Patents by Inventor Sigeru Tanimori

Sigeru Tanimori 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: 5043318
    Abstract: The present invention provides dye transfer type thermal printing sheet comprising a base sheet, a dye-containing layer formed on the base sheet and a dye-permeable layer which is formed on the dye-containing layer and comprises at least one water dispersible polysiloxane graft polymer which is obtainable by polymerizing (B) 0.05 to 10% by weight of a polymerizable silane compound, (C) 1 to 30% by weight of an unsaturated organic acid and (D) 40 to 97.95% by weight of a monomer which is copolymerizable with the silane compound (B) and the unsaturaed organic acid (C) in the presence of (A) 1 to 20% by weight of a polysiloxane having terminal hydroxyl groups (provided that the total of the components (A), (B), (C) and (D) is 100% by weight) in an organic solvent except an alcohol or at least one salt of said graft polymer with a base, which has good storage stability, generates images with improve weather durability and prevents great decrease of print density as increase of the number of printing times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Nippon Shokubai Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Kawakami, Hiromu Matsuda, Sigeru Tanimori, Yoshinori Sano