Patents by Inventor Tomoki SHINODA

Tomoki SHINODA 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: 9573387
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a removal portion that removes attached materials attached to a printing surface by coming in contact with the printing surface of a printing medium; a pressing portion that presses the printing surface with which the removal portion is in contact; and a liquid ejecting portion that performs printing by ejecting a liquid with respect to the printing surface pressed by the pressing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Shinoda, Kazuyuki Fujioka, Keiji Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20160271946
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method is provided in which an ink jet head having a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array which is arranged along the first nozzle array, in which the distance between the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array is 15 mm or greater and a nozzle density of the first nozzle array and a nozzle density of the second nozzle array are 600 dpi or greater is used, and while varying the relative position of the ink jet head in a direction intersecting an array direction of the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array with respect to a recording medium, an ink composition is adhered to the recording medium by performing a scanning which discharges the ink composition at a frequency of 12 kHz or greater from nozzles in the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Ohashi, Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda, Masashi Kamibayashi, Yoshihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9435075
    Abstract: An ink for ink jet textile printing according to the invention which is used for recording on cloth includes a pigment, a resin, and a 2-pyrrolidone-based solvent, in which the pH is in the range of 9.2 to 10.5. Coating elongation of the resin may be in the range of 400% to 1200%, and the resin may be a urethane-based resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Ohashi, Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda
  • Publication number: 20160193849
    Abstract: There is provided an ink jet recording method for printing a pigment in which a pigment printing ink composition including at least pigment as a colorant is discharged from a nozzle opening as an ink droplet having an amount of the ink of the ink droplet of 9 ng or less with an average discharging speed V of 5 m/s or greater at a distance in the range of 0.5 mm to 1.0 mm in the direction from the nozzle opening to cloth, and whereby the pigment printing ink composition is adhered to the cloth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toru SAITO, Tomoki SHINODA, Masakazu OHASHI, Masashi KAMIBAYASHI, Yoshihiro WATANABE
  • Patent number: 9352569
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method is provided in which an ink jet head having a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array which is arranged along the first nozzle array, in which the distance between the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array is 15 mm or greater and a nozzle density of the first nozzle array and a nozzle density of the second nozzle array are 600 dpi or greater is used, and while varying the relative position of the ink jet head in a direction intersecting an array direction of the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array with respect to a recording medium, an ink composition is adhered to the recording medium by performing a scanning which discharges the ink composition at a frequency of 12 kHz or greater from nozzles in the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Ohashi, Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda, Masashi Kamibayashi, Yoshihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9309428
    Abstract: There is provided an ink jet recording method for printing a pigment in which a pigment printing ink composition including at least pigment as a colorant is discharged from a nozzle opening as an ink droplet having an amount of the ink of the ink droplet of 9 ng or less with an average discharging speed V of 5 m/s or greater at a distance in the range of 0.5 mm to 1.0 mm in the direction from the nozzle opening to cloth, and whereby the pigment printing ink composition is adhered to the cloth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda, Masakazu Ohashi, Masashi Kamibayashi, Yoshihiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150267064
    Abstract: There is provided an ink jet recording method for printing a pigment in which a pigment printing ink composition including at least pigment as a colorant is discharged from a nozzle opening as an ink droplet having an amount of the ink of the ink droplet of 9 ng or less with an average discharging speed V of 5 m/s or greater at a distance in the range of 0.5 mm to 1.0 mm in the direction from the nozzle opening to cloth, and whereby the pigment printing ink composition is adhered to the cloth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda, Masakazu Ohashi, Masashi Kamibayashi, Yoshihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9102842
    Abstract: Disclosed is ink composition used in a recording apparatus provided with a pressure regulation valve which performs opening and closing operations to adjust a pressure in a recording head and is covered with an elastic member. The ink composition includes a slip agent and a lactone system medium. The slip agent is preferably at least one kind selected from a group consisting of a silicon system compound, a hydrocarbon system compound, a fluorine system compound, an amide system compound, and acrylic compound. In addition, the content of the slip agent is preferably not more than 1% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Shinoda, Akihito Sao, Keiji Iida, Makoto Nagase, Miho Nakamura, Kenichiro Kubota
  • Patent number: 9050796
