Patents Issued in February 20, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200055290
    Abstract: Provided is a heat-shrinkable multilayer film including: an outer surface layer including a thermoplastic resin; an intermediate layer including a polyamide resin; and an inner surface layer including a sealable resin; the total thickness of the heat-shrinkable multilayer film being from 95 to 160 ?m; the thickness of the intermediate layer including the polyamide resin being from 17 to 47 ?m; the thickness of the inner surface layer being 55 ?m or greater; and the ratio of the thickness of the intermediate layer including the polyamide resin to the total thickness of the heat-shrinkable multilayer film being from 18 to 29%. The heat-shrinkable multilayer film of the present invention has high strength and excellent flexibility. Therefore, the heat-shrinkable multilayer film of the present invention is easily stretched and formed, and can be suitably used as a variety of packaging materials including a food packaging material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: KUREHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota NAMBU, Ichiro KITADA, Tadayoshi ITOH
  • Publication number: 20200055291
    Abstract: The subject matter is an edge trim strip for covering a narrow edge of a panel workpiece, particularly a furniture panel, comprising at least one front-face cover layer and one hot-melt layer made of TPU-based thermoplastic for securing the edge trim strip to the panel workpiece. The edge strip is characterized in that the hot-melt layer is composed of a polymer mixture (polymer blend) consisting of at least one TPU polymer and at least one additional polymer having increased polarity relative to the TPU polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Martin OTTOW, Markus HERMANNS, Christoph KREMER
  • Publication number: 20200055292
    Abstract: The present paper cup comprises a cup body, and the cup body comprises inner paper and outer paper. There are hollow bulges on the outer paper, and the outer paper forms a connecting part. The inner side of the connecting part bonds to the outer side of the inner paper, and the cup rim of the outer paper extends to the cup rim of the inner paper. In addition, the outer side of the cup rim of the inner paper bonds to the inner side of the outer paper, and both cup rims of the outer paper and the inner paper bend outward to form a double layered crimping. The manufacturing process for the present paper cup includes: paper preparation, rolling, composition, sheet cutting, forming, molding and etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Jiaoping Ding
  • Publication number: 20200055293
    Abstract: A sound-absorbing membrane and a sound-absorbing material, which can improve sound absorbing performance and can improve releasability, are provided. A sound-absorbing membrane 10 includes a base sheet 11 made of a nonwoven fabric impregnated with a water-soluble polymer, and a resin film 12 made of a thermosetting resin covering one surface of the base sheet 11, in which a thickness of the resin film 12 is 0.01 to 0.2 mm, fillers 13 are dispersed in the resin film 12, and a whole airflow resistance is 0.2 to 5.0 kPa·s/m. A sound-absorbing material 20 includes the sound-absorbing membrane 10, and a sound absorbing base sheet 21 made of a porous material, in which the sound-absorbing membrane 10 is laminated on a surface of the sound absorbing base sheet 21, and then formed into a predetermined shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: NAGOYA OILCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori OGAWA, Makoto FUJII, Hidenobu ITO
  • Publication number: 20200055294
    Abstract: A laminated body, containing a fiber-reinforced resin, in which a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin layer (1) containing fiber bundle of reinforcing fibers and a first thermoplastic resin, and a resin layer (2) containing a second thermoplastic resin, are alternately laminated, to form the fiber-reinforced resin, and the ratio of the indentation elastic modulus EIT-B of the first thermoplastic resin portion of the laminated body with respect to the indentation elastic modulus EIT-C of the second thermoplastic resin is 1.5 or more and 5.0 or less; a fiber-reinforced composite resin material; and a method of producing these.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoko YOSHIZAKI, Makiko NAKANO, Yukihiro IKURA, Jirou HIROISHI, Isao TOMOMATSU, Yousuke KOKUBO, Yoichiro NEGISHI
  • Publication number: 20200055295
