Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Makuta

Toshiyuki Makuta 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: 20190359837
    Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, provided are an ink composition which is used for recording an image using an ink jet method, including tabular metal particles having an average aspect ratio of 3 to 100, a first resin having an anionic moiety, a second resin having at least one cationic moiety selected from an amino group, an amido group, an imino group, a phosphonium group, a salt of the amino group, a salt of the amido group, a salt of the imino group, or a salt of the phosphonium group, and water, in which a content of the first resin is in a range of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Motoi Harada, Naoharu Kiyoto, Toshiyuki Makuta
  • Patent number: 10379264
    Abstract: A method of producing a lenticular printed material includes: an ink jetting step of jetting an aqueous ink, containing a colorant, resin particles, water and a water-soluble high boiling point solvent, onto an ink receiving layer of a lenticular sheet including a resin layer, a lens layer disposed at one surface side of the resin layer, and the ink receiving layer, which is disposed at the other surface side of the resin layer, which contains particles and a resin, and which has a porous structure and a void volume of 50% or greater, according to an ink jetting method; and a drying step of drying the aqueous ink, under conditions in which a surface temperature of the ink receiving layer is set to 30° C. or higher, to form a parallax picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Makuta, Yanlong Che, Masafumi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20190211221
    Abstract: Provided are a manufacturing method of a dispersion including a step A of preparing a mixture containing an edible pigment, an edible dispersant, and water, a step B of applying a hydrostatic pressure equal to or higher than 30 MPa to the mixture, and a step C of performing a dispersion treatment on the mixture to which the hydrostatic pressure is applied; a pigment dispersion for ink jet recording and a manufacturing method thereof; and an ink composition for an ink jet and a manufacturing method thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Yushi HONGO, Koji NAOE, Toshiyuki MAKUTA, Misato SASADA
  • Patent number: 10336100
    Abstract: Provided are an image forming method and a corrugated cardboard. The image forming method includes applying a treatment liquid containing at least one kind of acidic compound and having a pH of equal to or lower than 2 onto a corrugated cardboard substrate of L*?90, applying a first ink composition, which contains a coloring material and water and in which a total content of resin particles and wax particles is equal to or less than 2% by mass with respect to a total mass of the first ink composition, to a treatment liquid-applied surface of the corrugated cardboard substrate onto which the treatment liquid is applied by an ink jet method under a condition of an amount of a liquid droplet of equal to or greater than 10 picoliters, and applying a second ink composition, which contains a resin, a wax, and water and in which a content of a coloring material is equal to or smaller than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Makuta
  • Publication number: 20180362790
    Abstract: Provided is an ink composition used for image formation by an ink jet method. The ink composition includes plate-like metal particles that include a metal element having a standard oxidation-reduction potential nobler than ?1.65 V, that have an average equivalent circle diameter of 10 nm or more and less than 500 nm, and that have an average aspect ratio, which is the ratio of the average equivalent circle diameter to an average thickness, of 3 or more. Also provided are an ink set, an image forming method, and a printed matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kosuke WATANABE, Yushi HONGO, Kensuke MASUI, Naoharu KIYOTO, Toshiyuki MAKUTA, Kazuhiro HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20180335550
    Abstract: A method of producing a lenticular printed material includes: an ink jetting step of jetting an aqueous ink, containing a colorant, resin particles, water and a water-soluble high boiling point solvent, onto an ink receiving layer of a lenticular sheet including a resin layer, a lens layer disposed at one surface side of the resin layer, and the ink receiving layer, which is disposed at the other surface side of the resin layer, which contains particles and a resin, and which has a porous structure and a void volume of 50% or greater, according to an ink jetting method; and a drying step of drying the aqueous ink, under conditions in which a surface temperature of the ink receiving layer is set to 30° C. or higher, to form a parallax picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Toshiyuki MAKUTA, Yanlong CHE, Masafumi YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20180257104
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a transparent resin base printed material, including: a treatment liquid applying step of applying a treatment liquid which contains an acidic compound onto a transparent resin base material; an ink jetting step of jetting an aqueous ink, which contains a colorant, resin particles, water, and a solvent having a boiling point of 150° C. to 250° C. and in which the content of a solvent having a boiling point of higher than 250° C. is 1% by mass or less with respect to the total mass of the ink, onto the transparent resin base material to which the treatment liquid has been applied according to an ink jet system; and a drying step of drying the aqueous ink under a condition in which the surface temperature of the transparent resin base material is in a range of 60° C. to 100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Yanlong CHE, Toshiyuki MAKUTA, Masafumi YOSHIDA, Ryou HIBINO
  • Publication number: 20180194957
