Patents Issued in October 3, 2017
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Patent number: 9776415Abstract: A printer includes: a platen; a printhead assembly having an inkjet printhead operatively positioned opposite the platen; a feed mechanism for feeding a web of print media over the platen and along a printing feed path; and a diverter configured for periodically diverting a portion of the web towards the printhead assembly and along a maintenance feed path. The portion of the web diverted along the maintenance feed path wipes part of the printhead assembly and removes condensation.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Memjet Technology LimitedInventor: Glenn Horrocks
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Patent number: 9776416Abstract: A method, a wiping apparatus, and a wiping system to store web material in a multi-folded state in a web storage chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Steve A. O'Hara, Scott Martin
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Patent number: 9776417Abstract: Accuracy in determination of the attaching direction of an elongated cartridge is improved. A cartridge 4A according to this embodiment to be attached to a printer includes an ink supply port 414 that supplies ink to the printer, a misinsertion prevention upper face projection portion 140 that engages with misinsertion prevention portions 671 of a misinsertion prevention plate 160 in a cartridge attachment portion 6, and restriction front upper face projection portions 430 that abut against a first guide rail 650 and a first guide rail 651 and restrict a tilt of the cartridge in an intersecting direction that intersects the attaching direction at the time of attachment. These restriction front upper face projection portions 430 are arranged between a leading end side in the attaching direction CS and the misinsertion prevention upper face projection portion 140.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Koizumi, Hiroyuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 9776418Abstract: A cartridge manufacturing method is a method for manufacturing a cartridge having a case, a chamber adapted to filled with printing material, a supply port for leading the printing material inside the chamber to outside the case, a flexible sheet member constituting at least a portion of the chamber, and a biasing member that biases the sheet member in the direction that expands the capacity of the chamber. Pressure is made to act on the printing material, and the printing material is filled from the supply port to inside the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Nakamura, Tadahiro Mizutani, Izumi Nozawa, Atsushi Kobayashi, Hidetoshi Kodama
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Patent number: 9776419Abstract: An example provides a fluid ejection device including a fluid feed slot, a fluid chamber between a nozzle layer and a passivation layer, and a printhead-integrated sensor to sense a property of a fluid in the fluid chamber. The sensor may include a ground electrode exposed to the fluid chamber through a via in the passivation layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Ning Ge, Patrick Leonard, Adam L. Ghozeil
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Patent number: 9776420Abstract: According to embodiments, an inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink tank which contains ink, a printing head which is connected to the ink tank through an ink channel and ejects the ink from a nozzle surface, and a channel member which is provided in the ink channel and has a clearance gap that connects the ink channel to the outside. The channel member is provided in a part of the ink channel, which has a positive pressure with respect to the atmospheric pressure at least during a period in which the printing head is capable of printing.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Noboru Nitta
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Patent number: 9776421Abstract: A pressure adjusting device includes a housing with a cylinder. A piston moves within the cylinder in an axial direction. A pulse motor is fixed to the housing. A switch provided on a surface of the cylinder is actuated by movement of the piston in the cylinder in the axial direction. The switch includes a fixed contact point and a moveable contact point. The piston presses the movable contact point to abut against the fixed contact point when the piston moves from a position other than the initial position to the initial position so that the movable contact point electrically contacts the fixed contact point.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasushi Kuribayashi
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Patent number: 9776422Abstract: Systems and methods for degassing fluid are disclosed. An example fluid ejection device including a channel having an entrance and an exit; a supply slot in communication with the channel; a vent; a first bubble impeding structure at the entrance of the channel; and a second bubble impeding structure at an exit of the channel, the first and second bubble impeding structures to retain a bubble within the channel to enable the bubble to be vented through a vent and to deter the bubble from entering the ink supply slot.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventor: Alexander Govyadinov
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Patent number: 9776423Abstract: A web-fed inkjet printing press has at least one printing unit and uses a printing material which is configured as a printing material web which is guided or which can be guided through the printing unit and which can be printed by at least one inkjet print head in the printing unit in a printing process with a printing color of a defined hue which is configured as ink. The inkjet print head in the printing unit is directed directly onto the printing material. A printing material web is made from a mechanical paper with a weight per unit area between 3.5 and 80 g/m2 and/or with a surface to be printed with a roughness according Bendtsen of at least 30 ml/min and or a thickness of from 50 to 120 ?m which is guided through the printing unit. The printing material web, in order to be printed, is in interaction indirectly or directly with the at least one inkjet print head of the printing unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: KOENIG & BAUER AGInventors: Oliver Christian Baar, Klaus Eppich, Sven Michael
