Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Intellectual Property Group
  • Patent number: 8292418
    Abstract: The invention provides an aqueous ink composition including: a) a water-based medium; b) a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond; and c) resin particles including a water-insoluble vinyl polymer and a water-insoluble photoinitiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Kato, Takahiro Ishizuka, Tomoko Kuwabara, Yasufumi Ooishi
  • Patent number: 8288374
    Abstract: Provided is a medicinal composition, in particular, a medicinal composition for treatment and/or prevention which has a high therapeutic effect on infection with a parasitic protozoa and a selective toxicity thereto and exhibits a life-prolonging effect and so on. A medicinal composition which contains as the active ingredient a benzo[a]phenoxazine compound represented by General formula (1) or a salt compound of the same, in particular, an agent for treating and/or preventing infection with a protozoa such as malaria, leishmaniasis, African trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease, toxoplasmosis, lymphatic filariasis, babesiosis or coccidium disease; and a novel compound which is contained therein as the active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignees: Hoshi University, Synstar Japan Co., Ltd., Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masataka Ihara, Jian-Feng Ge, Chika Arai, Nasser Saad Mohamed Ismail, Mei Yang, Isamu Itoh, Reto Brun
  • Patent number: 8288729
    Abstract: A first leakage current value output from each signal line is stored in a storage unit, with a charge corresponding to an emitted radiation being held in a radiographic image detector, when the radiation is uniformly emitted to the radiographic image detector. A second leakage current value is acquired which is output from each signal line, with a charge corresponding to the radiation dose being held in the radiographic image detector, when the radiation passing through an object is emitted to the radiographic image detector. When the first and second leakage current values are equal to each other for each line corresponding to each signal line, all pixels on the line are determined to belong to a background area (lines A and C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Ogawa, Nobuyuki Iwasaki, Takao Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 8288730
    Abstract: A portable radiographic image capturing device includes an image capturing unit, a control unit, and a connecting member. The image capturing unit is formed in the shape of a flat plate, captures a radiographic, and includes a radiation detector that outputs electric signals expressing a captured radiographic image, the image capturing unit being able to capture a radiographic image from either an obverse side or a reverse side of the flat plate. The control unit includes a controller that controls image capturing operations of the radiation detector. The connecting member connects the image capturing unit and the control unit such that both units can be opened and closed between an unfolded state, in which the both units are lined-up next to one another, and a housed state, in which the both units are folded-up so as to be superposed one on another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino, Naoto Iwakiri, Futoshi Yoshida, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
  • Patent number: 8288763
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescence device containing a pair of electrodes on a substrate, two or more luminescence layers disposed between the electrodes, and an intermediate layer containing a charge transporting material and disposed between the two or more luminescence layers, each of the two or more luminescence layers contains at least one phosphorescence material selected from a blue phosphorescence material having an emission peak from 420 nm to less than 500 nm, a green phosphorescence material having an emission peak from 500 nm to less than 570 nm, and a red phosphorescence material having an emission peak from 570 nm to 650 nm, the phosphorescence material contained in the respective luminescence layers having different emission peaks from one another; and the charge transporting material contained in the intermediate layer has an energy difference (T1) of 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shibata, Kensuke Masui
  • Patent number: 8287121
    Abstract: The present invention provides an inkjet recording medium having at least an ink-receiving layer, the ink-receiving layer containing at least fumed silica, a hydroxycarboxylic acid ester having the I/O value of 1.5 or more as determined in accordance with an organic conceptual diagram, and a polyvinyl alcohol, and an amount of the hydroxycarboxylic acid ester with respect to 1 kg of the fumed silica in the ink-receiving layer being from 0.1 moles to 2 moles. The present invention further provides an inkjet recording medium having at least a support and an ink-receiving layer provided on the support, the ink-receiving layer containing at least a chloride ion-containing zirconium salt, a water-soluble aluminum salt, a hydroxy acid derivative, inorganic fine particles, and a water-soluble resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masamichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8287114
