Patents Issued in December 4, 2018
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Patent number: 10144189Abstract: A mold of a brake pad friction material, including a mold member fitted into a mold frame into which a powder material of the brake pad friction material is put, in which the mold member is configured such that a pressing surface in a surface of the mold member, which forms a region abutting the powder material put into a mold frame, has a concave shape that is formed by being gradually recessed from both end portion sides to a center portion side of the pressing surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Kasuya, Takuya Kitami, Motoyuki Miyaji, Michinori Yanagi
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Patent number: 10144190Abstract: A device for punching and scoring a medium includes a punch tool and a grooved score guide. The punch tool has a cutter configured to cut an edge of a sheet of the medium. The positioning edge is disposed on the device and configured to guide an edge of the medium and position the medium with respect to the punch tool. The grooved score guide is formed in the device and configured to match a scoring tool to create a score line in the medium. The arrangement between the punch tool and positioning edge is configured to cut a notch in the edge of the medium at a notch point. The grooved score line is disposed in relationship to the punch tool to create the score line in the medium from the notch point across the medium.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: American Crafts, L.C.Inventor: Tavnir John Carey
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Patent number: 10144191Abstract: The invention relates to a method, a device and packaging obtained by way of the method, for fitting at least one reinforcement at a given location on a cutout of cardboard sheet or corrugated cardboard suitable for forming the packaging. The blank is removed from a store with the aid of unstacking means comprising a longitudinal structure with a given shape, the blank is transferred horizontally above a template for forming said blank, the blank is compressed between the template and said longitudinal structure, the blank thus configured is transferred with glue being applied to the side edges and the blank thus glued is applied to the cutout at the given location so as to form the reinforcement of said packaging.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: OTORInventor: Franck Menegazzi
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Patent number: 10144192Abstract: A tape having a fully wound stable state and a fully unwound stable state, configured for space applications, the intermediate states between the fully wound state and the fully unwound state comprises a single continuous portion of wound tape with a first radius of curvature greater than a threshold value and a single continuous portion of unwound tape with a second radius of curvature less than the threshold value, the value of the second radius of curvature being continuous over the unwound portio; the tape comprises a stack comprising fibrous layers extending in a longitudinal direction, the resulting stack having symmetry with respect to a longitudinal plane of its fibres to compensate for torsional deformations generated by variations in temperature.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignees: THALES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, L'ECOLE CENTRALE DE MARSEILLEInventors: François Guinot, Stéphane Vezain, Didier Stanek, Yannick Baudasse, Stéphane Bourgeois, Pernelle Marone-Hitz
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Patent number: 10144193Abstract: A textile structure adapted to be electrically connected to an electronic device is provided. The textile structure includes a first fabric layer, a second fabric layer, and a third fabric layer. The second fabric layer is electrically conductive. The first, the second, and the third fabric layers are combined with each other, and the second fabric layer is located between the first and the third fabric layers. The third fabric layer has an opening covered by the second fabric layer, and a portion of the second fabric layer is exposed from the third fabric layer through the opening. The electronic device is electrically connected to the second fabric layer, and a junction between the electronic device and the second fabric layer is far away from the opening.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignees: Kinpo Electronics, Inc., Cal-Comp Electronics & Communications Company LimitedInventors: Koichi Haraikawa, Jen-Chien Chien, Tsai-Chieh Hsu, Chih-Wei Liu
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Patent number: 10144195Abstract: The invention provides unique releasable adhesive devices that are high-load bearing and highly stable while allowing adjustment of the weight-bearing angle in a wide range, thereby greatly expanding the scope of applications for technology. Adhesive systems and devices of the invention can be designed to fit applications ranging from household weight-bearing shelves and holders, components for transportation, athletic equipment, labels and advertising posts, automobile interior trims, permanent or reversible fasteners, as well as instruments and devices for industrial, commercial, medical or military applications.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: University of MassachusettsInventors: Alfred J. Crosby, Daniel R. King, Michael D. Bartlett, Duncan J. Irschick
