Patents Issued in December 6, 2018
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Publication number: 20180345682Abstract: In a method for applying an image onto a recording medium, a print can be created that has a gloss similar to the gloss of the recording medium. The method includes selecting a recording medium; determining the gloss level of the selected medium; selecting curing settings based on the determined gloss level; applying an image onto the recording medium by ejecting a predetermined pattern of droplets of ink onto the recording medium; and curing the ink according to the selected curing settings, thereby obtaining a cured image having the determined gloss level. A printer is configured for applying an image onto a recording medium according to the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: Océ Holding B.V.Inventors: Wilhelmus J.E.G. VERHOFSTAD, Cornelis P.M. VAN HEIJST
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Publication number: 20180345683Abstract: A printer includes an ultraviolet (UV) curing device having UV light emitting diodes (LEDs) to cure UV curable inks ejected onto a surface after the surface travels past a plurality of printheads in the printer. A UV detector having UV sensors is positioned opposite the UV curing device so the UV sensors and UV LEDs are opposite one another in a one-to-one correspondence. A controller operates the UV curing device to direct UV light into the UV detector and receives electrical signals generated by the UV sensors. The controller compares these electrical signals to a predetermined threshold to identify defective LEDs in the UV curing device. The controller then determines how to move the UV curing device across the path of the surface to irradiate areas of the surface previously opposite the defective UV LEDs.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Anthony S. Condello, Jack T. LeStrange, Xin Yang, Mandakini Kanungo, Peter J. Knausdorf
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Publication number: 20180345684Abstract: A dual nip release mechanism includes: a rigid actuator body including a tail portion with a handle and a pivotally-mounted head portion having a nose member extending therefrom; a rocker arm pivotally mounted about a rocker arm shaft, the rocker arm having a proximal end for engagement with part of the nose member and a distal end engaged with a first shaft; and legs hingedly connected to the tail portion, each leg having a foot engaged with a second shaft and a heel for camming engagement with a fixed plate. During use, actuation of the handle causes simultaneous movement of the first and second shafts from a nip closed position to a nip open position via pivoting of the rocker arm and simultaneous camming engagement of the heel with the fixed plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventor: Dan Baterna
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Publication number: 20180345685Abstract: The transfer material has a laminated structure in which a base material sheet, a transparent sheet, and a coloring material-receiving layer are laminated in the stated order, in which: the coloring material-receiving layer contains inorganic fine particles and a water-soluble resin; the transparent sheet contains at least two kinds of emulsions including an emulsion E1 and an emulsion E2; and the emulsion E1 has a glass transition temperature Tg1 of more than 50° C. and less than 90° C., the emulsion E2 has a glass transition temperature Tg2 of 90° C. or more and 120° C. or less, and at least the emulsion E2 remains in a particle state in the transparent sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Yusuke Sumikawa, Takahiro Tsutsui
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Publication number: 20180345686Abstract: An inkjet printing device includes a transport system for transporting a rigid multilayered substrate in a print direction and a support plane; a dryer, attached to a first gantry which is positioned over the transport system and perpendicular to the print direction, for immobilizing a jetted ink layer in a drying zone; and a push down mechanism for the rigid multilayered substrate against the transport system, arranged at least in the drying zone. The push down mechanism includes a bar which is positioned parallel and elongated to the print direction and mounted parallel to the support plane above the transport system. The bar is maintained on a second and third gantry by a maintainer on each gantry and positioned over the transport system at each side of the first gantry and perpendicular to the print direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Luc DE ROECK, Jurgen VAN DORPE
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Publication number: 20180345687Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a medium in a transport direction by rotating while pinching the medium, a support portion that is disposed on a downstream side of the transport unit in the transport direction and that has a support surface that supports the medium transported by the transport unit, a printing unit that is disposed opposite the support portion and that is capable of printing an image and a mark on the medium, and a detection unit that detects the mark printed on the medium by the printing unit when printing on both surfaces of the medium is performed, where the detection unit is disposed on a downstream side of the transport unit in the transport direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Yoshitsugu TOKAI, Hiroki AOKI, Takehito WASHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20180345688Abstract: Convex portions formed on a sheet of paper by a forming section are maintained in a favorable condition and good recording quality is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Hikari SHOMURA, Kazunori MORI