    Abstract: An aqueous ink composition including a colorant, a polymer including a hydrophobic structural unit (a) represented by the following formula (1), a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound including an ethylenically unsaturated bond, and water: wherein, in formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or a halogen atom; L1 represents —COO—, —OCO—, —CONR2—, —O—, or a substituted or unsubstituted phenylene group; R2 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; L2 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms; and R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group, an alkyl group, an alkyloxy group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, an aryloxy group, an acyl group, a halogen atom, a cyano group, or a nitro group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoko Kuwabara, Takahiro Ishizuka, Yasufumi Ooishi
  • Patent number: 8282200
    Abstract: A liquid supplying reservoir enabling preventing overflow of liquid from a supply opening when a cap covering the supply opening is removed is provided. The ink supplying reservoir includes: a reservoir main body which is filled with a liquid, and at which a supply opening, from which the liquid is supplied to the outside, is formed; a cap which is fixed to the reservoir main body so as to cover the supply opening, and which is separated from the reservoir main body when a force of a predetermined value or greater acts thereon; and a flexible closing member, which is accommodated within the cap at a position or an orientation where the supply opening is not closed by the closing member and so as to be separable from the cap, and which is moved to close the supply opening when the cap is separated from the reservoir main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Ootsuka
  • Patent number: 8278387
    Abstract: The invention provides a resin composition for laser engraving, containing at least (A) a polymerizable compound having two or more ethylenic unsaturated bonds, a carbon-sulfur bond being contained at the site where two among the two or more ethylenic unsaturated bonds are connected and (B) a binder polymer. The invention further provides an image forming material containing the resin composition, a relief printing plate precursor having a relief forming layer which contains the resin composition, a relief printing plate precursor having a relief forming layer which contains a product formed by subjecting the resin composition to cross-linking, a method for manufacturing a relief printing plate including subjecting the relief printing plate precursor having the relief forming layer which contains the resin composition to cross-linking, and a relief printing plate manufactured by the manufacturing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kawashima, Atsushi Sugasaki, Kenta Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8273463
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multilayer film for plating comprising, on a surface of a first substrate, a plating receptive layer which contains a polymer having a polymerizable group and a functional group, wherein the plating receptive layer satisfies at least one of the following (1)-(4): (1) the saturated water absorption ratio is from 0.01 to 10% by mass in an environment of a temperature of 25° C. and relative humidity of 50%; (2) the saturated water absorption ratio is from 0.05 to 20% by mass in an environment of a temperature of 25° C. and relative humidity of 95%; (3) the water absorption ratio is from 0.1 to 30% by mass after immersion in boiling water at 100° C. for one hour; and (4) the surface contact angle of distilled water is from 50° to 150° after 5 ?l of the distilled water is dropped onto the plating receptive layer and allowed to stand for 15 seconds in an environment of a temperature of 25° C. and relative humidity of 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuyuki Tsurumi
  • Patent number: 8274591
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electromagnetic wave detection element that can raise the speed of image read-out. Scan lines are each disposed to plural pixel lines for each of the pixel lines in a row direction of plural pixels disposed in a matrix array, and switches each TFT switch provided to respective pixels in the plural pixel lines by the respective scan lines. Plural signal lines are each disposed to each of the pixel lines in the column direction of the matrix array. In each of the pixel lines in the column direction, the respective signal line is connected to a different TFT switch from the TFT switches that are connected to the same respective scan line, and the charge accumulated in storage capacitors is read out through each of the signal lines according to the state of the TFT switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Okada
  • Patent number: 8272719
    Abstract: A liquid droplet jetting apparatus includes a jetting unit equipped with plural head modules, a supply channel equipped with plural branching channels, first circulation limiting units, liquid storage units and external force applying units. The first circulating limiting units allow circulation of a liquid in a direction from a storage chamber to each of the head modules and limit circulation of the liquid in an opposite direction of the circulating direction. The liquid storage units are disposed between the circulation limiting units and the head modules. The liquid storage units store the liquid, and the volumes of the liquid storage units change due to external force. The external force applying units apply the external force to the liquid storage units such that the volumes of the liquid storage units become smaller and cause liquid droplets to be jetted from the nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Tetsuzo Kadomatsu
  • Patent number: 8273520
    Abstract: The present invention provides a resin composition for laser engraving containing at least an acetylene compound and a binder polymer, a relief printing plate precursor for laser engraving using the same, a relief printing plate, and a method for producing a relief printing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Sugasaki
