Patents Issued in July 28, 2016
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Publication number: 20160214376Abstract: In some examples, a printer determines a difference between an enlarged calibration pattern portion printed on a substrate by a first portion of a nozzle array of the printer and an enlarged reference pattern portion printed on the substrate by a second portion of the nozzle array, the enlarged calibration pattern portion produced by printing respective smaller calibration pattern portions at corresponding different relative positions between the nozzle array and the substrate, and the enlarged reference pattern portion produced by printing respective smaller reference pattern portions at corresponding different relative positions between the nozzle array and the substrate. The printer adjusts at least one drive signal to at least one of the first portion of the nozzle array and the second portion of the nozzle array to compensate for the determined difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Jordi Sender Beleta, Montserrat Solano Pallarol, Alejandra Terron Arregui
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Publication number: 20160214377Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes: an integrated circuit device that includes a modulation portion which generates a modulation signal by pulse-modulating a source signal; a feedback circuit; a transistor that generates an amplified modulation signal which is obtained by amplifying the modulation signal; a low-pass filter that generates a drive signal by demodulating the amplified modulation signal; and a piezoelectric element that is displaced by applying the drive signal, wherein the feedback circuit generates a feedback signal on the basis of the drive signal, and feeds back the feedback signal to the modulation portion through a feedback terminal, the modulation portion includes a first circuit block and a second circuit block, and the integrated circuit device is configured to separate the first circuit block from the second circuit block by a triple-well structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2015Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Shunichi SHIMA
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Publication number: 20160214378Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejecting unit which can reciprocate with respect to a continuous paper, and ejects ink onto the continuous paper; a heating unit which heats a liquid ejecting region which is a region in which the ejecting unit can eject the ink to the continuous paper; an IR sensor which detects a temperature of the liquid ejecting region based on infrared light in the liquid ejecting region; and a control device which controls the heating unit based on a first detection temperature of the IR sensor. The control device controls the heating unit without using the first detection temperature which is detected by the IR sensor, when the ejecting unit is located in a temperature detecting region of the IR sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Toru HAYASHI, Tsuneyuki SASAKI
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Publication number: 20160214379Abstract: An ink composition has a viscosity of 25 mPa·s to 35 mPa·s at 20° C., wherein a, b, and c are 800 or more, 7.4 to 14, and 0.16 to 0.22, respectively, when a cylindrical portion is formed by expanding the ink composition so as to have a free surface parallel to the expanding direction of the ink composition, the rate of change in width of the cylindrical portion with time is measured in the expanding direction thereof, and the rate of change in width of the cylindrical portion with time is fit to a quadratic function given by the following equation: S=?at2?bt+c??(1) where S is the rate of change in width of the cylindrical portion and t is the time in seconds.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Satoru MIURA, Taketoshi KAGOSE
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Publication number: 20160214380Abstract: A printing device is provided with a head section including nozzle rows; a main scan driving section, and a sub scan driving section. The multiple nozzle rows that respectively discharges ink droplets of ink of a same color, and each of the multiple nozzle rows is aligned along a main scanning direction so that at least a part of their positions is overlapped in a sub scanning direction. In each of the nozzle rows, multiple nozzles is aligned with a constant interval in the sub scanning direction. In a case where a resolution corresponding to the interval of the nozzles in the sub scanning direction in each of the nozzle rows is denoted as a nozzle resolution D1, and a resolution in the sub scanning direction upon performing printing at a maximum resolution in the printing device is denoted as a maximum resolution D2, and D2 is higher than D1.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventor: MASARU OHNISHI
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Publication number: 20160214381Abstract: A fluid level sensor is configured for identifying a fluid level in a small volume reservoir, such as a fluid reservoir in an ejector head. The reservoir includes a plurality of vertically arranged chambers. A plurality of piezoelectric transducers is distributed over the chambers in a one-to-one correspondence. At least one electrical conductor is electrically connected to each piezoelectric transducer in the plurality of piezoelectric transducers to enable each piezoelectric sensor to receive an electrical signal to a portion of a wall of the chamber to produce an acoustical wave in the chamber and to transmit an electrical signal from each piezoelectric transducer in response to a fluctuating pressure on each piezoelectric transducer produced by the acoustical wave in the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Faming Li, Jing Zhou, Xuejin Wen