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Publication number: 20180345689Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a frame; a platen; a moving mechanism having a first roller, a second roller, and a supporting member rotatably supporting the first and second rollers; a motor; a transmitting mechanism connected to the motor and the moving mechanism; a clutch provided on the transmitting mechanism; a sensor detecting a position of the moving mechanism; and a controller. The controller executes: starting driving of the motor so that the motor is rotated toward the other direction in a state that conveyance of the print medium by an external apparatus is stopped and that the clutch is in a connected state; performing determination as to whether the moving mechanism is located at an end, on a second side in the specified direction, of the moving range; and stopping the rotation of the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventor: Kazuma Hojo
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Publication number: 20180345690Abstract: A printer comprises a housing which is composed of a box-shaped main body section with an opening on one surface thereof and a cover for opening and closing the opening of the main body section and forming a paper discharge port between the cover and the main body section at the time the cover is located at a position to close the opening; a storage section houses a roll paper; a printing section carries out printing on the paper; a cutter which has a cutting edge used to cut the paper; a support section which supports the cutter in a manner of freely moving between a use position at the time of cutting the paper by the cutting edge and a non-use position close to an edge of the paper discharge port with respect to the use position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventor: Satoshi Kitahara
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Publication number: 20180345691Abstract: A printer includes a printing mechanism configured to print on a printing object held by a holder, a reciprocating mechanism configured to move the holder in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction, and controller circuitry configured to control the printing mechanism and the reciprocating mechanism. When the controller circuitry executes a superimposed printing on the printing object, the controller circuitry causes the printing mechanism to execute a pre-printing process and a post-printing process that prints on the image printed by the pre-printing process while the holder is moved in the first direction from a waiting position, and the controller circuitry causes the reciprocating mechanism to stop a movement of the holder for a predetermined time period after the pre-printing process is terminated and the holder has returned to the waiting position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventor: Satoshi KUNIOKA
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Publication number: 20180345692Abstract: When a wave shape is formed in a sheet of paper, a suppression of a reduction in recording quality that is caused by a shape of the paper is achieved, and thus, favorable recording quality is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Hikari SHOMURA, Kazunori MORI
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Publication number: 20180345693Abstract: When a sheet ejector ejects an unsuitable sheet from a transport path in a printing system, additional sheets downstream of said unsuitable sheet are generally discharged to preserve the image order as prescribed by the print instructions. This results in large amounts of waste material (sheets and ink). The amount of waste may be reduced by providing a controller which, when receiving print instructions concerning a first and a second set of images, schedules the images of the first and second sets into an alternating image sequence defining the print order. Sheets printed with images from the first set are designated to a first output holder while sheets printed with images from the second set are transported to the second output holder. When a sheet for the second image set is rejected, the first image set need not be discharged, resulting in a reduced amount of waste material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: Océ Holding B.V.Inventors: Kevin H.J.R. PRINSEN, Rob J.E. LOOIJMANS
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Publication number: 20180345694Abstract: A printer includes a corrugating section disposed on an upstream side of a line head, the corrugating section being configured to alternately form crests and troughs in a sheet in a width direction which intersects a medium transport direction, a relaxing section that can be switched between a relaxing position in which the corrugations formed by the corrugating section are relaxed and a maintaining position in which the corrugations are maintained with respect to the sheet on a downstream side of the line head between the line head and branch points of transport paths and a controller configured to control the switching of the relaxing section between the relaxing position and the maintaining position. The controller switches the relaxing section depending on a transport destination of the recorded sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Hikari SHOMURA, Kazunori MORI, Satoshi NEGISHI
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Publication number: 20180345695Abstract: A printing device includes a main body including a printing unit for printing on a material, and a winding unit for winding a printed material; and a moving device provided in the main body and configured to allow the winding unit to reciprocate between an outlet space of the printing unit and an inlet space thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventor: Kyung-Won MIN
