Patents Issued in August 18, 2020
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Patent number: 10744777Abstract: Embodiments provide a modular inkjet configuration modification system and method for use in modifying electronics, such as a PLC, on a remanufactured or refilled inkjet cartridge. The modular system can include a receiver and one or more interchangeable adapters. The interchangeable adapters can include structures and geometry which allow each of the interchangeable adapters to be used with the receiver and swapped by an operator on an as-needed basis.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Retail Inkjet Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Kraig David White, Chris Alan Stratford, Juan Manuel Jimenez
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Patent number: 10744778Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a plurality of liquid chambers each including an energy generating element that generates energy for ejecting a liquid, an ejection opening that ejects the liquid, and a liquid supply opening that supplies the liquid, the liquid flowing in a first direction in the plurality of liquid chambers, and the plurality of liquid chambers being arranged in a second direction that intersects the first direction, and a plurality of first side walls that extend in the first direction and that form walls on both sides of the plurality of liquid chambers. In the liquid ejection head, each of the plurality of first side walls includes a fragmenting portion that fragments each of the plurality of first side walls in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akiko Hammura, Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa
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Patent number: 10744779Abstract: A bottle set includes a bottle and a lid member. The bottle has an ink container, a nozzle and a joint portion integrally formed with the nozzle and having a thread configured to engage the nozzle with the ink container. The lid member is attachable to and detachable from the bottle. An outflow port is formed in the nozzle. The outflow port is configured such that the ink in the ink container flows out from the outflow port. The lid member has a tubular barrel, a top plate that closes a barrel end of the tubular barrel, and a plug projecting from the top plate toward the nozzle. A distance from the barrel end of the tubular barrel to a distal end of the plug being shorter than a distance from a nozzle end of the nozzle to the joint portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takumi Nagashima, Tetsuya Takamoto, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Tadahiro Mizutani
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Patent number: 10744780Abstract: A printer has a recording head, a relay container from which ink is supplied to the recording head, and to which the ink is supplied from a terminal container, a pressurizing pump and a depressurizing pump for supplying the ink from the terminal container to the relay container, and a control unit. The control unit calculates an estimated consumption amount of the relay container based on the amount of the ink supplied from the relay container to the recording head, and consumed and the amount of the ink supplied from the terminal container to the relay container, and calculates the amount of the ink supplied from the terminal container to the relay container using the minimum value of tolerance of a supply amount of the depressurizing pump.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shuichi Koganehira, Yasuhiko Kosugi, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Toshihiro Shinbara, Kaoru Koike, Ryoji Fujimori
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Patent number: 10744781Abstract: A liquid discharge device is configured to display, on a display, an S_Empty notification screen in a state where a low level signal is not received from a liquid level sensor and a count value SN2 reaches a second threshold value Nth2. The liquid discharge device is configured to erase the S_Empty notification screen in a state where the low level signal is received after receiving a high level signal is received from an installation sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mikio Ogawa, Toshiro Ueda, Kenta Horade
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Patent number: 10744782Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores program instructions for an information-processing apparatus including a processor. The program instructions, when executed by the processor, causes the information-processing apparatus to perform: determining whether selected printing devices all have the same type; and generating and outputting, on the basis of determination results, screen data representing a screen regarding settings of reference values for the selected printing devices. Each of the reference values is used to determine whether a replenishment condition for the corresponding printing device is met. When all of the selected printing devices have the same type, the generating generates first screen data representing a first screen through which a single instruction common to all to the reference values can inputted.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masafumi Miyazawa
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Patent number: 10744783Abstract: An apparatus displays an S_Empty informing screen on a display when a count value N reaches a threshold Nth, reads a liquid amount Vc from an IC chip of a cartridge which is installed, calculates an outflow amount Qc of a liquid flowing out from the cartridge to a tank at a period ?t based on the read liquid amount Vc, and erases the S_Empty informing screen from the display when the calculated outflow amount Qc is equal to or larger than a threshold Qth1.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenta Horade, Mikio Ogawa, Toshiro Ueda
