Patents by Inventor Bor-Jiunn Niu

Bor-Jiunn Niu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20190016914
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides pre-treatment compositions and related methods. As such, a pre-treatment coating composition can include an evaporable liquid vehicle and a pre-treatment coating matrix. The pre-treatment coating matrix can include from 5 wt % to 40 wt % multivalent metal salt, and from 5 wt % to 20 wt % coalescent latex binder comprising styrene-butadiene rubber, polyurethane, or mixture thereof. The composition can further include from 30 wt % to 80 wt % high Tg latex having a Tg greater than 80° C., from 0.5 wt % to 20 wt % water soluble binder, and from 3 wt % to 20 wt % wax having a melting point greater than 120° C. The weight percentages of the pre-treatment coating matrix exclude the evaporable liquid vehicle content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jason Swei, Bor-Jiunn NIU
  • Patent number: 10166804
    Abstract: A printable recording media containing a substrate and a coating layer including a mixture of a first polymer selected from the group consisting of a polymer comprising ethylene residues and vinyl alcohol residues and a polymer comprising vinyl alcohol residues and a second polymer comprising ethylene residues, ethyl acrylate or acrylic ester residues and maleic anhydride residues wherein the amount of first polymer, in the mixture, is about 50% to about 95% by weight. Also disclosed herein is a method for making such printable recording media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Oheya M. Alfekri
  • Patent number: 10166806
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to a coated print medium, a method of preparing a print medium, and a printing system. The coated print medium can comprise a substrate and a coating applied to the substrate. The coating can comprise, by solids or dry weight, 5 wt % to 30 wt % of a polymeric binder, 20 wt % to 50 wt % of a cationic latex, 5 wt % to 15 wt % of a multivalent cationic salt, and 1 wt % to 20 wt % of a sulfonic acid- or sulfonate-containing stilbene optical brightener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Silke Courtenay, John Gardner
  • Publication number: 20180312717
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to primer compositions, which can include a binder including polyvinyl alcohol, starch nanoparticles, and a polyurethane dispersion. The primer competitions can also include a cationic salt and water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Tao Chen, Haigang Chen, Silke Courtenay
  • Publication number: 20180290472
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to primer compositions, which can include a polyvinyl alcohol, a cationic salt, and water. The polyvinyl alcohol can have a weight average molecular weight from about 50,000 Mw to about 250,000 Mw. The cationic salt can be present in an amount of at least 15 wt % of all dry components of the primer composition. The polyvinyl alcohol and cationic salt together can make up at least 30 wt % of all dry components of the primer composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Tao Chen
  • Patent number: 10071585
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a print medium, a printed article, and a method of printing. The print medium can include a thin paper substrate having weight ranging from 40 GSM to 150 GSM, and a pre-treatment coating applied to the thin paper substrate at a weight ranging from 0.3 GSM to 15 GSM. The pre-treatment coating can include from 10 wt % to 80 wt % of a fixer, from 3 wt % to 50 wt % of a latex polymer, and from 5 wt % to 50 wt % of a water holding agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jason Swei, Rajasekar Vaidyanathan, Bor-Jiunn Niu
  • Publication number: 20180243975
    Abstract: A building platform substrate for 3D printing in a Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) 3D printer is disclosed. The platform substrate includes a paper layer that is re-pulpable in water, a water-soluble top coat layer on one side of the paper layer, a water-soluble adhesive layer on an other side of the paper layer, and a lay flat release liner on an exposed surface of the adhesive layer. A 3D printer having a removable Z-axis platen for accepting the building platform substrate and a method of manufacturing the platform substrate are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Xulong Fu, Christine E. Steichen, Robert Beauchamp, Morad M. Samii
  • Publication number: 20180229529
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to a coated print medium, a method of preparing a print medium, and a printing system. The coated print medium can comprise a substrate and a coating applied to the substrate. The coating can comprise, by dry weight percent, 5 wt % to 30 wt % of a polymeric binder, 20 wt % to 50 wt % of a cationic latex, 5 wt % to 15 wt % of a multivalent cationic salt, and 1 wt % to 20 wt % of an optical brightener; and 5 wt % to 20 wt % of a cationic polyamine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Silke Courtenay, John Gardner
  • Publication number: 20180202107
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to sizing compositions, which can include 25 wt % to 80 wt % starch based on dry components, 15 wt % to 60 wt % cationic multivalent salt based on dry components, and an organic additive. The organic additive can be a water-swellable polymer having a weight average molecular weight ranging from 150,000 Mw to 1,000,000 Mw, a wax, or both the water-swellable polymer and the wax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher Arend Toles, Thomas Roger Oswald, Bor-Jiunn Niu
  • Patent number: 9981497
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to a coated print medium, a method of preparing a print medium, and a printing system. The coated print medium can comprise a substrate and a coating applied to the substrate. The coating can comprise, by dry weight percent, 5 wt % to 30 wt % of a polymeric binder, 20 wt % to 50 wt % of a cationic latex, 5 wt % to 15 wt % of a multivalent cationic salt, and 1 wt % to 20 wt % of an optical brightener; and 5 wt % to 20 wt % of a cationic polyamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Silke Courtenay, John Gardner
