Patents Issued in March 17, 2020
  • Patent number: 10589518
    Abstract: The invention firstly relates to a print head of a continuous ink jet printer, comprising a first reservoir (12) and a second reservoir (22), arranged on either side of least one jet ejection nozzle (30, 301-30n) to which they are connected, and a first actuator (16, 161-16n) for applying a 1st pressure to the ink of the, or coming from the, 1st reservoir, and a second actuator (26, 261-26n) for applying a 2nd pressure to the ink of the, or coming from the, 2nd reservoir, and a controller for controlling these first and second actuators, said controller being programmed to apply a variable difference between these 2 pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: DOVER EUROPE SARL
    Inventor: Bruno Barbet
  • Patent number: 10589519
    Abstract: A method for detecting printing nozzle errors in an inkjet printing machine provides a high degree of robustness in the detection of errors by printing a nozzle test pattern in the inkjet printing machine. The test pattern is then digitalized by using a camera and transmitted to a computer for evaluation. There, the recorded test pattern is investigated by using methods of digital image processing, such as a Fourier analysis, and evaluated in the frequency range with regard to specific anticipated printing nozzle errors. Specific printing nozzle errors can be detected especially on the basis of amplitude, phase and variance errors in the signal in the frequency range. Moreover, by using the phase error, it is possible to evaluate whether the two print heads are disposed in an incorrect adjustment position relative to one another by calculating displacements of the phase error in transition regions of two print heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Frank Muth, Jan Krieger, Wolfgang Geissler
  • Patent number: 10589520
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a recording element substrate which ejects a liquid downward; an electric substrate which is disposed above the recording element substrate, which has a plurality of electric components, including a capacitor, and which is electrically connected to the recording element substrate; a wall which covers the electric substrate such that a liquid can be retained between the wall and the electric substrate; and a sensor which is disposed in an area covered by the wall and which detects for the presence of a liquid. In the attitude of the liquid ejection head as attached to the main unit of a liquid ejection apparatus, the sensor is disposed below the capacitor in a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Oikawa, Shingo Okushima, Satoshi Kimura, Kengo Umeda
  • Patent number: 10589521
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a fluid ejection device is described. The fluid ejection device includes a number of nozzles to eject an amount of fluid. A first field-effect transistor (FET) activates a first fluidic operation component and a second FET activates a second fluidic operation component. The first FET and the second FET are selected from among a high-side switch FET, a low-side switch FET, and a hybrid FET and the first FET and the second FET are different from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Rogelio Cicili, Eric Martin
  • Patent number: 10589522
    Abstract: A fluidic die may include a number of actuators. The number of actuators form a number of primitives. The fluidic die may include a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to drive a number of the delay circuits. The delay circuits delay a number of activation pulses that activate the actuators associated with the primitives to reduce peak power demands of the fluidic die. A number of delay circuits may be coupled to each primitive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Scott A. Linn, George H. Corrigan, III, Michael W. Cumbie
  • Patent number: 10589523
    Abstract: A fluid ejection device with a fluid chamber including a vaporization chamber and a thermal drive bubble formation mechanism to vaporize a portion of a fluid in the vaporization chamber to form a drive bubble in response to a firing signal during a firing operation. A drive bubble detect sensor separate from the thermal drive bubble formation mechanism and in contact with fluid in the vaporization chamber, the drive bubble detect sensor to inject a fixed current through the vaporization chamber to generate a first voltage signal representing a voltage response of the vaporization chamber and indicative of drive bubble formation during the firing operation. A thermal sensor to generate a second voltage signal indicative of a thermal response of the vaporization chamber during the firing operation, the first and second voltage signals combined being representative of an operating condition of the fluid chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Daryl E Anderson, Eric Martin, James Gardner
  • Patent number: 10589524
    Abstract: Reduction of the size of the droplet in 1-drop ejection is easily performed. A liquid jet head according to an example of the disclosure includes a nozzle adapted to jet a liquid, a piezoelectric actuator having a pressure chamber communicated with the nozzle and filled with the liquid, and adapted to vary a capacity of the pressure chamber, and a control section adapted to apply a pulse signal to the piezoelectric actuator to thereby expand and contract the capacity of the pressure chamber so as to jet the liquid filling the pressure chamber. The control section applies the pulse signal adapted to expand the capacity in the pressure chamber when jetting 1 drop of the liquid so as to include a first pulse signal having a pulse width one of equal to or shorter than an on-pulse peak, and a second pulse signal disposed with a predetermined time interval from the first pulse signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.
