Patents by Inventor Tetsuro Noguchi

Tetsuro Noguchi 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: 20240001702
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a recorded matter having a stereoscopic image includes a first heating step, a foaming control liquid application step, and a second heating step. A surface temperature T0 (° C.) of the record medium before being heated in the first heating step, a surface temperature T1 (° C.) of the record medium after being heated in the first heating step, and a foaming start temperature Tf (° C.) of the foaming material satisfy a relationship represented by Formula (1): T0<T<Tf??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: TOSHIHIRO OMAGARI, OLIVIA HERLAMBANG, TAKATOSHI TANAKA, YOSHIYUKI NAGASE, TETSURO NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240002622
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for manufacturing a recorded product having a three-dimensional image, the manufacturing method including applying a foaming promotion liquid to a recording medium having a base material and a foaming layer provided on the base material and containing a foaming particle having a shell layer including polyacrylonitrile copolymer, and heating the recording medium to which the foaming promotion liquid is applied. The foaming promotion liquid includes a good solvent for the polyacrylonitrile copolymer and a poor solvent for the polyacrylonitrile copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: OLIVIA HERLAMBANG, TAKATOSHI TANAKA, TOSHIHIRO OMAGARI, TETSURO NOGUCHI, YOSHIYUKI NAGASE
  • Patent number: 11413897
    Abstract: An inkjet recording medium includes a substrate having a resin layer, a bonding layer disposed on the resin layer, and an ink-receiving layer disposed on the bonding layer. The surface of the inkjet recording medium on the ink-receiving layer side of the inkjet recording medium has a 20° glossiness of 13.0 or more. The bonding layer contains an ultraviolet inhibitor at a content of 5.0% by mass or more and 35.0% by mass or less based on the total mass of the bonding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Takeda, Tetsuro Noguchi, Kazuhiko Araki, Hiroo Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10981405
    Abstract: A recording medium substrate in an aspect of the present invention is a recording medium substrate having a base paper and a stretched film layer on the base paper, wherein the stretched film layer has a thickness of 70 ?m or more, and the recording medium substrate has an average surface roughness of 0.3 ?m or less. A recording medium in another aspect of the present invention includes a recording medium substrate, a first ink receiving layer on the recording medium substrate, and a second ink receiving layer on the first ink receiving layer, wherein the first ink receiving layer is in contact with the second ink receiving layer, the first ink receiving layer contains an alumina hydrate and a hydroxy acid, the second ink receiving layer contains an alumina hydrate and a sulfonic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Araki, Tetsuro Noguchi, Arika Tanaka, Shoichi Takeda, Hiroo Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20200353767
    Abstract: An inkjet recording medium includes a substrate having a resin layer, a bonding layer disposed on the resin layer, and an ink-receiving layer disposed on the bonding layer. The surface of the inkjet recording medium on the ink-receiving layer side of the inkjet recording medium has a 20° glossiness of 13.0 or more. The bonding layer contains an ultraviolet inhibitor at a content of 5.0% by mass or more and 35.0% by mass or less based on the total mass of the bonding layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Shoichi Takeda, Tetsuro Noguchi, Kazuhiko Araki, Hiroo Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10663295
    Abstract: A distance measurement system includes a pair of cameras and is arranged on a roof of a mobile object or an upper edge portion of a door of the mobile object. One of the cameras is arranged at a first portion on an upper surface of the roof or on the upper edge portion of the door, includes an optical axis oriented upward from the upper surface, and has a field of view in all directions around the optical axis. The other camera is arranged at a second portion different from the first portion on the upper surface of the roof or the upper edge portion of the door, includes an optical axis oriented upward from the upper surface, and has a field of view in all directions around the optical axis. Distance measurement in all directions from the mobile object is performed by using this pair of cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Shunsaku Imaki, Yukiteru Murao, Tetsuro Noguchi, Kenichi Ishida, Masato Suzuki, Kazuyuki Ohhashi
  • Patent number: 10293628
