Patents Issued in August 27, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200269582
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ink jet recording device including: a conveyer that conveys a long sheet-shaped base material in a flatly extended state; a single-pass ink jet printer that ejects ink from multiple nozzles that are arranged in a width direction of the base material, so as to performs printing on the base material conveyed by the conveyer; and a controller that controls the conveyer to change a conveyance speed of the base material relative to the printer between a first conveyance speed and a second conveyance speed that are different from each other, wherein the controller controls the printer to form cut position information on the base material before start of changing the conveyance speed between the first conveyance speed and the second conveyance speed and after completion of changing the conveyance speed between the first conveyance speed and the second conveyance speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroaki ARAKAWA, Fujio MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200269583
    Abstract: The first printing system SY1 includes a printing apparatus 4 including an ink container and a server 2 coupled to the printing apparatus 4 via a network NW, wherein the server 2 acquires maintenance information including residual ink amount information indicating an residual amount of ink in the ink container of the printing apparatus 4, determines whether a maintenance process is configured to be performed based on the acquired maintenance information, and instructs the printing apparatus 4 to perform the maintenance process when it is determined that the maintenance process is configured to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Kohei Shiratori, Hiroyuki Kuramoto, Norihiko Yamada
  • Publication number: 20200269584
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting device including an ejecting unit configured to eject a liquid onto a medium, a detector configured to emit light toward an object opposing the ejecting unit and receive reflected light generated by reflection of the light thereby detecting information, and a cover portion including a cover that transmits the light and is disposed at a position to cover the detector. The cover portion is configured to move the cover so as to change a portion of the cover that covers the detector while the detector remains covered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Yohei NUNOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200269585
    Abstract: An inkjet printer collects ink mist, and eliminates the necessity of frequent filter cleaning and replacement. Vents are on an upstream side in a conveying direction of a printing medium of the print heads of a printing part, blowout air volume of the respective vents can be adjusted, collection ports are on a downstream side in the conveying direction of the printing medium of the respective print heads, suction air volume of the collection ports can be adjusted, and an ink mist collecting parts are each provided which liquefies and collects ink mist contained in air sucked from any one of the collection ports while the air passes through filters. The blowout air volumes of the respective print heads and the suction air volumes are set to air volumes according to amounts of generated ink mist, and ink mist is collected according to differences in amounts of generated ink mist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: MIYAKOSHI PRINTING MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo IZAWA, Kouichi OOYAMA, Kazushige SATO, Masaru KUSANAGI, Masatoshi MUTOH
  • Publication number: 20200269586
    Abstract: A liquid supply unit includes an outer shell; a contact portion that is disposed in the outer shell and that is configured to electronically connect to the apparatus-side terminal by making contact with the apparatus-side terminal; a liquid supply port that is disposed on the outer shell and used for inserting the liquid introducing portion; and a receiving portion that extends in a protruding direction in which the guide member protrudes outward in a mounting state in which the liquid supply unit is mounted onto the liquid ejection apparatus, and that is configured to receive the guide member. At least a part of the receiving portion is located between the liquid supply port and the contact portion in a predetermined direction orthogonal to a direction in which the receiving portion extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Taku ISHIZAWA, Satoshi SHINADA, Yoshiaki SHIMIZU, Noriyuki FUKASAWA
  • Publication number: 20200269587
    Abstract: An agitation device includes: a first container configured to house a liquid; a second container configured to house the liquid transferred from the first container; a transfer agitation unit configured to selectively execute a transfer operation of transferring the liquid from the first container to the second container and an agitation operation of agitating the liquid in the second container by using a common drive source; and a controller configured to control the transfer agitation unit to alternately execute the transfer operation and the agitation operation upon transferring the liquid from the first container to the second container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiro YAMORI, Toshihiro BANSYO
  • Publication number: 20200269588
