Hot Melt Type Or Wax Containing Patents (Class 106/31.29)
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Patent number: 7371858Abstract: Compounds of the formulae wherein, provided that at least one of R1, R2, and R3 is not a hydrogen atom, R1, R2, and R3 each, independently of the other, is hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, or alkylaryl, and wherein R1 and R2 can also be alkoxy aryloxy, arylalkyloxy, alkylaryloxy, polyalkyleneoxy, polyaryleneoxy, polyarylalkyleneoxy, polyalkylaryleneoxy, silyl, siloxane, polysilylene, polysiloxane, or a group of the formula wherein r and s are integers representing a number of repeat —CH2— groups, and wherein X is a direct bond, oxygen, sulfur, —NR40— wherein R40 is hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, or alkylaryl, or —CR50R60— wherein R50 and R60 each, independently of the other, is hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, or alkylaryl, and R10 and R11 each, independently of the other, is alkylene, arylene, arylalkylene, or alkylarylene, and wherein R10 can also be polyalkyleneoxy, polyaryleneoxy, polyarylalkyleneoxy, polyalkylaryleneoxy, silylene, siloxane, polysilylene, or polysiloxane.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2004Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Danielle C Boils-Boissier, Marcel P Breton, Jule W Thomas, Jr., Donald R Titterington, Jeffrey H Banning, H Bruce Goodbrand, James D Wuest, Marie-Eve Perron, Hugues Duval
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Publication number: 20080098929Abstract: A phase change ink having an ink vehicle, at least one colorant at least one triamide and at least one bis-urethane. The at least one triamide and at least one bis-urethane assist in dispersing colorants, such as pigments like carbon black, in non-polar ink vehicles. Also, disclosed are methods of making such phase change inks.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2006Publication date: May 1, 2008Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Caroline M. Turek, Raymond W. Wong, Adela Goredema, Christopher A. Wagner
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Publication number: 20080098930Abstract: A phase change ink having an ink vehicle, at least one colorant and dispersants, such as at least one polyalkylene succinimide, at least one triamide and/or at least one rosin ester. The dispersants assist in dispersing colorants, such as pigments like carbon black, in non-polar ink vehicles. Also, disclosed are methods of making such phase change inks.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2006Publication date: May 1, 2008Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Raymond W. WONG, Bo WU, Everett NESS, Caroline M. TUREK
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Publication number: 20080100684Abstract: Phase change ink comprising an ink vehicle that includes at least one amphiphilic molecule. The amphiphilic molecule is capable of co-crystallizing into the at least one wax monomer to form functionalized spherulites which are then capable of hydrogen bonding to other similarly functionalized spherulites to form a bonded network of spherulites. Increased adhesive and cohesive strength of the ink on paper can result, thereby generating a robust image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2006Publication date: May 1, 2008Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Tyler B. NORSTEN, Peter G. ODELL
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Patent number: 7361710Abstract: An ethylenically unsaturated vegetable oil is modified by the addition of an enophile or dienophile having an acid, ester or anhydride functionality. The modified vegetable oil is then reacted with a functional vinyl monomer to form a vegetable oil derivative. The vegetable oil derivative is useful in forming latexes and coatings.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2004Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Southern Diversified Products, LLCInventors: Shelby F. Thames, Oliver W. Smith, James M. Evans, Sandipan Dutta, Lianzhou Chen
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Publication number: 20080087190Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink containing a fluorescent colorant that upon exposure to activating energy fluoresces such that an image that was not visible prior to exposure to the activating energy becomes visible. Also disclosed are an ink jet system and a process for authenticating a color document using the disclosed phase change ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2006Publication date: April 17, 2008Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Gabriel IFTIME, Christopher A. WAGNER, C. Geoffrey ALLEN, Peter M. KAZMAIER, Peter G. ODELL, Paul F. SMITH
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Patent number: 7311768Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink comprising (a) a colorant and (b) a phase change ink carrier, said carrier comprising (i) an amide and (ii) a Fischer-Tropsch wax having an average peak molecular weight of from about 300 to about 800 and a polydispersity of from about 1.001 to about 3. Also disclosed is a process which comprises (1) incorporating into an ink jet printing apparatus a phase change ink comprising (a) a colorant and (b) a phase change ink carrier, said carrier comprising (i) an amide and (ii) a Fischer-Tropsch wax having an average peak molecular weight of from about 300 to about 800 and a polydispersity of from about 1.001 to about 3; (2) melting the ink; and (3) causing droplets of the melted ink to be ejected in an imagewise pattern onto a substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2005Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Bo Wu, Patricia A. Wang, Trevor J. Snyder, Jule W. Thomas, Jr.