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Patent number: 10144196Abstract: A steel sheet for hot pressing that is capable of suppressing formation of scales or ZnO in hot pressing and excellent in oxidation resistance, and a method for manufacturing a hot-pressed member using the steel sheet are provided. The steel sheet for hot pressing includes a base steel sheet and a plating layer that is formed on a surface of the base steel sheet at a coating weight of 10 to 90 g/m2 and contains 10 to 25% by mass of Ni and the balance Zn with inevitable impurities.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Seiji Nakajima, Tatsuya Miyoshi, Hiroki Nakamaru
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Patent number: 10144197Abstract: A precious metal sheet display includes a sheet of precious metal cut into a form, and a layer of ink on the sheet such that the ink, the metal, and the form together create a recognizable image.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: John Kent Lee
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Patent number: 10144198Abstract: A glass laminate structure comprising an external glass sheet and an internal glass sheet wherein one or both of the glass sheets comprises SiO2+B2O3+Al2O3?86.5 mol. %. and R2O—RO—Al2O3<about 5 mol. %. Exemplary glass sheet can comprise between about 69-80 mol. % SiO2, between about 6-12 mol. % Al2O3, between about 2-10 mol. % B2O3, between about 0-5 mol. % ZrO2, Li2O, MgO, ZnO and P2O5, between about 6-15 mol. % Na2O, between about 0-3 mol. % K2O and CaO, and between about 0-2 mol. % SnO2 to provide a mechanically robust and environmentally durable structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Jeffrey Scott Cites, Thomas Michael Cleary, James Gregory Couillard, Sinue Gomez, Michael John Moore, Robert Michael Morena, James Joseph Price, Charles Mitchel Sorensen, Jr., Jonathan Earl Walter
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Patent number: 10144199Abstract: The present invention provides a cellulose acylate film, containing: an organic acid satisfying requirements of a to c, in which a film thickness of the cellulose acylate film is greater than or equal to 3 ?m, and an average concentration of the organic acid in a region from one surface of the cellulose acylate film to a depth of 0 to 0.2 ?m is lower than an average concentration of the organic acid in a residual region other than the region: a: having a structure in which polyhydric alcohol and a polyvalent carboxylic acid are bonded by forming an ester bond; b: the total number of molecules of polyhydric alcohol and a monovalent or more carboxylic acid forming the organic acid being greater than or equal to 3; and c: having at least one non-substituted carboxyl group derived from a polyvalent carboxylic acid.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takashi Tamada, Koji Iijima, Nobuhiko Ichihara
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Patent number: 10144200Abstract: A fiber-reinforced composite material includes a bulk portion with a bulk matrix having reinforcing fibers embedded therein, and a surface portion with a plurality of laminated first layers serving as “expanding layers”, which expand and/or delaminate during fire impact. The surface portion also includes a plurality of laminated second layers different from the first layers and serving as “barrier layers”. The expanding layers and barrier layers can be arranged in an alternating sequence.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2012Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbHInventors: Hans Luinge, Matthias Schuett, Geoff Gibson
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Patent number: 10144201Abstract: A method including forming a bilayer polymer film having an oriented polypropylene film and a metallocene-catalyzed polypropylene film wherein the metallocene-catalyzed polypropylene film has a seal initiation temperature of from 80° C. to 130° C. A laminate including a biaxially oriented polypropylene film, a metallocene-catalyzed polypropylene film, and a substrate, wherein the metallocene-catalyzed polypropylene film is disposed between the biaxially oriented polypropylene film and the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: FINA TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Lea Ann Nairn, Marco Vinicio Araya Vargas
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Patent number: 10144202Abstract: In a packaging body provided with at least an inner layer composed of a thermal-adhesive polyolefin based resin and a barrier layer composed of a metal foil, in which metal terminals are sealed by the thermal-adhesive resin with unconnected ends of the metal terminals protruding outside, an adhesive sheet for sealing metal terminals of a flat electrochemical cell which is not only able to prevent a short circuit between the barrier layer and the metal terminals but high in a layer-to-layer adhesive strength and a low possibility of a reduction in battery performance to be caused due to invasion of moisture is provided. In the adhesive sheet for sealing a metal terminal part of a flat electrochemical cell according to the invention, a fibrous sheet or a porous sheet is covered by the inner layer and an acid-modified polyolefin based resin layer having adhesive properties.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2007Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO. LTD.Inventors: Youichi Mochizuki, Masataka Okushita, Hiroshisa Akita, Sumito Nishida
