Patents Examined by Lamson Nguyen
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Patent number: 9676190Abstract: A print head die may include a substrate, an electrical connector and at least three liquid feed slots. The electrical connector is on a first side of the substrate and extends along the major dimension of the substrate. The electrical connector is connectable directly to an electrical interconnect to connect the print head die to a controller. The at least three liquid feed slots are formed in the substrate and extend along the major dimension of the substrate. Wherein at least one and less than all of the at least three liquid feed slots has an associated temperature sensor connected to the electrical connector.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Garrett E. Clark, Chris Bakker, Mark H. MacKenzie, Glenn D. McCloy
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Patent number: 9669632Abstract: A compact and portable printer, scanner and copier having dimensions and a housing allowing the device to be portable for travel with a laptop computer or other tablet or portable computing device. The three in one printer has a pivotal carriage for linear and rotational movement of the carriage and an ink cartridge. The printer also has an easily accessible removable ink cartridge maintenance system.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: PRIMERA TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Erick Hagstrom, Robert P. Cummins, Michael R. Tolrud
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Patent number: 9669624Abstract: An example provides a fluid ejection apparatus including a fluid feed slot to supply a fluid to a plurality of drop ejectors, a first rib at a first side of the fluid feed slot and supporting drop ejection circuitry to control ejection of drops of the fluid from the plurality of drop ejectors, and a second rib at a second side, opposite the first side, of the fluid feed slot supporting a thermal sensor to facilitate determination of a temperature of the first rib and the second rib.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: David Maxfield
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Patent number: 9662895Abstract: An ink container, which is able to be attached to and detached from a liquid supply apparatus which supplies liquid to a liquid ejecting apparatus, provided with an ink containing section which has flexibility and which contains the ink, a base member which is positioned on an end section of the ink containing section and which protrudes more to the outer side than the ink containing section, an ink extraction section which is provided in the base member and which forms a flow path which is linked with an inner section of the ink containing section via the base member, and a handle which is provided so as to be able to be rotated with regard to the base member.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Tokujiro Okuno
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Patent number: 9662883Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a set-up surface that faces a support body in a negative Z direction and that is fixed to the support body, an ejection surface that faces in a positive Z direction and in which are located nozzles that eject ink, and a first support surface and a second support surface that face in the positive Z direction and are located on the negative Z direction side of the ejection surface, and, when viewed in the Z direction, are separated from each other with the ejection surface interposed therebetween in the Y direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Isamu Togashi
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Patent number: 9662900Abstract: Thermal printheads need a power and/or a data cable to deliver energy to the thermal printhead to print. With a wireless thermal printhead, however, a printer can run without using a power or a data cable. By removing the cable, benefits include shrinking the printer size, increasing durability of the printer and making it easier to change a thermal printhead.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Datamax-O'Neil CorporationInventors: Zhiyong Liu, Kian Kiat Chua
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Patent number: 9662911Abstract: In a printer that performs printing on a label of a continuous paper while feeding the continuous paper unwound from a paper sheet supply unit to a side of a printing head portion via a damper portion, a head pressure plate is arranged between an operating portion that adjusts a pressing force against a thermal head portion and a printing line of the thermal head portion such that the head pressure plate is formed extended to connect them.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hitoshi Onodera, Takayoshi Jinnouchi
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Patent number: 9656485Abstract: A conveyor line system, including: an image processing device configured to irradiate a recording part with laser light to record or erase, or record and erase an image, wherein the conveyor line system is configured to manage a conveying container containing the recording part, and wherein the following formula is satisfied at a wavelength of the laser light emitted from the image processing device when recording the image: A+50>B where A is an absorbance of the recording part, and B is an absorbance of the conveying container.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki Asai, Tomomi Ishimi, Katsuya Ohi
