Patents Issued in August 30, 2016
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Patent number: 9427958Abstract: Provided is a liquid discharging apparatus which includes a modulation circuit which generates a modulation signal which is obtained by pulse-modulating a source signal, a transistor which generates an amplified modulation signal by amplifying the modulation signal, a low pass filter which generates a drive signal by smoothening the amplified modulation signal, a piezoelectric element which is displaced by receiving the drive signal, and a multilayer circuit substrate on which the modulation circuit, the transistor, and the low pass filter are mounted. Furthermore, the multilayer circuit substrate has a multilayer configuration constituted of three or more layers which include at least one layer other than two surface layers. In addition, a feedback wiring pattern through which the modulation signal, the amplified modulation signal, or the drive signal is fed back to the modulation circuit is provided in the one layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Akira Abe, Hiroshi Sugita
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Patent number: 9427959Abstract: The degree of thickening of ink for each of nozzles based on dot pattern data is calculated based on a thickening value Z(n+1)=Z(n)×a×bss×bmm×bll, and information the dot pattern data corresponding to the nozzle, which indicates that small dots are formed in when the thickening value is equal to or greater than a threshold is replaced with information indicating that middle dots which are larger than the small dots are formed.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Junhua Zhang
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Patent number: 9427960Abstract: An inkjet printer includes an inkjet head including nozzles arranged in a first direction, a head scanning mechanism moving the inkjet head along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a feeding mechanism feeding the recording medium along the first direction, and a storage device storing upstream correction information and downstream correction information. A controller performs a first determination process for determining a correction value for a specific scanning operation by using the upstream correction information when an image is printed on an upstream area adjacent to a specific area corresponding to the specific scanning operation and when no image is printed on a downstream area adjacent to the specific area, and a second determination process for determining the correction value by using the downstream correction information when no image is printed on the upstream area and when an image be printed on the downstream area.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kengo Noda
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Patent number: 9427961Abstract: Disclosed herein is a microfluidic jetting device having a piezoelectric member positioned above a displaceable membrane. A voltage is applied across the piezoelectric member causing deformation of the piezoelectric member. The deformation of the piezoelectric member results in a displacement of the membrane, which is formed above a cavity. Displacement of the membrane creates pressure to jet or eject liquid from the cavity and suction liquid into the cavity through ports or apertures formed in the in membrane.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.Inventor: Michele Palmieri
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Patent number: 9427962Abstract: A drive signal includes a first drive pulse that causes liquid droplets to be ejected from nozzles and a second drive pulse that causes liquid droplets of a different size to those of the first drive pulse to be ejected from the nozzles. Each pulse includes at least an expansion element that causes a pressure chamber to expand by changing from a standard potential, which is a standard for changes in potential, to an expansion potential, a contraction element that causes the expanded pressure chamber to contract by changing from a potential that is on an expansion potential side of the standard potential to a contraction potential that exceeds the standard potential thereby ejecting the liquid. Initiation potentials of the contraction elements of the first and second drive pulses are made to be uniform at the same potential.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Shunya Fukuda
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Patent number: 9427963Abstract: A method of calibrating a printhead, for printing two-dimensional bit-mapped images having a number of pixels per row, is disclosed for printheads (1) having a row of printing channels (5). During printing, in order to cause volumes of charged particulate concentrations of one of a number of predetermined volume sizes to be ejected from selected ejection channels of the printhead to form printed pixels, control pulse values of respective predetermined amplitude and duration, as determined by respective image pixel bit values, are applied to the selected printing channels. The calibration method comprises providing an image (50) that causes each channel of the printhead to be driven with the same pulse value, and printing one or more test prints of the image.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Tonejet LimitedInventors: Andrew Clippingdale, Robin Timothy Bacon, Ewan Hendrik Conradie, Ammar Lecheheb, John Lawton Sharp, Jesse David Woolaston
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Patent number: 9427964Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting head which includes head bodies aligned in a direction of liquid ejection surface thereof, a flow-path member in which distribution flow path is provided to supply liquid to the head bodies, and flexible wiring substrates connected to the head bodies. The distribution flow path extends in the first direction. In addition, the flexible wiring substrates adjacent in the first direction overlap when viewed from the first direction. The distribution flow path is disposed in an area on one side with respect to the flexible wiring substrates, in a direction perpendicular to the first direction in the liquid ejection surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Isamu Togashi
