Patents Examined by Veronica F. Faison
  • Water-based ink for ink-jet recording, ink cartridge, and ink-jet recording method
    Patent number: 9745485
    Abstract: A water-based ink for ink-jet recording includes: a pigment; water; a nonionic surfactant having an ethylene oxide chain; an anionic surfactant having an ethylene oxide chain; and a penetrant having an ethylene oxide chain, wherein the nonionic surfactant, the anionic surfactant, and the penetrant satisfy the following conditions (I) to (III). ?1?X?Y?1??condition (I): ?1?Y?Z?1??condition (II): ?1?Z?X?1??condition (III): X: an average value of the number of ethylene oxide groups in the ethylene oxide chain of the nonionic surfactant Y: an average value of the number of ethylene oxide groups in the ethylene oxide chain of the anionic surfactant Z: an average value of the number of ethylene oxide groups in the ethylene oxide chain of the penetrant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinpei Ito, Mitsunori Maeda
  • Method for manufacturing ferritic stainless steel product
    Patent number: 9738963
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a ferritic stainless steel product, a ferritic stainless steel object is heated in an inert gas atmosphere including nitrogen gas in a heating furnace at a nitriding temperature higher than or equal to a transformation temperature so as to form a nitrided layer on a surface of the ferritic stainless steel object. Moreover, the nitriding temperature is set lower than 1100° C. during the heating. The heating of the ferritic stainless steel object is performed in a state where a solid carbon exists inside the heating furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teppei Watanabe, Atsushi Iwase
  • Modified colorants and inkjet ink compositions comprising modified colorants
    Patent number: 9732227
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a modified colorant comprising a colorant having attached at least one organic group. Various embodiments of the organic group are disclosed. For each of these embodiments, preferably the organic group has a defined calcium index value. Also disclosed are various uses for these modified colorants, including inkjet ink compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Cabot Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Gu, James A. Belmont, Elizabeth G. Burns, Paul S. Palumbo, Barry B. Corden, Yuan Yu, Ervina Halim
  • Ingot for bearing and production process
    Patent number: 9732395
    Abstract: A method is provided with which a bearing steel, even when obtained from an ingot, is made to have a segregation part reduced in the degree of segregation and maximum inclusion diameter. The ingot contains 0.56-0.70 mass % C, 0.15-0.50 mass %, excluding 0.50 mass %, Si, 0.60-1.50 mass % Mn, 0.50-1.10 mass % Cr, 0.05-0.5 mass % Mo, up to 0.025 mass % P, up to 0.025 mass % S, 0.005-0.500 mass % Al, up to 0.0015 mass % O, and 0.0030-0.015 mass % N, with the remainder comprising Fe and incidental impurities. The ingot has a degree of segregation of 2.8 or less and a predicted value of the maximum diameter of inclusions present in 30,000 mm2 of the ingot, as calculated by extreme value statistics, of 60 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignees: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Honjo, Kiyoshi Uwai, Shinji Mitao
  • Liquid activated color change ink and methods of use
    Patent number: 9726613
    Abstract: Liquid activated ink formulations comprising a liquid activated dye, a hydrochromic ionic compound, an opacifier, and a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sebastian V. Kanakkanatt, Santosh B. Kanakkanatt
  • Water-based ink for ink-jet recording and method for evaluating water-based ink for ink-jet recording
    Patent number: 9718977
    Abstract: There is provided a water-based ink for ink jet-recording containing a pigment; a surfactant; and water, wherein a slope value of the water-based ink at an evaporation rate of 0% is not more than 15%/hour; and a slope value of the water-based ink at an evaporation rate of 30% is not less than 9%/hour, the slope value of the water-based ink being measured by a centrifugal transmission sedimentation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuka Tsuzaka, Mitsunori Maeda
  • Ink set
    Patent number: 9718978
    Abstract: There is provided an ink set including a water-based cleaning transportation liquid, and a disperse dye ink composition, in which the water-based cleaning transportation liquid includes water and at least one of an aromatic sulfonate formalin condensate and a lignin sulfonate as a dispersing agent I, without including a coloring material, and the disperse dye ink composition includes a disperse dye, water, and a dispersing agent II.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Miho Nakamura, Yasunari Ikeda, Hideki Oguchi, Takeshi Yano, Shinichi Naito
  • Phthalocyanine pigment composition and method for producing the same, and ink
    Patent number: 9714357
    Abstract: An object is to provide phthalocyanine pigment compositions that have good transparency, gloss, and suitability in the initial viscosity after production as well as outstanding storage stability when used in liquid ink. A copper phthalocyanine pigment composition containing copper phthalocyanine, a rosin compound, copper phthalocyanine sulfonic acid or its salt, and an aliphatic amine with the calcium content of the pigment composition being 200 ppm or less has good transparency, gloss, and suitability in the initial viscosity after production as well as outstanding storage stability when used in liquid ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidehiro Otake, Nagatoshi Kobayashi, Taichi Hashiguchi
  • Composition
    Patent number: 9714351
    Abstract: A composition for the marking of assets comprising: a base material; and two or more encoding compounds wherein each of the two or more encoding compounds are provided at measurable concentrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Chameleon Innovations Australia (CIA) Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Cameron Jay Scadding, Rachel Louis Scadding, Roger John Watling, Christopher David May, Craig Manuel Pages-Oliver, Nina Hobson
  • High viscosity heat sensitive ink printing process
    Patent number: 9708496
    Abstract: A high viscosity aqueous inkjet ink that is useful in ink jet printers. The ink comprises heat activated colorant solids that are not heat activated during the printing process, and are printed onto a substrate in the form of an image that can be transferred onto a subsequent or final substrate by applying heat and intimate contact between the two substrates. The ink can also be heat activated onto the substrate without further transfer by applying heat at the temperature that is suitable for the activation of the colorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Inventor: Ming Xu