    Abstract: A transfer device includes: a first container including a bag portion configured to house liquid; a second container configured to house the liquid transferred from the first container; a transfer unit configured to transfer the liquid from the first container to the second container; and a controller configured to control the transfer unit to intermittently and repeatedly execute a transfer operation of starting transfer of the liquid and then completing the transfer before a side of the bag portion toward the transfer unit transitions to a suction contact state upon transferring the liquid from the first container to the second container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehiro YAMORI
  • Publication number: 20200269589
    Abstract: The liquid container includes a housing member including an external circumferential wall surrounding a liquid storing chamber, an opening surrounded by an end portion of the external circumferential wall, and a closing wall opposing the liquid storing chamber at a position deep inside with respect to the opening, an external edge portion of the closing wall coupled to an end portion of the external circumferential wall, in which the liquid outlet portion is provided in the external circumferential wall; a valve provided in the liquid outlet portion, the valve being opened by having both a first pipe through which atmospheric air flows and a second pipe through which the liquid flows inserted therein when the liquid is made to flow out from the liquid storing chamber; a flexible wall sealing the opening portion; and an inner wall that extends from the closing wall towards an opening portion side in an area surrounded by the external circumferential wall and that is in contact with the flexible wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seigo MIYAZAWA, Tadahiro MIZUTANI, Taku ISHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20200269590
    Abstract: A liquid cartridge includes a first surface, a second surface spaced apart from the first surface, and a third surface extending between the first surface and the second surface, with a liquid outlet through the first surface. A circuit board is mounted on the third surface. A locking mechanism includes a locking surface that extends above the third surface, and a liquid detection mechanism includes a light access portion. The light access portion is disposed between the circuit board and the locking surface, and the circuit board is disposed between the first surface and the light access portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoya OKAZAKI, Tetsuro KOBAYASHI, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Kosuke NUKUI, Akihito ONO, Mikio HIRANO, Suguru TOMOGUCHI, Yutao WANG, Tomohiro KANBE
  • Publication number: 20200269591
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a pump which is provided for a liquid supply path to supply a liquid stored in a liquid storage portion to a liquid ejection portion; a filter portion which is provided between the pump and the liquid ejection portion as a part of the liquid supply path and which includes a filter and a filter chamber defined by the filter into an upstream filter chamber and a downstream filter chamber; a return path coupled to the upstream filter chamber and the liquid storage portion; and a discharge valve located at the return path. While the pump is driven in a non-communication state between the upstream filter chamber and the liquid storage portion, the non-communication state is switched to a communication state therebetween through the return path using the discharge valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Seiko HAMAMOTO, Satoru KOBAYASHI, Toshio KUMAGAI, Nobuaki KAMIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200269592
    Abstract: When a first fluid supply of a fluid-ejection device is empty and a second fluid supply of the device has a non-empty fluid amount less than a threshold, the device performs an action related to the second fluid supply. After the action has been performed and both the first and second fluid supplies have been replaced, the device primes the first and second fluid supplies. The action can include emptying the second fluid supply, and then messaging that both the fluid supplies require replacement. The action can include messaging that both fluid supplies require replacement although the second fluid supply is not empty. The action can include not messaging even that the first fluid supply requires replacement until the second fluid supply also becomes empty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Michelle Pangborn, Kelvin Chiew, Melissa S Gedraitis
  • Publication number: 20200269593
    Abstract: The ink server includes at least one ink storage unit that stores ink to be supplied to a printer, a switching unit that switches whether to supply the ink stored in the at least one ink storage unit to the printer, a detection unit that detects a state of the ink stored in the at least one ink storage unit, a controller that controls the switching unit and the detection unit, and a power supply circuit that supplies a power supply voltage to the switching unit, the detection unit, and the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Toshiyuki NISHIYAMA, Shohei YAMADA, Toru MATSUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200269594
    Abstract: A printer includes a restrictor that is configured to switch between a restricted state that restricts a scanner unit from pivoting in an opening direction from a closed state in which the scanner unit is closed with respect to the casing, and a free state that allows the scanner unit to pivot in the opening direction from the closed state, and that enters the restricted state when the panel unit is set to a first orientation and enters the free state when the panel unit in the first orientation pivots by a predetermined angle to be in a second orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Hisayuki AKAHANE
