Patents by Inventor Wesley R. Schalk

Wesley R. Schalk 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).

  • Patent number: 11970005
    Abstract: An example of a device (100) may include a valve body (108). The device may include a printing substance transfer window (122) through the valve body (108). The device (100) may include a printing substance dispensing nozzle (110) rotatable within the valve body (108) between a first orientation with an orifice of the printing substance dispensing nozzle (110) facing an internal face of the valve body (108) and a second orientation with the orifice (126) of the printing substance dispensing nozzle (110) facing the printing substance transfer window (122). The device (100) may include a dispensing-side gasket material (132) slideable against the internal face of the valve body (108) when rotating the printing substance dispensing nozzle (110) between the first orientation and the second orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeffrey H. Luke, Mathew Lavigne, Dean Richtsmeier, Kenneth Smith, Sean Daniel FitzGerald, Wesley R. Schalk
  • Patent number: 11912034
    Abstract: Examples describe maintenance scheduling of printhead in an image forming device by monitoring image data processed by an image forming device, determining that the image data processed by the image forming device comprises color image data, and generating a firing signal based on a mode of the image forming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wesley R Schalk, Kris M English, David Lawrence McCormick
  • Patent number: 11806936
    Abstract: A build material recovery system for a three-dimensional (3D) printer can include a selective solidification device to create a 3D object using build material, a build processing device to separate the 3D object from unfused build material, a material separating and conditioning device to condition the unfused build material, and a material storage device to store the conditioned build material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wesley R. Schalk, Justin M. Roman, Randall West, Robert Lawrence Winburne
  • Patent number: 11731357
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure relate to a container. The container has a chamber for storing build material for a three-dimensional printing system. The container comprises an opening coaxial with the chamber for coupling to the three-dimensional printing system. The container is configured such that rotation of the chamber in a first direction conveys build material in the chamber to the three-dimensional printing system and rotation of the chamber in a second direction conveys the build material away from the three-dimensional printing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Brad Benson, Kevin E. Swier, James R. Owen, Wesley R. Schalk
  • Publication number: 20230249467
    Abstract: A print liquid supply apparatus or interface structure to be connected to a print system comprises a liquid channel, liquid interface and integrated circuit contact pads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Judson M. Leiser, Miquel Boleda Busquets, Bernd Karlsboeck, David Olsen, Michael E. Peterschmidt, Lynn A. Collie, Paul Allan Osborne, Wesley R. Schalk, Ronald J. Ender, Paul Mark Haines, Roger J. Kolodziej, Steve A. O'hara
  • Patent number: 11701836
    Abstract: A control system for a three-dimensional printer includes an energy component interface, an agent depositing component interface, and control logic. The control logic controls the operation of an energy component through the energy component interface and an agent depositing component through the agent depositing component, in forming an output object that is specified in a print job. Additionally, in some examples, the control logic can implement a plurality of modes. Each mode, when selected modulate one or more operational parameters of a least one of the energy component or agent depositing component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Vanessa Verzwyvelt, Matthew A. Shepherd, Arthur H. Barnes, Wesley R. Schalk, Hector Jose Lebron, Jake Wright
  • Patent number: 11685111
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) printer includes a selective solidification module to selectively solidify portions of successive layers of a build material on a build platform. The 3D printer also includes a cartridge receiver to hold a removable material cartridge that accepts material from the 3D printer and makes material available to the 3D printer for printing of the 3D object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wesley R. Schalk, Kris M. English, Justin M. Roman, Kevin E. Swier, David Otis
  • Patent number: 11667124
    Abstract: A print liquid supply apparatus or interface structure to be connected to a print system comprises a liquid channel, liquid interface and integrated circuit contact pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Judson M. Leiser, Miquel Boleda Busquets, Bernd Karlsboeck, David Olsen, Michael E. Peterschmidt, Lynn A. Collie, Paul Allan Osborne, Wesley R. Schalk, Ronald J. Ender, Paul Mark Haines, Roger J. Kolodziej, Steve A. O'Hara
  • Patent number: 11654626
    Abstract: In one example, a fusing system for an additive manufacturing machine includes a first carriage carrying a layering device and a fusing lamp, and a second carriage carrying a fusing agent dispenser. The first carriage and the second carriage are movable back and forth over the work area along the same line of motion so that the first carriage follows the second carriage in one direction and the second carriage follows the first carriage in the other direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Arthur H. Barnes, Wesley R. Schalk, Matthew A. Shepherd
  • Patent number: 11648732
    Abstract: In an example implementation, a method of printing a three-dimensional (3D) object includes scanning a print bar in a first direction over a build platform of a 3D printer to deposit a liquid agent onto a layer of build powder. The print bar is then indexed in a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction before scanning the print bar back over the build platform in a third direction opposite the first direction to deposit additional liquid agent onto the layer of build powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Wesley R. Schalk, Matthew A. Shepherd, Arthur H. Barnes
  • Patent number: 11647146
