Patents by Inventor Natsumi YOKOKAWA

Natsumi YOKOKAWA 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: 11635701
    Abstract: Provided are a planographic printing plate precursor including a support, and an image recording layer on the support, in which the image recording layer contains an infrared absorbing agent, a polymerization initiator, and a core-shell particle, a core portion of the core-shell particle contains a resin A containing a functional group A, and a shell portion of the core-shell particle contains a resin B containing a functional group B that is bondable to or interactable with the functional group A and a dispersion group; a method of preparing a planographic printing plate using the planographic printing plate precursor; and a planographic printing method carried out using the planographic printing plate precursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Natsumi Yokokawa, Kazuaki Enomoto, Akira Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220118753
    Abstract: Provided is an on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor having a support and an image-recording layer on the support, in which the image-recording layer contains an infrared absorber, a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound, and a color-developing substance precursor, and in a case where the image-recording layer is exposed to an infrared laser having a wavelength of 830 nm at an energy density of 110 mJ/cm2, a loss of ethylenically unsaturated bonds in an exposed area in the image-recording layer is 10% to 40% of ethylenically unsaturated bonds in a non-exposed area in the image-recording layer. Also provided is a method for preparing a lithographic printing plate or a lithographic printing method using the on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Natsumi Yokokawa, Kazuaki Enomoto, Akinori Fujita, Yusuke Namba, Akira Sakaguchi, Akira Yamamoto, Ichiro Koyama
  • Publication number: 20220111629
    Abstract: Provided is an on-machine development type planographic printing plate precursor having a support and an image-recording layer on the support, in which the image-recording layer contains an initiator, an infrared absorber capable of donating electrons to the initiator, and a color-developing substance precursor, the image-recording layer can form an image by exposure to infrared laser, and in a case where the image-recording layer is exposed to an infrared laser with a wavelength of 830 nm at an energy density of 110 mJ/cm2, a brightness change ?L of the image-recording layer before and after the exposure is 3.0 or more. Also provided are a method for preparing a planographic printing plate or a planographic printing method in which the on-machine development type planographic printing plate precursor is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki Enomoto, Natsumi Yokokawa, Akinori Fujita, Akira Sakaguchi, Yusuke Namba, Ichiro Koyama
  • Publication number: 20210362529
    Abstract: Provided are a lithographic printing plate precursor including a support, and an image recording layer on the support, in which the image recording layer contains an infrared absorbing agent, a polymerization initiator, and core-shell particles, a core portion of each core-shell particle contains a resin A containing a functional group A, and a shell portion of the core-shell particle contains a resin B containing a functional group B that is bondable to or interactable with the functional group A and a polymerizable group: a method of preparing a lithographic printing plate using the lithographic printing plate precursor; and a lithographic printing method carried out using the lithographic printing plate precursor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Natsumi YOKOKAWA, Kazuaki ENOMOTO, Akira SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210356879
    Abstract: Provided are a planographic printing plate precursor including a support, and an image recording layer on the support, in which the image recording layer contains an infrared absorbing agent, a polymerization initiator, and a core-shell particle, a core portion of the core-shell particle contains a resin A containing a functional group A, and a shell portion of the core-shell particle contains a resin B containing a functional group B that is bondable to or interactable with the functional group A and a dispersion group; a method of preparing a planographic printing plate using the planographic printing plate precursor; and a planographic printing method carried out using the planographic printing plate precursor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Natsumi Yokokawa, Kazuaki Enomoto, Akira Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 10945928
    Abstract: A denture base coating composition includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a first compound represented by Formula (1-0) and a second compound represented by Formula (2-0).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Yamamoto, Akihito Amao, Kiyotaka Fukagawa, Yuta Shigenoi, Natsumi Yokokawa, Chiaki Tsutsumi, Noriyuki Wakabayashi, Kazuo Takakuda
  • Patent number: 10526266
    Abstract: The composition contains an alkali-soluble resin and a crosslinking agent that is represented by the following General Formula (I). In the formula, each of R1 and R6 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 5 or less carbon atoms; each of R2 and R5 independently represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, or an acyl group; and each of R3 and R4 independently represents a hydrogen atom or an organic group having 2 or more carbon atoms, and R3 and R4 may be bonded to each other to form a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Natsumi Yokokawa, Hidehiro Mochizuki, Koutarou Takahashi, Shuhei Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10444627
    Abstract: There are provided a pattern formation method, including: (1) forming a film using an active light-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition; (2) exposing the film to active light or radiation; and (3) developing the exposed film using a developer including an organic solvent, wherein the active light-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition contains a resin (A) having specific repeating units, and a crosslinking agent (C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroo Takizawa, Toru Fujimori, Wataru Nihashi, Shuji Hirano, Natsumi Yokokawa
  • Publication number: 20190290551
    Abstract: A denture base coating composition includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a first compound represented by Formula (1-0) and a second compound represented by Formula (2-0).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Yamamoto, Akihito Amao, Kiyotaka Fukagawa, Yuta Shigenoi, Natsumi Yokokawa, Chiaki Tsutsumi, Noriyuki Wakabayashi, Kazuo Takakuda
  • Patent number: 10324374
    Abstract: There is provided an active light sensitive or radiation sensitive resin composition which contains (A) an alkali soluble resin and (C) a cross-linking agent represented by the following General Formula (1-0).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Yamaguchi, Tomotaka Tsuchimura, Natsumi Yokokawa, Koutarou Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10120281
