Patents by Inventor Jeffrey L. Stangler
Jeffrey L. Stangler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10434791Abstract: A transfer printing device includes a transfer ribbon, a print unit, a mark sensor and a controller. The transfer ribbon includes a transfer layer that is attached to a carrier layer. The transfer layer includes a series of transfer sections. The controller is configured to perform a print operation, in which a transfer section that is available for printing is selected by detecting an absence of a used mark in a predetermined position on the transfer ribbon corresponding to the transfer section using the mark sensor. An image is printed to the selected transfer section and a used mark is printed on the transfer ribbon using the print unit. At least a portion of the used mark is in a predetermined position relative to the selected transfer section and is outside the selected transfer section.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: ASSA ABLOY ABInventors: Jeffrey L. Stangler, James Andrew Rieck, Tanya Jegeris Snyder, Andrew Slotto, Lyndon James Hanson, Jon Everett Freise
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Publication number: 20170259583Abstract: A transfer printing device includes a transfer ribbon, a print unit, a mark sensor and a controller. The transfer ribbon includes a transfer layer that is attached to a carrier layer. The transfer layer includes a series of transfer sections. The controller is configured to perform a print operation, in which a transfer section that is available for printing is selected by detecting an absence of a used mark in a predetermined position on the transfer ribbon corresponding to the transfer section using the mark sensor. An image is printed to the selected transfer section and a used mark is printed on the transfer ribbon using the print unit. At least a portion of the used mark is in a predetermined position relative to the selected transfer section and is outside the selected transfer section.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: Jeffrey L. Stangler, James Andrew Rieck, Tanya Jegeris Snyder, Andrew Slotto, Lyndon James Hanson, Jon Everett Freise
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Patent number: 9561668Abstract: In a method of operating a transfer printing device, which includes a transfer ribbon having a series of transfer sections, a print unit, and a mark sensor, the transfer ribbon is fed in a feed direction. A transfer section that is available for printing is selected through the detection of an absence of a used mark in a predetermined position on the transfer ribbon corresponding to the transfer section using the mark sensor. An image is printed to the selected transfer section using the print unit. A used mark corresponding to the selected transfer section is printed in a predetermined position on the transfer ribbon.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Assa Abloy ABInventors: Jeffrey L. Stangler, James Andrew Rieck, Tanya Jegeris Snyder, Andrew Slotto, Lyndon James Hanson, Jon Everett Freise
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Publication number: 20150022615Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a substrate processing device, such as a printing device. In some embodiments, the device includes a substrate supply, a reusable card, an operative unit, at least one transport mechanism, and a controller. The substrate supply is configured to support a plurality of operative substrates. The reusable card is stored in a dedicated storage area, which does not receive the operative substrates. The controller is configured to control the at least one transport mechanism and the operative unit to deliver the reusable card from the storage area to the operative unit, to process the reusable card with the operative unit, and return the reusable card to the storage area, multiple times.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Daniel J. Fowell, Jeffrey L. Stangler
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Patent number: 8933978Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a substrate processing device, such as a printing device. In some embodiments, the device includes a substrate supply, a reusable card, an operative unit, at least one transport mechanism, and a controller. The substrate supply is configured to support a plurality of operative substrates. The reusable card is stored in a dedicated storage area, which does not receive the operative substrates. The controller is configured to control the at least one transport mechanism and the operative unit to deliver the reusable card from the storage area to the operative unit, to process the reusable card with the operative unit, and return the reusable card to the storage area, multiple times.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Assa Abloy ABInventors: Daniel J. Fowell, Jeffrey L. Stangler
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Patent number: 8834046Abstract: A credential printing device is provided. The credential printing device includes a credential substrate transport, a transfer ribbon and a transfer roller. The credential substrate transport is configured to feed a credential substrate along a processing path. The transfer ribbon is adjacent to the processing path. The transfer roller is positioned below the processing path and is configured to transfer an image from the transfer ribbon to a bottom surface of the credential substrate in the processing path.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2007Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Assa Abloy ABInventors: Ted M. Hoffman, Jeffrey L. Stangler, John P. Skoglund, Thomas G. Gale, Jr., Tony Nauth
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Patent number: 7665920Abstract: A credential production device is provided. The credential production device includes a card holder. The card holder includes a housing having a base and a card press. The card press is configured to apply a load to a top card of a stack of cards supported above the base. The load includes a perpendicular load component oriented perpendicularly to the base and having a magnitude that increases as a thickness of the stack of cards decreases.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2007Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Fargo Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Ted M. Hoffman, Jeffrey L. Stangler, John P. Skoglund
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Publication number: 20080217842Abstract: A method of feeding substrates in a credential production device is provided. A substrate transport has first and second feed rollers displaced along a substrate feed path. A substrate holder containing at least a first substrate engages the first feed roller and a second substrate lies on the first substrate. The first feed roller driven such that the first substrate is fed out of the substrate holder in a forward direction along the substrate feed path. Movement of the second substrate is restricted in the forward direction along the substrate feed path using the first feed roller after the first substrate separates from the first feed roller. The first substrate is fed along the substrate feed path using the second feed roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2007Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: FARGO ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Ted M. Hoffman, Jeffrey L. Stangler, John P. Skoglund, Tony Nauth
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Publication number: 20080217841Abstract: A credential production device is provided. The credential production device includes a card holder. The card holder includes a housing having a base and a card press. The card press is configured to apply a load to a top card of a stack of cards supported above the base. The load includes a perpendicular load component oriented perpendicularly to the base and having a magnitude that increases as a thickness of the stack of cards decreases.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2007Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: FARGO ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Ted M. Hoffman, Jeffrey L. Stangler, John P. Skoglund
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Publication number: 20080216688Abstract: A credential printing device is provided. The credential printing device includes a credential substrate transport, a transfer ribbon and a transfer roller. The credential substrate transport is configured to feed a credential substrate along a processing path. The transfer ribbon is adjacent to the processing path. The transfer roller is positioned below the processing path and is configured to transfer an image from the transfer ribbon to a bottom surface of the credential substrate in the processing path.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2007Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: FARGO ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Ted M. Hoffman, Jeffrey L. Stangler, John P. Skoglund, Thomas G. Gale, Tony Nauth