Patents Examined by Henok D Legesse
  • Patent number: 11731436
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording portion configured to record an image on a recording medium; a housing having an ejection opening on the side of the housing, the recording medium recorded with the image being ejected from the ejection opening in the ejection direction; and a receiver that receives the recording medium ejected from the ejection opening. The recording apparatus further includes a guide provided inside the ejection opening of the housing, and the receiver has an end on an upstream side of the receiver with respect to the ejection direction such that the end is held at a position overlapping with the guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Asai, Hideyuki Nozawa, Hiromasa Yoneyama, Kota Uchida
  • Patent number: 11724525
    Abstract: A first conveyance path and a second conveyance path are formed in a housing. The first conveyance path extends in a conveyance direction to reach a first discharge port for discharging a sheet. The second conveyance path extends in the conveyance direction at a position higher than the first conveyance path to reach a second discharge port for discharging a sheet. The second discharge port is located at a position upstream of the first discharge port in the conveyance direction. A first print engine is provided at the first conveyance path. The first print engine is configured to print an image by using a recording agent on a sheet conveyed along the first conveyance path. A second print engine is provided at the second conveyance path. The second print engine is configured to print an image by using a recording agent on a sheet conveyed along the second conveyance path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Miyase, Yoshinori Osakabe, Tsuyoshi Kuwayama, Jun Morikawa, Haruka Azechi, Yasuo Ono, Yuto Chiba
  • Patent number: 11724520
    Abstract: A peripheral with a pivotal turn-over guiding mechanism includes: a transporting mechanism; first to third passages; an image processing unit disposed on the first passage, wherein after the image processing unit performs a first image process on a first side of a medium, the transporting mechanism transports the medium into, partially out of and back into the second passage, into the third passage, and then into the first passage, and the image processing unit performs a second image process on a second side of the medium; and a guide member, which is rotatably disposed at a connection portion of the third passage, the second passage and the first passage, normally closes a forward path from the first passage to the second passage, and normally opens a reverse path from the second passage to the third passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: AVISION INC.
    Inventors: Shao-Lan Sheng, Min-Tung Huang
  • Patent number: 11718113
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a containing portion that contains a rolled sheet obtained by winding a sheet and a recording portion that records an image on the sheet fed from the rolled sheet contained in the containing portion and further includes an opening/closing member that can be movable between an open position at which the containing portion is opened and a closed position at which the containing portion is closed and a first guiding portion provided in the opening/closing member to guide the rolled sheet to the containing portion in a case where the opening/closing member is at the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryosuke Murata, Ryo Harigae, Itaru Wada, Masato Izumi
  • Patent number: 11712896
    Abstract: Examples include a fluid ejection device. The fluid ejection device includes a fluid ejection die with a die length and a die width, the fluid ejection die being coupled with a support structure having a fluid supply channel therethrough. The fluid ejection die includes a plurality of nozzles arranged in columns at die length positions along the die length and die width positions along the die width such that only one nozzle is positioned at each die length position. A fluid ejection chamber is coupled with each respective nozzle of the plurality of nozzles, and fluid feed hole fluidically coupled with the fluid supply channel and each respective ejection chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Galen Cook, Garrett E. Clark, Michael W. Cumbie, James R. Przybyla, Richard Seaver, Frank D. Derryberry, Si-Iam J. Choy
  • Patent number: 11707936
    Abstract: A recording device has: a recording head configured to perform recording on a medium; a medium storage below the recording head configured to store the medium to be recoded; a supply path comprising a first curved supply path curved so as to be convex upward and transporting the medium fed out of the medium storage in a reversed direction via the first curved supply path; and a reversing path comprising a second curved path curved so as to be convex downward and transporting the recorded medium into a direction including a vertically upward component via second curved path from a direction including a vertically downward component; wherein the supply path joins the reversing path, and the first curved path and the second curved path overlap when viewed horizontally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Misawa, Toshihiro Imae
  • Patent number: 11691441
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head configured to perform recording on a recording medium being conveyed in a conveyance direction, a carriage in which the recording head is mounted, the carriage being configured to perform scanning in a scanning direction that intersects the conveyance direction, and a guide member including a flat surface configured to guide the carriage in the scanning direction. The carriage includes a sliding part configured to slide in contact with the guide member, an impregnated member impregnated with lubricant on at least one side of the sliding part in the scanning direction, and a pressure member configured to press the impregnated member to the guide member side from a surface on a side opposite to the guide member with respect to the impregnated member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Manato Nishi, Yuta Watanabe, Atsuhiko Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11691445
