Patents by Inventor Kei Hiruma

Kei Hiruma 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: 20230416553
    Abstract: A water-based coloring composition contains a metal pigment, water, and an organic solvent. The metal pigment is surface-treated with a first surface treatment agent and a second surface treatment agent, the first surface treatment agent contains a phosphonic-acid-based compound denoted by Formula (1) or a phosphoric-acid-based compound denoted by Formula (2), the second surface treatment agent contains a phosphonic-acid-based compound denoted by Formula (3) or a phosphoric-acid-based compound denoted by Formula (4), and the carbon number of R1 or R2 of the first surface treatment agent is higher than the carbon number of R3 or R4 of the second surface treatment agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsunobu NAKATANI, Kei HIRUMA, Kenta TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20230312958
    Abstract: Provided is a recording method including an adhesion step of jetting an ink composition from an ink jet head and making the ink composition adhere to a recording medium, and a primary heating step of heating the recording medium in the adhesion step, in which the adhesion step includes a step in which a jetting frequency of the ink composition is 15 kHz or greater, the ink composition contains a metal pigment and a solvent component, the solvent component contains an organic solvent, and the metal pigment is a metal particle that has a scaly shape and has a surface treated with a compound represented by Formula (1) or Formula (2). (R1—)P(O)(OH)2??(1) (R2—O—)aP(O)(OH)3?a??(2) (In the formulae, R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrocarbon group having 14 or more carbon atoms which may be substituted with a substituent, and a represents 1 or 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroaki KIDA, Shintaro ASAI, Kei HIRUMA, Tomoyuki USHIYAMA, Mitsunobu NAKATANI, Kenta TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20230312945
    Abstract: A pigment composition according to an embodiment contains a base-metal pigment, at least one dispersant, and water. The base-metal pigment is metal particles having a surface treated with at least one compound represented by formula (1) or (2): (R1—)P(O)(OH)2 ??(1) (R2—O—)aP(O)(OH)3-a ??(2) where R1 and R2 independently represent a hydrocarbon group haying 12 or more carbon atoms, optionally substituted with one or more substituents, and a is 1 or 2. The dispersant includes an amine compound haying a polyester structure, and the pigment composition is an aqueous one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsunobu NAKATANI, Kei HIRUMA, Tomoyuki USHIYAMA, Kenta TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20230311409
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object, the manufacturing method including: a powder layer formation step of disposing powders containing a forming material of the three-dimensional shaped object in a layer shape and forming a powder layer having a predetermined thickness; and a molded body formation step of discharging, to the powder layer, a binder liquid containing a binder for binding the powders to one another, and forming a molded body in which the powders are bound to one another. In the molded body formation step, in a formation region of the molded body in the powder layer, a discharging amount of the binder liquid per unit area to a first formation region that is a contour portion of the formation region and a discharging amount of the binder liquid per unit area to a second formation region other than the contour portion are discharging amounts different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Masaya ISHIDA, Momoko WAKABAYASHI, Toshiki SANO, Hideki ISHIGAMI, Kei HIRUMA, Seiichi TANIGUCHI, Kenji KITADA
  • Publication number: 20230312955
    Abstract: An ink jet ink composition contains a metal pigment and at least one liquid medium selected from the group consisting of organic solvents and water. The metal pigment is surface-modified with a surface treatment agent. The metal pigment is in the form of scale-like particles and has a volume average particle size D50 of 1.0 ?m or less. The ratio D50/Z of the volume average particle size D50 of the metal pigment to the average thickness Z of the metal pigment particles is 17 or more, and the ratio D50/L of the volume average particle size D50 to the nozzle diameter L of the ink jet head is 0.050 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kei HIRUMA, Mitsunobu NAKATANI, Tomoyuki USHIYAMA, Kenta TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20230303866
    Abstract: An aqueous coloring composition contains a metal pigment and a solvent component. The metal pigment is metal particles having a surface treated with at least one surface treatment agent, and the solvent component includes water and at least one organic solvent. The coordinate-to-coordinate distance between the HSP coordinates of the surface treatment agent and those of the solvent component is 4.5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Kenta TSUKADA, Kei HIRUMA, Mitsunobu NAKATANI, Tomoyuki USHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230303848
