Having Plural Interactive Leaves Patents (Class 503/227)
  • Patent number: 11919328
    Abstract: An apparatus for texturing a plastic substrate, while forming a dye sublimation image in the plastic substrate, wherein the plastic substrate has a first side and a second side, is provided. A textured cover is on a side of a platen, wherein the platen is on a first, untextured side of the textured cover. A first side of the dye carrier is on a second, textured side of the textured cover, and wherein the plastic substrate is supported on a second side of the dye carrier, wherein a first side of the plastic substrate is supported by the dye carrier, wherein the textured side of the textured cover has a texture to be transferred to the plastic substrate. A membrane is on the second side of the plastic substrate. A vacuum pump provides a vacuum between the membrane and the platen. A heater is positioned to heat the plastic substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Fresco Infusion LLC
    Inventor: John Moalli
  • Patent number: 11904621
    Abstract: A thermal transfer recording sheet including a substrate and a yellow coloring material layer, a magenta coloring material layer, and a cyan coloring material layer frame-sequentially formed on the substrate, wherein at least one of the yellow coloring material layer, the magenta coloring material layer, and the cyan coloring material layer contains a compound with a specified structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ai Hayakawa, Koromo Shirota, Taichi Shintou, Tsuyoshi Santo
  • Patent number: 11890883
    Abstract: Proposed are a thermal transfer ribbon and a sticker printing method using the same, which can form not only full-color images formed by a color ink part but also points, such as pearl, fluorescent, luminous, sparkling, glass, and metal glitters. The thermal transfer ribbon includes: a color ink part having a yellow ink part (Y), a magenta ink part (M), and a cyan ink part (C); an overlay part forming an overlay layer to protect a printed surface; and at least one point ink part provided between the color ink part and the overlay part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: DS GLOBAL
    Inventors: Sun Kyun Lee, Gu Berm Jung, Dong Su Nam
  • Patent number: 11772403
    Abstract: In a seal-type thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, the total thickness thereof is 250 ?m or less, a seal portion has a layered structure in which a pressure-adhesive layer, a seal portion substrate, and a receiving layer are layered in this order from a release portion side. A release portion has a layered structure in which a surface resin layer, a release portion paper substrate, and a back face resin layer are layered in this order from a seal portion side. One or both of the seal portion substrate and the surface resin layer includes a layer made of polyethylene terephthalate is 50 ?m or more. The sum of the thickness of the seal portion substrate and the thickness of the surface resin layer is four times or more the thickness of the back face resin layer, and the thickness of the back face resin layer is 20 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Ito, Masayuki Tani
  • Patent number: 11714354
    Abstract: IR-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursors provide a stable print-out image using a unique IR radiation-sensitive composition. This IR radiation-sensitive composition includes: a) free radically polymerizable component; an b) IR radiation absorber; c) an initiator composition; a d) borate compound; and a e) compound capable of forming a colored boronic complex during or after exposure of the infrared radiation-sensitive image-recording layer to infrared radiation. The resulting print-out image exhibits an excellent color contrast between the exposed and non-exposed regions. After IR imaging, these precursors can be developed off-press or on-press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
    Inventors: Philipp Viehmann, Saija Werner, Christopher D. Simpson, Stefanie Hansmann
  • Patent number: 11674263
    Abstract: Provided are dye sublimation ink compositions, methods of preparing dye sublimation ink compositions, and methods of printing with dye sublimation ink compositions. Methods of printing with dye sublimation ink compositions includes printing on natural fabrics. Dye sublimation ink compositions comprise one or more latexes; a humectant composition; a surfactant composition; a biocide composition; a buffer composition; and a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Prism Inks, Inc.