    Inventor: Takayuki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10589525
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a liquid discharge head; a first channel communicating with a first communication port; a pump communicating with the first channel; a second channel communicating with the pump; a first switching valve communicating with the second channel; a third channel communicating with the first switching valve; a storage section communicating with the third channel; a fourth channel communicating with the storage section; a second switching valve communicating with the fourth channel; a fifth channel communicating with the second switching valve and the second communication port; and a sixth channel communicating with the first and second switching valves. The first switching valve connects the second channel and the third channel, or connects the second channel and the sixth channel The second switching valve connects the fifth and fourth channels, or connects the fifth and sixth channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazunari Matsuura
  • Patent number: 10589526
    Abstract: There is provided a head unit including: a first substrate including a first surface provided with a first terminal and a second surface provided with a second terminal; a second substrate including a third surface provided with a third terminal; a first flexible wiring substrate that connects the first terminal and the third terminal to each other; a first driving module that is electrically connected to the second substrate; a third substrate including a fourth surface provided with a fourth terminal; a second flexible wiring substrate that connects the second terminal and the fourth terminal to each other; a second driving module that is electrically connected to the third substrate; and a liquid flow passage through which the liquid is supplied to the first driving module and the second driving module, in which the liquid flow passage is positioned between the second substrate and the third substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Kitazawa, Masahiko Tsuyuki
  • Patent number: 10589527
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to liquid adsorption. In an example, a liquid adsorption system includes a vapor barrier container having a sealable internal volume, a liquid dispensing device in the internal volume, where the liquid dispensing device includes liquid in a liquid flow path extending through at least a portion of the liquid dispensing device to an opening in communication with the internal volume, and a liquid adsorbing material in the internal volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Dowell, Minalben Bhavin Shah
  • Patent number: 10589528
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head including: a flow path formation part in which pressure generation chambers are arranged; and a pressure generation unit configured to apply pressure to the pressure generation chambers, wherein the pressure generation unit is formed by joining a vibration unit to the flow path formation part with a resin layer, and wherein the resin layer includes a curable resin composition including (A) an epoxy resin, (B) a polythiol compound, (C) at least one adhesiveness-imparting agent selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by General Formula (1), a titanium compound represented by General Formula (2-1), and a titanium compound represented by General Formula (2-2), and (D) a curing accelerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sameshima, Hisashi Habashi, Ryota Chiba
  • Patent number: 10589529
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a head including a nozzle disposed on a nozzle surface and configured to discharge ultraviolet-curable ink onto a recording medium; first and second irradiation units as an ultraviolet irradiation unit configured to irradiate the ultraviolet-curable ink discharged onto the recording medium with an ultraviolet ray; and a smoke supply unit configured to supply smoke to a part of an advancing path from the first and second irradiation units to the nozzle surface of an ultraviolet ray irradiated from the first and second irradiation units and entering the nozzle surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunaga Suzuki, Toshio Kumagai
  • Patent number: 10589530
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure a printer cartridge is described. The printer cartridge includes multiple backpressure chambers in fluid communication with a shared free fluid chamber. The backpressure chambers are to supply a fluid to nozzles of a portion of a fluidic ejection assembly and to provide backpressure to the nozzles of the fluidic ejection assembly during deposition of fluid onto a print medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Silam J. Choy, Steven T. Castle, Arun K. Agarwal, Blair Kent
  • Patent number: 10589531
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head can suppress the influence of static electricity and the increase of a mounting force as well as downsize and save space of the liquid ejection head. The liquid ejection head is attachable and detachable with respect to a body connector provided on a liquid ejection apparatus body. Further, the liquid ejection head includes a head connector including a terminal which can be electrically connected to the body connector and a grounding member which is held at a coverage position where the terminal is covered in a non-contacting state with the body connector. The grounding member is formed with a deformable electroconductive member, and, as the head connector is made to move to a mounting position with respect to the body connector, is pressed by the body connector and is displaced to a position apart from the coverage position. Thus, the body connector can be connected with the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shogo Kawamura, Takuya Iwano