  • Patent number: 9962984
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to a coated print medium, a method of preparing a print medium, and a printing system. The coated print medium can comprise a substrate and a coating applied to the substrate. The coating can comprise, by dry weight, 5 wt % to 30 wt % of a polymeric binder, 20 wt % to 50 wt % of a cationic latex, 5 wt % to 15 wt % of a multivalent cationic salt, 1 wt % to 20 wt % of an optical brightener, and 1 wt % to 10 wt % of an anti-quenching agent selected from the group consisting of a sulfonated diphenyloxide, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, and combination thereof. In this example, if the polymeric binder is polyvinyl pyrrolidone, the anti-quenching agent is the sulfonated diphenyloxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Silke Courtenay, John Gardner
  • Publication number: 20180086935
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to primer compositions, which can include a polyvinyl alcohol, a cationic salt, and water. The polyvinyl alcohol can be present in an amount of at least 8 wt % of all dry components of the primer composition. The cationic salt can be present in an amount of at least 15 wt % of all dry components of the primer composition. The polyvinyl alcohol and cationic salt together can make up at least 30 wt % of all dry components of the primer composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Tao Chen
  • Publication number: 20180087222
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to primer compositions which can include a binder including polyvinyl alcohol, starch nanoparticles, and a polymer latex dispersion. The primer competitions can also include a wax, a cationic salt, and water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Tao Chen
  • Patent number: 9878569
    Abstract: Described herein is a media composition. The media composition includes a substrate and an ink receiving layer that includes binder that includes an ethylene-vinyl alcohol co-polymer with a glass transition temperature of 75 degrees Celsius or less, a melting point temperature of 175 degrees Celsius or less, and/or a crystallization temperature of 150 degrees Celsius or less. The ink receiving layer can be applied to a substrate using extrusion techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Haigang Chen, Lisa A. Underwood
  • Patent number: 9873279
    Abstract: A printable recording media containing a substrate and an ink receiving layer including an aqueous mixture of about 50 to about 99 wt % of an UV curable polyurethane dispersion and about 1 to about 50 wt % of a photo-initiator by total dry weight of said ink receiving layer. Also disclosed herein a method for making the printable recording media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Tao Chen, Silke Courtenay
  • Publication number: 20170368861
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to coated print media, a method of preparing print media, and a printing system. The coated print media can comprise a substrate and a coating applied to the substrate. The coating can include, by dry weight, 5 wt % to 60 wt % of a polymeric binder having a Tg below 50 C, 10 wt % to 60 wt % of cationic latex having a Tg from 50 C to 130 C, 5 wt % to 30 wt % of a multivalent cationic salt, and 2 wt % to 25 wt % of a high density polyethylene wax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Tao Chen, Haigang Chen, Haowen Yu, Silke Courtenay
  • Publication number: 20170326895
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to a coated print medium, a method of preparing a print medium, and a printing system. The coated print medium can comprise a substrate and a coating applied to the substrate. The coating can comprise, by solids or dry weight, 5 wt % to 30 wt % of a polymeric binder, 20 wt % to 50 wt % of a cationic latex, 5 wt % to 15 wt % of a multivalent cationic salt, and 1 wt % to 20 wt % of a sulfonic acid- or sulfonate-containing stilbene optical brightener.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Silke Courtenay, John Gardner
  • Publication number: 20170253066
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to a coated print medium, a method of preparing a print medium, and a printing system. The coated print medium can comprise a substrate and a coating applied to the substrate. The coating can comprise, by dry weight, 5 wt % to 30 wt % of a polymeric binder, 20 wt % to 50 wt % of a cationic latex, 5 wt % to 15 wt % of a multivalent cationic salt, 1 wt % to 20 wt % of an optical brightener, and 1 wt % to 10 wt % of an anti-quenching agent selected from the group consisting of a sulfonated diphenyloxide, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, and combination thereof. In this example, if the polymeric binder is polyvinyl pyrrolidone, the anti-quenching agent is the sulfonated diphenyloxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Silke Courtenay, John Gardner
  • Publication number: 20170239970
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to a coated print medium, a method of preparing a print medium, and a printing system. The coated print medium can comprise a substrate and a coating applied to the substrate. The coating can comprise, by dry weight percent, 5 wt % to 30 wt % of a polymeric binder, 20 wt % to 50 wt % of a cationic latex, 5 wt % to 15 wt % of a multivalent cationic salt, and 1 wt % to 20 wt % of an optical brightener; and 5 wt % to 20 wt % of a cationic polyamine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Silke Courtenay, John Gardner
  • Publication number: 20170072726
    Abstract: A printable recording media containing a substrate and a coating layer including a mixture of a first polymer selected from the group consisting of a polymer comprising ethylene residues and vinyl alcohol residues and a polymer comprising vinyl alcohol residues and a second polymer comprising ethylene residues, ethyl acrylate or acrylic ester residues and maleic anhydride residues wherein the amount of first polymer, in the mixture, is about 50% to about 95% by weight. Also disclosed herein is a method for making such printable recording media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Bor-Jiunn Niu, Dheya M. Alfekri