Patents Assigned to Mimaki Engineering
  • INKJET PRINTING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190329557
    Abstract: An inkjet printing device includes a head having a nozzle surface in which nozzle holes are formed on a surface facing a print medium; a head holding member that holds the head; and a wiping member having a predetermined width for wiping the nozzle surface. The head holding member includes a protruding portion projecting out from the surface. The protruding portion is provided adjacent to the head on a downstream side in a wiping direction of the nozzle surface. The protruding portion has a length of greater than or equal to ½ of a width of the wiping member in a direction intersecting the wiping direction. The width of the protruding portion in a direction orthogonal to the wiping direction becomes narrower with separation away from the nozzle surface in the wiping direction. The protruding portion has a height in a projecting direction making contact with the wiping member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kobayashi
  • Manufacturing method for product using permeable medium
    Patent number: 10457078
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method that may improve the degree of freedom in designing and manufacturing a product in which a permeable medium is used. The manufacturing method may include: an image printing step of forming an image by inkjet printing on a permeable medium based on processing data (S102); a cutting step of cutting the permeable medium into parts in shapes based on the processing data after the image is printed on the permeable medium by inkjet printing in the image printing step (S104); and an assembling step of assembling the parts into a product (S105). The image printing step uses an ink for image printing that can be dried and fixed after a solvent is vaporized from the ink heated by ultraviolet irradiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Ohnishi
  • UV CURABLE INK FOR MATERIAL JET DEPOSITION
    Publication number: 20190322882
    Abstract: Provided is a UV curable ink for material jet deposition satisfying both shape forming speed and strength of a three-dimensional object. A UV curable ink for material jet deposition includes a UV curable compound; a photopolymerization initiator; and inorganic particles, dispersed in the UV curable ink and having an average particle diameter of 30 nm or smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Isao TABAYASHI
  • Printing device and printing method
    Patent number: 10449784
    Abstract: To dry ink using a more appropriate method in a case of performing printing using an ink-jet printer of a line system and the like. A printing device that performs printing using an ink-jet system includes: a conveyance driving unit as a conveyance module that conveys a medium; ink-jet heads; and an ultraviolet ray irradiation unit as an energy irradiation module. A length of the ink-jet heads in a width direction of the medium is larger than a width of a region to be printed. Ink ejected from the ink-jet heads is ink that contains an energy ray absorber and a solvent, the ink being fixed to the medium by evaporating the solvent. The ultraviolet ray irradiation unit irradiates the ink adhering onto the medium with ultraviolet rays to volatilize and remove at least part of the solvent contained in the ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiya Otsuka, Masaru Ohnishi
  • PRINTER
    Publication number: 20190315588
    Abstract: To provide a printer including a tension applying mechanism for applying tension to a long medium, where the tension applying mechanism can be easily installed when the tension applying mechanism is necessary and the tension applying mechanism can be easily detached when the tension applying mechanism is unnecessary. The printer includes a printer main body that performs printing on the long medium, a supporting body including a supporting frame that supports the printer main body from a lower side, and tension applying mechanisms each including a tension bar that comes into contact with the medium and applies tension to the medium. The tension applying mechanisms each include a frame in which a guide groove having a slit shape for guiding the tension bar in a vertical direction is formed, and the frame 24 is detachably attached to the supporting body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomonori Amari
  • PRINTER
    Publication number: 20190315136
    Abstract: A printer includes a printer main body that performs printing on a medium, a supporting frame that supports the printer main body from a lower side, a tension applying mechanism including a tension bar that comes into contact with a medium before printing and applies a tension to the medium, and a first roll attaching portion and a second roll attaching portion to which the medium before printing wound into a roll shape is attachable. The roll attaching portion, the tension bar, and the roll attaching portion are disposed on a back side of the supporting frame and are disposed in such order from a supporting frame side; and a medium after printing is wound into a roll shape on a front side of the supporting frame. The tension applying mechanism includes a frame having a guide groove for guiding the tension bar in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomonori Amari
  • INK-JET PRINTER
    Publication number: 20190315127
    Abstract: An ink-jet printer includes; an ink-jet head having a nozzle surface in which a plurality of nozzles for discharging ink; and a wiping device, having a blade for wiping the nozzle surface, which wipes the nozzle surface by use of the blade, by moving the blade in relation to the nozzle surface; wherein, the ink-jet head includes a convex wall part that surrounds the nozzle surface in a state of protruding in a direction in which the ink is discharged by the nozzles; and a direction of wiping by the wiping device is almost the same as a stretching direction of a line connecting the nozzles being closest to the convex wall part, among the plurality of nozzles formed in the nozzle surface, and a part of the convex wall part being closest to the nozzles. Hence, reducing an incidence of defective discharging of ink by the ink-jet head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoko Maeno
