Patents by Inventor Hiromitsu Sago
Hiromitsu Sago 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: 8746866Abstract: An ink set containing a water-based ink for ink jet recording and a treatment liquid. The water-based ink contains a phosphate group-modified self-dispersing pigment, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent. The treatment liquid contains a monovalent metal ion, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromitsu Sago, Masashi Tsuda, Shunichi Higashiyama, Kazuma Goto, Akihiko Taniguchi, Narumi Koga, Michiko Aoyama
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Patent number: 8616698Abstract: An evaluation method for evaluating a pigment ink for ink-jet recording used together with a dye ink and containing a pigment and water includes an aggregation property evaluation method for the pigment in which 10 parts by weight of an aqueous sodium chloride solution is added to 100 parts by weight of the pigment ink; the evaluation method including first aggregation property evaluation adding an X wt % aqueous sodium chloride solution; and second aggregation property evaluation adding a Y wt % aqueous sodium chloride solution; wherein concentrations of the aqueous sodium chloride solutions are set to fulfill the following condition in the first and second aggregation property evaluations: 1.0?X<Y?2.5. The optical density of a printed matter and the dispersion stability of the pigment when the pigment ink is brought in contact with the dye ink can be easily evaluated before the printing.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2009Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hitomi Sadohara, Hiromitsu Sago, Yuko Iwamura, Akiko Miyajima
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Patent number: 8591018Abstract: An ink set containing a water-based ink for ink jet recording and a treatment liquid. The water-based ink contains a phosphate-group modified self-dispersing pigment, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent. The treatment liquid contains an aggregating agent, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent. A dynamic surface tension of the water-based ink, measured under the condition where a life time is about 50 ms, is in the range of 35 mN/m to 45 mN/m. A dynamic surface tension of the treatment liquid, measured under the condition where a life time is about 50 ms, is in the range of 33 mN/m to 45 mN/m.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuma Goto, Akihiko Taniguchi, Shunichi Higashiyama, Masashi Tsuda, Hiromitsu Sago, Narumi Koga, Michiko Aoyama
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Patent number: 8349064Abstract: A water-based ink for ink jet recording, containing: a coloring agent; water; and a water-soluble organic solvent. The coloring agent contains a phosphate group-modified self-dispersing pigment. The water-based ink further contains at least one of a reducing sugar and a sugar alcohol and a calcium ion.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Michiko Aoyama, Narumi Koga, Shunichi Higashiyama, Masashi Tsuda, Hiromitsu Sago, Kazuma Goto, Akihiko Taniguchi
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Patent number: 8328927Abstract: A water-based ink for ink jet recording, containing: a coloring agent; water; and a water-soluble organic solvent. The coloring agent contains a phosphate group-modified self-dispersing pigment. The water-based ink further contains at least one selected from the group consisting of boric acid, diglycolic acid, and a chelating agent.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2011Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Michiko Aoyama, Narumi Koga, Shunichi Higashiyama, Masashi Tsuda, Hiromitsu Sago, Kazuma Goto, Akihiko Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20110292117Abstract: An ink set containing a water-based ink for ink jet recording and a treatment liquid. The water-based ink contains a phosphate-group modified self-dispersing pigment, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent. The treatment liquid contains an aggregating agent, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent. A dynamic surface tension of the water-based ink, measured under the condition where a life time is about 50 ms, is in the range of 35 mN/m to 45 mN/m. A dynamic surface tension of the treatment liquid, measured under the condition where a life time is about 50 ms, is in the range of 33 mN/m to 45 mN/m.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuma GOTO, Akihiko TANIGUCHI, Shunichi HIGASHIYAMA, Masashi TSUDA, Hiromitsu SAGO, Narumi KOGA, Michiko AOYAMA
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Publication number: 20110292116Abstract: An ink set containing a water-based ink for ink jet recording and a treatment liquid. The water-based ink contains a phosphate group-modified self-dispersing pigment, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent. The treatment liquid contains a monovalent metal ion, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromitsu SAGO, Masashi TSUDA, Shunichi HIGASHIYAMA, Kazuma GOTO, Akihiko TANIGUCHI, Narumi KOGA, Michiko AOYAMA