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Patent number: 10144203Abstract: An apparatus includes a first thermoset layer that includes a first fibrous material embedded in a first thermoset matrix. The apparatus also includes a second thermoset layer that includes a second fibrous material embedded in a second thermoset matrix. The second thermoset layer is coupled to the first thermoset layer to form a joint. Further, a gap is defined between the first thermoset layer and the second thermoset layer. The apparatus also includes a thermoplastic filler that is made from a thermoplastic material. The thermoplastic filler is positioned within the gap.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Gabriel Z. Forston, Christopher G. Harris, Joshua P. Tyndall, Hyukbong Kwon, Carolyn Schmidt
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Patent number: 10144204Abstract: Substrate comprising a discrete first layer comprising a first surface, an opposing second surface and a polymeric first material, wherein the first layer has a thickness of from about 1 micron to about 1000 microns and a hardness of from about 10 to about 80 on the Shore A scale; a discrete second layer comprising a first surface, an opposing second surface, and a second material, wherein the second layer has a hardness of from about 1 to about 70 on the Shore OOO scale and a thickness of from about 0.001 cm to about 2.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2007Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Pankaj Yadav Patil, Richard Tweddell, III, Saswati Datta
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Patent number: 10144205Abstract: An apparatus and method for making a three-dimensional object from a solidifiable material using a linear solidification device is shown and described. The apparatus includes a solidification substrate that is tiltable relative to a film about a tilting axis. Layers of the solidifiable material solidify in contact with a film located between the most recently solidified object layer and a solidification substrate that comprises the solidification substrate assembly. The tilting of the solidification substrate relative to the film allows the substrate to be used to squeeze excess solidifiable material from between the film and the most recently solidified object surface while minimizing or eliminating the formation of bubbles in the solidifiable material which can prolong object build times.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Global Filtration SystemsInventor: Ali El-Siblani
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Patent number: 10144206Abstract: A method of removing support material attached to an object printed with build material by a three-dimensional object printer achieves reliable removal of the support material in a short time. The method includes moving a first dry absorbent media into a volume within a vessel having at least one wall and moving the object into the volume of the vessel. The vessel is agitated to enable the first dry absorbent media to dislodge and absorb the support material from the object, and the first dry absorbent media is moved from the volume of the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Paul M. Fromm, Jeffrey J. Bradway, Timothy J. Clark, Jorge M. Rodriguez
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Patent number: 10144207Abstract: A three-dimensional printing apparatus is disclosed has one or more troughs for receiving excess deposited particulate. Such troughs may be positioned to receive the excess deposited particulate into a particulate receiving chamber of the trough. An evacuation chamber is located at the bottom of each trough. A partition separates the evacuation chamber from the receiving chamber of the trough. The partition is selectively perforated to permit a desired amount of the particulate to flow into the evacuation chamber from the receiving chamber. The evacuation chamber is connected to a vacuum source to periodically or continuously draw ambient gas from a gas inlet to the evacuation chamber and/or from the receiving chamber through the perforations of the partition and then through the evacuation chamber toward the vacuum source to entrain an amount of the particulate and carry the entrained particulate out of the evacuation chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: The ExOne CompanyInventors: Daniel T. Brunermer, Anthony S. Dugan, Thomas Lizzi
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Patent number: 10144208Abstract: A method for detecting a characteristic of a forming material and a three-dimensional printing apparatus are provided. The three-dimensional printing apparatus includes a tank filled with a liquid forming material, and the method includes the following. The tank is controlled to swing to cause a wave motion on a liquid surface of the liquid forming material. The wave motion of the liquid forming material is detected to obtain detection waveform information. The detection waveform information and sample waveform information are compared with each other to obtain a characteristic comparison result. A predefined operation is executed according to the characteristic comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignees: XYZprinting, Inc., Kinpo Electronics, Inc., Cal-Comp Electronics & Communications Company LimitedInventor: Ming-Hsiung Ding