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Patent number: 9427965Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting head which includes a head main body which ejects ink from a liquid ejection surface and has a plurality of manifolds which store the ink, and a flow-path member in which a first distribution flow path and a second distribution flow path is provided to supply ink to the head main body, in which the plurality of manifolds are arranged on the same plane and the plurality of manifolds, the first distribution flow path, and the second distribution flow path are not disposed in the same plane.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Isamu Togashi
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Patent number: 9427966Abstract: An inkjet head (10) includes a displacement film (17), a substrate (11), and an ink discharge portion (21). The displacement film (17) includes a piezoelectric thin film (14) as a driving film operable to expand and contract in a direction perpendicular to its thickness direction to cause curving deformation of the displacement film (17) in its thickness direction. The substrate (11) has a dug portion (11a) as a hole portion formed in its thickness direction, and supports the displacement film (17) such that the displacement film (17) covers the dug portion (11a). The ink discharge portion (21) has an ink chamber (21a) holding ink, and discharges the ink outside with pressure applied to the ink by the curving deformation of the displacement film (17). The ink discharge portion (21) is provided opposite to the dug portion (11a) of the substrate (11) with respect to the displacement film (17).Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Shinya Matsuda
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Patent number: 9427967Abstract: An inkjet head includes a substrate that defines a cavity in which ink is stored, a vibrating membrane that is supported by the substrate and that defines the cavity, and a piezoelectric device that is disposed on the vibrating membrane and that changes a volume of the cavity by displacing the vibrating membrane. The piezoelectric device includes a lower electrode, a piezoelectric membrane that is disposed on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode that is disposed on the piezoelectric membrane and that faces the lower electrode with the piezoelectric membrane interposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode. The piezoelectric membrane includes a columnar structure layer and an amorphous structure layer of a piezoelectric material. The amorphous structure layer is stacked contiguously with the columnar structure layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventor: Takaya Nagahata
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Patent number: 9427968Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a nozzle plate having nozzles arrayed to discharge liquid droplets; a passage plate to form individual liquid chambers communicating with the respective nozzles; and a wall surface member to form a wall surface of the individual liquid chambers. The passage plate is formed with at least three plate-shaped members stacked and bonded by an adhesive. The nozzle plate and one plate-shaped member, and another plate-shaped member and the wall surface member are bonded, respectively. The three plate-shaped members include separation wall parts forming separation walls between the individual liquid chambers. At least one of the three plate-shaped members has a separation wall width different from that of the others, to have fillets of the forced-out adhesive formed between the wall surfaces, and surfaces of the plate-shaped members, the nozzle plate, or the wall surface member.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Tomohiko Kohda, Takeshi Shimizu, Ryo Kasahara, Kanshi Abe, Takayuki Nakai, Takahiro Yoshida, Shiomi Andou
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Patent number: 9427969Abstract: The present teachings describe a printhead assembly. The printhead assembly includes a first plate and a second plate stacked together. The printhead assembly includes a first adhesive between the first plate and the second plate for bonding the plates together. The printhead assembly includes a second adhesive surrounding an outer edge of the first adhesive wherein the second adhesive has an oxygen migration rate lower than an oxygen migration rate of the first adhesive. An oxygen sensitive component is contained within the outer edge of the first adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Pratima Gattu Naga Rao, Sean Campbell Hunter, Christopher Jon Laharty, Jonathan Robert Brick, John Milton Brookfield, Tony Russell Rogers, Michael Joel Edwards, Hong Zhao, Mandakini Kanungo, Yanjia Zuo, Daniel R. Hahn, Santokh S. Badesha, John R. Andrews
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Patent number: 9427970Abstract: According to one example, there is provided a printing system having a print bar on which are installable multiple printheads. The system comprises a nozzle servicing module moveable across the length of the print bar to selectively perform a nozzle servicing operation on a group of printhead nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Gianni Cessel, Jose Luis Valero Navazo, Jeffrey Allen Wagner
