Patents Examined by Jannelle M. Lebrón
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Patent number: 11969998Abstract: An integrated circuit to drive a plurality of fluid actuation devices includes an interface, a digital circuit, an analog circuit, and control logic. The digital circuit outputs a digital signal to the interface. The analog circuit outputs an analog signal to the interface. The control logic activates the digital circuit or the analog circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Scott A. Linn, James Michael Gardner
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Patent number: 11970005Abstract: An example of a device (100) may include a valve body (108). The device may include a printing substance transfer window (122) through the valve body (108). The device (100) may include a printing substance dispensing nozzle (110) rotatable within the valve body (108) between a first orientation with an orifice of the printing substance dispensing nozzle (110) facing an internal face of the valve body (108) and a second orientation with the orifice (126) of the printing substance dispensing nozzle (110) facing the printing substance transfer window (122). The device (100) may include a dispensing-side gasket material (132) slideable against the internal face of the valve body (108) when rotating the printing substance dispensing nozzle (110) between the first orientation and the second orientation.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jeffrey H. Luke, Mathew Lavigne, Dean Richtsmeier, Kenneth Smith, Sean Daniel FitzGerald, Wesley R. Schalk
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Patent number: 11964469Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural rotating members that are rotatable; an annular circulating member that is wound around the plural rotating members and circulates when the rotating members rotate; a retaining member attached to an attaching portion of the circulating member and that circulates together with the circulating member, the retaining member being configured to retain a recording medium in an area where the attaching portion comes into contact with one of the rotating members; an image forming section that forms an image on the recording medium at an image forming position defined on a circulation path along which the circulating member circulates; a delivering unit that delivers the recording medium to a retaining position where the recording medium is to be retained by the retaining member; a detector that detects rotation of the one rotating member; and a controller that controls delivery of the recording medium from the delivering unit to the retaining position, the delivery being conType: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yuta Chino, Naohito Otsuki, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Takehiko Koizumi
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Patent number: 11964492Abstract: A stirring element to stir liquid includes a rod-shaped body configured to have a magnetic force at a first end portion and to have a magnet force at a second end portion opposite to the first end portion in a longitudinal direction, a first blade configured to extend on the first end portion of the rod-shaped body, and a second blade configured to extend on the second end portion of the rod-shaped body. The first blade and the second blade each have a plate shape.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiaki Tokisawa, Takashi Abe
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Patent number: 11958301Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit configured to print an image on a print medium, an acquiring unit configured to acquire temperature information of the printing unit, and a control unit configured to control the printing unit so as to start relative scanning in a case where a temperature that is indicated by the temperature information has reached a print permission temperature. The print permission temperature in a first print mode whose speed at a time of a constant speed in relative scanning is a first speed is a first temperature. The print permission temperature in a second print mode whose speed at the time of the constant speed is a second speed that is faster than the first speed is a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeshi Murase, Kazuhiko Sato, Taku Yokozawa, Noboru Kunimine, Hiroshi Taira, Hiroshi Kawafuji, Sae Mogi, Akiko Aichi
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Patent number: 11958306Abstract: In an example of the disclosure, a priming lane and a non-priming lane are identified within an image frame to be printed by a printer. A line of molten wax is applied to the roller. The molten wax when cooled is to form a wax ridge upon the roller. The roller having the formed wax ridge is wetted with the primer. The wetted roller is rotated against the substrate to apply the primer. A first width of the wetted roller that does not include the wax ridge forms the priming lane upon the substrate. A second width of the roller that includes the wax ridge causes the primer to not transfer and thereby forms the non-priming lane upon the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Chen Zigdon, Mirit Shitrit, Liora Braun
