Patents Issued in October 25, 2018
  • Publication number: 20180304622
    Abstract: An electric potential difference between both ends of a first fuse portion is increased to more than the electric potential difference that is generated by an electric potential applied to drive print elements in a state where a first print element and a first covering portion are electrically connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Tsubasa Funabashi, Takahiro Matsui, Yoshinori Misumi, Maki Kato, Yuzuru Ishida, Takeru Yasuda, Norihiro Yoshinari
  • Publication number: 20180304623
    Abstract: There is provided an elongated liquid ejection head capable of voltage drop suppression and high-speed ejection operation. For this purpose, in each of flexible circuits electrically connecting element substrates to electrical substrates, a width Wa on a side connected to the electrical substrate is smaller than the width of another area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Oikawa, Satoshi Kimura, Tatsurou Mori, Kengo Umeda, Masataka Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20180304624
    Abstract: A wide array printhead module includes a plurality of printhead die, each of the printhead die includes a number of nozzles. The nozzles form a number of primitives. A nozzle firing heater is coupled to each of the nozzles. An application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) controls a number of activation pluses that activate the nozzle firing heaters for each of the nozzles associated with the primitives. The activation pulses are delayed between each of the primitives via internal delays and external delays to reduce peak power demands of the printhead die. The ASIC determines the internal delays within each printhead die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter James Fricke, Michael W. Cumbie, Scott A. Linn
  • Publication number: 20180304625
    Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including a print head that has a color nozzle row for applying ink to a roll paper and a working liquid nozzle row, a main scanning unit that relatively moves the print head with respect to the roll paper in the main scanning direction (X-axis direction), a sub-scanning unit that relatively moves the roll paper in the sub-scanning direction (Y-axis direction) intersecting the main scanning direction (X-axis direction) with respect to the print head, and a control device that controls a relative position between a use area of the nozzle included in the color nozzle row in the sub-scanning direction (Y-axis direction) and a use area of the nozzle included in a working liquid nozzle row, based on the attribute information of the roll paper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Naoki KAYAHARA, Tatsuya NAKANO, Eishin YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180304626
    Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus 100 which records on a transferred recording medium X by an inkjet scheme, wherein the inkjet recording apparatus 100 includes guide rolls R for guiding the recording medium X, the recording medium X being negatively charged, recording units 1, 2, 3, and 4 formed of a plurality of recording heads 1a, 2a, 3a, and 4a for spraying ink onto the recording medium X, and a conductive frame unit 11 for supporting the recording heads 1a, 2a, 3a, and 4a, the recording heads 1a, 2a, 3a, and 4a and the conductive frame unit 11 having a continuity relation and the recording heads 1a, 2a, 3a, and 4a being grounded via the conductive frame unit 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Hideo IZAWA, Takehiro FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20180304627
    Abstract: A liquid ejection device includes an ejection head having a plurality of nozzle groups, each of the plurality of nozzle groups including one nozzle or two or more nozzles arranged adjacent to each other, and a controller configured to determine an ejection timing each of the plurality of nozzle groups such that a first deviation amount in the main scanning direction between an first image and an second image on an medium is smaller than a second deviation amount in a main scanning direction between an area to be printed by an first nozzle group included the plurality of nozzle groups and an area to be printed by an second nozzle group adjacent to the first nozzle group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Kuwayama
  • Publication number: 20180304628
    Abstract: A nozzle plate includes a base having a through-hole to be a nozzle, and a metal film covering at least an inner wall of the through-hole of the base. The base contains nickel as a main component. The metal film contains nickel and palladium as main components. In a cross section including the base and the metal film, the metal film has a palladium content variation smaller than or equal to 4 at % on an imaginary line (A) along an interface between the base and the metal film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto HIGASHIBEPPU
  • Publication number: 20180304629
    Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes: a liquid discharging head having nozzles forming a nozzle row along a first direction, and having a nozzle surface in which the nozzles are formed; and a relative movement device configured to relatively move a recording medium and the liquid discharging head in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The nozzle surface is formed with first recesses arranged on both sides of the nozzle row in the second direction, and forming two first recess rows each of which is along the nozzle row. The first recesses are separated from each other in the first direction by partition walls, respectively; and a length of an opening of each of the first recesses in the first direction is longer than a length of an end surface of each of the partition walls in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Masanobu Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20180304630
