Patents Examined by Marissa Ferguson-Samreth
  • Paper discharging apparatus, paper discharging method, image forming apparatus and image forming method
    Patent number: 9944485
    Abstract: A paper discharging apparatus comprises: a first conveying unit; a second conveying unit which includes a pinch roller and a feeding roller that are arranged closer to the downstream side; a movable mechanism which moves a surface part between a first position that the surface part is not contacted with the pinch roller and a second position that the surface part is contacted with the pinch roller through the paper so as to push the pinch roller; a control unit which moves the surface part to the second position, clamps the paper by the pinch roller and the surface part, and conveys the paper, thereby bending the paper, and which moves the surface part to the first position and clamps the paper by the pinch roller and the feeding roller, and rotates the feeding roller, thereby discharging the paper from the conveyance path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Eoka, Tsuyoshi Sanada
  • Web printing press
    Patent number: 9931831
    Abstract: A web printing apparatus includes a transfer device which transfers highly reactive ink/varnish onto a web, and a fixing device which fixes, on the web, the highly reactive ink/varnish transferred by the transfer device. The fixing device includes only a light irradiation device which irradiates the web with light in the wavelength range, in which no ozone is generated, to cure the highly reactive ink/varnish on the web without thermal drying of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: KOMORI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Ishikawa
  • Multicolour letterpress printing press having numbering cylinders and an additional printing
    Patent number: 9931832
    Abstract: There is described a multicolor letterpress printing press, in particular a numbering press, comprising a printing group (50) with at least a first letterpress (e.g. numbering) cylinder (51) and a second letterpress cylinder (52) which are inked by an associated inking system (60, 71, 72, 81, 81 a, 81 b, 82, 82a, 82b). The inking system (60, 71, 72, 81, 81 a, 81 b, 82, 82a, 82b) comprises (i) a first inking device (81) supplying ink to a first chablon cylinder (71), (ii) at least a second inking device (82) supplying ink to a second chablon cylinder (72), and (iii) an ink-collecting cylinder (60) contacting the first and second chablon cylinders (71, 72) and the first and second letterpress cylinders (51, 52). The ink-collecting cylinder (60) collects a first ink pattern (A, D) from the first chablon cylinder (71) and a second ink pattern (B, C) from the second chablon cylinder (72).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: KBA-NotaSys SA
    Inventor: Johannes Georg Schaede
  • Screen assembly, screen printing system and screen printing method
    Patent number: 9914294
    Abstract: The present invention provides a screen assembly, a screen printing system and a screen printing method, belonging to the field of screen printing technology, by means of which the problem of prior art that the printed pattern has unsmooth lines caused by deformation of a thin film screen after a plurality of times of printing can be solved. The screen assembly of the present invention comprises a thin film screen and a fixed screen both having a same pattern. When a packaging cover plate is printed, the thin film screen is arranged above the fixed screen, and the fixed screen is arranged on the packaging cover plate, so that the printing material passes through the thin film screen and the fixed screen successively to be printed onto the packaging cover plate. The screen assembly of the present invention is particularly applicable to the printing process of glass material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhiqiang Gao
  • System and method for aligning, mounting and recording alignment of a mounted printing plate
    Patent number: 9902146
    Abstract: A system and method for aligning a generally flat, planar object and for facilitating the mounting of the generally flat planar object, such as a printing plate, in near perfect alignment in a cylindrical manner. A printing plate cylinder is covered with stickyback having a release liner. A narrow axial strip of release liner is removed and replaced with a piece of release liner that may be pulled or tugged from beyond the end of the printing cylinder. The printing plate is next rolled into a cylindrical form and held in place on a device which allows registration marks on the printing plate to align the two ends of the printing plate prior to the printing plate ends being temporarily adhered to one another using a piece of tape or similar product. The aligned printing plate is next slid over the printing cylinder which is covered with sticky back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Gerald J. Gartner and Teresa Ann Gartner, or their successors
    Inventors: Gerald J. Gartner, Joseph Gartner
  • Apparatus comprising a plurality of printing units for printing hollow elements
    Patent number: 9895876
    Abstract: An apparatus is comprised of a plurality of printing units for printing hollow elements. A conveying device conveys the hollow elements to be printed into a printing zone of at least one of the printing units. At least one of the printing units includes a plate cylinder to which a plate replacing mechanism is assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: KBA-METALPRINT GMBH
    Inventors: Stephan Behnke, Wolfgang Reder, Karl Schäfer
  • Printing unit having a plate cylinder and plate changer
    Patent number: 9895875
