Patents Issued in February 25, 2020
  • Patent number: 10569562
    Abstract: A control method of a liquid ejecting apparatus is provided. The liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head for ejecting a liquid in an inner-space thereof through a nozzle, an inflow-channel for flowing the liquid into the inner space, an outflow-channel for flowing the liquid out of the inner space, and a valve for the inflow-channel. The control method includes first control of opening the inflow-channel by opening the valve in accordance with a negative pressure on a downstream side of the valve to generate a liquid flow from the inflow-channel to the outflow-channel, second control of opening the inflow-channel by opening the valve by an external force to generate the liquid flow from the inflow-channel to the outflow-channel, and performing the second control, in accordance with a flow amount of the liquid flow, to open the valve under the first control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Nakajima, Hiroshige Owaki
  • Patent number: 10569563
    Abstract: A printer includes a first storage, a head, a first supply flow path, a first circulation flow path, a second supply flow path, and a second circulation flow path. The first storage is configured to be supplied with ink from a second storage, and is configured to store the supplied ink. The head configured to eject the ink. The first supply flow path merges with one of the second supply flow path and the second circulation flow path at one of a first connector and the first storage. The first circulation flow path merges with the other of the second supply flow path and the second circulation flow path at one of a second connector and the first storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akira Nishio
  • Patent number: 10569564
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a cartridge includes: a first storage chamber; and a supply portion. A cartridge attachment portion includes: a connecting portion; and a second storage chamber. The connecting portion is disposed at a first height and connectable to the supply portion. A detecting portion is configured to detect one of a level of a liquid stored in the first storage chamber and at a position adjacent to the supply portion and a level of the liquid stored in the second storage chamber and at a position adjacent to the connecting portion. The first storage chamber has a first cross-sectional area taken along a horizontal plane at a predetermined height between the first height and a second height above the first height. The second storage chamber has a second cross-sectional area taken along the horizontal plane. The second cross-sectional area is greater than the first cross-sectional area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihito Kobayashi, Akinari Ishibe, Yuma Tanabe, Masahiro Hayashi, Masatake Sato
  • Patent number: 10569565
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head including a supplying path supplying a liquid ejected from an ejection port includes a vent path branching from the supplying path to extend along a horizontal direction, the vent path enabling collection of bubbles mixed into the liquid. An inner surface of the vent path extending along the horizontal direction includes an area formed thereon and having a greater contact angle to the liquid than that of an inner surface of the supplying path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shimpei Yoshikawa, Ryo Sato
  • Patent number: 10569566
    Abstract: A method of operating a thermal transfer printer, the thermal transfer printer comprising: first and second spool supports each being configured to support a spool of ribbon; a ribbon drive configured to cause movement of ribbon from the first spool support to the second spool support along a predetermined ribbon path; and a printhead, the printhead being a corner edge printhead. The printhead is configured to selectively transfer ink from the ribbon to a substrate as the substrate and printhead are moved relative to one another at a print speed. The method comprises transferring ink from the ribbon to the substrate when the print speed is less than 40 millimetres per second.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: VIDEOJET TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Philip Hart, Jeremy Ellis
  • Patent number: 10569567
    Abstract: A thermal transfer device includes a fixture that holds a transfer object, a foil transfer tool that presses a thermal transfer foil placed on the transfer object and a light absorbing film placed on the thermal transfer foil and emits light onto the light absorbing film, a carriage moving mechanism that moves the foil transfer tool relative to the fixture, and a temperature detector that measures a temperature of a portion of the light absorbing film pressed and irradiated with light by the foil transfer tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: DGSHAPE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kuno, Tomoyoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 10569568
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer including a cartridge holder, a feeder, a printing head, a first sensor, and a second sensor. The cartridge holder is configured to attach and detach a medium cartridge having a print-receiving medium. The first sensor is configured to bring a detector into contact with the medium cartridge and thereby detect first information related to the print-receiving medium, based on a result of the contact. The second sensor is configured to project light to the medium cartridge and thereby detect second information related to the print-receiving medium, based on a result of light reception corresponding to the projected light. The first sensor and the second sensor are integrated as a sensor unit configured to perform an advancing/retreating motion toward/from the medium cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Tanizaki
