Patents Issued in May 2, 2019
  • Publication number: 20190126618
    Abstract: There is provided a head unit including: a first substrate including a first surface provided with a first terminal and a second surface provided with a second terminal; a second substrate including a third surface provided with a third terminal; a first flexible wiring substrate that connects the first terminal and the third terminal to each other; a first driving module that is electrically connected to the second substrate; a third substrate including a fourth surface provided with a fourth terminal; a second flexible wiring substrate that connects the second terminal and the fourth terminal to each other; a second driving module that is electrically connected to the third substrate; and a liquid flow passage through which the liquid is supplied to the first driving module and the second driving module, in which the liquid flow passage is positioned between the second substrate and the third substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Koji KITAZAWA, Masahiko TSUYUKI
  • Publication number: 20190126619
    Abstract: There is provided a head unit including: a first substrate provided with a first terminal and a second terminal; a second substrate provided with a third terminal; a first flexible wiring substrate that connects the first terminal and the third terminal to each other; a first driving module that is electrically connected to the second substrate; a third substrate provided with a fourth terminal; a second flexible wiring substrate that connects the second terminal and the fourth terminal to each other; a second driving module that is electrically connected to the third substrate; and a liquid flow passage which is positioned between the second substrate and the third substrate, and supplies the liquid to the first driving module and the second driving module, in which the first substrate is positioned on the second substrate side in a direction intersecting with a direction in which a liquid is discharged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Koji KITAZAWA, Masahiko TSUYUKI
  • Publication number: 20190126620
    Abstract: There are provided a liquid jet head and a liquid jet recording device capable of reducing the cost. A liquid jet head according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes a nozzle plate provided with a nozzle, an actuator disposed so as to be opposed to the nozzle plate, and having a channel communicated with the nozzle and an electrode disposed on a wall surface of the channel, and an adhesive layer disposed between the actuator and the nozzle plate, and including a plurality of insulating particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Yuki YAMAMURA, Masaru MIDORIKAWA, Naohiro TOMITA, Shunsuke YAMAZAKI, Emiko OSAKA, Shuji SATO
  • Publication number: 20190126621
    Abstract: A printer includes: a convexly curved media path for feeding print media along a media feed direction, the curved media path having an apex, a first section upstream of the apex and a second section downstream of the apex; a plurality of printheads radially arranged around the curved media path, the plurality of printheads including a first printhead positioned for printing onto the first section and a second printhead positioned for printing onto the second section; a plurality of cappers for capping the plurality of printheads, each capper being positioned at one longitudinal side of a respective printhead and each capper being laterally moveable between capped and uncapped positions; and a lift mechanism for lifting and lowering the printheads. A first capper is positioned downstream of the first printhead and a second capper is positioned upstream of the second printhead in respective uncapped positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Mark Profaca
  • Publication number: 20190126622
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head having a plurality of nozzles ejecting a liquid toward a medium, the head includes a first region including the plurality of nozzles and a second region surrounding the first region, the first and second regions being provided in a portion of the liquid ejecting head opposed to the medium in which the second region has an inhibiting portion inhibiting a movement of the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Yasunori Kuramoto, Yukimasa Ishida, Manabu Hanakawa
  • Publication number: 20190126623
    Abstract: An inkjet printer includes: an inkjet head including nozzles and a nozzle surface tilted in a tilt direction with respect to a horizontal plane; a purging unit configured to discharge ink from the nozzles and attach the discharged ink to the nozzle surface; and a wiper configured to wipe the nozzle surface in a wiping direction orthogonal to the tilt direction. At least a portion of the wiper including an end of the wiper on a lower side in the tilt direction is tilted or curved toward a downstream side in the wiping direction toward the lower side in the tilt direction. The portion of the wiper is configured to wipe the nozzle surface while pushing the ink attached to the nozzle surface from the lower side to an upper side in the tilt direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190126624
