Patents Examined by Huan Tran
  • Digital binder printing
    Patent number: 10016988
    Abstract: A method and equipment to form a digital image on a surface by applying a powder layer including colour pigments on the surfaces, bonding a part of the powder and removing the non-bonded powder from the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Darko Pervan
  • Printing apparatus
    Patent number: 10016989
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a conveying unit; a printing unit; a disposing stand provided on a downstream side of the printing unit in a first direction, the disposing stand having a disposing section where a printing medium is disposed; a cutting blade that cuts the printing medium disposed in the disposing section; and a supporting member that supports the cutting blade movably from a non-cutting position, via a partial cut position, to a full cut position. The non-cutting position is a position where a blade edge is separated from the printing medium disposed in the disposing section. The partial cut position is a position where the cutting blade cuts a part of the printing medium in a second direction. The full cut position is a position where a blade edge passes beyond the disposing section to fully cut the printing medium in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Sugimoto
  • Device for the inkjet printing of fluids, in particular glazes, onto tiles
    Patent number: 10016977
    Abstract: A device (1) for inkjet printing of fluids, particularly glazes, onto tiles (P) comprises a body (2) comprising a feed channel (3) of a printing fluid, which feed channel (3) is closed by a base (4). The base comprises at least one outlet nozzle (5) associated with a valve (7) comprising electromagnetic actuating means (8). A shutter (11) of the valve (7) comprises at least one sensitive element (12) made of a material suitable for interacting with the magnetic field generated by the electromagnetic actuating means (8) for moving the shutter. A membrane (13) is arranged within the body (2) and delimits the feed channel (3). The membrane (13) is interposed between the feed channel (3) and the electromagnetic actuating means (8). The shutter (11) is solidly constraint with the membrane (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: SYSTEM S.P.A.
    Inventors: Franco Stefani, Mohamed Ouassif
  • Method and device for adding solvent in small quantities
    Patent number: 10011119
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the ink quality of an ink jet printer, during printing, the printer comprising at least one ink reservoir (11) and a solvent or diluted ink reservoir (12), a print head (50) and a supply circuit for sending ink and/or solvent to the print head, method in which: a correction volume of solvent, or diluted ink, to add to the ink to compensate a variation in viscosity of the latter is estimated; and a plurality of elementary quantities of solvent, or diluted ink, separated by ink, is sent to the print head, each of a volume comprised between 0.1 cm3 and 5 cm3, the sum of the elementary quantities of solvent, or diluted ink, being substantially equal to the correction volume to add.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: DOVER EUROPE SÁRL
    Inventors: Jannick Michallon, Jean-François Desse
  • Methods resolving the elevation of a tracked personnel or assets
    Patent number: 10012502
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for determining the elevation of tracked personnel or assets (trackees) that can take input from mounted sensors on each trackee (including barometric, inertial, magnetometer, radio frequency ranging and signal strength, light and GPS sensors), external constraints (including ranging constraints, feature constraints, and user corrections), and terrain elevation data. An example implementation of this method for determining elevation of persons on foot is described. But this method is not limited to computing elevation of personnel or to on foot movements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: TRX SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: John Karvounis, Jared Napora, Benjamin E. Funk, Dan Hakim, Christopher Giles, Carole Teolis
  • Aqueous resin based inkjet inks
    Patent number: 10005916
    Abstract: An inkjet ink includes a) an aqueous medium; and b) capsules composed of a polymeric shell surrounding a core; wherein the capsules are dispersed in the aqueous medium using a dispersing group covalently bonded to the polymeric shell; wherein the core contains a photoinitiator and one or more chemical reactants capable of forming a reaction product upon application of UV light; wherein the capsules have an average particle size of no more than 4 ?m as determined by dynamic laser diffraction; and wherein the photoinitiator is a diffusion hindered photoinitiator selected from the group consisting of multifunctional photoinitiators, oligomeric photoinitiators, polymeric photoinitiators and polymerizable photoinitiators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Johan Loccufier, Luc Decoster
  • Method and apparatus for a parallel frequency-mask trigger
    Patent number: 10006949
    Abstract: The frequency-mask trigger unit comprises n trigger machines, where n?2, in order to evaluate a total of n signal paths. In this context, the n trigger machines are connected to an evaluation unit. For this purpose, at least one trigger range is transferred to the n trigger machines. Moreover, a plurality of result vectors of a signal under analysis transformed into the frequency domain are transferred via the n signal paths to the n trigger machines. Finally, each of the n trigger machines checks whether at least one of the plurality of result vectors of the signal under analysis transformed into the frequency domain infringes the at least one trigger range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Nico Toender, Markus Reiband, Bernhard Nitsch
  • Liquid supply device and liquid ejecting apparatus
    Patent number: 9994033
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid supply device that supplies liquid to a liquid ejecting portion which ejects liquid from a nozzle, the liquid supply device including a holding portion that holds, so as to be attachable and detachable, a liquid accommodating body that accommodates the liquid, and a rotation mechanism that rotates the holding portion between an attachment and detachment position at which the liquid accommodating body is attached and detached and a supply position at which the liquid is supplied to the liquid ejecting portion, in which the liquid accommodating body that is held in the holding portion at the supply position is disposed at a higher position than the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Keigo Iizawa, Hitotoshi Kimura
  • Selecting nozzles
    Patent number: 9994014
    Abstract: Selecting nozzles can include selecting nozzles of a plurality of nozzles to print a portion of a print job based on content of the print job and assigning firing reservations to the selected nozzles, where a total number of the firing reservations assigned to the selected nozzles is comparatively less than a total number of the plurality of nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael W Cumbie, Garrett E Clark, Mark H MacKenzie
  • Liquid ejecting device
    Patent number: 9987849
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid ejecting device including a damper device which can sufficiently absorb dynamic pressure of a liquid while miniaturization of a device body is achieved and which can be easily manufactured. For that purpose, a part of an ink storage unit in the damper device is formed by a flexible member having a convex shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Genji Inada, Yasushi Iijima, Satoshi Kimura, Yasuhiko Osaki, Kenji Kitabatake
