Patents Examined by John P Zimmermann
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Patent number: 10232606Abstract: A printing device prints an object on a medium by inkjet printing. The printing device includes: a glossy ink head that discharges ink droplets of a glossy ink having a glossy color; and a main scan driver that prompts the glossy ink head to perform main scans in which the glossy ink head discharges the ink droplets while moving in a predetermined main scanning direction. The glossy ink contains a glossy pigment and a solvent. In the main scans, the glossy ink head discharges the ink droplets plural times while moving in the main scanning direction to form ink dots at positions on the medium aligned in the main scanning direction. The ink droplets discharged from the glossy ink head each have a volume constituting a size that allows for contact on the medium between any ones of dots formed in each one of the main scans.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Namiki, Kazuhiro Ochi, Eiichi Ohara, Sota Machii
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Patent number: 10226938Abstract: An example device in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes a first reservoir for a printable composition, a pump fluidically coupled to the first reservoir and a second reservoir, a sensor, and a controller. The controller is to identify first and second reservoir statuses based on the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Fernando Bayona, Michel Georges Encrenaz, Albert Crespi, Joan-Albert Miravet, Bhishma Hernandez Martinez
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Patent number: 10220639Abstract: Both stability and high glossiness of a glossy ink used for printing can be achieved. A printer is provided that performs inkjet printing for a medium. The printer includes a glossy ink head as an inkjet head that discharges droplets of a glossy ink, a heater, and an ultraviolet light source. The glossy ink includes an ultraviolet-curable resin curable by being irradiated with ultraviolet light, a glossy pigment, and a solvent added to disperse the pigment. Particles of the glossy pigment have particle sizes less than or equal to 0.5 ?m. The heater heats the medium to volatilize and strip the solvent in the ink. The ultraviolet light source irradiates dots of the glossy ink on the medium with ultraviolet light after a preset waiting time has passed subsequent to a timing of the droplets of the glossy ink landing on the medium.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventor: Hironori Hashizume
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Patent number: 10214019Abstract: Example circuits and methods are described involving a flexible substrate for a fluid cartridge, comprising an integrated circuit connected to the flexible substrate, and electrical connector pads arranged on the flexible substrate for connection to the integrated circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Iain Campbell-Brown, Mark Walsh, John Oliver, Jefferson P. Ward, Amy Shipman
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Patent number: 10207511Abstract: There is provided an ink cartridge capable of accomplishing satisfactory electrical connection relative to a printer main assembly. An ink cartridge detachably mountable to a cartridge mounting portion provided with an ink receiving tube and a plurality of electrical connecting portions, the ink cartridge including a tube inserting portion into which the receiving tube is insertable, a substrate provided on a front side in a position above the tube inserting portion, a plurality of electrical contacts electrically connectable with the plurality of electrical connecting portions, the electrical contacts being arranged on the substrate in a direction crossing with a direction from a bottom surface toward an upper surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuo Nanjo, Yasuo Kotaki, Kenta Udagawa, Hiroshi Koshikawa, Wataru Takahashi, Koichi Kubo, Shigeki Fukui, Naozumi Nabeshima, Soji Kondo, Masafumi Seki, Kazuya Yoshii, Satoshi Kimura, Kyosuke Toda
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Patent number: 10208217Abstract: To provide an aqueous ink for inkjet which has superior printability to typical printing media, particularly media having high glossiness, such as coated paper, art paper, and vinyl chloride sheets, and which is capable of forming a high quality image by printing. An aqueous ink for inkjet, comprising a pigment, a pigment dispersing resin, an organic solvent, and water, wherein: the organic solvent contains (A) a water-soluble organic solvent having a boiling point of 100° C. or higher and 180° C. or lower, and (B) an organic solvent having a boiling point of 200° C. or higher and 280° C. or lower, and having a surface tension of 20 mN/m or more and 30 mN/m or less.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2014Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignees: TOYO INK SC HOLDINGS CO., LTD., TOYO INK CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukitoshi Takahashi, Masahiro Sugihara
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Patent number: 10189280Abstract: The invention relates to a corrugated-board machine for manufacturing corrugated board. The corrugated-board machine comprises a material-web output device for outputting a material web, an inkjet printing device disposed downstream of the material-web output device for the imprinting of at least one imprint onto the material web and an overcoating arrangement disposed downstream of the inkjet printing device for overcoating the printed material web at least in regions.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: BHS Corrugated Maschinen-und Anlagenbau GmbHInventor: Maximilian Mark
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Patent number: 10183505Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a suction unit configured to allow a negative pressure, by which a sheet is sucked to a supporting portion, to act on the sheet; and ink receivers configured to receive ink ejected outside of the sheet. Waste ink ejected to the ink receivers is guided to a waste ink discharge port formed on an outer peripheral wall of a platen through waste ink channels. A sheet sucking mechanism configured to apply the negative pressure is disposed adjacent to the suction unit. A discharging mechanism configured to forcibly discharge waste ink outside of the platen is connected to the waste ink discharge port.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Seiji Ogasawara, Tetsuji Kurata, Masakazu Tsukuda, Takahide Onuma, Yasunori Saito
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Patent number: 10160238Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of droplets ejecting members that are opposed to a continuous sheet being conveyed, are arranged in a sheet conveying direction, and eject droplets onto the continuous sheet; movement restriction members that restrict movement, in a sheet width direction, of one end portion, in the sheet width direction, of a portion, opposed to the droplets ejecting members, of the continuous sheet; and tension application members that give tension in the sheet width direction to the portion, opposed to the droplets ejecting members, of the continuous sheet in a state that movement, in the sheet width direction, of the portion, opposed to the droplets ejecting members, of the continuous sheet is restricted by the movement restriction members.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Matsunaga, Chikara Manabe, Yuichi Inoue, Kazuyuki Hara, Masaki Kataoka
