Patents by Inventor ERI Ueda

ERI Ueda 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: 20240101840
    Abstract: An object is to obtain a white ink which is easy to redisperse and is redispersible by being shaken several tens of times with weak force at most, or alternatively, without being shaken. As a solution, a white ink composition is provided which contains 5.0 to 20.0% by mass of a titanium oxide in an ink composition; 3.0 to 60.0 parts by mass of a solid content of alkali-soluble resin relative to 100 parts by mass of a pigment or pigments in the ink composition, wherein building blocks of the alkali-soluble resin are styrene; stearyl acrylate and/or lauryl acrylate; and acrylic acid, and the alkali-soluble resin has a weight-average molecular weight of 10,000 or more, an acid value of 100 mgKOH/g or more, and a glass transition temperature of 50° C. or more; and a surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Hirohito MAEDA, Kazuki MORIYASU, Eri UEDA, Takaaki SANO, Choiwing CHAU
  • Patent number: 11933997
    Abstract: A heat-ray-transmission-controllable, light-transmissive base material is provided that includes a light-transmissive insolation-cutting unit configured to control transmission of light in at least a part of wavelength regions among wavelength regions of visible light and near-infrared light; and a transparent conductive oxide layer disposed over the light-transmissive insolation-cutting unit, containing a transparent conductive oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Nakanishi, Eri Ueda, Hironobu Machinaga, Yutaka Ohmori
  • Publication number: 20240059067
    Abstract: A cleaning fluid used in an ink-jet printer ejecting an aqueous ink-jet ink containing a pigment and an alkali-soluble resin, to clean a portion of the ink-jet printer to which the ejected aqueous ink-jet ink is adherent. The cleaning fluid includes a surfactant, an antiseptic, and water. The surfactant is a compound having a polyoxyalkylene skeleton and an HLB of 9-20, and the antiseptic includes a compound having a hydantoin skeleton, the content of which is 0.05-0.3 mass %. The cleaning fluid does not attack nozzle plates made of silicone and has satisfactory storage stability, antiseptic effect, and ability to remove aqueous ink-jet inks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Hirohito Maeda, Kazuki Moriyasu, Eri Ueda, Takaaki Sano
  • Publication number: 20240032268
    Abstract: A radio wave absorber 1a includes a resistive layer 10, a reflector 30, and a dielectric layer 20. The resistive layer 10 includes multilayer carbon nanotubes 11. Moreover, the resistive layer 10 has a specific resistance of 1.5 ?·cm or less. The reflector 30 reflects a radio wave. The dielectric layer 20 is disposed between the resistive layer and the reflector in a thickness direction of the resistive layer 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Nakanishi, Eri Ueda, Hironobu Machinaga
  • Publication number: 20240010861
    Abstract: An aqueous inkjet ink composition containing a pigment, an alkali-soluble resin, a surfactant, a water-soluble solvent, colloidal silica, and water, in which the surfactant includes a surfactant having an HLB value equal to or greater than 3 and less than 10 and a surfactant having an HLB value of 10-20 (inclusive), the water-soluble solvent has a boiling point of 170-250° C. (inclusive) at 1 atm, and the percentage of the colloidal silica in the aqueous inkjet ink composition is 0.05-2 mass % (inclusive). The aqueous inkjet ink composition has excellent storage stability, mechanical stability, discharge stability, coating film drying properties, and cissing resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yoichi Sato, Hirohito Maeda, Kazuki Moriyasu, Eri Ueda, Takaaki Sano
  • Publication number: 20230356500
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave absorber (1) includes a dielectric layer (10), a resistive layer (20), and an electrically conductive layer (30). The resistive layer (20) is disposed on one principal surface of the dielectric layer (10). The electrically conductive layer (30) is disposed on the other principal surface of the dielectric layer (10) and has a sheet resistance lower than a sheet resistance of the resistive layer (20). The resistive layer (20) has a sheet resistance of 200 to 600 ?/?. When the resistive layer (20) is subjected to an immersion treatment in which the resistive layer (20) is immersed in a 5 weight % aqueous solution of NaOH for 5 minutes, an absolute value of a difference between a sheet resistance of the resistive layer (20) before the immersion treatment and a sheet resistance of the resistive layer (20) after the immersion treatment is less than 100 ?/?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuto Yamagata, Hironobu Machinaga, Eri Ueda, Hiroichi Ukei, Takehiro Ui
  • Patent number: 11806980
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave absorber (1) includes a dielectric layer (10), a resistive layer (20), and an electrically conductive layer (30). The resistive layer (20) is disposed on one principal surface of the dielectric layer (10). The electrically conductive layer (30) is disposed on the other principal surface of the dielectric layer (10) and has a sheet resistance lower than a sheet resistance of the resistive layer (20). The resistive layer (20) has a sheet resistance of 200 to 600?/?. When the resistive layer (20) is subjected to an immersion treatment in which the resistive layer (20) is immersed in a 5 weight % aqueous solution of NaOH for 5 minutes, an absolute value of a difference between a sheet resistance of the resistive layer (20) before the immersion treatment and a sheet resistance of the resistive layer (20) after the immersion treatment is less than 100?/?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuto Yamagata, Hironobu Machinaga, Eri Ueda, Hiroichi Ukei, Takehiro Ui
