Patents Issued in October 9, 2018
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Patent number: 10093070Abstract: A dunnage-producing system includes a dunnage conversion machine for converting a stock material into a relatively less dense dunnage product, a supply of stock material, and a guide element. The conversion machine is rotatable about a substantially vertical axis. The supply of stock material includes a support for the stock material that is movable relative to the conversion machine, such as for replenishing the stock material. The guide element is rotatable with the conversion machine to maintain a consistent position relative to the conversion machine, thereby consistently positioning the support relative to the conversion machine to avoid tearing or jamming problems associated with an improperly aligned supply of sheet stock material.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: RANPAK CORP.Inventors: Edward W. Lintala, Carrie Schlegel
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Patent number: 10093071Abstract: A recording-medium binding device includes a first tooth row that includes teeth arranged in a tooth arrangement direction and a second tooth row that includes teeth, that is to be engaged with the first tooth row, and that cooperates with the first tooth row to bind recording media by pinching a batch of the recording media. In the tooth arrangement direction, the first and the second tooth rows have first and second ranges. In the first range, an engaging height is a first engaging height, and a width of an effective tooth top is a first effective tooth top width. In the second range, the engaging height is a second engaging height that is smaller than the first engaging height, and a width of an effective tooth top is a second effective tooth top width that is larger than the first effective tooth top width.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuya Makita, Hiroaki Awano, Yoshinori Nakano, Kojiro Tsutsumi, Katsumi Harada, Toshiyasu Yukawa, Junichi Hirota, Yasuhiro Kusumoto, Hiroshi Hagiwara, Emiko Shiraishi
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Patent number: 10093072Abstract: Graphene reinforced materials and related methods of manufacture are provided. The graphene reinforced materials include graphene sheet or scroll, graphene-polymer sheet or scroll, and graphene-carbon sheet or scroll, each having material properties that are attractive across a broad range of applications and industries. The graphene reinforced materials generally include monolayer or multilayer graphene that is synthesized by annealing a catalyst substrate within a CVD chamber, introducing a hydrocarbon gas as a carbon source with the CVD chamber to form a layer of graphene on the catalyst substrate, detaching the catalyst substrate from the layer of graphene, and rolling the layer of graphene onto itself to form a scroll, optionally with the addition of a polymer layer or carbonized layer on the graphene layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLCInventors: Ivan V. Vlassiouk, Ilia N. Ivanov, Panagiotis G. Datskos
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Patent number: 10093073Abstract: A honeycomb based high temperature structural damper laminate, based on a core structure including a honeycomb laminated with a layer of a structural damping material. A method for producing the laminate, as well as the use of the laminate in various fields of application.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Eli Parloo, Michael Ludwig
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Patent number: 10093074Abstract: A flexible window and flexible display are disclosed. In one aspect, the flexible window includes a first film having a first Young's modulus, a second film positioned over the first film and having a second Young's modulus that is greater than the first Young's modulus, and a first adhesive layer interposed between the first film and the second film.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung Wook Nam, Ah Young Kim, Yong Cheol Jeong, Heon Jung Shin
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Patent number: 10093075Abstract: A method for manufacturing a structure in which an edge portion of the structure formed by stacking a plurality of members is friction stir welded. The manufacturing method includes: a welding step of forming a friction stir welded portion by bringing a friction stir welding tool from a side of a surface of a member on one side into contact with a superposition portion of works in which the members are stacked while rotating the friction stir welding tool; and a cutting step of cutting the friction stir welded portion, and in each of two or more works produced by the cutting, a welded portion of the edge portion of the structure is formed with the cut friction stir welded portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: ISEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Noboru Mochizuki, Tadashi Nishimura
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Patent number: 10093076Abstract: A multilayer film, method of making a multilayer film, and method of applying the multilayer film to objects, wherein the multilayer film is comprised of a first adhesive layer; a flexible printable vinyl layer; an ink layer; a second adhesive layer; and a translucent polyvinyl fluoride film layer, and wherein the multilayer film has anti-graffiti, chemical resistant, and adhesive resistant capable of withstanding impairments.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Inventors: Daniel J. Gittere, Tracy R. George
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Patent number: 10093077Abstract: A steel sheet for hot press-forming having a first coating layer on a surface of the steel sheet, containing 60% or more by mass Ni and a remainder composed of Zn and incidental impurities, a coating mass thereof being more than 5 g/m2 and 50 g/m2 or less per side, and a second coating layer on the first coating layer, containing 10% to 25% by mass Ni and a remainder composed of Zn and incidental impurities, a coating mass thereof being 10 to 90 g/m2 per side.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Seiji Nakajima, Minako Morimoto, Satoru Ando
