Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Gotou

Hiroshi Gotou 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).

  • Publication number: 20180113307
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device that can easily perform control for driving a movable screen. Display device includes light source that emits a light beam, scanner that causes the light beam from light source to scan, movable screen in which a first image is formed by transmitting the light beam from scanner, projection unit that projects the first image formed in movable screen on windshield and displays a virtual image of the first image in a space in front of windshield, and driver that causes movable screen to reciprocate in a first direction separating from scanner and in a second direction approaching scanner. Movable screen reciprocates in a posture inclined to moving directions of movable screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: KEN'ICHI KASAZUMI, TOSHIYA MORI, HIROAKI OKAYAMA, SATOSHI KUZUHARA, HIROYUKI FURUYA, HIROSHI GOTOU, AKIRA KUROZUKA
  • Publication number: 20180105711
    Abstract: An ink discharge device including an ink, an ink discharge head, and a negative pressure generator is provided. The ink comprises water, a colorant, an organic solvent X having a solubility parameter of from 8.9 to 12.0 and comprising no glycol ether compound, and a copolymer comprising a structural unit represented by the following formula (1): where R1 represents a hydrogen atom or methyl group and Y represents an alkylene group having 2 to 18 carbon atoms. The ink discharge head includes a nozzle to discharge the ink, a plurality of individual liquid chambers in communication with the nozzle, a flow-in channel to let the ink flow into the individual liquid chambers, and a flow-out channel to let the ink flow out from the individual liquid chambers. The negative pressure generator is configured to generate a negative pressure that lets the ink flow out from the individual liquid chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Keita KATOH, Hiroshi Gotou, Takahiro Yoshida, Akihiko Matsuyama, Masahiko Ishikawa, Yoshiki Yanagawa
  • Patent number: 9938421
    Abstract: Provided is a set of an ink and a print medium, the set including an ink and a print medium, wherein the ink includes at least one organic solvent, polyurethane resin particles, a colorant, and water, wherein the at least one organic solvent includes a compound having a saturated vapor pressure at 100° C. of 65 mmHg or greater but 400 mmHg or less, and wherein a sensor output at a critical image peeling point, measured by a microscratching method, of a solid image formed on the print medium in a manner that the ink is attached in an amount of 0.96 mg/cm2 is 600 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukiko Takamura, Hiroshi Gotou, Yuuki Yokohama, Hiromi Sakaguchi, Keita Katoh
  • Patent number: 9901719
    Abstract: A balloon coating method for forming a coating layer containing a water-insoluble drug on an outer surface of a balloon of a balloon catheter includes: fixing a connection portion between the balloon and an inner tube penetrating an inside of the balloon in such a manner as to clamp the connection portion by at least two clamping portions each having a groove-shaped curved surface extending along an axis of the inner tube; pulling the balloon in an axial direction of the balloon by the clamping portions to thereby straighten a bend of the balloon; and moving a dispensing tube for supplying a coating liquid containing the drug relative to the balloon in the axial direction of the balloon, while rotating the balloon about an axis of the balloon, to thereby coat the outer surface of the balloon with the coating liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Gotou, Yasuo Kurosaki, Eisuke Furuichi
  • Publication number: 20180030292
    Abstract: An ink includes a coloring material, one or more organic solvents, a resin particle including a structure unit having a carboxyl group and a structure unit having an alkoxysilyl group, and water. The one or more organic solvents includes at least one organic solvent having a solubility parameter of 8.96 to less than 11.8. The ink has a dynamic surface tension A of 34.0 mN/m or less for a surface life of 15 msec at 25 degrees C. according to maximum bubble pressure technique. The dynamic surface tension A and a static surface tension B of the ink at 25 degrees C. satisfy the following relation: 10.0 percent?[(A?B)/(A+B)×100?19.0 percent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroshi GOTOU, Masahiko Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9879207
    Abstract: A cleaning filling liquid for inkjet device including water; 10.0% by mass to 45% by mass per whole amount of the cleaning filling liquid of an amide compound having following formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Tamai, Tomohiro Inoue, Hiroshi Gotou, Michihiko Namba, Akihiko Gotoh, Kiyofumi Nagai
  • Patent number: 9873809