    Abstract: The present invention provides a decorative sheet that exhibits excellent scratch resistance under high-load conditions and excellent bending workability; and provides a decorative plate containing the decorative sheet. Specifically, the present invention provides a decorative sheet that contains, in sequence, a first olefin resin layer, a second olefin resin layer, and a surface-protecting layer, wherein indentation hardness HIT2 of the second olefin resin layer and indentation hardness HIT1 of the surface-protecting layer satisfy the following formulas (1) and (2) : HIT2?100 MPa (1), and HIT1?HIT2 (2). The invention also provides a decorative plate containing the decorative sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Tomomi Nakajima, Jun Kaneki, Hiroki Kawanishi, Ryo Fujii, Osamu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200055296
    Abstract: A wafer bonding apparatus including: a lower chuck to which a lower wafer is secured at a peripheral portion of the lower chuck; an upper chuck to which an upper wafer is secured; a bonding initiator for pressuring a central portion of the upper wafer until the central portion of the upper wafer reaches a central portion of the lower wafer, thereby initiating a bonding process of the upper and the lower wafers by deforming the upper wafer; and a bonding controller for controlling a bonding speed between a peripheral portion of the upper wafer and a peripheral portion of the lower wafer such that the upper wafer becomes un-deformed prior to bonding the peripheral portion of the upper wafer and the peripheral portion of the lower wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Tae-Yeong KIM, Jun-Hyung KIM, Hoe-Chul KIM, Hoon-Joo NA, Kwang-Jin MOON
  • Publication number: 20200055297
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a metal-clad laminate sheet containing (i) a thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film comprising a thermoplastic polymer, and (ii) a metal foil bonded to at least one surface of the thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film, the thermoplastic polymer being capable of forming an optically anisotropic molten phase, and the method containing: forming a laminate sheet having the thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film and the metal foil bonded together; and heat treating the laminate sheet, wherein the heat treatment satisfies conditions (1) and (2): (1) wheat treatment temperature ranges between 1° C. inclusive and 50° C. exclusive higher than a melting point of the thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film, and (2) a time for the heat treatment ranges from one second to 10 minutes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Kuraray Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakashima, Takeshi Takahashi, Minoru Onodera
  • Publication number: 20200055298
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a multilayer circuit board containing a single-sided metal-clad laminate sheet and a substrate laminated together, the single-sided metal-clad laminate sheet containing a thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film and a metal foil bonded to a surface of the thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film, and the method containing: forming a laminate sheet having the thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film and the metal foil bonded together; and heat treating the laminate sheet, wherein the heat treatment satisfies conditions (1) and (2) to manufacture the single-sided metal-clad laminate sheet: (1) a heat treatment temperature ranges between 1° C. inclusive and 50° C. exclusive higher than a melting point of the thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film, and (2) a time for the heat treatment ranges from one second to 10 minutes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro NAKASHIMA, Takeshi Takahashi, Minoru Onodera
  • Publication number: 20200055299
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing method for fabricating a component having a surface substantially free of imperfections may include providing a mold having a configuration corresponding to the component, and depositing a material on at least one surface of the mold to fabricate the component having the surface substantially free of imperfections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Thermwood Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth SUSNJARA
  • Publication number: 20200055300
    Abstract: An apparatus for preparing a two-dimensional layer of a three-dimensional object during three-dimensional printing of the object. The apparatus may include a controller; a transparent substrate for receiving a deposited layer of liquid materials on an upper surface thereof; a selective deposition unit that deposits at least one liquid body material and a liquid support material different from the at least one liquid body material, on the transparent substrate according to signals received from the controller; and a selective curing unit that selectively solidifies, by curing irradiation, a portion of the deposited layer of liquid body materials on the transparent substrate according to signals received from the controller, such that some of the liquid body material remains uncured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: STRATASYS LTD.
