Patents Assigned to Dover Europe Sàrl
  • Patent number: 12221551
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to an ink composition (e.g., a continuous inkjet ink composition) that can be free of volatile organic compounds as defined by the US EPA. This disclosure also relates to a continuous printing process using such a composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventors: Frederic Jean Alain Bodino, Guillaume Falco
  • Patent number: 12176507
    Abstract: This disclosure includes an ink composition that includes a polymer containing a polypyrrole and an organic solvent, in which the composition is a solution and the polymer is in an amount of from about 1% to 70% by weight of the composition. This disclosure also relates to a printing process using such an ink composition and a product containing such an ink composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventors: Frederic Jean Alain Bodino, Melissa Dawn Lee Hudson, Paul Xavier Martens, Claudiu Neagu, Marc Karman
  • Patent number: 12043046
    Abstract: A method of digital printing and finishing for fabrics is provided. The method includes a step of unwinding a fabric from a first reel. A step of compensating the speeds and of spreading the fabric for its positioning on a conveyor belt provided with supporting elements on which a digital printing step occurs is provided. A step of drying the fabric is provided. A step of winding the fabric onto a second reel is provided. These steps are being executed at corresponding stations arranged in sequence with respect to each other and the fabric passing through them continuously, transversely to the conveyor belt, there being a plurality of bars provided with printing heads which are controlled electronically and synchronized with the movement of the conveyor belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventor: Luigi Milini
  • Patent number: 11760096
    Abstract: A method is provided for cleaning a print head, wherein the print head includes a cavity for the circulation of jets and at least one first spraying nozzle for projecting at least one cleaning fluid towards at least one inner portion of the cavity. The method includes the step of projecting, using the first spraying nozzle, several pulses of cleaning fluid towards the inside of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventors: Damien Bonneton, Camille Gobin, Jean-François Abadie, Jean-Marie Rolland, Niklaus Hugi
  • Patent number: 11701893
    Abstract: A method of authenticating a consumable or detachable element of a continuous inkjet printer comprising: the controller of the printer generating a 1st item of random information that is dispatched to an authentication circuit of the element; encrypting the 1st item of information by the authentication circuit using a 1st encryption algorithm and a 1st secret key to form a 1st item of encrypted random information; dispatching the 1st item of information to the controller; encrypting the 1st item of information by the controller using a 2nd encryption algorithm and a 2nd secret key to form a 2nd item of encrypted random information; comparing the 1st item of encrypted random information with the 2nd encrypted item of random information to authenticate the consumable element; and if the consumable element is authenticated, dispatching at least one part of a 3rd key, termed the shared key, by the element to the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventor: Damien Bonneton
  • Patent number: 11642896
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a plant (1) for printing a fibrous material (T). The printing plant (1) comprises: a station (14) for supplying a fibrous material configured for supplying the fibrous material along a predetermined operative path, a treating station (10) configured for treating the fibrous material with a treatment composition by applying the composition itself on a first side (T1) of the fibrous material (T); and a printing station (6) configured for ink-printing at least part of a second side (T2) of the fibrous material (T) opposite to the first side (T1). Moreover, the present invention refers to a process of printing a fibrous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventor: Luigi Milini
  • Patent number: 11518896
    Abstract: The invention refers to a disperse black ink comprising: an aqueous vehicle and a black dye dispersion comprising: disperse blue 165, disperse orange 29, disperse red 82 and disperse blue 60, and the use of such black ink in a method for inkjet-printing on a fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventors: Marco Ugoletti, Luca Guggiari
  • Patent number: 11479039
    Abstract: A damper for a continuous ink jet printer, comprising a fluid receiving chamber (6), comprising at least a lateral wall (22), a fluid inlet (11), and a fluid outlet (12), and at least one membrane (14), the membrane being in a material having a Young modulus between 0.5 MPa and 1000 MPa, the membrane being deformed under the influence of a pressure variation in the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventors: Bruno Barbet, Hervé Gregoire, Adrien Marion
  • Patent number: 11434036
    Abstract: A label application system and method for applying a label to a package travelling on a conveyor along a conveying path includes: an applicator apparatus which is operable to move a label into contact with a package, a control system, which controls operation of the applicator apparatus, and a sensor system operable to detect an edge of the package, a distance from a reference point to the package, and the speed at which the package is travelling, wherein the control system is operable to receive and process the data from the sensor system relating to the package and initiate operation of the applicator apparatus such that the label is applied to the package in a desired position as the package moves in a direction of travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventors: Michael Baumann, Gerd Buehler
  • Patent number: 11416195
    Abstract: The present invention relates to method and system for providing series of serialized unique information on a substrate together with product related information. The method comprising steps of: printing a first product relevant information on the substrate using a first set of printer device (15); storing said first product relevant information a data storage device (20); providing said series of serialized unique information from a source of serialized unique information, using a second set of printer device (30) or marking device on the substrate; storing information about the serialized unique information to a data storage device (20); printing a second set of product related information on the substrate using a printer device (42); and analysing the printed serialized unique information and the first and the second set of product related information on the substrate when formed to a package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventor: Roger Veenma
  • Patent number: 11390092
