Patents Examined by Stephen D. Meier
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Patent number: 10845249Abstract: An apparatus for processing substrates includes a continuum radiation source, a source manifold optically coupled to the continuum radiation source and comprising: a plurality of beam guides, each having a first end that optically couples the beam guide to the continuum radiation source; and a second end. The apparatus also includes a detector manifold to detect radiation originating from the source manifold and transmitted through a processing area, and one or more transmission pyrometers configured to analyze the source radiation and the transmitted radiation to determine an inferred temperature proximate the processing area.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventor: Samuel C. Howells
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Patent number: 10837842Abstract: A substrate for a sensor assembly of a resistance thermometer is disclosed. The substrate is comprised of spinel and magnesium oxide and has a thermal coefficient of expansion approximately equal to the thermal coefficient of expansion of platinum.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SENSORS GERMANY GMBHInventors: Heinrich Zitzmann, Horst Sirtl, Dirk Nusse
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Patent number: 10837838Abstract: A substrate for a sensor assembly of a resistance thermometer is disclosed. The substrate is comprised of aluminum oxide and zirconium dioxide and has a thermal coefficient of expansion approximately equal to the terminal coefficient of expansion of platinum.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SENSORS GERMANY GMBHInventors: Heinrich Zitzmann, Horst Sirtl, Dirk Nusse
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Patent number: 10835715Abstract: A system for locating the tip of a catheter inside a human body is provided. The system includes a sound sensor for sensing the magnitude wave form generated by sound pressure as a PICC is progressed toward a heart of a patient. The systems also includes a monitor operably coupled to the sensor for measuring the magnitude of wave form generated by the sound sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: AngioDynamics VA LLCInventors: Andres B. Cruz, Jr., Mark S. Fisher
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Patent number: 10821568Abstract: A method for determining a vibration amplitude of a tool, includes the steps of: generating a light beam of a light barrier with a transmitter for generating the light beam and a receiver for detecting a light intensity of the light beam; generating a receiver signal on the basis of a light intensity of the light beam that is detected by the receiver of the light barrier; positioning a tool tip of the tool in the light beam; causing the tool to vibrate; determining the vibration amplitude of the tool from a modulation of the receiver signal brought about by the vibration of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: SAUER GmbHInventors: Jens Ketelaer, Fabian Franzmann
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Patent number: 10589547Abstract: An inkjet printer having at least one print head in which an aerodynamic element is placed before (e.g. in a transport direction) a recording medium (e.g. in the form of a sheet or page or plate) to reduce or avoid turbulences that may arise due to the relative motion between print head(s) and recording medium at an edge of the recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Océ Holding B.V.Inventors: Matthias Brust, Egor Mohilnik
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Patent number: 10569585Abstract: A tape cartridge includes a platen roller, a winding up core, and a cartridge casing that accommodates a printing tape, an ink ribbon, the platen roller, and the winding up core. The cartridge casing includes an insertion hole in which a head cover on a cartridge installation portion of a tape printing apparatus is inserted when the tape cartridge is installed on the cartridge installation portion. The insertion hole includes a facing portion that faces a convex portion on the head cover when the tape cartridge is installed on the cartridge installation portion. The facing portion is part of an inner wall of the insertion hole.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hideki Sakano, Hideo Sodeyama
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Patent number: 10562310Abstract: In one example, a container includes expandable and contractible air free interior volumes joined by a passage through which liquid may pass from one volume to another volume, an inlet different from the passage through which liquid may enter into one of the volumes, and an outlet different from the passage through which liquid may leave another of the volumes.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Hector Lebron, Juan A Marrero Cosme
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Patent number: 10562297Abstract: There is provided an ink-jet printer comprising: a recording head, an electric power supply, and a controller which is configured: to determine an ink amount in which an ink is jetted by the recording head in a flushing processing; in a case that the determined ink amount is less than a first ink amount, to boost a driving voltage of the electric power supply to a target voltage value, in accordance with a predetermined first voltage boosting pattern; and in a case that the determined ink amount is not less than the first ink amount, to boost the driving voltage to the target voltage value, in accordance with a predetermined second voltage boosting pattern in which a voltage boosting time is shorter than that in the first voltage boosting pattern. Accordingly, it is possible to shorten FPOT while reducing the load on the constitutive elements of the ink-jet printer.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Satoru Arakane
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Patent number: 10543679Abstract: A liquid holding amount of a porous body of a liquid absorbing member for removing at least a portion of an aqueous liquid component from an image obtained by ink jet printing is controlled so as to reduce damage to the porous body while maintaining performance of removing attached matters from the porous body by using a cleaning member which abuts on the porous body and has an adhesive force.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Masuda, Toru Yamane, Kyosuke Deguchi, Ryosuke Hirokawa, Toru Ohnishi, Akihiro Mouri, Noboru Toyama, Atsushi Sakamoto, Yoshiyuki Honda, Taku Higashiyama, Susumu Hirosawa
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Patent number: 10532558Abstract: There is provided an ink jet printing method including: an image forming process of applying ink onto an image forming surface of a transfer body to form a first intermediate image; an auxiliary liquid applying process of applying an auxiliary liquid containing a thermoplastic resin onto the first intermediate image on the transfer body to form a second intermediate image; and a transferring process of contacting the second intermediate image on the transfer body with a printing medium and separating the second intermediate image from the transfer body while maintaining a contact state with the printing medium to transfer the second intermediate image to the printing medium, wherein in the auxiliary liquid applying process, an area difference between an area of a first intermediate image and an area of an auxiliary liquid application area in the image forming surface is adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toru Ohnishi, Yoichi Takada
