Patents by Inventor Kanjirou Kawasaki

Kanjirou Kawasaki 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: 20030190538
    Abstract: A color toner selected from the group consisting of a yellow toner, a magenta toner, and a cyan toner, and mixtures thereof, which includes a binder resin and a color pigment, wherein a C* value of a fixed red image formed by a combination of a layer of the yellow toner having a weight of 8 g/m2 and a layer of the magenta toner having a weight of 8 g/m2 is not less than 80, and wherein a hexagon formed by six points in a *-b* chromaticity coordinates of a fixed yellow image formed by a layer of the yellow toner having a weight of 8 g/m2, the fixed red image, a fixed magenta image formed by a layer of the magenta toner having a weight of 8 g/m2, a fixed blue image formed by a combination of a layer of the magenta toner having a weight of 8 g/m2 and a layer of the cyan toner having a weight of 8 g/m2, a fixed cyan image formed by a layer of the cyan toner having a weight of 8 g/m2, and a fixed green image formed by a combination of a layer of the cyan toner of 8 g/m2 and a layer of the yellow toner having a wei
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Kuramoto, Kanjirou Kawasaki, Shohichi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20020192580
    Abstract: A color toner selected from the group consisting of a yellow toner, a magenta toner, and a cyan toner, and mixtures thereof, which includes a binder resin and a color pigment, wherein a C* value of a fixed red image formed by a combination of a layer of the yellow toner having a weight of 8 g/m2 and a layer of the magenta toner having a weight of 8 g/m2 is not less than 80, and wherein a hexagon formed by six points in a*-b* chromaticity coordinates of a fixed yellow image formed by a layer of the yellow toner having a weight of 8 g/m2, the fixed red image, a fixed magenta image formed by a layer of the magenta toner having a weight of 8 g/m2, a fixed blue image formed by a combination of a layer of the magenta toner having a weight of 8 g/m2 and a layer of the cyan toner having a weight of 8 g/m2, a fixed cyan image formed by a layer of the cyan toner having a weight of 8 g/m2, and a fixed green image formed by a combination of a layer of the cyan toner of 8 g/m2 and a layer of the yellow toner having a weig
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 1999
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: SHINICHI KURAMOTO, KANJIROU KAWASAKI, SHOHICHI SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 4980337
    Abstract: A thermosensitive recording material is disclosed, which comprises (a) a heat insulating support having a foamed portion with minute voids therein, (b) an undercoat layer formed on the heat insulating support, comprising as the main component a film-forming polymeric material in an amount ranging from more than 50 wt. % to 100 wt. % of the entire weight of the undercoat layer, and (c) a thermosensitive coloring layer formed on the undercoat layer, comprising a leuco dye and a color developer for inducing color formation in the leuco dye upon application of heat thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Assignee: Ricoh Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Kanjirou Kawasaki, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Hiroaki Inoue
  • Patent number: 4912079
    Abstract: A thermosensitive recording material is disclosed, which comprises a support, an intermediate layer having a voidage ranging from 50% to 95% and a thickness of 3 .mu.m to 100 .mu.m, and a thermosensitive coloring layer, which layers are successively formed on the intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kanjirou Kawasaki, Hiroaki Inoue, Tomohisa Kakuda, Yasutomo Mori
  • Patent number: 4580152
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards a method for carrying out heat sensitive transfer which comprises using a transfer sheet having a leuco dye-containing transfer layer and a receiving sheet having a receiving layer containing a bisphenol-system compound and a porous filler whose oil absorption is 50 ml/100 g or more and transferring the transfer sheet against the thermal head in the range of 1/N of the length of a picture dot or more (N denotes the number of specified repetitive use of the transfer sheet) to not more than the length of the picture dot per one picture dot recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1986
    Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Takigawa, Keishi Kubo, Hideo Watanabe, Minoru Hakiri, Kanjirou Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 4562448
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive transfer medium of this invention comprises the combination of a transfer sheet which has on one surface of a substrate a transfer layer consisted essentially of a leuco dye and a binder resin and is provided on its opposite surface with a 0.2-5 .mu.m-thick polyfluorocarbon-containing layer with a receiving sheet which is provided on the substrate with a receiving layer consisting essentially of a developer for the leuco dye and the binder resin, and further comprises adding a porous filler (oil absorption: 50-300 ml/100 g) to the receiving layer and/or the transfer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Watanabe, Minoru Hakiri, Kanjirou Kawasaki, Keishi Kubo, Nobuhiro Takigawa
  • Patent number: 4529993
    Abstract: The heat sensitive transfer medium according to the present invention is characterized in that it comprises a transfer sheet having a transfer layer consisted essentially of a leuco-dye color former and a receiving sheet having a receiving layer consisted essentially of a developer for said leuco-dye and a binder and that said transfer layer further contains 0.01 to 1 part by weight of polyester resin which has a melting point of 50.degree. to 130.degree. C. and a repetition unit represented by the formula: ##STR1## together with 0.01 to 1 part by weight of a porous filler which has an oil absorption of 50 ml or more/100 g, respectively per part by weight of said leuco-dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1985
    Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Watanabe, Nobuhiro Takigawa, Minoru Hakiri, Kanjirou Kawasaki, Keishi Kubo