Patents Issued in January 26, 2016
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Patent number: 9242435Abstract: A light transmissive bendable wood panel provides a wood panel that may be finished in a similar manner to traditional wood panels, but is light transmissive to allow the light transmissive bendable wood panel to be illuminated. The light transmissive bendable wood panel may be formed with a bendable substrate to allow various curves or other shapes to be formed. The light transmissive bendable wood panel may comprise a face layer having a permeable backing to ensure full adhesion with the substrate. A back layer may be provided to stabilize the light transmissive bendable wood panel and prevent curling, cupping, and delaminating. The light transmissive bendable wood panel may be backlit or edge lit. One or more illuminated designs may be formed in a face layer of the light transmissive bendable wood panel.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Inventors: Gilbert Dobecz, Zsolt Polk
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Patent number: 9242436Abstract: A transaction and proximity cards having an improved construction and systems for utilizing such cards. The card system includes a card having only one top ply and only one bottom ply and a layer of high elongation adhesive between each of the only one top ply and the only one bottom ply. In one card embodiment, the card further includes at least one inlay between the only one top ply and the only one bottom ply and a layer of high elongation adhesive between each of the only one top ply and the only one bottom ply and the at least one inlay. In addition, the card system includes card dispensers adapted to dispense the cards.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Electronic Data Magnetics, Inc.Inventors: H. Russell Hallman, John Trentman
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Patent number: 9242437Abstract: A hot-melt pressure-sensitive adhesive (HMPSA) composition comprising (a) 25 to 50% of one or more styrene block copolymers SBS, SIS, SIBS, SEBS or SEPS; (b) 35 to 75% of one or more compatible tackifying resins that are liquid or have a softening temperature below 150° C.; and (c) 1 to 20% of one or more supramolecular polymers obtained by reaction between 1-(2-aminoethyl)-2-imidazolidone and a fatty acid composition comprising 51 to 100% of one or more dimers and/or trimers of fatty acids and 0 to 49% of one or more monomers of fatty acids. A multilayer system including the HMPSA, an adjacent printable support layer, made of paper or a polymer film, and a protective layer adjacent is also provided. The multilayer system may be used in a self-adhesive label.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2011Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: BOSTIK S.A.Inventors: David Goubard, Nicolas Sajot
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Patent number: 9242438Abstract: A method of manufacturing composite material parts is provided. The method includes tape laying by means of fiber placement on the outer surface of a tape laying tool, such that at least one laminate with a geometry different from the end geometry of the part is obtained and forming the at least one laminate obtained in tape laying by means of a forming tool, such that the laminate acquires the end geometry of the part. The method also includes curing the at least one part.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.Inventors: José David Cano Cediel, Ruth Chinarro Vera, Francisco Escobar Benavides, Pedro Nogueroles Viñes
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Patent number: 9242439Abstract: In an apparatus and a method for welding of workpiece layers, a feed device is activated with a predefined adjustment force without ultrasound activation and the sonotrode is advanced in the direction of an anvil. The adjustment force is subsequently reduced and the sonotrode is activated. The sonotrode can subsequently be deactivated and the adjustment force can be increased on the basis of a deactivation signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: MS SPAICHINGEN GMBHInventors: Joachim Wein, Hartmut Poll, Elmar Noder, Clemens Balle
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Patent number: 9242440Abstract: Cells of a composite cell array are cured by placing tool blocks in the cells and inserting thermally conductive elements in each of the tool blocks. The thermally conductive elements are convectively heated by a flow of hot air. The heated conductive elements conduct heat to the tooling blocks, which then conduct heat to the cells to cure the composite and adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Joseph Lawrence Hafenrichter, Joseph A. Marshall, IV
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Patent number: 9242441Abstract: A heating device for use with a clamp for laminating substrates is provided. The heating device includes a support member, a heater control device coupled to the support member and a heater cartridge. The heater cartridge includes a cartridge housing retaining an insulation pad, an infrared reflector and a heating element, wherein the heating element is operatively coupled to the heater control device to control current flowing through the heating element, and wherein the support member is coupled to a clamp for laminating substrates. The insulation pad may be formed of a ceramic carbon fiber material and the infrared reflector may be formed of a reinforced Mylar sheet.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Inventor: Errol Gendreau