  • METHOD FOR BONDING, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF INK LAYER FORMED BODY, AND INK LAYER FORMED BODY
    Publication number: 20190308402
    Abstract: Provided is a method for favorable bonding between an adherend and an adhesive body, which is capable of suppressing an ink layer, which is formed by an ultraviolet-curable ink, from being smudged while increasing convenience of a bonding operation between the adherend and the adhesive body, and the like. The method for bonding a medium to a foil body includes an ink layer formation process of spotting an ultraviolet-curable ink, which is ejected from an inkjet head, to a medium and irradiating ultraviolet ray to the ultraviolet-curable ink to cure the same, thereby forming an ink layer; a lamination process of laminating the medium and a foil body with the ink layer being sandwiched therebetween; and a bonding process of heating the ink layer, enabling the ink layer to function as an adhesive, and bonding the medium to the foil body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobutaka Matsunaga
  • INK SUPPLYING DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT FORMING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190308367
    Abstract: An ink supplying device is provided and supplies a functional ink to a droplet ejecting portion, including: a tube body through which the functional ink passes; a degasser that removes a dissolved gas from the functional ink; a first supply path in which the degasser is fitted to the tube body; a second supply path in which the degasser is not fitted to the tube body; and a controller that switches a supply path of the functional ink to the second supply path when a viscosity of the functional ink is higher than or equal to a predetermined value, and switches the supply path to the first supply path when the viscosity of the functional ink is lower than the predetermined value. The first supply path and the second supply path are coupled by an upstream side coupling portion and a downstream side coupling portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyohei Maruyama, Yoshikazu Furukawa, Kenta Imai
  • DYE PRINTING METHOD
    Publication number: 20190308424
    Abstract: A dye printing method and an ink capable of performing printing on more types of media than in the related art are shown. A dye printing method using ink 10 containing a solvent 11, and particles 12 of a thermoplastic resin dispersed in the solvent 11 and containing a dye 13 is characterized by including a printing process of performing a printing on a medium 20 with the ink 10, a particle fixing process of fixing the particles 12 to the medium 20 by drying the solvent 11 of the ink 10 ejected to the medium 20 by the printing process, and a resin fixing process of fixing the thermoplastic resin to the medium 20 by heating the particles 12 fixed to the medium 20 by the particle fixing process, at least at a glass-transition temperature or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru OHNISHI
  • CAPPING MECHANISM AND INKJET PRINTER
    Publication number: 20190308417
    Abstract: To provide a capping mechanism that enables a replacement task of a cap body, to which ink suctioned from nozzles of an inkjet head adheres, to be simplified. The capping mechanism that covers a nozzle surface of the inkjet head in which a plurality of nozzles are arrayed and suctions the ink from the nozzles includes the cap body that covers the nozzle surface from a lower side, a first case body to which the cap body is detachably attached, a tube having one end attached to the first case body, and a suction mechanism to which the other end of the tube is connected. In the capping mechanism, when the suction mechanism is driven with the cap body covering the nozzle surface and brought into close contact with the inkjet head, ink is suctioned from the nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kota Tomioka
  • Textile printing method, dyeing apparatus, textile printing ink, and treatment ink
    Patent number: 10427419
    Abstract: Provided is a textile printing method that may effectively suppress the risk of ink smearing and that may allow a cured water-soluble, UV-curable resin to be adequately stripped off a fabric so as to dye the fabric in high quality color. A textile printing method includes a pretreatment step of discharging a treatment ink from an inkjet head for treatment toward a fabric to apply the treatment ink to the fabric; a dyeing step of discharging a textile printing ink from an inkjet head for textile printing toward the fabric to apply the textile printing ink to the fabric. In the dyeing step and the pretreatment step, the textile printing ink and the treatment ink are irradiated with ultraviolet light after a respective one of the inks is applied to the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Ohnishi
  • Forming apparatus for forming three-dimensional structure
    Patent number: 10427333
    Abstract: A forming apparatus having a degree of freedom in shaping for forming a three-dimensional structure is provided. A forming apparatus (30) forms a three-dimensional structure (5), which includes a shaped article and a colored portion that colors a surface of the shaped article, by laminating layers, and it can switch between a first operation mode dedicated to shaping the shaped article and a second operation mode of full-color coloring the surface of the shaped article using full colors simultaneously as the shaping of the shaped article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kunio Hakkaku