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Publication number: 20110187799Abstract: A water-based ink for ink jet recording, containing: a coloring agent; water; and a water-soluble organic solvent. The coloring agent contains a phosphate group-modified self-dispersing pigment. The water-based ink further contains at least one selected from the group consisting of boric acid, diglycolic acid, and a chelating agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Michiko AOYAMA, Narumi KOGA, Shunichi HIGASHIYAMA, Masashi TSUDA, Hiromitsu SAGO, Kazuma GOTO, Akihiko TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20110187770Abstract: A water-based ink for ink jet recording, containing: a coloring agent; water; and a water-soluble organic solvent. The coloring agent contains a phosphate group-modified self-dispersing pigment. The water-based ink further contains at least one of a reducing sugar and a sugar alcohol and a calcium ion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Michiko AOYAMA, Narumi KOGA, Shunichi HIGASHIYAMA, Masashi TSUDA, Hiromitsu SAGO, Kazuma GOTO, Akihiko TANIGUCHI
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Patent number: 7867326Abstract: An ink set for ink-jet recording contains a yellow ink, a magenta ink, and a cyan ink. Ink sets capable of forming composite black images having good color deterioration properties and ozone resistance may be prepared by selecting an appropriate combination of a yellow ink, a magenta ink, and a cyan ink.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2008Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiromitsu Sago
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Patent number: 7690762Abstract: A water base ink for ink-jet recording is provided, which makes it possible to secure a high recording quality with a sharp image area edge by avoiding any blurring even when recording is performed on regular paper and which has satisfactory purge restoration performance. Therefore, no bubble remains in an ink flow passage, and no discharge failure is caused. Further, the discharge operation never becomes unstable. In the water base ink for ink-jet recording, the surface tension is not less than 40 mN/m, and the amount of dissolved oxygen is not more than 4 mg/L.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2006Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Ohira, Hiromitsu Sago, Kazuma Goto, Narumi Koga, Masaya Fujioka, Shunichi Higashiyama
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Publication number: 20100058853Abstract: An evaluation method for evaluating a pigment ink for ink-jet recording used together with a dye ink and containing a pigment and water includes an aggregation property evaluation method for the pigment in which 10 parts by weight of an aqueous sodium chloride solution is added to 100 parts by weight of the pigment ink; the evaluation method including first aggregation property evaluation adding an X wt % aqueous sodium chloride solution; and second aggregation property evaluation adding a Y wt % aqueous sodium chloride solution; wherein concentrations of the aqueous sodium chloride solutions are set to fulfill the following condition in the first and second aggregation property evaluations: 1.0?X<Y?2.5. The optical density of a printed matter and the dispersion stability of the pigment when the pigment ink is brought in contact with the dye ink can be easily evaluated before the printing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hitomi SADOHARA, Hiromitsu SAGO, Yuko IWAMURA, Akiko MIYAJIMA
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Publication number: 20080286468Abstract: An ink set for ink-jet recording contains a yellow ink, a magenta ink, and a cyan ink. Ink sets capable of forming composite black images having good color deterioration properties and ozone resistance may be prepared by selecting an appropriate combination of a yellow ink, a magenta ink, and a cyan ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2008Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiromitsu Sago
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Publication number: 20080286465Abstract: An ink set for ink-jet recording contains a yellow ink, a magenta ink, and a cyan ink. Ink sets capable of forming images having good color deterioration properties and ozone resistance may be prepared by selecting an appropriate combination of a yellow ink, a magenta ink, and a cyan ink which exhibits certain ozone resistance properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2008Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiromitsu Sago