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Patent number: 9242442Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a translucent rigid substrate laminate to improve a positional precision. Further, a translucent rigid substrate bonding apparatus contributing to improvement of the positional precision while increasing production efficiency of a plate-shaped product is provided. In the method of manufacturing the translucent rigid substrate laminate and the translucent rigid substrate bonding apparatus according to the present invention, when translucent rigid substrates are bonded in a predetermined positional relationship by interposing a photo-curable fixing agent therebetween, the entire fixing agent interposed and spreading between both translucent rigid substrates is cured everytime the translucent rigid substrates are bonded.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2011Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Hiroyuki Kurimura, Hayato Miyazaki, Gosuke Nakajima
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Patent number: 9242443Abstract: A method for making a carbon nanotube composite hollow structure is provided. The method includes: passing a linear structure through a hollow rotating shaft and fixing the linear structure on the collecting unit; drawing a carbon nanotube structure from a carbon nanotube array loaded on the face plate, and adhering one end of the carbon nanotube structure to part of the linear structure between the wrapping unit and the collecting unit; forming a first carbon nanotube composite wire collected by the collecting unit by rotating the face plate and pulling the linear structure along a fixed direction such that the carbon nanotube structure wraps around the linear structure; forming a second carbon nanotube composite structure by applying a polymer liquid to the first carbon nanotube composite structure; and forming the carbon nanotube composite hollow structure by removing the linear structure from the second carbon nanotube composite structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yang Wei, Shou-Shan Fan
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Patent number: 9242444Abstract: A method of preventing microcavity formation in a bonding layer of a composite structure resulting from creep and thermal expansion due to high temperature exposure of the composite structure. The method includes the steps of providing a thin film with a thickness of 5 micrometers or less; providing a bonding layer of oxide with a thickness that is equal to or greater than the thickness of the thin film with the bonding layer formed by low pressure chemical vapor deposition. The thin film or support substrate have a mean thermal expansion coefficient of 7×10?6 K?1 or more. The thin film, bonding layer and support substrate combine to reduce stress in and plastic deformation of the bonding layer during exposure to high temperatures of more than approximately 900° C. to thus prevent microcavities from appearing in the bonding layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: SOITECInventors: Bruce Faure, Alexandra Marcovecchio
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Patent number: 9242445Abstract: A method for producing a bonded body of ceramic and metal bodies includes stacking a ceramic body, metal body, gap layer capable of preventing oxidation and hindering heat conduction, first intermediate layer and second intermediate layer with the gap layer between the ceramic body and the metal body in the stacking direction. The first intermediate layer is between the ceramic body and gap layer, and the second intermediate layer is between the gap layer and metal body, linear expansion coefficients of the first and second intermediate layers being between those of the ceramic body and the metal body. Diffusion bonding is performed between the ceramic body and the first intermediate layer, and between the metal body and the second intermediate layer simultaneously. The gap layer is then removed from between the first and second intermediate layers. The first and second intermediate layers are then bonded to each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuyuki Ookouchi, Yasunori Kawamoto
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Patent number: 9242446Abstract: A manufacturing method of composite material includes following steps: shaping a stainless steel plate to a stainless structural component; putting the stainless structural component in a female mold; putting a fiber material over a surface of the stainless structural component away from the female mold; and pressing a male mold towards the female mold to make the fiber material attached to the stainless structural component. The present invention is able to make different materials attached to each other to form a composite material in a simple and efficient manufacturing process, and the composite material is light; thin and has advantages of high rigidity and high strength.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Hung-Yuan Wang, Yang-Po Chiu, Chih-Hung Chuang
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Patent number: 9242447Abstract: The present invention relates to a substance(s) deposition control device for an offset printing system, characterized in that it comprises:—at least one offset plate intended to receive a wetting liquid and a colored substance in succession,—at least one controlled-deposition means for each offset plate, the deposition means comprising at least one deposition head spraying at least one wetting solution and at least one deposition head spraying a defined colored substance,—at least one means for cleaning the offset plate, and in that the covering of the offset plate or plates comprises a mesh structure defined by a plurality of hydrophilic and lipophilic individual surfaces capable of receiving a controlled deposition of wetting liquid and/or colored substance, each of these hydrophilic and lipophilic surfaces being separated from its direct neighbors by at least one hydrophobic and lipophobic peripheral surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignees: MGI FRANCE, INK JET TECHNOLOGYInventors: Edmond Abergel, Louis Gautier-Le-Boulch