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid ejection head capable of performing high-speed ejection operation as well as reducing a depth dimension. For this purpose, in a configuration in which flexible circuits electrically connect element substrates to electrical substrates, the electrical substrates are arrayed in two lines along a plane different from a plane on which the element substrates are arrayed and the flexible circuits electrically connect the element substrates to the electrical substrates while being bent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Oikawa, Satoshi Kimura, Tatsurou Mori, Kengo Umeda, Masataka Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20180304631
    Abstract: A channel member includes an integrating channel, a plurality of common channels, a plurality of individual channels, and a plurality of ejection ports. The integrating channel extends in a first direction. The plurality of common channels extends in a second direction, is spaced apart from each other in the first direction, and is individually connected to the integrating channel. The plurality of individual channels is connected to the respective plurality of common channels. Each of the plurality of ejection ports is linked with at least one corresponding individual channel. Each of the plurality of common channels includes a first connection region connected to the plurality of individual channels, and a second connection region connected to the integrating channel. Each of the plurality of common channels includes an opening in the second connection region linked with the integrating channel, and a damper in a portion facing the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180304632
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid ejection head includes forming a first negative photosensitive resin layer containing a photopolymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator over a substrate, exposing the first negative photosensitive resin layer to light to form a latent image of a flow channel member, forming a second negative photosensitive resin layer containing a photopolymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator over the first negative photosensitive resin layer having the latent image, and exposing the second negative photosensitive resin layer to light to form a latent image of an ejection opening member. The first negative photosensitive resin layer has a thickness of 10 ?m or less and further contains a sensitivity adjusting agent capable of reducing the sensitivity of the first negative photosensitive resin layer. The transmittance A of the first negative photosensitive resin layer is 0.70 or less for the exposure light for the second negative photosensitive resin layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Isamu Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20180304633
    Abstract: In some examples, a print bar fabrication method comprises placing printhead dies face down on a carrier, placing a printed circuit board on the carrier, wire bonding each printhead die of the printhead dies to the printed circuit board, and overmolding the printhead dies and the printed circuit board on the carrier, including fully encapsulating the wire bonds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Silam J. Choy, Michael W. Cumbie, Devin Alexander Mourey, Chien-Hua Chen
  • Publication number: 20180304634
    Abstract: A maintenance cap is provided for in-situ attachment to a printhead of printing apparatus. The maintenance cap comprises a housing defining at least one chamber for receiving a liquid. An opening in the housing provides a path for the liquid to pass from the chamber into a portion of the printhead when the maintenance cap is engaged with the printhead. The maintenance cap also includes a seal disposed around the opening for engagement with the printhead. A transducer coupled to the housing is used to generate ultrasound acoustic waves in the liquid contained in the chamber and printhead so as to clean the printhead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Fred (Fahad) Hussain, Phillip Zachary Green, Ian Philip Butler Ingham, Nigel Paul Brooks
  • Publication number: 20180304635
    Abstract: An inkjet printing system includes an printhead with a nozzle face having nozzles arranged along an array direction. A pressure source is configured to provide a positive or negative pressure to an ink source. A valve is fluidically connected between the ink source and the inkjet printhead. A cleaning station is configured to confront the nozzle face across a gap. The cleaning station includes a cleaning fluid dispenser for dispensing cleaning fluid onto the nozzle face. The cleaning station includes a waste fluid collector having a vacuum inlet that is displaced from the cleaning fluid dispenser in a first direction for collecting dispensed cleaning fluid. The cleaning station includes a blower that is displaced from the cleaning fluid dispenser in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The blower is configured to direct a gas stream along the nozzle face to move dispensed cleaning fluid toward the vacuum inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Richard Mu, Yonglin Xie
  • Publication number: 20180304636
    Abstract: An example printing fluid container (100) comprising a container body (102) defining a cavity (104), and a piston (106) located within the cavity (104), is described. The piston (106) divides the cavity (104) into a first chamber (108) to receive printing fluid and a second chamber (110), fluidically isolated from the first chamber (108), to receive a positively pressurized fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Carlos Chover Lopez, Francesc Ros Cerro, Joan-Albert Miravet Jimenez
  • Publication number: 20180304637
