Patents Examined by Quang X Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12083813
    Abstract: A printing machine including a printing plate on a surface of a rotating cylinder, in which the printing plate has a fixed pattern for receiving a toner; a vessel containing the toner, which includes a pigment and a thermoplastic binder, in which the fixed pattern is a permanent pattern in a form of selected portions of an image is disclosed. A plate for use in the printing machine is also disclosed. A printing system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Cornelis Jan Delst, Vladimir P. Raksha, Alberto Argoitia, Paul Thomas Kohlmann
  • Patent number: 12083785
    Abstract: A squeegee assembly for a screen printing machine has a squeegee support body having a side configured to be fastened to the screen printing machine, a front portion provided with a front element and a rear portion provided with a rear element, respectively having a front element printing end and a rear element printing end for screen printing by ink. The front element printing end is spaced apart with respect to the rear element printing end in a translation direction so that an ink collection space is formed therebetween. In the front portion, one or more ink passage openings are formed for allowing passage of ink from a region in front of the front element towards the ink collection space during translation of the squeegee assembly during screen printing. Ink in the ink collection space is draggable by the rear element during translation of the squeegee assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: QUAGLIA S.R.L.
    Inventor: Giuseppe Quaglia
  • Patent number: 12085538
    Abstract: An ultrasonic phased array detection device sequentially performing flaw detection testing on a welded joint of tubes arranged in a row. The ultrasonic phased array detection device includes: a flaw detection testing unit inserted into a target tube targeted for flaw detection testing among the tubes, and performing flaw detection testing on the welded joint of the target tube; a drive mechanism rotating the flaw detection testing unit around an axis of the target tube; and a jig to be inserted and fixed in a tube different from the target tube. The flaw detection testing unit has a flaw detection part incorporating a phased array probe performing ultrasonic phased array method, and has a pressing mechanism pressing the flaw detection part against an inner surface of the target tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ZOSEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaoru Shinoda, Masamitsu Abe, Joichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 12083814
    Abstract: Examples are directed toward anticounterfeit markings printed on a substrate. A method includes determining with a microprocessor running computer executable code non-transitorily stored on tangible computer readable media that: a first microprinting appears on a front side of the substrate as front side markings of first portions of a plurality of characters having dimensions in a micrometer range when viewed from the front side with reflected light, a second microprinting appears on a back side of the substrate as back side markings of second portions of the plurality of characters having dimensions in the micrometer range when viewed from the back side with reflected light, and the first microprinting and the second microprinting in combination appear as microprinting of whole characters of the plurality of characters when viewed with transmitted light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: The United of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
    Inventors: Joel Zlotnick, Jordan Brough, Troy Eberhardt, Tyra McConnell, Elizabeth Gil, Traci Moran
  • Patent number: 12077404
    Abstract: A feed tray includes a first accommodation part in which a roll body having a configuration where a first sheet-shaped medium is rolled in a roll shape is accommodated, a conveyance guide configured to define a conveyance path for a roll medium which is the first sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll body accommodated in the first accommodation part, and a shutter movable between an intercept position where the shutter is located in the conveyance path and a retreat position where the shutter is further from the conveyance path than the intercept position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Miyase, Kengo Noda, Yuya Tatematsu
  • Patent number: 12078932
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating a relief plate precursor, such as a printing plate precursor, preferably with a liquid. The apparatus includes a transport system with at least one, preferably at least two transport bars; a plate coupling station configured for coupling a relief plate precursor to the transport bar; a treatment compartment configured for treating the relief plate precursor; and a plate decoupling station configured for decoupling the treated relief plate precursor from the transport bar. The transport system is configured to automatically move each transport bar, after being coupled to a relief plate precursor in the plate coupling station, from the plate coupling station through the treatment station to the plate decoupling station, and, after being decoupled from a treated relief plate precursor, from the plate decoupling station back to the plate coupling station, such that the transport bar moves in a closed loop through the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: XSYS PREPRESS N.V.
