Patents Issued in January 4, 2018
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Publication number: 20180001601Abstract: The present invention provides an interlayer film for laminated glass, that exhibits an excellent sound-insulating performance for solid-borne sound in an environment at or below 0° C. Another object is to provide laminated glass that is obtained using this interlayer film for laminated glass. The present invention is an interlayer film for laminated glass, that has a sound-insulating layer for which a temperature T1, which is the temperature that gives the maximum value of tan ? at a frequency of 1 Hz, is in the range from ?30° C. to 0° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Shouta MATSUDA, Kozo NAKAMURA, Michio SHIMAMOTO, Sinyul YANG
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Publication number: 20180001602Abstract: A coating of structures or elements or parts made of plastic material obtained by molding includes a finish layer; a reinforcement layer coupled to the finish layer, from the opposite side to the exposed face, to form a sandwich; and a heat-sealable film coupled in its solid form to the reinforcing layer, wherein this sandwich is suited to be coupled to a support part in a plastic material obtained by molding, and wherein this coupling occurs during the molding of the support part by way of the heat-sealable film suited to be activated at the molding temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2014Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventor: Emiliano Ferro
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Publication number: 20180001603Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multilayer film. In an embodiment, a multilayer film is provided and includes: a layer (A) comprising an olefin-based polymer; a layer (B) that is a tie layer comprising a sulfonamide derivative grafted olefin-based polymer (SD-g-PO); and a layer (C) comprising a polar component.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2015Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Jerzy Klosin, Ahmad Madkour, Adriana I. Moncada, Brian W. Walther
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Publication number: 20180001604Abstract: Disclosed are multilayer films with high toughness performance, where the films have an elastic ethylene copolymer in the core layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Achiel J. M. Van Loon, Danny Van Hoyweghen
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Publication number: 20180001605Abstract: An improved multilayer polymer film is disclosed. The film may include a first skin layer, a second skin layer, and an intermediate layer between the skin layers. The first, second and intermediate layers may be formed of respective first, second and intermediate polymer compositions. Each layer may have distributed therein particles of titanium dioxide to a weight content of from 6 percent to 14 percent. One or both the second skin layer and the intermediate layer may have distributed therein non-white pigment particles to a weight content of from 0.050 percent to 0.15 percent of such layer(s). The contents and distribution among layers of the pigments may provide for relatively disproportionate improvement of opacity while preserving a neutral white color surface to receive ink-printing, enabling high conformity of printed colors with target colors, and preserving weldability of the film to itself.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: April Renae Brown, Norman Scott Broyles, Gary Wayne Gilbertson, Christian Kohlweyer, Fei Wang
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Publication number: 20180001606Abstract: A transfer film has a temporary support, a first curable transparent resin layer, a second curable transparent resin layer in which the thickness of the first curable transparent resin layer is equal to or greater than 1 ?m, the second curable transparent resin layer includes 5% by mass to 95% by mass of a metal oxide particle with respect to the solid content of the second curable transparent resin layer, and the first curable transparent resin layer does not include the metal oxide particle, or includes less amount of the metal oxide particle than the second curable transparent resin layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichi KANNA, Hideaki ITO
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Publication number: 20180001607Abstract: Certain films comprising polypropylene and silicone that are uniaxially stretched at stretching temperatures below 70° C. have desirable aesthetic effects.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Lichao PAN, Zhan CHENG, Xu HUANG, Shuo SONG
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Publication number: 20180001608Abstract: The present invention provides a protective coating for protecting a substrate from deleterious elements present in environments in which the substrates are deployed and methods and apparatus for deploying a PVC encasement with a longitudinal snap jacket of suitable length and girth to coat a pylon substrate or building girder and provide a filler within the snap jacket and around an encased pylon.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Shoreline Plastics LLCInventors: Mark Porter, Stafford McCartney, Derek Michael Porter
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Publication number: 20180001609Abstract: A multilayer, heat-shrinkable film generally includes at least one bulk layer and a microlayer section comprising a plurality of microlayers. The film has a sufficiently low shrink force to wrap fragile items, such as furnace filters.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2015Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Janet Rivett, Bradley Daley, Greg Harwood
