Patents by Inventor Yu Abe

Yu Abe 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).

  • Publication number: 20240100814
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymeric film, which may have but is not limited to Biaxially oriented polyester, polypropylene & polylactic acid that has a soft-touch matte coating applied via an in-line coating process. This film also has an increased coefficient of friction of this surface, with a total thickness from 5 to 80 ?m. The film of this invention has excellent suitability as external packaging bags with an excellent matte appearance and soft haptic feel which, when the bags are stacked A side to A side (A side being coated), are not subject to slippage between the same. At the same time, this film has also low friction with metal, so it is easy to handle the film in the film making process which contributes to the excellent productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Tracy PAOLILLI, Joshua CLOUTIER, Yu ABE, Samuel HOGAN
  • Patent number: 11884838
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymeric film, which may have but is not limited to Biaxially oriented polyester, polypropylene & polylactic acid that has a soft-touch matte coating applied via an in-line coating process. This film also has an increased coefficient of friction of this surface, with a total thickness from 5 to 80 ?m. The film of this invention has excellent suitability as external packaging bags with an excellent matte appearance and soft haptic feel which, when the bags are stacked A side to A side (A side being coated), are not subject to slippage between the same. At the same time, this film has also low friction with metal, so it is easy to handle the film in the film making process which contributes to the excellent productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventors: Tracy Paolilli, Joshua Cloutier, Yu Abe, Samuel Hogan
  • Publication number: 20240010869
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymeric film, which may have but is not limited to Biaxially oriented polyester, polypropylene & polylactic acid that has a soft-touch matte coating applied via an in-line coating process. This film also has an increased coefficient of friction of this surface, with a total thickness from 5 to 80 ?m. The film of this invention has excellent suitability as external packaging bags with an excellent matte appearance and soft haptic feel which, when the bags are stacked A side to A side (A side being coated), are not subject to slippage between the same. At the same time, this film has also low friction with metal, so it is easy to handle the film in the film making process which contributes to the excellent productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Tracy PAOLILLI, Joshua CLOUTIER, Yu ABE, Samuel HOGAN
  • Patent number: 11851542
    Abstract: A laminated film has a resin layer on at least one surface of a polyester film, in which the resin layer is on at least one surface layer, the water contact angle of the resin layer is 85°-100°, inclusive, and |H2-H1|?1.0 (%) is satisfied, H1 (%) being the haze of the laminated film and H2 (%) being the haze of the laminated film after being immersed in a solvent and subjected to a rub test. This laminated film has excellent coating and releasability properties with respect to ceramic slurry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Haruki Aono, Tadahiko Iwaya, Keiko Sawamoto, Yu Abe
  • Publication number: 20230070878
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a film comprising a base layer comprising a biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP); a coating layer comprising a polyester, an acrylic, and a crosslinker; and a primer; wherein the film has a haze change, measured according to ASTM D1003, before exposure to boiling water for 30 minutes and after exposure to boiling water for 30 minutes of 4 units or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Tracy PAOLILLI, Joshua Cloutier, Yu Abe
  • Patent number: 11541647
    Abstract: A white polyester film is described that includes at least a layer including, as a main component, a polyester resin (A), a thermoplastic resin (B) incompatible with the polyester resin (A), and an inorganic particle (C), where the white polyester film achieves high reflectance and a concealing property without increasing the thickness of the reflective film, the layer including voids in which the thermoplastic resin (B) functions as nuclei, wherein in a vertical section of the white film, NB2/NB1×100 (%) is 15% or more, wherein NB1 represents the number of the nuclei of the thermoplastic resin (B), and NB2 represents the number of the sections of the thermoplastic resin (B), the sections including the inorganic particle (C) inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hirohito Uchida, Takashi Isozaki, Yu Abe, Takashi Funatomi
  • Publication number: 20210277197
    Abstract: A laminated film has a resin layer on at least one surface of a polyester film, in which the resin layer is on at least one surface layer, the water contact angle of the resin layer is 85°-100°, inclusive, and |H2?H1|?1.0 (%) is satisfied, H1 (%) being the haze of the laminated film and H2 (%) being the haze of the laminated film after being immersed in a solvent and subjected to a rub test. This laminated film has excellent coating and releasability properties with respect to ceramic slurry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Haruki Aono, Tadahiko Iwaya, Keiko Sawamoto, Yu Abe