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Patent number: 9427971Abstract: A printer includes a head, a wiper, a cap, a supply flow path, a supply opening/closing valve, a gas channel, a gas opening/closing valve, a waste fluid flow path, a suction portion, and a processor. The processor is configured to set a covered state in which the cap covers the at least one nozzle, supply the cleaning fluid to the cap, in the covered state, by opening the supply opening/closing valve, closing the gas opening/closing valve, and driving the suction portion, discharge the cleaning fluid, in the covered state, by closing the supply opening/closing valve, opening the gas opening/closing valve, and driving the suction portion, set an uncovered state in which covering the at least one nozzle by the cap is released, and cause the wiper to slide in contact with the nozzle surface, in the uncovered state, by moving the wiper relatively with respect to the nozzle surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Haruo Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9427972Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a housing body, an opening/closing member, attached to the housing body via a pivot shaft so as to be capable of rotating freely, that covers the surface of the housing body on one side thereof, and an ink tank having an injection port for filling an ink holding chamber with ink used in recording. Here, the ink tank is disposed so that one end thereof is positioned within the housing body on the opposite side of the housing body as the side in which the pivot shaft is provided, and has a stepped shape including a step portion, the step portion being provided on a side of the ink tank that is further from the pivot shaft. The injection port is provided in the step portion, and when the opening/closing member is opened and the ink is to be filled.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Naomi Kimura, Shoma Kudo, Hidenao Suzuki, Munehide Kanaya
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Patent number: 9427973Abstract: A module for mounting and use in a postage meter for printing postage includes a housing and two ink cartridges for ink-jet printing, each of the cartridges having a flexible electrical circuit member operatively attached thereto, with one of the electrical circuits including a microprocessor. The housing consists of two lateral components, each containing one of the ink cartridges, a central panel component interposed between the lateral components, and elements for maintaining the components in assembly. The ink cartridges are placed into cavities formed by the lateral components, which are then assembled on opposite sides of the central component with the flexible circuit members suitably arranged, to produce the inking module. The central panel includes features for applying laterally outward biasing force upon the seated ink cartridges, and structure is provided on the module to facilitate mounting and retention in a postage printing machine.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: DATAPRINT TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: John A Pomfret
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Patent number: 9427974Abstract: A liquid supply system includes a common mounting portion into which a first liquid storage body capable of storing a liquid and a substitute mounting body which is connected to a second liquid storage body capable of storing a liquid can be exchangeably mounted, a mounting target detection unit capable of detecting whether or not the first liquid storage body and the substitute mounting body are mounted to the common mounting portion, a pressurization supply unit which supplies the liquid which is stored in the second liquid storage body to the substitute mounting body under pressure, and a control unit which drives the pressure supply unit when a plurality of control conditions are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Ryoji Fujimori, Takeshi Iwamuro, Naoki Naito, Shunsuke Kuramata, Keiichiro Yoshino, Satoru Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9427975Abstract: A method for improving durability of aqueous ink deposited on a substrate having multivalent metal salt present at the surface of the substrate is disclosed. The method includes depositing aqueous ink on the surface of the substrate, wherein the aqueous ink is an anionically stabilized pigment ink, drying the substrate to substantially remove the water from the deposited aqueous ink, applying substantially pure water and heat to the dried substrate with deposited aqueous ink, and removing the applied water and heat to return the dried substrate to an ambient temperature and moisture content. The applied substantially pure water and heat are sufficient to cause a significant improvement of the durability of the deposited ink on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventors: Douglas Eugene Bugner, David D. Putnam, Hwei-Ling Yau, Thomas Joseph Dannhauser, Brian L Lindstrom
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Patent number: 9427976Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a plasma processing unit that performs plasma processing on a processing target surface side of a processing object; a recording unit that ejects ink on the processing target surface side of the processing object; an acquiring unit that acquires setting information, in which an adjustment target area for adjusting surface roughness and surface roughness of the adjustment target area on a surface of an ink layer formed with the ink are set; and a plasma control unit that controls the plasma processing unit to perform plasma processing on a processing area corresponding to the adjustment target area, on the processing target surface side of the processing object, with an amount of plasma energy for obtaining the set surface roughness on the surface of the ink layer formed on the processing area.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Junji Nakai, Hiroyoshi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 9427977Abstract: An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a belt conveying unit, a recording unit, an end-portion position detection sensor, a background member, and a rotary driving unit. The end-portion position detection sensor is arranged in an upstream of the belt conveying unit in a recording medium conveyance direction, and uses a reflected light to detect a position of an end portion of the recording medium in a recording medium width direction intersecting with the recording medium conveyance direction. The background member is arranged facing a detection surface of the end-portion position detection sensor. The background member is rotatable around a shaft extending along the recording medium width direction. The background member has an outer peripheral surface at least in a region facing the detection surface of the end-portion position detection sensor. The outer peripheral surface has two or more regions having mutually different colors circumferentially dividing the outer peripheral surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Nobuhiro Horiuchi
