Patents by Inventor Masahiro Yatake

Masahiro Yatake 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: 9657187
    Abstract: An ink composition includes a pigment; polymer particles; and a polar solvent with a boiling point of 150° C. or higher, in which the polymer particles include a core polymer and a shell polymer that covers at least a portion of the core polymer, a glass transition point of the polymer that configures the core polymer is more than 30° C. lower than the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the shell polymer, the polymer that configures the shell polymer includes a polymer having a (meth)acrylate monomer unit and a carboxylic acid monomer unit, the content (solid content conversion) of the polymer particles is 1.0 mass % to 10 mass % with respect to the total amount of the ink composition, and the content of the polar solvent is 10 mass % to 40 mass % of the total amount of the ink composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Kagata, Masahiro Yatake, Hiroshi Mukai
  • Publication number: 20170136782
    Abstract: Provided is a pretreatment agent for ink jet textile printing that can provide printed matters on fabric with high color-developing properties and less bleeding. The pretreatment agent includes at least water and (A) a multivalent metal ion and polymer fine particles, (B) a cationic polymer and polymer fine particles, or (C) cationic polymer fine particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Yatake
  • Publication number: 20170044387
    Abstract: An ink composition that performs recording by being attached on a heated non-absorbent recording medium or a heated low absorbency recording medium, the ink composition including a pigment; a core polymer and a shell polymer that covers at least a portion of the core polymer, and polymer particles in which the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the core polymer is more than 10° C. lower than the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the shell polymer, and in which the polymer that configures the shell polymer includes a polymer having a (meth)acrylate monomer unit and a carboxylic acid monomer unit, and the content of the polymer particles is 3.0 mass % or more with respect to the total amount of the ink composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Takayoshi KAGATA, Masahiro YATAKE, Hiroshi MUKAI
  • Publication number: 20170044386
    Abstract: An ink composition that performs recording by being attached on a heated non-absorbent recording medium or a heated low absorbency recording medium, the ink composition including a pigment; a core polymer and a shell polymer that covers at least a portion of the core polymer, and polymer particles in which the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the core polymer is more than 10° C. lower than the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the shell polymer, and in which the polymer that configures the shell polymer includes a polymer having a (meth)acrylate monomer unit and a carboxylic acid monomer unit, and the content of the polymer particles is 3.0 mass % or more with respect to the total amount of the ink composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Takayoshi KAGATA, Masahiro YATAKE, Hiroshi MUKAI
  • Patent number: 9512326
    Abstract: There is provided an ink jet ink composition, which is used in a recording method including ejecting the ink jet ink composition from a recording head of head temperature C (unit: ° C.) onto a recording medium to adhere the ink jet ink composition thereonto and drying the recording medium, on which the ink jet ink composition is adhered, at drying temperature D (unit: ° C.), including water; and a polymer particle, in which the polymer particle has a core polymer containing a polymer of glass transition temperature A (unit: ° C.) and a shell polymer containing a polymer of glass transition temperature B (unit: ° C.) and formed on the surface of the core polymer, and in which the A, B, C, and D satisfy predetermined relations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Kitada, Masahiro Yatake, Hiroshi Mukai, Takayoshi Kagata
  • Patent number: 9505940
    Abstract: An ink composition that performs recording by being attached on a heated non-absorbent recording medium or a heated low absorbency recording medium, the ink composition including a pigment; a core polymer and a shell polymer that covers at least a portion of the core polymer, and polymer particles in which the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the core polymer is more than 10° C. lower than the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the shell polymer, and in which the polymer that configures the shell polymer includes a polymer having a (meth)acrylate monomer unit and a carboxylic acid monomer unit, and the content of the polymer particles is 3.0 mass % or more with respect to the total amount of the ink composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Kagata, Masahiro Yatake, Hiroshi Mukai
  • Publication number: 20160251528
    Abstract: An ink composition includes a color material, water, and polymer particles, in which the polymer particle has a core-shell structure having a core polymer and a shell polymer, a glass transition temperature of the core polymer is 30° C. or higher, a glass transition temperature of the shell polymer is 50° C. or higher, the glass transition temperature of the shell polymer is more than 10° C. higher than the glass transition temperature of the core polymer, and the core polymer includes an aromatic monomer as a constituent unit and does not substantially include an alkyl polyol having a standard boiling point of 280° C. or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Akira MIZUTANI, Takayoshi KAGATA, Masahiro YATAKE, Hiroshi MUKAI
  • Publication number: 20160244626
    Abstract: An ink composition includes a pigment; polymer particles; and a polar solvent with a boiling point of 150° C. or higher, in which the polymer particles include a core polymer and a shell polymer that covers at least a portion of the core polymer, a glass transition point of the polymer that configures the core polymer is more than 30° C. lower than the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the shell polymer, the polymer that configures the shell polymer includes a polymer having a (meth)acrylate monomer unit and a carboxylic acid monomer unit, the content (solid content conversion) of the polymer particles is 1.0 mass % to 10 mass % with respect to the total amount of the ink composition, and the content of the polar solvent is 10 mass % to 40 mass % of the total amount of the ink composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Takayoshi KAGATA, Masahiro YATAKE, Hiroshi MUKAI
  • Patent number: 9382438
    Abstract: An ink composition for ink jet recording includes a penetrant for ink jet recording that includes a compound represented by the following formula (1) and 1% by mass or less of alcohol represented by the following formula (2). CmH2m+1—O—(CH2—CH2—O)n—H??(1) (in the formula (1), m represents an integer of 5 to 10; and n represents an integer of 2 to 15) CmH2m+1—OH??(2) (in the formula (2), m represents an integer of 5 to 10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Okuyama, Masahiro Yatake, Hiroko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9376583
