Patents by Inventor Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez

Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez 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).

  • Patent number: 12186976
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes multi-fluid kits for three-dimensional printing, three-dimensional printing kits, and methods of making three-dimensional printed objects. In one example, a multi-fluid kit for three-dimensional printing can include a fusing agent and a tinted anti-coalescing agent. The fusing agent can include water and an electromagnetic radiation absorber that absorbs radiation energy and converts the radiation energy to heat. The tinted anti-coalescing agent can include an aqueous liquid vehicle, a colored dye dissolved in the aqueous liquid vehicle, and an organosilane. The organosilane can have a central silicon atom covalently coupled to multiple hydrolysable groups and to an organic group by covalent bonding to a carbon atom in the organic group, wherein the organic group is not susceptible to hydrolysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez, Emre Hiro Discekici, Shannon Reuben Woodruff, Jacob Wright
  • Patent number: 12186980
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes multi-fluid kits for three-dimensional printing, three-dimensional printing kits, and methods of making three-dimensional printed objects. In one example, a multi-fluid kit for three-dimensional printing can include a fusing agent and an antioxidant agent. The fusing agent can include water and an electromagnetic radiation absorber that absorbs radiation energy and converts the radiation energy to heat. The antioxidant agent can include a liquid vehicle with water and from about 0.5 wt % to about 15 wt % hindered phenolic antioxidant dispersed in the liquid vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Emre Hiro Discekici, Shannon Reuben Woodruff, Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez, Jason Christopher Butler
  • Patent number: 12179423
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes multi-fluid kits for three-dimensional printing, three-dimensional printing kits, and methods of making three-dimensional printed objects. In one example, a multi-fluid kit for three-dimensional printing can include a fusing agent and a chemical functionalization agent. The fusing agent can include water and an electromagnetic radiation absorber. The electromagnetic radiation absorber can absorb radiation energy and convert the radiation energy to heat. The chemical functionalization agent can include water and an amine-containing polymer. The amine-containing polymer can be a branched or unbranched polymer that includes a polymer backbone and multiple pendant side chains. The individual side chains can include —NH2, —NH—, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Emre Hiro Discekici, Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez, Shannon Reuben Woodruff
  • Patent number: 12179424
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes multi-fluid kits for three-dimensional printing, three-dimensional printing kits, and methods of making three-dimensional printed objects. In one example, a multi-fluid kit for three-dimensional printing can include a fusing agent and an antioxidant agent. The fusing agent can include water and an electromagnetic radiation absorber. The electromagnetic radiation absorber can absorb radiation energy and convert the radiation energy to heat. The antioxidant agent can include water and a dispersion of a secondary antioxidant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Emre Hiro Discekici, Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez, Shannon Reuben Woodruff, Jason Christopher Butler
  • Patent number: 12109757
    Abstract: A multi-fluid kit for three-dimensional printing can include a fusing agent comprising water and a radiation absorber, wherein the radiation absorber absorbs radiation energy and converts the radiation energy to heat. The multi-fluid kit can also include a detailing agent including an aqueous liquid vehicle and from about 1 wt % to about 12 wt % polyelectrolyte solubilized in the aqueous liquid vehicle at from about 90 wt % to 100 wt %. The polyelectrolyte can have a weight average molecular weight from about 1,000 Mw to about 12,000 Mw and can be water-absorbent at a water to polyelectrolyte weight ratio from about 2:1 to about 1,000:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Emre Hiro Discekici, Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez, Shannon Reuben Woodruff
  • Publication number: 20240316861
    Abstract: A three-dimensional printing kit can include a build material, a fusing agent, and a flame retardant. The build material can include polyamide particles. The fusing agent can include a radiation absorber to generate heat from absorbed electromagnetic radiation and an aqueous liquid vehicle including water. The flame retardant can include 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide. The flame retardant can be included at from about 5 wt % to about 30 wt % in the fusing agent, at from about 5 wt % to about 30 wt % in a flame retardant agent if present that is separate from the fusing agent, or at from about 5 wt % to about 30 wt % in the fusing agent and from about 5 wt % to about 30 wt % in the flame retardant agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Shannon Reuben WOODRUFF, Graciela Emma NEGRI JIMENEZ, Emre Hiro DISCEKICI
  • Patent number: 12091566
