Patents by Inventor Masayuki Tani
Masayuki Tani 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).
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Publication number: 20230382146Abstract: In a seal-type thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, the total thickness thereof is 250 ?m or less, a seal portion has a layered structure in which a pressure-adhesive layer, a seal portion substrate, and a receiving layer are layered in this order from a release portion side. A release portion has a layered structure in which a surface resin layer, a release portion paper substrate, and a back face resin layer are layered in this order from a seal portion side. One or both of the seal portion substrate and the surface resin layer includes a layer made of polyethylene terephthalate is 50 ?m or more. The sum of the thickness of the seal portion substrate and the thickness of the surface resin layer is four times or more the thickness of the back face resin layer, and the thickness of the back face resin layer is 20 ?m or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideo ITO, Masayuki TANI
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Patent number: 11772403Abstract: In a seal-type thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, the total thickness thereof is 250 ?m or less, a seal portion has a layered structure in which a pressure-adhesive layer, a seal portion substrate, and a receiving layer are layered in this order from a release portion side. A release portion has a layered structure in which a surface resin layer, a release portion paper substrate, and a back face resin layer are layered in this order from a seal portion side. One or both of the seal portion substrate and the surface resin layer includes a layer made of polyethylene terephthalate is 50 ?m or more. The sum of the thickness of the seal portion substrate and the thickness of the surface resin layer is four times or more the thickness of the back face resin layer, and the thickness of the back face resin layer is 20 ?m or more.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideo Ito, Masayuki Tani
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Publication number: 20230082532Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet includes a substrate and a transfer layer, in which the transfer layer after transfer has a reduced peak height (Spk) of 0.6 ?m or more. A method for producing a printed material using a thermal transfer sheet including a particle layer disposed on a substrate and an image-receiving sheet including a thermal protrusion-and/or-recess forming layer and a receiving layer stacked in that order on a second substrate, the receiving layer including an image that has been formed, includes the steps of heating the image-receiving sheet to form a protrusion and/or a recess at the image-receiving sheet, and heating the thermal transfer sheet to transfer the particle layer to at least part of the protrusion of the image-receiving sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yue YU, Hiroshi EGUCHI, Masayuki TANI, Yasushi YONEYAMA
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Patent number: 11137630Abstract: Method of producing an image display device in which an image display member and light-transmitting cover member having principal surface portion and circumferential edge portion on which a light-shielding layer is formed with a step portion formed between the principal surface portion and the circumferential edge portion are laminated through light-transmitting resin layer formed from a liquid optical resin composition so a light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member is arranged to face the image display member, when a resin dispenser is moved from one end of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member toward the other end applying the liquid optical resin composition to the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member, the application amount of optical resin composition is changed on the principal surface portion of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member and on the lighType: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Kouichi Ogawa, Akihiko Watanabe, Akira Konno, Takashi Endo, Masayuki Tani
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Patent number: 11130360Abstract: Provided is a seal-type thermal transfer image-receiving sheet capable of providing a seal section having novel designability. A seal-type thermal transfer image-receiving sheet includes a release section and a seal section integrated. The seal section is provided peelably from the release section. The seal section has a layered structure in which a pressure-adhesive layer and a receiving layer capable of receiving a sublimable dye are layered in the order mentioned from the side of the release section. When the seal section is peeled off from the release section, a reference plate and the seal section peeled off are superposed together, and a reflection density of the reference plate is measured from the side of the seal section, the value of the reflection density is 15% or more, on the presupposition that the reflection density of the reference plate before the superposition with the seal section is set to 100%.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideo Ito, Masayuki Tani
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Publication number: 20200398599Abstract: In a seal-type thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, the total thickness thereof is 250 ?m or less, a seal portion has a layered structure in which a pressure-adhesive layer, a seal portion substrate, and a receiving layer are layered in this order from a release portion side. A release portion has a layered structure in which a surface resin layer, a release portion paper substrate, and a back face resin layer are layered in this order from a seal portion side. One or both of the seal portion substrate and the surface resin layer includes a layer made of polyethylene terephthalate is 50 ?m or more. The sum of the thickness of the seal portion substrate and the thickness of the surface resin layer is four times or more the thickness of the back face resin layer, and the thickness of the back face resin layer is 20 ?m or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideo ITO, Masayuki TANI
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Publication number: 20200290335Abstract: Method of producing an image display device in which an image display member and light-transmitting cover member having principal surface portion and circumferential edge portion on which a light-shielding layer is formed with a step portion formed between the principal surface portion and the circumferential edge portion are laminated through light-transmitting resin layer formed from a liquid optical resin composition so a light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member is arranged to face the image display member, when a resin dispenser is moved from one end of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member toward the other end applying the liquid optical resin composition to the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member, the application amount of optical resin composition is changed on the principal surface portion of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member and on the lighType: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Kouichi OGAWA, Akihiko WATANABE, Akira KONNO, Takashi ENDO, Masayuki TANI