    Inventor: Bart Wattyn
  • Patent number: 12072255
    Abstract: Disclosed are a flexible strain sensor and a method for manufacturing the same. A conductive line pattern is directly printed on a flexible substrate by jetting a printing material mixture of metal nanoparticles and CNTs at a high impact speed, and sandwiched between the flexible substrate and a flexible cover. The mixture is excited by aerodynamically controlling pumping timing and jetted onto the flexible substrate in an aerosolized state through a nozzle. The jetted mixture collides with the surface of the flexible substrate to create cracks, and then CNTs penetrate into the cracks and are mechanically locked with the flexible substrate. Subsequently, metal nanoparticles and CNTs are deposited thereon to a predetermined width and height, forming the conductive line pattern. This direct printing can be performed in a low pressure and at room temperature without using solvents or resins, thus no need for additional chemical post-treatment or heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Seoul National University R&DBFoundation
    Inventors: Sunghoon Ahn, Soohong Min, Gilyong Lee
  • Patent number: 12059913
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for establishing the suitability for printing of a thermoplastic film for use in a packaging of absorbent hygienic articles, said thermoplastic film comprising at least 30% recycled polymer material. The method comprises scanning a sample of said film for Gel Spots, defining an Amount of Gel spots and a Relative Gel Spot Coverage area, and, determining that if the Amount of Gel Spots is less than or equal to a first threshold and the Relative Gel Spot Coverage Area is less than or equal to a second threshold, determining that said thermoplastic film is suitable for printing. The disclosure also relates to a method of forming a package from a thermoplastic film, and to a package comprising a thermoplastic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Anders Andreasson, Erik Nordström Matthiessen, Jonas Jönsson, Elisabet Cullbrand, Alessandro Galatà, Cecilia Thelin, Olivier Coursimaux
  • Patent number: 12054328
    Abstract: In a method of printing a product, a plate gap can be at least partially concealed, and the presence of any trap lines can be minimized. The background of each impression can be printed to include a gradient region along the leading and trailing edges of the background adjacent to the plate gap. An overprint ink/layer can be printed over the plate gap and at least a portion of the background gradient regions. The overprint ink/layer can be printed to include gradient regions along the leading and trailing edges of the overprint. The overlapping gradient regions of the background and of the overprint soften or obscure the appearance of any trap lines that would otherwise be more prominent in the overlapping areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Printpack Illinois, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Jay Balschi, III, David Welch
  • Patent number: 12043048
    Abstract: A printable media including a carrier layer, a first envelope and a first adhesive. The carrier layer includes a first surface having a first area and a second surface opposite the first surface. The first envelope includes a third surface, a fourth surface opposite the third surface, and a second area less than the first area. The first envelope is secured to the carrier layer by the first adhesive bonding the fourth surface to the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Eliud Robles Flores, William G. Osbourne
  • Patent number: 12038711
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a toner image forming portion, a foil transfer unit, a sheet tray, and a discharge portion. The toner image forming portion is provided in the housing and configured to form a toner image on a sheet. The foil transfer unit is configured to superpose a foil with a surface of the sheet. The sheet tray is installable in the housing in an inserting direction and configured to accommodate a sheet to be supplied to the toner image forming portion. The first discharge portion is configured to discharge the sheet from the foil transfer unit to the outside of the housing in a discharging direction opposite to the inserting direction. The second discharge portion is configured to discharge the sheet from the toner image forming portion to the outside of the housing without passing through the foil transfer unit in the discharge direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryosuke Sakai, Hideshi Nishiyama, Isami Fujisawa, Yukiko Kitamura
  • Patent number: 12025939
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet conveyance passage, an image forming apparatus, a sheet discharge unit, an apparatus body, a sheet discharge port, a pair of sheet pressing members, a discharge tray, and an overhang portion. The image forming unit includes an image carrying member. The sheet discharge unit is disposed above the image forming unit. The sheet discharge port is provided in the sheet discharge unit and has an upper edge and a lower edge. The pair of sheet pressing members press the sheet passing through the sheet discharge port. The overhang portion protrudes from the upper edge of the sheet discharge port in the sheet discharge direction beyond the lower edge. The overhang portion is disposed such that the straight line passing through the distal end of the overhang portion and the lower edge of the sheet discharge port passes above the image carrying member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hironori Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12023945
    Abstract: The invention relates to a printing system and a method for printing print material, with a number of printing stations, at least one pre- and/or post-treatment station and a number of print product carriers for taking up a print product and for transporting the print product to the stations. It is provided according to the invention that the print product carriers each have their own drive, a steerable chassis and a control unit for independent movement of the print product carriers and that the stations are arranged on a transport surface, on which the print product carriers are freely movable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Inventor: Angelo Schiestl
  • Patent number: 11994663
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of a vacuum transfer assembly, such as for cryotransfer, and specifically a TEM vacuum transfer assembly, which can be used in microscopy, a sample holder, a vacuum housing, a sample holder stage and a sample holder coupling unit for use in the assembly, and a microscope comprising said assembly as well as a method of vacuum transfer into a microscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: HENNYZ B.V.
