Patents Issued in September 12, 2019
  • Publication number: 20190275790
    Abstract: Provided is a printing method for forming ink dots on a printing medium by using a plurality of nozzle rows that discharge a plurality of types of photocurable inks. The printing method includes detecting a defective nozzle that has an ink discharge fault, and compensating for dot omission by causing, preceding the defective nozzle, a preceding nozzle that discharges an inducing ink different from a compensation target ink, which the defective nozzle should have discharged, to discharge the inducing ink to a position on the printing medium where dot omission occur due to the defective nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki NAKAZAWA, Naoki Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20190275791
    Abstract: An image recording device and an image recording method capable of matching landing positions between droplet types in a consecutive ejection drive method are provided. The object is resolved by an image recording device in which a drive waveform for forming a dot of a small droplet is a drive waveform for ejecting a liquid droplet by a first ejection waveform element arranged in a first half of one drive cycle, and a drive waveform for forming a dot of a medium droplet is a drive waveform for ejecting the liquid droplet by the first ejection waveform element and a second ejection waveform element arranged after the first ejection waveform element in time series, and the liquid droplet ejected by the first ejection waveform element and the liquid droplet ejected by the second ejection waveform element are not combined while reaching onto a recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yasutoshi HIRABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190275792
    Abstract: Devices and method for performing temperature measurements in a printhead. In one embodiment, a printhead includes at least one row of jetting channels configured to jet droplets of a print fluid using piezoelectric actuators. A drive circuit includes an input voltage generator that applies a step voltage to a piezoelectric actuator of a jetting channel, and an output voltage detector that detects an output voltage across the piezoelectric actuator over time in response to the step voltage. The drive circuit also includes a temperature detector that determines a voltage response to the step voltage at the piezoelectric actuator based on the output voltage over time, and determines a temperature measurement for the piezoelectric actuator based on the voltage response of the piezoelectric actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishimura, Shogo Nobumori
  • Publication number: 20190275793
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a plurality of nozzles to discharge a liquid; a plurality of pressure chambers communicating with the plurality of nozzles; a plurality of individual supply channels communicating with the plurality of pressure chambers; a plurality of supply ports communicating with the plurality of individual supply channels; a plurality of common-supply branch channels communicating with two or more of the plurality of individual supply channels through the plurality of supply ports; a common-supply main channel communicating with the plurality of common-supply branch channels; and a plurality of supply-side dampers, each of the plurality of supply-side dampers forming a part of a wall of each of the plurality of common-supply branch channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20190275794
    Abstract: Printheads for jetting a print fluid. In one embodiment, a printhead includes a main body configured to attach to a stack of plates, where the stack of plates forms a row of jetting channels configured to jet droplets of a print fluid. The main body includes a supply manifold configured to provide a fluid path for the print fluid to the row of jetting channels. The supply manifold comprises a primary manifold duct and a secondary manifold duct that extend in parallel in alignment with the row of jetting channels. The primary manifold duct is fluidly isolated from the secondary manifold duct at end sections of the primary manifold duct, and is fluidly coupled to the secondary manifold duct toward a midsection of a length of the primary manifold duct. The secondary manifold duct is fluidly coupled to the row of jetting channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20190275795
    Abstract: A printhead module includes a plurality of rows of printhead nozzles, at least some of the rows including at least one displaced row portion, the displacement of the row portion including a component in a direction normal to that of a pagewidth to be printed, wherein the displaced row portions of at least some of the rows are different in length than the displaced row portions of at least some of the other rows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsuo SAKAIDA, Takeshi ASANO, Atsushi HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20190275796
    Abstract: A bonded substrate includes a first substrate, a second substrate bonded to the first substrate with adhesive applied to the second substrate, and a checking structure disposed on the first substrate and facing the second substrate. The checking structure includes a bonding surface portion to be adhered to the second substrate with the adhesive and an insufficiency detection surface to detect insufficient adhesion, a height of the insufficiency detection surface being lower than a height of the bonding surface portion. The adhesive does not contact the insufficiency detection surface when an adhesion state of the bonding surface portion to the second substrate with the adhesive is insufficient, and the adhesive contacts the insufficiency detection surface when the adhesion state of the bonding surface portion to the second substrate with the adhesive is sufficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Keishi Miwa
