Patents Issued in March 20, 2018
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Patent number: 9919499Abstract: Frame supported panels with an increased load carrying capacity derived from inducing newly discovered conditions on panels made from weaker, lighter and thinner materials. The fixed/continuous/dropped condition can increase a panel's load capacity many times based on the panel's interaction with frame members. This enables foam panels, for example, to be used in structural applications. It also enables polyurethane foam with any cladding to provide a comprehensive, structural building panel that provides a finished exterior, continuous and cavity insulation, an air, moisture and vapor barrier and increased uplift resistance while eliminating condensation and thermal expansion/contraction.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Inventor: Kenneth Robert Kreizinger
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Patent number: 9919500Abstract: An inner bypass duct of a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of non-structural front panels arranged circumferentially. Each front panel has an outer surface and an inner surface. The inner surface is at least partially covered by a composite structure. The composite structure includes a fireproof layer and an acoustic layer disposed between the fireproof layer and the inner surface. A non-structural panel for an inner bypass duct and a method of forming such panel are also presented.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Ljubisa Vrljes, Kin-Leung Cheung, Mathieu Poulin, Michael Haddock
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Patent number: 9919501Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cleaning member includes a fiber bundle conveying step conveying a fiber bundle to a merging section, a nonwoven fabric conveying step conveying the nonwoven fabric strips to the merging section; a multilayer web forming step forming a multilayer web by overlaying the fiber bundle on the nonwoven fiber strips at the merging part; and a joining step joining the fiber bundle and the nonwoven fabric strips to each other in the multilayer web. In the fiber bundle conveying step, the fiber bundle is conveyed at a tension at which there is no width shrinkage in the fiber bundle, and in the multilayer web forming step, the multilayer web is formed by overlaying the fiber bundle on the nonwoven strips while applying a tension that does not cause width shrinkage in the fiber bundle.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Matsumoto, Shigetomo Takahashi, Yuji Yamashita, Hiroaki Goto
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Patent number: 9919502Abstract: A method for preparing a surface of a substrate for bonding a material to the surface. The apparatus employed includes one or more optical amplification devices (OAD), one or more drivers, the substrate and a base. The one or more OAD and/or the substrate are moveably coupled to the one or more drivers. The one or more OAD is activated to emit a beam of energy. The one or more OAD and/or the substrate move relative to one another while the one or more OAD is activated. The movement of the one or more OAD and/or the substrate relative to one another forms (via the beam of energy) a pattern on the surface of the substrate. The pattern formed on the surface of the substrate allows the material to bond with a greater degree of adhesion.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Schaublin SAInventor: Louis Bourgois
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Patent number: 9919503Abstract: The present disclosure relates to extrusion coating systems, extrusion coated substrates, and processes for making the same. In some aspects, extrusion coating systems as described herein may include an at least partially insulated outlet wall, which may facilitate production of coated substrates exhibiting a very desirable surface texture and appearance. Coated substrates of the present invention may be utilized in a variety of end applications, including, but not limited to, interior and exterior construction materials for homes, buildings, and furniture.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Tony Wayne Helton, Steven Lee Stafford, Aaron Grills, Subramanian Easwaran Iyer