  • Patent number: 10569569
    Abstract: An image forming method uses an apparatus for forming an image on both recording media of fabric and recording paper. The image forming method includes: applying a treatment agent to the fabric, the treatment agent coagulating a water-based ink or increasing viscosity of the water-based ink; and discharging the water-based ink onto the fabric by an ink-jet system, the water-based ink being identical to a water-based ink used for forming the image on the recording paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Taga, Keisuke Yuhara, Mitsunori Maeda, Shinpei Ito
  • Patent number: 10569570
    Abstract: A conveying device includes a blower, a conveyor, and an upstream blower. The blower blows air to a sheet material. The conveyor includes a sandwiching unit to sandwich the sheet material, and conveys the sheet material to a blowing region of the blower. The upstream blower blows air toward a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the sheet material, from an upstream side of the blowing region in the conveyance direction of the sheet material to the blowing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohki Asada, Masato Ogawa, Natsuki Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 10569571
    Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording method including: discharging first ultraviolet curable ink of a radical polymerization reaction type which contains a radical photopolymerization initiator and a radical polymerization compound and in which transmittance at a wavelength of 395 nm is equal to or less than 1%, onto a recording medium; and curing the first ultraviolet curable ink which is landed on the recording medium by irradiating the ink with ultraviolet light, in which a light source which initially emits the ultraviolet light in the curing of the ink is an ultraviolet light emitting diode in which peak intensity of the irradiated ultraviolet light is equal to or more than 800 mW/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Mikito Nakajima, Keitaro Nakano, Mitsuaki Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 10569572
    Abstract: A relay conveyance device includes a relay conveyance path, a processing unit, a main heater and a sub heater. The relay conveyance path is arranged between an image forming apparatus forming an image on a sheet and a post processing device carrying out post process to the sheet with the image formed by the image forming apparatus to convey the sheet from the image forming apparatus to the post processing device. The processing unit carries out predetermined process to the sheet at a predetermined position on the relay conveyance path. The main heater heats the sheet in processing in the processing unit. The sub heater heats the sheet in conveying at a position other than the predetermined position on the relay conveyance path. When an ink amount of the image formed on the sheet is less than a predetermined lower threshold, the sub heater is turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Junichi Oura
  • Patent number: 10569573
    Abstract: An inkjet printing device includes a fast-scan drive module, attached to a first gantry, for moving back-and-forth, parallel to a first direction above a flatbed table, a print head including a nozzle row, wherein the first direction is perpendicular to the nozzle row; and a slow-scan drive module, attached to the inkjet printing device, for moving back-and-forth above the flatbed table, parallel to a second direction, the first gantry on a set of motion rails, attached to the inkjet printing device, wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction; and a first drive module, attached to a second gantry, for moving parallel to the second direction the second gantry on the set of motion rails while an ink-receiver is coupled to the second gantry; and loading the ink-receiver on the flatbed table by decoupling the ink-receiver from the second gantry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Mark Barrett
  • Patent number: 10569574
    Abstract: Provided herein is system and method for enhancing throughput of a thermal printer cutter. The system operates in a first printing mode in an instance in which a designated safe zone is detected. A second print media portion is traversed in downstream direction for printing after printing of a first print media until a designated safe zone is detected under a print head. The printing is suspended at a first point on the second print media portion. A first movement of the print media is caused in one of the downstream or upstream direction until a first cut point of the first print media portion is detected under cutter blade for cutting operation. A second movement of the print media is caused in one of the downstream or upstream direction until a third point is detected under print head. The printing resumes from the first point on the second print media portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Datamax-O'Neil Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Hatle, Thomas Celinder
  • Patent number: 10569575
    Abstract: It is possible to more securely reduce the printing time of printing processing to perform printing while conveying printing sheets in an overlapping manner. An image forming apparatus including: a determination unit configured to analyze print data for printing an image on one printing sheet and to determine, based on the analysis results, an overlap amount of the one printing sheet and another printing sheet conveyed in a state of overlapping part of the one printing sheet; and a conveyance unit configured to convey the one printing sheet and the other printing sheet in an overlapping manner in accordance with an overlap amount determined by the determination unit, and a target image range of the analysis of the print data is determined in accordance with a predetermined overlap amount determined in advance, which a printing unit can permit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keita Hidaka
