Patents Examined by Justin Seo
  • Patent number: 12291050
    Abstract: Method of decorating natural leather with an inkjet printer which comprises: —a first vacuum belt (150) for conveying an unwoven fabric (200) which is configured as a second vacuum belt, for conveying under an inkjet print head (505) a natural leather (300); and wherein the method comprises: —applying from an adhesive tape-roll an adhesive tape (1300) as a continuous sheet against the unwoven fabric wherein said adhesive tape (1300) has an adhesive side and opposite side and the opposite side is in contact with the unwoven fabric; —applying a natural leather (300) on the adhesive side of the adhesive tape (1300); —conveying the applied natural leather by moving the first vacuum belt (150) whereby the unwoven fabric (200) is moving by suction power through the first vacuum belt (150) and the applied adhesive tape (1300) is moving by said suction power through said unwoven fabric (200) under an inkjet print head (505); —marking the applied natural leather with jetted droplets of the inkjet print head (505) for
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Agfa NV
    Inventor: Luc De Roeck
  • Patent number: 12291040
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an inkjet head; an ink reservoir that stores ink circulating between the inkjet head and the ink reservoir; a pressure generating unit that communicates with the inkjet head and generates a first pressure such that an internal pressure of the ink reservoir becomes the first pressure; and a first fluid resistor that gives resistance to a fluid flowing through a fluid communication path between the ink reservoir and the pressure generating unit such that the internal pressure of the ink reservoir becomes a second pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yusuke Kuramochi
  • Patent number: 12285958
    Abstract: A printing apparatus to which a consumable part filled with a printing material can be detachably attached, so as to perform printing according to a color mode setting by use of the printing material filled in the consumable part whose type differs according to a contract, includes: a setting unit configured to set a contract status, based on information related to the contract; a first obtainment unit configured to obtain a set color mode; a second obtainment unit configured to obtain the type of mounted consumable part which corresponds to the contract status; and a print control unit configured to control printing by allowing or restricting the printing, based on the contract status that is set by the setting unit, the color mode that is obtained by the first obtainment unit, and the type of consumable part that is obtained by the second obtainment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Shioiri
  • Patent number: 12285959
    Abstract: A printer includes a base and a cover. The base includes front and rear walls, and first and second sidewalls. The cover is pivotally connected to the base. A receiving section extends within the base from the first sidewall to an interior end of the section. The receiving section receives sheets of paper. A paper feeding mechanism is disposed between the interior end and the second sidewall. The paper feeding mechanism is operable to feed paper from the receiving section in the longitudinal direction through the base. A print module is disposed within the base between the paper feeding mechanism and the second sidewall. The print module includes ink injectors operable to print on paper being fed past the injectors from the receiving section. A toner module is operable to provide ink to the injectors. A battery module is disposed between the receiving section and the rear wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Inventor: David Amegashie
  • Patent number: 12280595
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes an individual electrode, a common electrode, a piezoelectric body that is provided between the individual electrode and the common electrode for applying pressure to liquid in the pressure chambers, a drive wiring that applies a voltage so as to drive the piezoelectric body, a detection resistor that is formed of the same material as any of the individual electrode, the common electrode, and the drive wiring for detecting temperature of the liquid in the pressure chambers, and a sealing substrate that has a wall portion and a ceiling portion, and protects the piezoelectric body by the wall portion and the ceiling portion. The detection resistor is provided to have a part overlapping the wall portion which is shorter than a part not overlapping the wall portion when viewed along a lamination direction of the piezoelectric body, the individual electrode, and the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Jingling Wang, Masaki Mori, Yu Shiozawa
  • Patent number: 12280592
    Abstract: A printing device includes: a second blade; a first blade portion including a first blade and configured to cut print paper by moving from a standby position at which the first blade is away from the second blade, via an overlap start position at which the first blade starts overlapping the second blade on a side of the second blade in a first direction, to a cutting position; a first blade guide located in the first direction relative to the second blade and configured to guide movement of the first blade with the first blade between the first blade guide and the second blade when the first blade portion moves from the overlap start position to the cutting position; and a warping prevention portion configured to press the first blade in a second direction opposite to the first direction when the first blade portion moves from the overlap start position to the cutting position, to prevent the first blade from warping into a convex shape in the first direction or reduce such warping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryohei Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 12276709
