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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:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shozo Yanagida, Kawanishi-shi, Hyogo-Ken, 666-0133, JP;
Yuji Wada, Toyonaka, JP;
Miwa Saito, Kameoka, JP;
Takamasa Ueda, Ibaraki, JP;
Izumi Osawa, Ikeda, JP;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09D 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C09D 1/100 ;
Abstract
In the present invention, a pigment is irradiated with a microwave so as to improve a surface thereof. Further, letting A be an area of a portion having hydrophilic groups on a surface of the pigment and B be an area of the other portion thereon, which are respectively found by measuring infrared spectrometers of the pigment, a ratio (A/B) is not less than 4. Water base ink according to the present invention is obtained by dispersing such a pigment in an aqueous medium.