Patents by Inventor Etsuko Hino
Etsuko Hino 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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Patent number: 8680179Abstract: The invention provides a composite composition comprising a cationically polymerizable organic resin, a cationic photoinitiator, a hydrolysate and/or condensate of at least one hydrolysable silane compound and inorganic nanoparticles. The composite composition is suitable for the preparation of patterned moulded articles or substrates having a patterned coating, in particular by photolithography. Micropatterns obtained show improved properties, such as a high shape stability and an excellent elastic modulus.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2007Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignees: Leibniz-Institut fuer Neue Materialien gemeinnuetzige GmbH, Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Etsuko Hino, Mitsutoshi Noguchi, Norio Ohkuma, Yoshikazu Saito, Carsten Becker-Willinger, Pamela Kalmes, Michael Veith
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Patent number: 8535796Abstract: A polymerizable composite composition comprising a) a hydrolysate and/or condensate of at least one hydrolysable alkylsilane having at least one alkyl group, at least one hydrolysable arylsilane having at least one aryl group or at least one hydrolysable alkylarylsilane having at least one alkylaryl group, and at least one hydrolysable silane containing an epoxy group, b) at least one organic compound having at least 2 epoxy groups, and c) a cationic initiator, is suitable to provide, upon curing, substrates with a patterned coating or patterned molded articles. The patterned coatings and molded articles obtained show high relaxation ability, high chemical resistance and mechanical stability. Micropatterns can be obtained with high stability of shape.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2006Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignees: Leibniz-Institut fuer Neue Materialien Gemeinnuetzige GmbH, Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Carsten Becker-Willinger, Pamela Kalmes, Helmut Schmidt, Etsuko Hino, Mitsutoshi Noguchi, Yoshikazu Saito, Norio Ohkuma
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Patent number: 8409454Abstract: A production process for a structure includes preparing a substrate on which a first layer and a second layer are provided in this order; forming a second mold, which is a part of a mold member serving as a mold for forming the structure, from the second layer; etching the first layer using the second mold as a mask and thereby forming a first mold, which is another part of the mold member from the first layer; providing a coating layer which serves as the structure to cover the first mold and the second mold; and removing the first mold and the second mold and thereby forming the structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Etsuko Hino, Shoji Shiba
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Patent number: 8394307Abstract: A Method for manufacturing a liquid discharge head having a flow path forming member for forming a liquid flow path which communicates with a discharge port discharging liquid, comprises; preparing a layer containing a compound having a structure represented by Formula (1) and a structure represented by Formula (2) as a main chain on a substrate, providing a solution in which a resin is dissolved in a compound represented by Formula (3) or (4) on the layer, forming a mold having the shape as the flow path from the resin, providing a layer which will become the flow path forming member so as to cover the mold, and removing the mold to form the flow path.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masumi Ikeda, Etsuko Hino
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Patent number: 8251491Abstract: An ink jet head is formed with a nozzle surface having a liquid repellent characteristic. The nozzle surface comprises a condensation product made from a hydrolyzable silane compound having a fluorine containing group and a hydrolyzable silane compound having a cationic polymerizable group.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Norio Ohkuma, Akihiko Shimomura, Etsuko Hino, Hikaru Ueda, Helmut Schmidt, Peter Müller, Steffen Pilotek, Carsten Becker-Willinger, Pamela Kalmes
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Patent number: 8227043Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid discharge head includes the steps of: forming a solid layer for forming a flow path on a substrate on which an energy generating element is arranged to generate energy that is used to discharge liquid; forming, on the substrate where the solid layer is mounted, a coating layer for coating the solid layer; forming a discharge port used to discharge a liquid, through a photolithographic process, in the coating layer deposited on the solid layer; and removing the solid layer to form a flow path that communicates with the energy element and the discharge port. A material used for the coating layer contains a cationically polymerizable chemical compound, a cationic photopolymerization initiator and an inhibitor of cationic photopolymerization, and a material of the solid layer that forms a boundary with a portion where the discharge port of the coating layer is formed contains a copolymer of methacrylic acid and methacrylate ester.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2005Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiko Kubota, Takumi Suzuki, Tamaki Sato, Ryoji Kanri, Maki Hatta, Kazuhiro Asai, Shoji Shiba, Etsuko Hino, Hiroe Ishikura, Akihiko Okano
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Patent number: 8215750Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a member which is provided with a discharge port for discharging a liquid and made of a resin. Here, the member contains a plurality of inorganic particles. In addition, in a surface of the member on which the discharge port is opened, a density of the particles in a circumference of the discharge port is higher than that of the particles in the vicinity thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Etsuko Hino