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Publication number: 20180345696Abstract: A large format printer performs serial printing on a medium which is greater than or equal to A3 short side width. The large format printer includes a print head which performs printing in accordance with variations in a drive voltage signal which is applied to a drive element, a control circuit which generates a drive signal (an example of the drive voltage signal), and a cable which is greater than or equal to 1 m and transmits a power voltage signal (an example of a constant voltage signal) and the drive voltage for driving the print head from the control circuit to the print head. An overshooting prevention circuit which renders a voltage (a drive voltage) of the drive signal which is applied to the drive element less than or equal to a voltage (a power voltage) of the power voltage signal is disposed in the print head.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventor: Kazushi Kodaira
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Publication number: 20180345697Abstract: A printing assembly includes: a print chassis having a fixed sleeve and a print module slidably and releasably mounted in a respective sleeve. The print module has a supply module and replaceable printhead cartidge, the printhead cartridge being slidably and releasably mounted to the supply module. The printhead cartridge is removable from the print module only when the print module is released from the fixed sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Mark Profaca, David Burke, Billy Sy, Gilbert Alemana, Christopher Hibbard, Rommel Balala
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Publication number: 20180345698Abstract: 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 fixing unit which fixes a position of the driving substrate with respect to a position of the ejecting unit. 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: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Kentaro TANABE, Kenji KOJIMA
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Publication number: 20180345699Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a frame; a casing; a thermal head; a platen; a moving mechanism supported by the frame; a motor; a transmitting mechanism; a sensor detecting a position of the moving mechanism; a communication interface; and a controller. The controller is configured to: perform determination as to whether the moving mechanism is located at a reference position; perform determination as to whether a print signal is received from the external apparatus; and selectively execute one of first processing and second processing in accordance with results of these two determinations. The controller selectively executes the first processing when the moving mechanism is not located at the reference position and the print signal is received; and the controller selectively executes the second processing when the moving mechanism is located at the reference position and the print signal is received.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventor: Kazuma Hojo
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Publication number: 20180345700Abstract: There is provided a bracket of a printing apparatus including a thermal head and a platen and performing printing on a print medium. The bracket includes a frame; a moving mechanism supported to be movable with respect to the frame in a specified direction; a motor provided on the frame; a transmitting mechanism connected to the motor and to the moving mechanism; and an encoder which outputs a signal in accordance with movement of the moving mechanism. The moving mechanism includes: a first roller positioned, with respect to the platen facing the thermal head, on an upstream side of a conveyance path of the print medium; a second roller positioned, with respect to the platen, on a downstream side of the conveyance path; and a supporting member which rotatably supports the first roller and the second roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventor: Kazuma Hojo
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Publication number: 20180345701Abstract: An example of the disclosed printer includes a ribbon cover configured to move between an opened ribbon position for providing access to the ribbon supply and a closed ribbon position. The ribbon cover including a slidable opening mechanism The printer further includes a media cover configured to move between an opened media position for providing access to a media supply and a closed media position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Richard J. Preliasco, Roy P. Lyman
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Publication number: 20180345702Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus including: an image forming unit that forms a first image containing a first liquid and a coloring material on a transfer body; and a liquid absorbing device including a liquid absorbing member having a porous body coming in contact with the first image to at least partially absorb the first liquid from the first image, and a cleaning member coming in contact with the porous body to clean the porous body wherein surface free energy Y1 of the transfer body, surface free energy Y2 of the porous body, surface free energy Y3 of the cleaning member, and a dispersion force component Yd of surface free energy of the first image satisfy the following Equation (1): |Yd,?Y3|<|Yd,?Y1|<|Yd,?Y2|??(1).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Kyosuke Deguchi, Toru Yamane, Atsushi Sakamoto, Satoshi Masuda, Yoshiyuki Honda, Ryosuke Hirokawa, Akihiro Mouri, Toru Ohnishi, Noboru Toyama