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Publication number: 20180001610Abstract: The present application describes making a resilient pad composite.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2013Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Applied FT Composite Solutions Inc.Inventor: Daniel Kim
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Publication number: 20180001611Abstract: Inspection devices and methods for inspecting an adhesive pattern on a substrate are disclosed. The inspection device includes at least one sensor having a heat sensor head for detecting a pattern of the adhesive bead, and a controller. Reference data representing a desired adhesive pattern is initially provided to a controller. A predetermined tolerance range for the desired adhesive pattern is also provided to the controller. An adhesive bead is discharged onto a substrate from a nozzle. A pattern of the discharged adhesive bead is then detected by the sensor when the substrate moves. Signals representing the detected pattern are received from the sensor at the controller. Finally, the signals representing the detected adhesive pattern are compared to the tolerance range of the desired adhesive pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Eric Lingier, Alexander Wilhelm
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Publication number: 20180001612Abstract: A recording medium, including: an ink-receiving layer configured to receive an ink for inkjet recording; and a transparent sheet having a total luminous transmittance of 50% or more, wherein the recoding medium has a layered structure in which the transparent sheet and the ink-receiving layer are sequentially stacked, and the ink-receiving layer includes a gap-absorption-type ink-receiving layer including a composition including at least inorganic fine particles and polyvinyl alcohol having a weight-average polymerization degree of 2,000 or more and 5,000 or less and a saponification degree of 70 mol % or more and 90 mol % or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Takahiro Tsutsui, Yoichi Sonobe, Masami Aruga, Daizo Kitajo, Hiroyuki Ishinaga, Hiromitsu Hirabayashi
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Publication number: 20180001613Abstract: An Orlof printing section (2) is provided with an Orlof printing unit that has the following: partial plate cylinders (11), a collecting blanket cylinder (12), a collecting plate cylinder (13), a blanket cylinder (9), an impression cylinder (10), and a moving inker (25). An offset printing section (3) is provided with front-side and back-side offset printing units (3a-3d, 3e-3h) that each have an ink-supply device (18), a plate cylinder (19), a blanket cylinder (15), and an impression cylinder (16). The respective impression cylinders of the front-side offset printing unit and the back-side offset printing unit are placed up against each other such that said printing units receive and output sheets between said impression cylinders. The offset printing section (3) is also provided with a front-side inspection camera (23) and a back-side inspection camera (24). The Orlof printing section and the offset printing section are connected by transfer cylinders (14).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: KOMORI CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyoshi KAMODA
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Publication number: 20180001614Abstract: In an aspect, a system and method for assembling a semiconductor device on a receiving surface of a destination substrate is disclosed. In another aspect, a system and method for assembling a semiconductor device on a destination substrate with topographic features is disclosed. In another aspect, a gravity-assisted separation system and method for printing semiconductor device is disclosed. In another aspect, various features of a transfer device for printing semiconductor devices are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Christopher Bower, Matthew Meitl, David Gomez, Salvatore Bonafede, David Kneeburg
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Publication number: 20180001615Abstract: The present invention relates to a marking machine for marking articles, this machine comprising: a marking head including a support and at least one punch fitted with a flat pattern plate; and a positioning system configured to position the article with respect to the punch. The marking machine is characterized in that the punch has rotational mobility about an axis of rotation that is fixed with respect to the support. The invention also relates to a method of operating such a marking machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2016Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Florent Demange
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Publication number: 20180001616Abstract: A roller arrangement for printing apparatus comprises a first roller. The first roller comprises a plurality of cells. Each of the plurality of cells receives an amount of a coating material. The roller arrangement further comprises an extractor to remove at least a portion of the coating material from a selected set of the plurality of the cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2015Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Lior LEWINZ, Gil FISHER, Stylianos MANOUSAKIS