    Abstract: A system includes a cartridge and an attachment section to which the cartridge is detachably attachable. The cartridge includes a board supporting portion; a board supported at the board supporting portion; and an electrical interface mounted on the board. The attachment section includes: a contact movable between a contact position and a non-contact position; a first wall; and a second wall movable between a first position allowing the contact to be moved to the contact position and a second position placing the contact at the non-contact position. In a state where the cartridge is completely attached to the attachment section, the cartridge provides a first space receiving the first wall and a second space receiving the second wall at the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro KANBE, Naoya OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20180304638
    Abstract: An ink container for an inkjet printer includes an ink container body and a cover. The inkjet printer includes a printer body. The ink container body is configured to contain ink and includes a refill portion. The cover is configured to cover at least an area of the ink container body in which the refill portion is disposed and to pivot about a pivot axis between an opened position and a closed position with respect to the ink container body. When the cover is in the closed position, the refill portion is covered by the cover. When the cover is in the opened position, the refill portion is exposed. The pivot axis extends along a horizontal direction and being parallel to an attaching surface of the printer body. At least one of two side portions of the cover includes a handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Akinari Ishibe, Masahiro Hayashi, Satomi Aizawa, Kazuteru Kojima
  • Publication number: 20180304639
    Abstract: A makeup fluid is added to an ink liquid of an inkjet printer to reduce the viscosity of the ink liquid, the makeup fluid including a fluorescent color material in a solvent. An inkjet printer apparatus employing a makeup fluid is provided with a makeup fluid tank to which a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element are attached, and detects the presence or absence of the makeup fluid by irradiating ultraviolet light from the light-emitting element, causing visible light to be emitted from the fluorescent color material in the makeup fluid, and detecting the visible light with the light-receiving element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Takuya OTOWA, Masahiko OGINO, Hiroshi SASAKI, Takahiro ARIMA, Keisuke NAGAI, Hiromichi TAKEYAMA, Shengnan HUA
  • Publication number: 20180304640
    Abstract: A print head ink supply includes first and second containers and a level sensor positioned between the first and second containers. The first and second containers are each configured to contain a volume of ink within an interior chamber. The level sensor includes a first capacitive sensor configured to output a first level signal indicative of a level of ink within the interior chamber of the first container, and a second capacitive sensor configured to output a second level signal indicative of a level of ink within the interior chamber of the second container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: David Horne
  • Publication number: 20180304641
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for digital printing of textiles with application of immobilization compound on the textile prior to printing. The method comprises, finding failed printing nozzles; carrying out immobilization of the textile without using at least some of the nozzles neighboring a failed printing nozzle; and printing the textile. The immobilization generally prevents the printing ink from running, so leaving out immobilization around the failed nozzle allows ink to seep into the unprinted gap. The immobilization however also stabilizes the ink, so one embodiment keeps some of the neighboring nozzles on during the immobilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Kornit Digital Ltd.
    Inventors: Ofer BEN-ZUR, Miri GERENROT
  • Publication number: 20180304642
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards an apparatus, a system and a method for creating a pixel canvas artwork. A pixel canvas art apparatus may contain a receiving layer that includes multiple segmented components, each of which may be enclosed by a fluid-resistant boundary. One or more water-based markings may be absorbed by the receiving layer at multiple segmented components and may be prevented from transferring throughout the receiving layer by the fluid-resistance boundaries. The one or more water-based markings may be absorbed at multiple segmented components in a manner that creates a pixel canvas artwork. Both a system for producing a pixel canvas artwork and a method for creating a pixel canvas artwork may include components similar to the pixel canvas art apparatus that may be used to create a pixel canvas artwork.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: CRAIG SKINNER, LUIS RODRIGO PINEIRO
  • Publication number: 20180304643
    Abstract: A surface treatment system includes a holder configured to secure an object within the holder and a plurality of surface treatment devices. Each surface treatment device is configured to treat a surface of the object within the holder differently than each of the other surface treatment devices in the plurality of surface treatment devices. A controller is configured to operate the surface treatment devices independently of one another so less than all of the devices can be operated to treat an object surface. Thus, the surface treatment system is capable of treating a wide range of materials for printing by a direct-to-object printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Jack T. LeStrange, Anthony S. Condello, Mandakini Kanungo, Peter J. Knausdorf
  • Publication number: 20180304644
    Abstract: A printing machine includes printing stations that each print a different color. The images printed by each printing station are superimposed on each other. Each printing station has a wireless interface for passing data to a successive printing station indicating where on the bottle the printing is to occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Sascha Koers, Markus Reiniger, Werner Van De Wynckel
