Patents by Inventor Shigeki Umise

Shigeki Umise 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: 6203890
    Abstract: A co-winding type thermal transfer sheet is constituted by forming on one surface side of a substrate film a heat-fusible ink layer comprising a pigment and a particulate binder, and causing a tracing paper to be peelably bonded onto the heat-fusible ink layer by the medium of an adhesive layer. The thus constituted co-winding type thermal transfer sheet is capable of providing an original image which can be reproduced by use of a blueprint process so as to provide blueprint images having a high precision and a high contrast. In addition, a co-winding type thermal transfer sheet may also be constituted by forming a heat-fusible ink layer on one surface side of a substrate film and causing a transparent resin sheet to be peelably bonded onto the heat-fusible ink layer by the medium of an adhesive layer containing a cross-linking agent. The thus constituted co-winding type thermal transfer sheet is capable of providing an image excellent in wear resistance on the transparent resin sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: DAI Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokatsu Imamura, Masafumi Hayashi, Kouichi Nakamura, Hirokazu Kaneko, Shigeki Umise, Kenichiro Suto, Hiromi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6043191
    Abstract: A co-winding type thermal transfer sheet is constituted by forming on one surface side of a substrate film a heat-fusible ink layer comprising a pigment and a particulate binder, and causing a tracing paper to be peelably bonded onto the heat-fusible ink layer by the medium of an adhesive layer. The thus constituted co-winding type thermal transfer sheet is capable of providing an original image which can be reproduced by use of a blueprint process so as to provide blueprint images having a high precision and a high contrast.In addition, a co-winding type thermal transfer sheet may also be constituted by forming a heat-fusible ink layer on one surface side of a substrate film and causing a transparent resin sheet to be peelably bonded onto the heat-fusible ink layer by the medium of an adhesive layer containing a cross-linking agent. The thus constituted co-winding type thermal transfer sheet is capable of providing an image excellent in wear resistance on the transparent resin sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokatsu Imamura, Masafumi Hayashi, Kouichi Nakamura, Hirokazu Kaneko, Shigeki Umise, Kenichiro Suto, Hiromi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5948511
    Abstract: A co-winding type thermal transfer sheet is constituted by forming on one surface side of a substrate film a heat-fusible ink layer comprising a pigment and a particulate binder, and causing a tracing paper to be peelably bonded onto the heat-fusible ink layer by the medium of an adhesive layer. The thus constituted co-winding type thermal transfer sheet is capable of providing an original image which can be reproduced by use of a blueprint process so as to provide blueprint images having a high precision and a high contrast.In addition, a co-winding type thermal transfer sheet may also be constituted by forming a heat-fusible ink layer on one surface side of a substrate film and causing a transparent resin sheet to be peelably bonded onto the heat-fusible ink layer by the medium of an adhesive layer containing a cross-linking agent. The thus constituted co-winding type thermal transfer sheet is capable of providing an image excellent in wear resistance on the transparent resin sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokatsu Imamura, Masafumi Hayashi, Kouichi Nakamura, Hirokazu Kaneko, Shigeki Umise, Kenichiro Suto, Hiromi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5593940
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet having a back coating layer excellent in heat-resistance is provided by using a styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer as a resin constituting the back coating layer. A thermal transfer material having an excellent heat-resistance and having a back coating layer having considerable strength is provided by incorporating at least two species of heat-resistant particles having different particle sizes in the back coating layer, since the larger species of particle imparts excellent heat-resistance to the back coating layer, the smaller species of particle enhances the total amount of the fillers, and the larger and smaller species of particles function so as to provide a synergistic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Umise, Taro Suzuki, Kyoichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 5573833
    Abstract: A co-winding type thermal transfer sheet is constituted by forming on one surface side of a substrate film a heat-fusible ink layer comprising a pigment and a particulate binder, and causing a tracing paper to be peelably bonded onto the heat-fusible ink layer by the medium of an adhesive layer. The thus constituted co-winding type thermal transfer sheet is capable of providing an original image which can be reproduced by use of a blueprint process so as to provide blueprint images having a high precision and a high contrast.In addition, a co-winding type thermal transfer sheet may also be constituted by forming a heat-fusible ink layer on one surface side of a substrate film and causing a transparent resin sheet to be peelably bonded onto the heat-fusible ink layer by the medium of an adhesive layer containing a cross-linking agent. The thus constituted co-winding type thermal transfer sheet is capable of providing an image excellent in wear resistance on the transparent resin sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokatsu Imamura, Masafumi Hayashi, Kouichi Nakamura, Hirokazu Kaneko, Shigeki Umise, Kenichiro Suto, Hiromi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5456969
