Patents by Inventor Kiyohiko Takemoto

Kiyohiko Takemoto 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: 20140218451
    Abstract: An ink jet ink set, at least has a cyan ink, a magenta ink, and a yellow ink, in which the cyan ink contains at least either one of C.I. Acid Blue 9 or C.I. Direct Blue 199, the magenta ink contains at least either one of C.I. Acid Red 249 or C.I. Reactive Red 141, the yellow ink contains at least either one of C.I. Direct Yellow 86 or C.I. Direct Yellow 132, and the cyan ink, the magenta ink, and the yellow ink all contain an alkylene oxide adduct of acetylene glycol having 12 or more carbon atoms in the main chain, acetylene glycol having 10 or more carbon atoms in the main chain, and polyoxy alkylene alkyl ether.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromi Iseki, Chie Maruyama, Kiyohiko Takemoto, Tomohiro Aruga
  • Publication number: 20140098158
    Abstract: This invention provides a treatment liquid for an ink jet recording medium having a recording face of a plastic film, wherein the treatment liquid including at least a specific cyclic ester compound or a specific cyclic amide compound, a primer liquid for printing, and an ink composition. According to the present invention, a plastic recorded matter possessing excellent adhesion and waterfastness can be formed on a recording medium having a recording face of a plastic film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi MUKAI, Kiyohiko TAKEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140015907
    Abstract: A recording method includes a first drying step of evaporating 50 to 85 wt % of ink adhering on a recording medium, the ink being ejected from a recording head onto a surface of the recording medium back side of which is supported on a medium-supporting unit which faces the recording head, and a second drying step of drying the recording medium, which has been subjected to the first drying step, at the downstream side of the medium-supporting unit in a feeding direction of the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiyohiko TAKEMOTO
  • Patent number: 8616669
    Abstract: A control device is adapted to control a recording device provided with a nozzle for discharging a color ink and a nozzle for discharging an adhesive fluid. The control device is configured to generate color image data representing a color image made up from color dots formed by the color ink, to generate adhesion image data representing an adhesion image made up from adhesion dots, which are dots formed by the adhesive fluid, wherein the adhesion image data is generated such that the adhesion dots are arranged so that the adhesive fluid is applied at an amount that corresponds to the amount of the color ink applied per unit area and the adhesion dots are arranged so that, when the amount of the color ink applied per unit area is zero, the amount of the adhesive fluid applied differs between inside and outside of a region of the adhesion image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyohiko Takemoto, Kazuaki Tsukiana, Masakazu Ohashi
  • Patent number: 8585199
    Abstract: An ink jet recording system, contains a recording head that ejects ink to the surface of a target non-ink-absorbing or low ink-absorbing recording medium; a medium support portion that faces the recording head and supports the target recording medium from the back surface; a drying portion as a first fixing portion that evaporates a liquid ingredient of the ink that is ejected to the target recording medium from the recording head and adheres thereto; and a second fixing portion at the downstream side with respect to the drying portion of a feeding direction of the target recording medium, the second fixing portion is an irradiation device that irradiates the target recording medium with ultraviolet ray or electron beam, and the evaporation amount of the liquid ingredient in the drying portion is 40 to 70% by weight of the ink adhering to the target recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyohiko Takemoto
  • Patent number: 8574356
    Abstract: An ink composition includes an aluminum pigment, a white pigment, and a dispersion solvent, wherein the ink composition has a structure in which the aluminum pigment is dispersed in the dispersion solvent and the content of the white pigment is 0.01% to 10% based on the content of the aluminum pigment, or includes silver particles, a white pigment, and water, wherein the particle diameter d90 in the particle diameter accumulation curve of the silver particles is 50 nm to 1 ?m, the ink composition has a structure in which the silver particles are dispersed in the water, and the content of the white pigment is 1% to 10% based on the content of the silver particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Kagata, Kiyohiko Takemoto, Tsuyoshi Sano, Shiki Hirata, Naoki Koike
  • Patent number: 8550614
    Abstract: A recording method includes a first drying step of evaporating 50 to 85 wt % of ink adhering on a recording medium, the ink being ejected from a recording head onto a surface of the recording medium back side of which is supported on a medium-supporting unit which faces the recording head, and a second drying step of drying the recording medium, which has been subjected to the first drying step, at the downstream side of the medium-supporting unit in a feeding direction of the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyohiko Takemoto
  • Publication number: 20130235116
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a recorded matter including applying a first ink including a volatile first liquid to an intermediate transfer medium having ultraviolet transmittance; applying, using an ink jet method, second ink including a coloring agent and a polymerizable compound polymerized by irradiation of ultraviolet to locations on the intermediate transfer medium where first ink is applied; partially polymerizing the polymerizable compound by irradiating surface side of the intermediate transfer medium to which the second ink is applied with ultraviolet rays from the opposite side surface; transferring the second ink irradiated by ultraviolet in the polymerizing of the polymerizable compound to a recording medium; and curing the polymerizable compound configuring the second ink transferred to the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiyohiko Takemoto
  • Publication number: 20130235136
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a recorded matter including applying a first ink including a volatile first liquid to an intermediate transfer medium; applying a second ink including a coloring agent, a thermoplastic resin and a volatile second liquid using an ink jet method to locations of the intermediate transfer medium where the first ink is applied; heating the surface of the intermediate transfer medium where the second ink is applied from the opposite surface side and volatilizing at least a part of the second liquid; transferring the second ink heated of the surface of the intermediate transfer medium onto the recording medium; and heating the second ink transferred to the recording medium of the surface of the intermediate transfer medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Inventors: Kiyohiko Takemoto, Akio Ito