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Patent number: 9776424Abstract: To provide an image forming set including: an aqueous ink including a colorant, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water; and a post-treatment liquid including a water-soluble organic solvent, water, and at least one of a urethane resin and an acrylic resin, wherein a solubility parameter of a mixed solution of the water-soluble organic solvent and the water in the post-treatment liquid is lower than a solubility parameter of a mixed solution of the water-soluble organic solvent and the water in the aqueous ink by 1.5 (cal/cm3)1/2 or greater.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Katsuragi, Ken Hasegawa
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Patent number: 9776425Abstract: The inkjet head ejection performance evaluation method includes: printing a test pattern for examining an ejection condition for each nozzle by an inkjet head having a plurality of nozzles arrayed in a matrix and is read by an image reading device; and measuring a depositing position for each nozzle from the read image to calculate a deposit displacement amount based on the depositing position and pattern information, wherein a position of a center of gravity in a Y direction of nozzles used for calculation for calculating the deposit displacement amount of the nozzle number n is equal to a position of a center of gravity in the Y direction of all nozzles existing in the nozzle range of the nozzles used for calculation, where a direction of relative movement between the inkjet head and a recording medium is the Y direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Tadashi Kyoso
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Patent number: 9776426Abstract: An aim is to provide a technique for obtaining a higher quality print image by reducing a banding caused upon printing using a printing head having nozzle rows. As a solution, an activated nozzle row is reselected each time when the activated nozzle row has discharged ink for a preset number of times, and in each scan, an interval by which the activated nozzle row discharges ink in a main scanning direction is set to be an integer multiple of a resolution of an image to be printed on a print medium in the main scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaru Ohnishi, Kosuke Murai
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Patent number: 9776427Abstract: An exposure device includes an optical system member that forms an image of light from a light emitting element array having multiple light emitting elements arranged, an optical system support part that supports the optical system member, and a restraining member that restrains the optical system member to the optical system support part. The optical system support part has sliding parts, which are able to slide relative to the restraining member, formed on a light emitting element side face and an image forming side face in positions opposing the both end parts or the vicinity of both end parts in a longitudinal direction of the optical system support part, and in the both end parts or in the vicinity of the both end parts in the longitudinal direction, the restraining member is formed between the sliding parts and the optical system member, fixed to the optical system member, and slidable in the longitudinal direction relative to the optical system support part.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Oki Data CorporationInventors: Akihiro Yamamura, Eisuke Kuroki
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Patent number: 9776428Abstract: It is disclosed a printer comprising a front opening through which one or more documents to be treated could be introduced therein, wherein the printer comprises a first path for transporting said one or more documents from a first position to a second position and back to the first position; wherein the printer further comprises a second path for transporting said one or more documents from said first position to an exit, wherein said second path comprises a flap for deviating said one or more documents towards said exit and a separator for directing the one or more documents to one of a first tray and a second tray.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: SHENZHEN PU YING INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Flavio Balasini, Paolo Poma, Claudio Vernetti
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Patent number: 9776429Abstract: A controller in a one-side printing mode moves movable rollers to form a one-side printing route and moves a second head unit so that the second head unit faces a front side of a web. The controller then controls a first head unit and a second head unit to print images of respective pages on the front side of the web while transferring the web at a transfer speed twice as fast as that in a both-side printing mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATIONInventor: Tetsunori Saito
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Patent number: 9776430Abstract: A post-printing treatment for printed media includes a wax suspended in water. Particles of the wax to lie upon at least an inkjet ink image on the printed media to facilitate abrasion resistance of the image.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jason Swei, Xi Zeng, Tao Chen, Sandeep K Bangaru, Eric L Burch