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Patent number: 10093078Abstract: When products to be shipped are temperature-sensitive, it is necessary to maintain a substantially uniform and constant temperature to avoid spoilage. As a result, thermal shields are often placed on top of the products. Many designs for thermal shields have been considered in the past but improvements are still desired. Accordingly, there is provided a multilayer thermal shield (100) comprising a thermally conductive layer (108), and at least one heat exchange fluid circuit (120) coupled to a first surface of the thermally conductive layer, the at least one heat exchange fluid circuit comprising at least one inlet (124) configured to permit the ingress of heat exchange fluid. The thermal shield further comprises an outer insulation layer (104) connected to a first surface of the thermally conductive layer (108) and comprising grooves designed to receive the heat exchange fluid circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: SUNWELL ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Vladimir Goldstein, Rosa Corey, Cong-Binh Do
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Patent number: 10093079Abstract: A reinforced safety glass and its manufacturing procedure are presented. The invention uses a vehicle's original glass, which is generally tempered, eliminating need for a new specific glass. The invention utilizes films of diverse reinforcing materials to increase the final resistance of the product and therefore reinforcing the original glass. During its manufacturing process, an autoclave is used for applying pressure and temperature to bond the reinforcing films to the original glass and between each other. The invention comprises the original glass to which at least one PU film and one C-PET film are orderly applied, ate least to the interior face of the glass.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Inventor: Alberto Oscar Fontela
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Patent number: 10093080Abstract: Disclosed are a film for forming a composite material, which is capable of improving impregnation properties by using a carrier film on which a low viscosity resin layer is formed, and a method for manufacturing a composite material using the same. The film for forming a composite material, according to the present invention, comprises: a continuous fibrous layer; and a carrier film which is adhered to any one side of the continuous fibrous layer and has a low viscosity resin layer formed on the adhered side of the continuous fibrous layer. Thus, the present invention provides the advantage of having a composite material with excellent impregnation properties and excellent mechanical performance.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: LG HAUSYS, LTD.Inventors: Ae Ri Oh, Gi Hune Jung, Tae-Hwa Lee, Yong-Hoon Yoon, Hee-June Kim, Jae-Hoon Choi
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Patent number: 10093081Abstract: A resin-rich peel ply that does not leave behind residual fibers after peeling and can work well with different resin-based composite substrates. The resin-rich peel ply is composed of a woven fabric impregnated with a resin matrix different from the resin matrix of the composite substrate. The peel ply is designed such that, upon manual removal of the peel ply from the composite substrate's surface, a thin film of the peel ply resin remains on the composite substrate's surface to create a bondable surface capable of bonding with another composite substrate, but no fibrous material from the woven fabric remains on the same surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Cytec Technology Corp.Inventors: Yiqiang Zhao, Dalip Kumar Kohli, Kunal Gaurang Shah
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Patent number: 10093082Abstract: The invention relates to a peelable, transparent multilayered polyolefin film having a first cover layer I and a second sealable cover layer II. The cover layer I contains a mixture of propylene copolymers and/or propylene terpolymers and an ethylene-butylene copolymer and has a roughness of 0.1 to <2 ?m. The second sealable cover layer II contains propylene homopolymers and propylene copolymers II having a seal initiation temperature of 105 to 135° C.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Detlef Hütt, Mathias Roth
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Patent number: 10093083Abstract: The present invention is to provide stable slipperiness in highly humid environments, further to provide suitability for printing and packaging with various design properties, stable bagmaking workability, and processability properties by simultaneously giving excellent transparency as same as that of common polyamide resin films, and still further to provide a biaxially oriented, laminated polyamide resin film producible at a low cost in the case of film production. A biaxially oriented, laminated polyamide resin film comprising at least one substrate layer and at least one slippery layer, wherein the substrate layer and the slippery layer contain polyamide resins and the biaxially oriented, laminated polyamide resin film has a static friction coefficient of 0.9 or lower in 65% RH environments and a haze value of 3.0% or lower.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2012Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Miyaguchi, Toshiyuki Shimizu, Hirokazu Ooki
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Patent number: 10093084Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for laminating components with sheets, in which an adhesive is applied to the surface of the laminating sheet and/or of the component in a grid-like manner, so that, after the sheet and the component are joined, the adhesive is arranged between the sheet and the component, and the regions between the applied adhesive form a channel system that enables the removal of the air that is present between the component and the sheet. The invention further relates to a laminated molded part obtainable by the above-outlined process. The use of an adhesive grid provided between a component and a laminating sheet results in a reduction or prevention of air inclusions when the component is laminated with a laminating sheet.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: JOWAT SEInventors: Thomas Hohberg, Andreas Dandl