  • Patent number: 10569576
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer including a memory that stores computer-executable instructions. When the instructions executed by a processor, printer performs an image expansion process, a reverse feeding process, and a printing process. In the image expansion process, image data corresponding to a print command analyzed by an analysis process is expanded. In the reverse feeding process, a feeder feeds a print-receiving medium in the reverse direction to move a tip of the print-receiving medium positioned in a vicinity of a cutting blade of a cutter in the reverse direction. In the printing process, the feeder and the printing head operate to form a print on a basis of the image data expanded in an image buffer. The printer executes the image expansion process and the reverse feeding process in parallel to each other when the instructions are executed by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaru Uno
  • Patent number: 10569577
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an adhesive tape cartridge including an adhesive tape roll. The adhesive tape roll winds an adhesive tape around a predetermined axis in a housing. The adhesive tape includes a base layer and a particle-comprising adhesive layer. The particle-comprising adhesive layer is disposed on one side of the base layer in a thickness direction and comprises an adhesive comprising large diameter particles and small diameter particles. An average particle diameter of the large diameter particles is 30 ?m to 200 ?m. An average particle diameter of the small diameter particles is 0.2 ?m to 20 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Suito, Chie Nakashima
  • Patent number: 10569578
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a platen including a first guide rail and a second guide rail mutually parallel in a width direction that intersects a transport direction of a medium; an edge holder including a plate-shaped member that covers an end portion of the medium in the width direction, a first engaging portion that engages with the first guide rail, and a second engaging portion that engages with the second guide rail; and a changing portion that is provided on the first engaging portion side and is for changing a position of the plate-shaped member in the width direction. A space in the transport direction formed between the first engaging portion and the first guide rail is narrower than a space in the transport direction formed between the second engaging portion and the second guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takehito Washizawa, Hiroki Aoki
  • Patent number: 10569579
    Abstract: A recording-head position adjustment mechanism includes a beam to suspend a recording head that discharges droplets so that the recording head is drawable out in a predetermined direction; a first supporter disposed at one end of the beam in the predetermined direction and having a support shaft to support the beam; a second supporter disposed at another end of the beam in the predetermined direction with the beam interposed between the first supporter and the second supporter. The second supporter is attached with an adjuster via which the second supporter supports the beam. The adjuster includes a coarse-adjustment shaft member and a fine-adjustment shaft member that are manually rotatable independent of each other. The coarse-adjustment shaft member coarsely adjusts a rotation angle of the beam at which the beam rotates around the support shaft by manual rotation. The fine-adjustment shaft member finely adjusts the rotation angle of the beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Isamu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10569580
    Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus including: an image forming unit that forms a first image containing a first liquid and a coloring material on a transfer body; and a liquid absorbing device including a liquid absorbing member having a porous body coming in contact with the first image to at least partially absorb the first liquid from the first image, and a cleaning member coming in contact with the porous body to clean the porous body wherein surface free energy Y1 of the transfer body, surface free energy Y2 of the porous body, surface free energy Y3 of the cleaning member, and a dispersion force component Yd of surface free energy of the first image satisfy the following Equation (1): |Yd,?Y3|<|Yd,?Y1|<|Yd,?Y2|??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kyosuke Deguchi, Toru Yamane, Atsushi Sakamoto, Satoshi Masuda, Yoshiyuki Honda, Ryosuke Hirokawa, Akihiro Mouri, Toru Ohnishi, Noboru Toyama
  • Patent number: 10569581
    Abstract: A printing pattern creation device includes an input to which information regarding a type of ink to be used to perform printing on a printing target, and information regarding the surface on which the printing is to be performed, are to be provided; a storage having stored thereon a plurality of predefined printing modes each to be executed as one printing process; a main creator to select one or at least two printing modes among the plurality of printing modes based on the information supplied to the input, and to arrange the selected printing modes in the order of execution, to create a printing pattern; and an output to output the created printing pattern to a recording device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeomi Ohta, Kazutoshi Funakoshi, Takeshi Tozuka, Hiroki Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 10569582