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head having a nozzle that ejects liquid to an ejection medium; a maintenance mechanism having a receiving portion that receives the liquid which is discharged from the liquid ejecting head in a maintenance operation for the liquid ejecting head; and a cleaning liquid supply mechanism configured to supply cleaning liquid to the receiving portion in a cleaning operation of cleaning the receiving portion. If a time from when the maintenance operation of former one has been executed to when the maintenance operation of later one is executed is equal to or longer than a first setting time and shorter than a second setting time, after the maintenance operation of the later one is executed, the cleaning operation is executed subsequently to the maintenance operation of the later one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Takeshi YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20190126625
    Abstract: A first successive printing job executed for printing a plurality of images in series on a first medium placed alongside a second medium is interrupted after the completion of one printing job for a first image included in the first successive printing job, and before the start of another printing job for printing another image following the first image; a second successive printing job executed for printing a plurality of images in series on the second medium in parallel with the first successive printing job is interrupted after the completion of a printing job included in the second successive printing job and being under execution at a time point at which the first successive printing job has been interrupted; and the maintenance for the printing head is executed in a state in which both the first successive printing job and the second successive printing job is interrupted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Shiki KUMAGAI
  • Publication number: 20190126626
    Abstract: The likelihood that a liquid discharge failure will occur in a cartridge including a liquid absorber is reduced. A cartridge includes: a liquid supply unit configured to receive a liquid supply needle; a first chamber in which a liquid absorber is arranged; a second chamber in which the liquid absorber is not arranged and the liquid supply unit is provided; and a filter that is provided between the first chamber and the second chamber. The length of the filter in a longitudinal direction is larger than half the length of the liquid absorber in the longitudinal direction, and the capillary force of the liquid absorber in a bottom face portion is larger than the capillary force of the liquid absorber in a central portion in a height direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku ISHIZAWA, Tadahiro MIZUTANI, Noriyuki FUKASAWA, Shun OYA
  • Publication number: 20190126627
    Abstract: The cartridge includes: a case; a liquid containing chamber that is provided inside the case; an atmosphere communication passage that is provided inside the case, and brings the liquid containing chamber into communication with the atmosphere outside the case; and a liquid supply unit that supplies liquid inside the liquid containing chamber to the liquid ejection device. An absorber chamber in which a liquid absorber is arranged and an air chamber in which the liquid absorber is not arranged are arranged side by side in a horizontal direction, inside the liquid containing chamber, at least a portion of a side face, of the liquid absorber, that is adjacent to the air chamber is in contact with air inside the air chamber, and a connection port that connects the atmosphere communication passage and the air chamber is provided in an upper portion of the air chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki FUKASAWA, Taku Ishizawa, Tadahiro Mizutani, Shun Oya, Ryoichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20190126628
    Abstract: There is provided a tank including: a casing; a liquid chamber including first and second chambers; a communicating channel configured by first, second, and third communicating channels; a liquid inlet port; a first communicating port; a second communicating port; an atmosphere open port; a liquid outflow port; and a gas-liquid separating membrane provided in the third communicating channel and blocking flowing (distribution, circulation) of liquid in the third communicating channel. A first end of the second communicating channel is communicated with the second chamber, and a second end of the second communicating channel is communicated with an end of the first communicating channel. A first end of the third communicating channel is communicated with the second end of the second communicating channel, and a second end of the third communicating channel is communicated with the atmosphere open port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro HAYASHI, Taichi SHIRONO, Masako KAWAGOE, Yoshinori OSAKABE
  • Publication number: 20190126629
    Abstract: A plug member is a plug member for covering a liquid injection port for injecting liquid to a liquid container portion of a liquid ejecting apparatus. The plug member includes an elastically deformable plug body, and a holding member that has a higher rigidity than the plug body and is for holding the plug body. The plug body includes a lid part for covering the liquid injection port and a barrel part extending from the lid part to the liquid container portion. The barrel part includes an end portion forming an opening at a side opposite to the lid part, and the holding member includes an engaging portion engageable with a shaft portion for rotating the holding member and a support portion that is provided at an engaging portion side of the end portion and is for supporting the end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoma KUDO, Naomi KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20190126630