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Patent number: 10144209Abstract: A security paper printing machine has a printing unit comprising at least one imaging cylinder, at the printing point of which, the printing point, in sections, of passing printing material, in a cycle of a fixed printing length with respect to the printing material feed to the printing point, can be printed with print images of a same print image length. A dryer device has a dryer comprising one or a multi-part drying unit that, in the printing material path, is downstream of the printing point. Printing materials passing through the dryer can be subjected to radiation for the purpose of drying the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AGInventors: Sebastian Franz, Michael Scheller
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Patent number: 10144210Abstract: There is described a method of increasing the output of a transfer film (1) upon embossing, in particular hot embossing, wherein the transfer film (1) has a carrier film (1a) and a transfer layer portion (1b) which is releasable from the carrier film (1a). During a first embossing operation first regions (10) of the transfer layer portion (1b) which are arranged removed from each other at a spacing a are transferred by means of a first embossing tool from the transfer film (1) onto at least one substrate (2), wherein first openings (10a) are produced at the spacing a in the transfer layer portion (1b) of the transfer film (1). After the first embossing operation the transfer film (1) is wound up after the first embossing operation and fed to at least a further embossing operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: LEONHARD KURZ STIFTUNG & CO. KGInventors: Ljubisa Drinic, Ralf Friedmann
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Patent number: 10144211Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to front-to-back registration of a printed content onto a print medium. In one example, a trigger signal generated by a sensor upon detection of a trigger mark on a first surface of a print medium is received. The trigger mark includes a leading edge and a trailing edge, wherein the leading edge and the trailing edge are non-parallel. Based on the trigger signal, a distance of the trailing edge from a point on the leading edge is determined. Once determined, a measure of lateral wander of the print medium with respect to the print path is obtained. The measure of the lateral wander is determined by comparing the distance between the leading edge and the trailing edge, with a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Cesar Fernandez, Srinivas Bhakthavatsalam, Carlos Millan
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Patent number: 10144212Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink formulation comprising two-dimensional inorganic layered particles. The ink formulations of the present invention are for inkjet printing. The present invention also relates to a process for the preparation of these ink formulations, to the use of these ink formulations for the production of printed films and tracks comprising the inorganic material, to the films or tracks produced by the inkjet printing these ink formulations, and to devices that comprise these films or tracks.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: The University of ManchesterInventors: Cinzia Casiraghi, Veronica Sanchez Romaguera
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Patent number: 10144213Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a liquid discharge device, a carriage, and a controller. The liquid discharge device includes a first nozzle row to discharge a first liquid to form an image and a second nozzle row to discharge a second liquid of a type different from the first liquid. The carriage is mounted with the liquid discharge device and reciprocally movable in a main scanning direction. The controller is configured to control the liquid discharge device to discharge the second liquid onto a region of a medium including another region onto which the first liquid is discharged. The controller includes a control unit to control the liquid discharge device to discharge the second liquid from the second nozzle row in both of forward movement and backward movement of the carriage and discharge the first liquid from the first nozzle row in one of the forward movement and the backward movement.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichiroh Hashimoto, Masahiro Kido
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Patent number: 10144214Abstract: In a control device, a controller is configured to perform: acquiring target image data; and controlling a printer to execute a first forming process forming dots on a first scanning range and a second forming process forming dots on a second scanning range. The first scanning range overlaps the second scanning range at an overlapping area. The overlapping area includes a first position corresponding to a first pixel and a second position corresponding to a second pixel. In a case where both a first pixel value and a second pixel value indicate forming a dot and the target image data satisfies a condition requiring that density in a region including the first pixel is equal to or more than a reference, the first forming process forms a dot at the first position and the second forming process forms a dot at both the first position and the second position.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasunari Yoshida
