Patents Examined by An H. Do
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Patent number: 11607885Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a head including a nozzle configured to discharge a liquid, and a driver element configured to apply a pressure to the liquid; a tank configured to store the liquid; a circulation channel configured to circulate the liquid between the head and the tank; a pump; and a controller. The controller is configured to carry out: a non-discharge flushing process of performing a non-discharge flushing by driving the driver element such that the liquid is not discharged from the nozzle; a switching process of switching the pump between ON and OFF; and a determining process of determining a frequency of driving the driver element in the non-discharge flushing process according to a circulation flow amount of the liquid changing due to the switching of the pump between ON and OFF in the switching process.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaki Mori, Mikio Hirano
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Patent number: 11602946Abstract: A printed matter exhibiting metallic gloss is provided and includes: a substrate; and a metallic glossy layer, being formed on the substrate, and the metallic glossy layer containing scaly particles having a metal. In the metallic glossy layer, the scaly particles are oriented to be substantially parallel to a surface of the metallic glossy layer; and the surface of the metallic glossy layer has a DOI value of greater than or equal to 20% and a Sa value of less than or equal to 2 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryo Nishizawa, Tasuku Sato, Akira Takatsu
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Patent number: 11604061Abstract: A sensor system and a method of operating a sensor system including a plurality of sensors tracking a moving object in an area having known bounding surfaces. The apparatus and method calculate a time-specific position of the object based on data and sensor parameters from at least two of the plurality of sensors and determine errors between the calculated time-specific positions calculated. The method and apparatus calculate a minimum system error attributable to the at least two sensors by constraining at least one dimension in the data of the sensor used in the calculated time-specific position of the object associated with the sensor, the constraining based on an object/surface interaction, the minimum system error calculated by solving for modified sensor parameters for each sensor.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: SPORTSMEDIA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Roger R. Labbe, Divya Ramakrishnan, Lavanya Sridharan, Richard Cavallaro, Marvin S. White
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Patent number: 11597850Abstract: The present disclosure provides an ink fluid set containing an aqueous pretreatment composition and an aqueous inkjet ink. This ink fluid set is particularly suitable for printing on offset coated media.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: DUPONT ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Xiaoqing Li, Christian Jackson, C Chad Roberts
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Patent number: 11597212Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid storing unit capable of storing liquid, a liquid ejection unit including an ejection port that is capable of ejecting the liquid, and a pressure control unit that receives the liquid from the liquid storing unit and allows the liquid having a pressure controlled to be within a predetermined pressure range to be supplied to the liquid ejection unit. Additionally, the liquid ejection apparatus includes a first circulation unit that supplies the liquid having the pressure controlled by the pressure control unit to the ejection port while circulating the liquid between the liquid ejection unit and the pressure control unit, and a second circulation unit that circulates the liquid between the liquid storing unit and the pressure control unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yohei Nakamura
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Patent number: 11590763Abstract: An example printing material cartridge includes a reservoir storing printing material to supply a printing apparatus and a storage medium storing process instructions for controlling the recirculation process in the printing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jorge Castano Aspas, Albert Crespi Serrano, Miquel Boleda Busquets, Tuomo Eljas Kaikkonen, David Butinya Teixido
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Patent number: 11591490Abstract: An aqueous ink jet ink composition is for use in an ink jet recording method. The method includes ejecting ink from an ink jet head including nozzles. The nozzles are configured such that a shape of a side wall surface is a scalloped shape in which a scallop width S1 and a notch depth S2 satisfy S1/S2?4. The aqueous ink jet ink composition includes a pigment and a solvent that contains a specific compound.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Inventors: Yusuke Mizutaki, Atsushi Muto
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Patent number: 11590762Abstract: A method of recirculating printing fluid that includes with a first pump upstream of an internal reservoir, pumping printing fluid into the reservoir and with a second pump downstream of the internal reservoir and upstream of a pen assembly, pumping printing fluid from the reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Wesley R. Schalk, Kenneth Williams, Christopher John Arnold