  • Publication number: 20190275797
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes nozzles, pressure chambers, individual supply channels, individual collection channels common supply channel branches, and common collection channel branches. The common supply channel branches communicate with two or more of the individual supply channels. The common collection channel branches communicate with two or more of the individual collection channels. The nozzles are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix and arranged in at least a first direction and a second direction intersecting with the first direction at an inclination. The common supply channel branches and the common collection channel branches extend in the first direction. The common supply channel branches and the common collection channel branches are alternately arranged in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaki KATO
  • Publication number: 20190275798
    Abstract: Printheads for jetting a print fluid. In one embodiment, a printhead comprises a main body configured to attach to a stack of plates, where the stack of plates forms a row of jetting channels configured to jet droplets of a print fluid. The main body includes a supply manifold configured to provide a fluid path for the print fluid to the row of jetting channels, a cavity, and a semi-permeable membrane disposed between the cavity and the supply manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20190275799
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a medium support portion that has a medium support surface for supporting a medium, a liquid ejecting unit that ejects liquid onto the medium supported on the medium support surface through a plurality of nozzles arranged in a nozzle surface, a first cleaning member that wipes the nozzle surface by moving relative to the liquid ejecting unit in a direction along the nozzle surface in a first maintenance operation of discharging the liquid through the nozzles for maintenance of the liquid ejecting unit, and a second cleaning member that removes foreign matters which have adhered to the nozzle surface by moving relative to the liquid ejecting unit in the direction along the nozzle surface in a second maintenance operation of removing the foreign matters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Jun SHIMAZAKI, Shigenori NAKAGAWA, Yoichi KUROGOCHI, Hitotoshi KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20190275800
    Abstract: A fluid interconnect system including a mating component having an inlet port and a liquid outlet, the inlet port configured to support an interconnector and the liquid outlet configured to engage with a print cartridge so that liquid flows from a liquid source, through the interconnector and the inlet port, and out of the liquid outlet into the print cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Steven R. Komplin
  • Publication number: 20190275801
    Abstract: A liquid-consuming apparatus includes: a tank including a liquid storage chamber which stores a liquid, an inlet formed in a surface of the tank, and an outlet through which the liquid from the liquid storage chamber flows; a cap which is movable between a first position and a second position; a cover which is movable relative to the tank between a closed position and an open position; and a holding member which is connected to the cap and which holds the cap at the second position. The cap at the second position or the holding member is configured to obstruct a movement of the cover from the open position to the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinori OSAKABE, Tomohisa HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190275802
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for providing a print fluid to a flow-through printhead. The printhead has a row of jetting channels configured to jet droplets of a print fluid, a supply manifold fluidly coupled to the row of jetting channels, and a return manifold fluidly coupled to the row of jetting channels. A first reservoir is fluidly coupled to the supply manifold, and a second reservoir is fluidly coupled to the return manifold. The first reservoir and the second reservoir are fluidly isolated except through the printhead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20190275803
    Abstract: An information-processing apparatus for managing a print executing unit includes a controller configured to: generate screen data representing a settings screen and output the generated screen data. The settings screen contains: an indication of a specific range of possible values for an index value concerning a total residual quantity of: a residual quantity of printing agent in the print executing unit; and a residual quantity of printing agent in a cartridge; an indication of a value designated from the specific range as a reference value for the index value; and an indication of a boundary value within the specific range. The boundary value corresponds to the total residual quantity at the time of transition from a state where the printing agent remains in both the cartridge and the print executing unit to a state where the printing agent vanishes from the cartridge but remains in the print executing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masafumi MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190275804
    Abstract: An ink supply system includes a main flow path including a first end that is connected to an ink container and a second end that is connected to an ink head, a pump that is provided in the main flow path and delivers, when driven, liquid toward a side of the ink head, a bypass flow path including a first connection portion that is connected to a portion of the main flow path, which is located between the pump and the first end, and a second connection portion that is connected to a portion of the main flow path, which is located between the pump and the second end, a valve that is provided in the bypass flow path, and a controller. The pump includes an internal flow path that is capable of switching between an open state and a closed state. The controller is communicably connected to the pump and the valve and is set such that, when the pump is driven from a stopped state and when the pump is stopped from a driven state, the valve is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Naoki UEDA