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head, a holding member holding the liquid ejecting head, a fixing member including a head portion, an engaging portion, and a shaft portion that couples the head portion to the engaging portion, and an elastic member including a first opening into which the shaft portion is inserted. One of the liquid ejecting head and the holding member includes a second opening into which the shaft portion is inserted, and the other one of the liquid ejecting head and the holding member includes a first engaged portion to be engaged with the engaging portion. The liquid ejecting head is fixed to the holding member by the engaging portion being brought into engagement with the first engaged portion such that the first opening and the second opening are disposed between the head portion and the engaging portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroaki Okui, Eiichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11660868
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus jetting a liquid onto a recording medium conveyed in a first direction includes head units arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. One head unit includes nozzle chips; one nozzle chip has a nozzle arrangement area wherein nozzles are aligned in a third direction crossing the first and second directions. The nozzle chip is arranged to be shifted relative to another nozzle chip in a direction crossing the first and second directions and different from the third direction. The head unit has a first overlapping portion wherein nozzle arrangement areas of first and second nozzle chips included in the nozzle chips partially overlap with each other in the first direction. The liquid jetting apparatus has a second overlapping portion wherein nozzle arrangement areas of third and fourth nozzle chips included in the head units partially overlap with each other in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taisuke Mizuno, Hideki Hayashi, Keita Sugiura
  • Patent number: 11660882
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photoelectric sensor and a controller. The photoelectric sensor emits light to an object to be detected, receives the light reflected on the object and outputs an electric signal corresponding to a quantity of the reflected light. The object includes a facing surface area and a sheet on the facing surface area. The controller detects whether the sheet exists on the facing surface area in accordance with an output of the photoelectric sensor. The controller stores, as a threshold of the output of the photoelectric sensor, a first threshold for determining that the sheet does not exist on the facing surface area and a second threshold for determining that the sheet exists on the facing surface area, and determines that the facing surface area is contaminated when the output of the photoelectric sensor is within a range between the first threshold and the second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hironori Daigo
  • Patent number: 11633964
    Abstract: An intermediate unit includes a transportation path provided with a drying unit that accelerates the drying of the medium. The transportation path includes an inlet path, an outlet path, a first branch path, a second branch path, a first junction path, a second junction path, a switch-back type inversion path with a first inversion path and a second inversion path. The first branch path and the second branch path which branch off at a branch point from the inlet path. The first junction path and the second junction path and the outlet path join each other at a junction point. The first branch path and the first junction path and the first inversion path join each other at a first connection point. The second branch path and the second junction path and the second inversion path join each other at a second connection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaro Harada, Kohei Ueno, Akinori Muromachi, Hidetoshi Kodama, Kazuyoshi Ohashi, Tsuyoshi Furumido, Hirohisa Adachi
  • Patent number: 11633967
    Abstract: A base material processing apparatus includes a tension detector that detects tension on a base material that is being transported, an encoder that detects the amounts of rotational drive of rollers that transport the base material, edge position detectors that detect the position of an edge of the base material in the width direction, and a transport displacement calculation part that calculates a transport displacement of the base material in the transport direction. The transport displacement calculation part includes an operation unit that has completed learning through machine learning and outputs the transport displacement on the basis of at least one of the result of detecting the tension, the result of detecting the amounts of rotational drive of the rollers, and the result of detecting the position of the edge. Accordingly, the transport displacement can be detected with high accuracy and low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11623457
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a rendering apparatus, method and non-transitory machine-readable storage medium for determining a speed of a carriage during rendering of an image. A plurality of swaths of rendering fluid are deposited on a print target using a set of printheads moving across the print target. A temperature of a curing module is measured at a respective time of depositing each respective swath. An arrival time for each deposited swath to respectively arrive at the curing module is predicted. The speed of the carriage during depositing the plurality of swaths is determined based on the measured temperature of the curing module and predicted arrival time for each respective swath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Andreas Muller, Manuel Agudo Acemel, Pau Costal Fornells, Albert Franco Morera
