Patents by Inventor Stephen Thomas Rohman
Stephen Thomas Rohman 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: 11827043Abstract: A knockdown apparatus for a finisher includes a register tray, a paddle coupled to a rotatable shaft to compile a recording medium toward an end of the register tray, and a knockdown device, provided above the register tray, to rotate to apply a downward force to the recording medium while the recording medium is in the register tray to decrease a curl in the recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Taehong Kim, Kevin Lo, Matthew Raisanen, Stephen Thomas Rohman
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Patent number: 11752783Abstract: In some examples, a non-transitory-machine readable medium can store instructions executable by a processing resource to select a special media mode from a plurality of special media modes based on a weight or a type of print media and cause a conditioning device to condition the print media in accordance with the special media mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Matthew Raisanen, Jody L. Clayburn, Stephen Thomas Rohman
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Publication number: 20230074437Abstract: Example systems are disclosed for printing an image. In one example, the system includes a printhead assembly including a plurality of printheads to deposit printing fluid on a print media as the printhead assembly is moved across the print media along an arcuate path. In addition, the system includes a controller assembly communicatively coupled to the printhead assembly, wherein the controller assembly is to adjust a timing of printing fluid deposition onto the print media from the plurality of printheads based on relative positions and orientations of the printheads along the arcuate path.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2020Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Stephen Thomas ROHMAN, Saurabh Shripad BHIDE, Daniel Ethan Frantz QUARTO
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Patent number: 11472203Abstract: Some examples include a print system including a memory to store instructions and print data of a print job, a processor to execute the instructions in the memory to reference print data of a print job, determine a print parameter of the print job, and transform the print data and the print parameter into a conditioning modifier. The print system includes a print engine to dispense a print substance on a medium based on the print data to generate printed medium, and a conditioner to apply heat and pressure to the printed medium, the conditioner including a pressure roller assembly, and a controller to selectively increase a transport speed the pressure roller assembly based on the conditioning modifier and a position of the printed medium relative to the pressure roller assembly to selectively increase the speed of the printed medium through the conditioner.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Matthew Raisanen, Kevin Lo, Stephen Thomas Rohman
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Publication number: 20220219450Abstract: Examples of printing devices and print guides for accurate detection of a print start location are described herein. In some examples, a printing device may include a marker sensor to detect a print start marker on a print guide as the printing device moves on the print guide. The print start marker may be located on the print guide at a distance before a print start location. The print guide may have a reference marker located in relation to the print start location to provide an accurate indication of the print start location to a user. The print guide may be physically separate from a print media. In some examples, the printing device may also include a distance measurement sensor to measure distance traveled by the printing device after detecting the print start marker. The distance measurement sensor may trigger a start of printing at the print start location.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2019Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jody Lee Clayburn, Stephen Thomas Rohman, Lorraine T. Golob
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Publication number: 20220169007Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a tracking sensor, a delivery device and a controller. The controller may receive an input indicative of the apparatus being aligned to an alignment location, determine, based on input from the tracking sensor, that the apparatus has moved a predefined distance or past the predefined distance in a first direction from the alignment location, and based on a determination that the apparatus has been moved the predefined distance or past the predefined distance, cause a first feedback to be outputted to instruct a user to move the apparatus in a second direction. The controller may also, as the apparatus is moved in the second direction, cause the delivery device to generate an image that has an intended justification with respect to the alignment location.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Stephen Thomas Rohman, Saurabh Shripad Bhide, Daniel Ethan Frantz Quarto
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Patent number: 11318762Abstract: A page of a print job is to be compiled by a printing device upon printing. It is determined that at time of compiling, the page will include print fluid, greater than a threshold, at locations corresponding to the compiling paddles. Drying of the page is responsively increased upon the device printing the page.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Alan Shibata, Stephen Thomas Rohman, Lorraine T. Golob
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Patent number: 11305562Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a printing engine, a paddle device, a stapler device, and a processor. The printing engine is to form an image on a printing paper. The paddle device is to move the printing paper ejected from the printing engine in a moving direction to align a first end of the printing paper. The stapler device is to staple the align printing paper. The processor is to control the paddle device and the stapler device to move a second end of the aligned printing paper in an opposite direction to the moving direction when the first end of the printing paper is aligned.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Taehong Kim, Stephen Thomas Rohman, Matthew Raisanen, Sundae Kim
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Patent number: 11299364Abstract: In an example printing device may include a tray to receive print media sheets, and a paddle roller to rotate about an axis and move individual print media sheets of the print media sheets to abut an end register of the tray and form a stack of print media sheets, and the paddle roller rotate a first quantity of rotations per print media sheet based in response to a determination that the stack of print media sheets corresponds to a first height.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Stephen Thomas Rohman, Matthew Raisanen
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Patent number: 11299365Abstract: An paddle apparatus for a finisher includes a rotatable shaft and a paddle coupled to the rotatable shaft. The paddle is rotatable in a forward direction to compile a recording medium toward an end of a register tray of the finisher, and is rotatable in a reverse direction to apply a downward force to the compiled recording medium. An amount that the paddle is rotated in the reverse direction can be varied based on a height of the compiled recording medium in the register tray.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Stephen Thomas Rohman, Matthew Raisanen, Sundae Kim