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Patent number: 9776431Abstract: There are provided a medium conveying device and an image recording apparatus that can convey a medium without the generation of wrinkles and floating. Projections having the same size are regularly disposed on the peripheral surface of an image recording drum to form recessed portions and protruding portions on the peripheral surface of the image recording drum. An interval between the projections disposed in a middle region is set to be smaller than an interval between the projections disposed in both end regions. Accordingly, when a sheet is pressed against the peripheral surface of the image recording drum by a pressing roller, forces for pulling the sheet to the outside from the middle in a width direction can be generated. As a result, the sheet can be made to come into close contact with the peripheral surface of the image recording drum without the generation of wrinkles and floating.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Uemura
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Patent number: 9776432Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes: a recording section which records an image on a sheet conveyed in a conveyance direction in a conveyance route; a first abutment member having a plurality of first abutment portions arranged apart from each other in a width direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction, and configured to abut against the sheet conveyed in the conveyance route; a first supporting member which supports the first abutment member; and a plurality of second abutment members which are supported by the first supporting member at both sides in the width direction, respectively, of the first abutment member, at a distance from the first abutment member, and each of which has a second abutment portion capable of contacting with the sheet conveyed in the conveyance route.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masao Mimoto, Shingo Ito
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Patent number: 9776433Abstract: A conveyor includes: a first power transmitting mechanism configured to transmit one of forward rotation and reverse rotation of a motor to a first roller and not to transmit the other from a driven member to the first roller; and a second power transmitting mechanism configured to transmit the other rotation to the first roller and not to transmit the one rotation to the first roller. The first power transmitting mechanism includes a transmission delayer that does not transmit rotation of the motor from the driven member to the first roller until the motor is rotated by a particular amount from a time point at which the motor starts to be rotated in a rotational direction of the one rotation when rotation transmitted from the motor to the driven member is changed from the other rotation to the one rotation.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoichiro Nishimura
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Patent number: 9776434Abstract: An inkjet printer having a platen to which a suction unit is disposed suppresses increasing the time required for printing to end and suppresses unnecessary operation of the suction fan. The inkjet printer 1 receives control data from a host computer 3, and starts operation of the suction fan 26f if a printing-related command instructing rendering image data to be printed by the inkjet head 10 in the image buffer BF is included in the received control data.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takashi Saikawa
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Patent number: 9776435Abstract: An elastic roller includes: a roller shaft; and an elastic member. The elastic roller includes an inner layer side elastic member, and a coating layer. The inner layer side elastic member has a rubber hardness of 30 to 80 degrees that is measured by a durometer type A in accordance with the standard of JIS K 6253. The inner layer side elastic member has a tear strength of 25 N/mm or more that is measured using an unnicked angle-shaped test piece in accordance with JIS K 6252. The coating layer is made of silicone resin, and has a thickness of 10 to 100 ?m. The silicone resin has hardness of 20 degrees or less that is measured using a spring-based Asker C type in accordance with SRIS 0101 standard. The inner layer side elastic member has a plurality of internal grooves along a circumferential direction. Each of the internal grooves has a width of 25 to 1,300 ?m, and has a depth of 25 to 500 ?m. Each of the internal grooves has a V-shaped in cross section and has a groove angle of 50 to 120 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Haruhiko Nitta
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Patent number: 9776436Abstract: A method for controlling a print device by generating a firing encoder signal from varying one or more characteristics of a reference signal where, the one or more characteristics are varied based on at least the position of a print medium at a reference time. The firing encoder signal is used to synchronize firing of at least one print head of the print device after the reference time.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: David Chanclon, Alberto Borrego Lebrato, Juan Francisco Redondo Del Campo
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Patent number: 9776437Abstract: According to one example there is provided an accessory for a printing system. The accessory comprises a cylindrical core on which a web of media may be wound, and a flexible sheet having a first end attached to the core and a second free end opposite the first end having a media connector attached thereto, the media connector to connect a free end of a web of media thereto.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Antonio Gracia Verdugo, Sergi Culubret i Cortada, Mauricio Seras Franzoso
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Patent number: 9776438Abstract: A printer is disclosed. The printer has a media control system to control the tension in media loaded in a paper path in the printer. A motor in the media control system is characterized to determine a plurality of motor characteristics. The media control system uses the motor characteristics to adjust the control signal to the motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2013Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Carles Ruiz Floriach, Carlos Felip Aragon, Raimon Castells de Monet, Xavier Domingo Reguant