  • Publication number: 20190275805
    Abstract: An ink set comprises black ink having a static surface tension A and yellow ink having a static surface tension B, wherein the static surface tension A is 28.7 mN/m or more and greater than the static surface tension B, wherein the ink set is used in an image forming device including an inkjet head including a nozzle plate including a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array disposed adjacent to the first nozzle array, the first nozzle array including multiple first nozzles configured to discharge the black ink and a second nozzle array including multiple second nozzles configured to discharge the yellow ink wherein each nozzle of the multiple first nozzles and the multiple second nozzles has a cylindrical portion having a length of 25 ?m or longer along an axial direction with an opening on an ink discharging side of the nozzle plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Takashi WATANABE, Taku Hatakeyama, Kaoru Tadokoro, Sho Oyamatsu, Tomohiro Inoue, Hiroshi Gotou, Mio Kumai
  • Publication number: 20190275806
    Abstract: An optical print head that performs optical writing to a photoreceptor includes: a light transmissive substrate; a light emitting unit including light emitting element groups, each of which includes two or more light emitting elements disposed on a first main surface of the substrate; a lens array including lenses that correspond one-to-one to the light emitting element groups; light detection units disposed above the second main surface of the substrate in one-to-one correspondence to the light emitting element groups and that detects the light from each of the light emitting elements; and correction unit that corrects light amounts of the light emitting elements of the light emitting element group based on detection of the light detection units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Takaki Uemura, Makoto Obayashi, Masayuki Iijima
  • Publication number: 20190275807
    Abstract: In some examples, a component for a printing device includes a memory device comprising a plurality of corrective data to produce a corresponding plurality of color tables each customized for a respective media type of a plurality of media types, wherein a respective corrective data of the plurality of corrective data corresponds to nodes of a reference color table for the printing device that is able to accept the plurality of media types for printing. The respective corrective data includes a plurality of residual values to transform the nodes of the reference color table to a customized color table for use with a selected media type of the plurality of media types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Mark Q. Shaw, Paul Jeran, Sean Michael Collison, Terry M. Nelson, Chuohao Tang, Amy Ruth Reibman, Jan P. Allebach
  • Publication number: 20190275808
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a plant (1) for printing a fibrous material (T). The printing plant (1) comprises: a station (14) for supplying a fibrous material configured for supplying the fibrous material along a predetermined operative path, a treating station (10) configured for treating the fibrous material with a treatment composition by applying the composition itself on a first side (T1) of the fibrous material (T); and a printing station (6) configured for ink-printing at least part of a second side (T2) of the fibrous material (T) opposite to the first side (T1). Moreover, the present invention refers to a process of printing a fibrous material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Luigi Milini
  • Publication number: 20190275809
    Abstract: A card processing device may include a card reader and a printer. The printer may include an ink ribbon cartridge; a thermal head; and a cover member. The ink ribbon cartridge may include a supply roll and a take-up roll. The thermal head may heat the ink ribbon and transfer ink to the card. The card reader may be on a front side of the thermal head, and a part of the card reader may be on a lower side of the supply roll or the take-up roll. The cover member may pivot between a closed position and open position. A conveyance path may be provided inside the card reader and the printer. A part of the conveyance path inside the card reader may be a first conveyance path. The card reader may include an upper frame. The upper frame may pivot between a closed position and open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Keiji OHTA, Satoshi YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190275810
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head to discharge a liquid onto a recording medium conveyed in a sub-scanning direction, an irradiator to irradiate the liquid discharged onto the recording medium with a curing ray, an irradiation area of the curing ray being variable in the sub-scanning direction, and a scanner to scan the liquid discharge head and the irradiator in a main scanning direction perpendicular to the sub-scanning direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Yuusuke Matsuki, Atsushi Yanaka, Daisuke Mezaki
  • Publication number: 20190275811