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Patent number: 10744784Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a tube pump which can suppress occurrence of a back flow of liquid in a tube at the time of reverse rotation of a second rotating body, with a simple configuration. The tube pump includes a tube; a case; a roller making a specific movement; a first rotating body having a guiding part which guides the roller in an arc radial direction of the arc-shaped wall surface of the case; and a second rotating body having a roller position regulating part acting on a position in an arc radial direction of the arc-shaped wall surface of the case of the roller.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Katsuyuki Yokoi
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Patent number: 10744785Abstract: A print module configured for interconnection between a positive ink line and a negative ink line via respective inlet and outlet lines. The print module includes: an inlet port; an outlet port; a printhead interconnected between the inlet port and the outlet port; a control valve positioned at the inlet port for controlling an ink pressure in the printhead; an ink pressure sensor for sensing an ink pressure in the print module; and a controller for receiving feedback from the pressure sensor and controlling the control valve. During printing, the ink pressure sensor, the controller and the control valve cooperate to control a backpressure in the printhead within a predetermined backpressure range.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Memjet Technology LimitedInventors: Craig Meyer, Jason Thelander, Mark Profaca, Stuart Wheatley
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Patent number: 10744786Abstract: Provided are an image recording apparatus, a dither mask, and an image recording method capable of reducing occurrence of concentration unevenness without decrease in productivity. In an image recording apparatus that repeats a main scan operation of relatively moving a recording head having a nozzle row with respect to a recording medium in a main scan direction to perform recording and a sub scan operation of relatively moving the recording medium with respect to the recording head in a sub scan direction, a nozzle jetting rate of each nozzle is controlled by a dither mask.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kimito Katsuyama
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Patent number: 10744787Abstract: A liquid droplet discharging apparatus includes a plurality of nozzles to discharge a liquid droplet onto a medium and a liquid droplet discharging controller to receive image data. The liquid droplet discharging controller controls each of the nozzles to discharge the liquid droplet in an amount defined by the image data onto a target discharging position on the medium, which corresponds to a pixel position defined by the image data. The liquid droplet discharging controller controls at least one of the nozzles to discharge the liquid droplet for a controlled number of times smaller than a number of times N representing an integer not smaller than 2 in an amount greater than the amount defined by the image data onto the target discharging position on the medium. A frequency recorder records the controlled number of times of discharging for each of the at least one of the nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Yasunari Harada, Jun Watanabe, Tetsuyoshi Nakata, Hideaki Iijima, Toshiaki Hosokawa, Shunsuke Shitaoka
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Patent number: 10744789Abstract: A printing device, includes a printer that prints onto a printing medium that is conveyed along a reference direction by a conveyer; and a controller that controls the printer to print a print pattern onto the printing medium along the reference direction. The controller controls to forbid the printer to execute printing when a temperature of the printer is projected to become equal to or higher than a set temperature if the printer prints onto the printing medium using a printing length of the print pattern along the reference direction, the printing length being a length of at least a portion of the print pattern along the reference direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenji Uematsu
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Patent number: 10744790Abstract: In a printing device, a thermal head has heating elements and prints an image made up of line images. A memory stores sets of parameters, each set including one of first parameters and corresponding one of second parameters. The controller calculates an average consumed power with respect to a line image subject to calculation by dividing a total amount of consumed power by a period of time set in each first parameter, thereby providing average consumed powers for the sets of parameters. The total amount of consumed power is an accumulated consumed power consumed in the heating elements energized during printing in the period of time including a print timing of the line image subject to calculation. The controller sets a cycle time for printing the line image subject to calculation so that each average consumed power does not exceed an upper limit specified by corresponding one of second parameters.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira Minami, Tomohiro Kondo
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Patent number: 10744791Abstract: An optical print head that performs optical writing to a photoreceptor includes: a light transmissive substrate; a light emitting unit including light emitting element groups, each of which includes two or more light emitting elements disposed on a first main surface of the substrate; a lens array including lenses that correspond one-to-one to the light emitting element groups; light detection units disposed above the second main surface of the substrate in one-to-one correspondence to the light emitting element groups and that detects the light from each of the light emitting elements; and correction unit that corrects light amounts of the light emitting elements of the light emitting element group based on detection of the light detection units.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Takaki Uemura, Makoto Obayashi, Masayuki Iijima
