Abstract:
A method for forming tactile images or a combination of tactile images and regular images, on a flexible packaging substrate comprising depositing an ultraviolet curable phase change ink composition comprising an optional colorant and a phase change ink vehicle comprising a radiation curable monomer or prepolymer; a photoinitiator; a reactive wax; and a gellant directly onto a flexible packaging substrate or depositing the ink onto an intermediate transfer member, in an image area to form a tactile image area or a combination of tactile image area and regular image; forming the tactile image by depositing multiple layers of the ink in locations of the tactile image or portion thereof; when an intermediate transfer member is used, transferri ng the deposited ink from the intermediate transfer member to the flexible packaging substrate; and curing the ink.
Abstract:
A method of forming an integrated microelectronic device and a micro channel is provided. The method offers an inexpensive way of integrating devices that are usually incompatible during fabrication, a microchannel and a microelectronic structure such as an electro-optic light source, a detector or a MEMs device into a single integrated structure.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for printing in an ultraviolet ray curable ink on the surface of an outer layer of a corrugated cardboard, etc. which is not so flat. SOLUTION: The printing apparatus has a conformable layer 14 which is so arranged as to contact to an ink supporting surface of a recording medium S positioned at a nip, substantially makes an ultraviolet ray permeate, and also substantially has a silicone-resin based elastomer having a shape compatibility of Shore A hardness of about 20-10; and a first radiation source 30 which is so arranged as to irradiate the ink supporting surface of the recording medium S positioned at the nip with the ultraviolet ray suitable to cure the ink I on the recording medium S. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for forming or printing an image onto a flexible substrate. SOLUTION: The method for printing includes: a process for directly depositing, onto a flexible packaging substrate, an ultraviolet-curable phase change ink composition which comprises an optionally selective colorant and a phase change ink vehicle comprising a radiation-curable monomer or prepolymer, a photoinitiator, a reactive wax and a gelling agent, or a process for depositing the ink composition onto an intermediate transfer member to form, in an image area, a tactile image area or a combination of the tactile image area and a regular image; a process for forming the tactile image by depositing multiple layers of the ink in locations of the tactile image area or a portion thereof; a process for transferring the deposited ink from the intermediate transfer member to the flexible packaging substrate when the intermediate transfer member is used; and a process for curing the ink. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of leveling ink on a substrate and an apparatus useful in printing.SOLUTION: An exemplary embodiment of the method includes irradiating ink 144 disposed on a surface of a porous substrate 140 with radiation emitted by at least one radiant energy source. The radiation heats the ink to at least a viscosity threshold temperature of the ink to allow the ink to flow laterally on the surface to produce leveling of the ink. The ink is heated sufficiently rapidly that heat transfer from the ink to the substrate is sufficiently small during the leveling that ink at the substrate interface is cooled to a temperature below the viscosity threshold temperature thereby preventing any significant ink permeation into the substrate.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent ink from splitting to leave an image behind a flattening device even if the ink is flattened on a recording medium when using the ink cured by radiation of UV or the like. SOLUTION: The ink is applied onto a main surface of the recording medium S by a printhead 20 according to image data, and a web 30 substantially transmitting radiant energy is abutted on the main surface of the recording medium S. Pressure of predetermined magnitude is applied to the web 30 and the recording medium S by a spreader 32, and radiant energy is applied to the web 30 and the recording medium S by a curing station 34. After the ink I on the recording medium S is cured, the web 30 and the recording medium S are separated. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of determining information about a fluid used in a piezo-actuated fluid dispenser.SOLUTION: The method includes: generating a pressure wave 108 in a channel in the piezo-actuated fluid dispenser using a piezo element 106; detecting, using the piezo element 106, residual pressure oscillation in the channel 102 caused by the generation; obtaining a resonance frequency of the pressure oscillation; and determining the fluid characteristic using the resonance frequency.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an image from remaining behind a flattening apparatus due to split of ink even when the ink is flattened on a recording medium in case where the ink curable by a radiation such as UV rays is used. SOLUTION: The recording medium S carrying an ink image I unfixed is forwarded to a fixing apparatus including a flattening roller 10 and a backing roller 20 along a processing direction P. At a nip formed between the rollers 10 and 20, the unfixed ink I is mechanically flattened by a nip pressure. At the same time when a mechanical pressure is applied by nipping, a radiation energy is applied on the ink I. For this purpose, a radiation source 30 is arranged in the flattening roller 10. In this example, this radiation source 30 applies irradiation for curing such as UV on the ink I in the nip as the recording medium S passes through the nip. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT