Patents by Inventor Jun KINJOH

Jun KINJOH 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: 12617961
    Abstract: A UV-curable aqueous inkjet printing ink composition contains: water-soluble acrylamide-based monomers by 20.0 to 70.0% by mass, water-soluble hydroxyl group-containing monofunctional monomers by 5.0 to 60.0% by mass, and water-insoluble polymerizable compounds by 8.0 to 35.0% by mass, relative to the total mass of all polymerizable components; a photopolymerizable initiator and/or sensitizer by 3.0 to 10.0 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass representing the total mass of all polymerizable components; a pigment; and water; wherein the ratio of the water-soluble acrylamide-based monomers and water-soluble hydroxyl group-containing monofunctional monomers, (water-soluble acrylamide-based monomers/water-soluble hydroxyl group-containing monofunctional monomers), is 0.3 to 10.0; and the ink composition has ability to be partially cured by being irradiated with a UV-LED light having a peak wavelength between 365 and 405 nm, to a cumulative light quantity of 100 mJ/cm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daigo Shiozaki, Jun Kinjoh, Okinori Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20260085204
    Abstract: This continuous type inkjet ink composition contains a dye, a resin, an electrical conductivity imparting agent, and an organic solvent. The dye is an organic dye having a disazo backbone. The electrical conductivity imparting agent is an ionic compound having, at an anionic portion thereof, at least one element selected from the group consisting of phosphorus and boron. The continuous type inkjet ink composition causes the contained dye to be dissolved therein, and enables obtaining of a printed matter having excellent retort resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Inventors: Jun KINJOH, Ryohei MIYAKE, Shun KONO, Okinori NAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 12564999
    Abstract: A digital embossing creation method includes landing a first active energy ray curable inkjet ink composition on a substrate surface by inkjet printing in the form of liquid droplets of 10.0 pl or greater in volume per droplet, and then irradiating it with an active energy ray for pinning, to form a first layer; and next, landing a second active energy ray curable inkjet ink composition on the first layer by inkjet printing in the form of liquid droplets of 10.0 pl or greater in volume per droplet, and then irradiating it with an active energy ray for pinning, to form a second layer wherein the first and second compositions have a viscosity of 14.0 cps or higher at 25° C., and a value of [(surface tension of the second composition before curing)?(surface tension of the first composition before curing)] is 4.0 mN/m or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Kinjoh, Koki Ogasahara, Okinori Nakashima, Takuya Myose
  • Publication number: 20260035581
    Abstract: Provided is an ink composition for solvent-based inkjet printing, including a colorant, a dispersant, and a solvent, in which the colorant includes a pigment and/or a dye, the solvent includes a saturated fatty acid diester-based solvent and an unsaturated fatty acid monoester-based solvent, a total amount of the saturated fatty acid diester-based solvent and the unsaturated fatty acid monoester-based solvent is 50% by mass or greater with respect to a total amount of the ink composition for solvent-based inkjet printing, and a mass ratio of the saturated fatty acid diester-based solvent to the unsaturated fatty acid monoester-based solvent is 2:8 to 8:2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2025
    Publication date: February 5, 2026
    Inventors: Okinori NAKASHIMA, Jun KINJOH, Takuya OKAMOTO, Hiroki TOMITA
  • Patent number: 12509604
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a photocurable aqueous ink composition for inkjet printing that is excellent in all aspects including miscibility when components excluding pigments and pigment dispersants are mixed, curability during printing, adhesion property and water resistance of a printed coating film. As a solution, provided is a photocurable aqueous ink composition for inkjet printing including: water by 10.0 to 45.0% by mass in the photocurable aqueous ink composition for inkjet printing; a colorant; a water-soluble polymerizable compound containing N-monosubstituted acrylamide; and a photoinitiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Okinori Nakashima, Jun Kinjoh, Daigo Shiozaki
  • Publication number: 20250368844
    Abstract: An oil-based inkjet ink composition containing a pigment, a solvent, a binder resin and a pigment-dispersing agent. The solvent contains a higher fatty acid alkyl ester compound having 12-30 carbon atoms and contains substantially no mineral oil. The binder resin is an acrylic resin and/or a chlorinated polypropylene resin. The composition has a viscosity of 2 mPa·s to 30 mPa·s (at 25° C.). The oil-based inkjet ink composition contains substantially no mineral oil, and is excellent in terms of ejection stability, low volatility and suppressing a decrease in OD value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Inventors: Jun KINJOH, Takuya OKAMOTO, Shun KONO, Okinori NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20250109309
    Abstract: A non-aqueous inkjet ink composition for printing on a resin base material contains: 2.5 to 10.0% by mass of carbon black; 80.0% by mass or more of organic solvent(s) whose evaporation rate is 20 to 80 based on the evaporation rate of butyl acetate being 100; and a resin; and has a property to reach a dry state under irradiation of infrared light when printed on a resin base material. The inkjet ink composition exhibiting excellent discharge stability and drying property even when the inkjet ink composition is intended to manifest excellent printability on a resin base material even when it has already been partially printed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Jun KINJOH, Takuya OKAMOTO, Kenji KAWAMOTO, Shun KONO, Okinori NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240399649