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Patent number: 9656492Abstract: A flatbed printer and a method for printing with a flatbed printer are disclosed. The flatbed printer includes a flatbed surface for placing media to be printed upon, a controller configured to control the printing of digital images on the media, a camera-projector system connected to the controller and situated above the flatbed surface, and a print head for ejecting recording material on the media. The method includes detecting an arbitrary position, an arbitrary shape, an arbitrary size and/or an arbitrary thickness of a media on the flatbed surface with a camera of the camera-projector system, projecting a digital image on the media with a projector of the camera-projector system, and printing the digital image on the media according to the projection by moving the print head over the flatbed surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Christophe Antoine Leynadier, Maria V. Ortiz Segovia, Jérôme O. R. Guermont, Arlette Del Aguila, Martinus G. M. Lange, Catherine M. H. A. Le Maitre
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Patent number: 9656459Abstract: An ink jet recording method of transferring onto a recording medium an intermediate image formed on an intermediate transfer member by an ink jet technique to record an image on the recording medium, the method including a pretreatment agent applying step of applying a pretreatment agent onto an intermediate transfer member; an ink applying step of applying an ink by an ink jet technique onto a region of the intermediate transfer member onto which the pretreatment agent is applied, thereby forming an intermediate image; a transfer step of transferring the intermediate image formed on the intermediate transfer member onto a recording medium; and a selection controlling step of controlling selection of execution or non-execution of at least one of the pretreatment agent applying step and the transfer step, based on an amount of the ink applied onto the intermediate transfer member.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Kuwabara, Fumihiro Goto, Masaki Nitta, Keiichirou Takeuchi, Kanako Soma, Takao Ogata
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Patent number: 9649864Abstract: An inkjet marking apparatus 1, wherein a printing means 220 comprises a printhead 222 provided with a plurality of nozzles 224 in a direction intersecting the conveying direction of printing substrates P, the printhead 222 is supported so as to be movable in a direction in which the nozzles 224 are arranged, and a control means, at a time of nozzle change when the nozzles 224 to be used are changed, suspends the operation of a feeding means 10 to form a non-holding area on a carrier means 20 where the printing substrates P are not held in a holding part 22 and, after the printing substrates P are printed, moves the printhead 222 during a time when the non-holding area passes through a printing area A.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: QUALICAPS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Seo, Hiroshi Sakuramoto, Yoshihisa Konishi, Tetsuhisa Ishida, Motohiro Yagyu
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Patent number: 9643428Abstract: A thermal printer includes heating elements each of which generates heat according to an amount of energy applied thereto, an energy applier that applies energy to each of the heating elements, a memory that stores a gradation table where energy values are set for gradation levels based on a relationship between reflectances of a printed image and amounts of energy applied to the heating elements, and a controller that transfers control data corresponding to gradation levels of image data to the energy applier based on the gradation table to control the amounts of energy to be applied by the energy applier to each of the heating elements.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2016Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITEDInventors: Natsumi Uryu, Hiroyuki Kataoka
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Patent number: 9643435Abstract: A plate spring is disposed at an outer lateral face of each of a pair of supporting members which a separation mechanism includes. In separation ejection, when an opening and closing cover is closed while pressing parts of an opening and closing cover is in contact with plate springs of the separation mechanism, the separation mechanism is fixed at the separation ejection position and the nip roller of the separation mechanism is biased toward the platen roller because of the effect of the plate springs. Since the plate springs can be pressed by the pressing parts of the opening and closing cover, a component to press the plate springs can be eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenji Hirose
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Patent number: 9643401Abstract: A credential production device includes a printing device, a laminating device, a transfer ribbon accumulator, a processing assembly, and a frame. The printing device is configured to print an image to the transfer ribbon. The laminating device is configured to transfer printed images from the transfer ribbon to a substrate. The transfer ribbon accumulator adjusts a length of a portion of a ribbon path, along which the transfer ribbon is routed, in response to different transfer ribbon feed rates. The processing assembly supports the transfer ribbon, at least a portion of the printing device or a portion of the laminating device, and at least a first portion of the transfer ribbon accumulator. The frame supports the second portion of the transfer ribbon accumulator. The processing assembly and the frame are configured to move relative to each other between first and second positions.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Assa Abloy ABInventors: Jeffrey Stangler, James Rieck, Russell Ericson