    Inventors: Amir A. Ajanee, Graham A. Dracup, Carlos J. Hernandez, Travis T. Calhoun
  • Patent number: 11647868
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for carrying a substrate, for example a drinking cup, and clamping against the substrate, for example against an outer wall of the drinking cup, a clamping sheet, wherein the clamping sheet comprises a flexible and bendable material with a width and a length, said length being measured between longitudinal ends of the clamping sheet, wherein coupling members are provided at longitudinal ends of the clamping sheet, said coupling members comprising rods protruding in the width direction of the clamping sheet. The device is characterized in that the device comprises first recesses for receiving rods of a first width side that are positioned at opposite longitudinal ends of the clamping sheet and comprises second recesses for receiving rods of a second width side that are positioned at opposite longitudinal ends of the clamping sheet, and the device comprises a support member for carrying the device and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Inventors: Bonne Klein Woolthuis, Harmen Klein Woolthuis
  • Patent number: 11536875
    Abstract: A method to sublimate a wide variety of coatings onto optical lens includes printing a first coating using a sublimation transfer ink onto a sublimation paper, positioning the sublimation paper onto the optical lens to align the sublimation paper to a first surface of the optical lens, placing the sublimation paper thereon, preheating a chamber of a vacuum oven to a predetermined temperature, placing the optical lens into the chamber of the vacuum oven with the first surface of the optical lens facing upward, closing the vacuum oven and setting a predetermined time for heating, heating and vacuuming the chamber of the vacuum oven during about the predetermined time such that the first coating sublimates onto the first surface of the optical lens from the sublimation paper, removing from the vacuum oven and cooling the optical lens having the first coating on its first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: KH9100 LLC
    Inventors: Kelly H. Kim, Dong Kwan Lee
  • Patent number: 11530239
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed in non-limiting embodiments to compounds, compositions, and methods of treating conditions and diseases associated with activation of the gonadotropin GnRH receptor (GnRHR), particularly those involving GnRHR activating autoantibodies (GnRHR AAbs). In one non-limiting embodiment, the disease is Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). The therapeutic compounds in at least certain embodiments include peptides which at least partially comprise D-amino acids, such as retro-inverso D-amino acid (RID) peptides, which are able to bind with high affinity to GnRHR AAbs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma
    Inventors: David C. Kem, Xichun Yu, Hongliang Li, LaTasha B. Craig
  • Patent number: 11498352
    Abstract: A system for performing substrateless and/or local donor Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT), comprising a reservoir comprising at least one opening and an energy source configured to deliver energy to a donor material within said reservoir, characterized by at least one of: said reservoir is embedded into a medical device; said reservoir is in fluid connection with a medical device; said reservoir is incorporated into a medical device; said reservoir contains at least one biologically active substance; and, said reservoir is in fluid connection with at least one source of at least one biologically active substance. This system enables deposition of material by LIFT without any need for a donor substrate. Methods of substrateless and local donor LIFT, in particular for medical and biological applications, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: PRECISE BIO INC.