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Patent number: 10155390Abstract: In one example, an aerosol control system for a printer includes an air knife to discharge a sheet of air into a flow of aerosol along a moving print substrate web and a vacuum near the air knife to suck up aerosol from the flow simultaneously with the air knife discharging air into the flow.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: James Kearns, Joe Santich
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Patent number: 10150295Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes an energy generating element configured to generate energy used for ejection of a liquid, a print element board including an electroconductive anti-cavitation film provided to cover the energy generating element, and a connection board electrically connected to the anti-cavitation film and including a connection pad electrically connectable from outside.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tokuji Kudo, Chiaki Muraoka, Shimpei Yoshikawa, Yuichiro Akama, Yuji Tamaru, Yosuke Takagi, Takaaki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 10150305Abstract: A process for printing a coagulating ink composition directly on a substrate being supported by an adhesive surface, effected by cleaning the adhesive surface with a cleaning composition capable of removing residues of coagulated ink composition from the adhesive surface is provided, as well as a system for carrying out the process and a formulation for the cleaning composition. The cleaning composition comprises a weak organic base (preferably EDTA salts) and is characterized by a pH level of at least 7.5.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Kornit Digital Ltd.Inventors: Jacob Mozel, Asaf Lupo
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Patent number: 10144235Abstract: A RIP device which receives image data and print media designation from a PC performs a data generating process by adopting a process parameter corresponding to the designated print media among process parameters stored in a loop-up table (LUT). A printer performs a printing process by adopting a printing parameter corresponding to the designated print media among the printing parameters stored in the LUT. The process parameter and the printing parameter are associated by a media number which is applied by a management server.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Tamiya, Ryosuke Kasamatsu
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Patent number: 10144215Abstract: An inkjet print head includes an ejection unit having a liquid chamber for holding an amount of liquid, a electromechanical transducer operatively coupled to the liquid chamber for generating a pressure wave in the amount of liquid and a nozzle in fluid communication with the liquid chamber for enabling a droplet of the amount of liquid to be ejected through the nozzle. A method for detecting an operating state of the ejection unit includes the consecutive steps of actuating the electromechanical transducer to generate a pressure wave in the liquid; actuating the electromechanical transducer to suppress a residual pressure wave in the liquid; sensing an amplitude of the residual pressure wave in the liquid; and based on the result of the sensing step determining that the ejection unit is (i) in an operative state if the amplitude of the residual pressure wave is below a threshold or (ii) in a malfunctioning state if the amplitude of the residual pressure wave is above the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Marko Mihailovic, Tjerk E. C. Hummel, Johannes M. M. Simons, Hylke Veenstra, Cornelis W. M. Venner, Amol A. Khalate
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Patent number: 10137695Abstract: Printhead priming can, in various examples, employ a conduit and a divider such that a predetermined portion of a pressurized gas in the conduit is provided to an environment surrounding the divider and a remaining portion of the pressurized gas in the conduit is provided to a printhead at a pressure sufficient to prime an ink supply.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jeffrey A Wagner, Justin M Roman, Christopher J Arnold
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Patent number: 10124613Abstract: Printing unit comprising at least a printing head, a support plate to which said printing head is associated, and at least one positioning member associated to the support plate and to the printing head to adjust the reciprocal position of the latter two; the support plate defines an adjustment plane with respect to which the printing head is positioned; the positioning member comprises at least an actuation device which can be selectively actuated above the adjustment plane and a kinematic conversion device configured to convert the actuation of said actuation device into an adjustment of the position of the printing head with respect to the support plate in at least one direction lying on the adjustment plane; the actuation device is associable with a cam element able to engage in a suitably shaped seating made in the printing head.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Jet-Set S.R.L.Inventor: Sergio Ferrari
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Patent number: 10124609Abstract: In order to reliably cut a sheet even when the width of the sheet is changed while shortening cutting time, the position of an end portion of the sheet is sensed and a cutting range is set according to the sensed position of the end portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuo Kikuchi, Naoki Wakayama, Shuichi Masuda, Masakazu Nagashima, Daiki Anayama, Takakazu Ohashi
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Patent number: 10125279Abstract: An ink including an organic solvent, a pigment, a polyurethane particle, and water is provided. The organic solvent includes at least one of 3-methoxy-1-butanol and 3-methoxy-1-propanol. The polyurethane particle has a particle diameter D50 of 50 nm or less.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hidetoshi Fujii, Amika Sagara
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Patent number: 10124597Abstract: An ink supply unit and a method of supplying ink to a printhead are disclosed. The ink supply unit includes a lower ink reservoir, an upper ink reservoir, and a flow regulation apparatus. The upper ink reservoir is coupled to the lower ink reservoir. First and second fluid input ports are disposed on opposite sides of the flow regulation apparatus. A first fluid line and a second fluid line couple the first and the second input ports, respectively, with the upper ink reservoir, and a third fluid line is adapted to couple the flow regulation apparatus with a printhead.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: R.R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventors: George A. Alessi, Paul Slagle, Kent D. Jayme, Anthony V. Moscato
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Patent number: 10124586Abstract: A flow path structure includes: a substrate that includes a first surface and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface; a supply port formed on the first surface; a plurality of discharge ports formed on the second surface; grooves that are formed on the first surface so as to extend in an X direction and communicate with the supply ports and with the plurality of discharge ports via through-holes formed on the substrate; and a sealing portion that is disposed on the first surface and seals each groove.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Isamu Togashi, Hiroaki Okui, Yasuyuki Kudo, Fujio Akahane