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Patent number: 9636925Abstract: A recording apparatus is provided in which a recording medium and a plurality of nozzles including a plurality of nozzles for black which is lined up in a predetermined line-up direction to form black dots and a plurality of nozzles for color which is lined up in the line-up direction to form composite black dots move relatively in a relative movement direction that is different from the line-up direction. The recording apparatus includes a processing unit that forms composite black dots with a nozzle group included in the plurality of nozzles for color to complement dots which are to be formed by a failed nozzle included in the plurality of nozzles for black. The nozzle group includes a plurality of nozzles that is positioned differently in the line-up direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masahiro Fukazawa, Naoki Sudo, Akito Sato
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Patent number: 9636929Abstract: An apparatus (1) for marking a laboratory sample carrier (2), includes a guide (5) configured to guide a sample carrier (2) from an entry location (6) to an exit location (7), and a print head (23) configured and positioned to mark a sample carrier (2) at a marking location (24) at a guide position intermediate the entry and exit locations (6, 7). The guide (5) is inclined such that a laboratory sample carrier (2) can travel from the entry to the exit locations (6, 7) under the influence of gravity. The apparatus (1) further includes a selectively deployable stop (41) for arresting the travel of a sample carrier (2) down the guide (5) at the marking location (24), the stop (41) being undeployable to allow the sample carrier (2) to travel from the marking location (24) to the exit location (7).Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: PYRAMID INNOVATION (partial interest)Inventor: Thomas Fergus Hughes
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Patent number: 9636934Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a head; a scanning section; and a transport section. A first region is formed in the head between a nozzle formed at a first end and a first nozzle that is a first predetermined distance away, in the sub-scanning direction, from the nozzle formed at the first end. A second region is formed in the head between a nozzle formed at a second end and a second nozzle that is a second predetermined distance away, in the sub-scanning direction, from the nozzle formed at the second end. When the head, the scanning section, and the transport section form an image on the medium, a moving-average nozzle usage ratio within a region between the first region and the second region changes at a lower rate than moving-average nozzle usage ratios within the first region and the second region.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2016Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Tomohiro Yuda
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Patent number: 9630431Abstract: A configuration includes a paper sheet supply unit that supplies a continuous paper, a supporting stand that includes a platen roller feeding the continuous paper supplied from the paper sheet supply unit to a front along a paper passing route, a printing unit that includes a bracket to which a thermal head is mounted, prints on the continuous paper in a position opposing to the platen roller, and is disposed openable/closable in a vertical direction with respect to the supporting stand by the swinging bracket, and a support plate that swings in conjunction with opening and closing of the printing unit to displace a lower portion side of the thermal head to a front in an open position of the printing unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2014Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hitoshi Onodera
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Patent number: 9630419Abstract: An ejection chip is disclosed, and comprises a substrate, a flow feature layer, a nozzle plate, and one or more valves. The substrate includes one or more fluid channels and one or more fluid ports each in communication with at least one of the one or more fluid channels. The flow feature layer is disposed over the substrate, and the flow feature layer include one or more flow features each in communication with at least one of the one or more fluid ports.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eunki Hong, Burton L. Joyner, Daniel R. Gagnon, Wade A. Powell, Yimin Guan, Timothy L. Strunk
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Patent number: 9623674Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a platen roller, an ink ribbon, a transfer target, a thermal head, and a controller. When continuous n-spot transfer regions set on the transfer target are named as first to n-th (n is an integer of 2 or more) transfer regions in a reverse direction to an alignment sequence of first to n-th ink layers, the controller executes transfer operations of transferring inks of first to k-th (1?k?n) ink layers to the n-spot transfer regions by using first to n-th ink sets from k=1 to k=n. By the transfer operations, a color image to which n-color inks are transferred is formed on the first transfer region.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2016Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATIONInventors: Keiji Ihara, Yuji Okada