  • Patent number: 10589532
    Abstract: A printing apparatus provided with a carriage provided with a mounting unit which can be mounted with a cartridge in which ink is accommodated and a printing head, an ink tank which stores ink, and a control unit which controls ejecting of ink using the printing head, in which, in a case in which the control unit obtains information for blocking ejecting of ink corresponding to the mounting unit, ejecting of ink, by the printing head, corresponding to the mounting unit is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Tanaka, Yasumasa Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10589533
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid consuming apparatus including a casing, a liquid consuming section, and a tank. The tank includes a box-shaped body having a light-transmitting property and having five walls and a partition wall; a film adhered to rear end portions of the walls; and a positioning section disposed at least on an outer surface of each of the upper and lower walls, or of each of the right and left walls. In a state that the liquid consuming apparatus is placed on a horizontal plane, the box-shaped body is positioned at a posture at which the positioning section is brought into contact with the casing to thereby allow the front wall to be exposed from a side surface of the casing which extends in a direction crossing the horizontal plane, and at which the rear end portions are located inside the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akinori Igarashi
  • Patent number: 10589534
    Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, an ink tank, a supply flow path, a supply pump located in the supply flow path, a collection flow path, a relief flow path connecting a first position in the supply flow path to a second position in the supply flow path, wherein the first position is located at a downstream side of the supply pump in the supply flow path and the second position located at an upstream side of the supply pump in the supply flow path, and a differential pressure regulating valve located in the relief flow path and configured to, in a case where the pressure of the pumped ink in the supply flow path is larger than a predetermined value, open the relief flow path so as to allow ink in the supply flow path to flow from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kyoshiro Okude, Ryoma Arai, Toshiaki Tokisawa, Takashi Abe
  • Patent number: 10589535
    Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus that the throughput until a start of a recording operation in the structure in which an ink is circulated between a recording head and an ink tank includes the recording head which discharges the ink to perform a recording operation, the ink tank which stores the ink, and a buffer chamber having a volume which is changed according to a pressure. When the inkjet recording apparatus is changed from a circulation state in which a supply pump and a collection pump are driven to circulate the ink between the recording head and the ink tank to a pause state in which the driving of the supply pump and the collection pump is stopped to stop the circulation of the ink, a negative pressure due to a change in the volume of the buffer chamber is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Saeki, Toshiaki Tokisawa, Kyoshiro Okude
  • Patent number: 10589536
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid ejecting module capable of performing stable ejection operation while circulating and supplying fresh ink to the vicinity of ejection ports arranged in high density. To achieve this, a liquid ejecting module includes an element arranged face in which a plurality of ejecting elements are arranged, a circulation flow path including a supply flow path which supplies liquid to a pressure chamber and a collection flow path which collects liquid from the pressure chamber, and a liquid delivery mechanism provided in the circulation flow path for circulating liquid in the pressure chamber. The liquid delivery mechanism is located lower than the element arranged face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Nakakubo, Takuro Yamazaki, Kazuhiro Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10589537
    Abstract: An inkjet printhead including: an elongate fluid manifold having a base defining a plurality of fluid outlets; and printhead chips attached to the base, each printhead chip receiving printing fluid from a plurality of the fluid outlets. All fluid outlets are laterally flared towards a side of a respective printhead chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Memjet Technology Limited
    Inventors: Garry Jackson, Norman Berry, Michael Hudson, Brian Brown, Samuel Mallinson, Geordie McBain
  • Patent number: 10589538
    Abstract: A head unit includes heads arranged in a body. Each head includes a nozzle row arranged along a first direction. The heads are arranged along a second direction intersecting with the first direction. Two or more heads that include a nozzle row corresponding to a first color, are provided in each of a first region and a second region. A color corresponding to the nozzle row at an nth position from a first side is the same as a color corresponding to the nozzle row at an nth position from a second side, n being a positive integer, the first side being one side of the body in the second direction and the second side being another side of the body in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Kojima
  • Patent number: 10589539
    Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and an ink jet printing system that can perform image formation capable of preventing the deterioration of image quality caused by bleeding in a case in which printing is performed on cloth. An image processing apparatus 12 acquires base material information 42 including at least information indicating the quality of fiber in cloth which is a medium to be printed and image data 40 to be printed on the cloth and generates a bleeding-prevented image 44 indicating an ink application pattern in which at least one of an ink application position or an amount of ink applied is limited in anticipation of wetting and spreading of the ink in the cloth, on the basis of the base material information 42 and the image data 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Mizuno
  • Patent number: 10589540
    Abstract: In a case where a first tape cartridge is mounted on a cartridge mounting portion, in which the first tape cartridge that accommodates first tape and a first platen roller having a first roller length and a second tape cartridge that accommodates second tape and a second platen roller having a second roller length larger than the first roller length are mounted, a thermal head that performs printing onto the first tape is pressed against the first platen roller at first head pressing force, and in a case where the second tape cartridge is mounted on the cartridge mounting portion, the thermal head that performs printing onto the second tape is pressed against the second platen roller at second head pressing force larger than the first head pressing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taishi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10589541
    Abstract: A printer includes: a head holder supporting a thermal head; a platen holder supporting a platen roller that presses a printing medium toward the thermal head; an engagement member movably supported by one of the platen holder and the platen roller and engageable with and removable from the head holder; and a moving mechanism configured to move the platen holder and the engagement member and configured to move the engagement member from a disengaged position at which the engagement member is separated from and not engaged with the head holder, to an engaged position at which the engagement member is located at and engaged with the head holder, in conjunction with moving the platen holder from a separated position at which the platen roller is separated from the head holder, to a pressing position at which the platen roller presses the printing medium against the thermal head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shota Iijima, Takanori Izumi
  • Patent number: 10589542
    Abstract: In order to prevent degradation in print quality which can come from matter generated from an ink ribbon and adhering to a thermal head, the thermal transfer printer transports an ink ribbon which has characteristics such that the amount of matter generated from the ink ribbon by transfer and adhering to the thermal head has a peak at predetermined transfer energy and reduces in an energy range higher than the predetermined transfer energy with increase in transfer energy, transfers ink and protective material onto paper in this order from the ink ribbon on which the ink and the protective material are repeatedly arranged in a longitudinal direction thereof, and adjusts transfer energy for the protective material to a value within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamazaki, Yutaka Inokuchi
  • Patent number: 10589543
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a plurality of laser emission parts disposed side by side in a predetermined direction for emitting laser light; an optical system configured to collect a plurality of beams of laser light emitted by the laser emission parts onto the recording target moving relative to the laser emission parts in a direction crossing the predetermined direction; and an output control unit configured to perform control such that energy of laser light emitted from an outermost end laser emission part of the laser emission parts is greater than energy of laser light emitted from a center laser emission part, the outermost end laser emission part emitting laser light to be transmitted through vicinity of an end portion of the optical system, the center laser emission part emitting laser light to be transmitted through a portion other than vicinity of the end portion of the optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Ichiro Sawamura, Yoshihiko Hotta, Kazuyuki Uetake, Takahiro Furukawa, Tomomi Ishimi, Yasuroh Yokota
  • Patent number: 10589545
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of obtaining good photocured-ink adhesion to low surface energy materials. The methods have greatly improved adhesion of photocured ink on low surface energy materials, including those that are subjected to high humidity or wet environments. The methods take into account the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the materials and the onset for the glass transition temperature, including ink applied to an exposed surface of the material at an elevated temperature that is close to the Tg of the material. The ink is allowed to sit briefly or soak, such as for more than 1 second, before the ink is cured. The ink may be photocured. Furthermore, the methods do not require solvents or surface treatment, including plasma or corona treatments, to obtain good ink adhesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Christopher Cole
  • Patent number: 10589546
    Abstract: A web printing apparatus comprising a support platen facing the processing station for supporting the web, when being processed by the processing station and a first guard for guarding a side edge of a web, the first guard being connectable to the support platen for guiding the web along a transport path, when the web is processed by the processing station. A detector is provided for detecting the first guard when connected to the support platen as well as a control unit configured for controlling the processing station to process the web, wherein the control unit is configured to identify the guard based on a detection signal provided by the detector to the control unit. Thereby, the first guard is identified by the control unit which may then control the movement of the print carriage to avoid the first guard, preventing collisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes M. Van Bekkem, Maurice J. C. Lemmens, Leonardus R. A. Willems