  • Publication number: 20180304645
    Abstract: A cylinder printing jig is provided by which a table of a moving table-type printer is allowed to contact with a rotation roller to smoothly rotate a cylindrical print medium. The cylinder printing jig includes a base unit detachably fixed to a body of a moving table-type inkjet printer, a movable unit supported by the base unit, a first rotation roller rotatably connected to the movable unit, a second rotation roller rotatably connected to the movable unit at a position at which the second rotation roller does not contact the table of the printer, and an auxiliary wheel axially supported by the movable unit. The first rotation roller and the auxiliary wheel are placed on the table of the printer by the deadweight of the movable unit. The movement of the table causes the contact with the table to provide the rotation of the first rotation roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Kento NAKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20180304646
    Abstract: A function executing method of a device that executes a step of displaying an operation unit image, which is an image of an operation unit of an apparatus including the operation unit and an apparatus function executing unit that executes a function by an operation of the operation unit, by a device display unit, a step of detecting an operation of the operation unit image by a detection unit, and a step of executing the function based on detection of the operation of the operation unit image by a device function executing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki OIKAWA, Seiji TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20180304647
    Abstract: Various embodiments concern inkjet printing systems designed for multilayer imaging with a high-gloss clear ink layer. More specifically, the inkjet printing systems are designed so that clear, curable inks are provided additional time to level out before being cured. The settling process enables the inkjet printing systems to produce multilayer images having high gloss values. For example, a bracket could be attached to a curing assembly that prevents radiation from striking a certain portion of the substrate onto which clear ink has recently been deposited. As another example, an inactive array of light-emitting diodes may be disposed in line with the print head(s) responsible for depositing clear ink. Moreover, various embodiments also allow for true multilayer printing of a color coat and a high-gloss clear coat in a single step (e.g., by arranging print heads into rows within a printer carriage).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Bruce KLEMANN, Joshua MCGRATH, John DUFFIELD
  • Publication number: 20180304648
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a container; a conveying mechanism configured to convey a recording medium contained in the container; a recording head configured to record an image on the recording medium that has been conveyed through a conveying path by the conveying mechanism; a moving mechanism including a carriage and configured to move the carriage reciprocatingly together with the recording head; a first sensor installed in the carriage and configured to detect the recording medium; a second sensor configured to detect a change of a state of the container; a storage unit configured to store width information of the recording medium that is conveyed by the conveying mechanism; and a controller configured to control the conveying mechanism, the moving mechanism, and the recording head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Samoto, Yusuke Arai
  • Publication number: 20180304649
    Abstract: A self-strip media module in a printer is provided. The self-strip media module includes a peel bar having a length at least as great as the length of a platen roller and being rotatably engaged at the ends of the platen roller. The media includes a series of labels adhered to a liner. The media is fed over the peel bar and between the platen roller and a mid-chassis. The peel bar may be rotated towards the discharge side of the platen roller, pulling the media over the platen roller and over itself. A thermal print head is lowered onto the media over the platen roller and to print on the labels. The printer advances the media over the peel bar. The labels are stripped from the liner when the media advances around the peel bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Chin Young Wong, Sébastien Michel Marie Joseph d'Armancourt, Ching Hong Chua, Yaw Horng Yap
  • Publication number: 20180304650
    Abstract: A rotary digital printing system is disclosed, which includes: a print zone, including several independent print stations, each station including a respective print head, curing system, and read head; a number of fixtures, each fixture being configured to support an item that is to receive printed information, and including an encoder ring that can be read by a given print station's read head to determine a circumferential position and rotational speed of the fixture in question; a rotational drive for rotating each fixture positioned in a print station such that the surface of the item support member and an item disposed thereon is rotated past the print head and curing system for printing and curing; a conveyance module for transporting the fixtures to said print stations. The system is configured so as to convey, using the conveyance module, the plurality of fixtures through the print zone, stopping at one or more of the print stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Mark J. Belval, Ben M. Lessard
  • Publication number: 20180304651