    Abstract: An aqueous coloring composition contains a metal pigment, water, and organic solvents. The metal pigment is metal particles having a surface treated with at least one compound represented by formula (1) or (2), and the organic solvents include an organic solvent (A), having a water solubility of 1000 g/L or more at 20° C., and an organic solvent (B), having a water solubility of 100 g/L or less at 20° C. (R1—)P(O)(OH)2??(1) (R2—O—)aP(O)(OH)3-a??(2) (In the formulae, R1 and R2 independently represent a hydrocarbon group having 12 or more carbon atoms, optionally substituted with one or more substituents, and a represents 1 or 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsunobu NAKATANI, Kei HIRUMA, Tomoyuki USHIYAMA, Kenta TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20230279255
    Abstract: An aqueous coloring composition contains a metal pigment and water. The metal pigment is metal particles having a surface treated with at least one surface treatment agent, and the surface treatment agent is at least one compound represented by general formula (1) or (2). The volume-average particle diameter D50 of the metal pigment is 9 ?m or less. (A1-R1—)P(O)(OH)2??(1) (A2-R2—O—)aP(O)(OH)3-a??(2) (In the formulae, A1 and A2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a group selected from a carboxyl group, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, and an oxyalkylene-containing group, R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrocarbon group having 12 or more carbon atoms, and a represents an integer of 1 or 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsunobu NAKATANI, Kei HIRUMA, Tomoyuki USHIYAMA, Kenta TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20230272235
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is an ink jet ink composition which is a solvent-based ink, the composition including a metal pigment and an organic solvent, in which the metal pigment is a metal particle having a surface treated with a surface treatment agent, the surface treatment agent contains a compound represented by General Formula (1) and a compound represented by General Formula (2), and a mass ratio of a mass of the compound represented by General Formula (2) to a total mass of the compound represented by General Formula (1) and the compound represented by General Formula (2) is 45% by mass or less. (R—O—)P(O)(OH)2??(1) (R—O—)2P(O)(OH)??(2) (In the formulae, R's each independently represent a hydrocarbon group having 8 or more carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Shintaro ASAI, Hiroaki KIDA, Kei HIRUMA, Tomoyuki USHIYAMA, Mitsunobu NAKATANI, Kenta TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20220243080
    Abstract: A metal pigment composition of the present disclosure is a coloring composition or a composition to be used for preparation of the coloring composition and includes: a metal pigment; a polyoxyalkyleneamine compound; and a liquid medium component, the metal pigment includes metal particles, the metal particles are surface-modified with a surface treatment agent, and the surface treatment agent is at least one selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the following formula (1) and a compound represented by the following formula (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroaki KIDA, Shintaro ASAI, Kei HIRUMA, Tomoyuki USHIYAMA, Mitsunobu NAKATANI, Kenta TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20220243081
    Abstract: A coloring composition of the present disclosure includes a metal pigment; an acrylic-based resin having an acid value of 200 mgKOH/g or less; and a liquid medium component, the metal pigment includes metal particles, the metal particles are surface-modified with a surface treatment agent, and the surface treatment agent includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the following formula (1) and a compound represented by the following formula (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Shintaro ASAI, Hiroaki KIDA, Kei HIRUMA, Tomoyuki USHIYAMA, Mitsunobu NAKATANI, Kenta TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20220203740
    Abstract: A recording method of the present disclosure, which is a recording method of performing recording on a recording medium by using a recording device including an ink jet head, includes ejecting a composition for ink jet from the ink jet head, in which the composition for ink jet contains a metal pigment, the metal pigment is formed of a plurality of scaly metal particles, the ink jet head includes a circulation flow path for circulating the composition for ink jet, and an average thickness of the metal particles determined by atomic force microscopy is 19 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Kei HIRUMA, Hiroshi TAKIGUCHI, Masaru TERADA, Shintaro ASAI, Hiroaki KIDA, Tomoyuki USHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220204787
    Abstract: An ink jet ink composition containing a metal pigment, and a liquid medium component, in which the metal pigment is made of a metal particle, the metal particle is surface-modified with a surface treatment agent, the surface treatment agent is at least one selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by formula (1) below and a compound represented by formula (2) below, and the ink jet ink composition is a water-based ink or a solvent-based ink: (R—O)aP(O)(OH)3-a ??(1) (R)P(O)(OH)2 ??(2) where R is independently a hydrocarbon group having a carbon skeleton having 13 or more carbon atoms, and a is 1 or 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroaki KIDA, Shintaro ASAI, Kei HIRUMA, Tomoyuki USHIYAMA, Mitsunobu NAKATANI, Kenta TSUKADA, Masaru TERADA
