Patents Issued in August 16, 2016
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Patent number: 9415557Abstract: An electric cylinder system includes: an electric cylinder; and a control section that controls the electric cylinder. The electric cylinder includes: an outer cylinder; a rod configured to be capable of extending and retracting in an axis direction from an opening on one end side of the outer cylinder; a bearing provided on the inside of the outer cylinder; a rotating shaft rotatably supported by the bearing and driven to rotate with driving force of a motor; a screw mechanism that converts a rotary motion of the rotating shaft into a linear motion of the rod and transmits the linear motion; and a load detecting section that detects a load in an axis direction applied to the rod in a position where the load is transmitted from the rod through the screw mechanism. The control section controls the electric cylinder on the basis of a signal from an encoder of the motor and a signal from the load detecting section.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Kyoji Furukawa, Shigeyuki Takagi
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Patent number: 9415558Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for preparing cosmetics by impregnating contents into an impregnating material. The apparatus includes a transfer table (110) to transfer a cosmetic vessel (200), an impregnating material supply unit (130) to introduce an impregnating material (210) into a receiving space of the cosmetic vessel (200), a content injecting unit (140) to inject the contents while moving back after pressing the impregnating material (210) introduced into the receiving space of the cosmetic vessel (200), a frame member supply unit (150) to supply a frame member (220) for fixing the impregnating material (210) impregnated with the contents, and an impregnating material fixing unit (160) to mount the frame member (220) at a mouth of the cosmetic vessel (200) in a state that the frame member (220) presses and fixes a circumference of the impregnating material (210).Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: AMOREPACIFIC CORPORATIONInventors: Dalsu Na, Ohsoo Lee, Inchul Lee
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Patent number: 9415559Abstract: A pouch for holding fluids is provided. The pouch includes a pouch body having a front panel and a back panel. The front panel is formed of a transparent material and includes a second indicia visible from the front of the pouch. The back panel includes a third indicia visible from the back of the pouch. The back panel includes a first indicia disposed one of the layers of the back panel and configured to be visible when the pouch is viewed from the front so as to block out the third indicia from view. A method of manufacturing a pouch is also provided. The method is directed towards facilitating the alignment of a graphical image on one side of the back panel with a graphical image on another side of the back panels in instances where the back panel is formed of multiple layers.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Pouch Pac Innovations, LLCInventor: R. Charles Murray
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Patent number: 9415560Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes: a sheet fastening unit of a pressing fastener method in which a bundle of sheets is fastened by using a pair of pressing fastener members; a conveying unit that conveys the bundle of sheets that are fastened by the sheet fastening unit; a separating unit that, after the sheet fastening unit performs a fastening operation on the bundle of sheets, moves both one and the other pressing fastener members, between which the bundle of sheets is interposed, so as to separate a sheet that adheres to the pressing fastener member; and a control unit that, after the separating unit finishes an operation to separate the sheet, controls the conveying unit so as to convey the bundle of sheets that are fastened by the sheet fastening unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Takuya Morinaga, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Katsuhiro Kosuge, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Ryuji Yoshida, Wataru Takahashi, Takashi Saito, Akihiro Musha, Ikuhisa Okamoto, Shingo Matsushita
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Patent number: 9415561Abstract: Multilayered polymer films are configured so that successive layer packets can be delaminated in continuous sheet form from the remaining film. The films are compatible with known coextrusion manufacturing techniques, and can be made without adhesive layers between layer packets. The layer packets are individually peelable from the remainder of the film. Combinations of polymer compositions are used to allow non-adhesive polymer layers to be combined such that irreversible delamination of the film is likely to occur at interfaces between layer packet pairs. The films are post-formed, e.g. using heat and pressure, to deform the film from an initial flat or limp condition into a contoured shape that is self-supporting. The contoured shape may comprise regions of simple and/or complex curvature. Despite the permanent contoured shape, individual packets can still be successively peeled away to expose a fresh surface of the next layer packet, having the same contoured shape.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Timothy J. Lindquist, Stephen A. Johnson, Onur Sinan Yordem, Myron K. Jordan
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Patent number: 9415562Abstract: The present invention relates to a micro-lattice and, more particularly, to an ultra-light micro-lattice and a method for forming the same. The micro-lattice is a cellular material formed of interconnected hollow tubes. The cellular material has a relative density in a range of 0.001% to 0.3%, and a density of 0.9 mg/cc has been demonstrated. The cellular material also has the ability to recover from a deformation exceeding 50% strain.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLCInventors: Tobias A. Schaedler, Alan J. Jacobsen, William Carter, Christopher Roper