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a liquid supply portion configured to receive a liquid supply needle; a first chamber provided with a liquid absorber, a second chamber not provided with the liquid absorber and provided with the liquid supply portion; and a filter provided between the first chamber and the second chamber. A length of the filter in a longitudinal direction of the filter is longer than half a length of the liquid absorber in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shun OYA, Taku ISHIZAWA, Noriyuki FUKASAWA, Tadahiro MIZUTANI, Mao OTASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20190126631
    Abstract: An example printing cartridge includes a fluid container, a plurality of capacitor plates to detect fluid in the fluid container, each of the capacitor plates associated with a respective fluid level, and a shift register to capture fluid level information from the plurality of capacitor plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Daryl E. Anderson, James Michael Gardner, Scott A. Linn, Michael W. Cumbie, Berkeley Fisher
  • Publication number: 20190126632
    Abstract: In one example, a fluid level sensor includes control logic, and an array of sensing locations to detect a level of fluid in a container. The array of sensing locations include a number of memory cells located at a number of sensing locations in the array of sensing locations, a word line coupled to the memory cells, a bit line coupled to the memory cells, and a pre-charge circuit coupled to the word line and the bit line. The control logic instructs a number FETs coupled to a bit line to disconnect from a number of the memory cells, and power up the memory cells to cause the memory cells to take a first state or a second state. The control logic outputs the state of the memory cells to a Pre-charge processing device. The state of the memory cells defines the level of the fluid in the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Daryl E. Anderson, James Michael Gardner, Berkeley Fisher, Scott A. Linn
  • Publication number: 20190126633
    Abstract: An image recording method including the steps of applying an ink containing a coloring material and anionic resin particles to a recording medium, and applying a liquid composition to the recording medium so as to at least partly overlap with an area where the ink is applied, the liquid composition destabilizing a dispersion state of the coloring material or of the anionic resin particles in the ink. The ink contains a trihydric or higher polyhydric alcohol compound having a group formed by substituting a hydrogen atom of a hydroxyl group by a structure represented by —Rn—H, where R is an alkyleneoxy group including an ethyleneoxy group, and the number of Rs per molecule is 40 or more and 120 or less when the polyhydric alcohol is a trihydric alcohol and is 12 or more and 400 or less when the polyhydric alcohol is a tetrahydric or higher polyhydric alcohol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Takashi Imai, Mamiko Kaji
  • Publication number: 20190126634
    Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and an ink jet printing system that can perform image formation capable of preventing the deterioration of image quality caused by bleeding in a case in which printing is performed on cloth. An image processing apparatus 12 acquires base material information 42 including at least information indicating the quality of fiber in cloth which is a medium to be printed and image data 40 to be printed on the cloth and generates a bleeding-prevented image 44 indicating an ink application pattern in which at least one of an ink application position or an amount of ink applied is limited in anticipation of wetting and spreading of the ink in the cloth, on the basis of the base material information 42 and the image data 40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20190126635
    Abstract: An image producing device that produces an image by thermally transferring an image pattern from a transfer ribbon to a transfer medium. The device includes take-up means for taking up the transfer ribbon, supply means for supplying the transfer ribbon according to the taking up of the transfer ribbon performed by the take-up means, thermal transfer means for thermally transferring an image to the transfer medium by bringing the transfer ribbon that is between the supply means and the take-up means into contact with the transfer medium, and a regulating means for regulating the supply of the transfer ribbon performed by the supply means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriaki HIGUCHI, Tomoyuki MARUGAME
  • Publication number: 20190126636
    Abstract: A printer a housing, a printer cover that is rotatable relative to the housing about a first rotary axis, a thermal head configured to print on print medium, a connecting part capable of being connected to and disconnected from the thermal head, and a head cover that is rotatable about a second rotary axis being parallel to the first rotary axis, the head cover pivotally supported at the printer cover, the head cover rotating between a first position at which the head cover closes the connecting part and a second position at which the head cover does not close the connecting part to connect and disconnect the thermal head and the connecting part. The space is defined between the head cover located at the second position and the printer cover. The connecting part is exposed through the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Kazuyuki HOSHI
  • Publication number: 20190126637