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Publication number: 20180001617Abstract: A plurality of first contact portions is arranged to face a second supporting member between a nipping position and nozzles in a conveying direction. The first contact portions are spaced away from each other in a width direction, and contact a sheet from a first side. A second contact portion is provided at least between two of the first contact portions in the width direction, and contacts the sheet from a second side. A regulating member is provided at a first supporting member. The regulating member extends to provide an extending end portion that is located at a position closer to a second supporting member than the nozzle surface is in a perpendicular direction. The extending end portion locates the first contact portions at a regulating position that is closer to the second supporting member than the nozzle surface is in the perpendicular direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenji SAMOTO
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Publication number: 20180001618Abstract: An inkjet printhead including a plurality of printhead dies, each printhead die including at least one crack sense resistor, at least one analog bus connected to each printhead die, and a controller separate from the plurality of printhead dies. The controller is configured to provide a known current to the at least one crack sense resistor of each printhead die in a selectable pattern via the at least one analog bus and to determine whether the printhead dies are cracked based on resulting voltages produced on the at least one analog bus.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2015Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Daryl E Anderson, George H Corrigan, Scott A Linn
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Publication number: 20180001619Abstract: A control method of a liquid discharging apparatus includes: a discharge inspection step of inspecting discharge abnormality of a nozzle by a discharge inspection mechanism; a remaining oscillation inspection step of inspecting oscillation of the ink inside a pressure chamber by a oscillation inspection circuit when the discharge abnormality is detected; a first correction step of performing correction which corresponds to the attachment of the resin inside the pressure chamber with respect to the driving pulse when abnormality is detected in oscillation; a re-discharge inspection step of inspecting the discharge abnormality of the nozzle after the first correction step; and a second correction step of performing the correction which corresponds to the attachment of the resin inside the nozzle with respect to the driving pulse when the abnormality is not detected in the oscillation in the oscillation inspection step or when the discharge abnormality is detected in the re-discharge inspection step.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2016Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Masako FUKUDA, Tomohiro SAYAMA, Hironori SATO
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Publication number: 20180001620Abstract: A line-head-type inkjet image-forming method includes ejecting a gel ink to a recording medium at a first coverage rate that is less than 100% and set to allow dots of newly ejected gel ink to unite with dots of the gel ink already landed on the recording medium. The gel ink contains a specific amount of a polymer dispersant based on the amount of the colorant and has a specific contact angle on the recording medium. The gel ink is ejected from nozzles so as to form dots with a diameter slightly larger according to the resolution of the image to be formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2016Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventor: Ai KONDO
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Publication number: 20180001621Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a plurality of dischargers that discharge a liquid, a determination portion that determines discharge states of the liquid in the dischargers, and a controller that controls the plurality of dischargers, in which, in a case in which the determination portion determines that the discharge state of the liquid in one discharger is abnormal, the controller controls the plurality of dischargers so as to cause the liquid to be discharged from another discharger instead of causing the liquid to be discharged from the one discharger until a predetermined time has elapsed since determination, and controls the plurality of dischargers so that a repair operation, which repairs the discharge state of the liquid in the one discharger to normal, is caused to be executed after the predetermined time has elapsed since the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Yasuhiro HOSOKAWA, Toshiyuki SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20180001622Abstract: An inkjet printer for printing labels includes: a first interface configured to receive, from a host computer, print data for images to be printed on the labels; a second interface configured to receive, from a sequencer, a first signal indicating a timing to execute a printing operation that includes printing the images, and a second signal indicating a timing to execute a predetermined operation that cannot be executed in parallel with printing the images; and a controller configured to: render the print data received via the first interface, and execute the printing operation based on the rendered print data at a timing based on the first signal received via the second interface, and execute the predetermined operation at a timing based on the second signal received via the second interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toru TAKAMI, Hiroyuki ENDO
