Physical Properties (e.g., Dimensions, Optical, Smoothness, Etc.) Of Support Specified Patents (Class 428/32.18)
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Patent number: 7063940Abstract: A curl-resistant planar media comprises a plurality of fibers embedded in the media and configured such that the media has a stiffness in a first direction that exceeds the stiffness in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2005Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty LtdInventor: Kia Silverbrook
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Patent number: 7014893Abstract: A support material comprises a raw paper that may be coated on at least one side with a synthetic resin, and the raw paper or the resin coating on the raw paper is provided at least on the front side with a pigment layer wherein the pigment layer contains at least about 5% by weight of a pigment with a narrow grain size distribution, whereby at least about 70% of these pigment particles feature a size of less than 1 ?m and at least 40% by weight of these particles feature a grain size of 0.35 to 0.8 ?m, or in that the pigment coating is a structured calcium carbonate, for example surface-modified, and both embodiments feature improved surface properties.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2001Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Felix Schoeller jr. Foto-und Spezialpapiere GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Martina Wicher, Frank Römermann
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Patent number: 6984423Abstract: The present invention provides less expensive ink jet recording papers having high glossiness and high durability and being capable of quickly absorbing inks without causing bleeding. Accordingly, the present invention provides an ink jet recording paper having an ink-receiving layer provided on a porous resin film, wherein the porous resin film has a liquid absorption capacity measured in accordance with “Japan TAPPI No.51-87” of 0.5 ml/m2 or above and the ink-receiving layer has a surface glossiness (JIS-Z8741: measuring method at 60°) of 40% or above. It is preferable that the ink jet recording paper contains at least one member selected from among alumina, alumina hydrate and amorphous silica in the ink-receiving layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2002Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: Yupo CorporationInventors: Seiichiro Iida, Yasuo Iwasa
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Patent number: 6977112Abstract: Disclosed herein is a non-contact information recording medium for ink-jet recording, on and from which information can be recorded and read in a non-contact state from the outside, comprising an electronic information storing circuit part and an image recording part, wherein at least part of the electronic information storing circuit part has an ink/circuit-part barrier structure by which the circuit part undergoes no circuit trouble caused by an ink applied to the image recording part.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2001Date of Patent: December 20, 2005Assignee: Canon Finetech, Inc.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Shino, Masahiko Higuma
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Patent number: 6974609Abstract: Image transfer media and methods of transferring images are provided. The image transfer media comprise a sheet having a nonporous micro-embossed surface topography comprising cavities on one major surface of the sheet and an ink release coating on the embossed surface, wherein said major surface has a surface energy of about 43 dyne/centimeter or less. A method of transferring an image to a substrate comprises the steps of (a) printing a selected image onto an imaging surface of an image transfer medium of the invention; (b) contacting the imaged micro-embossed surface with the substrate using pressure; and (c) removing the micro-embossed surface of the image transfer medium from the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2003Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Inventors: Lori P. Engle, Omar Farooq, Paul D. Graham, Jonathan P. Kitchin, Lisa M. Miller, David W. Tweeten
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Patent number: 6911239Abstract: A recording material which comprises a polymeric substrate having two surfaces, wherein one surface is coated with a sealing layer comprising a particulate polymer having a film forming temperature of between 60° C. and 160° C. and an average particle size between 1 ?m and 50 ?m together with at least one binder, and at least one ink receiving layer; and the opposite surface is coated with an adhesive layer covered by a release liner. A related printing method whereby an image printed on the recording material is heated after printing to seal the sealing layer to provide a protected surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2001Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignees: Ilford Imaging UK Limited, Ilford Imaging Switzerland GmbHInventors: Jeffrey Ronald King, Simon Richard John Leggett, Karen Taylor, Stefan Schüttel, Meinrad Schaer
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Patent number: 6896941Abstract: A white biaxially oriented polyester film for use as a base film for receiving an ink jet printer image and a base film for receiving an ink jet printer image which satisfy the following requirements (1) to (4): (1) the content of titanium oxide particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 0.5 ?m in the polyester film is 5 to 20 wt %; (2) the polyester film has an average glossiness of 65 to 95%; (3) the polyester film has an X-ray diffraction intensity ratio (F-1/F-2) represented by the following formal (1): 0.05?F-1/F-2?0.15 (1) ?wherein (F-1) is an X-ray diffraction intensity on a plane (1{overscore (1)}0) parallel to the surface of the film and (F-2) is an X-ray diffraction intensity on a plane (100) parallel to the surface of the film; and (4) the polyester film has a static friction coefficient of 0.3 to 0.6. The base film for receiving an ink jet printer image of the present invention is excellent in adhesion, glossiness, opacifying properties and transportability.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2000Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Teijin LimitedInventors: Tetsuo Yoshida, Satoshi Kitazawa, Takashi Saigo, Masayuki Fukuda, Shinji Yano