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Patent number: 10744792Abstract: A system for printing on a multi-dimensional object includes a plurality of print heads, and a printing chase comprising one or more alignment elements configured to provide accurate registration of an object holder (also configured as an object packaging) relative to the print heads. The system further includes an actuator configured to move the printing chase relative to the print heads. The system is configured to receive information corresponding to an alignment element that is employed for positioning the object holder on the printing chase, determine a position a printable area using the retrieved information, receive information relating to print data to be printed on the printable area, use the determined position of the printable area to control a movement of the printing chase relative to the print heads, and operate the print heads to eject marking material onto the printable area to print data on the printable area.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Anthony S. Condello, Peter J. Knausdorf, Jack T. LeStrange, Mandakini Kanungo, Xin Yang
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Patent number: 10744793Abstract: An apparatus, application, and method for transmitting, receiving and providing data. One exemplary embodiment includes an apparatus with a handheld printer. The handheld printer may contain a base, a core, and a crown. The crown may contain a scanner and a printer. A further embodiment allows for a mobile device application may contain the date of the markdown, the description of the inventory, and a status of the markdown. The method may include an employee receiving information through communication with the handheld device, connecting the application with the handheld printer, and scanning the marked down item. The method may include a new tag that may be printed from the handheld printer.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2014Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: AVERY DENNISON CORPORATIONInventors: Lin Pursel, Jeffrey P. Jooste, Kaan Tekinceer
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Patent number: 10744794Abstract: Provided is a printing-lamination inline system and method being suitable for manufacturing packages having various kinds of package designs in small quantity and being capable of performing inkjet printing and lamination in an inline manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: THINK LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventor: Tatsuo Shigeta
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Patent number: 10744795Abstract: A liquid discharge system includes a pretreatment execution device to perform pretreatment on a medium and a liquid discharge head to discharge liquid onto the medium based on image information on an image to be output. The liquid discharge system further includes circuitry configured to control a manner of the pretreatment based on the image information.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Harada, Takashi Tamai, Atsufumi Hanazawa, Sayuri Kojima
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Patent number: 10744796Abstract: A method for forming an image reproduction is detailed. The method includes: providing a media comprising a first side and a second side wherein the second side is opposite the first side; printing a stock image to be reproduced on the first side with ink from an ink-jet printer to form an image precursor; covering the image precursor with an excess of dry tannin powder wherein a portion of the dry tannin powder adheres to the stock image as imaging tannin and a remainder of the dry tannin powder is unaltered dry tannin powder; removing the unaltered dry tanning powder; and placing an aqueous solution of an iron salt on the second side opposite the imaging tannin wherein the iron salt migrates through the media to convert the imaging tannin into the image reproduction wherein the image reproduction replicates the stock image.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Inventor: Kevin A. McIntyre
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Patent number: 10744797Abstract: A print module includes a printhead cartridge releasably engaged with a supply module. The supply module has an ink inlet module and an ink outlet module positioned on opposite external sidewalls of the body and flanking the body, each of the ink inlet and ink outlet modules having a respective ink coupling engaged with complementary inlet and outlet couplings of the printhead cartridge. The ink inlet and outlet modules each include a respective lever mechanism for slidably moving the ink inlet and outlet modules relative to the opposite external sidewalls of the body between a coupled position in which the supply module is fluidically coupled to the printhead cartridge and a decoupled position in which the supply module is fluidically decoupled from the printhead cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Memjet Technology LimitedInventor: Mark Profaca
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Patent number: 10744798Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, a rear wall, a front wall, and a tape feed exit located on the front wall, a tape included at least partially within the housing and configured to be fed along a tape feed path extending to the tape feed exit, and a first indicator aperture positioned on the front wall and a second indicator aperture position on a rear portion of the bottom surface. A position of the first indicator aperture on the front wall indicates a type of the tape included within the housing. A position of the second indicator aperture indicates a color of characters.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Teruo Imamaki, Masato Kato, Takashi Horiuchi, Akira Sago, Yasuhiro Iriyama, Yasuhiro Shibata