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Patent number: 9776439Abstract: A printer includes: a printhead assembly having a print zone and a belt assembly for feeding print media past the print zone in a media feed direction. The belt assembly includes: an endless belt tensioned between a first roller upstream of the print zone and a second roller downstream of the print zone; a drive mechanism for moving the endless belt in the media feed direction; and a fixed platen positioned in the print zone. The endless belt is guided around and below the fixed platen.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Memjet Technology LimitedInventors: Kianoush Mir Sanaei, Reza Moghaddasian, Christopher Hibbard
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Patent number: 9776440Abstract: An image printing device and method of printing may include an image medium advancing device to advance an image medium in a first direction, an oscillating printhead to oscillate or move along a second direction defined by an angle not normal to the first direction, and a plurality of ink nozzles associated with the printhead to apply ink to the image medium.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Kevin T. Kersey
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Patent number: 9776441Abstract: A method for determining a printing position, such as for image-on-paper registration in a printer or photocopying machine, is disclosed. A fiducial mark pattern comprising a plurality of fiducial marks at predefined relative distances is provided on a printing medium, and is scanned. The fiducial marks and a first edge of the printing medium are identified in a scanned representation of the printing medium. A first distance between the first edge and a first fiducial mark is determined, and a second distance between a second fiducial mark and a third fiducial mark are likewise determined from the scanned representation of the printing medium. The distance between the fiducial mark pattern and the first edge is computed based on both the determined first distance and the determined second distance. The invention also relates to a corresponding system and a computer-readable medium for determining a printing position.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Rodolfo Jodra Barron, Sagi Refael, Eyal Bodinger, Pavel Blinchuk
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Patent number: 9776442Abstract: A system is provided for transferring a marking material from a ribbon to a substrate. The system includes a ribbon take-up device; a ribbon supply source that supplies the ribbon to the ribbon take-up device such that the ribbon is moved in a process direction; a pressure roll located between the ribbon supply source and the ribbon take-up device in the process direction, the pressure roll being configured to apply pressure to the ribbon at a pressure location when the ribbon is positioned between the pressure roll and the substrate; and a laser beam source that directs a plurality of laser beams through the pressure roll and onto the ribbon at the pressure location such that a marking portion of the ribbon is heated by the laser beams and transferred to the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center IncorporatedInventor: Timothy D. Stowe
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Patent number: 9776443Abstract: A craftwork accessory may provide a portable and/or easy-to-use tool to help users' accurately and repeatedly apply stamp impressions and the like to items such as cardstock. The accessory may include a base portion, one or more elevated side portions and a hinged cover portion. The side portions may define a workspace for arranging the item. In operation, the item and stamp may be aligned in the workspace, during which a magnetic removable corner piece may be used to assist with alignment of the item, and the cover portion may be pressed onto the stamp to stick the stamp to the cover portion. The cover may then be opened, the stamp may be inked, and the cover portion may be closed and pressed onto the item to stamp the item. The accessory may also include fastening mechanisms, such as magnetic elements, to facilitate placement of the item and/or stamp.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: My Sweet Petunia, Inc.Inventor: Iliana Myska
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Patent number: 9776444Abstract: A security device including an array of lines printed or otherwise provided on a substrate, the lines including materials which have the same appearance under visible light illumination but which appear different from each other in the visible under a combination of visible and non-visible, ultraviolet illumination. At least some of the lines in the array appear different from other lines under the combination of visible and non-visible, ultraviolet illumination. A second, surface relief array of lines imposed on the first array, the orientation, line widths and spacings of the first and second arrays being such that the device exhibits a variable appearance as it is tilted while exposed to the combination of visible and non-visible illumination.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventor: Jan Adrian Robert Hatton
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Patent number: 9776445Abstract: A color laser markable article includes a color laser markable layer provided on a support, the laser markable layer including an infrared absorbing compound; a leuco-dye; and an acid generating compound, wherein the acid generating compound has a structure according to Formulae (I) or (II): wherein R1 and R3 independently represent an optionally substituted alkyl group, an optionally substituted (hetero)cyclic alkyl group, an optionally substituted (hetero)aryl group, an optionally substituted aralkyl group, an optionally substituted alkoxy group, an optionally substituted (hetero)cyclic alkoxy group, or an optionally substituted (hetero)aryl group; R2, R4 and R5 independently represent an optionally substituted alkyl, an optionally substituted (hetero)cyclic alkyl group or an optionally substituted aralkyl group; and R1 and R2, R4 and R5, R3 and R4, and R3 and R5 may represent the necessary atoms to form a ring.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: AGFA-GEVAERTInventors: Marin Steenackers, Johan Loccufier
