Patents Examined by Alexander D. Shenderov
  • Patent number: 11396185
    Abstract: A liquid container includes: a liquid containing section that stores liquid; a supply port joined to the liquid containing section, the supply port having an opening for supplying the liquid to an outside; a seal member disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the opening of the supply port; a cap configured to be attached to a position where it covers the supply port, the cap having a tubular protruding portion extending from a cap opening formed at a center of the cap, the protruding portion having a length sufficient to be inserted into the opening of the supply port; and a fixation portion that fixes the cap to the supply port, wherein the tubular protruding portion has a shape that abuts the seal member disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the opening when the cap is fixed to the supply port by the fixation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Naito
  • Patent number: 11390089
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a print liquid supply is described. The print liquid supply includes a reservoir for holding a supply of print liquid. The reservoir includes a pliable body having a front face and a back face. The print liquid supply also includes a spout affixed to the reservoir. The spout is located at a corner of the front face offset from a centerline of the front face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Judson M. Leiser, Michael E. Peterschmidt, Peter R. Stokes
  • Patent number: 11370222
    Abstract: A liquid supply device for use in a printer is provided, which includes a mounting base on which a storing body filled with liquid is mountable, a tube capable of supplying the liquid from the storing body to the printer, a connector coupled to the tube and configured to be detached from the storing body, and moreover provided with a grip portion, and a cover configured to move to a first position for covering the grip portion and a second position for not covering the grip portion, in a state in which the connector is attached to the storing body mounted on the mounting base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Seiya Hayashi, Akira Mashima
  • Patent number: 11369781
    Abstract: A fluid dispensing cartridge includes a housing body having a proximal end wall, a distal end wall, a fluid chamber, and a hollow throat portion. The fluid chamber is in fluid communication with the hollow throat portion. The proximal end wall provides a proximal termination of the fluid chamber and the distal end wall provides a distal termination of the hollow throat portion. A plurality of electrical contacts face proximally from the proximal end wall. The fluid dispensing cartridge includes a fluid jetting chip that has a plurality of fluid jetting nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: James D. Anderson, Jr., Michael A. Marra, III
  • Patent number: 11364720
    Abstract: A print liquid supply interface structure is provided, to fluidically connect a fluid supply container to a receiving station, comprising a liquid channel having at least one liquid channel wall, the liquid channel including a liquid interface, and at least one key pen next and parallel to the needle receiving portion of the liquid channel, protruding from a base over more than 10 millimeters. In another example a key pen structure is provided. In yet another example an interface structure for receiving a separate key pen is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Judson M. Leiser, Miquel Boleda Busquets, Bernd Karlsboeck, David Olsen, Michael E. Peterschmidt
  • Patent number: 11364723
    Abstract: A liquid cartridge includes: a housing including first and second protrusions; and a circuit board including an electrode. The first protrusion is positioned rearward but the second protrusion is positioned forward relative to the circuit board. When viewed in a width direction crossing a gravitational direction, an outline of the liquid cartridge between a first point and a second point is lower than an imaginary line. The imaginary line passes through the first point on the first protrusion and the second point on the second protrusion. A distance between a front edge of the electrode and the first point is smaller than a distance between the front edge and the second point. A dimension between a front end and a rear end of the second protrusion is greater than a distance between a frontmost end of the housing and the front end of the second protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akinari Ishibe
  • Patent number: 11364724
    Abstract: A logic circuitry package for a replaceable print apparatus component includes an interface to communicate with a print apparatus logic circuit and at least one logic circuit including a memory storing a reference parameter. The at least one logic circuit is configured to receive, via the interface, a first request sent to a first address to read the reference parameter; and transmit, via the interface, the reference parameter in response to the first request. The at least one logic circuit is configured to receive, via the interface, a second request sent to a second address to implement a task; and implement the task to output a digital value via the interface in response to the second request. The reference parameter corresponds to the digital value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: James Michael Gardner, David B. Novak
  • Patent number: 11351774
    Abstract: A printing apparatus, which uses a printhead including a circuit configured to inspect an ink discharge status of a selected nozzle using a temperature detection element, causes the printhead to inspect the ink discharge status by changing a threshold value for judging a detection result of the temperature detection element, in order to judge the ink discharge status in a state in which a heater in the selected nozzle is driven by each of a first pulse and a second pulse whose waveform is different from that of the first pulse, obtains first information about a change point where a judgment result obtained by the first pulse changes, and second information about a change point where a judgment result obtained by the second pulse changes, and sets the threshold value, based on the first and second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuhei Oikawa, Toshiyuki Chikuma, Yutaka Kano, Kohei Sato
  • Patent number: 11351793
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage, a liquid container provided on the carriage and in which a liquid is to be injected, the liquid container having a liquid level check portion through which a level of the liquid in the liquid container is visually checked, a recording head disposed in the carriage, and an operation panel disposed on a front surface of the apparatus along the width direction, the operation panel and an exposure section through which the liquid level check portion is exposed are disposed such that the operation panel and the exposure section are visually checked, and the carriage is moved from a home position toward the exposure section and the operation panel and the liquid level check portion are arranged in the width direction when the apparatus side surface is viewed from the front side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Miyazawa, Hisayuki Akahane, Shintaro Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11351792