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Patent number: 7311767Abstract: Processes for preparing phase change inks comprising admixing (a) a phase change ink carrier; (b) a colorant of the formula or mixtures thereof, wherein M1, z, A1, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, a, b, c, d, Y, Q, Q?, A1, and CA are as defined herein; and (c) a metal salt of the formula (M2v+)w(A2w?)v of which the metal portion M2 is either a metal ion having positive charge +v, a metal-containing moiety, or a mixture thereof, and A2 is an anion having negative charge ?w, wherein M1 and M2 can be the same as or different from each other, wherein A1 and A2 can be the same as or different from each other, said admixing occurring at a temperature at which the ink carrier is a liquid.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2004Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Bo Wu, Jeffrey H. Banning, Randall R. Bridgeman, Donald R. Titterington
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Patent number: 7301013Abstract: The present invention relates to novel dyestuffs of formula (I) wherein the substituents have the meanings defined in the claims, the production of such dyestuffs, the use of these dyestuffs and material dyed or printed by such dyestuffs.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2006Date of Patent: November 27, 2007Assignee: Clariant Finance (BVI) LimitedInventors: Robert Egli, Oliver Eich, Knut Göke
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Patent number: 7220300Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising a phase change ink carrier and a bis(urea-urethane) compound of the formula wherein R1 and R1? each, independently of the other, is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, or an alkylaryl group, R2 and R2? each, independently of the other, is an alkylene group, an arylene group, an arlyalkylene group, or an alkylarylene group, R3 is an alkylene group, an arylene group, an arylalkylene group, or an alkylarylene group, and R4 and R5 each independently of the other, is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2004Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Adela Goredema, Rina Carlini, Christine E. Bedford, Marcel P. Breton
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Patent number: 7211131Abstract: Phase change inks comprising a phase change ink carrier and a colorant compound of the formula wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, m, n, and p are as defined herein, R6 is a direct bond, an alkylene group, an arylene group, an arylalkylene group, or an alkylarylene group, R66 is an alkylene group, an arylene group, an arylalkylene group, or an alkylarylene group, G is a hydroxy group, a carboxylic acid group, an alkyl group having at least about 8 carbon atoms, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group having at least about 14 carbon atoms, an alkylaryl group having at least about 14 carbon atoms, a group of the formula a group of the formula a group of the formula or a group of the formula X is —O— or —NR9—, and R7, R8, and R9 are as defined herein.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2004Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Jeffrey H. Banning, Wolfgang G. Wedler, C. Wayne Jaeger
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Patent number: 7153349Abstract: Phase change inks comprising a phase change ink carrier and one or more curable trans-1,2-cyclohexane bis[urea-urethane] compounds of the formulae wherein R1 and R?1 are alkylene, arylene, arylalkylene, or alkylarylene groups, R2 and R?2 are alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, or alkylaryl groups, R3 and R?3 are hydrogen atoms or alkyl groups, R4 and R?4 are hydrogen atoms, fluorine atoms, alkyl groups, or phenyl groups, n is an integer of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, and R5 is an alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, or alkylaryl group, or a substituent other than an alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, or alkylaryl group, provided that at least one of R1, R?1, R2, R?2, R3, R?3, R4, R?4, or one or more of R5 is an alkyl, alkylene, arylalkyl, arylalkylene, alkylaryl, or alkylarylene group containing an ethylenic unsaturation rendering the compound curable upon exposure to heat and/or actinic radiation.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2004Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Rina Carlini, Eniko Toma, Peter G. Odell, Jeffrey H. Banning
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Patent number: 7144450Abstract: Disclosed are phase change inks comprising a phase change ink carrier and a trans-1,2-cyclohexane bis(urea-urethane) compound of the formula or mixtures thereof, wherein R1 and R?1 each, independently of the other, is an alkylene group, an arylene group, an arylalkylene group, or an alkylarylene group, R2 and R?2 each, independently of the other, is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, or an alkylaryl group, R3 and R?3 each, independently of the other, is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, R4 and R?4 each, independently of the other, is a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, an alkyl group, or a phenyl group, n is an integer of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, and R5 is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, an alkylaryl group, or a substituent other than an alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, or alkylaryl group.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2004Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Adela Goredema, Rina Carlini, Marcel P. Breton, Jeffrey H. Banning
