Patents Examined by Marissa Ferguson
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Patent number: 11518161Abstract: The present invention discloses beer barrel printing equipment, including a stand, a first matrix and a second matrix, a locating component, a first beer barrel printing device, and a second beer barrel printing device; a plurality of first matrix mounting positions and second matrix mounting positions are respectively arranged on the first beer barrel printing device and the second beer barrel printing device; the first beer barrel printing device and the second beer barrel printing device respectively control one of the first matrix mounting positions and one of the second matrix mounting positions to move; in a state that the locating member of the locating component is inserted into a tooth slot of the locating gear, the first beer barrel printing device is unable to control the first matrix mounting positions to move and/or the second printing device is unable to control the second matrix mounting positions to move.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Ningbo Major Draft Beer Equipment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fandong Meng, Bangcai Luo
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Patent number: 11491777Abstract: A screen printing device is disclosed for printing in a label area. An example screen printing device includes a printing pallet having a chest image printing surface connected to a label printing surface. The label printing surface extends outside of a chest image printing area of a printing machine when the screen printing pallet is loaded onto the printing machine. An example screen printing device includes an offset squeegee configured for a printing operation by the printing machine on the label printing surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Livingston Systems, LLCInventor: Ronald Joseph Yardley
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Patent number: 11494527Abstract: Disclosed herein are a system and method for producing paint templates for painting a design on a target surface. The system includes a processor configured to generate a geo-file of paint template designs. The processor includes a design module configured to parse the design into a set of paint sub-designs and a template design module configured to generate the geo-file of paint template designs based on the set of paint sub-designs. The generated geo-file of paint template designs includes a paint template design that corresponds to a paint sub-design. The system further includes a plotter configured to produce a set of paint templates based on the geo-file of paint template designs. Each paint template design includes a set of alignment marks and each paint template is produced with a set of alignment apertures corresponding to the set of alignment marks.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: James Holliday, Ronald J. Steckman, William Joos, Andrew Figuracion, Jason Dill, Wayne Curtice, Jr., James Kotlik
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Patent number: 11485595Abstract: A peripheral capable of sensing a media count includes a body, a stopper, a supply tray and a sensor assembly. The stopper is installed in the body. The supply tray accommodated within the body includes a base and a frame. The frame elastically and pivotally connected to the base supports media and pushes the media in a direction toward the stopper so that the media contacts the stopper. The sensor assembly installed in the body detects a position state of the frame to obtain a sensing signal corresponding to the number of the media.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: AVISION INC.Inventor: Chia-Hsin Lin
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Patent number: 11490525Abstract: The supply unit is used in a printing device to perform a print process of a viscous fluid on a printing target to supply the viscous fluid. The supply unit includes an attachment section to and from which a cartridge accommodating the viscous fluid is attachable or detachable, a restricting wall section configured to cover the cartridge and restrict access to an inside of the printing device, and a driving section configured to move the cartridge attached to the attachment section and the restricting wall section in a supply operation direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshimune Yokoi
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Patent number: 11485130Abstract: A printing pad machine that can print a 360 degree image on a cylindrical object. That objective is achieved by modifying a conventional printing pad machine having a support member—interconnected to an overhead gantry—and an adjustable and moveable actuator system and power source. The modifications include using a single angled print pad having a contact wall having a first height, a lower wall having a second height that is less than the first height, an angled surface interconnecting the contact wall's distal end and the lower wall's distal end, and a base wall (a) interconnecting the contact wall's proximal end and the lower wall's proximal end and (b) connectable to a base. Another modification includes a flexion-extension hinge positioned between (a) the support member and the base or (b) the support member and the overhead gantry and controlled by the adjustable and moveable actuator system and power source.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: PRINTEX INC.Inventor: James Cheng