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Patent number: 9415563Abstract: Anti-skid roof underlayment and methods of making are provided. A first layer is applied to a second layer to at least partially melt the second layer. The first layer and the second layer are embossed and laminated to a substrate, where the first layer and the second layer form an embossed layer on the substrate. The embossed layer has an anti-skid surface thereon.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Innovative Construction Materials (H.K.) Ltd.Inventor: Wang Xiang Li
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Patent number: 9415564Abstract: A fiber cement felt includes: a base fabric layer including MD and CMD yarns interwoven with each other, wherein the CMD yarns comprise twisted monofilaments; and at least one batt layer overlying the base fabric layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Huyck Licensco, Inc.Inventors: Hans-Peter Breuer, Engelbert Diabl
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Patent number: 9415565Abstract: A hybrid underlayment, includes a thermoplastic making up between 92.0% by volume to 95.5% by volume of the hybrid underlayment. A plurality of expanded microspheres is dispersed through the thermoplastic. The microspheres are expanded to a volume in a range of between 180 square micrometers and 1450 square micrometers. The microspheres makeup between 1.0% by volume to 7.5% by volume of the hybrid underlayment. The hybrid underlayment is extruded into a flat sheet having a thickness of between 1.0 mm and 2.0 mm and a density from 7 pcf to 25 pcf. A metalized thermoplastic film is laminated to the top surface of the thermoplastic sheet. A pre-stretched laminated oriented mesh fabric is fused to the metalized thermoplastic film.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Pak-Lite, Inc.Inventors: Richard Ford, Richard Allgood
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Patent number: 9415566Abstract: A three-dimensional fiber-reinforced composite includes a laminate having fiber bundle layers that are laminated in the laminating direction and include first and second outermost layers, primary and secondary retention yarns, and a binding yarn. The binding yarn includes a fold-back section, primary and secondary traverse yarn sections, a surface yarn section that extends along the surface of the second outermost layer in the direction substantially perpendicular to the secondary retention yarn, and a bifurcated section that is formed on the surface of the second outermost layer and connected to the primary and secondary traverse yarn sections. The bifurcated section is formed by crossing the surface yarn section that extends in opposite directions in the outside in the laminating direction of the secondary retention yarn.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Ryuta Kamiya
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Patent number: 9415567Abstract: A composite biomaterial having a continuous metal sheet with arcuate members that define a first fenestration pattern, and a polymer layer over at least one surface of the continuous metal sheet. The arcuate members elastically stretch to allow the continuous metal sheet to bend in more than one axis without buckling or wrinkling.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Boston Scientific SciMed, Inc.Inventors: David J. Sogard, Jason P. Hill, Scott Smith, Patrick A. Haverkost, Susan A. Shoemaker
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Patent number: 9415568Abstract: The present invention relates to filled polymeric materials including a polymer and a mass of metallic fibers distributed within the polymer, and to light weight composites which comprise at least a pair of metallic layers and a polymeric layer interposed between the pair of metallic layers, the polymeric layer containing the filled polymeric material. The composite materials of the present invention may be formed using conventional stamping equipment at ambient temperatures. Composite materials of the present invention may also be capable of being welded to other metal materials using a resistance welding process such as resistance spot welding. Preferred composite materials include one or any combination of the following features: metallic fibers that are ribbon fibers; a polymer selected from a polyolefin, a polyamide, or a combination thereof; or a metallic layer (e.g., one or both of the pair of metallic layers) having a surface facing the filled polymeric material that is untreated.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: PRODUCTIVE RESEARCH LLCInventors: Shimon Mizrahi, Moshe Narkis
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Patent number: 9415569Abstract: A method of bonding a first substrate to a second substrate includes providing a glass, applying the glass in a layer between the first and second substrates to form an assembly, and heating the assembly to a bonding temperature above a glass transition temperature of the devitrifying glass, selected to cause the glass to bond the first substrate to the second substrate. The devitrifying glass has constituents that include various amounts of group A in a molar concentration of 70-95%, group B in a molar concentration of 5-20%, group C in a molar concentration of 1-20%, group D in a molar concentration of 0-6%; and group E in a molar concentration of 0-10%. The group A, B, C, D and E groups are disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Mohammad Masyood Akhtar, Samuel B. Schaevitz, Michael C. Bradford, Zachary Byars, Joseph C. Tucker
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Patent number: 9415570Abstract: The present invention is directed to compositions comprising free standing and stacked assemblies of two dimensional crystalline solids, useful for physical and electrochemical applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Drexel UniversityInventors: Michel W. Barsoum, Yury Gogotsi, Michael Naguib Abdelmalak, Olha Mashtalir