    Inventor: Aryeh Batt
  • Patent number: 11472962
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compound exhibiting a cyan color having properties such as high chroma, high light fastness, and high solubility. The compound is represented by the following General Formula (1). In Formula (1), R1 and R2 each independently represent a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 6 or more and 12 or fewer carbon atoms, R3 represents a 4-alkylphenyl group, a 4-halogenated phenyl group, or a 3-alkoxyphenyl group, R4 represents a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 1 or more and 8 or fewer carbon atoms, and R5 represents a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 1 or more and 8 or fewer carbon atoms or a benzyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taichi Shintou, Koromo Shirota, Ai Hayakawa, Tsuyoshi Santo
  • Patent number: 11472196
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet, a combination of an intermediate transfer medium and a thermal transfer sheet, method for producing a printed material using the thermal transfer sheet, and a decorative material, wherein the thermal transfer sheet includes a transfer layer on one surface of a substrate, the transfer layer having a single layer structure consisting only of a heat seal layer or a multilayer structure including a heat seal layer, and in a case where the transfer layer has the multilayer structure, the heat seal layer among the layers constituting the transfer layer is positioned closest to the substrate. The heat seal layer contains one or both of (i) a polyester having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 55° C. or more and a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 15000 or less, and (ii) a polyester having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of less than 55° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Yoda
  • Patent number: 11469375
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a display device includes: stacking a release layer over a first substrate; forming a conductor pattern over the release layer; forming a sacrificial layer over the conductor pattern; forming a second substrate including a polymer layer over the sacrificial layer; forming an electronic element including a conductor over the second substrate; forming a pattern corresponding to the conductor pattern in the sacrificial layer; transferring the conductor pattern from the release layer to a surface of the second substrate; and removing the first substrate, the release layer, and the sacrificial layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Woo You, Dong Hyeon Lee, Yong Kyu Kang, Tae Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 11465426
    Abstract: An intermediate transfer member (ITM) (210, 310, 320, 330, 400, 410, 420, 430, 500, 520, 540, 600, 700, 802) configured for receiving ink droplets to form an ink image thereon and for transferring the ink image to a target substrate (226), the TTM (210, 310, 320, 330, 400, 410, 420, 430, 500, 520, 540, 600, 700, 802) includes one or more layers (273, 277, 373, 379, 602, 604, 606, 608, 610, 704, 706, 708, 712) and one or more markers (33, 333, 335, 392, 408, 418, 428, 448, 458, 612, 710, 804, 806) integrated with at least one of the one or more layers (273, 277, 373, 379, 602, 604, 606, 608, 610, 704, 706, 708, 712) at one or more respective marking locations along the ITM (210, 310, 320, 330, 400, 410, 420, 430, 500, 520, 540, 600, 700).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: LANDA CORPORATION LTD.
    Inventors: Benzion Landa, Tomer Goral, Vitaly Burkatovsky
  • Patent number: 11434375
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compound exhibiting a cyan color having properties such as high chroma, high light fastness, and high solubility. The compound is represented by the following General Formula (1). In Formula (1), R1 and R2 each independently represent a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 6 or more and 12 or fewer carbon atoms, R3 represents a 4-alkylphenyl group, a 4-halogenated phenyl group, or a 3-alkoxyphenyl group, R4 represents a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 1 or more and 8 or fewer carbon atoms, and R5 represents a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 1 or more and 8 or fewer carbon atoms or a benzyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taichi Shintou, Koromo Shirota, Ai Hayakawa, Tsuyoshi Santo
  • Patent number: 11331889
    Abstract: A plastic label is provided having a substrate film, an ink layer, and a coating layer interposed between the substrate film and the ink layer. The coating layer contains a first resin and a second resin, the first resin being an acrylic-acid copolymer resin having a first glass transition temperature and the second resin being an acrylic-acid copolymer resin having a second glass transition temperature that is lower than the first glass transition temperature. An apparent acid value of the coating layer is 40 to 150 mg KOH/g or less, and a total content percentage of the first resin and the second resin in the coating layer is 50 to 95 parts by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Fuji Seal International, Inc.