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Publication number: 20160214382Abstract: A method for printing a digitally-stored image on the surface of a cylindrical object comprises the steps of axially moving the object along a line of travel that is aligned with the object's long axis until it is underneath one or more printheads, each of which have a plurality of ink nozzles that may be arranged in one or more columns while simultaneously rotating the object with respect to the printheads and simultaneously causing a pre-determined number of nozzles to eject ink onto the surface of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2015Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: JOHN RANDEL LACAZE
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Publication number: 20160214383Abstract: A head unit includes: a recording head which can discharge liquid from nozzles; a plate portion to which the recording head is attached in a state where a nozzle forming surface on which the nozzles are formed protrudes; and a protection portion which protects the nozzle forming surface, in which the protection portion is attached to the plate portion in a state where a space is provided between the protection portion and the plate portion when viewed from an intersecting direction which intersects with a protruding direction of the nozzle forming surface, and in which the nozzle forming surface is positioned within a range of a thickness in the protruding direction of the protection portion when viewed from the intersecting direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Takahiro KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20160214384Abstract: An element substrate of a liquid ejection head includes: a base material; an insulating film positioned on the base material; a heating resistance element for generating heat energy for ejecting a liquid; a protective film for covering the heating resistance element; a first electrical wiring layer arranged in the insulating film, for supplying a current to the heating resistance element; a second electrical wiring layer arranged on a layer different from the first electrical wiring layer in the insulating film, for supplying a current to the heating resistance element; and at least one connecting member extending into the insulating film to connect the first electrical wiring layer and the heating resistance element, for causing the current to flow in a first direction, the heating resistance element including a connecting region, extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, to which the at least one connecting member is connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: RYO KASAI, NOBUYUKI HIRAYAMA, MASATAKA SAKURAI, KENGO UMEDA, HIDENORI YAMATO, MAKOTO TAKAGI, TATSUHITO GODEN, SADAYOSHI SAKUMA, NOBUYUKI SUZUKI, TORU ETO
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Publication number: 20160214385Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a conveyance section, a recording head, a maintenance mechanism, and a control section. The conveyance section conveys a recording medium. The recording head discharges ink droplets toward the recording medium while the conveyance section conveys the recording medium. The maintenance mechanism performs maintenance on the recording head. The control section causes the maintenance mechanism to operate upon determination that a width of a next recording target recording medium is greater than a width of a recording medium subjected to image recording prior to the next recording target recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Satoshi TSUNEMI, Shinji YOSHINAGA, Takeshi WATANABE, Hiroatsu TAMAI, Hidenori TAKENAKA, Jumpei HOBO, Tomohisa SODA
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Publication number: 20160214386Abstract: A cleaning adapter cleans print heads in an installation for the printing of containers. The installation includes a printing machine having an inkjet print head and a transport system that moves the containers to be printed. The container is moved past the print head and, in so doing, is printed with liquid printing inks. The cleaning adapter is designed in such a way that it is introducible into the transport system in place of one of the containers to be printed and is moveable to the print head for cleaning purposes. The cleaning adapter comprises a container which is hollow in portions and has an opening. The cleaning adapter, in regions thereof in which the transport system acts thereon during transport, has an external form corresponding to the containers to be printed, so that the cleaning adapter is configured to be positioned utilising the transport system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2014Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: TILL GMBHInventor: Volker Till
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Publication number: 20160214387Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head capable of moving back and forth relative to a recording medium and ejecting a liquid from a nozzle, a cover portion that covers at least a portion of a no-nozzle-formed region in which the nozzle is not formed within a nozzle-formed surface in which the nozzle is formed, and a wiper provided in a back-and-forth movement range of the recording head and capable of wiping the cover portion without contacting the nozzle-formed surface as the recording head moves back and forth.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Ryo HASEGAWA
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Publication number: 20160214388Abstract: A nozzle arrangement has nozzle arrays arranged in a first direction. Liquid passages are interconnected via a communication path and arranged in the first direction. Nozzles in each one of the nozzle arrays are connected to a corresponding one of the liquid passages. Each of the liquid passages has a first end connected to a supply port and a second end connected to the communication path, in a second direction. The controller controls a flushing operation ejecting liquid from the nozzles as waste liquid. The controller controls the head portion to perform a selective flushing operation. The selective flushing operation is an operation of ejecting the liquid from the nozzles corresponding to a part, being at least one of the liquid passages, of a set of liquid passages while stopping ejection of the liquid from the nozzles corresponding to a remaining part of the set of liquid passages.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Naoki Mizuno, Takao Hyakudome
