Patents by Inventor Yutaka Yoshimasa

Yutaka Yoshimasa 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: 11841373
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire quantitative information on a test substance, the quantitative information being estimated by inputting, to a learning model, two or more pieces of spectral information selected from a plurality of pieces of spectral information on a sample containing the test substance and a foreign substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidetaka Kawamura, Akihiro Taya, Yutaka Yoshimasa
  • Publication number: 20230384703
    Abstract: Toner comprising toner particles, wherein the toner contains gold nanorods, and wherein in a case where an aspect ratio distribution of the gold nanorods contained in the toner is measured, an average value ? in the aspect ratio distribution is in a range of 6.0 to 13.0 and a standard deviation ? in the aspect ratio distribution is in a range of 0.5 to 4.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: YUTAKA YOSHIMASA, TAKESHI YAMAMOTO, SATOSHI YAMABI, YOSHIHIRO OHASHI, HIROSHI SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230327058
    Abstract: A display element includes a sub-pixel region including a wavelength conversion layer that converts a wavelength of excitation light, and further includes a low refractive index layer provided in a region between a wavelength conversion portion and an optical member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: YOSHIHIRO OHASHI, YUTAKA YOSHIMASA
  • Publication number: 20220252531
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes information acquisition means configured to acquire quantitative information on a test substance, which is estimated by inputting spectrum information of a sample including the test substance into a learning model, and degree-of-contribution acquisition means configured to acquire a degree of contribution of the acquired quantitative information on the test substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Akihiro Taya, Yutaka Yoshimasa, Hidetaka Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20220024238
    Abstract: A thermosensitive recording medium 100 includes a support 50, and a first thermosensitive coloring layer 10, a first intermediate layer 15, and a second thermosensitive coloring layer 20 disposed on the support 50 in descending order of distance from the support 50. The first thermosensitive coloring layer 10 and the second thermosensitive coloring layer 20 each contain an electron-donating dye precursor, an electron-accepting compound, a radical-polymerizable compound, and a photoradical polymerization initiator, and the first intermediate layer 15 contains a UV absorber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Akihiro Taya, Junji Ito, Yasuhiro Aichi, Ayano Mashida, Masanobu Ootsuka, Yutaka Yoshimasa
  • Publication number: 20210380824
    Abstract: Provided is a thermosensitive recording medium including a thermosensitive coloring layer containing an electron-donating dye precursor, an electron-accepting compound, a radical polymerizable compound and a photoradical polymerization initiator, in which the radical polymerizable compound is a compound that is solid at 25° C., and the radical polymerizable compound is contained in the thermosensitive coloring layer in a state of encapsulating at least one of the electron-donating dye precursor and the electron-accepting compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Yutaka Yoshimasa, Junji Ito, Yasuhiro Aichi, Ayano Mashida, Akihiro Taya, Masanobu Ootsuka
  • Publication number: 20210311001
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus assists a user in determining quantitative information of a test substance estimated by using a learning model. The information processing apparatus has an information acquisition means and a reliability acquisition means. The information acquisition means acquires the quantitative information of the test substance estimated by inputting spectral information of a sample including the test substance and impurities into the learning model. The reliability acquisition means acquires reliability of the acquired quantitative information of the test substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Hidetaka Kawamura, Akihiro Taya, Yutaka Yoshimasa
  • Publication number: 20210248417
    Abstract: Hitherto, preprocessing for separating impurities and calculation processing, for example, a peak splitting method, are required in order to acquire information on test substances from spectral information. An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes information acquisition means for acquiring quantitative information on a test substance estimated by inputting spectral information on a sample containing the test substance and impurities into a learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Akihiro Taya, Hidetaka Kawamura, Yutaka Yoshimasa
