US Patent Issued to Dai Nippon Printing on Sept. 30 for "Decorative sheet and decorative member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,744, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Decorative sheet and decorative member" was invented by Hironaga Usui (Tokyo) and Keisuke Tsuruta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative sheet includes a design layer that displays a design; and a raised layer stacked to the design layer. The raised layer includes a raised portion provided in a region overlapping a partial region of the design layer. The raised portion includes a binder resin, resin particles, and inorganic particles. An average particle size of the resin particles is larger than an average particle size of the inorganic part...