Printing Ink Composition For Glass Or Ceramic Substrate Or Process Of Preparing Patents (Class 523/160)
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Patent number: 9120939Abstract: An emulsified aqueous ink for use in an indirect printing process including: a reactive alkoxysilane; a surfactant; a solvent and co-solvent mixture having water; and a colorant, wherein the ink forms a cross-linked film containing siloxane linkages when the reactive alkoxysilane is hydrolyzed and condensed with heat.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Naveen Chopra, Jennifer L. Belelie, Barkev Keoshkerian, Michelle Chrétien
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Patent number: 9114625Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for color printing onto nonwhite substrates and articles. For example, a method of color printing is provided, including printing multiple layers of ink each including a combination of a white ink and at least one color ink, and each printed layer having a ratio of white ink to color ink, wherein the ratio may be the same or may vary as a function of the number of layers and the color printed.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventor: Todd W. Miller
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Patent number: 9109133Abstract: The ink jet ink includes pigment, first resin which has a glass-transition temperature of less than 20° C. and a weight-average molecular weight of not more than 10000, second resin which has a glass-transition temperature of not less than 23° C., and specific polyoxyalkylene glycol monoalkyl ether.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Soichi Yamazaki, Hideki Okada, Hiroaki Kumeta, Daisuke Ishihara
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Patent number: 9090792Abstract: An ink composition contains hollow resin particles and an anti-clearing agent preventing the clearing phenomenon of the hollow resin particles.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2014Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takayoshi Kagata, Tsuyoshi Sano
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Patent number: 9073358Abstract: The present invention provides an inkjet ink including at least 50% by weight of organic solvent based on the total weight of the ink, a radiation curable material, a photoinitiator and a colorant. The invention also provides an apparatus for printing the ink wherein the apparatus includes at least one printhead, a means for evaporating solvent from the printed ink and a source of actinic radiation. Furthermore, the invention provides a method of inkjet printing including i) inkjet printing the inkjet ink as defined above on to a substrate; ii) evaporating at least a portion of the solvent from the printed ink; and iii) exposing the printed ink to actinic radiation to cure the radiation curable material.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: SERICOL LIMITEDInventors: Robert Augustus Fassam, Nigel Gould, Jeremy Ward, Barry McGregor
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Patent number: 9068094Abstract: A photopolymerizable inkjet ink including: a photopolymerizable monomer having a Stimulation Index (SI value) of less than 3, where the Stimulation Index indicates the extent of sensitization as measured by a skin sensitization test based on Local Lymph Node Assay; and a phenol aromatic compound having two hydroxyl groups in the molecule thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Takao Hiraoka
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Patent number: 9056991Abstract: A composition useful as an inkjet ink is described as well as methods of making the composition. The composition includes a pigment and a polymer and the polymer may include a polyurethane. The composition exhibits properties that make it useful in thermal and piezo inkjet applications.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventor: Heather E. Clarke
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Patent number: 9051485Abstract: Provided is an inkjet ink which can form high-quality images with high abrasion resistance and adhesiveness on a non-absorptive recording medium and which exhibits high ejection properties and excellent storage stability. Also provided is an inkjet recording method. An inkjet ink which comprises water, a pigment, a water-soluble resin, a water-soluble or Panic solvent and a surfactant, characterized in that: the water-soluble resin comprises a water-soluble resin consisting of a copolymer resin which has an acid value of 50 to 130 mgKOH/g, a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 30 to 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Manabu Kaneko, Hidenobu Ohya, Naoko Nakajima