    Inventors: Mordechai TEICHER, Gershon Miller
  • Publication number: 20200055301
    Abstract: The automatic support device generation method includes: receiving a virtual part; determining a retention direction for the virtual part; determining a retention rotation for the virtual part; and constructing a support device based on the part, the retention rotation, and the retention direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Ruza Markov, William Haldean Brown
  • Publication number: 20200055302
    Abstract: Bio-Inks and methods of using compositions comprising the bio-Inks are disclosed. 3-D tissue repair and regeneration through precise and specific formation of biodegradable tissue scaffolds in a tissue site using the bio-inks are also provided. Specific methylacrylated gelatin hydrogels (MAC) and methacrylated chitosan (MACh) preparations formulated with sucrose, a silicate-containing component (such as laponite), and/or a cross-linking agent (such as a photo-initiator or chemical initiator), as well as powdered preparations of these, are also disclosed. Kits containing these preparations are provided for point-of-care tissue repair in vivo. Superior, more complete (up to 99.85% tissue regeneration within 4 weeks applied in situ), and rapid in situ tissue repair and bone formation are also demonstrated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Venu G. Varanasi, Azhar Ilyas, Philip Roger Kramer, Taha Azimaie, Pranesh B. Aswath, Tugba Cebe
  • Publication number: 20200055303
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing pictorial relief structures on a layer construction. The method comprises the provision of a layer construction having a substrate layer. After this, at least one fluid containing at least one first reactive component is applied pictorially to the substrate, wherein the pictorial application takes place in the form of a plurality of droplets with a droplet volume of less than 2 ?l, and wherein the droplets are positioned pictorially. After this, there is an at least partial diffusing of the at least one first reactive component into the substrate layer for a predefined exposure time and/or an at least partial diffusing of at least one second reactive component into the pictorially positioned droplets of fluid for a predefined exposure time, wherein the substrate layer comprises the at least one second reactive component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas TELSER, Matthias BEYER, Daniel FLEISCHER, Claudia MAY
  • Publication number: 20200055304
    Abstract: An ink transfer roller with a hollow-core elastomer roller body is carried on a reusable hanger shaft. Bearings reduce friction while the steel shaft dissipates heat more readily than the aluminum shaft used in conventional transfer rollers. The hollow-core elastomer roller body reduces heat transfer from the shaft to the roller body. A lock collar on one end and a snap ring on the other end of the roller body hold the roller body in place on the shaft. A set screw can be tightened to secure the lock collar to the shaft to hold the roller in place. These features allow the roller body to be easily removed and replaced on the shaft, which reduces maintenance costs. The hangers on the ends of the shaft allow a fully assembled ink transfer roller to be easily removed and replaced in the printing machine, which further reduces maintenance costs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Allen
  • Publication number: 20200055305
    Abstract: In order to reduce variations in pressing force of a printing nip to make the printing pressure uniform, an apparatus that performs printing on a substrate using a roll-to-roll method according to an aspect of the present application includes: an ink supply member that supplies a printing ink; a blanket cylinder (30) that transfers part of the ink, which has been supplied from the ink supply member and applied on a surface of the blanket cylinder, onto the substrate; a roller mold (40) that removes part of the ink applied on the surface of the blanket cylinder (30); a base (46) on which the blanket cylinder (30) is fixed; a slider (44) that supports the roller mold (40) and moves on the base (46); a moving resistance reduction device (80) that reduces a moving resistance of the slider (44) relative to the base (46); and a roller mold nip device (42) that applies, to the roller mold (40), a nip pressure against the blanket cylinder (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya MATSUBARA, Taishi HITOMI, Masayuki ABE
  • Publication number: 20200055306
    Abstract: A screen-printing unit in a printing machine comprises a screen cylinder which carries a screen-printing stencil and in which a squeegee is moved, from the inside, into contact with, and away from the screen-printing stencil. The screen cylinder is moved into contact with an impression cylinder, such that a printing position is formed, and is moved away therefrom, such that a gap is formed. The screen cylinder is moved away from the impression cylinder, in a first phase, when the squeegee is in a non-contacting position. In a second phase, at least one sheet of printing material is passed through the printing position when the squeegee continues to be in a non-contacting position and the screen cylinder is at least temporarily in a contacting position. For subsequent sheets of printing material, in a third phase, the screen-printing unit is operated with the squeegee one of permanently and cyclically, such as at least once for each sheet of printing material, in a contacting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Martin PALME, Vincent RUCHTI