  • Patent number: 10589547
    Abstract: An inkjet printer having at least one print head in which an aerodynamic element is placed before (e.g. in a transport direction) a recording medium (e.g. in the form of a sheet or page or plate) to reduce or avoid turbulences that may arise due to the relative motion between print head(s) and recording medium at an edge of the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Océ Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Matthias Brust, Egor Mohilnik
  • Patent number: 10589548
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit that performs printing on a medium, an apparatus main body that houses the printing unit therein and that has outer surfaces including an upper surface and a front surface that adjoiningly intersects the upper surface, a paper feed port that is provided on the upper surface of the apparatus main body and that enables the medium to be fed into the apparatus main body, a feed path that is guiding the medium fed from the paper feed port toward the printing unit and that has a curved portion for inverting the medium during the guiding, a pair of rollers that are provided at the upstream of the curved portion and that feed the medium toward the printing unit via the feed path by rotating while nipping the medium fed from the paper feed port from both front and rear sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Ishihara, Kazuhiro Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 10589549
    Abstract: Provided are a carriage structure capable of preventing a carriage from contacting a side edge of a print medium, without requiring a discharge roller and facilitating reducing device size, and a printer having the carriage structure. Disposed to a carriage 21 carrying and inkjet head 22 and moving bidirectionally through a range of movement including the conveyance path of a cut-sheet paper S are: a panel member 78 able to protrude in the direction of carriage 21 movement; and a moving mechanism 126 causing the panel member 78 to protrude to the conveyance path of the cut-sheet paper S when the carriage 21 is at a standby position (home position) set in the range of carriage 21 movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsugo Ishida, Takumi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10589550
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a pair of support frames, an opening and closing door and a positioning structure. The pair of support frames are arranged oppositely at both sides of an opening. The opening and closing door is supported by one of the pair of support frames via a turning shaft and turns around the turning shaft between a closing position where the opening and closing door closes the opening and an opening position where the opening and closing door opens the opening. The positioning structure positions the opening and closing door to the pair of support frames by engaging a convex part or a concave part provided in the pair of support frames with a concave part or a convex part provided in the opening and closing door in a state where the opening and closing door is turned to the closing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Masato Onishi
  • Patent number: 10589551
    Abstract: A printer includes an apparatus body having a recording head for performing recording onto a sheet of paper. The printer also includes a unit body that is accommodated inside the apparatus body and has a path-forming surface formed at least on a portion of the periphery of the unit body. The path-forming surface forms a medium transport path. The unit body includes a plurality of openings that are in communication with a sound absorber disposed inside the unit body. The plurality of the openings are provided at least on a portion of the path-forming surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Nakazawa, Toshihiro Imae
  • Patent number: 10589552
    Abstract: An imaging device including a housing, an access door, and a flap. The housing forms an interior and forms an access door opening and a slotted connection on a side of the access door opening. The access door includes a door cover, an arm extending from the door cover, and a hinge pin. The hinge pin extends outwardly at a terminal end of the arm and matingly couples with the slotted connection. The hinge pin rotates and translates along a length of the slotted connection. The flap is rotatably extendable over the arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Benjamin P. Mergen
  • Patent number: 10589553
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a liquid jetting module having drive elements; a wiring member including: a base material having a first surface; wirings formed on the first surface of the base material; and a protective film configured to covers the first surface of the base material and the wirings; and a heat sink. One of the protective film and the base material, of the wiring member, is formed with an opening through which at least some of the wirings are partially exposed, the wirings of the wiring member are electrically connected to terminals of the drive elements, and the heat sink is joined to the at least some of the wirings via the opening of the wiring member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Taiki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10589554
    Abstract: A printer is operated to determine an attribute of a field of view of the scan sensor. A calibration test pattern is determined based on the field of view (e.g., size of the field of view relative to dimension of individual bar in pattern).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chin Hung Koh, Tong Nam Samuel Low, Kang Leng Tan