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Patent number: 10744799Abstract: A hold-down pallet for a textile printer, the pallet comprising a central board and flaps, the flaps moving between an open position to allow placing of a garment and a closed position to hold a garment firmly on the board for printing, the pallet travelling between a garment setting position and a printing area and comprising an engagement mechanism which engages the pallet as it enters the garment setting position. Engagement opens the flaps so that the flaps are in the open position in the garment setting area, the pallet disengaging to close the flaps as it heads for the printing area.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Kornit Digital Ltd.Inventor: Ohad Snir
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Patent number: 10744800Abstract: A print data generating device generates print data printable by a printing device including a feeding unit which feeds continuous forms paper in a scanning direction, a line head which performs printing on the continuous forms paper, a cutting unit downstream of the line head in the scanning direction that cuts the continuous forms paper, and a direction change execution unit which executes direction change processing of changing the direction in which the print image is printed. The print direction of a print image is changed in such a way that that an area of overlap between the image arrangement area and the print area in the acceleration/deceleration zone becomes smaller when the image arrangement area and the print area in the acceleration/deceleration zone overlap with each other both in cases where the direction change processing is executed and where the direction change processing is not executed.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tsunenobu Endo, Taisuke Okawa, Kan Matsuda
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Patent number: 10744801Abstract: A tensioner device for use with a printing device is described which is to hold an end of a print target holder sheet in a substantially planar configuration across a platen of a printing device. The tensioner device can be fixed to a frame attachable to a platen of a printing device. The tensioner device has a first surface, and the frame has a second surface corresponding to the first surface. The first surface is formed to slide along the second surface in a first direction having an oblique angle with respect to a plane of the print target holder sheet. A fixing mechanism is also described which allows the first surface to be fixed to the second surface at different positions along the first direction. An apparatus including the tensioner device and the frame is also described. A system including a printer, a platen, tensioner devices and frames is also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Joseba Fernandez Guinea, Daniel Gutierrez Garcia, Roger Terradellas Callau, Marcos Arminana Terrasa, Oriol Moliner Rafa
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Patent number: 10744802Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Kato, Masato Kato, Yasuhiro Iriyama, Yasuhiro Shibata, Teruo Imamaki, Akira Sago, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Takashi Horiuchi, Tomohiko Sugino, Kengo Noda
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Patent number: 10744803Abstract: A tension controller includes a drive device configured to rotate a drive shaft, and a drive transmission device configured to transmit a rotation driving force of the drive shaft of the drive device to rotate a rotary shaft of a roll of a conveyance target medium. The drive transmission device including a tension applying device including a variable speed reducing device and a torque limiter, the variable speed reducing device and the torque limiter being disposed between the drive shaft of the drive device and the rotary shaft of the roll of the conveyance target medium. The variable speed reducing device of the tension applying device being configured to change a speed reduction ratio between the rotary shaft of the roll of the conveyance target medium and the torque limiter and to apply a tension force to the conveyance target medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Ryo Honda
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Patent number: 10744804Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes a mounting unit where a recording medium is mountable, a head unit that ejects ink droplets to the recording medium, a planar direction driving unit that drives at least one of the head unit ejecting the ink droplets and the mounting unit to move in a planar direction and that changes a relative positions of the head unit and the mounting unit in the planar direction, and a height direction driving unit that changes a relative positions of the head unit and the mounting unit in a height direction perpendicular to the planar direction. The planar direction driving unit has a moving speed changing mechanism that changes a carriage speed between the head unit and the mounting unit in the planar direction. The height direction driving unit has a distance changing mechanism that changes a distance between the head unit and the mounting unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaru Ohnishi
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Patent number: 10744805Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a main body. An ink containing unit is disposed in the main body and is configured to contain ink to be supplied. The ink containing unit includes an ink refill portion through which ink is refilled and an ink level display surface disposed on a side surface of the main body. The side surface has an opening through which a jammed sheet is removed and a first cover configured to cover the opening. The ink level display surface and the first cover are juxtaposed on the side surface in a horizontal direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akinari Ishibe, Motohiro Momozaki
