Patents by Inventor Motoi Orihara

Motoi Orihara 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: 8268746
    Abstract: Provided is a thermosensitive recording material which can be produced through high-speed coating, which is excellent in head-matching property, and which can provide a printed image having good waterproofness, while maintaining high sensitivity and high storage stability, which material includes a support, an under layer laid over the support, the under layer containing a plastic hollow particle, a thermosensitive color-developing layer laid over the under layer, the thermosensitive color-developing layer containing a leuco dye and a developer, wherein two or more layers including the thermosensitive color-developing layer are formed through simultaneous coating by a curtain coating method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoi Orihara, Tomohisa Kakuda, Yoshiaki Matsunaga, Eiji Fukui
  • Patent number: 8193116
    Abstract: To provide a heat-sensitive recording material including a substrate; a heat-sensitive color-developing layer over the substrate, the heat-sensitive color-developing layer containing a leuco dye and a developer; a first protective layer over the heat-sensitive color-developing layer, the first protective layer containing a water-soluble resin and a crosslinking agent; and a second protective layer over the first protective layer, the second protective layer containing a water-soluble resin, a crosslinking agent and a pigment, wherein the heat-sensitive color-developing layer, the first protective layer and the second protective layer are formed simultaneously by curtain coating method, and the second protective layer contains diacetone-modified polyvinyl alcohol and acrylic resin or maleic acid copolymer resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoi Orihara, Norihiko Inaba
  • Publication number: 20120021900
    Abstract: To provide a heat-sensitive recording material including a substrate; a heat-sensitive color-developing layer over the substrate, the heat-sensitive color-developing layer containing a leuco dye and a developer; a first protective layer over the heat-sensitive color-developing layer, the first protective layer containing a water-soluble resin and a crosslinking agent; and a second protective layer over the first protective layer, the second protective layer containing a water-soluble resin, a crosslinking agent and a pigment, wherein the heat-sensitive color-developing layer, the first protective layer and the second protective layer are formed simultaneously by curtain coating method, and the second protective layer contains diacetone-modified polyvinyl alcohol and acrylic resin or maleic acid copolymer resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Motoi Orihara, Norihiko Inaba
  • Patent number: 8058209
    Abstract: To provide a heat-sensitive recording material including a substrate; a heat-sensitive color-developing layer over the substrate, the heat-sensitive color-developing layer containing a leuco dye and a developer; a first protective layer over the heat-sensitive color-developing layer, the first protective layer containing a water-soluble resin and a crosslinking agent; and a second protective layer over the first protective layer, the second protective layer containing a water-soluble resin, a crosslinking agent and a pigment, wherein the heat-sensitive color-developing layer, the first protective layer and the second protective layer are formed simultaneously by curtain coating method, and the second protective layer contains diacetone-modified polyvinyl alcohol and acrylic resin or maleic acid copolymer resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoi Orihara, Norihiko Inaba
  • Publication number: 20100062936
    Abstract: Provided is a thermosensitive recording material which can be produced through high-speed coating, which is excellent in head-matching property, and which can provide a printed image having good waterproofness, while maintaining high sensitivity and high storage stability, which material includes a support, an under layer laid over the support, the under layer containing a plastic hollow particle, a thermosensitive color-developing layer laid over the under layer, the thermosensitive color-developing layer containing a leuco dye and a developer, wherein two or more layers including the thermosensitive color-developing layer are formed through simultaneous coating by a curtain coating method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Motoi Orihara, Tomohisa Kakuda, Yoshiaki Matsunaga, Eiji Fukui
  • Publication number: 20080234128
    Abstract: To provide a heat-sensitive recording material including a substrate; a heat-sensitive color-developing layer over the substrate, the heat-sensitive color-developing layer containing a leuco dye and a developer; a first protective layer over the heat-sensitive color-developing layer, the first protective layer containing a water-soluble resin and a crosslinking agent; and a second protective layer over the first protective layer, the second protective layer containing a water-soluble resin, a crosslinking agent and a pigment, wherein the heat-sensitive color-developing layer, the first protective layer and the second protective layer are formed simultaneously by curtain coating method, and the second protective layer contains diacetone-modified polyvinyl alcohol and acrylic resin or maleic acid copolymer resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoi ORIHARA, Norihiko Inaba
