Patents by Inventor Yukako Tamanuki

Yukako Tamanuki 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: 10933651
    Abstract: Inkjet recording is performed by using an inkjet recording apparatus including an ink circulation channel for circulating a first ink, an ink supply channel for supplying a second ink into the ink circulation channel, and a recording head communicating with the ink circulation channel. The apparatus is configured to eject an aqueous ink including the first ink and the second ink from the recording head, thereby recording an image on a recording medium. The content (% by mass) of water in the first ink and the content (% by mass) of water in the second ink differ from each other by 2.00% by mass or more. The first ink contains a pigment, and the second ink contains a first water-soluble organic solvent having a log P value of ?1.10 or more and a surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukako Tamanuki, Shinsuke Tsuji
  • Patent number: 10851256
    Abstract: An inkjet printing method for printing an image by using a cyan ink, a magenta ink, and a blue ink, including the step of applying the blue ink to a region provided with both the cyan ink and the magenta ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuki Nanamiya, Yukako Tamanuki, Takashi Saito, Hiroshi Kakikawa, Kazuya Nushiro
  • Patent number: 10843470
    Abstract: Inkjet recording is performed by using an inkjet recording apparatus including an ink circulation channel for circulating a first ink, an ink supply channel for supplying a second ink into the ink circulation channel, and a recording head communicating with the ink circulation channel. The apparatus is configured to eject an aqueous ink including the first ink and the second ink from the recording head, thereby recording an image on a recording medium. The content (% by mass) of water in the first ink and the content (% by mass) of water in the second ink differ from each other by 2.00% by mass or more. The first ink contains a resin, and the second ink contains a first water-soluble organic solvent having a Log P value of less than ?1.10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinsuke Tsuji, Yukako Tamanuki
  • Publication number: 20190232666
    Abstract: Inkjet recording is performed by using an inkjet recording apparatus including an ink circulation channel for circulating a first ink, an ink supply channel for supplying a second ink into the ink circulation channel, and a recording head communicating with the ink circulation channel. The apparatus is configured to eject an aqueous ink including the first ink and the second ink from the recording head, thereby recording an image on a recording medium. The content (% by mass) of water in the first ink and the content (% by mass) of water in the second ink differ from each other by 2.00% by mass or more. The first ink contains a resin, and the second ink contains a first water-soluble organic solvent having a Log P value of less than ?1.10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Shinsuke Tsuji, Yukako Tamanuki
  • Publication number: 20190232674
    Abstract: Inkjet recording is performed by using an inkjet recording apparatus including an ink circulation channel for circulating a first ink, an ink supply channel for supplying a second ink into the ink circulation channel, and a recording head communicating with the ink circulation channel. The apparatus is configured to eject an aqueous ink including the first ink and the second ink from the recording head, thereby recording an image on a recording medium. The content (% by mass) of water in the first ink and the content (% by mass) of water in the second ink differ from each other by 2.00% by mass or more. The first ink contains a pigment, and the second ink contains a first water-soluble organic solvent having a log P value of ?1.10 or more and a surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Yukako Tamanuki, Shinsuke Tsuji
  • Patent number: 10240053
    Abstract: An aqueous ink for ink jet having a high color developing property, capable of recording an image having an excellent hue, and having excellent storage stability, containing a coloring material and a water-soluble organic solvent is provided. The coloring material is a compound represented by the following General Formula (1). The water-soluble organic solvent contains a first water-soluble organic solvent having two or more hydroxy groups and having a Log P value of ?1.88 or more to ?1.09 or less. The content (mass %) of the first water-soluble organic solvent is 5.0 times or more to 30.0 times or less by a mass ratio with respect the content (mass %) of the coloring material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuya Nushiro, Takashi Saito, Yukako Tamanuki, Hiroshi Kakikawa
  • Publication number: 20180273786
