Patents by Inventor Katsuhiro Shirota

Katsuhiro Shirota 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: 6341862
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a color filter having a plurality of colored members as pixel portions which are formed by using dots of a plurality of color inks having different spectral characteristics. Light transmitting ink dots other than the color ink dots are respectively formed on the pixel portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Shirota, Koichiro Nakazawa, Akihiko Yamada
  • Patent number: 6339461
    Abstract: A method for forming spacers according to the present invention is a method for forming the spacers on a substrate, comprising the steps of: supplying adhesive at a position for forming each of the spacers on the substrate by an inkjet system; dispersing beads, each bead having a diameter corresponding to the height of the spacer, so as to adhere the beads to adhesive; and removing the beads that are not adhered to the adhesive from the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Kashiwazaki, Katsuhiro Shirota, Takeshi Miyazaki, Koichiro Nakazawa, Masashi Hirose, Yoshihisa Yamashita
  • Patent number: 6312771
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for production a color filter for liquid crystal display device by applying inks to a base by an ink-jet printing system to arrange colorants on the base, which comprises the steps of applying inks, which each comprise a homopolymer of a monomer represented by the formula (I) or of the formula (II) wherein R1 is H or CH3, and R2 and R3 are independently H or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and/or a copolymer of the monomer with another vinyl monomer and can be cured by light or heat, directly onto the base or onto a resin layer provided on the base by the ink-jet printing system, thereby arranging colorants contained in the inks; and then curing the thus-applied inks by light exposure or heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Kashiwazaki, Katsuhiro Shirota, Koichiro Nakazawa, Shoji Shiba, Masashi Hirose
  • Patent number: 6248482
    Abstract: Provided is a novel ink which is suitable for producing a color filter by use of an ink-jet system. The ink comprises a pyrazolone dye of the general formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an OH group, a halogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a nitro group, a CF3 group or an SO3(M1) group, where M1 is an alkali metal or NH4; both R3 and R4 are an SO3(M2) group, where M2 is an alkali metal or NH4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Kashiwazaki, Katsuhiro Shirota, Koichiro Nakazawa, Masashi Hirose, Mayumi Yokoyama, Yoshihisa Yamashita
  • Patent number: 6238827
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a color filter with high color density and superior transparency. The color filter comprises red, green, and blue color elements. A relationship between a tristimulus value (Y) of a white color synthesized by the color elements and an area (S) for a triangle formed by connecting the xy chromaticity in the standard C light source of the above color elements each obtained based on a XYZ color system with a 2° visual field (JIS Z8701) meets the condition of Y≧−255*S+54.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichiro Nakazawa, Katsuhiro Shirota, Takeshi Miyazaki, Akio Kashiwazaki, Masashi Hirose
  • Patent number: 6224205
    Abstract: A color-filter manufacturing method which manufactures a color filter where occurrence of color mixture and colorless portion(s) are prevented while improving ink-arrival precision in applying ink onto a substrate. The method manufactures a color filter by discharging ink from an ink-jet head IJH on a substrate 53 so as to color respective pixels with a plurality of discharge ink. When ink I2 discharged from the ink-jet head IJH is applied not in the form of ink droplet but in the form of pillar onto the substrate 53, the ink I2 is applied at a position within a pixel, where the ink I2 is to mix with previously-applied ink I1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Akahira, Hiroshi Sugitani, Hiroshi Sato, Katsuhiro Shirota, Koichiro Nakazawa, Hiromitsu Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 6207948
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a color filter colors a large number of filter elements on a substrate respectively in a predetermined color. A filter element is colored while an ink-jet head nozzle and the filter element are aligned. The method comprises a detection step of detecting the position of the filter element, a correction step of correcting a relative position of the filter element and a discharge nozzle for discharging coloring material, based on position information of the filter element detected at the detection step, so that the filter element and the discharge nozzle are aligned, and a coloring step of coloring the filter element by discharging the coloring material by the discharge nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideto Yokoi, Hiroshi Sato, Katsuhiro Shirota, Takeshi Miyazaki, Akio Kashiwazaki, Shoji Shiba
  • Patent number: 6207329
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a color filter equipped with a plurality of colored light-transmitting areas on its base, wherein the light-transmitting areas are colored with ink dots, and each of the colored portions is continuously formed over a plurality of the light-transmitting areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Shirota, Hiroshi Sato, Makoto Akahira, Hideto Yokoi, Takeshi Miyazaki, Akio Kashiwazaki, Shoji Shiba
  • Patent number: 6203604
    Abstract: A novel ink is provided which comprises a metal complex azopyrazolone dye and a xanthene dye. This ink is suitable for forming a color filter by an ink-jet system. A color filter, a liquid crystal panel, and a computer employing the ink are also provided. Further, a process for producing the color filter is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Kashiwazaki, Katsuhiro Shirota, Koichiro Nakazawa, Masashi Hirose, Mayumi Yokoyama, Yoshihisa Yamashita
  • Patent number: 6180294
    Abstract: Provided is a color filter which comprises a substrate and a resin layer on the substrate, the resin layer containing a plurality of colored portions of different colors and non-colored portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoji Shiba, Hiroshi Sato, Katsuhiro Shirota, Hideto Yokoi, Akio Kashiwazaki, Keiichi Murai, Takeshi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 6162510
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a color filter comprises a step for charging an ink comprising a thermosetting resin composition onto an opening of a black matrix provided on a transparent substrate and a step for curing the ink by heat treatment. The thermosetting resin composition comprises either a coloring agent, a multifunctional epoxide having at least two glycidyl groups and a compound crosslinked by the multifunctional epoxide; or a coloring agent, a cellulose-reactive compound and a compound crosslinked by the cellulose-reactive compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Kashiwazaki, Katsuhiro Shirota, Koichiro Nakazawa, Masashi Hirose