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a paper jam sensing and recovery method for a receipt printer, the method enabling accurate measuring and determining of a motor overload state, which is most problematic when jam occurs, and enabling an immediate response if an overcurrent is generated on the basis of a driving current, such that damage to the motor or a driving circuit is fundamentally prevented and, also, paper jam occurring in a peripheral part of a printer cutter can be prevented in advance, thereby blocking product damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: POSBANK CO., LTD
    Inventor: Dong Uk Eun
  • Patent number: 10569583
    Abstract: A method for the automated calibration of a printing machine with an image capture system by using a computer, includes putting at least one printed sample substrate with defined deviations into the printing machine, generating a digital image of the printed sample substrate by using the image capture system, calculating current compensation values including defined deviations for configuration parameters of the printing machine relating to optimizing the printing quality by using the computer, and comparing the current compensation values created with target compensation values known from the defined deviations of the printed sample substrate. Serviceability of the printing machine is checked by evaluating the comparison by the computer and/or calibrating the printing machine by using the evaluated comparison by the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Alexander Knabe, Manfred Schneider
  • Patent number: 10569584
    Abstract: A tape roll is housed inside a cassette case. A first rotation body is provided on a first direction side of the tape roll and is positioned on a second direction side of a winding center of the tape roll. A first opening is provided on the second direction side of the first rotation body. An ink ribbon roll is provided on the second direction side of the first opening. A second rotation body is provided on the first direction side and the second direction side of a winding center of the ink ribbon roll. A first regulating part is provided on a fourth direction side of a predetermined path and is positioned on the fourth direction side of a first virtual line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shimako Nakai, Khairul Fatasha Mohd, Tsutomu Kato
  • Patent number: 10569585
    Abstract: A tape cartridge includes a platen roller, a winding up core, and a cartridge casing that accommodates a printing tape, an ink ribbon, the platen roller, and the winding up core. The cartridge casing includes an insertion hole in which a head cover on a cartridge installation portion of a tape printing apparatus is inserted when the tape cartridge is installed on the cartridge installation portion. The insertion hole includes a facing portion that faces a convex portion on the head cover when the tape cartridge is installed on the cartridge installation portion. The facing portion is part of an inner wall of the insertion hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Sakano, Hideo Sodeyama
  • Patent number: 10569586
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ink jet recording apparatus including an image forming unit that forms a first image including a first liquid and a coloring material on an ink receiving medium; and a liquid absorbing member that includes a porous body which is configured to be brought into contact with the first image so as to absorb at least a portion of the first liquid from the first image, in which an average pore diameter of a first surface of the porous body which is configured to be brought into contact with the first image is equal to or smaller than 0.6 ?m, an arithmetic average roughness Ra defined by JIS B 0601:2001 of the first surface of the porous body is equal to or smaller than 1.9 ?m, an average pore diameter of a second surface, which is a back surface of the first surface, of the porous body is larger than the average pore diameter of the first surface, and a Gurley value defined by JIS P 8117 of the porous body is equal to or shorter than 10 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noboru Toyama, Toru Yamane, Kyosuke Deguchi, Ryosuke Hirokawa, Toru Ohnishi, Akihiro Mouri
  • Patent number: 10569587
    Abstract: Substrates can be inkjet printed using an aqueous inkjet ink composition having a dynamic viscosity of 5 centipoise (5 mPa-sec) or less at 25° C., and consisting essentially of: (a) a polymer-dispersed pigment colorant at 0.9-6 weight %; (b) a composition consisting of one or more compounds represented by the following Structure (I): HO—CH2—CH2—R??(I) wherein R is a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted phenoxy group, at 0.5-2 weight %; and (c) a water-soluble humectant, co-solvents, or both, at 20 weight %. Each polymer-dispersed pigment colorant has a 50th percentile particle diameter of less than 70 nm and a 95th percentile particle diameter of less than 150 nm, measured using a dynamic light scattering particle size analyzer. Replenishment or maintenance fluids containing a Structure (I) compound can also be used during the inkjet printing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
    Inventors: Allan Francis Sowinski, Wayne Lee Cook, Douglas Eugene Bugner
  • Patent number: 10569588
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet, which includes a transfer layer, is superposed on a transfer receiving article, and while the transfer layer is continuously transferred onto the article by a printer comprising a sheet supplying device, heating device, sheet winding device, measuring device located between the heating and sheet winding devices to measure the tensile strength of the thermal transfer sheet conveyed along a conveyance path, and release device located between the heating and the measuring devices, under conditions including an applied power for printing: 0.15 W/dot and a conveying speed for the thermal transfer sheet: 84.6 mm/sec., the transfer layer transferred on the article is released from a constituent member in contact with the transfer layer of the thermal transfer sheet, has a tensile strength measured by the measuring device of 0.1 N/cm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Oota