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Patent number: 11951747Abstract: A tank includes: a tank body defining a storage chamber; a recessed portion provided at the tank body; a slider positioned in the recessed portion; a fitting portion provided at the slider; and a sealing member. The recessed portion has an injection opening in communication with the storage chamber, and a connection opening through which a liquid container is connectable. The slider includes a nozzle extending toward the connection opening in an extending direction and having a communication opening communicable with the injection opening. The slider is movable toward and away from the connection opening in the extending direction while rotating relative to the recessed portion. The fitting portion can be fitted with the liquid container. The sealing member can provide a liquid tight sealing to a gap between the slider and the recessed portion, and allow liquid flow between the communication opening and the injection opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Hayashi, Naoya Okazaki, Satoru Oki, Nanami Abe
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Patent number: 11938721Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes an ejection-port defining member and a substrate having at least three liquid supply openings arranged in an array direction. The substrate has at least one groove in a region between ends of the liquid supply openings and an edge of the substrate. The groove extends from and communicates with the end of at least one of two outermost liquid supply openings of the liquid supply openings in the array direction. The groove extends at least to a position where the groove is superposed on the liquid supply opening next to the liquid supply opening communicating with the groove in an extending direction in which the liquid supply openings extend.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Michiko Johnson
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Patent number: 11926747Abstract: Disclosed is an ink comprising a transparent matrix being UV curable and heat scalable, and at least one pigment component. The ink in its UV-cured state has a peel strength in the range of about 6 to 8 N/cm, wherein this adhesiveness is achievable by means of a further lamination step under the influence of pressure and heat so that the ink acts as a hot glue. Further disclosed is a safety structure comprising a semitransparent layer being formed at least partially by the UV-cured ink, and a secure article comprising the safety structure. Further disclosed is a use of the ink for silkscreen printing.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: HID Global CID SASInventors: Carsten Senge, Samantha Nelwan
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Patent number: 11919316Abstract: A printing fluid cartridge includes a front face oriented toward a first direction, a printing fluid supply portion positioned at the front face, a rear face positioned opposite the front face and oriented toward a second direction opposite the first direction, at least one electrical interface positioned between the front face and the rear face, and an engagement surface facing in the second direction. The at least one electrical interface is offset from the printing supply portion with respect to a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction. The at least one electrical interface is positioned closer to the front face than the engagement surface is, and the at least one electrical interface and the engagement surface intersect a plane which is parallel with the first direction, the second direction, and the third direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiro Kanbe, Hirotake Nakamura
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Patent number: 11919321Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit configured to print an image on a print medium, an acquiring unit configured to acquire temperature information of the printing unit, and a control unit configured to control the printing unit so as to start relative scanning in a case where a temperature that is indicated by the temperature information has reached a print permission temperature. The print permission temperature in a first print mode whose speed at a time of a constant speed in relative scanning is a first speed is a first temperature. The print permission temperature in a second print mode whose speed at the time of the constant speed is a second speed that is faster than the first speed is a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeshi Murase, Kazuhiko Sato, Taku Yokozawa, Noboru Kunimine, Hiroshi Taira, Hiroshi Kawafuji, Sae Mogi, Akiko Aichi
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Patent number: 11919300Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus adopting short pulse heating is designed to output a uniform image without unevenness. To this end, in a serial inkjet printing apparatus, a print head is subjected to a short pulse heating treatment before each print scan is carried out. In a case where a print medium is a first print medium, the print head is heated to a first target temperature before carrying out each of the print scans. In a case where the print medium is a second print medium, the print head is heated to a second target temperature lower than the first target temperature before carrying out each of the print scans.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Kawafuji, Kazuhiko Sato, Kazuo Suzuki, Takeshi Murase, Hiroshi Taira, Tomoki Yamamuro, Sae Mogi, Masaki Nitta
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Patent number: 11912024Abstract: A print component integrated circuitry package includes a number of temperature sensors where each of the plurality of the temperature sensors is disposed in a corresponding temperature region of an integrated circuitry. In an example, an analog sense bus conductively connects to all of the plurality of temperature sensors and an external sensor pad that is to connect to a corresponding print controller contact.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Michael W. Cumbie, James Michael Gardner, Scott A. Linn, George H. Corrigan, III
