Patents Examined by Lam S Nguyen
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Patent number: 11760085Abstract: An integrated circuit to drive a plurality of fluid actuation devices includes a configuration register, a plurality of interfaces, and control logic. The plurality of interfaces include a mode interface and a data interface. The control logic enables writing to the configuration register in response to a signal on the mode interface transitioning to logic high with a logic high signal on the data interface.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Scott A. Linn, James Michael Gardner, Michael W. Cumbie
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Patent number: 11752764Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus is configure to drive nozzles with drive waveforms with which timing of discharge pulses fall within a range where a condition |A?C|<|B?D| is satisfied, where “A” is a discharge velocity of a droplet having a first size when drive units are driven to discharge a droplet having the first size, “B” is a discharge velocity of a droplet having a second size larger than the first size when drive units are driven to discharge a droplet having the second size, “C” is a discharge velocity of a droplet having the first size when drive units are driven to discharge droplets having the first size and the second size, and “D” is a discharge velocity of a droplet having the second size when drive units are driven to discharge droplets having the second size and the first size.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Kohta Akiyama
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Patent number: 11745430Abstract: A method of calibrating movement of a platform is described, the method comprising: in a calibration run, causing movement of the platform; detecting a plurality of positions of the platform during the movement; deriving a movement pattern from the plurality of positions; and determining an adjustment of the movement of the platform based on the movement pattern.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Pau Martin, Francesc Salas Roura, Anna Torrent, Marius Valles
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Patent number: 11745504Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus has a switch control circuit that controls whether to cause each of a first switch circuit, a second switch circuit, a third switch circuit, and a fourth switch circuit to output a driving signal. The switch control circuit has a fifth switch circuit, a sixth switch circuit, and a seventh switch circuit. The fifth switch circuit switches between output of the first data to the second switch circuit and output of the second data to the second switch circuit. The sixth switch circuit switches between output of the first data to the third switch circuit and output of the third data to the third switch circuit. The seventh switch circuit switches between output of the first data to the fourth switch circuit and output of the fourth data to the fourth switch circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Inventors: Kazuhito Fujisawa, Tomoko Hara
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Patent number: 11745525Abstract: To normally perform a preliminary ejection after a cleaning process. Provided is a recording apparatus including: a recording head that includes an ejection component that ejects a liquid; a circulation unit configured to perform a circulation operation of circulating the liquid in a circulation route including the recording head; a cleaning mechanism that performs a cleaning process with respect to the recording head; and a preliminary ejection unit configured to perform a preliminary ejection operation of preliminarily ejecting the liquid from the ejection component. The cleaning mechanism performs the cleaning process in a state in which circulation of the liquid is stopped, and at least one of the circulation operation by the circulation unit and the preliminary ejection operation by the preliminary ejection unit is performed after the cleaning process.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takuya Fukasawa, Takatoshi Nakano, Atsushi Takahashi, Yoshinori Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11745499Abstract: A printer includes a print head and a processor. The print head ejects ink from nozzles to a printing medium while moving in a first direction, and also moves in a second direction intersecting with the first direction by a moving amount that is a dimension in the second direction of each of blocks into which the nozzles are divided in the second direction. Based on a position of the printing medium and the dimension, the processor determines whether to perform printing in a first mode or a second mode. A printing start position in the second direction of the print head is set such that a position in the second direction of one of boundaries between mutually adjacent blocks coincides, in the first mode, with a position of a back end of a printing region, and in the second mode, with a position of a front end of the printing region.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Shuichi Yamasaki
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Patent number: 11741383Abstract: Techniques to suggest a set of source ingredients that can be used to recreate functional properties of a target food item, using artificial intelligence, are disclosed. A computer model determines, for the target food item, an ingredient quantities vector and an ingredient inclusion vector based on a matrix of chemical compound source ingredient vectors of all source ingredients. The ingredient inclusion vector indicates which source ingredients from a plurality of source ingredients to include in the ingredient set, and the ingredient quantities vector indicates the quantity or amount of each source ingredient such that a corresponding volatile profile of the ingredient set is similar to that of the target food item. A volatile profile for the ingredient set, which is determined from the matrix of chemical compound source ingredient vectors, the ingredient inclusion vector, and the ingredient quantities vector, mimics the target food item's volatile profile.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: NotCo Delaware, LLCInventors: Francisco Clavero, Kyohei Kaneko, Héctor Henriquez, Catalina Donoso, Aadit Patel