    Abstract: A thermo-transfer sheet is composed of a base film and an ink layer to be transferred having a softening point of more than 120.degree. C. A label is formed by the thermo-transfer sheet and provided with an image ink layer formed on a thermo-transfer image receiving sheet through a temperature-sensitive adhesive layer and the image ink layer has a softening point of more than 120.degree. C. The thermo-transfer sheet and the thermo-transfer image receiving sheet are prepared and a temperature-sensitive adhesive layer is formed on at least one of the surface of the thermo-transfer sheet or the transfer ink layer of the thermo-transfer image receiving sheet. These sheets are laminated and the laminated sheets are heated by means of a thermal head to thereby transfer the image ink layer having a softening point of more than 120.degree. C. on the thermo-transfer image receiving sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeo Suzuki, Hideichiro Takeda, Shigeki Umise, Keiichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 5441567
    Abstract: A strip or roll of thermal transfer type recording sheet has a base film on one side of which a hot-melt ink layer is formed for recording on paper or other surface by thermal transfer. An end mark or marks to be detected optically for warning the user of the fact that the recording roll is being used up is/are formed adjacent one end of the strip by gravure printing with use of a light-reflective ink. The end mark or marks produced by gravure printing are of such constant thickness, and with the bounding edges so sharply defined, that they permit positive detection by an optical sensor.For the production of the end marks by gravure printing, a web of base film with the hot-melt ink layer formed on one side thereof, with a width several times greater than that of each strip of recording sheet to be manufactured, is fed through a printing unit of a gravure printing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Umise, Hirokatsu Imamura
  • Patent number: 5427840
    Abstract: A co-winding type thermal transfer sheet is constituted by forming on one surface side of a substrate film a heat-fusible ink layer comprising a pigment and a particulate binder, and causing a tracing paper to be peelably bonded onto the heat-fusible ink layer by the medium of an adhesive layer. The thus constituted co-winding type thermal transfer sheet is capable of providing an original image which can be reproduced by use of a blueprint process so as to provide blueprint images having a high precision and a high contrast.In addition, a co-winding type thermal transfer sheet may also be constituted by forming a heat-fusible ink layer on one surface side of a substrate film and causing a transparent resin sheet to be peelably bonded onto the heat-fusible ink layer by the medium of an adhesive layer containing a cross-linking agent. The thus constituted co-winding type thermal transfer sheet is capable of providing an image excellent in wear resistance on the transparent resin sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: DAI Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokatsu Imamura, Masafumi Hayashi, Kouichi Nakamura, Hirokazu Kaneko, Shigeki Umise, Kenichiro Suto, Hiromi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5376432
    Abstract: There is used, as a substrate film, a polypropylene film having a tear strength in the range of 15 to 40 Kg with respect to an MD direction and a TD direction thereof; an elongation in the range of 40 to 200 with respect to the MD direction and the TD direction thereof; and a Young's modulus in the range of 200 to 600 Kg/mm.sup.2 with respect to the MD direction and the TD direction thereof, and a transferable ink layer is formed on a surface of such a substrate film. When the resultant thermal transfer sheet having such a structure is used, a printing pressure based on a thermal head is sufficiently transmitted to a transfer receiving material, and therefore it is possible to form an image of good quality on the transfer receiving material even when the transfer receiving material comprises a plain paper having a relatively rough texture (or relatively coarse grain).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Umise, Taro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5260127
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet having a back coating layer excellent in heat-resistance is provided by using a styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer as a resin constituting the back coating layer. A thermal transfer material having an excellent heat-resistance and having a back coating layer having considerable strength is provided by incorporating at least two species of heat-resistant particles having different particle sizes in the back coating layer, since the larger species of particle imparts excellent heat-resistance to the back coating layer, the smaller species of particle enhances the total amount of the fillers, and the larger and smaller species of particles function so as to provide a synergistic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Dia Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Umise, Taro Suzuki, Kyoichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 5198296
    Abstract: A thermo-transfer sheet is composed of a base film and an ink layer to be transferred having a softening point of more than 120.degree. C. A label is formed by the thermo-transfer sheet and provided with an image ink layer formed on a thermo-transfer image receiving sheet through a temperature-sensitive adhesive layer and the image ink layer has a softening point of more than 120.degree. C. The thermo-transfer sheet and the thermo-transfer image receiving sheet are prepared and a temperature-sensitive adhesive layer is formed on at least one of the surface of the thermo-transfer sheet or the transfer ink layer of the thermo-transfer image receiving sheet. These sheets are laminated and the laminated sheets are heated by means of a thermal head to thereby transfer the image ink layer having a softening point of more than 120.degree. C. on the thermo-transfer image receiving sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu K.K.