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Patent number: 9415571Abstract: A decorative laminate includes a decorative layer composed of a resin impregnated decorative sheet and a core layer composed of plural resin impregnated core sheets of core paper, wherein an exposed sheet at a bottom of the decorative laminate is subjected to a parchment treatment.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: WILSONART LLCInventors: Charles M Griffin, Jr., Robert R Krebs
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Patent number: 9415572Abstract: The invention relates to composite elements comprising a thermoplastic polymer and an adjacent polyurethane bonded thereto, to a process for production thereof and to the use thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AGInventors: Rolf Albach, Hartmut Nefzger, Petra Venner, Monika Haselbach
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Patent number: 9415573Abstract: Translucent film product for vehicle mirrors and method to shield drivers from discomfort glare, particularly discomfort glare from blue light emanating from headlights. The film product embodiments include single or multiple film layers; yellow or yellow and grey tinting; tabbed or un-tabbed; and glue or static cling means to adhere the film product to vehicle mirrors.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Inventor: Samuel Livingston Hogan
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Patent number: 9415574Abstract: A method is presented for manufacturing a plate shaped product, comprising the steps of manufacturing a first intermediate product which comprises at least, successively, a carrier, a plastic printing layer, a decorative print layer and a plastic protective layer, by using a multiple coating process, manufacturing a second intermediate product which comprises at least one plastic layer, by using at least a calendering process, and combining the first and second intermediate products by laminating, such that the second intermediate product is attached to the first intermediate product. Further a plate shaped product is provided which is manufactured using said method.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: IVC N.V.Inventors: Stefaan Gerard Lucien Duyck, Kristof Van Vlassenrode, Filip Gilbert Lucien Bossuyt, Stijn Michel Vermeulen
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Patent number: 9415575Abstract: A laminate material may include a first flexible layer, and a self-healing composite layer in contact with the first flexible layer. The composite layer includes an elastomer matrix, a plurality of first capsules including a polymerizer, and a corresponding activator for the polymerizer. The laminate material may self-heal when subjected to a puncture or a tear.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Brett A. Beiermann, Michael W. Keller, Scott R. White, Nancy R. Sottos
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Patent number: 9415576Abstract: A display device and a method of manufacturing the same, the display device including a display module including a display area and a circuit area; a window that faces the display module; a bonding member between the display area of the display module and the window, the bonding member bonding the display module and the window together; and a dam member along a boundary between the display area and the circuit area, the dam member separating the bonding member and the circuit area, wherein the dam member includes a foam element that absorbs at least a portion of the bonding member.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Gwang Jea Seo, Dong Suk Choi
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Patent number: 9415577Abstract: A composite radius filler having a varying cross-sectional shape is pre-conditioned before being pultruded through forming dies. The composite filler radius filler includes a tab ply having a varying width that is laminated onto a supporting, full width base ply.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Donald J. Sutkus, Sandie H. Cheung Hallman, Courtney M. Fix, Douglas A. McCarville
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Patent number: 9415578Abstract: There is provided a platemaking method of forming relief based on relief pattern data in a printing plate to be pressed on a printing medium, and the platemaking method includes the steps of: acquiring setting printing pressure; estimating distribution of printing pressure on the basis of image data; calculating an amount of correction of the relief pattern data on the basis of the distribution of printing pressure and setting printing pressure; correcting the relief pattern data on the basis of the amount of correction, and acquiring exposure amount data from engraving shape data corrected. It is possible to form relief in consideration of deformation of a printing plate in accordance with the distribution of printing pressure and the setting printing pressure in the printing plate to favorably print and reproduce an image on a printing medium.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshirou Yamazaki
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Patent number: 9415579Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a transport mechanism that transports a recording medium having a lenticular lens in a transport direction; and a guide that includes a convex portion formed along the transport direction and guides the recording medium in the transport direction by allowing the convex portion to come in contact with the lenticular lens.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Katsuhito Suzuki
