Patents by Inventor Katsuaki Kokubo

Katsuaki Kokubo 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: 8313613
    Abstract: It is a main object to provide sanitary paper comprising: a base thin paper including 5 to 40 wt % of a treating agent wherein bending rigidity B value is 0.03 to 0.07 g cm2/cm and moisture regain is 4.5 to 6.0 wt %, which are measured at a temperature of 25° C. with a humidity of 40% R.H., and the thin paper includes a fluent liquid state at ordinary temperatures with 70 to 100 wt % of effective ingredient including 1) 80.0 to 97.0 wt % of a moisturizing agent 2) 0.5 to 10.0 wt % of a softening agent selected from anionic surfactants, cationic surfactants, nonionic surfactants, and amphoteric surfactants. 3) 0.001 to 1.0 wt % of a hydrophilic high molecular compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Daio Paper Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Matsumura, Kiyoshi Taira, Katsuaki Kokubo
  • Publication number: 20110024066
    Abstract: [Problems] It is a main object to provide sanitary thin paper that changes little in hand feel due to ambient humidity [Measure for Solving Problems] This is solved by sanitary thin paper, containing 5 to 40 wt % of thin paper treating agent, which exhibits a fluent liquid state at ordinary temperatures and includes an effective ingredient containing a predetermined amount of moisturizing agent, a predetermined amount of softening agent and 0.001 to 1.0 wt % of hydrophilic high molecular compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Takashi Matsumura, Kiyoshi Taira, Katsuaki Kokubo
  • Patent number: 6794334
    Abstract: The thermo reversible recording medium comprises a substrate and a thermo sensible layer. This thermo sensible layer is made of resin and organic lower molecular weight substance and can become transparent-state or opaque-state depending on temperature. The organic lower molecular weight substance is a linear hydrocarbon-containing compound having no carboxyl group (A) and a linear hydrocarbon-containing compound having no carboxyl group (B) having a melting point lower than the melting point of the linear hydrocarbon-containing compound having no carboxyl group (A) by 20° C. or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Miyashi Yushi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hotta, Kunichika Moroboshi, Fumio Kawamura, Katsushi Sugiyama, Katsuaki Kokubo, Koji Kawai, Kazuo Hosoda, Masafumi Moriya
  • Patent number: 6489265
    Abstract: A reversible thermosensitive recording medium includes a reversible thermosensitive recording layer including a matrix resin and an organic low-molecular-weight material dispersed in the matrix resin, of which transparency is reversibly changeable depending upon the temperature thereof, and having (1) a transparentizing upper-limit temperature of 125° C. or more, (2) a temperature difference of 20° C. or less between said transparentizing upper-limit temperature and an opaqueness initiation lower-limit temperature, and (3) a transparentizing initiation temperature of less than 95° C., and a method of recording and erasing images, using the recording medium, a method of producing the recording medium, and the application thereof a card, a label, writable or rewritable disk cartridge, disk and tape cassette are proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Miyoshi Yushi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hotta, Kunichika Moroboshi, Masafumi Torii, Kunitoshi Sugiyama, Hideyuki Kobori, Katsushi Sugiyama, Katsuaki Kokubo, Koji Kawai, Kazuo Hosoda, Masafumi Moriya
  • Publication number: 20020045546
    Abstract: The thermo reversible recording medium comprises a substrate and a heat sensible layer. This heat sensible layer is made of resin and organic lower molecular weight substance and can becoming transparent or non-transparent or vice versa depending on temperature. The organic lower molecular weight substance is a linear hydrocarbon-containing compound having no carboxyl group (A) and a linear hydrocarbon-containing compound having no carboxyl group (B) having a melting point lower than the melting point of the linear hydrocarbon-containing compound having no carboxyl group (A) by 20° C. or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hotta, Kunichika Moroboshi, Fumio Kawamura, Katsushi Sugiyama, Katsuaki Kokubo, Koji Kawai, Kazuo Hosoda, Masafumi Moriya
  • Patent number: 6362130
    Abstract: A reversible thermosensitive recording medium is capable of assuming a first color in a first temperature range which is above room temperature, having a first color assuming initiation temperature and a first color assuming upper-limit temperature, and assuming a second color when heated to a second temperature range which is above the first temperature range and then cooled, having a second color assuming lower-limit temperature, (a) the first color assuming upper-limit temperature being 125° C. or more, (b) the difference between the first color assuming upper-limit temperature and the second color assuming lower-limit temperature being 20° C. or less, and (c) the first color assuming initiation temperature being 95° C. or more, and a method of recording and erasing images, using the recording medium, a method of producing the recording medium, and the application thereof a card, a label, writable or rewritable disk cartridge, disk and tape cassette are proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Miyoshi Yushi Kabushika Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hotta, Kunichika Morohoshi, Masafumi Torii, Kunitoshi Sugiyama, Hideyuki Kobori, Katsushi Sugiyama, Katsuaki Kokubo, Koji Kawai, Kazuo Hosoda, Masafumi Moriya
