Patents by Inventor Fumihiro Goto
Fumihiro Goto 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: 10946684Abstract: A printed material of the present invention is a printed material including a recording medium, a color material layer, and a fine irregular layer functioning as an outermost layer in this order; the color material layer contains a pigment; the fine irregular layer contains spherical particles having a specific average particle diameter; the spherical particles are present in a thickness direction of the fine irregular layer; and the surface of the fine irregular layer has convex portions having an average height of 0.04 to 0.15 ?m and an image definition C(2) is 50% or more.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryohei Goto, Fumihiro Goto, Yohei Iwasaki, Tomoko Suzuki
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Patent number: 10814651Abstract: An ink jet recording method of the present invention includes a fixing step under the following condition (1) or (2) when on a recording medium, an image including an image part formed of colored ink and an image part formed of transparent ink is fixed: T1>MFT1>MFT2 and MFT1>T2>MFT2??(1) T1>MFT2>MFT1 and MFT2>T2>MFT1.??(2) MFT1: Minimum film forming temperature of colored ink MFT2: Minimum film forming temperature of transparent ink T1: Temperature of fixing member when image is heated and pressed T2: Temperature of fixing member when image is separated from fixing member.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takumi Otani, Ryohei Goto, Fumihiro Goto, Yohei Iwasaki
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Patent number: 10759193Abstract: An ink jet recording method of the present invention includes a step of applying a reaction liquid onto a transfer body, an ink image forming step, a liquid removing step of bringing a porous body of a liquid absorbing member into contact with the ink image on the transfer body to remove 70% by mass or more of the liquid component from the ink image, a transfer step, and a smoothing step of bringing a fixing member into contact with the ink image on the recording medium, heating and pressing the ink image at a temperature not less than the softening point of the resin to smooth the surface of the ink image, and releasing the heated and pressed ink image from the fixing member at a temperature less than the softening point of the resin.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryohei Goto, Fumihiro Goto, Takumi Otani, Yohei Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20200114660Abstract: An ink jet recording method of the present invention includes a fixing step under the following condition (1) or (2) when on a recording medium, an image including an image part formed of colored ink and an image part formed of transparent ink is fixed: T1>MFT1>MFT2 and MFT1>T2>MFT2??(1) T1>MFT2>MFT1 and MFT2>T2>MFT1.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Takumi Otani, Ryohei Goto, Fumihiro Goto, Yohei Iwasaki
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Patent number: 10500841Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus of the present invention includes an image forming unit which forms an ink image by discharging and applying ink containing at least a resin and a liquid component as an ink droplet onto a transfer body, a liquid removing unit which removes the liquid component in the ink image, a transfer unit which transfers removes the image, from which the liquid component is removed, onto a recording medium, a fixing unit which performs heating and pressing fixing on the image formed on the recording medium by pressing a fixing substrate, a liquid adhesion determination unit which determines whether a liquid adheres to a surface of the fixing substrate, and a liquid removing condition changing unit which changes a liquid removing condition of the liquid removing unit based on the determination result of the liquid adhesion determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Eisuke Nishitani, Keiichirou Takeuchi, Akira Morita, Kanako Soma, Takumi Otani, Fumihiro Goto, Koichiro Nakazawa
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Publication number: 20190366706Abstract: In a transfer type ink jet recording method, the temperature of an intermediate image in a heating step is not lower than the minimum coat forming temperature of a first resin and is not lower than the glass transition temperature of a second resin, and the temperature of the intermediate image in a transfer step is lower than the glass transition temperature of the first resin and is not lower than the glass transition temperature of the second resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Nobuyuki Kuwabara, Fumihiro Goto
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Patent number: 10421270Abstract: In a transfer type ink jet recording method, the temperature of an intermediate image in a heating step is not lower than the minimum coat forming temperature of a first resin and is not lower than the glass transition temperature of a second resin, and the temperature of the intermediate image in a transfer step is lower than the glass transition temperature of the first resin and is not lower than the glass transition temperature of the second resin.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Kuwabara, Fumihiro Goto
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Publication number: 20190094422Abstract: A printed material of the present invention is a printed material including a recording medium, a color material layer, and a fine irregular layer functioning as an outermost layer in this order; the color material layer contains a pigment; the fine irregular layer contains spherical particles having a specific average particle diameter; the spherical particles are present in a thickness direction of the fine irregular layer; and the surface of the fine irregular layer has convex portions having an average height of 0.04 to 0.15 ?m and an image definition C(2) is 50% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Ryohei Goto, Fumihiro Goto, Yohei Iwasaki, Tomoko Suzuki