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Patent number: 9919504Abstract: A device for welding the bottom flange of a stiffener on the side of a skin. The stiffener and the skin are made of a composite comprising a thermoplastic polymer matrix. The device comprises a punch, an anvil and a press to make a clamping between the punch and the anvil. The punch comprises a part forming a pressure table with a cross-section width less than or equal to the width of the stiffener bottom flange and a heating element with width less than the width of the pressure table. The anvil comprises a cooling component and has a cross-section width smaller than the width of the skin. A method for implementing the device.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: DAHER AEROSPACEInventors: Didier Kurtz, Julie Vaudour
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Patent number: 9919505Abstract: In one or more aspects of the present disclosure, a mandrel is disclosed. The mandrel having a shape memory alloy (SMA) shell having a longitudinal axis, an interior extending along the longitudinal axis and an exterior contour, the SMA shell being configured to interface with a structure to be cured, and at least one SMA actuation member disposed within the interior and connected to the SMA shell, where the at least one SMA actuation member is configured to exert pressure against the SMA shell effecting an interface pressure between the exterior contour of the SMA shell and the structure to be cured where the exterior contour has a predetermined actuated shape that corresponds to a predetermined cured shape of the structure to be cured.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Moushumi Shome, Sahrudine Apdalhaliem, Frederick T. Calkins, Waeil M. Ashmawi, Kimberly Meredith
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Patent number: 9919506Abstract: The invention relates to a floor covering adhesive composition, based on an aqueous, emulsifier-stabilized polymer dispersion of vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer, containing A) tackifying resin, B) one or more fillers, and C) a vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer in the form of an emulsifier-stabilized aqueous dispersion, characterized in that the vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer is obtained by radical-initiated emulsion polymerization in an aqueous medium, of a) 60 to 89.9% by weight of vinyl acetate, b) 10 to 36% by weight of ethylene, c) 0 to 2% by weight of one or more monomers selected from the group of vinyl esters of carboxylic acids having 8 to 12 C atoms and acrylic acid alkyl esters having a C1 to C8 alkyl radical, d) 0.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Wacker Chemie AGInventors: Florian Bauers, Stephan Kaiser
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Patent number: 9919507Abstract: A composite structure comprises stacked sets of laminated fiber reinforced resin plies and metal sheets. Edges of the resin plies and metal sheets are interleaved to form a composite-to-metal joint connecting the resin plies with the metal sheets.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Gary Ernest Georgeson, Kenneth Harlan Griess
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Patent number: 9919508Abstract: A substrate aligning apparatus comprising: an aligning section that aligns a first substrate and a second substrate together; an acquiring section that acquires positional information on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, by the time the first substrate and the second substrate which have been aligned in the aligning section are carried out from the aligning section; a judging that judges misalignment of the first substrate and the second substrate, based on information acquired by the acquiring section.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuya Okamoto, Isao Sugaya
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Patent number: 9919509Abstract: A peeling device for peeling off a substrate to be processed and a support substrate from an overlapped substrate, the overlapped substrate being formed by bonding the substrate to be processed and the support substrate by an adhesive, which includes: a first holding unit configured to heat the substrate to be processed and configured to hold the substrate to be processed; a second holding unit configured to heat the support substrate and configured to hold the support substrate; a moving mechanism configured to horizontally move at least one of the first holding unit and the second holding unit relative to each other; and an inert gas supply mechanism configured to supply an inert gas onto a bonding surface of the substrate to be processed or a bonding surface of the support substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignees: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED, INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Hirakawa, Naoto Yoshitaka, Masaru Honda, Xavier Francois Brun, Charles Wayne Singleton, Jr.