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Patent number: 11458725Abstract: Disclosed is a pallet for printing on an article of clothing. The pallet includes a mount plate including a first end and a second end and a top plate including a first end and a second end. The second end of the top plate located at the second end of the mount plate. A gap is between the top plate and the mount plate. A collar plate is located on the first end of the mount plate. The first end of the mount plate extends beyond the first end of the top plate to define a space between the top plate and the collar plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: JAKPRINTS INC.Inventor: Jacob Edwards
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Patent number: 11440313Abstract: A vacuum wiper, comprising a housing, a connection port, multiple holes and a hole adjusting means; the housing contains a cavity; the connection port is disposed on the housing and is in communication with the cavity; the multiple holes are disposed on the housing in the length direction of the housing, such that the cavity of the vacuum wiper housing is able to be in fluid communication with the outside via the multiple holes. The vacuum wiper has a maximum vacuumizing length when all of the multiple holes are in communication with the outside. The hole adjusting means is configured to be capable of blocking one or more of the multiple holes in sequence from two ends in the length direction of arrangement of the multiple holes of the vacuum wiper, such that the vacuum wiper is able to adjust the vacuumizing length.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Ranjie Zhou
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Patent number: 11420461Abstract: The present invention relates to a drum stencil printing system for reliably and automatically printing materials on the inside of a concave surface. The drum stencil printing system includes a pliable drum stencil secured in place by a stencil spring. As the printhead applies radial pressure to the drum stencil, the portion of the stencil in contact with the printhead is deflected to make contact with the container sidewall. When the printhead rotates, the portion of the stencil contacting the container sidewall also rotates to match the nozzle of the printhead. After printing is complete, the printhead retracts, and the pliable stencil is returned to its undeflected position, breaking contact between the stencil and the container, and protecting the printed material from being rubbed or worn off of the container.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: SMART CUPS, LLCInventors: Owen J. Dolan, II, Chris Kanik, William F. Davidson, III, John Depiano, Mark Clemons, Gary Ayotte, Frank S. Silveira, Michael Marcoux, Matthew Ebbs
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Patent number: 11420435Abstract: The restretchable stencil frame according to the present invention consists of a metallic stencil foil mounted on a rectangular frame fabricated of tubular material or C-channel. Each corner of the frame is provided with one screw-actuated conical expander and one counterplate serving to biaxially tension the stencil foil. To ensure uniform stretching of the stencil foil, areas of increased elasticity are provided to the corners of the frame and to the foil itself in the form of oriented slots, cuts, holes and combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Texas A&M University Corpus ChristiInventor: Petru Aurelian Simionescu
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Patent number: 11407217Abstract: A printing device includes a coating material scooping unit configured to scoop a coating material on a mask, and a controller configured or programmed to determine whether or not the coating material scooping unit performs collecting operation to collect the coating material on the mask when the mask is replaced.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Fujimoto, Kazuyuki Sugahara, Takeshi Miwa, Jinok Park
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Patent number: 11396176Abstract: In a mask printing machine, a target through hole, which is at least one of multiple through holes formed on the mask, is imaged by an imaging device when the board is below the mask and is at a separated position that is separated from the mask, and when the board is at a contact position in which an upper surface of the board contacts a lower surface of the mask, respectively. Based on a captured image, when the board is at the separated position, and a captured image when the board is at the contact position, it is possible to acquire the movement state of at least one target through hole when the board is lifted from the separated position to the contact position.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Kondo
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Patent number: 11396131Abstract: A screen unit for a printing device for printing three-dimensionally shaped structures, in particular on substrates, printed circuit boards, wafers, solar cells, carrier substrates, printing tables, carrier plates, sintering plates or the like, has a frame holding at least one printing screen and is designed to be accommodated in a screen receptacle of the printing device, to be filled with a printing compound and to be subjected to the action of a squeegee for carrying out a printing process. The screen unit has, in or on the frame, at least one holding device for the squeegee, which is in the form of an exchangeable squeegee.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignees: Exentis Group AG, EKRA Automatisierungssysteme GmbHInventors: Srdan Vasic, Markus Engel, Franz Plachy, Hubert Reinisch
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Patent number: 11370215Abstract: In a printing device, a second storage position is displaced from a first storage position so as to enable a moving member to move a second mask arranged in a second storage in a state in which a first mask is arranged in the first storage position by movement of the first mask from an operation position to the first storage position by the moving member.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Fujimoto, Jinok Park