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Patent number: 9776446Abstract: A front face side substrate provided between a supporting member and a receiving layer of a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet. The front face side substrate includes a front face side layer provided on one surface of a substrate layer and a rear face side layer provided on another surface of the substrate layer. The substrate layer includes (A) a propylene-based polymer, (B) calcium carbonate, and (C) titanium oxide, and the weight of (A) is 70% by weight to 94.5% by weight, the weight of (B) is 5% by weight to 28% by weight, and the weight of (C) is 0.5% by weight to 3% by weight, based on the assumption that the total weight of (A), (B) and (C) is 100% by weight. The front face side layer includes a modified propylene-based polymer, and the rear face side layer includes a propylene-based polymer.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignees: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello, Inc.Inventors: Hirokazu Takahashi, Junpei Oomura, Hiroshi Matsuura, Hiroshi Honda
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Patent number: 9776447Abstract: Provided is an inkjet recording sheet which includes a transparent support and an ink receiving layer disposed on one surface of the transparent support, in which the ink receiving layer is a layer formed by curing a composition containing at least a polymerization initiator and a polymerizable compound. When a printed article and ornamental glass are manufactured by forming an image portion by an inkjet method, the inkjet recording sheet is excellent in both the ink adhesiveness and the scratch resistance of the ink receiving layer including the image portion and a non-image portion. Also provided is a method for manufacturing an inkjet recording sheet, a printed article, a method for manufacturing a printed article, and ornamental glass.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kimi Ikeda, Takashi Shimizu, Yoshiki Sugai, Takahiro Nakazawa
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Patent number: 9776448Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image erasing apparatus includes a sheet supply section, a discharge tray, a first conveying path, a reader, a second conveying path, an erasing unit and a switching section. A controller controls the first conveying path, the reader, the second conveying path, the erasing unit and the switching section depending on a selected mode. When the selected mode is an erasing mode, the sheet is conveyed on the first conveying path without being read by the reader, conveyed on the second conveying path where the image is erased by the erasing unit, and then conveyed to the discharge tray. When the selected mode is a reading mode, the sheet is conveyed on the first conveying path where the surface of the sheet is read by the reader, and then conveyed to the discharge tray without being conveyed on the second conveying path.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ken Iguchi, Hidetoshi Yokochi, Isao Yahata, Takahiro Kawaguchi, Yoshiaki Sugizaki, Kikuo Mizutani, Hiroyuki Taki, Hiroyuki Tsuchihashi, Chiaki Iizuka
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Patent number: 9776449Abstract: A post-processing apparatus which can respectively balance convenience of user using a manual stapling and convenience of user using an online stapling is provided. The finisher includes a stapler for performing predetermined post-processing on a sheet received and a control unit. The finisher also includes a stapler moving motor which moves the stapler to a position where first processing or second processing is performed. In the first processing, the predetermined post-processing is performed on a sheet which is conveyed from an image forming apparatus. In the second processing, the predetermined post-processing is performed on a sheet which is manually inserted.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromi Shimura, Keita Takahashi, Hiroto Nishihara, Shinnosuke Iwadate, Teruhito Kai, Kenzo Kumagai
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Patent number: 9776450Abstract: A method for checking, in particular the authenticity and/or the nominal value of a value document having luminescent feature substances, comprises: a1) the step of carrying out a location-specific measurement of first luminescence intensities at a first emission wavelength at different locations of the value document that have the location coordinates, to thereby obtain measurement value pairs; b1) the step of statistically analyzing the first luminescence intensities measured in dependence on the individual location coordinates, by determining at least one statistical parameter using a statistical method; and c1) the step of comparing the statistical parameter determined in the step b1) with one or more threshold values.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Thomas Giering, Johann Kecht, Wolfgang Rauscher, Stephan Steinlein
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Patent number: 9776451Abstract: Provided is a binder in which a binder is provided with a binding member having a pressing portion pressing a material to be bound, an operation member operated so as to pivotally rotate to an open state and a hold state, and a base member the binder is further provided with an engagement body, a projection portion caused to engage with the engagement body, and a supporting portion provided with the engagement body, the supporting portion is configured so as to bend toward the projection portion side and bend in a direction of separating from the projection portion and the locked state is formed by engagement between the engagement body and the projection portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: LIHIT LAB., INC.Inventors: Kanji Tanaka, Yoshiteru Arimoto, Hiroyuki Yamashita, Hiroshi Nakano, Nobuaki Nagawa
