls and a ceiling, and the space ratio in the device represented by the equation, “space ratio in the device=B/A”, is in the range of 1.2 to 20. In the equation, A is a maximum cross-sectional area (cm2) of the hydropolymer during the polymerization in the width direction of the endless belt, and B is a maximum cross-sectional area (cm2) of the space between the endless belt of the continuous polymerization device and the ceiling of the continuous polymerization device in the width direction of the endless belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2005Publication date: September 29, 2005Inventors: Yorimichi Dairoku, Yoshio Irie, Shinichi Fujino, Yasuhiro Fujita, Kenji Tada, Hiroki Inoue, Makoto Nagasawa, Hirofumi Shibata
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Publication number: 20050209352Abstract: A particulate water absorbing agent of the present invention includes a water absorbent resin, having a cross-linking structure, whose surface has been cross-linked by adding a surface treatment agent, wherein: (i) a mass average particle diameter (D50) ranges from 200 to 600 ?m and 95 to 100 wt % of a particulate water absorbing agent whose particle diameter ranges from less than 850 ?m to not less than 150 ?m is contained with respect to 100 wt % of whole the particulate water absorbing agent, and (ii) a logarithmic standard deviation (??) of particle size distribution ranges from 0.25 to 0.45, and (iii) a compressibility rate defined by a following equation ranges from 0 to 18%, and (iv) a surface tension of a supernatant liquid obtained in 4 minutes after dispersing 0.5 g of the particulate water absorbing agent in 50 ml of physiological saline whose temperature is 20° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2005Publication date: September 22, 2005Inventors: Yorimichi Dairoku, Yoshifumi Adachi, Kozo Nogi, Hiroki Inoue, Katsuyuki Wada, Yoshio Irie
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Patent number: 6906159Abstract: The present invention provides a production process by which a water-absorbent resin of excellent quality can be obtained at a low cost by reasonable steps in aqueous solution polymerization. The process for producing a water-absorbent resin comprises the step of polymerizing an aqueous solution of water-absorbent resin-forming monomers including acrylic acid and/or its sodium salt as major components, wherein: (1) the aqueous solution has a monomer component concentration of not less than 45 weight %; (2) the polymerization is carried out while water is evaporated so that the ratio (concentration ratio) between a solid component concentration in a hydropolymer as formed by the polymerization and a solid component concentration in the aqueous monomer solution will not be less than 1.10; and (3) the solid component concentration in the hydropolymer as formed by the polymerization is not more than 80 weight %.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2001Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yorimichi Dairoku, Yoshio Irie, Shinichi Fujino, Yasuhiro Fujita, Takashi Azumi, Kunihiko Ishizaki