    Abstract: A method for printing on an article can include selecting a shape model. The shape model is generated from a first image and includes a fiducial, a reference location, and a graphic marker, the fiducial is located in the first image. The reference location is based on a location of the fiducial in the first image, and the graphic marker is positioned at a pre-selected location relative to the reference location. The method can also include locating the fiducial in a second image of an article, by a computing device, establishing the reference location in the second image of the article, positioning the graphic marker within the second image of the article at the pre-selected location, and printing a graphic on the article at a graphic location, the graphic location on the article corresponds to the pre-selected location of the graphic marker on the second image of the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Collier, Amie Evans, Laurel Manville, Todd W. Miller
  • Publication number: 20190126638
    Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus contains a conveyer which conveys a recording medium, the conveyer having conveyance members on which the recording medium is mounted; a recorder which jets ink onto the recording medium being conveyed; and a fixer which fixes the ink landed on the recording medium. The ink is curable by a predetermined energy ray. The fixer irradiates the ink on the recording medium with the predetermined energy ray. The conveyer passes the recording medium for conveyance between the conveyance members and moves the recording medium in respective planes by movement of the conveyance members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minoita Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi MURAMATSU, Mitsuo KABURAGI, Masashi IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20190126639
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method includes heating a recording medium, and attaching an aqueous ink composition to the heated recording medium by ejecting the aqueous ink composition through a nozzle. The aqueous ink composition contains water, a solvent, and resin particles. In the attaching step, a temperature difference between a temperature of the nozzle and a surface temperature of the heated recording medium is ?4 to 8° C. The resin particles include particular resin particles formed from a resin whose decrease rate of absorbance of light having a wavelength of 400 nm is 15% or smaller in 1 hour at 40° C. and 10% or larger in 1 hour at 80° C. in a liquid mixture containing the solvent contained in the aqueous ink composition and the particular resin particles such that a resin solid component of the liquid mixture is 0.5% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Kenichi SEGUCHI, Mitsuaki KOSAKA
  • Publication number: 20190126640
    Abstract: A recording method includes heating a recording medium and attaching an ink composition including an organic solvent and water to the heated recording medium by performing a main scanning a plurality of times. In each main scanning the ink composition is ejected from a recording head while a position of the recording head relative to the recording medium in a main scanning direction is changed. In the ink composition, an absolute value of a difference between a surface tension of the ink composition and a surface tension of the ink composition when the ink composition is evaporated up to an evaporation amount of 0% to 40% by mass is 1 mN/m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Mami TOJINO, Ippei OKUDA, Akira MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20190126641
    Abstract: A medium discharging device includes a paper discharging tray that is disposed below a height position of a discharging roller which discharges a medium and includes a placing surface on which the medium discharged by the discharging roller is placed, and a supporting member that is configured to be movable between a retreat position on an upstream side and an advance position on a downstream side between the discharging roller and the placing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Katsuyuki KONDO, Masayoshi MIYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190126642
    Abstract: A substrate in the form of a continuous sheet is fed towards a belt conveyor and is lied out on the conveyor itself. By means of the belt conveyor, the substrate is moved along a feed direction, while a printing unit operating above the belt conveyor realizes a print pattern on the substrate. The printed substrate is withdrawn by a traction unit operating downstream of the belt conveyor. In a section of its longitudinal extension between the belt conveyor and the traction unit, the substrate is subjected to a braking action to retain the substrate in contrast to traction actions induced on the same by the traction unit. A drying group operates on the substrate in the area affected by the braking action, with a combined action of radiation and ventilation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Giovanni NATALIS, Roberto MANES, Alessandro MANES
  • Publication number: 20190126643
    Abstract: A digitally printed, water-activated, peel-off and slide-on permanent transfer decal includes a base layer of gum-coated decal paper comprising a cornstarch and dextrose coating having a thickness of between approximately 10 microns to approximately 30 microns, a layer of lacquer over the cornstarch and dextrose coating of the base layer, and a full-color artwork comprising a digital, UV-LED-cured printing ink printed onto the lacquer layer to form a ready-decal sheet having a decal formed by the ink and the lacquer layer. The lacquer layer has a thickness of between approximately 150 microns and approximately 300 microns, is sandwiched between the cornstarch and dextrose coating and the ink, and is bonded to the ink. The decal is permanently bonded to a surface of an object comprising at least one of ceramic, metal, stainless steel, aluminum, plastic, acrylic, wood, and glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: BEL USA LLC