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a plant (1) for printing a fibrous material (T). The printing plant (1) comprises: a station (14) for supplying a fibrous material configured for supplying the fibrous material along a predetermined operative path, a treating station (10) configured for treating the fibrous material with a treatment composition by applying the composition itself on a first side (T1) of the fibrous material (T); and a printing station (6) configured for ink-printing at least part of a second side (T2) of the fibrous material (T) opposite to the first side (T1). Moreover, the present invention refers to a process of printing a fibrous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventor: Luigi Milini
  • Patent number: 11370574
    Abstract: An applicator apparatus including an applicator pad (10) and an actuator (180) for positioning the applicator pad (10) in a desired position, the applicator pad (10) being attached to the actuator (180) by an attachment member (40), wherein the attachment member (40) enables articulation between the applicator pad (10) and the actuator (180).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventors: Jonas Eichenberger, Tobias Bleiker, Simon Weidmer
  • Patent number: 11276031
    Abstract: Systems and methods for printing and verifying product codes using ultraviolet (UV) fluorescing ink include, in at least one aspect, a system including: a UV light source configured and arranged to illuminate, with UV light, product codes printed on products; a camera configured and arranged to capture visible light emitted by a single ink of the product codes responsive to the illumination with the UV light, where the single ink includes a combination of a non-fluorescing substance and a UV fluorescing substance; and a controller coupled with the camera and configured to perform machine vision processing on the captured visible light to identify and confirm the product codes printed on the products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sarl
    Inventor: Steven D. Keddie
  • Publication number: 20220053098
    Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a system (100) for handling variations in a mark (110) printed by a group (105) of industrial printers (101). The system (100) obtains images of the printed mark (110) printed by each of the printers (101) in the group (105). The system (100) creates a composite image from the obtained images. The printed marks (110) appear as a repeating pattern in the composite image. The system (100) compares the printed marks (110) in the composite image to each other or to another mark. The system (100) detects variations with a first resolution in the printed marks (110) in the composite image as a result of the comparison. The system (100) creates an augmented image in which the detected variations are augmented to a second resolution. The first resolution is lower than the second resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventors: Christopher John Wright, Matthew John Lawrenson
  • Patent number: 11040548
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a printing apparatus comprises a band capable of holding hot melt ink thereon, rollers configured and arranged to hold and transport the band with respect to a substrate, a printhead configured to thermally transfer a portion of hot melt ink from the band to the substrate to print on the substrate, an ink feed device configured to add hot melt ink to the band and to heat the hot melt ink on the band, and a rigid blade configured and arranged to cause hot melt ink to pass between a blade edge of the rigid blade and the band, wherein the rigid blade is shaped to minimize a contact area between the rigid blade and the band while controlling ink thickness of the hot melt ink on the band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sarl
    Inventors: James M. Cheever, Aljosa Sarcevic, Stacey C. Goodale
  • Patent number: 10987940
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a printing apparatus comprises a band capable of holding hot melt ink thereon, rollers configured and arranged to hold and transport the band with respect to a substrate, a printhead configured to thermally transfer a portion of hot melt ink from the band to the substrate to print on the substrate, an ink feed device configured to add hot melt ink to the band and to heat the hot melt ink on the band, and a rigid blade configured and arranged to cause hot melt ink to pass between a blade edge of the rigid blade and the band, wherein the rigid blade is shaped to minimize a contact area between the rigid blade and the band while controlling ink thickness of the hot melt ink on the band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sarl
    Inventors: James M. Cheever, Aljosa Sarcevic, Stacey C. Goodale
  • Patent number: 10946477
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems and method relating to laser marking, in particular an apparatus comprises a fiber laser operable to produce a laser beam, an optics assembly operable to focus and direct the laser beam onto a non-metalized layer side of a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises the non-metalized layer side comprising a nonmetalized material and a metalized layer side comprising a metalized material, the metalized layer side being opposite the non-metalized layer side; and electronics communicatively coupled with the fiber laser and the optics assembly, the electronics being operable to control the fiber laser and the optics assembly, based on one or more laser settings, to direct the laser beam through the non-metalized layer side to be absorbed by the metalized layer side, generate a laser marking on the metalized material, and avoid generating the laser marking on the non-metalized material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sarl
    Inventor: Stephane Valette
  • Patent number: 10814656
    Abstract: In accordance with at least one aspect of the present disclosure, a printing apparatus includes: a supply spool support for supporting a supply spool and a take-up spool support for supporting a take-up spool, the supply spool support and the take-up spool support being drivable by at least one motor; a housing defining an enclosure; and a device having an input for receiving an input voltage and an output for delivering an output voltage to the at least one motor, the output voltage being lower than the input voltage, wherein the device is located within the enclosure, and the printing apparatus including a heat sink for dissipating heat away from the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sarl
    Inventors: Nicky Bond, Mohammed Jamal Toudmeri
  • Patent number: 10735600
    Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to a method performed by an image capturing device for handling printed information on an information carrier. The image capturing device dynamically determines at least part of print information that should be printed on the information carrier by an industrial printer. When the print information has been printed on the information carrier by the industrial printer, the image capturing device captures an image of at least part of the print information on the information carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventor: Stéphane Beauquis
  • Patent number: D1046959
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventors: Matthieu Bardin, Vincent Audouard