    Abstract: A metal detecting system using search-coil type sensor includes sensor modules that detect respective objects which move around the corresponding sensor modules, each sensor module having one or more sensors that include respective housings having respective inner spaces, respective cores formed to be inserted into the inner spaces of the housings, and respective coils which are each wound around a portion of an outer circumferential surface of each of the housings, the portion corresponding to a position of each of the cores; imaging units that image the respective objects that move around the corresponding sensor modules and image respective persons possessing the respective objects; impedance matching units that are connected to a plurality of the sensor modules, respectively, and perform impedance matching; and amplifiers that are connected to the impedance matching units, respectively, and amplify a fine current and voltage generated during approach of the objects to the sensor modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Inventors: Jae Hun Choi, Tae Kyun Kim
  • Patent number: 12275257
    Abstract: There is provided a tape cartridge, in which the cartridge case is provided with an outer protrusion portion received by an outer recess portion, the outer protrusion portion blocks insertion of a third core projection into a core hole of a tape core B around which a tape B, which is different in type from the tape A, is wound and which has a shape different from that of the tape core A, by contact with the tape core B when the tape roll A is mistakenly replaced with a tape roll B included in a tape cartridge B, which is configured to be mounted on a tape printing apparatus, and including the tape B and the tape core B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Taruya, Taishi Sasaki, Akio Ishimoto, Hirosuke Yasuki
  • Patent number: 12275245
    Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a diaphragm provided on a side of one surface of a substrate and a piezoelectric actuator having a first electrode, a piezoelectric body layer, and a second electrode which are stacked on a side of a surface opposite to the substrate of the diaphragm, in which the piezoelectric actuator includes an active portion in which the piezoelectric body layer is pinched between the first electrode and the second electrode, and has an uneven portion constituted with a plurality of projection portions and a recess portion formed between the projection portions on a surface of the first electrode on a side of the piezoelectric body layer at an end portion of the active portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Nagano
  • Patent number: 12269255
    Abstract: A printing device includes a carriage configured to move in a first direction along a first axis; a head configured to eject ink onto a medium; and an irradiation section that is provided alongside the head in the first direction and that is configured to irradiate ultraviolet light toward the medium, wherein the irradiation section has a cooling unit that cools the irradiation section by airflow, in a plan view facing the medium, the head is disposed in a first region of the carriage and the irradiation section is disposed in a second region of the carriage, and in the second region, at least one lid section is provided to block an airflow from a side in which the carriage faces the medium to the irradiation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta Watanabe, Yoshitsugu Tokai
  • Patent number: 12269254
    Abstract: Provided is a dielectric heating apparatus for heating a first ink and a second ink that adhere to a medium. The first ink contains carbon black, and the second ink does not contain carbon black. The dielectric heating apparatus includes: a first electrode unit as an electrode unit configured to heat the first ink and the second ink, the first electrode unit including a first electrode and a second electrode that face the medium; and a first voltage application unit configured to apply an AC voltage having a frequency of 300 MHz or more and 300 GHz or less to the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadashi Aizawa
  • Patent number: 12263687
    Abstract: The plurality of surface light emitting element array chips in the first row and the plurality of surface light emitting element array chips in the second row are arranged in a staggered manner along the main scanning direction, and a space between the plurality of surface light emitting element array chips in the first row and the plurality of surface light emitting element array chips in the second row is set so as not to be an integral multiple of an image resolution pitch in the sub-scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichiro Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 12263682
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid container for containing liquid which has a refilling port for refilling the liquid container with liquid, a contained liquid information memory unit for storing information on the liquid contained in the liquid container, a refilling liquid information memory unit for storing information on the liquid to be supplied for refilling the liquid container, a liquid ejection head for ejecting the liquid supplied from the liquid container and a control unit for controlling operation of the liquid ejection apparatus according to the information stored in the contained liquid information memory unit and the information stored in the refilling liquid information memory unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Tamaru, Kazumasa Matsushita, Chiaki Muraoka
  • Patent number: 12257848