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Patent number: 7125966Abstract: The present invention relates to novel dyestuffs of formula (I) wherein the substituents have the meanings defined in the claims, the production of such dyestuffs, the use of these dyestuffs and material dyed or printed by such dyestuffsType: GrantFiled: October 17, 2003Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: Clariant Finance (BVI) LimitedInventor: Robert Egli
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Patent number: 7101983Abstract: The present invention relates to novel dyestuffs of formula (I) wherein the substituents have the meanings defined in the claims, the production of such dyestuffs, the use of these dyestuffs and material dyed or printed by such dyestuffs.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2002Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Clariant Finance (BVI) LimitedInventors: Robert Egli, Oliver Eich, Knut Göke
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Patent number: 7094812Abstract: Disclosed are colorant compounds of the formula wherein R, R1, R2, R3, and R4 each, independently of the others, is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, or an alkylaryl group, and wherein R, R1, R2, R3, and R4 each can be joined to a phenyl moiety to form a ring, each R?a, R?b, and R?c, independently of the others, is a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a nitrile group, a nitro group, an amide group, or a sulfonamide group, z1, z2, and z3 each, independently of the others, is an integer of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, n is an integer representing the number of carbon atoms in each repeat alkylene oxide unit, x is an integer representing the number of repeat alkylene oxide units, D is an anion, and g is the charge on the anion, wherein said colorant has no more than one —OH, —SH, or primary or secondary amino group per molecule.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2003Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: Xerox CorporationsInventors: Jeffery H. Banning, Donald R. Titterington, Clifford R. King
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Patent number: 7084189Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising (a) a colorant and (b) the reaction product of (i) an isocyanate and (ii) an antioxidant or UV stabilizer molecule having thereon (A) at least one isocyanate-reactive hydroxyl group and/or (B) at least one isocyanate-reactive primary or secondary amino group.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2003Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Jeffery H. Banning, Donald R. Titterington, Mary Ryan-Hotchkiss
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Patent number: 7033424Abstract: Phase change ink compositions comprising a phase change ink carrier and a colorant compound of the formula wherein M is either (1) a metal ion having a positive charge of +y wherein y is an integer which is at least 2, said metal ion being capable of forming a compound with at least two chromogen moieties, or (2) a metal-containing moiety capable of forming a compound with at least two chromogen moieties, z is an integer representing the number of chromogen moieties associated with the metal and is at least 2, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, a, b, c, d, Y, and z are as defined herein, Q— is a COO— group or a SO3— group, A is an organic anion, and CA is either a hydrogen atom or a cation associated with all but one of the Q— groups.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2004Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Bo Wu, Jeffrey H. Banning, Randall R. Bridgeman, Donald R. Titterington
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Patent number: 6989052Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising (1) an ink carrier comprising (A) a first component which comprises an ester-amide material, and (B) a second component which comprises either (i) a material selected from the group consisting of urethane compounds, urea compounds, urethane-urea compounds, and mixtures thereof, (ii) a polyalkylene wax, or (iii) a mixture thereof; and (2) a colorant.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2004Date of Patent: January 24, 2006Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Bo Wu, Donald R. Titterington, Mary Ryan-Hotchkiss