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Patent number: 9242448Abstract: In a printing press of a lenticular lens sheet, a cocking adjustment unit adjusts the relative angle between a plate on which a pattern formed from a plurality of pattern portions is formed such that boundary lines between the adjacent pattern portions become parallel and a transparent lenticular lens sheet on which a plurality of lenses are formed such that groove lines between the adjacent lenses become parallel. An adjustment amount calculation unit calculates an adjustment amount for the cocking adjustment unit based on the relationship between the boundary lines and the groove lines in a state in which the lenticular lens sheet is overlaid on the plate. A printing method of a lenticular lens sheet is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: KOMORI CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Funabashi, Koji Okasaka
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Patent number: 9242449Abstract: An offset printing method includes creating halftone dots corresponding to a printed image and formed of printing ink, on a surface of a transfer cylinder and transferring the halftone dots to a printing substrate while the transfer cylinder rotates about its longitudinal axis. A halftone value in a printed image on the printing substrate is adjusted to a desired value by modifying a halftone dot size. The offset printing method improves the quality of the printed image by increasing the halftone dot size by a desired amount by providing a relative offset between a device that creates the halftone dots and the surface of the transfer cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Axel Hauck, Bernhard Buck
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Patent number: 9242450Abstract: An apparatus and method for thermally applying and removing a graphic to and from seat-belt webbing, the apparatus comprising a housing with an engagement slot to receive the seat-belt webbing and a graphic thermal coupon. The apparatus and graphic coupon useable without removing the seat belt webbing from the vehicle. The apparatus further useable while an occupant is seated with the seat belt fully engaged to allow the graphic coupon to be optimally positioned on the seat belt. The thermal graphic coupon comprising three layers including a heat transfer layer, a graphic membrane layer and an adhesive protective layer. The graphic membrane layer includes a graphic image that is actively applied to the seat belt webbing at specified temperatures without compromising the integrity of the seat belt webbing. The graphic is removed by reversing the process using a release sheet that preferentially absorbs the graphic membrane when reheated.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Inventor: Jason George Noricks
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Patent number: 9242451Abstract: A printing module comprising a support and a self-adhesive rectangular sheet element having a first face coated with adhesive and arranged on the support and a second face configured to receive signs (PRT) by means of priming. The sheet element having preferential breaking lines which delimit a sheet binding element comprising: a rectangular element and a plurality of flexible tabs arranged as a comb which integrally extend along a first lamer side of the rectangular element.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: PRIMA S.r.l.Inventor: Francesco Rebora
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Patent number: 9242452Abstract: A printing plate is arranged on a plate cylinder having a channel, in which front and rear clamping devices are located. The rear clamping device forms part of a slide positioned inside the channel and which can move towards the front clamping device. The slide is first moved, together with a rear end of the printing form that is fixed into the rear clamping device, towards the front clamping device. At least one rear spacer is then adjusted to a position relative to the slide that defines a specific distance of the rear clamping device from a second channel wall. A tensioning drive is subsequently deactivated and the slide, together with the rear clamping device, are held in position along the tensioning path by the force exerted by the tensioned printing form, that force pressing the slide against the second channel wall by the rear spacer of the slide.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AGInventors: Patrick Kreβ, Volkmar Rolf Schwitzky, Ralf Harald Sokol
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Patent number: 9242453Abstract: A method for adjusting ink zone openings in an ink fountain of a printing press uses a computer. The computer calculates a deflection of the ink fountain on the basis of an ink fountain model which contains forces that act on the ink fountain, and takes the calculated deflection of the ink fountain into consideration during the adjustment of the ink zone openings.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINENInventors: Sven Baumgarten, Sebastian Krüger, Martin Mayer, Bernhard Roskosch, Rolf Spilger
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Patent number: 9242454Abstract: A method of inking a substrate in a printing press is provided. The printing press includes a plurality of printing units, each printing unit includes a blanket cylinder, a plate cylinder and an inker. The method includes the steps of running the plate cylinder, blanket cylinder and inker at a press speed, driving the inker independently, printing on a substrate with a desired ink film thickness at the press speed and stopping the press for a press stop event. Stopping the press further includes stopping the inker at a maximum stop rate, stopping the plate cylinder and blanket cylinder at a normal stop rate and moving the plate cylinder and blanket cylinder into an off impression position.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: GROSS INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS, INC.Inventors: Michael Raymond Rancourt, Howard W. Hoff, Brian Robert Elkinson, William J. Derocher