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Patent number: 11260676Abstract: In some examples, a conditioner system for a media printed by a printing system includes a media conditioning assembly comprising a heater, the media conditioning assembly to receive the media printed by the printing system after the media has been heated by a dryer in the printing system after printing has occurred on the media. Responsive to a determined moisture content of the media, the heater of the media conditioning assembly controls a temperature of the media, and the media conditioning assembly controls a speed of the media through the media conditioning assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Matthew Räisänen, Stephen Thomas Rohman, Kevin Lo
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Publication number: 20220043382Abstract: A method of controlling the ejection speed of a print job that includes, with a density module of a printing device, determining a density classifier based on a region of a plane where print fluid is to be printed for a plurality of sheets of media of a print job; determining a percentage of each sheet of media exceeding a threshold density classifier relative to a total sheet count of the print job; and, based on the percentage, initiating an assisted ejection of the print job from the printing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2018Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jody L. Clayburn, Stephen Thomas Rohman, Matthew Raisanen, Bartley S. Helms
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Publication number: 20220001677Abstract: Examples of duplex printing and conditioning based on ink density are described. In an example, an ink density for a first printed side and an ink density for a second printed side of a duplex page are determined. The duplex page is printed and conditioned based on a highest ink density of the first printed side and the second printed side.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jody L Clayburn, Robert Matthew Yraceburu, Stephen Thomas Rohman, Matthew J. Raisanen
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Publication number: 20210354480Abstract: Some examples include a print system including a memory to store instructions and print data of a print job, a processor to execute the instructions in the memory to reference print data of a print job, determine a print parameter of the print job, and transform the print data and the print parameter into a conditioning modifier. The print system includes a print engine to dispense a print substance on a medium based on the print data to generate printed medium, and a conditioner to apply heat and pressure to the printed medium, the conditioner including a pressure roller assembly, and a controller to selectively increase a transport speed the pressure roller assembly based on the conditioning modifier and a position of the printed medium relative to the pressure roller assembly to selectively increase the speed of the printed medium through the conditioner.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2018Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Matthew Raisanen, Kevin Lo, Stephen Thomas Rohman
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Publication number: 20210331887Abstract: In an example printing device may include a tray to receive print media sheets, and a paddle roller to rotate about an axis and move individual print media sheets of the print media sheets to abut an end register of the tray and form a stack of print media sheets, and the paddle roller rotate a first quantity of rotations per print media sheet based in response to a determination that the stack of print media sheets corresponds to a first height.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2018Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Stephen Thomas Rohman, Matthew Raisanen
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Publication number: 20210323321Abstract: A page of a print job is to be compiled by a printing device upon printing. It is determined that at time of compiling, the page will include print fluid, greater than a threshold, at locations corresponding to the compiling paddles. Drying of the page is responsively increased upon the device printing the page.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2018Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Alan Shibata, Stephen Thomas Rohman, Lorraine T. Golob
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Publication number: 20210323323Abstract: In some examples, a conditioner system for a media printed by a printing system includes a media conditioning assembly comprising a heater, the media conditioning assembly to receive the media printed by the printing system after the media has been heated by a dryer in the printing system after printing has occurred on the media. Responsive to a determined moisture content of the media, the heater of the media conditioning assembly controls a temperature of the media, and the media conditioning assembly controls a speed of the media through the media conditioning assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2018Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Matthew Raisanen, Stephen Thomas Rohman, Kevin Lo
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Publication number: 20210291566Abstract: In some examples, a non-transitory-machine readable medium can store instructions executable by a processing resource to select a special media mode from a plurality of special media modes based on a weight or a type of print media and cause a conditioning device to condition the print media in accordance with the special media mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Matthew Raisanen, Jody L. Clayburn, Stephen Thomas Rohman
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Publication number: 20210138806Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a printing engine, a paddle device, a stapler device, and a processor. The printing engine is to form an image on a printing paper. The paddle device is to move the printing paper ejected from the printing engine in a moving direction to align a first end of the printing paper. The stapler device is to staple the align printing paper. The processor is to control the paddle device and the stapler device to move a second end of the aligned printing paper in an opposite direction to the moving direction when the first end of the printing paper is aligned.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2019Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Taehong KIM, Stephen Thomas ROHMAN, Matthew RAISANEN, Sundae KIM
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Patent number: 10996607Abstract: According to an example, printed media stack alignment may include actuating a belt and a paddle to shift first and second sheets to a stopper position represented by register of the first and second sheets against a stopper. The stopper may be actuated to shift the first and second sheets to an eject position, where the eject position is intermediate to a sheet deposit position and the stopper position. The belt and the paddle may be actuated to shift the first sheet, the second sheet, and a third sheet received at the sheet deposit position to the stopper position. The stopper may be actuated to shift the first, second, and third sheets to the eject position. Further, an ejector may be actuated to eject a stack including the first, second, and third sheets from the eject position.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Stephen Thomas Rohman