  • Patent number: 10889116
    Abstract: An image printing method includes the step of applying at least two inks that contain a color pigment, resin particles, and water onto a printing medium by ejecting the inks using an inkjet printing apparatus. The inkjet printing apparatus includes at least two printing heads sequentially arranged in a printing medium conveying direction, the printing medium is normal paper or a high-absorbency printing medium, a rub fastness additive is contained in a first ink ejected from at least a first printing head that is located at an uppermost-stream position in the printing medium conveying direction of the at least two printing heads, and the content of the rub fastness additive in an ink ejected from a printing head that is located at a position downstream of the first printing head in the printing medium conveying direction is less than the content of the rub fastness additive in the first ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaharu Aotani, Masahiro Terada, Hidetaka Kawamura, Akihiro Taya, Yohei Masada, Masanobu Ootsuka, Shoji Koike, Yutaka Yoshimasa
  • Publication number: 20200408789
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire quantitative information on a test substance, the quantitative information being estimated by inputting, to a learning model, two or more pieces of spectral information selected from a plurality of pieces of spectral information on a sample containing the test substance and a foreign substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Hidetaka Kawamura, Akihiro Taya, Yutaka Yoshimasa
  • Patent number: 10836921
    Abstract: An aqueous ink for ink jet includes a coloring material, a solvent, and a surfactant having an HLB value of 9.0 or less. The solvent includes a solvent A having a solubility in water at 20° C. of 5.00 g/100 g-H2O or less and a solvent B other than the solvent A. The solvent A includes an alcohol having a vapor pressure at 20° C. of 0.5 mmHg or less and a surface tension of 30.0 mN/m or more. The content of the alcohol in the aqueous ink is 0.7 or more times the solubility in water at 20° C. in an equal amount to the aqueous ink. The solvent B has a partition coefficient (PB) satisfying the following equation (1). 1.44 Log PA?0.1x?3.4?Log PB??0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Taya, Masahiro Terada, Hidetaka Kawamura, Yohei Masada, Masanobu Ootsuka, Takaharu Aotani, Yutaka Yoshimasa, Shoji Koike
  • Patent number: 10525725
    Abstract: There is provided an image recording method including applying a first ink and a second ink, each of which contains a surfactant and the like, to a recording medium. Critical micelle concentration c1 (mass %) of the surfactant and concentration c2 (mass %) of the surfactant in each ink satisfy a relationship of “c1×2?c2”; an HLB value of the surfactant is smaller than 13; content V1 (mass %) of the surfactant in the first ink is larger than content V2 (mass %) of the surfactant in the second ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Taya, Masahiro Terada, Hidetaka Kawamura, Yohei Masada, Masanobu Ootsuka, Takaharu Aotani, Yutaka Yoshimasa, Shoji Koike
  • Patent number: 10513623
    Abstract: An aqueous ink according to the present invention is an aqueous ink for ink jet, containing a solvent A and a resin particle. The solvent A is alcohol of which aqueous solubility at 20° C. is 5% by mass or less, a vapor pressure at 20° C. is 0.5 mmHg or less and a surface tension at 20° C. is 30 mN/m or more. A content (% by mass) of the solvent A is 0.7 times or more to 7.0 times or less in terms of a ratio based on aqueous solubility (% by mass) of the solvent A at 20° C. The amount of a surface anionic functional group of the resin particle is 0.55 mmol/g or more to 2.00 mmol/g or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanobu Ootsuka, Masahiro Terada, Hidetaka Kawamura, Akihiro Taya, Yohei Masada, Takaharu Aotani, Shoji Koike, Yutaka Yoshimasa
  • Patent number: 10280322
    Abstract: An ink including a first pigment, a second pigment, and water. The first pigment satisfies condition 1, the second pigment satisfies condition 2, and the content (% by mass) of the first pigment relative to the content (% by mass) of the second pigment based on a total mass of the ink is 1.7 times or more to 8.0 times or less in terms of mass ratio. Condition 1: When, to a pigment dispersion liquid containing the first pigment, calcium chloride is added so as to give a predetermined concentration, the particle diameter increase rate of the solid content is 2.0 nm/second or more. Condition 2: When, to a pigment dispersion liquid containing the second pigment, hydrochloric acid is added so as to give a predetermined concentration, the particle diameter increase rate of the solid content is 0.5 nm/second or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yohei Masada, Masahiro Terada, Hidetaka Kawamura, Akihiro Taya, Masanobu Ootsuka, Takaharu Aotani, Shoji Koike, Yutaka Yoshimasa
