Patents by Inventor Xulong Fu

Xulong Fu 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: 10875345
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a printable recording media comprising a cellulose based substrate and a composite ink receiving layer that includes a first distinct layer and a second distinct layer. The second distinct layer is applied on top of the first distinct layer and comprises, at least, a polymeric binder, nano-size inorganic pigment particles and an ionene compound. Also disclosed herein is a method for making the printable recording media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoqi Zhou, Xulong Fu, Haowen Yu
  • Patent number: 10875344
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to a recording medium including a substrate, a first coating applied to the substrate, and a second coating applied to the first coating. The first coating can include inorganic pigment, fixative agent, and a first binder. The second coating can include inorganic nanoparticles, aluminum silicate, and a second binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Beverly Chou, Tao Chen, Xulong Fu, Or Brandstein, Fereshteh Khorrami
  • Publication number: 20200338920
    Abstract: A fabric printable medium includes a fabric base substrate having an image-side and a back-side. The fabric printable medium also includes a flame retardant ink receiving layer on the image-side of the fabric base substrate. The flame retardant ink receiving layer includes a first crosslinked polymeric network, a second crosslinked polymeric network, a flame retardant agent, and a physical networking agent selected from the group consisting of an acrylate copolymer, a polyacrylic acid copolymer, a polyester copolymer, a polyurethane copolymer, and combinations thereof, the physical networking agent having a weight average molecular weight ranging from 300,000 Mw to 1,000,000 Mw. The fabric printable medium also includes a waterproof coating on the back-side of the fabric base substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Xulong Fu, Xiaoqi Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200308761
    Abstract: A fabric printable medium includes a fabric base substrate, which includes yarn strands and voids among the yarn strands. The fabric printable medium further includes a finishing coating attached to the yarn strands of the fabric base substrate to form coated yarn strands. The finishing coating includes polymeric compound or a mixture of polymeric compounds having a glass transition temperature is less than 15° C. The fabric printable medium has pore spaces among the coated yarn strands that coincide with at least some of the voids of the fabric base substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Xiaoqi Zhou, Xulong Fu
  • Publication number: 20200290389
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to leveling compositions, embossed print media, and methods of preparing embossed print media. The embossed print media can include a media substrate, an image-receiving layer applied to the media substrate at a coating weight of 3 gsm to 50 gsm, and a leveling composition layer. The image-receiving layer can include a pigment filler having an average particle size ranging from 0.1 ?m to 20 ?m and a polymeric binder, and in examples herein, is embossed. The leveling composition layer can be applied at a coating weight of 0.2 gsm to 3 gsm to the image-receiving layer, and can include a cationic ionene polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul C. Landrum, Xiaoqi ZHOU, Xulong FU, Francois K. PIRAYESH
  • Patent number: 10760220
    Abstract: A method for making a packaging material includes jetting a first pulp stock onto a wire to form a strength layer precursor including water; and softwood fibers, the first pulp stock excluding a water soluble di-valent or multi-valent salt. A second pulp stock is jetted onto a second wire to form an image layer precursor including water; hardwood fibers; and a water soluble di-valent or multi-valent salt present in an amount ranging from about 5 lb per ton of total fibers in the second pulp stock to about 50 lb per ton of the total fibers in the second pulp stock. The image layer precursor and the strength layer precursor are placed in contact. Water is removed from the image and strength layer precursors. The image layer precursor and the strength layer precursor are dried to form the packaging material including an image layer and a strength layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Lokendra Pal, Xulong Fu, Xiaoqi Zhou
  • Patent number: 10723161
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to leveling compositions, which can include from 80 wt % to 95 wt % water, from 0.5 wt % to 15 wt % organic solvent, and from 0.2 wt % to 6 wt % surfactant. The leveling compositions can further include from 1 wt % to 10 wt % cationic ionene polymer having a weight average molecular weight from 100 Mw to 8000 Mw, and from 1 wt % to 10 wt % polymeric binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul C. Landrum, Xiaoqi Zhou, Xulong Fu, Francois K. Pirayesh
  • Publication number: 20200230991
    Abstract: A fabric printable medium comprising a fabric base substrate, with an image-side and a back-side, having a water proofing treatment including a water-repellant agent applied thereto; an adhesion promoting layer, applied to the image-side of the fabric base substrate, comprising a polymeric compound and a physical networking component; an ink-receiving coating layer over the adhesion promoting layer, comprising a first and a second crosslinked polymeric network; and a barrier layer applied to the back-side of the fabric base substrate, comprising polymeric binders and filler particles with flame retardancy properties. Also disclosed are the method for making such fabric print medium and the method for producing printed images using said material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Xulong Fu, Xiaoqi Zhou, Fredrick Muya Makau
  • Patent number: 10639923
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to hybrid media sheets, ink-receiving layer compositions for coating on a media substrate, and a method of making hybrid media sheets. The hybrid media sheet scan have a media substrate with a front barrier layer, a back barrier layer, an adhesion promoting layer applied to the front barrier layer, and an ink-receiving layer applied to the adhesion promoting layer. The ink-receiving layer can include a water-soluble polymer, a mordant, and particles of a metal- or semimetal-oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xulong Fu, Haowen Yu, Bruce L. Cromer, Ronald J. Selensky
  • Patent number: 10618335
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to embossed print media. In some examples, an embossed print medium can include a media substrate, an embossed image-receiving layer formed on the media substrate, and an abrasion-resistant layer applied to the embossed image-receiving layer. The embossed image-receiving layer can include a first pigment filler and a polymer blend of a water-dispersible polymer and a water-soluble polymer at a weight ratio from 2:1 to 10:1. Further, the image-receiving layer can be embossed at an embossing depth from 5 ?m to 150 ?m. The abrasion-resistant layer can be applied to the image-receiving layer at a coating weight of from 2 gsm to 20 gsm. The abrasion-resistant layer can include a cross-linked polymer network and a second pigment filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoqi Zhou, Xulong Fu