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Patent number: 11731417Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head that includes a flow path formation substrate in which a pressure chamber communicating with a nozzle is formed, a vibration plate, and a piezoelectric actuator having a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode; and a drive unit that supplies a drive signal for driving the piezoelectric actuator, in which the piezoelectric actuator includes an active portion, the active portion is extended from an edge portion, which is a region other than a central portion of a region facing the pressure chamber, to the outside of the pressure chamber, and the drive signal includes a contraction element that contracts the pressure chamber from a reference volume of the pressure chamber when no electric field is applied to the piezoelectric layer, and an expansion element that expands the pressure chamber contracted by the contraction element.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Inventors: Toshihiro Shimizu, Koji Sumi
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Patent number: 11731419Abstract: A fluid ejection die includes a plurality of first memory cells, a plurality of first storage elements, and control logic. Each first memory cell stores a customization bit. Each first storage element is coupled to a corresponding first memory cell. The control logic, in response to a reset signal, reads the customization bit stored in each first memory cell and latches each customization bit in a corresponding first storage element.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Scott A. Linn, James Michael Gardner, Michael W. Cumbie
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Patent number: 11726119Abstract: Fractional Fourier Transform (FrFT)-based spectrum analyzers and spectrum analysis techniques are disclosed. Rather than using the standard Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), the FrFT may be used to view the signal content contained in a particular bandwidth. Usage of the FrFT in place of the frequency or time domain allows viewing of the signal in different dimensions, where “spectral” features of interest, or signal content, may appear where they were not visible in these domains before. This may allow signals to be identified and viewed in any domain within the continuous time-frequency plane, and may significantly enhance the ability to detect and extract signals that were previously hidden under interference and/or noise, provide or enhance the ability to extract signals from a congested environment, and enable operation in a signal-dense environment.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: THE AEROSPACE CORPORATIONInventors: Seema Sud, Timothy Jones
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Patent number: 11724493Abstract: A liquid discharge device and a method of discharging liquid. The liquid discharge device includes a head driver to drive an actuator element to generate force to discharge an ink droplet from a head onto an object to be conveyed, the object to be conveyed moving relative to the head, and a discharge controller. The discharge controller and the method includes computing a first drive cycle according to an amount of relative movement of the object moving relative to a head, adjusting the first drive cycle to a value within a second cycle range different from a first cycle range in which an ink droplet is abnormally discharged from the head, obtaining a second drive cycle as a result of adjustment performed on the first drive cycle, every time the second drive cycle passes one or more times, and adjusting the first drive cycle.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Kohta Akiyama
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Patent number: 11718114Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for templated pattern-based self-directed garment assembly. In an embodiment of the invention, a self-directed garment assembly method includes loading into memory a template of patterns forming a garment and retrieving from memory, at least one data record specifying at least one assembly instruction for assembling the garment from the patterns of the template. Thereafter, the assembly instruction may be embedded in the template adjacent to at least one of the patterns. Finally, the template is printed on a large format printer with the at least one assembly instructions onto fabric selected as a basis for the garment.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Resonance Companies LLCInventor: Christian Georghe
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Patent number: 11712910Abstract: A printing apparatus, comprising a conveyance unit for conveying a sheet, a carriage mounted with a printhead and configured to scan the printhead in a sheet widthwise direction, a platen arranged so as to face the printhead, a detection unit mounted on the carriage and configured to detect a distance to a sheet, a support portion, for supporting a sheet from below, arranged on a downstream side of the carriage in a conveyance direction, movable between a first position at which the support portion forms a conveyance surface for a sheet and a second position at which the support portion protrudes above the conveyance surface, and a determination unit configured to determine, based on a detection result of the detection unit, whether the support portion is at the first position or the second position.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohito Abe, Yasuyuki Asai, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Ryohei Maruyama, Itaru Wada, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tsutomu Obata, Noriyuki Aoki
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Patent number: 11691417Abstract: An inkjet head includes a pressure chamber storing ink, a nozzle communicating with the chamber, an actuator ejecting the ink through the nozzle by changing a volume of the chamber, and a circuit outputting a drive signal to the actuator with a drive waveform having a cycle based on a number of gradation levels being used for printing. When printing is performed using three or more gradation levels, the circuit outputs the signal that has a multi-drop drive waveform including two or more first waveforms for ejecting first to (n?1)-th droplets of the ink where n is equal to or greater than 3, a second waveform for ejecting an n-th droplet of the ink, and an intermediate time between the first waveform for ejecting the (n?1)-th droplet and the second waveform for ejecting the n-th droplet. The intermediate time is longer than a time between two adjacent first waveforms.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Meng Fei Wong, Ryutaro Kusunoki
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Patent number: 11679551Abstract: A system for additive manufacturing machine energy beam alignment error compensation includes, a calibration table having x-y planar offsets to correct laser alignment errors representing energy beam positional offsets between beam-steering commanded energy beam locations and fiducial marks generated on a burn-paper, a recoater mechanism that distributes successive layers of powder, one or more sensors monitoring the powderbed surface proximal to the beam scan unit, and a processor unit configured to perform a method. The method including collecting sensor data representing height variations across at least a portion of the powderbed surface, deriving dimensional data from the collected data, analyzing the dimensional data to determine a distribution of differences between the powderbed surface and a reference plane containing the burn-paper when the fiducial marks were generated, and calculating z-axis calibration offset points for inclusion in the calibration table x-y planar offsets.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Brian Scott McCarthy, Dean Andrew Snelling, Jr., Thomas Adcock, Donnell Crear, Michael Evans Graham
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Patent number: 11673387Abstract: There are provided a liquid jet head and so on capable of ensuring the ejection stability of the liquid even when jetting the liquid high in viscosity irrespective of the structure of the liquid jet head. The liquid jet head according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of nozzles, an actuator having a plurality of pressure chambers, and a drive section for applying a drive signal to the actuator. The plurality of pulses in the drive signal include at least one first pulse configured to expand the volume of the pressure chamber, and at least one second pulse configured to contract the volume of the pressure chamber, and the pressure in the pressure chamber changes with time including a plurality of extremal values in one cycle.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.Inventor: Takayuki Shimizu
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Patent number: 11667137Abstract: A medium transport apparatus includes a body portion, an inversion unit, and an extension unit. The body portion has a second manual feed path for a sheet material. The inversion unit is configured to be mounted on and separated from the body portion, covers the second manual feed path when the attachment/detachment portion is mounted the body portion, and exposes a portion of the second manual feed path when the attachment/detachment portion is separated from the body portion. The extension unit is configured to be attached to and detached from the attachment/detachment portion. The extension unit extends, in a state in which the inversion unit is separated, the second manual feed path in a transport direction of the sheet material by being detached from the inversion unit and attached to the body portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Kanemaru, Daiki Takahashi, Keisuke Sasaki
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Patent number: 11667128Abstract: A fluidic die includes fluid chambers, each including an electrode exposed to an interior of the fluid chamber and each having a corresponding fluid actuator operating at a high voltage. The fluidic die further includes monitoring circuitry, operating at a low voltage relative to the fluid actuator, to monitor a condition of each fluid chamber, for each chamber the monitoring circuitry including a connection structure and a select transistor and a pulldown transistor connected to the electrode via the connection structure. The connection structure and select and pulldown transistors together structured to form electrically conductive paths with electrical resistances to protect at least the select transistor from fault damage if the high voltage fluid actuator short-circuits to the electrode.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Eric Martin, Terry McMahon, Donald W Schulte
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Patent number: 11660857Abstract: An indirect printing system is disclosed having an intermediate transfer member (ITM) in the form of an endless belt that circulates during operation to transport ink images from an image forming station. Ink images are deposited on an outer surface of the ITM by one or a plurality of print bars. At an impression station, the ink images are transferred from the outer surface of the ITM onto a printing substrate. In some embodiments, the outer surface of the ITM 20 is maintained within the image forming station at a predetermined distance from the one or each of the print bars 10, 12, 14 and 16 by means of a plurality of support rollers 11, 13, 15, 17 that have a common flat tangential plane and contact the inner surface of the ITM.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: LANDA CORPORATION LTD.Inventors: Benzion Landa, Aharon Shmaiser, Alon Siman-Tov, Alon Levy
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Patent number: 11654678Abstract: Examples include a fluid ejection device. The fluid ejection device comprises a fluid ejection die and a control engine. The fluid ejection die comprises nozzles to eject fluid drops and a temperature sensors disposed on the die to sense temperatures associated with nozzles. The control engine determines at least one nozzle characteristic of at least one respective nozzle based at least in part on a temperature change associated with the at least one respective nozzle corresponding to at least one ejection event.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Craig Olbrich, Joseph M Torgerson