  • Patent number: 6155673
    Abstract: A liquid jet recording method includes applying thermal energy to liquid in a liquid passage to produce film boiling of the liquid to produce a bubble; permitting the bubble to communicate with ambience; wherein the liquid passage is not blocked in the communicating step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nakajima, Masanori Takenouchi, Toshiharu Inui, Yoshihisa Takizawa, Masashi Miyagawa, Hisao Yaegashi, Katsuhiro Shirota, Norio Ohkuma, Akira Asai
  • Patent number: 6134059
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a color filter equipped with a plurality of colored light-transmitting areas on its base, wherein the light-transmitting areas are colored with ink dots, and each of the colored portions is continuously formed over a plurality of the light-transmitting areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Shirota, Hiroshi Sato, Makoto Akahira, Hideto Yokoi, Takeshi Miyazaki, Akio Kashiwazaki, Shoji Shiba
  • Patent number: 6094247
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a color filter comprising a transparent base on which a plurality of coloring members different in spectral characteristics from each other, and light-screening members are selectively arranged, wherein the light-screening member are arranged on a resin layer patterns provided on the base, and the coloring members are arranged in between the resin layer patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Miyazaki, Keiichi Murai, Hiroshi Sato, Katsuhiro Shirota, Akio Kashiwazaki, Shoji Shiba
  • Patent number: 6084006
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a color filter comprises a step for charging an ink comprising a thermosetting resin composition onto an opening of a black matrix provided on a transparent substrate and a step for curing the ink by heat treatment. The thermosetting resin composition comprises either a coloring agent, a multifunctional epoxide having at least two glycidyl groups and a compound crosslinked by the multifunctional epoxide; or a coloring agent, a cellulose-reactive compound and a compound crosslinked by the cellulose-reactive compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Kashiwazaki, Katsuhiro Shirota, Koichiro Nakazawa, Masashi Hirose
  • Patent number: 6076919
    Abstract: In a jet recording method, a recording material is placed in a path defined by a nozzle leading to an ejection outlet, and then heated by actuating a heater disposed within the nozzle to generate a bubble within the recording material, thus ejecting a droplet of the recording material out of the ejection outlet under the action of the bubble to be attached onto recording paper. As improvement, the recording material is pre-heated by actuating the heater before the heating for generating the bubble, and the generated bubble is caused to communicate with ambience. As a result, the ejection of the recording material droplet is stabilized without causing splash or mist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Shirota, Masanori Takenouchi, Akira Asai, Hisao Yaegashi, Norio Ohkuma, Yoshihisa Takizawa, Toshiharu Inui, Kazuhiro Nakajima, Masashi Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 6063174
    Abstract: A color filter having a wide color reproducing range and provided with green pixels having a high permeability. The color filter is provided with green pixels containing a water soluble dye A having the x- and y-chromaticity characteristics in the CIE chromaticity diagram as described below and a water soluble dye B having the spectroscopic characteristics as described below:Water soluble dye A: x-chromaticity is 0.190 to 0.280 when the y-chromaticity is 0.520 in a phosphate buffer solution comprising 60 mM/liter of Na.sub.2 HPO.sub.4.12H.sub.2 O and 16 mM/liter of KH.sub.2 PO.sub.4 at pH 7.5; andWater soluble dye B: Transmittance of light having a wavelength of 530 nm is 95% or more and transmittance of light having a wavelength of 450 nm is 50% or less in a phosphate buffer solution comprising 60 mM/liter of Na.sub.2 HPO.sub.4.12H.sub.2 O and 16 mM/liter of KH.sub.2 PO.sub.4 at pH 7.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Shirota, Takeshi Miyazaki, Akio Kashiwazaki, Koichiro Nakazawa, Masashi Hirose
  • Patent number: 6025898
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a color filter manufacturing method which can manufacture a low-cost color filter without causing any ink blurring, any color mixing, and any color omission. In order to achieve the object, according to the present invention, there is provided a color filter manufacturing method for a color filter formed by forming a layer to be colored on a transparent substrate, and discharging an ink colored in a predetermined color for coloring the layer, wherein when a numerical value of the thickness of the layer to be colored is assumed to be d (.mu.m) and a numerical value of the volume of the ink discharged at one discharge is to be Vo (p1: pico-liter), the thickness of the layer to be colored and the volume of the ink are adjusted to establish d>Vo/500.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Kashiwazaki, Hiroshi Sato, Katsuhiro Shirota, Hideto Yokoi, Takeshi Miyazaki, Shoji Shiba
  • Patent number: 6022647
    Abstract: A method for making a color filter substrate includes the steps of: forming barriers on a substrate; placing an ink having a surface tension of 20 to 60 dyne/cm onto regions between the barriers; and curing the ink to form color filters. The volume of the ink charged onto one region is three to ten times the volume of the region. A color filter substrate is produced by the above-mentioned method. A liquid crystal device includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal encapsulated between the pair of substrates, wherein one of the pair of substrate is the above-mentioned color filter substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Hirose, Yasushi Takatori, Katsuhiro Shirota, Takeshi Miyazaki, Akio Kashiwazaki, Koichiro Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 5963233
    Abstract: In a jet recording method, a normally solid recording material is placed in a heat-melted state within a nozzle and heated to generate a bubble therewithin by applying a bubble-generating heat energy, thereby ejecting droplets of the recording material out of the nozzle onto a recording medium. In the method, the ejection of the recording material droplets can be stabilized by applying prior to the bubble-generating heat energy a preheating energy which decreases continuously or discontinuously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Shirota, Genji Inada