Patents by Inventor Steve O Rasmussen

Steve O Rasmussen 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).

  • Publication number: 20190210829
    Abstract: An example system includes an advancement mechanism to drive print medium into a stacking region, a clamping mechanism, and a controller. The clamping mechanism includes a trailing edge clamping arrangement in a trailing edge portion of the stacking region and at least one downstream clamping arrangement in a downstream portion of the stacking region, the downstream portion being downstream of the trailing edge portion. The controller is to sequentially actuate the trailing edge clamping arrangement and the at least one downstream clamping arrangement when the advancement mechanism transports a print medium into the stacking region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Steve O Rasmussen, Bruce G Johnson, Elliot Downing, Robert Scott Beale, Lonny Morgan
  • Publication number: 20190208069
    Abstract: According to an example, a printing apparatus may include a first output bin, a second output bin, a first light source positioned to illuminate a portion of the first output bin, a second light source positioned to illuminate a portion of the second output bin, and a controller. The controller may activate the first light source in response to a media being outputted to the first output bin and may activate the second light source in response to a media being outputted to the second output bin to direct a user to the first output bin and/or the second output bin containing a most recently printed media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Peter G Hwang, Steve O Rasmussen, Stephen G Brown, Bruce G Johnson, Ki Jung Han
  • Publication number: 20190176491
    Abstract: In one example, a partially dried inkjet media conditioner can include: a print engine that encases a print zone within a housing, and a media path to provide partially dried inkjet media from the print zone to a conditioner within the print engine, wherein the conditioner comprises a heated pressure roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Steve O Rasmussen, Kevin Lo, Richard Lee Brinkly, Mark H MacKenzie
  • Publication number: 20190144221
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a device including a bail arm. In examples, the bail arm to apply force to a receiving surface of an output bin in a first position. In examples, a motor is to move the bail arm from the first position to a second position in which the bail arm does not apply a force to the receiving surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Kevin LO, Jason Carothers, Daniel Fredrickson, Leonard Harpster, Emma Kelp-Stebbins, Steve O Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20190062097
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure a system for preventing media misalignment during accumulation. The system includes a number of media clamps having multiple positions to prevent misalignment of an incoming media sheet during accumulation. The number of media clamps are in a raised position after a leading edge of the incoming media sheet has passed over a trailing edge of the stack region. The media clamps are in a clamped position after the leading edge of the incoming media sheet has passed the media clamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Bruce G Johnson, Elliott Downing, Steve O Rasmussen, Anthony W Ebersole
  • Publication number: 20190001718
    Abstract: This invention relates to a component to modify a door of a printing system including an extension that increases a size of the door and a paper guide attached to the extension; a media handling system including a printing system, a secondary operation device adjacent to the printing system, and a door having an extension; and a door for a media handling system, where the door includes a first media travel path exiting a first exit of the door, a second media travel path exiting a second exit of the door, and a diverter diverting media from the first media travel path to the second media travel path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Kevin Bowen, Kevin Lo, Thomas W Ruhe, Catherine Elizabeth Gould, Richard Lee Brinkly, Steve o Rasmussen, Raymond C Sherman
  • Publication number: 20180370748
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a device including a bail arm to rotate and oscillate. Examples include a shaft coupled above an output tray; and a bail arm to rotate and oscillate about a central axis of the shaft. In examples, the bail arm is to provide a downward force on the output tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Steve O Rasmussen, Daniel Fredrickson, Jason Young Carothers, Kevin Lo, Emma Frances Kelp-Stebbins
  • Publication number: 20180320992
    Abstract: Some examples include a fuser assembly to operate with a roller including a fuser housing, and an array of fusers disposed in the fuser housing, each fuser including a heating element exposed along a surface of the fuser housing and adjacent to an outer surface of the roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventor: Steve O Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20180272753
    Abstract: In one example, a system for partially dried inkjet media fusers include a plurality of fusers aligned to receive partially dried inkjet media from a printing device, wherein the plurality of fusers each comprise a top roller and a bottom roller to apply pressure to the received partially dried inkjet media, and a finisher to receive the partially dried inkjet media from the plurality of fusers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Steve O. Rasmussen, Mark H. MacKenzie, Bradley B. Branham, Jeffrey G. Bingham
  • Publication number: 20180275635
    Abstract: In an example, a print system include a component device that is operation in a number of state, a density engine, and a component engine. An example density engine identifies a plane region of a plane where print fluid is to be printed based on data of a print job and determines a density classifier for the plane based on a location of the plane region on the plane. An example component engine causes an adjustment of a component attribute of the component device based on the density classifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Dawn M Beachnau Hood, Matthew A. Shepherd, Mark H. MacKenize, Weiyun Sun, Milan Justel, Robert Yraceburu, Steve O. Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20180257897