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Patent number: 6960248Abstract: Cyclic bisamides may be used to formulate inks for jet ink printing. The cyclic bisamide may be prepared from a cyclic diamine and acylic monocarboxylic acids. Conversely, the cyclic bisamide may be prepared from a cyclic diacid and acylic monoamines. The performance properties of the product may be enhanced by adding some additional difunctional reactant(s), e.g., diacid or diamine. A blend of bisamides may provide better performance properties than either of the component bisamides alone, where the blend includes at least one cyclic bisamide. The bisamides, in combination with an image-forming material, and optionally in combination with other materials, is taken to a molten form and then applied to a substrate to provide a printed substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2003Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: Arizona Chemical CompanyInventor: Mark S. Pavlin
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Patent number: 6946025Abstract: Disclosed is a process for preparing a tetra-amide which comprises carrying out a condensation reaction between a diacid, a monoacid, and a diisocyanate, thereby forming a tetra-amide. Also disclosed is a process for preparing a phase change ink composition which comprises (a) carrying out a condensation reaction between a diacid, a monoacid, and a diisocyanate, thereby forming a tetra-amide; and (b) admixing the tetra-amide thus formed with a colorant, thereby forming a phase change ink.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2003Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Bo Wu, Michael B. Meinhardt, Jeffery H. Banning, Donald R. Titterington
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Patent number: 6936096Abstract: The invention relates to an ink composition which is solid at room temperature and liquid at a higher temperature, comprising a non-aqueous carrier composition and two compatible dyes, one of which is fluorescent and one non-fluorescent, wherein the said dyes are of the same type. In one embodiment, the dyes in the ink are both of the anthraquinone type.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2004Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Oce-Technologies B.V.Inventor: Marcus P. L. Huinck
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Patent number: 6923853Abstract: A meltable ink which is solid at room temperature, which ink is suitable for use in an indirect printing process, in which printing process the ink is transferred, by the use of an inkjet printhead, to a transfer element, whereafter the ink is transferred to a receiving material under pressure from the transfer element, the ink having a composition such that it is pressure-transferable at a temperature between a bottom temperature limit and a top temperature limit, wherein the ink has a deformation energy of less than 20×105 Pa.s at a temperature equal to said top temperature limit.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2003Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: Oce Technologies, B.V.Inventors: Martinus Antonius Kremers, Maurice Hendrikus Hubertinus Thijssen, Berby Marga Gerarda Weitenauer
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Patent number: 6913860Abstract: An image forming material for forming an image on an image recording material with an image binding force being established between the image and the image recording material, the image forming material containing an image forming substance, and a binding force reducing substance which reduces the image binding force when the image is heated. A method of removing an image formed on an image recording material with a binding force being established between the image and the recording material by contacting a stripping member with the image with heating under pressure. A binding force reducing substance may be contained in the surface of the stripping member or in the image recording material.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2002Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hidehiro Mochizuki, Tadashi Saitou
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Patent number: 6906118Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising a colorant and an ink vehicle, the ink being a solid at temperatures less than about 50° C. and exhibiting a viscosity of no more than about 20 centipoise at a jetting temperature of no more than about 160° C., wherein at a first temperature hydrogen bonds of sufficient strength exist between the ink vehicle molecules so that the ink vehicle forms hydrogen-bonded dimers, oligomers, or polymers, and wherein at a second temperature which is higher than the first temperature the hydrogen bonds between the ink vehicle molecules are sufficiently broken that fewer hydrogen-bonded dimers, oligomers, or polymers are present in the ink at the second temperature than are present in the ink at the first temperature, so that the viscosity of the ink at the second temperature is lower than the viscosity of the ink at the first temperature.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2001Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: H. Bruce Goodbrand, Thomas W. Smith, Daniel A. Foucher, Kathleen M. McGrane, Dina Popovic