    Abstract: An actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition includes an alkali-soluble resin (A) having a phenolic hydroxyl group, and a crosslinking agent (C) having two or more hydroxymethyl groups or alkoxymethyl groups in total within the molecule, wherein the composition contains a crosslinking agent (C1) having a molecular weight of 420 or more and also having two to four hydroxymethyl groups or alkoxymethyl groups in total within the molecule in a proportion of 60 mol % to 100 mol % based on the total amount of the crosslinking agent (C) including the crosslinking agent (C1), and in which the total concentration of the hydroxymethyl groups or the alkoxymethyl groups of the crosslinking agent (C) relative to 1 g of the solid content in the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition is 0.30 mmol/g or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Koutarou Takahashi, Tomotaka Tsuchimura, Shuhei Yamaguchi, Natsumi Yokokawa, Hidehiro Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 10011576
    Abstract: The actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition includes a crosslinking agent having a polarity converting group and an alkali-soluble resin, in which the polarity converting group is a group capable of decomposing by the action of an alkaline aqueous solution to generate a carboxylic acid or sulfonic acid on the side having a crosslinking group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Yamaguchi, Koutarou Takahashi, Tomotaka Tsuchimura, Natsumi Yokokawa, Hidehiro Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 9904168
    Abstract: An actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition includes a resin (A) containing a repeating unit represented by General Formula (4) and a crosslinking agent (C) containing a polar group, in which the crosslinking agent (C) is a compound represented by General Formula (1) or a compound in which two to five structures represented by General Formula (1) are connected via a linking group or a single bond represented by L1 in General Formula (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Natsumi Yokokawa, Shuhei Yamaguchi, Koutarou Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9798234
    Abstract: An actinic ray sensitive or radiation sensitive resin composition contains a polymer compound (A) having a phenolic hydroxyl group and satisfying the following (a) and (b), a compound (B) capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation, and a crosslinking agent (C) for crosslinking the polymer compound (A) by the action of an acid and having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 200° C. or higher: (a) the weight-average molecular weight is 3,000 or more and 6,500 or less, and (b) the glass transition temperature (Tg) is 140° C. or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomotaka Tsuchimura, Shuhei Yamaguchi, Natsumi Yokokawa
  • Patent number: 9766547
    Abstract: There is provided a pattern forming method, including: (1) forming a film using an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition, (2) exposing the film with actinic ray or radiation, (3) developing the film exposed by using a developer containing an organic solvent, wherein the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition contains (A) a resin having a repeating unit (R) with a structural moiety capable of decomposing upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation to generate an acid, and (B) a solvent, and the developer contains an additive that causes at least one interaction selected from the group consisting of an ionic bond, a hydrogen bond, a chemical bond and a dipole interaction with respect to a polar group contained in the resin (A) after the exposing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroo Takizawa, Shuji Hirano, Natsumi Yokokawa
  • Patent number: 9651863
    Abstract: The pattern forming method includes (1) forming a film using an active light sensitive or radiation sensitive resin composition, (2) exposing the film to active light or radiation, and (3) developing the exposed film using a developer including an organic solvent, in which the active light sensitive or radiation sensitive resin composition contains a resin (A) having a group which generates a polar group by being decomposed due to the action of an acid, the resin (A) has a phenolic hydroxyl group and/or a phenolic hydroxyl group protected with a group leaving due to the action of an acid, and the developer including the organic solvent contains an additive which forms at least one interaction of an ionic bond, a hydrogen bond, a chemical bond, and a dipole interaction, with the polar group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroo Takizawa, Shuji Hirano, Natsumi Yokokawa, Wataru Nihashi
  • Patent number: 9551933
    Abstract: There is provided an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition comprising: (A) a resin containing a repeating unit represented by the first specific formula and a repeating unit represented by the second specific formula, wherein the content of the repeating unit represented by the first specific formula is 35 mol % or more based on all repeating units in the resin (A), a resist film formed using the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroo Takizawa, Shuji Hirano, Natsumi Yokokawa, Wataru Nihashi
  • Patent number: 9527809
    Abstract: There is provided an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition containing a compound represented by the following formula (1) or (2), and the formula (1) and (2) are defined as herein, and a resist film comprising the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition, and a pattern forming method comprising a step of exposing the resist film, and a step of developing the exposed film, and a method for manufacturing an electronic device, comprising the pattern forming method, and an electronic device manufactured by the manufacturing method of an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Natsumi Yokokawa, Hiroo Takizawa, Shuji Hirano, Wataru Nihashi, Hideaki Tsubaki
  • Patent number: 9500951
    Abstract: There is provided an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition containing a resin (P) having a repeating unit represented by the following Formula (A) and having at least two of a repeating unit represented by the following Formula (B), a repeating unit represented by the following Formula (C), a repeating unit represented by the following Formula (D) and a repeating unit represented by the following Formula (E).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Natsumi Yokokawa, Hiroo Takizawa, Hideaki Tsubaki
  • Publication number: 20160327862
    Abstract: An actinic ray sensitive or radiation sensitive resin composition contains a polymer compound (A) having a phenolic hydroxyl group and satisfying the following (a) and (b), a compound (B) capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation, and a crosslinking agent (C) for crosslinking the polymer compound (A) by the action of an acid and having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 200° C. or higher: (a) the weight-average molecular weight is 3,000 or more and 6,500 or less, and (b) the glass transition temperature (Tg) is 140° C. or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomotaka TSUCHIMURA, Shuhei YAMAGUCHI, Natsumi YOKOKAWA