Patents by Inventor Masaru Ohnishi

Masaru Ohnishi 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).

  • Printed matter and manufacturing method of printed matter
    Patent number: 9944066
    Abstract: A printer matter and manufacturing method thereof are provided. In the printed matter in which a print surface of a medium is decorated by applying a powdery decorative body on the print surface of the medium, an application region of the powdery decorative body on the print surface of the medium is colored by a color that is the same or similar to a color of the powdery decorative body. Due to this, in the printed matter, in the case of drawing a letter or a drawing and the like on the print surface of the medium using the powdery decorative body, the entire image and the contours of the letter or the drawing and the like can be made clear by the color given to the application region for the powdery decorative body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Ohnishi
  • Pretreatment agent for dye printing and uses of the pretreatment agent
    Patent number: 9944814
    Abstract: Provided is a pretreatment agent for dye printing applicable to printing using various types of dye-containing inks. The pretreatment agent for dye printing according to the disclosure contains a chain transfer agent and a photo-curable compound with water solubility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayumi Sakaguchi, Masaru Ohnishi
  • Printing apparatus
    Patent number: 9944067
    Abstract: To more appropriately carry out printing at high precision even when a gap distance is large. A printing apparatus includes an inkjet head, a main scan driver, and a controller, where the controller sets a moving speed of the inkjet head according to a gap distance, and sets the moving speed in a main scanning operation so that an entering angle at a time of landing of the ink droplet on a medium becomes smaller than or equal to 45 degrees with respect to at least a position where the gap distance becomes the largest in a region of the medium to become a target of the main scanning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Ohnishi, Akifumi Seki
  • PRINTING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20180086051
    Abstract: To more appropriately carry out printing at high precision even when a gap distance is large. A printing apparatus includes an inkjet head, a main scan driver, and a controller, where the controller sets a moving speed of the inkjet head according to a gap distance, and sets the moving speed in a main scanning operation so that an entering angle at a time of landing of the ink droplet on a medium becomes smaller than or equal to 45 degrees with respect to at least a position where the gap distance becomes the largest in a region of the medium to become a target of the main scanning operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: MASARU OHNISHI, AKIFUMI SEKI
  • MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR PRODUCT USING PERMEABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180079232
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method that may improve the degree of freedom in designing and manufacturing a product in which a permeable medium is used. The manufacturing method may include: an image printing step of forming an image by inkjet printing on a permeable medium based on processing data (S102); a cutting step of cutting the permeable medium into parts in shapes based on the processing data after the image is printed on the permeable medium by inkjet printing in the image printing step (S104); and an assembling step of assembling the parts into a product (S105). The image printing step uses an ink for image printing that can be dried and fixed after a solvent is vaporized from the ink heated by ultraviolet irradiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Ohnishi
  • TEXTILE PRINTING METHOD, DYEING APPARATUS, TEXTILE PRINTING INK, AND TREATMENT INK
    Publication number: 20180065379
    Abstract: Provided is a textile printing method that may effectively suppress the risk of ink smearing and that may allow a cured water-soluble, UV-curable resin to be adequately stripped off a fabric so as to dye the fabric in high quality color. A textile printing method includes a pretreatment step of discharging a treatment ink from an inkjet head for treatment toward a fabric to apply the treatment ink to the fabric; a dyeing step of discharging a textile printing ink from an inkjet head for textile printing toward the fabric to apply the textile printing ink to the fabric. In the dyeing step and the pretreatment step, the textile printing ink and the treatment ink are irradiated with ultraviolet light after a respective one of the inks is applied to the fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru OHNISHI
  • Ink and inkjet recording method
    Patent number: 9896588
    Abstract: The object is to provide an ink advantageous in that an ink film thereby formed excels in strength and adhesiveness to print media. To achieve the object, an ink according to the present invention includes: a disperse solvent; first binder resin particles (1) containing a coloring agent (3) and emulsified or suspended in the disperse solvent; and second binder resin particles (2) emulsified or suspended in the disperse solvent, wherein the second binder resin particles (2) have an average particle size smaller than an average particle size of the first binder resin particles (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Ohnishi