    Abstract: A printer includes a frame including a discharge port, a fixed blade fixed to the frame, a movable blade attached to the frame so that the movable blade is opposite to the fixed blade across the discharge port, a driving mechanism that reciprocally moves the movable blade between a cutting position and a non-cutting position, a motor for the driving mechanism, a sensor configured to detect that the movable blade has reciprocated once between the cutting and non-cutting positions, and a control unit configured to control the motor to drive the driving mechanism at the time of cutting the label, measure a time taken by the movable blade to reciprocate once between the non-cutting and cutting positions, compare the measured time with a threshold value, and determine that a cleaning timing has been reached if the measured time exceeds the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Yoshimasa Gojo
  • Publication number: 20180304652
    Abstract: A control assembly includes: a drive-belt assembly including a first motor which is operable to rotate a first spindle, and a second spindle, the first and second spindles defining at least a portion of a belt path, and a drive-belt engaged with and extending between the first and second spindles, the first motor being operable to cause movement of the drive-belt; and a printhead movement assembly, which includes a first movement assembly on which a printhead is supportable and allows movement of the printhead along a first axis, and a second movement assembly which extends along a second axis and is configured to support the first movement assembly, the second movement assembly permitting movement of the first movement assembly and the printhead along the second axis; wherein operation of the motor causes the printhead to move along at least one of the first and second axes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Florian Tenaud, Nicky Bond
  • Publication number: 20180304653
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus which ejects liquid onto a medium includes a carriage which includes a control substrate configuring at least a part of a control unit which controls driving of the entire liquid ejecting apparatus, an ejecting unit which ejects the liquid, and a driving substrate which is connected to the control substrate and the ejecting unit, and drives the ejecting unit, in which the carriage is provided with a load absorbing unit which absorbs a physical load with respect to the ejecting unit from the driving substrate side. By adopting the liquid ejecting apparatus with such a configuration, it is possible to prevent a load from being applied to the ejecting unit from the driving substrate side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Kentaro TANABE, Kenji KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20180304654
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus RIM which ejects liquid onto a medium includes a carriage which includes a control substrate which configures at least a part of a control unit which controls driving of the entire liquid ejecting apparatus, a plurality of ejecting units which eject the liquid, a plurality of driving substrates which are connected to the control substrate, connected to the plurality of ejecting units in one-to-one correspondence, and drives the ejecting unit, an ejecting unit-driving substrate accommodating unit which accommodates the ejecting unit and the driving substrate, and a control substrate accommodating unit which accommodates the control substrate, in which the plurality of driving substrates are connected to the control substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Kentaro TANABE, Kenji KOJIMA, Takahiro KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180304655
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a printing system is described. The printing system includes multiple print engines to form printed marks on a substrate. Each print engine prints non-sequential pages of a print job. A sensor of the printing system detects, for each page, a trailing edge gap size and a leading edge gap size. A controller of the printing system, based on a difference between trailing edge gap sizes and leading edge gap sizes for a set of pages of a print job, adjusts a printing operation to equalize subsequent trailing edge gap sizes and leading edge gap sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: On Mashiach, Yoav Landau
  • Publication number: 20180304656
    Abstract: A mounting device for a print head and a printing system allows print heads to be easily changed and easily and reliably adjusted. The mounting device includes a rigid mount and a frame for receiving a print head. The frame is releasably fixed to the rigid mount and includes an adjustment device for adjusting the print head relative to the rigid mount. The adjustment device of the frame includes two solid body joints and two actuators for adjusting the print head in two degrees of freedom, namely in a sliding movement along the rigid mount and a rotary movement about the vertical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: ANDREAS MUELLER, BURKHARD WOLF
  • Publication number: 20180304657
    Abstract: A thermal printer uses an ink ribbon having a function of performing cleaning of a thermal head by being heated. The thermal printer performs a cleaning process of performing cleaning of the thermal head. In the cleaning process, the thermal head applies, to the ink ribbon, heat of a heat quantity with which a dye applied onto the ink ribbon does not sublime and with which the cleaning is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto SAKUWA, Yoshifumi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180304658