  • Liquid composition, pigment dispersion liquid, and aqueous ink composition for ink jet recording
    Patent number: 9708500
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid composition containing a first solvent that is a glycerin ester having a distribution coefficient of water-octanol which is in a range of 0.8 to 3.0; a second solvent that is an organic solvent having a distribution coefficient of water-octanol which is in a range of ?1.0 to 1.0; water; and a coloring material, in which a content of the first solvent is in a range of 0.005 mass % to 0.5 mass %, and a content of the second solvent is in a range of 0.5 mass % to 15 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ito
  • Ink composition
    Patent number: 9695327
    Abstract: An ink composition for ink jet recording includes: a first phase containing a pigment, a cellulose derivative, and water; and a second phase containing an organic solvent having a 50% distillation point of 280° C. or lower, in which the content of the cellulose derivative in the first phase is 3 mass % to 15 mass % with respect to the total mass of the first phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kana Mitsuzawa
  • Liquid composition, pigment dispersion liquid, and aqueous ink composition for ink jet recording
    Patent number: 9695330
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid composition containing a first solvent that is a first glyceryl mono-alkyl ether having a distribution coefficient of water-octanol which is in a range of 0.9 to 2.6; a second solvent that is an organic solvent having a distribution coefficient of water-octanol which is equal to or greater than ?1.0 and less than 0.9; water; and a coloring material, in which a content of the first solvent is in a range of 0.005 mass % to 0.5 mass %, and a content of the second solvent is in a range of 0.5 mass % to 15 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ito
  • Ink jetting ink set and cleaning method
    Patent number: 9695326
    Abstract: An ink jetting ink set includes an ink composition for recording supplied to and used in an ink flow path and containing at least one of a glitter pigment and a metal oxide as a coloring material, and an auxiliary ink composition used in cleaning of the ink flow path, in which, in cases where a dynamic viscosity at 20° C. in the ink composition for recording is ?1 (mm2/s) and a surface tension at 20° C. is ?1 (mN/m), and the dynamic viscosity at 20° C. in the auxiliary ink composition is ?2 (mm2/s) and the surface tension at 20° C. is ?2 (mN/m), the following formula (1) and the following formula (2) are satisfied at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hitoshi Ohta
  • Liquid composition, pigment dispersion liquid, and aqueous ink composition for ink jet recording
    Patent number: 9688865
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid composition containing a first solvent that is a polyol compound which has a distribution coefficient of water-octanol in a range of 0.0 to 2.5, and has three or more hydroxyl groups; a second solvent that is an organic solvent having a distribution coefficient of water-octanol which is in a range of ?1.0 to 1.0; water; and a coloring material, in which the content of the first solvent is in a range of 0.005 mass % to 0.5 mass %, and the content of the second solvent is in a range of 0.5 mass % to 15 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ito
  • Reversible thermochromic and photochromic ink pens and markers
    Patent number: 9676953
    Abstract: Reversible thermochromic and photochromic ink compositions and markers, pens or writing instruments that use them are herein disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Chromatic Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Terrill Scott Clayton, Timothy J. Owen
  • Water removable compositions and applications thereof
    Patent number: 9663670
    Abstract: In one aspect, water removable compositions are described herein, including for use in various printing applications. In some embodiments, a composition described herein comprises 50-95% by weight alcohol wax having the formula CH3(CH2)nOH, wherein n is an integer from 15 to 40; 5-50% by weight tackifier; and 0.5-5% by weight colorant. In other instances, a composition described herein comprises 50-95% by weight carboxylic acid wax having the formula CH3(CH2)mCOOH, wherein m is an integer from 14 to 40; 5-50% by weight tackifier; and 0.5-5% by weight colorant. Additionally, in some cases, the tackifier of a composition described herein comprises a rosin acid, a rosin ester, a rosin alcohol, or a mixture or combination thereof. Further, the solubility of a colorant in a composition described herein can be characterized by a spectral strength delta value of 5% or less or 3% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: 3D Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bo Wu, Jule W. Thomas, Jr.
  • Aqueous pigment dispersion and aqueous ink composition containing the same
    Patent number: 9637655
    Abstract: Disclosed is an aqueous pigment dispersion including water and a base metal pigment, in which the base metal pigment is a base metal pigment which is surface-treated with a fluorine-based compound, and when performing an X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy analysis of a base metal pigment surface, a concentration of a fluorine element is 21 atm % to 35 atm %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Denda, Naoki Koike
  • Method for producing a non-grain-oriented higher-strength electrical strip and use thereof
    Patent number: 9627116
    Abstract: A method for producing a higher-strength, non-grain-oriented electrical strip, according to which a slab is cast from a molten mass, the slab is hot-rolled and then cold-rolled—optionally a hot-strip annealing can be carried out between the hot-rolling and the cold-rolling—and the cold strip is annealed in order to produce a partially recrystallized structure so that the mechanical strength values ReH can be set within the range of 450 MPa to 850 MPa at an annealing temperature of between 600° C. and 800° C. for 60 s to 300 s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: voestalpine Stahl GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Dorninger, Roman Sonnleitner, Herbert Kreuzer
  • Oily inkjet ink
    Patent number: 9617438
    Abstract: An oily inkjet ink comprises a pigment, a pigment dispersant, and a solvent, wherein the solvent contains a hydrocarbon type solvent (A), a solvent (B) having at least an ester group and an ether group in one molecule, and a solvent (C) that is soluble in the hydrocarbon type solvent and the solvent having at least an ester group and an ether group in one molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Aoki, Manami Shimizu, Kyoko Motoyama