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Patent number: 10144215Abstract: An inkjet print head includes an ejection unit having a liquid chamber for holding an amount of liquid, a electromechanical transducer operatively coupled to the liquid chamber for generating a pressure wave in the amount of liquid and a nozzle in fluid communication with the liquid chamber for enabling a droplet of the amount of liquid to be ejected through the nozzle. A method for detecting an operating state of the ejection unit includes the consecutive steps of actuating the electromechanical transducer to generate a pressure wave in the liquid; actuating the electromechanical transducer to suppress a residual pressure wave in the liquid; sensing an amplitude of the residual pressure wave in the liquid; and based on the result of the sensing step determining that the ejection unit is (i) in an operative state if the amplitude of the residual pressure wave is below a threshold or (ii) in a malfunctioning state if the amplitude of the residual pressure wave is above the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Marko Mihailovic, Tjerk E. C. Hummel, Johannes M. M. Simons, Hylke Veenstra, Cornelis W. M. Venner, Amol A. Khalate
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Patent number: 10144216Abstract: A method for managing the quality of an ink of an inkjet printer versus temperature resorting to the management of the viscosity of the ink versus temperature, the ink comprising a solvent or a mixture of solvents and the solvent or mixture of solvents representing at least 50% by mass of the total mass of the ink, wherein the viscosity of the ink at a temperature T is calculated from the following parameters: the viscosity of the ink at a single reference temperature Tref; the parameters K or Ln(K), and ?E/R of equation (1) giving the viscosity of the solvent or of the mixture of solvents: Ln (viscosity of the solvent)=Ln(K)?E/RT (1) wherein E is the Arrhenius activation energy given in J/mol and R is the ideal gas constant.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: MARKEM-IMAJE HOLDINGInventor: Pierre De Saint Romain
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Patent number: 10144217Abstract: Gas is ejected toward a region between a liquid ejection head and a recording medium so as to enlarge and stabilize a vortex generated by an airflow generated by liquid droplets ejected from ejection ports. Accordingly, an airflow turbulence generated between the liquid ejection head and the recording medium is reduced and displacements of positions at which the liquid droplets are applied due to the airflow turbulence are reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Arihito Miyakoshi, Ken Tsuchii, Nobuhito Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Arimizu, Yumi Komamiya, Koichi Ishida
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Patent number: 10144218Abstract: A flow path member includes a plurality of flow paths including a first flow path, a filter chamber which communicates with the first flow path and is provided with a filter, and a second flow path which communicates with the filter chamber, in which the filter is disposed so that a direction including a direction where liquid of the first flow path or the second flow path flows is a surface direction, and in which a plurality of filter chambers are disposed at positions where at least the filter chambers partially overlap each other in a normal direction with respect to the surface direction of the filter.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Fumiya Takino
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Patent number: 10144219Abstract: In a liquid discharge head, a third discharge port array group C1 which discharges a liquid of cyan, a second discharge port array group M1 which discharges a liquid of magenta, a fourth discharge port array group G which discharges a liquid of gray, a first discharge port array group Y which discharges a liquid of yellow, a second discharge port array group M2 which discharges a liquid of magenta, a third discharge port array group C2 which discharges a liquid of cyan are arranged in this order, in a direction. Each of discharge port arrays of the fourth discharge port array group G is formed of a plurality of discharge ports having a diameter smaller than that of a plurality of discharge ports which constitute first discharge port arrays of the second and third discharge port array groups C1, C2, M1 and M2.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Sayaka Seki, Yuichiro Akama, Yuji Tamaru, Naoko Tsujiuchi
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Patent number: 10144220Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a pressure chamber substrate on which a plurality of spaces as pressure chambers are formed along a first direction; a nozzle substrate on which a plurality of nozzles which eject liquid are formed by corresponding to the pressure chamber; and a flow path substrate on which a plurality of communicating holes which communicate with the nozzle and the pressure chamber which corresponds to the nozzle are formed between the pressure chamber substrate and the nozzle substrate, in which both ends of each pressure chamber in a second direction are formed by being aligned at a predetermined position in the second direction, the nozzles which are adjacent in the first direction are formed so that positions thereof in the second direction are different, and the communicating holes which are adjacent in the first direction are formed so that positions in the second direction are different.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Shunya Fukuda