  • Patent number: 10569589
    Abstract: A print data creation device creates, from two-dimensional image data, three-dimensional print data to be printed on a thermally distensible sheet. The device includes a processor programmed to receive the two-dimensional image data of prescribed gradations; divide the two-dimensional image data of prescribed gradations into a plurality of density layers that expand to different respective expansion heights when printed on the thermally distensible sheet; create, from the plurality of density layers, an expansion data set having a plurality of layer images to be printed on the thermally distensible sheet; and causes the expansion data set to be output to a printing unit that prints on the thermally distensible sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Fukushima, Satoshi Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 10569590
    Abstract: A binding apparatus including a plurality of generally coaxially arranged binding coils. Each binding coil includes a pair of generally parallel wires terminating in a tip. Each binding coil is coupled to an adjacent binding coil by a connection portion extending generally parallel to an axis of the binding apparatus. At least one binding coil is directly circumferentially attached to itself, or to a connection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: ACCO Brands Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth P. Richied
  • Patent number: 10569591
    Abstract: A greeting card generally comprising panels and a biasing member which stores a compressive force or a tensional force. The biasing member is coupled to the greeting card, such that the greeting card moves to an open configuration or a closed configuration, depending on the type of force held by the biasing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Hallmark Cards, Incorporated
    Inventor: Michael Robert Adair
  • Patent number: 10569592
    Abstract: A security device is provided. The security device comprises an array of elongate focusing structures, the elongate axes of which are aligned along a first direction, the elongate focusing structures being arranged parallel to one another periodically along a second direction which is orthogonal to the first direction, each elongate focusing structure having an optical footprint of which different elongate strips will be directed to the viewer in dependence on the viewing angle, the centre line of each optical footprint being parallel with the first direction. An array of image elements overlap the array of elongate focusing structures, the array of image elements representing elongate image slices of at least two respective images, each image slice comprising one or more image elements, and at least one image slice of each respective image being located at least partially in the optical footprint of each elongate focusing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Adam Lister
  • Patent number: 10569593
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming a security document including the steps of: providing a base layer having a top side; providing a color image onto an image area of the top side by printing colored ink, on the top. A lens structure is applied over the colored ink, the lens structure having a predetermined focal plane situated at a distance from the top side, and laser engraving a black image in through the lens structure and through the colored ink to form blackened image elements substantially at or near the focal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: MORPHO B.V.
    Inventor: Jan Van Den Berg
  • Patent number: 10569594
    Abstract: A writing tool has a pen tube, a capillary unit, and a dispensing unit. The capillary unit is mounted in the pen tube, and is connected to a nib. The dispensing unit is mounted in the pen tube, and has a communicating tube and a pressing segment connected to the communicating tube. The pressing segment has at least one connecting arm connected to the communicating tube. A dispensing interval is formed between the communicating tube and a periphery of the pressing segment. The communicating tube contacts the capillary unit to make the capillary unit form different compression densities via the pressing segment and the dispensing interval, thus facilitating dispensing ink downward easily through the dispensing interval and providing a better occlusion effect to further avoid ink leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Szu-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10569595
    Abstract: The present invention is a direct liquid type of writing tool including a pen tip; a columnar ink absorbent body connected to a rear end of the pen tip; an ink tank arranged on the ink absorbent body; and a plurality of communicating tubes for connecting the absorbent body and the ink tank. A front end of each of the communicating tubes is located in the ink absorbent body, and has a sloped surface facing an outer periphery side of the absorbent body. Each of the communicating tubes has an opening in the sloped surface at the front end and each has a tip end region adjacent to the opening and extending more frontward than the opening, and the tip end region forms a pressing part configured to press inside of the absorbent body when each of the tubes is inserted frontward from a rear end of the absorbent body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA PILOT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Kurita
  • Patent number: 10569596