  • Patent number: 8518169
    Abstract: An ink set, comprising: an oil based ink composition containing a metallic pigment; and at least one or more oil based ink compositions selected from a group consisting of a chromatic color ink composition containing chromatic color pigment, a black ink composition containing black pigment, and a white ink composition containing white pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Oyanagi, Kiyohiko Takemoto, Chiyoshige Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 8440743
    Abstract: The present invention provides an oil-based ink composition for ink-jet recording comprising at least a coloring material, an organic solvent and a non-aqueous resin emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Oyanagi, Keitaro Nakano, Kiyohiko Takemoto
  • Patent number: 8372897
    Abstract: An ink composition, contains: an organic solvent, a metal pigment, and a resin, in which the organic solvent contains, based on the total amount of the ink composition, 60% by mass or more of diethylene glycol diethylether, 24 to 37% by mass of ?-butyrolactone and/or tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether, and more than 1% by mass and lower than 5% by mass of tetraethylene glycol monobutyl ether, and the 50% average particle diameter in terms of sphere determined by a light scattering method of the metal pigment is 0.8 to 1.2 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Oyanagi, Kiyohiko Takemoto, Kazuaki Tsukiana
  • Publication number: 20130000812
    Abstract: A laminated foil manufacturing apparatus includes a transportation unit that transports a lamination target medium onto which foil is to be laminated with intermittent movement and continuous movement, a liquid adhering unit that performs adhering processing of making liquid adhere to the lamination target medium which is transported with the intermittent movement by the transportation unit, and a foil laminating unit that is arranged at a downstream side with respect to a position of the liquid adhering unit in a transportation direction of the lamination target medium which is transported with the intermittent movement, and performs foil laminating processing of laminating the foil onto a surface to which the liquid has been adhered on the lamination target medium which is transported with the continuous movement by the transportation unit after the adhering processing has been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyohiko TAKEMOTO, Kazuaki TSUKIANA, Masakazu OHASHI
  • Patent number: 8324507
    Abstract: A composite metallic particle made by coating a surface of a base material sheet with a composite metallic thin film layer that contains at least one of a resin layer and a wax layer and at least one of a metal layer and a metal compound layer and step 2 for removing the composite metallic thin film layer from the sheet. The resultant composite metallic particles and conductive ink can be used in a conductive substrate producing apparatus, formed into a pattern on the conductive substrate by screen printing, an ink jet method, or some other liquid-based process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyohiko Takemoto, Miharu Kanaya
  • Publication number: 20120299988
    Abstract: A control device is adapted to control a recording device provided with a nozzle for discharging a color ink and a nozzle for discharging an adhesive fluid. The control device is configured to generate color image data representing a color image made up from color dots formed by the color ink, to generate adhesion image data representing an adhesion image made up from adhesion dots, which are dots formed by the adhesive fluid, wherein the adhesion image data is generated such that the adhesion dots are arranged so that the adhesive fluid is applied at an amount that corresponds to the amount of the color ink applied per unit area and the adhesion dots are arranged so that, when the amount of the color ink applied per unit area is zero, the amount of the adhesive fluid applied differs between inside and outside of a region of the adhesion image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyohiko TAKEMOTO, Kazuaki TSUKIANA, Masakazu OHASHI
  • Publication number: 20120274715
    Abstract: An ink set, comprising: an oil based ink composition containing a metallic pigment; and at least one or more oil based ink compositions selected from a group consisting of a chromatic color ink composition containing chromatic color pigment, a black ink composition containing black pigment, and a white ink composition containing white pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi OYANAGI, Kiyohiko TAKEMOTO, Chiyoshige NAKAZAWA
  • Patent number: 8257480
    Abstract: An ink set, comprising: an oil based ink composition containing a metallic pigment; and at least one or more oil based ink compositions selected from a group consisting of a chromatic color ink composition containing chromatic color pigment, a black ink composition containing black pigment, and a white ink composition containing white pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Oyanagi, Kiyohiko Takemoto, Chiyoshige Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 8257481
    Abstract: An ink set, comprising: an oil based ink composition containing a metallic pigment; and at least one or more oil based ink compositions selected from a group consisting of a chromatic color ink composition containing chromatic color pigment, a black ink composition containing black pigment, and a white ink composition containing white pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Oyanagi, Kiyohiko Takemoto, Chiyoshige Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 8231723
    Abstract: An ink set, comprising: an oil based ink composition containing a metallic pigment; and at least one or more oil based ink compositions selected from a group consisting of a chromatic color ink composition containing chromatic color pigment, a black ink composition containing black pigment, and a white ink composition containing white pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Oyanagi, Kiyohiko Takemoto, Chiyoshige Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20120156444
    Abstract: A production method of a transfer medium includes: forming a colored layer on a base material by discharging ink from an ink jet head toward the base material; and forming an adhesive layer on the colored layer by discharging an adhesive liquid from the ink jet head toward the colored layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyohiko TAKEMOTO, Kazuaki TSUKIANA, Masakazu OHASHI