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Patent number: 9415580Abstract: Systems, mechanisms, and methods are described that relate to the production of a custom printed insert(s) that can be custom printed prior to insertion of the custom printed insert(s) into an envelope along with a personalized card/carrier combination for mailing to the intended holder of the personalized card. The inserts are custom printed using an insert printer that is located in the inserter mechanism that is used to insert the insert(s) and the card/carrier combination into an envelope for mailing to an end user of the card. The inserter mechanism can have an “off-line” configuration, i.e. configured as a stand-alone mechanism, or configured for “in-line” use, i.e. used together with other mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: ENTRUST DATACARD CORPORATIONInventors: Brian Beech, Thomas J. Wagener
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Patent number: 9415581Abstract: An image recording method includes recording an intermediate image by applying an ink to an intermediate transfer body, the ink containing a coloring material and polymer fine particles; and transferring the intermediate image onto a recording medium while heating the intermediate. The polymer fine particles are composed of a copolymer of a first compound that satisfies condition (1) (a polymer obtained by homopolymerization of the first compound is a crystalline polymer having a melting point equal to or lower than a temperature of the transfer) and a second compound that satisfies condition (2) (a polymer obtained by homopolymerization of the second compound is an amorphous polymer having a glass transition point equal to or lower than the temperature of the transfer).Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoru Kobayashi, Naofumi Shimomura, Masanori Jinnoh, Takashi Imai, Yutaka Kurabayashi
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Patent number: 9415582Abstract: Droplet deposition apparatus including at least one droplet ejection unit having a plurality of fluid channels disposed side by side in a row, an actuator, and a plurality of nozzles, said actuator being actuable to eject a droplet of fluid from a fluid channel through a respective nozzle, a support member for said at least one droplet ejection unit, a first conduit extending along said row and to one side of both said support member and said at least one droplet ejection unit for conveying droplet fluid to each of the fluid channels of said at least one droplet ejection unit; and a second conduit extending along said row and to the other side of both said support member and said at least one droplet ejection unit for receiving droplet fluid from each of the fluid channels of said at least one droplet ejection unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: XAAR TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Paul Raymond Drury, Angus Condie, Jerzy M. Zaba
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Patent number: 9415583Abstract: A printing method and system include a printhead configured to eject a fixer fluid. A controller is operatively connected to the printhead and configured to control the printhead so as to apply the fixer fluid to a print area in a pattern to form cells having a predetermined area without the fixer fluid.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Eduardo Amela Conesa, Jaime Fernandez, Jacint Humet, Marc Serra
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Patent number: 9415584Abstract: A liquid discharge head substrate is provided. The liquid discharge head substrate includes a discharge unit including a discharge element configured to generate energy for discharging a liquid from an orifice and a discharge control circuit configured to control the discharge element, and a first voltage generation circuit configured to supply, to the discharge control circuit, a first driving voltage for driving the discharge control circuit. The discharge unit includes a first node having a voltage correlated with a voltage to be supplied to the discharge element. The first voltage generation circuit controls the first driving voltage based on a comparison result of the voltage of the first node and a first reference voltage supplied from outside of the liquid discharge head substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanori Shibata, Tatsuhito Goden, Kazunari Fujii
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Patent number: 9415585Abstract: An example device in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes a controller to generate predicted and past power consumption values for at least one pen of a printer device, for a sliding window of future and past time, as a function of ink delivered data scaled by print speed data. The controller is to assign a dynamic power threshold for the present time as a maximum power consumption value of the sliding window, and stop power delivery to the at least one pen if the present power consumption of the at least one pen exceeds the dynamic power threshold by a margin.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.Inventors: Tod Goyen, Duane Koehler, Matthew A. Shepherd
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Patent number: 9415586Abstract: A printing control apparatus which discharges ink from nozzles, while moving a printing head that includes at least a first nozzle row in which a plurality of nozzles capable of discharging a same type of ink are arranged in a predetermined nozzle row direction and a second nozzle row in which a plurality of nozzles capable of discharging the same type of ink are arranged in the nozzle row direction, in a main scanning direction intersecting with the nozzle row direction, in which, when, out of a group of raster lines corresponds to odd-numbered positions in the nozzle row direction and a group of raster lines which corresponds to even-numbered positions in the nozzle row direction, one group of the raster lines is printed by discharging the ink from the nozzle row out of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row, which precedes during the movement.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takuma Hayashi
