Patents by Inventor Garland J. Nichols

Garland J. Nichols 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).

  • Ink composition
    Patent number: 6329446
    Abstract: An ink comprised of a vehicle, colorant, and resin emulsion, and wherein the resin emulsion contains water, surfactant, resin particles and solubilized resin obtained from the polymerization of a mixture of olefinic monomers, and wherein at least one of the olefinic monomers is an acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Guerino G. Sacripante, Garland J. Nichols, Elizabeth A. Kneisel, Chieh-Min Cheng
  • Process of painting with inks with colored resin emulsion particles
    Patent number: 6299941
    Abstract: An aqueous ink jet ink composition comprised of water, colorant, and colored resin emulsion particles generated from olefinic monomers, wherein at least one of said olefinic monomers contains a colorant, wherein the olefinic colorant component is prepared from the condensation reaction of a functional colorant with an olefinic containing reactive material, and which reaction generates wherein Dye represents a colorant chromophore, and R is a carbonyl, carboxylate, oxygen, or arylene, and R′ is hydrogen or alkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Guerino G. Sacripante, Garland J. Nichols, Min-Hong Fu, Chieh-Min Cheng, Daniel G. Marsh
  • Inks with colored resin emulsion particles
    Patent number: 6251987
    Abstract: An aqueous ink jet ink composition comprised of water, colorant, and colored resin emulsion particles generated from olefinic monomers, wherein at least one of said olefinic monomers contains a colorant, wherein the olefinic colorant component is prepared from the condensation reaction of a functional colorant with an olefinic containing reactive material, and which reaction generates: wherein Dye represents a colorant chromophore, and R is a carbonyl, carboxylate, oxygen, or arylene, and R′ is hydrogen or alkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Guerino G. Sacripante, Garland J. Nichols, Min-Hong Fu, Chieh-Min Cheng, Daniel G. Marsh
  • Ink compositions comprising a latex and processes thereof
    Patent number: 6239193
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of an ink which comprises mixing an ink vehicle, a colorant and a latex, and wherein said latex is generated by the polymerization of a mixture of olefinic monomers, and which polymerization is accomplished in the presence of a nonionic polyethoxylated surfactant, and which surfactant possesses an HLB value of from about 16.5 to about 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Chieh-Min Cheng, Garland J. Nichols
  • Ink jet ink compositions and processes thereof
    Patent number: 6184268
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of an ink comprised of an organic solvent, a colorant and a latex, and wherein the latex is generated from the polymerization of a mixture of an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant, and a mixture of olefinic monomers, followed by the addition of an organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Garland J. Nichols, Chieh-Min Cheng, Min-Hong Fu
  • Processes for preparing ink jet inks
    Patent number: 6180691
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of an ink which comprises mixing an ink vehicle, a colorant and a latex containing a polymer with epoxy groups, and wherein said latex is generated by the polymerization of a mixture of olefinic monomers, and wherein at least one of said olefinic monomers is an unsaturated epoxide monomer and which polymerization is accomplished in the presence of an anionic surfactant, and a nonionic surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Chieh-Min Cheng, Garland J. Nichols, Min-Hong Fu
  • Ink composition for ink jet printing
    Patent number: 6124376
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process which comprises incorporating into an ink jet printing apparatus an ink composition which comprises water, a colorant, and a polymer of the formula ##STR1## wherein m, n, x, and y are each integers representing the number of repeat monomer units, and wherein the ratio of x:y is from about 10:90 to about 90:10, and causing droplets of the ink to be ejected in an imagewise pattern onto a recording sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Garland J. Nichols, Min-Hong Fu, Gary R. Fague, James P. Bareman, Francisco E. Torres
  • Ink jet inks containing toner particles as colorants
    Patent number: 5936008
    Abstract: An ink for ink jet printing includes a liquid vehicle comprising water and toner particles with a colorant dispersed in or associated with the toner particles. The ink composition combines the print quality advantages of xerographic printing with the economic advantages of ink jet printing, thereby providing waterfast, archival quality prints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Robert N. Jones, Edward J. Radigan, Jr., Susan Robinette, Raj D. Patel, Michael A. Hopper, Grazyna E. Kmiecik-Lawrynowicz, Garland J. Nichols, Beng S. Ong
  • Ink compositions
    Patent number: H2113
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of an ink which comprises mixing an ink vehicle, a colorant and a polyurethane resin emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Garland J. Nichols, Chieh-Min Cheng, Min-Hong Fu, Elizabeth A. Kneisel