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Patent number: 10144221Abstract: To provide a printing apparatus and a method for determining a service life of a cleaning mechanism, capable of more accurately determining a service life of a cleaning mechanism. For the purpose, a service life of a recovery unit is determined by multiplication of a number of times a blade wipes a face surface by a coefficient different depending on a quantity of liquid adhering to the face surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.Inventors: Yuta Nakanishi, Kazuki Sakamoto
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Patent number: 10144222Abstract: A printing system comprising two or more groups of ink, wherein each group of ink includes ink based upon a unique formulation. This enables a user to select an ink type for printing an image without requiring extra printers or replacement of printing components. Additionally, the user can print a single image using inks of two different base formulations. The system comprises at least two groups of ink storage containers, each group containing a group of ink volumes, each group of ink volumes having a unique ink base formulation. The system further comprises at least two groups of ink formulation specific print heads, each group being associated with the compatible ink formulation. A controller enables the user to selectively print an image using ink having one or more ink base formulations. The system can use any configuration of ink storage configurations and print heads arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: Shahar Turgeman
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Patent number: 10144223Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid inflow unit provided in the liquid supply path which supplies a liquid to a liquid ejecting unit and into which the liquid flows, a liquid accommodation unit having a diaphragm section, a communication path through which the liquid inflow part and the liquid accommodation part communicate, and a pressure-regulating mechanism having an on-off valve which opens and closes the communication path in response to displacement of the diaphragm portion, and a pressing mechanism which puts the on-off valve in an open state regardless of the pressure in the liquid inflow unit by pressing the diaphragm portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masahiko Sato, Hitotoshi Kimura
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Patent number: 10144224Abstract: A thermal head according to the disclosure includes: a substrate; a heat generating section disposed on the substrate; an electrode disposed on the substrate so as to be electrically connected to the heat generating section; a protective layer which covers the heat generating section and part of the electrode, the protective layer being formed of an inorganic material; a cover layer disposed on the protective layer, the cover layer being formed of a resin material; and inorganic particles disposed on a surface of the protective layer so as to protrude from the surface. Moreover, the inorganic particles each comprise a first portion located inside the cover layer and a second portion located inside the protective layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Yuuki Matsusaki, Masashi Yoneta
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Patent number: 10144225Abstract: A detection segment for use in a device for printing on containers includes an image-capturing device that optically detects a container feature and a sensor interface that interfaces with a sensor that uses a code provided on a retaining-and-centering unit that holds a container to determine a rotational position of that container. A computer connects to the image-capturing device and the sensor unit. The computer determines an alignment variable based on the code and the detected container feature and then forwards this alignment variable to a printer segment on a printer module.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: KHS GmbHInventors: Sascha Koers, Michael Nick, Katrin Preckel
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Patent number: 10144226Abstract: A digital inkjet flatbed printer having a separate laser processing machine includes a laser processing machine and a digital inkjet printer. The laser processing machine is provided with a laser output module and a laser processing platform. The digital inkjet printer includes an inkjet output module and an inkjet operating platform. The inkjet operating platform is capable of movably ascending from and descending onto the digital inkjet printer. Thus, when the inkjet operating platform is descended, the laser processing machine is movably connected to the inkjet operating platform, such that the laser output module of the laser processing machine and the inkjet output module of the digital inkjet printer are on the laser processing platform of the laser processing machine and sequentially used for laser processing and inkjet printing respectively.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: GREAT COMPUTER CORPORATIONInventors: Chen-Chien Tsai, Hui-Te Yu