    Inventor: Akira Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11065909
    Abstract: A method for texturing a plastic substrate, while forming a dye sublimation image in the plastic substrate is provided. A first side of a dye carrier sheet having an image formed thereon of a dye sublimation ink is placed on a second side of the plastic substrate to form a stack. A first side of a textured cover is placed on a side of the stack. A clamping pressure is provided on the textured cover and the stack, wherein the stack and textured cover are clamped together. The stack is heated to at least a sublimation temperature of the stack, which causes the dye sublimation ink to sublimate and penetrate through the second side of the plastic substrate, creating a dye sublimation image in the plastic substrate and wherein texture from the textured cover is transferred to a side of the plastic substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Fresco Infusion LLC
    Inventor: John Moalli
  • Patent number: 11068766
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semi-rigid enrolment case for a smart card, formed by folding and gluing an envelope-like cardboard blank of the dimensions of the card. The case includes an electrical circuit printed directly on the cardboard of an inner surface. The circuit includes contact studs connected to a power supply interface and arranged to connect electrical contacts of the card to the power supply interface when the card is inserted into the case. A biometric sensor of the card remains accessible to the user when it is out of the case for making the enrolment. Through-openings are made in the cardboard on either side of contact stud lines and allow forming independent flexible areas, providing better contact between the studs and the electrical contacts of the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE
    Inventors: Nicolas Prawitz, Patrick Bauban, Joël-Yann Fourre
  • Patent number: 11064156
    Abstract: A method of controlling a plurality of cameras in a communication network is provided. The method includes: controlling a camera to receive and analyze information about an idle time of each of at least one other camera; according to the analyzing, controlling the camera to transmit at least one task and/or information about the at least one task to the at least one other camera, wherein the idle time of each of the at least one other camera is set to a time remaining before each of the at least one other camera is configured to execute a task among one or more tasks or a sum of time durations at which no tasks are allocated to each of the at least one other camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Jin Yun, Hyuck Rae Kim
  • Patent number: 11052641
    Abstract: A multi-layer card comprising a polymeric inlay layer having a first surface and a second surface, further comprising a first multi-layer film which is disposed on the first surface of the polymeric inlay layer, and further comprising a first polymeric overlay layer which is disposed on said first multi-layer film, such that the layer order is polymeric inlay layer, first multi-layer film and first polymeric overlay layer, wherein said first multi-layer film comprises: (i) a polyester base layer (B) comprising a crystallisable polyester (PB), and further comprising titanium dioxide in an amount of from about 1 to about 30 wt % by total weight of the base layer; (ii) a first heat-sealable copolyester layer (A1) disposed on a first surface of said polyester base layer; and (iii) optionally a second heat-sealable copolyester layer (A2) disposed on a second surface of said polyester base layer, wherein the copolyester (CPA) of each of the first and optional second heat-sealable copolyester layers is independently
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: DuPont Teijin Films U.S. Limited Partnership
    Inventors: William J. Brennan, Felicity Child
  • Patent number: 11020934
    Abstract: A sublimation transfer sheet assembly including a first layer and an dye or ink layer positioned on a first side of the first layer. The first layer and the dye or ink layer being positioned such that when the sublimation transfer sheet assembly is wrapped about an object with the dye or ink layer facing the object, a first edge portion of the sublimation transfer sheet assembly is overlapped by a second edge portion of the sublimation transfer sheet assembly, and the first edge portion is interposed between the second edge portion and the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT IT, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Circosta
  • Patent number: 11006035
    Abstract: To provide an imaging system, an imaging device, and an imaging method capable of accurately and easily synchronizing a plurality of imaging devices while suppressing a manufacturing cost and the like of the imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10919327
    Abstract: To provide a thermal transfer sheet capable of inhibiting residues derived from a back face layer from adhering to a thermal head, also capable of inhibiting occurrence of a kick, and having a shorter time period until the back face layer is stabilized. A thermal transfer sheet comprising; a colorant layer located on one surface of a substrate and a back face layer located on the other surface of the substrate, wherein the back face layer comprises a binder resin and inorganic particles, and the binder resin comprises a product obtained by reacting a polyisocyanate having an isocyanurate structure with a resin having hydroxyl groups at an equivalent ratio of isocyanate groups in the polyisocyanate having an isocyanurate structure to hydroxyl groups in the resin having hydroxyl groups (—NCO/—OH) of 0.05 or more and 0.15 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Harada
  • Patent number: 10647142