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Patent number: 8105761Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid discharge head including a flow path forming member configured to form a flow path communicating with a discharge port to discharge liquid, includes, providing a first layer which includes a photosensitive resin and a light absorption agent on a substrate, and providing a second layer which includes a positive photosensitive resin but substantially does not include the light absorption agent on the substrate, so as to coat the first layer, forming a pattern having a shape corresponding to the flow path by performing a patterning process, and providing a layer which becomes the flow path forming member on the substrate, so as to coat the pattern. The method further includes forming the discharge port by performing a patterning process including exposure of the layer that becomes the flow path forming member, and forming the flow path by removing the pattern.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masumi Ikeda, Etsuko Hino, Isamu Horiuchi
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Patent number: 8087748Abstract: An ink jet recording head having a high durability and high ink resistance can enable high-quality image recording by employing a material capable of reducing the internal stress and having satisfactory patterning characteristics. Such an ink jet recording head can be produced with high precision. A cationically photopolymerizable resin composition containing a condensate of a hydrolysable organosilane compound, employed as a material for forming a flow path forming member, enables a reduction of internal stress and a highly precise pattern in the flow path forming member, thereby providing an ink jet recording head having high durability and high ink resistance and capable of high-quality printing over a prolonged time.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Etsuko Hino, Norio Ohkuma, Yoshikazu Saito, Mitsutoshi Noguchi, Helmut Schmidt, Carsten Becker-Willinger, Pamela Kalmes
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Patent number: 8012364Abstract: A method for producing an ink jet recording head having high durability and high ink resistance can enabling enable high-quality image recording by employing a material capable of reducing the internal stress and having satisfactory patterning characteristics. Such an ink jet recording head can be produced with high precision. A cationically photopolymerizable resin composition containing a condensate of a hydrolysable organosilane compound, employed as a material for forming a flow path forming member, enables a reduction of internal stress and a highly precise pattern in the flow path forming member, thereby providing an ink jet recording head having high durability and high ink resistance and capable of high-quality printing over a prolonged time.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2010Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Etsuko Hino, Norio Ohkuma, Yoshikazu Saito, Mitsutoshi Noguchi, Helmut Schmidt, Carsten Becker-Willinger, Pamela Kalmes
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Patent number: 7985477Abstract: A cationically polymerizable composite coating composition comprising: a) a condensation product of at least one hydrolyzable silane having a fluorine-containing group, b) at least one cationically polymerizable organic resin, and c) a cationic initiator, provides, upon curing, substrates with an alkali-resistant, liquid-repellent coating. The composite coating composition may be used in pattern forming methods.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2005Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignees: Leibniz- Institut Fuer Neue Materialien Gemeinnuetzige GmbH, Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Helmut Schmidt, Carsten Becker-Willinger, Pamela Kalmes, Etsuko Hino, Norio Ohkuma
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Publication number: 20110122198Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing an ink jet recording head having a high durability and a high ink resistance and enabling a high-quality image recording by employing a material capable of reducing the internal stress and having satisfactory patterning characteristics. It also provides a method of producing such ink jet recording head with a high precision. A cationically photopolymerizable resin composition containing a condensate of a hydrolysable organosilane compound, employed as a material for forming a flow path forming member, enables a reduction of internal stress and a highly precise pattern in the flow path forming member thereby providing an ink jet recording head having a high durability and a high ink resistance and capable of high-quality printing over a prolonged time, and a producing method therefor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2011Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Etsuko Hino, Norio Ohkuma, Yoshikazu Saito, Mitsutoshi Noguchi, Helmut Schmidt, Carsten Becker-Willinger, Pamela Kalmes
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Publication number: 20100309247Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing an ink jet recording head having a high durability and a high ink resistance and enabling a high-quality image recording by employing a material capable of reducing the internal stress and having satisfactory patterning characteristics. It also provide a method of producing such ink jet recording head with a high precision. A cationically photopolymerizable resin composition containing a condensate of a hydrolysable organosilane compound, employed as a material for forming a flow path forming member, enables a reduction of internal stress and a highly precise pattern in the flow path forming member thereby providing an ink jet recording head having a high durability and a high ink resistance and capable of high-quality printing over a prolonged time, and a producing method therefor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2010Publication date: December 9, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Etsuko Hino, Norio Ohkuma, Yoshikazu Saito, Mitsutoshi Noguchi, Helmut Schmidt, Carsten Becker-Willinger, Pamela Kalmes
