Patents by Inventor Noboru Kunimine
Noboru Kunimine 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: 11958301Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit configured to print an image on a print medium, an acquiring unit configured to acquire temperature information of the printing unit, and a control unit configured to control the printing unit so as to start relative scanning in a case where a temperature that is indicated by the temperature information has reached a print permission temperature. The print permission temperature in a first print mode whose speed at a time of a constant speed in relative scanning is a first speed is a first temperature. The print permission temperature in a second print mode whose speed at the time of the constant speed is a second speed that is faster than the first speed is a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeshi Murase, Kazuhiko Sato, Taku Yokozawa, Noboru Kunimine, Hiroshi Taira, Hiroshi Kawafuji, Sae Mogi, Akiko Aichi
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Patent number: 11919321Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit configured to print an image on a print medium, an acquiring unit configured to acquire temperature information of the printing unit, and a control unit configured to control the printing unit so as to start relative scanning in a case where a temperature that is indicated by the temperature information has reached a print permission temperature. The print permission temperature in a first print mode whose speed at a time of a constant speed in relative scanning is a first speed is a first temperature. The print permission temperature in a second print mode whose speed at the time of the constant speed is a second speed that is faster than the first speed is a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeshi Murase, Kazuhiko Sato, Taku Yokozawa, Noboru Kunimine, Hiroshi Taira, Hiroshi Kawafuji, Sae Mogi, Akiko Aichi
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Patent number: 11813853Abstract: To provide a technology capable of appropriately suppressing deterioration in cutting accuracy of a slitter although the rigidity of a print medium changes, a printing apparatus is equipped with: a first conveyance unit configured to convey a print medium; a printing unit configured to print an image by applying ink to the print medium conveyed by the first conveyance unit; a cutting unit disposed on a downstream side in a conveyance direction in which the print medium is conveyed by the first conveyance unit and configured to cut the print medium, which is conveyed by the first conveyance unit, along the conveyance direction; and a second conveyance unit disposed on the cutting unit, and the printing apparatus includes a correction unit configured to correct a parameter related to conveyance of at least one of the first conveyance unit and the second conveyance unit, based on information about the print medium.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Kawafuji, Hiroshi Taira, Kazuhiko Sato, Taku Yokozawa, Noboru Kunimine, Akiko Aichi, Satoshi Azuma, Sae Mogi, Kei Yoshizawa, Shingo Nishioka, Junichi Saito, Hajime Nagai, Naoko Baba, Yuji Konno, Serena Yoshikawa, Satoshi Wada
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Patent number: 11794495Abstract: An object is to provide a full-line inkjet printing apparatus and a printing method that can suppress occurrence of image degradation in the case where a conveyance roller conveys a print medium and multipass printing is performed. The maximum conveyance amount in a return route is set to be smaller than a distance between the conveyance roller and a print head.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masataka Kato, Kazuhiko Sato, Kazuo Suzuki, Yoshinori Nakajima, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Shin Genta, Satoshi Azuma, Shingo Nishioka, Sae Mogi, Taku Yokozawa, Noboru Kunimine, Akiko Aichi, Hiroshi Taira, Hiroto Kango, Hiroshi Kawafuji
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Publication number: 20220134738Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes a print head configured to print an image on a printing medium using a printing element configured to eject ink with thermal energy, a scanning unit configured to cause the print head to scan the printing medium, and a control unit configured to control scanning by the scanning unit and image printing by the print head based on an image printing instruction, wherein the control unit performs a control operation including executing a preliminary ejection to eject, from the print head, ink that does not contribute to image printing before an image is printed in one scanning operation, and determining an amount of ink to be ejected in the preliminary ejection based on a difference between a target temperature and a scanning start temperature, which is a temperature of the print head acquired in response to an instruction to start the one scanning operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Taku Yokozawa, Kazuhiko Sato, Noboru Kunimine, Takeshi Murase, Hiroshi Taira, Hiroshi Kawafuji, Sae Mogi, Akiko Aichi