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Patent number: 11912037Abstract: An ink is circulated in a circulation path including a supply sub-tank, a discharge head and a collection sub-tank in a head unit. If the amount of the ink in the head unit decreases, the ink stored in the buffer tank is replenished to the head unit. On the other hand, in a first non-replenishment time during which the ink is not replenished, the ink is circulated through the buffer tank, the collection sub-tank and the supply sub-tank in this order. Thus, a temperature fluctuation of the replenishment ink stored in the buffer tank is suppressed. As a result, even if the ink is replenished to the head unit from the buffer tank, physical properties, particularly a viscosity, of the ink do not largely vary.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Asada, Yasunori Akiyoshi
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Patent number: 11912018Abstract: A print job having a number of pages is printed in a continuous mode, on media advanced at a constant speed. The print job can thus be effectively treated as having a single page. The media that are advanced for printing the print job can similarly be effectively treated as being a single medium.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Murthy Srikantom, Weiyun Sun, Stephen J. Nichols
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Patent number: 11912045Abstract: A method of operating a printer evaluates the effect of printing a print job with two different orientations of the image content data for the print job. The orientation that produces the least increase in the cross-process direction displacement error for the inkjets in the printer is selected for printing the print job. By attenuating the increase in cross-process direction displacement error, the interval between printhead maintenance operations is increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Jason M. LeFevre, Seemit Praharaj, Douglas K. Herrmann, Chu-Heng Liu, Jorge A. Alvarez
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Patent number: 11897258Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a conveyor; a first conveyance path through which a print medium is conveyed in a first conveyance direction; an image recording device; a cutter provided downstream of the image recording device and configured to cut the print medium into a first print medium having a first region and a second print medium having a second region; and a controller configured to cause the printing apparatus to: record an image in the first region; after the recording, cut the print medium into the first and second print medium; after the cutting, discharge the first print medium to an outside; after the discharging, convey the second print medium in a second conveyance direction; and after the conveying, record an image in the second region of the second print medium.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 11897255Abstract: A recording unit which is provided in a recording system includes a heat roller pair which contacts paper and performs drying of the paper after recording by a line head using heating and a control unit which controls operation of the heat roller pair, in which a heating region of the heat roller pair is divided into a plurality of subdivisions in a width direction which intersects the medium transport direction and the heat roller pair is configured to be capable of modifying a heating state for each subdivision region, and in which the control unit controls the heating state of each of the subdivision regions in the heat roller pair according to conditions when performing drying of the paper using the heat roller pair.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Mizushima, Kazuyoshi Ohashi, Akinori Muromachi, Kohei Ueno
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Patent number: 11884065Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge portion having a liquid discharge port and a liquid discharge unit. The liquid discharge portion performs a liquid discharge to discharge a liquid in a liquid discharge direction. The liquid discharge unit holds the liquid discharge portion and is movable along the liquid discharge direction. The liquid discharge apparatus further includes a first driver to move the liquid discharge unit along the liquid discharge direction, a second driver to move the liquid discharge portion relative to the liquid discharge unit along the liquid discharge direction, an abnormality detector to detect an abnormality of the liquid discharge unit, and circuitry. The circuitry increases an excitation current of the first driver in response to an abnormality detection signal from the abnormality detector or an instruction to clean the liquid discharge portion, and drives the second driver after increasing the excitation current.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Yoshihito Otoi
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Patent number: 11858258Abstract: A work system includes a recording apparatus including a transport belt that is provided with an adhesive configured for attachment of a medium, and is configured to transport the medium, and a main body portion in which a recording portion configured to perform recording on the medium is accommodated, a cover that covers at least a part of an exposed part of the transport belt exposed from the main body portion, and a removing portion configured to remove gas in a space covered with the cover.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Seijun Horie, Kiyoto Komuro, Hirokazu Fujii, Takumi Otsu