  • Publication number: 20200055307
    Abstract: A machine arrangement sequentially processes sheet-like substrates with multiple different processing stations each having a substrate-guiding unit and a substrate-processing unit. At least one of the processing stations has, as a substrate-processing unit, at least one non-impact printing device which prints on the substrate. The processing station with the at least one non-impact printing device has a printing cylinder. Each non-impact printing device is arranged at the circumference of the printing cylinder. The printing cylinder is triple-sized or quadruple-sized. A double-sized or a triple-sized transfer drum, or a corresponding feed cylinder, is arranged directly upstream of this printing cylinder. Alternatively, a double-sized or a triple-sized transfer drum, or a corresponding transfer cylinder, is arranged directly downstream of this printing cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Christian ZIEGENBALG, Uwe BECKER, Ulrich KÖHLER, Frank SCHUMANN, Carsten REINSCH, Michael KOCH
  • Publication number: 20200055308
    Abstract: A display device which is connected, in data terms, to a printing press, is controlled. A depiction of a printed image, which is printed onto a printing material by the printing press, together with a plurality of ink zones, arranged next to one another transversely, with respect to a transport direction of the printing material which is guiding through the printing press, of at least one inking unit, which is arranged in the printing press, are indicated on a display surface of the display device of a control unit in a controlled manner. The inking zones are indicated by way of parallel boundary lines, which delimit them in each case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: David ENGELHARDT, Harald WILLEKE
  • Publication number: 20200055309
    Abstract: A fluidic die includes an array of nozzles, each nozzle to eject a fluid drop in response to a corresponding actuation signal having an actuation value. Nozzle select logic provides for each nozzle a nozzle select signal having a select value or a non-select value. Actuation logic provides the respective actuation signal for each nozzle, the actuation logic to receive one or more drop weight signals, and for each nozzle select signal having the select value, to provide an actuation signal having an actuation value to the corresponding nozzle and/or to one or more neighboring nozzles based on a state of the one or more drop weight signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Martin, Daryl E Anderson
  • Publication number: 20200055310
    Abstract: An inkjet printer includes first and second inkjet heads arranged to partially overlap each other in a main scanning direction and configured to eject ink to a print medium conveyed in a direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a distribution processing of distributing a number of drops of ink for each of pixels in an image to be printed by an overlap portion of the first inkjet head and the second inkjet head based on a random number between first nozzles of the first inkjet head and second nozzles of the second inkjet head overlapping each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mamoru WAKABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200055311
    Abstract: A droplet jetting apparatus includes: a nozzle that ejects a jet of liquid droplets; a detector that detects a hand or an object in a flight path of liquid droplets from the nozzle; a pump including a suction portion for suction of liquid, and a discharge portion which is connected to the nozzle and discharges the liquid which has been sucked into the suction portion; a driver which by rotation of a cam, sucks liquid into the pump and discharges the liquid in a compressed state; and controller which actuates the driver. When the detector detects the hand or object, the controller actuates the pump by rotation of the cam, and ejects a jet of liquid in droplet form from the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicants: WATANABE MFG. CO., LTD., RISETEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: MASAO WATANABE, YASAO WATANABE, SUSUMU SHOJI
  • Publication number: 20200055312
    Abstract: Measuring an inkjet nozzle may include taking at least one impedance measurement after the firing command is sent to detect the presence of a drive bubble and taking another impedance measurement to detect a collapse of the drive bubble.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric T. Martin, Andrew L. Van Brocklin, David Maxfield
  • Publication number: 20200055313
    Abstract: Provided is a droplet discharging device that can efficiently couple a droplet discharging head and a head driving circuit by a cable. A droplet discharging device includes a droplet discharging head, a head driving circuit configured to drive the droplet discharging head, a carriage configured to move while supporting the droplet discharging head and the head driving circuit, and a cable configured to electrically couple a head connector of the droplet discharging head and a circuit connector of the head driving circuit, the cable being detachably coupled to the head connector and to the circuit connector. The droplet discharging head and the head driving circuit are disposed such that the head connector and the head driving circuit do not overlap in a direction of pull-out of the cable from the head connector and the circuit connector and the droplet discharging head do not overlap in a direction of pull-out of the cable from the circuit connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Akihiro YOSHIMURA, Katsuya ASAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200055314
