US 12,037,501 B2
Photocurable ink composition and image recording method
Minako Hara, Kanagawa (JP); Misato Sasada, Kanagawa (JP); Daisuke Sasaki, Kanagawa (JP); and Toshiyuki Makuta, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/464,720.
Application 17/464,720 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/044080, filed on Nov. 11, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-066146 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0395549 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41M 5/00 (2006.01); B41M 7/00 (2006.01); C09B 57/00 (2006.01); C09D 5/32 (2006.01); C09D 11/101 (2014.01); C09D 11/322 (2014.01); C09D 11/38 (2014.01)
CPC C09D 11/322 (2013.01) [B41J 11/00216 (2021.01); B41M 5/0023 (2013.01); B41M 7/0081 (2013.01); C09B 57/007 (2013.01); C09D 5/32 (2013.01); C09D 11/101 (2013.01); C09D 11/38 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
 
1. A photocurable ink composition comprising:
particles of a squarylium coloring agent represented by Formula (1);
a radically polymerizable monomer;
a radical polymerization initiator; and
a coloring agent sensitizer,
wherein a volume average particle diameter of the particles of the squarylium coloring agent is 10 nm to 400 nm,

OG Complex Work Unit Chemistry
wherein in Formula (1), a ring A and a ring B each independently represent an aromatic ring or a heteroaromatic ring, XA and XB each independently represent a monovalent substituent, GA and GB each independently represent a monovalent substituent, kA represents an integer of 0 to nA, kB represents an integer of 0 to nB, nA represents an integer that is a maximum number of GA the ring A can have as its substituent, nB represents an integer that is a maximum number of GB the ring B can have as its substituent, XA and GA or XB and GB may be bonded to each other to form a ring, and in a case where a plurality of GA's or a plurality of GB's are present, the plurality of GA's bonded to the ring A and the plurality of GB's bonded to the ring B may be bonded to each other to form a ring structure,
wherein a ratio of a content of the coloring agent sensitizer to a content of the squarylium coloring agent is in a range of from 1 to 20 on a mass basis, and
wherein a content of the coloring agent sensitizer in the photocurable ink composition is from 1.0% by mass to 15.0% by mass with respect to a total amount of the photocurable ink composition.