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).
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Patent number: 9573387Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 4, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomoki Shinoda, Kazuyuki Fujioka, Keiji Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20160271946Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masakazu Ohashi, Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda, Masashi Kamibayashi, Yoshihiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 9435075Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masakazu Ohashi, Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda
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Publication number: 20160193849Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2016Publication date: July 7, 2016Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Toru SAITO, Tomoki SHINODA, Masakazu OHASHI, Masashi KAMIBAYASHI, Yoshihiro WATANABE
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Patent number: 9352569Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masakazu Ohashi, Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda, Masashi Kamibayashi, Yoshihiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 9309428Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 4, 2015Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda, Masakazu Ohashi, Masashi Kamibayashi, Yoshihiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20150267064Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda, Masakazu Ohashi, Masashi Kamibayashi, Yoshihiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 9102842Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 28, 2013Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomoki Shinoda, Akihito Sao, Keiji Iida, Makoto Nagase, Miho Nakamura, Kenichiro Kubota
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Patent number: 9050796Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda, Masakazu Ohashi, Masashi Kamibayashi, Yoshihiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20150124034Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Tomoki SHINODA, Kazuyuki FUJIOKA, Keiji MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20150116431Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Masakazu OHASHI, Toru SAITO, Tomoki SHINODA
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Patent number: 8858696Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Akihito Sao, Maki Nariai, Makoto Nagase, Keiji Iida, Tomoki Shinoda, Kenichiro Kubota
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Publication number: 20140240399Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda, Masakazu Ohashi, Masashi Kamibayashi, Yoshihiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20140232788Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masakazu Ohashi, Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda, Masashi Kamibayashi, Yoshihiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20140210900Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masakazu Ohashi, Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda
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Publication number: 20140210901Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masakazu Ohashi, Toru Saito, Tomoki Shinoda
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Publication number: 20130293643Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomoki SHINODA, Akihito SAO, Keiji IIDA, Makoto NAGASE, Miho NAKAMURA, Kenichiro KUBOTA