    Abstract: Example color resources are generated. A first luminosity amount of a greyscale color in a greyscale color space is determined. The greyscale color corresponds with a transformation of a source color in a first color space converted to the greyscale color. The source color corresponding with a depletion color in a second color space, and the depletion color has a second luminosity amount. A target color in a color resource is generated via adjusting a black channel amount in the depletion color to match the second luminosity amount with the first luminosity amount. The target color to correspond with the source color in the color resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Morgan T. Schramm, Ranjit Bhaskar, Jesse Otto Sutherland, Wesley R. Schalk
  • Patent number: 11628626
    Abstract: Example systems relate to recoater movement. A non-transitory machine readable medium may contain instructions executable by a processor. The instructions may include instructions to change an action of a recoater in response to a determination that the recoater has reached a first location of a build area comprising build material. Instructions may further include instructions to lift the recoater in response to a determination that the recoater has reached a second location of the build area. Instructions may additionally include instructions to move the recoater over the second location at the lifted position, wherein the second location includes a build-up of the build material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Brent Ewald, Michael Ewe, Eric Collins, Wesley R. Schalk
  • Publication number: 20230104973
    Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a chassis having an interior region and a first printing fluid reservoir arranged within the interior region of the chassis. The chassis may fix the first printing fluid reservoir relative to a second printing fluid reservoir. The apparatus may also include a bottle seat that may define a charging port in fluidic communication to the first printing fluid reservoir to convey refill printing fluid received at the charging port to the first printing fluid reservoir. A fluidic interface may be arranged on the chassis and fluidically coupled to the first printing fluid reservoir to convey the printing fluid outside the chassis to a print head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: John Patrick STURMAN, Paul Allan OSBORNE, Wesley R. SCHALK
  • Patent number: 11607849
    Abstract: A build material dispensing device may include a material spreader to spread an amount of build material along a build platform, and at least one hopper for dispensing the build material. The at least one hopper dispenses a plurality of doses of the build material in front of the progression of the material spreader as the material spreader is moved over the build platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mike Rode, John Geile, Pierre J. Kaiser, Wesley R. Schalk, Arthur H. Barnes
  • Patent number: 11590762
    Abstract: A method of recirculating printing fluid that includes with a first pump upstream of an internal reservoir, pumping printing fluid into the reservoir and with a second pump downstream of the internal reservoir and upstream of a pen assembly, pumping printing fluid from the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wesley R. Schalk, Kenneth Williams, Christopher John Arnold
  • Patent number: 11577318
    Abstract: In some examples, an additive manufacturing process may be operated by a method that includes depositing a plurality of preliminary layers of build material over a build surface and applying thermal energy governed by closed-loop control to heat the preliminary layers. The method includes analyzing a temperature distribution across a layer of the preliminary layers to map the locations of any hot spots relative to the build surface. The method includes selecting a spray pattern to apply a cooling agent to the mapped locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Arthur H. Barnes, Wesley R. Schalk
  • Publication number: 20230035549
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a print fluid delivery system is described. The print fluid delivery system includes a main reservoir to hold a volume of print fluid to be supplied to a printhead and a fluid indicator reservoir fluidly coupled to the main reservoir. The fluid indicator reservoir visually indicates a fluid level through an aperture in a printing system housing. The fluid indicator reservoir and the main reservoir have a same fluid level. The print fluid delivery system also includes a fluid transport system to transport fluid through the print fluid delivery system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Wesley R. Schalk, Roger Donat Gomez, Paul Allan Osborne
  • Patent number: 11562337
    Abstract: Examples for determining printing device functionality based on consumption and payment are described herein. In some examples, signals indicative of an amount of utilized print consumable by a printing device and signals indicative of payment for the amount of utilized print consumable are received at a computing device. Signals to cause the printing device to alter a functionality based on the signals indicative of an amount of utilized print consumable and the signals indicative of payment for the amount of utilized print consumable are transmitted by the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wesley R. Schalk, Jesse Otto Sutherland, Erik A. Anderson, Jefferson P. Ward
  • Patent number: 11556289
    Abstract: An example system may include a plurality of print devices, a supply attachment, and a device remote to the plurality of print devices. The plurality of print devices may receive the supply attachment. The device remote to the plurality of print devices may receive signals via the supply attachment that are indicative of print device information data from the plurality of print devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jesse Sutherland, Wesley R. Schalk, Kirk E. Porritt
  • Patent number: 11535036
    Abstract: A method for filling a reservoir of a printing device that includes conducting an unattended refill process of an internal reservoir in response to a detection of a fluid supply unit. In an example, the supply dock fluidically, electrically, and mechanically couples to the fluid supply unit to the printing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Steve A. O'Hara, Howard G. Wong, Wesley R. Schalk, Roger J. Kolodziej, Christopher J. Arnold, Ki Jung Han, Lynn A. Collie