  • Patent number: 8272732
    Abstract: An image forming method is disclosed, which includes applying a treatment liquid onto a recording medium that has a coated layer and has an area of 1,250 cm2 or more, applying an ink composition including a pigment and resin particles having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 100° C. or higher onto the recording medium onto which the treatment liquid has been applied and which is conveyed at a conveyance speed of 200 mm/s or higher, heating and drying the applied treatment liquid and ink composition, cooling the recording medium that has been subjected to the heating and drying, to a temperature of 35° C. or lower, and accumulating the recording medium that has been subjected to the cooling, into an accumulation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Terukazu Yanagi, Kaoru Tojo, Yuhei Chiwata
  • Patent number: 8274057
    Abstract: The present invention provides a detection element that can suppress generation of a residual image. A sensor portion includes a semiconductor layer, an upper electrode and a lower electrode. The semiconductor layer generates charges due to light being illuminated thereto. The upper electrode applies a bias voltage to the semiconductor layer. The lower electrode collects charges that have been generated at the semiconductor layer. The charges that have been generated at the semiconductor layer are collected and accumulated by the lower electrode. In the detection element, a saturation prevention circuit (diode and second bias line) is provided through which the accumulated charges flow-out when the charges that have been generated at the semiconductor layer are collected and a voltage level of the lower electrode becomes a saturation prevention voltage level Vs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Okada
  • Patent number: 8273167
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a pigment dispersion composition including (A) an organic pigment, (B) a pigment derivative represented by Formula (I) below and (C) a polymer compound having a pigment-adsorptive functional group; a curable color composition including the pigment dispersion composition, a polymerizable compound and a polymerization initiator; and a color filter having a color region formed using the curable color composition and a method for producing the same. Q represents an organic colorant residue; A represents an ethylene group or the like; and R represents a hydroxyl group or a group represented by —NH-A-Z; Z represents —SO3H, —COOH or a salt thereof; and n represents an integer of from 1 to 4. When R represents —NH-A-Z, the structures represented by the two —NH-A-Zs bonded to the triazine ring contained in each of the n partial structures bonded to Q may be the same as each other or different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Sugihara, Kazuhiro Fujimaki
  • Patent number: 8267510
    Abstract: A inkjet recording method is provided in which occurrence of curling at the time of double-sided recording is prevented. In the method, an inkjet recording medium is used which includes resin coated paper having a resin layer A of thickness “a” at one side of base paper, and a resin layer B thinner than the thickness “a” by a thickness of 3 ?m to 20 ?m at the other side of the base paper, and ink receiving layers each of which includes an inorganic pigment and a binder and are provided at both sides of the resin coated paper; and an image is recorded on the ink receiving layer at the resin layer B side of the resin coated paper, and subsequently an image is recorded on the ink receiving layer at the resin layer A side of the resin coated paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: FIJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Kaimoto, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yoshiyuki Tsuzawa
  • Patent number: 8270447
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting element, comprises: an active layer; a first electrode and second electrode that inject current to the active layer; a semiconductor layer between the active layer and the first electrode; and a dielectric layer that is provided on the semiconductor layer and through which light from the active layer passes; wherein the first electrode is provided on the semiconductor layer, has an opening through which light from the active layer passes, and comprises a first electrode layer that comes in contact with and is provided on the semiconductor layer, and a second electrode layer that is provided on the first electrode layer, with the first electrode layer having less reactivity with the semiconductor layer than the second electrode layer; and the dielectric layer is provided inside the opening such that the end section on the opening side of the first electrode layer extends from the top of the semiconductor layer to the top of the dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Tsukiji, Norihiro Iwai, Keishi Takaki, Koji Hiraiwa
  • Patent number: 8267255
    Abstract: This invention aims to enhance efficiency of a sieve and to greatly improve productivity of a sifting operation. There is provided a sieve comprising a metal plate including long holes, wherein the long holes are plurally provided such that lines extending in length directions thereof cross one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Optnics Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seichin Kinuta
  • Patent number: D668952
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: MeadWestVaco Packaging Systems, LLOC
    Inventor: Jean Michel Auclair