    Abstract: A refill for a writing tool includes an ink containing tube that is made from a resin material and formed in a straight cylindrical shape, and a writing tip that is attached to an end of the ink containing tube. A press-fit portion, formed at the end of the ink containing tube, has a thickness being made thickened toward an inner circumferential surface and has an opening hole penetrating in an axial direction at a central portion of the press-fit portion. The writing tip or a relay member supporting the writing tip is press-fitted and attached to the press-fit portion. The refill for a writing tool can ensure a necessary and sufficient amount of ink stored without expanding an outer diameter of the ink containing tube, and sufficiently secure mechanical strength of an end portion, and a writing tool using the same can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takayuki Ikai, Seiichi Takigawa, Naohiro Katou, Takanori Shindou
  • Patent number: 10569597
    Abstract: A pen structure with a glass smasher has the glass smasher mounted at the front end of a pen. When a user holds the pen and presses the front end (i.e., the smashing cone) of the smashing rod of the glass smasher forcibly against a glass obstacle, an impact block will strike the rear section of the smashing rod vigorously such that the smashing cone is instantly driven to smash the glass obstacle. A ballpoint/rollerball refill is detachably provided in the pen and is at least 6 cm long in order to contain enough ink. The overall length of the pen is at least 10 cm so that the pen can be easily held while the user writes or draws with the ballpoint/rollerball tip and while the user applies a force to a glass obstacle through the front end of the smashing rod to smash the glass obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Inventor: Chun-Kai Yang
  • Patent number: 10569598
    Abstract: A paint brush and roller handle coupler is provided, comprising a horizontal tubular upper section, a cylindrical section extending downward at an angle from the upper section, a first mechanism configured to secure a paint brush handle in the tubular upper section, and a second mechanism configured to secure a paint roller handle in the tubular upper section. The horizontal tubular upper section comprises an open front section, comprising a front edge having a first pair of notches spaced 180 degrees apart, and an open rear section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Inventor: Garth Getchell
  • Patent number: 10569599
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle wheel comprising a wheel rim, a wheel disc and at least one connecting element that connects the wheel disc and the wheel rim, wherein the connecting element is guided through a through-hole of the wheel rim and is joined in a joining channel of the wheel disc. According to the invention, an elongated sleeve (4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3) is provided that surrounds the connecting element (3, 3.1, 3.2) coaxially, which sleeve is designed and arranged in such a way that at least part of said sleeve interlockingly extends into a corresponding recess (7) of the wheel rim (1.1, 1.2) and into a corresponding recess (8) of the wheel disc (2.1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Werner, Christian Koehler, Sandro Maeke, Michael Dressler, Christian Heilmann, Florian Franke
  • Patent number: 10569600
    Abstract: An adhered composite includes (i) a polar thermoset substrate; (ii) optionally a primer layer disposed on the polar thermoset substrate; (iii) a first adhesive layer adhesively mated to the polar thermoset substrate, optionally with the primer layer disposed between the first adhesive layer and the polar thermoset substrate; (iv) a first layer of cured non-polar rubber adhesively mated to the first adhesive layer; (v) a second adhesive layer adhesively mated to the first layer of cured non-polar rubber; and (vi) a second layer of cured non-polar rubber forming an outer surface of the composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua P. Abell, Ross W. Widenor
  • Patent number: 10569601
    Abstract: A tire includes an inner hoop, an outer hoop, and a plurality of spokes extending from the inner hoop to the outer hoop. Each of the spokes includes a y-shaped base, including a radially extending stem, a first concave branch, and a second concave branch. The spokes further include a convex member extending from the first concave branch to the second concave branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventor: Sharon E. Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 10569602
    Abstract: Provided is a heavy load tire that includes: the first belt layer including a cord extending in the tire circumferential direction; the second belt layer including a cord extending to be inclined with respect to the tire circumferential direction; and the third belt layer including a cord extending to be inclined at an angle of 30° or less with respect to the tire circumferential direction in a direction opposite to that of the cord of the second belt layer. The first, the second, and the third belt layer are arranged in the stated order from the inner side to the outer side in the tire radial direction. The third belt layer has a width w3 that is 80% or more of a tread width w, and the second belt layer has a width w2. The width w2 and the width w3 satisfy the relation w2<w3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Mori
  • Patent number: 10569603
