Patents by Inventor Francisco Javier Perez
Francisco Javier Perez has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9868299Abstract: In one example, a heating system includes a first heater having a first resistive heating element, a second heater having multiple second resistive heating elements arranged in parallel with a group of the second heating elements having a combined resistance equal to a resistance of the first heating element, and a controller to periodically switch power between the first heating element and the group of second heating elements at a zero crossing of an AC power source.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2014Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Roger Bastardas Puigoriol, Francisco Javier Perez Gellida, Santiago Sanz Ananos, Juan Manuel Valero Navazo, Mikel Zuza Irurueta
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Patent number: 9855769Abstract: Curing apparatus, image forming apparatus and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example curing apparatus includes a curing unit to heat an area adjacent a substrate travel path, the curing unit having a width less than a width of the substrate travel path, and a controller to reciprocate the curing unit within the substrate width.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2011Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Francisco Javier Perez Gellida, Luis Fernando Martinez Nieto, Francisco Javier Rodriguez Escanuela
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Patent number: 9849695Abstract: A convection dryer device is disclosed. The convection dryer uses a first fan speed before the leading edge of media reaches a first location in a drying area and a second fan speed, faster than the first fan speed, after the leading edge of media reaches first location.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Mikel Zuza Irurueta, Francisco Javier Perez Gellida
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Patent number: 9825645Abstract: The disclosure is directed to low-power high-resolution analog-to-digital converter (ADCs) circuits implemented with a delta-sigma modulators (DSMs). The DSM includes a single-bit, self-oscillating digital to analog converter (SB-DAC) and a dual-slope integrating quantizer that may replace an N-bit quantizer found in a conventional DSM. The integrating quantizer of this disclosure oscillates after quantization because the SB-DAC in the feedback path directly closes the DSM loop. The integrating quantizer circuit includes a switch at the input and two phases per sample cycle. During the first phase the switch sends an input analog signal to an integrator. During the second phase, the switch sends the feedback signal from the output of the self-oscillating SB-DAC to the integrator. The input to the SB-DAC may be output from a clocked comparator.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Richard Gaggl, Enrique Prefasi, Francisco Javier Perez Sanjurjo, Cesare Buffa
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Publication number: 20170320323Abstract: A drying assembly is disclosed. An example apparatus includes fans; a temperature sensor; a print engine to access instructions to cause a printer to perform a printing operation on media; and a processor responsive to an output of the temperature sensor to control the fans to force air onto the media to cause a substantially uniform temperature to be maintained across a width of the media during the printing operation and to cause a sum of air flow output by the fans to be maintained at a substantially constant value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2017Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventors: Francisco Javier Perez Gellida, Mikel Zuza Irurueta, Oriol Borrell Avila, Juan Manuel Valero Navazo, Roger Bastardas Puigoriol
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Patent number: 9809022Abstract: A drying assembly is disclosed. An example apparatus includes fans; a temperature sensor; a print engine to access instructions to cause a printer to perform a printing operation on media; and a processor responsive to an output of the temperature sensor to control the fans to force air onto the media to cause a substantially uniform temperature to be maintained across a width of the media during the printing operation and to cause a sum of air flow output by the fans to be maintained at a substantially constant value.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Francisco Javier Perez Gellida, Mikel Zuza Irurueta, Oriol Borrell Avila, Juan Manuel Valero Navazo, Roger Bastardas Puigoriol
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Publication number: 20170264238Abstract: Holographic concentration solar modules (1), which concentrate the solar light into photovoltaic solar cells (2), integrated into urban and street elements (3), such as street lamps, bus stops, motorway toll booths, charging facilities, advertising sites, kiosks, amongst others, are disclosed. The holographic solar concentration modules (1) carry out passive tracking and the design thereof may be adapted to any surface. The efficient capturing of solar light in any position is guaranteed with the design versatility of the hologram included in the solar module (1). Therefore, in the present invention, in each one of the applications, a constructive element is substituted by a holographic solar concentration module (1). For example, it forms the support of a solar street lamp, the cover of a bus stop or of a toll booth, or the structure of an advertising site, amongst others. The solar module (1) constitutes in this way photovoltaic integration (BIPV) into urban and street elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2015Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: Hugo-Jose Rodriguez San Segundo, Antonio Calo Lopez, Ayalid Mirlydeth Villamarin Villegas, Francisco Javier Perez Lopez
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Patent number: 9757941Abstract: In an embodiment, a method of maintaining nozzles in a print-ready condition includes determining image content to be printed in an upcoming print swath, and for each ink color present within the image content, constructing an inked portion of an associated spit bar adjacent to the upcoming print swath to include the present ink color. For each ink color not present within the image content, an empty portion of an associated spit bar is constructed adjacent to the upcoming print swath.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Antonio Gracia Verdugo, Oriol Borrell Avila, Francisco Javier Perez Gellida
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Publication number: 20170173975Abstract: A convection dryer device is disclosed. The convection dryer uses a first fan speed before the leading edge of media reaches a first location in a drying area and a second fan speed, faster than the first fan speed, after the leading edge of media reaches first location.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2014Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Mikel Zuza Irurueta, Francisco Javier Perez Gellida
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Patent number: 9669623Abstract: A method of heating a print zone disposed between a print-head and a media support device of a printing system includes supplying a first amount of power to a heating assembly to form and direct heated air in a first temperature range to the print zone of the printing system. The method also includes determining whether a temperature of the printhead is within a warning temperature range and, if so, supplying a second amount of power that is less than the first amount of power to the heating assembly to form and direct heated air in a second temperature range to the print zone. Otherwise, the first amount of power is continued to be supplied to the heating assembly.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Francisco Javier Perez Gellida, David Toissaint, Antonio Garcia Verdugo
