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Water-resistant ink composition

Assignee: Pilot Corp
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Filing: 1990-06-21
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Granted: 1991-05-21
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Expires: 2010-06-21
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Abstract

Abstract A water resistant ink composition having a greatly improved water resistance and being excellent in resistance to drying-up, age stability and smooth ink flowability contains a mixture of polyamine compound having primary amino groups and a molecular weight of 300 or more and a polyamine having secondary and/or tertiary amino groups and a molecular weight of 300 or more; an anionic dye and a stabilizing agent such as urea.

Inventors

  • 👤 Hajime Tomita
  • 👤 Yasuo Sonoda

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-11-07 20:36
CPC Classifications
C; C09; C09D; C09D11/00; C09D11/16; C09D11/18

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 3
Claim 1
Independent Claim 71 words
A water resistant ink composition comprising an aqueous vehicle which contains a polyamine containing primary amino groups in proportion of 3-20% of amino groups contained in a molecule, a stabilizing agent selected from urea, thiourea, ethylene urea, hydroxyethyl urea, hydroxyproplyl urea, ethylene thiourea, diothyl-thiourea, 2-pyrrolidone, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, soribitol, dimethylsulfone, and mixtures therefore and water, and an amionic dye having a solubility of 10% by weight or more in said aqueous vehicle.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 71 words
A water resistant ink composition comprising an aqueous vehicle which contains a polyamine containing primary amino groups in proportion of 3-20% of amino groups contained in a molecule, a stabilizing agent selected from urea, thiourea, ethylene urea, hydroxyethyl urea, hydroxyproplyl urea, ethylene thiourea, diothyl-thiourea, 2-pyrrolidone, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, soribitol, dimethylsulfone, and mixtures therefore and water, and an amionic dye having a solubility of 10% by weight or more in said aqueous vehicle.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 50 words
A water resistant ink composition according to claim 1, wherein the composition contains a wetting agent selected from ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, propylene glycol, glycerin, triethylene glycol, diproplyene glycol, thiodiglycol, polyglycerin, polyethylene glycol, polyproplene glycol, methyl cellosolve, ethyl cellosolve, butyl cellosolve, methyl carbitol, ethyl carbitol, butyl carbitol and mixtures thereof.

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