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Patent number: 9427978Abstract: A first roller is supported by the lid portion such that it can rotate. A second roller is provided such that it peels a label off of a release paper by nipping the release paper against the first roller. An elastic member is provided such that it switches a peeling mechanism from a first state to a second state. A moving portion is provided such that it switches the peeling mechanism from a second state to a third state by separating from a projecting portion in an open state and coming into contact with the projecting portion in a closed state. A first restricting portion is provided such that, when the peeling mechanism is in a fourth state, by coming into contact with the projecting portion and restricting the projecting portion from moving, it restricts the peeling mechanism from switching from the fourth state to the third state.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takamine Hokazono, Keiji Seo, Hidenori Jo, Yuki Nagashima, Kenji Kurita
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Patent number: 9427979Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a conveyance section, and a negative pressure applying section. The recording head ejects ink onto a recording medium. The conveyance section conveys the recording medium placed on a conveying surface thereof to the recording head. The negative pressure applying section includes an airflow chamber and causes the recording medium to be sucked onto the conveying surface by negative pressure through holes in an upper wall of the airflow chamber and holes in the conveying surface. Negative pressure applied through first holes in a first region is greater than that applied through second holes in a second region. The first region is located upstream of a head facing region in a conveyance direction of the recording medium. The second region is located downstream of the first region in the conveyance direction of the recording medium and includes the head facing region.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Hidenori Takenaka, Takeshi Watanabe, Jumpei Hobo, Tomohisa Soda, Shinji Yoshinaga, Hiroatsu Tamai, Satoshi Tsunemi
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Patent number: 9427980Abstract: An inkjet printer capable of suppressing a reduction in adsorption power relative to media as compared to the related art is provided. The inkjet printer includes a medium adsorbing device that has a medium adsorbing unit for adsorbing a medium, and an inkjet head that faces a portion of the medium adsorbing unit with a medium interposed therebetween. The medium adsorbing unit has a plurality of suction holes for sucking gas in order to adsorb a medium on an adsorption surface positioned on a side of the inkjet head. The medium adsorbing unit has a printing section and a downstream side adjacent section on a side of the adsorption surface. In the printing section, printing is performed on each medium by the inkjet head.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shin Ito, Tomohiro Takano
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Patent number: 9427981Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-like housing having a front wall, a top surface and a bottom surface, a wound tape mounted within the housing, a tape guide, and an indicator of the tape type formed in the front wall. The housing directs the tape along a path to an exit, and at least a portion of the path extends parallel to the front wall. The tape guide is spaced downstream of the exit, whereby a section of tape is exposed between the exit and the tape guide. The indicator is formed in the front wall proximal to the exposed section of tape, and includes at least one aperture that extends generally parallel to the top and bottom surfaces and perpendicular to the portion of the path extending parallel to the front wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Teruo Imamaki, Masato Kato, Takashi Horiuchi, Akira Sago, Yasuhiro Iriyama, Yasuhiro Shibata
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Patent number: 9427982Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head that performs recording on a medium; a first roller that inverts the medium which is fed from a side of the recording head; and a second roller of which an outer circumferential surface is in contact with medium transportation paths before and after the medium is inverted by the first roller and which exerts a transportation force on the medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi Ohashi, Akinobu Nakahata
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Patent number: 9427983Abstract: There is provided a compact simplex and duplex printer which can be produced easily at a low cost. The simplex and duplex printer includes: a thermal head for performing printing on a substrate; a rolled substrate supply section for supplying a continuous substrate, which is to be printed on one side, to the thermal head; and a sheet-like substrate supply section, provided below the rolled substrate supply section, for sequentially supplying sheet-like substrates, which are to be printed on both sides, to the thermal head. A reversing mechanism for reversing a sheet-like substrate which has been returned from the thermal head is disposed between the thermal head and the sheet-like substrate supply section. The reversing mechanism is disposed just below the rolled substrate supply section.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki Kamitani, Katsuhisa Ono
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Patent number: 9427984Abstract: A printer includes a main body case in which a sheet roll is installed, a sheet discharge port from which a printed sheet of paper is discharged, an opening/closing cover that opens and closes with respect to the main body case, a cutter that is attached to the opening/closing cover and configured to cut the printed sheet of paper from the sheet roll, and a cutter protection mechanism configured to move in correspondence with an opening movement or a closing movement of the opening/closing cover. The cutter protection mechanism is configured to expose the cutter at the sheet discharge port when the opening/closing cover is in a closed state and conceal the cutter when the opening/closing cover is in an open state.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITEDInventors: Tomoyuki Matsuya, Yoshinari Takabatake