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Publication number: 20180001623Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus and its control method which can suppress defective ejection and wasteful ink consumption are provided. For that purpose, pigment density Nx of the ink in a circulation path is calculated, and the ink in the circulation path is discharged on the basis of the pigment density Nx.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Takatoshi Nakano, Minoru Teshigawara, Atsushi Takahashi, Takuya Fukasawa, Rinako Kameshima
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Publication number: 20180001624Abstract: A detection segment for use in a device for printing on containers includes an image-capturing device that optically detects a container feature and a sensor interface that interfaces with a sensor that uses a code provided on a retaining-and-centering unit that holds a container to determine a rotational position of that container. A computer connects to the image-capturing device and the sensor unit. The computer determines an alignment variable based on the code and the detected container feature and then forwards this alignment variable to a printer segment on a printer module.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2015Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Sascha Koers, Michael Nick, Katrin Preckel
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Publication number: 20180001625Abstract: A three-dimensional printer including a printer head, a target object holding device that rotatably holds the printing target object, a three-dimensional movement supporting device that movably supports the target object holding device, and a control device, where the control device carries out a process of setting a printing target point, which is a position where the ink is to be discharged from a nozzle, an ideal landing point and an actual landing point are calculated in the relevant process, and when positions are shifted between the ideal landing point and the actual landing point, correction corresponding to a shift amount of the position is carried out to set a printing target point.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicants: National Institute of Technology, MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki ONO, Akira TAKEUCHI, Satoshi KANEKO, Eiichi OHARA
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Publication number: 20180001626Abstract: Examples associated with drop velocity aberrancy detection are disclosed. One example includes firing ink through nozzles of a print-head past sensors to identify drop velocities of the nozzles. A target drop velocity is selected based on the drop velocities of the nozzles. An aberrant nozzles is detected when a nozzle has a drop velocity that deviates from the target drop velocity by a selected threshold. The aberrant nozzle is deactivated, and a good nozzle that will travel over locations traversed by the aberrant nozzle is configured to print portions of a job that would have been printed by the aberrant nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2015Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Mauricio Seras Franzoso, Antonio Gracia Verdugo, Marta Coma Vives
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Publication number: 20180001627Abstract: Systems and method of maintaining a uniform temperature distribution in an inkjet head. The inkjet head includes a plurality of ink channels that jet droplets of a liquid material onto a medium using piezoelectric actuators. A temperature controller includes a non-jetting pulse generator that provides non-jetting pulses to one or more of the piezoelectric actuators to generate heat. The non-jetting pulses cause the piezoelectric actuators to actuate without jetting a droplet from its corresponding ink channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Nishimura
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Publication number: 20180001628Abstract: An example provides a fluid ejection apparatus including a fluid feed slot to supply a fluid to a plurality of drop ejectors, a first rib at a first side of the fluid feed slot and supporting drop ejection circuitry to control ejection of drops of the fluid from the plurality of drop ejectors, and a second rib at a second side, opposite the first side, of the fluid feed slot supporting a thermal sensor to facilitate determination of a temperature of the first rib and the second rib.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventor: David Maxfield
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Publication number: 20180001629Abstract: A liquid ejecting method includes ejecting droplets of an oil-based ink containing an oil-based medium onto a recording medium by using an ink jet head having a plurality of nozzles under the conditions satisfying relationships (1): f×D?4800; and relationship (2): 5??Vd/??30. In the relationships (1) and (2), D represents the nozzle pitch in dpi of the ink jet head, f represents the maximum ejection frequency in kHz, V represents the velocity in m/s of droplets ejected from the ink jet head, d represents the diameter in ?m of the droplets of the oil-based ink, ? represents the density in g/cm3 of the oil-based ink, and ? represents the viscosity in mPa·s of the oil-based ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventor: Shigemi WAKABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20180001630Abstract: A liquid ejection head, including: a first head unit; a second head unit shifted with respect to the first head unit in both of a first direction in which nozzles of the head units are arranged and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and disposed so as to overlap the first head unit in the second direction; and a first wiring member having flexibility and drawn from the second head unit in the second direction toward the first head unit, wherein the first wiring member includes a large-width portion on which a drive circuit is mounted and a small-width portion having a width in the first direction smaller than a width of the large-width portion in the first direction, and wherein the small-width portion passes through a space existing next to the first head unit in the first direction and extends in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki HAYASHI, Keita SUGIURA, Taisuke MIZUNO
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Publication number: 20180001631Abstract: A liquid ejection head, including: nozzles; and a supply passage through which a liquid is supplied to the nozzles, wherein the supply passage includes (a) a first flow passage and (b) a second flow passage connected to the first flow passage and including two sections that extend in different directions from a connected position at which the first flow passage is connected to the second flow passage, the liquid being supplied to the second flow passage from the first flow passage, wherein the second flow passage has a liquid flow resistance larger in a first section than in a second section, and wherein a protrusion protruding toward the first flow passage is provided on an inner wall surface of the second flow passage facing the first flow passage, for permitting the liquid to more easily flow from the first flow passage into the first section than the second section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taisuke MIZUNO, Hideki HAYASHI, Keita SUGIURA
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Publication number: 20180001632Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a liquid discharge head substrate includes a substrate having a parallelogram shape, a plurality of liquid discharge elements disposed on the substrate, a plurality of power supply terminals disposed along a first side of the substrate, and a first wiring, having a lattice shape, connected to the plurality of power supply terminals. On the substrate, the first side and a third side form an obtuse angle, and the first side and a fourth side form an acute angle. In the plurality of power supply terminals, the number of power supply terminals at positions closer to the third side than to the fourth side is larger than the number of power supply terminals at positions closer to the fourth side than to the third side.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventor: Makoto Takagi
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Publication number: 20180001633Abstract: A printhead is provided having an elongate support having a plurality of internal webs protruding from a base section to define a plurality of parallel fluid supply channels, a shim supported by the support and defining a plurality of rows of openings through which fluid from respective supply channels is supplied, and a plurality of elongate printhead modules supported serially on the shim. Each module defines a plurality of fluid supply passages through which fluid passes to fluid ejection nozzles from respective rows of the openings. Either end of each module defines complementary formations such that adjacent modules nest together.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Kia Silverbrook, Tobin Allen King
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Publication number: 20180001634Abstract: An example provides a fluid ejection apparatus including a fluid feed slot along a length of a print head die of the fluid ejection apparatus to supply a fluid to a plurality of drop ejectors, control circuitry adjacent to at least one side of the fluid feed slot to control ejection of drops of fluid from the plurality of drop ejectors, and a single power supply connector at an end of the print head die to supply power to the control circuitry.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Adam L. Ghozeil, David Maxfield, Peter James Fricke
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Publication number: 20180001635Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a pressure chamber formation substrate provided with pressure chambers that are disposed side by side and that communicate with nozzles that discharge a liquid, a nozzle plate provided with the nozzles, and a flow path formation substrate provided between the pressure chamber formation substrate and the nozzle plate. The flow path formation substrate has a plurality of individual communication paths that supply the liquid to the pressure chambers disposed side by side, a common liquid chamber that communicates with the pressure chambers, a liquid introduction port that introduces the liquid into the common liquid chamber, and a flow path of the liquid from the liquid introduction port toward the individual communication paths.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Shingo TOMIMATSU, Yoichi NAGANUMA
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Publication number: 20180001636Abstract: In one example, a printhead structure includes an ejector element, a multi-layer insulator covering the ejector element, and an amorphous metal on the insulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2015Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Zhizhang Chen, James Elmer Abbott, JR., Michael W. Cumbie, Roberto A. Pugliese
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Publication number: 20180001637Abstract: In some examples, a piezoelectric printhead assembly can include a plurality of piezoelectric micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) dies, and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) dies electrically connected to the piezoelectric MEMS dies.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Peter J. Fricke, Andrew L. Van Brocklin