  • Publication number: 20200269595
    Abstract: A method of cleaning a liquid discharging apparatus has a second flow path cleaning step of causing a cleaning liquid to pass through a second flow path so that the second flow path is cleaned, and also includes a first flow path cleaning step of causing the cleaning liquid that has passed through the second flow path to pass through a first flow path so that the first flow path is cleaned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Kinya OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20200269596
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid storing portion, a liquid discharge unit that discharges the liquid to a medium and performs printing, a supply flow path that communicates the liquid storing portion and the liquid discharge unit, an opening/closing mechanism including an opening/closing unit that brings the supply flow path into an open state or a closed state and an operation unit that operates the opening/closing unit, and a moving unit configured to move between a first position that is a normal position when performing the printing and a second position different from the first position. A range where the operation unit brings supply flow path into a transient state between the open state and the closed state includes a position of the operation unit at which the operation unit interferes with the moving unit located in the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ochiai, Hideki Okumura
  • Publication number: 20200269597
    Abstract: A method of recirculating fluid in a printhead die is provided. The recirculation is performed for at least one nozzle, such that the recirculation finishes before the corresponding at least one nozzle completed ejection of a drop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Joan Vidal, Jr., Lluis Abello
  • Publication number: 20200269598
    Abstract: A liquid discharging device discharges a liquid onto a recording medium for image formation, and includes head modules each including a nozzle array that discharges a liquid of at least one color, the head modules being connected in a direction of the nozzle array from one of the head modules, the one supported by a guide extending in a main-scanning direction; and processing circuitry functioning as an acquirer that acquires image data based on which the image is formed, and an allocator that allocates, to dots of the image data, a row of liquid droplets discharged from one of the head modules closest to the guide in a sub-scanning direction, such that the liquid droplets discharged from the head module closest to the guide are equal to or higher in ratio than the liquid droplets discharged from each head module other than the head module closest to the guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanori HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20200269599
    Abstract: A recording device provides, when a first mode that is a recording mode for increasing concentration of black is selected, in a first nozzle row including first nozzles capable of discharging a first ink representing black by a single color or a mixed color, and a second nozzle row including second nozzles capable of discharging a second ink having a lower pigment concentration than a black ink and being an achromatic color, a nozzle unused region by a first nozzle not discharging a first ink and a second nozzle not discharging a second ink, between a first nozzle usage region including the first nozzle discharging the first ink onto the recording medium, and a second nozzle used region including the second nozzle for discharging the second ink onto a region of the recording medium onto which the first ink is discharged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi TANASE, Keisuke MORITA, Kentaro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200269600
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a frame, a platen roller rotatably supported by the frame, a thermal head that is provided to face the platen roller, and a supporting unit that supports the thermal head from above, wherein the supporting unit includes an adjustment part that can adjust a height of the supporting unit by an adjuster, and the supporting unit can adjust an angle of the thermal head by adjusting the height of the adjustment part by the adjuster with at least a portion of the supporting unit being deformed, and wherein the supporting unit can adjust the height of the adjustment part by adjusting a protrusion amount of the adjuster with a tip of the adjuster being butted against the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Akira YANAGIDA, Yoshibumi ABE, Kazuhiro HONDA, Teru NISHIYAMA, Masahiko KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200269601
    Abstract: A method and system for printing an image on a 3D surface is provided, wherein a printing robot is controlled to first carry out an encoder pattern capture run. During this run a print head of the robot is controlled to track an encoder pattern, which may be slightly distorted, on the 3D surface while inertial data from an inertial data measurement unit that is fixed to the print head is stored together with orientational and positional data derived from an image captured of a portion of the encoder pattern that is captured by a camera mounted on the printing head. Next, during a printing run, the print head is controlled such that the camera tracks the encoder pattern for a second time, while printing by the print head and/or a position of the print head is adjusted based on the inertial and orientational and positional data that were stored during the encoder pattern capture run.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Xyrec IP B.V.