    Inventor: Raj Singh
  • Publication number: 20190126644
    Abstract: Systems and method for estimating a remaining amount of a consumable resource are provided. According to one method, a first step of detecting the center of mass of a mobile printer is conducted, wherein the mobile printer comprises print media. The method may also include a step of determining a remaining print media level based on the detected center of mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Philamer Villa Creencia, Sébastien Michel Marie Joseph d'Armancourt, Ananthprasad Babji Subba
  • Publication number: 20190126645
    Abstract: A printer includes a housing, a printer cover configured to rotate between a closed position at which the printer cover closes an interior of the housing and an open position at which the printer cover opens the interior of the housing, a platen roller configured to feed print medium, a thermal head opposed to the platen roller when the printer cover is located at the closed position, and an operation member configured to connect and disconnect the thermal head, the operation member guides the print medium fed by the platen roller when the printer cover is located at the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuyuki HOSHI
  • Publication number: 20190126646
    Abstract: A medium transporting device provided in a printer includes a curved path in which a paper sheet after recording is curved and inverted, a plurality of first ribs that extend in a medium transportation direction in a facing area facing a recording head, that are provided at intervals in a width direction intersecting the medium transportation direction, and that form cockling on the paper sheet, a plurality of second ribs that are provided on an outer curved portion of the curved path, and a plurality of third ribs that are provided on an inner curved portion of the curved path. The plurality of second ribs and the plurality of third ribs are disposed at positions in the width direction that correspond to a mountain portion and a valley portion of the cockling of the paper sheet that is formed by the plurality of first ribs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhisa TAKEDA, Kazuo OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20190126647
    Abstract: A printing apparatus has an array of printing elements, a unit for conveying a print medium in a direction intersecting with the array direction, a unit for setting the conveying speed, a unit for adjusting a print position of the print head in the array direction, a unit for adjusting an inclination of a print position of the print head with respect to the conveying direction and for dividing the array of the printing elements into blocks and shift image data in the conveying direction in each divided block, and a unit for changing the division positions of the blocks to positions shifted by an equal amount in a direction opposite to the adjustment in the array direction. A printing control apparatus acquires a maximum concurrent drive number in the printing elements based on image data. The conveying speed is set based on the maximum concurrent drive number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Yusuke Tanaka, Daichi Nitta
  • Publication number: 20190126648
    Abstract: A droplet deposition head including a datum surface arrangement for alignment of the head relative to an external mounting component in either a vertical mounting mode in which the head is held against a vertical mounting plate or a horizontal mounting mode where the head is held against a horizontal mounting plate. The datum surface arrangement comprising at least seven datum surfaces (x1; y1, y2, y3; z1, z2, z3) provided on the head, wherein five of the seven datum surfaces are provided for alignment in both vertical and horizontal mounting modes, and wherein a sixth datum surface (z3) is provided for alignment exclusively in said horizontal mounting mode and a seventh datum surface (y3) is provided for alignment exclusively in said vertical mounting mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Ulrik Manfred NAUNTON, Stephen Mark JEAPES, Richard Hugh LEWIS, Jesus GARCIA MAZA, Arturo Garcia GOMEZ, Robert John Charles DUNN
  • Publication number: 20190126649
    Abstract: There are provided a liquid jet head capable of dealing with jet of a variety of types of liquid, and at the same time superior in easiness in handling. The liquid jet head includes a main body part having a liquid jet head chip and a cooling section, and an inflow side connection unit and an outflow side connection unit each configured so as to selectively be attached to and detached from the main body part. As the inflow side connection unit, it is possible to select the first inflow side cover unit and the second inflow side cover unit. As the outflow side connection unit, it is possible to select the first outflow side cover unit and the second outflow side cover unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Masaru MIDORIKAWA, Shunsuke YAMAZAKI, Naohiro TOMITA, Shuji SATO, Yuki YAMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190126650
    Abstract: A liquid jet head and a liquid jet recording device capable of accurately detecting the temperature of the ink are provided. A liquid jet head according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes a flow channel member provided with a flow channel of a liquid, and having a high heat conduction part disposed so as to have contact with the liquid flowing inside the flow channel, and a low heat conduction part having lower thermal conductivity than thermal conductivity of the high heat conduction part, a temperature detection element disposed outside the flow channel, and attached to the high heat conduction part, and a liquid jet section from which the liquid is jetted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Yuki YAMAMURA, Masaru MIDORIKAWA, Naohiro TOMITA, Shunsuke YAMAZAKI, Shuji SATO