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Patent number: 9051481Abstract: An active energy ray-curable ink which contains: polymerizable compounds containing a monofunctional polymerizable monomer a homopolymer of which has Tg of 90° C. or higher, wherein a cured product obtained by forming a coating film having an average thickness of 10 ?m on a polycarbonate substrate using the ink, and 15 seconds later, and applying active energy rays having a light quantity of 1,500 mJ/cm2 to the coating film to cure satisfies the following (1) and (2): (1) a stretchability of the cured product represented by the following equation is 2 or greater, when the cured product is stretched by a tensile tester at a tensile speed of 20 mm/min, and temperature of 180° C., and Stretchability=(length after tensile test)/(length before tensile test) (2) adhesion between the substrate and the cured product as measured by a cross-cut test in accordance with JIS K5400 is 70 or greater.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mie Yoshino, Takao Hiraoka, Shizuka Kohzuki
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Patent number: 9045583Abstract: A pigment that exhibits excellent image density, dispersibility, storage stability, and resolubility, and forms an ink film that exhibits marker resistance and rubfastness is provided. A polyurethane resin-bonded pigment is produced by bringing (I) a pigment having a surface acidic group into contact with (II) a water-dispersible polyurethane resin having a tertiary amino group and an anionic polar group or a nonionic polar chain in an aqueous medium. The pigment (I) is preferably self-dispersible carbon black having a surface acidic group.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: TOKAI CARBON CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukari Ishibashi, Asami Takenaka, Shigehiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 9045659Abstract: An inkjet recording ink, which contains: carbon black; a surfactant; water; a water-soluble organic solvent; and particles formed of an anionic self-emulsifying poly(ether urethane) resin, wherein the carbon black contains first carbon black whose surface has been treated with an anionic surfactant and second carbon black which has been coated with a resinous polymer, where a mass ratio of the first carbon black to the second carbon black is 10/90 to 90/10, and wherein the anionic surfactant is a naphthalenesulfonic acid-formaldehyde condensate.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Shin Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Fushimi
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Patent number: 9040603Abstract: The disclosure provides an ink jet ink for color filter and a method for preparing the same, as well as a method for preparing of a color filter. The ink jet ink for color filter comprising, by weight, 10 to 50 parts of aqueous nano pigment dispersion and 51 to 95 parts of a cold curing component.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Shi Shu, Jianshe Xue, Jisheng Zhao, Lin Li
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Patent number: 9034947Abstract: An ink composition suitable for ink jet printing, including printing on deformable substrates. In embodiments, the stretchable ink composition is based on a solventless monomer-based ink formulation comprising a mixture of acrylic ester oligomer and monomers of acrylic ester and aromatic acrylate.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Yiliang Wu, Cameron Derry, Ping Liu
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Publication number: 20150133582Abstract: Disclosed are an ink composition for an imprint lithography and a roll printing, wherein in forming patterns of the LCD device using the imprint lithography and the roll printing, an ink composition with high thermal resistance, consisting of polymer resin and additive both endurable even at a high temperature is used to form fine patterns with constantly maintaining pattern linewidths and line intervals, and wherein the ink composition is endurable even at a high temperature of 90-250° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2014Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung-Hee Kim, Soon-Sung Yoo, Jin-Wuk Kim, Byung-Geol Kim, Byung-Uk Kim, Ki-Beom Lee, Byong-Hoo Kim, Seung-Hyup Shin, Jun-Young Song, Myoung-Soo Lee
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Patent number: 9010914Abstract: An ink composition is provided that comprises at least (Component A-1) diethylene glycol monobutyl ether acrylate, (Component A-2) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by Formula (1), phenoxyethyl acrylate, isobornyl acrylate, 3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexyl acrylate, and 4-t-butylcyclohexyl acrylate, (Component A-3) an N-vinyllactam and/or tetrahydrofurfuryl acrylate, and (Component B) a polymerization initiator, Component A-1 having a content of 1 to 35 wt % of the entire ink composition, and Components A-1 to A-3 having a total content of 60 to 90 wt % of the entire ink composition wherein R1 denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and X denotes a single bond or a divalent linking group.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Yuuichi Hayata