    Abstract: In a thermal transfer recording sheet including a base material and a colorant layer, the colorant layer includes a yellow dye layer containing a yellow dye, a magenta dye layer containing a magenta dye, and a cyan dye layer containing a cyan dye, and the cyan dye includes a compound represented by Formula (1a) or Formula (1b): where R1 to R7 are substituents, X? is an anion, and the compound of Formula (1b) has at least one anionic substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taichi Shintou, Masahiro Suenaga, Koromo Shirota, Yuko Katsumoto, Tsuyoshi Santo, Hajime Muta, Tomoyuki Noda
  • Patent number: 10632715
    Abstract: A sublimation transfer sheet including a backing layer positionable between overlapping end portions of the sublimation transfer sheet, method of using the same, and object decorated with method of using the same. Preferably, the backing layer is an absorbent layer. Also preferably, the backing layer is secured to a side of a release layer facing away from a side of the release layer having dyes or inks thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT IT, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Circosta
  • Patent number: 10611916
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to high wet fast brilliant blue disperse dye mixtures comprising dye(s) of formula (I) and of formula (II) their production and their use for textile dyeing and printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: DyStar Colours Distribution GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Hoppe, Clemens Grund, Fanny Vermandel, Werner Tißen
  • Patent number: 10597818
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a dye-attached substrate provided with a dye section that includes a sublimable dye to be deposited on a resin body includes a printing step of printing a plurality of units of the dye sections, the dye section for dyeing one resin body or one set of resin bodies constituting one unit, lined up in a longitudinal direction of a long thin substrate, by discharging ink that includes the sublimable dye on the substrate using a printing device, a piece creating step of creating a piece of the substrate that includes the plurality of units of the dye sections, by cutting the substrate on which the dye section is printed, and a drying step of drying the ink of the plurality of units of the dye sections included in the piece of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Inuzuka, Hirokazu Hyodo, Koji Abe
  • Patent number: 10556457
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thermal transfer sheet including at least a transfer layer and a substrate. The transfer layer includes at least a protective layer adapted to be peelable from the substrate, and the transfer layer has a peel force in a non-heated state of 1 N/m or more and a peel force in a heated state of 10 N/m or less. The thermal transfer sheet exhibits a high level of adhesion therebetween, even when used in a compact printer that causes the thermal transfer sheet to be heated by the heat of a thermal head. The transfer layer exhibits a high level of releasability when being transferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusaku Akiyama, Kazuki Enokida
  • Patent number: 10525757
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a thermal transfer sheet which can prevent a kick and a scumming, and can form a photographic tone color image of high quality with a continuous tone image by sublimation transfer, while expanding the range of choices for colorants to be included in a colorant layer; a coating liquid for colorant layer to be used for forming the colorant layer of this thermal transfer sheet; a method for manufacturing this thermal transfer sheet; and image forming method employing this thermal transfer sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Yoshida, Hiroaki Segawa, Tomohiko Imoda, Yoshimasa Kobayashi, Tomoko Suzuki, Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Kano Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 10464364
    Abstract: A novel sublimation transfer paper is disclosed that incorporates a disclosed sublimation coating via a disclosed process for manufacturing the novel sublimation transfer paper. The novel sublimation transfer paper allows for consistent blooms for the sublimation inks, which leads to consistency of color. The novel sublimation paper also exhibits less cockling, which allows print heads to be closer to the novel sublimation transfer paper leading to the possibility of better print detail and the consumption of less ink. The novel sublimation transfer paper disclosed can be printed using sublimation dispersible inks having a water, oil, or solvent base with the substantially the same resulting color quality regardless of the ink base utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Spectrajet
    Inventors: Guy James Spinelli, Paul Herbert DeWyngaert
  • Patent number: 10427441
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet including a primer layer and a peel-off layer provided in this order on a substrate. The primer layer is allowed to contain at least one of: (1) inorganic particles derived from sol-based inorganic particles having a primary particle size of 200 nm or less, (2) scale-like inorganic particles, (3) a polyvinyl pyrrolidone type resin having a glass-transition temperature (Tg) of 60° C. or more, (4) a polyester type resin having a glass-transition temperature (Tg) of 60° C. or more, (5) a polyurethane type resin having a thermal melting temperature of 100° C. or more, (6) a resin formed by curing a thermoplastic resin having a glass-transition temperature (Tg) of 40° C. or more, and (7) a resin formed by curing a polyvinyl alcohol type resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Yoda, Emi Matsuba
  • Patent number: 10415182
    Abstract: A process of sublimation printing on hide or leather, a laminar substrate to be used in such a sublimation printing process, hide or leather treated to be printable, as well as hide or leather printed by said process of sublimation printing, are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: ENGLER ITALIA S.R.L.