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Patent number: 10093085Abstract: Provided are methods for preparing fabric laminated with polymer film(s) and the laminated fabric prepared according to the methods disclosed herein. The laminated fabric has flexibility similar to fabric not laminated with polymer films and improved adhesion and tensile strength.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Carbitex, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Lynn Simmons, Tyler Andre Kafentzis, Junus Ali Khan, Tyler Ross Carpenter, Matthew Patrick Westman
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Patent number: 10093086Abstract: A process for separating at least two substrates comprising at least two separation interfaces along one of the interfaces includes, before inserting a blade between the substrate, damaging at least one portion of a peripheral region of a chosen one of the interfaces, then inserting the blade and partially parting the substrates, and applying a fluid in a space between the parted substrates while the blade remains inserted therebetween, and decreasing a rupture energy of the chosen interface by stress corrosion involving breaking of siloxane bonds present at the interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: SoitecInventors: Didier Landru, Christophe Figuet
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Patent number: 10093087Abstract: A distance measuring device includes: an imaging unit that captures a test pattern image including a pair of first markers and a second marker that is formed under a condition different from a condition applied to the first markers; a position detecting unit that detects a position of each of the pair of first markers and the second marker in a captured image captured by the imaging unit; a ratio calculating unit that calculates a ratio of a distance between the pair of the first markers in the captured image and an actual distance between the pair of the first markers; and an actual distance calculating unit that calculates an actual distance between one of the first markers as the pair and the second marker by multiplying a distance between the one of the first markers as the pair and the second marker in the captured image by the ratio.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Masaya Kawarada, Nobuyuki Satoh, Kenji Morita, Yuichi Sakurada, Tomohiro Sasa, Daisaku Horikawa
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Patent number: 10093088Abstract: Disclosed is a printer that forms dots on a recording medium using a recording head that discharges an ink, as liquid droplets, from a nozzle formation surface, in which a nozzle opening is formed, as a result of deforming a meniscus of the ink in the nozzle using a piezoelectric element. The printer includes a liquid-repellent film that covers the nozzle formation surface, and a wiping process that wipes away a stain on the nozzle formation surface. The printer forms dots on the recording medium using a first liquid droplet discharging operation that discharges ink, which is separated from a wall surface of the nozzle and disposed on an inner side of the nozzle, as liquid droplets.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Shunya Fukuda
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Patent number: 10093089Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printed matter producing device including a unique information acquiring portion, an identifier determining portion, a bar-coding portion, and a control portion. The unique information acquiring portion is configured to acquire unique information uniquely retained by the printed matter producing device. The identifier determining portion is configured to read a template so as to determine whether a predetermined collection identifier exists or not in the read template. The bar-coding portion is configured to generate and expand print data to a printing buffer in the case that the collection identifier is present, the print data having the unique information acquired and assigned to contents of the bar-code object included in the template. The control portion is configured to, by using the print data expanded to the printing buffer, to produce the printed matter having a bar-code print portion corresponding to the bar-code object.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Satoru Moriyama
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Patent number: 10093090Abstract: A control system includes a control circuit. The control circuit is to be connected to a head unit including first driving elements and second driving elements. Based on an input print data, the control circuit applies a first signal to the first driving element and applies a second signal to the second driving elements. The control circuit changes the first signal to a third signal in a first time and changes the second signal to a fourth signal in a second time. Based on an input print data, the control circuit applies the third signal to the first driving element and applies the fourth signal to the second driving elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Toru Yamashita
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Patent number: 10093091Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: a plurality of pressure generating chambers communicating with nozzles through which a liquid is ejected; a manifold communicating with the plurality of pressure generating chambers; a flexible member that has a surface on one side which defines at least a part of a wall of the manifold, that has a surface on the other side, on which an adhesive layer is formed, and that has a compliance region, which is able to perform deflection in response to pressure fluctuation in the manifold, in a region in which the adhesive layer is formed; a compliance space disposed on a side opposite to the manifold through the flexible member; a cap member facing the flexible member through the compliance space; and a frame-like member that is disposed between the flexible member and the cap member and has a cantilever, in which the cantilever is fixed to at least a part of the flexible member of the compliance region and has an unfixed region which is not fixed to the cap member on the distal endType: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takahiro Kanegae