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Patent number: 10144227Abstract: A recording substrate treatment apparatus includes transporting mechanism for transporting a sheet of a recording substrate through a first chamber in the interior space of the recording substrate treatment apparatus; a first suction device arranged for removing a gaseous medium from the first chamber; and an impingement device, arranged for providing a first flow of the gaseous medium at the outer surface of the transporting mechanism. The first suction device is fluidly connected to the impingement device, such that in operation the impingement device receives a first flow of the gaseous medium from the first suction device. With this arrangement, the impingement flow is balanced with an air flow directly extracted from the first chamber of the recording substrate treatment apparatus. A printing system including such a recording substrate treatment apparatus and a method of drying a recording substrate using such a recording substrate recording apparatus are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Hendrikus G. M. Ramackers, Albert M. Van Beek
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Patent number: 10144228Abstract: In one example, a media guide for use in a printer having a print bar and a print zone adjacent to the print bar includes a movable blocker downstream from the print zone along a media path and movable though a range of motion to block print media from leaving the media path when exiting the print zone.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Timothy Jacob Luedeman, Kevin Lo, Wesley R. Schalk
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Patent number: 10144229Abstract: The tape cartridge is attached or detached in an attaching and detaching direction to or from the tape printing device including a detecting portion for reading specification information of the tape cartridge from a detected portion by irradiating the detected portion disposed in the tape cartridge with detection light. The tape cartridge includes the detected portion disposed on a wall surface in the attaching and detaching direction; and a fitting portion that is disposed on a wall surface on a rear side in a mounting direction. The detected portion is disposed at a position facing the detecting portion when being mounted.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masahiro Oida, Hideki Sakano
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Patent number: 10144230Abstract: The present invention provides a mechanism that improves accuracy for positioning a head relative to a carriage, and easily performs positional adjustment for the head. A carriage unit includes a first carriage structure and a second carriage structure. The first carriage structure includes a first sliding face that can slide along a guide shaft, and a head can be mounted on the first carriage structure. The second carriage structure includes a second sliding face that can slide along the guide shaft, and can hold the first carriage structure to allow positional adjustment for the first carriage structure in a predetermined direction in which a position where the first sliding face contacts the guide shaft is to be shifted.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeshi Sekino, Koichi Kudaki, Ryoma Arai
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Patent number: 10144231Abstract: A carriage includes: a base plate; a liquid jet head including a support plate attached to the base plate; a first engagement portion formed on one end in a Y direction of the support plate; a fixing tool for positioning and fixing the support plate with respect to the base plate, the fixing tool being fixed to the base plate slidably in an X direction by screws and engaged with the first engagement portion; and a flat spring portion that presses the fixing tool toward the base plate. The fixing tool allows movement in the Y direction of the first engagement portion with respect to the fixing tool, and restricts movement in the X direction of the first engagement portion and movement in a thickness direction of the base plate of the first engagement portion with respect to the fixing tool.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.Inventor: Yuichiro Hamano
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Patent number: 10144232Abstract: A printer includes: a media support defining a media feed path; and a pagewide printing unit for printing onto media fed along the media feed path. The printing unit includes: a maintenance chassis fixedly positioned over the media feed path, the maintenance chassis having a maintenance module fixedly mounted thereto; a print bar chassis movably mounted on the maintenance chassis, the print bar chassis including a print module having a printhead; and a lift mechanism for raising and lowering the print bar chassis relative to the maintenance chassis between a maintenance position a printing position. The printhead extends and retracts through a space defined by the maintenance module in the printing and maintenance positions, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Memjet Technology Ltd.Inventors: Mark Profaca, David Burke, Billy Sy, Gilbert Alemana, Christopher Hibbard, Rommel Balala