    Abstract: A liquid cartridge configured to be inserted into a cartridge-attachment section in an insertion direction includes a casing, and a lever supported by the casing. The lever is pivotable about a pivot axis between a first position and a second position. The lever includes a light-blocking portion configured to block or attenuate light traveling in a widthwise direction crossing the insertion direction and a gravitational direction, and a force-receiving portion positioned closer to a front wall of the casing than the light-blocking portion is to the front wall in the insertion direction. The light-blocking portion is positioned lower at the second position than at the first position. The pivot axis is positioned frontward of the light-blocking portion and rearward of the force-receiving portion in the insertion direction. The lever pivots from the second position to the first position upon application of an external force to the force-receiving portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takahashi, Takahiro Miyao, Akihito Ono, Tetsuro Kobayashi, Fumio Nakazawa, Kosuke Nukui
  • Patent number: 11345158
    Abstract: A logic circuitry package for a replaceable print apparatus component includes an interface to communicate with a print apparatus logic circuit and at least one logic circuit to transmit, via the interface, a limit parameter and a count threshold parameter. The logic circuit is to receive, via the interface, initial requests to read sensor IDs with the component connected to the apparatus and the apparatus not pneumatically actuating the component. The logic circuit is to transmit, via the interface, a resting state digital value in response to each initial request. The logic circuit is to receive, via the interface, further requests to read the sensor IDs with the component connected to the apparatus and the apparatus pneumatically actuating the component. The logic circuit is to transmit, via the interface, a further digital value in response to each further request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Quinton B. Weaver, James Michael Gardner, David N. Olsen, Anthony D. Studer
  • Patent number: 11345167
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage section configured to store a learnt model obtained by machine learning on a condition for an adjustment interval in accordance with a use state of a print apparatus, based on a data set in which use state information of the print apparatus and adjustment interval information indicating an interval of performing an adjustment process for a print position on a print medium are associated with each other, a reception section configured to receive the use state information of the print apparatus, and a processor configured to perform a process of estimating the adjustment interval, based on the use state information received and the learnt model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masanari Shinkai
  • Patent number: 11338585
    Abstract: A liquid supply, may include a bag and a box to maintain the bag therein, the box including a number of alignment structures formed along an edge of a first wall of the box to mate with a support element. A carton fold structure for a print liquid supply, the fold structure to support and hold a liquid bag including a liquid bag interface, the carton fold structure including multiple planes that, together, form a cuboid shape, each plane to form an outer wall of the carton fold structure, with edges between respective planes; a cut out in one of the edges, the cut out including: a channel extending inwards into a first plane to allow the liquid bag interface to pass through the first plane; and slots extending into the first plane between the channel and the edge associated with the first plane to align to a support element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Judson M. Leiser, Peter R. Stokes, Bernd Karlsboeck
  • Patent number: 11338312
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns a printhead for the application of a coating agent to a component, in particular for painting a vehicle body component with a paint. The disclosure provides that the printhead is designed in such a way that it enables a color change during coating operation and can be rinsed with a rinsing agent during a color change in order to rinse out coating agent residues from the printhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Dürr Systems AG
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Fritz, Benjamin Wöhr, Marcus Kleiner, Moritz Bubek, Timo Beyl, Frank Herre, Steffen Sotzny
  • Patent number: 11338573
    Abstract: An inkjet image forming apparatus includes a transferer and a hardware processor. The transferer transfers, onto a recording medium, ink that is ejected from an inkjet head and is borne on a transfer member. The hardware processor performs control for reducing transferability of the ink in a case where the ink borne on the transfer member is not-to-be-transferred ink, compared with a case where the ink is to-be-transferred ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Midori Shimomura, Yukimasa Azuma
  • Patent number: 11331923
    Abstract: An assembly, in an example, may include at least one die, a substrate comprising at least one electrical trace, a lid coupled to a first side of the substrate to contain an amount of fluid between the substrate and lid, and an adhesive film coupled to a second side of the substrate to protect the at least one electrical trace wherein the lid further comprises a main chamber for each of at least two distinct fluids and an overflow chamber fluidically coupled to each of the main chambers via an overflow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Si-Lam Choy
  • Patent number: 11325397
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes an attachment portion not having a storage unit for storing a recording material used for print processing performed by the recording apparatus, and a second control unit configured to operate the recording apparatus in a second print mode in a case where the attachment portion is in a second attachment state in which a second attachment member for protecting a connection terminal is attached to the attachment portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuta Shinsawatsu
  • Patent number: 11325387
    Abstract: In various examples, biased print gaskets can include a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource to charge a material included in a gasket with a first bias voltage to repel print particles from a surface of the gasket, cease charging the material with the first bias voltage and charge the material with a second bias to attract print particles to a surface of the gasket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeffrey H. Luke, Mathew Lavigne
  • Patent number: 11325389
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus including a liquid ejecting head that ejects a liquid, a liquid storage portion that stores the liquid, a supply flow path that communicates the liquid ejecting head and the liquid storage portion with each other, and an air chamber that is coupled to the supply flow path through a plurality of flow paths. The supply flow path includes a filter. The plurality of flow paths are, in the supply flow path, connected upstream of the filter, and the air chamber is positioned at a position higher than the filter when in a posture during use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Koase, Yuta Komatsu
  • Patent number: 11312146
    Abstract: A logic circuitry package for a replaceable print apparatus component includes an interface to communicate with a print apparatus logic circuit, and at least one logic circuit to receive, via the interface, requests corresponding to different sensor IDs with the component connected to the apparatus. The logic circuit is to transmit, via the interface, a digital value in response to each request. The digital values corresponding to the different sensor IDs are distinct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Quinton B. Weaver, James Michael Gardner, David N. Olsen, Anthony D. Studer