Patents by Inventor Takuya Sonoyama

Takuya Sonoyama 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).

  • Publication number: 20250001746
    Abstract: A garment fabric S includes a multilayer structure including a first layer L1 having breathability and a second layer L2 formed by mixing a treatment agent with a defibrated fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MIYAJIMA, Tsuneyuki SASAKI, Takuya SONOYAMA, Hitoshi IGARASHI
  • Publication number: 20240301221
    Abstract: A coating liquid composition for pigment printing includes emulsified particles containing a silicone oil, and water. The content of the emulsified particles is more than 15.0% by mass based on the total amount of the coating liquid composition for pigment printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MIYAJIMA, Tetsuhiro OGUCHI, Takuya SONOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240140110
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a printed matter includes: providing, on a medium, a plurality of uneven portions for water repellent, or providing a plurality of the uneven portions for water repellent and provided at an image layer formed at the medium, in which a distance between protruding portions adjacent at the plurality of uneven portions falls in a range of not less than 10 ?m and not more than 100 ?m, and a height of a protruding portion at the uneven portion falls in a range of not less than 10 ?m and not more than 100 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Shuichi TAKEI, Takuya SONOYAMA, Tsuneyuki SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240076829
    Abstract: A printing system includes a pretreatment unit that applies a pretreatment liquid to a fabric, a printing unit that ejects a printing liquid to the fabric to which the pretreatment liquid was applied, a storage unit that stores a data table indicating a correspondence relationship between a time elapsed from manufacture of the pretreatment liquid and a rubbing fastness of the fabric on which the pretreatment liquid was used, and a control unit. The control unit includes an acquisition unit that acquires freshness information regarding freshness of the pretreatment liquid to be applied by the pretreatment unit and use date information indicating a time to use the pretreatment liquid, and an estimation unit that outputs, based on the freshness information, the use date information, and the data table, an estimation level of the rubbing fastness to be obtained by using the pretreatment liquid at the time indicated by the use date information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Shuji YONEKUBO, Takuya SONOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240062154
    Abstract: A cartridge providing system includes a printer ejecting, onto a printing medium, a liquid (recording material) supplied from a cartridge, and a server managing provision of the cartridge to a user that uses the printer. The server manages user stock data, which is data associating a stock of the cartridges held by the user with usage expiry dates thereof, and vendor stock data, which is data associating a stock of the cartridges held by a sales company providing the cartridge to the user with usage expiry dates thereof. When the sales company provides the cartridge to the user, the server determines, based on the vendor stock data and the user stock data, the cartridge of which usage expiry date is to be provided from among the stock of the cartridges held by the sales company.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Shuji YONEKUBO, Shigenori NAKAGAWA, Hitoshi IGARASHI, Tsuneyuki SASAKI, Takuya SONOYAMA, Saeko MARUYAMA, Yoshihisa HORIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220205174
    Abstract: A treatment solution composition for ink jet textile printing contains one or more selected from the group consisting of a glycol solvent with a molecular weight of 100 or less and a sugar with a molecular weight of 400 or less, water, and an alkaline agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Nao KOZAKA, Yoshitaka MIYAJIMA, Takuya SONOYAMA
  • Patent number: 11309493
    Abstract: The present invention relates to formulations comprising at least one organic semiconductor and at least one organic solvent, characterized in that the formulation contains less than 10,000 particles per liter formulation having an average size in the range from 0.1 to 20 ?m, to their use for the preparation of electronic devices, to methods for preparing electronic devices using the formulations of the present invention, and to electronic devices prepared from such methods and formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Edgar Boehm, Anja Gerhard, Dietmar Kunkel, Volker Hilarius, Masahiro Uchida, Takuya Sonoyama, Shuichi Takei, Koji Imamura
  • Patent number: 11292930
    Abstract: A textile printing ink jet ink composition set includes a textile printing ink jet ink composition having a hue angle ?h° within a range of 260° or more and 310° or less and a chroma C* of 45 or less, which are specified in the CIELAB color space, on a textile printing product after textile printing; and a textile printing ink jet ink composition having a hue angle ?h° within a range of 15° or more and 80° or less and a chroma C* of 65 or less, which are specified in the CIELAB color space, on a textile printing product after textile printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Miyajima, Yuki Wakushima, Nao Kozaka, Hideki Oguchi, Takuya Sonoyama
  • Patent number: 11255044
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method performed on a fabric to which a hydrotropic agent is attached includes attaching an ink jet composition for textile printing including a metal complex salt dye, in which a hue angle ?h° defined in CIELAB color space on printed textiles after printing is in a range of 260° or more and 310° or less, to the fabric using an ink jet method, in which there is a region in which a value of a ratio of a mass of the metal complex salt dye with respect to a total mass of dyes included in the ink jet composition for textile printing is 0.6 or more and 1.0 or less, and a value of a ratio of mass of the metal complex salt dye with respect to a mass of the hydrotropic agent in the fabric is 0.2 or more and 1.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Miyajima, Yuki Wakushima, Nao Kozaka, Hideki Oguchi, Takuya Sonoyama
  • Patent number: 11248135
    Abstract: An ink jet ink composition for textile printing including a dye containing copper or chromium and 5% to 30% by mass of a cyclic amide that is liquid at normal temperature and that has a normal boiling point in the range of 190° C. to 260° C., wherein the hue angle ?h° defined by the CIELAB color space on a recording medium ranges from 260 to 310 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Miyajima, Yuki Wakushima, Hideki Oguchi, Takuya Sonoyama
  • Publication number: 20210119129
