Patents by Inventor Dennis Z. Guo
Dennis Z. Guo 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).
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Publication number: 20210070082Abstract: An inkjet pre-treatment fluid for textile printing includes a fixing agent including a multivalent metal cation; and a blocked polyisocyanate selected from the group consisting of a non-ionic blocked polyisocyanate, a cationic blocked polyisocyanate, and an anionic blocked polyisocyanate having an acid number less than 5 mg KOH/g. The inkjet pre-treatment fluid further includes a liquid vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2018Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Dennis Z. Guo, Jie Zheng
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Publication number: 20210032487Abstract: An example of an inkjet ink for textile printing includes a self-dispersed pigment. The self-dispersed pigment includes a pigment and an organic group attached thereto, the organic group including at least one phosphorus-containing group. The inkjet ink also includes a poly-ester-polyurethane binder and a liquid vehicle. The inkjet ink may be used in a printing method and/or in a textile printing kit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2018Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Dennis Z. Guo, Jie Zheng
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Patent number: 10907060Abstract: In an example of a method for printing on a textile, a print is generated by thermal inkjet printing a thermal inkjet ink on a cotton fabric. The thermal inkjet ink consists of a pigment, a single dispersant and binder resin, a vehicle, and a balance of water. The single dispersant and binder resin is a styrene acrylic resin having an acid number greater than 100 mg KOH/g and a weight average molecular weight less than 50,000. The vehicle includes a co-solvent, an anti-kogation agent, a humectant, a surfactant, a biocide, or combinations thereof. The print is generated without a post-printing curing process.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Dennis Z. Guo, Jie Zheng
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Publication number: 20200385596Abstract: A method of textile printing can include ejecting an ink composition onto a fabric substrate and ejecting a blocked polyisocyanate crosslinker onto the fabric substrate. The ink composition can include from 60 wt % to 90 wt % water, from 5 wt % to 30 wt % organic co-solvent, from 1 wt % to 6 wt % pigment, and from 2 wt % to 10 wt % dispersed polymer binder. The method can also include crosslinking the dispersed polymer binder with a deblocked polyisocyanate crosslinker on the fabric substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2018Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Dennis Z. GUO, Jie ZHENG
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Publication number: 20200308437Abstract: A fluid set can include an ink composition having a pH from pH 7 to pH 10 and a crosslinker composition having a basic pH from pH 8 to pH 10. The ink composition can include from 60 wt % to 90 wt % water, from 5 wt % to 30 wt % organic co-solvent, from 1 wt % to 6 wt % pigment, and a latex polymer including an aromatic (meth)acrylate moiety. The crosslinker composition can include from 70 wt % to 95 wt % water, from 1 wt % to 25 wt % organic co-solvent, and from 1 wt % to 10 wt % polycarbodiimide.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2018Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L,P.Inventors: Dennis Z. Guo, Jie ZHENG, David Michael INGLE, Ronald A. ASKELAND
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Publication number: 20200308436Abstract: A fluid set can include an ink composition having an acidic pH and a crosslinker composition having a basic pH from pH 8 to pH 10. The ink composition can include from 60 wt % to 90 wt % water, from 5 wt % to 30 wt % organic co-solvent, from 1 wt % to 6 wt % pigment, a sulfonated dispersant, and an acrylic polymer binder. The crosslinker composition can include from 70 wt % to 95 wt % water, from 1 wt % to 25 wt % organic co-solvent, and from 0.5 wt % to 5 wt % polycarbodiimide.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2018Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Dennis Z. GUO, Jie ZHENG
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Publication number: 20200277506Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to aqueous pigment dispersions. In one example, an aqueous pigment dispersion can include from 40 wt % to 90 wt % water, from 2 wt % to 30 wt % organic co-solvent, from 7.5 wt % to 30 wt % copper phthalocyanine pigment, from 0.5 wt % to 5 wt % styrene-acrylic dispersant, and from 0.5 wt % to 5 wt % hydrophilic polyurethane dispersant having a weight average molecular weight from 10,000 Mw to 30,000 Mw. The styrene-acrylic dispersant and the hydrophilic polyurethane dispersant can be present at a weight ratio from 1:10 to 2:1.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2018Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Dennis Z. Guo, Jie ZHENG, Tienteh CHEN, David Michael INGLE, Rodney David STRAMEL, June YANG, Marcos A. Barreto CABAN