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Publication number: 20190009551Abstract: An ink jet recording method of the present invention includes a step of applying a reaction liquid onto a transfer body, an ink image forming step, a liquid removing step of bringing a porous body of a liquid absorbing member into contact with the ink image on the transfer body to remove 70% by mass or more of the liquid component from the ink image, a transfer step, and a smoothing step of bringing a fixing member into contact with the ink image on the recording medium, heating and pressing the ink image at a temperature not less than the softening point of the resin to smooth the surface of the ink image, and releasing the heated and pressed ink image from the fixing member at a temperature less than the softening point of the resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Ryohei Goto, Fumihiro Goto, Takumi Otani, Yohei Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20190009518Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus of the present invention includes an image forming unit which forms an ink image by discharging and applying ink containing at least a resin and a liquid component as an ink droplet onto a transfer body, a liquid removing unit which removes the liquid component in the ink image, a transfer unit which transfers removes the image, from which the liquid component is removed, onto a recording medium, a fixing unit which performs heating and pressing fixing on the image formed on the recording medium by pressing a fixing substrate, a liquid adhesion determination unit which determines whether a liquid adheres to a surface of the fixing substrate, and a liquid removing condition changing unit which changes a liquid removing condition of the liquid removing unit based on the determination result of the liquid adhesion determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Eisuke Nishitani, Keiichirou Takeuchi, Akira Morita, Kanako Soma, Takumi Otani, Fumihiro Goto, Koichiro Nakazawa
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Publication number: 20180297355Abstract: In a transfer type ink jet recording method, the temperature of an intermediate image in a heating step is not lower than the minimum coat forming temperature of a first resin and is not lower than the glass transition temperature of a second resin, and the temperature of the intermediate image in a transfer step is lower than the glass transition temperature of the first resin and is not lower than the glass transition temperature of the second resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: Nobuyuki Kuwabara, Fumihiro Goto
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Patent number: 9897866Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first insulation substrate and a second insulation substrate on which a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel are located. In the first pixel, no columnar spacer equivalent to a first columnar spacer or the second columnar spacer is provided. In the second pixel, a second interlayer insulation film has no contact hole below the first columnar spacer. In the third pixel, no common wire is provided and a third interlayer insulation film has no contact hole below the second columnar spacer.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2017Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Osamu Miyakawa, Fumihiro Goto
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Patent number: 9789705Abstract: An ink jet recording method in which an image is formed by applying onto a recording medium a reaction liquid, an aqueous pigment ink containing an anionic polymer aggregatable by the reaction liquid and a resin-containing aqueous liquid containing an anionic polymer aggregatable by the reaction liquid to form an image, the method including the steps of applying the reaction liquid to the recording medium; applying the aqueous pigment ink to a surface of the recording medium to which the reaction liquid is applied by an ink jet method to form an image; and applying the resin-containing aqueous liquid to the image formed on the recording medium by the ink jet method. The surface tension of the resin-containing aqueous liquid is higher than the surface tension of the aqueous pigment ink.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keiichirou Takeuchi, Koichiro Nakazawa, Fumihiro Goto, Eisuke Nishitani, Kanako Soma, Takumi Otani
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Patent number: 9718278Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprising: a color ink applying unit configured to apply color ink to a print medium; a clear ink applying unit configured to apply a plurality of clear inks to the print medium to cover the applied color ink, each clear ink of the plurality of clear inks having a degree of glossiness that is different from each other; and a determining unit configured to determine an amount ratio of each clear ink to each other clear ink of the plurality of clear inks in accordance with the degree of glossiness indicated by the glossiness data and to determine an amount of each clear ink of the plurality of clear inks such that the determined ratio is satisfied and such that the clear inks cover the applied color ink and print medium at approximately 100% area coverage.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akira Morita, Keiichirou Takeuchi, Eisuke Nishitani, Takumi Otani, Fumihiro Goto, Koichiro Nakazawa