  • Printing apparatus and printing method
    Patent number: 9895877
    Abstract: To more appropriately carry out printing at high precision even when a gap distance is large. A printing apparatus includes an inkjet head, a main scan driver, and a controller, where the controller sets a moving speed of the inkjet head according to a gap distance, and sets the moving speed in a main scanning operation so that an entering angle at a time of landing of the ink droplet on a medium becomes smaller than or equal to 45 degrees with respect to at least a position where the gap distance becomes the largest in a region of the medium to become a target of the main scanning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Ohnishi, Akifumi Seki
  • Head washing device and inkjet printer
    Patent number: 9895895
    Abstract: In order to effectively wash wiping members, a washing station which is a head washing device according to one embodiment of the present invention is characterized by including a wiping unit, a storage tank, and a washing unit. The wiping unit includes wipers which are wiping members for wiping an ejection surface of an inkjet head. In the storage tank, washing solution for washing the wiping unit is stored. The washing unit washes the wipers in the washing solution of the storage tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Ohnishi
  • PRINTED MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD, PRINTED MEDIUM MANUFACTURING DEVICE, AND INK
    Publication number: 20180037034
    Abstract: There is provided a printed medium manufacturing method for manufacturing a printed medium by performing printing with ink with respect to a permeable medium, which is a recording medium that permeates the ink, the method including an ink attaching process of attaching the ink to the permeable medium, a pigment fixing process of fixing a pigment in the ink to the permeable medium with a binder resin in the ink by heating the ink attached to the permeable medium in the ink attaching process, and a dye color developing process of causing the permeable medium itself to develop color with the dye in the ink by heating the ink attached to the permeable medium in the ink attaching process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru OHNISHI
  • Inkjet printer, printing method, and printing system
    Patent number: 9884489
    Abstract: To provide an inkjet printer capable of satisfactorily performing printing on a media made of a variety of materials. An inkjet printer includes a laser light irradiation device configured to irradiate a surface of a medium with laser light, thereby forming recesses in at least a portion of the surface of the medium, and an inkjet head configured to eject ink, thereby supplying the ink onto the surface of the medium having the recesses formed therein. The inkjet printer may further include an irradiation position adjusting unit configured to adjust a position on the medium to be irradiated with laser light, such that a plurality of the recesses is formed inside the outline of a pattern to be formed by ink, and a supply position adjusting unit configured to adjust an ink supply position on the medium such that the ink is supplied to the recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Ohnishi
  • PRINTING METHOD, PRINTING DEVICE, AND PRINTING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180029352
    Abstract: A printing method for carrying out printing with respect to various printing target objects through a more appropriate method using an inkjet head, the printing method including a screen preparing step of preparing a mesh-like screen, an ink discharging step of discharging an ink droplet from the inkjet head to one surface of the screen, a viscosity increasing step of enhancing a viscosity of the ink on the screen, an ink push-in step of pushing the ink with enhanced viscosity from the one surface side toward other surface side of the screen, the step including pushing in the ink while a medium, or a target object of printing, and the other surface of the screen are making contact to attach the ink with enhanced viscosity to the medium, and an ink fixing step of fixing the ink attached to the medium to the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru OHNISHI
  • SHAPING DEVICE, SHAPING METHOD, AND SHAPING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180009230
    Abstract: A shaping device, that shapes a three-dimensional object, includes an ink jet head that discharges an ink to become a material of shaping; and an ink supplying unit that supplies a pre-toned ink, which is the ink toned in advance in accordance with a color to be colored on the 3D object, to the ink jet head, where the ink jet head forms at least one part of the 3D object while coloring the one part with the color of the pre-toned ink by discharging the pre-toned ink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru OHNISHI, Kazuhiro OCHI
  • INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170344334
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an information display apparatus capable of suppressing a possibility that relevant information may be visibly recognized to a person except for a user. An information display apparatus includes a signboard, which is an information display unit configured to display information, an IC chip, which is an information storage unit configured to store therein relevant information of the information displayed on the signboard, and a communication unit, which is an information transmission unit configured to transmit the relevant information stored in the signboard to an external electronic device, which is a display apparatus different from the signboard and is a relevant information display apparatus configured to display the relevant information, in correspondence to a user's operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru OHNISHI