    Abstract: An aqueous ink for ink jet having a high color developing property, capable of recording an image having an excellent hue, and having excellent storage stability, containing a coloring material and a water-soluble organic solvent is provided. The coloring material is a compound represented by the following General Formula (1). The water-soluble organic solvent contains a first water-soluble organic solvent having two or more hydroxy groups and having a Log P value of ?1.88 or more to ?1.09 or less. The content (mass %) of the first water-soluble organic solvent is 5.0 times or more to 30.0 times or less by a mass ratio with respect the content (mass %) of the coloring material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuya Nushiro, Takashi Saito, Yukako Tamanuki, Hiroshi Kakikawa
  • Publication number: 20180163068
    Abstract: An inkjet printing method for printing an image by using a cyan ink, a magenta ink, and a blue ink, including the step of applying the blue ink to a region provided with both the cyan ink and the magenta ink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Ryuki Nanamiya, Yukako Tamanuki, Takashi Saito, Hiroshi Kakikawa, Kazuya Nushiro
  • Patent number: 8814341
    Abstract: Provided is an ink capable of recording an image that is excellent in ozone resistance, hardly causes blurring or color change even in a high-humidity environment, and is excellent in humidity resistance. The ink includes a coloring material and a lithium ion. The coloring material includes a compound represented by the following general formula (I) and a content of the lithium ion in the ink is 3.5 times or more in terms of molar ratio with respect to a content of the compound represented by the general formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryosuke Nagao, Jun Yoshizawa, Hideki Yamakami, Kuniaki Fujimoto, Yukako Tamanuki, Otome Yamashita, Minako Kawabe, Junichi Sakai, Satoshi Kudo
  • Patent number: 8764178
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet recording method which gives an ink excellent anti-sticking properties and can suppress the occurrence of undertrapping when recording surfaces of recording media which each have an ink-receiving layer are overlapped with each other, and to provide an ink jet recording apparatus. The ink jet recording method of forming an image on the recording medium having the ink-receiving layer by ejecting an ink from an ink jet recording head, the method including performing at least one of drying the recording medium which has the image formed thereon and humidifying a gap between the recording head and the recording medium, wherein the ink to be used for forming the image is an ink which contains water, a water-soluble organic solvent and a specific compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukako Tamanuki, Shogo Takemoto, Kumiko Mafune, Yojiro Kojima, Satoshi Kudo, Yoshio Kinoshita, Fumihiko Mukae
  • Patent number: 8740370
    Abstract: A liquid composition used in combination with an ink containing a coloring material is ejected by the action of thermal energy from a recording head including a heating resistor having a protecting layer that is to come into contact with the liquid composition and that contains at least one of a metal and a metal oxide. The liquid composition contains at least either an organic compound having a carboxy group and an amino group or an amine oxide compound, an organic acid having a carboxy group, and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukako Tamanuki, Shin-ichi Hakamada, Tomohiro Yamashita, Yasuhito Mori
  • Patent number: 8668321
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method includes an image formation step of forming an image on a recording medium having an ink-receiving layer by ejecting an ink from an ink jet recording head and a humidification step of humidifying a gap between the recording head and the recording medium, in which in the image formation step, an ink containing a specified dye represented by general formula (I) and a water-soluble organic compound having an inorganic-organic balance value of 1.4 or more to 2.7 or less is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yojiro Kojima, Yukako Tamanuki, Shogo Takemoto, Satoshi Kudo, Yoshio Kinoshita, Kumiko Mafune
  • Publication number: 20130335490
    Abstract: Provided is an ink capable of recording an image that is excellent in ozone resistance, hardly causes blurring or color change even in a high-humidity environment, and is excellent in humidity resistance. The ink includes a coloring material and a lithium ion. The coloring material includes a compound represented by the following general formula (I) and a content of the lithium ion in the ink is 3.5 times or more in terms of molar ratio with respect to a content of the compound represented by the general formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke Nagao, Jun Yoshizawa, Hideki Yamakami, Kuniaki Fujimoto, Yukako Tamanuki, Otome Yamashita, Minako Kawabe, Junichi Sakai, Satoshi Kudo
  • Patent number: 8328346
