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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8123845 | Water base dual color ink composition and writing utensil using the same The invention provides a dual color ink composition which comprises: (a) at least one pigment selected from a pearlescent pigment and a metal powder pigment; (b) water; (c) at least one water-soluble organic solvent selected fr... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7972425 | Postal blue ink with improved durability A water-based ink for inkjet recording exhibits a blue color defined as L* | 07/05/2011 |
| 7806970 | Ink jet ink, method of producing ink jet ink, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, and cyan ink An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet ink capable of suppressing bronzing phenomenon in which a reflected light of an image looks red, is excellent in color developability, and gives an image with suppressed bleeding even when formed adjacent t... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7708819 | Dust-free pigment compositions obtainable by spray-drying The invention relates to a composition comprising from 92 to 97% by weight pigment and from 3 to 8% by weight binder, in each case based on the composition, wherein the binder is a mixture comprising: from 5 to 60% by weight, based on the binder, of modified cellulo... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7695554 | Ink jet ink, method of producing ink jet ink, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, and yellow ink An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet ink capable of suppressing bleeding and excellent in color developability, a method of producing the ink with an aid of a unit preferable in terms of economy and environmental protection, and an ink jet rec... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7601210 | Ink jet ink, method of producing ink jet ink, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge, and cyan ink An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet ink capable of suppressing bronzing phenomenon in which a reflected light of an image looks red, is excellent in color developability, and gives an image with suppressed bleeding even when formed adjacent t... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7465345 | Ink-jet ink set The present disclosure relates to an ink-jet ink set which, in spite of using a black ink including a black pigment, may form printed matter (e.g., images) with desirable fixability to glossy paper, color balance after fading (fading stability), and/or water resista... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7438749 | Ink-jet ink set The present disclosure relates to an ink-jet ink set which, in spite of using a black ink including a black pigment, may display desirable storage stability and/or may form printed matter (e.g., images) with desirable rub fastness against a plain paper surface, colo... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438750 | Ink-jet ink set The present disclosure relates to an ink-jet ink set which, in spite of using a black ink including a black pigment, may form printed matter (e.g., images) with desirable water resistance and/or color balance after fading (fading stability) and/or ink-jet ink sets w... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438751 | Ink-jet ink set The present disclosure relates to an ink-jet ink set which, in spite of using a black ink including a black pigment, may display desirable storage stability and/or may form printed matter (e.g., images) with desirable rub fastness against a plain paper surface, colo... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7427318 | Highlightable and highlighted mixtures, marking instruments, and methods of using the same A highlightable mixture, such as an ink, including a colored pigment, an eradicable colorant, and a non-eradicable colorant; a kit including the highlightable mixture and an eradicator solution; colorant complex including a colorless or substantially colorless eradi... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7414081 | Colored, radiation-curable composition Radiation-curable compositions, and methods of making the same, for providing a wide variety of substrates with a durable, colored coating or colorant are disclosed. The color is at least in part provided by chromophore molecules that are covalently bonded to other ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7393881 | Colored radiation curable coating compositions for identifying telecommunications elements and telecommunications elements coated thereby A telecommunication element having a durable color identifying polymeric coating thereon is disclosed. The telecommunication element comprises an elongated communication transmission medium, such as an optical fiber or an optical fiber ribbon, and a radiation cured ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7393399 | Ink for ink-jet recording An ink for ink-jet recording contains a copper phthalocyanine pigment as a colorant, and a thiazole compound. The ink further contains a metallic phthalocyanine compound having one or more counter ions, wherein about 2 mol % to about 20 mol % of the counter ions is ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7381753 | Inkjet ink composition An inkjet ink composition having a binder including an aqueous dispersion of polymer particles, the polymer including, as polymerized units, (a) from 0 to 1 wt. % monoethylenically unsaturated acid monomer, based on polymer weight; and (b) monomer of the formula | 06/03/2008 |
| 7378480 | Polymerizable compound, polymer compound, composition using such compound, and image forming method and apparatus Polymeric compounds suitable for ink and toner compositions, and image forming methods and apparatus using an ink or toner composition containing such a polymer compound, and particularly to a polymer compound having a repeating unit structure represented by the gen... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7378458 | Method for preparing ink, ink cartridge and ink-jet recording apparatus The invention provides a method for preparing an ink having constituents of a water-soluble dye having a water-soluble solubilizing group of at least one of a sulfonic group and a carboxyl group, water, a water-soluble substance that is condensation-polymerized in t... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375147 | Ink jet recording method and apparatus Ink jet recording method and apparatus is provided in which a color image is recorded by discharging, onto a recording medium, a black ink and at least one of a cyan ink, a magenta ink and a yellow ink from a black-ink recording head that ejects the black ink onto t... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7364085 | Identification document with printing that creates moving and three dimensional image effects with pulsed illumination Identification documents have a three dimensional or moving image effect to enable human verification of their authenticity. These effects are created by printing image layers of invisible inks, such as UV or IR fluorescing inks, each depicting an object in varying ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364612 | Printing ink, and decorated sheet obtained using the same The invention provides a printing ink for printing on a decorated sheet for application to integral molding of synthetic resin, which is less capable of curling the decorated sheet and less susceptible to run during molding. The printing ink comprises a compound hav... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364614 | Capillary-action, glitter markers and ink compositions for same The disclosure is generally related to writing instruments capable of making markings containing large diameter glitter pigment particles, and glitter ink compositions for the same. In one embodiment, the disclosure provides a capillary-action marker comprising a gl... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365108 | Pigmented ink-jet inks with improved print quality and reliability An ink includes a jettable vehicle, a plurality of pigment solids dispersed in the jettable vehicle, and a styrene-maleimide copolymer dispersed in the jettable vehicle. Additionally, a method of rapidly printing an ink-jet image including ink-jetting an ink-jet ink... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7348368 | Pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid and printed material A pigment-dispersed aqueous recording liquid containing at least a pigment and a resin, which comprises from 60 to 200 parts by weight of the resin to 100 parts by weight of the pigment, wherein at least one of the resin is a water-dispersible urethane type resin, a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347891 | Water base ink set for ink-jet recording and method for producing the same A water base ink set for ink-jet recording includes a black ink containing water, a black pigment and a water-soluble organic solvent and a color ink containing water, a dye, and a water-soluble organic solvent. The black pigment is a negatively-chargeable and self-... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345098 | Water-based ink A water-based ink comprising an aqueous dispersion of polymer particles made of a water-insoluble vinyl polymer containing a colorant, wherein the water-insoluble vinyl polymer is prepared by polymerizing a monomer composition comprising a specific monomer A such as... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7341777 | Coating for inspection of cracking in structure In a coating for the inspection of a crack in a structure wherein a coating layer having dispersed therein microcapsules with a visualizing liquid sealed therein is formed on the surface of the structure and when a crack is developed in the structure and propagated ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7335249 | Water base ink set for ink-jet recording A water base ink set for ink-jet recording includes a black ink containing a negatively charged self-dispersing black pigment and a water-soluble polyvalent alcohol alkyl ether; and a yellow ink containing a water-soluble anionic yellow dye in which a number of coun... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332532 | Polymeric dispersants for ink-jet applications An ink-jet ink which includes a liquid vehicle and a polymer-dispersed pigment dispersed in the liquid vehicle is disclosed and described. More specifically, the polymer-dispersed pigment can include a pigment encapsulated with a polymer having hydrophilic and hydro... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7326287 | Cyan inks and their use in ink-jet printers A composition comprising: (a) a major dye component which is a mixture of copper phthalocyanine dyes of Formula (1): CuPcβ-(SO3M)xβ-(SO2NH2)y  Formula (1) wherein: ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322700 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus includes an indicating element which modulates or emits light as a pixel in accordance with image information. A displacement unit optically displaces a position of the pixel for each of two or more sub-fields constituting an image field c... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322767 | Water-based ink composition for ballpoint pen and water-based ballpoint pen A water-based ink composition for ballpoint pen which has a colorant, water, a water soluble organic solvent and, as a shear-thinning tackifier, a polysaccharide, wherein the polysaccharide exists in the ink as particles having an average particle size less than 5 Î... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7303615 | Colorant material, and water dispersion, ink, ink tank, recording unit, recording apparatus and recording method using the same There is provided a colorant material comprising a compound represented by at least one of the following general formulas (1) and (2) as a first colorant compound and at least one of a water insoluble triphenylmethane compound and a water insoluble xanthene compound... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303620 | Water-based ink, and image formation method and recorded image using the ink A water-based ink that comprises a liquid medium containing water, a water-dispersible coloring material and a surfactant, wherein when the ink is attached onto a recording material, the water-dispersible coloring material forms a plurality of minute interspersed ag... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7300505 | Ink-jet recording ink, ink cartridge, recording unit, ink-jet recording method, ink-jet recording apparatus, and method for stabilizing ink ejection The present invention provides an ink-jet recording ink containing water, a pigment, a dispersing agent for dispersing the pigment, and an anionic surfactant having a critical micelle concentration lower than or equal to 0.0005 mol/L. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7297201 | Indelible ink jet ink composition Disclosed is an ink jet ink composition that forms indelible images on porous or semiporous substrates. The ink composition comprises a liquid carrier, a first colorant that is soluble in the carrier but insoluble or substantially insoluble in water, and a second co... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7291212 | Ink and ink set for ink jet printing and method of ink jet printing An inkjet recording ink composition comprising an aqueous medium having dissolved and/or dispersed therein at least one dye, wherein at least one betaine-type surfactant is contained in the ink composition. The dye is preferably a magenta dye having an azo structure... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7291214 | Ink, ink set, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge and ink jet recording apparatus An ink to be used in an ink jet recording method of ejecting an ink from a recording head through action of thermal energy can improve the ink ejection stability. An ink to be used in an ink jet recording method of ejecting an ink from a recording head through actio... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7291213 | Ink composition and inkjet recording method An ink composition comprising: a coloring agent having an oxidation potential of more electropositive than 1.0V (vs SCE); a water; a guanidine compound; and a surfactant, the ink composition to be used in inkjet recording and an inkjet recording method with the use ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287849 | Image forming apparatus, recording liquid, conveyor belt, recording liquid cartridge An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium by ejecting a recording liquid to the recording medium at a recording part is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a conveyor belt for conveying the recording medium to the recording pa... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288141 | Water base ink set for ink-jet recording In a water base ink set for ink-jet recording including a pigment-based black ink and a dye-based yellow ink, a first water-soluble dye in which a number of counter ion or ions per one molecule is not more than 3 and a hue angle h* is 95° to 105° is used, as the d... | 10/30/2007 |