  • Publication number: 20230193068
    Abstract: A primer composition including a resin emulsion, an aggregation accelerator, a surfactant, and water, the surfactant containing one or more of acetylene-based surfactants and silicone-based surfactants, and a nonionic surfactant other than the surfactant, the nonionic surfactant having an HLB value of 10 or above and below 15.5 and having multiple polyoxyalkylene groups, and the proportion of the nonionic surfactant in the primer composition is 3 mass % or below. The primer composition has excellent storage stability and makes it possible to form a primer layer that has excellent transparency and that produces excellent bleeding resistance and printability when a solid image is printed by an aqueous inkjet ink composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Yoichi SATO, Hirohito MAEDA, Kazuki MORIYASU, Eri UEDA, Takaaki SANO
  • Publication number: 20230193060
    Abstract: An object is to provide a method for storing or transporting an aqueous white ink composition for inkjet that does not cause precipitation of a pigment therein during storage for a long period or transport, and allows the pigment to be easily redispersed even if precipitation occurs. As means for solving the problems, a storing method is provided that includes placing an aqueous white ink composition for inkjet containing titanium oxide and a pigment dispersant in a tank and maintaining the entire aqueous white ink composition for inkjet in the tank at a temperature of ?5 to ?35° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Yoichi SATO, Hirohito MAEDA, Kazuki MORIYASU, Eri UEDA, Takaaki SANO
  • Publication number: 20220341024
    Abstract: A transparent conductive film (3) includes a polycrystal (31). The polycrystal (31) has grains (32). The grains (32) have an average value Df of a maximum Feret diameter of 160 to 400 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyotaro Yamada, Toshihiro Tsurusawa, Hironobu Machinaga, Motoki Haishi, Eri Ueda
  • Publication number: 20220298398
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a packaging material having excellent printed image quality as well as excellent laminate strength and heat sealability. Provided is a packaging material including at least: a base film, a primer layer, a printed layer, an adhesive layer, and a sealant film in a stated order, the primer layer being formed of a primer composition containing a water-soluble polyvalent metal salt, a chlorinated polyolefin emulsion, and at least one selected from the group consisting of an acrylic emulsion, a vinyl acetate emulsion, and a urethane-modified polyester resin, the printed layer being formed of a printing ink containing a polyester polyurethane resin, the adhesive layer being formed of an aliphatic ester adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Yoichi SATO, Kazuki MORIYASU, Eri UEDA, Takaaki SANO
  • Publication number: 20220056294
    Abstract: An ink set including an aqueous inkjet ink composition and a primer composition. The aqueous inkjet ink composition contains a pigment, an alkali-soluble resin, a resin emulsion, a surfactant, a water-soluble solvent, and water; the resin emulsion contains a polyurethane resin emulsion and/or a polyolefin resin emulsion; the surfactant contains an alkyl sulfonate and/or a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether sulfate; the aqueous inkjet ink composition has a content of the alkyl sulfonate and/or the polyoxyethylene alkyl ether sulfate of 0.05% by mass or more and 0.5% by mass or less; and the primer composition contains an aggregation accelerator that accelerates aggregation of the aqueous inkjet ink composition. The ink set provides a printed matter having good print image quality and excellent abrasion resistance, and has good storage stability and ejection stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Yoichi SATO, Kazuki MORIYASU, Eri UEDA, Takaaki SANO
  • Publication number: 20220033669
    Abstract: An aqueous inkjet ink composition including a pigment, an alkali-soluble resin, a surfactant, a water-soluble solvent, and water. The water-soluble solvent contains a solvent A having a boiling point of 100° C. or more and 200° C. or less at 1 atm and 4 or less carbon atoms and 2 or more hydroxy groups in a molecule, and a solvent B having a boiling point of 100° C. or more and 200° C. or less at 1 atm and 4 or more and 10 or less carbon atoms, 1 or less hydroxy groups, and 1 or more methoxy groups in a molecule, and the aqueous inkjet ink composition has a total percentage of the solvent a and the solvent b of 20% by mass or more and 50% by mass or less. The aqueous inkjet ink composition has good storage stability, ejection stability, and drying property of the coating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yoichi SATO, Kazuki MORIYASU, Eri UEDA, Takaaki SANO
  • Publication number: 20210348011