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Patent number: 6855381Abstract: The present invention describes a transfer system of images produced by an ink jet printer to a textile substrate, comprising a backing and mounted thereon at least one melt transfer ink absorption layer with a matrix comprising at least one meltable polymer material into which fine particles of a filler capable of ink absorption have been embedded.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2001Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Assignee: Star Coating AGInventors: Jan Dietrich, Peter Kummer, Ilona Stiburek
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Patent number: 6852422Abstract: Printable packaging paper for flexible packaging. A flexible overall print coating makes a first surface suitable for conventional printing. The print coating comprises clay, binder comprising acrylic and optionally PVOH, and microsphere shells, some optionally deformed. A barrier coating comprising PVOH, optionally acrylic, can be on the second surface. A multiple layer packaging structure can comprise such coated substrate and second and third strength layers of paper, and a flexible polyolefin barrier layer, all on the barrier coating side of the substrate, joined to the barrier coating. The flexible print coating can include titanium dioxide.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2002Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: Appleton Papers, Inc.Inventors: David Paul Kendall, James Richard Hillend
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Patent number: 6838132Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet recording sheet which can give an image having an appearance looking like a picture, especially, an oil painting with maintaining sufficient print density. According to the present invention, there is provided an ink jet recording sheet comprising a support and an ink receiving layer provided on one side of the support, where the support is a fabric and the surface of the ink receiving layer has an arithmetical mean roughness of not more than 30 ?m measured in accordance with JIS B0601. The present invention further provides an ink jet recording sheet mentioned above, wherein the ink receiving layer is coated on a pigment layer coated on at least one side of the fabric or on at least one side of the fabric impregnated with a pigment component. The ink receiving layer preferably contains a gas phase method silica.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2000Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills LimitedInventors: Yuji Iguchi, Katsuaki Arai
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Patent number: 6838042Abstract: The invention relate to the use of a multi-layer polypropylene film as an in-mold label used in a blow molding methods. According to the invention, the label film is laid inside the hollow mold of a blow molding machine, comprises an inner protective layer that faces the receptacle to be molded, and comprises an outer protective layer that is in contact with the hollow mold, whereby the inner protective layer has a roughness Rz of at least 3.5 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2000Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: Trespaphan GmbHInventors: Gerhard Wieners, Wilfrid Tews
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Patent number: 6833168Abstract: Disclosed is a recording paper which comprises (a) a cellulosic base sheet having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, said base sheet having a dielectric constant of at least about 1.5 under conditions of about 50 percent relative humidity and at about 23° C., said base sheet having a dielectric constant of no more than about 10 under conditions of about 50 percent relative humidity and at about 23° C., said base sheet having, under conditions of about 50 percent relative humidity and at about 23° C., a surface resistivity of at least about 1×107 ohms per square, said base sheet having, under conditions of about 50 percent relative humidity and at about 23° C., a surface resistivity of no more than about 1×1013 ohms per square; (b) on the first surface of the base sheet an image receiving coating comprising a monomeric or polymeric material, said image receiving coating having a glass transition temperature of at least about 55° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2002Date of Patent: December 21, 2004Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Paul C. Lucas, Beta Y. Ni
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Patent number: 6830790Abstract: A recording medium comprising on a base material an ink-receiving layer containing an alumina hydrate, said ink-receiving layer being formed by applying a coating liquid containing said alumina hydrate to said base material followed by drying to form a layer to be said ink-receiving layer, swelling said layer to be said ink-receiving layer again, and pressing the swollen layer to a heated mirror-finish drum for drying, the glossiness of the surface of the recording medium on the side of the ink-receiving layer as measured at 20° being 20% or more.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2000Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsutoshi Misuda, Kenji Onuma, Nobuyuki Hosoi, Kenji Shinjo, Masanobu Asaoka, Ako Takemura
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Publication number: 20040224104Abstract: The invention is directed to an ink jet recording medium comprising at least: a support, and a microporous film adhered to said support, wherein said microporous film is characterised by: an oriented thermoplastic film comprising at least a filler, said film having interconnecting channels between the pores, with a void volume between 30 to 80 volume percent of the total microporous film, and having a volume of pores with a pore diameter between 50 nm and 1000 nm of less than 60 volume % of the total void volume of said microporous film, as determined by the mercury intrusion porosimetry method.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2004Publication date: November 11, 2004Applicant: Fuji Photo Film B.V.Inventors: Ieke de Vries, Iskandar Gandasasmita, Fuyuhiko Mori
