Patents by Inventor Matthew Douglas Reier
Matthew Douglas Reier 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: 11474471Abstract: A finisher apparatus includes an actuator to control a component of the finisher apparatus to perform a finishing operation on a print medium. A sensor is provided to sense the print medium in a print-medium path in the finisher apparatus. A processor is coupled to the actuator and the sensor. The processor is to execute instructions. The instructions are to actuate the actuator to eject the print medium from the print-medium path in response to a signal from the sensor indicative of a jam of the print medium in the finisher apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Bruce G. Johnson, Matthew Douglas Reier, Robert Yraceburu, Elliott Downing, Francisco Javier Gomez Maurer
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Patent number: 11365080Abstract: In some examples, a gimbaled monoclamp can include a housing including a first opening, a second opening, and a pivot point, a clamp disposed at least partially in the housing and including a first pad and a second pad to extend through the first opening and the second opening, respectively, and a pin extending through an opening in the clamp into the pivot point to couple the clamp to the housing in a gimbaled manner.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Scott Beale, Robert Yraceburu, Elliott Downing, Matthew Douglas Reier
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Publication number: 20220111662Abstract: A handheld printing device includes a printing mechanism and a light source. The printing mechanism prints a swath of print material onto a print medium as the handheld printing device is moved across the print medium. The light source projects onto the print medium a light box. The light box has top and bottom edges corresponding to the swath and indicating where the printing mechanism will print the swath as the handheld printing device is moved across the print medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2019Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Matthew Douglas Reier, Daniel Ethan Frantz Quarto, Chad Quinten Martin
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Patent number: 11299363Abstract: Example implementations relate to print media stacks. In some examples, a device may include a sheet channel to guide a sheet of print media within the sheet channel above and separated in a vertical direction from a stack of printed media when the sheet of print media exits a print path of a printer. The device may include a plurality of clamps to control alignment of the sheet of print media on the stack of printed media when the sheet channel moves outboard from the sheet of print media to allow the sheet of print media to fall onto the stack of printed media, wherein the plurality of clamps sequentially pin the sheet of print media to the stack of printed media from a middle portion of the sheet of print media outward.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Scott Beale, Elliott Downing, Robert Yraceburu, Bruce Johnson, Cristopher Royce Jansson, Stuart Scofield, Francisco Javier Gomez, Jonathon Cha Spafford, Catherine Elizabeth Gould, Tom McCue, Matthew Douglas Reier
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Patent number: 11214457Abstract: In one example, a media puller device can include a snowplow device coupled to a first end of a hinge, a leading end of the media puller device coupled to a second end of the hinge, and a tension device coupled between the snowplow device and the media puller device.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Yraceburu, Arturo Ayala, Elliott Downing, Matthew Douglas Reier, Gene Jones
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Patent number: 11176432Abstract: A finisher apparatus includes an accumulator to register a print medium of a print job in preparation for a finishing operation, memory to store an attribute of the print job, and a processor coupled to the accumulator and the memory. The processor is to execute instructions. The instructions are to control the accumulator based on the attribute of the print job.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Bruce G. Johnson, Matthew Douglas Reier, Elliott Downing, Cristopher Royce Jansson, Robert Yraceburu, Stuart Scofield
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Patent number: 11060590Abstract: In one example, an apparatus includes a plate configured to pivot about a pivot point, a pulley coupled to a first planar side of the plate and configured to rotate a belt, a motor coupled to the first planar side of the plate and configured to drive the pulley, and a torsion spring coupled to a second planar side of the plate that is opposite the first planar side and configured to apply tension to the belt.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Gerald Boyum, Matthew Douglas Reier, Kevin Lo
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Publication number: 20210163251Abstract: Example implementations relate to print media stacks. In some examples, a device may include a sheet channel to guide a sheet of print media within the sheet channel above and separated in a vertical direction from a stack of printed media when the sheet of print media exits a print path of a printer. The device may include a plurality of clamps to control alignment of the sheet of print media on the stack of printed media when the sheet channel moves outboard from the sheet of print media to allow the sheet of print media to fall onto the stack of printed media, wherein the plurality of clamps sequentially pin the sheet of print media to the stack of printed media from a middle portion of the sheet of print media outward.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2017Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Robert Scott Beale, Elliott Downing, Robert Yraceburu, Bruce Johnson, Cristopher Royce Jansson, Stuart Scofield, Francisco Javier Gomez, Jonathon Cha Spafford, Catherine Elizabeth Gould, Tom McCue, Matthew Douglas Reier
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Publication number: 20210110224Abstract: A finisher apparatus includes an accumulator to register a print medium of a print job in preparation for a finishing operation, memory to store an attribute of the print job, and a processor coupled to the accumulator and the memory. The processor is to execute instructions. The instructions are to control the accumulator based on the attribute of the print job.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2017Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Bruce G. Johnson, Matthew Douglas Reier, Elliott Downing, Cristopher Royce Jansson, Robert Yraceburu, Stuart Scofield
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Publication number: 20210096496Abstract: A finisher apparatus includes an actuator to control a component of the finisher apparatus to perform a finishing operation on a print medium. A sensor is provided to sense the print medium in a print-medium path in the finisher apparatus. A processor is coupled to the actuator and the sensor. The processor is to execute instructions. The instructions are to actuate the actuator to eject the print medium from the print-medium path in response to a signal from the sensor indicative of a jam of the print medium in the finisher apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2017Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Bruce G. Johnson, Matthew Douglas Reier, Robert Yraceburu