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Patent number: 10744806Abstract: Techniques are described for obscuring residual images on print ribbons that have been used to print on plastic cards in order to prevent access to sensitive or personalized data appearing in the residual images. An image is printed on a retransfer film using the print ribbon, thereby creating a residual image of the printed image on the print ribbon. The retransfer film is then used to obscure some or all of the residual image on the print ribbon by transferring ink from the section of the print ribbon containing the residual image onto the retransfer film. In some embodiments, obscuring the residual image on the print ribbon occurs before the printed image on the retransfer film is transferred to the plastic card.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Entrust Datacard CorporationInventors: John Knaack, Rajesh K. Juriasingani, Patrick C. Cronin
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Patent number: 10744807Abstract: Microwave dryers and a method of fabricating microwave dryers are disclosed. The microwave dryers include a microwave source that generates electromagnetic energy to dry a wet colorant applied to a continuous-form print medium. The microwave dryers further include a microwave waveguide electromagnetically coupled to the microwave source that transports the electromagnetic energy between a first end and a second end. The microwave waveguide includes a passageway that is sized to pass the continuous-form print medium through the microwave waveguide. The microwave dryer further includes a plurality of microwave absorbing elements within the microwave waveguide that absorb the electromagnetic energy and heat the wet colorant.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Bryan Giroux Gervais, Andrew David Norte
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Patent number: 10744808Abstract: A printing apparatus capable of producing a product having the optimum image layout dependent on a discharge destination even when saddle-stitching is canceled due to input of image data for sheets in excess of a limit of a saddle-stitchable number of sheets. The number of output sheets per one copy is calculated based on image data. When the number of output sheets per one copy exceeds a saddle-stitchable number of sheets, it is selected whether to perform the center folding processing on the sheets on which images are printed without performing the saddle stitching processing thereon or to perform neither the saddle stitching processing nor the center folding processing on the sheets on which images are printed.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshiro Tachibana
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Patent number: 10744809Abstract: A multifunction rotary tool for milling and roughening backs of blocks of pages to be bound by a bookbinding machine comprises a cylindrical base defining a rotation axis, a first annular member adapted to be secured to the cylindrical base and having an outer edge, a crown of milling blades formed in the first annular member proximate to its outer edge and defining a cutting plane perpendicular to the rotation axis, and a plurality of roughening inserts securable to the cylindrical base along a circular area radially offset from the crown of milling blades. Each insert comprises a cylindrical body with a hook-shaped end portion defined by an upper edge with a sharp tip designed to penetrate the block back in a perpendicular cut. The end portion comprises a recessed surface adapted to tear and push downwards the cut material without removing it.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: K.G.S. S.R.L. UNIPERSONALEInventor: Roberto Raccanello
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Patent number: 10744810Abstract: A binding mechanism has a base, a feeder, a tape cutting unit, a tape holding unit and a tape support driving unit. The feeder is supported by the base. The feeder feeds an adhesive tape. The tape cutting unit is supported by the base. The tape cutting unit cuts the fed adhesive tape. The tape holding unit can hold the fed adhesive tape. The tape support units are installed as a pair. The tape support driving unit drives the pair of tape support units such that the pair of tape support units hold the fed adhesive tape simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takamitsu Sunaoshi, Takahiro Kokubo, Shunsuke Hattori, Kikuo Mizutani
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Patent number: 10744811Abstract: Disclosed embodiments generally relate to a transaction card having a substrate component with a first substrate surface opposite a second substrate surface; a fabric component having a first fabric surface opposite a second fabric surface, the fabric and substrate being joined along the second fabric surface and the first substrate surface, the fabric component defining one or more apertures; and one or more electronic components disposed in the one or more apertures, the one or more electronic components and substrate being joined along a first electronic component surface and the first substrate surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Daniel Herrington, Joshua Edwards, Michael Mossoba
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Patent number: 10744812Abstract: In an areal security element having microreflectors, in particular for manufacturing value documents such as bank notes, cheques or the like, the areal security element has a principal plane and the microreflectors present at least one object which upon tilting and/or rotating the security element has a motion effect which is related to the principal plane. It is provided that the security element has at least a first and a second microreflector pattern which differ from each other both with respect to the object it presents and with respect to the motion effect produced, wherein the first microreflector pattern is configured such that the motion effect runs at least partly perpendicular to the principal plane, and the second microreflector pattern is configured such that the motion effect runs in the principal plane or parallel thereto.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventor: Kathrin Hovestadt
