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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8168263 | Photo-curable composition, ink composition, and inkjet recording method using the ink composition A photo-curable composition including (A) a cationic polymerizable compound, (B) a sensitizing colorant represented by the following formula (I), and (C) an onium salt; an ink composition containing the photo-curable composition; an inkjet recording method using the... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8158212 | Ink composition, inkjet recording method, and printed material An ink composition is provided that includes (A) an N-vinyllactam, (B) another polymerizable compound, (C) a polymerization initiator, and (D) a basic compound, the content of the N-vinyllactam (A) being less than 15 wt % of the total weight of the ink composition. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8147921 | Ink set for inkjet recording and inkjet recording method An ink set for inkjet recording is provided that includes at least a colored liquid comprising at least a radically polymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, and a colorant and an undercoat liquid comprising at least a radically polymerizable compound... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8053035 | Electrode assembly and method of making same An assembly and associated method of manufacture are provided in which electrostatic deposition is used to directly apply and/or apply without solvents an electrode to one of an ion-conducting member, a member adapted to hold an ion-conducting member and a gas diffu... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7989031 | Component surface with three-dimensional surface texture and method for the creation of a component surface with three-dimensional surface texture This invention relates to a component surface (side section 1a), in particular a vehicle surface, with a three-dimensional surface texture. This invention further relates to a method for the creation of a component surface (side section 1a | 08/02/2011 |
| 7976906 | Digital ink-jet glass printer Digital ink-jet glass printer for printing flat glass boards with glass based ink is disclosed, comprising; (a) horizontal support for a glass board to be printed; (b) at least one digital ink-jet printing head moveable from above the area of a glass board supported... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7964248 | Dual photoinitiator, photocurable composition, use thereof and process for producing a three dimensional article The present invention is directed to a photoinitiator composition comprising two different cationic photoinitiators and a photocurable composition comprising said photoinitiator composition. Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of the photoinitiator co... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7901741 | Apparatus and method for producing color filters by discharging material The present invention provides a system which shortens the scanning time with an ink jet head for forming a pattern of filter elements of a color filter, picture element pixels of an electroluminescence (EL) device, or the like. An apparatus for producing a color fi... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7842351 | Ink composition, inkjet recording method, printed material, method of producing planographic printing plate, and planographic printing plate There is provided an ink composition that includes a compound represented by the following formula (I) and that includes a single oxirane fragment, as a partial structure in at least one bicyclic or tricyclic ring, wherein,... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7811638 | Multi-printed etch mask process to pattern features A method for patterning fine features using multiple jet-printed etch masks includes forming an initial feature through a first jet-printed etch mask and re-shaping the initial feature through at least one additional jet-printed etch mask. ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7781026 | Ink compositions 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 mo... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7709061 | Method of depositing materials on a textile substrate A method of providing deposits of a functional composition on a textile substrate (1) is described. The method comprises providing a supply of the textile substrate (1); providing a first digital nozzle; supplying a functional composition to the first ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7695772 | Digital printing of polymer-coated paper or board The invention relates to a method for digitally printing a polymer-coated paper or board (1), to a paper or board suitable for the method and to the production of a product package equipped with digital prints. During digital printing, printing ink particles ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7641943 | Coating method, liquid supplying head and liquid supplying apparatus A coating method is provided for forming a liquid-repellent coat on a predetermined partial region of an inner surface of each through-hole of a nozzle plate. The nozzle plate is provided in an ink-jet head of an ink-jet printer. The coating method comprises the ste... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7635504 | Curable white inkjet ink The present invention pertains to a radiation-curable white inkjet ink and, more particularly, to a radiation-curable inkjet white ink comprising a specified titanium dioxide with at least two dispersants. The first is an acidic polyester dispersant and the second i... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7632546 | Radiation curable phase change inks containing gellants A radiation curable phase change ink preferably used in piezoelectric ink jet devices includes an ink vehicle that includes at least one gellant comprised of a curable polyamide-epoxy acrylate component and a polyamide component, and at least one colorant. The use o... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7618683 | Ink composition, inkjet recording method, printed material, process for producing lithographic printing plate, and lithographic printing plate An ink composition is provided that includes (A) an acid-generating compound having an anion represented by any one of Formulae (I) to (XI), (B) a cationically polymerizable compound, and (C) a colorant. (In the formulae, R... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7611754 | Industrial microdeposition system including masking to reduce the impact of droplet alignment and droplet volume tolerances and errors A microdeposition system microdeposit droplets of fluid material to define a feature pattern on a substrate. The feature pattern for the substrate is defined. A mask is created for the feature pattern that reduces a density of defects that occur due to a malfunction... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7611755 | Electrophoretic stylus array printing with liquid ink A process and apparatus prints images. The process provides an imaging surface; an array of styli opposed to the imaging surface; and a flow of liquid ink containing charged ink particles in the ink between the imaging surface and the array of styli. A voltage bias ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7579050 | Method for focusing patterning nano-sized structure A nano-structure can be focus-patterned while minimizing the generation of a noise pattern by the inventive method which comprises the steps of: (i) mounting a plate having a nano-scale pattern formed thereon by a patterned photoresist layer on an electrode placed i... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7572487 | Printing ink Inks are disclosed which are used in ink-jet printing. The inks are cured by ultraviolet radiation, preferably free radical initiation. The inks contain a (meth)acryate monomer, an α,β-unsaturated ether monomer and a photoinitiator. The inks exhibit a low viscosit... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7563489 | Radiation curable phase change inks containing curable epoxy-polyamide composite gellants A radiation curable phase change ink preferably used in piezoelectric ink jet devices includes an ink vehicle that includes at least one curable epoxy-polyamide gellant, and at least one colorant. The use of the gellant enables the ink to form a gel state having a v... | 07/21/2009 |