  • Patent number: 10253194
    Abstract: There is provided an ink including a pigment, resin particles, a surfactant, water-soluble organic compound, and water, in which: the content of the water-soluble organic compounds is 35 mass % or less based on a total mass of the ink; the water-soluble organic compound contains a first water-soluble organic compound being liquid at 25° C. and having a surface tension at 25° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaka Yoshimasa, Masahiro Terada, Hidetaka Kawamura, Akihiro Taya, Yohei Masada, Masanobu Ootsuka, Takaharu Aotani, Shoji Koike
  • Patent number: 10196532
    Abstract: Provided is an ink containing a pigment, a water-soluble organic solvent, and a surfactant represented by the following general formula (1), and having a viscosity at 25° C. of 5 mPa·s or more. The ink has a static surface tension of 27.1 mN/m or more and 35.0 mN/m or less, which is measured at 25° C. by a Wilhelmy method. The ink also has a dynamic surface tension at a bubble life time of 150 msec of 30.5 mN/m or more and 37.0 mN/m or less, which is measured at 25° C. by a maximum bubble pressure method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidetaka Kawamura, Masahiro Terada, Akihiro Taya, Yohei Masada, Masanobu Ootsuka, Takaharu Aotani, Yutaka Yoshimasa, Shoji Koike
  • Publication number: 20190031900
    Abstract: An aqueous ink according to the present invention is an aqueous ink for ink jet, containing a solvent A and a resin particle. The solvent A is alcohol of which aqueous solubility at 20° C. is 5% by mass or less, a vapor pressure at 20° C. is 0.5 mmHg or less and a surface tension at 20° C. is 30 mN/m or more. A content (% by mass) of the solvent A is 0.7 times or more to 7.0 times or less in terms of a ratio based on aqueous solubility (% by mass) of the solvent A at 20° C. The amount of a surface anionic functional group of the resin particle is 0.55 mmol/g or more to 2.00 mmol/g or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Masanobu Ootsuka, Masahiro Terada, Hidetaka Kawamura, Akihiro Taya, Yohei Masada, Takaharu Aotani, Shoji Koike, Yutaka Yoshimasa
  • Patent number: 10190010
    Abstract: Provided is an ink containing a pigment, a water-soluble organic solvent, and a surfactant, and having a viscosity at 25° C. of 5 mPa·s or more. The ink has a static surface tension of 30.5 mN/m or more to 35.0 mN/m or less, which is measured at 25° C. by a Wilhelmy method. The ink also has a dynamic surface tension at a bubble life time of 150 msec of 30.5 mN/m or more to 37.0 mN/m or less, which is measured at 25° C. by a maximum bubble pressure method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidetaka Kawamura, Masahiro Terada, Akihiro Taya, Yohei Masada, Masanobu Ootsuka, Takaharu Aotani, Yutaka Yoshimasa, Shoji Koike
  • Patent number: 10167399
    Abstract: Provided is Ink including a pigment, a resin, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water, wherein a solid content of first liquid as prepared by diluting the ink 500-fold with water and by adding CaCl2 at a concentration of 1.5 mM has a rate of aggregation of 1.5 nm/second or less; and a solid content of second liquid as prepared, after the ink has been stored at 60° C. for 2 weeks, by diluting the ink 500-fold with water and by adding CaCl2 at a concentration of 5 mM has a rate of aggregation of 2.0 nm/second or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yohei Masada, Masahiro Terada, Hidetaka Kawamura, Akihiro Taya, Masanobu Ootsuka, Takaharu Aotani, Shoji Koike, Yutaka Yoshimasa
  • Publication number: 20180371272
    Abstract: An aqueous inkjet ink of the present invention contains: a solvent A; a resin particle; and a color material, wherein the solvent A is an alcohol having a water solubility at 20° C. of 5% by mass or less, the vapor pressure at 20° C. of 0.5 mmHg or less, and the surface tension at 20° C. of 30 mN/m or more; the ratio of the content (% by mass) of the solvent A to the water solubility (% by mass) of the solvent A at 20° C. is 0.7 or more and 7.0 or less; and the SP value of the resin particle is 8.1 (cal/cm3)0.5 or more and 9.7 (cal/cm3)0.5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Hidetaka Kawamura, Masahiro Terada, Akihiro Taya, Yohei Masada, Masanobu Ootsuka, Takaharu Aotani, Yutaka Yoshimasa, Shoji Koike