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Publication number: 20180345703Abstract: Example systems and related methods may provide improved defect detection and resolution for a plurality of printing devices. An example method includes receiving information indicative of at least one aspect of a printing device from among a plurality of printing devices. The plurality of printing devices is communicatively coupled to a server. Each printing device of the plurality of printing devices includes a sensor configured to provide information indicative of at least one aspect of the respective printing device. The method also includes, based on the received information, accumulating, at the server, historical data corresponding to the at least one aspect of the plurality of printing devices. The method yet further includes comparing the accumulated historical data with model reference data. The method additionally includes, based on the comparison, determining highlighted data and causing a display device to display the highlighted data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Oleksandr Osadchyy, Tetsuji Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20180345704Abstract: A re-inking device and a method of re-inking a tape include use of an application mechanism, where at least a part of the tape is wound onto each of first and second spools, and the tape extends between the first and spools along a tape path, the first and second spools being mounted to a cassette of a thermal printing apparatus. The method can include mounting the cassette on the re-inking device, initialising the re-inking device by moving at least one of the tape and the application portion to bring the tape into an ink-application position, and coating at least a portion of the tape with ink by supplying ink to the application portion and rotating at least one of the first and second spools to move the tape relative to the application portion, so that ink coats at least a portion of the tape.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Mohammed Jamal Toudmeri, Simon Starkey
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Publication number: 20180345705Abstract: Card substrate printers, such as credential production devices, are generally configured to print images to plastic substrates to form identification cards, driver's licenses, credit cards, and other items. The image printing process that is performed by the printer may be a direct-to-card printing operation, in which a print unit prints an image directly to a surface of the substrate. Alternatively, the image printing process may involve a reverse-image printing process, during which a print unit prints an image to an intermediate substrate, such as a transfer film, and the printed image is transferred from the intermediate substrate to a surface of the card substrate to complete the printing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventor: Brent Lien
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Publication number: 20180345706Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus, including: a base; a thermal head including heating elements arranged in a first direction; a first engagement member; a second engagement member configured to engage with the first engagement member such that the thermal head pivotally moves, relative to the base, around a first axis extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; a head holding member being slidable with respect to the base in a third direction intersecting with the first direction and the second direction and holding the thermal head such that the heating elements face the third direction; a first magnetic member positioned on a first side in the first direction relative to the first engagement member; a second magnetic member positioned on the first side in the first direction relative to the second engagement member; and a head pressing member facing the head holding member from a first side in the third direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventor: Yasutoshi Kano
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Publication number: 20180345707Abstract: Aspects are directed to printing a garment and include a method having steps of providing a fabric panel containing polyester, applying an ink layer to a first area of the fabric panel, curing the ink layer, and applying a sublimation dye to the first area and a different second area of the fabric panel. Application of the sublimation dye causes the first area and the second area to have different color saturations. Other aspects include a garment with a fabric panel containing polyester that has a first surface with a first area and a different second area. The garment also includes an ink layer on the first surface and located at the first area and a sublimation dye absorbed by a portion of the fabric panel at the second area and on a surface of the ink layer at the first area.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Louie LaBonte, Scott Mon, Tiffany Peterson
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Publication number: 20180345708Abstract: Techniques or processes for providing markings on products are disclosed. In one embodiment, the products have housings and the markings are to be provided on sub-surfaces of the housings. For example, a housing for a particular product can include an outer housing surface and the markings can be provided on a sub-surface of the outer housing surface yet still be visible from the outside of the housing. Since the markings are beneath the surface of the housing, the markings are durable.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Michael S. Nashner, John T. Payne, Jody R. Akana
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Publication number: 20180345709Abstract: A method of manufacturing a packaging, optionally preprinted by flexo or offset, includes the steps of applying one or more laser markable compositions on at least a part of a packaging, and forming a colour image by laser marking the one or more applied laser markable compositions, characterized in that the laser markable compositions include a leucodye, a developing agent or developing agent precursor, and optionally an optothermal converting agent. The method is especially suited for manufacturing a packaging selected from the group consisting of a food packaging, a drink packaging, a cosmetical packaging and a pharmaceutical packaging.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Johan LOCCUFIER, Fabienne GOETHALS, Dirk KOKKELENBERG, Hubertus VAN AERT