    Abstract: There is provided an ink jet recording method for printing a pigment in which a pigment printing ink composition including at least pigment as a colorant is discharged from a nozzle opening as an ink droplet having an amount of the ink of the ink droplet of 9 ng or less with an average discharging speed V of 5 m/s or greater at a distance in the range of 0.5 mm to 1.0 mm in the direction from the nozzle opening to cloth, and whereby the pigment printing ink composition is adhered to the cloth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda, Masakazu Ohashi, Masashi Kamibayashi, Yoshihiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150124034
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a removal portion that removes attached materials attached to a printing surface by coming in contact with the printing surface of a printing medium; a pressing portion that presses the printing surface with which the removal portion is in contact; and a liquid ejecting portion that performs printing by ejecting a liquid with respect to the printing surface pressed by the pressing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Tomoki SHINODA, Kazuyuki FUJIOKA, Keiji MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150116431
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method includes first attaching an ink composition to fabric so as to have an attached amount of 10 mg/inch2 to 30 mg/inch2, and second attaching the ink composition to the fabric so as to have an attached amount of 90 mg/inch2 to 250 mg/inch2, in which the ink composition includes a pigment and a resin dispersion, and a content of a resin included in the resin dispersion is 0.5 parts by mass to 2.5 parts by mass with respect to 1 part by mass of the pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Masakazu OHASHI, Toru SAITO, Tomoki SHINODA
  • Patent number: 8858696
    Abstract: The nonaqueous ink composition for ink jet recording according to the invention includes a compound represented by the General Formula (1) below; and a compound represented by the General Formula (2A) or the General Formula (2B) below. In the General Formula (1), R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R2 and R3 represent a methyl group or an ethyl group; in the General Formula (2A), R4A represents an alkyl group having 5 to 9 carbon atoms, and R5A represents a methyl group or an ethyl group; in the General Formula (2B), R4B represents an alkylene group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms, and R5B and R6B each independently represent alkyl groups having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Akihito Sao, Maki Nariai, Makoto Nagase, Keiji Iida, Tomoki Shinoda, Kenichiro Kubota
  • Publication number: 20140240399
    Abstract: There is provided an ink jet recording method for printing a pigment in which a pigment printing ink composition including at least pigment as a colorant is discharged from a nozzle opening as an ink droplet having an amount of the ink of the ink droplet of 9 ng or less with an average discharging speed V of 5 m/s or greater at a distance in the range of 0.5 mm to 1.0 mm in the direction from the nozzle opening to cloth, and whereby the pigment printing ink composition is adhered to the cloth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda, Masakazu Ohashi, Masashi Kamibayashi, Yoshihiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20140232788
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method is provided in which an ink jet head having a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array which is arranged along the first nozzle array, in which the distance between the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array is 15 mm or greater and a nozzle density of the first nozzle array and a nozzle density of the second nozzle array are 600 dpi or greater is used, and while varying the relative position of the ink jet head in a direction intersecting an array direction of the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array with respect to a recording medium, an ink composition is adhered to the recording medium by performing a scanning which discharges the ink composition at a frequency of 12 kHz or greater from nozzles in the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Ohashi, Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda, Masashi Kamibayashi, Yoshihiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20140210900
    Abstract: An inkset for ink jet textile printing includes a first ink having a pigment and a resin; and a second ink having a pigment, a resin, and an emulsifier, in which the emulsifier includes at least one kind selected from an anionic emulsifier represented by the following general formula (1) and a nonionic emulsifier represented by the following general formula (2), whose HLB value is 12 or more, R1—O—(CH2—CH2—O)n-A??(1), and R2—O—(CH2—CH2—O)m—H??(2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Ohashi, Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda
  • Publication number: 20140210901
    Abstract: An ink for ink jet textile printing according to the invention which is used for recording on cloth includes a pigment, a resin, and a 2-pyrrolidone-based solvent, in which the pH is in the range of 9.2 to 10.5. Coating elongation of the resin may be in the range of 400% to 1200%, and the resin may be a urethane-based resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Ohashi, Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda
  • Publication number: 20130293643
    Abstract: Disclosed is ink composition used in a recording apparatus provided with a pressure regulation valve which performs opening and closing operations to adjust a pressure in a recording head and is covered with an elastic member. The ink composition includes a slip agent and a lactone system medium. The slip agent is preferably at least one kind selected from a group consisting of a silicon system compound, a hydrocarbon system compound, a fluorine system compound, an amide system compound, and acrylic compound. In addition, the content of the slip agent is preferably not more than 1% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki SHINODA, Akihito SAO, Keiji IIDA, Makoto NAGASE, Miho NAKAMURA, Kenichiro KUBOTA