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a conveyance path, a liquid discharge head, and a drying device. A medium is to be conveyed on the conveyance path. The liquid discharge head discharges liquid onto the medium conveyed on the conveyance path. The conveyance path includes a switchback path and an ejection path. The switchback path switches back a conveyance direction of the medium onto which the liquid has been discharged. The ejection path conveys the medium onto which the liquid has been discharged to an ejection port. The drying device dries the medium both on the switchback path and on the ejection path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Taku HATAKEYAMA, Takashi WATANABE, Kaoru TADOKORO, Sho OYAMATSU, Tomohiro INOUE, Hiroshi GOTOU, Mio KUMAI
  • Publication number: 20190275812
    Abstract: A treatment-liquid application device includes a treatment liquid applicator to apply a treatment liquid to an application target object to which a black liquid and a color liquid other than the black liquid are applied. The treatment liquid applicator applies a greater amount of the treatment liquid per unit area to at least a region to which the color liquid is applied than a region to which the black liquid is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuuya Moriya, Masafumi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20190275813
    Abstract: A heating device configured to heat a medium on which a liquid for printing is impinged includes a heating element configured to face a processing surface, the processing surface being a surface on which the liquid is impinged, a blower configured to blow gas to a heating region between the heating element and the processing surface from the heating element side of the medium, and a control unit configured to control an output of the heating element and a driving amount of the blower. The control unit changes the driving amount of the blower in accordance with a type of the medium while maintaining the output of the heating element constant regardless of the type of the medium. The decrease in the drying efficiency of the medium is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Tomohiro YODA
  • Publication number: 20190275814
    Abstract: A medium wind-up device is provided to suppress causing a wrinkle at a time of winding a medium, and also suppress a fluctuation of a winding position. The medium wind-up device includes: a tension roller that presses a medium, which is belt-shaped and transferred in a transfer direction that is predetermined, in order to provide the medium with a tension; a reversing roller that reverses the medium pressed by the tension roller, and the reversing roller being rotatable so as to follow a move of the medium; a loading mechanism that is capable of placing a load against a rotation of the reversing roller; and a wind-up portion that winds up the medium reversed by the reversing roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Akuta, Tomohiro Takano, Kosaku Hotta
  • Publication number: 20190275815
    Abstract: A printer for printing information on a recording sheet, includes a housing configured to accommodate a recording sheet and a printing portion; a battery to be removably mounted to the housing; and a clip pivotably mounted to the housing. The clip includes a joint portion, which is elastically deformable so that a coupling portion of the housing is pivotably fitted to the joint portion. Each of the joint portion and the coupling portion includes an engagement portion configured to restrain the clip from pivoting at a mounting position at which the clip covers at least a part of the battery. When a predetermined external force is applied to the housing in a pivoting direction of the clip, restraining of the clip by the engagement portions is canceled so that the clip is movable from the mounting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Norihisa ANDO
  • Publication number: 20190275816
    Abstract: A printer for printing information on a recording sheet, includes a housing configured to accommodate the recording sheet and a printing portion; an attachment member, which is removably mounted to the housing, and has a hook hole for a strap. A portion of the housing, to which the attachment member is mounted, and the attachment member form a rotation regulating portion configured to regulate rotation of the attachment member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Norihisa ANDO
  • Publication number: 20190275817
    Abstract: Embodiments include a method performed by a system operative to determine a condition related to a printed section printed by a shuttle-based printer. The method includes printing a portion of an image on a section of a medium, thereby providing a printed section. The section of the medium can have a size defined by at least a step size taken by the shuttle-based printer to advance the medium in a downstream direction. The method also includes scanning at least the printed section to capture a sample image of the printed section. The sample image can be captured by using an imager moving in a direction perpendicular to the downstream direction. The method also includes inspecting at least the sample image to determine a value indicative of a condition related to the printed section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Steven A. Billow, Ghilad Dziesietnik
  • Publication number: 20190275818
    Abstract: An ink set comprises black ink having a static surface tension A and yellow ink having a static surface tension B, wherein the static surface tension A is by 0.6 mN/m or more greater than the static surface tension B, wherein the ink set is used in an image forming device including an inkjet head including a nozzle plate including a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array disposed adjacent to the first nozzle array, the first nozzle array including multiple first nozzles configured to discharge the black ink and a second nozzle array including multiple second nozzles configured to discharge the yellow ink, wherein each nozzle of the multiple first nozzles and the multiple second nozzles has a cylindrical portion having a length of 25 ?m or longer along an axial direction with an opening on an ink discharging side of the nozzle plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Takashi WATANABE, Taku Hatakeyama, Kaoru Tadokoro, Sho Oyamatsu, Tomohiro Inoue, Hiroshi Gotou, Mio Kumai
