Patents by Inventor Akio Uesugi

Akio Uesugi 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: 20160026081
    Abstract: A presensitized plate having a long press life and excellent resistance to scum and corrosive micro-stains and capable of on-press development is provided. The presensitized plate includes a photosensitive layer containing (A) a sensitizing dye, (B) a polymerization initiator, (C) a polymerizable compound, and (D) a binder polymer; and a protective layer which are formed on a support in this order. The support is prepared from an aluminum alloy plate containing intermetallic compound particles with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 ?m or more at a surface density of 35,000 pcs/mm2 or more and aluminum carbide particles with a maximum length of 1 ?m or more in an amount of up to 30,000 pcs/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi MATSUURA, Hirokazu SAWADA, Akio UESUGI
  • Patent number: 9207537
    Abstract: A presensitized plate having a long press life and excellent resistance to scum and corrosive micro-stains and capable of on-press development is provided. The presensitized plate includes a photosensitive layer containing (A) a sensitizing dye, (B) a polymerization initiator, (C) a polymerizable compound, and (D) a binder polymer; and a protective layer which are formed on a support in this order. The support is prepared from an aluminum alloy plate containing intermetallic compound particles with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 ?m or more at a surface density of 35,000 pcs/mm2 or more and aluminum carbide particles with a maximum length of 1 ?m or more in an amount of up to 30,000 pcs/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsuura, Hirokazu Sawada, Akio Uesugi
  • Publication number: 20150024325
    Abstract: A presensitized plate having a long press life and excellent resistance to scum and corrosive micro-stains and capable of on-press development is provided. The presensitized plate includes a photosensitive layer containing (A) a sensitizing dye, (B) a polymerization initiator, (C) a polymerizable compound, and (D) a binder polymer; and a protective layer which are formed on a support in this order. The support is prepared from an aluminum alloy plate containing intermetallic compound particles with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 ?m or more at a surface density of 35,000 pcs/mm2 or more and aluminum carbide particles with a maximum length of 1 ?m or more in an amount of up to 30,000 pcs/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi MATSUURA, Hirokazu SAWADA, Akio UESUGI
  • Patent number: 8883401
    Abstract: A presensitized plate having a long press life and excellent resistance to scum and corrosive micro-stains and capable of on-press development is provided. The presensitized plate includes a photosensitive layer containing (A) a sensitizing dye, (B) a polymerization initiator, (C) a polymerizable compound, and (D) a binder polymer; and a protective layer which are formed on a support in this order. The support is prepared from an aluminum alloy plate containing intermetallic compound particles with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 ?m or more at a surface density of 35,000 pcs/mm2 or more and aluminum carbide particles with a maximum length of 1 ?m or more in an amount of up to 30,000 pcs/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsuura, Hirokazu Sawada, Akio Uesugi
  • Patent number: 8828156
    Abstract: An aluminum sheet material for lithographic printing plates wherein the number of aluminum carbide particles having a circle equivalent diameter, measured by the PoDFA method, of 3 ?m or more is four or less, the number of aluminum carbide particles having a circle equivalent diameter, measured by the PoDFA method, of 3 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignees: Fujifilm Corporation, Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Kurokawa, Hirokazu Sawada, Akio Uesugi, Masanori Tsunekawa, Kazuaki Hatano, Hiroshi Ougi, Koushi Nagae
  • Patent number: 8783179
    Abstract: Provided is a lithographic printing plate support that has excellent scratch resistance and is capable of obtaining a presensitized plate which exhibits excellent on-press developability and enables a lithographic printing plate formed therefrom to have a long press life and excellent deinking ability after suspended printing. The lithographic printing plate support includes an aluminum plate, and an aluminum anodized film formed thereon and having micropores which extend in a depth direction of the anodized film from a surface of the anodized film opposite from the aluminum plate. Each micropore has a large-diameter portion which extends to a depth of 5 to 60 nm (depth A) from the anodized film surface, and a small-diameter portion which communicates with the bottom of the large-diameter portion, further extends to a depth of 900 to 2,000 nm from the communication position and has a predetermined average diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Kurokawa, Yoshiharu Tagawa, Hirokazu Sawada, Akio Uesugi
  • Patent number: 8742263
    Abstract: Provided is an anisotropically conductive member that has a dramatically increased density of disposed conductive paths, can be used as an electrically connecting member or inspection connector for electronic components such as semiconductor devices even today when still higher levels of integration have been achieved, and has excellent flexibility. The anisotropically conductive member includes an insulating base and a plurality of conductive paths made of a conductive material, insulated from one another, and extending through the insulating base in the thickness direction of the insulating base, one end of each of the conductive paths protruded on one side of the insulating base, the other end of each of the conductive paths exposed or protruded on the other side thereof. The insulating base is made of a resin material and the conductive paths are formed at a density of at least 1,000,000 conductive paths/mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tadabumi Tomita, Yusuke Hatanaka, Shinya Suzuki, Atsushi Matsuura, Yoshinori Hotta, Akio Uesugi