    Abstract: An ink composition, which is recorded on a heated recording medium, includes: a color material; water; a first polymer particle; and a second polymer particle, in which the first polymer particle has a core-shell structure including a first core polymer and a first shell polymer, the second polymer particle has a core-shell structure including a second core polymer and a second shell polymer, each of the first shell polymer and the second shell polymer has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 40° C. or higher, and the glass transition temperature Tg of the first shell polymer is higher than that of the second shell polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuko Aoki, Takayoshi Kagata, Masahiro Yatake, Shoki Kasahara
  • Patent number: 9353276
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ink composition, including: a color material; water; and a polymer particle, in which the polymer particle has a core-shell structure including a core polymer and a shell polymer, in which the polymer particle has an average particle diameter of 10 nm to 80 nm, in which the core polymer has a glass transition temperature of lower than 60° C. and the shell polymer has a glass transition temperature of higher than or equal to 60° C., and in which the core polymer includes an aromatic monomer having at least a vinyl group as a constitutional unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yatake, Takayoshi Kagata, Hiroshi Mukai, Akira Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20150274999
    Abstract: There is provided an ink jet ink composition, which is used in a recording method including ejecting the ink jet ink composition from a recording head of head temperature C (unit: ° C.) onto a recording medium to adhere the ink jet ink composition thereonto and drying the recording medium, on which the ink jet ink composition is adhered, at drying temperature D (unit: ° C.), including water; and a polymer particle, in which the polymer particle has a core polymer containing a polymer of glass transition temperature A (unit: ° C.) and a shell polymer containing a polymer of glass transition temperature B (unit: ° C.) and formed on the surface of the core polymer, and in which the A, B, C, and D satisfy predetermined relations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Kenji KITADA, Masahiro YATAKE, Hiroshi MUKAI, Takayoshi KAGATA
  • Publication number: 20150274998
    Abstract: An ink composition that performs recording by being attached on a heated non-absorbent recording medium or a heated low absorbency recording medium, the ink composition including a pigment; a core polymer and a shell polymer that covers at least a portion of the core polymer, and polymer particles in which the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the core polymer is more than 10° C. lower than the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the shell polymer, and in which the polymer that configures the shell polymer includes a polymer having a (meth)acrylate monomer unit and a carboxylic acid monomer unit, and the content of the polymer particles is 3.0 mass % or more with respect to the total amount of the ink composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Takayoshi KAGATA, Masahiro YATAKE, Hiroshi MUKAI
  • Publication number: 20150267066
    Abstract: An ink composition, which is recorded on a heated recording medium, includes: a color material; water; a first polymer particle; and a second polymer particle, in which the first polymer particle has a core-shell structure including a first core polymer and a first shell polymer, the second polymer particle has a core-shell structure including a second core polymer and a second shell polymer, each of the first shell polymer and the second shell polymer has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 40° C. or higher, and the glass transition temperature Tg of the first shell polymer is higher than that of the second shell polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Katsuko AOKI, Takayoshi KAGATA, Masahiro YATAKE, Shoki KASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20150252200
    Abstract: An ink composition includes: a color material; water; and a polymer particle, in which the polymer particle has a core-shell structure including a core polymer and a shell polymer, in which the core polymer has a glass transition temperature of lower than 60° C., and the shell polymer has a glass transition temperature of higher than or equal to 60° C., in which the polymer particle has an acid value of greater than or equal to 50 mgKOH/g, and in which the shell polymer includes an aromatic monomer as a constitutional unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Takayoshi KAGATA, Masahiro YATAKE, Hiroshi MUKAI, Masashi KAMIBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20150247045
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ink composition, including: a color material; water; and a polymer particle, in which the polymer particle has a core-shell structure including a core polymer and a shell polymer, in which the polymer particle has an average particle diameter of 10 nm to 80 nm, in which the core polymer has a glass transition temperature of lower than 60° C. and the shell polymer has a glass transition temperature of higher than or equal to 60° C., and in which the core polymer includes an aromatic monomer having at least a vinyl group as a constitutional unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiro YATAKE, Takayoshi KAGATA, Hiroshi MUKAI, Akira MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20150217576
    Abstract: Provided is a pretreatment liquid used when a fabric is pretreated before ink is printed on the fabric, the liquid including water, polyvalent metal ions and first fine polymer particles, wherein the first fine polymer particles are crosslinkable polyurethane and/or crosslinkable polyurethane-polyurea and have a glass transition temperature of ?10° C. or lower and a particle diameter as determined by a light scattering method of 30 nm to 5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiro YATAKE, Makoto NAGASE
  • Patent number: 9039130
    Abstract: An ink composition for ink jet recording contains a polymer particle that has a core portion and a shell portion on a surface of the core portion. The core portion has a glass transition temperature of 0° C. or less, and the shell portion has a glass transition temperature of 20° C. or more. The difference between the glass transition temperature of the core portion and that of the shell portion is 30° C. or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Yatake
  • Publication number: 20140362136
    Abstract: An ink composition for ink jet recording contains a polymer particle that has a core portion and a shell portion on a surface of the core portion. The core portion has a glass transition temperature of 0° C. or less, and the shell portion has a glass transition temperature of 20° C. or more. The difference between the glass transition temperature of the core portion and that of the shell portion is 30° C. or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Yatake
  • Publication number: 20140221536
    Abstract: An aqueous ink ensuring less blurring and high color formation on plain paper, satisfactory color formation and fixing property on special paper and excellent ejection stability is realized by using a microcapsule of a colorant encapsulated with a polymer and rendered dispersible in water and specifying the amount of the aromatic ring in the polymer to be from 20 to 70 wt % of the polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yatake, Hidehiko Komatsu, Hitoshi Ota, Kazuhiko Hara, Hiroko Hayashi, Jun Ito, Nagatoshi Kasahara, Keiichi Noto