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Patent number: 9919510Abstract: A nozzle deposits a filament of viscous, molten glass onto a print bed, while the print bed rotates about a vertical axis and translates in x, y, and z directions. The deposition is computer controlled, such that the resulting deposited filament forms a desired glass object that is solid after it anneals. One or more motors rotate the print bed such that the direction of deposition of the molten glass is constant relative to the nozzle, even though the print bed is translating in different directions relative to the nozzle. Keeping the direction of deposition constant relative to the nozzle tends to prevent the extruded filament of molten glass from experiencing large, changing, tensile and shear forces that would otherwise occur and that would otherwise damage the filament.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Chikara Inamura, Daniel Lizardo, Michael Stern, Peter Houk, Tal Achituv, Neri Oxman
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Patent number: 9919511Abstract: A stencil printer includes a stencil, a material applicator to apply material on the stencil, and a stencil wiper assembly to selectively wipe the stencil. The stencil wiper assembly includes has a quick-change material module having a supply roller to receive a roll of material, a take-up roller to receive used material, a drive to move the material across the stencil from the supply roller to the take-up roller, and a controllable tension device configured to vary a tension of the material when driving the material from the supply roller to the take-up roller.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Kenneth King, Thomas C. Prentice, Patsy A. Mattero, William A. Losiewicz, James Lynch
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Patent number: 9919512Abstract: The invention provides a method of marking an item with naturally-derived or synthetic non-natural polymeric marker molecules, such as a DNA or Peptide marker in conjunction with optional visible or rapid scan reporters for authenticating or tracking, in which the method includes providing an item for marking, and applying a medium including a DNA marker to the item. The invention further provides methods for stably binding and immobilizing activated deoxyribonucleic acid onto objects and substrates. The method includes exposing the deoxyribonucleic acid to alkaline conditions, and contacting the deoxyribonucleic acid to the object or substrate. Also provided are methods for increasing the recoverability of taggants from an object.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: APDN (B.V.I.) INC.Inventors: Lawrence Jung, James A. Hayward, MingHwa Benjamin Liang, Abdelkrim Berrada
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Patent number: 9919513Abstract: A circulating feeding printer combining screen printing and digital ink jetting, includes a rack. The rack includes an upper rack layer and a lower rack layer, and the two layers are respectively provided with a transmission platen capable of moving relative to the rack. Each transmission platen is provided with a movable printing platen bearing a print medium capable of sliding relative to the transmission platen, a locking device locking the movable printing platen, and the transmission platen is arranged between them. The platen transfer devices capable of transferring the movable printing platen onto the transmission platen at the different layer are disposed on the rack, separately located at two sides of the transmission platens. The rack is further provided with a screen printer and an inkjet printer used for printing separately.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: TAOTECH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Tao He
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Patent number: 9919514Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a head unit that has a nozzle array in which a plurality of nozzles are arranged, that discharges a liquid from each of the plurality of nozzles, and that causes liquid columns to extend downwardly; a liquid droplet generating unit that irradiates at least the two liquid columns with a laser beam in a direction obliquely intersecting with the arrangement direction when viewed from the center of the nozzle array and that separates liquid droplets from the liquid column; and a direction changing unit that applies energy to the liquid droplets and changes flying directions of the liquid droplets.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Keigo Sugai
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Patent number: 9919515Abstract: A printing system capable of accurately positioning a lenticular array in registration with a rectilinear raster includes a printer that is capable of printing onto a printable surface. The printer has a main support surface on which the printable surface rests. The system further includes a series of raised parallel relief features being spatially formed along a printable substrate that is supported by the main support surface. The raised parallel relief features are raised to a sufficient height above the printable substrate such that when the lenticular array is disposed upon the raised parallel relief features, each raised parallel relief feature fits and is disposed within a valley formed between two respective adjoining lenticules of the lenticular array.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: TRACER IMAGING LLCInventors: Stephen S. Daniell, Steven M. Spiro, Daniel L. Lau
