Patents by Inventor Kyohji Okada

Kyohji Okada 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: 7985520
    Abstract: A photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate and a photosensitive layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate, the photosensitive layer including a cross-linking surface layer including a cross-linked copolymer of a radical polymerizable monomer (I) having at least three functional groups without a charge transport structure and a radical polymerizable monomer (II) having a charge transport structure, and a polysiloxane-acryl block copolymer having a charge transport property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongguo Li, Kazukiyo Nagai, Kyohji Okada, Tamotsu Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 7553796
    Abstract: The present invention provides a reversible thermosensitive recording medium including a support and a thermosensitive recording layer thereon, in which the thermosensitive recording layer contains an electron-donating coloring compound and an electron-accepting compound, and the thermosensitive recording layer is capable of forming a relatively developed condition and a relatively erased condition depending on at least one of the difference of heating temperatures and the difference of cooling rates following to heating, and in which the electron-accepting compound contains a phenol compound expressed by General Formula (1): where, in the General Formula (1), “l” represents an integer of 1 to 3 and “m” represents an integer of 23 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamamoto, Kyoji Tsutsui, Hiromi Furuya, Kyohji Okada
  • Publication number: 20090162763
    Abstract: A photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate and a photosensitive layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate, the photosensitive layer including a cross-linking surface layer including a cross-linked copolymer of a radical polymerizable monomer (I) having at least three functional groups without a charge transport structure and a radical polymerizable monomer (II) having a charge transport structure, and a polysiloxane-acryl block copolymer having a charge transport property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Hongguo Li, Kazukiyo Nagai, Kyohji Okada, Tamotsu Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 7456132
    Abstract: The present invention provides a reversible thermosensitive recording medium including a support and a thermosensitive recording layer thereon, in which the thermosensitive recording layer comprises an electron-donating coloring compound and an electron-accepting compound, and the thermosensitive recording layer is capable of forming a relatively developed condition and a relatively erased condition depending on at least one of the difference of heating temperatures and the difference of cooling rates following to heating, and in which the electron-accepting compound comprises a phenol compound represented by the General Formula (1): where, in the General Formula (1) “l” represents an integer of 1 to 3, “m” represents an integer of 1 or more, and “n” represents an integer of 7 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamamoto, Kyoji Tsutsui, Hiromi Furuya, Kyohji Okada, Kunio Hayakawa, Shinya Kawahara, Hitoshi Shimbo
  • Publication number: 20080242539
    Abstract: The present invention provides a reversible thermosensitive recording medium including a support and a thermosensitive recording layer thereon, in which the thermosensitive recording layer contains an electron-donating coloring compound and an electron-accepting compound, and the thermosensitive recording layer is capable of forming a relatively developed condition and a relatively erased condition depending on at least one of the difference of heating temperatures and the difference of cooling rates following to heating, and in which the electron-accepting compound contains a phenol compound expressed by General Formula (1): where, in the General Formula (1), “l” represents an integer of 1 to 3 and “m” represents an integer of 23 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamamoto, Kyoji Tsutsui, Hiromi Furuya, Kyohji Okada
  • Patent number: 7419934
    Abstract: A reversible thermosensitive coloring material which can reversibly achieve a relatively colored state and a relatively discolored state depending on a temperature to which the coloring material is heated or a cooling speed at which the coloring material is cooled after heated. The coloring material including an electron donating coloring agent; an electron accepting color developer configured to color the coloring agent; and a compound having a Zwitter ion in which a total of charges in a molecule of the compound is zero. A reversible thermosensitive recording material including a substrate and a reversible thermosensitive recording layer, which is located overlying the substrate and which includes the reversible thermosensitive coloring material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamamoto, Hiromi Furuya, Kyohji Okada
  • Publication number: 20070259782
    Abstract: A reversible thermosensitive coloring material which can reversibly achieve a relatively colored state and a relatively discolored state depending on a temperature to which the coloring material is heated or a cooling speed at which the coloring material is cooled after heated. The coloring material including an electron donating coloring agent; an electron accepting color developer configured to color the coloring agent; and a compound having a Zwitter ion in which a total of charges in a molecule of the compound is zero. A reversible thermosensitive recording material including a substrate and a reversible thermosensitive recording layer, which is located overlying the substrate and which includes the reversible thermosensitive coloring material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Hiromi Furuya, Kyohji Okada
  • Publication number: 20070225161
    Abstract: The present invention provides a reversible thermosensitive recording medium including a support and a thermosensitive recording layer thereon, in which the thermosensitive recording layer comprises an electron-donating coloring compound and an electron-accepting compound, and the thermosensitive recording layer is capable of forming a relatively developed condition and a relatively erased condition depending on at least one of the difference of heating temperatures and the difference of cooling rates following to heating, and in which the electron-accepting compound comprises a phenol compound represented by the General Formula (1): where, in the General Formula (1) “l” represents an integer of 1 to 3, m represents an integer of 1 or more, and n represents an integer of 7 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamamoto, Kyoji Tsutsui, Hiromi Furuya, Kyohji Okada, Kunio Hayakawa, Shinya Kawahara, Hitoshi Shimbo