Patents Examined by Scott A Richmond
  • Patent number: 12145361
    Abstract: A drive waveform determination method includes: a first acquisition step of executing first acquisition processing for acquiring, in a first environment condition which is a condition of an environment in which a liquid ejection head is provided, first information on an ejection characteristic of a liquid when each of a plurality of drive waveform candidates is applied to a drive element; a second acquisition step of executing second acquisition processing for acquiring, in a second environment condition which is a condition of the environment in which the liquid ejection head is provided and is different from the first environment condition, second information on the ejection characteristic when each of the plurality of drive waveform candidates is applied to the drive element; and a waveform determination step of determining a drive waveform based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Toyofuku, Toshiro Murayama
  • Patent number: 12145382
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head that ejects a printing liquid to form an image on a medium, a circuit board provided with a drive circuit for driving the liquid ejecting head, and a storage mechanism for storing a cooling liquid in a liquid storage space. The storage mechanism stores the cooling liquid in the liquid storage space in which all of the drive circuit and a circuit arrangement portion of the circuit board are immersed in the cooling liquid. The circuit arrangement portion of the circuit board is provided with the drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Dai Nozawa
  • Patent number: 12139289
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a method for manufacturing a medical package, in particular a foil bag made of plastic. A print image with variable information is first applied by means of a thermal transfer printer which is formed as a negative print image and comprises blank spaces. The blank spaces are filled by means of a hot stamp printing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Brückner, Benjamin Fritz, Gerald Wegner, Stefan Faber, Alexander Stojmanovski, Marko Krenzlin
  • Patent number: 12138915
    Abstract: There are provided a liquid jet head and so on capable of enhancing the reliability. A liquid jet head according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a jet section configured to jet liquid, at least one drive circuit configured to output a drive signal used to jet the liquid to the jet section, a differential input line configured to transmit data from an outside of the liquid jet head toward the drive circuit, a differential output line configured to transmit data from the drive circuit toward the outside of the liquid jet head, a coupling part which is arranged between the outside of the liquid jet head and the drive circuit, and to which the differential input line and the differential output line are individually coupled, and a detection circuit configured to perform detection of a coupling state in the coupling part using a transmission signal in at least one of the differential output line and the differential input line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.
    Inventors: Kensuke Yoshida, Akihiro Itagi
  • Patent number: 12134269
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus with a recording element substrate including an ejection port that ejects liquid, and a heating element that heats the liquid in order to eject the liquid from the ejection port; and at least a first temperature detecting element and a second temperature detecting element. The first temperature detecting element and the second temperature detecting element are formed at target positions centered on the center of the heating element when the recording element substrate is viewed in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Nomura
  • Patent number: 12128690
    Abstract: A liquid supply system includes one or a plurality tubes, a supply mechanism, a first sensor and a processor. The one or plurality tubes is connected to a tank. The tank is provided further upstream than a printer. The one or plurality of supply tubes configured to supply the liquid from the tank toward the printer. The supply mechanism is provided in the one or plurality of tubes, and switches between a supply state and a supply stopped state. The processor determines, based on a signal from the first sensor, whether the server remaining amount is equal to or less than a predetermined remaining amount. When the server remaining amount is equal to or less than the predetermined remaining amount, the processor supplies the liquid from the tank toward the printer via the one or plurality of supply tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisaaki Yoshimoto, Akihiro Kawakita
  • Patent number: 12128684
    Abstract: An example fluid ejection device comprises a plurality of distinct fluid channels. Each fluid channel comprises a distinct fluid inlet to the ejection device. A subset of the plurality of distinct fluid channels comprises fluid recirculating fluid channels, and the remaining fluid channels comprising non-recirculating fluid channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Daryl Eugene Anderson, James R. Przybyla, Eric T. Martin, Garrett E. Clark
  • Patent number: 12128672
    Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit configured to perform recording by ejecting a liquid onto a medium configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave, a transport unit configured to transport the medium, an imaging unit configured to capture an image of the medium, an ultrasonic wave sensor including a transmission unit configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave to the medium and a reception unit configured to receive an ultrasonic wave transmitted by the transmission unit, and a control unit configured to control an operation of the recording unit, based on an imaging result from the imaging unit and a detection result from the ultrasonic wave sensor. The transmission unit and the reception unit are positioned sandwiching the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya Yumoto, Junpei Yamashita, Osamu Murayama, Shinya Yamazaki, Nobuaki Kamiyama, Shigenori Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 12122163
    Abstract: An inkjet printer includes one or more printhead maintenance stations. Each station is positioned within the print zone of the inkjet printer and includes at least one printhead cleaning module. The at least one printhead cleaning module is configured to move from a first position that is not between the media transport and the at least one printhead to a second position where the at least one printhead cleaning module is between the at least one printhead and the media transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua E. Lake, Steven R. Slotto, Chad J. Slenes
  • Patent number: 12115782
    Abstract: A flexible belt is disclosed for use in a printing system. The belt comprises an endless strip which, in use, travels along a continuous path. Formations are provided along the sides of the strip which are capable of engaging with lateral tracks to place the belt under lateral tension, the lateral tracks further serving to constrain the belt to follow the continuous path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: LANDA CORPORATION LTD.
    Inventors: Benzion Landa, Sagi Abramovich, Aharon Shmaiser, Rami Keller, Itshak Ashkanazi
  • Patent number: 12109798
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a conveyance path, a double-sided conveyance path, and first and second charge eliminators. The conveyance unit conveys a recording medium having first and second surfaces in a first direction through the conveyance path to a recording area where recording is performed by a recording unit on the first surface. The recording medium then passes through the double-sided conveyance path before recording is performed on the second surface. The first charge eliminator eliminates charges from the first surface and is disposed at a position downstream of a junction between the conveyance path and the double-sided conveyance path in the first direction and upstream of the recording area in the first direction. The second charge eliminator eliminate charges from the second surface and is disposed downstream of the junction in the first direction and upstream of the recording area in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takaaki Ishida, Masakazu Tsukuda, Masaaki Matsuura, Koki Kudo, Akira Kida, Masashi Hayashi, Atsushi Arai
  • Patent number: 12109806
    Abstract: Provided are an inkjet printing apparatus and a method for inspecting an inkjet head using same. The inkjet printing apparatus comprises: an inspection stage unit on which an inspection substrate is seated; an inkjet head unit including at least one inkjet head that ejects ink containing dipoles and a solvent in which the dipoles disperse, on the inspection stage unit; and a particle count inspection unit that is located so as to be spaced apart from the inkjet head unit in one direction. The particle count inspection unit comprises: a first heat treatment unit that is located on the top portion of the inspection stage unit; and a first sensing unit that is located on the bottom portion of the inspection stage unit and measures the number of dipoles sprayed onto the inspection substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Chul Lee, Heung Cheol Jeong, Myung Soo Huh, Cheol Lae Roh, Do Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 12109802
    Abstract: A printing device includes a printer including a printing head to print a printing subject on a printing medium; a transporter including a roller to, while pressing the printing medium against the printing head, transport the printing medium in a feeding direction and a retracting direction; and a presser to, when the printing medium is transported in a feeding direction, cause the roller to press the printing medium against the printing head with first pressure and, when the printing medium is transported in a retracting direction, cause the roller to press the printing medium against the printing head with second pressure different from the first pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Tokuda
  • Patent number: 12113943
    Abstract: In a reading device part, a scan motor that moves a sensor unit relative to a document is accommodated in an accommodating portion protruding from the bottom surface of the reading device part toward a printing device part. A carriage in the printing device part and the accommodating portion are arranged so as to face each other in a direction crossing the scan direction of the carriage at the same height in the vertical direction. A flexible member connected to the carriage moves and follows the carriage on a lower side relative to the accommodating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Morinaga
  • Patent number: 12103316