    Abstract: Ink includes a coloring material, an organic solvent, and water, wherein the ink satisfies the following requisites: I. the organic solvent includes an organic solvent X having a solubility parameter (SP value) of 8.9-12.0, II. the organic solvent includes glycol ether compound (compound Z) having a vapor pressure of 50 mmHg or greater at 100 degrees C., and III. a mass ratio of the organic solvent X to the glycol ether compound is 1:1-8:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Gotou, Keita Katoh, Yuuki Yokohama, Yukiko Takamura, Hiromi Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 9873252
    Abstract: A printing device including an inkjet head including a nozzle plate, where the printing device is configured to eject an ink from the inkjet head and the ink includes a colorant, at least one organic solvent, and water, wherein a dynamic surface tension A of the ink at 25° C. with a surface lifetime of 15 msec as measured by a maximum bubble pressure method is 34.0 mN/m or less, and the dynamic surface tension A and a static surface tension B of the ink at 25° C. satisfy a formula below, 10.0%?[(A?B)/(A+B)]×100?19.0%, and wherein a receding contact angle of the ink relative to the nozzle plate is 35° or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Gotou
  • Patent number: 9789720
    Abstract: To provide an image forming method, including applying a pre-treatment liquid on a recording medium including a substrate and a coating layer at least on one surface of the substrate, wherein the pre-treatment liquid is applied on a surface of the recording layer with the coating layer; drying the recording medium on which the pre-treatment liquid has been applied; and forming an image on the recording medium after drying by discharging a water-based ink by inkjet method, wherein the pre-treatment liquid includes a water-soluble cationic polymer, an ammonium salt of an organic acid and water, and wherein the water-based ink includes water and negatively charged colored particles including a colorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shosuke Aoai, Tsutomu Maekawa, Michihiko Namba, Shinya Seno, Hiroshi Gotou, Akihiko Gotoh
  • Publication number: 20170267888
    Abstract: An ink set includes an ink A including water, a first organic solvent, and a first pigment and an ink B including water, a second organic solvent, a second pigment, and a urethane resin particle. The first organic solvent includes at least one of N,N-dimethyl-?-buthoxy propionamide, N,N-dimethyl-?-methoxy propionamide, and 3-ethyl-3-hydroxymethyl oxetane and has a mixing solubility parameter A of 10.00 to less than 13.00 and the second organic solvent has a mixing solubility parameter B of 13.00 to 16.00.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Yuuki Yokohama, Hiroshi Gotou, Kaori Toyama, Masayuki Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20170247556
    Abstract: To provide an ink, which contains: water; a pigment; and a first water-soluble organic solvent, wherein the first water-soluble organic solvent contains a water-soluble organic solvent (G) having a boiling point of 280° C. to 300° C., a water-soluble organic solvent (X) having a boiling point of 180° C. to 190° C., and a water-soluble organic solvent (Y) having a boiling point of 190° C. to 200° C., wherein the first water-soluble organic solvent contains a water-soluble organic solvent (G) having a boiling point of 280° C. to 300° C., a water-soluble organic solvent (X) having a boiling point of 180° C. to 190° C., and a water-soluble organic solvent (Y) having a boiling point of 190° C. to 200° C., wherein the ink satisfies the following formulae: 24?X?40 2?X/Y?20 where X [% by mass] is an amount of the water-soluble organic solvent (X), and Y [% by mass] is an amount of the water-soluble organic solvent (Y).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Yuuki YOKOHAMA, Tsutomu MAEKAWA, Akiko BANNAI, Mariko KOJIMA, Hiroshi GOTOU, Tomohiro NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20170182770
    Abstract: A printing device including an inkjet head including a nozzle plate, where the printing device is configured to eject an ink from the inkjet head and the ink includes a colorant, at least one organic solvent, and water, wherein a dynamic surface tension A of the ink at 25° C. with a surface lifetime of 15 msec as measured by a maximum bubble pressure method is 34.0 mN/m or less, and the dynamic surface tension A and a static surface tension B of the ink at 25° C. satisfy a formula below, 10.0%?[(A?B)/(A+B)]×100?19.0%, and wherein a receding contact angle of the ink relative to the nozzle plate is 35° or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventor: Hiroshi GOTOU
  • Publication number: 20170130081
    Abstract: Provided is an ink including water, at least one organic solvent, a coloring material, urethane-based resin particles, and acrylic-based resin particles, wherein a difference between a total HSP value of an organic solvent having the highest boiling point of the at least one organic solvent and a total HSP value of the urethane-based resin particles is 6.0 [(J/cm3)0.5] or less, and wherein a difference between a polarity HSP value of the organic solvent having the highest boiling point of the at least one organic solvent and a polarity HSP value of the urethane-based resin particles is 5.0 [(J/cm3)0.5] or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Kaori TOYAMA, Yuuki Yokohama, Hiromi Sakaguchi, Hideaki Nishimura, Masayuki Fukuoka, Hiroshi Gotou