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Publication number: 20200277507Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to an aqueous ink composition, including from 60 wt % to 90 wt % water, from 4 wt % to 30 wt % organic co-solvent, and from 1 wt % to 6 wt % pigment. The aqueous ink composition can include a styrene acrylic polymer dispersant associated with a surface of the pigment and having a weight average molecular weight from 1,000 Mw to 50,000 Mw, and from 3 wt % to 15 wt % styrene C3-C5 alkyl (meth)acrylic polymer binder having a weight average molecular weight from 100,000 Mw to 500,000 Mw.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2018Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jie ZHENG, Dennis Z. GUO
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Publication number: 20200131388Abstract: In an example of a method for printing on a textile, a print is generated by thermal inkjet printing a thermal inkjet ink on a cotton fabric. The thermal inkjet ink consists of a pigment, a single dispersant and binder resin, a vehicle, and a balance of water. The single dispersant and binder resin is a styrene acrylic resin having an acid number greater than 100 mg KOH/g and a weight average molecular weight less than 50,000. The vehicle includes a co-solvent, an anti-kogation agent, a humectant, a surfactant, a biocide, or combinations thereof. The print is generated without a post-printing curing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2017Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Dennis Z. Guo, Jie Zheng
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Publication number: 20200131372Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to aqueous pigment dispersions. In one example, an aqueous pigment dispersion can include from 40 wt % to 90 wt % water, from 2 wt % to 30 wt % organic co-solvent, from 7.5 wt % to 30 wt % quinacridone pigment, from 0.5 wt % to 3.5 wt % styrene-acrylic dispersant, and from 0.5 wt % to 3.5 wt % hydrophilic polyurethane dispersant having an acid number from 20 to 100. The styrene-acrylic dispersant and the hydrophilic polyurethane dispersant can be present at a weight ratio from 1:5 to 5:1.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Dennis Z. Guo, Jie ZHANG, Tienteh CHEN, Marcos A, BARRETO CABAN, June YANG, Rodney David STRAMEL
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Publication number: 20200115569Abstract: In one aspect the present disclosure relates to an aqueous inkjet ink composition comprising a yellow azo pigment, a pigment synergist, a polymeric dispersant, 5 to 20 wt % of a latex polymer, 5 to 40 wt % of an organic co-solvent that has a boiling point of a boiling point in the range of about 170° C. to about 285° C., and water. The pigment synergist comprises a pigment of the formula (I): where each of R1 to R10 is each independently selected from H, carboxylate, and/or a sulphonate group.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2017Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Phillip C. Cagle, Dennis Z. Guo
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Publication number: 20200024469Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to a green ink including a green pigment in an amount from 1.5 wt % to 6 wt %, a styrene acrylic polymer having a weight average molecular weight from 3,000 to 30,000, a polyurethane having a weight average molecular weight from 15,000 to 120,000, an organic co-solvent, and water in an amount from 50 wt % to 90 wt %.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2017Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Dennis Z. Guo, Jie ZHENG, George SARKISIAN, Aiireza RAHIMl, Yi-Hua TSAO
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Publication number: 20190375959Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to pigment dispersions including from 5 wt % to 30 wt % of a pigment having an amide group, a styrene acrylic polymer having a weight average molecular weight from 3,000 Mw to 30,000 Mw and having a weight ratio to the pigment of from 1:1 to 1:10, a lactam co-solvent having a weight ratio to the pigment of from 10:1 to 1:10, and water. The lactam co-solvent can be co-milled with the pigment and an at least 5 wt % portion of the lactam co-solvent can be adsorbed on the pigment via van der waals interaction with the amide group.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Kai-Kong IU, Stone S. OUYANG, Shao-Wei LI, Shonna Anne DAWN, Dennis Z. GUO