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Patent number: 8998400Abstract: A copolymer contains repeating units represented by the following chemical formulae 1 and 2: In the chemical formulae 1 and 2, R represents a hydrogen atom or a cation; X represents an alkylene group having 2 to 18 carbon atoms; Y represents a single bond, an oxycarbonyl group [(X)—O—CO—(Z)], a carbonyloxy group [(X)—CO—O—(Z)], an ether group (—O—), or an imido group [(X)—N—CO—(—CO—)(Z)]; and Z represents a biphenyl group or a naphthyl group).Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeyuki Harada, Tamotsu Aruga, Hiroshi Gotou, Hidetoshi Fujii
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Patent number: 8987349Abstract: Disclosed are methods for making aqueous dispersions of polymer-enclosed particles, such as nanoparticles, polymerizable polymers useful in such a method, and cationic electrodepositable compositions comprising such aqueous dispersions.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2009Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventor: W. David Polk
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Ink jet ink, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit and ink jet recording apparatus
Patent number: 8987348Abstract: The invention provides provide an ink jet ink exhibiting such an excellent ejection property that when an ink containing a polymer capable of improving the scratch resistance of a recorded article is used, the deviation of the ink-droplet impact point on a recording medium is prevented. The ink jet ink contains a polymer and a surfactant, wherein the acid value of the polymer is from 100 mg KOH/g or more to 220 mg KOH/g or less, the weight-average molecular weight of the polymer is from 3,000 or more to 10,000 or less, and the surfactant has a structure represented by the following formula (1) wherein n is a numerical value of from 3 or more to 27 or less, and m is a numerical value of from 16 or more to 31 or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2008Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumihiko Mukae, Masashi Ogasawara, Souichi Nagai, Shuichi Okazaki, Shin-ichi Hakamada, Yoshio Nakajima -
Patent number: 8980975Abstract: Compositions including carbon nanofoam are suitable for printing and magnetic ink.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: William G Herbert, Gary Maier
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Patent number: 8974895Abstract: An inkjet ink that contains at least water; a water-soluble organic solvent; a pigment; and a copolymer or a salt thereof. The copolymer or the salt thereof has at least a structural unit represented by Formula 1, a structural unit represented by Formula 2, and a structural unit represented by Formula 3 or 4.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2014Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuru Naruse, Masayasu Nonogaki, Keita Katoh, Akihiko Matsuyama, Kazukiyo Nagai, Yuusuke Koizuka
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Patent number: 8960878Abstract: An ink jet ink containing a pigment and a polyurethane polymer, wherein the polyurethane polymer has units derived from a polyol having no acid group and having the carbon number of 13 or more and 250 or less, a diol having an acid group and having the carbon number of 1 or more and 7 or less, a polyol having a siloxane structure, and a polyisocyanate, and an acid value of the polyurethane polymer is 40.0 mgKOH/g or more and 80.0 mgKOH/g or less.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirofumi Ichinose, Daiji Okamura, Kousuke Yamasaki, Mitsuru Ishii, Yuuki Nishino, Hiroshi Tomioka
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Patent number: 8960879Abstract: An ink jet ink contains a resin A, a resin B, and a pigment, in which the pigment is a halogenated metal phthalocyanine pigment being dispersed by the resin B, the resin A is a random copolymer having a carboxy group, the resin B is a block copolymer having a carboxy group, the acid value of the resin A is less than the acid value of the resin B, and the ink further includes a polybasic acid having a functional group whose pKa is 4.3 or less and a functional group whose pKa is 5.0 or more and 6.6 or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihisa Yamashita, Takashi Saito, Tsuyoshi Furuse, Nobuyuki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8957130Abstract: Styrene-acrylic dispersants for use in pigment dispersions have lower viscosities than benchmark formulations such as nitrocellulose, dimer-acid based polyamides, and thermoplastic polyurethanes, prepared under otherwise identical conditions. Lower viscosities allow for the preparation of similarly viscous dispersions and inks with the styrene-acrylics when compared to traditional dispersants, at either (a) lower solvent levels, or if solvent levels are to be maintained, (b) higher pigment and solids loadings.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2010Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Gary A. Deeter, Chien Hsu, Timothy D. Klots