  • Publication number: 20190126651
    Abstract: A printer apparatus includes a printing unit, a connection interface, and a processor. The processor is configured to control the connection interface to receive image data indicating an image for printing and size data indicating a first length in a width direction and a second length in a height direction of the image, compare the first length and the second length respectively with a third length in the width direction and a fourth length in the height direction that are defined as a printable size on a printing medium, and control the printing unit to print the image on the printing medium based on the comparison. When the first length is less than or equal to the fourth length and the second length is less than or equal to the third length, rotates the image by 90 degrees or 270 degrees before printing the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Kazuya TERAKADO
  • Publication number: 20190126652
    Abstract: Provided is technology enabling efficient printing based on the type of printing device. A print control device that communicates with a management device, which manages a printing device, includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire from the management device printing device information indicating whether a printing device the management device manages is a first printing device, which processes first band data of bands that are long in a first direction of a print object, or a second printing device, which processes second band data of bands that are long in a second direction intersecting the first direction of the print object; a band data generator configured to determine the length direction of band data based on the acquired printing device information, and generate band data in the determined length direction from the print object; and a transmitter configured to send the band data to the management device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Yuji KOHAMA
  • Publication number: 20190126653
    Abstract: A described example includes a ribbon cartridge having a first spool housing configured to receive a first spool. The ribbon cartridge having a second spool housing that is configured to receive a second spool. The ribbon cartridge having a first frame member that extends between the first spool housing and the second spool housing. The ribbon cartridge having a first locking feature defining a locked position and an unlocked position, the first locking feature adapted to lock the ribbon cartridge within a ribbon positioning assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Petrica Dorinel Balcan, Randal Wong Mun Hon, Kuan-Ying Lu
  • Publication number: 20190126654
    Abstract: A printing mode for performing printing to a printing medium and a determination mode for determining the application amount of a reaction liquid to a discharge medium can be performed. In the determination mode, a reaction liquid application unit forms a layer of the reaction liquid on the discharge medium, and then an ink application unit applies an ink onto a part of the layer to form a test pattern to be utilized for the determination. In the formation of the test pattern, an image to be formed by the ink by the aggregation of a solid content in the applied ink partially moves and shrinks on the layer of the reaction liquid to be thereby deformed with a grade according to the applied reaction liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Eisuke Nishitani, Masaki Nitta, Yoshiaki Murayama, Keiichirou Takeuchi, Rinako Kameshima
  • Publication number: 20190126655
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an image forming method and an image forming apparatus by an inkjet method using a gel ink, which minimize a gloss difference between an image-formed region and an image-less region, regardless of a type of a paper substrate used. The image forming method of the present invention is a method for forming an image on a paper substrate by using an inkjet ink that undergoes a temperature-induced sol-gel phase transition. The image forming method includes: a step of subjecting a paper substrate to a corona discharge treatment; a step of ejecting liquid droplets of inkjet ink and landing the droplets on a surface of the paper substrate subjected to the corona discharge treatment; and a step of irradiating the droplets of the inkjet ink landed on the paper substrate with an actinic light ray to cure the inkjet ink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Yusuke TAKAKU
  • Publication number: 20190126656
    Abstract: There is disclosed print agent drying unit 10, 20, 30 to dry print agent 40 on a substrate 14, the drying unit comprising: a substrate support 12 to support a substrate 14; an exciter 18, 28, 38 to excite a boundary layer of print agent 40 applied on the substrate 14, to thereby dissociate the boundary layer from the print agent; and a radiation source 16 to direct radiation energy to the substrate to dry the print agent. Methods of drying print agent 40 on a substrate 14 are also disclosed, including a method comprising: causing the substrate 14 to vibrate to dissociate a boundary layer of print agent 40 on the substrate 14; and heating the print agent 40 to dry the print agent 40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: HP SCITEX LTD.