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Patent number: 10744813Abstract: A writing instrument system including an elongated tip having a firm, felt or plastic nib and a piercing tip. The elongated tip includes a curvature that resembles a shape of a dolphin and the nib is positioned at a first-end of the elongated tip for distributing ink to a surface in a controlled manner. The elongated tip is in fluid communication with the nib. The elongated tip also includes the piercing tip which is able to penetrate an ink cartridge or tube of a pen and be removably affixed to a pen. The piercing tip is in fluid communication with the elongated tip and allows ink to flow from a penetrated ink cartridge or tube through the elongated tip to the nib where it can be applied to a surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Inventor: Clarence Parker
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Patent number: 10744814Abstract: The present invention is etch a sketch tool that are used by sketchers for preparing various sketches and when one sketch is prepared sketcher/user can remove sketches without destructing etch a sketch tool which can then be re-used. Etch a sketch tool includes a lower enclosure, a glass resting frame, a hinge connection, a lower gasket, a glass, an upper gasket, an upper enclosure, a pair of knobs and a locking system. Upper enclosure is unlocked from lower enclosure. Upper enclosure is lifted, upper enclosure is spaced apart from lower enclosure and glass is removed therefrom. Glass is thus carefully removed from etch a sketch tool and a new glass can be replaced. Once new glass is replaced, upper enclosure can be locked with lower enclosure. Thus, etch a lock tool can be re-used again.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Inventor: Anton Zumot
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Patent number: 10744815Abstract: A wheel mounting structure relates to a structure for fixing the wheel to the wheel hub which includes a substantially cylindrical spigot joint part protruding from the hub axle part toward the vehicle body outer side with respect to the flange part. In the spigot joint part, the first cylindrical outer peripheral surface and the groove are formed. The annular protruding part is provided so as to protrude toward the center of the wheel from the inner peripheral surface of the center hole. In a state where the wheel is fixed to the flange part using the fastening members, the fitting part and the annular protruding part fit with each other. In a state where the fastening members are removed, the annular cylindrical protruding part is engaged with the groove.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenji Nakagawa
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Patent number: 10744816Abstract: A vehicle wheel for a vehicle has a plurality of spokes, lamellac, blades, wheel segments or similar which are arranged on an outer side of the vehicle wheel, a kinematic system, via which the contour of the outer side of the vehicle wheel can be changed, and a slide element which is adjustable between an inner position and an outer position. The spokes, lamellae, blades, wheel segments or similar are hinged on the slide element and are adjustable together with the slide element.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Ronny Bach, Bastian Baudy, Christian Binder, Erich Jehle-Graf, Martin Konermann, Volker Meyer, Steffen Reichert, Andrej Ruckhaberle, Antonis Schley, Sylvain Wehnert
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Patent number: 10744817Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for a centerlock wheel assembly that is configured to improve driving dynamics and provide faster wheel changes. A centerlock adaptor is provided with a plurality of vehicle bolt pattern configurations disposed thereon. A first and threaded abutment are disposed on the centerlock adaptor. A hub adaptor is configured to threadingly engage with an exterior surface of the threaded abutment, thereby retaining a centerlock wheel, for example. Finally, a center cap is provided to threadingly engage with an inner surface of the threaded abutment. For each side of the vehicle, the centerlock assembly features particular threading arrangements so as to retain the centerlock wheel and counteract against various wheel dynamics. A centerlock wrench is provided to tighten and loosen the hub adaptor and center cap.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: REVEL WHEELS, LLCInventors: Billy Chen, Paul Yang, David Tran
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Patent number: 10744818Abstract: An apparatus providing auxiliary traction to a riding lawnmower or similarly light off-road vehicle having a drive wheel with a hub anchored to a drive axle. The apparatus generally includes at least one traction bar having a pair of traction ends equally spaced beyond the outer circumference of the wheel. The traction bar anchored to a carrier mounted to the hub of the drive wheel. A traction bar of variable length may be achieved by having two traction arms, one telescopically received within the other, with a length-locking means such as retainer pins inserted through aligned bores extending through the overlapping traction arms and the carrier mounted to the hub.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Inventor: Timothy Don Baker
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Patent number: 10744819Abstract: A wheel for a displacement truck having a wheel body and removable ribs is provided. The ribs are segmented into at least two parts to facilitate removal from the wheel body.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: VALE S.A.Inventors: José Siqueira Cestari, Marcelo Rocha Gava, André Luiz Capua De Lima
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Patent number: 10744820Abstract: An aircraft wheel including a rim (2) comprising two assembled-together rim halves (3a, 3b), each rim half (3a, 3b) having a bearing surface (7) extending in a plane perpendicular to an axis of rotation (X) of the aircraft wheel. The aircraft wheel further includes a spacer (9) situated between the two bearing surfaces (7) when the rim halves (3a, 3b) are assembled together.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMSInventors: Jerome Darsy, Xavier Delayre, Celine Colonna