  • PLATING METHOD
    Publication number: 20170342565
    Abstract: The present invention provides a plating method capable of easily performing various decorative plating processes. The plating method includes a bulge forming process of forming a bulge on an object to be plated by ejecting ink drops of first UV-curable ink from an inkjet head such that the ejected ink drops land on the object, and a plating process of plating the object having the bulge formed thereon, after the bulge forming process. Also, in the bulge forming process, the bulge is formed such that a second surface of the bulge to be plated has surface roughness different from that of a first surface of the object to be plated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru OHNISHI, Toshiya ITO
  • Inkjet printer and printing method
    Patent number: 9821571
    Abstract: The object is to suitably satisfy a condition for preventing smearing of a printed object and a condition for endowing glossiness to the printed object. As a solution therefor, a plurality of inkjet heads (12y, 12m, 12c, 12k), a print heater (104) being a medium heating heater, and a sub-scan driving unit (16) being an opposing position changing unit that sequentially causes each of positions in a medium (50) in a moving direction of the medium (50) to oppose the respective inkjet heads (12y, 12m, 12c, 12k) are provided, where ink is ink containing solvent and is fixed onto the medium (50) by the solvent being dried, and the print heater (104) dries the ink that has been discharged from one of the inkjet heads and struck onto the medium before another inkjet head further discharges an ink droplet onto a struck position of the ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Ohnishi
  • Printing device and printing method
    Patent number: 9802425
    Abstract: A printing device and a printing method, which are by ink-jet technique an overcoat layer using an ink consisting of more suitable ingredients, are provided. The printing device is for performing printing by ink-jet technique, including: a color ink head being an inkjet head that forms a color ink layer on a medium using a color ink; an overcoat head being an inkjet head that forms an overcoat layer that covers the color ink layer; and a curing agent head being an inkjet head that discharges ink droplets of a curing agent, the curing agent being a liquid for curing an ink in the overcoat layer. The overcoat head discharges ink droplets of an ink prepared by dispersing in an organic solvent a curable material that is cured in reaction to the curing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akifumi Seki, Kazuya Nozaki, Hironori Hashizume, Masaru Ohnishi
  • Inkjet printing device and printing method
    Patent number: 9776426
    Abstract: An aim is to provide a technique for obtaining a higher quality print image by reducing a banding caused upon printing using a printing head having nozzle rows. As a solution, an activated nozzle row is reselected each time when the activated nozzle row has discharged ink for a preset number of times, and in each scan, an interval by which the activated nozzle row discharges ink in a main scanning direction is set to be an integer multiple of a resolution of an image to be printed on a print medium in the main scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Ohnishi, Kosuke Murai
  • INKJET PRINTER, DYE PRINTING METHOD, AND INK
    Publication number: 20170266993
    Abstract: A dye printing method and an ink capable of performing printing on more types of media than in the related art are shown. A dye printing method using ink 10 containing a solvent 11, and particles of a thermoplastic resin dispersed in the solvent 11 and containing a dye 13 is characterized by including a printing process of performing a printing on a medium 20 with the ink 10, a particle fixing process of fixing the particles 12 to the medium 20 by drying the solvent 11 of the ink 10 ejected to the medium 20 by the printing process, and a resin fixing process of fixing the thermoplastic resin to the medium 20 by heating the particles 12 fixed to the medium 20 by the particle fixing process, at least at a glass-transition temperature or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru OHNISHI
  • PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD
    Publication number: 20170266992
    Abstract: Problems such as blocking are suppressed and more appropriately perform printing, in a case of using a configuration in which each medium is wound after printing. A printing device for performing printing on a medium includes a printing head configured to form an overcoat layer on the medium, an after-heater configured to heat the medium having the overcoat layer formed thereon, and a winding roller which is a medium winding unit configured to wind the medium heated by the after-heater, and the after-heater heats the medium such that the temperature of the overcoat layer becomes a temperature equal to or higher than a glass-transition point, and the winding roller winds the medium having a state where the temperature of the overcoat layer is a temperature lower than the glass-transition point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akifumi SEKI, Masaru OHNISHI