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Patent number: 9427985Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a feeding unit configured to feed a printing sheet stacked on a stacking unit, a conveying unit configured to convey the printing sheet fed by the feeding unit, a printing unit configured to print the printing sheet conveyed by the conveying unit, and a control unit configured to control the feeding unit and the conveying unit. When continuously printing on the first surfaces of a plurality of printing sheets, the feeding unit forms an overlap state in which a trailing edge of a preceding sheet and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet overlap each other, and the conveying unit conveys the printing sheets while keeping the overlap state. When performing double-sided printing on the first surface and the second surface of the printing sheet, the feeding unit does not form the overlap state.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hisashi Taniguchi, Tetsuya Saito, Syunichi Kunihiro
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Patent number: 9427986Abstract: There is provided a print medium-conveying device and an inkjet printing device that can convey a print medium without causing wrinkles, float and damage. In an embodiment, the front surface of paper passed to an image recording drum is pressed by a pressure roller, and is made to contact the peripheral surface of the image recording drum. The front surface of paper is sucked by a suction unit in a position immediately before it enters between the image recording drum and the pressure roller, and back tension is given. The back tension giving is turned on/off according to the thickness of the paper, and the back tension giving is turned off for paper whose thickness is equal to or greater than a threshold. It is possible to prevent paper with stiffness from strongly contacting an adsorption holding surface of the suction unit and the front surface from being damaged.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Koji Furukawa
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Patent number: 9427987Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head which performs recording on a medium. The recording apparatus includes a first roller that reverses a medium which is transported from the recording head side and a medium reception unit that is provided on the downstream side of the recording head on the medium transport path on which the medium is transported. The medium reception unit also functions as a first medium support unit that supports a medium that is inserted from a discharging direction side of the medium.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Masanori Nakata
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Patent number: 9427988Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a housing, at least one tape, and a color indicator portion disposed between the tape housing area and the periphery, and in a specified area adjacent to the tape housing area on a rear edge side of the bottom wall, the color indicator portion indicating color information relating to the at least one tape and including a plurality of lateral information sections that are a plurality of strip-shaped sections extending along the left-and-right direction of the housing and aligned in a front-rear direction of the housing, wherein, of the plurality of lateral information sections, whether an aperture is formed in a first lateral information section indicates a base material color of the at least one tape, and whether an aperture is formed in a second lateral information section indicates a print color of the at least one tape.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2010Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Akira Sago, Takashi Horiuchi, Yasuhiro Iriyama, Yasuhiro Shibata, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Masato Kato, Teruo Imamaki
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Patent number: 9427989Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a housing, at least one tape, and a color indicator portion disposed between the tape housing area and the periphery, and in a specified area adjacent to the tape housing area on a rear edge side of the bottom wall, the color indicator portion indicating color information relating to the at least one tape and including a plurality of lateral information sections that are a plurality of strip-shaped sections extending along the left-and-right direction of the housing and aligned in a front-rear direction of the housing, wherein, of the plurality of lateral information sections, whether a protrusion is formed in a first lateral information section indicates a base material color of the at least one tape, and whether a protrusion is formed in a second lateral information section indicates a print color of the at least one tape.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Takashi Horiuchi, Akira Sago, Yasuhiro Iriyama, Yasuhiro Shibata, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Masato Kato, Teruo Imamaki
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Patent number: 9427990Abstract: Systems and methods for printing are described. One example is a tension module for a printer including a throughput roller including a length to diameter ratio of at least 10:1 and a material on the surface thereof having a friction coefficient value less than 1. In addition, the module includes a plurality of pinch rollers arranged parallel to the throughput roller and, the pinch rollers supporting the throughput roller and providing a pressure on a print medium when passed along the throughput roller. Further, the module includes a motor to rotate the throughput roller. Still further, the module includes a tension lever including a plurality of stops, each of the stops being associated with one of a plurality of tension settings. Manipulation of the tension lever between two of the stops adjusts the pressure between the throughput roller and the pinch rollers on the print medium.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: David Claramunt, Jose Antonio Alvarez, Raimon Castells, Francisco-Javier Perez, Laura Sanchez-Domingo