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Patent number: 8957131Abstract: The present disclosure provides an ink-jet ink containing an aqueous ink vehicle, an aqueous dispersion and a polymeric binder. The aqueous dispersion contains a colorant and a polyurethane dispersant, wherein the polyurethane dispersant is made with a polymer having cross-linkable moieties that are cross-linked with a cross-linking agent.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Charles T Berge, Xiaoqing Li
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Patent number: 8946320Abstract: An ink-jet ink composition includes a jettable vehicle, a plurality of pigment solids dispersed in the jettable vehicle, and a half-ester of styrene maleic anhydride (SMA) dispersed in the jettable vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2005Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Dennis Z. Guo, Xiaohe Chen
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Patent number: 8939566Abstract: An ink jet printing ink for use in an ink jet printing method. The ink is ejected from a print head by the action of thermal energy and includes water, a self-dispersing pigment, and at least two types of resin particles. One of the at least two types of resin particles (resin particle A) and another of the at least two types of resin particles (resin particle B) have an average particle size of 80 nm or more but 220 nm or less and an acid value of 25 mgKOH/g or more but 150 mgKOH/g or less. The resin particle A has a glass transition temperature of 25 degrees Celsius or less. The resin particle B has a glass transition temperature of 25 degrees Celsius or more. A difference in glass transition temperature between the resin particle A and the resin particle B is 10 degrees Celsius or more.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2010Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ikuo Nakazawa, Masayuki Ikegami
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Patent number: 8940813Abstract: Disclosed is an actinic radiation-curing type ink composition comprising (Component A) a monofunctional radically polymerizable monomer and (Component B) a polyfunctional acrylate oligomer having a glass transition temperature of no greater than 20° C. and having an acrylate equivalent of at least 300 g/eq, Component A comprising (Component A-1) an N-vinyl compound and (Component A-2) an acrylamide derivative, Component A having a content of at least 70 mass % of the entire ink composition, and Component A-1 having a content of at least 18 mass % of the entire ink composition.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kenjiro Araki, Atsushi Sakamoto, Kazuhiro Yokoi
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Patent number: 8931889Abstract: An ink for inkjet is provided for printing, comprising a self-dispersed pigment colorant and certain hydroxyl terminated polyurethanes derived from polyether diols which enhances fastness of the print towards highlighter and finger smudge without compromising jetting performance and storage stability of the ink.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2010Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: C. Chad Roberts, Waifong Liew Anton
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Patent number: 8933148Abstract: A solventless radiation curable stretchable ink composition including an aliphatic urethane monomer or oligomer; an acrylic ester monomer; a photoinitiator; and an optional colorant. A patterned article including a deformable substrate; an image printed on the deformable substrate, the image being formed from a radiation curable stretchable ink composition comprising an aliphatic urethane monomer or oligomer; an acrylic ester monomer; a photoinitiator; and an optional colorant.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2013Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Cameron Derry, Yiliang Wu, Naveen Chopra, Peter G. Odell
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Patent number: 8927623Abstract: To provide a recording ink which contains at least a water-dispersible colorant, a water-dispersible resin, a wetting agent, a surfactant and water, wherein the content of the wetting agent in the recording ink is in the range of from 20% by mass to 35% by mass, the total solid content of the water-dispersible colorant and the water-dispersible resin in the recording ink is in the range of from 12% by mass to 40% by mass, the water-dispersible resin contains fluorine resin particulates, and the ratio A:B, where A is the solid content of the water-dispersible resin in the recording ink and B is the solid content of a pigment contained in the water-dispersible colorant in the recording ink, is in the range of 0.5 to 8.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2007Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Goto