    Inventor: Bruno Piccirilli
  • Patent number: 10369828
    Abstract: A media sheet has an image-receiving layer that includes about 30 to about 70 percent calcined clay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Richard J. Mcmanus
  • Patent number: 10350927
    Abstract: Provided is a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet capable of suppressing the occurrence, inside a printer, of problems such as paper jam, printing failure, and abnormal sound. In a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet including a receiving layer on a substrate, the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet is provided with a perforation capable of being folded and torn off therealong; and the maximum resistance value is 0.5 N/cm or more and 1.0 N/cm or less as measured when the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet is folded along the perforation while one end side of the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet is being secured, and a predetermined force is being continuously applied to the other end side of the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, the one end side and the other end side being situated across the perforation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Ito, Makoto Hashiba
  • Patent number: 10336115
    Abstract: SOLVING MEANS The main challenge thereof is to provide a transfer sheet that allows printing with a high printing density, which never causes a blur and a crushing of an image. SOLUTION There is provided a transfer sheet comprising a substrate, as well as a releasing layer and a hot melt colored layer in this order on the substrate, the hot melt colored layer comprising, as a binder resin, a (meth)acrylic resin having a glass transition temperature of not less than 75° C., and a colorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Yoda, Emi Matsuba
  • Patent number: 10328733
    Abstract: A sublimation thermal transfer sheet having first, second, and third dye layers frame sequentially provided on a surface of a substrate in this order, and a back-face layer provided on another surface of the substrate. The first, second, and third dye layers contain an each individual sublimable dye and an each individual binder resin. One of the first and second dye layers further contains a releasing agent selected from a first group consisting of silicone oils, silicone-modified resins and phosphoric esters, and another dye layer further contains either one or both of at least a releasing agent selected from the first group and a cellulosic resin. The third dye layer (1) contains no releasing agent of the first group, or (2) contains the releasing agent at an amount of not more than 0.3% by weight based on the total weight of the solid content of the third dye layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Yoda, Emi Matsuba, Junpei Oomura, Kenzo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10322595
    Abstract: Sublimation-type inkjet textile printing transfer paper includes a base material and a sublimation-type textile printing ink receiving layer formed on the base material, the base material has a 10-second Cobb water absorption of 5 to 20 g/m2, the sublimation-type textile printing ink receiving layer is made from an ink receiving layer coating material containing a water soluble resin and fine particles, the water soluble resin is at least a CMC, and the CMC is contained in the ink receiving layer coating material in an amount of 100 to 400 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the fine particles, the fine particles are at least inorganic fine particles having a tabular crystal structure, the inorganic fine particles have a median diameter d50 of 0.4 to 2.3 ?m and an aspect ratio of 5 to 30, a coating amount of the ink receiving layer coating material is 3 to 13 g/m2, and an average of numbers of pinhole appearance is not greater than 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Dentani, Yuta Kirihara
  • Patent number: 10272707
    Abstract: This invention relates to a conductive thermal image receiver element that has an aqueous coatable dye-receiving layer. The dye-receiving layer comprises a conductive polymeric material, a dispersant, one or more surfactants, one or more antifoamers, a water-dispersible release agent, a crosslinking agent, and a polymer binder matrix consisting essentially of a water-dispersible polyester and a water-dispersible acrylic polymer. This invention also relates to a method for making this thermal image receiver element as well as method for using it to provide a dye image by thermal transfer from a donor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: KODAK ALARIS INC.