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Patent number: 9427991Abstract: An example device in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes a controller to adjust print speed intra-page according to a response curve to substantially track a power curve of a power supply. The controller is to maximize print speed based on short-term energy data corresponding to present and future print data and long-term energy data corresponding to past print data, without exceeding a peak power output and a thermal limit of the power supply when printing according to the response curve.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Todd Goyen, Duane A Koehler, Matthew A. Shepherd
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Patent number: 9427992Abstract: An inkjet printer is configured to apply a coating material to the lead edge of an imaging surface after an ink image is formed on the surface. A controller determines the amount and location of coating material applied to the lead edge based on the stiffness or thickness of the media printed on, and based on image content.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Bruce E. Thayer
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Patent number: 9427993Abstract: A transfer lamination method uses a transfer lamination device including a transfer ribbon comprising a transfer film on a carrier web, a print unit comprising a print head, and a transfer unit configured to transfer a film section of the transfer film to a substrate. In the method, the transfer ribbon is fed in a feed direction past the print unit and the transfer unit. Tension is generated in the transfer ribbon using the print head while processing the transfer ribbon using the transfer unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Assa Abloy ABInventors: James A. Rieck, John P. Skoglund, Andrew Slotto
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Patent number: 9427994Abstract: A method of tensioning a print medium on a drum comprising: supporting the medium on the drum; rotating the drum; and applying a gaseous flow to the medium on the drum, the gaseous flow having a major component that is tangential to the drum and in a direction that is opposite to the linear direction of the surface of the drum.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2007Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Vladimir Naivelt
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Patent number: 9427995Abstract: An image recording device includes a maintenance mechanism that conducts maintenance of recording head and a maintenance mechanism control unit that makes the maintenance mechanism conduct the maintenance at termination or start of one of process-target jobs for which cumulative number of sheets of the media that received printing processes by the recording head after immediately previous maintenance will reach lower limit of the cumulative number of sheets, which represents earliest start timing of the maintenance, and will not reach an upper limit of the cumulative number of sheets, which represents latest start timing of the maintenance, during printing process, and makes the maintenance mechanism conduct the maintenance before start of printing of a process-target job when priority on image quality, which requires high quality printing, is set in the process-target job and the cumulative number of sheets reaches the lower limit during a printing process of the process-target job.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATIONInventor: Akio Shinohara
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Patent number: 9427996Abstract: A flexible manufacturing system for an article of footwear includes a printing system for printing graphics onto the footwear. The flexible manufacturing system includes a first display device that is transparent and which may be used to superimpose graphics over an article to align the article with the printing system. An optical device and a second display device provide a fixed viewing angle for a user aligning the article under the first display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Todd W. Miller, Eli R. Troyke
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Patent number: 9427997Abstract: There is provided a data processing apparatus, a printing apparatus and a data processing method, that can reduce a processing load and a processing time in reading data even in a case where null data is added to print data for correcting displacement of a printing position caused by inclination of a print head. To achieve this, there is provided a data processing apparatus including a first writing unit, a second writing unit and a reading unit. The reading unit reads out data arrays corresponding to the print target image and does not read out data arrays corresponding to outside of the print target image in the first storage unit, from a plurality data arrays stored in the second storage unit that have been written in by the second written in unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2016Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yukinori Nishikawa
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Patent number: 9427998Abstract: A method of imbedding an image in a stone substrate includes printing an image onto a first surface of the stone substrate with regular inks and/or phosphorescent inks. Optionally, a moist towel is placed over the first surface of the stone substrate and a weight is placed over the moist towel then time is provided for the inks of the image to transfer from the print image into the surface of the stone substrate, sublimating into the stone. If provided, the moist towel and the print image are then removed and the above steps are repeated until the image is imbedded into the stone substrate. Optionally, a mirror image of the image is printed on the opposite side of the stone substrate in a similar manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Inventor: Timothy Andrew Sims
