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Toru Noguchi

Toru Noguchi, Nagano JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090166918Carbon fiber composite material and process for producing the same - The present invention provides a carbon fiber composite material comprising an elastomer and a carbon nanofiber dispersed in the elastomer, wherein the elastomer has an unsaturated bond or a group, having affinity to the carbon nanofiber. Also disclosed is a process for producing the carbon fiber composite material.07-02-2009
20100279099CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides a carbon fiber composite material comprising an elastomer and a carbon nanofiber dispersed in the elastomer, wherein the elastomer has an unsaturated bond or a group, having affinity to the carbon nanofiber. Also disclosed is a process for producing the carbon fiber composite material.11-04-2010
20110060087CARBON NANOFIBER, METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF, METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL USING CARBON NANOFIBER, AND CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL - A method of producing a carbon fiber composite material includes a first step and a second step. The first step includes oxidizing first carbon nanofibers produced by a vapor growth method to obtain second carbon nanofibers having an oxidized surface. The second step includes mixing the second carbon nanofibers into an elastomer, and uniformly dispersing the carbon nanofibers in the elastomer by applying a shear force to obtain the carbon fiber composite material. The second carbon nanofibers obtained by the first step have a surface oxygen concentration measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) of 2.6 to 4.6 atm %.03-10-2011
20110163656Method of manufacturing thin film, substrate having thin film, electron emission material, method of manufacturing electron emission material, and electron emission device - A method of manufacturing a thin film, including: mixing carbon nanofibers into an elastomer including an unsaturated bond or a group having affinity to the carbon nanofibers, and dispersing the carbon nanofibers by applying a shear force to obtain a carbon fiber composite material; mixing the carbon fiber composite material and a solvent to obtain a coating liquid; and applying the coating liquid to a substrate to form a thin film.07-07-2011
20110166255SEALING MEMBER FOR PIPING COMPONENT HAVING EXCELLENT CHLORINE RESISTANCE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEALING MEMBER FOR PIPING COMPONENT HAVING EXCELLENT CHLORINE RESISTANCE, SEALING MEMBER FOR PIPING COMPONENT HAVING EXCELLENT OIL RESISTANCE, AND PIPING COMPONENT HAVING EXCELLENT OIL RESISTANCE - Disclosed is a method for producing a sealing member for piping materials having excellent chlorine resistance, which includes a first step and a second step. The first step is a step wherein first carbon nanofibers produced by vapor deposition are subjected to an oxidation treatment, thereby obtaining second carbon nanofibers each having an oxidized surface. The second step is a step wherein carbon black having an average particle diameter of from 50 nm to 10 μm and the second carbon nanofibers are mixed into an ethylene-propylene rubber and dispersed in the ethylene-propylene rubber by a shearing force.07-07-2011

Patent applications by Toru Noguchi, Nagano JP

Toru Noguchi, Ueda City JP

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20090253852HEAT-RESISTANT SEAL MATERIAL, ENDLESS SEAL MEMBER USING HEAT-RESISTANT SEAL MATERIAL, AND DOWNHOLE APPARATUS INCLUDING ENDLESS SEAL MEMBER - A heat-resistant seal material includes 100 parts by weight of a ternary fluoroelastomer, 1 to 30 parts by weight of vapor-grown carbon fibers having an average diameter of more than 30 nm and 200 nm or less, and carbon black having an average particle diameter of 25 to 500 nm. The heat-resistant seal material contains the vapor-grown carbon fibers and the carbon black in an amount of 20 to 40 parts by weight in total. The heat-resistant seal material has a compression set when subjected to a compression set test at a compression rate of 25% and a temperature of 200° C. for 70 hours of 0 to 15% and a dynamic modulus of elasticity at 200° C. (E′/200° C.) of 30 to 100 MPa.10-08-2009
20100009204CARBON NANOFIBERS, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL - A carbon fiber composite material includes an elastomer and carbon nanofibers uniformly dispersed in the elastomer. The carbon nanofibers are produced by a vapor growth method and then heated at a temperature that is in a range from 1100 to 1600° C. and is higher than the reaction temperature employed in the vapor growth method.01-14-2010

Patent applications by Toru Noguchi, Ueda City JP

Toru Noguchi, Kako-Gun JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090191082SCREW COMPRESSOR - A screw compressor is disclosed wherein a pair of rotor shafts are disposed horizontally and an oil sump is formed at the bottom of a bearing casing which accommodates bearings for supporting the rotor shafts, a bearing lower portion being soaked into oil present in the oil sump for lubrication. The screw compressor comprises a chamber provided separately from the bearing casing, an oil line for communication between the oil sump in the bearing casing and the chamber and oil level detecting means disposed in the chamber. According to this structure, the oil level in the bearing casing can be checked accurately and there is no fear of oil shortage in the bearings.07-30-2009

Toru Noguchi, Kamizawa-Machi JP

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20110156355SEAL MEMBER - A seal member includes a hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber (HNBR) and carbon nanofibers. The seal member has a number of cycles to fracture of 7000 or more when subjected to a tensile fatigue test at a temperature of 70° C., a maximum tensile stress of 4 N/mm, and a frequency of 1 Hz. The seal member exhibits excellent abrasion resistance.06-30-2011

Toru Noguchi, Kamizama-Machi JP

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20110156356Seal member - The seal member includes a tetrafluoroethylene-propylene copolymer (FEPM) and carbon nanofibers. The seal member has a number of cycles to fracture of 10 or more when subjected to a tension fatigue test at a temperature of 150° C., a maximum tensile stress of 2 N/mm, and a frequency of 1 Hz. The seal member exhibits excellent heat resistance and abrasion resistance.06-30-2011

Toru Noguchi, Karuizawa-Machi JP

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20110156357DYNAMIC SEAL MEMBER - A dynamic seal member includes a ternary fluoroelastomer (FKM) and carbon nanofibers. The carbon nanofibers are carbon nanofibers having an average diameter of 10 to 20 nm, or carbon nanofibers having an average diameter of 60 to 110 nm and subjected to a low-temperature heat treatment. The carbon nanofibers having an average diameter of 60 to 110 nm and subjected to the low-temperature heat treatment have a ratio (D/G) of a peak intensity D at around 1300 cm06-30-2011
20110160375CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, INSULATING ARTICLE, ELECTRONIC PART, AND LOGGING TOOL - A carbon fiber composite material comprising 100 parts by mass of an elastomer, and 20 to 100 parts by mass of carbon nanofibers that have been oxidized and reduced in number of branch points. The carbon fiber composite material has a dynamic modulus of elasticity (E′) at 200° C. and 10 Hz of 10 to 1000 MPa, and a volume resistivity of 1006-30-2011