  • Patent number: 6174836
    Abstract: A reversible thermosensitive recording medium includes a reversible thermosensitive recording layer including a matrix resin and an organic low-molecular-weight material dispersed in the matrix resin, of which transparency is reversibly changeable depending upon the temperature thereof, and having (1) a transparentizing upper-limit temperature of 125° C. or more, (2) a temperature difference of 20° C. or less between said transparentizing upper-limit temperature and an opaqueness initiation lower-limit temperature, and (3) a transparentizing initiation temperature of less than 95° C., and a method of recording and erasing images, using the recording medium, a method of producing the recording medium, and the application thereof a card, a label, writable or rewritable disk cartridge, disk and tape cassette are proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignees: Ricoh Company Ltd., Miyoshi Yushi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hotta, Kunichika Moroboshi, Masafumi Torii, Kunitoshi Sugiyama, Hideyuki Kobori, Katsushi Sugiyama, Katsuaki Kokubo, Koji Kawai, Kazuo Hosoda, Masafumi Moriya
  • Patent number: 6090192
    Abstract: A reversible thermosensitive composition including a coloring agent and a developer and capable of assuming a colored state and a discolored state depending upon the thermal hysteresis thereof. The developer is a phenol compound represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein n is an integer of between 1 and 3, X represents a divalent group having a nitrogen atom or an oxygen atom, R.sup.1 represents a substituted or non-substituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group having at least two carbon atoms and R.sup.2 represents a hydrocarbon group. A reversible thermosensitive recording medium has a thermosensitive recording layer containing the above composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Torii, Hiroaki Matsui, Hiromi Furuya, Fumio Kawamura, Kyoji Tsutsui, Katsushi Sugiyama, Katsuaki Kokubo, Katsuhisa Kamio, Kazuo Hosoda, Masafumi Moriya
  • Patent number: 5955225
    Abstract: A reversible thermosensitive composition including a coloring agent and a developer and capable of assuming a colored state and a discolored state depending upon the thermal hysteresis thereof. The developer is a phenol compound represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.3 represent, independently from each other, a substituted or non-substituted hydrocarbon group, R.sup.2 represents a substituted or non-substituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group having at least two carbon atoms, with the proviso that the total number of carbon atoms of R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 is at least 8, X and Y represent, independently from each other, a divalent group having a nitrogen atom or an oxygen atom and r is an integer of between 1 and 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Ricoh Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Furuya, Masafumi Torii, Masaru Shimada, Fumio Kawamura, Kyoji Tsutsui, Katsushi Sugiyama, Katsuaki Kokubo, Katsuhisa Kamio, Kazuo Hosoda, Masafumi Moriya
  • Patent number: 5942377
    Abstract: A reversible thermosensitive composition including a coloring agent and a developer and capable of assuming a colored state and a discolored state depending upon the thermal hysteresis thereof. The developer is a phenol compound represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a substituted or non-substituted divalent hydrocarbon group having at least two carbon atoms, R.sup.2 represents a substituted or non-substituted hydrocarbon group, X and Y represent, independently from each other, a divalent group having a hetero atom and r is an integer of between 1 and 3. A reversible thermosensitive recording medium includes a support and a thermosensitive layer including the above composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Miyoshi Yushi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masafumi Torii, Tadafumi Tatewaki, Hiroaki Matsui, Hiromi Furuya, Kyoji Tsutsui, Masaru Shimada, Katsushi Sugiyama, Katsuaki Kokubo, Katsuhisa Kamio, Kazuo Hosoda, Masafumi Moriya
  • Patent number: 5891823
    Abstract: A reversible thermosensitive medium having a support and a thermosensitive layer, the layer comprising a composition including a coloring agent and a developer and capable of assuming a colored state and a discolored state depending upon the thermal hysteresis thereof. The developer is a phenol compound represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein n is an integer of between 1 and 3, X represents a divalent group having a nitrogen atom or an oxygen atom, R.sup.1 represents a substituted or non-substituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group having at least two carbon atoms and R.sup.2 represents a hydrocarbon group. A reversible thermosensitive recording medium has a thermosensitive recording layer containing the above composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Ricoh Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Torii, Hiroaki Matsui, Hiromi Furuya, Fumio Kawamura, Kyoji Tsutsui, Katsushi Sugiyama, Katsuaki Kokubo, Katsuhisa Kamio, Kazuo Hosoda, Masafumi Moriya