  • Publication number: 20140117840
    Abstract: An insulating reflective substrate comprises an aluminum layer and an aluminum oxide layer, wherein the aluminum oxide layer has a thickness of 80 ?m or more but up to 300 ?m; the aluminum oxide layer has large pits whose openings are present at a surface; the large pits have an average opening size of more than 1 ?m but up to 30 ?m; the large pits have an average depth of 80 ?m or more; the large pits have an average distance therebetween of 10 ?m or more; a ratio of a total area of the openings of the large pits to a surface area of the aluminum oxide layer is 10% or more but up to 40%; the large pits have small pits whose openings are present at inner surfaces of the large pits; and the small pits have an average opening size of 5 to 1,000 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke HATANAKA, Akio UESUGI
  • Patent number: 8632949
    Abstract: A presensitized plate bringing about the lithographic printing plate which exhibits a high resistance to scumming and in which formation of bulges causing image dropouts is suppressed is provided with the lithographic printing plate support which includes an aluminum plate and an anodized film of aluminum provided on the aluminum plate, and has a micropore extending in the anodized film in the direction of depth from a film surface opposite with a film surface facing the aluminum plate. The micropore is sealed at least partially on its inside with protrusions made of boehmite, and the protrusions made of boehmite which are located on the anodized film have a mean height of less than 15 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Namba, Keio Okano, Shinya Kurokawa, Hirokazu Sawada, Akio Uesugi
  • Patent number: 8366842
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing aluminum alloy strip for a lithographic printing plate supports includes a filter, a launder connected to the filter, a liquid level controller connected to the launder, and a melt feed nozzle connected to the liquid level controller. The liquid level controller includes a step to trap settled particles within an aluminum melt which forms the alloy strip. The launder has a length L (m) which satisfies the condition 4?L?V×270×1.2×D, where V is the flow velocity in meters per second of the aluminum melt in the launder and D is the depth in meters of the aluminum melt in the launder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Sawada, Akio Uesugi
  • Patent number: 8338073
    Abstract: A lithographic printing plate support in which surface unevenness due to surface treatment has been suppressed and a presensitized plate of excellent sensitivity are produced from an aluminum alloy plate containing iron, silicon, titanium and boron by specifying the state in which TiB2 particles are present in the surface layer and the width of the crystal grains, and by having specific indicators relating to the respective concentrations of iron and silicon in the surface layer following graining treatment fall within specific ranges. In a method of manufacturing the lithographic printing plate support, an aluminum alloy melt having specified alloying ingredients is subjected to a specified casting process to have the amount of the alloying ingredients in solid solution following cold rolling fall within specified ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Sawada, Akio Uesugi
  • Publication number: 20120298001
    Abstract: Provided is a lithographic printing plate support that has excellent scratch resistance and is capable of obtaining a presensitized plate which exhibits excellent on-press developability and enables a lithographic printing plate formed therefrom to have a long press life and excellent deinking ability after suspended printing. The lithographic printing plate support includes an aluminum plate, and an aluminum anodized film formed thereon and having micropores which extend in a depth direction of the anodized film from a surface of the anodized film opposite from the aluminum plate. Each micropore has a large-diameter portion which extends to a depth of 5 to 60 nm (depth A) from the anodized film surface, and a small-diameter portion which communicates with the bottom of the large-diameter portion, further extends to a depth of 900 to 2,000 nm from the communication position and has a predetermined average diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Kurokawa, Yoshiharu Tagawa, Hirokazu Sawada, Akio Uesugi
  • Publication number: 20120256224
    Abstract: Provided is an insulating substrate which includes an aluminum substrate and an anodized film covering a whole surface of the aluminum substrate and in which the anodized film contains intermetallic compound particles with a circle equivalent diameter of 1 ?m or more in an amount of up to 2,000 pcs/mm3. Also provided is a method for manufacturing the insulating substrate which includes an anodizing treatment step for anodizing the aluminum substrate. The anodized film of the insulating substrate covering the whole surface of the aluminum substrate contains intermetallic compound particles with a circle equivalent diameter of 1 ?m or more in an amount of up to 2,000 pcs/mm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Hatanaka, Yoshinori Hotta, Akio Uesugi
  • Publication number: 20120189959
    Abstract: A presensitized plate having a long press life and excellent resistance to scum and corrosive micro-stains and capable of on-press development is provided. The presensitized plate includes a photosensitive layer containing (A) a sensitizing dye, (B) a polymerization initiator, (C) a polymerizable compound, and (D) a binder polymer; and a protective layer which are formed on a support in this order. The support is prepared from an aluminum alloy plate containing intermetallic compound particles with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 ?m or more at a surface density of 35,000 pcs/mm2 or more and aluminum carbide particles with a maximum length of 1 ?m or more in an amount of up to 30,000 pcs/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsuura, Hirokazu Sawada, Akio Uesugi