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Patent number: 10093092Abstract: By appropriately defining a flow path capacity from an opening of an ink supply path to a nozzle in a pressure chamber, a progress of thickening ink toward the pressure chamber is suppressed. In other words, by setting the individual flow path capacity to be large, specifically, to 4400 pl or higher, desirably 6210 pl or higher, it is possible to suppress the progress of the thickening of the ink even in a small-sized liquid ejecting head of which the shortest formation pitch between each of the nozzles is 1/300 inches. More specifically, a nozzle communication opening is provided between the pressure chamber and the nozzle, and a total capacity of the nozzle communication opening and the pressure chamber is configured to be 4400 pl or higher, desirably 6210 pl or higher.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Shunya Fukuda
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Patent number: 10093093Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes a plurality of individual electrodes, a piezoelectric layer formed on each of individual electrodes, and a common electrode which is formed on the piezoelectric layer and is an electrode common to the individual electrodes. Further, a protection film covering a region, which is not covered by the common electrode on the individual electrode, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shiro Yazaki, Takahiro Kamijo, Tatsuro Torimoto, Motoki Takabe
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Patent number: 10093094Abstract: A joint structure includes a first substrate in which a resin portion which protrudes from one face and is formed of a resin, and a first electrode which covers a part of the resin portion are formed, and a second substrate on which a second electrode corresponding to the first electrode is formed are joined in a state in which the first electrode and the second electrode are electrically connected, in which a region in which the resin portion is disposed on one face of the first substrate includes a first region in which the resin portion is in contact with the one face, and a second region in which the resin portion is separated from the one face, and the second region is formed in the outside of the first region in the inside of the one face.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Naoya Sato
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Patent number: 10093095Abstract: A method for controlling an inkjet printing apparatus performing printing to an elongated printing medium 11, the method having a discharging step of performing continuous application to a piezoelectric element 23 of a nozzle to be used with a pulse number of two or more waves per one printing element to deform the piezoelectric element and thereby discharge ink in an ink chamber 22 from an opening portion 21, and a vibrating step of performing application of the piezoelectric elements 23 to all the nozzles with a pulse number of one wave per one printing element to deform the piezoelectric elements, thereby imparting only vibrations to the inks in the ink chambers 22 without discharging the inks, where the discharging step and the vibrating step are performed alternately.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: MIYAKOSHI PRINTING MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo Izawa, Yasushi Katagiri, Seiji Komatsuda
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Patent number: 10093096Abstract: A printhead of a printer includes a nozzle plate having a first layer, a second layer, and an intermediate channel. The first layer can have at least one fluid chamber for holding an immiscible fluid, and a plurality of ejection fluid chamber for holding an ejection fluid. The second layer can have a plurality of ejection fluid nozzles, one ejection fluid nozzle being in fluid communication with one ejection fluid chamber. The intermediate channel can form a passage between the first layer and the second layer. Further, the intermediate channel is in fluid communication with the fluid chambers to carry the immiscible fluid from the fluid chambers towards each of the ejection fluid nozzles for forming a layer of the immiscible fluid over the ejection fluid chambers to maintain the printhead.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Lawrence H White, Ronald A Askeland
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Patent number: 10093097Abstract: A print head includes a plurality of chip-like tiles arranged on a common substrate, each tile having a front face with an array of recording elements disposed in the front face in a predetermined pattern, and a generally rectangular contour with a cut-out formed at at least one of its four corners, each cut-out being delimited by two reference-defining walls extending normal to one another and to the front face and serving as a reference for positioning the tiles on the substrate so as to establish a predetermined positional relationship between the recording elements of the different tiles. The substrate has a plurality of recesses accommodating each at least a part of a tile and having side walls that define engagement surfaces for each of the reference-defining walls of each tile, the substrate is formed of a material that is suitable for photo-lithographic processing, and the engagement surfaces of the substrate are surfaces formed by photo-lithographic techniques.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Igor O. Shklyarevskiy, Klaas Verzijl, René J. Van Der Meer