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Publication number: 20160214389Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus according to the present invention includes a first holding unit configured to hold an ink cartridge, and capable of moving between a first position which allows attachment and detachment of the ink cartridge and a second position which allows to supply ink from the ink cartridge to an ink passage in an apparatus body; a first biasing unit configured to bias the first holding unit in a first direction from the second position toward the first position; a restricting unit configured to restrict movement of the first holding unit at the second poson in the first direction; and a second holding unit configured to move as the first holding unit moves, and hold the ink cartridge at the second position by sandwiching the ink cartridge between the second holding unit and the first holding unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Tsuyoshi Saeki, Noboru Shimoyama
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Publication number: 20160214390Abstract: A cartridge that is configured and arranged to be mounted on a printer that has a first ink supply pipe and a second ink supply pipe-includes a bottom wall, a plurality of printing material supply ports, a single main chamber, and a plurality of flow paths. The plurality of the printing material supply ports are provided on the bottom wall. The plurality of the printing material supply ports protrude from the bottom wall in a ?Z axial direction and are aligned in a Y axial direction perpendicular to the ?Z axial direction. The single main chamber is configured and arranged to contain a printing material. The plurality of the flow paths communicate with the single main chamber and the plurality of the printing material supply ports, respectively, and the plurality of the flow paths are aligned in the Y axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Izumi NOZAWA, Atsushi KOBAYASHI, Tadahiro MIZUTANI
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Publication number: 20160214391Abstract: In an example implementation, an authentication system includes a printer having a controller and a memory. The authentication system also includes an authentication algorithm stored in the memory and executable on the controller to issue a cryptographic timing challenge, and to authenticate a print supply cartridge when the cartridge provides a challenge response corresponding to an expected response within an expected time window.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2013Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jefferson P. WARD, Stephen D. PANSHIN
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Publication number: 20160214392Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink tank, a recording head, an ink sensor, a monitor, an operation panel, and a controller configured to control operation thereof. The controller receives a completion signal indicating completion of ink injection, and receives a first signal or a second signal from the ink sensor based on whether a predetermined amount of ink is sensed in the ink chamber. Based on the completion signal and receipt of the first signal, inquiry information is displayed on the monitor regarding whether ink injection into the ink chamber is completed. Based on the completion signal and receipt of the second signal, a notification is displayed on the monitor that is based on the ink sensor not sensing the predetermined amount of ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mana HONOKI, Kenta HORADE
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Publication number: 20160214393Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a tank forming an ink chamber and including an injection inlet, a recording head, a cover, a monitor, a cover sensor, an operation panel, and a controller. The controller controls operation of the recording head and the monitor. The controller performs decision processing deciding whether ink injection into the ink chamber after complement of an initial process is completed, and counts an amount of ink discharged from the recording head. The controller controls the monitor to display notification depending on the decision processing and the counted amount of discharged ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Matsui, Kenta Horade, Mana Honoki, Tomoya Oguchi
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Publication number: 20160214394Abstract: An ink jetting digital printing apparatus supporting double-side printing is provided. The ink jetting digital printing apparatus comprises: a first sprayer module and a corresponding first group of color plane control servers, a second sprayer module and a corresponding second group of color plane control servers, a rasterization image processing server, and a system control server. The first and second sprayer modules comprise a group of sprayers of the same two or more colors; the first group comprises color plane control servers in one-to-one correspondence with sprayers in the first sprayer module; the second group comprises color plane control servers in one-to-one correspondence with sprayers in the second sprayer module; the first group color plane control servers parallel with the second group color plane control servers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2013Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Xiaoxiao XING, Xingxin SUN, Weiping HUANG
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Publication number: 20160214395Abstract: A method for manufacturing decorative surfaces includes the steps of a) inkjet printing a colour pattern on a paper substrate with one or more aqueous inkjet inks of an aqueous inkjet ink set; and thereafter b) impregnating the paper substrate with a thermosetting resin, wherein the aqueous inkjet ink set includes a cyan aqueous inkjet ink containing a copper phthalocyanine pigment; a red aqueous inkjet ink containing a pigment C.I Pigment Red 254 or a mixed crystal thereof; a yellow aqueous inkjet ink containing a pigment C.I Pigment Yellow 151 or a mixed crystal thereof; and a black aqueous inkjet ink containing a carbon black pigment; with the proviso that the aqueous inkjet inks do not include a polymer latex binder; and that the paper substrate includes one or more ink receiving layers for improving the image quality of the aqueous inkjet inks jetted thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2014Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Rita TORFS, Gitte VAN BAELEN