  • Patent number: 10589555
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a ribbon holding shaft winds an ink ribbon before printing. A ribbon winding shaft winds the ink ribbon after printing to collect the ink ribbon. A feed motor rotationally drives the ribbon holding shaft. A winding motor rotationally drives the ribbon winding shaft. A detection module detects slackness of the ink ribbon stretched between the ribbon holding shaft and the ribbon winding shaft. A ribbon feed control module forward rotates the winding motor to draw out the ink ribbon from the ribbon holding shaft to the printing section and further controls the ribbon winding shaft to wind the ink ribbon. A reverse rotation control module reversely rotates the feed motor to stretch the ink ribbon between the ribbon holding shaft and the ribbon winding shaft if the detection module detects the slackness of the ink ribbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Matsunai
  • Patent number: 10589556
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a substrate with an embedded, UV-visible pattern, wherein a liquid treatment composition comprising at least one acid is deposited onto a substrate, which comprises at least one optical brightener and optionally a filler, wherein the filler comprises 0 to 60 wt.-% of a salifiable alkaline or alkaline earth compound, based on the total weight of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Roger Bollström, Patrick A. C. Gane, Joachim Schoelkopf
  • Patent number: 10589557
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an image forming method and an image forming apparatus by an inkjet method using a gel ink, which minimize a gloss difference between an image-formed region and an image-less region, regardless of a type of a paper substrate used. The image forming method of the present invention is a method for forming an image on a paper substrate by using an inkjet ink that undergoes a temperature-induced sol-gel phase transition. The image forming method includes: a step of subjecting a paper substrate to a corona discharge treatment; a step of ejecting liquid droplets of inkjet ink and landing the droplets on a surface of the paper substrate subjected to the corona discharge treatment; and a step of irradiating the droplets of the inkjet ink landed on the paper substrate with an actinic light ray to cure the inkjet ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yusuke Takaku
  • Patent number: 10589558
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet image forming method capable of obtaining a high grade image quality in which blur is suppressed even in the case of performing printing with respect to a low water-absorption recording medium. The present invention relates to an ink jet image forming method. The ink jet image forming method includes: an image forming step of ejecting and impacting an ink jet recording ink containing at least a pigment, an organic solvent, and water onto a region of low water-absorption recording medium, in which a resin and a pigment aggregating agent are attached to a surface, from a nozzle of an ink jet head, wherein in the image forming step, relative humidity of a space between the nozzle and the recording medium is greater than or equal to 50% and less than or equal to 95%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Haruka Moriyama
  • Patent number: 10589559
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to image-receiving compositions that can include an aqueous liquid vehicle and solids dispersed in the aqueous liquid vehicle. The solids can include from 60 wt % to 94 wt % pigment filler, from 0.5 wt % to 15 wt % multivalent salt, from 1 wt % to 10 wt % water-soluble polymer, from 2 wt % to 15 wt % latex, and from 2 wt % to 15 wt % synthetic micronized cellulose. The synthetic micronized cellulose can have a bulk density of from 150 grams per liter to 200 grams per liter, and a surface area of 0.1 m2/g to 10 m2/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Tao Chen, Silke Courtenay, Bor-Jiunn Niu
  • Patent number: 10589560
    Abstract: This invention forms a good unrepellent uniform coating film and an image having neither image missing nor image blur by using an inkjet printing method. Active energy ray curing inkjet ink contains (A) an active energy ray curing monomer and/or an active energy ray curing oligomer, (B) a photopolymerization initiator, and (C) a surface tension adjusting agent, and has a viscosity of 3.0 to 6.0 mPa·s at 35° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignees: DUPLO CORPORATION, ASIA STENCIL PAPER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuhei Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Tomohiko Niwa, Kazuki Imai
  • Patent number: 10589561
    Abstract: A writing instrument having a body and a writing tip that is mounted on the body. The body and the writing tip extend along an axial direction, and the writing tip presents a distal end portion having a cross-section that is U-shaped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SOCIETE BIC
    Inventors: Arnaud Bez, Olivier Albenge
  • Patent number: 10589562
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a position pointer that includes a plurality of refill bodies that can be configured at low cost, and ensures freedom from malfunction during exchange of signals with a sensor section of a position detection device. In one embodiment, the position pointer includes a tubular housing having an opening portion, a plurality of refill bodies, a refill body selection mechanism section that selectively causes at least a tip of one of the plurality of refill bodies to project from the opening portion, a magnetic material core, and a coil wound around the magnetic material core. The refill bodies not selected by the refill body selection mechanism section are located away from a through hole of the magnetic material core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takenori Kaneda, Hiroyuki Fujitsuka