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Patent number: 6872243Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising an ink vehicle, a colorant, and a nonpolymeric organic gelator selected from the group consisting of anthracene-based compounds, steroid compounds, partially fluorinated high molecular weight alkanes, high molecular weight alkanes with exactly one hetero atom, chiral tartrate compounds, chiral butenolide-based compounds, bis-urea compounds, guanines, barbiturates, oxamide compounds, ureidopyrimidone compounds, and mixtures thereof, said organic gelator being present in the ink in an amount of no more than about 20 percent by weight of the ink, said ink having a melting point at or below which the ink is a solid, said ink having a gel point at or above which the ink is a liquid, and said ink exhibiting a gel state between the melting point and the gel point, said ink exhibiting reversible transitions between the solid state and the gel state upon heating and cooling, said ink exhibiting reversible transitions between the gel state and the liquid state uponType: GrantFiled: September 4, 2002Date of Patent: March 29, 2005Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Marcel P. Breton, Danielle C. Boils-Boissier, Donald R. Titterington, Jule W. Thomas, Jr., Jeffrey H. Banning, Christine E. Bedford, James D. Wuest
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Patent number: 6860928Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formulae wherein Z is a group of the formula —OR1, a group of the formula —SR1, or a group of the formula —NR1R2, Y is a group of the formula —OR3, a group of the formula —SR3, or a group of the formula —NR3R4, n is an integer representing the number of repeat —(CH2)— or —(CH2CH2O)— units, wherein, provided that at least one of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 is a hydrogen atom, provided that at least one of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 is other than a hydrogen atom, and provided that at least one Z or Y within the compound is a group of the formula —NR1R2 or a group of the formula —NR3R4, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, and R7 each, independently of the others, is (i) a hydrogen atom, (ii) an alkyl group, (iii) an aryl group, (iv) an arylalkyl group, or (v) an alkylaryl group, and wherein R7 can also be (vi) an alkoxy group, (vii) an aryloxy group, (Viii) an arylalkyloxy group, (ix) an alkylaryloxy group, (x) a polyalkyleneoxy group, (xi) a polyaryleneoxy group, (xii) a polyarylalkylenType: GrantFiled: September 4, 2002Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Marcel P. Breton, Danielle C. Boils-Boissier, Jule W. Thomas, Jr., Donald R. Titterington, H. Bruce Goodbrand, Jeffrey H. Banning, James D. Wuest, Dominic Laliberte, Marie-Eve Perron
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Patent number: 6860929Abstract: Printing inks and paints comprising a polyolefin wax component prepared from one or more olefins by catalysis using a single-site catalyst based on a complex of a transition metal from groups 5 to 8 of the Periodic System of the Elements, which comprises not more than one cyclopentadienyl system per transition metal.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2001Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Shahram Mihan, Andreas Deckers
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Patent number: 6860931Abstract: Phase change inks comprising a carrier and a colorant of the formula wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, a, b, c, d, Y, Q, Q?, A, and CA are as defined herein.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2003Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Bo Wu, Jeffery H. Banning, James M. Duff, Wolfgang G. Wedler, Donald R. Titterington
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Patent number: 6860930Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising (a) a colorant and (b) a carrier comprising a polyamide, wherein the polyamide component of the carrier contains at least about 10 percent by weight of a branched triamide.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2003Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Bo Wu, Jeffery H. Banning, Donald R. Titterington, C. Wayne Jaeger
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Publication number: 20040261656Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising (a) a colorant and (b) a carrier comprising a polyamide, wherein the polyamide component of the carrier contains at least about 10 percent by weight of a branched triamide.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2003Publication date: December 30, 2004Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Bo Wu, Jeffery H. Banning, Donald R. Titterington, C. Wayne Jaeger
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Publication number: 20040261657Abstract: A phase change ink composition comprising a phase change ink carrier and a colorant compound of the formula 1Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2003Publication date: December 30, 2004Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Bo Wu, Jeffery H. Banning, James M. Duff, Wolfgang G. Wedler, Jule W. Thomas, Randall R. Bridgeman