    Abstract: Provided is a consumable package assembly including a consumable container and an outer packaging portion. The consumable container includes a chip, and the outer packaging portion includes an accommodating portion for accommodating the consumable container. The outer packaging portion includes a first through hole configured to expose at least a part of the chip, and a second through hole configured to expose at least apart of the accommodating portion so as to position the consumable container. Operation to the chip on the consumable container can be performed without removing the outer packaging portion so as to avoid scrapping of the outer packaging portion, thereby reducing the procedures of the production or the reprocessing and resulting in lower cost and higher efficiency. The second through hole is configured to prevent the unfixed position of the consumable container in the outer packaging portion from resulting inaccurate operation to the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: ZHUHAI NINESTAR MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weijian Chen, Huafeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12257825
    Abstract: A printer includes: a transfer unit configured to transfer printing paper in a printing direction; a printing unit configured to print information on transferred printing paper; a detection unit installed to face discharged printing paper on a printing paper discharge portion side, and configured to acquire measured values by detecting light while printing paper is transferred or when the transfer of printing paper is stopped; and a control unit configured to collect measured values of the detection unit while printing paper is transferred, to calculate a reference value by using the collected measured values, and to determine whether printing paper has been removed by comparing the calculated reference value with a measured value acquired by the detection unit when the transfer of printing paper is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: BIXOLON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chul Hui Lee
  • Patent number: 12251946
    Abstract: The present teachings disclose various embodiments of a printing system for printing substrate, in which the printing system can be housed in a gas enclosure, where the environment within the enclosure can be maintained as a controlled printing environment. A controlled environment of the present teachings can include control of the type of gas environment within the gas enclosure, the size and level particulate matter within the enclosure, control of the temperature within the enclosure and control of lighting. Various embodiments of a printing system of the present teachings can include a Y-axis motion system and a Z-axis moving plate that are configured to substantially decrease excess thermal load within the enclosure by, for example, eliminating or substantially minimizing the use of conventional electric motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Kateeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert B. Lowrance, Alexander Sou-Kang Ko, Justin Mauck, Eliyahu Vronsky, Aleksey Khrustalev, Karl Mathia, Shandon Alderson
  • Patent number: 12246546
    Abstract: A device (1) is for guiding printer (20). The device (1) is utilized in a method for using a handheld electronic printer (20) with the device (1). The device (1) includes a base (2) having at least one guide (5), and a carriage (3) having at least two separate links (26, 27) engaged with the at least one guide (5). The at least one guide (5) has at least two linear sections (7, 8) being spaced apart and parallel. The at least one guide (5) includes at least two changeover sections (10, 11), each connecting two linear sections (7, 8). The changeover sections (10, 11) are arranged at different positions of the linear sections (7, 8) the changeover sections respectively connect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: COLOP DIGITAL GMBH
    Inventor: Cedric Heinl
  • Patent number: 12240251
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: first and second heads; a carriage; and a control device. The control device is configured to perform: (a) selecting; (b) setting; and (c) executing. The (a) selecting sets one of the first and second heads as an active head. The (b) setting sets an operation mode to one of a plurality of modes including first and second modes. The (c) executing executes a printing operation under the operation mode. The printing operation is performed by ejecting ink from both the first and second heads in a state where the first mode is set as the operation mode. The printing operation is performed by ejecting ink from the active head without ejecting ink from a non-active head in a state where the second mode is set as the operation mode. The non-active head is a head other than the active head among the first and second heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shota Morikawa, Tomoya Kondo
  • Patent number: 12240235
    Abstract: A determination method of determining a supply signal to be supplied to a first electrode and a second electrode includes an acquisition step of acquiring, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, first information regarding a liquid ejection characteristic when a first constant potential signal of a first potential is supplied to the second electrode, and second information regarding a liquid ejection characteristic when a second constant potential signal of a second potential different from the first potential is supplied to the second electrode, and a determination step of determining, based on the first information and the second information, the supply signal to be supplied to the first electrode and the second electrode after the predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Katakura, Toshiro Murayama
  • Patent number: 12227002
    Abstract: A tag mount for a media supply roll having a hollow cylindrical core includes: a tag mount body including: (i) an inner wall configured to face the core, the inner wall having a retaining surface to engage with the core and affix the tag mount body to the core, (ii) an outer wall opposite the inner wall, and (iii) a carrier surface, distinct from the retaining surface, the carrier surface defined on one of the inner wall and the outer wall; an antenna affixed to the carrier surface; and an integrated circuit coupled with the antenna and configured to store an attribute corresponding to the media supply roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Miroslav Vuckovic, Annika Matas Alonzo