| RE40847 | Ink compositions for ink jet printing Radiation curable ink compositions for ink jet contain radiation curable monomers containing vinylether and acrylate functions. ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7544395 | Patterning method of liquid crystal display device A patterning method of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device is disclosed, to prevent a pattern material from having a swelling portion when using a printing method, thereby obtaining preciseness in patterning, the patterning method including a first step for coatin... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7485347 | Method of forming a film with linear droplets and an applied temperature gradient Provided is a method for forming a film by which a highly accurate film pattern can easily be formed out of droplets. The method includes forming linear droplets on a surface of a substrate, providing a temperature gradient onto surfaces of the linear droplets, and ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7479307 | Toners and processes thereof Disclosed are toner compositions comprised of a polymer, an optional colorant, and an UV light curable oligomer. Also disclosed are methods for producing a UV curable toner compositions, the toner compositions produced thereby, and methods of utilizing the UV curabl... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7455887 | Actinic ray curable ink-jet ink composition, image formation method employing the same, and ink-jet recording apparatus Disclosed is an actinic ray curable ink-jet ink composition containing a photopolymerizable compound, a sulfonium salt (compound A) as a photoinitiator, which does not release benzene on actinic ray exposure, and a compound (compound B) as a sensitizing agent select... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7443553 | Holographic sensors and their production An array of discrete sensors disposed on a substrate, each sensor comprising a holographic support medium and a hologram disposed throughout the volume of the medium, whereby interaction with an analyte results in a variation of a property of the medium. ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7413765 | Film forming method for manufacturing planar periodic structure having predetermined periodicity A film-forming method is provided for forming a planar periodic structure having a predetermined periodicity by depositing liquid material on an object. A liquid drop supplying means is used which supplies a liquid drop at a predetermined driving period to deposit t... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7413635 | Method for the fabrication of periodically poled Lithium Niobate and Lithium Tantalate nonlinear optical components A process for reducing the poling field of congruent LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 crystal-based nonlinear optical devices and for the production of domain structures with precise reproducibility of the main parameters by depositing a thin layer of a stoic... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7410905 | Method for fabricating thin film pattern, device and fabricating method therefor, method for fabricating liquid crystal display, liquid crystal display, method for fabricating active matrix substrate, electro-optical apparatus, and electrical apparatus A method for fabricating a thin film pattern on a substrate, includes the steps of: forming a concave part on the substrate that conforms to the thin film pattern; and applying a function liquid into the concave part. ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7405072 | Acoustic radiation for ejecting and monitoring pathogenic fluids The invention relates to methods and devices that use focused radiation to handle and/or monitor pathogenic fluids. In particular, a method is provided for dispensing one or more droplets of a fluid containing a pathogen. The method involves providing the pathogen-c... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7399497 | Method for forming film, method of manufacturing electronic device, film forming system, electronic device, and electronic apparatus To provide a film forming method and a film forming system, which efficiently use materials and forming a high-quality organic thin film, and an electronic device and an electronic apparatus that are manufactured using the method and the device, an organic thin film... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7393567 | Pattern forming method, arranged fine particle pattern forming method, conductive pattern forming method, and conductive pattern material The present invention provides a pattern forming method comprising bonding a compound to a substrate, the compound having both a polymerization initiating moiety capable of undergoing photocleavage to initiate radical polymerization and a substrate bonding moiety, c... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7374813 | Constructive nanolithography A patterned organic monolayer or multiplayer film self-assembled on a solid substrate, the pattern consisting in a site-defined surface chemical modification non-destructively inscribed in the organic monolayer or multilayer by means of an electrically biased conduc... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7360724 | Electrostatic spray nozzle with internal and external electrodes A nozzle is provided for use in a dynamic electrostatic air filter, in which the nozzle includes an internal electrode that charges a semiconductive liquid, and includes an external electrode that assists in breaking the liquid into droplets in a predetermined direc... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356921 | Method for forming a conductive layer pattern A method for forming a conductive layer pattern by selectively depositing droplets containing conductive material onto a porous receiving layer. Much of the conductive material is left on the surface for forming wiring patterns but some of it permeates the pockets o... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7349061 | Manufacturing method of liquid crystal substrate and manufacturing device of liquid crystal substrate Aspects of the invention can include an imaging step for imaging a region including a plurality of substrates arranged on a pallet having a plurality of housing units by an imaging unit, an actual applying region detecting step for detecting a region corresponding t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341340 | Printed item having an image with a high durability and/or resolution A printed device is provided with an image printed thereon, having a relatively high durability and/or resolution. A printer and method are also provided to produce a high durability image by treating an item to be printed with plasma. In particular, a printer is pr... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7338154 | Image recording apparatus An image printing apparatus including a conveyance-printing section for printing on a recording medium sheet; a first printing device including a plurality of black printing heads for jetting image-setting black ink drops onto the recording medium sheet; a second pr... | 03/04/2008 |