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Patent number: 9427999Abstract: The present invention concerns a print medium and a method of producing such a print medium. In particular, the present invention is directed to a print medium comprising a substrate having a first and a reverse side, and at least one coating layer on of the substrate sides.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Omya International AGInventors: Jan Philipp Weihs, Oliver Patrick Grossmann, Matthias Buri, Philipp Hunziker, Patrick A. C. Gane, Daniel Gantenbein
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Patent number: 9428000Abstract: A scrapbook and/or photo album system is disclosed. The system includes a top cover panel, a bottom cover panel, a stack of plural pages, a replaceable spine and plural fasteners. The spine is a unitary member made up of a plurality of disks fixedly secured together by a common rod. Each of the pages has an inner edge including a plurality of generally mushroom shaped slots. Each of the disks is circular and has a generally planar central section and an enlarged peripheral rim shaped to mate with and be received in a respective one of the slots of the page to secure each page to the spine. The common rod of the spin includes plural hollow portions, each configured to receive a respective fastener to secure the cover panels to the spine.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Continental Accessory CorporationInventors: Ronald Koeppel, Richard P. Koeppel
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Patent number: 9428001Abstract: A marking implement comprises a main body (2) for housing a marking element (3) that is movable by sliding therein; the main body (2) comprises a broad grip portion (4) and an elongated neck (5) axially contiguous to the grip portion (4); a mechanism for sliding (7) said marking element (3), a protective cap (6) housing the neck (5) completely therein and the broad grip portion (4) at least partially. The sliding mechanism (7) comprises a movement slider (8) that is slidable axially and in a controlled manner along the main housing body (2) so as to guide the advancement and retraction of the marking element (3).Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: F.I.L.A.—FABRICA ITALIANA LAPIS ED AFFINI S.P.A.Inventor: Massimo Candela
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Patent number: 9428002Abstract: A writing instrument includes a glass break on the end opposite the writing tip. The body of the writing instruments may include circumferential ridges or channels. Some examples of the writing instrument may include a cover removably secured over the glass break, possibly with a key ring attached. A light source or laser pointer may also be included.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Inventor: Samuel Rosenberg
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Patent number: 9428003Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for mounting vertebrate skulls using a skull foramen magnum cavity and a skull cleft, the apparatus including a body; an at least one upper tine extending from said body and being configured for insertion into the skull foramen magnum cavity; and an at least one lower tine extending from said body and being configured to nest within the skull cleft when said at least one upper tine is inserted into the foramen magnum cavity.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Inventor: Gene L. Gill, Jr.
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Patent number: 9428004Abstract: A cap configured to be connected to a wheel having a hub and a series of openings configured to receive fasteners attaching the wheel to a vehicle. The cap includes a disc defining a series of openings. The number of openings in the cap is less than the number of openings in the wheel. Each opening in the cap is configured to align with a corresponding opening in the wheel. Additionally, the cap is configured to conceal a remainder of the openings in the wheel that are not aligned with the openings in the cap.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: DESIGN INFINI, INC.Inventors: Suny Chung, Myles Kovacs
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Patent number: 9428005Abstract: The invention relates to a bicycle component, for example a rim, comprising a body made from aluminium and a body made from composite material coupled with a first surface portion of the body made from aluminium. Such a first surface portion has been subjected to a deoxidation surface treatment. An adhesive substance has been then applied on at least part of said first surface portion for gluing the body made from aluminium to the body made from composite material. A second surface portion of the body made from aluminium has been subjected to an oxidation surface treatment with subsequent fixing of the oxide.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Campagnolo S.r.l.Inventors: Paolo Fabris, Mauri Feltrin
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Patent number: 9428006Abstract: A wheel, (1) particularly for a cycle, includes a circular rim (2), a hub (3) concentric with the rim, and spokes (4) connecting the hub (3) to the rim (2). The rim, the hub, and the spokes are made of a polymerized composite material. The spokes (4) are paired two by two on either side of the bond plane of the wheel and are attached without tension at their ends onto the hub (3) and onto the rim (2).Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2010Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: CORIMAInventors: Pierre-Jean Martin, Thomas Dupont
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Patent number: 9428007Abstract: A lighting module has axial pins that extend axially rearwardly from a rearward surface of the module base and are respectively received in hollow pin guides formed in a module seating surface of a vehicle wheel. A wheel rim that receives the lighting module has an axially inwardly facing sidewall into which are formed plural bolt holes. A bolt is provided for each bolt hole. The bolt is operable to extend radially inwardly to a locked position affixing the module to the rim, and to be retracted radially outwardly to an unlocked position. The end of the bolt is received within a respective bolt receiver formed in a sidewall of the lighting module. The lighting module may have plural LEDs mounted on a forward face of a circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Inventor: Mark L. Becker