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Publication number: 20220080747Abstract: An object is to provide a full-line inkjet printing apparatus and a printing method that can suppress occurrence of image degradation in the case where a conveyance roller conveys a print medium and multipass printing is performed. The maximum conveyance amount in a return route is set to be smaller than a distance between the conveyance roller and a print head.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Masataka Kato, Kazuhiko Sato, Kazuo Suzuki, Yoshinori Nakajima, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Shin Genta, Satoshi Azuma, Shingo Nishioka, Sae Mogi, Taku Yokozawa, Noboru Kunimine, Akiko Aichi, Hiroshi Taira, Hiroto Kango, Hiroshi Kawafuji
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Publication number: 20220080754Abstract: To provide a technology capable of appropriately suppressing deterioration in cutting accuracy of a slitter although the rigidity of a print medium changes, a printing apparatus is equipped with: a first conveyance unit configured to convey a print medium; a printing unit configured to print an image by applying ink to the print medium conveyed by the first conveyance unit; a cutting unit disposed on a downstream side in a conveyance direction in which the print medium is conveyed by the first conveyance unit and configured to cut the print medium, which is conveyed by the first conveyance unit, along the conveyance direction; and a second conveyance unit disposed on the cutting unit, and the printing apparatus includes a correction unit configured to correct a parameter related to conveyance of at least one of the first conveyance unit and the second conveyance unit, based on information about the print medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Hiroshi Kawafuji, Hiroshi Taira, Kazuhiko Sato, Taku Yokozawa, Noboru Kunimine, Akiko Aichi, Satoshi Azuma, Sae Mogi, Kei Yoshizawa, Shingo Nishioka, Junichi Saito, Hajime Nagai, Naoko Baba, Yuji Konno, Serena Yoshikawa, Satoshi Wada
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Patent number: 11077670Abstract: According to an embodiment of this invention, an apparatus comprises: a detachable inktank containing ink; a subtank containing the ink supplied from the inktank; a printhead configured to discharge the ink supplied from the subtank; an ink supply path connecting the subtank to the printhead; a valve arranged on the ink supply path; a supply unit configured to supply the ink from the inktank to the subtank by repeatedly opening and closing the valve; a suction unit configured to suck the ink from the printhead; and a control unit configured to control, when the inktank is attached, the supply unit to operate for a predetermined number of times to supply the ink from the inktank to the subtank, and to subsequently control the suction unit to operate to supply the ink from the subtank to the printhead.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshimitsu Danzuka, Naoaki Wada, Kazuki Narumi, Tomoki Yamamuro, Hiroshi Taira, Akiko Aichi, Noboru Kunimine, Taku Yokozawa, Kazuo Suzuki, Kazuhiko Sato, Masataka Kato, Shin Genta, Hiroto Kango
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Patent number: 10611156Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus according to the present disclosure executes a first wiping operation in a case where the count value counted by the count unit is higher than a first threshold value while the recording operation is being performed and execute a second wiping operation when the recording operation completes in a case where the count value counted by the count unit is higher than a second threshold value. The inkjet recording apparatus also executes the second wiping operation when the first wiping operation has been performed while the recording operation is being performed.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Taira, Toshimitsu Danzuka, Taku Yokozawa, Noboru Kunimine, Akiko Aichi, Kazuki Narumi, Tomoki Yamamuro, Kazuhiko Sato, Kazuo Suzuki
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Publication number: 20190232671Abstract: According to an embodiment of this invention, an apparatus comprises: a detachable inktank containing ink; a subtank containing the ink supplied from the inktank; a printhead configured to discharge the ink supplied from the subtank; an ink supply path connecting the subtank to the printhead; a valve arranged on the ink supply path; a supply unit configured to supply the ink from the inktank to the subtank by repeatedly opening and closing the valve; a suction unit configured to suck the ink from the printhead; and a control unit configured to control, when the inktank is attached, the supply unit to operate for a predetermined number of times to supply the ink from the inktank to the subtank, and to subsequently control the suction unit to operate to supply the ink from the subtank to the printhead.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Toshimitsu Danzuka, Naoaki Wada, Kazuki Narumi, Tomoki Yamamuro, Hiroshi Taira, Akiko Aichi, Noboru Kunimine, Taku Yokozawa, Kazuo Suzuki, Kazuhiko Sato, Masataka Kato, Shin Genta, Hiroto Kango
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Patent number: 10189269Abstract: A recording apparatus discharges both high-permeability black ink and low-permeability black ink to a boundary between a color area and a black area.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ayumi Yasuda, Junichi Saito, Noboru Kunimine, Takumi Kaneko, Rie Takekoshi, Takayuki Ushiyama, Tatsuo Shimmoto, Keita Ishimi
