Patents Assigned to Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent number: 5270099Abstract: The present invention provides a thermal mimeograph paper having a point-bonded structure and including a porous backing material and a thermoplastic resin film layer laminated on one side thereof through an adhesive, wherein the porous backing material and the thermoplastic resin film are bonded together by dotwise point bonding. This point-bonded structure enables the perforability of the mimeograph paper to be improved.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1991Date of Patent: December 14, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hironori Kamiyama, Kazue Komatsubara, Junichi Hiroi, Mitsuru Tsuchiya, Yozo Kosaka, Shinichi Sakano, Masayuki Ando, Yudai Yamashita
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Patent number: 5270284Abstract: A heat transfer sheet for use with a sublimation-type heat transfer printing method, capable of producing a high-quality image having high preservability, comprising a substrate sheet, and a dye layer which is formed on one surface of the substrate sheet, the dye layer containing a sublimable dye represented by the formula (I), (II), (III) or (IV) shown below.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 1992Date of Patent: December 14, 1993Assignee: DAI Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jumpei Kanto, Koumei Kafuku, Masayuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 5270285Abstract: A heat transfer sheet having a heat transfer layer on one surface of a base sheet, said heat transfer layer being formed of a material containing a dye substantially dissolved in a binder with a weight ratio of the dye to the binder (dye/binder ratio) of 0.3 or more, and said base sheet having a heat-resistant slipping layer provided on the surface on which the heat transfer layer is not provided.A heat transferable sheet to be used in combination with the heat transfer sheet, comprising a receptive sheet having (a) a base sheet and (b) a receptive layer for receiving the dye migrated from the above-mentioned heat transfer sheet on heating, said receptive sheet having an intermediate layer provided between the base sheet and the receptive layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 1993Date of Patent: December 14, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshikazu Ito, Masanori Akada, Masaki Kutsukake, Mineo Yamauchi, Masanori Saito, Atsushi Takano, Hideichiro Takeda, Hitoshi Arita
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Patent number: 5270097Abstract: A decorative sheet comprises a transparent or translucent base sheet having a rear surface on which protrusion and recess patterns are formed and a bright set-solid print layer or bright pattern print layer formed on a side of the protrusion and recess patterns of the base sheet. Each of the protrusion and recess patterns is composed of parallel lines, continuous curved lines or a combination of the parallel lines and the curved lines each composed of protruded and recessed portions each in form of a groove having a width of 1 to 100 .mu.m. The base sheet has a front surface on which a transparent resin layer may be formed. The transparent resin layer is formed of a hardenable resin.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1990Date of Patent: December 14, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Amemiya, Hatiro Uekawa, Taizi Ishii
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Patent number: 5268347Abstract: An image-receiving sheet for thermal transfer printing comprising a substrate, an intermediate layer and an image-receiving layer, said intermediate layer and said image-receiving layer being disposed in this order on said substrate, characterized in that said intermediate layer comprises a layer containing (a) fine particles of one or more kinds of resins selected from the group consisting of thermosetting resins and other resins having a softening point of higher than 150.degree. C. and (b) fine particles of a polyolefin resin as the main constituents and the amount of said fine particles (a) contained in the intermediate layer is in the range of from 5 to 90% by weight.The image-receiving sheet excells in the whiteness and opacity and exhibits an excellent recording sensitivity. The image-receiving sheet provides high quality images accompanied with no missing dot when used in a thermal transfer printing system wherein a thermally sublimable dye is utilized.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1990Date of Patent: December 7, 1993Assignees: Kanzaki Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshitaka Okumura, Kazuo Watanabe, Hiromasa Kondo, Noritaka Egashira, Naoto Satake
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Patent number: 5267755Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat transfer recording medium in which a substrate items of information such as an image and characters formed on a surface thereof by heat transfer and a transparent protective layer is provided on at least a part of the surface of the thus recorded information through an adhesive layer, if required, characterized in that the adhesive layer and/or protective layer function to provide security against counterfeiting. Combining information recorded by heat transfer with a function to provide security against counterfeiting, the present invention provides greater security against falsifying or counterfeiting.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1990Date of Patent: December 7, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mineo Yamauchi, Katsuyuki Oshima, Jitsuhiko Ando, Masanori Torii, Hideo Fujimura, Tamami Iwata
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Patent number: 5268348Abstract: The present invention relates to an image-receiving sheet used in combination with a heat transfer sheet having a dye layer containing a dye which is melted or sublimated by heating and passed onto said image-receiving sheet, characterized in that a sheet-like substrate (11) includes on its surface a dye-receiving layer (12) for receiving a dye coming from said heat transfer sheet, said dye-receiving layer (12) comprising a copolymer obtained by the copolymerization of (i) vinyl chloride, (ii) an acrylic acid type monomer and (iii) a linear polymer having a vinyl group at an end. The present sheet of such a structure as mentioned above is improved in terms of dyeability and weather-resistance-after-printing, and excels particularly in the storability of printed images.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1992Date of Patent: December 7, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Noritaka Egashira, Yoshinori Nakamura, Tamami Iwata, Naoto Satake, Takashi Kawasawa, Kiyobumi Ohtake