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Patent number: 9919516Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting head including: a plurality of actuator units, each including a connection terminal row; an interconnection substrate which is disposed to face the plurality of actuator units, is electrically connected to the connection terminal row of each of the plurality of actuator units, and extends in a second direction intersecting a first direction that is a transporting direction of a recording sheet; an external connection terminal row which is provided to the interconnection substrate; and a plurality of liquid flow passages which supply a liquid to each of the plurality of actuator units. The plurality of liquid flow passages are arranged on an outer side of the interconnection substrate in the first direction, and the external connection terminal row is arranged between the plurality of liquid flow passages in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yoichiro Kondo
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Patent number: 9919517Abstract: Addressing an EPROM on a printhead is described. In an example, a printhead includes an electronically programmable read-only memory (EPROM) having a plurality of cells arranged in rows and columns, each of the cells having a addressing port, a row select port, and a column select port. A conductor is coupled to the addressing portion of each of the plurality of cells. A column shift register is coupled to the column select ports of the plurality of cells, the column shift register having a register location for each column of the plurality of cells and having an input to receive a first input signal. A row shift register is coupled to row select ports of the plurality of cells, the row shift register having a register location for each row of the plurality of cells and having an input to receive a second input signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Ning Ge, Leong Yap Chia, Wai Mun Wong
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Patent number: 9919518Abstract: A printing element substrate includes a plurality of printing elements, a first transistor forming an electrical pathway common to the plurality of printing elements, and a plurality of second transistors for driving the plurality of printing elements independently of each other. An electrical pathway is formed between a first power node and a second power node in the order of the first transistor, one of the plurality of printing elements, and one of the plurality of second transistors. The electrical pathway connecting each of the plurality of printing elements and the first transistor includes a plurality of electrical paths.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takaaki Yamaguchi, Yosuke Miura, Chiaki Muraoka, Yasushi Nakano
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Patent number: 9919519Abstract: A printhead including a fluid slot area in which a plurality of fluid slots are formed and a temperature sensing member, heating element or temperature sensing resistor including an edge portion and an inner portion. The edge portion extends along at least a part of an edge of the fluid slot area and the inner portion is connected to the edge portion and extends in-between two adjacent fluid slots.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Ning Ge
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Patent number: 9919520Abstract: An ink jet recording method according to the invention includes: ejecting droplets of non-water-based ink, which contains an organic solvent, a color material, and resin, from nozzles of a recording head and causing the droplets to adhere to a recording medium to form an image; and preliminarily ejecting the droplets of the non-water-based-ink from the nozzles of the recording head not for forming the image. In the preliminary ejecting of the droplets, a time interval at which the preliminary ejecting is performed by a predetermined nozzle is equal to or greater than two seconds and equal to or less than twenty five seconds. The organic solvent contains a first solvent which is at least one kind selected from a hydrocarbon-based solvent, an alcohol-based solvent, and an ester-based solvent. Content of the first solvent is equal to or greater than 40% by mass with respect to entire content of the non-water-based ink.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Nagase, Akihito Sao, Kenichiro Kubota, Jun Ito, Naoki Koike
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Patent number: 9919521Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a liquid ejection substrate and a liquid reservoir. The liquid ejection substrate includes a plurality of liquid ejection sections. The liquid ejection sections include pressure chambers configured to hold liquid and ejection ports communicating with the pressure chambers. The pressure chambers each include a pressure unit configured to apply pressure to the liquid in each of the pressure chambers. The pressed liquid is ejected through the ejection ports. The liquid reservoir is in contact with a back of the liquid ejection substrate opposite to the ejection ports. The liquid reservoir is partitioned into at least one common liquid channel and a first common liquid chamber. The common liquid channel communicates with one of inlets and outlets of the plurality of pressure chambers. The first common liquid chamber communicates with another of the inlets and the outlets.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yohei Nakamura, Yasuyuki Tamura
