Patents by Inventor Yohei Ohno

Yohei Ohno 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: 20250002737
    Abstract: An active ray curable inkjet ink includes an active ray polymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, a polymer compound, and a gelling agent. The polymer compound has a tolylene diisocyanate structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventor: Yohei OHNO
  • Patent number: 10379452
    Abstract: Provided is a color image forming process using colorant-containing toners of multiple colors containing colorants respectively having different resistances, wherein each of the colorant-containing toners contains an amorphous resin, a crystalline polyester resin, and a mold release agent, at least the crystalline polyester resin contained in the colorant-containing toner other than the colorant-containing toner containing a colorant having the lowest resistance contains a hybrid crystalline polyester resin formed by bonding a crystalline polyester polymerized segment and an amorphous polymerized segment, and the content of the amorphous polymerized segment in the hybrid crystalline polyester resin contained in the colorant-containing toner other than the colorant-containing toner containing a colorant having the lowest resistance is greater than the content of the amorphous polymerized segment in the crystalline polyester resin contained in the colorant-containing toner containing a colorant having the lowes
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Natsuki Ito, Noboru Ueda, Kouji Sugama, Kenshi Miyajima, Yohei Ohno, Hidehito Haruki, Keisuke Asano
  • Patent number: 10203621
    Abstract: An image forming method includes using yellow toner, magenta toner, cyan toner, and black toner in which each of the yellow toner, the magenta toner, the cyan toner, and the black toner includes a crystalline polyester resin having a constitutional unit derived from a linear chain aliphatic diol, an amorphous resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent. A carbon number of a linear chain aliphatic diol component forming the crystalline polyester resin contained in the black toner is 6 or more, and a carbon number of a linear chain aliphatic diol component forming the crystalline polyester resin contained in each of the yellow toner, the magenta toner, and the cyan toner is 3 or more and 5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kenshi Miyajima, Noboru Ueda, Kouji Sugama, Natsuki Ito, Yohei Ohno, Hidehito Haruki, Keisuke Asano
  • Publication number: 20180307152
    Abstract: Provided is a color image forming process using colorant-containing toners of multiple colors containing colorants respectively having different resistances, wherein each of the colorant-containing toners contains an amorphous resin, a crystalline polyester resin, and a mold release agent, at least the crystalline polyester resin contained in the colorant-containing toner other than the colorant-containing toner containing a colorant having the lowest resistance contains a hybrid crystalline polyester resin formed by bonding a crystalline polyester polymerized segment and an amorphous polymerized segment, and the content of the amorphous polymerized segment in the hybrid crystalline polyester resin contained in the colorant-containing toner other than the colorant-containing toner containing a colorant having the lowest resistance is greater than the content of the amorphous polymerized segment in the crystalline polyester resin contained in the colorant-containing toner containing a colorant having the lowes
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Natsuki Ito, Noboru Ueda, Kouji Sugama, Kenshi Miyajima, Yohei Ohno, Hidehito Haruki, Keisuke Asano
  • Patent number: 9715186
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner having toner mother particles containing a binder resin and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains an amorphous vinyl resin and a crystalline polyester resin; the releasing agent contains a first releasing agent component containing an ester wax and a second releasing agent component containing a microcrystalline wax; a content of the first releasing agent component in the releasing agent is in the range of 40 to 98 mass %; a content of the second releasing agent component in the releasing agent is in the range of 2 to 60 mass %; and a content of the crystalline polyester resin in the binder resin is in the range of 5 to 20 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kouji Sugama, Yohei Ohno, Keisuke Asano, Noboru Ueda
  • Publication number: 20160370722
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner having toner mother particles containing a binder resin and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains an amorphous vinyl resin and a crystalline polyester resin; the releasing agent contains a first releasing agent component containing an ester wax and a second releasing agent component containing a microcrystalline wax; a content of the first releasing agent component in the releasing agent is in the range of 40 to 98 mass %; a content of the second releasing agent component in the releasing agent is in the range of 2 to 60 mass %; and a content of the crystalline polyester resin in the binder resin is in the range of 5 to 20 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Kouji SUGAMA, Yohei OHNO, Keisuke ASANO, Noboru UEDA
  • Patent number: 9511335
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an organic-inorganic composite material includes a flocculation and fusion step to flocculate and fuse composite particles in a liquid medium, the composite particles being formed by inorganic fine particles being coated by coating layers. In one embodiment, an average particle diameter of the inorganic fine particles is 1 nm or larger and 30 nm or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shingo Fujimoto, Fumitaka Mochizuki, Shinichi Hamaguchi, Go Yamaguchi, Yohei Ohno, Ito Koga, Naoko Uemura
  • Publication number: 20150174609
    Abstract: Disclosed is a manufacturing method of an organic-inorganic composite material including a flocculation and fusion step to flocculate and fuse composite particles in a liquid medium, the composite particles being formed by inorganic fine particles being coated by coating layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Shingo FUJIMOTO, Fumitaka MOCHIZUKI, Shinichi HAMAGUCHI, Go YAMAGUCHI, Yohei OHNO, Ito KOGA, Naoko UEMURA
  • Patent number: 8663884