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Patent number: 9242455Abstract: An image transfer medium for transferring an ink image onto a substrate is provided on its surface with a layer of particles that include an aggregation treatment agent capable of crashing out colorants, latex and/or resin in the liquid ink. A method for transferring an ink image includes providing an image transfer medium; applying a layer of particles to the image transfer medium, the particles including an aggregation treatment agent capable of crashing out colorants, latex and/or resin in liquid ink; applying liquid ink drops to the image transfer medium; initiating crashing of the colorant, latex and/or resin in the ink drops upon contact with the particles; and upon a sufficient amount of aggregation and drying, contacting a second substrate to the image transfer medium to transfer the ink from the transfer medium to the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: David A. Mantell, Chu-heng Liu, Srinivas Mettu, Anthony S. Condello
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Patent number: 9242456Abstract: There is described a transfer member or blanket for use in aqueous ink jet printer. The transfer member includes a non-woven polymer fiber matrix and a polymer dispersed throughout the non-woven polymer fiber matrix. The polymer fiber matrix has a first surface energy and the polymer has a second surface energy. The difference between the first surface energy and the second surface energy is from about 30 mJ/m2 to about 5 mJ/m2.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Yu Qi, Carolyn Patricia Moorlag, Brynn Mary Dooley, Barkev Keoshkerian
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Patent number: 9242457Abstract: In a print system comprising a first printing unit for printing images on a first surface of a continuous sheet, a reading unit for reading an image, and a second printing unit for printing images on a second surface of the continuous sheet, in the case where the first printing unit prints a control image irregularly inserted between the images based on image data on the first surface of the continuous sheet, the first printing unit prints an identification mark which enables the control image to be identified on the first surface of the continuous sheet, and in the case where the reading unit reads an identification mark printed on the first surface of the continuous sheet, the second printing unit is caused not to print images based on image data in an area corresponding to the control image on the continuous sheet.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Koji Yasuzaki
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Patent number: 9242458Abstract: An ink jet recording method for recording an image on a recording medium using a recording head includes executing relative movement between the recording medium and the recording head in a second direction intersecting a first direction in which a plurality of recording elements are arrayed. The recording head is controlled so that the plurality of recording elements in each group of respective driving blocks of recording elements are driven in order and at a predetermined time interval between respective driving blocks. A plurality of element arrays are driven so that pixels, based on recording data for one column extending in the first direction, are recorded by using the plurality of element arrays within an area of the recording medium corresponding to relative movement width of the relative movement in the second direction within the predetermined time interval.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Eisuke Nishitani, Koichiro Nakazawa
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Patent number: 9242459Abstract: A method for printing an authentication pattern wherein, using a multi-deflection continuous inkjet printer, the pattern is printed on a substrate and only contains a small number of black pixels per raster. The resolution in the travel direction X of the substrate and in direction Y of the rasters is thereby largely improved compared with printing in dot-matrix mode, which makes reproduction of the pattern difficult for an infringer not having means to determine the electric charge to be applied to each of the droplets of a train of droplets needed to print each raster of the pattern.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: MARKEM-IMAJE HOLDINGInventor: Jannick Michallon
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Patent number: 9242460Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid-discharge-head substrate is provided, which includes a plurality of elements for discharging liquid, and a heating member for heating the liquid-discharge-head substrate, the method including the steps of preparing a substrate having an insulating layer made of an insulating material provided on or above the substrate, providing a conductive layer made of a conductive material, and forming a conductive line being configured to supply current for driving the element and a part of a heating member by using the conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichi Omata, Yoshiyuki Imanaka, Takaaki Yamaguchi, Yuuji Tamaru
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Patent number: 9242461Abstract: A droplet generating device includes a wafer with a recess that defines a pressure chamber, a flexible membrane bonded to the wafer so as to cover the recess and form a wall of the pressure chamber, and an actuator attached to the membrane for flexing the membrane to generate a pressure wave in a liquid in the pressure chamber, the pressure chamber having a first port connected to a liquid supply line, and a second port connecting the pressure chamber to a nozzle, at least one of the ports being arranged adjacent to the membrane, wherein the wafer forms at least one island portion that projects into the at least one of the ports, engages the membrane and divides the port into at least two separate passages, and wherein the at least one island portion is arranged to delimit a flexing part of the membrane on a side of the at least one of the ports.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Hans Reinten, Maikel A. J. Huygens