    Abstract: This disclosure describes hydrogel three-dimensional printing kits, methods of three-dimensional printing hydrogels, and hydrogel three-dimensional printing systems. In one example, a hydrogel three-dimensional printing kit can include a particulate build material, a crosslinking agent, a whitening agent, and a coloring agent. The particulate build material can include a polyhydroxylated swellable polymer. The crosslinking agent can include water and a crosslinker that is reactive with hydroxyl groups of the polyhydroxylated swellable polymer to crosslink the polyhydroxylated swellable polymer. The whitening agent can include water and a dispersed white pigment. The coloring agent can include water and a colorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Emre Hiro Discekici, Shannon Reuben Woodruff, Jacob Wright, Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez
  • Patent number: 12070899
    Abstract: This disclosure describes three-dimensional printing kits, methods of making three-dimensional printed objects, and systems for three-dimensional printing. In one example, a three-dimensional printing kit can include a powder bed material and a fusing agent to selectively apply to the powder bed material. The powder bed material can include polymer particles and a redox-active inorganic salt mixed with the polymer particles. The fusing agent can include water and an electromagnetic radiation absorber, wherein the electromagnetic radiation absorber absorbs electromagnetic radiation energy and converts the electromagnetic radiation energy to heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Shannon Reuben Woodruff, Emre Hiro Discekici, Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez, Alay Yemane
  • Publication number: 20240239043
    Abstract: A three-dimensional printed object can include a fused polyamide body having electromagnetic radiation absorber embedded as particles within the fused polyamide body, and the three-dimensional printed object can further include residual benzyl alcohol soaked into a surface of the polyamide body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Emre Hiro Discekici, Shannon Reuben Woodruff, Alay Yemane, Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez, Mark Kowalski, Carolin Fleischmann
  • Patent number: 12023861
    Abstract: In an example of a method for three-dimensional (3D) printing, a polymeric build material is applied to form a build material layer. A fusing agent is selectively applied, based on a 3D object model, onto the build material layer to form a patterned portion. A hydrophilic agent is selectively applied, based on the 3D object model, onto at least a portion of the patterned portion. The hydrophilic agent includes from 1 wt % to 12 wt % of a hydrophilic polymer dissolved in an aqueous liquid vehicle, wherein the hydrophilic polymer has a molar mass ranging from 1000 g/mol to 12,000 g/mol and is water-absorbent at a water to hydrophilic polymer weight ratio from 2:1 to 1000:1. The build material layer is exposed to energy to selectively coalesce the patterned portion and form a 3D object layer having a hydrophilic portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Emre Hiro Discekici, Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez, Shannon Reuben Woodruff
  • Publication number: 20240157631
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a multi-fluid kit for three-dimensional printing. The multi-fluid kit can include a fusing agent comprising water and a radiation absorber that absorbs radiation energy and converts the radiation energy to heat, an acidic agent having a pH from about pH 1 to about pH 6.9 that includes water and an acidic component, and a pore-promoting agent including water and a pore-promoting compound. The pore-promoting compound can chemically react with the acidic component to generate a gas, and can be selected from sodium bicarbonate, potassium bicarbonate, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Emre Hiro DISCEKICI, Shannon Reuben WOODRUFF, Dennis J. SCHISSLER, Graciela Emma NEGRI JIMENEZ
  • Publication number: 20240141203
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes multi-fluid kits for three-dimensional printing, three-dimensional printing kits, and systems for three-dimensional printing. In one example, a multi-fluid kit for three-dimensional printing can include a fusing agent, a solubilizing agent, and a detailing agent. The fusing agent can include water and an electromagnetic radiation absorber. The electromagnetic radiation absorber can absorb radiation energy and convert the radiation energy to heat. The solubilizing agent can include benzyl alcohol, an organic cosolvent, and water. The detailing agent can include a detailing compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Emre Hiro DISCEKICI, Shannon Reuben WOODRUFF, Mark KOWALSKI, Alay YEMANE, Graciela Emma NEGRI JIMENEZ
  • Patent number: 11958240
    Abstract: A multi-fluid kit for three-dimensional printing can include a fusing agent and a detailing agent. The fusing agent can include water and a radiation absorber. The radiation absorber absorbs radiation energy and converts the radiation energy to heat. The detailing agent includes a lipophilic phase discontinuously dispersed within an aqueous phase by a surfactant. The lipophilic phase includes an organosilane having a central silicon atom coupled to a C6 to C24 aliphatic or alicyclic hydrocarbon and multiple hydrolyzable groups. The organosilane is present in the detailing agent at from about 1 wt % to about 20 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez, Emre Hiro Discekici, Shannon Rueben Woodruff
  • Patent number: 11752692
