Patents by Inventor Rowdy Kelvin Webb

Rowdy Kelvin Webb 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).

  • Waste ink absorption system and method
    Patent number: 6860583
    Abstract: An inkjet printing system includes a platen adapted to support a print media, a printhead adapted to eject ink into a print zone between the printhead and the platen toward the print media and beyond a first edge of the print media to generate waste ink, a first absorber formed in the platen within the print zone such that the first absorber is adapted to extend beyond the first edge of the print media and absorb the waste ink ejected beyond the first edge of the print media, and a second absorber adapted to contact and absorb the waste ink from the first absorber, wherein the first absorber has a first capillary head and the second absorber has a second capillary head greater than the first capillary head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: M. Lynn Cheney, Thomas E McCue, Jr., Jeffrey Dylan Frame, Teressa L Roth, Rowdy Kelvin Webb
  • Waste ink absorption system and method
    Publication number: 20040125154
    Abstract: An inkjet printing system includes a platen adapted to support a print media, a printhead adapted to eject ink into a print zone between the printhead and the platen toward the print media and beyond a first edge of the print media to generate waste ink, a first absorber formed in the platen within the print zone such that the first absorber is adapted to extend beyond the first edge of the print media and absorb the waste ink ejected beyond the first edge of the print media, and a second absorber adapted to contact and absorb the waste ink from the first absorber, wherein the first absorber has a first capillary head and the second absorber has a second capillary head greater than the first capillary head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2002
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: M. Lynn Cheney, Thomas E. McCue, Jeffrey Dylan Frame, Teressa L. Roth, Rowdy Kelvin Webb