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Patent number: 9242462Abstract: A jet stack has a set of plates forming an array of body chambers, the set of plates including a nozzle plate having an array of jets wherein each jet corresponds to a body chamber, each body chamber having an inlet to allow fluid to flow into the body chamber and an outlet to allow fluid to flow out of the body chamber, the outlet fluidically coupled to a jet in the array of jets, wherein the inlet and outlets are concentric.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: XEROX CORPORATIONInventor: Terrance L. Stephens
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Patent number: 9242463Abstract: A liquid-jet head includes: a plurality of individual passages communicating with nozzle orifices that jet liquid; a manifold communicating with the plurality of individual passages, in which a surface of the manifold on the liquid-jetting face side is sealed with a sealing member; and a rib provided in the manifold on the sealing member side.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu Munakata, Hajime Nakao, Takaaki Koizumi, Masato Komazawa
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Patent number: 9242464Abstract: A liquid droplet discharge head includes a nozzle substrate; nozzles, disposed on the nozzle substrate, to discharge a liquid; a pressurized liquid chamber that communicates with the nozzles; a diaphragm forming one wall of the pressurized liquid chamber; an electromechanical transducer element for discharging, disposed on an element mount surface of the diaphragm opposite a side facing the pressurized liquid chamber; and a retainer substrate laminated to the element mount surface of the diaphragm with an adhesive. The subject head is configured to discharge a liquid inside the pressurized liquid chamber from the nozzles while the diaphragm is displaced by a drive voltage applied to the electromechanical transducer element for discharging, and the liquid droplet discharge head further comprising an electromechanical transducer element for inspection that does not perform discharging, disposed on the element mount surface of the diaphragm, to which a voltage is applied so that the diaphragm displaces.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Keisuke Hayashi
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Patent number: 9242465Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a first casing, a second casing, a seal member and a valve assembly. The first casing is fixed to the second casing with the seal member therebetween. A storage space is created in the first casing and the second casing. The valve assembly is accommodated in the storage space and forms a channel along which liquid flows. The valve assembly is fixed to the first casing and separated from the second casing.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takeshi Owaku, Hiroki Miyajima
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Patent number: 9242466Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a water-repellent film, including an adhesion precursor film forming step of forming, on a substrate, an adhesion precursor film mainly of a Si—O bond with hydrogen directly bonded to Si; an irradiating step of irradiating the adhesion precursor film with excitation energy to increase an OH group present on a surface of the adhesion precursor film to thereby change the adhesion precursor film into an adhesion reinforcing film; and an organic film coating step of coating the adhesion reinforcing film with an organic film by using a silane coupling agent, wherein a content of the hydrogen directly bonded to Si in the adhesion precursor film is 1.0×1017 atoms/cm2 or more in terms of a H2 molecule.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, Material Design Factory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takami Arakawa, Hiroshi Nakayama
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Patent number: 9242467Abstract: After one ink of a white ink or a silver ink is ejected in a predetermined position of a recording medium such as a piece of recording paper to form a base layer, the other ink thereof is ejected on the base layer to form an intermediate layer, and a clear ink is ejected on the intermediate layer to form an epidermal layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kinya Ozawa
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Patent number: 9242468Abstract: In an inkjet printer, a cap part for receiving ink from a head unit during maintenance includes a liquid receiving part and an exhaust part disposed laterally to the liquid receiving part. In the liquid receiving part, a second liquid receiving chamber is disposed further from the exhaust part than is a first liquid receiving part. A second flow path is disposed below the first liquid receiving chamber without passing through the first liquid receiving chamber. In the exhaust part, a first fan part is connected to the first liquid receiving chamber, and a second fan part is connected to the second liquid receiving chamber through the second flow path. Accordingly, it is possible to appropriately exhaust a gas contained within the second liquid receiving chamber, independently of the first liquid receiving chamber. Consequently, a mist in the liquid receiving part can be discharged efficiently.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kuroda, Tamio Fukui
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Patent number: 9242469Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting section in which a nozzle capable of ejecting liquid is provided; a supply flow path that supplies the liquid to the nozzle; a pressurizing mechanism that discharges the liquid from the nozzle by pressurizing the liquid inside the supply flow path; and a pressure reducing mechanism that discharges the liquid from the nozzle by reducing a pressure of a space communicating with a side opposite to a side of the supply flow path of the nozzle. In a maintenance operation discharging the liquid from the nozzle by driving at least one of the pressurizing mechanism and the pressure reducing mechanism, the last discharging operation of the maintenance operation is performed by driving the pressurizing mechanism from a state where the negative pressure is caused to act on the inside of the nozzle by driving the pressure reducing mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takuya Okina