    Abstract: This pneumatic tire (1) has a first profile (PL1) wherein land sections (3) located further inside in the tire width direction than right and left outermost circumferential main grooves (2) protrudes outward in the tire radius direction. In addition, the pneumatic tire has a second profile (PL2) wherein shoulder land sections (3) protrudes inward in the tire radius direction within a ground contact surface. The distance d in the tire radial direction from a line extending from the first profile (PL1) to the second profile (PL2) within the ground contact surface increases toward the outer side in the tire width direction. In addition, the distance (Gcc) from a tread profile (first profile (PL1)) within a tire equatorial plane (CL) to a tire inner circumferential surface and the distance (Gsh) from a tread end (P) to the tire inner circumferential surface have the relationship of 1.10?Gsh/Gcc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Kunugi
  • Patent number: 10569604
    Abstract: A pressure regulating device is provided for at least one tire of a commercial vehicle, having a relay valve which performs compressed air loading of a working line which leads to the tire starting from a pressure source in accordance with a pneumatic pilot controller which has an electropneumatic converter for converting an electric actuating signal into a corresponding pneumatic pilot control signal for the relay valve. The converter has an electropneumatic aeration valve and an electropneumatic ventilating valve for pneumatic signal specifying for increasing or reducing the tire pressure. The pneumatic signal specifying takes place according to special regulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Kornel Kantor, Janos Toth, Tamas Toth
  • Patent number: 10569605
    Abstract: A receiver-less hitch system has protrusion for hanging onto a vehicles brush guard and can pivot down to the vehicles winch. A hook is provided on the hitch system for connection to the end of the winch line and when retracted, tension on the winch line secures the hitch system to the vehicle. This quick and easy procedure provides a readily available front hitch system without the aid of a receiver or other mounting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Inventors: Steve Norman Smeltzer, Norman Douglas Smeltzer
  • Patent number: 10569606
    Abstract: A plug for insertion into a through hole of a king pin coupler plate of a trailer includes a body defining an axial direction and having an outer surface defining a perimeter with a distance around the perimeter. A plurality of pliable ears extend from the outer surface. The ears are each individually aligned in the axial direction. The ears each have a width that is less than ten percent of the distance around the perimeter of the outer surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Strick Trailers, LLC
    Inventor: Caleb Averill
  • Patent number: 10569607
    Abstract: A protective apparatus for a trailer tongue jack having a head and a column may include a protective cover having a shape that substantially conforms to the shape of the head, and an opening to accommodate the column when the protective cover is placed on the jack. First and second hook holders may be adapted to connect hooks for first and second trailer safety chains to the protective cover when the chains are not in use. A plug holder may be adapted to hold a plug for a trailer wiring harness when the harness is not in use. The protective cover may include an access port that aligns with a user interface on the jack when the protective cover is placed on the jack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Trailershpere Corporation
    Inventor: Avraham Alalouf
  • Patent number: 10569608
    Abstract: The proposed technology relates to an amphibious vehicle with a forward shape transforming system and, more particularly, to an amphibious vehicle with a forward shape transforming system that can adjust resistance in traveling by adjusting an aspect ratio by changing the length of the amphibious vehicle. The present invention has been made in an effort to solve the problems and an object of the present invention is to maintain a posture and reduce resistance on the water by increasing the length of a vehicle body by configuring a front extension unit that moves by sliding on the front of an amphibious vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Soo-In Lee, Jeong-Il Seo, Kyo-Gun Chang
  • Patent number: 10569609
    Abstract: In a riding mower having a frame supported on front and rear wheels, a mower deck supported beneath the frame, a chair on said frame and a source of motive power also supported on said frame and including an improved suspension system with an articulating front axle that substantially isolates the front wheels from the frame of the lawnmower to thereby dampen vibrations transmitted to the operator as the vehicle traverses the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Bad Boy, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Bradley Covington, Warren Russell Long
  • Patent number: 10569610
    Abstract: A damper is provided having a twin tube construction interconnected to a gas reservoir. The connection of each of the inner and outer volumes of the twin tube to the gas reservoir is independently valved, and each of these valves are independently settable to change the differential pressure thereacross at which they open. The damper provides flow passages directly from the inner and outer volumes to enable flow form the compression to rebound sides thereof, as well as through the valved connections to the gas reservoir and at least one valved opening in the damper piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Paul Cox
  • Patent number: 10569612
    Abstract: In one aspect, a suspension control system is provided for dynamically adjusting pistons located proximal to wheels of an agricultural machine to account for tire deflection or squat with varying loads. Articulation, pitch, roll and/or machine height can be determined from pressure measurements on the machine to apply such tire height corrections. For sprayers, this allows controlling clearance and suspension height to maintain the boom parallel to the ground to prevent damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Roy A. Bittner, Blaine A. Schwalbe, Nathan P. Brooks