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Publication number: 20170212379Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first insulation substrate and a second insulation substrate on which a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel are located. In the first pixel, no columnar spacer equivalent to a first columnar spacer or the second columnar spacer is provided. In the second pixel, a second interlayer insulation film has no contact hole below the first columnar spacer. In the third pixel, no common wire is provided and a third interlayer insulation film has no contact hole below the second columnar spacer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Osamu MIYAKAWA, Fumihiro GOTO
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Patent number: 9661188Abstract: In an image processing apparatus for encoding image data and a method of controlling the same, whether an attribute of each of a plurality of areas in image data corresponds to an edge in an image based on the image data is determined, and one of a plurality of sub-sampling processes is selected according to the determination for each of the plurality of areas. Note that the plurality of sub-sampling processes can sub-sample color difference components of each of the plurality of areas by different processes. By the sub-sampling process selected as that corresponding to each of the plurality of areas, each of the plurality of areas is sub-sampled to encode the image data.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yugo Mochizuki, Fumihiro Goto, Akihiko Nakatani, Okinori Tsuchiya, Takashi Nakamura, Takashi Fujita, Ayumi Sano, Mitsuhiro Ono, Hidetsugu Kagawa
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Patent number: 9656459Abstract: An ink jet recording method of transferring onto a recording medium an intermediate image formed on an intermediate transfer member by an ink jet technique to record an image on the recording medium, the method including a pretreatment agent applying step of applying a pretreatment agent onto an intermediate transfer member; an ink applying step of applying an ink by an ink jet technique onto a region of the intermediate transfer member onto which the pretreatment agent is applied, thereby forming an intermediate image; a transfer step of transferring the intermediate image formed on the intermediate transfer member onto a recording medium; and a selection controlling step of controlling selection of execution or non-execution of at least one of the pretreatment agent applying step and the transfer step, based on an amount of the ink applied onto the intermediate transfer member.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Kuwabara, Fumihiro Goto, Masaki Nitta, Keiichirou Takeuchi, Kanako Soma, Takao Ogata
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Publication number: 20170057245Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprising: a color ink applying unit configured to apply color ink to a print medium; a clear ink applying unit configured to apply a plurality of clear inks to the print medium to cover the applied color ink, each clear ink of the plurality of clear inks having a degree of glossiness that is different from each other; and a determining unit configured to determine an amount ratio of each clear ink to each other clear ink of the plurality of clear inks in accordance with the degree of glossiness indicated by the glossiness data and to determine an amount of each clear ink of the plurality of clear inks such that the determined ratio is satisfied and such that the clear inks cover the applied color ink and print medium at approximately 100% area coverage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Akira Morita, Keiichirou Takeuchi, Eisuke Nishitani, Takumi Otani, Fumihiro Goto, Koichiro Nakazawa
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Patent number: 9564456Abstract: An array substrate includes: a gate wiring; a source wiring, which is formed to intersect the gate wiring; a passivation film, which covers the source wiring; and a pixel electrode that is formed on the passivation film. The array substrate has a display area and a dummy pixel area. In the display area, a switching element in the vicinity of the intersection of the gate wiring and the source wiring is provided. In the display area, the pixel electrode and the source wiring do not have an overlapping area in a top view. The dummy pixel area is located outside the display area, and in the dummy pixel area, a dummy pixel electrode and two source wirings, which are adjacent to the dummy pixel electrode have an overlapping area in a top view.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shigeaki Noumi, Fumihiro Goto
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Publication number: 20170008273Abstract: An ink jet recording method of transferring onto a recording medium an intermediate image formed on an intermediate transfer member by an ink jet technique to record an image on the recording medium, the method including a pretreatment agent applying step of applying a pretreatment agent onto an intermediate transfer member; an ink applying step of applying an ink by an ink jet technique onto a region of the intermediate transfer member onto which the pretreatment agent is applied, thereby forming an intermediate image; a transfer step of transferring the intermediate image formed on the intermediate transfer member onto a recording medium; and a selection controlling step of controlling selection of execution or non-execution of at least one of the pretreatment agent applying step and the transfer step, based on an amount of the ink applied onto the intermediate transfer member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Nobuyuki Kuwabara, Fumihiro Goto, Masaki Nitta, Keiichirou Takeuchi, Kanako Soma, Takao Ogata