Patents by Inventor Noriaki Sugawara

Noriaki Sugawara 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: 11525065
    Abstract: Provided is an oil-based inkjet ink containing a pigment and a fatty acid ester-based solvent represented by general formula (1) shown below and having at least 18 but not more than 29 carbon atoms per molecule. In general formula (1), R1 represents an alkyl group of 5 or more carbon atoms, R2 represents an alkyl group of 6 or more carbon atoms, and at least one of R1 and R2 is a branched alkyl group of 9 or more carbon atoms having a side chain of 4 or more carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Ando, Shinichiro Shimura, Marie Morinaga, Hikaru Sugiura, Shinsuke Ozawa, Noriaki Sugawara
  • Patent number: 10793734
    Abstract: Disclosed is an oil-based inkjet ink containing a colorant and a non-aqueous solvent, wherein the non-aqueous solvent contains at least 15% by mass but not more than 100% by mass, relative to the total mass of the non-aqueous solvent, of an organosilicon compound having 2 to 6 silicon atoms in one molecule, having an organic group in which a carbon atom is bonded directly to a silicon atom and in which the total number of carbon atoms and oxygen atoms is at least 4, and having a total number of carbon atoms and oxygen atoms, contained within all of the organic groups in which the total number of carbon atoms and oxygen atoms is at least 4, that is from 4 to 20 within one molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru Sugiura, Shinsuke Ozawa, Shinichiro Shimura, Kazuyuki Ando, Marie Morinaga, Teruaki Okawa, Noriaki Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20200017702
    Abstract: Provided is an oil-based inkjet ink containing a pigment and a fatty acid ester-based solvent represented by general formula (1) shown below and having at least 18 but not more than 29 carbon atoms per molecule. In general formula (1), R1 represents an alkyl group of 5 or more carbon atoms, R2 represents an alkyl group of 6 or more carbon atoms, and at least one of R1 and R2 is a branched alkyl group of 9 or more carbon atoms having a side chain of 4 or more carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuyuki ANDO, Shinichiro SHIMURA, Marie MORINAGA, Hikaru SUGIURA, Shinsuke OZAWA, Noriaki SUGAWARA
  • Publication number: 20180244937
    Abstract: Disclosed is an oil-based inkjet ink containing a colorant and a non-aqueous solvent, wherein the non-aqueous solvent contains at least 15% by mass but not more than 100% by mass, relative to the total mass of the non-aqueous solvent, of an organosilicon compound having 2 to 6 silicon atoms in one molecule, having an organic group in which a carbon atom is bonded directly to a silicon atom and in which the total number of carbon atoms and oxygen atoms is at least 4, and having a total number of carbon atoms and oxygen atoms, contained within all of the organic groups in which the total number of carbon atoms and oxygen atoms is at least 4, that is from 4 to 20 within one molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru SUGIURA, Shinsuke OZAWA, Shinichiro SHIMURA, Kazuyuki ANDO, Marie MORINAGA, Teruaki OKAWA, Noriaki SUGAWARA
  • Patent number: 7671829
    Abstract: A driving method for a color liquid crystal display which drives the color liquid crystal display based on a video red signal, a video green signal and a video blue signal by independently applying a gamma compensation to a clamped video red signal, a clamped video green signal and a clamped video blue signal in gamma compensating circuits in order to make suitable to a red transmittance characteristic, a green transmittance characteristic and a blue transmittance characteristic. With this operation, it is possible to carry out an optimal gamma compensation suitable to a characteristic of the color liquid crystal display and to remove a gradation batter occurring in a specific color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriaki Sugawara, Kouichi Koga
  • Publication number: 20060071894
    Abstract: A driving method for a color liquid crystal display which drives the color liquid crystal display based on a video red signal, a video green signal and a video blue signal by independently applying a gamma compensation to a clamped video red signal, a clamped video green signal and a clamped video blue signal in gamma compensating circuits in order to make suitable to a red transmittance characteristic, a green transmittance characteristic and a blue transmittance characteristic. With this operation, it is possible to carry out an optimal gamma compensation suitable to a characteristic of the color liquid crystal display and to remove a gradation batter occurring in a specific color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Noriaki Sugawara, Kouichi Koga
  • Patent number: 7006065
    Abstract: A driving method for a color liquid crystal display which drives the color liquid crystal display based on a video red signal, a video green signal and a video blue signal by independently applying a gamma compensation to a clamped video red signal, a clamped video green signal and a clamped video blue signal in gamma compensating circuits in order to make suitable to a red transmittance characteristic, a green transmittance characteristic and a blue transmittance characteristic. With this operation, it is possible to carry out an optimal gamma compensation suitable to a characteristic of the color liquid crystal display and to remove a gradation batter occurring in a specific color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriaki Sugawara, Kouichi Koga
  • Patent number: 6504523
    Abstract: An active-matrix LCD device drives the LCD panel by using a dot reversible driving technique. The switching between two sets of input signals or two resolution modes is conducted by applying a DC voltage between the pixel electrode and the common electrode in each pixel before restart of the image display of a switched signal. The DC voltage has the same polarity among the pixels in the pixel array to thereby reduce the flicker after the restart of the image display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Sugawara, Kimikazu Matsumoto, Kunimasa Itakura, Tatsuya Shiki, Toshikazu Shimizu, Shoichi Kuroha, Shinichi Nishida
  • Patent number: 5849408
    Abstract: When a hot-dip zinc plating layer, which contains Al, is applied on rimmed steel having an Si level of less than 0.05% by weight or less, by the two-stage plating method, appearance failure can be prevented by setting the plating conditions as follows: in a first zinc bath consisting of zinc of 99.7% purity or more or in a second zinc bath which consists of zinc with 99.7% purity by weight or more and 0.05% or less of Al at a temperature of from more than 460.degree. C. to 490.degree. C. and for a dipping time of from 1 minute to 1.5 minutes; and, in a second zinc bath consisting of zinc of 99.7% purity by weight and from 2 to 10% by weight or less of Al at a temperature of from 400.degree. C. to less than 430.degree. C. and for a dipping time of from 0.5 minute to 1.5 minutes. This plating condition provides a plating structure that the Zn, Fe and Al are present in the essentially entire portion of the plating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Assignee: Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Noriaki Sugawara
  • Patent number: 5529810
    Abstract: When a hot-dip zinc plating layer, which contains Al, is applied on rimmed steel having Si level of less than 0.05% by weight or less, by the two-stage plating method, appearance failure can be prevented by setting the plating conditions as follows: in a first zinc bath consisting of zinc of 99.7% purity or more or in a second zinc bath which consists of zinc with 99.7% purity by weight or more and 0.05% or less of Al at a temperature of from more than 460.degree. C. to 490.degree. C. and for a dipping time of from 1 minute to 1.5 minutes; and, in a second zinc bath consisting of zinc of 99.7% purity by weight and from 2 to 10% by weight or less of A1 at a temperature of from 400.degree. C. to less than 430.degree. C. and for a dipping time of from 0.5 minute to 1.5 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Noriaki Sugawara