    Abstract: A printing subassembly is disclosed. A printing subassembly includes a frame, a printbar coupled to the frame, and a lift mechanism coupled to the printbar. The lift mechanism selectively moves the printbar with respect to the frame. A fluid receiving system is coupled to the printbar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Kenneth Russell Williams, Vern Elliit Myers
  • Publication number: 20200055315
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a nozzle array composed of nozzles, pressure generating chambers communicating with the nozzles of the nozzle array, and actuators that are positioned to correspond individually to the pressure generating chambers. Each the actuators includes a piezoelectric layer being sandwiched by a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode serves as individual electrodes provided individually for the respective actuators. The second electrode serves as a first common electrode that extends over the actuators corresponding to a first region of the nozzle array and a second common electrode that extends over the actuators corresponding to a second region of the nozzle array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshitaka MATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20200055316
    Abstract: In an example, a wiper system includes a first wiper blade, a second wiper blade, and a cam. In that example, the cam is coupled to the first wiper blade to move the first wiper blade to a first wipe position when the cam is in a first cam position and coupled to the second wiper blade to move the second wiper blade to a second wipe position when the cam is in a second cam position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Francesc Tarrida Tirado, Sara Molins Cabani, Xavier Gasso Puchal
  • Publication number: 20200055317
    Abstract: An example printhead assembly includes a housing, nozzles and a collapsible container within the housing to supply ink to the nozzles. The collapsible container includes a top wall, a bottom wall, first and second side walls that form an interior and a spring assembly within the interior. The first flexible wall includes a first amount of excess material. The second flexible wall includes a second amount of excess material less than the first amount of excess material such that motion of the first flexible wall of the collapsible container is constrained against movement to a lesser extent as compared to the second flexible wall. The first flexible wall faces the sensor. A sensor assembly is coupled to the housing and includes a sensor to provide a sensor signal indicating the amount of ink within the collapsible container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Dennis R. Esterberg, Matthew J. Janssen, Jeffrey A. Nielsen, Norman L. Berger
  • Publication number: 20200055318
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, a main replenishing section, an auxiliary replenishing section, and a controller. The image forming section forms an image on a recording medium using a consumable. The main replenishing section retains the consumable therein. The auxiliary replenishing section is replenished with the consumable from the main replenishing section and replenishes the consumable to the image forming section. The controller controls an image forming speed for forming the image on the recording medium. The controller lowers the image forming speed below a normal speed when a main residual amount corresponding to a remaining amount of the consumable retained in the main replenishing section is no greater than a specified value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Masazo MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20200055319
    Abstract: A froth coalescing device includes a froth receiving chamber with a vent, and a vertical membrane arranged between the vent and a gas out port of the froth coalescing device. The vent is arranged to vent gas in a direction that is different from a direction of travel of froth in the froth receiving chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Anthony D Studer, Robert S Wickwire
  • Publication number: 20200055320
    Abstract: An ultraviolet (UV) inkjet printing method providing a stacked printing edge with a smooth effect is disclosed. After an inkjet head is controlled to print an image X on a substrate, a distance between the inkjet head and a surface of the substrate is kept unchanged, and the inkjet head is again controlled to print bi-directionally for at least once on the image X. After completing the above steps, the inkjet head is further controlled to print an image X? on the image X on the substrate, wherein the image X? consists of pixels expanded from the image X, such that the image X? completely covers the image X, forming a smooth arc surface at peripheral edges of the image X.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Chen-Chien TSAI, Chih-Hua YEN
  • Publication number: 20200055321