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Patent number: 9415587Abstract: A printing control apparatus which realizes printing by controlling a printing head including nozzle rows in which a plurality of nozzles are arranged in a predetermined nozzle row direction, the apparatus including a control section that controls the printing head in which the plurality of nozzle rows discharging same types of ink are disposed to be deviated from the nozzle row direction, in which the control section is capable of selecting and performing any one of a first printing mode in which the printing is performed by setting a platen gap which is a distance from a platen supporting the printing medium on which the ink is discharged to the printing head as a first platen gap, and a second printing mode in which the printing is performed by setting the platen gap as a second platen gap which is narrower than the first platen gap.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Masahiro Fukazawa
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Patent number: 9415588Abstract: In a case where the temperature difference between first and second time points detected by a first temperature sensor provided in a print head is lower than a threshold temperature, a temperature correction for the first temperature sensor is performed based on a temperature detected by a second temperature sensor provided within a printing apparatus thereof. In a case where the temperature difference is higher than the threshold temperature, a temperature correction for the first temperature sensor is performed without using the temperature detected by the second temperature sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Azuma, Taku Yokozawa, Hiroaki Shirakawa, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Yuhei Oikawa, Hiroshi Taira, Yosuke Ishii, Hiroaki Komatsu
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Patent number: 9415589Abstract: Disclosed is an inkjet printing apparatus with an inkjet printing unit performing printing onto web paper to be transported. The apparatus includes a drive roller transporting the web paper, a transportation velocity detector detecting a transportation velocity of the web paper, an encoder generating a timing reference signal of the printing by the printing unit in accordance with transportation of the web paper, the encoder being disposed in a transport roller, a printing correction data generator generating printing correction data in accordance with the transportation velocity and the timing reference signal so as to correspond to a time-dependent variation of the transport roller provided with the encoder; and an offset corrector correcting the printing of the inkjet printing unit to the web paper in accordance with the printing correction data.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignees: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd., Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Morizono, Takaharu Yamamoto, Kunio Muraji, Shoji Kakimoto
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Patent number: 9415590Abstract: A printing device includes a nozzle and an extractor. An electrostatic extraction field is generated at the extractor and at a discharge opening of the nozzle to extract polarized ink from the nozzle for deposition on a printing substrate. The extractor includes an electrically conductive portion for application of one side of a voltage potential to generate the electrostatic field. The extractor can be in the form of an extractor plate with an opening through which the extracted ink passes, or the extractor can be in the form of another nozzle. The printing device provides a directionality field that affects the trajectory of the extracted ink. The directionality field can include the electrostatic field or a gas flow field. The printing device is useful for electrohydrodynamic jet, or e-jet, printing on a non-conductive substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: The Regents of the University of MichiganInventors: Kira Barton, Tse Lai Yu Leo
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Patent number: 9415591Abstract: This disclosure includes electrohydrodynamic (EHD) printer nozzles, associated printer heads and printers, and methods for using the same. Some EHD nozzles include a circuit with at least one depressible electrical connector and a housing configured to receive a dispensing device such that electrical communication is permitted between the at least one depressible electrical connector and a conductive tip of the dispensing device, where the housing is further configured to be releasably coupled to a printer head such that voltage can be applied across the conductive tip. Some nozzles include an additional electrode. Some of the present methods include inserting a dispensing device into an EHD nozzle having a housing with a depressible electrical connector such that the connector contacts a conductive tip of the dispensing device and applying a voltage across the conductive tip. Others of the present methods include performing maskless lithography with the present EHD printers and components.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEMInventors: Woo Ho Lee, Caleb Nothnagle, Jeongsik Shin, Muthu Bandage Jayathilaka Wijesundara
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Patent number: 9415592Abstract: An ink jet head includes an ejection unit including first nozzles arranged along a line, second nozzles arranged parallel to the first nozzles, a first actuator configured to cause ink to be ejected from the first nozzles, and a second actuator configured to cause ink to be ejected from the second nozzles, a first drive circuit configured to drive the first actuator, a second drive circuit configured to drive the second actuator, and a casing. The casing has a first space on a first side of the casing and a second space on a second side of the casing that is opposite to the first side. The first drive circuit is housed in the first space and the second drive circuit is housed in the second space.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba TEC Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomomi Iijima