  • Printer, printing method, and manufacturing method for decorated object
    Patent number: 10427420
    Abstract: A printer, including a head, a light irradiation device and a controller, is provided. The controller includes: a first controller that prompts the printer to carry out a printing operation by an ejection amount v1 required of glossy-finish printing and with a standby time t1 required of glossy-finish printing; a second controller that prompts the printer to carry out the printing operation by an ejection amount v2 required of matte-finish printing and with a standby time t2 required of matte-finish printing; and a third controller that prompts the printer to carry out the printing operation by an ejection amount v3 and with a standby time t3. The ejection amount v3 is greater than the ejection amount v2 and less than or equal to the ejection amount v1. The standby time t3 is shorter than the standby time t1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junki Kasahara, Akira Takatsu
  • Three-dimensional object, method for producing three-dimensional object, and three-dimensional object production apparatus
    Patent number: 10421235
    Abstract: A three-dimensional object is made of curable ink and includes a color layer serving as an outer surface. The color layer includes color ink and clear ink filling a space between dots of the color ink. A rate of the color ink to the clear ink decreases toward an outer side. With this configuration, the clear ink ensures diffusion of light beams reflected by dots of the color ink in a portion close to the outer side of the color layer. This ensures improved granular texture on the surface of the three-dimensional object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Harayama
  • PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD
    Publication number: 20190283458
    Abstract: To perform high-quality printing more appropriately, a printing device that performs printing on a medium includes: an inkjet head as a head for pretreatment agent that ejects a pretreatment agent; inkjet heads as heads for color ink; and an ultraviolet ray irradiation unit as an energy ray irradiation unit. The pretreatment agent is a liquid that contains a solvent and generates heat in response to ultraviolet rays. The ultraviolet ray irradiation unit emits ultraviolet rays to respective positions at which printing is performed on the medium after the inkjet head ejects the pretreatment agent, and evaporates at least part of the solvent in the pretreatment agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru OHNISHI
  • Braille body, inkjet printer, and braille body forming method
    Patent number: 10414170
    Abstract: When forming a gloss layer, an UV curable ink in a semi-cured state is cured when spread more than when forming matte layers, whereby a surface smoothness of the gloss layer becomes higher than the matte layers, and on the other hand, the matte layers can be formed thick. Therefore, a braille body having the necessary height and the smooth tactual sense while having a layered structure can be formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuta Kanai
  • MEDIUM WIND-UP DEVICE, PRINTING MACHINE, AND MEDIUM WIND-UP METHOD
    Publication number: 20190275814
    Abstract: A medium wind-up device is provided to suppress causing a wrinkle at a time of winding a medium, and also suppress a fluctuation of a winding position. The medium wind-up device includes: a tension roller that presses a medium, which is belt-shaped and transferred in a transfer direction that is predetermined, in order to provide the medium with a tension; a reversing roller that reverses the medium pressed by the tension roller, and the reversing roller being rotatable so as to follow a move of the medium; a loading mechanism that is capable of placing a load against a rotation of the reversing roller; and a wind-up portion that winds up the medium reversed by the reversing roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Akuta, Tomohiro Takano, Kosaku Hotta
  • Method for bonding, manufacturing method of ink layer formed body, and ink layer formed body
    Patent number: 10406796
    Abstract: Provided is a method for favorable bonding between an adherend and an adhesive body, which is capable of suppressing an ink layer, which is formed by an ultraviolet-curable ink, from being smudged while increasing convenience of a bonding operation between the adherend and the adhesive body, and the like. The method for bonding a medium to a foil body includes an ink layer formation process of spotting an ultraviolet-curable ink, which is ejected from an inkjet head, to a medium and irradiating ultraviolet ray to the ultraviolet-curable ink to cure the same, thereby forming an ink layer; a lamination process of laminating the medium and a foil body with the ink layer being sandwiched therebetween; and a bonding process of heating the ink layer, enabling the ink layer to function as an adhesive, and bonding the medium to the foil body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobutaka Matsunaga
  • Method for forming a three-dimensional object
    Patent number: 10399330
    Abstract: A method for forming a three-dimensional object by extruding ink droplets from ink-jet heads includes forming an inner build region of the object. A colored region is formed outside of the inner build region so as to color the object. A support region is formed outside of the colored region so as to support the object while the object is being formed. An intermediate region is formed between the inner build region and the colored region. The intermediate region is formed in such a manner that affinity between the intermediate region and the inner build region and affinity between the intermediate region and the colored region are higher than affinity between the colored region and the support region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Ochi