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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2010

Filed:

Mar. 02, 2007
Applicants:

Tsutomu Umebayashi, Kanagawa, JP;

Toshiyuki Makuta, Kanagawa, JP;

Yutaka Maeno, Kanagawa, JP;

Masaaki Konno, Kanagawa, JP;

Tetsuzo Kadomatsu, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Tsutomu Umebayashi, Kanagawa, JP;

Toshiyuki Makuta, Kanagawa, JP;

Yutaka Maeno, Kanagawa, JP;

Masaaki Konno, Kanagawa, JP;

Tetsuzo Kadomatsu, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09D 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An ink-jet recording ink set, containing at least one recording liquid containing a colorant and a polymerizable compound and an ink spread suppressing liquid containing at least one surfactant and substantially no colorant, wherein all of the following conditions (A), (B) and (C) are satisfied, and an ink-jet recording method using the same: (A) the surface tension of the ink spread suppressing liquid is smaller than that of at least one recording liquid contained in the ink-jet recording ink set; (B) at least one of the surfactants contained in the ink spread suppressing liquid satisfies the following relationship:γ(0)−γ(saturated)>1 mN/m; and (C) the surface tension of the ink spread suppressing liquid satisfies the following relationship:γ<(γ(0)+γ(saturated))/2.


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