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Patent number: 9415593Abstract: An ink jet head includes: a vibration plates having a plurality of openings of a first diameter; ink pressure chambers, each arranged on one surface of the corresponding vibration plate; first electrodes, each formed on the other surface of the vibration plate; a plurality of piezoelectric layers, each portion of which is formed on a first electrode such that it surrounds the opening and that, when a driving voltage is applied, deforms the vibration plate to expand or contract the ink pressure chamber; second electrodes formed on each piezoelectric layer; a protective layer which is at least formed on the vibration plate and the second electrode and has a nozzle for ejecting the ink having a diameter smaller than the first diameter extending therethrough and through the opening; and an ink-feeding mechanism that feeds the ink into the ink pressure chambers.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shuhei Yokoyama, Ryutaro Kusunoki, Chiaki Tanuma, Ryuichi Arai
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Patent number: 9415594Abstract: A jet stack includes 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 a body chamber port that allows fluid to flow into and out of the body chamber, and a bubble screen between the body chamber port and a remainder of the jet.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: XEROX CORPORATIONInventor: Terrance L. Stephens
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Patent number: 9415595Abstract: A recording method in which dot omission pixels that are contiguous in a scanning direction due to defective nozzles included in a plurality of black nozzles and neighboring pixels that neighbor the dot omission pixels in a direction that intersects the scanning direction are included in a plurality of pixels that configure the printed image; and black ink droplets that form black dots for complement are discharged from the black nozzles to the neighboring pixels along with discharging color ink droplets that form the composite black dots for complement on the dot omission pixels from color nozzles when complementing the dots due to the defective nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Naoki Sudo, Akito Sato
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Patent number: 9415596Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a set-up surface that faces a support body in a negative Z direction and that is fixed to the support body, an ejection surface that faces in a positive Z direction and in which are located nozzles that eject ink, and a first support surface and a second support surface that face in the positive Z direction and are located on the negative Z direction side of the ejection surface, and, when viewed in the Z direction, are separated from each other with the ejection surface interposed therebetween in the Y direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Isamu Togashi
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Patent number: 9415597Abstract: An ink jet head includes: a pressure chamber to be filled with ink formed in a pressure chamber structure, the pressure chamber in which an etching limiter made of a material different from a material of the pressure chamber structure is formed on an inner wall surface of the pressure chamber; a nozzle plate comprising a nozzle that leading to the pressure chamber and a movable range fitted to the etching limiter; and a flat driver comprising a piezoelectric body to operate the movable range and arranged on the nozzle plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Kawakubo, Kazuhide Abe, Yasushi Tomizawa, Ryuichi Arai, Ryutaro Kusunoki, Osamu Takagi
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Patent number: 9415598Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a lead screw that includes a first region formed with a spiral groove and provided in a central portion of the lead screw, and two second regions formed without a groove, one provided on an end-portion side of the first region and the other provided on another end-portion side of the first region; a cap mechanism that includes a first threaded portion threaded to the groove and that lifts a cap member that covers an ejecting surface of ink, and a first linking portion; a wiper member that includes a second threaded portion threaded to the groove and that wipes ink adhered to the ejecting surface of the ink, and a second linking portion that links with the first linking portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akira Matsumoto
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Patent number: 9415599Abstract: A first part of liquid holders includes at least one liquid holder provided at the first casing. A second part of liquid holders includes at least one liquid holder provided at the second casing. Each of a plurality of flexible tubes has one end and another end. The one end is connected to the first part of the liquid holders. The other end is connected to the second part of the liquid holders. A first supporting section is provided at the first casing and supports the tubes. A second supporting section is provided at the second casing and supports the tubes. A third supporting section supports the tubes at a position between the first supporting section and the second supporting section in such a manner that the tubes are arranged in a direction parallel to a pivotal axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shuichi Tamaki
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Patent number: 9415600Abstract: An apparatus detects inoperative inkjets during printing of three-dimensional objects. The apparatus includes an optical sensor with a predetermined focal plane. The optical sensor is moved to a position that enables the sensor to generate image data of material drops ejected by a group of inkjets in a single row of a printhead. These image data are analyzed to detect inoperative inkjets to enable printhead maintenance at appropriate times to maintain the operational status of the inkjets in the printhead. The optical sensor is moved along a length and width of the printhead to enable the sensor to generate image data of all the inkjets that eject material from the printhead.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: David S. Derleth, Frank B. Tamarez Gomez, Matthew D. Savoy, Annie Liu
