Patents by Inventor Kensuke Moritan

Kensuke Moritan 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).

  • Printer, printing system, and printing method using print paper with photosensitive microcapsules applied thereto
    Patent number: 6229558
    Abstract: A printer has a printer body, a carriage for undergoing scanning movement over a print paper in a scanning direction, and a cassette removably connected to the printer body for storing print paper and having a code element indicative of photosensitive characteristics of the print paper. The print paper contains photosensitive microcapsules encapsulating a color developing material and a photo-curing material and has an image receiving layer for developing color by a reaction of the color developing material with the image receiving layer. The carriage has a light emitting element for emitting light of a preselected wavelength to which the photosensitive microcapsules are exposed to thereby form a latent image on the print paper. A photosensitive characteristics identifying mechanism is disposed on the carriage for reading the code element of the cassette to identify the photosensitive characteristics of the print paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuji Saigo, Takashi Maeda, Kazuo Wakabayashi, Kensuke Moritan, Saburo Imai, Shigeru Inagaki, Hidenori Fujioka, Yuji Hosoi