    Abstract: To provide a recording medium in which the ink absorbability and the color development properties of an image to be obtained are high and in which cracking in an ink receiving layer is sufficiently suppressed. A recording medium contains a base material and an ink receiving layer containing inorganic particles and a binder, in which the inorganic particles have an organosilicon structure having a quaternary ammonium group, an imino group or a substituted imino group, and a hydroxyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Oguri, Hisao Kamo, Tetsuro Noguchi, Masahito Miyabe, Naoya Hatta
  • Publication number: 20190143728
    Abstract: A recording medium substrate in an aspect of the present invention is a recording medium substrate having a base paper and a stretched film layer on the base paper, wherein the stretched film layer has a thickness of 70 ?m or more, and the recording medium substrate has an average surface roughness of 0.3 ?m or less. A recording medium in another aspect of the present invention includes a recording medium substrate, a first ink receiving layer on the recording medium substrate, and a second ink receiving layer on the first ink receiving layer, wherein the first ink receiving layer is in contact with the second ink receiving layer, the first ink receiving layer contains an alumina hydrate and a hydroxy acid, the second ink receiving layer contains an alumina hydrate and a sulfonic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Araki, Tetsuro Noguchi, Arika Tanaka, Shoichi Takeda, Hiroo Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20180274917
    Abstract: A distance measurement system includes a pair of cameras and is arranged on a roof of a mobile object or an upper edge portion of a door of the mobile object. One of the cameras is arranged at a first portion on an upper surface of the roof or on the upper edge portion of the door, includes an optical axis oriented upward from the upper surface, and has a field of view in all directions around the optical axis. The other camera is arranged at a second portion different from the first portion on the upper surface of the roof or the upper edge portion of the door, includes an optical axis oriented upward from the upper surface, and has a field of view in all directions around the optical axis. Distance measurement in all directions from the mobile object is performed by using this pair of cameras.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Shunsaku IMAKI, Yukiteru MURAO, Tetsuro NOGUCHI, Kenichi ISHIDA, Masato SUZUKI, Kazuyuki OHHASHI
  • Patent number: 10011135
    Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate and an ink-receiving layer as the top layer. The ink-receiving layer contains inorganic particles. The inorganic particles contain cationized colloidal silica, alumina hydrate, and fumed alumina. A content of the cationized colloidal silica is 5% or more by mass and 25% or less by mass based on a content of the inorganic particles. The mass ratio of the alumina hydrate to the fumed alumina (alumina hydrate content:fumed alumina content) is from 95:5 to 55:45.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoya Hatta, Tetsuro Noguchi, Kazuhiko Araki, Arika Tanaka, Shoichi Takeda
  • Patent number: 9962985
    Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate, and a first and a second ink receiving layer over the substrate in this order from the side close to the substrate. The first ink receiving layer contains fumed silica, alumina, and zirconium compound. In the first ink receiving layer, the mass ratio of the fumed silica to the alumina is in the range of 40:60 to 60:40. The zirconium compound content in the first ink receiving layer is in the range of 0.1% by mass to 3.0% by mass relative to the total mass of the first ink receiving layer. The second ink receiving layer contains inorganic particles including at least one of fumed silica and alumina. In the second ink receiving layer, the fumed silica or the alumina accounts for 80% by mass or more of the inorganic particles in the second ink receiving layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuro Noguchi, Naoya Hatta, Kazuhiko Araki, Arika Tanaka, Shoichi Takeda
  • Patent number: 9925814
    Abstract: A recording medium includes in this order a water-resistant substrate, a first ink receiving layer, and a second ink receiving layer that is the outermost layer. The first ink receiving layer contains a fumed silica and a binder. The second ink receiving layer contains a colloidal silica having an average primary particle diameter of 50 nm or more and 100 nm or less, and a polyvinyl alcohol having a silanol group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Araki, Hisao Kamo, Tetsuro Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9884505
    Abstract: A recording medium having a base and an ink receiving layer containing an inorganic particle and at least one compound selected from a compound represented by the following formula (I) and a compound represented by the following formula (II):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Yumoto, Hisao Kamo, Tetsuro Noguchi, Isamu Oguri
  • Publication number: 20180022139