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Patent number: 6811837Abstract: The invention provides a porous resin film having a good absorption of water content as a solvent for aqueous ink or aqueous paste and a recording medium comprising the porous resin film. The recording medium is characterized by the capability of absorbing an ink without density unevenness even during ink jet recording if the ejected amount of ink is great. The invention lies in a porous resin film comprising: a thermoplastic resin in an amount of 30 to 90% by weight; and an inorganic and/or organic finely divided powder in an amount of 10 to 70% by weight, wherein the inorganic and/or organic finely divided powder is surface-treated with a surface treating agent (A) made of a copolymer of diallylamine salt or alkyl diallylamine salt (a1) with a nonionic hydrophilic vinyl monomer (a2) and an anionic surface treating agent (B), and the porous resin film has a liquid absorption capacity of not smaller than 0.5 ml/m2 as measured by “Japan TAPPI No. 51-87”.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2002Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: Yupo CorporationInventors: Yasuo Iwasa, Seiichiro Iida, Nobuhiro Shibuya
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Publication number: 20040185193Abstract: An ink-jet recording sheet comprising a paper support coated with a polyolefin resin on both sides of the paper support, the polyolefin resin-coated paper support having thereon a porous ink receptive layer containing a hydrophilic polymer, wherein the paper support has a ratio of a Cobb value to a basis weight of not more than 0.05:1 to 0.4:1.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2004Publication date: September 23, 2004Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Yukako Taka, Keiji Ohbayashi
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Patent number: 6783817Abstract: In an ink jet recording sheet including a substrate sheet having a base paper sheet and at least a front polyolefin laminate layer formed on at least a front surface of the base paper sheet, and an ink receiving layer formed on the front polyolefin laminate layer, the surface of the front polyolefin laminate layer has a center-line mean roughness (Ra) of 0.1 to 10 &mgr;m, determined in accordance with JIS B 0601-1982, the ink receiving layer contains a mixture of hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose with polyvinyl pyrrolidone in a mixing weight ratio of 100:10 to 100:150 and has a 75° specular gloss of 30% or more determined in accordance with JIS P 8142-1993.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2002Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: OJI Paper Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Nemoto, Koichi Yasui, Shunichiro Mukoyoshi
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Patent number: 6773769Abstract: The invention provides an ink receiving medium comprising a macroporous substrate having a fluid management system and having a pigment management system in contact with surfaces of macropores of the substrate therein. In one embodiment, the pigment management system comprises water-soluble multivalent metal salt and the fluid management system comprises surfactant.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1999Date of Patent: August 10, 2004Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Mark F. Schulz, Omar Farooq
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Patent number: 6764726Abstract: This invention is directed to an ink jet recording sheet having improved image waterfastness for use in ink jet printing comprising a substrate having in contact with at least one surface thereof one or more nitrogen containing organic species, preferably admixed with one or more starches, to process of forming such recording sheet, to a method of generating one or more image(s) on said recording sheet in an ink jet printing process and to a recording sheet having one or more images on a surface thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2000Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Inventors: Sen Yang, William K. Istone, David V. Celli
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Patent number: 6720041Abstract: Provided is a recording medium of a multi-layered structure comprising a base layer and a surface layer provided on at least one side of the base layer, wherein the base layer is mainly composed of fibrous material and the surface layer comprises an alumina hydrate of a boehmite structure incorporated in the fibrous material.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1999Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hitoshi Yoshino, Kyo Miura, Yuji Kondo
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Patent number: 6716492Abstract: Disclosed herein is a recording medium for ink-jet recording, which comprises at least one first half-cut line formed in a machine direction (MD) and at least one second half-cut line perpendicular to the MD direction, wherein the half-cut lines are in the form of a series of perforations with a cut portion and an uncut portion alternately arranged continuously, and the length of the uncut portion in the first half-cut line is longer than the length of the uncut portion in the second half-cut line.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Oji Paper Co., Ltd., Nihon Punch Card Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Moriya, Mamoru Sakaki, Masato Katayama, Michio Araki, Satoshi Kojima
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Patent number: 6703086Abstract: A printable material which includes a flexible first layer having first and second surfaces and a second layer. The first layer may be a film or a cellulosic nonwoven web. The second layer overlays and is bonded to the first surface of the first layer and includes a nonwoven web. The first layer has a basis weight of from about 20 to about 140 grams per square meter. The thermoplastic polymer has a melting point of from about 90° C. to about 250° C. and the second layer has a basis weight of at least about 10 grams per square meter. The first layer may be a cellulosic nonwoven web, such as a latex-impregnated paper. The second layer may be thermally bonded to the first layer or bonded by an adhesive. A release layer may be present between the first layer and the heat-activated adhesive. The second layer may contain from about 0.1 to about 20 percent by weight, based on the weight of the second layer, of a material which increases the viscosity of an ink jet ink when printed on the second layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2001Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Francis Joseph Kronzer, Leonard Eugene Zelazoski, Ty Jackson Stokes, Jeffrey Lawrence McManus