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Patent number: 9919522Abstract: A MEMS device includes a first substrate and a second substrate that is disposed laminated on the first substrate and has a piezoelectric element on the first substrate side, in which the first substrate and the second substrate are substantially the same size, and in planar view, an end of the first substrate and an end of the second substrate are disposed at substantially the same position.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoichi Naganuma, Eiju Hirai, Toshiaki Hamaguchi, Motoki Takabe
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Patent number: 9919523Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes an actuator substrate that includes a plurality of piezoelectric element rows having a plurality of piezoelectric elements, and a wiring substrate that is disposed so as to face the actuator substrate. The piezoelectric element rows include a plurality of individual electrodes disposed for each of the piezoelectric elements, and a common electrodes common to the plurality of piezoelectric elements. The wiring substrate includes a core portion disposed on a surface on the actuator substrate side, an individual wiring portion that partially covers the core portion, a common wiring portion that partially covers the core portion, and an auxiliary wiring disposed in a groove portion disposed on a first principal surface on the side opposite to the actuator substrate or on a second principal surface on the actuator substrate side. The auxiliary wiring is electrically connected to the common wiring portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Eiju Hirai, Motoki Takabe, Katsutomo Tsukahara, Yoichi Naganuma, Munehide Saimen
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Patent number: 9919524Abstract: In an embodiment, a printhead includes a printhead die molded into a molding. The die has a front surface exposed outside the molding to dispense fluid and an opposing back surface covered by the molding except at a channel in the molding through which fluid may pass directly to the back surface. The die has a first bond pad on the front surface surrounded by a first dam to prevent the molding from contacting the first bond pad.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Chien-Hua Chen, Michael W. Cumbie, Devin A. Mourey
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Patent number: 9919525Abstract: In an example, a fluid ejection apparatus includes a printhead die embedded in a printed circuit board. Fluid may flow to the printhead die through a plunge-cut fluid feed slot in the printed circuit board and into the printhead die.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Chien-Hua Chen, Michael W. Cumbie
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Patent number: 9919526Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid discharge head includes a transferring step of transferring a dry film supported by a supporting member to a substrate having a hole, and a peeling step of peeling the supporting member off the dry film on the substrate. In the peeling step, the dry film is in contact with a wall surface defining the hole in the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Asai, Kenji Fujii, Keiji Matsumoto, Koji Sasaki, Kunihito Uohashi, Jun Yamamuro, Seiichiro Yaginuma, Masahisa Watanabe, Ryotaro Murakami
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Patent number: 9919527Abstract: A liquid jet head manufacturing method, a method for integrally manufacturing a liquid jet apparatus, a liquid jet head, a printing apparatus and a liquid jet apparatus. The manufacturing method includes: forming multiple pressure-generating members arranged spaced apart on a first substrate; forming, on a first surface of first substrate, pressure chambers corresponding to multiple pressure-generating members, and a common chamber in communication with multiple pressure chambers; forming a transition layer on pressure chambers, and forming a jet orifice plate on transition layer; and forming, on jet orifice plate and transition layer, jet orifices in communication with pressure chambers.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignees: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, ZHUHAI SEINE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Helin Zou, Jingzhi He, Yue Li, Xiaokun Chen
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Patent number: 9919528Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a pressure chamber formation substrate having a pressure chamber formed therein, a flow path formation substrate that is connected to the pressure chamber formation substrate, and that has a flow path in communication with the pressure chamber formed in a state penetrating through the flow path formation substrate in a thickness direction thereof, and a nozzle plate that is connected to the flow path formation substrate on an opposite side to the pressure chamber formation substrate, and that has a nozzle in communication with the flow path opened therein. The flow path formation substrate is configured from a single substrate, and an opening area on a pressure chamber side of the flow path is formed wider than an opening area on a nozzle side of the flow path.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Motoki Takabe, Yasuyuki Matsumoto, Shunya Fukuda, Koji Asada, Daisuke Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9919529Abstract: Provided is a cap unit that can prevent or suppress collision between the drive gear and intermittent gear when the drive gear and intermittent gear begin to mesh. A cap unit 25 has a moving mechanism 28 that moves a cap 26. The moving mechanism 28 has an intermittent cam gear 36 with a cam channel 43; a drive gear 35; and a cap holder 45. The cap holder 45 includes a holding member 48 that holds the cap 26; a cam follower pin 49; a pin support mechanism 50 that supports the cam follower pin 49; and a coil spring 51 that urges the cam follower pin 49 toward the bottom 43a of the cam channel 43. A slope 57 is disposed to the bottom 43a of the cam channel 43. The cam follower pin 49 is on the slope 57 when meshing of the intermittent cam gear 36 and drive gear 35 is disengaged, and the intermittent cam gear 36 turns in conjunction with the cam follower pin 49 moving on the slope 57 due to the urging force of the coil spring 51.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kazushi Arafuka