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Patent number: 6835238Abstract: A phase change ink composition comprising a phase change ink carrier and a colorant compound of the formula wherein M is either (1) a metal ion having a positive charge of +y wherein y is an integer which is at least 2, said metal ion being capable of forming a compound with at least two chromogen moieties, or (2) a metal-containing moiety capable of forming a compound with at least two chromogen moieties, z is an integer representing the number of chromogen moieties associated with the metal and is at least 2, and R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, a, b, c, d, Y, Q−, A, and CA are as defined herein.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2003Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Bo Wu, Jeffery H. Banning, James M. Duff, Wolfgang G. Wedler, Jule W. Thomas, Jr., Randall R. Bridgeman
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Publication number: 20040249018Abstract: There is provided an ink composition which can yield records possessing excellent rubbing/abrasion resistance and scratch resistance. Specifically, records possessing, excellent rubbing/abrasion resistance and scratch resistance can be produced by using an ink composition comprising: an alkali-soluble copolymer; water; a colorant; and at least one member selected from the group consisting of wax, a viscosity modifier, and a wetting agent. The alkali-soluble copolymer is a copolymer, with an acid value of not more than 40, which is produced by polymerizing an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer and other monomer copolymerizable with the ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer in the presence of an alcoholic hydroxyl-containing water-soluble polymer compound or a copolymerizable surfactant and has been adjusted to a pH value, at which the copolymer is soluble in water, by the addition of an inorganic base.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Inventors: Shuichi Kataoka, Kazuhide Kubota, Kazuaki Watanabe, Kiyohiko Takemoto
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Patent number: 6821327Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising a phase change ink carrier and a colorant compound of the formula wherein Y is a hydrogen atom or a bromine atom, n is an integer of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, R1 is an alkylene group or an arylalkylene group, and X is (a) a hydrogen atom, (b) a group of the formula wherein R2 is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, or an alkylaryl group, (c) an alkyleneoxy, aryleneoxy, arylalkyleneoxy, or alkylaryleneoxy group, or (d) a group of the formula wherein R4 is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, or an alkylaryl group.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: C. Wayne Jaeger, Jeffery H. Banning
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Publication number: 20040226476Abstract: Phase change inks comprising colorant, a phase change ink carrier, and an antioxidant or UV stabilizer of the formula 1Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2003Publication date: November 18, 2004Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Christine E. Bedford, Marcel P. Breton, H. Bruce Goodbrand
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Patent number: 6811595Abstract: Compounds of the formulae wherein, provided that at least one of R1, R2, and R3 is not a hydrogen atom, R1, R2 and R3 each, independently of the other, is hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, or alkylaryl, and wherein R1 and R2 can also be alkoxy, aryloxy, arylalkyloxy, alkylaryloxy, polyalkyleneoxy, polyaryleneoxy, polyarylalkyleneoxy, polyalkylaryleneoxy, silyl, siloxane, polysilylene, polysiloxane, or a group of the formula wherein r and s are integers representing a number of repeat —CH2— groups, and wherein X is a direct bond, oxygen, sulfur, —NR40— wherein R40 is hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, or alkylaryl, or —CR50R60— wherein R50 and R60 each, independently of the other, is hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, or alkylaryl, and R10 and R11 each, independently of the other, is alkylene, arylene, arylalkylene, or alkylarylene, and wherein R10 can also be polyalkyleneoxy, polyaryleneoxy, polyarylalkyleneoxy, polyalkylaryleneoxy, silylenType: GrantFiled: September 4, 2002Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Danielle C. Boils-Boissier, Marcel P. Breton, Jule W. Thomas, Jr., Donald R. Titterington, Jeffrey H. Banning, H. Bruce Goodbrand, James D. Wuest, Marie-Eve Perron, Hugues Duval