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Patent number: 10093098Abstract: A liquid discharging head includes a print element substrate including an energy-generating element that generates energy used to discharge a liquid from a discharge port, and an electric wiring member including a plurality of contact pads arranged thereon. The plurality of contact pads are disposed in a contact area and include a first contact pad to which power for driving the energy-generating element is supplied and a second contact pad that has an electrostatic capacity lower than an electrostatic capacity of the first contact pad and that is disposed on an outer circumferential side of the contact area. The electric wiring member is connected to a ground of the print element substrate and includes a guard pad extending linearly outside the second contact pad.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosuke Takagi, Yuichiro Akama, Satoshi Kimura
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Patent number: 10093099Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing an ink-jet print head includes bonding an actuator to a base plate. The actuator includes a plurality of pressure chambers provided in a fixed direction and a piezoelectric member forming a wall of each pressure chamber and configured to change capacity of the pressure chamber. The method further includes connecting a wire to the piezoelectric member, and bonding a nozzle plate so that the nozzle plate is laid over the base plate at a predetermined distance from the base plate. The nozzle plate includes a plurality of nozzles corresponding to the pressure chambers. The method further includes arranging the base plate in a recess in a support member. The support member includes a flat portion provided with an ink supply aperture and an ink discharge aperture to circulate and supply ink. The recess is formed in the flat portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Keizaburo Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10093100Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting portion which has a nozzle that ejects liquid, and a flushing receptive body which receives the liquid that is ejected in a flushing operation in which the liquid is ejected from the nozzle, the flushing receptive body including a receiving member that is able to receive the liquid, a receiving member holding portion which holds the receiving member, and a fixing member with conductivity that fixes the receiving member to the receiving member holding portion by contacting the receiving member and has a mesh form portion that forms an adhesion surface to which the ejected liquid is adhered with the receiving member in the flushing operation, in which the fixing member is electrically grounded.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Koji Harada, Shigeki Suzuki, Kinya Ozawa, Hitotoshi Kimura
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Patent number: 10093101Abstract: A liquid consuming apparatus includes: a liquid consumer that consumes liquid; a liquid receiver that receives the liquid discharged from the liquid consumer; a first waste-liquid storage connected to the liquid receiver so as to allow communication of the liquid therebetween; a second waste-liquid storage connected to the first waste-liquid storage so as to allow communication of the liquid therebetween; a housing; and a sheet tray supported by the housing. The first waste-liquid storage is disposed on a side of the sheet tray. The second waste-liquid storage is disposed under the sheet tray.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuo Nishikawa
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Patent number: 10093102Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a nozzle that ejects a liquid, a flow path member formed with a flow path that guides the liquid to the nozzle, a supply path member formed with a supply path that supplies the liquid to the flow path member, and a heater that heats the supply path member. A linear expansion coefficient of the supply path member is greater than a linear expansion coefficient of the flow path member. The flow path member and the supply path member are joined together by a thermoset adhesive. The heater is provided to the supply path member.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Sho Kimura
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Patent number: 10093103Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a container divided into a first chamber and a second chamber by a dividing member, the first chamber including a discharge outlet that discharges a liquid and configured to contain the liquid, the second chamber configured to contain a fluid; a tank configured to store the fluid; a connecting portion that provides fluid communication between the tank and the second chamber; a measurement unit configured to measure an amount of the fluid supplied from the tank to the second chamber; and a controller configured to obtain an amount of the liquid contained in the first chamber based on a measurement result from the measurement unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshimasa Araki, Koichi Kitakami, Tsuyoshi Arai, Yutaka Mita
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Patent number: 10093104Abstract: An ink cartridge for supplying the ink in an ink reserving chamber via an ink supply port into a recording head has a differential pressure valve mechanism disposed between an ink flow port and the ink supply port in the ink reserving chamber, whereby the ink is supplied an adequate amount to the recording head by opening or closing the differential pressure valve mechanism in accordance with an ink pressure of the recording head. As a result, it is possible to supply the ink at a substantially constant pressure to the recording head without regard to the variation in the amount of ink or the movement of the carriage.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Minoru Usui, Hisashi Miyazawa
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Patent number: 10093105Abstract: To provide a liquid storage container equipped with a plug member that can prevent leakage of a liquid from the liquid storage container and can be opened without causing scatter of the liquid, and a liquid ejection apparatus equipped with the liquid storage container. For the purpose, at least one of a connection part of the convex part with the cover part and an apical part of the convex part most apart from the connection part is provided offset from the centroid of the cover part, seen from a direction orthogonal to an opening surface of a supply port in a state that the plug member is mounted on a supply port of the liquid storage container.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryo Shimamura, Akira Shiba, Kazuya Yoshii, Norihiro Ikebe, Takeho Miyashita, Tomoki Yamamuro, Atsushi Arai, Masatoshi Ohira, Tatsuaki Orihara, Hirofumi Okuhara, Kazumasa Matsushita, Misato Furuya