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Patent number: 9919530Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport belt, a print head, a static eliminating section, and a wiping section. The transport belt electrostatically adsorbs a medium on an outer surface thereof and transports the medium in a transport direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Mizushima, Satoshi Chiba, Yoshikazu Koike
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Patent number: 9919531Abstract: Provided are a nozzle wiping sheet, a nozzle wiping unit, and an image forming apparatus capable of preventing occurrence of streaks during printing immediately after maintenance. A wiping member (120) wipes a nozzle surface (57K) of a jetting head (56K) provided with a nozzle through which liquid droplets are jetted, in which a shape of the liquid droplet added dropwise to the wiping member (120) after a cleaning liquid (108) is added to the wiping member (120) satisfies the following condition when an aspect ratio of the liquid droplet after 40 seconds after the addition of the cleaning liquid (108) is assumed to be R, and the R is 1.3 or more.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Mataki, Jun Yamanobe, Hiroshi Inoue
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Patent number: 9919532Abstract: An inkjet head cleaning apparatus 1 that moves an inkjet head 10 from a printing position P1 to a cleaning position P2 to perform cleaning, the inkjet head cleaning apparatus 1 comprising a conveying means 20 for conveying the inkjet head 10 between the printing position P1 and the cleaning position P2 and a cleaning means 30 for cleaning a discharge surface 12 of the inkjet head 10 conveyed to the cleaning position P1, wherein the conveying means 20 changes the orientation of the inkjet head 10 such that the orientation of the discharge surface 12 of the inkjet head 10 is different in the printing position P1 and in the cleaning position P2.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: QUALICAPS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Seo, Yoshihisa Konishi, Tetsuhisa Ishida, Motohiro Yagyu
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Patent number: 9919533Abstract: A liquid droplet forming apparatus includes a liquid retention unit configured to retain particle suspension liquid in which precipitated particles are suspended; a membrane member, in which a nozzle is formed, configured to discharge the particle suspension liquid retained in the liquid retention unit, as a liquid droplet, by vibration from the nozzle; and a particle state detection unit configured to detect, from a side of the liquid retention unit, a particle state of the precipitated particle around the nozzle in the particle suspension liquid.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Manabu Seo, Satoshi Nakazawa, Yuzuru Kuramochi, Daisuke Takagi, Takahiko Matsumoto
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Patent number: 9919534Abstract: A consumable supply item for an imaging device holds an initial or refillable volume of ink. A housing defines an interior having a pair of opposed electrodes. The electrodes have a capacitance that varies in response to an amount of liquid between them. A controller energizes one electrode and receives an output reading from the other. The controller processes the reading on board the housing and supplies it as a digital data stream to the imaging device during use. A memory stores calibration values for an empty and full housing. The controller writes back to the memory present fluid levels obtained from the output reading of the electrode. An enable output allows operation or not of a fluid pump in the imaging device. Materials, construction, modularity, and fluid communication ports are further embodiments, to name a few.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Marvin Nicholson, Jason McReynolds, Robert Muyskens, Mark Doerre, Ricky A. Robbins, David Ward
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Patent number: 9919535Abstract: There is provided a liquid consuming apparatus including a casing, a liquid consuming section, and a tank. The tank includes a box-shaped body having a light-transmitting property and having five walls and a partition wall; a film adhered to rear end portions of the walls; and a positioning section disposed at least on an outer surface of each of the upper and lower walls, or of each of the right and left walls. In a state that the liquid consuming apparatus is placed on a horizontal plane, the box-shaped body is positioned at a posture at which the positioning section is brought into contact with the casing to thereby allow the front wall to be exposed from a side surface of the casing which extends in a direction crossing the horizontal plane, and at which the rear end portions are located inside the casing.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akinori Igarashi