  • Publication number: 20190275819
    Abstract: A reversible recording medium of an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a support base and a recording layer. The recording layer is provided on the support base and reversibly changes between a recorded state and a deleted state. A chroma difference ?C* between the support base and the recording layer satisfies the relational expression (1) where an absorption spectrum in a visible region of the recording layer in the deleted state and an absorption spectrum in a visible region of the support base are each denoted by L*a*b*.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuriko Kaino, Kenichi Kurihara, Aya Shuto, Ryo Kasegawa
  • Publication number: 20190275820
    Abstract: A reversible recording medium of an embodiment of the disclosure includes a support base, and a recording layer provided on the support base and reversibly changing between a recorded state and a deleted state. The recording layer includes a photothermal conversion material including one or more of a compound having a phthalocyanine skeleton, a compound having a squarylium skeleton, a compound having a cyanine skeleton including, in a molecule, one or both of a counter ion of SbF6, PF6, BF4, ClO4, CF3SO3 and (CF3SO3)2N and a methine chain containing a five-membered ring or a six-membered ring, and an inorganic compound; a coloring compound having an electron-donating property; and a color developing/quenching agent having an electron-accepting property and including at least one salicylic acid compound represented by the general formula (1) and including a linear hydrocarbon group having 25 to 34 carbon atoms via a linking group containing an amide moiety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Aya SHUTO, Kenichi KURIHARA, Yuriko KAINO
  • Publication number: 20190275821
    Abstract: To provide a coating solution for forming an ink receiving layer through which it is possible to form an ink receiving layer using the coating solution for forming an ink receiving layer having little effect on a living body, it is possible to prevent a drying time from being too long, and it is possible to prevent a burden on a print target living body from increasing. The coating solution for forming a receiving layer contains water, alcohol including at least one of ethanol and isopropyl alcohol, and a binder agent containing a water-soluble polymer, in which the alcohol content is an amount of 35 weight % or more and 90 weight % or less, and is applied to a living body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi EDAKA, Yuki MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20190275822
    Abstract: A laminated lithographic printing plate comprising an aluminum layer having a first side and a second side, an aluminum oxide layer coating the first side aluminum layer, optionally a second aluminum oxide layer coating the second side of the aluminum layer, an image forming layer coating the first aluminum oxide layer, an adhesive layer adhering to the second side of the aluminum layer or to said second aluminum oxide layer when second aluminum oxide layer is present, and a base layer coating the adhesive layer is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: My T. Nguyen, Thuong T. Dang, Khai N. Phan
  • Publication number: 20190275823
    Abstract: A binding structure that binds a bundle of recording media, the binding structure includes an inserted elastic body that is stretchable and inserted through a through hole formed in the bundle of the recording media, wherein the inserted elastic body includes an insertion part that extends along a thickness direction of the bundle of the recording media and is inserted through the through hole, and a pair of sandwiching parts that is provided at both ends of the insertion part in the thickness direction and sandwiches the bundle of the recording media, and the insertion part is in an extended state to cause the pair of sandwiching parts to generate elastic biasing force in a direction in which the bundle of the recording media is sandwiched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: MADOKA OKABE, FUMINORI KOBAYASHI, MUTSUTO OE, HIROMI MIZUGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190275824
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a security device includes: a) providing a depth map of a macroimage depicting a three-dimensional object, the depth map representing the depth of each part of the three-dimensional object relative to a reference plane by different colours and/or different tones of one colour; b) segmenting the depth map into a plurality of regions based on the colours and/or tones of the depth map; c) for each region, creating a respective microimage element array; and d) providing a sampling element array of a predetermined pitch and orientation. The pitch and/or orientation of each respective microimage element array is different, and is configured such that the magnified versions of the microimage elements generated in any one of the regions have a different apparent depth relative to those generated in the other region(s), so as to form a three-dimensional representation of the macroimage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Adam LISTER
  • Publication number: 20190275825
    Abstract: According to a display element comprising a plurality of display areas, the display area includes a plurality of sub display areas each comprising a plurality of cells, and the display area is adapted to display, in response to one or more of the sub display areas changing an optical property to become reflective or transmissive in accordance with an orientation angle and an elevation angle of observation, different motifs in accordance with one or both of the orientation angle and the elevation angle of observation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi SHINODA
  • Publication number: 20190275826
    Abstract: A security article may include a substrate. The security article may include a layer of security ink. The layer of security ink may include a set of color-shifting interference particles. The security article may include a layer of magnetic color-shifting ink. The layer of magnetic color-shifting ink may include a set of magnetically aligned magnetic particles. A color-shifting property of the layer of security ink and a color-shifting property of the layer of magnetic color-shifting ink may have a threshold level of similarity to create a color matching effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Vladimir P. RAKSHA, Cornelius Jan DELST
  • Publication number: 20190275827
    Abstract: A compact system to mix and create color materials is disclosed. The present invention generally related to a color creative system, in which a particular system is capable to create a final mix color of materials from multiple material reservoirs and dispensing the mixed color of material via applicator of choices, all in a single system that can be as small as a pen or a person's thumb or larger as desired. The system is manually operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Harrison Dave Nguyen, Juliet Kim
  • Publication number: 20190275828
    Abstract: A manual device extends in an axial direction and includes a housing having a first housing portion and a second housing portion. First and second heads are each axially movable between a use position and a stowed position. The first head is in the stowed position when the second head is in the use position, whereas the second head is in the stowed position when the first head is in the use position. The first head and the second head both are carried by a single carriage movable in the axial direction and arranged inside a barrel. A groove forming a cam track is formed by a first shoulder of the first housing portion and by a second shoulder of the barrel. A lug of the carriage cooperates with the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Franck ROLION, Samuel MALINVERNI, Arnaud BEZ
  • Publication number: 20190275829
    Abstract: A method of reusing a notebook provides a notebook having a synthetic-paper page. The method also provides a thermochromic ink pen which, when used to write on the synthetic paper page, leaves thermochromic ink markings. The method further provides a moisture carrier configured to have a liquid diffused therein. The moisture carrier is configured to erase the thermochromic ink markings from the synthetic-paper page by contacting the thermochromic ink markings when the moisture carrier is moist. The method then writes with thermochromic ink on at least a portion of the synthetic-paper page. Liquid is diffused in the moisture carrier, and the portion of the synthetic-paper page having the thermochromic ink is wiped with the moist moisture carrier, such that the thermochromic ink is erased from the synthetic-paper page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Joseph Lemay, Jacob Epstein
  • Publication number: 20190275830
    Abstract: A magnetic information sharing system includes a magnetic writable system having a writable outer surface, and a plurality of writable layers having magnetic receptive properties, wherein the plurality of writable layers are overlaid on the magnetic writable system and are held thereon via magnetic force, and wherein each of the plurality of writable layers has a writable outer surface. A method of displaying information includes the steps of placing a magnetic writable system on a flat surface, recording information on a writable outer surface of the magnetic writable system, overlaying at least one writable layer onto the magnetic writable system, the writable layer comprising material having magnetic receptive properties, and recording information on the writable layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Victoria Rose Deetz, Dayton J. Deetz
  • Publication number: 20190275831
    Abstract: A decal assembly applied to a finished wood floor comprising a visible layer, a clear layer adhered to the visible layer, and a floor finish layer, wherein an outer surface of the floor finish has a coefficient of friction similar to the finished wood floor. The floor finish may be water-based or oil-based and the decal assembly may include an adhesion promotion layer disposed between the clear layer and the floor finish layer. The decal assembly may also include the clear layer having a roughened outer surface. The decal may be installed on a wood floor by laminating a clear layer to a visible layer, roughening an outer surface of the clear layer and applying a floor finish to the outer surface of the clear layer after the roughening step. An adhesion promotion layer may also be applied between the clear layer and the floor finish layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Mark Edward Frainie, John Fitzgerald Prater
  • Publication number: 20190275832
    Abstract: Mounting systems and methods, including those for mounting animal trophies, are disclosed. Embodiments can include a ball, a coupling member for coupling the animal trophy to the ball, and a base having a locking feature. The base can further include a bearing seat which is configured to support a portion of the ball and permit the ball to simultaneously rotate about three axes. Embodiments can further include a cap having a retaining feature at a first end and a second locking feature at a second end. The cap can be configured to mate with the first locking feature of the base and form a locked connection with the base. The cap can retain the ball in a position between the retaining feature and the base, providing increased force onto the ball and securing the position of the ball and animal trophy relative to the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Thad J. EADS, Jason D. EADS