  • Publication number: 20120168218
    Abstract: Provided is an anisotropically conductive member that has a dramatically increased density of disposed conductive paths, can be used as an electrically connecting member or inspection connector for electronic components such as semiconductor devices even today when still higher levels of integration have been achieved, and has excellent flexibility. The anisotropically conductive member includes an insulating base and a plurality of conductive paths made of a conductive material, insulated from one another, and extending through the insulating base in the thickness direction of the insulating base, one end of each of the conductive paths protruded on one side of the insulating base, the other end of each of the conductive paths exposed or protruded on the other side thereof. The insulating base is made of a resin material and the conductive paths are formed at a density of at least 1,000,000 conductive paths/mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadabumi Tomita, Yusuke Hatanaka, Shinya Suzuki, Atsushi Matsuura, Yoshinori Hotta, Akio Uesugi
  • Publication number: 20120134875
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet for a lithographic printing plate which has excellent ink stain resistance, with a local defect in a photosensitive layer after long-term storage being hard to occur, and excellent the pit uniformity after a roughening and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. An aluminum alloy sheet for a lithographic printing plate containing a predetermined content of Fe, Si, Cu and Ti as well as one type or more selected from B and C, and composed of remaining Al and inevitable impurities, in which a concentration of an aluminum carbide present in the aluminum alloy sheet is not more than 8 ppm, an area occupancy of aggregation substances present on the aluminum alloy sheet surface after the roughening treatment with respect to an arbitrary circle with a radius 5 ?m in the aluminum alloy sheet surface is less than 10%. In a case where the area occupancy is not less than 10%, the aggregation substances are present at a rate of 1 to 2 pieces/50 cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicants: Furukawa-Sky Aluminum Corp., Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Namba, Shinya Kurokawa, Hirokazu Sawada, Akio Uesugi, Hirotake Osuga, Yoshikazu Suzuki, Kotaro Kitawaki
  • Publication number: 20120091495
    Abstract: A light reflecting substrate comprises at least: an insulating layer and a metal layer disposed in contact with the insulating layer. The total reflectivity of light in the wavelength range of more than 320 nm and not more than 700 nm is not less than 50% and the total reflectivity of light in the wavelength range of 300 nm to 320 nm is not less than 60%. The light reflecting substrate further improves the emission power of the light-emitting device when used as the substrate therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Hatanaka, Yoshinori Hotta, Akio Uesugi
  • Publication number: 20120073973
    Abstract: An anisotropically conductive member includes an insulating base having through micropores and conductive paths formed by filling the through micropores with a conductive material, insulated from one another, and extending through the insulating base in its thickness direction, one end of each of the conductive paths exposed on one side of the insulating base, the other end of each of the conductive paths exposed on the other side thereof. The insulating base is an anodized film obtained from an aluminum substrate and the aluminum substrate contains intermetallic compounds with an average circle equivalent diameter of up to 2 ?m at a density of up to 100 pcs/mm2. The anisotropically conductive member dramatically increases the density of disposed conductive paths and suppresses the formation of regions having no conductive paths, and can be used as an electrically connecting member or inspection connector for electronic components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke YAMASHITA, Yoshinori HOTTA, Akio UESUGI
  • Patent number: 8118951
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet for a lithographic printing plate includes 0.03 to 0.15% (mass %, hereinafter the same) of Si, 0.2 to 0.7% of Fe, 0.05 to 0.5% of Mg, 0.003 to 0.05% of Ti, and 30 to 300 ppm of Ga, with the balance being aluminum and inevitable impurities, a surface area of the aluminum alloy sheet having an average recrystallized grain size of 50 ?m or less in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction, an Mg concentration that is higher than the average Mg concentration by a factor of 5 to 50, and a Ga concentration that is higher than the average Ga concentration by a factor of 2 to 20, the surface area being an area up to a depth of 0.2 ?m from the surface of the aluminum alloy sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignees: Fujifilm Corporation, Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Uesugi, Atsushi Matsuura, Hiroshi Ougi, Atsushi Hibino
  • Publication number: 20120021356
    Abstract: A presensitized plate bringing about the lithographic printing plate which exhibits a high resistance to scumming and in which formation of bulges causing image dropouts is suppressed is provided with the lithographic printing plate support which includes an aluminum plate and an anodized film of aluminum provided on the aluminum plate, and has a micropore extending in the anodized film in the direction of depth from a film surface opposite with a film surface facing the aluminum plate. The micropore is sealed at least partially on its inside with protrusions made of boehmite, and the protrusions made of boehmite which are located on the anodized film have a mean height of less than 15 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke NAMBA, Keio OKANO, Shinya KUROKAWA, Hirokazu SAWADA, Akio UESUGI