    Inventors: Takeo Suzuki, Hideichiro Takeda, Shigeki Umise, Keiichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 5196080
    Abstract: A heat transfer sheet comprising a base film and a hot melt ink layer formed on one surface of the base film, said hot melt ink layer comprising one or more components which impart filling to the printed areas of a transferable paper during transferring. Another type of a heat transfer sheet comprising a base film, a hot melt ink layer laminated on one surface of the base film, and a filling layer laminated on the hot melt ink layer, said filling layer comprising one or more components which impart filling to the printed areas of a transferable paper during transferring. According to the heat transfer sheets, high quality printing can be attained even at a high speed without any staining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Mizobuchi, Yoshiaki Hida, Shigeki Umise, Kyoichi Yamamoto, Kyohei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5180607
    Abstract: A strip or roll of thermal transfer type recording sheet has a base film on one side of which a hot-melt ink layer is formed for recording on paper or other surface by thermal transfer. An end mark or marks to be detected optically for warning the user of the fact that the recording roll is being used up is/are formed adjacent one end of the strip by gravure printing with use of a light-reflective ink. The end mark or marks produced by gravure printing are of such constant thickness, and with the bounding edges so sharply defined, that they permit positive detection by an optical sensor.For the production of the end marks by gravure printing, a web of base film with the hot-melt ink layer formed on one side thereof, with a width several times greater than that of each strip of recording sheet to be manufactured, is fed through a printing unit of a gravure printing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1993
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Umise, Hirokatsu Imamura
  • Patent number: 5134033
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet has a substrate film, a heat-fusible ink layer formed on one surface side of the substrate film, and an antisticking layer formed on the other surface side of the substrate film. The heat-fusible ink layer comprises a carbon black having toluene-coloring transmittance of 60% or more, and, therefore, there is provided a thermal transfer sheet containing a heat-fusible ink layer having an uniform thickness and being capable of providing printed letters improved in blackness and durability such as solvent resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1992
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Umise, Taro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5109795
    Abstract: A strip or roll of thermal transfer type recording sheet has a base film on one side of which a hot-melt ink layer is formed for recording on paper or other surface by thermal transfer. An end mark or marks to be detected optically for warning the user of the fact that the recording roll is being used up is/are formed adjacent one end of the strip by gravure printing with use of a light-reflective ink. The end mark or marks produced by gravure printing are of such constant thickness, and with the bounding edges so sharply defined, that they permit positive detection by an optical sensor.For the production of the end marks by gravure printing, a web of base film with the hot-melt ink layer formed on one side thereof, with a width several times greater than that of each strip of recording sheet to be manufactured, is fed through a printing unit of a gravure printing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Umise, Hirokatsu Imamura
  • Patent number: 5106694
    Abstract: A heat transfer sheet comprising a base film and a hot melt ink layer formed on one surface of the base film, said hot melt ink layer comprising one or more components which impart filling to the printed areas of a transferable paper during transferring. Another type of a heat transfer sheet comprising a base film, a hot melt ink layer laminated on one surface of the base film, and a filling layer laminated on the hot melt ink layer, said filling layer comprising one or more components which impart filling to the printed areas of a transferable paper during transferring. According to the heat transfer sheets, high quality printing can be attained even at a high speed without any staining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Mizobuchi, Yoshiaki Hida, Shigeki Umise, Kyoichi Yamamoto, Kyohei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4985292
    Abstract: A strip or roll of thermal transfer type recording sheet (1a) has a base film (1a) on one side of which a hot melt ink layer (1b) is formed for recording on paper or other surface by thermal transfer. An end mark or marks to be detected optionally for warning the user of the fact that the recording roll is being used up is/are formed adjacent one end of the strip by gravure printing with use of a light-reflective ink. The ink mark or marks produced by gravure printing are of such constant thickness, and with the bounding edges so sharply defined, that they permit positive detection by an optical sensor.For the production of the end marks by gravure printing, a web of base film with the hot melt ink layer formed on one side thereof, with a width several times greater than that of each strip of recording sheet to be manufactured, is fed through a printing unit of a gravure printing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Umise, Hirokatsu Imamura
  • Patent number: 4965132
    Abstract: A heat transfer sheet comprising a base film and a hot melt ink layer formed on one surface of the base film, said hot melt ink layer comprising one or more components which impart filling to the printed areas of a transferable paper during transferring. Another type of a heat transfer sheet comprising a base film, a hot melt ink layer laminated on one surface of the base film, and a filling layer laminated on the hot melt ink layer, said filling layer comprising one or more components which impart filling to the printed areas of a transferable paper during transferring. According to the heat transfer sheets, high quality printing can be attained even at a high speed without any staining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Mizobuchi, Yoshiaki Hida, Shigeki Umise, Kyoichi Yamamoto, Kyohei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4735860
    Abstract: A heat-resistant thermal transfer sheet comprising a base film provided on one surface thereof with a hot melt ink layer and with a heat-resistant protective layer on the other surface thereof. The heat-resistant protective layer is produced from a composition comprising (a) a thermoplastic resin having an OH or COOH group, (b) a polyamine or polyisocyanate, and (c) a thermoplastic resin, or a composition based on a silicone-modified resin. The heat transfer sheet of the present invention prevents sticking and blocking problems and makes it possible to carry out printing smoothly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1988
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Mizobuchi, Yoshiaki Hida, Shigeki Umise, Kyoichi Yamamoto, Kyohei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4732815
    Abstract: A heat transfer sheet comprising a base film and a hot melt ink layer formed on one surface of the base film, said hot melt ink layer comprising one or more components which impart filling to the printed areas of a transferable paper during transferring. Another type of a heat transfer sheet comprising a base film, a hot melt ink layer laminated on one surface of the base film, and a filling layer laminated on the hot melt ink layer, said filling layer comprising one or more components which impart filling to the printed areas of a transferable paper during transferring. According to the heat transfer sheets, high quality printing can be attained even at a high speed without any staining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1988
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Mizobuchi, Yoshiaki Hida, Shigeki Umise, Kyoichi Yamamoto, Kyohei Takahashi