    Abstract: An aqueous primer composition includes a water-soluble multivalent metal salt, a polyester-based polyurethane emulsion, and water. A set includes the aqueous primer composition and an inkjet recording ink composition. A printed matter obtained by using the set includes a base material layer, a primer layer containing the water-soluble multivalent metal salt and the polyester-based polyurethane, and a printing layer. The aqueous primer can offer excellent preservation stability, and can allow for formation of a printing layer having high adhesion, capable of forming high-quality images with little bleeding/mottled appearance when printing images, text, etc., to form a printing layer on a plastic film or other nonabsorbent medium using inkjet recording ink compositions, offering excellent water resistance and lamination suitability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Yoichi SATO, Kazuki MORIYASU, Eri UEDA, Takaaki SANO
  • Publication number: 20200379153
    Abstract: A heat-ray-transmission-controllable, light-transmissive base material is provided that includes a light-transmissive insolation-cutting unit configured to control transmission of light in at least a part of wavelength regions among wavelength regions of visible light and near-infrared light; and a transparent conductive oxide layer disposed over the light-transmissive insolation-cutting unit, containing a transparent conductive oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Yosuke NAKANISHI, Eri UEDA, Hironobu MACHINAGA, Yutaka OHMORI
  • Publication number: 20200207059
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave absorber (1) includes a dielectric layer (10), a resistive layer (20), and an electrically conductive layer (30). The resistive layer (20) is disposed on one principal surface of the dielectric layer (10). The electrically conductive layer (30) is disposed on the other principal surface of the dielectric layer (10) and has a sheet resistance lower than a sheet resistance of the resistive layer (20). The resistive layer (20) has a sheet resistance of 200 to 600?/?. When the resistive layer (20) is subjected to an immersion treatment in which the resistive layer (20) is immersed in a 5 weight % aqueous solution of NaOH for 5 minutes, an absolute value of a difference between a sheet resistance of the resistive layer (20) before the immersion treatment and a sheet resistance of the resistive layer (20) after the immersion treatment is less than 100?/?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuto Yamagata, Hironobu Machinaga, Eri Ueda, Hiroichi Ukei, Takehiro Ui
  • Publication number: 20200128705
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave absorber (1) includes a dielectric layer (10), a resistive layer (20), and an electrical conductive layer (30). The resistive layer (20) is disposed on one principal surface of the dielectric layer (10). The electrical conductive layer (30) is disposed on the other principal surface of the dielectric layer (10) and has a sheet resistance lower than a sheet resistance of the resistive layer (20). The resistive layer (20) includes indium oxide as a main component, has a polycrystalline structure, and has a sheet resistance of 260 to 500?/? and a specific resistance of 5×10?4 ?·cm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuto Yamagata, Hironobu Machinaga, Yuuki Takeda, Eri Ueda, Hiroichi Ukei, Takehiro Ui
  • Publication number: 20200115956
    Abstract: A heat-ray-reflective, light-transmissive base material is provided that includes a light-transmissive base material; a hard-coat layer disposed over one surface of the light-transmissive base material; and a transparent conductive oxide layer containing a transparent conductive oxide, disposed over the hard-coat layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yosuke NAKANISHI, Eri UEDA, Hironobu MACHINAGA, Yutaka OHMORI
  • Publication number: 20190233939
    Abstract: A transparent conductive film includes a crystalline transparent conductive layer obtained by forming an amorphous transparent conductive layer on a polymeric film substrate by sputtering, and crystallizing the amorphous transparent conductive layer. Defining that the amorphous transparent conductive layer has a carrier density represented by na×1019 and Hall mobility represented by ?a, that the crystalline transparent conductive layer has a carrier density represented by nc×1019 and Hall mobility represented by ?c, and that a length of motion L is represented by {(nc?na)2+(?c??a)}1/2, the amorphous transparent conductive layer before the crystallizing process has a carrier density na×1019 of (10?60)×1019/cm3 and Hall mobility ?a of 10-25 cm2/V·s, and the crystalline transparent conductive layer after the crystallizing process has a carrier density nc×1019 of (80?150)×1019/cm3 and Hall mobility ?c of 20-40 cm2/V·s, and the length of motion L is 50-150.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kodai Miyamoto, Kazuaki Sasa, Hironobu Machinaga, Eri Ueda, Manami Kurose, Tomotake Nashiki
  • Patent number: 10303284
    Abstract: There is provided a transparent conductive film achieving low resistance characteristics of a transparent conductive layer. The present invention provides a transparent conductive film including: a polymer film substrate; and a transparent conductive layer formed on at least one surface of the polymer film substrate by means of a sputtering method using a sputtering gas including argon, wherein an existing atomic amount of argon atoms in the transparent conductive layer is 0.24 atomic % or less; an existing atomic amount of hydrogen atoms in the transparent conductive layer is 13×1020 atoms/cm3 or less; and the transparent conductive layer has a specific resistance of 1.1×10?4 ?·cm or more and 2.8×10?4 ?·cm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nozomi Fujino, Tomotake Nashiki, Daiki Kato, Hironobu Machinaga, Kazuaki Sasa, Eri Ueda, Tomoya Matsuda