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method includes, in order, a jetting step of jetting an ink including an organic solvent, an oligomer having an ethylenically unsaturated group, and a pigment, and not including a polymerization initiator or including a polymerization initiator at a content of more than 0% by mass and 0.1% by mass or less onto a base material using an ink jet head, a drying step of drying the ink by removing at least a part of the organic solvent in the jetted ink, and a curing step of curing the dried ink with an electron beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventor: Toshiyuki MAKUTA
  • Publication number: 20180072073
    Abstract: Provided are an image forming method and a corrugated cardboard. The image forming method includes applying a treatment liquid containing at least one kind of acidic compound and having a pH of equal to or lower than 2 onto a corrugated cardboard substrate of L*?90, applying a first ink composition, which contains a coloring material and water and in which a total content of resin particles and wax particles is equal to or less than 2% by mass with respect to a total mass of the first ink composition, to a treatment liquid-applied surface of the corrugated cardboard substrate onto which the treatment liquid is applied by an ink jet method under a condition of an amount of a liquid droplet of equal to or greater than 10 picoliters, and applying a second ink composition, which contains a resin, a wax, and water and in which a content of a coloring material is equal to or smaller than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventor: Toshiyuki MAKUTA
  • Publication number: 20180056689
    Abstract: Provided are a method of producing a lenticular printed material including: a step of forming a parallax picture, using a recording medium which includes a resin layer and a water-absorbing layer laminated on the resin layer, by applying aqueous ink which contains water and a colorant to the water-absorbing layer of the recording medium according to an ink jet system; and a step of bonding a lenticular lens onto a side of the water-absorbing layer where the parallax picture of the recording medium is formed, and a lenticular printed material produced by the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Toshiyuki MAKUTA, Yanlong CHE, Masafumi YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 9878560
    Abstract: An inkjet recording method of the present invention includes preparing an inkjet recording apparatus having an inkjet head that has N (N?4) nozzle arrays, so as to respectively discharge inks of at least four colors of cyan, magenta, yellow and black, having nozzles arranged in a first direction at a predetermined pitch P for discharging a curable ink which is cured by providing active energy, each of the nozzle arrays is arranged to be shifted in the first direction so as to have distances of more than 0 among each virtual line extending from each nozzle in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, in which the viscosity of any of the respective inks at 25° C. is 10 to 30 mPa·s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Makuta, Yasuhiko Kachi, Kazuo Sanada, Hirofumi Saita, Kazuaki Okamori
  • Patent number: 9452618
    Abstract: An inkjet recording method including applying an undercoat solution onto a transparent recording medium, semi-curing the undercoat solution, discharging an ink composition onto the semi-cured undercoat solution, and carrying out overall curing of the semi-cured undercoat solution and the ink composition by exposure under an low oxygen atmosphere after the image formation, the undercoat solution comprising two or more types of polymers and/or oligomers from among polymers and oligomers having a structure selected from the group consisting of a polyester structure, a polyurethane structure, and a chlorinated polyolefin structure, the ink composition comprising at least 95 parts of a polyfunctional ethylenically unsaturated compound relative to 100 parts of the total content of ethylenically unsaturated compound, and at least 5 parts of a polyalkylene glycol diacrylate, and exposure in the overall curing being carried out from both the image formation face and the reverse face of the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Makuta
  • Publication number: 20150049149
    Abstract: An inkjet recording method including applying an undercoat solution onto a transparent recording medium, semi-curing the undercoat solution, discharging an ink composition onto the semi-cured undercoat solution, and carrying out overall curing of the semi-cured undercoat solution and the ink composition by exposure under an low oxygen atmosphere after the image formation, the undercoat solution comprising two or more types of polymers and/or oligomers from among polymers and oligomers having a structure selected from the group consisting of a polyester structure, a polyurethane structure, and a chlorinated polyolefin structure, the ink composition comprising at least 95 parts of a polyfunctional ethylenically unsaturated compound relative to 100 parts of the total content of ethylenically unsaturated compound, and at least 5 parts of a polyalkylene glycol diacrylate, and exposure in the overall curing being carried out from both the image formation face and the reverse face of the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiyuki MAKUTA
  • Patent number: 8888246
    Abstract: An inkjet recording method includes a step of forming an image by imparting an actinic ray curable ink composition containing a pigment, a polyfunctional polymerizable compound in which a content ratio to a total polymerization component is 80% by mass or more and a sensitizer in which a molecular weight is 1,000 or more onto a recording substrate which is an aggregate of a nonabsorbable or a low absorbable fiber material from an inkjet head under the conditions in which an amount of ink droplets is from 25 pl to 200 pl and a distance between the recording substrate and the inkjet head is from 5 mm to 20 mm, and a step of curing the image by irradiating the formed image with an actinic ray under the conditions in which an oxygen partial pressure is 1.5×10?2 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Makuta