  • Publication number: 20190275833
    Abstract: An anti-roll off assembly. The assembly comprises a band, a plurality of compression-resistant well filler assemblies and a coupler assembly. The band is configured to extend substantially around a circumference of a well portion of a wheel. The compression-resistant well filler assemblies are coupled to the band and are configured to be positioned against the well portion to block off respective volumes along circumferential portions of the well portion. The coupler assembly is configured to increase a tension force of the band and comprises a first trunnion, a second trunnion and a threaded member. The first trunnion is in contact with the band and has a first threaded opening. The second trunnion is in contact with the band and has a second threaded opening. The threaded member comprises a first end threadedly engaged with the first threaded opening and a second end threadedly engaged with the second threaded opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Larry W. Stuck, Daniel Skoczylas, Colin G. Vogel
  • Publication number: 20190275834
    Abstract: A vehicle having a front axle with a pair of front wheels having a track width adjustable between a wide track and a narrow track; a rear axle with at least one rear wheel; steering means configured to control the turn of the rear wheel when the front wheels are set to the narrow track; track width control means configured to change the track width of the front wheels and to change the wheel base between the front axle and the rear axle such that for the wide track of the front wheels the wheel base is longer than for the narrow track of the front wheels; a locking mechanism configured to lock the track width; wherein each of the front wheels is connected to a dedicated front wheel motor for driving that front wheel and to a dedicated front wheel brake for breaking that front wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Rafal Budweil
  • Publication number: 20190275835
    Abstract: Motorcycles tyre including a carcass structure, a zero-degree belt structure arranged in a radially outer position with respect to the carcass structure and a tread band arranged in a radially outer position with respect to the belt structure. The belt structure includes at least one hybrid reinforcing cord that has an elongation greater than 4% when subjected to a load equal to about 50 N and a tangent modulus with a monotonic progression as the elongation increases for elongations comprised between 4% and at least 9%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Barbara RAMPANA, Lisa GRASSI, Mario MARIANI, Pierangelo MISANI
  • Publication number: 20190275836
    Abstract: A tire comprises a tread reinforcing layer comprising a cord-reinforced part in which a rubberized cord strip with at least one reinforcing cord covered with a topping rubber is wound. The cord-reinforced part comprises a spiral part in which the rubberized cord strip is wound spirally and circumferentially of the tire. The spiral part includes a first edge part and a second part continued therefrom. In the second part, the rubberized cord strip extends spirally more than one turn around the tread portion. In the first edge part, the rubberized cord strip extends in the tire circumferential direction at an angle smaller than that in the second part, and overlaps the rubberized cord strip in the second part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masafumi OTANI
  • Publication number: 20190275837
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rubberized reinforcing ply for articles made of elastomeric material, preferably for pneumatic vehicle tires, where the reinforcing ply has a multitude of strength members which are arranged in parallel and spaced apart, where each strength member consists of at least one twisted multifilament yarn composed of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), where the multifilament yarn has a yarn count (linear density) of 50 to 1100 dtex and a linear density-based ultimate tensile strength of ?70 cN/tex in accordance with ASTM D885-16, and where the rubberized material has a thickness D. The invention further relates to a pneumatic vehicle tire comprising this reinforcing ply. The multifilament yarn has an elongation at break of 10% to 20% in accordance with ASTM D885-16, a crystallinity determined via DSC of 55% to 65% and a birefringence ?n with 0.21??n?0.25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ute PĂ–HLER, Carole JUSTINE, Thomas KRAMER
  • Publication number: 20190275838
    Abstract: Provided is a rubber-cord composite, a tire reinforcing member including the composite, and a tire including the reinforcing member. The rubber-cord composite includes a reinforcing cord, and the composite forms a spiral cord layer in the tire reinforcing member. The twist coefficient of the reinforcing cord is 0.3 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20190275839
    Abstract: A tire comprises a tread reinforcing layer comprising a cord-reinforced part formed by winding a rubberized cord strip with at least one reinforcing cord covered with a topping rubber. The cord-reinforced part includes a mesh part in which first inclined segments and second inclined segments of the rubberized cord strip are inclined to opposite directions with respect to the tire circumferential direction. The first inclined segments intersect the second inclined segments, leaving space parts each having a quadrilateral shape. The mesh part has a tire-equator-side first region, a tread-edge-side second region and a third region therebetween, wherein the space parts within the tire-equator-side first region each have an area A1, the space parts within the tread-edge-side second region each have an area A2, and the space parts within the third region each have an area A3 which is smaller than the area A1 and larger than the area A2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro HIKITA, Kyosuke KONO