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Patent number: 10525712Abstract: A printer includes: a platen having an ink-collection slot extending across its width; a wick bar received in the ink-collection slot, wherein an upstream gap and a downstream gap are defined at either side of the wick bar relative to a media feed direction; a printhead positioned over the wick bar; and a vacuum chamber in fluid communication with the ink-collection slot. The wick bar has a wick surface sloped upwards from the upstream gap towards the downstream gap.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: MEMJET TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Dan Baterna, Rommel Balala
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Patent number: 10524961Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for printing and drying inks on substrates. Printing systems may include a metering device positioned between a printing station and a light source. During operation, the printing station deposits ink onto a substrate to define a printed region. And the light source directs infrared light onto the substrate to define an illumination zone. The printed region is advanced from the printing station to the metering device and from the metering device through the illumination zone, wherein the ink is dried with infrared light traveling from the light source, which also heats the substrate and changes the modulus of elasticity of the substrate. In turn, the metering device isolates the printing station from the change in the modulus of elasticity to help reduce phase shifts caused by changes in the modulus of elasticity resulting from heat in the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Kasey Marie Hudson
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Patent number: 10525742Abstract: In one example a method is disclosed for printing duplex images. The method includes printing an image on side A of media, including an alignment mark. Detecting the alignment mark with a sensor. The velocity of the media is determined when the alignment mark is detected. Printing an image on side B of the media where the location of the image on side B is dependent on the velocity of the media. In another example a printer is disclosed that uses the method to print duplex images.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Cesar Fernandez, Jose Galmes, Alisher Alikhodjaev
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Patent number: 10518558Abstract: A drying device H is provided with: a heating roller part 10 that guides a printed object X and is capable of heating the rear surface of the printed object X; a hot air blowing part 11 for blowing hot air to the printed surface of the printed object X; a chamber 15 in which the heating roller part 10 and the hot air blowing part 11 are housed; a first plate frame 1 and a second plate frame 2 that are installed on two sides of the chamber 15; a supply-use air blower D1 for supplying air to the hot air blowing part 11; an exhaust-use air blower D2 for exhausting air inside the chamber 15; and a stage 5 on which the supply-use air blower D1 and the exhaust-use air blower D2 are mounted.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: MIYAKOSHI PRINTING MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo Izawa, Kouichi Ooyama, Kazushige Sato, Hidetoshi Kon
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Patent number: 10513623Abstract: An aqueous ink according to the present invention is an aqueous ink for ink jet, containing a solvent A and a resin particle. The solvent A is alcohol of which aqueous solubility at 20° C. is 5% by mass or less, a vapor pressure at 20° C. is 0.5 mmHg or less and a surface tension at 20° C. is 30 mN/m or more. A content (% by mass) of the solvent A is 0.7 times or more to 7.0 times or less in terms of a ratio based on aqueous solubility (% by mass) of the solvent A at 20° C. The amount of a surface anionic functional group of the resin particle is 0.55 mmol/g or more to 2.00 mmol/g or less.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanobu Ootsuka, Masahiro Terada, Hidetaka Kawamura, Akihiro Taya, Yohei Masada, Takaharu Aotani, Shoji Koike, Yutaka Yoshimasa
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Patent number: 10513124Abstract: There is provided a liquid cartridge configured to be inserted into a cartridge-attachment section in an insertion direction crossing a gravitational direction and accommodated in the cartridge-attachment section in an upright posture. The liquid cartridge includes a casing, a movable member movably supported by the casing, and a circuit board provided at the movable member and facing upward in the upright posture. The movable member includes a receiving portion providing a receiving space that is open in the insertion direction and in a widthwise direction orthogonal to the insertion direction and the gravitational direction for receiving a protruding portion of the cartridge-attachment section in the insertion direction and in the widthwise direction. The receiving portion has a contact surface defining the receiving space and facing downward.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki Takahashi, Takahiro Miyao, Akihito Ono, Tetsuro Kobayashi, Fumio Nakazawa, Kosuke Nukui
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Patent number: 10513125Abstract: A fluid containing member includes a first containing chamber that contains a first fluid, and a second containing chamber that contains a second fluid. The first containing chamber and the second containing chamber are separated from each other by a first separation film on a side of the first containing chamber and a second separation film on a side of the second containing chamber. The first separation film and the second separation film are partly connected to each other or partly contact each other so as to move together in accordance with a change in an internal pressure of the first containing chamber or an internal pressure of the second containing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuto Kawahara, Yutaka Mita, Yoshimasa Araki, Noriyasu Hasegawa
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Patent number: 10509341Abstract: A charged positive toner having a positive polarity that attaches to a charge roller is moved from the charge roller to a photosensitive drum, and the positive toner is transferred to an intermediate transfer belt at a primary transfer portion at which a primary-transfer power supply forms an electric potential having a negative polarity. The primary-transfer power supply forms an electric potential having the positive polarity at the primary transfer portion, and the positive toner transferred to the intermediate transfer belt is moved together with the intermediate transfer belt and is collected by the charge roller in contact with a downstream photosensitive drum.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takayuki Tanaka, Shinji Katagiri, Tsuguhiro Yoshida, Shuichi Tetsuno, Takahiro Ikeda
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Patent number: 10507650Abstract: An energy recovery circuit in a print head includes at least one waveform rail, an array of piezoelectric actuators selectively electrically connectable to the waveform rail, the piezoelectric actuators creating a capacitive load, at least one pseudo jet capacitive load, selectively coupled to the waveform rail, depending upon how many piezoelectric actuators are connected to the waveform rail, and a first inductor coupled to the waveform rail, wherein the first inductor forms a resonant circuit with a waveform rail capacitance and returns energy to a power supply.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: XEROX CORPORATIONInventor: David L. Knierim