  • Tri-color ink cartridge housing
    Patent number: 9987852
    Abstract: In one example a replaceable tri-color ink cartridge housing includes three chambers for different colors ink. In a further example, a headland may have three parallel ink slots having a length of at least 14.4 millimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Aidan O'Reilly, Mark Walsh, Garry Rooney, Tommy O'Connor, John Oliver, Brendan Hall, Willie Sheehan, Stephen Byrne, Michael Dineen
  • Pore size classification in subterranean formations based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation distributions
    Patent number: 9989667
    Abstract: Porosity of a subterranean region is estimated by accessing a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation distribution corresponding to NMR measurements of a subterranean region in which the NMR relaxation distribution includes multiple of peaks, fitting Gaussian functions to the NMR relaxation distribution to establish values for fitting parameters for each of the Gaussian functions, determining the porosity of the subterranean region based on the values of the fitting parameters of the Gaussian functions, and categorizing the porosity based on a relationship between the fitting parameters of the Gaussian functions and a distribution of pore sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Galford, Ronnel C. Balliet
  • Printer
    Patent number: 9987863
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a printer includes a drop portion that catches, in a case where a diameter of a roll of paper stored in a holder becomes small, the roll of paper that falls from the holder. The printer further includes a plurality of support rollers that are arranged so as to sandwich an inlet of the drop portion and rotatably support the roll of paper PR stored in the holder. At least one of the plurality of support rollers is a short-width roller whose width in an axial direction of a shaft is shorter than a paper width of the roll of paper PR, and a void is provided at a non-shaft arrangement part provided at an extension portion of the short-width roller in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Sanada
  • Thermal transfer printer and printing method using same
    Patent number: 9981481
    Abstract: Irregularities in the density that can occur in printed images of a thermal transfer printer due to mechanical variations or variations in thermal characteristics in the thermal head are more easily and accurately corrected as compared to cases not having the features of the disclosed invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignees: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Inokuchi, Takeshi Yamazaki
  • Categorization of vertical edges corresponding to a halftone image
    Patent number: 9981467
    Abstract: A method of printing includes identifying vertical edges in a halftone image. The method also includes determining whether a lightness of color of a first predetermined area to a left side of a respective vertical edge is substantially equal to, less than, or greater than the lightness of color of a second predetermined area to a right side of the respective vertical edge. The method also includes categorizing respective vertical edges left vertical edges, right vertical edges, and neutral vertical edges to prioritize a print direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Barret Kammerzell, Antonio Gracia Verdugo
  • Printing apparatus
    Patent number: 9981487
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing section configured to perform printing on roll paper, a transport surface (hot plate) where the roll paper on which printing has been performed is transported, and a heater unit (heater) for heating the transport surface. The stated transport surface includes a plurality of projections with which the roll paper makes slide contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Oki
  • Thermal printer and method for controlling the same
    Patent number: 9975365
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a thermal printer comprises a first thermal head, a first sensor and a control section. The first thermal head prints a first mark on a first surface of an image receiving medium. The first sensor detects a printing density of the first mark. The control section determines whether or not the printing density of the first mark is in a predetermined range, and adjusts the printing density by the first thermal head in the predetermined range in response to determining that the printing density of the first mark is out of the predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Lee Men Hwa, Norihisa Shiraishi
  • Light scanning apparatus
    Patent number: 9975350
    Abstract: A light scanning apparatus, including: a light source; a rotary polygon mirror configured to deflect a light beam emitted from the light source; a plurality of optical members configured to guide the light beam, which is deflected by the rotary polygon mirror, to a photosensitive member; a drive motor configured to rotate the rotary polygon mirror; an optical box to which the light source is attached, the optical box containing the rotary polygon mirror, the drive motor, and the optical members; and a dynamic vibration absorber mounted inside the optical box and configured to be vibrated by vibrations of the optical box, wherein the plurality of optical members are supported on a bottom portion of the optical box, and the dynamic vibration absorber is disposed on the bottom portion of the optical box at a position between at least two adjacent optical members among the plurality of optical members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takehiro Ishidate
  • Concentric duct system for a dryer for printing system
    Patent number: 9975354
    Abstract: Systems and methods for concentric duct system for a dryer of a printing system. One embodiment includes a dryer of a printing system and a duct system. The dryer includes web conditioners sources to condition a web of print media, intake ports to supply air for the web conditioners, and outlet ports to remove air for the web conditioners. The duct system includes a supply hub and a return hub. The supply hub includes a tubular body with a lower portion and an upper portion, and supply nodes around the lower portion. The return hub includes a body around the upper portion of the supply hub, and return nodes around the body. The duct system further includes supply ducts to connect the supply nodes and the intake ports, and return ducts to connect the return nodes and the outlet ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Stuart James Boland, Scott Richard Johnson
  • Magnetic media holder for printer
    Patent number: 9975324
    Abstract: A print media holder device has first and second grip members. Permanent magnets are attached to the first and second grip members. An electromagnet is disposed between the first and second grip members, where when the electromagnet is selectively energized the permanent magnets attached to the first and second grip members are repelled in a manner that increases the outer dimension of the print media holder device to grip a media core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Intermec Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Wai Kit Ho, Harry Nicholas Makabali Lansangan, Ling Siong Chwa