Patents by Inventor Yasuo Yoshihiro

Yasuo Yoshihiro 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: 8530400
    Abstract: Provided is a maintenance liquid for inkjet printers, which comprises at least one of glycol ethers and glycol esters represented by the following general formulas (1) to (3), and 45 to 10 mg/L of dissolved oxygen: R1CO(OR2)xOR3??General formula (1) R4CO(OR5)YOCOR6??General formula (2) R7(OR8)ZOR9??General formula (3) wherein R2, R5, and R8 each independently represent an ethylene group or a propylene group, R1, R3, R4, and R6 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R7 and R9 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and X, Y, and Z each independently represent an integer of 1 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eriko Seki, Seiji Aida, Yasuo Yoshihiro, Kaori Nakano, Ken Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 8378005
    Abstract: Provided is an active energy ray-curable inkjet ink comprising a pigment and polymerizable monomers that is superior in nozzle ejection stability, adhesiveness to recording medium and storage stability, wherein the polymerizable monomers comprise N-acryloyloxyethyl hexahydrophthalimide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Yoshihiro, Yukitoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8142866
    Abstract: A display panel has a resin substrate and a printed layer formed on at least a part of the resin substrate through inkjet printing. The printed layer is formed from cured products of UV-curable inks each containing UV-curable monomers which are polymerized and cured by UV irradiation, and the printed layer has at least two such cured products having different pencil hardness values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Toyo Ink Mfg., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruhiko Iwase, Takashi Aoki, Osamu Ina, Yasuo Yoshihiro, Yukitoshi Takahashi, Shinichi Sato
  • Patent number: 8105679
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an active energy beam-curable ink comprising polymerizable monomers, wherein relative to the total of all the polymerizable monomers, the polymerizable monomers comprise from 95 to 99.99% by weight of a monofunctional monomer and from 0.01 to 5% by weight of a polyfunctional monomer, and a cured film of thickness 10 ?m formed using the active energy beam-curable ink exhibits a drawing ability exceeding 120% when stretched at a temperature of 170° C. at a strain rate of 2/min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Jonai, Yasuo Yoshihiro, Daisuke Nishida
  • Publication number: 20100126529
    Abstract: Provided is a maintenance liquid for inkjet printers, which comprises at least one of glycol ethers and glycol esters represented by the following general formulas (1) to (3), and 45 to 10 mg/L of dissolved oxygen: R1CO(OR2)xOR3??General formula (1) R4CO(OR5)YOCOR6??General formula (2) R7(OR8)ZOR9??General formula (3) wherein R2, R5, and R8 each independently represent an ethylene group or a propylene group, R1, R3, R4, and R6 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R7 and R9 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and X, Y, and Z each independently represent an integer of 1 to 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: TOYO INK MFG. CO., TLD
    Inventors: Eriko Seki, Seiji Aida, Yasuo Yoshihiro, Kaori Nakano, Ken Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20090226675
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an active energy beam-curable inkjet ink comprising a polymerizable monomer, wherein when a cured film obtained upon curing the ink is measured under conditions including an oscillation frequency of 1 Hz, the loss tangent (tan ?) at the glass transition temperature is 2 or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: TOYO INK MFG, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukitoshi Takahashi, Kazuhiro Jonai, Yasuo Yoshihiro
  • Publication number: 20090171007
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an active energy beam-curable ink comprising polymerizable monomers, wherein relative to the total of all the polymerizable monomers, the polymerizable monomers comprise from 95 to 99.99% by weight of a monofunctional monomer and from 0.01 to 5% by weight of a polyfunctional monomer, and a cured film of thickness 10 ?m formed using the active energy beam-curable ink exhibits a drawing ability exceeding 120% when stretched at a temperature of 170° C. at a strain rate of 2/min.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Jonai, Yasuo Yoshihiro, Daisuke Nishida
  • Publication number: 20090117343
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an active energy beam-curable inkjet ink comprising a polymerizable monomer and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the polymerizable monomer comprises at least 50% by weight of a monofunctional monomer, and the photopolymerization initiator comprises an initiator represented by either [formula 1] or [formula 2] shown below: (wherein, R1, R2, R3 and R4 each represent, independently, a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, hydroxyl group, amino group, alkyl group, alkoxy group or phenyl group, and n represents an integer from 2 to 10) (wherein, R1, R2 and R3 each represent, independently, a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, hydroxyl group, amino group, alkyl group, alkoxy group or phenyl group).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishida, Kazuhiro Jonai, Yasuo Yoshihiro, Yukitoshi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20090068418
    Abstract: A display panel has a resin substrate and a printed layer formed on at least a part of the resin substrate through inkjet printing. The printed layer is formed from cured products of UV-curable inks each containing UV-curable monomers which are polymerized and cured by UV irradiation, and the printed layer has at least two such cured products having different pencil hardness values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruhiko Iwase, Takashi Aoki, Osamu Ina, Yasuo Yoshihiro, Yukitoshi Takahashi, Shinichi Sato
  • Publication number: 20090053484
    Abstract: Provided is an active energy ray-curable inkjet ink comprising a pigment and polymerizable monomers that is superior in nozzle ejection stability, adhesiveness to recording medium and storage stability, wherein the polymerizable monomers comprise N-acryloyloxyethyl hexahydrophthalimide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: TOYO INK MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Yoshihiro, Yukitoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6913352
    Abstract: Disclosed is an active energy beam curable inkjet printing ink including a pigment, a compound containing two or more ethylenic double bonds, a compound containing one ethylenic double bond and having a molecular weight of 90 to 210, 2-benzyl-2-dimethylamino-1-(4-morpholinophenyl)-butanone-1 as a first initiator, and acylphosphine oxides as a second initiator. The ink has low viscosity, excellent photo-polymerizability, remarkably excellent curing property, good dispersion stability, causes no dissolution and swelling of ink contacting materials in a printer, and shows excellent discharge stability from nozzles, an excellent adherence property to a recording medium, excellent solvent resistance and water resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Yoshihiro, Kaori Nakano, Yoshihiro Fuse
  • Publication number: 20040021753
    Abstract: Disclosed is an active energy beam curable inkjet printing ink comprising a pigment, a compound containing two or more ethylenic double bonds, a compound containing one ethylenic double bond and having a molecular weight of 90 to 210, 2-benzyl-2-dimethylamino-1-(4-morpholinophenyl)-butanone-1 as a first initiator, and acylphosphine oxides as a second initiator. The ink has low viscosity, excellent photo-polymerizability, remarkably excellent curing property, good dispersion stability, causes no dissolution and swelling of ink contacting materials in a printer, and shows excellent discharge stability from nozzles, an excellent adherence property to a recording medium, excellent solvent resistance and water resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Yasuo Yoshihiro, Kaori Nakano, Yoshihiro Fuse
  • Publication number: 20020067394
    Abstract: Disclosed is a novel method for ink jet printing on a surface of a substrate made of a synthetic resin, the method comprising the steps of conducting a surface treatment to the surface so as to provide it with a specific surface free energy of 65-72 mJ/m2; providing an activation energy beam-curable ink having a surface tension of 25-40 mN/m; discharging the ink onto the surface with an ink jet printing device thereby forming printed portions of the ink on the surface; and projecting an activation energy beam onto the printed portions. According to the disclosed method, printing articles having desirable image qualities are obtained by achieving a uniform dot diameter of the drop of ink on a synthetic resin substrate by utilizing an ink jet printing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Applicant: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Yoshihiro, Kaori Nakano, Yoshihiro Fuse