  • Patent number: 10589563
    Abstract: A composite writing implement according to an embodiment includes a barrel, writing shafts housed in the barrel, a cam main body including a cam projection, an end surface extending along the cam projection, and a latch recess provided in the cam projection, and sliders configured to be connected to respective rear ends of the writing shafts, and include a cam configured to be latchable to the latch recess, and have a sliding contact surface to be pressed against the end surface, wherein the end surface includes a first inclined portion that is positioned on the front end side of the cam projection and is inclined by a first incline angle, and a second inclined portion that is positioned further toward the rear end side of the cam projection than the first inclined portion, and is inclined by a second incline angle that is larger than the first incline angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: KOTOBUKI & CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadao Odaka
  • Patent number: 10589564
    Abstract: An adaptor allows a user to turn any pencil or pen into a capacitive stylus while still allowing it to write on paper. When attached to a pencil, pen or similarly shaped and purposed tool, it gives the tool the added capability of operating electronic devices having a capacitive touch screen. It does this while constantly maintaining the writing instrument's intrinsic capability of marking paper. The main component of the invention comprises a fastener which allows electricity to pass along it while simultaneously allowing the writing utensil tip to be permanently exposed. It can transfer electricity from the user's hand to the touch screen without interfering with the original function or ergonomic shape of the writing instrument. A seamless workflow between surfaces is created since the same end of the writing instrument is used and no other action is required to reveal or conceal its tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventor: Thomas L Gianfagna
  • Patent number: 10589565
    Abstract: A magnetic erasable writable material for large format applications is disclosed, and includes a cast polyvinylchloride film with a mount surface opposite an etched receiver surface. Also incorporated is a transparent polyester film that has a marking side with a hardness exceeding approximately shore D 79 and an opposite seal side, hermetically laminated to the receiver surface. The marking side includes a clear superstrate that has a hardness exceeding approximately shore D 90, which is applied to the marking side of the polyester film to lower surface energy below about 24 millinewtons per meter. The receiver surface is treated to have a surface energy exceeding about 45 millinewtons per meter, to enable improved adherence of printed and preformed graphic elements, which are encapsulated when laminated between the PET film and receiver surface. The superstrate includes a perfluoropolyether, a polyurethane, an acrylated polyurethane, and/or an acrylate resin to harden the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventor: Kelly J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 10589566
    Abstract: A wheel for vehicles may include a rim coupled to a tire, and a spoke-shaped disc including a spoke and a vent hole, the spoke-shaped disc being coupled to a side surface of the rim to support the rim, in which a coupling zone between the spoke of the spoke-shaped disc and the rim and a coupling zone between a portion of the spoke-shaped disc formed with the vent hole and the rim have a height difference in a wheel axis direction, to allow the spoke-shaped disc to support the rim at an interior and an exterior of the rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Rak Kim, Min Jwa Seo, Yong Min Jang, Su Ji Baek
  • Patent number: 10589567
    Abstract: In order to provide solutions for soiling problems and corrosion problems in the area between a pole ring (41) and the hub interior, arranged behind it, of a wheel hub assembly having a wheel hub (1) which ends inside the vehicle in a hub section (50) whose internal circumference (15) defines an opening (55) for the central passage of the stub axle (6) and on which a fastening device (42) of a pole ring (41) of an ABS sensor is mounted, wherein a pulse generator section (43) which is embodied in one piece with the fastening section (42) is a component of the pole ring (41), which pulse generator section (43) extends from the fastening section (42) to the wheel hub axis (A) and is provided with openings (44, 44L) distributed uniformly in the circumferential direction; in a first embodiment the pole ring (41) extends with its pulse generator section (43) towards the wheel hub axis (A) to such an extent that the opening (55) between the wheel hub (1) and stub axle (6) is for the most part covered towards the int
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: BPW Bergische Achsen KG
    Inventors: Rossen Iliev, Reiner Siebel, Wilfried Wasserfuhr
  • Patent number: 10589568
    Abstract: A wheel hub arrangement for a motor vehicle, provided with a hub which is rotatably mounted by a wheel bearing for the attachment of a wheel. A shaft, which is formed separately from the wheel hub, is non-rotatably coupled to the wheel hub. At the same time a first receiving section of a sealing receptacle is formed in the wheel hub in which is arranged a shaft, in which a sealing device is arranged which engages a second receiving section of the sealing receptacle formed in the axial direction with respect to an axis of rotation of the wheel hub, adjacent to the first receiving section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Johannes Albl, Michael Frisch, Patrick Stanke