    Inventor: Hendrik Willem Zandbergen
  • Patent number: 11978932
    Abstract: A method of detecting degradation of a membrane electrode assembly in a fuel cell system is provided. In the method, it is possible to detect degradation (cross leakage) of a fuel cell. In the state where variation of a load is suppressed, variation of the gas pressure where a predetermined amount of the fuel gas is supplied from a fuel tank to a fuel cell is measured by a pressure sensor provided in a fuel gas circulation channel extending from the fuel gas outlet to the fuel gas inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Inoue, Kuniaki Ojima, Tomoyuki Inoue, Osamu Ogami
  • Patent number: 11945207
    Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a first feed element and a second feed element, in which a web is to be fed to the first feed element and from the first feed element to the second feed element. The apparatus may also include a controller that may determine whether the web exiting the second feed element is shifted from an intended position and based on a determination that the web is shifted from the intended position, cause the first feed element to be moved laterally a first distance and the second feed element to be moved laterally a second distance to compensate for the shift in the web exiting the second feed element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ronald R. Anderson, Joseph Santich
  • Patent number: 11945247
    Abstract: Aspects are directed to a textile substrate with two or more ink layers and methods for printing a textile substrate. The two or more ink layers may include one or more visual components that form graphics or images that are visible to an observer when viewing the textile substrate from different angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Mon
  • Patent number: 11932037
    Abstract: A printed layer forming apparatus for a cover glass of a display device includes: a printing member including a first main body and a projection extending from one surface of the first main body, the projection having a thickness less than that of the first main body; and a cleaning member including a second main body, a first sidewall, and a second sidewall spaced apart from and opposing the first sidewall defining a space into which the projection is insertable to remove ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Beom Gyu Choi, Byoung Yul Shim
  • Patent number: 11904596
    Abstract: A hot foil stamping press has a pressing system for pressing a foil onto a sheet, a blow unit which is positioned at a distance to the pressing system for directing a stream of gas between the sheet and the foil. The stream of gas to detaches the foil from the sheet after each stamping cycle. A gripper bar is arranged between the blow unit and the pressing system for gripping the sheet. A flow guiding element is arranged between the blow unit and the pressing system, preferably on the gripper bar, for directing the gas from the blow unit between the sheet and the foil. Said element avoids the losses in the stream of gas due to the aperture that exist between the grippers in a typical gripper bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: BOBST MEX SA
    Inventor: David Gentil
  • Patent number: 11851300
    Abstract: Apparatus for picking a garment having a front and a back and placing the garment over a pallet such that the front and the back of the garment are on the front and the back sides respectively of the pallet. The apparatus comprises a picking arm to approach the garment and then withdraw towards the pallet; and one or more adherence locations on the picking arm, the adherence location being smaller than the first side, the adherence location for contacting the garment and causing adherence of the garment at the contact location, thereby causing the picking arm to pull the front of the garment over the front of the pallet, the back of the garment sliding under the first side onto the back of the pallet. Adherence may involve freezing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Kornit Digital Ltd.
    Inventors: Ohad Snir, Nuriel Amir, Haggai Abbo