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Patent number: 9919536Abstract: A liquid container is enabled to contain a liquid therein. An outer wall of the liquid container has a first surface, a second and a third surfaces are adjacent to the first surface, and the second surface and the third surface face each other. The first surface has a space in which a storage element storing the information on the liquid container is contained. The first surface and the second surface have a first recessed portion that crosses a boundary between the first surface and the second surface, and the first surface and the third surface have a second recessed portion that crosses a boundary between the first surface and the third surface. The first recessed portion and the second recessed portion face each other across the space.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeho Miyashita, Yasuo Kotaki, Tetsuya Ohashi, Hiroki Hayashi, Manabu Ohara
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Patent number: 9919537Abstract: A method of manufacturing a pattern includes providing a pattern of a first liquid and a movement-restraining liquid on a medium, the movement-restraining liquid configured to restrain the first liquid from moving on the medium, applying a powder material to the pattern, and removing the powder material not adhering to the pattern to form a pattern of the powder material.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroshi Taniuchi
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Patent number: 9919538Abstract: A corrugated-board machine for manufacturing corrugated board comprises a material-web output device for outputting a material web, a conveying device for conveying the material web along a material-web conveying path, a printing device disposed downstream of the material-web output device for producing at least one printed region on the material web, a printed-region drying arrangement disposed downstream of the printing device for drying the at least one printed region and a connecting device disposed downstream of the printed-region drying arrangement for the connection of the printed material web to at least one further material web in order to produce a printed corrugated-board web laminated on at least one side. A start of drying of the at least one printed region applied to the material web is influenceable by the printed-region drying arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: BHS Corrugated Maschinen-und Anlagenbau GmbHInventors: Maximilian Mark, Gerhard Grünwald
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Patent number: 9919539Abstract: A printing apparatus that prints an image while forming a layered body, which has a layered structure in which a plurality of ink layers formed by applying a photocurable ink is layered and at least a portion of the plurality of ink layers is an image layer, on a printing medium, is provided with a first ink layer forming section that coats a printing medium with a first photocurable ink that configures a lowermost layer of the plurality of ink layers to form the lowermost layer, and causes the lowermost layer to be cured while irradiating the lowermost layer with light after at least three seconds elapse; and a second ink layer forming section that applies an ink layer other than the lowermost layer after the first photocurable ink is cured.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Keigo Sugai, Masahisa Otake
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Patent number: 9919540Abstract: A media processing device includes a cavity configured to receive a supply of media; a media exit; a fixed media guide configured to guide the media along a media feed path from the cavity to the media exit; a platen roller configured to move the media along the media feed path from the supply toward the media exit; and a movable media guide extending laterally across the media feed path at a position between the platen roller and the cavity. The movable media guide is biased toward the media feed path and is configured to apply a force to the media. The movable media guide is convexly curved toward the media feed path.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: ZIH Corp.Inventors: Randal Wong Mun Hon, Petrica Dorinel Balcan, Kuan-Ying Lu, Lawrence E. Smolenski, David L. Garbe
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Patent number: 9919541Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus (printing device) includes a support section that supports a medium, a discharge section that discharges a liquid onto the medium that is supported by the support section, a holding section (carriage) that holds the discharge section, and a pressing section (rollers) that can change the position to a first position for pressing the medium against the support section or to a second position for releasing the medium. The pressing section is placed within an area between the holding section and the support section at the first position, and is placed outside the area between the holding section and the support section at the second position.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takayuki Tamaki, Hideyuki Kataoka
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Patent number: 9919542Abstract: A cutting device includes a cutting blade, a receiving block, a motor, a cutting blade movement mechanism, and a receiving block movement mechanism. The cutting blade includes a blade portion. The receiving block includes a contact surface including a first contact surface and a second contact surface. The motor is configured to rotate. The cutting blade movement mechanism supports the cutting blade and is configured to move the cutting blade between a separated position and a contact position in concert with a rotation of the motor. The receiving block movement mechanism is configured to move the receiving block from a first opposed position to a second opposed position in concert with the rotation of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasutoshi Kano, Kohei Takahashi