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Publication number: 20180370239Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus according to the present disclosure executes a first wiping operation in a case where the count value counted by the count unit is higher than a first threshold value while the recording operation is being performed and execute a second wiping operation when the recording operation completes in a case where the count value counted by the count unit is higher than a second threshold value. The inkjet recording apparatus also executes the second wiping operation when the first wiping operation has been performed while the recording operation is being performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Hiroshi Taira, Toshimitsu Danzuka, Taku Yokozawa, Noboru Kunimine, Akiko Aichi, Kazuki Narumi, Tomoki Yamamuro, Kazuhiko Sato, Kazuo Suzuki
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Publication number: 20180104961Abstract: A recording apparatus discharges both high-permeability black ink and low-permeability black ink to a boundary between a color area and a black area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Inventors: Ayumi Yasuda, Junichi Saito, Noboru Kunimine, Takumi Kaneko, Rie Takekoshi, Takayuki Ushiyama, Tatsuo Shimmoto, Keita Ishimi
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Patent number: 9313365Abstract: In a case where ink having a relatively high dot height is ejected a small amount, binary data corresponding to ink having a relatively low dot height is quantized so that dot adjacency is increased.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2015Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takumi Kaneko, Rie Takekoshi, Noboru Kunimine, Ayumi Hirakawa, Keita Ishimi
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Publication number: 20150283821Abstract: In a case where ink having a relatively high dot height is ejected a small amount, binary data corresponding to ink having a relatively low dot height is quantized so that dot adjacency is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventors: Takumi Kaneko, Rie Takekoshi, Noboru Kunimine, Ayumi Hirakawa, Keita Ishimi
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Patent number: 9120942Abstract: The image recording method includes a first process of applying a first black ink containing a pigment to a record medium; and, after the first process, a second process of applying a second black ink containing a pigment to the record medium such that the second ink at least partly overlaps the first black ink, in which the first black ink contains a salt containing at least one kind of cation selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal ion, an ammonium ion, and an organic ammonium ion and at least one kind of anion, and the static surface tension of the first black ink is higher than the static surface tension of the second black ink.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Noboru Kunimine, Takao Ogata
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Patent number: 9050819Abstract: When recording is performed using two different types of inks, the ink discharge order is controlled in a unit region on a recording medium so that the number of pixel regions in which an ink having a relatively high pH buffer capacity in a basic region is applied later is larger than the number of pixel regions in which an ink having a relatively low pH buffer capacity in a basic region is applied later.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Rie Takekoshi, Takumi Kaneko, Ayumi Hirakawa, Keita Ishimi, Noboru Kunimine, Yumi Kamimura
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Patent number: 9039157Abstract: There are provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method which can shorten a drying time of inks in an edge region of an image, and can form a sharp image without bleeding of the ink applied onto the edge region into a blank paper. The image processing method generates applying data for forming an image on a print medium by a relative scan between print heads for ejecting a first ink and a second ink having the same color with the first ink and lower in surface tension than the first ink, and the print medium. The image processing method generates first data for applying the first ink to a predetermined region that is adjacent to an edge region of the image and that is included in an inside region inward of the edge region, and generates second data for applying the second ink to the edge region.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takao Ogata, Noboru Kunimine
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Patent number: 9016825Abstract: When an image is printed with inks each containing a polymer emulsion and a film forming agent, the ejection of the inks is controlled so that the ink having a relatively low dynamic surface tension forms dots having a higher dot connectivity than the dots formed with the ink having a relatively high dynamic surface tension.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuo Shimmoto, Masami Izumizaki, Yoshiyuki Nagase, Takeshi Oota, Takao Ogata, Noboru Kunimine
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Publication number: 20150091965Abstract: When an image is printed with inks each containing a polymer emulsion and a film forming agent, the ejection of the inks is controlled so that the ink having a relatively low dynamic surface tension forms dots having a higher dot connectivity than the dots formed with the ink having a relatively high dynamic surface tension.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Tatsuo Shimmoto, Masami Izumizaki, Yoshiyuki Nagase, Takeshi Oota, Takao Ogata, Noboru Kunimine