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Publication number: 20180001638Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus, including: first piezoelectric elements arranged on an element-disposed surface in a first direction; a protective cover covering the first piezoelectric elements and including a top wall portion and two side wall portions connected thereto; first wires drawn respectively from the first piezoelectric elements to an outside of the protective cover in a second direction parallel to the element-disposed surface and orthogonal to the first direction and extending on an outer surface of the top wall portion via an outer surface of a corresponding side wall portion; first terminals disposed on the outer surface of the top wall portion and connected respectively to the first wires; and a driver electrically connected to the first terminals, wherein a distance in the first direction between any adjacent two of the first wires on an outer surface of the protective cover is larger than that on the element-disposed surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Rui WANG, Yasuo KATO, Toru KAKIUCHI, Yuichi ITO
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Publication number: 20180001639Abstract: Provided are an MEMS device, a head, and a liquid jet device in which substrates are inhibited from warping, so that a primary electrode and a secondary electrode can be reliably connected to each other. Included are a primary substrate 30 provided with a bump 32 including a primary electrode 34, and a secondary substrate 10 provided with a secondary electrode 91 on a bottom surface of a recessed portion 36 formed by an adhesive layer 35. The primary substrate 10 and the secondary substrate 30 are joined together with the adhesive layer 35, the primary electrode 34 is electrically connected to the secondary electrode 91 with the bump 32 inserted into the recessed portion 36, and part of the bump 32 and the adhesive layer 35 forming the recessed portion 36 overlap each other in a direction in which the bump 32 is inserted into the recessed portion 36.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2016Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventor: Shuichi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20180001640Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a piezoelectric package integrated jet device. In one example, the jet device includes a vibrating membrane positioned between first and second cavities of an organic substrate, a piezoelectric material coupled to the vibrating membrane which acts as a first electrode, and a second electrode in contact with the piezoelectric material. The vibrating membrane generates fluid flow through an orifice in response to application of an electrical signal between the first and second electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2016Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Feras EID, Shawna M. LIFF, Sasha N. OSTER, Thomas L. SOUNART, Georgios C. DOGIAMIS, Adel A. ELSHERBINI, Johanna M. SWAN
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Publication number: 20180001641Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a pressure chamber substrate on which a plurality of spaces as pressure chambers are formed along a first direction; a nozzle substrate on which a plurality of nozzles which eject liquid are formed by corresponding to the pressure chamber; and a flow path substrate on which a plurality of communicating holes which communicate with the nozzle and the pressure chamber which corresponds to the nozzle are formed between the pressure chamber substrate and the nozzle substrate, in which both ends of each pressure chamber in a second direction are formed by being aligned at a predetermined position in the second direction, the nozzles which are adjacent in the first direction are formed so that positions thereof in the second direction are different, and the communicating holes which are adjacent in the first direction are formed so that positions in the second direction are different.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2015Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventor: Shunya FUKUDA
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Publication number: 20180001642Abstract: In some examples, a print cartridge includes a monolithic molding, and a printhead die embedded into a molding. The printhead die has a front surface exposed outside the molding to dispense fluid drops through nozzles and an opposing back surface covered by the molding except at a channel in the molding through which fluid is to pass directly to the back surface. The printhead die also has a nozzle health sensor molded into the molding to detect defective nozzles in the printhead die.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Chien-Hua Chen, Michael W. Cumbie, Brett E. Dahlgren
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Publication number: 20180001643Abstract: An aqueous ink set for ink jet recording includes an aqueous pigment ink containing water and a pigment as a coloring agent and an aqueous dye ink containing water and a dye as a coloring agent, in which the concentration of the divalent metal ions of the pigment ink is 10 ppm or more, and the potassium ion concentration of the dye ink is 50 ppm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Shintaro HAMA, Ryosuke TERAMOTO, Yuho MIYAKE, Tetsuya AOYAMA