  • Publication number: 20210060914
    Abstract: A white polyester film is described that includes at least a layer including, as a main component, a polyester resin (A), a thermoplastic resin (B) incompatible with the polyester resin (A), and an inorganic particle (C), where the white polyester film achieves high reflectance and a concealing property without increasing the thickness of the reflective film, the layer including voids in which the thermoplastic resin (B) functions as nuclei, wherein in a vertical section of the white film, NB2/NB1×100 (%) is 15% or more, wherein NB1 represents the number of the nuclei of the thermoplastic resin (B), and NB2 represents the number of the sections of the thermoplastic resin (B), the sections including the inorganic particle (C) inside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirohito Uchida, Takashi Isozaki, Yu Abe, Takashi Funatomi
  • Patent number: 9771491
    Abstract: The present invention provides a laminated film comprising a polyester film having a resin layer on at least one side thereof, wherein said resin layer contains at least metal oxide particles (A) having a number average particle diameter of 3 nm or more and 50 nm or less, and an acrylic resin (B), and a component (C1) derived from an oxazoline-based compound and/or a component (C2) derived from a melamine-based compound, and wherein said acrylic resin (B) contains a monomer unit (b1), a monomer unit (b2) and a monomer unit (b3). The present invention provides a laminated film which is excellent in transparency, suppression of interference pattern upon lamination of a high refractive index hard coat layer, adhesive property to a high refractive index hard coat layer, and adhesion under high temperature and high humidity conditions (adhesion under high temperature and high humidity conditions), at a low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yu Abe, Masami Ogata, Yasushi Takada
  • Patent number: 9604435
    Abstract: Provided is a multilayer film, in which a resin layer obtained using a resin (?) is provided on at least one surface of a polyester film, and which satisfies the conditions (I)-(IV) described below. (I) The resin layer has a thickness of 80-500 nm. (II) The resin layer has a pencil hardness of F or higher. (III) The multilayer film has a haze of 3.0% or less. (IV) The resin (?) is a resin that is obtained by heating a resin composition, which contains a resin (A) that has a hydroxyl group and an acryloyl group and a melamine compound (B) that has a methylol group, at 150° C. or higher. This multilayer film has a transparent resin layer that has a predominantly thin thickness of 500 nm or less, while having high hardness and excellent oligomer precipitation inhibiting properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ota, Yu Abe, Yasushi Takada
  • Patent number: 9423531
    Abstract: An antireflection member comprising an antireflection layer includes two adjacent layers with different refractive indices, the antireflection layer formed at least on a first surface of a support substrate, and one of the two adjacent layers with different refractive indices located farther from the support substrate is a first layer, and another of the two adjacent layers is a second layer, wherein the antireflection layer contains two or more kinds of particles of different constituent elements and one or more kinds of binders, and a ratio b/a is more than 1.10 and less than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Ishida, Yu Abe, Michiko Kai, Takashi Mimura
  • Patent number: 9248629
    Abstract: A laminated polyester film provided on at least one side with layer (X) made from acrylic urethane copolymer resin (A), isocyanate compound (B), epoxy compound (C), compound (d-1) having a polythiophene structure and compound (d-2) having an anion structure, wherein the layer (X) has a continuous phase structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masami Ogata, Yu Abe, Yasushi Takada
  • Patent number: 9200126
    Abstract: A laminated film includes a resin layer provided on at least one surface of a thermoplastic resin film substrate, wherein the resin layer comprises an acrylic-modified polyester whose acrylic resin component has a glass-transition temperature of not lower than 67° C. and a sugar alcohol and/or a sugar alcohol derivative; the mass ratio of the acrylic-modified polyester to the sugar alcohol and the sugar alcohol derivative (the mass of the acrylic-modified polyester/the total mass of the sugar alcohol and the sugar alcohol derivative) is from 75/25 to 97/3; the total content of the acrylic-modified polyester and the sugar alcohol and sugar alcohol derivative is 65% by mass or more based on the total resin layer; and the haze value of the laminated film is not more than 2.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ota, Masato Yanagibashi, Yasushi Takada, Yu Abe
  • Publication number: 20150191621