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Patent number: 10703081Abstract: Method of producing an image display device in which an image display member and light-transmitting cover member having principal surface portion and circumferential edge portion on which a light-shielding layer is formed with a step portion formed between the principal surface portion and the circumferential edge portion are laminated through light-transmitting resin layer formed from a liquid optical resin composition so a light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member is arranged to face the image display member, when a resin dispenser is moved from one end of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member toward the other end applying the liquid optical resin composition to the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member, the application amount of optical resin composition is changed on the principal surface portion of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member and on the lighType: GrantFiled: April 21, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Kouichi Ogawa, Akihiko Watanabe, Akira Konno, Takashi Endo, Masayuki Tani
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Publication number: 20200070559Abstract: Provided is a seal-type thermal transfer image-receiving sheet capable of providing a seal section having novel designability. A seal-type thermal transfer image-receiving sheet includes a release section and a seal section integrated. The seal section is provided peelably from the release section. The seal section has a layered structure in which a pressure-adhesive layer and a receiving layer capable of receiving a sublimable dye are layered in the order mentioned from the side of the release section. When the seal section is peeled off from the release section, a reference plate and the seal section peeled off are superposed together, and a reflection density of the reference plate is measured from the side of the seal section, the value of the reflection density is 15% or more, on the presupposition that the reflection density of the reference plate before the superposition with the seal section is set to 100%.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2017Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideo ITO, Masayuki TANI
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Patent number: 10099695Abstract: A hybrid vehicle control device is provided that is capable of controlling a drive source according to a travel plan. The hybrid vehicle control device is configured to be mounted in a hybrid vehicle including a drive source having an engine and a motor/generator, and a navigation system that acquires travel environment information of a planned travel route. The control device is configured such that, upon selection of a “travel plan mode”, which controls the drive source according to a travel plan set for low fuel travel based on travel environment information acquired from the navigation system in the absence of the selection of an “eco-mode”, which controls the drive source to prioritize fuel efficiency over power performance, the selection of the “travel plan mode” is linked with a setting operation for the “eco-mode”.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takanobu Sawada, Kiyotaka Mihara, Masayuki Tani
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Patent number: 9884504Abstract: A rear face side substrate for a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet has a first rear face side layer, a second rear face side layer, and a third rear face side layer layered in this order, wherein the first rear face side layer comprises a propylene-based polymer composition A containing at least a propylene-based polymer, the second rear face side layer comprises a propylene-based polymer composition B containing at least a propylene polymer, an antistatic agent and a masking agent, and the third rear face side layer comprises a propylene-based polymer composition (C) containing at least a propylene-based polymer, a three-dimensional center surface average roughness (SRa) of the third rear face side layer being in the range of 0.10 ?m to 1.50 ?m, and the first rear face side layer, the second rear face side layer and the third rear face side layer being biaxially oriented.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignees: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello, Inc.Inventors: Masayuki Tani, Koji Yamamuro, Shinji Kometani, Hiroshi Honda, Tetsuji Tenma
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Publication number: 20170240174Abstract: A hybrid vehicle control device is provided that is capable of controlling a drive source according to a travel plan. The hybrid vehicle control device is configured to be mounted in a hybrid vehicle including a drive source having an engine and a motor/generator, and a navigation system that acquires travel environment information of a planned travel route. The control device is configured such that, upon selection of a “travel plan mode”, which controls the drive source according to a travel plan set for low fuel travel based on travel environment information acquired from the navigation system in the absence of the selection of an “eco-mode”, which controls the drive source to prioritize fuel efficiency over power performance, the selection of the “travel plan mode” is linked with a setting operation for the “eco-mode”.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2014Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Takanobu SAWADA, Kiyotaka MIHARA, Masayuki TANI
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Publication number: 20170225443Abstract: Method of producing an image display device in which an image display member and light-transmitting cover member having principal surface portion and circumferential edge portion on which a light-shielding layer is formed with a step portion formed between the principal surface portion and the circumferential edge portion are laminated through light-transmitting resin layer formed from a liquid optical resin composition so a light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member is arranged to face the image display member, when a resin dispenser is moved from one end of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member toward the other end applying the liquid optical resin composition to the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member, the application amount of optical resin composition is changed on the principal surface portion of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member and on the lighType: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Kouichi OGAWA, Akihiko WATANABE, Akira KONNO, Takashi ENDO, Masayuki TANI
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Patent number: 9651807Abstract: Method of producing an image display device in which an image display member and light-transmitting cover member having principal surface portion and circumferential edge portion on which a light-shielding layer is formed with a step portion formed between the principal surface portion and the circumferential edge portion are laminated through light-transmitting resin layer formed from a liquid optical resin composition so a light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member is arranged to face the image display member, when a resin dispenser is moved from one end of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member toward the other end applying the liquid optical resin composition to the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member, the application amount of optical resin composition is changed on the principal surface portion of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member and on the lighType: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Kouichi Ogawa, Akihiko Watanabe, Akira Konno, Takashi Endo, Masayuki Tani