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Patent number: 6811596Abstract: Phase change inks comprising colorant, a phase change ink carrier, and an antioxidant or UV stabilizer of the formula wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 each, independently of the others, is hydrogen, hydroxy, amino, alkyl, aryl, arylaikyl, alkylaryl, alkoxy, aryloxy, arylalkyloxy, alkylaryloxy, halogen, cyano, aldehyde, ketone, ester, amide, sulfide, sulfoxide, nitrile, sulfone, acyl, or carboxylic acid, provided that at least one of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 is alkyl having at least about 8 carbon atoms, alkoxy having at least about 8 carbon atoms, aryl having at least about 6 carbon atoms, aryloxy having at least about 6 carbon atoms, arylalkyl having at least about 7 carbon atoms, arylalkyloxy having at least about 7 carbon atoms, alkylaryl having at least about 7 carbon atoms, or alkylaryloxy having at least about 7 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2003Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Christine E. Bedford, Marcel P. Breton, H. Bruce Goodbrand
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Patent number: 6790267Abstract: Disclosed are colorant compounds of the formula wherein R is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, or an alkylaryl group, and wherein R can be joined to the phenyl moiety to form a ring, each R′, independently of the others, is a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a nitrile group, a nitro group, an amide group, or a sulfonamide group, z is an integer of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, n is an integer representing the number of carbon atoms in each repeat alkylene oxide unit, x is an integer representing the number of repeat alkylene oxide units, and A and B each, independently of the other, are hydrogen atoms, halogen atoms, tertiary amino groups, imine groups, ammonium groups, cyano groups, pyridine groups, pyridinium groups, ether groups, ester groups, amide groups, sulfate groups, sulfonate groups, sulfide groups, sulfoxide groups, phosphine groups, phosphonium groups, phosphate groups, nitrile groups, mercapto groups, nitro groups, sulfone groups, acyl groups, azo groupsType: GrantFiled: April 24, 2003Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Jeffery H. Banning, Donald R. Titterington, Clifford R. King
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Patent number: 6764541Abstract: Disclosed is a colorant composition of the formula wherein R is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, or an alkylaryl group, and wherein R can be joined to the phenyl moiety to form a ring, R′ is an aromatic- or heteroaromatic-containing group, each Ra, independently of the others, is a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a nitrile group, a nitro group, an amide group, or a sulfonamide group, w is an integer of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, n is an integer representing the number of carbon atoms in each repeat alkylene oxide unit, and x is an integer representing the number of repeat alkylene oxide units, wherein said colorant has no more than one —OH, —SH, or primary or secondary amino group per molecule.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2003Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Jeffery H. Banning, Donald R. Titterington, Clifford R. King
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Patent number: 6761758Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formulae wherein, provided that at least one of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 is a hydrogen atom, and provided that at least one of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 is not a hydrogen atom, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 each, independently of the others, is (i) a hydrogen atom, (ii) an alkyl group, (iii) an aryl group, (iv) an arylalkyl group, or (v) an alkylaryl group. Also disclosed are phase change ink compositions comprising a colorant and a phase change ink carrier comprising a material of this formula.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Danielle C. Boils-Boissier, Marcel P. Breton, Jule W. Thomas, Jr., Donald R. Titterington, Jeffrey H. Banning, H. Bruce Goodbrand, James D. Wuest, Marie-Eve Perron, Francis Monchamp, Hugues Duval
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Patent number: 6755902Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising a phase change ink carrier and a colorant compound of the formulaType: GrantFiled: June 27, 2002Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Jeffrey H. Banning, Bo Wu, James D. Mayo, James M. Duff, Rina Carlini, Jule W. Thomas, Jr., Paul F. Smith
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Patent number: 6726755Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising a phase change ink carrier and a colorant compound of the formula wherein M is an atom or group of atoms capable of bonding to the central cavity of a phthalocyanine molecule, wherein axial ligands optionally can be attached to M. Also disclosed are printing processes using the phase change inks.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2002Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Donald R. Titterington, Michael B. Meinhardt, Jeffrey H. Banning, James D. Mayo, James M. Duff, Roger E. Gaynor, Harold R. Frame