  • Publication number: 20170121543
    Abstract: Provided is an ink including: an organic solvent; water; a coloring material; a wax; and resin particles, wherein the resin particles include acrylic resin particles and urethane resin particles, and wherein a ratio by mass (urethane resin particles/acrylic resin particles) of a proportion (percent by mass) of the urethane resin particles to a proportion (percent by mass) of the acrylic resin particles is 0.1 or greater but 0.7 or less. In a preferable aspect, the wax is a polyethylene wax. In another preferable aspect, the urethane resin particles are polycarbonate urethane resin particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Hiromi SAKAGUCHI, Hiroshi Gotou, Yuuki Yokohama, Hideaki Nishimura, Kaori Toyama, Masayuki Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20170022381
    Abstract: Provided is a set of an ink and a print medium, the set including an ink and a print medium, wherein the ink includes at least one organic solvent, polyurethane resin particles, a colorant, and water, wherein the at least one organic solvent includes a compound having a saturated vapor pressure at 100° C. of 65 mmHg or greater but 400 mmHg or less, and wherein a sensor output at a critical image peeling point, measured by a microscratching method, of a solid image formed on the print medium in a manner that the ink is attached in an amount of 0.96 mg/cm2 is 600 or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Yukiko TAKAMURA, Hiroshi GOTOU, Yuuki YOKOHAMA, Hiromi SAKAGUCHI, Keita KATOH
  • Publication number: 20170009092
    Abstract: Ink includes a coloring material, an organic solvent, and water, wherein the ink satisfies the following requisites: I. the organic solvent includes an organic solvent X having a solubility parameter (SP value) of 8.9-12.0, II. the organic solvent includes glycol ether compound (compound Z) having a vapor pressure of 50 mmHg or greater at 100 degrees C., and III. a mass ratio of the organic solvent X to the glycol ether compound is 1:1-8:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroshi GOTOU, Keita KATOH, Yuuki YOKOHAMA, Yukiko TAKAMURA, Hiromi SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160376455
    Abstract: Provided is an ink containing a wax, a plurality of organic solvents, and water, wherein the plurality of organic solvents include a compound having a solubility parameter of 9 or greater but 11 or less and a compound having a saturated vapor pressure at 100° C. of 20 mmHg or greater but 400 mmHg or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Keita KATOH, Hiroshi Gotou, Yuuki Yokohama, Hiromi Sakaguchi, Yukiko Takamura
  • Patent number: 9518190
    Abstract: To provide an inkjet ink, which contains: water; a wetting agent; a surfactant; and a colorant, wherein the wetting agent contains at least an amide compound represented by the following structural formula (I):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Gotou, Kiyofumi Nagai, Michihiko Namba, Hidetoshi Fujii, Yuuki Yokohama
  • Publication number: 20160333208
    Abstract: Provided is an ink containing a colorant, an organic solvent, and water, wherein the ink contains as the organic solvent, at least one kind of an organic solvent having a solubility parameter of greater than or equal to 9 but less than 11.8, wherein a content of the organic solvent having a solubility parameter of greater than or equal to 9 but less than 11.8 is greater than or equal to 20% by mass of a total amount of the ink, wherein a dynamic surface tension A of the ink at 25° C. at a surface lifetime, measured by a maximum foaming pressure method, of 15 msec is less than or equal to 34.0 mN/m, and wherein the dynamic surface tension A and a static surface tension B of the ink at 25° C. satisfy a formula of 10.0%?[(A?B)/(A+B)]×100?19.0%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi GOTOU, Masahiko Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20160310710
    Abstract: A balloon coating method for forming a coating layer containing a water-insoluble drug on an outer surface of a balloon of a balloon catheter includes: inserting a core member into a guide wire lumen penetrating the balloon, disposing a proximal portion of the core member on a proximal side of a region of inflation of the balloon, with a distal portion of the core member protruded distally beyond a distal opening portion of the guide wire lumen, and fixing by clamping together with the core member a part of the balloon catheter that is on a distal side of the region of inflation; and moving a dispensing tube for supplying a coating liquid containing the drug relative to the balloon in an axial direction of the balloon, while rotating the balloon about an axis of the balloon, thereby to apply the coating liquid to the outer surface of the balloon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi GOTOU, Yasuo KUROSAKI, Eisuke FURUICHI