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method includes an image formation step of forming an image on a recording medium having an ink-receiving layer by ejecting an ink from an ink jet recording head and a humidification step of humidifying a gap between the recording head and the recording medium, in which in the image formation step, at least a cyan ink containing a specific dye and a magenta ink containing a specific dye are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Kudo, Kumiko Mafune, Yojiro Kojima, Yoshio Kinoshita, Yukako Tamanuki, Shogo Takemoto
  • Patent number: 8114208
    Abstract: An ink jet ink including at least a compound represented by the following general formula (I) and organic solvents. When the organic solvents are classified by MOH/MW indicating a proportion of the molecular weight of hydroxyl group to the molecular weight of the organic solvents into an organic solvent A whose MOH/MW is 0 or more and less than 0.2, an organic solvent B whose MOH/MW is 0.2 or more and less than 0.4, and an organic solvent C whose MOH/MW is 0.4 or more and less than 1.0, the ink contains at least one organic solvent A, at least one organic solvent B and at least one organic solvent C. The at least one organic solvent A contains a nitrogen-containing organic solvent in an amount of 80.0% by mass or more of the at least one organic solvent A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eiichi Nakata, Hiroshi Tomioka, Yukako Tamanuki
  • Publication number: 20110310202
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method includes an image formation step of forming an image on a recording medium having an ink-receiving layer by ejecting an ink from an ink jet recording head and a humidification step of humidifying a gap between the recording head and the recording medium, in which in the image formation step, an ink containing a specified dye represented by general formula (I) and a water-soluble organic compound having an inorganic-organic balance value of 1.4 or more to 2.7 or less is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yojiro Kojima, Yukako Tamanuki, Shogo Takemoto, Satoshi Kudo, Yoshio Kinoshita, Kumiko Mafune
  • Publication number: 20110310162
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet recording method which gives an ink excellent anti-sticking properties and can suppress the occurrence of undertrapping when recording surfaces of recording media which each have an ink-receiving layer are overlapped with each other, and to provide an ink jet recording apparatus. The ink jet recording method of forming an image on the recording medium having the ink-receiving layer by ejecting an ink from an ink jet recording head, the method including performing at least one of drying the recording medium which has the image formed thereon and humidifying a gap between the recording head and the recording medium, wherein the ink to be used for forming the image is an ink which contains water, a water-soluble organic solvent and a specific compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukako Tamanuki, Shogo Takemoto, Kumiko Mafune, Yojiro Kojima, Satoshi Kudo, Yoshio Kinoshita, Fumihiko Mukae
  • Publication number: 20110310164
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method includes an image formation step of forming an image on a recording medium having an ink-receiving layer by ejecting an ink from an ink jet recording head and a humidification step of humidifying a gap between the recording head and the recording medium, in which in the image formation step, at least a cyan ink containing a specific dye and a magenta ink containing a specific dye are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Kudo, Kumiko Mafune, Yojiro Kojima, Yoshio Kinoshita, Yukako Tamanuki, Shogo Takemoto
  • Publication number: 20110057994
    Abstract: A liquid composition used in combination with an ink containing a coloring material is ejected by the action of thermal energy from a recording head including a heating resistor having a protecting layer that is to come into contact with the liquid composition and that contains at least one of a metal and a metal oxide. The liquid composition contains at least either an organic compound having a carboxy group and an amino group or an amine oxide compound, an organic acid having a carboxy group, and water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukako Tamanuki, Shin-ichi Hakamada, Tomohiro Yamashita, Yasuhito Mori
  • Publication number: 20090274839
    Abstract: An ink jet ink including at least a compound represented by the following general formula (I) and organic solvents. When the organic solvents are classified by MOH/MW indicating a proportion of the molecular weight of hydroxyl group to the molecular weight of the organic solvents into an organic solvent A whose MOH/MW is 0 or more and less than 0.2, an organic solvent B whose MOH/MW is 0.2 or more and less than 0.4, and an organic solvent C whose MOH/MW is 0.4 or more and less than 1.0, the ink contains at least one organic solvent A, at least one organic solvent B and at least one organic solvent C. The at least one organic solvent A contains a nitrogen-containing organic solvent in an amount of 80.0% by mass or more of the at least one organic solvent A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Nakata, Hiroshi Tomioka, Yukako Tamanuki