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Patent number: 8926081Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to a nanoparticle containing overcoat composition for use in ink jet printing. The composition can include a liquid vehicle and a composite latex particulate. The composite latex particulate can include inorganic nanoparticles at least partially encapsulated by a polymer. The inorganic nanoparticles can be silica, titania, alumina, zinc oxide, silicates, oxides of indium and tin, and combinations thereof. The inorganic nanoparticles can comprise from about 1 wt % to about 20 wt % of the composite latex particulate. The overcoat composition can be used to improve the properties of ink-jetted images.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2009Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Howard S. Tom, Hou T. Ng
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Patent number: 8927624Abstract: A process for preparing a dispersion of encapsulated solid particles in a liquid medium is described, which includes providing a dispersion comprising solid particles, a liquid medium and a polymer comprising at least one repeat unit of the Formula (1) or a salt thereof: and cross-linking the polymer, wherein X, Q1, Q2, Q3, A and m are as defined.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Fujifilm Imaging Colorants LimitedInventors: Neil Anthony Tallant, Neil James Thompson
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Patent number: 8921459Abstract: Disclosed are a kind of ink used for ink-jet computer-to-plate (CTP) technology and the preparation method thereof. The ink comprises, in mass percent, 5% to 20% of cosslinkable resin, 5% to 25% of light solvent, and 55% to 90% of deionized water. The preparation method includes: mixing the components with stirring at room temperature; multistage filtering for removing insoluble substance and impurity in mixed solution after the crosslinkable resin being completely dissolved in the solvent; and thus to obtain the ink. An image with high resolution can be formed upon printing the ink on a treated aluminum plate and thermocuring. The aluminum plate can be printed directly by a printer, which reduces post treatment.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2010Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of SciencesInventors: Huiling Li, Mingming Qin, Yanlin Song
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Patent number: 8921453Abstract: A nonaqueous ink composition for an ink jet and a method of manufacturing ink comprising the same are provided. The nonaqueous ink composition for the ink jet includes: a glycol ether acetate solvent represented by a specific chemical formula; and a polypropylene glycol binder represented by a specific chemical formula. The nonaqueous ink composition for an ink jet has dynamic viscoelasticity obtained by a chemical interaction between the solvent and the binder, exhibits excellent print quality and is capable of high-speed printing.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2010Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Young Kim, Jae Woo Joung, Sung Nam Cho, Ha Yoon Song
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Patent number: 8916625Abstract: An ink jet resin ink composition which is caused to adhere onto a glitter region that contains a glitter pigment, includes: at least one kind of resin selected from a urethane-based resin, an ester-based resin, and a fluorene-based resin, wherein glass-transition temperatures (Tg) of the urethane-based resin and the ester-based resin are higher than or equal to ?70° C. and less than or equal to 80° C., and a glass-transition temperature (Tg) of the fluorene-based resin is higher than or equal to 0° C.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Atsushi Denda, Shoki Kasahara
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Patent number: 8912248Abstract: The present invention provides a pigment dispersion, containing (a) a pigment; and (b) a polymer having a polyurethane bond in a main chain, having at least one polymer chain selected from the group consisting of a polyester, a polyacrylate, a polymethacrylate and a polyalkylene oxide at a side chain of the polymer, and having a partial skeleton that is different from a partial skeleton included in a chemical structure of the pigment, as a pendant of the main chain.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2010Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Norihide Shimohara
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Patent number: 8911071Abstract: An ink jet ink includes a pigment and a polyurethane polymer having units derived from a polyisocyanate, a polyol, and a diol having an acid group, and in the ink jet ink described above, an acid value of the polyurethane polymer is 20 mgKOH/g or more and 100 mgKOH/g or less, the unit derived from the polyisocyanate includes a unit derived from a compound represented by the following general formula (I), and the proportion of the unit derived from the compound represented by the general formula (I) in the unit derived from the polyisocyanate is 90 percent by mole or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuuki Nishino, Daiji Okamura, Kousuke Yamasaki, Mitsuru Ishii, Hirofumi Ichinose, Hiroshi Tomioka