  • Publication number: 20200086670
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to a recording medium including a substrate, a first coating applied to the substrate, and a second coating applied to the first coating. The first coating can include inorganic pigment, fixative agent, and a first binder. The second coating can include inorganic nanoparticles, aluminum silicate, and a second binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Beverly CHOU, Tao CHEN, Xulong FU, Or BRANDSTEIN, Fereshteh KHORRAMI
  • Patent number: 10590605
    Abstract: A coating composition for a corrugated paper board is described. The corrugated paper board includes an inner liner sheet and an outer liner sheet adhered to opposite sides of a corrugated medium. The coating composition includes a pre-coat layer and a topcoat layer. The pre-coat layer includes an ink fixer agent and a pigment, and is disposed on one or both of the liner sheets. The topcoat layer is disposed on top of the pre-coat layer to form an ink receiving layer. The topcoat layer includes a wax and is devoid of the ink fixer agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Fereshteh Khorrami, Xulong Fu
  • Patent number: 10590601
    Abstract: Examples of a printable medium are disclosed herein. In one example, the printable medium includes an opaque substrate that is substantially free of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The substrate includes a fabric core having I(x)/I0 equal to or less than 0.005, wherein I(x) is an intensity of light remaining at a distance, x, where x is the distance that light travels through the substrate, and wherein I0 is an initial intensity of light at x=0. The substrate further includes a discrete barrier layer disposed on the fabric core. The barrier layer includes a copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate having a polyethylene-to-vinyl acetate ratio ranging from about 20:1 to about 9:1. The printable medium further includes a tie layer coated on the discrete barrier layer, and an image receiving layer coated on the tie layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xulong Fu, Xiaoqi Zhou, Ronald J. Selensky
  • Publication number: 20200047534
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to a fabric print medium. The fabric print medium can include a treated fabric base substrate, an adhesion promoting layer, and an image-receiving layer. The treated fabric base substrate can include a fabric base substrate having a water proofing treatment including a water-repellant agent applied thereto. The adhesion promoting layer can be applied to the treated fabric base substrate. The adhesion promoting layer can include a first polymeric binder and a physical networking component. The image-receiving layer can be applied to the adhesion promoting layer. The image-receiving layer can include a second polymeric binder and a particulate filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoqi ZHOU, Douglas KNIGHT, Xulong FU
  • Publication number: 20190351659
    Abstract: A printable media comprising a supporting substrate, including fibers, having an image side and a non-image side, which contains an image receiving layer coated on the image side of the supporting substrate. The image receiving layer comprises pigment fillers, polymeric binders and ink optical density enhancement agents. Also disclosed is a method for producing the textured media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP.
    Inventors: Xiaoqi Zhou, Paul C. Landrum, Xulong Fu, Francois K. Pirayesh
  • Patent number: 10471691
    Abstract: A printable media comprising a supporting substrate, including fibers, having an image side and a non-image side, which contains an image receiving layer coated on the image side of the supporting substrate. The image receiving layer comprises pigment fillers, polymeric binders and ink optical density enhancement agents. Also disclosed is a method for producing the textured media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoqi Zhou, Paul C. Landrum, Xulong Fu, Francois K. Pirayesh
  • Patent number: 10464363
    Abstract: A printable media comprising a composite supporting substrate, having an image side and a non-image side, that contains a first and a second constituent material layers wherein, at least, one of the constituent material layer is a fiber layer and wherein the first and the second materials layers are laminated together with a flame resistant adhesion layer. The printable media further comprises an image receiving layer that is coated on the second layer on the image side of the composite supporting substrate. In the printable media described herein, at least, the image side of the composite supporting substrate and the image receiving layer are textured surfaces. Also disclosed is a method for producing the textured media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xulong Fu, Xiaoqi Zhou, Francois K. Pirayesh, Paul C. Landrum
  • Publication number: 20190329581
    Abstract: An example of a printable recording medium includes a base substrate, a first ink-receiving layer, and a second ink-receiving layer. The first ink-receiving layer includes a first inorganic pigment in an amount equal to or greater than 70 wt % and a first ink-fixing agent in an amount ranging from about 3 wt % to about 10 wt % based on a total wt % of the first ink-receiving layer. The second ink-receiving layer includes a second inorganic pigment. Both the first ink-receiving layer and the second ink-receiving layer exclude precipitated calcium carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xulong FU, Fereshteh KHORRAMI, Tao CHEN, Beverly CHOU
  • Publication number: 20190322113
    Abstract: An example of a printable recording medium includes a base substrate and an ink-receiving layer. The ink-receiving layer includes an inorganic pigment in an amount equal to or greater than 70 wt % and an ink-fixing agent in an amount ranging from about 3 wt % to about 10 wt % based on the total wt % of the ink-receiving layer. The inorganic pigment has a median particle size ranging from about 0.5 ?m to about 5 ?m. The ink-receiving layer excludes precipitated calcium carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Fereshteh Khorrami, Xulong Fu, Beverly Chou, Tao Chen
  • Publication number: 20190270330
    Abstract: A printable recording media comprising a supporting base substrate and a coating layer that contains a fixative agent and a binder system including a combination of water soluble binder and water dispersible binder. Also, described herein, is a method for making said printable recording media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Tao Chen, Xulong FU