    Abstract: A 3D printer including a device body (100) and a scanning module (200) is provided. A printing plane (101) is defined on the device body (100). The scanning module (200) is arranged on the device body (100), the scanning module (200) is electrically connected with a control module (300), and the control module (300) is electrically connected with a nozzle assembly (310) and a pen assembly (320). A 3D data is loaded in the control module (300) and a predetermined painting position is defined in the 3D data. The control module (300) receives a scan image from the scanning module (200); the control module (300) controls the nozzle assembly (310) to print a model (20) according to the 3D data and meanwhile controls the pen assembly (320) to paint on the model (20) according to the predetermined painting position and the scan image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Yang-Teh LEE, Jia-Yi JUANG, Chun-Hsiang HUANG, Ming-En HO, Yi-Chu HSIEH, Ting-Chun CHU
  • Publication number: 20180304659
    Abstract: A method is provided for extending the frequency band of an audio signal during a decoding or improvement process. The method includes obtaining the decoded signal in a first frequency band, referred to as a low band. Tonal components and a surround signal are extracted from the signal from the low-band signal, and the tonal components and the surround signal are combined by adaptive mixing using energy-level control factors to obtain an audio signal, referred to as a combined signal. The low-band decoded signal before the extraction step or the combined signal after the combination step are extended over at least one second frequency band which is higher than the first frequency band. Also proved are a frequency-band extension device which implements the described method and a decoder including a device of this type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Magdalena KANIEWSKA, Stephane RAGOT
  • Publication number: 20180304660
    Abstract: In the present invention, an uneven structure is formed on a surface of a base material to be printed to which ink is applied, and the pitch, the shape in plan view, and the depth of recesses in the uneven structure are determined on the basis of the physical properties (specific weight, viscosity, and contact angle) of ink to be used, in accordance with a printing pattern and a required printing precision. The amount of ink filling the recesses is thereby controlled, and high-precision is enabled at low cost without changing the printing process itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Ryohei HOKARI, Kazuma KURIHARA, Naoki TAKADA
  • Publication number: 20180304661
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a positioning assembly configured to spatially position the food item relative to the memory assembly. A receiver assembly is configured to be positioned relative to the positioning assembly and the food item to be spatially positioned by the positioning assembly. An inscribing assembly is configured to be positioned relative to the positioning assembly and the food item to be spatially positioned the positioning assembly. A control assembly is configured to urge the inscribing assembly to inscribe the perceptible pattern on the food item in accordance with an image data unit corresponding to a perceptible pattern to be inscribed, at least in part, on a food item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: ABI Auto-Bake Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Roger George Brown, Eric Roger Miedema, Khurram Shabbir Somjee
  • Publication number: 20180304662
    Abstract: An image erasing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a sheet supply portion that supplies a sheet and an ejector. A first conveying path conveys the sheet from the sheet supply portion toward the ejector. A reader arranged on the first conveying path reads an image on the sheet. A second conveying path branches from the first conveying path at a downstream of the reader on the first conveying path and merges with the first conveying path at an upstream of the reader on the first conveying path. An erasing unit is arranged on the second conveying path. A conveying path changing portion is arranged at a branching portion. An operating portion receives a setup of the processing to the sheet. A controller changes a conveying path of the sheet in accordance with the setup received by the operating portion before the sheet is supplied from the sheet supply portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Ken IGUCHI, Hidetoshi YOKOCHI, Isao YAHATA, Takahiro KAWAGUCHI, Yoshiaki SUGIZAKI, Kikuo MIZUTANI, Hiroyuki TAKI, Hiroyuki TSUCHIHASHI, Chiaki IIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20180304663
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a flexographic printing plate having high ink transferability and making it possible to perform printing with a high ink density in a solid portion, a flexographic printing plate precursor, a method for manufacturing a flexographic printing plate, and a method for manufacturing a flexographic printing plate precursor. A flexographic printing plate includes a relief layer including a non-image area and an image area having an uneven structure formed on a surface thereof, in which an average length RSm of roughness curve elements of the surface of the image area having the uneven structure is 15 to 120 ?m, an oil-retention volume A2 is 2 to 180, and a load length ratio Rmr 30% at a cutting level of 30% is 20% to 90%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi SATO, Seiichiro MORIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180304664
    Abstract: A book binding apparatus is provided with a conveyor belt 5 having a book block conveyance surface 13 extending obliquely downward toward a pair of clamp plates 3 and 4 of a clamper 2 at a book block supply position A. A guide plate 21 is attached to the clamp plate 4 on the conveyor belt side and can swing between a standing position and a tilted position. When the pair of clamp plates is placed in a closed position, the guide plate is held in the standing position. When the pair of clamp plates is placed in an open position at the book block supply position, the guide plate swings from the standing position to the tilted position and connects to the book block conveyance surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Horizon International Inc.