    Abstract: A printing unit has a printing form cylinder. A plate changer is arranged in a manner which is allocated to the printing form cylinder. The plate changer has a bearing surface on which a printing form, which is arranged or is to be arranged on the printing form cylinder, can be laid. That bearing surface is arranged such that it can be moved to and fro between at least two defined positions longitudinally with respect to the rotational axis of the printing form cylinder. The printing form is arranged and registered on the bearing surface of the plate changer. At least two edges of a carrier for the relevant printing form, which are arranged at a right angle with respect to each other, are brought into physical contact with register pins which are arranged on the bearing surface of the plate changer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: KBA-METALPRINT GMBH
    Inventors: Lars Keil, Bernd Masuch, Wolfgang Reder, Karl Schäfer
  • Stamp and stamping insert
    Patent number: 9895919
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a stamp comprising at least one stamping component and one stamping insert with a mounted band unit. The stamping component may comprise a top part and a bottom part with a cushion-receiving element. The mounted band unit may be connected so as to move synchronously via a reversing mechanism in the bottom part to the top part. In the resting position a text plate mounted on the stamping insert and a stamping area of the mounted band unit may abut against an ink pad soaked with ink in the cushion-receiving element. During a stamping process for producing a stamp impression the stamping insert can be shifted via the reversing mechanism into a stamping position. On the stamping insert, a height adjustment element for the mounted band unit and/or a text plate carrier may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Trodat GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Zehetner, Konrad Riegler, Helmut Lindner
  • Device for guiding an ink pad container and self-inking stamp
    Patent number: 9884502
    Abstract: A device (1) for guiding an ink pad container (2) into and/or out of a receiving space (3) in the stamp housing (4) of a self-inking stamp (5), comprising a drawer-type receiving container (6) for the ink pad container (2) which comprises, on one side, a free access opening (11) for pushing out and/or pushing in the ink pad container (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: COLOP Stempelerzeugung Skopek Gesellschaft m.b.H. & Co. KG.
    Inventor: Ernst Faber
  • Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus including same
    Patent number: 9885988
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a drive unit including a first drive train through which a driving force from the drive source is transmitted to the discharge roller and a second drive train through which a driving force from the drive source is transmitted to the reverse roller, and a switching mechanism, provided on the second drive train, configured to switch a rotating direction of the reverse roller between the forward rotating direction and the reverse rotating direction with the discharge roller rotating in one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanori Maeda, Daisuke Aoki
  • Seal carving apparatus and seal carving method
    Patent number: 9878491
    Abstract: A seal carving apparatus includes a thermal head having a plurality of heat generating elements disposed in lines, and thermal drive control means that performs a control process of selectively and thermally driving the individual heat generating elements while moving the thermal head and a porous material in relative to each other with the thermal head being in abutment with the porous material, thereby forming a seal face on the porous material. The thermal drive control means controls a pulse time width for thermally driving the individual heat generating elements of the thermal head under pulse width modulation control based on gradation image data having a gradation value, thereby forming a seal with a gradation on the porous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Shachihata Inc.
    Inventors: Eiji Abe, Masayoshi Uchida
  • Anti-marking coverings for printing presses
    Patent number: 9868277
    Abstract: In a printing press and attached onto the transfer cylinders, an anti-marking system that uniformly supports the transport and the release of the wet printed sheet from one station to the next. The anti-marking sheet consists of a two plus layer system, the outer layer being a textured surface and the inner layer being a microcellular material that is both compressible and resilient. The outer textured layer may be treated with either conductive/anti-static layers or an ink repellent layer or both. The two plus layer system is easily attached to both transfer cylinders and tracking/skeleton wheels using any combination of fixtures from Velcro™, magnetic, metallic, and pressure sensitive double sided tape to elastic loops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: PrintGuard, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Rizika, Gary Litman, Joseph Llanes
  • Input device for arabic letters
    Patent number: 9870067
    Abstract: The invention is an input device for Arabic letters installed on key pads of the electrical devices. Arabic letters are divided into the main letters which are the common letter parts or bases of each Arabic letters and the subscripts to be added on the main letters, and inputting operation is implemented in a way that the main letters is inputted first, and the subscripts is inputted later, so the consistency of the input method is maintained, and the number of key operating could be minimized without increasing the number of key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Inventor: Don Woo Cho
  • Method and device for replacing the printing roller of a printing unit of a printing machine
    Patent number: 9840074
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for replacing the printing roller in a printing unit, in particular for in line rotary flexographic machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: BOBST FIRENZE S.R.L.