    Inventors: Alex Veis, Eyal Kotik
  • Publication number: 20190126657
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink-jet printing method that is capable of obtaining good printed characters or images which are free of thermal deformation of a low-liquid absorbing printing medium as well as occurrence of mottling or color bleeding. The present invention provides an ink-jet printing method including the step of printing characters or images on a low-liquid absorbing printing medium using an ink-jet printing apparatus equipped with an ink-jet print head that is capable of ejecting water-based inks onto the low-liquid absorbing printing medium, in which the water-based inks each contain a colorant (A), an organic solvent (C) and water; the ink-jet printing apparatus is loaded with the two or more kinds of water-based inks which are different in static surface tension from each other; the printing medium is heated to a temperature of from 30 to 75° C.; and the water-based inks are ejected in the sequential order from the water-based ink having a higher static surface tension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Azusa KURODA, Yuta MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190126658
    Abstract: In a printed article, pigment flakes are magnetically aligned so as to form curved patterns in a plurality of cross-sections normal a continuous imaginary line, wherein radii of the curved patterns increase along the imaginary line from the first point to the second point. When light is incident upon the aligned pigment flakes from a light source, light reflected from the aligned pattern forms a bright image which appears to gradually change its shape and move from one side of the continuous imaginary line to another side of the continuous imaginary line when the substrate is tilted with respect to the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Vladimir P. RAKSHA, John Hynes, Laurence Holden, Paul G. Coombs
  • Publication number: 20190126659
    Abstract: Security element comprising a first material MAT1 and a second material MAT2 formed in or on a substrate, in such a manner that areas occupied by MAT1 and MAT2 overlap partially or fully, the first material MAT1 comprising a phosphorescent pigment (donor), the second material MAT2 comprising a fluorescent dye or pigment (acceptor), wherein the phosphorescent pigment present in MAT1 is capable of emitting phosphorescence radiation in at least one first phosphorescence emission wavelength range ?1e upon excitation by electromagnetic radiation falling within a phosphorescence excitation wavelength range ?1a, and the fluorescent dye or pigment present in MAT2 is capable of emitting fluorescence radiation in at least one second fluorescence emission wavelength range ?2e upon excitation by electromagnetic radiation falling within an fluorescence excitation wavelength range ?2a of the fluorescent dye or pigment, and said first phosphorescence emission wavelength range ?1e of the phosphorescent pigment present in MAT
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: SICPA HOLDING SA
    Inventors: Jean-Luc DORIER, Mia MILOS-SCHOUWINK, Xavier Cédric RAEMY
  • Publication number: 20190126660
    Abstract: A security element comprising a first and a second pattern PAT1 and PAT2 formed in or on a substrate, the first pattern PAT1 being formed by a first material INK1 applied to a first region of the substrate, the second pattern PAT2 being formed by a second material INK2 applied to a second region of the substrate, said first and second regions of the substrate overlapping, wherein a part of the first pattern PAT1 overlaps with a part of said second pattern PAT2, the first material INK1 comprises a first luminescent dye or pigment DYE1, which upon excitation by electromagnetic radiation falling within an excitation wavelength range ?1a of the first luminescent dye or pigment DYE1 is capable of emitting electromagnetic radiation in at least one first emission wavelength range ?1e, and the second material INK2 comprises a second luminescent dye or pigment DYE2, which upon excitation by electromagnetic radiation falling within an excitation wavelength range ?2a of the second luminescent dye or pigment DYE2 is c
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: SICPA HOLDING SA
    Inventors: Jean-Luc DORIER, Benito CARNERO, Mia MILOS-SCHOUWINK
  • Publication number: 20190126661