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Patent number: 10093107Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes: a recording element board including a discharge orifice configured to discharge liquid, a recording element configured to generate energy to discharge liquid, a pressure chamber having the recording element within, a liquid supply channel configured to supply liquid to the pressure chamber, and a liquid recovery channel configured to recover liquid from the pressure chamber; and a support member configured to support the recording element board, the support member including a supply chamber configured to supply liquid to the liquid supply channel, and a recovery chamber configured to recover liquid from the liquid recovery channel. An inner volume of the recovery chamber is smaller than an inner volume of the supply chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Seiichiro Karita, Takuto Moriguchi, Takatsuna Aoki, Shingo Okushima, Yumi Komamiya, Noriyasu Nagai
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Patent number: 10093108Abstract: A direct-to-object printer includes a vaporizer to attenuate the effect of oxygen inhibition on the curing of non-aqueous ultraviolet (UV) marking material ejected onto the surface of an object printed by the printer. The vaporizer includes a heating element to form a vapor from a solution of solvent and particulate and a pressurized air source to direct the vapor toward the object to enable a portion of the vapor to condense on the object. The condensed vapor forms a barrier that attenuates the effect of oxygen inhibition on the curing of non-aqueous UV marking material.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: James L. Giacobbi, Matthew R. McLaughlin, Victoria L. Warner, Richard A. Campbell
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Patent number: 10093109Abstract: A printing method and system include a printhead configured to eject a fixer fluid. A controller is operatively connected to the printhead and configured to control the printhead so as to apply the fixer fluid to a print area in a pattern to form cells having a predetermined area without the fixer fluid.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Eduardo Amela Conesa, Jaime Fernandez, Jacint Humet, Marc Serra
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Patent number: 10093110Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a printing apparatus comprises a printing section, a first temperature sensor and a processor. The printing section carries out printing on a sheet through heating. The first temperature sensor measures a temperature of the sheet on which the printing section carries out the printing. The processor sets a heating amount on the basis of the temperature of the sheet and controls the printing section to carry out printing through the heating amount.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Naoyuki Hattori
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Patent number: 10093111Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for printing a three-dimensional object. For example, a method includes determining a target thickness for a region of the three-dimensional object. A color for the region is determined. The color is assigned a color density. A color thickness for the color is determined based on the color density. The target thickness is independent from the color thickness. A color layer having the color thickness in the region is printed. A structural thickness for a structural layer of the region is determined based on the color thickness and the target thickness. The structural layer having the structural thickness is printed directly onto the color layer. A combination of the color layer and the structural layer has the target thickness.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Todd W. Miller, Jeremy D. Walker
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Patent number: 10093112Abstract: What is disclosed is an object holder for retaining an object in a direct-to-object print system and a direct-to-object print system configured to use various embodiments of the object holder of the present invention. The object holder comprises a shuttle mount configured to slideably traverse a support member positioned parallel to a plane formed by at least one printhead of a direct-to-object print system. An expandable bladder attached to either the shuttle mount or a restraint. The bladder is inserted in a cavity of an object to be printed. A pump then fills the bladder with either a gas or a liquid to cause the bladder to expand. The expanded bladder in the object's cavity enables a surface of the object to be printed. In one embodiment, the filled bladder substantially conforms to a shape of a human foot, and the object being printed is footwear.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Roberto A. Irizarry, Carlos M. Terrero, Jacob R. McCarthy
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Patent number: 10093113Abstract: An image-forming device includes a printing portion that forms images on the media being transported using ink, a varnish application portion that applies aqueous varnish to the media on which the images are formed, a treatment portion that performs a treatment on the media so that a stickiness evaluation value which is a stickiness evaluation value indicating a degree of stickiness of the aqueous varnish applied to the media when the media to which the aqueous varnish is applied are output from the varnish application portion and is derived using a damped vibration percentage of a pendulum caused to do pendulum motions from an arbitrary location of the media to which the aqueous varnish is applied as a pivot reaches 0.24 or less, and an accumulation portion that accumulates the media to which the aqueous varnish is applied and on which the treatment is performed.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Hojo
