Patents by Inventor Jaan T. Laaspere
Jaan T. Laaspere 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: 10538114Abstract: A system includes a print head including multiple nozzles formed in a bottom surface of the print head. The nozzles are configured to eject a liquid onto a substrate. The system includes a gas flow module configured to provide a flow of gas through a gap between the bottom surface of the print head and the substrate. The gas flow module can include one or more gas nozzles configured to inject gas into the gap. The gas flow module can be configured to apply a suction to the gap.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc.Inventors: Daniel W. Barnett, Steven H. Barss, Jaan T. Laaspere, Christoph Menzel, Matthew Aubrey
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Publication number: 20190152233Abstract: A system includes a print head including multiple nozzles formed in a bottom surface of the print head. The nozzles are configured to eject a liquid onto a substrate. The system includes a gas flow module configured to provide a flow of gas through a gap between the bottom surface of the print head and the substrate. The gas flow module can include one or more gas nozzles configured to inject gas into the gap. The gas flow module can be configured to apply a suction to the gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2019Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc.Inventors: Daniel W. Barnett, Steven H. Barss, Jaan T. Laaspere, Christoph Menzel, Matthew Aubrey
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Patent number: 10183498Abstract: A system includes a print head including multiple nozzles formed in a bottom surface of the print head. The nozzles are configured to eject a liquid onto a substrate. The system includes a gas flow module configured to provide a flow of gas through a gap between the bottom surface of the print head and the substrate. The gas flow module can include one or more gas nozzles configured to inject gas into the gap. The gas flow module can be configured to apply a suction to the gap.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc.Inventors: Daniel W. Barnett, Steven H. Barss, Jaan T. Laaspere, Christoph Menzel, Matthew Aubrey
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Publication number: 20170129252Abstract: A system includes a print head including multiple nozzles formed in a bottom surface of the print head. The nozzles are configured to eject a liquid onto a substrate. The system includes a gas flow module configured to provide a flow of gas through a gap between the bottom surface of the print head and the substrate. The gas flow module can include one or more gas nozzles configured to inject gas into the gap. The gas flow module can be configured to apply a suction to the gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2016Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: Daniel W. Barnett, Steven H. Barss, Jaan T. Laaspere, Christoph Menzel, Matthew Aubrey
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Patent number: 9511605Abstract: A system includes a print head including multiple nozzles formed in a bottom surface of the print head. The nozzles are configured to eject a liquid onto a substrate. The system includes a gas flow module configured to provide a flow of gas through a gap between the bottom surface of the print head and the substrate. The gas flow module can include one or more gas nozzles configured to inject gas into the gap. The gas flow module can be configured to apply a suction to the gap.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc.Inventors: Daniel W. Barnett, Steven H. Barss, Jaan T. Laaspere, Christoph Menzel, Matthew Aubrey
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Publication number: 20150375543Abstract: A system includes a print head including multiple nozzles formed in a bottom surface of the print head. The nozzles are configured to eject a liquid onto a substrate. The system includes a gas flow module configured to provide a flow of gas through a gap between the bottom surface of the print head and the substrate. The gas flow module can include one or more gas nozzles configured to inject gas into the gap. The gas flow module can be configured to apply a suction to the gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Daniel W. Barnett, Steven H. Barss, Jaan T. Laaspere, Christoph Menzel, Matthew Aubrey
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Patent number: 8926041Abstract: Among other things, an inkjet print head module includes inkjets from which ink drops are to be jetted during a series of jetting cycles. There is circuitry on the inkjet print head module to (a) form, from trimming information or other information that characterizes jetting waveforms to be applied to respective inkjets in respective jetting cycles, corresponding jetting waveforms and (b) apply the formed jetting waveforms to the respective inkjets in the respective jetting cycles.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2013Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Rosario, Jaan T. Laaspere, George Baker
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Publication number: 20140210884Abstract: Among other things, an inkjet print head module includes inkjets from which ink drops are to be jetted during a series of jetting cycles. There is circuitry on the inkjet print head module to (a) form, from trimming information or other information that characterizes jetting waveforms to be applied to respective inkjets in respective jetting cycles, corresponding jetting waveforms and (b) apply the formed jetting waveforms to the respective inkjets in the respective jetting cycles.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: FUJIFILM DIMATIX, INC.Inventors: Timothy Rosario, Jaan T. Laaspere, George Baker
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Patent number: 8393697Abstract: In one aspect, the invention features a method for operating a printing system with variable laydown, including providing the system with print job information, selecting an ink laydown based on the print job information, generating firing instructions for the printing system based on the ink laydown, and printing an image on a substrate at the ink laydown.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc.Inventors: Jaan T. Laaspere, Brian Walsh, Sandra Graveson
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Patent number: 8235489Abstract: Among other things, for jetting ink droplets on a substrate during relative motion of an apparatus and the substrate along a process direction, a first and second jetting assemblies at least partially overlap in a direction perpendicular to the process direction so that some jets in the first jetting assembly align with some jets in the second jetting assembly along the process direction to form one or more pairs of aligned jets. A mechanism enables, in at least one pair of the aligned jets, one jet to jet a first ink drop that has a size smaller than a size of an ink drop the jet would otherwise be required to jet to form a desired pixel and the other jet to jet a second ink drop that has a size sufficient to form the desired pixel in combination with the first ink drop.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2008Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc.Inventors: Jaan T. Laaspere, Shubh Halwawala, Samuel Darby, Sandra Graveson
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Publication number: 20100165031Abstract: In one aspect, the invention features a method for operating a printing system with variable laydown, including providing the system with print job information, selecting an ink laydown based on the print job information, generating firing instructions for the printing system based on the ink laydown, and printing an image on a substrate at the ink laydown.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2009Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc.Inventors: Jaan T. Laaspere, Brian Walsh, Sandra Graveson
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Publication number: 20090289986Abstract: Among other things, for jetting ink droplets on a substrate during relative motion of an apparatus and the substrate along a process direction, a first and second jetting assemblies at least partially overlap in a direction perpendicular to the process direction so that some jets in the first jetting assembly align with some jets in the second jetting assembly along the process direction to form one or more pairs of aligned jets. A mechanism enables, in at least one pair of the aligned jets, one jet to jet a first ink drop that has a size smaller than a size of an ink drop the jet would otherwise be required to jet to form a desired pixel and the other jet to jet a second ink drop that has a size sufficient to form the desired pixel in combination with the first ink drop.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2008Publication date: November 26, 2009Inventors: Jaan T. Laaspere, Shubh Halwawala, Samuel Darby, Sandra Graveson