    Inventors: Teh-Ming Kung, Lianne Heath, Laura B. Hopps, John P. Olscamp, Walter E. Scott
  • Patent number: 10214042
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tool for driving a barbed staple into a workpiece, the tool includes a housing enclosing a power delivery source and a driver blade driven by the power delivery source and comprising an engagement portion configured for engagement with the staple. The tool further includes a nosepiece comprising an aperture providing access for loading a staple into the nosepiece and a passage configured for slidable mounting of the driver blade. In use, the driver blade may be driven along a longitudinal axis of the passage by the power delivery source to engage and drive a staple into a workpiece. Clearances are providing to allow for loading and passage of the barbed staples in the nosepiece and arrangements are provided to maintain the alignment of the staple in the nosepiece to compensate for those clearances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Morven McAlpine, Christopher Bennett
  • Patent number: 10203639
    Abstract: A thermal fixing roll or belt-forming silicone rubber composition having a high thermal conductivity, a low compression set, and an improved heat resistance which is well adapted for use as a coating material in a fixing roll or fixing belt is provided. Also provided are a fixing roll and a fixing belt formed by using such composition. The thermal fixing roll or belt-forming silicone rubber composition comprises 100 parts by weight of a heat-curable silicone rubber composition and 50 to 800 parts by weight of silicon carbide having an iron content of up to 0.2% by weight at the surface and an average particle size of 1 to 50 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Meguriya, Satao Hirabayashi, Nobumasa Tomizawa, Hiroki Furukawa, Masao Matuhira
  • Patent number: 10189291
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a support for a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, including laminating a substrate and a porous film by a melt-extruded resin while passing the substrate and the porous film through a portion between rollers in a pair, wherein a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet excellent in adhesiveness between the substrate and the porous film and excellent in the texture of a print surface can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Aoyagi, Taku Nishikawa, Daisuke Fukui, Munenori Ieshige
  • Patent number: 10099498
    Abstract: A thermal transfer recording medium that is able to better suppress bleeding or scumming of an image and better suppress the occurrence of peeling lines or abnormal transfer during thermal transfer. The thermal transfer recording medium according to an embodiment includes a heat-resistant slip layer that is formed on one surface of a base material, an undercoat layer that is formed on the other surface of the base material, and a dye layer that is formed on a surface of the undercoat layer that is opposite from the surface that faces the base material; wherein the dye layer includes at least a thermally transferable dye, a first binder resin and a release agent; the release agent includes polyether-modified silicone oil and a perfluoroalkyl compound, and the ratio of the polyether-modified silicone oil and perfluoroalkyl compound, on the basis of a weight ratio, is within the range 9:1 to 6:4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Godai Fukunaga, Seiji Takizawa
  • Patent number: 9987867
    Abstract: A thermal transfer image receiving sheet including a substrate having a surface, a heat-insulating layer formed on the surface, an undercoat layer formed on the heat-insulating layer, and a dye-receiving layer formed on the undercoat layer. The undercoat layer includes as a main component a polycondensate made from i) at least one of an alkoxide, a hydrolyzate of an alkoxide, and tin chloride, ii) a water-soluble polymer, iii) a vinyl pyrrolidone-vinyl imidazole copolymer, and iv) a urethane resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Miyauchi
  • Patent number: 9944105
    Abstract: An image forming method including preparing a thermal transfer sheet having a dye layer on a substrate, the dye layer containing a sublimable dye, preparing a decorative seal having a seal base material on a release sheet, the seal base material having a layered structure of an adhesive layer and a film layered in this order from the release sheet side, the film containing a resin having a dyeing affinity to the sublimable dye contained in the dye layer, and the film having an elongation percentage of not less than 150% and not more than 400% when determined by a test method in conformity with JIS-K-7127:1999, and thermally transferring the sublimable dye in the dye layer onto the seal base material by sublimation thermal transfer process, thereby forming a thermal transfer image on the seal base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shun Uehara, Hiroyuki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9914317