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Patent number: 9242470Abstract: An apparatus includes a recording head arranged so as to oppose a sheet moving in a first direction, in which a plurality of first nozzle chips and a plurality of second nozzle chips each having a nozzle array are arranged as different arrays in a second direction crossing the first direction, and in which the first nozzle chips and the second nozzle chips adjacent to each other are shifted from each other in the second direction, a first suction unit opposed to the first nozzle chips and configured to suction ink from a part of the nozzle arrays included in the first nozzle chips, a second suction unit opposed to the second nozzle chips and configured to suction ink from a part of the nozzle arrays included in the second nozzle chips, a suction holder configured to retain the first suction unit and the second suction unit, and a movement mechanism configured to cause relative movement between the recording head and the suction holder in the second direction, wherein the first suction unit and the second suctType: GrantFiled: November 15, 2010Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Seiji Suzuki, Yuji Kanome, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Masahiro Sugimoto, Susumu Hirosawa, Takeaki Nakano
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Patent number: 9242471Abstract: A compression member is used to press a first outer surface of a negative pressure generating member which contacts a surface of a partition wall and to press a second outer surface of the negative pressure generating member which contacts an inner surface of a first recessed portion located opposite the partition wall. The negative pressure generating member is placed in the first recessed portion with releasing the pressure exerted on the first outer surface while maintaining the pressure exerted on the second outer surface. After the negative pressure generating member is placed in the first recessed portion, the pressure exerted on the outer surface of the negative pressure generating member is released.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Isamu Yoneda, Akira Shiba, Ryota Yamada
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Patent number: 9242473Abstract: Provided is a self-sealing unit which has two films in a facing state, two end surfaces intersecting with the films, and a plurality of self-sealing valves. The self-sealing valves have diaphragm chambers which are formed by the films and valve bodies which move in accordance with displacement of the films and open/close flow paths. When viewed from a direction perpendicular to a plane to which the self-sealing unit is fixed, the length of a diagonal line connecting intersection points on sides of the diaphragm chambers is set to be longer than that of a diagonal line connecting intersection points on sides of the valve bodies.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yasuyuki Kudo
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Patent number: 9242474Abstract: A printing apparatus which performs printing by ejecting liquid onto a printing medium includes a gas flow generating section that generates a gas flow to collect and exhaust liquid not used for printing, and a gas-liquid separation cyclone that swirls the gas flow so that the liquid is centrifugally separated from a gas which moves along the gas flow, wherein the gas flow generating section exhausts the gas along the gas flow after the liquid is separated from the gas by the gas-liquid separation cyclone.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Toshio Kumagai, Norihiro Masuda
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Patent number: 9242475Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a plurality of nozzles which eject liquid; a common liquid chamber which supplies liquid to the plurality of nozzles; a liquid flow path for supplying liquid which is accommodated in a liquid accommodation unit to the common liquid chamber; a deaeration unit which deaerates liquid in the liquid flow path; a liquid flow unit which causes liquid in the liquid flow path to flow; a return flow path which connects the common liquid chamber and the liquid accommodation unit; and an on-off valve which closes the return flow path by being in a closed state.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Nobutoshi Otsuka, Jun Shimazaki
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Patent number: 9242476Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, a fixing device, and a control section. The image forming section forms images on a sheet with a recolorable decolorable colorant and an undecolorable colorant. The fixing device heats the sheet to fix the recolorable decolorable colorant and the undecolorable colorant on the sheet. The control section performs temperature control for the fixing device and fixes the recolorable decolorable colorant and the undecolorable colorant on the sheet at temperature higher than decoloring start temperature of the recolorable decolorable colorant to thereby fix the recolorable decolorable colorant on the sheet in a decolored state and fix the undecolorable colorant on the sheet in a colored state.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Minoru Yoshida
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Patent number: 9242478Abstract: The invention is concerning the writing controlling apparatus that includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of light amounts of a light source driven while changing an input current in non-effective scanning periods during which an image carrier is not irradiated with light from the light source, as a plurality of output results; a detecting unit configured to detect characteristics of the light source using the output results thus acquired; and a correcting unit configured to correct a current to be applied to the light source based on the characteristics thus detected.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Masashi Suzuki, Katsuhiko Maeda, Yoshio Kanzaki, Masahiko Oikawa, Yasuhiro Abe, Hiroaki Nishina, Yuuki Honda