    Inventors: Hirohito Nakanishi, Shigenobu Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20180304665
    Abstract: A reusable anti-falling magnetic base capable of sliding and standing on a magnetic plane for sticky notes is provided, hereinafter called sticky note-connected magnetic base or magnetic base, which belongs to the field of stationery supplies and mainly aims to solve the problems in the prior art that during use, self-adhesive glue is easy to fail and the paper sticky notes may fall off and curl up at the corns. According to the present invention, the sticky note-connected magnetic base may easily slide and move on and remove from the magnetic plane, and may fix and stand obliquely on the magnetic plane for point-and-selection use. When used in a whole, the sticky notes can easily appear in steric list arrangement and keep more neat and organized, and provide a good hand-feeling as compared with the conventional sticky notes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Lik Hang Alex SUM
  • Publication number: 20180304666
    Abstract: The invention relates to an insert for a passport booklet data sheet, formed by a multilayer complex having at least a first layer and a second layer having a hinge that has a folding zone where the insert is intended to be sewn or stapled into a passport booklet, said second layer having, in combination, at least one layer of plastics material and at least one metal reinforcing layer that together form an extension which extends a certain distance beyond said folding zone of the hinge, so as to reinforce the resistance of said data sheet to being ripped out and torn with respect to the passport booklet, characterized in that said layer of plastics material and said metal reinforcing layer extend over the entire surface area of the insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: SMART PACKAGING SOLUTION (S.P.S.)
    Inventors: Olivier BRUNET, Anne RIPERT, Pascal-Daniel MICHAU
  • Publication number: 20180304667
    Abstract: A method for producing a multilayer body, as well as a multilayer body produced thereby. A single- or multi-layered first decorative ply is applied to a carrier ply with a first and a second side. A metal layer is applied to the side of the first decorative ply facing away from the carrier ply and structured such that the metal layer is provided with a first layer thickness in one or more first zones and is provided with a second layer thickness different from the first layer thickness in one or more second zones, wherein in particular the second layer thickness is equal to zero. A single- or multi-layered second decorative ply is applied to the side of the metal layer facing away from the first decorative ply and structured using the metal layer as mask such that the first or second decorative ply is at least partially removed in the first or second zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Ludwig BREHM, Tibor MANNSFELD, Juri ATTNER, Thorsten SCHALLER
  • Publication number: 20180304668
    Abstract: A secure article including a revelation screen and a combined image, or a set comprising a secure article and another object. The secure article including one of the revelation screen and the combined image and the object comprising or making up the other of the revelation screen and the combined image. The combined image including a plurality of overlapping images. The combined image including a periodic alternation of overlapping image elements in a first direction. The revelation screen including a masking screen element alternating periodically with a non-masking screen element in a second direction. The size of the non-masking screen elements in the second direction is greater than the size, in the first direction, of at least one element of overlapping images, the revelation screen making it possible to observe various revealed images by moving the revelation screen in relation to the combined image and/or by changing the observation angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Philippe DIETEMANN
  • Publication number: 20180304669
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an image element array includes: providing a production tool having a surface pattern of ink-receptive elements spaced by areas which are not, the ink-receptive elements defining the array image elements; applying a multi-coloured first image formed of a inks to only the ink-receptive elements; and transferring only the portions of the multi-coloured first image corresponding to the image elements from the production tool to a substrate. An image element array is formed on the substrate. The production tool surface pattern is configured such that when viewing and image element arrays overlap, each viewing element within an image element array first region directs light from a respective image element or from a respective gap. The viewing angle in the first region directs light from either the array or the gaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: John GODFREY, Adam LISTER
  • Publication number: 20180304670
    Abstract: A method for producing a security element with a metallized optical diffraction structure in an embossed coating layer in which a coating layer is applied onto a support, then embossed and cured; structural depressions, structural elevations, and an optical diffraction structure are produced by embossing the coating layer, then a reflective layer is provided on the structural depressions and structural elevations of the embossed coating layer by means of metallization, and after that, this reflective layer is selectively demetallized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Sonja Landertshamer, Stephan Trassl
  • Publication number: 20180304671
    Abstract: A pen assembly press and its lever are disclosed. The lever is installed on either of the pressing mechanisms of the pen assembly press. The lever has a stopping component and particularly a resilient preloading component which consists of a resilient support component between the limiting component and the stopping component, allowing resilient preloading of the stopping component to a certain distance. Therefore, the pen assembly press can achieve greater quickness and accuracy in positioning, smoothness in adjusting operation, and convenience and improvement in using.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Yu-Chun LIU