Patents by Inventor Robert Lee Cornell

Robert Lee Cornell 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).

  • Patent number: 8235518
    Abstract: An aqueous-based UV-curable fluid composition for use in a micro-fluid ejection device. The fluid composition includes a mixture of poly-functional compounds, a colorant compound, a photo-initiator and less than about 50 weight percent water based on a total weight of the fluid composition, wherein the fluid composition is substantially devoid of volatile organic carrier fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Lee Cornell, Robert Wilson Cornell
  • Patent number: 8191987
    Abstract: An aqueous-based UV-curable fluid composition for use in a micro-fluid ejection device. The fluid composition includes a mixture of poly-functional compounds, a colorant compound, a photo-initiator and less than about 50 weight percent water based on a total weight of the fluid composition, wherein the fluid composition is substantially devoid of volatile organic carrier fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Lee Cornell, Robert Wilson Cornell
  • Patent number: 7977398
    Abstract: An aqueous-based UV-curable fluid composition for use in a micro-fluid ejection device. The fluid composition includes a mixture of poly-functional compounds, a colorant compound, a photo-initiator and less than about 50 weight percent water based on a total weight of the fluid composition, wherein the fluid composition is substantially devoid of volatile organic carrier fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Inventors: Robert Lee Cornell, Robert Wilson Cornell
  • Patent number: 7841700
    Abstract: Micro-fluid ejection devices, such as inkjet printheads, such as those that use a laser to eject fluid. One such micro-fluid ejection device includes a passageway plate defining a fluid chamber filled with fluid and a fluid channel to supply the fluid chamber with fluid, a top plate provided on the passageway plate, a fluid ejection hole formed through the top plate at a position corresponding to the fluid chamber, a condenser lens provided on a bottom surface of the passageway plate at a position corresponding to the fluid chamber, and laser beam irradiator capable of irradiating a laser beam through the condenser lens and into fluid contained in the fluid chamber, wherein the fluid is nucleated by the laser beam such that a vapor bubble forms and displaces a portion of the fluid, thereby ejecting a fluid droplet through the fluid ejection hole. Method of using such devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Steven Cannon, Robert Lee Cornell
  • Publication number: 20100152316
    Abstract: An aqueous-based UV-curable fluid composition for use in a micro-fluid ejection device. The fluid composition includes a mixture of poly-functional compounds, a colorant compound, a photo-initiator and less than about 50 weight percent water based on a total weight of the fluid composition, wherein the fluid composition is substantially devoid of volatile organic carrier fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Lee Cornell, Robert Wilson Cornell
  • Publication number: 20100149296
    Abstract: An aqueous-based UV-curable fluid composition for use in a micro-fluid ejection device. The fluid composition includes a mixture of poly-functional compounds, a colorant compound, a photo-initiator and less than about 50 weight percent water based on a total weight of the fluid composition, wherein the fluid composition is substantially devoid of volatile organic carrier fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Lee Cornell, Robert Wilson Cornell
  • Publication number: 20100149272
    Abstract: An aqueous-based UV-curable fluid composition for use in a micro-fluid ejection device. The fluid composition includes a mixture of poly-functional compounds, a colorant compound, a photo-initiator and less than about 50 weight percent water based on a total weight of the fluid composition, wherein the fluid composition is substantially devoid of volatile organic carrier fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Lee Cornell, Robert Wilson Cornell
  • Publication number: 20100149259
    Abstract: An aqueous-based UV-curable fluid composition for use in a micro-fluid ejection device. The fluid composition includes a mixture of poly-functional compounds, a colorant compound, a photo-initiator and less than about 50 weight percent water based on a total weight of the fluid composition, wherein the fluid composition is substantially devoid of volatile organic carrier fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Lee Cornell, Robert Wilson Cornell
  • Publication number: 20100151143
    Abstract: An aqueous-based UV-curable fluid composition for use in a micro-fluid ejection device. The fluid composition includes a mixture of poly-functional compounds, a colorant compound, a photo-initiator and less than about 50 weight percent water based on a total weight of the fluid composition, wherein the fluid composition is substantially devoid of volatile organic carrier fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Lee Cornell, Robert Wilson Cornell
  • Publication number: 20100151142
    Abstract: An aqueous-based UV-curable fluid composition for use in a micro-fluid ejection device. The fluid composition includes a mixture of poly-functional compounds, a colorant compound, a photo-initiator and less than about 50 weight percent water based on a total weight of the fluid composition, wherein the fluid composition is substantially devoid of volatile organic carrier fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Lee Cornell, Robert Wilson Cornell
  • Publication number: 20080319845
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide printing incentive methods and systems. In one embodiment, a method of providing advertising content to a customer can be provided. The method can include receiving information associated with a customer. In addition, the method can include receiving information associated with at least one advertiser. Furthermore, the method can include associating at least one keyword with the at least one advertiser. Moreover, the method can include comparing the at least one keyword to a portion of information associated with the customer. Further, the method can include outputting advertising content to the customer based at least in part on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Alan Adkins, Frank Edward Anderson, Robert Lee Cornell, Curtis Ray Droege, Timothy Lowell Strunk
  • Publication number: 20080117255
    Abstract: Micro-fluid ejection devices, such as inkjet printheads, such as those that use a laser to eject fluid. One such micro-fluid ejection device includes a passageway plate defining a fluid chamber filled with fluid and a fluid channel to supply the fluid chamber with fluid, a top plate provided on the passageway plate, a fluid ejection hole formed through the top plate at a position corresponding to the fluid chamber, a condenser lens provided on a bottom surface of the passageway plate at a position corresponding to the fluid chamber, and laser beam irradiator capable of irradiating a laser beam through the condenser lens and into fluid contained in the fluid chamber, wherein the fluid is nucleated by the laser beam such that a vapor bubble forms and displaces a portion of the fluid, thereby ejecting a fluid droplet through the fluid ejection hole. Method of using such devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Roger Steven Cannon, Robert Lee Cornell
  • Publication number: 20080079779
    Abstract: Methods for improving the thermal conductivity of a substrate for a micro-fluid ejection head and micro-fluid ejection heads are provided. One such head includes a substrate having a thermal conductivity ranging from about 1.4 W/m-° C. to about 148 W/m-° C., a fluid ejection actuator, and a thermal bus thermally adjacent to the substrate and configured to dissipate heat associated with the operation of the actuator. Exemplary modified substrates have improved thermal conductivity characteristics as compared to a corresponding substrate not modified to include the thermal bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Robert Lee Cornell, Robert Wilson Cornell, Curtis Ray Droege, Elios Klemo, Timothy Lowell Strunk, Melissa Marie Waldeck