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Publication number: 20160214396Abstract: Printing with a single colorant a security feature imperceptible to the naked eye. For a digital security image having a first region formed by a first pattern of binary pixels and a second region formed by a different second pattern of binary pixels, the first and second patterns are printed with the single colorant. A darker one of the first and second printed patterns is determined. The security image is printed with the single colorant, the region corresponding to the darker printed pattern printed at a reduced gray level such that the printed first and second regions appear substantially indistinguishable to the naked eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Omri Shacham, Oren Haik
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Publication number: 20160214397Abstract: An image formation apparatus capable of forming images of good quality over a long term on image formation target objects is provided. The image formation target object has a plurality of transfer frames, and the image formation apparatus has a control unit configured to control a formation of the image with respect to at least one of the transfer frames such that the image includes an image of a first range that is transferred and formed in a density within a first density range for which a first density is a maximum density, and an image of a second range that is transferred and formed in a second density that is higher density than the first density, after the first range.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2015Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Kaku HIROSE, Keiji IHARA, Yuji OKADA
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Publication number: 20160214398Abstract: In a scanning optical apparatus provided with: a deflector including a rotating polygon mirror which deflects incident light; and an optical box which fixes the deflectors in a positioned state, the deflector uses any one of deflectors of a plurality of types having respectively different shapes of a fitting portion, which is fitted into a fit receiving portion provided in the optical box, and the optical box is provided with fit receiving portions of different shapes corresponding to the respective fitting portions of the deflectors of a plurality of types.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Daisuke Takamura
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Publication number: 20160214399Abstract: The present disclosure includes a method and system for applying markings on a food product by applying a radiant energy to the food product in such a manner to form a permanent marking thereon. These systems and methods include laser configurations that provide for optimal marking while minimizing the quantity of egg stabilizers needed. The present disclosure further includes systems and methods for using shutters to provide a safety shutter mechanism for preventing accidental laser beam escape when guards are removed in addition to protecting the lens. The disclosure also has the benefit of preventing machinery damage, improving machinery performance and play a vital part in achieving predictable performance which is essential to safe operation of the radiant energy source. The present disclosure also includes methods and systems for protecting ink cartridges used in egg carton printing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: TEN Media, LLC dba TEN Ag Tech Co.Inventors: Jonathan R. Phillips, Richard C. Blackburn
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Publication number: 20160214400Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer including a storage part, a feeding roller, a printing head, a core driving device, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute a feeding process, a printing process, a taking-up process, and a torque correction process. In the feeding process, the feeding roller is driven to feed the print-receiving tape fed out from the print-receiving tape roll. In the printing process the printing head is controlled to form a desired print, thereby a printed tape is formed. In the taking-up process, the core driving device is driven to sequentially take up the printed tape around an outer circumferential portion of a second core. In the torque correction process, a drive torque of the core driving device is corrected from a first drive torque to a second drive torque corresponding to a tape width of the print-receiving tape.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Junya Kawai
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Publication number: 20160214401Abstract: An ink jet textile printing method includes recording by applying an ink composition containing a dye to a front surface of a fabric by an ink jet method and applying a liquid penetrant to the front surface or a rear surface of the fabric before or after the recording. The liquid penetrant includes a nitrogen compound having a boiling point of 230 to 260° C. and an alkyl polyol having a boiling point of 230 to 260° C. and does not substantially include alkyl polyols having a boiling point higher than 260° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Hidehiko Komatsu
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Publication number: 20160214402Abstract: A light emitting elements drive control device includes: a supplying unit that supplies a common power source voltage to a plurality of light emitting elements whose light emission quantities are controlled individually by current controls; a determining unit that determines voltage ranges capable of assuring proper current control operations on the individual light emitting elements based on drive voltages for the respective light emitting elements that vary as the current controls are performed; and a setting unit that sets the power source voltage to be supplied from the supplying unit from a common voltage range of the voltage ranges determined by the determining unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2015Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Eigo Nakagawa, Akira Sakamoto, Chikaho Ikeda, Jun Isozaki