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Publication number: 20160303884Abstract: A rear face side substrate for a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet has a first rear face side layer, a second rear face side layer, and a third rear face side layer layered in this order, wherein the first rear face side layer comprises a propylene-based polymer composition A containing at least a propylene-based polymer, the second rear face side layer comprises a propylene-based polymer composition B containing at least a propylene polymer, an antistatic agent and a masking agent, and the third rear face side layer comprises a propylene-based polymer composition (C) containing at least a propylene-based polymer, a three-dimensional center surface average roughness (SRa) of the third rear face side layer being in the range of 0.10 ?m to 1.50 ?m, and the first rear face side layer, the second rear face side layer and the third rear face side layer being biaxially oriented.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2014Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicants: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello, Inc.Inventors: Masayuki TANI, Koji YAMAMURO, Shinji KOMETANI, Hiroshi HONDA, Tetsuji TENMA
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Patent number: 9334822Abstract: The first target A/F directing toward a richer side from the initial target A/F to the theoretical A/F is calculated; and the first estimated catalyst's oxygen amount is calculated based on the detected A/F and the theoretical A/F. Until the first estimated catalyst's oxygen amount reaches the first target catalyst's oxygen amount, calculations of the first target A/F and of the first estimated catalyst's oxygen amount continue. After the first estimated catalyst's oxygen amount reaches the first target catalyst's oxygen amount, the second target A/F directing toward a richer side from the theoretical A/F to the final target A/F is calculated; and the second estimated catalyst's oxygen amount is calculated based on the detected A/F and the final target A/F. Until the second estimated catalyst's oxygen amount reaches the second target catalyst's oxygen amount, calculations of the second target A/F and of the second estimated catalyst's oxygen amount continue.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigemasa Shimojo, Masayuki Tani
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Patent number: 9290007Abstract: The present invention is to provide a thermal transfer image receiving sheet which is able to provide excellent printing sensitivity and prevent the generation of poor image quality in high density areas and folded lines even during high speed printing, and an image forming method for forming an image on the thermal transfer image receiving sheet. Presented is a thermal transfer image receiving sheet containing a substrate and, on at least one surface of the substrate, a composite porous layer containing a thermoplastic resin, and a dye receiving layer in this order from the substrate, wherein the composite porous layer contains a porous core layer and non-porous skin layers layered on both surfaces of the porous core layer; a total thickness of the non-porous skin layers is 5 to 15% of a whole thickness of the composite porous layer; and a density of the composite porous layer is 0.65 to 0.74 g/cm3.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Yamamuro, Masayuki Tani, Shinji Kometani
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Publication number: 20150367651Abstract: The present invention is to provide a thermal transfer image receiving sheet which is able to provide excellent printing sensitivity and prevent the generation of poor image quality in high density areas and folded lines even during high speed printing, and an image forming method for forming an image on the thermal transfer image receiving sheet. Presented is a thermal transfer image receiving sheet containing a substrate and, on at least one surface of the substrate, a composite porous layer containing a thermoplastic resin, and a dye receiving layer in this order from the substrate, wherein the composite porous layer contains a porous core layer and non-porous skin layers layered on both surfaces of the porous core layer; a total thickness of the non-porous skin layers is 5 to 15% of a whole thickness of the composite porous layer; and a density of the composite porous layer is 0.65 to 0.74 g/cm3.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Koji YAMAMURO, Masayuki TANI, Shinji KOMETANI
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Publication number: 20150293397Abstract: Method of producing an image display device in which an image display member and light-transmitting cover member having principal surface portion and circumferential edge portion on which a light-shielding layer is formed with a step portion formed between the principal surface portion and the circumferential edge portion are laminated through light-transmitting resin layer formed from a liquid optical resin composition so a light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member is arranged to face the image display member, when a resin dispenser is moved from one end of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member toward the other end applying the liquid optical resin composition to the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member, the application amount of optical resin composition is changed on the principal surface portion of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member and on the lighType: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2013Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Kouichi OGAWA, Akihiko WATANABE, Akira KONNO, Takashi ENDO, Masayuki TANI
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Publication number: 20150204260Abstract: The first target A/F directing toward a richer side from the initial target A/F to the theoretical A/F is calculated; and the first estimated catalyst's oxygen amount is calculated based on the detected A/F and the theoretical A/F. Until the first estimated catalyst's oxygen amount reaches the first target catalyst's oxygen amount, calculations of the first target A/F and of the first estimated catalyst's oxygen amount continue. After the first estimated catalyst's oxygen amount reaches the first target catalyst's oxygen amount, the second target A/F directing toward a richer side from the theoretical A/F to the final target A/F is calculated; and the second estimated catalyst's oxygen amount is calculated based on the detected A/F and the final target A/F. Until the second estimated catalyst's oxygen amount reaches the second target catalyst's oxygen amount, calculations of the second target A/F and of the second estimated catalyst's oxygen amount continue.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2013Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigemasa Shimojo, Masayuki Tani