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Patent number: 9919543Abstract: The apparatus includes a cleaning section that includes a cleaning material for cleaning a transportation belt, which transports a recording target medium, by contact with the transportation belt. The cleaning section is capable of switching between a contact state, in which the cleaning material is in contact with the transportation belt, and a non-contact state, in which the cleaning material is not in contact with the transportation belt. The cleaning section is capable of performing renewal operation. The renewal operation is operation of renewing a contact region of the cleaning material, that is, a region of contact with the transportation belt, from a region that has already been used to a region that has not been used yet.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kazunori Mori
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Patent number: 9919544Abstract: A tape printing device includes a print unit having a print head, a cartridge loading section which is loaded with a tape cartridge accommodating a print tape, and a device case in which the cartridge loading section and the print unit are arranged and which has a tape discharge port through which the print tape is discharged. The tape cartridge has a first display section which is provided on a first surface of the tape cartridge and which displays a type of the print tape. A first opening is formed on a first outer surface of the device case where the tape discharge port is formed, and the first opening is formed in such a way that the first display section of the tape cartridge is visible.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tetsu Nakayama, Haruki Sugawara, Tomoyuki Kubota, Daisuke Sato, Saeko Inoue
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Patent number: 9919545Abstract: A printer is configured such that a low position face is formed in an upper portion of a frame that forms a skeleton of an apparatus body thereof, and a panel unit that provides a user with a function of operating the printer and a function of displaying various items is disposed in a state of being embedded in the low position face. This configuration enables the height-direction size (the z-axis direction size) of the printer to be suppressed to a size smaller than the size resulting from independently adding the height-direction size of the frame to the height-direction size of the panel unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Naoki Sakamoto
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Patent number: 9919546Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes: a first head unit; a second head unit disposed adjacent to the first head unit in a first direction and located on a first side of the first head unit in a second direction; and a heat uniforming unit shared by the first head unit and the second head unit. Each of the first head unit and the second head unit includes: a unit body including an actuator; and a first driver integrated circuit disposed on the first side of the unit body in the second direction. The heat uniforming unit includes a first heat uniforming member disposed on the first side of the first head unit and the second head unit in the second direction. The first heat uniforming member includes a first protrusion located next to the second head unit in the first direction and protruding toward the first head unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keita Sugiura, Masayuki Takata, Hideki Hayashi
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Patent number: 9919547Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mobile printer freefall detection and protection mechanism. Printers may be subject to vibration or free fall during printing. This is more likely to happen for a mobile printer. In such cases, the printing performance will be adversely affected a lot or a thermal printhead (TPH) in the printer could be damaged. This disclosure describes a system and method of solving this problem by measuring the G-forces at using at least one sensor to determine if it is safe to start operation again.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Datamax-O'Neil CorporationInventors: Fong Yin Lau, Yong Chiap Cheng, Zhiyong Liu
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Patent number: 9919548Abstract: A method of slicing and printing multi-color 3D object is provided. The method includes following steps of: loading a coordinate information and a color information of a multi-color 3D object; executing a slicing process to generate a plurality of object printing slices and a plurality of object images; generating a plurality of pollution-blocking printing slices and making each pollution-blocking printing slice partially overlap an edge of the same-layer object printing slice; controlling a modeling nozzle of a multi-color 3D printer to print the object printing slices layer by layer, printing each pollution-blocking printing slice partially overlapping the same-layer object printing slice after the same-layer object printing slice is printed, and controlling a coloring nozzle of the multi-color 3D printer to color each of printed object printing slice after the same-layer pollution-blocking printing slice is printed.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignees: XYZPRINTING, INC., KINPO ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Kuo-Yen Yuan, Bo-Yi Wu