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Patent number: 11584865Abstract: The present disclosure provides an ink, an ink manufacturing method, and a display device. The ink includes the first solution, the second solution, the third solution, the fourth solution, and the blank ink. The ink is mixed from the fourth solution and the blank solution. The mass percentage of the CsPbX3 in the fourth solution is 5% to 30% to the fourth solution and the blank ink.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Zhiping Hu
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Patent number: 11577523Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a plurality of heads configured to discharge a liquid, a supply channel connected to the plurality of heads, the supply channel configured to supply the liquid to the plurality of heads, a collection channel connected to the plurality of heads, the collection channel configured to collect the liquid from the plurality of heads, a supply damper configured to define a deformable wall of the supply channel, a collection damper configured to define a deformable wall of the collection channel, a supply damper chamber facing the supply damper, a collection damper chamber facing the collection damper, a pressure pump configured to apply a pressure to the supply damper chamber, and a depressurize pump configured to apply a negative pressure to the collection damper chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Ryohta Yoneta
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Patent number: 11571908Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to reduce power consumption while preventing a reduction in productivity. One embodiment of the present invention is a printing apparatus including: a print head that ejects a liquid; a circulation unit configured to circulate the liquid in a circulation path including the print head; a control unit configured to controls the circulation unit to execute periodic circulation by causing the circulation unit to circulate the liquid in the circulation path periodically at predetermined interval; and an input unit configured to input information on a suspension period during which the control unit suspends execution of the periodic circulation, wherein the control unit is set to start suspending the execution of the periodic circulation in accordance with the information and is set to resume execution of the periodic circulation when the suspension period indicated by the information is elapsed.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosuke Ezumi, Takatoshi Nakano, Atsushi Arai
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Patent number: 11565522Abstract: A head module includes a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric member, a supply manifold, a return manifold, and a damper portion. The pressure chamber is configured to hold liquid therein and in fluid communication with a nozzle orifice. The piezoelectric member is configured to apply pressure to liquid held in the pressure chamber. The supply manifold is in fluid communication with the pressure chamber and configured to allow liquid to flow into the pressure chamber therefrom. The return manifold is in fluid communication with the pressure chamber and configured to allow liquid not ejected from the nozzle orifice to flow thereinto. The damper portion is positioned between the supply manifold and the return manifold when viewed in plan from a nozzle surface of the head module. The nozzle surface has the nozzle orifice defined therein. The damper portion includes a particular plate having a particular recessed portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keita Hirai, Shohei Koide, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama
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Patent number: 11541662Abstract: An ink refill container configured to refill an ink tank with ink and an ink refill system. An ink refill container includes a container main body having an ink chamber; an ink outlet forming portion provided at an edge of the container main body including an ink outlet configured to allow ink to flow out from the ink chamber; a valve provided in ink outlet forming portion and configured to seal the ink outlet in an openable and closable manner; and a positioning structure configured to abut on part of the ink tank and position the valve relative to ink tank when valve is opened. The positioning structure has a positioning surface located on an opposite side to a container main body side where the container main body is located, across the valve and extends in a direction intersecting with a center axis of the ink outlet.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Tadahiro Mizutani, Taku Ishizawa, Noriyuki Fukasawa, Naomi Kimura, Shoma Kudo, Manabu Akahane