    Abstract: An orange toner for developing electrostatic charge images includes a binder resin; and a colorant including a first color material and a second color material; wherein the first color material has a hue angle of ?20° to 80° in a L*a*b* color system, the second color material includes C.I. Solvent Orange 63, and the second color material has a content of 0.05 to 0.2 parts by mass to 100 parts by mass of the binder resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yohei Ohno, Kaori Soeda, Miyuki Murakami
  • Patent number: 8568947
    Abstract: Disclosed is a green toner for developing a static latent image containing a binder resin and a colorant, and the colorant contains C.I. Solvent Green 5 and colorant compound X represented by Formula (1), and content ratio of C.I. Solvent Green 5 in whole amount of the colorant is 5 to 50% by weight, in the Formula (1), M1 is a metal atom of Group 14, Q is independently a monovalent substituent, m and n are each 0 or 1, at least one of m and n is 1, and A is independently an atomic group forming an aromatic ring which may have a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yohei Ohno, Hajime Tadokoro, Kaori Matsushima, Hiroyuki Yasukawa, Ito Koga
  • Patent number: 8557490
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cyan toner for developing an electrostatic image containing a cyan colorant, and the cyan colorant comprises colorant compound X represented by Formula (1) and colorant compound Y represented by Formula (2). wherein M1 is a metal atom of Group 14, Q is independently a monovalent substituent, m and n are each 0 or 1, at least one of m and n is 1, and A is independently an atomic group forming an aromatic ring which may have a substituent, wherein, M2 is Zn or Al, and A is independently an atomic group forming an aromatic ring which may have a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yasukawa, Hajime Tadokoro, Kaori Matsushima, Ito Koga, Yohei Ohno
  • Patent number: 8298736
    Abstract: Provided is a toner comprising toner particles containing a binder resin and coloring matters, wherein the coloring matters comprise a dye represented by Formula (X-1), a metal compound represented by Formula (1) and a quinacridone pigment represented by Formula (2):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Naohiro Hirose, Hiroyuki Yasukawa, Natsuko Kusaka, Miyuki Murakami, Yohei Ohno
  • Publication number: 20120219892
    Abstract: Disclosed is a green toner for developing a static latent image containing a binder resin and a colorant, and the colorant contains C.I. Solvent Green 5 and colorant compound X represented by Formula (1), and content ratio of C.I. Solvent Green 5 in whole amount of the colorant is 5 to 50% by weight, in the Formula (1), M1 is a metal atom of Group 14, Q is independently a monovalent substituent, m and n are each 0 or 1, at least one of m and n is 1, and A is independently an atomic group forming an aromatic ring which may have a substituent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yohei OHNO, Hajime TADOKORO, Kaori MATSUSHIMA, Hiroyuki YASUKAWA, Ito KOGA
  • Publication number: 20120045718
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cyan toner for developing an electrostatic image containing a cyan colorant, and the cyan colorant comprises colorant compound X represented by Formula (1) and colorant compound Y represented by Formula (2). wherein M1 is a metal atom of Group 14, Q is independently a monovalent substituent, m and n are each 0 or 1, at least one of m and n is 1, and A is independently an atomic group forming an aromatic ring which may have a substituent, wherein, M2 is Zn or Al, and A is independently an atomic group forming an aromatic ring which may have a substituent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YASUKAWA, Hajime TADOKORO, Kaori MATSUSHIMA, Ito KOGA, Yohei OHNO
  • Patent number: 8084175
    Abstract: Provided is a set of toners comprising a yellow toner, a magenta toner, a cyan toner and a black toner for forming a full color image with an electrophotographic method, wherein the yellow toner comprises toner particles containing at east one pigment selected from the group consisting of C. I. Pigment Yellow 74, C. I. Pigment Yellow 139, C. I. Pigment Yellow 180, C. I. Pigment Yellow 185 and C. I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Naohiro Hirose, Kaori Soeda, Shinya Obara, Tatsuya Fujisaki, Yohei Ohno
  • Publication number: 20110223528
    Abstract: An orange toner for developing electrostatic charge images includes a binder resin; and a colorant including a first color material and a second color material; wherein the first color material has a hue angle of ?20° to 80° in a L*a*b* color system, the second color material includes C.I. Solvent Orange 63, and the second color material has a content of 0.05 to 0.2 parts by mass to 100 parts by mass of the binder resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yohei OHNO, Kaori SOEDA, Miyuki MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20110207037
    Abstract: Disclosed is a manufacturing method for forming a full color image and an apparatus for forming a full color image exhibiting excellent color chroma for a secondary color and extension of a color reproduction area in a range of red to orange color. A method for forming a full color image using at least six colors of an electrostatic image developing toner each comprising a resin and a colorant, wherein six colors of an electrostatic image developing toner are a yellow toner, a magenta toner, a cyan toner, an orange toner, a green toner and a black toner, and the colorant containing in the orange toner is a pyrazolone pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YASUKAWA, Hajime TADOKORO, Kaori SOEDA, Hidemasa SAWADA, Miyuki MURAKAMI, Yohei OHNO
  • Publication number: 20090291381
    Abstract: Provided is a toner comprising toner particles containing a binder resin and coloring matters, wherein the coloring matters comprise a dye represented by Formula (X-1), a metal compound represented by Formula (1) and a quinacridone pigment represented by Formula (2):
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Naohiro Hirose, Hiroyuki Yasukawa, Natsuko Kusaka, Miyuki Murakami, Yohei Ohno
  • Publication number: 20090291378
    Abstract: Provided is a set of toners comprising a yellow toner, a magenta toner, a cyan toner and a black toner for forming a full color image with an electrophotographic method, wherein the yellow toner comprises toner particles containing at east one pigment selected from the group consisting of C. I. Pigment Yellow 74, C. I. Pigment Yellow 139, C. I. Pigment Yellow 180, C. I. Pigment Yellow 185 and C. I.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Naohiro HIROSE, Kaori SOEDA, Shinya OBARA, Tatsuya FUJISAKI, Yohei OHNO