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Publication number: 20180001644Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes a recording head having a nozzle arrangement region in which a plurality of nozzles for discharging ink is arranged, and a cleaning unit configured to perform cleaning operation on the recording head. A control unit is configured to control the cleaning unit and a change operation for changing relative position relation between a region where the record medium passes and the nozzle arrangement region. The control unit acquires end passage positions in a first recording operation before the change operation is performed, and a passage region in a second recording operation after the change operation is performed. The control unit performs control for executing the cleaning operation in a case where the end passage position is included in the passage region.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Susumu Hirosawa, Minoru Teshigawara, Atsushi Sakamoto, Yoshiaki Murayama, Takatoshi Nakano, Takahide Takeishi
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Publication number: 20180001645Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head which ejects liquid from a nozzle that is disposed on a nozzle surface, a wiping member with a lengthwise shape that is able to contact the nozzle surface, a contact portion which is able to contact the opposite side from a side at which the wiping member contacts the nozzle surface, and a transport mechanism which transports the wiping member, in which the contact portion has a first contact portion which is separated from the wiping member when the wiping member is transported by the transport mechanism and which contacts the wiping member when the wiping member is caused to contact the nozzle surface, and a second contact portion which contacts the wiping member when the wiping member is transported by the transport mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Kazuyuki Fujioka, Ryoji Fujimori
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Publication number: 20180001646Abstract: A cartridge servicing case for servicing a fluid jet cartridge carrying a composition includes a case body having a pocket that is sized to receive the fluid jet cartridge. A moveable cartridge servicing member is moveable relative to the case body. The moveable cartridge servicing member includes at least one of a wiping element and a capping element carried by the moveable cartridge servicing member. The pocket is arranged and configured to expose nozzles of the fluid jet cartridge received by the pocket to the moveable cartridge servicing member for a servicing operation using the at least one of the wiping element and capping element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Paul John Edward VERNON, Thomas Elliot RABE, Grant Edward Anders STRIEMER, Janette Villalobos LINGOES
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Publication number: 20180001647Abstract: A discharger is configured to discharge liquid in a liquid channel to outside the liquid channel The liquid is at least one of first liquid and second liquid different from the first liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventor: Toshiro Ueda
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Publication number: 20180001648Abstract: In one example, an aerosol control system for a printer includes an air knife to discharge a sheet of air into a flow of aerosol along a moving print substrate web and a vacuum near the air knife to suck up aerosol from the flow simultaneously with the air knife discharging air into the flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2015Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: James Kearns, Joe Santich
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Publication number: 20180001649Abstract: A supply apparatus includes: a tank in which a liquid supply section is formed, the liquid supply section having a liquid storage chamber, an inlet for supplying liquid to the liquid storage chamber, and a liquid flow path, the liquid storage chamber being demarcated by first surfaces facing in a first direction, a second surface joining the first surfaces, and a third surface separated from the second surface in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; a holding member holding a part of the tank from one side in the second direction; a coupling member having a coupling section coupled to the liquid supply section of the tank from another side in the second direction to allow flow of the liquid; and a casing supporting at least one of the holding member and the coupling member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshinori OSAKABE, Masako KAWAGOE, Taichi SHIRONO, Kenichi HIRATA, Hiroshi TAIRA
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Publication number: 20180001650Abstract: A liquid supplying mechanism includes: a tank including a liquid storage section configured to store a liquid, and a liquid injection port configured to inject the liquid into the liquid storage section; and a bottle configured to replenish the liquid into the tank. The bottle includes: a bottle section configured to store the liquid; and a protruding section, which protrudes from the bottle section, and is insertable into the liquid injection port so as to inject, into the liquid storage section, the liquid stored in the bottle section. The liquid injection port includes: a protruding section insertion portion into which the protruding section of the bottle is insertable; and a protruding section fixing portion, which is engageable with the protruding section of the bottle, to thereby be capable of fixing the bottle to the tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Takeho Miyashita, Ryo Shimamura, Akira Shiba, Kazuya Yoshii, Norihiro Ikebe, Tomoki Yamamuro, Atsushi Arai, Masatoshi Ohira, Tatsuaki Orihara, Hirofumi Okuhara, Kazumasa Matsushita, Misato Furuya