  • Publication number: 20140248473
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a decorative sheet, the process comprising a discharge step of discharging an ink composition onto a recording medium, a drying step of drying the ink composition above the recording medium by means of heat, and a curing step of curing the ink composition above the recording medium by means of a light source having a peak wavelength of 200 nm to 300 nm, the ink composition comprising (Component A) a polymer compound comprising a monomer unit (a-1) having a partial structure represented by Formula (1) below and a monomer unit (a-2) having a hydrophilic group, (Component B) water, and (Component C) a pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiyuki MAKUTA
  • Publication number: 20140232790
    Abstract: An inkjet recording method includes a step of forming an image by imparting an actinic ray curable ink composition containing a pigment, a polyfunctional polymerizable compound in which a content ratio to a total polymerization component is 80% by mass or more and a sensitizer in which a molecular weight is 1,000 or more onto a recording substrate which is an aggregate of a nonabsorbable or a low absorbable fiber material from an inkjet head under the conditions in which an amount of ink droplets is from 25 pl to 200 pl and a distance between the recording substrate and the inkjet head is from 5 mm to 20 mm, and a step of curing the image by irradiating the formed image with an actinic ray under the conditions in which an oxygen partial pressure is 1.5×10?2 MPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiyuki MAKUTA
  • Publication number: 20140062076
    Abstract: An inkjet recording method of the present invention includes preparing an inkjet recording apparatus having an inkjet head that has N (N?4) nozzle arrays, so as to respectively discharge inks of at least four colors of cyan, magenta, yellow and black, having nozzles arranged in a first direction at a predetermined pitch P for discharging a curable ink which is cured by providing active energy, each of the nozzle arrays is arranged to be shifted in the first direction so as to have distances of more than 0 among each virtual line extending from each nozzle in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, in which the viscosity of any of the respective inks at 25° C. is 10 to 30 mPa·s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki MAKUTA, Yasuhiko KACHI, Kazuo SANADA, Hirofumi SAITA, Kazuaki OKAMORI
  • Patent number: 8541063
    Abstract: The present invention provides an undercoat solution including a radical-polymerizable compound having a phosphoric acid group, an ink-jet recording method including applying an undercoat solution containing a radical-polymerizable compound having a phosphoric acid group; partially curing the applied undercoat solution; and discharging an ink, which is curable by irradiation with an active energy ray, onto the partially cured undercoat solution to record an image, and an ink-jet recording device including an undercoat solution application unit which applies an undercoat solution containing a radical-polymerizable compound having a phosphoric acid group; an undercoat solution curing unit which partially cures the undercoat solution; and an image recording unit which discharges an ink onto the partially cured undercoat solution to record an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawakami, Toshiyuki Makuta, Yusuke Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 8414118
    Abstract: The method forms an image using an inkjet recording apparatus, which includes: an image formation unit having a line head type inkjet head disposed opposite a circumferential surface of an image formation drum, the inkjet head depositing the aqueous ink onto the recording medium while the recording medium is held and conveyed in rotation on the circumferential surface of the image formation drum; and a drying unit arranged on a downstream side of the image formation unit, the drying unit having a drying device disposed opposite a circumferential surface of a drying drum, the drying device drying a solvent in the aqueous ink deposited on the recording medium, the drying unit drying the solvent by means of the drying device while the recording medium is held and conveyed in rotation on the circumferential surface of the drying drum; using, as the recording medium, a special paper which is a recording medium successively laminated from a base paper, a first layer containing a binder and a second layer containing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Makuta, Yasuhiko Kachi, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Terukazu Yanagi, Misato Sasada
  • Patent number: 8337953
    Abstract: The inkjet recording method includes: a treatment liquid depositing step of applying treatment liquid onto a recording medium on a treatment liquid drum; an image forming step of ejecting ink from a line inkjet head to deposit the ink onto the recording medium on which the treatment liquid has been deposited on a circumferential surface of an image formation drum, the ink containing at least a resin dispersant (A), a pigment (B) that is dispersed by the resin dispersant (A), self-dispersible polymer micro-particles (C) and an aqueous liquid medium (D), the ink having one of a solid component that is aggregated upon making contact with the treatment liquid and a solid component that is precipitated upon making contact with the treatment liquid; and a drying step of drying a solvent in the ink having been deposited on the recording medium on a drying drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakazawa, Toshiyuki Makuta, Yasuhiko Kachi, Misato Sasada, Terukazu Yanagi