    Abstract: A printing method includes determining the upper limit of the amount of the ink to be discharged based on a color saturation suppression upper limit, and at least one of an overflowing suppression upper limit, a bleeding suppression upper limit, and an aggregation suppression upper limit. The determining of the upper limit of the amount of the ink to be discharged includes setting in advance priorities among the suppressing of the color saturation of the ink and at least one of the overflowing of the ink, the bleeding of the ink, and the aggregation of the ink, and determining the upper limit of the amount of the ink to be discharged based on the priorities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshio OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20200055322
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a recording section which is provided over a transport passage for transporting a sheet in a transport direction and which has nozzles for discharging an ink onto the sheet; a platen which is provided under the recording section with the transport passage intervening therebetween and which has a plurality of ribs provided to support the sheet while being separated from each other in a widthwise direction of the transport passage perpendicular to the transport direction, the respective ribs protruding upwardly and extending in the transport direction; and a plurality of holding members which are provided to be positioned between the plurality of ribs in the widthwise direction of the transport passage over the platen on an upstream side in the transport direction from the nozzles and which abut against an upper surface of the sheet and press the sheet toward the platen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20200055323
    Abstract: A support structure defining a flat support surface for supporting a web material includes a number of beams, each having a cross-section elongated in a first direction normal to the support surface. The beams have a ruler edge extending in a second direction in parallel with the support surface, which is defined by the ruler edges. The support structure includes a number of adjustment mechanisms for adjusting the positions of the ruler edges in the first direction. Each beam has a base part and a ruler part, the ruler part defining the ruler edge and being connected to the base part by at least three adjustment mechanisms distributed over the length of the beam. Each adjustment mechanism includes a lever that is pivotable relative to the base part about a fixed fulcrum, is connected to the ruler part, and has an adjustment arm with an adjustable free end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Océ Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Joseph A. SCHULKES
  • Publication number: 20200055324
    Abstract: In an image processing device, a controller is configured to perform: selecting; generating; and outputting. The selecting selects a target partial image one by one from a plurality of partial images. The target partial image is represented by target partial image data. The generating generates partial print data for a partial print by executing an image process on the target partial image data. The partial print forms the target partial image while moving a print head in a printing direction. The partial print forms the target partial image while moving a print head in a printing direction. The image process includes a color conversion process. The color conversion process is executed on the target partial image data using one of a first profile and a second profile selected in accordance with the printing direction set for the partial print. The outputting outputs the partial print data to the printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Masashi Kuno, Shota Morikawa, Satoru Arakane
  • Publication number: 20200055325
    Abstract: Printhead carriers and adapters are disclosed. An example disclosed print mechanism includes an adapter to simultaneously couple a printhead assembly to both a logic circuit of a media processing device and a power source of the media processing device; a printhead carrier coupled to the adapter; and wherein a first connection, between data input connector and the logic circuit, and a second connection, between the power input connector and the power source, are maintained when the printhead assembly is removed from the print mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Robert P. Gotschewski, Timothy T. Anderson
  • Publication number: 20200055326
    Abstract: A system for performing substrateless and/or local donor Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT), comprising a reservoir comprising at least one opening and an energy source configured to deliver energy to a donor material within said reservoir, characterized by at least one of: said reservoir is embedded into a medical device; said reservoir is in fluid connection with a medical device; said reservoir is incorporated into a medical device; said reservoir contains at least one biologically active substance; and, said reservoir is in fluid connection with at least one source of at least one biologically active substance. This system enables deposition of material by LIFT without any need for a donor substrate. Methods of substrateless and local donor LIFT, in particular for medical and biological applications, are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Aryeh BATT
  • Publication number: 20200055327