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Publication number: 20040075723Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formulae 1 2Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2002Publication date: April 22, 2004Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Marcel P. Breton, Danielle C. Boils-Boissier, Jule W. Thomas, Donald R. Titterington, H. Bruce Goodbrand, Jeffrey H. Banning, James D. Wuest, Dominic Laliberte, Marie-Eve Perron
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Publication number: 20040065227Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising an ink vehicle, a colorant, and a nonpolymeric organic gelator selected from the group consisting of anthracene-based compounds, steroid compounds, partially fluorinated high molecular weight alkanes, high molecular weight alkanes with exactly one hetero atom, chiral tartrate compounds, chiral butenolide-based compounds, bis-urea compounds, guanines, barbiturates, oxamide compounds, ureidopyrimidone compounds, and mixtures thereof, said organic gelator being present in the ink in an amount of no more than about 20 percent by weight of the ink, said ink having a melting point at or below which the ink is a solid, said ink having a gel point at or above which the ink is a liquid, and said ink exhibiting a gel state between the melting point and the gel point, said ink exhibiting reversible transitions between the solid state and the gel state upon heating and cooling, said ink exhibiting reversible transitions between the gel state and the liquid state uponType: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Marcel P. Breton, Danielle C. Boils-Boissier, Donald R. Titterington, Jule W. Thomas, Jeffrey H. Banning, Christine E. Bedford, James D. Wuest
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Publication number: 20040060474Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formulae 1Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2002Publication date: April 1, 2004Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Danielle C. Boils-Boissier, Marcel P. Breton, Jule W. Thomas, Donald R. Titterington, Jeffrey H. Banning, H. Bruce Goodbrand, James D. Wuest, Marie-Eve Perron, Hugues Duval
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Patent number: 6713034Abstract: The present invention provides carbon fiber paper consisting of an organic high-molecular compound as a binder and carbon fibers, characterized in that the carbon fibers contain thin fibers with an average diameter smaller than 5 &mgr;m and an average fiber length of 3 to 10 mm; a porous carbon electrode substrate for a fuel cell having a thickness of 0.05 to 0.5 mm and a bulk density of 0.3 to 0.8 g/cm3, also having a bending strength of 10 MPa or higher and a deflection of 1.5 mm or more at the time of bending, measured by a three-point bending test in conditions of using a sample width of 1 cm, a strain rate of 10 mm/min, and a distance between supporting points of 2 cm; and a method of producing a porous carbon electrode substrate for a fuel cell by impregnating the carbon fiber paper with a thermosetting resin, curing the thermosetting resin by heating and pressing treatment, and then carbonizing the paper.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2001Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Nakamura, Yoshihiko Hosako, Hidehiko Ohashi, Mitsuo Hamada, Kazushige Mihara
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Publication number: 20040050295Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formulae 1Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2002Publication date: March 18, 2004Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Danielle C. Boils-Boissier, Marcel P. Breton, Jule W. Thomas, Donald R. Titterington, Jeffrey H. Banning, H. Bruce Goodbrand, James D. Wuest, Marie-Eve Perron, Francis Monchamp, Hugues Duval
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Publication number: 20040035321Abstract: Printing inks and paints comprising a polyolefin wax component prepared from one or more olefins by catalysis using a single-site catalyst based on a complex of a transition metal from groups 5 to 8 of the Periodic System of the Elements, which comprises not more than one cyclopentadienyl system per transition metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2002Publication date: February 26, 2004Inventors: Shahram Mihan, Andreas Deckers
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Publication number: 20040021754Abstract: The invention relates to a meltable ink which is solid at room temperature, which ink is suitable for use in an indirect printing process, in which printing process the ink is transferred, by the use of an inkjet printhead, to a transfer element, whereafter the ink is transferred to a receiving material under pressure from the transfer element, the ink having a composition such that it is pressure-transferable at a temperature between a bottom limit and a top limit, wherein the ink has a deformation energy of less than 20×105 Pa.s at a temperature equal to said top limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2003Publication date: February 5, 2004Inventors: Martinus Antonius Kremers, Maurice Hendrikus Hubertinus Thijssen, Berby Marga Gerarda Weitenauer