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Publication number: 20160214403Abstract: A processing object modifying apparatus includes a conveying unit that conveys a processing object; a plasma processing unit that performs plasma processing onto a surface of the processing object while the processing object is being conveyed by the conveying unit; a measuring unit that measures a pH value of the processing object to which the plasma processing has been applied; and a controlling unit that controls the conveying unit to change a conveying speed of the processing object on the basis of a measurement result of the measuring unit, the processing object to which the plasma processing is being applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2015Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyoshi Matsumoto, Junji Nakai
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Publication number: 20160214404Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a feeding section that feeds a rolled continuous paper into an apparatus body, a recording section disposed in the apparatus body, the recording section performing recording onto the continuous paper fed from the feeding section in the apparatus body, a first transport path along which the continuous paper is transported during the recording performed on the medium by the recording section, and a second transport path along which the continuous paper is transported to be rewound onto the feeding section. The second transport path is different from the first transport path.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Kiyoshi Mukaiyama
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Publication number: 20160214405Abstract: In one example, a multi-stage hot air dryer in which each successive stage is configured to take in air discharged from a prior stage and discharge it on to an article moving through the dryer from the last stage to the first stage such that the article is exposed to higher humidity air first in the dryer and to lower humidity air last in the dryer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2013Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventor: Ronald R. ANDERSON
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Publication number: 20160214406Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a drying unit that dries a medium, a controller that controls to output a partition sheet as a partition of the medium on which printing based on a print job has been performed, and a liquid application unit that applies liquid onto the partition sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Kazuhisa Kato, Seiya Hayashi
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Publication number: 20160214407Abstract: A paper feed device is disposed near an opening formed on a housing of for an image forming apparatus. The paper feed device includes a paper feed tray on which papers can be stacked, upper and lower guide plates disposed on a downstream side from the opening to form a paper transfer path therebetween, a drive shaft extended along a paper width direction perpendicular to the paper transfer direction, a paper feed roller attached to the drive shaft for feeding out a paper from the paper feed tray to the paper feed path, and a pair of elastic rollers coaxially attached to the drive shaft on either side of the paper feed roller. The pair of elastic rollers covers a space between the upper and lower guide plates. Each diameter of the elastic rollers is made slightly smaller than a diameter of the paper feed roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Teruaki HASHIZUME, Kentaro TATSUMI
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Publication number: 20160214408Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes: a recording unit configured to record an image on a sheet conveyed in a conveyance direction; conveyance rollers arranged downstream of the recording unit in the conveyance direction to be apart from each other in a width direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction; first spur rollers arranged opposingly to the conveyance rollers respectively and configured to nip the sheet between the conveyance rollers and the first spur rollers; second spur rollers arranged between the mutually adjoining first spur rollers respectively in the width direction; and a first guide member arranged upstream of the first spur rollers and the second spur rollers in the conveyance direction; and having a first guide surface configured to guide the sheet to a nip position at which the sheet is nipped by the conveyance rollers and the first spur rollers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Tsuyoshi Ito
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Publication number: 20160214409Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record an image on a sheet conveyed in a conveyance direction; a first wavy shape applying mechanism provided downstream in the conveyance direction from the recording unit and configured to allow the sheet to be in a wavy state in a width direction; and a guide member configured to guide the sheet to the first wavy shape applying mechanism. The first wavy shape applying mechanism includes first spur rollers configured to abut against a first surface of the sheet respectively; abutment members provided between the mutually adjoining first spur rollers respectively and configured to abut against a second surface of the sheet; and second spur rollers configured to abut against the first surface of the sheet downstream of the first spur rollers in the conveyance direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ito, Gakuro Kanazawa, Kenji Samoto, Wataru Sugiyama, Yasuhira Ota