  • Patent number: 11618270
    Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes, among a plurality of branch conveyance passages, ones with different conveyance distances for a recording medium. Based on the timing of the sensing of the recording medium by a recording medium sensor, a controller controls a switching portion to make it switch the destination of the conveyance of the recording medium to one of the branch conveyance passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Okito Ogasahara
  • Patent number: 11618269
    Abstract: A medium-discharging device includes: a medium-discharging section that discharges a medium; a medium-receiving tray that receives the medium discharged by the medium-discharging section; a light-emitting section that emits light to the medium-receiving tray; and a control section that controls the light-emitting section, in which the medium-receiving tray is configured to switch between a first state in which the medium-receiving tray is stored in an apparatus main body that includes the medium-discharging section and a second state in which the medium-receiving tray protrudes from the apparatus main body, and the control section controls the light-emitting section in accordance with a state or operation of the medium-receiving tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Saito, Hiroki Shinagawa, Satoru Orii, Katsumi Yamada, Nobuhisa Nomoto
  • Patent number: 11607897
    Abstract: A desktop plastic card printer that is configured to allow installation of a smart card cartridge within an interior space of the printer housing through an opening, for example an opening in a side wall, in the printer housing. Both the mechanical installation and electrical installation of the smart card cartridge occurs via the opening. This allows the desktop plastic card printer to be quickly and easily retrofitted to have the ability to electronically read data from and/or electronically program data on an integrated circuit chip of a plastic card. The retrofitting can take place without using any mechanical tools and without having to remove the entire, or a substantial portion of, the printer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Entrust Corporation
    Inventors: Donald Galles, Mark Sobania
  • Patent number: 11607895
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a head configured to discharge an ink onto a continuous sheet to form an image; a platen including a support face that supports the continuous sheet; a star-wheel-unit holding unit disposed at a position that is downstream of the head in a transport direction of the continuous sheet and is opposed to the support face; and a star wheel unit configured to be attachable to and detachable from the star-wheel-unit holding unit and to support a plurality of star wheels configured to press the continuous sheet on a side of the support face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 11602942
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to perform recording on a recording medium that is a long medium, a supporting part disposed opposite to the recording unit and configured to support the recording medium, a cutting part configured to cut the long medium into a single sheet medium, a guide member configured to guide the recording medium, a winding unit configured to wind up the long medium, and a medium housing unit configured to be detachable and house the single sheet medium. The guide member is displaceable to a first supporting position in which the guide member supports the recording medium being conveyed to the medium housing unit and a second supporting position in which the guide member supports the long medium being conveyed to the winding unit, the second supporting position being located above the first supporting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shun Ito
  • Patent number: 11597219
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a first discharge path that discharges a sheet and a second discharge path different from the first discharge path. An angle difference between a direction in which the sheet is discharged in the second discharge path and a conveyance direction of a conveyance roller is less than an angle difference between a direction in which the sheet is discharged in the first discharge path and the conveyance direction of the conveyance roller. The printing apparatus includes a control unit that discharges the sheet on which the image is printed using the second discharge path even in a case where an instruction to print an image indicates discharging the sheet to the first discharge path, if the sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller is a sheet having a thickness equal to or greater than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Wakayama
  • Patent number: 11590764
    Abstract: An image is printed on the front surface M1 by discharging the inks to the front surface M from the discharge heads 321 (first head) facing the front surface M1 (recording surface) of the printing medium M from above. Thus, the inks discharged from the discharge heads 321 partially become mist to possibly produce ink mist. Accordingly, the ink cover 51 (first cover) is arranged between the discharge heads 321 and the front surface M1 of the printing medium M before the discharge heads 321 discharges the inks to the printing medium M. By providing the ink cover 51 for the front surface M1 of the printing medium M before printing in this way, the adhesion of the ink mist to this front surface M1 can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Yamashita, Hiroyuki Kajiya