Patents by Inventor Masakazu Sawada

Masakazu Sawada 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).

  • Patent number: 8680009
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet includes a thermal transfer dye layer containing a dye on one surface of a base material sheet and a heat-resistant lubricating layer on the other surface, wherein the heat-resistant lubricating layer contains a binder, spherical particles protruding from a surface of the heat-resistant lubricating layer, and tabular particles having an average particle diameter larger than or equal to the average particle diameter of the spherical particles, and the tabular particles have a specific surface area of 5 m2/g or more and an average particle diameter of 10 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masakazu Sawada
  • Patent number: 8609584
    Abstract: There is provided a thermal transfer sheet including a thermal transfer dye layer formed on one surface of a base sheet and containing a dye and a heat resistant smooth layer formed on the other surface of the base sheet and containing a binder, a lubricant, and a filler. The binder contained in the heat resistant smooth layer is obtainable by mixing a polyvinyl acetoacetal resin with an acryl silicone resin which has a mass average molecular weight of 100,000 or more and is in the form of a powdery solid at an ordinary temperature at a ratio of 10 parts by mass or less of the acryl silicone resin relative to 100 parts by mass of the polyvinyl acetoacetal resin, and the heat resistant smooth layer further contains 10 parts by mass or more and 30 parts by mass or less of isocyanate relative to 100 parts by mass of the polyvinyl acetoacetal resin and phosphoric acid ester having a melting point of 50° C. or more as the lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masakazu Sawada
  • Patent number: 8541341
    Abstract: There is provided a thermal transfer sheet including a thermal transfer dye layer formed on one surface of a base sheet and containing a dye and a heat resistant smooth layer formed on the other surface of the base sheet and containing a binder, a lubricant containing phosphoric acid ester having a melting point of 50° C. or more, and a filler. The phosphoric acid ester is contained in the heat resistant smooth layer at a ratio of 5 mass % or more and 25 mass % or less and contains straight chain phosphoric acid monoalkyl ester at a ratio of 16 mass % or more and 75 mass % or less of a total amount thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masakazu Sawada
  • Patent number: 8541340
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet includes a thermal transfer dye layer containing a dye on one surface of a base material sheet and a heat-resistant lubricating layer on the other surface, wherein the heat-resistant lubricating layer contains a compound represented by Chemical formula 1 described below, (in the formula, n represents an integer of 15 or more).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masakazu Sawada
  • Patent number: 8298988
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet includes a thermal transfer dye layer containing a dye on one surface of a base material sheet and a heat-resistant lubricating layer on the other surface, wherein the heat-resistant lubricating layer contains at least one type of silicone compound represented by Chemical formula 1 or Chemical formula 2 described below. In Chemical formula 1 and Chemical formula 2, R1 contains an alkyl group, an alkylene group, or a phenyl group and may have an ether or ester bond, R2 represents an alkyl group or an alkylene group having the carbon number of 1 to 50, and n and m represent individually an integer of 1 or more, and or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masakazu Sawada
  • Patent number: 8268416
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet includes a base material sheet, a thermal transfer dye layer, which is disposed on one surface of the base material sheet and which contains a dye, and a heat-resistant lubricating layer disposed on the other surface of the base material sheet, wherein the heat-resistant lubricating layer is formed from a binder, in which a specific amount of at least one of a polyvinyl acetal having a softening point of 262° C. or higher and a glass transition temperature of 106° C. or higher and cellulose acetate propionate and a specific amount of polyamide imide silicone are mixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masakazu Sawada
  • Publication number: 20120189788
    Abstract: There is provided a thermal transfer sheet including a thermal transfer dye layer formed on one surface of a base sheet and containing a dye and a heat resistant smooth layer formed on the other surface of the base sheet and containing a binder, a lubricant containing phosphoric acid ester having a melting point of 50° C. or more, and a filler. The phosphoric acid ester is contained in the heat resistant smooth layer at a ratio of 5 mass % or more and 25 mass % or less and contains straight chain phosphoric acid monoalkyl ester at a ratio of 16 mass % or more and 75 mass % or less of a total amount thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventor: Masakazu SAWADA
  • Publication number: 20120189787