    Abstract: In one implementation, a system for a partially dried inkjet media finisher includes a media input zone to receive printed media, wherein the printed media is partially dried inkjet media, a transport zone to receive the printed media from the media input zone to lower the print media to an accumulation zone that is coupled vertically below the transport zone, wherein the accumulation zone organizes the received printed media, and the accumulation zone to lower the printed media to an output zone coupled vertically below the accumulation zone, wherein the output zone receives a completed print job from the accumulation zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Steve O Rasmussen, Al Olson, Bruce G Johnson, Elliott Downing
  • Publication number: 20180257404
    Abstract: A media registration system includes a puller clamp, and a puller track to support the puller clamp. The puller track is to open and close the puller clamp with movement of the puller clamp along the puller track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Bruce G Johnson, Elliott Downing, Steve O Rasmussen, Al Olson
  • Publication number: 20180257899
    Abstract: A system for presenting media sheets incudes a finisher output bin assembly. The finisher output bin assembly includes a translatable output floor, and a guide substrate coupled to the translatable output floor to guide the translatable output floor relative to the guide substrate in at least one coordinate direction. The finisher output bin assembly includes an output structure mechanically coupled to the translatable output floor to drive the translatable output floor relative to the guide substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Steve O Rasmussen, Elliott Downing, Bruce G Johnson, Anthony W Ebersole, Ki Jung Han, Peter G Hwang, Steven Brown
  • Publication number: 20180251330
    Abstract: A printing device includes, in one example, a media output system including a mezzanine level including a plurality of media support members, the mezzanine level being intermediate to a floor level and a media output level; wherein the plurality of media support members move orthogonally relative to a print media path so that a number of finishing processes may be performed on print media accumulated on the number of media support members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Bruce G Johnson, Al Olson, Steve O Rasmussen, Elliott Downing, Jonathan Cha Spafford, Michael J Wilmink
  • Publication number: 20180250960
    Abstract: A media tray may include a number of mezzanines to accumulate media as the media is ejected from a printing device and a number of ramps to selectively engage with a leading edge of the media as the media is accumulated based on a plurality of positions of the number of ramps, the number of ramps positionable based on movement of the number of mezzanines. In one example, movement of the number of mezzanines from a first position to a second position may cause the number of ramps to be in a position to selectively engage and disengage with a leading edge of the media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Bruce G Johnson, Elliott Downing, Steve O Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20180250961
    Abstract: A page registration system may include, in an example, a media edge sensor to detect a location of an edge of a print media along a media feed path and in a direction non-parallel to the media feed path and a calibration sensor downstream of the media edge sensor to detect changes in the location of the edge of the print media in the direction non-parallel to the media feed path, and provide calibration data to the page registration system to correct changes in the location of the edge of the print media in the direction non-parallel to the media feed path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Elliott Downing, Steve O Rasmussen, Al Olson
  • Patent number: 8910932
    Abstract: Separator assembly for use with printers is described herein. One example separator assembly includes a separator pad movable between a first position and a second position such that the separator pad is to engage a leading edge of a print media in the second position. A cam is rotatable between a third position and a fourth position to move the separator pad from the first to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Steve O. Rasmussen, Allan G. Olson, Michael L. Gustafson, Abdolreza Movaghar
  • Patent number: 8909085
    Abstract: Methods, printers, and control panels for printers are disclosed. An example printer includes a control panel, a print substrate path exit to output a print substrate from the printer in response to a printing task, and a control panel actuator to move the control panel from a first position in which the control panel at least partially obstructs a print substrate from passing through the print substrate path exit to a second position in which the control panel does not obstruct the print substrate from passing through the print substrate path exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: David Bradley Short, Steve O. Rasmussen, David M Lovelace, Ryan Lane Wilday
  • Publication number: 20130077114
    Abstract: Methods, printers, and control panels for printers are disclosed. An example printer includes a control panel, a print substrate path exit to output a print substrate from the printer in response to a printing task, and a control panel actuator to move the control panel from a first position in which the control panel at least partially obstructs a print substrate from passing through the print substrate path exit to a second position in which the control panel does not obstruct the print substrate from passing through the print substrate path exit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventors: David Bradley Short, Steve O. Rasmussen, David M Lovelace, Ryan Lane Wilday
  • Publication number: 20130001863
    Abstract: Separator assembly for use with printers is described herein. One example separator assembly includes a separator pad movable between a first position and a second position such that the separator pad is to engage a leading edge of a print media in the second position. A cam is rotatable between a third position and a fourth position to move the separator pad from the first to the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Steve O. Rasmussen, Allan G. Olson, Michael L. Gustafson, Abdolreza Movaghar