Patents by Inventor Naoyuki Kitaoka

Naoyuki Kitaoka 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: 20080281036
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pigment dispersion composition which has good fluidity and dispersion stability even in the case of having a high pigment concentration and exhibits excellent development characteristics when it is used for the areas requiring development characteristics such as a resist composition for a color filter or a resist composition for a black matrix. The pigment dispersion composition of the present invention is a pigment dispersion composition formed by dispersing a pigment in a dispersion medium, wherein the surface of said pigment is coated with an acid radical-containing reactant produced by the reaction of a carbodiimide compound having at least one carbodiimide group with an acid radical-containing resin having an acid value of 20 to 300 mgKOH/g and a weight average molecular weight of 1000 to 100000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: SAKATA INX CORP.
    Inventors: Kazunori Ito, Hideo Shibata, Naoyuki Kitaoka, Akira Hayashi, Tomohiro Kita
  • Patent number: 7220307
    Abstract: A treated pigment and a dispersion composition thereof having preferable dispersion stability and fluidity in a dispersion medium even the pigment has no functional group reactive with a carbodiimide group on the surface thereof, and further to provide a resist composition exerting very excellent developing characteristics when forming color filters, black matrices and the like patterns. Furthermore, the invention also provides a compound for pigment treatment suited for the treatment of such pigment. A treated pigment which is producible by the treatment with a carbodiimide-based compound having at least one side chain selected from the group consisting of polyester side chains, polyether side chains and polyacrylic side chains and at least one basic nitrogen-containing group within the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Sakata Inx Corp.
    Inventors: Masanori Kano, Kazunori Itoh, Takaaki Yodo, Naoyuki Kitaoka, Hideo Shibata
  • Patent number: 7220306
    Abstract: The present invention provides a treated pigment produced by treating at least one pigment selected from the group consisting of organic pigments and carbon black each having a functional group reactive with a carbodiimide group with a carbodiimide compound having one or more carbodiimide groups, said carbodiimide compound having, within the molecule thereof, at least one side chain selected from the group consisting of polyester side chains, polyether side chains and polyacrylic side chains, with a carbodiimide equivalent of 100 to 50,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Sakata INK Corp.
    Inventors: Masanori Kano, Kazunori Itoh, Naoyuki Kitaoka, Takaaki Yodo, Hideo Shibata
  • Publication number: 20050256247
    Abstract: The present invention provides a treated pigment and a dispersion composition thereof having preferable dispersion stability and fluidity in a dispersion medium even the pigment has no functional group reactive with a carbodiimide group on the surface thereof, and further to provide a resist composition exerting very excellent developing characteristics when forming color filters, black matrices and the like patterns. Furthermore, the invention also provides a compound for pigment treatment suited for the treatment of such pigment. The present invention relates to a treated pigment which is producible by the treatment with a carbodiimide-based compound having at least one side chain selected from the group consisting of polyester side chains, polyether side chains and polyacrylic side chains and at least one basic nitrogen-containing group within the molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Masanori Kano, Kazunori Itoh, Takaaki Yodo, Naoyuki Kitaoka, Hideo Shibata
  • Publication number: 20050204959
    Abstract: The present invention provides a treated pigment produced by treating at least one pigment selected from the group consisting of organic pigments and carbon black each having a functional group reactive with a carbodiimide group with a carbodiimide compound having one or more carbodiimide groups, said carbodiimide compound having, within the molecule thereof, at least one side chain selected from the group consisting of polyester side chains, polyether side chains and polyacrylic side chains, with a carbodiimide equivalent of 100 to 50,000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2003
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Inventors: Masanori Kano, Kazunori Itoh, Naoyuki Kitaoka, Takaaki Yodo, Hideo Shibata