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Publication number: 20200346886Abstract: In some examples, a gimbaled monoclamp can include a housing including a first opening, a second opening, and a pivot point, a clamp disposed at least partially in the housing and including a first pad and a second pad to extend through the first opening and the second opening, respectively, and a pin extending through an opening in the clamp into the pivot point to couple the clamp to the housing in a gimbaled manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2017Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Robert Scott Beale, Robert Yraceburu, Elliott Downing, Matthew Douglas Reier
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Publication number: 20200189871Abstract: In one example, a media puller device can include a snowplow device coupled to a first end of a hinge, a leading end of the media puller device coupled to a second end of the hinge, and a tension device coupled between the snowplow device and the media puller device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2017Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Robert Yraceburu, Arturo Ayala, Elliott Downing, Matthew Douglas Reier, Gene Jones
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Patent number: 10662011Abstract: A media transport system, includes a transport path, a drive gear at one end of the transport path, a driven gear at an opposite end of the transport path, an endless loop transmission element engaged with the drive gear and the driven gear, a media clamp secured to the endless loop transmission element, and a one-way clutch coupled with the driven gear. The endless loop transmission element is to rotate in one direction to move the media clamp and transport media from the one end of the transport path toward the opposite end of the transport path, and the one-way clutch is to allow rotation of the driven gear in the one direction and resist rotation of the driven gear in an opposite direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Yraceburu, Matthew Douglas Reier, Kynan Lon Church, Elliott Downing
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Patent number: 10652414Abstract: According to an example, a scanner apparatus may include a housing, a scan panel positioned on the housing and a lid rotatably mounted to the housing. The lid may be moved between a closed position and an open position, in which in the closed position, the lid covers the scan panel and in the open position, the lid is extended away from the scan panel. The scanner apparatus may also include an optical sensor to detect media placed on the scan panel and a media engine to determine whether the optical sensor has detected a media on the scan panel while the lid is in the open position.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Gareth Ryan Kelly, Curtis J Behrend, Matthew Douglas Reier, Arthur H Barnes, Kevin Lo
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Publication number: 20200130380Abstract: A media transport system, includes a transport path, a drive gear at one end of the transport path, a driven gear at an opposite end of the transport path, an endless loop transmission element engaged with the drive gear and the driven gear, a media clamp secured to the endless loop transmission element, and a one-way clutch coupled with the driven gear. The endless loop transmission element is to rotate in one direction to move the media clamp and transport media from the one end of the transport path toward the opposite end of the transport path, and the one-way clutch is to allow rotation of the driven gear in the one direction and resist rotation of the driven gear in an opposite direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: ROBERT YRACEBURU, MATTHEW DOUGLAS REIER, KYNAN LON CHURCH, ELLIOTT DOWNING
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Publication number: 20190364165Abstract: According to an example, a scanner apparatus may include a housing, a scan panel positioned on the housing and a lid rotatably mounted to the housing. The lid may be moved between a closed position and an open position, in which in the closed position, the lid covers the scan panel and in the open position, the lid is extended away from the scan panel. The scanner apparatus may also include an optical sensor to detect media placed on the scan panel and a media engine to determine whether the optical sensor has detected a media on the scan panel while the lid is in the open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2016Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Gareth Ryan Kelly, Curtis J Behrend, Matthew Douglas Reier, Arthur H Barnes, Kevin Lo
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Publication number: 20190226559Abstract: In one example, an apparatus includes a plate configured to pivot about a pivot point, a pulley coupled to a first planar side of the plate and configured to rotate a belt, a motor coupled to the first planar side of the plate and configured to drive the pulley, and a torsion spring coupled to a second planar side of the plate that is opposite the first planar side and configured to apply tension to the belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2016Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Gerald Boyum, Matthew Douglas Reier, Kevin Lo
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Publication number: 20140149242Abstract: A modular merchandiser and system with a frame of vertical posts and horizontal bars is carried on legs and carries grid elements sandwiching an indicia panel. Adjacent merchandiser panels can be linearly, perpendicularly or angularly (from about 10° to 350°) joined, and placed on the front end or other positions in various locations to carry various product on novel, height adjustable accessories and merchandising effects. Various parts of the merchandiser and the accessories therefor may be obtained in a first financial transaction (lease or sale) and others in subsequent financial transactions to update the same. Supporting special software can be similarly obtained and used to achieve uniform displays by using the included indicia panel. The system permits easier, less expensive, less wasteful, faster, and more environmentally friendly updating of the merchandiser, accessories, frame and grid portions separately.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2011Publication date: May 29, 2014Inventors: Harold L. Turner, JR., Joseph Theodore Bauer, Gabriel Garduno, Matthew Douglas Reier, Louis Frederick Polk, Kenneth Earl Ramsey, Charles M. Gruber, Howard Lynn Hammond, Michael Shaver, Michael Piontek
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Patent number: D792924Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Dan R. Dwyer, Mark M. Proia, Matthew Douglas Reier, Peter G. Hwang, Stephen G. Brown, Carl Nicklos