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Publication number: 20180345710Abstract: To provide a heat-sensitive recording material which produces images with excellent resistance to water, while producing background with resistance to heat. A heat-sensitive recording material which is characterized by containing at least one compound represented by general formula (1) as a color-developing compound: wherein, R1-R5 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group, an amino group, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkylcarbonyloxy group, an arylcarbonyloxy group, an alkylcarbonylamino group, an arylcarbonylamino group, an alkylsulfonylamino group, an arylsulfonylamino group, a monoalkylamino group, a dialkylamino group or an arylamino group.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Kyohei Miyanaga, Takaaki Kurata
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Publication number: 20180345711Abstract: Laser-imageable flexographic printing plates and a method of making same are disclosed. A thin masking layer comprising insoluble particles is laminated to a photopolymer layer. The insoluble particles in the masking layer roughen the photopolymer surface when the masking layer is laminated to the photopolymer surface. The masking layer is selectively ablated from the photopolymer using a laser operating at a selected wavelength to create an in situ negative. The resulting negative can be subjected to typical UV flood exposure and development.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Chouaib Boukaftane, Eric Lee
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Publication number: 20180345712Abstract: A stencil for use in stenciling complex symbols incorporates a stencil substrate employing a flexible material, having a plurality of symbols arranged thereon. A plurality of folding stiffeners are incorporated in the substrate, each stiffener being positioned to split symbols having stencil cutouts forming isolated elements within an interior of the symbol. The stiffeners are foldable about a vertex, to collapse into a raised position and bring together the split symbol, with the stiffeners supporting the isolated elements created by the cutouts and portions of the stencil cutouts forming the symbols that extend into coincident channels in the folding stiffeners, to bridge adjoining portions of said split characters.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: William W. Kann, Minsu Kim, Niles Kinman
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Publication number: 20180345713Abstract: An arrangement includes a component and a temperature-dependent, first fluorescent dye, which in a first state has a predetermined first color location and in a second state has a predetermined second color location different from the first color location, and which is disposed on the component or integrated in the component in such a way that the luminescent dye, in dependence on a temperature change acting on it, creates an optically recognizable color change from the first color location to the second color location.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Oliver WEISS, Nadine LAMPKA
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Publication number: 20180345714Abstract: A method of manufacturing a first security document, the security document including a first periodic array of image elements applied to a first surface of a transparent substrate and extending in a first direction; and a first periodic array of revealing elements applied to an opposing surface of the substrate and extending in a second direction, the first periodic array of revealing elements being superposed with the first periodic array of image elements, such that an optical variable effect can be observed between at least a first viewing angle and a second viewing angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: CCL SECURE PTY LTDInventors: Karlo Jolic, Gary Fairless Power
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Publication number: 20180345715Abstract: A variable gloss heat transfer label includes a carrier, a matting layer on a portion of the carrier and a design layer having a first portion provided over the carrier and a second portion provided over the matting layer. The design layer is configured to separate from the matting layer and the carrier, and transfer and adhere the first and second portions of the design layer to a target object upon application of heat and pressure. The first portion of the design layer that is transferred to the target object from the carrier has a different gloss than the second portion of the design layer that is transferred to the target object from the matting layer. The label can be configured to include a carrier, a glossing layer on a portion of the carrier and a design layer having a first portion provided over the carrier and a second portion provided over the glossing layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Michael B. Colella, Carlos G. Altamirano, Trinh Truong
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Publication number: 20180345716Abstract: A mobile and height adjustable bucket system (1) for decorative or protective liquids such as paints and the like made up of a bucket (2) detachably mounted on a height adjustable stand (3) and a toolbox (4) for holding tools which can be attached to the bucket (2), the stand (3) being adjustable as required by a user using a telescopic pole (17) to position the bucket (2) at a desired working height.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventor: Keith McGrory
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Publication number: 20180345717Abstract: The invention relates to storage device for a brush, the storage device comprising a flexible plastic container comprising an inside face and an outside face, where the plastic container comprises a tapered area between a first wider end towards a second narrower end and where the tapered area on the inside face has a dimension allowing a fit with one or more sizes of brush heads.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventor: Per Goller
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Publication number: 20180345718Abstract: An exemplary spoke for a non-pneumatic wheel. The spoke can be manufactured with a reinforcement structure having reinforcement elements and one or more layers of material. The spoke can also be provided in various shapes and configurations. The spoke includes anchors that allow the spoke to be more readily incorporated into, or removed from, a non-pneumatic wheel. More particularly, the anchors also allow the spoke to be joined as one-piece with the non-pneumatic wheel or releasably connected on one or both ends with the non-pneumatic wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2015Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Antonio Delfino, Philippe Berguerand, Pascal Schroeter, Maeike Blanc
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Publication number: 20180345719Abstract: A device (10) for attachment to a spoked bicycle wheel (not shown, comprises a central section (11) locatable around the wheel hub (not shown), and a plurality of elongate members (12, 13, 14, 15, 21) attachable to the central section (11). When attached to the central section (11), the elongate members (12, 13, 14, 15, 21) are radially and equidistantly disposed thereabout. The length of the and each elongate member (12, 13, 14, 15, 21) is adjustable, if required, such that, in use, the elongate members (12, 13, 14, 15, 21) extend from the central section (11) to the rim of the wheel (not shown).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Andrew James Maxwell, Thomas Donald Maxwell
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Publication number: 20180345720Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wheel apparatus that includes a rim module coupleable to an axle and a solid tire module that extends from the rim module. The solid tire module includes a plurality of tread teeth that form a peripheral edge. The peripheral edge forms at least a portion of a tire profile. Each tread tooth of the plurality of tread teeth has a spatial specification that includes a circumferential width, a radial height, an edge shape, and a circumferential gap width. The spatial specifications of the plurality of tread teeth are non-uniform. In one embodiment, the solid tire module has a non-circular rotational trace. In another embodiment, at least a circumferential region of the peripheral edge comprises a sequence of tread teeth having sequentially increasing radial height.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventor: Gregory W. Luker
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Publication number: 20180345721Abstract: An additional wheel weight for a utility vehicle includes a weight plate and a retention member configured to be fitted to a wheel rim and on which the weight plate is guided in a longitudinally axial manner. A clamping lever closure is disposed between the weight plate and retention member. A first assembly element of the clamping lever closure is coupled to the retention member, a second assembly element of the clamping lever closure engages the weight plate in a longitudinally axial manner, and a lever mechanism is disposed between the first and second assembly elements. The lever mechanism includes a clamping element being releasably secured to the first assembly element and an actuation lever being articulated between the second assembly element and the clamping element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Jens Letscher, Xaver Witzelsperger, Michael Schmid, Verena Schmeller
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Publication number: 20180345722Abstract: Disclosed is an aluminum wheel for a vehicle, in which a resonance tube is coupled to a rim of the wheel, wherein a first surface of the resonance tube is fitted into a well groove formed in a well of the rim, and a second surface of the resonance tube comes into contact with the rim by a pressure member including a steel wire and a fixing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Hyun Soo KIM
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Publication number: 20180345723Abstract: A bicycle hub assembly comprises a hub axle, a hub body, a sprocket support body, and a freewheel structure. The sprocket support body includes at least ten external spline teeth configured to engage with a bicycle rear sprocket assembly. Each of the at least ten external spline teeth has an external-spline driving surface and an external-spline non-driving surface. The freewheel structure includes a first ratchet member and a second ratchet member. The first ratchet member includes at least one first ratchet tooth. The second ratchet member includes at least one second ratchet tooth configured to engage with the at least one first ratchet tooth in a torque transmitting manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Hiroshi FUJITA, Kazuki KOSHIYAMA, Takashi NAKANISHI
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Publication number: 20180345724Abstract: A bicycle hub apparatus may comprise a hub body, a freewheel shell and an elastic spacer. The hub body has an axial hub axle, and an end of the hub body comprises an open-ended connecting space. A driving ring having a plurality of first driving teeth is installed inside the connecting space. The freewheel shell mounted on the hub axle of the hub body has an open-ended connecting recess, and a coupling ring received inside the connecting recess comprises a plurality of second driving teeth which are configured to engage with the first driving teeth. The elastic spacer secured in the connecting recess is coupled with an inner surface of the coupling ring. With the elastic spacer, the second driving teeth can firmly engage with the first driving teeth of the driving ring when a bicyclist pedaling in the forward direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: CHOSEN CO., LTD.Inventor: CHING-SHU CHEN
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Publication number: 20180345725Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to devices and methods which use the mechanical advantage of a lever and fulcrum along with the use of force from a user's body, foot, and leg muscles, to more ergonomically and safely install wheel assemblies on vehicles while keeping the user's back at a more ergonomic angle and allowing for both of the installer's hands to remain free for stabilizing the wheel assembly during installation. The lifting device provides a foot pedal, a lifting pad and a pivot point to position a wheel assembly on a hub and/or wheel studs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: Tealcraft, LLCInventor: David Walter Teal
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Publication number: 20180345726Abstract: An adhered composite includes (i) a polar thermoset substrate; (ii) optionally a primer layer disposed on the polar thermoset substrate; (iii) a first adhesive layer adhesively mated to the polar thermoset substrate, optionally with the primer layer disposed between the first adhesive layer and the polar thermoset substrate; (iv) a first layer of cured non-polar rubber adhesively mated to the first adhesive layer; (v) a second adhesive layer adhesively mated to the first layer of cured non-polar rubber; and (vi) a second layer of cured non-polar rubber forming an outer surface of the composite.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Joshua P. Abell, Ross W. Widenor
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Publication number: 20180345727Abstract: A high traction motorcycle tire that provides more traction and greater stability than a traditional motorcycle tire. The high traction motorcycle tire includes a motorcycle tire tread having a pair of outer edges, the motorcycle tire tread is adapted to make direct contact with an exterior road surface while the high traction motorcycle tire is riding and an exterior raised rim is disposed on each of the pair of outer edges of the motorcycle tire tread, the exterior raised rim having a lower edge. The lower edge of the exterior raised rim extends outward at the range of 91 to 94 degrees to provide more contact with the exterior road surface than a traditional motorcycle tire while adapted to make a partial turn or a full turn.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventor: Heath Braun
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Publication number: 20180345728Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a lug groove disposed outermost in a tire lateral direction in a tread portion, the lug groove opening outward in the tire lateral direction; a projection portion disposed outward of an opening portion of the lug groove in the tire lateral direction, the projection portion extending outward in a tire radial direction past a groove bottom of the lug groove at maximum groove depth and comprising an end disposed inward of a road contact surface of the tread portion in the tire radial direction, when the pneumatic tire is mounted on a regular rim, inflated to a regular internal pressure, and loaded with 70% of a regular load; and a reinforcing portion projecting from a surface of the projection portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2015Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicants: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD., Kumho Tire Co., Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Hata, Jun Matsuda, Kee Woon Kim, Chang Jung Park
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Publication number: 20180345729Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a lug groove disposed outermost in a tire lateral direction in a tread portion, the lug groove opening outward in the tire lateral direction; a projection portion disposed outward of an opening portion of the lug groove in the tire lateral direction, the projection portion extending outward in a tire radial direction past a groove bottom of the lug groove at maximum groove depth and comprising an end disposed inward of a road contact surface of the tread portion in the tire radial direction, when the pneumatic tire is mounted on a regular rim, inflated to a regular internal pressure, and loaded with 70% of a regular load; and a stopper portion projecting from a surface of the tread portion at a position outward of a ground contact edge in the tire lateral direction and inward of the projection portion in the tire lateral direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2015Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicants: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., Kumho Tire Co., Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi HATA, Jun MATSUDA, Kee Woon KIM, Chang Jung PARK
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Publication number: 20180345730Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a lug groove disposed outermost in a tire lateral direction in a tread portion, the lug groove opening outward in the tire lateral direction; a projection portion disposed outward of an opening portion of the lug groove in the tire lateral direction, the projection portion extending outward in a tire radial direction past a groove bottom of the lug groove at maximum groove depth and including an end disposed inward of a road contact surface of the tread portion in the tire radial direction, when the pneumatic tire is mounted on a regular rim, inflated to a regular internal pressure, and loaded with 70% of a regular load; and a reinforcing portion disposed at least at a base end of the projection portion, the reinforcing portion having a JIS-A rubber hardness greater than that of a rubber material around the projection portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2015Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Hiroshi HATA, Jun MATSUDA, Kee Woon KIM, Chang Jung PARK
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Publication number: 20180345731Abstract: In a pneumatic tire 10 according to the present invention, as an average block edge component Dball is defined by an average of edge components of all blocks against a tire circumferential direction, an average sipe edge component Dsall is defined by an average of edge components of all sipes against the tire circumferential direction and an average block rigidity G is defined by an average of the rigidity of all blocks, a relation of 2.20 (mm)3/N?(Dball/Dsall)/G?4.00 (mm)3/N is fulfilled.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Akinori ODA, Yuji KAJIYAMA