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Patent number: 9242479Abstract: The liquid discharge device is equipped with a conveyance belt configured to have a medium stuck to an adhesive layer of its surface and convey the medium, a pressure roller configured to stick the medium to the conveyance belt, and an attachment part provided at an upstream position to the pressure roller in a movement path of the conveyance belt and configured to adhere a pretreatment liquid to the conveyance belt. The medium is stuck using the pressure roller to the conveyance belt in a state with the pretreatment liquid L adhered. Alternatively, the medium is stuck to the conveyance belt using the pressure roller in a state with the pretreatment liquid adhered.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hirotaka Ishizuka
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Patent number: 9242480Abstract: A printer includes a light source module including an ejecting head that ejects a UV ink onto a medium. The UV ink hardens when irradiated with a UV light ray. The light source module includes an irradiator that irradiates the UV ink with the UV light ray. The printer may include a guide shaft to/from which the light module is attachable/detachable and a driving controller that performs control of the irradiator. The light source module includes, in addition to the irradiator, a memory module that stores therein information indicating a light irradiation feature of the irradiator. The driving controller performs control of the irradiator by using the information indicating a light irradiation feature of the irradiator.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazunori Hiramatsu, Hiroaki Sakai
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Patent number: 9242481Abstract: In a method for applying a curable liquid using an inkjet printing method, a gloss level is controlled by first applying a first layer of liquid and curing the first layer. Having thus obtained a layer having known properties, a second layer is applied on the first layer. Droplets of the second layer are uncured for a predetermined period of time allowing the droplets to spread and coalesce to form a layer having a smooth and flat surface such to provide a desired gloss level, in particular a high gloss. Further, a printing apparatus configured to perform the method is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Garnet M. Cluff, Erik Pedersen
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Patent number: 9242482Abstract: A pH detecting device includes a supplying unit to supply a pH indicator, with an inkjet head, to a surface of a material to be processed on which acidification is performed; a color information detector to detect color information of the pH indicator supplied to the surface of the material; and a pH specifying unit to specify a pH value of the surface of the material based on the color information.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Haruki Saitoh, Koji Nagai, Hiroyuki Hiratsuka, Satoshi Katoh
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Patent number: 9242483Abstract: This disclosure discloses a handheld printer comprising a battery power supply, a platen roller configured to feed the print-receiving paper, a thermal line head configured to perform desired printing on the print-receiving paper fed by the platen roller, a device main body comprising a battery storage chamber configured to store the battery power supply, and a battery chamber cover detachably configured to be mounted on the battery storage chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiro Takahashi, Keiji Seo, Hidenori Jo, Toshiyuki Furuyama, Shuhei Nohara, Masato Nagura, Takehiko Inaba, Toshiyuki Ohmori
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Patent number: 9242484Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a pivotal member provided on a casing so as to pivot between a closed position in which the pivotal member covers at least a part of the casing and an open position in which the pivotal member is away from the closed position, a tray member disposed so as to pivot with respect to the casing and to be pressed to the open position by a pivoting motion of the pivotal member toward the open position, and a resetting device that cancels the pressing force of the pivotal member when the pivotal member is made to pivot toward the closed position, to thereby reset the tray member to the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takao Oizumi
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Patent number: 9242485Abstract: A recording device includes: a housing having an opening; an opening/closing cover that can be disposed in a closed position where the opening is covered, and an open position where the opening is exposed; a medium holder that holds a medium; a recorder that performs recording on a medium; and a transport mechanism that transports the medium from the medium holder toward the recorder along a transport path, in which the medium holder is provided with, a feed port for the medium, connected to the transport path and an alarm unit that warns that the medium is disposed at a position where the medium can be transported by the transport mechanism, and when the opening/closing cover is disposed in the open position, the feed port and the alarm unit can be visually checked.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Naoyuki Wada
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Patent number: 9242486Abstract: The present invention relates to a printing apparatus for printing on a print substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Océ-Technologies B.V.Inventor: Wilhelmus J. E. G. Verhofstad