    Inventors: Massimo Bastici, Federico D'Annunzio, Giacomo Maccalli, Mauro Maccalli
  • Device for printing on hollow bodies
    Patent number: 9833989
    Abstract: An inking unit of a printing unit and a device for printing on hollow bodies each have a cylindrical lateral surface. The device comprises the inking unit. The inking unit has an anilox roller which receives a printing ink from an ink reservoir and has an inking roller placed against a printing cylinder of the printing unit. A rider roller is arranged axially parallel to the anilox roller in a region between the ink reservoir and the inking roller, that region being located subsequent to the ink reservoir in a direction of rotation of the anilox roller. The ink reservoir interacts with the anilox roller. The rider roller is placed against the anilox roller. The rider roller is rotationally driven by the anilox roller by friction. The inking roller is rotationally driven by the anilox roller by friction. The plate cylinder and the anilox roller are each independently rotationally driven by a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: KBA-METALPRINT GMBH
    Inventors: Stephan Behnke, Bernd Masuch, Wolfgang Reder
  • Integrated overprint colorful seal with multiple printing surfaces
    Patent number: 9815269
    Abstract: An integrated overprint colorful seal with multiple printing surfaces, comprising a seal housing (1), a middle frame (2) accommodated in the seal housing (1), a spring (3) squeezed between the seal housing and the middle frame, a seal body (4) in a regular triangular prism or a quadrangular prism shape, and a driving mechanism. Each side surface of the seal body (4) in the regular triangular prism or quadrangular prism shape is a printing surface (60) in a different color and the printing surface is overprinted on a target object to show a colorful seal pattern. The seal integrates the multiple printing surfaces in an integral whole, can implement semi-automatic overprint of three colors or four colors and is precise in overprint. The seal also supports printing surface replacement and ink-replenishment, and is easy to use and convenient to carry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN WANXI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kai Chen
  • Device for embossing and/or perforating foils for tobacco goods
    Patent number: 9809927
    Abstract: The device for embossing and perforating foils for tobacco goods includes: a pair of embossing rolls, one of the embossing rolls having teeth for perforating the foil, the counter roll to the embossing roll with the perforating teeth being a matrix roll which has recesses that correspond to the teeth on the patrix roll, both embossing rolls being arranged in a perforation device, and the device being designed in order to be operated directly or indirectly online in a machine for producing tobacco goods. The use of patrix-matrix embossing rolls allows for a large variety of perforations, the device having a control unit designed to control the exact position, size and arrangement of the perforations on the basis of the quality of the foil to be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Charles Boegli
  • Frame assembly, stencil, screen printing device and screen printing method
    Patent number: 9802401
    Abstract: The present invention provides a frame assembly, which comprises a first frame and a second frame provided to surround the first frame. The first frame and the second frame are configured to support mesh fabric therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hu Li, Qing Zhang, Ming Hu
  • Device for printing on hollow bodies
    Patent number: 9796173
    Abstract: A device for printing on hollow bodies has a plurality of printing units each having a printing cylinder. At least one of the printing units has an inking unit having a chambered doctor blade that provides printing ink. The chambered doctor blade system has at least one ink pan and a doctor blade holder in a single assembly. The single assembly of the chambered doctor blade system is retained in the inking unit only on one side. The assembly of the chambered doctor blade system forms a cantilever arm on a side frame of the inking unit. The assembly of the chambered doctor blade system can be moved axially parallel to the anilox roller and can be removed from the inking unit by that movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: KBA-METALPRING GMBH
    Inventors: Stephan Behnke, Wolfgang Reder, Ewald Röthlein, Karl Schäfer, Wolfgang Zink
  • Apparatus, system, and method for marking a substrate
    Patent number: 9796172
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system are described. In one embodiment, the system includes an ink template platform having a surface for engaging an ink template. The ink template may have a recess or engraving for receiving ink. Supports are configured to slideably position the ink template platform between a first and second position. The first position is a position for receiving ink, and the second position for delivering ink. The system also includes an ink capsule biased on a surface of the ink template. The ink capsule is slidably positionable on the ink template to deliver ink to the recess in response to the platform being positioned in the ink receiving position. An ink capsule biasing member applies a pressure to the ink capsule that is sufficient to remove excess ink from the ink template. Other embodiments of the system are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Inventor: Hector Rene Rodriguez