    Inventors: Christopher L. Lewis, Matthew M. Robinson, Paul T. Evans, Peter Boeijink, Branson P. Brockschmidt
  • Publication number: 20200269602
    Abstract: A system and method for printing an image on a surface using a printing robot, wherein data from an internal position determination system of the robot as well as data from a reference system comprising a stationary reference external to the robot are used to calculate an estimate of position, velocity and acceleration of the print head relative to the surface. As print head is moved along the surface during printing, i.e. as the print head is moved while ink is ejected from nozzles of the print head, the positioning of the print head and activation of nozzles of the print head are controlled based on the estimate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Xyrec IP B.V.
    Inventors: Christopher L. Lewis, Matthew M. Robinson, Paul T. Evans, Peter Boeijink, Branson P. Brockschmidt
  • Publication number: 20200269603
    Abstract: Monitoring device (50, 52) for monitoring a plurality of containers (10) which have been printed with at least one first image element (B1-B8) by a direct printing machine (20), having a transport device (40) which supplies and/or discharges the printed containers (10) to be monitored along a predefined transport path, in particular individually and successively, to the monitoring device (50, 52), wherein the monitoring device (50, 52) monitors the printed containers (10) at least with respect to the first image element (B1-B8) applied by the direct printing machine (20), and has a memory device (53) which stores the at least one set of first image elements (B1-B8) to be monitored. According to the invention, for each container (10) to be monitored, the monitoring device (50, 52) carries out monitoring taking into account at least one image element (B1-B8) uniquely assigned to this container (10) to be monitored from the set of first image elements (B1-B8) to be monitored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Anton Niedermeier
  • Publication number: 20200269604
    Abstract: A light irradiation device includes: an irradiation portion that irradiates a member with light, the member having density varying in accordance with at least one of light or heat; and an adjustment portion that adjusts a light amount of the irradiation portion based on a change of the density in the member irradiated with the light by the irradiation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Takuma Ishihara, Takeshi Zengo
  • Publication number: 20200269605
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head configured to discharge a liquid onto a medium, a carriage mounting the liquid discharge head configured to move the liquid discharge head in a main scanning direction, a dummy-discharge receptacle to receive a dummy-discharge liquid discharged from the liquid discharge head in a dummy-discharge operation, a light irradiator to irradiate the dummy-discharge liquid in the dummy-discharge receptacle with a light, and circuitry. The circuitry sets a plurality of dummy-discharge areas virtually dividing an interior of the dummy-discharge receptacle, moves the carriage in the main scanning direction to a first dummy-discharge area among the plurality of dummy-discharge areas, drives the liquid discharge head to discharge the dummy-discharge liquid onto the first dummy-discharge area in the dummy-discharge receptacle, and irradiates the dummy-discharge liquid in the first dummy-discharge area in the dummy-discharge receptacle with the light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Junichi Mizawa
  • Publication number: 20200269606
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a support member having a curved surface, an ejection head, a housing, a light emitting section, a first light-shielding plate arranged between the ejection head and the irradiation section, and a second light-shielding plate arranged between the first light-shielding plate and the ejection head. The housing is arranged in a position far from the curved surface with respect to a virtual tangent plane that passes through a portion of the nozzle surface being farthest from the irradiation port and is held in contact with a lower end of the first light-shielding plate. The second light-shielding plate is arranged in a position that allows the second light-shielding plate to block at least part of light entering a side surface orthogonal to the nozzle surface of the ejection head among the light that is emitted from the irradiation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Kazutoshi FUJISAWA
  • Publication number: 20200269607
    Abstract: A recording device includes a medium placement unit on which a medium is fixedly placed, a recording head configured to discharge liquid toward the medium, a gantry including a discharging unit, the gantry being configured to move relative to the medium placement unit along a first axial direction, a heater provided at the medium placement unit, the heater being configured to heat the medium placed on the medium placement unit, and a control unit configured to control the heater. The control unit controls heating of the medium by the heater in accordance with a condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Norihiro MASUDA, Yoshitaka SHIMADA, Yutaka NAGASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200269608