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Patent number: 5264279Abstract: When a temporary adhesive layer for peelably bonding a transfer-receiving material to a thermal transfer sheet comprising a substrate film and a heat-fusible ink layer disposed on one side thereof is caused to comprise a specific adhesive, an excellent composite thermal transfer material is provided. In such a composite thermal transfer sheet, the thermal transfer sheet is firmly bonded to the transfer-receiving material so as not to cause wrinkles or deviation, both of these members may easily be peeled from each other so that the ink layer is exactly transferred to the paper in a transfer region and it is not transferred thereto at all in a non-transfer region, whereby the transfer-receiving material is not contaminated. Further, when at least one end portion of a sheet-type composite thermal transfer sheet is fixed, there is provided a composite thermal transfer sheet wherein unintended peeling is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1990Date of Patent: November 23, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirokatsu Imamura, Koichi Nakamura, Hirokazu Kaneko
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Patent number: 5259716Abstract: The invention relates to a container conveyor for conveying a container to a container inspecting station. The container has a flanged portion surrounding its opening. The conveyor includes a rotary disc having a plurality of holders arranged around its circumference for holding the containers. The holders include a driving roller and a pair of rotation rollers. The rollers contact the container to provide a three-point connection with the flanged portion of the container. Each roller has a recessed portion formed about its periphery. The recessed portions engage the flanged portion of the container to nip the container.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1992Date of Patent: November 9, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaru Hoshino, Hiroaki Nose
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Patent number: 5260258Abstract: A heat transfer sheet having a heat transfer layer on one surface of a base sheet, said heat transfer layer being formed of a material containing a dye substantially dissolved in a binder with a weight ratio of the dye to the binder (dye/binder ratio) of 0.3 or more, and said base sheet having a beat-resistant slipping layer provided on the surface on which the heat transfer layer is not provided.A heat transferable sheet to be used in combination with the heat transfer sheet, comprising a receptive sheet having (a) a base sheet and (b) a receptive layer for receiving the dye migrated from the above-mentioned heat transfer sheet on heating, said receptive sheet having an intermediate layer provided between the base sheet and the receptive layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1992Date of Patent: November 9, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshikazu Ito, Masanori Akada, Masaki Kutsukake, Mineo Yamauchi, Masanori Saito, Atsushi Takano, Hideichiro Takeda, Hitoshi Arita
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Patent number: 5260255Abstract: A heat transfer image-receiving sheet including a substrate sheet, a dye-receiving layer formed on the surface side of the substrate sheet and a slip layer formed on the back side of the substrate sheet. That slip layer includes a graft copolymer in which at least one releasable segment selected from the group consisting of a polysiloxane segment, a carbon fluoride segment and a long-chain alkyl segment is grafted on its main chain.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 1990Date of Patent: November 9, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenichiro Sudo, Hiroshi Eguchi
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Patent number: 5260174Abstract: A relatively large-sized square substrate for use in the production of a color filter for liquid crystal display, a color image sensor or the like is applied with a coating film of a viscous liquid such as a photosensitive resin. For producing the coating film, the substrate is placed with its surface extending horizontally and the viscous liquid is dropped on the surface in a line along an edge portion of the surface. Then, a squeezee rod is moved along the surface with a predetermined gap maintained between the squeezee rod and the surface, to spread the viscous liquid over at least a part of the surface, whereby a predetermined thickness of the spread viscous liquid is obtained. Thereafter, the substrate is spinned in the plane of the surface thereof to disperse the spread viscous liquid uniformly by centrifugal force over the entire surface of the substrate, whereby a thin coating of the liquid of a uniform thickness is formed on the surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1992Date of Patent: November 9, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigeyasu Nakazawa, Nobunari Nadamoto, Souichi Matsuo, Mitsuru Iida
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Patent number: 5257709Abstract: This invention relates to a container (10) provided with a metallic cover comprising a plastic container (14) provided with a flanged portion (15) and a metallic cover (11) provided with a peripheral edge portion (12) and having an improved reservation property obtained by improving a material of the container body (14) and the shape thereof, also relates to a method for manufacturing a container provided with a metallic cover comprising the steps of mounting a container body (214) provided with a flanged portion (215) in a recess (267a) of a retainer (267), conveying the container body (214) mounted in the recess (267a) of the retainer (267) and the metallic cover (211) to a seaming device (256), seaming the peripheral portion (212) of the metallic cover (211) to the flanged portion (215) of the container body (214) by the seaming device (256), and discharging the seamed container provided with the metallic cover from the seaming device (256 ), and further relates to a press-cut device which includes a vertiType: GrantFiled: November 29, 1989Date of Patent: November 2, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuo Okabe, Kimiaki Hyakutome, Sadao Kuramochi, Junichi Hashikawa, Hideto Akiba
