Method for manufacturing pigment dispersion

• US 7,794,536 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2008
• Issued: 09/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Hino, Tetsuo, Teshima, Takayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Green; Anthony J
• Application Number:
  US12/254,757
• Publication Number:
  US 20090101044A1
• Time in Patent Office: 694 Days
• Field of Search: 106/493, 106/497, 106/412, 106/413, 540/140, 540/141, 546/49, 546/56
• US Class Current: 106/413
• CPC Class Codes: C09B 67/0066 Aqueous dispersions of pigments containing only dispersing agents
• CPC Class Codes: C09B 67/0089 non ionic dispersing agent, e.g. EO or PO addition products
• CPC Class Codes: C09B 67/0096 Purification; Precipitation; Filtration

Abstract

A method is provided for pigment dispersion. The method includes preparing a solution in which the pigment is dissolved in an organic acid, preparing a reaction liquid capable of decreasing the solubility of the pigment in the solution, and mixing the solution and the reaction liquid in the presence of an additive represented by a General Formula (1) below,
C_mH_2m+1(OCH₂CH₂)_nOH  (1)
wherein m is an integer higher than 14 and lower than 18, and n is an integer equal to or higher than 15 and equal to or lower than 25.

Claims

1. A method for manufacturing a pigment dispersion, the method comprising:

preparing a solution in which a pigment that is selected from the group consisting of a quinacridone compound and copper phthalocyanine is dissolved in an organic acid;

preparing a reaction liquid capable of decreasing the solubility of the pigment in the solution; and

mixing the solution and the reaction liquid in the presence of an additive represented by a General Formula (1) below,

C_mH_2m+1(OCH₂CH₂)_nOH 

 

(1)

wherein m is an integer higher than 14 and lower than 18, and n is an integer equal to or higher than 15 and equal to or lower than 25.

2. The method for manufacturing a pigment dispersion according to claim 1, wherein

after the additive represented by the General Formula (1) above has been added to the solution in which the pigment is dissolved in an organic acid, precipitation and dispersion of the pigment are performed by mixing the solution and the reaction liquid in a mixing region.

3. The method for manufacturing a pigment dispersion according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the solution in which the pigment is dissolved in an organic acid and the reaction liquid is supplied from a microchannel.

4. The method for manufacturing a pigment dispersion according to claim 3, wherein both the solution in which the pigment is dissolved in an organic acid and the reaction liquid are supplied from microchannels.

5. The method for manufacturing a pigment dispersion according to claim 2, wherein the mixing region is an open space in which the liquids ejected from microchannels contact with each other.

6. The method for manufacturing a pigment dispersion according to claim 5, wherein a width inside at least one of the microchannels is equal to or larger than 10 μ

m and equal to or smaller than 3000 μ

m.

7. The method for manufacturing a pigment dispersion according to claim 1, wherein the organic acid comprises an organosulfonic acid.

8. The method for manufacturing a pigment dispersion according to claim 1, wherein the pigment is dissolved in the organic acid in the presence of the additive.