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting device includes a heating unit configured to heat a medium transported in a state where liquid adheres to the medium, and a control unit configured to control the heating unit. The control unit determines whether the medium is wound downstream, in a transport direction, from an area heated by the heating unit. When the control unit determines that the medium is wound, the control unit controls the heating unit at a first heating set temperature, and, when the control unit determines that the medium is not wound, the control unit controls the heating unit at a second heating set temperature that is lower than the first heating set temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Tomohiro YODA
  • Publication number: 20200269609
    Abstract: A roll paper steering device includes a guide rail fixed to a main body frame, a guide engaged with the guide rail, a holding shaft fixing member supported by the guide rail via the guide, a roll paper holding unit including a roll shaft and mounted to the holding shaft fixing member, a movable member configured to adjustably mount to the holding shaft fixing member, a nut member that includes an internal thread portion that screws into the external thread portion and that is fixed to the main body frame in a posture where the axis of the external thread portion is parallel with the guide rail, a first adjustment unit configured to adjust the posture of the holding shaft fixing member, and a second adjustment unit configured to adjust the position at which the movable member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Shigeki KATO, Tomoyuki Shiiya, Atsushi Miyasaka
  • Publication number: 20200269610
    Abstract: The medium detection unit is a component constituting an optical path of the detection light, and includes a first optical element disposed on an upper side of the medium transport path and a second optical element disposed on a lower side of the medium transport path so as to face the first optical element, the second optical element has a facing surface that faces the first optical element, the facing surface being located at a position that is not in contact with a medium nipped by both the first roller pair and the second roller pair, and a medium feeding direction by the first roller pair is a direction by which a leading edge of a medium fed out abuts a position upstream in the medium transport direction relative to a position where the detection light is received on the facing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Junko AO, Koji ODA, Toshihiro IMAE, Soichiro KIl
  • Publication number: 20200269611
    Abstract: A printing device configured to perform: printing a first body part of a first object on a first portion of a printing medium; after printing the first body part, printing a specific header part which is the same as a first header part of the first object on a second portion positioned upstream of the first portion; after printing the specific header part, acquiring a second object including a second header part and a second body part; determining whether the first header part and the second header part match; when determining that the two header parts do not match, printing the second header part on a third portion positioned upstream of the second portion; and cutting an upstream end of the second portion; and when determining that the two header parts match, printing the second body part on the third portion without printing the second header part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Kentaro MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200269612
    Abstract: A cutter apparatus is provided that includes a fixed blade and a movable blade positioned facing the fixed blade, and that is configured to cut a medium transported between the fixed blade and the movable blade. The movable blade includes: a guide portion that is driven to reciprocate between a standby position at a distance from the medium and a cutting position, where the movable blade intermeshes with the fixed blade, protrudes further toward the movable blade than a cutting edge of the fixed blade when the movable blade is in the standby position, and is pressed by the movable blade to move in a state of being contact with the fixed blade when the movable blade is in the cutting position; and a biasing member configured to bias the guide portion toward the fixed blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Takeshi TOKUDA
  • Publication number: 20200269613
    Abstract: A sheet fed device having a media tray and a sensor assembly is disclosed. The media tray includes a major surface having a leading portion and a trailing portion. The sensor assembly is operably coupled to the media tray. The sensor assembly includes a detector spaced-apart from and movable relative to the media tray in a path laterally across the major surface between the leading portion and the trailing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: John A Dangelwicz, Bachu K Venkatesh, Ivan Oong, Wei Lit Teoh
  • Publication number: 20200269614
    Abstract: An roll paper storage structure includes a casing (body) configured to detachably support a first shaft to which a first roll paper (label roll paper) is set, a first storage portion provided in the casing (body) and configured to store at least a part of the first roll paper (label roll paper) set to the first shaft, and a supporting member (attachment) configured to be attachable to the first storage portion and to support an outer circumferential surface of a second roll paper (normal roll paper) that is not set to the first shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Masakazu MATSUI, Katsutoshi MUKAIJIMA, Yasuyuki MORI
  • Publication number: 20200269615