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Patent number: 10414930Abstract: The present disclosure relates to magenta inkjet inks having a quinacridone pigment and an azo pigment. The azo pigment has at least one azo compound having the formula (I), in which Ra is selected from H, aryl and C1 to C4 alkyl, and Rb, Rc and Rd are each independently selected from H, a C1 to C4 alkyl, an oxygen-containing, a nitrogen-containing and a sulphur-containing functional group. Where Ra is aryl, the aryl is not a phenyl group having at least one hydrogen atom that has been substituted with a chlorine atom.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Keshava A. Prasad, Dennis Z. Guo, Niamh Kelly, Kenneth Hickey, Kevin Rattigan, Claire Harley
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Patent number: 10273376Abstract: An example of an ink composition includes a pigment, an anionic polymeric dispersant, polyurethane, a co-solvent, a surfactant, tristyrylphenol ethoxylate, and a balance of water. The tristyrylphenol ethoxylate is present in an amount ranging from about 0.1 wt % to about 2 wt % of a total wt % of the ink composition.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Dennis P. Parazak, Gregg A. Lane, Fereshteh Khorrami, Dennis Z. Guo, Benjamin Abelovski
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Publication number: 20170145238Abstract: An example of an ink composition includes a pigment, an anionic polymeric dispersant, polyurethane, a co-solvent, a surfactant, tristyrylphenol ethoxylate, and a balance of water. The tristyrylphenol ethoxylate is present in an amount ranging from about 0.1 wt % to about 2 wt % of a total wt % of the ink composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2014Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Dennis P. Parazak, Gregg A. Lane, Fereshteh Khorrami, Dennis Z. Guo, Benjamin Abelovski
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Patent number: 9637654Abstract: An ink composition is disclosed herein. The ink composition includes from about 5 wt % to about 25 wt % of a co-solvent; from about 0.025 wt % to about 0.2 wt % of i) a chelating agent represented by formula 1, wherein R? is a carboxylic acid functional group or a carboxylate salt functional group and n>2; ii) a chelating agent represented by formula 2:, wherein R is a carboxylic acid functional group or a carboxylate salt functional group, m is greater than or equal to 1, x is greater than or equal to 2, y is greater than or equal to 1, and z is greater than or equal to 2; iii) a chelating agent represented by formula 3, wherein any of r, s, t, or u is a sulfonic acid functional group or a sulfonate functional group; or iv) combinations of any of i, ii, and iii. The ink composition also includes a balance of water.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Keshava A. Prasad, Xiaohe Chen, Fereshteh Khorrami, Yi-Hua Tsao, Dennis Z. Guo
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Publication number: 20170022383Abstract: The present disclosure relates to magenta inkjet inks having a quinacridone pigment and an azo pigment. The azo pigment has at least one azo compound having the formula (I), in which Ra is selected from H, aryl and C1 to C4 alkyl, and Rb, Rc and Rd are each independently selected from H, a C1 to C4 alkyl, an oxygen-containing, a nitrogen-containing and a sulphur-containing functional group. Where Ra is aryl, the aryl is not a phenyl group having at least one hydrogen atom that has been substituted with a chlorine atom.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2014Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Keshava A. Prasad, Dennis Z. Guo, Niamh Kelly, Kenneth Hickey, Kevin Rattigan, Claire Harley
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Patent number: 9475948Abstract: An ink jet ink with high structure pigment particles can include a liquid vehicle, high structure pigment particles dispersed in the liquid vehicle at from about 0.2 wt % to about 5.0 wt %, and a polyurethane binder present in the liquid vehicle at from about 0.2 wt % to about 5.0 wt %. The high structure pigment particles can have polymer dispersant adsorbed onto a surface thereof, a DBP absorption value at a minimum of about 75 ml/100 g, and a surface area of about 200 m2/g to about 2000 m2/g.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2010Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Dennis Z. Guo, Stephen Horvath
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Patent number: 9238746Abstract: The present disclosure provides ink sets and related methods mix color gloss uniformity. The ink set can include a black ink with a black pigment having a particle size of about 14 nm to about 16 nm, a DBP absorption of about 80 ml/100 g to about 350 ml/100 g, and a BET surface area of about 160 m2/g to about 1600 m2/g. The ink set can also include pigmented magenta ink, pigmented cyan ink, and pigmented yellow ink. As a whole, the ink set can have a mix color gloss uniformity of at least 7.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Dennis Z. Guo, Yubai Bi