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a laminated polyester film which has excellent translucency and excellent suppression of an iris-like pattern (interference fringe), i.e., excellent visibility, when a hard coat layer is laminated; has excellent initial adhesion to the hard coat layer, adhesiveness at high temperatures and high humidity (wet heat-resistant adhesion), and UV-resistant adhesion (adhesion after UV irradiation); and has excellent adhesion when immersed in boiling water (boiling-resistant adhesion) and boiling-resistant translucency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yu Abe, Masami Ogata, Yasushi Takada
  • Publication number: 20150086777
    Abstract: The present invention provides a laminated film comprising a polyester film having a resin layer on at least one side thereof, wherein said resin layer contains at least metal oxide particles (A) having a number average particle diameter of 3 nm or more and 50 nm or less, and an acrylic resin (B), and a component (C1) derived from an oxazoline-based compound and/or a component (C2) derived from a melamine-based compound, and wherein said acrylic resin (B) contains a monomer unit (b1), a monomer unit (b2) and a monomer unit (b3). The present invention provides a laminated film which is excellent in transparency, suppression of interference pattern upon lamination of a high refractive index hard coat layer, adhesive property to a high refractive index hard coat layer, and adhesion under high temperature and high humidity conditions (adhesion under high temperature and high humidity conditions), at a low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yu Abe, Masami Ogata, Yasushi Takada
  • Publication number: 20150072140
    Abstract: Provided is a multilayer film, in which a resin layer obtained using a resin (?) is provided on at least one surface of a polyester film, and which satisfies the conditions (I)-(IV) described below. (I) The resin layer has a thickness of 80-500 nm. (II) The resin layer has a pencil hardness of F or higher. (III) The multilayer film has a haze of 3.0% or less. (IV) The resin (?) is a resin that is obtained by heating a resin composition, which contains a resin (A) that has a hydroxyl group and an acryloyl group and a melamine compound (B) that has a methylol group, at 150° C. or higher. This multilayer film has a transparent resin layer that has a predominantly thin thickness of 500 nm or less, while having high hardness and excellent oligomer precipitation inhibiting properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ota, Yu Abe, Yasushi Takada
  • Publication number: 20130344320
    Abstract: A laminated polyester film provided on at least one side with layer (X) made from acrylic urethane copolymer resin (A), isocyanate compound (B), epoxy compound (C), compound (d-1) having a polythiophene structure and compound (d-2) having an anion structure, wherein the layer (X) has a continuous phase structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masami Ogata, Yu Abe, Yasushi Takada
  • Publication number: 20130011613
    Abstract: A laminated film includes a resin layer provided on at least one surface of a thermoplastic resin film substrate, wherein the resin layer comprises an acrylic-modified polyester whose acrylic resin component has a glass-transition temperature of not lower than 67° C. and a sugar alcohol and/or a sugar alcohol derivative; the mass ratio of the acrylic-modified polyester to the sugar alcohol and the sugar alcohol derivative (the mass of the acrylic-modified polyester/the total mass of the sugar alcohol and the sugar alcohol derivative) is from 75/25 to 97/3; the total content of the acrylic-modified polyester and the sugar alcohol and sugar alcohol derivative is 65% by mass or more based on the total resin layer; and the haze value of the laminated film is not more than 2.0%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ota, Masato Yanagibashi, Yasushi Takada, Yu Abe
  • Patent number: 8309202
    Abstract: There is provided a hard-coated film that includes a thermoplastic film and a hard coat layer placed thereon, has high surface hardness, is prevented from forming interference iris patterns, does not reduce image sharpness when used for antireflection films, and is prevented from causing screen glittering, external light reflection, or coloration irregularity of reflected light. The hard-coated film includes a polyester film and a hard coat layer placed on at least one side of the polyester film, wherein the hard coat layer has a surface with irregularities, an interface between the polyester film and the hard coat layer has irregularities, and the surface of the hard coat layer has 3D surface roughness parameters including an arithmetical mean deviation of surface Sa of from 15 nm to less than 150 nm and a kurtosis of surface height distribution Sku of from 1.5 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kojima, Takashi Mimura, Yu Abe
  • Publication number: 20120162774
    Abstract: An antireflection member comprising an antireflection layer includes two adjacent layers with different refractive indices, the antireflection layer formed at least on a first surface of a support substrate, and one of the two adjacent layers with different refractive indices located farther from the support substrate is a first layer, and another of the two adjacent layers is a second layer, wherein the antireflection layer contains two or more kinds of particles of different constituent elements and one or more kinds of binders, and a ratio b/a is more than 1.10 and less than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Ishida, Yu Abe, Michiko Kai, Takashi Mimura