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Patent number: 10744821Abstract: Provided is a non-pneumatic tire including an attachment body attached to an axle, an outer tubular body (13) configured to surround the attachment body from the outside in a tire radial direction, and a connecting member (15) configured to connect the attachment body and the outer tubular body while allowing displacement therebetween, wherein the connecting member includes a first elastic connecting plate (21) in which a first end portion (21a) connected to the outer tubular body is disposed closer to a first side in a tire circumferential direction than a second end portion connected to the attachment body and an intermediate portion (21c) is disposed between the first end portion and the second end portion, and both of circumferential end surface (26a, 26b) directed in the tire circumferential direction among surfaces of the first end portion of the first elastic connecting plate extend in opposite directions in the tire circumferential direction to be separated from each other from the inside toward the oType: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takanori Shoji, Akihiko Abe
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Patent number: 10744822Abstract: A heavy duty tire comprises a tread portion 2 divided into two crown land regions 6, two middle land regions 7 and two shoulder land regions 8 by a center circumferential groove 3 having a width Wc, two middle circumferential grooves 4 having a width Wm and two shoulder circumferential grooves 5 having a width Ws. The distance LA from the shoulder circumferential groove 5 to the tire equator Co is more than the distance LB from the shoulder circumferential groove 5 to the tread edge TE. The width Wc and width Wm are more than 3.0 mm and less than 6.0 mm. The width Ws is more than 5.0 mm, and more than the width Wc and more than the width Wm. The crown and middle land regions 6 and 7 are each formed as a rib. The shoulder land regions 8 are each formed as a row of shoulder blocks 13.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Shuji Kagimoto
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Patent number: 10744823Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion having an outboard tread edge To and an inboard tread edge Ti. The tread portion is provided with: an outboard shoulder main groove extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction; an outboard crown main groove extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction and disposed between the outboard shoulder main groove and a tire equator; and outboard lateral grooves extending from the outboard crown main groove to the outboard tread edge To. The groove width of each of the outboard lateral grooves is decreased toward the outboard crown main groove 4.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yuki Fujimoto
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Patent number: 10744824Abstract: This disclosure aims to provide a pneumatic tire having improved noise reduction performance exhibited by a resonator. The pneumatic tire according to this disclosure has at least two circumferential grooves extending continuously on a tread surface, and has a resonator disposed on a land portion partitioned by two circumferential grooves among the circumferential grooves, the resonator having an air chamber opening toward a land portion surface at a position spaced from the circumferential grooves, one a more one-side narrow necks connecting the air chamber to one circumferential groove of the two circumferential grooves, and one or more other-side narrow necks connecting the air chamber to the other circumferential groove, the one-side narrow neck and the other-side narrow neck having cross section areas approximately identical to each other, and an extending length of the one-side narrow neck and an extending length of the other-side narrow neck being different.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Tokumasa Akashi
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Patent number: 10744825Abstract: A pneumatic tyre with a wear indicator may be manufactured by inserting rods of a mould into the tire tread during manufacturing. A mould may include at least seven rods extending in parallel in a direction of height on a same side of an object and connected to the object. The rods are arranged so multiple distances are left between the cross sections of the rods and a minimum of the multiple distances ?0.5 mm. In the direction of height, the cross section and/or the height of at least some of the rods varies so at a number of different height positions, the cross sections of the rods at those height positions define that number of different mirror-image symbols, of which mirror images are expressible by the wear indicator, one mirror-image symbol corresponding to one height position, with at least two different height positions and mirror-image symbols.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: NOKIAN RENKAAT OYJInventors: Niko Haanketo, Jyrki Hietasaari
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Patent number: 10744826Abstract: In a tire 2, each load support layer 22 extends from a side portion 24 of the tire 2 to a radially inner side of a belt 14 at an inner side of a carcass 12. A ratio (SP/WB) of a width SP from an equator plane to an outer edge 48 of the load support layer 22, relative to a width WB from the equator plane to an edge of the belt 14, in an axial direction is equal to or greater than 0.1 and equal to or less than 0.6.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yasuo Mitarai
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Patent number: 10744827Abstract: An indirect tire pressure monitoring (WSB TPMS) method includes establishing a wheel speed reference value database using a vehicle speed, and correcting the real-time wheel speed through tire wear compensation, and then based on a comparative analysis of the real-time wheel speed and the wheel speed reference value, determining the degree of tire deflection deformation and tire safety, and to give an alert message prompt based on the tire pressure abnormality information.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Inventor: Jianzhong Fu