    Abstract: A digital embossing creation method includes landing a first active energy ray curable inkjet ink composition on a substrate surface by inkjet printing in the form of liquid droplets of 10.0 pl or greater in volume per droplet, and then irradiating it with an active energy ray for pinning, to form a first layer; and next, landing a second active energy ray curable inkjet ink composition on the first layer by inkjet printing in the form of liquid droplets of 10.0 pl or greater in volume per droplet, and then irradiating it with an active energy ray for pinning, to form a second layer wherein the first and second compositions have a viscosity of 14.0 cps or higher at 25° C., and a value of [(surface tension of the second composition before curing)?(surface tension of the first composition before curing)] is 4.0 mN/m or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Jun KINJOH, Koki OGASAHARA, Okinori NAKASHIMA, Takuya MYOSE
  • Patent number: 12091559
    Abstract: A continuous-type inkjet ink composition includes a polyvinyl butyral resin (Resin 1) and a rosin ester resin (Resin 2), and organic solvents, wherein the content of Resin 1 in the inkjet ink composition is 1.0 to 8.0 percent by mass, and the content ratio of Resin 1 and Resin 2 satisfies “Resin 1:Resin 2=20:1 to 10:8” based on ratio by mass, and the total quantity of organic solvents regulated by industrial health and safety regulation is 5 percent by mass or less in the inkjet ink composition. The composition demonstrates excellent discharge stability and jetting property as well as excellent adhesion to various types of base printing materials including polyolefin films with no surface treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Kinjoh, Okinori Nakashima, Koki Ogasahara
  • Patent number: 12043750
    Abstract: An object is to provide a continuous inkjet ink composition that has excellent storage stability and anticorrosion effect on a metal member, and that allows printing with good image quality. As a solution, a continuous inkjet ink composition is provided that includes a pigment, a resin, a metal salt of thiocyanic acid at 0.05 to 1.7% by mass in the composition, and tetraalkylammonium hexafluorophosphate at 0.05 to 2.7% by mass in the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Okinori Nakashima, Jun Kinjoh, Koki Ogasahara
  • Publication number: 20240228807
    Abstract: A UV-curable aqueous inkjet printing ink composition contains: water-soluble acrylamide-based monomers by 20.0 to 70.0% by mass, water-soluble hydroxyl group-containing monofunctional monomers by 5.0 to 60.0% by mass, and water-insoluble polymerizable compounds by 8.0 to 35.0% by mass, relative to the total mass of all polymerizable components; a photopolymerizable initiator and/or sensitizer by 3.0 to 10.0 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass representing the total mass of all polymerizable components; a pigment; and water; wherein the ratio of the water-soluble acrylamide-based monomers and water-soluble hydroxyl group-containing monofunctional monomers, (water-soluble acrylamide-based monomers/water-soluble hydroxyl group-containing monofunctional monomers), is 0.3 to 10.0; and the ink composition has ability to be partially cured by being irradiated with a UV-LED light having a peak wavelength between 365 and 405 nm, to a cumulative light quantity of 100 mJ/cm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Daigo SHIOZAKI, Jun KINJOH, Okinori NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240132737
    Abstract: A UV-curable aqueous inkjet printing ink composition contains: water-soluble acrylamide-based monomers by 20.0 to 70.0% by mass, water-soluble hydroxyl group-containing monofunctional monomers by 5.0 to 60.0% by mass, and water-insoluble polymerizable compounds by 8.0 to 35.0% by mass, relative to the total mass of all polymerizable components; a photopolymerizable initiator and/or sensitizer by 3.0 to 10.0 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass representing the total mass of all polymerizable components; a pigment; and water; wherein the ratio of the water-soluble acrylamide-based monomers and water-soluble hydroxyl group-containing monofunctional monomers, (water-soluble acrylamide-based monomers/water-soluble hydroxyl group-containing monofunctional monomers), is 0.3 to 10.0; and the ink composition has ability to be partially cured by being irradiated with a UV-LED light having a peak wavelength between 365 and 405 nm, to a cumulative light quantity of 100 mJ/cm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Daigo SHIOZAKI, Jun KINJOH, Okinori NAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11787179
    Abstract: An inkjet printing device for multi-color printing includes: multi-color inkjet nozzles that move in the direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the target base printing material and also in the direction parallel to the surface of the target base printing material; plasma ejection ports provided downstream of the multi-color inkjet nozzles in a manner oriented facing the surface of the multiple colored inks printed on the target base printing material; and an electron beam irradiation part located on the downstream side of the inkjet nozzles and plasma ejection ports, in a manner oriented facing the printed surface of the target base printing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Okinori Nakashima, Takuya Myose, Jun Kinjoh, Daigo Shiozaki