    Abstract: There is provided a heat-sensitive transfer recording medium which is able to better suppress the occurrence of abnormal transfer during high-speed printing using a high-speed printer of sublimation transfer type and is able to improve transfer sensitivity in high-speed printing. The heat-sensitive transfer recording medium includes a base (10), a heat-resistant lubricating layer (20) formed on one surface of the base (10), an underlying layer (30) formed on the other surface of the base (10), and a dye layer (40) formed on a surface of the underlying layer (30), which is on the other side of a surface facing the base (10). In the heat-sensitive transfer recording medium, the underlying layer (30) has a major component that is a copolymer of polyester having a sulfonic group on a side chain and acrylic having at least one of a glycidyl group and a carboxyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Godai Fukunaga, Yasunori Ono, Takehito Yamato, Yasuhiro Miyauchi, Yoko Hirai
  • Patent number: 9889694
    Abstract: Provided is a support for a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, capable of obtaining a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet that has favorable stability against curl and is excellent in the texture of a print surface in the case of print under the environmental conditions of high temperature and high humidity. A support for a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet according to the present invention includes a porous layer composed of a porous film, a first polyolefin resin layer, a substrate layer, and a second polyolefin resin layer that are layered in the order mentioned, in which the first polyolefin resin layer has a density of 0.93 g/cm3 or less; and the second polyolefin resin layer has a density of more than 0.93 g/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Aoyagi, Kano Sakamoto, Katsuyuki Hirano, Munenori Ieshige
  • Patent number: 9884503
    Abstract: A method for enabling D2T2 printing onto non-D2T2 printable substrates uses a diffusible primer material provided on a dye-sheet or ribbon. The primer comprises a polymer, a release agent and a plasticizer. The release agent and the plasticizer are diffused into the substrate, while the polymer remains on the dye-sheet or ribbon. Printing of the primer onto the PC substrate is controlled via a computer image program corresponding to a colored image. This computer image program also controls the printing of the colored image at the primed locations. Accordingly, image-wise treatment of a plastic material via the primer selectively renders the PC substrate surface D2T2 printable at the point of personalization, providing for a 100% PC full card body having the colored image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Robert P. Renz, Morven McAlpine
  • Patent number: 9834023
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a thermal transfer sheet which is able to prevent a heat resistant slipping layer from transferring to a guide roller, etc., and which is able to prevent wrinkles when printing. Disclosed is a thermal transfer sheet including a substrate sheet, a thermal transfer layer disposed on one side of the substrate sheet, and a heat resistant slipping layer disposed on the other side of the substrate sheet via a primer layer, wherein the primer layer contains a cured product of a resin composition containing one or more kinds of resins selected from a urethane resin and a polyester resin and a compound having a functional group selected from an epoxy group, a silanol group and a hydrolyzable silyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshimasa Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9804550
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes a transfer unit configured to transfer a second material with different solubility from that of a first material to a second position of a print medium where the second material comes into contact with the first material in a first position of the print medium, and a fixation unit configured to melt the second material transferred to the second position of the print medium, and fix the second material to the print medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiko Hoshino
  • Patent number: 9776446
    Abstract: A front face side substrate provided between a supporting member and a receiving layer of a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet. The front face side substrate includes a front face side layer provided on one surface of a substrate layer and a rear face side layer provided on another surface of the substrate layer. The substrate layer includes (A) a propylene-based polymer, (B) calcium carbonate, and (C) titanium oxide, and the weight of (A) is 70% by weight to 94.5% by weight, the weight of (B) is 5% by weight to 28% by weight, and the weight of (C) is 0.5% by weight to 3% by weight, based on the assumption that the total weight of (A), (B) and (C) is 100% by weight. The front face side layer includes a modified propylene-based polymer, and the rear face side layer includes a propylene-based polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignees: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Takahashi, Junpei Oomura, Hiroshi Matsuura, Hiroshi Honda