  • Patent number: 5703006
    Abstract: A thermosensitive recording medium is disclosed which includes a support, and a thermosensitive color-developing layer formed on the support and containing a leuco dye having a melting point of at least 200.degree. C. and a color developer having a melting point of at least 180.degree..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasutomo Mori, Motoi Orihara, Kunihiko Hada, Shuji Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 5646088
    Abstract: A thermosensitive recording material having a high degree of background whiteness, superior light resistance without coloring of the background when exposed to the light, and a method of producing a stable coating liquid or forming a thermosensitive coloring layer and a protective layer are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Hada, Yasutomo Mori, Motoi Orihara, Shuji Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 5474869
    Abstract: A toner comprising a binder resin and a coloring agent, with an aggregation degree of 5 to 60%, and an absolute value of Q/M measured by the suction method of 2 to 30 .mu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1995
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Tomita, Kohichi Katoh, Tomoe Hagiwara, Koji Suzuki, Shigekazu Enoki, Naoki Iwata, Motoi Orihara, Shinichi Kuramoto
  • Patent number: 5370959
    Abstract: An image formation method of developing a latent electrostatic image formed on a latent-electrostatic-image bearing member to a visible toner image by a one-component type developer consisting essentially of a toner is carried out by the steps of forming numerous micro closed electric fields near the surface of a developer-bearing member by causing the developer-bearing member to selectively hold electric charges on the surface thereof; supplying the developer to the surface of the developer-bearing member to hold the toner on the surface of the developer-bearing member by the micro closed electric fields; and developing a latent electrostatic image to a visible toner image by the toner. The toner is composed of a binder resin, a coloring agent and a quaternary ammonium salt serving as a charge controlling agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoe Hagiwara, Shinichi Kuramoto, Motoi Orihara
  • Patent number: 5164774
    Abstract: In a developing device and a dry color toner for color electrophotography. The developing device is provided with a toner conveying member and a toner layer thickness controlling member which is in contact with the toner conveying member. The color toner for developing electrostatic images used in this developing device has the following relation between the number average particle diameter and the volume average particle diameter: ##EQU1## Even after a continuous copying, the developing device and the color toner provide substantially the same image quality as that in the earlier stages of the continuous copying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1992
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Tomita, Hachiro Tosaka, Motoi Orihara, Hiroshi Tanaka, Tomoe Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 4833058
    Abstract: This invention relates to a developing apparatus for one component type toner, which has a thin film-forming element applying a thin film of one component type toner on the surface of a toner holder, characterized in that said thin film-forming element is composed of a silicone rubber comprising 100 parts by weight of a siloxane polymer having a cross linking density of 4-8.times.10.sup.-4 mol/cc and 30-70 parts by weight of silica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Hirano, Kazuo Nojima, Motoi Orihara
  • Patent number: 4762763
    Abstract: This invention relates to a toner for developing an electrostatic latent image, which contains a coloring agent, a binder resin and a charge controlling agent as the main components, said charge controlling agent being a metal salt of salicylic acid or derivatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1988
    Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nomura, Noriaki Ide, Kazumi Ohtaki, Masami Tomita, Hachiro Tosaka, Toshiki Nanya, Motoi Orihara, Shunichi Chiba, Satoru Inoue, Yasuo Asahina, Hiroyuki Fushimi
  • Patent number: 4670368
    Abstract: A developer comprises a mixture of (a) magnetic toner particles comprising a polymeric material and finely-divided magnetic particles, having an electric resistivity of 10.sup.12 .OMEGA.cm or more, and (b) electroconductive magnetic particles having an electric resistivity of 10.sup.9 .OMEGA.cm or less, a smaller volume mean diameter than that of the magnetic toner particles, with the saturation magnetic moment of the electroconductive magnetic particles being in the range of from 25 emu/g to 75 emu/g, which is larger than the saturation magnetic moment of the magnetic toner particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hachiro Tosaka, Kimitoshi Yamaguchi, Motoi Orihara