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Patent number: 11375621Abstract: A framed stencil for surface mount technology (SMT) is provided. The frame assembly includes a frame member and a binding insert. The frame member includes an inner perimeter portion and an outer perimeter portion that cooperates with the inner perimeter portion to define an elongated channel. The outer perimeter portion includes a first cantilever portion that extends over the elongated channel and towards the inner perimeter portion. The binding insert is configured for releasable insertion into the elongated channel. The binding insert includes a base and a tongue. The base configured to interface with a mesh substrate to facilitate coupling therebetween. The tongue is coupled to the base and extends substantially horizontally from the base. When the binding insert is inserted into the elongated channel, the tongue extending beneath the first cantilever portion to facilitate retention of the binding insert to the frame member. Methods are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Blue Ring Stencils, LLCInventors: William Edward Plano, Richard McGhee Kight, Fraser Murray Shaw, Frederick William Cox
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Patent number: 11369025Abstract: A screen-printing machine includes a mask holding device; a board holding device configured to grip a board; a positioning device to relatively position the board and the mask; and a control device. The board holding device includes a lifting and lowering table positioned in an up-down direction by a lifting and lowering mechanism, and a backup block including a mounting surface on which the board is placed, an installation surface disposed parallel to the mounting surface on an opposite side thereof, multiple suction holes to penetrate in a thickness direction between the mounting surface and the installation surface, and a chamber recessed section formed on an installation surface side so as to surround positions of the multiple suction holes, and in which an air chamber made by the chamber recessed section is configured when the backup block overlaps an upper face of the lifting and lowering table.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Kondo
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Patent number: 11351772Abstract: A process for printing on to a 3-dimensional article is described. An image is printed on to a first side of a stretchable carrier membrane having a first side and a second side. The membrane is mounted in a plane within a frame between a heating chamber defined on one side of the membrane, and an article receiving chamber defined on the other side of the membrane. A 3-dimensional article to be printed is placed on to a generally flat platen positioned generally parallel to the said plane, optionally with a nest for the article thereon, within the article receiving chamber. A thermo- and vacuum-forming step is performed in which there is relative movement of the platen with respect to the membrane in a direction perpendicularly to the said plane to bring the article into register with the image printed on the membrane and to carry the article into intimate contact with the membrane through the said plane into the heating chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TRICHORD LTD.Inventor: Peter Richard Herring
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Patent number: 11351804Abstract: A stencil printer includes a frame, a stencil coupled to the frame, and a support assembly coupled to the frame, with the support assembly including tooling configured to support the electronic substrate in a print position beneath the stencil. The stencil printer further includes a print head assembly coupled to the frame in such a manner that the print head assembly is configured to traverse the stencil during print strokes. The print head assembly includes a squeegee blade assembly and at least one paste cartridge to deposit solder paste on the stencil. The stencil printer further includes an end effector configured to pick up and release items from a tooling tray. The stencil printer further includes a movable cart configured to interface with the stencil printer to deliver changeover and/or replacement items within a stencil printer.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: William A. Losiewicz, Bruce C. Seaton, James Lynch, Patsy A. Mattero, Joan N. Schopf, Thomas C. Prentice, Scott A. Reid
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Patent number: 11345141Abstract: A releasing system for a printing machine includes a pallet configured to support a substrate for receiving indicia printed thereon. A layer is disposed intermediate the pallet and the substrate. A releasing station selectively stretches the layer to release a surface of the substrate from a state of adhesion with the pallet.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: SCRIBE OPCO, INC.Inventors: Steve Rosato, Andrew Chollett, Tim Sull
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Patent number: 11338599Abstract: A moving body support apparatus including a main shaft, a sub-shaft that is arranged to be spaced from the main shaft, and a carriage that moves along the main shaft while causing a contact surface to be in contact with the sub-shaft is provided. A distance between the main shaft and the sub-shaft changes along a moving direction of the moving body. A printing apparatus including the moving body support apparatus is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuhisa Kato, Keiichi Yato