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Patent number: 11506483Abstract: A method of determining a support structure depth of a support structure having a front and a back separated by the support structure depth includes: obtaining a point cloud of the support structure, and a mask indicating, for a plurality of portions of an image of the support structure captured from a capture pose, respective confidence levels that the portions depict the back of the support structure; selecting, from the point cloud, an initial set of points located within a field of view originating at the capture pose; selecting, from the initial set of points, an unoccluded subset of depth measurements, the depth measurements in the unoccluded subset corresponding to respective image coordinates; retrieving, from the mask, a confidence level for each of the depth measurements in the unoccluded subset; and based on the depth measurements in the unoccluded subset and the retrieved confidence levels, determining the support structure depth.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Zebra Technologies CorporationInventors: Raymond Phan, Yuanhao Yu, Richard Jeffrey Rzeszutek, Joseph Lam
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Patent number: 11505711Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes an ink composition, an ink encasement in which the ink composition is encased, a recording head that ejects the ink composition, and a carriage configured to move the recording head back and forth. The carriage carries the ink encasement, with the ink encasement integrated with the carriage. The ink encasement has an ink fill port that opens and shuts as a port through which the ink composition is loaded. The ink composition contains a water-soluble dye and a polyhydric alcohol with a normal boiling point of 270° C. or above, with the percentage of the polyhydric alcohol being 26.0% by mass or less of the total amount of the ink composition.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Inventors: Tomoki Maruyama, Yusuke Mizutaki, Tomohiro Aruga, Kiyomi Kumamoto, Jun Ito
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Patent number: 11498338Abstract: An ink tank includes an ink storage portion configured to store ink, and a flexible damper portion configured to communicate with an inside of the ink storage portion through a communication hole. A protruding portion protruding from an ink storage portion side toward an inside of the damper portion is formed in the inside of the damper portion. When viewed from a direction in which the protruding portion protrudes, the damper portion surrounds an entire circumference of the communication hole, and an opening portion is formed in the protruding portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuya Yamada
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Patent number: 11498335Abstract: A method for manufacturing a device for ejecting a fluid, including the steps of: forming, in a first semiconductor wafer that houses a nozzle of the ejection device, a first structural layer; removing selective portions of the first structural layer to form a first portion of a chamber for containing the fluid; removing, in a second semiconductor wafer that houses an actuator of the ejection device, selective portions of a second structural layer to form a second portion of the chamber; and coupling together the first and second semiconductor wafers so that the first portion directly faces the second portion, thus forming the chamber. The first portion defines a part of volume of the chamber that is larger than a respective part of volume of the chamber defined by the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.Inventors: Domenico Giusti, Marco Ferrera, Carlo Luigi Prelini, Mauro Cattaneo, Andrea Nomellini
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Patent number: 11498343Abstract: A container body decorator (10) has a controller with a software stored in a memory. A plurality of ink jet print heads (108) is in communication with the controller. An endless image transfer belt (116) has a circumferential configuration with an inner surface opposite a printing surface. A printing site (124) is located along the endless image transfer belt (116). A container body handling module (200) delivers container bodies (14) to the printing site (124).Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: BALL COPORATIONInventors: Adam P. S. Stowitts, Dean C. Ellefson
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Patent number: 11493030Abstract: In an example, a fluid pump includes a shifter having a first end and pivotable about a second end, a cam rotatably engaged with the shifter, wherein the cam is to rotate about a cam shaft axis if the shifter pivots about the second end, a diaphragm fluidly engaged with a fluid cavity, a collar movable with a cam surface of the cam, wherein the collar is to compress the diaphragm so as to decrease the volume of the fluid cavity, a fluid inlet having a one-way inlet valve to only allow fluid into the fluid cavity, and a fluid outlet having a one-way outlet valve to only allow fluid out of the fluid cavity, wherein the one-way outlet valve is to allow fluid out of the fluid cavity upon the volume of the fluid cavity being decreased.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Kundan Singh
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Patent number: 11479048Abstract: A logic circuitry package for a replaceable print apparatus component includes an interface and at least one logic circuit. The at least one logic circuit is configured to respond to communications sent to a first address via the interface and respond to communications sent to a second address via the interface. The at least one logic circuit is configured to in response to a hibernate command sent to the first address, respond to communications sent to the second address.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Stephen D. Panshin, David Owen Roethig, James Michael Gardner