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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2019
Filed:
May. 22, 2017
Applicant:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takayuki Toeda, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09D 11/328 (2014.01); C09D 11/322 (2014.01); C09D 11/38 (2014.01); B41M 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C09D 11/38 (2013.01); B41M 7/0081 (2013.01); C09D 11/322 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to: an active ray-curable inkjet ink which has high gloss and is capable of forming an image that is suppressed in gloss difference between itself and a base; and an image forming method which uses this active ray-curable inkjet ink. An active ray-curable inkjet ink according to the present invention contains a photopolymerizable compound, a photoinitiator and a crystalline gelling agent, and is capable of undergoing a sol-gel phase transition. This active ray-curable inkjet ink is characterized by additionally containing a fluorescent bleaching agent.