    Abstract: A system for performing substrateless and/or local donor Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT), comprising a reservoir comprising at least one opening and an energy source configured to deliver energy to a donor material within said reservoir, characterized by at least one of: said reservoir is embedded into a medical device; said reservoir is in fluid connection with a medical device; said reservoir is incorporated into a medical device; said reservoir contains at least one biologically active substance; and, said reservoir is in fluid connection with at least one source of at least one biologically active substance. This system enables deposition of material by LIFT without any need for a donor substrate. Methods of substrateless and local donor LIFT, in particular for medical and biological applications, are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Aryeh BATT
  • Publication number: 20200055328
    Abstract: A visual security feature is provided that is disposed on a target. The visual security feature includes two substantially transparent layers. At least one of the two substantially transparent layers is present in an image-wise pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Phillip Renz, Morven McAlpine
  • Publication number: 20200055329
    Abstract: An eco-friendly activator-free water transfer printing film and its transfer printing method are disclosed. The method includes the steps of: laying a superabsorbent film on a water surface; laying a hydrophilic material on a surface of the superabsorbent film to form a hydrophilic layer, and the hydrophilic material includes an information object, or coated with an information object; absorbing water to soften an end surface of the superabsorbent film contacting with the water surface, and crosslinking the other end surface of the superabsorbent film to the hydrophilic layer; pushing a transfer object towards the hydrophilic layer in water, so that the hydrophilic layer and the superabsorbent film are transferred and printed onto the transfer object. Therefore, the water transfer printing process can be achieved without using any activator to avoid environmental pollutions and prevent jeopardizing human beings or deforming transfer printing patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: TIEN-SHUI CHEN, CHI-LIANG CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200055330
    Abstract: A paint package lid (14, 114) includes a base wall (54) having a lid base wall upper surface (56) and a lid base wall lower surface (58), a container coupling rim (60) disposed radially outwardly with respect to the base wall and having a rim upper surface (62), and a closure well (64, 164) disposed radially inwardly with respect to the base wall. The closure well includes a radially outer wall (82) extending downwardly with respect to the base wall, a lower wall (84) extending radially inwardly with respect to the radially outer wall and establishing a lowermost surface (85) of the lid, and a neck (86, 186) disposed radially inwardly with respect to the radially outer wall and extending upwardly from the lower wall and having a closure coupling (95). Also disclosed is lid and closure assembly and a paint package (10, 110, 210) including the lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Bruce Boos, Gregory James Warren
  • Publication number: 20200055331
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-part track wheel with a wheel tyre, with a wheel rim and with at least two elastic bodies arranged between the wheel tyre and the wheel rim, via which the wheel tyre is supported spring elastically on the wheel rim and which are arranged distributed in the circumferential direction around the rotary axis of the track wheel, wherein the elastic bodies are clamped between an inner circumferential surface of the wheel tyre and an outer circumferential surface of the wheel rim and in this case abut with their outer side assigned to the wheel tyre on the inner circumferential surface of the wheel tyre and with their inner side assigned to the wheel rim on the outer circumferential surface of the wheel rim and an elastic body for use in a track wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Franz Murawa, Torben Schulz
  • Publication number: 20200055332
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel design for quick tyre change in rear dual wheel assembly in a heavy transport vehicle. The invention provides a safe design that comprises a two-piece segmented saddle lock ring retained in position by an endless ring. A self-locking taper provided on the inside of endless ring can be pressed against the taper provided on the two-piece segmented saddle lock ring. The endless ring retaining the two-piece segmented saddle lock rings due to wedge action of self-locking taper cannot move from its position until an external force is applied on the endless ring towards the direction of the tyre position. The endless ring acts as a hood over the two-piece segmented saddle lock rings and prevents any loose parts flying off the rim during the tyre burst. Further in this safe design both inboard and outboard rim tyre support components are identical as both rims are of same diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: WHEELS INDIA LIMITED
    Inventor: BALAJI AVALUR NAGARAJAN
  • Publication number: 20200055333
    Abstract: A wheel bearing arrangement for a motor vehicle, including a wheel support and a wheel hub which is rotatably mounted on the wheel support by a wheel bearing in order to secure a wheel and to which a shaft is rotationally fixed, wherein a wheel bearing seal sealingly lies, on the one hand, against an inner ring of the wheel bearing, said inner ring sitting on the wheel hub, and, on the other hand, against an outer ring of the wheel bearing, said outer ring being secured to the wheel support. It is provided here that a wheel bearing pre-seal is rotationally fixed to the shaft adjacently to the wheel bearing and engages by a seal protrusion in a pre-seal receiving area formed in at least some sections between the outer ring and the wheel support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Johannes ALBL, Michael FRISCH