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Publication number: 20160214410Abstract: A medium support unit includes a support portion capable of supporting a medium and a holder portion capable of holding the medium supported by the support portion. The support portion has a facing portion in a partial region that is a portion of a facing region that faces, when the support portion is combined with the holder portion, the holder portion in a supporting direction in which the support portion supports the medium. The facing region includes a void region in which the facing portion is absent and which allows a portion of the medium supported by the support portion and held by the holder portion to move.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Nobuhiko HAMADA
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Publication number: 20160214411Abstract: A printing apparatus comprising: a conveying unit; a printing unit; a cutting unit; and a control unit, wherein in a case in which a marginless image is to be printed, if the margin portion is added on a trailing edge side of an image before the marginless image, the control unit performs control of printing the marginless image next to the margin portion, and if the margin portion is not added on the trailing edge side of the image before the marginless image, the control unit performs control of providing a margin portion of more than the predetermined length before the marginless image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Naoki Wakayama
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Publication number: 20160214412Abstract: A control device which controls transportation of a continuous paper receives an operation signal according to an operation amount by which a terminal is operated and generates a drive command which controls a transport speed of the continuous paper based on the operation signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Hiroyuki Tsuji
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Publication number: 20160214413Abstract: Provided is a printing apparatus having a printing unit with recording elements arranged in a width direction of a print medium. The printing apparatus includes a printer printing a correcting chart to the print medium, a correcting-chart density information obtaining device obtaining density information on the correcting chart printed to the print medium, and a print-medium deformation determining device setting at least two different numbers of the recording elements as moving average widths from the density information on the correcting chart, calculating moving average values of the density information of the recording elements for the moving average widths, calculating a standard deviation using the moving average values for the small and large moving average widths, respectively, and determining that deformation occurs in the print medium when the standard deviation used as a determination value exceeds a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Toshihiro SATO
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Publication number: 20160214414Abstract: A method is for notifying information of a remaining amount of a recording medium in a recording apparatus including a delivery section that rotates and delivers a roll-shaped recording medium, a transport belt that transports the recording medium delivered from the delivery section, and a slack sensor that detects a slackened state in the recording medium delivered from the delivery section to the transport belt. The method includes notifying the information of the remaining amount of the recording medium if the slack sensor detects a lack of slack of the recording medium in a period of a first time or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Itaru KOZUMA
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Publication number: 20160214415Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer includes a storage part, a feeding roller, a printing head, a core driving device, a controller. The controller is configured to execute a feeding process, a printing process, a taking-up process, a torque correction process. In the taking-up process, the core driving device is driven to sequentially taking up a printed tape around an outer circumferential portion of a second core into a roll shape. In the torque correction process, a drive torque of the core driving device is corrected from a first drive torque to a second drive torque, the first drive torque corresponding to the absence of a slip between the feeding roller and a tape to be printed in contact with the feeding roller, the second drive torque corresponding to a tape remaining amount of the tape in a roll of tape to be printed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Junya Kawai
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Publication number: 20160214416Abstract: A tape cartridge 2 includes a tape core 21b rotatably supported in a cartridge case 25 and houses a print tape 21a wound around the tape core 21b such that the print tape 21a can be unwound. The tape core 21b includes a core body 26 with the print tape 21a wound around an outer peripheral surface of the core body 26, a disk-like rib 27 provided at a middle portion in an axial direction of an inner peripheral surface of the core body 26, and a shaft hole 28 formed at an axis center of the rib 27. The cartridge case 25 includes a shaft support 41 that is inserted into the shaft hole 28 and rotatably supports the tape core 21b, and a rotation guide 42 that slides on the inner peripheral surface of the core body 26.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Shinsaku Kosuge
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Publication number: 20160214417Abstract: A tape cartridge configured to be mounted on a tape printer having a print head. The tape cartridge includes a platen, a cartridge case, an insertion opening, and a platen bearing hole. The platen has a contact portion that contacts the print head with a print tape and an ink ribbon arranged therebetween. The cartridge case houses the print tape, the ink ribbon, and the platen. The insertion opening is formed in the cartridge case so that the print head may be inserted into the insertion opening. The platen bearing hole supports the platen rotatably.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Hideo Sodeyama