    Abstract: A security document with unidirectional visual illumination is disclosed. A security feature is positioned within the document and not visible in normal ambient lighting conditions but becomes visible under specialized lighting conditions, for example in the presence of ultraviolet light. The security feature is constructible such that it is visible only from a single side of the security document, with the side being predeterminable regardless of the orientation of the specialized light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: ASSA ABLOY AB
    Inventor: Brett Barton ERICKSON
  • Publication number: 20190126662
    Abstract: A method of illuminating an item is disclosed. The method includes applying adhesive to the item, interspersing a taggant in the adhesive, illuminating the item with an excitation signal, sensing luminescence emitted by the taggant in response to illumination by the excitation signal, and determining the authenticity of the item based on the sensed emitted luminescence. The item can include any item benefited by authentication, and can include a postage stamp. A method of customizing an item is disclosed. This can include the steps of preparing a substrate, applying a security feature to the substrate, printing non-customized information on the substrate, receiving image information, and printing the image information on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Khalid Hussain, Marie Therese Dominguez, David E. Failor, William G. Ackerman
  • Publication number: 20190126663
    Abstract: A printable blank sheet includes a sheet with a first layer and a second layer attached to a bottom side of the first layer. Slit-over-perforation lines extend through the sheet. The slit-over-perforation lines include cuts running through the first layer, and perforations running through the second layer. A folder pocket is cut into the sheet with a periphery of the folder pocket defined by the slit-over-perforation lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Andrew R. Ogren
  • Publication number: 20190126664
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sharpening completion detection mechanism that does not apply a heavy load to a core tip, and especially proposes a mechanism that moves a pencil in an ejection direction immediately when the sharpening completion detection mechanism detects completion of sharpening to mitigate damage to the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Kazuo ITOI
  • Publication number: 20190126665
    Abstract: Embodiments include a cap or hat decoration method by providing a press including a lower platen and upper platen, and coupling a pad to the lower platen, where the pad is dimensioned based on one or more dimensions of the cap or hat, and positioning the cap or hat onto at least a portion of the pad. Further, the method includes positioning at least one decoration onto at least a portion of the cap or hat, where the at least one decoration includes a heat-activated adhesive, and heating and compressing the decoration onto the cap or hat by compressing the cap or hat and decoration between the lower platen and upper platen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Manuel Figueroa
  • Publication number: 20190126666
    Abstract: A cover for secure around a neck portion of a wildlife trophy mount, the cover includes a body; an opening through the body through which the neck portion is received; a seam extending a width of the body and to open and close the body; and a connector to secure the seam in a close position, thereby securing the cover around the neck portion of the wildlife trophy mount in a hidden position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Garrett Huffines
  • Publication number: 20190126667
    Abstract: A painter box system includes a housing having a top-surface, a first-wall, a second-wall, a third-wall, a fourth-wall, a base, a hollow inner volume, a plurality of legs, a paint-receptacle and a lid. The housing is defined by the top-surface, the first-wall the second-wall, the third-wall, the fourth-wall, the base, the hollow inner volume, the plurality of legs, and the paint-receptacle. The paint-receptacle is positioned and integral to the top-surface. The painter box system provides a work platform and supports paint within the paint-receptacle in a readily accessible position for use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Danny Clarke, Derrick Blasco