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Publication number: 20080229973Abstract: New blue inks are provided for inkjet printing, especially using piezoelectric printers, on papers which are typically difficult to print with good quality, high-contrast images. The inks are characterized by a color of the ink (color illumination D65) of L*: about 37±5, a*: about 7±7, b*: about ?27±8. The inks contain an aqueous vehicle including water and a humectant comprising a polyhydric alcohol, a penetrant, surfactant, and a blue dye. The relative amounts of the aqueous vehicle, the penetrant, the surfactant and the blue dye, are effective to provide an ink having a viscosity and surface tension effective for inkjet printing, especially for piezoelectric printing, having a viscosity of from about 2 to about 4 mPa·s and a surface tension of from 30 to 50 mN/m. Also provided are a process for printing an image and a printed image prepared using the ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2007Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventors: Judith D. Auslander, Richard A. Bernard, Mike Y.R. Chen, Shunichi Higashiyama, Akihiko Taniguchi, Hiromitsu Sago, Atsushi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20080229975Abstract: New blue inks are provided for inkjet printing, on papers which are typically difficult to print with good quality, high-contrast images. The inks are characterized by a color of the ink (color illumination D65) of L*: about 37±5, a*: about 7±7, b*: about ?27±8. The inks contain an aqueous vehicle including water and a humectant comprising a polyhydric alcohol, a water-soluble polymer effective to improve the “hold out” properties of the dye-based ink on paper, surfactant, and a blue dye. The relative amounts of the aqueous vehicle, the water-soluble polymer, the surfactant and the blue dye, are effective to provide an ink having a viscosity and surface tension effective for inkjet printing, having a viscosity of from about 2 to about 4 mPa·s and a surface tension of from 30 to 50 mN/m. Also provided are a process for printing an image and a printed image prepared using the ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2007Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventors: Judith D. Auslander, Richard A. Bernard, Mike Y.R. Chen, Shunichi Higashiyama, Akihiko Taniguchi, Hiromitsu Sago, Atsushi Nakamura
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Patent number: 7364613Abstract: A fluorescent water base ink for ink-jet recording includes water, a first fluorescent dye, and a second fluorescent dye. The first fluorescent dye absorbs light in a first absorption wavelength region in an ultraviolet region to emit fluorescence, and the first fluorescent dye absorbs light in a second absorption wavelength region to emit no fluorescence. The second fluorescent dye absorbs light in an absorption wavelength region in the ultraviolet region, which is different from the first absorption wavelength region of the first fluorescent dye, to emit fluorescence. A wavelength region of the fluorescence of the second fluorescent dye is not overlapped with the first absorption wavelength region of the first fluorescent dye, but at least a part of the wavelength region of the fluorescence of the second fluorescent dye is overlapped with the second absorption wavelength region. The fluorescence intensity of the ink is increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2005Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Michiko Aoyama, Masashi Tsuda, Hiromitsu Sago, Mayuko Umemura, Hideto Yamazaki, Shunichi Higashiyama
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Patent number: 7329314Abstract: An ink for ink-jet recording includes a solvent dye in which a xanthene structure and a phthalide structure are spiro bound to each other. When the ink is stored in an ink cartridge containing a polyurethane foam and ink-jet recording is performed, a stable printing density may be achieved and changes in hue may be avoided.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2007Date of Patent: February 12, 2008Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromitsu Sago, Michiko Aoyama
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Publication number: 20070215002Abstract: An ink for ink-jet recording includes a solvent dye in which a xanthene structure and a phthalide structure are spiro bound to each other. When the ink is stored in an ink cartridge containing a polyurethane foam and ink-jet recording is performed, a stable printing density may be achieved and changes in hue may be avoided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2007Publication date: September 20, 2007Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromitsu Sago, Michiko Aoyama
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Patent number: 7252708Abstract: A fluorescent water base ink for ink-jet recording contains a first fluorescent dye and a second fluorescent dye. The first fluorescent dye has a first ultraviolet absorption wavelength region in an absorption spectrum and a first fluorescence emission wavelength region in a fluorescence spectrum. The second fluorescent dye has a second ultraviolet absorption wavelength region which is different from the first ultraviolet absorption wavelength region in an absorption spectrum and a second fluorescence emission wavelength region in a fluorescence spectrum. The first fluorescent dye further has an absorption wavelength region which is different from the first ultraviolet absorption wavelength region and which overlaps at least a part of the second fluorescence emission wavelength region.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2004Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Michiko Aoyama, Masashi Tsuda, Hiromitsu Sago, Mayuko Umemura, Hideto Yamazaki, Shunichi Higashiyama