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Patent number: 9776452Abstract: A multi-purpose concealing apparatus for concealing objects, for example, knobs, locks, etc., positioned on an external structure, for example, a door is provided. A first base member is attached to a frame of the external structure. A second base member is positioned on the external structure, adjacent to the first base member. The second base member defines a space for accommodating the objects and can accommodate auxiliary objects, for example, a key rack. Upper and lower slide elements are attached parallel to upper and lower inner panels respectively, and perpendicular to the second base member. Upper and lower outer panels of an enclosing structure slide against the upper and lower slide elements on the second base member to enclose the second base member. A concealing member is hingedly connected to the enclosing structure to conceal the objects. A magnetic board is attached to the inner surface of the concealing member.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Inventor: Charles Edward Washington
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Patent number: 9776453Abstract: A tightening device and a tightening method are able to check that a fastening member has been fastened to a desired set torque or greater after being tightened, without loosening the fastening member.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignees: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TONE CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiro Fujimoto, Toshihiko Kushida, Tatsuo Hirai, Yukio Torigai, Tatsuo Nakahata, Manabu Saito, Masao Watanabe
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Patent number: 9776454Abstract: A connection structure between airless tire and rim and fastening members thereof. The connection structure includes: a rim having an annular rim body and an annular connection groove formed on outer circumference of the rim body; an airless tire having an annular tire body coaxially fitted on the rim body, multiple sockets radially extending from inner circumference of the tire body into the tire body; and multiple fastening members. Each of the fastening members has an extension section with a predetermined length. The extension section is coaxially inserted in the corresponding socket with one end protruding from an opening of the socket on the inner circumference of the tire body. The fastening member further has a base section fixedly connected with one end of the extension section. The base section is engaged in the connection groove. The fastening members serve to securely connect the airless tire with the rim.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: OTRAJET INC.Inventor: Ching-Hao Chen
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Patent number: 9776455Abstract: Information relating to a change made to a concrete mixture in a concrete mixer truck is obtained. An expected value of a selected characteristic of the concrete mixture is determined based on the change. A representation of the expected value is displayed on a processing device located in a cab of the concrete mixer truck. In one embodiment, the mixture comprises a concrete mixture. The change may comprise an addition of water to the mixture.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: QUIPIP, LLCInventor: Farrokh F. Radjy
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Patent number: 9776456Abstract: A racing tire comprising a tread having a new tread thickness of no greater than about 0.375 inch. The tread defines a running surface that includes a first circumferential portion of a first rubber compound and a second circumferential portion of a second rubber compound situated adjacent one another. The first rubber compound has a greater stiffness than the second rubber compound so as to provide the tread with greater wear resistance along the first circumferential portion, and the second rubber compound provides the tread with greater traction along the second circumferential portion. The tread may be substantially free of a tread pattern. The second rubber compound may have a greater DIN abrasion value than the first rubber compound. The second rubber compound may have a higher tan delta at 100° C. and/or a higher J? traction value than the first rubber compound.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2011Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Paul Harry Sandstrom, Andrew Frederick Weimer, Richard Barkley Campbell, Thomas Charles Lippello, III, Mark Alan Keto, Larry Alan Kraus, Steven Wayne Cronin
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Patent number: 9776457Abstract: A tread made of rubber-like material for a tire for winter travel having a plurality of blocks of a height H, each block comprising a contact face designed to come into contact with the ground when the tire travels and at least one lateral face, said lateral face being covered by a layer of covering material over at least 50% of the surface thereof, and a leading zone designed to come into contact first with the ground when the tire travels, and said block has an oblique direction of extension (J) such that the leading zone of said block is a leading corner, and a part which is not covered by the covering material, said covering material having a modulus of elasticity which is greater than the modulus of elasticity of the rubber-like material forming the block, said uncovered part extending from the leading corner over at least ? of the height H of the block.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignees: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin, Michelin Recherche et Technique, S.A.Inventor: Shuichi Kaneko