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Publication number: 20170111540Abstract: A method to select a print mode in which a first image comprising a plurality of pixels is received. Color depth for at least a subset of the plurality of pixels of the first image is determined. A print mode is selected from a plurality of print modes using at least the determined color depth.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: Antonio Gracia Verdugo, Francisco Javier Perez Gellida, Oriol Borrell Avila
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Publication number: 20170057250Abstract: In one example, a heating system includes a first heater having a first resistive heating element, a second heater having multiple second resistive heating elements arranged in parallel with a group of the second heating elements having a combined resistance equal to a resistance of the first heating element, and a controller to periodically switch power between the first heating element and the group of second heating elements at a zero crossing of an AC power source.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2014Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Roger Bastardas Puigoriol, Francisco Javier Perez Gellida, Santiago Sanz Ananos, Juan Manuel Valero Navazo, Mikel Zuza Irurueta
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Publication number: 20170043575Abstract: In an embodiment, a method of maintaining nozzles in a print-ready condition includes determining image content to be printed in an upcoming print swath, and for each ink color present within the image content, constructing an inked portion of an associated spit bar adjacent to the upcoming print swath to include the present ink color. For each ink color not present within the image content, an empty portion of an associated spit bar is constructed adjacent to the upcoming print swath.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2014Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Antonio Gracia Verdugo, Oriol Borrell Avila, Francisco Javier Perez Gellida
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Publication number: 20170037293Abstract: The composite material comprises nitrate and chloride anion inorganic salts which may also comprise sulphates, carbonates and/or nitrites and organic and inorganic nanoparticles, such as graphene, and cations of the alkaline, earth-alkaline, earth, carbon and/or amphigenic chemical groups. Said formulations have chemical and physical characteristics, such as the heat capacity, thermal stability and thermal conductivity thereof which make them optimum for being used as an alternative to the commercially available binary mixture in concentrating solar power plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Francisco Javier PEREZ TRUJILLO, Maria Isabel LASANTA CARRASCO, Maria Teresa DE MIGUEL GAMO, Gustavo GARCIA MARTIN
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Publication number: 20160368279Abstract: In one example, a print zone heater includes a structure defining a plenum, a heating element, a fan to move air over the heating element into the plenum, and a conduit from the plenum to carry heated air into the print zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2014Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Francisco Javier Perez Gellida, Ezequiel Jordi Rufes Bernad, Marina Cantero Lazaro, Antonio Gracia Verdugo, Santiago Sanz Ananos, Roger Bastandas Pulgoriol, Mikel Zuza Irurueta, Juan Manuel Valero Navazo, Emilio Angulo Navarro
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Publication number: 20160355027Abstract: In one example, a vapor control heater for a printer includes a housing, a heating element at least partially enclosed by the housing, and a fan to move air over the heating element and into a flow of air from the printer dryer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2014Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Juan Manuel Valero Navazo, Francisco Javier Perez Gellida, Emilio Angulo Navarro, Ezequiel Jordi Rufes Bernad, Marina Cantero Lazaro, Antonio Gracia Verdugo, Santiaho Sanz Ananos, Roger Bastardas Puigoriol, Mikel Zuza Irurueta, Oriol Borrell Avila, Eva Blay Lerin
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Patent number: 9493015Abstract: Methods for curing ink printed on a print medium are disclosed. The methods comprise heating air to a temperature suitable for curing the ink, and blowing the air through a plurality of holes onto the print medium.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Antonio Monclus Velasco, David Claramunt Morera, Raimon Castells De Monet, Francisco Javier Perez Gellida, Xavier Soler Pedemonte, Jesus Garcia Maza, Roger Bastardas Puigoriol, Mikel Zuza Irurueta, Elena Laso Plaza, Francisco Javier Rodriguez Escanuela
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Patent number: 9452622Abstract: In one example, a platen system for a printer includes a group of interchangeable platens each configured to support a different type of print substrate in the printer.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPNY, L.P.Inventors: Carlos Chover López, Lluis Hierro Domenech, Emilio Angulo Navarro, Francisco Javier Pérez Gellida
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Patent number: 9427990Abstract: Systems and methods for printing are described. One example is a tension module for a printer including a throughput roller including a length to diameter ratio of at least 10:1 and a material on the surface thereof having a friction coefficient value less than 1. In addition, the module includes a plurality of pinch rollers arranged parallel to the throughput roller and, the pinch rollers supporting the throughput roller and providing a pressure on a print medium when passed along the throughput roller. Further, the module includes a motor to rotate the throughput roller. Still further, the module includes a tension lever including a plurality of stops, each of the stops being associated with one of a plurality of tension settings. Manipulation of the tension lever between two of the stops adjusts the pressure between the throughput roller and the pinch rollers on the print medium.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: David Claramunt, Jose Antonio Alvarez, Raimon Castells, Francisco-Javier Perez, Laura Sanchez-Domingo
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Publication number: 20160236465Abstract: A method of heating a print zone disposed between a print-head and a media support device of a printing system includes supplying a first amount of power to a heating assembly to form and direct heated air in a first temperature range to the print zone of the printing system. The method also includes determining whether a temperature of the printhead is within a warning temperature range and, if so, supplying a second amount of power that is less than the first amount of power to the heating assembly to form and direct heated air in a second temperature range to the print zone. Otherwise, the first amount of power is continued to be supplied to the heating assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2013Publication date: August 18, 2016Inventors: Francisco Javier PEREZ GELLIDA, David TOISSAINT, Antonio GARCIA VERDUGO