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Publication number: 20100260978Abstract: The invention provides a composite composition comprising a cationically polymerizable organic resin, a cationic photoinitiator, a hydrolysate and/or condensate of at least one hydrolysable silane compound and inorganic nanoparticles. The composite composition is suitable for the preparation of patterned moulded articles or substrates having a patterned coating, in particular by photolithography. Micropatterns obtained show improved properties, such as a high shape stability and an excellent elastic modulus.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2007Publication date: October 14, 2010Inventors: Etsuko Hino, Mitsutoshi Noguchi, Norio Ohkuma, Yoshikazu Saito, Carsten Becker-Willinger, Pamela Kalmes, Michael Veith
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Patent number: 7810904Abstract: A method for producing an ink jet recording head having high durability and high ink resistance can enable high-quality image recording by employing a material capable of reducing the internal stress and having satisfactory patterning characteristics. Such an ink jet recording head can be produced with high precision. A cationically photopolymerizable resin composition containing a condensate of a hydrolysable organosilane compound, employed as a material for forming a flow path forming member, enables a reduction of internal stress and a highly precise pattern in the flow path forming member, thereby providing an ink jet recording head having a high durability and a high ink resistance and capable of high-quality printing over a prolonged time.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2006Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Etsuko Hino, Norio Ohkuma, Yoshikazu Saito, Mitsutoshi Noguchi, Helmut Schmidt, Carsten Becker-Willinger, Pamela Kalmes
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Publication number: 20100252529Abstract: A production process for a structure comprising: preparing a substrate on which a first layer and a second layer are provided in this order; forming a second mold which is a part of a mold member serving as a mold for forming the structure from the second layer; etching the first layer using the second mold as a mask and thereby forming a first mold which is another part of the mold member from the first layer; providing a coating layer which serves as the structure to cover the first mold and the second mold; and removing the first mold and the second mold and thereby forming the structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Etsuko Hino, Shoji Shiba
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Publication number: 20100245476Abstract: An ink jet head is formed with a nozzle surface having a liquid repellent characteristic. The nozzle surface comprises a condensation product made from a hydrolyzable silane compound having a fluorine containing group and a hydrolyzable silane compound having a cationic polymerizable group.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norio Ohkuma, Akihiko Shimomura, Etsuko Hino, Hikaru Ueda, Helmut Schmidt, Peter Müller, Steffen Pilotek, Carsten Becker-Willinger, Pamela Kalmes
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Patent number: 7789490Abstract: An ink jet recording head can record an image having a high quality level for a long period of time by use of a material having a reduced linear expansion coefficient and a satisfactory patterning characteristic. The liquid discharge head includes an energy generating element which generates energy for discharging a liquid; a discharge port which discharges the liquid; and a flow path forming member to form a flow path which supplies the liquid to the discharge port, the flow path forming member being formed of a cured material of a resin composition including a cationic polymerizable resin, a cationic photopolymerization initiator, a condensation product of hydrolyzable organic silane compounds, and inorganic fine particles having an average particle diameter of 50 nm or less.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2007Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshikazu Saito, Norio Ohkuma, Etsuko Hino, Mitsutoshi Noguchi
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Patent number: 7758158Abstract: An ink jet head is formed with a nozzle surface having a liquid repellent characteristic. The nozzle surface comprises a condensation product made from a hydrolyzable silane compound having a fluorine containing group and a hydrolyzable silane compound having a cationic polymerizable group.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2003Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Norio Ohkuma, Akihiko Shimomura, Etsuko Hino, Hikaru Ueda, Helmut Schmidt, Peter Muller, Steffen Pilotek, Carsten Becker-Willinger, Pamela Kalmes
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Publication number: 20100146787Abstract: A Method for manufacturing a liquid discharge head having a flow path forming member for forming a liquid flow path which communicates with a discharge port discharging liquid, comprises; preparing a layer containing a compound having a structure represented by Formula (1) and a structure represented by Formula (2) as a main chain on a substrate, providing a solution in which a resin is dissolved in a compound represented by Formula (3) or (4) on the layer, forming a mold having the shape as the flow path from the resin, providing a layer which will become the flow path forming member so as to cover the mold, and removing the mold to form the flow path.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2009Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masumi Ikeda, Etsuko Hino