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Patent number: 10093114Abstract: A printer for printing information on a recording medium includes a guide that guides the recording medium being fed and includes multiple holes, a sensor for detecting the recording medium, and a board that includes multiple terminals. The sensor is mounted on at least one of the terminals such that the sensor is exposed through one of the holes.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITEDInventors: Tatsuya Oguchi, Sumio Watanabe, Yukihiro Mori, Masahiro Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 10093115Abstract: A method for printing on a plurality of sheets includes the steps of: arranging the plurality of sheets on a support surface of an endless conveyor, the plurality of sheets including a first sheet and a second sheet being arranged at a sheet-to-sheet distance between one another; advancing the plurality of sheets on the support surface in a conveying direction along a print head assembly for applying droplets of ink on the sheets; providing a suction force through perforations arranged in the support surface for holding the plurality of sheets on the support surface, wherein the suction force provides an air flow through uncovered perforations present in the sheet-to-sheet distance in a print region between the print head assembly and the support surface; and forming an image by the print head assembly on each of the plurality of sheets supported on the support surface of the conveyor by applying droplets of ink.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Peter G. La Vos, Roy H. R. Jacobs
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Patent number: 10093116Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a driving roller which drives a recording medium in a predetermined direction by rotation thereof; a supporting member which supports the recording medium further on the downstream side in the predetermined direction than the driving roller; a discharge head which is provided to oppose the supporting member and discharges liquid to the recording medium supported by the supporting member; a tension control portion which adjusts tension of the recording medium supported by the supporting member by controlling tension of the recording medium based on a result of detecting tension of the recording medium further on the downstream side in the predetermined direction than the driving roller; and a first destaticizing portion which destaticizes the recording medium further on the upstream side in the predetermined direction than the driving roller.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Toyama, Satoru Katagami
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Patent number: 10093117Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a transportation belt, a washing portion that washes the transportation belt, and a selection unit. The selection unit selects a transportation mode for transporting the recorded medium from among a washing transportation mode in which the transportation belt is transported while being washed by the washing portion, and a non-washing transportation mode in which the transportation belt is transported without being washed by the washing portion. The selection unit selects the transportation mode in accordance with a recording mode. The selection unit selects, as a transportation mode for use in transporting the recorded medium along with no recording operation after a recording operation onto the recorded medium has been brought to a halt, the washing transportation mode or the non-washing transportation mode, whichever has been selected in the recording operation having been brought to a halt.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Itaru Kozuma
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Patent number: 10093118Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a carriage that has a recording head which performs recording on a medium; and a gap adjusting unit that causes the carriage to shift in a direction in which a gap between a medium and the recording head changes depending on rotation of a cam. In a state in which the carriage is positioned at an end portion in a moving range in the first direction, at least a part of the carriage and at least a part of the cam overlap in a moving direction of the carriage. In the state in which the carriage is positioned at the end portion in the moving range in the first direction, the cam does not project with respect to the carriage in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Katsunari Kumagai, Makoto Sato, Satoshi Nakata, Tatsuya Ito
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Patent number: 10093119Abstract: A recording medium including a substrate and an ink-receiving layer. The ink-receiving layer contains an inorganic particle, a binder and at least one surfactant. The binder contains at least one resin selected from the group consisting of an acrylic resin, a polycarbonate-modified urethane resin and a polyether-modified urethane resin. The at least one surfactant comprises an acetylene-based surfactant. The contact angle of water to a surface of the ink-receiving layer at 60 seconds after contact of the water with the surface of the ink-receiving layer is 40 degrees or more to 80 degrees or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiyuki Nagase, Masaya Asao, Olivia Herlambang, Takeshi Ota
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Patent number: 10093120Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a reading section, an image processing section and a printing section. The reading section reads an image on a sheet to generate image data. The image processing section detects, from the image data, an identification image indicating that printing is carried out with decolorable toner, and decolors the detected identification image from the image data. The printing section prints the image data output from the image processing section.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akihiro Moro