  • Publication number: 20220204785
    Abstract: A water-based composition of the present disclosure includes a metal pigment, a polyoxyalkylene amine compound, and a water-based medium, in which the metal pigment is formed of a plurality of metal particles, the metal particles are surface-modified by a surface treatment agent, and a content of the polyoxyalkylene amine compound is 0.1 parts by mass or more and 50 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of the metal particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Mitsunobu NAKATANI, Kei HIRUMA, Tomoyuki USHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220032618
    Abstract: An ink jet printing method includes a metallic ink application step of ejecting a metallic ink composition containing a metallic pigment from an ink jet head to apply the metallic ink composition onto a printing medium, a heating step of heating the metallic ink composition applied on the printing medium with an infrared heater, and a coloring ink application step of ejecting a coloring ink composition containing a coloring material from an ink jet head to apply the coloring ink composition onto the metallic ink composition on the printing medium. Each of the metallic ink composition and the coloring ink composition is a water-based ink or a solvent-based ink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoyuki USHIYAMA, Kei HIRUMA, Hiroaki KIDA, Shintaro ASAI, Masaru TERADA, Mitsunobu NAKATANI
  • Patent number: 11161352
    Abstract: An ink jet textile printing ink contains 5% by mass to 20% by mass of a water-soluble dye, water, a water-soluble organic solvent, and active carbon particles. The active carbon particles include particles having a particle size of 50 nm to 1000 nm, and the active carbon particles having the particle size of 50 nm to 1000 nm are contained in a proportion of 500 to 300000 particles per milliliter. Also, the active carbon particles may include particles having a particle size of 50 nm to 200 nm, and the active carbon particles having a particle size of 50 nm to 200 nm may be contained in a proportion of 2000 to 30000 particles per milliliter. The active carbon particles may have an average particle size in the range of 100 nm to 600 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventors: Koji Imamura, Homare Kuribayashi, Shotaro Watanabe, Kei Hiruma, Masato Hanamura, Jungo Asano
  • Publication number: 20210139722
    Abstract: A composition for aqueous ink jet contains a specific dye which is one or more coloring materials selected from the group consisting of C. I. Acid Black 172 and C. I. Acid Black 194, and a specific aromatic compound which is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulae (1) to (4) below. The content of the specific aromatic compound relative to 100 parts by mass of the specific dye is 0.2 parts by mass or more and 50 parts by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Homare KURIBAYASHI, Shotaro WATANABE, Kei HIRUMA, Masato HANAMURA, Koji IMAMURA, Jungo ASANO
  • Publication number: 20210095142
    Abstract: An ink jet composition according to the present disclosure contains a plurality of metal particles, a hydrophobic phosphorus surface treatment agent, a polyoxyalkyleneamine compound, and a solvent. The amount of the contained polyoxyalkyleneamine compound is 0.5 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the metal particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi TAKIGUCHI, Hiroaki KIDA, Kei HIRUMA, Tomoyuki USHIYAMA, Masaru TERADA, Shintaro ASAI, Mitsunobu NAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20210095151
    Abstract: A composition for aqueous ink contains water and a coloring material, wherein the calcium ion content x (ppm) and the oxalate ion content y (ppm) in the composition for aqueous ink jet satisfy the relation of y?3491.8x?3.386.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Kei HIRUMA, Homare KURIBAYASHI, Shotaro WATANABE, Koji IMAMURA, Masato HANAMURA, Jungo ASANO
  • Publication number: 20200122486
    Abstract: An ink jet textile printing ink contains 5% by mass to 20% by mass of a water-soluble dye, water, a water-soluble organic solvent, and active carbon particles. The active carbon particles include particles having a particle size of 50 nm to 1000 nm, and the active carbon particles having the particle size of 50 nm to 1000 nm are contained in a proportion of 500 to 300000 particles per milliliter. Also, the active carbon particles may include particles having a particle size of 50 nm to 200 nm, and the active carbon particles having a particle size of 50 nm to 200 nm may be contained in a proportion of 2000 to 30000 particles per milliliter. The active carbon particles may have an average particle size in the range of 100 nm to 600 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Koji IMAMURA, Homare KURIBAYASHI, Shotaro WATANABE, Kei HIRUMA, Masato HANAMURA, Jungo ASANO