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Patent number: 9776458Abstract: Disclosed herein is an example of a tire, and arrangements of multiple tires for a heavy goods vehicle having a tread provided on one side of the equatorial median plane with a sculpture of a first kind and on the other side of the equatorial median plane with a sculpture of a second kind, the first kind of sculpture comprising at least three grooves of generally circumferential orientation. The tired disclosed herein is provided to avoid having to change tires at the change of season, notably of the arrival of winter, on a heavy goods vehicle and more particularly on the drive axles of the said vehicle for which these changes require additional work.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ESTABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventor: Patrice Bonhomme
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Patent number: 9776459Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pneumatic tire capable of significantly increasing the possibility that the tire can be recycled as a base tire for a retreaded tire without so much sacrificing a product life of the tire prior to retreading.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takayoshi Hironaka, Masayuki Kurebayashi
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Patent number: 9776460Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire having laminated reinforcement layers with organic fiber over a polygonal cross-section bead core, and in the layer, a rubber-coated organic fiber cord is tilted to the center line of the bead core in a transverse section and is spirally coiled, in which each organic fiber cord in an inner and outer adjacent reinforcement layers over the bead core extends such that an organic fiber cord in the inner reinforcement layer and an organic fiber cord in the outer reinforcement layer intersect each other relative to the center line of the bead core in the transverse section, in which in the inner reinforcement layer, the cord is coiled with space at least partially in a tire circumferential direction such that the cord does not overlap in the tire circumferential direction, and the outer reinforcement layer is arranged to cover at least a part of the space.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Keiichi Mita
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Patent number: 9776461Abstract: In a tire inflation pressure detection device, a receiver functions such that, when an ignition switch is on, power is generated by a power supply controller to set the power supply state of the receiver to one in which frame reception is enabled to detect the inflation pressure of a tire, and such that, when the IG is off, in each predetermined intermittent cycle power is generated by the power supply controller to set the power supply state of the receiver to one in which frame reception is enabled to detect the inflation pressure of the tire. A transmitter determines whether a decrease in tire inflation pressure occurs, and when the decrease occurs, the transmitter transmits frames more frequently than before the occurrence of the decrease in tire inflation pressure at a shorter frame transmission time interval than a regular transmission cycle during a high-frequency transmission period.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Noriaki Okada, Nobuya Watabe, Masashi Mori
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Patent number: 9776462Abstract: A system to perceive the structure of a tire chamber is presented herein. The system includes: a memory, controller, wheel, vehicle tire, and sensor. The memory includes executable instructions. The controller is in turn configured to read and execute the executable instructions. The wheel is adapted to connect to a vehicle axle. The tire is connected to the wheel. The sensor is located within the interior chamber of the tire. The sensor is moreover configured to measure a selected portion of the tire chamber. The sensor is further configured to communicate the measurement to the controller. The executable instructions enable the controller to: operate the sensor so as to make measurements of the tire chamber; retrieve (from the sensor) measurement information of the tire chamber; and generate tire-chamber-perception information from the measurement information of the tire chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventor: Jeremy P. Gray
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Patent number: 9776463Abstract: A number of frames in a burst is adjusted such that a first optimal number of first frames from a first manufacturer are included in the burst, the first optimal number of frames chosen to enable the detection of the burst by first receivers that are tuned to receive the first frames from the first manufacturer. The number of frames in the burst is adjusted such that a second optimal number of second frames from a second manufacturer are included in the burst, the second optimal number of frames chosen to enable detection of the burst by second receivers that are tuned to receive the second frames from the second manufacturer. The number of frames in the burst maintains a configuration compliant with government regulations regarding one or more of a burst length and a power emission.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jean-Christophe Deniau, Brian J Farrell
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Patent number: 9776464Abstract: An anti-skid device includes a first main body and a second main body disposed rearward of the first main body, both of which are made of elastic material. The first main body has: a first ground-contactable sheet-like part that elongates in a circumferential direction; an inside rear connecting part provided at rear side of the first ground-contactable sheet-like; and an outside front connecting part provided at front side of the first ground-contactable sheet-like part. The second main body has: a second ground-contactable sheet-like part that elongates in the circumferential direction; an inside front connecting part provided at front side of the second ground-contactable sheet-like part; and an outside rear connecting part provided at rear side of the second ground-contactable sheet-like part. The inside rear connecting part of the first main body and the inside front connecting part of the second main body are connectable with each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Inventor: Kouichi Sakakibara