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Publication number: 20160214418Abstract: A printing control device, a printing device and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium are provided. It is possible to set a scan width of a head to a user's desired width. A printing control unit controls a printing device having a head, and includes an input receiving unit for receiving a scan width information representing a width over which the head will move during scanning, and the scan width information is information representing a user's desired numerical value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2014Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventor: YOUICHI ICHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20160214419Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a supporting section capable of supporting a medium; an ejecting section capable of ejecting liquid onto the medium supported by the supporting section; and a first detecting section capable of detecting whether an amount of space between the medium supported by the supporting section and the ejecting section is equal to or more than a first threshold value. The liquid ejecting apparatus thus configured makes it possible to prevent liquid from being ejected from an ejecting section onto a medium in a state where an amount of space between the medium and the ejecting section is too large.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Akira MASHIMA
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Publication number: 20160214420Abstract: A printer has a platen top unit fastened above the platen unit. The platen top unit is separate from the platen unit, and has first star wheels and second star wheels disposed on parallel horizontal frame members extending perpendicularly to the media conveyance direction above the platen surface. The first star wheels and second star wheels prevent the continuous paper conveyed over the platen surface from lifting away from the platen surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Taku Hirashima, Hironori Maekawa
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Publication number: 20160214421Abstract: In the case where, by driving nozzles, test images are formed on paper so that the area of a width predetermined from an end portion in an intersecting direction that intersects with a transporting direction of the paper of a reading area of image reading units is not included in the test images, and the nozzles in an abnormal state are detected by using reading data obtained by reading by the image reading units, the application scope of the reading data applied for detection of an abnormal state is determined so that reading data of each of the test images formed by the nozzles as a detection target of an abnormal state is not repeatedly included with regard to each nozzle, and the nozzles in an abnormal state are detected by using the reading data in the determined application scope.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2015Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Masami Furuya, Takeshi Zengo
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Publication number: 20160214422Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to paper and textile based materials with associated protective coatings or coverings. Many products, such as identification documents, experience wear and tear as they are subsequently used, scratched, exposed to elements or tampered with. This invention provides methods, apparatuses, and systems to protect an element or product, such as an identification document, from wearing, weathering, tampering and other detrimental outside effects through the use of a surrounding coating or covering such a polyolefin based coating, of which in some embodiments, includes ingenious features such as a monobloc structure, multiple layers, a porous matrix, among others.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Mitchell Peter DeYoung, Alex Cowie
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Publication number: 20160214423Abstract: A tab system for a folder (10a), and a method of making same is disclosed. The tab is enlarged to carry more information/indicia. The visual indicia space (16a), i.e. the viewable space on the front (32a, 36a) of the folder which allows viewing of the enlarged tab is achieve without violating the overall size restrictions (40a) of the file folder. Instead, the front of the folder adjacent to the tab on the back panel, is cut away (32a,34a) to expose a greater portion of the back panel (14a) and allow an increase in visual indicia space. The remaining portion of the front panel, not adjacent to the tab may also be cut away (34a) to allow other enlarged tab files, with offset tabs, (22d, 21 a) to be viewable behind the present file.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Darryll Dodson
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Publication number: 20160214424Abstract: A writing implement dispensing device. The device includes an automatic dispensing mechanism for receiving inoperable writing implements and sequentially dispensing operable writing implements. The dispensing device includes a housing having a collection aperture for receiving a writing implement, a first compartment for storing inoperable writing implements, a second compartment for storing operable writing implements, and a dispensing mechanism for dispensing a writing implement. In one embodiment, the dispensing mechanism includes a revolving cylinder configured to rotatably receive and release a plurality of writing implements, an actuator that rotates the cylinder, and a sensor for triggering the actuator in response to an event.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2015Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Euris Don Lee Ball, Kimberly Diane Ball
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Publication number: 20160214425Abstract: The present invention is an article for assisting with writing on a surface having a main body with a plurality of writing surface access cavities formed in said main body and at least one securing tab being foldable edge portion constructed and arranged to simultaneously position and secure a writing surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2015Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Mabel Ko