    Abstract: There is provided a thermal transfer sheet including a thermal transfer dye layer formed on one surface of a base sheet and containing a dye and a heat resistant smooth layer formed on the other surface of the base sheet and containing a binder, a lubricant, and a filler. The binder contained in the heat resistant smooth layer is obtainable by mixing a polyvinyl acetoacetal resin with an acryl silicone resin which has a mass average molecular weight of 100,000 or more and is in the form of a powdery solid at an ordinary temperature at a ratio of 10 parts by mass or less of the acryl silicone resin relative to 100 parts by mass of the polyvinyl acetoacetal resin, and the heat resistant smooth layer further contains 10 parts by mass or more and 30 parts by mass or less of isocyanate relative to 100 parts by mass of the polyvinyl acetoacetal resin and phosphoric acid ester having a melting point of 50° C. or more as the lubricant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventor: Masakazu Sawada
  • Publication number: 20110244366
    Abstract: There is provided a fuel cell capable of ensuring high safety, and capable of obtaining favorable characteristics such as power density. As a first fluid containing an electrolyte, an ion conductor in which an organic compound which is solid at a room temperature and which has at least one of a sulfonic acid group and a phosphoinic acid group is dissolved in a solvent flows through an electrolyte path arranged between a fuel electrode and an oxygen electrode. Thereby, it is possible to suppress resistance between the fuel electrode and the oxygen electrode low. Also, in the case where the solvent is evaporated due to an environmental change, since that organic compound remains as solid, a surrounding member is unlikely to be corroded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Sawada, Shinichi Uesaka, Kengo Makita, Kanako Ito
  • Publication number: 20100330307
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet includes a base material sheet, a thermal transfer dye layer, which is disposed on one surface of the base material sheet and which contains a dye, and a heat-resistant lubricating layer disposed on the other surface of the base material sheet, wherein the heat-resistant lubricating layer is formed from a binder, in which a specific amount of at least one of a polyvinyl acetal having a softening point of 262° C. or higher and a glass transition temperature of 106° C. or higher and cellulose acetate propionate and a specific amount of polyamide imide silicone are mixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masakazu Sawada
  • Publication number: 20100196631
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet includes a thermal transfer dye layer containing a dye on one surface of a base material sheet and a heat-resistant lubricating layer on the other surface, wherein the heat-resistant lubricating layer contains a binder, spherical particles protruding from a surface of the heat-resistant lubricating layer, and tabular particles having an average particle diameter larger than or equal to the average particle diameter of the spherical particles, and the tabular particles have a specific surface area of 5 m2/g or more and an average particle diameter of 10 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masakazu Sawada
  • Publication number: 20100159166
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet includes a thermal transfer dye layer containing a dye on one surface of a base material sheet and a heat-resistant lubricating layer on the other surface, wherein the heat-resistant lubricating layer contains a compound represented by Chemical formula 1 described below, (in the formula, n represents an integer of 15 or more).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masakazu Sawada
  • Publication number: 20090280275
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet includes a thermal transfer dye layer containing a dye on one surface of a base material sheet and a heat-resistant lubricating layer on the other surface, wherein the heat-resistant lubricating layer contains at least one type of silicone compound represented by Chemical formula 1 or Chemical formula 2 described below. In Chemical formula 1 and Chemical formula 2, R1 contains an alkyl group, an alkylene group, or a phenyl group and may have an ether or ester bond, R2 represents an alkyl group or an alkylene group having the carbon number of 1 to 50, and n and m represent individually an integer of 1 or more, and or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masakazu Sawada
  • Publication number: 20040260020
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a modified polyvinyl acetal resin, which is superior in flexibility, an adhesive property to a resin substrate under high humidities, heat resistance, a thermal decomposition property, humidity resistance and toughness and has low oxygen permeability and an adequate adhesive property and is low in viscosity and high in secular stability of viscosity in forming a solution thereof, and an adhesive composition, an ink, a coating material composition, a thermal developing photosensitive material, a slurry composition for a ceramic green sheet, and a ceramic green sheet, which use the modified polyvinyl acetal resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Miyake, Masakazu Sawada