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an ink-jet head including a storage that stores phase transition ink, the ink-jet head forms an image on a recording medium by ejecting the phase transition ink; and one or more hardware processors. The one or more hardware processors change a driving condition of the ink-jet head for a case of ejecting the phase transition ink on a basis of a first reading result of a pattern image formed by the ink-jet head; estimate occurrence of a state change of the phase transition ink in the storage when the driving condition that is changed satisfies a predetermined condition; and determine whether a lifetime of the ink-jet head is over in accordance with whether the occurrence of the state change is estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Umeda, Yusuke Nishisaka, Hiroshi Akita
  • Patent number: 12097698
    Abstract: There is provided head system including: head and channel member. The head includes four manifolds each having: common channel extending in first direction and inlet connected to the common channel. The four manifolds include first to fourth manifolds. The channel member includes: first member having supply port, and second member. The channel member is formed with first to fourth supply channels extending between the supply port and the inlet of the first to fourth manifolds, respectively. In two of the four manifolds, the inlet is connected to end on first side of the common channel, and in remaining two of the four manifolds, the inlet is connected to end on second side of the common channel. Each of the third and fourth supply channels is formed in both the first and second members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Itsuki Morimoto, Hirotoshi Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 12097704
    Abstract: In a case of executing first printing that printing is performed by using a first group, which includes nozzles of a nozzle array whose distances to a detection unit are less than a first predetermined value, and thereafter executing second printing that printing is performed by using a second group, which includes nozzles of the nozzle array whose distances to the detection unit are equal to or less than the first predetermined value and are equal to or more than a second predetermined value, a first driving pulse for the first printing is determined by using a first temperature, which is detected by the detection unit when the first printing is performed. A second driving pulse for the second printing is determined by use of a second temperature, which is derived based on the first temperature and corresponds to a temperature of the nozzles of the second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daisuke Kobayashi, Kenichi Oonuki
  • Patent number: 12097717
    Abstract: A mobile printer includes: a roll body accommodating portion including a first partition wall and accommodating a roll body on which a recording paper is wound; a print head; a transport unit; a power supply unit, and supplying a drive voltage signal to the print head and the transport unit; and a housing including a power supply surface to which the power receiving module is fixed, and covering the roll body accommodating portion, the print head, the transport unit, and the power supply unit, in which at least a part of the first partition wall is located between the power receiving module and the roll body accommodating portion along one direction from the power receiving module to the roll body accommodating portion, and a thickness of the first partition wall along the one direction is larger than a thickness of the power supply surface along the one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Michihiro Shimizu, Kazuyuki Morimoto, Toru Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 12090771
    Abstract: A printing machine includes a plurality of inkjet print heads arranged together in a printing unit and controlled by a control unit. At least two of the inkjet print heads are jointly arranged in relation to a stationary position in a transport path at a printing nip. The control unit activates a first inkjet print head when a substrate of a first substrate type moves past the stationary position, and activates a second inkjet print head when a substrate of a second substrate type moves past the stationary position. The first substrate type and the second substrate type differ from each other in material and/or nature of a surface to be printed. The inkjet print heads arranged in the printing unit are each configured to print an ink that comprises at least one colorant, both for the first substrate type and for the second substrate type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: KOENIG & BAUER AG
    Inventors: Hartmut Breunig, Simon Stahl
  • Patent number: 12095278
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile printer in which a shortest distance between a power receiving circuit that outputs a first base drive voltage signal and a first surface is shorter than a shortest distance between the power receiving circuit and a second surface, a shortest distance between a USB-Type-C receptacle connector and the first surface is shorter than a shortest distance between the USB-Type-C receptacle connector and the second surface, a shortest distance between a power supply terminal and the first surface is shorter than a shortest distance between the power supply terminal and the second surface, and a shortest distance between first signal wiring which electrically couples the control unit and the transport unit and the first surface is longer than a shortest distance between the first signal wiring and the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Michihiro Shimizu, Kazuyuki Morimoto, Toru Matsuyama