  • Publication number: 20230151238
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a photocurable aqueous ink composition for inkjet printing that is excellent in all aspects including miscibility when components excluding pigments and pigment dispersants are mixed, curability during printing, adhesion property and water resistance of a printed coating film. As a solution, provided is a photocurable aqueous ink composition for inkjet printing including: water by 10.0 to 45.0% by mass in the photocurable aqueous ink composition for inkjet printing; a colorant; a water-soluble polymerizable compound containing N-monosubstituted acrylamide; and a photoinitiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Okinori NAKASHIMA, Jun KINJOH, Daigo SHIOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230055345
    Abstract: An object is to provide a continuous inkjet ink composition that has excellent storage stability and anticorrosion effect on a metal member, and that allows printing with good image quality. As a solution, a continuous inkjet ink composition is provided that includes a pigment, a resin, a metal salt of thiocyanic acid at 0.05 to 1.7% by mass in the composition, and tetraalkylammonium hexafluorophosphate at 0.05 to 2.7% by mass in the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Okinori NAKASHIMA, Jun KINJOH, Koki OGASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20230029231
    Abstract: An aqueous inkjet printing ink composition that is cured by the following radiation rays (1) includes: an acylphosphine oxide-based compound as a photopolymerization initiator of 3 to 10% by mass; a monofunctional water-soluble monomer of 30 to 50% by mass; a multifunctional water-soluble monomer of 10 to 30% by mass; and a pigment based on the whole ink composition, wherein the radiation rays (1) are radiation rays that contain a wavelength of 800 nm and a wavelength of 385 nm and have an irradiation intensity of 100 mW/cm2 or less at a wavelength of 385 nm. The aqueous inkjet printing ink composition can be cured by specific radiation rays and does not change color of the ink composition in an exemplary embodiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Okinori NAKASHIMA, Jun KINJOH, Daigo SHIOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220025198
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electron beam curable water-based ink-jet ink composition comprising a colorant, a resin emulsion, a water-soluble photopolymerizable monomer, and water, wherein the water-soluble photopolymerizable monomer comprises an acrylamide derivative, wherein a content of the acrylamide derivative is 20 to 55% by mass in the electron beam curable water-based ink-jet ink composition, and wherein a content of the resin emulsion is 1 to 11% by mass in terms of a solid content in the electron beam curable water-based ink-jet ink composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Okinori NAKASHIMA, Takuya MYOSE, Jun KINJOH, Daigo SHIOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20210347170
    Abstract: An inkjet printing device for multi-color printing includes: multi-color inkjet nozzles that move in the direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the target base printing material and also in the direction parallel to the surface of the target base printing material; plasma ejection ports provided downstream of the multi-color inkjet nozzles in a manner oriented facing the surface of the multiple colored inks printed on the target base printing material; and an electron beam irradiation part located on the downstream side of the inkjet nozzles and plasma ejection ports, in a manner oriented facing the printed surface of the target base printing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Okinori NAKASHIMA, Takuya MYOSE, Jun KINJOH, Daigo SHIOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20210316564
    Abstract: An inkjet printing device includes: an inkjet nozzle that moves on a printing surface of a target base printing material in a direction perpendicular to a moving direction of the target base printing material and parallel with the printing surface of the target base printing material; a plasma ejection port disposed downstream of the inkjet nozzle in the moving direction of the target base printing material, for treating the printing surface of the target base printing material with a plasma; and an electron beam irradiation part disposed downstream of the plasma ejection port in the moving direction of the target base printing material, for treating the printing surface of the target base printing material with an electron beam. The device allows inks used in printing to be cured without fail even when they contain no photopolymerization initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Okinori NAKASHIMA, Takuya MYOSE, Jun KINJOH, Daigo SHIOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20210040337
    Abstract: A continuous-type inkjet ink composition includes a polyvinyl butyral resin (Resin 1) and a rosin ester resin (Resin 2), and organic solvents, wherein the content of Resin 1 in the inkjet ink composition is 1.0 to 8.0 percent by mass, and the content ratio of Resin 1 and Resin 2 satisfies “Resin 1:Resin 2=20:1 to 10:8” based on ratio by mass, and the total quantity of organic solvents regulated by industrial health and safety regulation is 5 percent by mass or less in the inkjet ink composition. The composition demonstrates excellent discharge stability and jetting property as well as excellent adhesion to various types of base printing materials including polyolefin films with no surface treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Jun KINJOH, Okinori NAKASHIMA, Koki OGASAHARA