    Abstract: The present invention relates to formulations comprising at least one organic semiconductor and at least one organic solvent, characterized in that the formulation contains less than 10,000 particles per liter formulation having an average size in the range from 0.1 to 20 ?m, to their use for the preparation of electronic devices, to methods for preparing electronic devices using the formulations of the present invention, and to electronic devices prepared from such methods and formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Edgar BOEHM, Anja GERHARD, Dietmar KUNKEL, Volker HILARIUS, Masahiro UCHIDA, Takuya SONOYAMA, Shuichi TAKEI, Koji IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 10894896
    Abstract: An ink jet ink composition for textile printing including a dye and 5% to 30% by mass of a cyclic amide that is liquid at normal temperature and that has a normal boiling point in the range of 190° C. to 260° C., wherein the hue angle ?h° defined by the CIELAB color space on a recording medium ranges from 15 to 80 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Miyajima, Yuki Wakushima, Hideki Oguchi, Takuya Sonoyama
  • Patent number: 10717886
    Abstract: An ink composition includes a first component which is a hydrophilic solvent, a second component which is a hydrophobic solvent, a third component which is an amphiphilic solvent, and a fourth component which includes a solute or a dispersing element, and when the third component evaporates, the ink composition is separated into a phase which mainly includes the first component and a phase which mainly includes the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Fujii, Takuya Sonoyama, Shotaro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10557046
    Abstract: To provide a film-forming ink and a film formation method, capable of making the dimensional accuracy of a film to be formed excellent by increasing the apparent liquid droplet amount of a film-forming ink to be supplied as a liquid droplet into an opening part included in a partition wall, and also to provide a device with a film and an electronic apparatus, each of which has a film formed using the film formation method. A film-forming ink of the invention includes a film-forming material and a liquid medium in which the film-forming material is dissolved or dispersed, wherein the liquid medium contains a first component which has a boiling point at an atmospheric pressure of 200° C. or higher and a second component which has a boiling point at an atmospheric pressure lower than the first component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Sonoyama, Koji Imamura, Shotaro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10526500
    Abstract: A film-forming ink includes a film-forming material and a liquid medium in which the film-forming material is dissolved or dispersed. The liquid medium contains a first component which has a viscosity of less than 20 cp and a second component which has a boiling point at an atmospheric pressure within a range of ±30° C. relative to the boiling point at an atmospheric pressure of the first component and has a viscosity of 20 cp or more, and the second component is contained in an amount of 20 parts by weight or more and 500 parts by weight or less with respect to 100 parts by weight of the first component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shotaro Watanabe, Takuya Sonoyama
  • Patent number: 10522758
    Abstract: An ink for forming a functional layer, which is used when any thin film layer among functional layers consisting of a plurality of thin film layers is formed, includes a functional layer forming material and a solvent for dissolving the functional layer forming material, and in which the number of particles of 0.5 ?m or more is 7 or less in 10 ml of the ink for forming a functional layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Imamura, Masahiro Uchida, Takuya Sonoyama
  • Publication number: 20190249025
    Abstract: A textile printing ink jet ink composition set includes a textile printing ink jet ink composition having a hue angle ?h° within a range of 260° or more and 310° or less and a chroma C* of 45 or less, which are specified in the CIELAB color space, on a textile printing product after textile printing; and a textile printing ink jet ink composition having a hue angle ?h° within a range of 15° or more and 80° or less and a chroma C* of 65 or less, which are specified in the CIELAB color space, on a textile printing product after textile printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MIYAJIMA, Yuki WAKUSHIMA, Nao KOZAKA, Hideki OGUCHI, Takuya SONOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190111677
    Abstract: An ink for liquid droplet discharge includes particles formed of a material that emits upconversion light. An average particle diameter of the particles be 10 nm or more and 200 nm or less. A content of the particles in the ink for liquid droplet discharge be 0.1% by mass or more and 20% by mass or less. The ink for liquid droplet discharge be colorless. The particles are formed of a material containing an inorganic substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Shotaro WATANABE, Takuya SONOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190093283
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method performed on a fabric to which a hydrotropic agent is attached includes attaching an ink jet composition for textile printing including a metal complex salt dye, in which a hue angle ?h° defined in CIELAB color space on printed textiles after printing is in a range of 260° or more and 310° or less, to the fabric using an ink jet method, in which there is a region in which a value of a ratio of a mass of the metal complex salt dye with respect to a total mass of dyes included in the ink jet composition for textile printing is 0.6 or more and 1.0 or less, and a value of a ratio of mass of the metal complex salt dye with respect to a mass of the hydrotropic agent in the fabric is 0.2 or more and 1.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MIYAJIMA, Yuki WAKUSHIMA, Nao KOZAKA, Hideki OGUCHI, Takuya SONOYAMA
  • Patent number: 10184056
    Abstract: An ink for forming a functional layer includes a first component that contains at least one kind of aromatic solvent of which a boiling point is higher than or equal to 250° C. and lower than or equal to 350° C., a second component that contains at least one kind of aliphatic solvent of which a boiling point is higher than or equal to 200° C., and a third component for forming a positive hole injection layer, in which a solubility of the third component in the first component is higher than the solubility of the third component in the second component, a mixing ratio of the second component is 30 vol %, the boiling point of the first component is higher than the boiling point of the second component, and a difference between the boiling points thereof is higher than or equal to 30° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Sonoyama, Shotaro Watanabe