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Patent number: 8912249Abstract: A process for encapsulating pigment dispersions is provided where a pigment is dispersed with a polymeric dispersant in an aqueous solvent system. An acrylate monomer and a polyurethane dispersion are added and the resultant mixture is polymerized. Optionally, the acrylate monomer/polyurethane mixture may be emulsified in water with an added surfactant or polymeric dispersant and up to 20% acrylic or other vinyl monomers based on the acrylate may be added to the acrylate monomer/polyurethane mixture before polymerization. Such encapsulated pigment dispersions may be used in inkjet inks and are stable to heat, aging test conditions, and solvent challenges. Prints from these inks have better durability.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Waifong Liew Anton, Hee Hyun Lee, Michael Joseph Otley, Michael Stephen Wolfe
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Patent number: 8905533Abstract: The invention provides an ink composition including: (a) a polymer including a repeating unit (a1) having a group represented by the following Formula (1) and a repeating unit (a2) having a hydrophilic group; (b) a radical polymerizable compound; (c) water; and (d) a colorant; wherein, in Formula (1), each of Ra and Rb independently represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; Ra and Rb may be bound to each other to form a 4- to 6-membered alicyclic structure; and * represents a bonding site.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Norihide Shimohara, Koji Hironaka
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Patent number: 8905534Abstract: An ink composition having excellent storage stability and curing properties after an image formation and an image forming method using the ink composition are provided. An ink composition including (A) a polymerizable compound represented by the following general formula (1) and (B) a polymerization initiator and an image forming method using the ink composition. In the general formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group. R2 represents a liner or branched alkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms. However, in R2, it is not possible to have a structure in which an oxygen atom and a nitrogen atom which are bonded to both ends of R2 are bonded to the same carbon atom of R2. R3 represents a divalent linking group. k represents 2 or 3. x, y and z each independently represent an integer of 0 to 6 and x+y+z satisfies 0 to 18.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2014Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Akihito Amao, Hirotaka Kitagawa, Koji Yasuda, Toshihiro Kamada
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Patent number: 8901200Abstract: A radiation-curable ink composition includes an acrylate monomer of which homopolymer has a glass transition temperature of not higher than 0° C. in an amount of 20% by mass or more and 65% by mass or less based on the total amount of reaction components; a monofunctional acrylate having an alicyclic structure; and a multifunctional acrylate having an alicyclic structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2011Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Kida, Toshiyuki Miyabayashi, Satoru Miura, Toru Saito, Hiroki Nakane, Jun Ito, Taketoshi Kagose, Chigusa Sato, Hiroyuki Kajimoto
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Patent number: 8894197Abstract: An ink set includes a metallic ink composition containing a metal pigment and at least one curable ink composition selected from the group consisting of a chromatic ink composition, a black ink composition, and a white ink composition.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2008Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takashi Oyanagi, Keitaro Nakano
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Patent number: 8895638Abstract: An ultraviolet ray curable ink jet composition of the present invention is characterized by being adapted to be ejected using an ink jet method and containing: a polymerizable compound; metal particles subjected to a surface treatment; and a substance A having a partial structure represented by the following formula (1), where R1 is a hydrogen atom, an oxygen radical, a hydrocarbon group or an alkoxy group, and each of R2, R3, R4 and R5 is independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Toyoda, Minoru Yamada, Masaya Shibatani, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Hidekazu Moriyama, Taketoshi Kagose
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Patent number: 8895639Abstract: An ink set is provided which includes a first ink containing a first pigment, water, and a glycol ether having an HLB value, measured by Davies method, in the range of 4.2 to 8.0, and a second ink substantially not containing the glycol ether. The second ink contains a second pigment and water.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takeshi Yano, Tetsuya Aoyama, Shoki Kasahara