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Patent number: 10144233Abstract: A gap adjustment method of an ink jet device includes a head unit with an ink discharge port that discharges ink, a carriage that is provided with the head unit and moves in a main scanning direction, a print medium provided with a gap with respect to the ink discharge port, and a gap driving unit that adjusts a length of the gap. The gap adjustment method includes a discharging process (step ST4) and a gap adjusting process (step ST5 to step ST56). In the discharging process (step ST4), ink is discharged in each of a forward path and a backward path while reciprocating the carriage in the main scanning direction. In the gap adjusting process, a forward path landing position and a backward path landing position, and an optimum landing position determined in advance are compared, and the length of the gap is adjusted with the gap driving unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventor: Akihiro Onodera
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Patent number: 10144234Abstract: An example disclosed media processing device includes a consumable support assembly including a consumable support body, the consumable support body configured for manipulation between a first open position and a first closed position; a printhead assembly movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position, the printhead assembly positioned between a consumable supply spool and a consumable take-up spool in response to the consumable support body being in the closed position; and a lid movable between a second open position and a second closed position, wherein the lid is configured to, when in the closed position: engage the consumable support assembly in the first closed position; and preclude the consumable support assembly from being moved to the first open position.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: ZIH Corp.Inventors: Daniel E. Perry, Stephen L. Ijams, Keath Jason Lawson Irizarry, Robert D. Hunter, Caleb J. Bryant
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Patent number: 10144235Abstract: A RIP device which receives image data and print media designation from a PC performs a data generating process by adopting a process parameter corresponding to the designated print media among process parameters stored in a loop-up table (LUT). A printer performs a printing process by adopting a printing parameter corresponding to the designated print media among the printing parameters stored in the LUT. The process parameter and the printing parameter are associated by a media number which is applied by a management server.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Tamiya, Ryosuke Kasamatsu
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Patent number: 10144236Abstract: The present invention provides a printing system with an apparatus for defect detection comprising a sensing unit for sensing a surface geometry or topology of a sheet and for generating data representative of that surface geometry or topology, a processor device for processing the data to detect and classify deformations, and a controller for controlling further progress of the sheet along the transport path of the printing system in dependence upon the deformations detected and classified by the processor device. Furthermore, the invention provides a corresponding method of detecting defects in a printing system.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Catharinus Van Acquoij, Daisuke Kawaguchi, Roy H. R. Jacobs, Ernest J. J. Clevers
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Patent number: 10144237Abstract: The invention relates to a method for printing objects, in particular containers, wherein the containers are transported along a specified transport path, and the outer surface of the containers is printed at least temporarily by means of at least one printing unit, wherein a controller controls the printing of the containers by means of the at least one printing unit on the basis of at least one printing parameter. According to the invention, at least one object to be printed is printed with at least one test marking in order to ascertain the printing parameter, and the object provided with the test marking is then inspected by means of at least one inspection device, wherein the printing parameter is derived from the result of the inspection.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: KRONES AGInventors: Andreas Sonnauer, Florian Lauterbach, Peter Lindner
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Patent number: 10144238Abstract: A laser markable composition includes (a) an aqueous medium; (b) a leuco dye; (c) an optothermal converting agent; and (d) a color developing agent, characterized in that the color developing agent is a polymer particle capable of forming an acid upon exposure to heat.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: AGFA-GEVAERTInventors: Dirk Kokkelenberg, Lionel Petton, Johan Loccufier, Fabienne Goethals
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Patent number: 10144239Abstract: A laser markable composition includes (a) an aqueous medium; (b) polymeric particles dispersed in the aqueous medium; (c) a color developing agent or color developing agent precursor; and (d) an optothermal converting agent; characterized in that a leuco dye is covalently bonded to the polymeric particles.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: AGFA-GEVAERTInventors: Hubertus Van Aert, Johan Loccufier, Dirk Kokkelenberg