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Patent number: 5258351Abstract: An electrothermal transfer sheet including (i) a resistor sheet, and (ii) a dye layer formed on one surface of the resistor layer, comprising a heat-transferable dye and a binder, the resistor layer being prepared by subjecting a film which includes (a) an electroconductive material, and (b) a resin composition containing a polymer and a monomer to a crosslinking reaction, the amount of the monomer being from 10 to 150 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the polymer, the crosslinking reaction being caused by applying ionizing radiation to the film; and an electrothermal transfer sheet including (i) a substrate sheet, (ii) a dye layer formed on one surface of the substrate sheet, including a heat-transferable dye and a binder, and (iii) a resistor layer formed on the other surface of the substrate sheet, the resistor layer being prepared by subjecting a film which includes (a) an electroconductive material, and (b) a resin composition containing a polymer and a monomer to a crosslinking reaction, the amType: GrantFiled: March 26, 1991Date of Patent: November 2, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoto Satake, Tatsuya Kita
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Patent number: 5258352Abstract: A heat transfer recording medium usable for producing an image by employing thermal printing means such as a thermal head, in which a dye layer of a heat transfer sheet or a dye-receiving layer of a heat transfer image-receiving sheet comprises therein or thereon a dye-transfer promoting agent comprising a compound which is in a crystalline state at room temperature and can be fused by thermal energy which is applied when heat transfer recording is conducted.A heat transfer recording method using a heat transfer sheet and an image-receiving sheet, in which a dye-transfer promoting agent comprising a compound which is in a crystalline state at room temperature and can be fused by thermal energy which is applied when heat transfer recording is conducted is given to a dye layer and/or a dye-receiving layer before the formation of an image.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1991Date of Patent: November 2, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Fujimura, Masanori Torii
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Patent number: 5252532Abstract: A heat transfer sheet including a substrate film and a dye layer including a dye and a binder formed thereon, wherein the binder includes organic-solvent-soluble polymers having ester moieties and/or urethane moieties, prepared by modifying water-soluble natural and/or semisynthetic polymers by esterifying and/or urethanating an inner hydroxyl group thereof, and the dye includes a sublimable dye homogeneously dissolved in the binder. A heat transfer sheet is also disclosed which includes a substrate film, and a dye layer formed thereon, wherein the dye layer includes (i) a binder which is cellulose acetate having an acetylation rate of 2.4 or more and a total substitution rate of 2.7 or more, and (ii) a sublimable dye dissolved in the binder. The sublimable dye contained in the dye layer is not separated from the binder even when the heat transfer sheet is preserved for a long period of time.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1991Date of Patent: October 12, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Noritaka Egashira, Masashi Narita, Hideo Fujimura, Yoshinori Nakamura
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Patent number: 5252530Abstract: A heat transfer sheet is provided, which includes a base sheet and a dye carrier layer formed on one side of said base sheet, said dye carrier layer carrying a mixture of at least one dye expressed by the following general formula (I) with at least one other sublimable dye showing a maximum absorption wavelength at from 560 to 700 nm and having a molecular weight of at least 345: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 to R.sub.4 each are a C.sub.1 to C.sub.6 alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or a phenyl group, provided that R.sub.2 may be a hydrogen atom or an alkoxy group and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 may form together a ring.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1990Date of Patent: October 12, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masayuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 5250497Abstract: A heat transfer sheet including comprising a heat migratable dye layer formed on one surface of a substrate film and a heat-resistant layer formed on the other surface, of the substrate film, wherein the substrate film includes a polyethylene naphthalate.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 1992Date of Patent: October 5, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Fujimura, Noritaka Egashira, Tamami Iwata, Naoto Satake
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Patent number: 5250495Abstract: A heat transfer recording process which performs dotwise printing by means of a dotwise heating means. The process includes the use of a heat transfer sheet comprising a lubricating layer provided on one surface of a substrate film and a dye layer provided on the other surface of the substrate film, and an image-receiving sheet comprising a substrate film and an image-receiving layer formed thereon. The dynamic frictional coefficient at nonprinting between the dye layer of the heat transfer sheet and the image-receiving surface of the image-receiving sheet is within the range of 0.1-0.6.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1992Date of Patent: October 5, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hitoshi H. S. Saito, Masaki M. K. Kutsukake, Mineo M. Y. Yamauchi, Minoru M. F. Furuse
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Patent number: 5246664Abstract: A water-disintegrable support paper material largely formed of fibrous carboxymethylcellulose or carboxyethylcellulose having a degree of etherification of 0.1 to 1.0 and a degree of base saturation of 20% or more. A solution or dispersion of that paper has a pH of 5.0 to 8.0. There is also disclosed a composition for forming a water-disintegrable coat for coating on the support, the composition being a mixture of (a) at least one water-insoluble resin capable of forming a film having a saturation hygroscopicity less than 15% at a 90% relative humidity, (b) at least one water-soluble resin capable of forming film having a saturation hygroscopicity of 15% or more at a 90% relative humidity, and (c) a solvent in which both the resins (a) and (b) can dissolve.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1991Date of Patent: September 21, 1993Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryohei Nagata, Tskeshi Saito, Tetsuya Fujiwara, Motohiro Oka, Masanao Watanabe