Patents by Inventor Keisuke SANUKI

Keisuke SANUKI 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).

  • Plate-making method, plate-making system and can body
    Patent number: 12076975
    Abstract: A plate-making method for manufacturing a printing plate includes: manufacturing the printing plate based on a knockout method in which knockouts of halftone dots in one color are formed, and halftone dots in the other color are overprinted onto positions of the knockouts; for each of pixels, when a sum of a halftone dot area ratio of the one color and a halftone dot area ratio of the other color is smaller than 100%, forming a gap from a knockout in the one color around a halftone dot in the other color; and for each of pixels, when the sum of the halftone dot area ratio of the one color and the halftone dot area ratio of the other color is greater than 100%, forming an overmask such that the halftone dot in the other color penetrates a periphery of the halftone dot in the one color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Yamamoto, Ryota Nagatsuka, Keisuke Sanuki, Iori Takatori, Yukiko Saito
  • Plate-making method, plate-making system and can body
    Patent number: 11878504
    Abstract: A plate-making method for manufacturing a printing plate includes: manufacturing the printing plate based on a knockout method in which knockouts of halftone dots in one color are formed, and halftone dots in the other color are overprinted onto positions of the knockouts; for each of pixels, when a sum of a halftone dot area ratio of the one color and a halftone dot area ratio of the other color is smaller than 100%, forming a gap from a knockout in the one color around a halftone dot in the other color; and for each of pixels, when the sum of the halftone dot area ratio of the one color and the halftone dot area ratio of the other color is greater than 100%, forming an overmask such that the halftone dot in the other color penetrates a periphery of the halftone dot in the one color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Yamamoto, Ryota Nagatsuka, Keisuke Sanuki, Iori Takatori, Yukiko Saito
  • PLATE-MAKING METHOD, PLATE-MAKING SYSTEM AND CAN BODY
    Publication number: 20220212461
    Abstract: A plate-making method for manufacturing a printing plate includes: manufacturing the printing plate based on a knockout method in which knockouts of halftone dots in one color are formed, and halftone dots in the other color are overprinted onto positions of the knockouts; for each of pixels, when a sum of a halftone dot area ratio of the one color and a halftone dot area ratio of the other color is smaller than 100%, forming a gap from a knockout in the one color around a halftone dot in the other color; and for each of pixels, when the sum of the halftone dot area ratio of the one color and the halftone dot area ratio of the other color is greater than 100%, forming an overmask such that the halftone dot in the other color penetrates a periphery of the halftone dot in the one color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Toyo Seikan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro YAMAMOTO, Ryota NAGATSUKA, Keisuke SANUKI, Iori TAKATORI, Yukiko SAITO