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Patent number: 8889788Abstract: The present invention provides aqueous dispersions comprising a pigment (B) at least partially enveloped by polyurethane (A) and further comprising at least one polymerization inhibitor (C), said polyurethane (A) being obtainable by reaction of (a) 15% to 70% by weight of di- or polyisocyanate comprising on average from 1 to 10 allophanate groups and on average from 1 to 10 C—C double bonds per molecule, and optionally (b) 0% to 60% by weight of further di- or polyisocyanate, with (c) 5% to 50% by weight of compound having at least two isocyanate-reactive groups, weight % ages being based on total polyurethane (A).Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2008Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Holger Tuerk, Paul Andrew Simpson, Gernot Diehlmann
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Patent number: 8889762Abstract: An ink set for ink-jet recording includes a dye ink containing a water-soluble dye and water and a pigment ink containing a self-dispersible pigment and water; wherein the dye ink further contains a polymer having a lactam structure; and the pigment ink further contains a substance having a surface active ability, a blending amount of the substance having the surface active ability being set in a ratio to fulfill a condition that a line width of a one-dot line is not less than 115 ?m when an amount of one liquid droplet of the pigment ink to be discharged is set to be within a range of 22 pL to 28 pL and the one-dot line is printed on a regular paper sheet.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Brother Kogya Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuko Iwamura, Hitomi Sadohara, Akiko Miyajima
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Patent number: 8889764Abstract: A water-based ink for inkjet recording is provided with color material, binder resin, surfactant, and water-based solvent, wherein when the ink is heated, 1) a viscosity of the ink is more than 10 mPa·s and 30 mPa·s or less, the viscosity being measured over the ink weight change rate range of 0% to 10%; 2) a viscosity of the ink is 200 mPa·s at any one of the ink weight change rate within 35% or more and 55% or less, the viscosity being measured by the E-type viscometer at 25° C. and 1 rpm; and 3) a surface tension at 25° C. of the ink at the ink weight change rate of 5% is lower than a surface tension at 25° C. of the ink at the ink weight change rate of 0%.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Konica Minolta IJ Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Naoko Nakajima
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Patent number: 8889763Abstract: To provide an ink jet ink capable of achieving both high colorability and excellent bleeding resistance of an image and having excellent storage stability, provided is an ink jet ink including at least a pigment and a star polymer having a structure represented by at least one formula selected from the group consisting of the following general formulae (1) to (3).Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2009Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuhiro Hayashi, Kenji Nishiguchi
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Patent number: 8871833Abstract: Provided is a metallic-pigment composition which is usable in coating compositions or ink compositions, in particular, in water-based coating compositions or aqueous inks, and which gives coating compositions having excellent storage stability. The metallic-pigment composition gives a coating film having excellent performances with respect to brightness, hiding properties, flip-flop feeling, etc., causes no colorant or organic-pigment discoloration, and has excellent adhesion and chemical resistance. The metallic-pigment composition comprises one or more mixed-coordination-type heteropolyanion compounds, a hydrolyzate of a silicon compound and/or a condensate thereof, and metal particles.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2011Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals CorporationInventors: Kazuko Nakajima, Kaoru Ueyanagi
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Patent number: 8865793Abstract: An ink-jet recording ink which is utilized for printing on a heated recording medium, wherein the ink contains at least (1) a pigment, (2) an ink-soluble resin of 2-10 weight % based on a solid content, (3) a water-soluble organic solvent, and (4) a silicone type or a fluorine type surfactant, and the ink-soluble resin and the water-soluble organic solvent satisfy the following conditions: 1) at least one type of the ink-soluble resin is provided with a carboxyl group as an acid group, and an acid value of not less than 80 and less than 300, and 2) the water-soluble organic solvent contains at least 5-15 weight % of solvent A, and 2-15 weight % of solvent B; solvent A: a glycol ether or 1,2-alkanediols, and solvent B: a cyclic solvent, a cyclic ester solvent or a dimethyl sulfoxide, containing a nitrogen or a sulfur atom.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2008Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Hidenobu Ohya, Masayuki Ushiku, Tomoe Kawanami