    Abstract: To provide a recording medium in which the ink absorbability and the color development properties of an image to be obtained are high and in which cracking in an ink receiving layer is sufficiently suppressed. A recording medium contains a base material and an ink receiving layer containing inorganic particles and a binder, in which the inorganic particles have an organosilicon structure having a quaternary ammonium group, an imino group or a substituted imino group, and a hydroxyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Isamu Oguri, Hisao Kamo, Tetsuro Noguchi, Masahito Miyabe, Naoya Hatta
  • Publication number: 20170291443
    Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate, and a first and a second ink receiving layer over the substrate in this order from the side close to the substrate. The first ink receiving layer contains fumed silica, alumina, and zirconium compound. In the first ink receiving layer, the mass ratio of the fumed silica to the alumina is in the range of 40:60 to 60:40. The zirconium compound content in the first ink receiving layer is in the range of 0.1% by mass to 3.0% by mass relative to the total mass of the first ink receiving layer. The second ink receiving layer contains inorganic particles including at least one of fumed silica and alumina. In the second ink receiving layer, the fumed silica or the alumina accounts for 80% by mass or more of the inorganic particles in the second ink receiving layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuro Noguchi, Naoya Hatta, Kazuhiko Araki, Arika Tanaka, Shoichi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20170291442
    Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate and an ink-receiving layer as the top layer. The ink-receiving layer contains inorganic particles. The inorganic particles contain cationized colloidal silica, alumina hydrate, and fumed alumina. A content of the cationized colloidal silica is 5% or more by mass and 25% or less by mass based on a content of the inorganic particles. The mass ratio of the alumina hydrate to the fumed alumina (alumina hydrate content:fumed alumina content) is from 95:5 to 55:45.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Naoya Hatta, Tetsuro Noguchi, Kazuhiko Araki, Arika Tanaka, Shoichi Takeda
  • Patent number: 9713932
    Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate and an ink receiving layer that includes inorganic particles and a binder. The inorganic particles include fumed silica particles. The binder includes a resin having a glass transition temperature of 20° C. or less. The content of the binder in the ink receiving layer is 40% by mass or more of the content of the inorganic particles included in the ink receiving layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Yumoto, Naotoshi Miyamachi, Tetsuro Noguchi, Hisao Kamo, Kazuhiko Araki, Ryo Taguri, Takashi Sugiura
  • Patent number: 9701147
    Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate and an ink receiving layer that includes inorganic particles and a binder. The inorganic particles include at least one type of alumina particles selected from fumed alumina particles and hydrated alumina particles. The binder includes a resin having a glass transition temperature of 20° C. or less. The content of the binder in the ink receiving layer is 25% by mass or more of the content of the inorganic particles included in the ink receiving layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naotoshi Miyamachi, Tetsuro Noguchi, Shinya Yumoto, Hisao Kamo, Kazuhiko Araki, Ryo Taguri, Takashi Sugiura
  • Patent number: 9662921
    Abstract: A recording medium including a substrate and an ink receiving layer on the substrate, the ink receiving layer containing inorganic particles and a water-soluble resin. The recording medium has an HM1 of 40 N/mm2 or less and has a rate of change of HM2 to HM1 of 400% or less. HM1 is a Martens hardness when an indenter is pushed at a 500 mN load over 180 seconds from a surface of the recording medium into a 1 ?m depth in a thickness direction thereof. HM2 is a Martens hardness when the indenter is pushed up to a position where the indenter is not in contact with the surface and is then pushed at a 500 mN load over 180 seconds from a pressing starting position into a 1 ?m depth in the thickness direction at the same point as that at which the indenter is first pushed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Sugiura, Shinya Yumoto, Naotoshi Miyamachi, Tetsuro Noguchi, Hisao Kamo, Kazuhiko Araki, Ryo Taguri
  • Patent number: 9511612
    Abstract: A recording medium including, in the following order, a base, an ink-receiving layer containing inorganic particles, and a protective layer. The protective layer contains colloidal silica, gas phase process silica, and at least one kind of particles selected from resin particles and wet process silica particles. The average particle size of the at least one kind of particles is 1.5 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuro Noguchi, Yasuhiro Nito, Kazuhiko Araki