    Abstract: This disclosure describes three-dimensional printing kits, methods, and systems for three-dimensional printing with phosphorescent pigments. In one example, a three-dimensional printing kit can include a powder bed material and a low-tint fusing agent. The powder bed material can include polymer particles and phosphorescent pigment particles mixed with the polymer particles. The low-tint fusing agent can include water and an electromagnetic radiation absorber. The electromagnetic radiation absorber can absorb radiation energy and convert the absorbed radiation energy to heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Emre Hiro Discekici, Alexey S. Kabalnov, Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez, Shannon Reuben Woodruff
  • Publication number: 20230219291
    Abstract: Hydrogel three-dimensional printing kits, methods of three-dimensional printing and three-dimensional printed hydro-gels are described. In one example, a three-dimensional printing kit can comprise a particulate build material, a crosslinking agent and a structural modifier. The particulate build material may comprise a polyhydroxylated polymer having hydroxyl groups. The crosslinking gent is for crosslinking the polyhydroxylated polymer by a reaction with the hydroxyl groups. The structural modifier can have a plurality of functional groups for forming a network within the hydrogel, and where the structural modifier may have a reactivity that is chemically orthogonal to the reaction with the hydroxyl groups for crosslinking the polyhydroxylated polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Emre Hiro Discekici, Shannon Reuben Woodruff, Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez, Carolin Fleischmann, Jacob Wright
  • Publication number: 20230203338
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to food contact compliant three-dimensional printing kits and systems. In one example, a multi-fluid kit of food contact compliant agents for three-dimensional printing can include a food contact compliant fusing agent and a food contact compliant detailing agent. The fusing agent can include from about 70 wt % to about 96 wt % water, a food contact compliant carbon black dispersion in an amount of from about 3 wt % to about 10 wt % by solids weight of the carbon black dispersion, and food grade propylene glycol in an amount from about 1 wt % to about 15 wt %. The detailing agent can include from about 70 wt % to about 90 wt % water, food grade propylene glycol in an amount from about 10 wt % to about 25 wt %, and a food contact compliant chelating compound in an amount of from about 0.01 wt % to about 1 wt %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: EMRE HIRO DISCEKICI, GRACIELA EMMA NEGRI JIMENEZ, THOMAS M SABO, JASON CHRISTOPHER BUTLER
  • Patent number: 11667766
    Abstract: According to examples described herein, methods, compositions, and agents comprising an antistatic agent are described. According to one example, a fusing agent composition for three-dimensional printing can comprise: at least one antistatic agent in an amount of from about 0.01 wt % to about 20 wt % based on a total weight of the fusing agent composition, at least one near infrared absorbing compound, at least one surfactant, at least one organic solvent, and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez, Alexey S Kabalnov, Jacob Wright
  • Publication number: 20230158738
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes multi-fluid kits for three-dimensional printing, three-dimensional printing kits, and methods of making three-dimensional printed objects. In one example, a multi-fluid kit for three-dimensional printing can include a fusing agent and an antioxidant agent. The fusing agent can include water and an electromagnetic radiation absorber that absorbs radiation energy and converts the radiation energy to heat. The antioxidant agent can include a liquid vehicle with water and from about 0.5 wt % to about 15 wt % hindered phenolic antioxidant dispersed in the liquid vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: EMRE HIRO DISCEKICI, SHANNON REUBEN WOODRUFF, GRACIELA EMMA NEGRI JIMENEZ, JASON CHRISTOPHER BUTLER
  • Publication number: 20230144669
    Abstract: This disclosure describes hydrogel three-dimensional printing kits, methods of three-dimensional printing hydrogels, and hydrogel three-dimensional printing systems. In one example, a hydrogel three-dimensional printing kit can include a particulate build material and an aqueous agent. The particulate build material can include from about 90 wt % to 100 wt % of a mixture of a powdered polyhydroxylated swellable polymer dry blended with powdered water-soluble crosslinker that is reactive with hydroxyl groups of the polyhydroxylated swellable polymer to crosslink the polyhydroxylated swellable polymer. The aqueous agent can include water and an organic co-solvent, and the aqueous agent may not include the crosslinker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Emre Hiro Discekici, Shannon Reuben Woodruff, Jacob Wright, Carolin Fleischmann, Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez
  • Patent number: 11643565
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions for three-dimensional printing. In an example, disclosed herein is a composition for three-dimensional printing comprising: (A) a powder build material; (B) a first fusing agent; (C) a second fusing agent different from the first fusing agent; (D) a detailing agent; (E) a cyan ink composition; (F) a yellow ink composition; (G) a magenta ink composition; and (H) a black ink composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Alexey S Kabalnov, Stephen G Rudisill, Jesiska Tandy, Graciela Emma Negri Jimenez, Shannon Reuben Woodruff, Jason Butler