  • Publication number: 20200055334
    Abstract: An apparatus for a vehicle is provided that has an axle and a spindle sleeve with a spindle sleeve inner surface axis coaxial with the axis of the axle, and a spindle sleeve outer surface axis not coaxial with the axis of the axle. A hub has an axis coaxial with the spindle sleeve outer surface axis, and the hub at least partially defines a chamber. First and second ports extend through a wall of the hub to the chamber. The hub rotates about the spindle sleeve through the aid of two bearings. Lubricant is present within the chamber, and the first port provides a pathway for a pressurized fluid to be introduced into the chamber to force the lubricant out of the chamber via the second port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: ZACHARY ALEXANDER MERRILL
  • Publication number: 20200055335
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new vulcanisable elastomeric compositions for components of tyres, comprising modified silicate fibres as fillers. The silicate fibres are modified according to the process with controlled pH of the invention. In addition, the invention regards components of tyres, comprising elastomeric materials obtainable by vulcanisation of said compositions, and tyres for vehicles comprising one or more of said components. The vulcanised elastomeric materials according to the invention are characterised by good static and dynamic mechanical properties, in particular by particularly low hysteresis. Advantageously the tyres of the invention comprising one or more of said components have a limited rolling resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicants: Pirelli Tyre S.p.A., UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI MILANO BICOCCA
    Inventors: Luca GIANNINI, Luciano TADIELLO, Thomas HANEL, Elkid COBANI, Barbara DI CREDICO, Massimiliano D'ARIENZO, Roberto SCOTTI, Franca MORAZZONI, Jorge Jose PEREZ CACHO, Daniel Javier JULVE SEBASTIAN
  • Publication number: 20200055336
    Abstract: A tire has a tread comprising a rubber composition based on at least an elastomer matrix comprising more than 50 phr and up to 100 phr of a first diene elastomer bearing at least one SiOR function, R being a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon radical, and optionally, 0 to less than 50 phr of a second diene elastomer which is different from the first diene elastomer; a reinforcing filler predominately comprising a reinforcing inorganic filler, wherein the content of reinforcing inorganic filler is 20 to 200 phr; and a plasticizing agent comprising 5 to 100 phr of a liquid phosphate plasticizer having a glass transition temperature of less than ?80° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: TOMOYA SAKURADA
  • Publication number: 20200055337
    Abstract: The tire for two-wheel vehicles of the present invention includes a pair of bead sections, a pair of side wall sections, and a tread section continuing to both the side wall sections, the tread section being divided into three by a center section and shoulder sections, wherein a tread rubber of the center section and a tread rubber of the shoulder sections each contain a rubber component and satisfy formula (1) shown below. The tire for two-wheel vehicles of the present invention achieves both wet grip performance and abrasion resistance of the tread. (Dynamic modulus E? at 0° C. of tread rubber of center section)/(Dynamic modulus E? at 0° C. of tread rubber of shoulder sections)<0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yukari MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200055338
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a tire for two-wheel vehicle in which both the wet grip performance and the abrasion resistance of the tread are made compatible with each other. The tire for two-wheel vehicle of the present invention includes a pair of bead sections, a pair of side wall sections, and a tread section continuing to the both sidewall sections, the tread section being divided into three by a center section including a tire equatorial plane and a pair of shoulder sections including a tread end in the tire width direction, wherein a tread rubber of the center section and a tread rubber of the shoulder sections each contain a rubber component and satisfy the following formula (1): (Peak temperature of loss tangent tan ? of tread rubber of the center section)<(Peak temperature of loss tangent tan ? of tread rubber of the shoulder sections)??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yukari MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200055339
    Abstract: A structurally supported tire includes a ground contacting annular tread portion, an annular shear band and at least one spoke disk connected to the shear band, wherein the spoke disk has at least one spoke, wherein the spoke extends between an outer ring and an inner ring in a first parabolic curve. The spoke disk may further include a second spoke having a second parabolic curve different from the first curve, and overlapping with the first spoke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Philip Carl Van Riper, Joseph Carmine Lettieri, Rebecca Anne Bandy, Addison Brian Siegel, Mahdy Malekzadeh Moghani, Andrew B. Mendenhall