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Patent number: 6692798Abstract: This invention relates to an imaging member comprising an image layer and a paper base comprising a mixture of vegetable fibers and wood fibers wherein said vegetable fibers comprise between 5 and 25 percent by weight of said paper base.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2000Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Suresh Sunderrajan, Sandra J. Dagan, Robert P. Bourdelais, Peter T. Aylward, Patrick J. Whittaker
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Patent number: 6677005Abstract: There is disclosed an ink-jet recording material which comprises a support and a layer containing at least one of a polymer latex and a resin emulsion in combination with solid fine particles, and at least one layer containing fumed silica formed on the above-mentioned layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2000Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills LimitedInventors: Satoshi Kaneko, Norimasa Miyachi
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Publication number: 20040001944Abstract: The display sheet comprises: a sheet-like member, which comprises a support, such as a sheet of paper and a plastic film, and a 30 to 500 micron thick flexible microporous suction sheet which is disposed on a back surface side of the support and in which an infinite number of fine and flexible depression pores 5 to 300 microns in diameter are formed; and a release film, which releasably covers a surface of the microporous suction sheet to protect the microporous suction sheet, is 10 to 100 micron thick and has a smooth surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2003Publication date: January 1, 2004Applicant: ACT CorporationInventor: Katsuhiko Kuwahata
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Patent number: 6663922Abstract: In a recording medium having an ink accepting layer formed on at least one surface of a base paper, the ink accepting layer is formed in the form of islands scattered on the surface of the base paper with a uniform plane density.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2000Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Ogino, Masako Ichioka
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Publication number: 20030219552Abstract: In one aspect, the invention provides an ink receptor composition comprising greater than 30 weight percent polyvinylpyridine on a dry basis. The ink receptor composition may also further comprise a crossslinker and/or a mordant. In another aspect, the ink receptor composition comprises polyvinylpyridine and a mordant. In another aspect, the invention provides an ink receptor medium comprising a substrate having a substantially smooth or a microembossed surface and an ink receptor comprising polyvinylpyridine on the substantially smooth or the microembossed surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2003Publication date: November 27, 2003Inventors: Paul D. Graham, Mark F. Schulz
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Patent number: 6641656Abstract: The present invention describes a dispersion comprising a vehicle and a modified pigment. The modified pigment has, when measured in an aqueous medium, a zeta potential of 0.0 mV at a pH of between 5.0 and 11.0. Inkjet ink compositions and an inkjet consumable set are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2001Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: Yuan Yu, Paul S. Palumbo
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Patent number: 6632488Abstract: An ink jet recording material which includes a paper sheet substrate and an ink receiving layer containing a xerogel porous pigment and has excellent ink-absorption and reproducibility of ink images with high clarity and precision, exhibits a water-dipping expansion of 0.3% or less, determined by the same method as the JAPAN TAPPI No. 27-B method except that the length of the recording material immersed in water is measured 15 seconds after the start of the immersion.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1999Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignee: OJI Paper Co., LTDInventors: Yoshitaka Okumura, Takaaki Kohro, Yoshiharu Kawashima, Hiromasa Kondo
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Ink jet recording sheet, method for the preparation of same, and ink jet recording method using same
Publication number: 20030152720Abstract: An ink jet recording sheet includes a substrate, an ink receiving layer, and a clay-containing layer between the paper substrate and the ink receiving layer. The clay-containing layer contains platelet clay particles having an average aspect ratio of at least 10:1, and an orientation such that at least 50% of the platelet clay particles have a major axis within 30° of parallel to the substrate. The sheet exhibits little or no cockle formation, even at high ink laydowns. A method of preparing the ink jet recording sheet and a method of printing using the ink jet recording sheet are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2002Publication date: August 14, 2003Inventor: Michael Lubar -
Patent number: 6599592Abstract: A recording material for the ink jet printing method comprising a base paper which contains 5 to 55% by weight of a filler, is free of beater sizing agents, and is impregnated with an impregnation agent, wherein the resin uptake from the impregnation agent is adjusted such that the base paper on the backside has a liquid uptake of at most 20 g/m2, and optionally further layers.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2000Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: Felix Schoeller jr. Foto-und Spezialpapiere GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Hartmut Schulz