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Patent number: 9415601Abstract: A printer 110 to which an ink tank 11 for containing ink IK is fixed and configured such that a user can supply the ink IK to the ink tank 11 includes a sensor 60 for performing remaining ink detection for checking whether or not the ink IK is present at a predetermined position in the ink tank 11, a control unit 40 that executes the remaining ink detection using the sensor 60, a consumption calculation unit 42 that calculates consumption of the ink IK that is consumed from the ink tank 11, and a storage unit 50 that updates and stores the consumption of the ink IK calculated by the consumption calculation unit 42. When a print job is being executed, the control unit 40 executes the remaining ink detection after a first predetermined amount of the ink IK is consumed.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Masaki Tsukida
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Patent number: 9415602Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus including an ink tank for storing an ink, a flow path member communicating with the ink tank and a recording head for ejecting the ink supplied from the ink tank through the flow path member, wherein the apparatus further includes a light detection unit which applies light to at least one of the ink in the ink tank and the ink in the flow path member and detects the intensity of back-scattered light of the applied light, and an image density correction unit which corrects the density of an image to be recorded on the basis of the intensity of the back-scattered light which has been detected by the light detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiichirou Takeuchi, Koichiro Nakazawa, Fumihiro Goto, Eisuke Nishitani, Takumi Otani, Kanako Soma
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Patent number: 9415603Abstract: Multiple test pattern printing using each of multiple printing element arrays are read, and in a case where a streak is present in predetermined test patterns of the multiple test patterns at the same position in the direction of the array of the printing elements, determination is made that the streak is not due to failure of a printing element.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiaki Murayama, Minoru Teshigawara, Satoshi Azuma, Takuya Fukasawa
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Patent number: 9415604Abstract: An image to be printed on a surface of a substrate that forms, or will be used in, a personalized security document is generated. The image to be printed is then sliced, divided, separated, etc. into a plurality of separate image portions. Each of the separate image portions is then printed onto the substrate. Together, the separate printed image portions form the desired image on the substrate. Each image portion contains only a portion of any confidential or personal information. Each separate image portion is printed using separate sections of a single print ribbon. Since each image portion is printed using a different section of the print ribbon, each ribbon section contains only a portion of any confidential or personal information. This makes it difficult for someone to obtain the confidential or personal information from just a brief or casual glance at the used print ribbon.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: ENTRUST DATACARD CORPORATIONInventor: Ken C. Fischer
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Patent number: 9415605Abstract: The laser marking apparatus includes: a laser device; a first conveying portion that conveys an illuminated object to at least a region illuminated by a laser beam through the laser device; a second conveying portion, provided on an upstream side of the first conveying portion, able to convey the illuminated object in a direction that is essentially perpendicular to that of the first conveying portion; a switching mechanism, provided between the first conveying portion and the second conveying portion, which switches a conveyance destination of the illuminated object to the first conveying portion or the second conveying portion; and an imaging portion, provided in a vicinity of the second conveying portion, that captures an image of the illuminated object that is conveyed by the second conveying portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: NIDEC COPAL CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohisa Ugajin
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Patent number: 9415606Abstract: An infrared image pattern and a gloss effect image pattern are created on a recording medium by electronically creating a first electronic pattern ink, the first electronic pattern ink including a first color and including holes, the holes representing areas in the first electronic pattern ink wherein the first color is absent; electronically creating a second electronic pattern ink using the first color and including filled holes, the filled holes of the second electronic pattern ink representing areas in the second electronic pattern ink filled with a second color, the second color having infrared properties opposite of infrared properties of the recording medium; electronically creating an electronic image region; electronically painting, using the first electronic pattern ink, a background of the electronic image region; electronically painting, using the second electronic pattern ink, a foreground of the electronic image region; and rendering, using marking materials, the electronic image region on the rType: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Edward N. Chapman