    Abstract: A printer includes a front cover to open and close an opening portion of a front surface of a box casing and a housing that is provided in the casing and in which roll paper held in a roll paper holder is housed through the opening portion. The roll paper holder includes flanges that are disposed in both end portions of the roll paper, respectively, and the flanges project from the opening portion when the roll paper is housed in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Akira TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200269616
    Abstract: A printer for pulling out a paper wound in a form of a wound roll is disclosed. The printer may comprise a cartridge configured to accommodate the paper, a housing in which the cartridge is mounted, a cover moveable between an open position for opening the top surface of the housing and a closed position for closing the top surface of the housing, a first printing unit mounted to the housing, and a second printing unit mounted to the cover. The paper is pulled out between the first printing unit and the second printing unit, and the second printing unit has a decurling part formed thereon. The decurling part comes into surface-contact with the paper on the upper side of the paper in the process of pulling out the paper when the cover is in the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: MANGOSLAB CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Shik PARK, Yong Soo JEONG
  • Publication number: 20200269617
    Abstract: A printer includes support members having a convex portion and a support hole as two support portions, and a shaft that includes, in both end portions thereof, a concave portion and a projection portion as supported portions engaging with the support members, respectively, and supports an ink ribbon, the convex portion is rotatable, the convex portion is fitted into the concave portion, the convex portion includes a portion having a pentagonal truncated pyramid liked shape extending in an axis direction, the concave portion includes an inner circumference surface having a polygonal liked shape corresponding to the number of corners of the portion having the truncated pyramid liked shape, and includes a coil spring that elastically displaces the shaft in which the concave portion is formed in a withdrawing direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuyuki MORI, Katsutoshi MUKAIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200269618
    Abstract: A recording device includes a medium support portion, a recording head configured to eject a liquid toward a medium supported by the medium support portion, a gantry that includes the recording head and is configured to move relative to the medium support portion in a Y-axis direction, a first linear scale attached to a first attachment member, a first encoder configured to read markings of the first linear scale while moving, together with the gantry, relative to the medium support portion in the Y-axis direction to detect a displacement of the gantry, and a length adjustment unit configured to adjust a length of the first linear scale attached to the first attachment member, by adjusting a tension in the Y-axis direction applied to the first linear scale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Daisuke HIRUMA
  • Publication number: 20200269619
    Abstract: A printer includes a gap adjustment unit that displaces a carriage in a Z-axis direction in which a gap changes. The gap adjustment unit has a sliding member that moves in a width direction integrally with the carriage, and a cam member that is interposed between the carriage and the sliding member and has a stepped portion in which a maintenance surface that maintains a position of the carriage in the Z-axis direction and an adjustment surface that changes the position of the carriage in the Z-axis direction are alternately arranged in the width direction. The gap adjustment unit is configured such that the cam member slides in the width direction with respect to the carriage and the sliding member to change the gap. The gap adjustment unit includes a buffer unit that decreases a displacement speed of the carriage in the Z-axis direction when the gap is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Keita HANAWA, Katsunari KUMAGAI, Kensuke TAMAI
  • Publication number: 20200269620
    Abstract: A battery mount portion includes a recessed portion into which a portion of a battery enters, a coupling terminal provided inside the recessed portion and configured to be electrically coupled to the battery, and a covering portion that covers the coupling terminal and that constitutes a portion of the housing. In a state in which the battery is unmounted, a cover that covers an area in the battery mount portion other than the covering portion is detachably attachable, and a portion where the cover and the housing overlap each other in a depth direction of the recessed portion is located outside a path of a liquid heading towards the coupling terminal after entering the recessed portion through a portion where the cover and the covering portion oppose each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Taiki HANAGAMI, Makoto WADA, Kazuya YOSHIKAIE, Hiroyuki TAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200269621
    Abstract: A printing device includes: a housing; a cassette receiving portion provided in the housing; and a print head provided at the cassette receiving portion. The cassette receiving portion is configured to detachably receive a cassette including a case in which an ink ribbon and a tape are provided. The print head extends in a first direction and is configured to be inserted in a head opening of the case upon attachment of the cassette to the cassette receiving portion. The print head is configured to perform printing to the tape via the ink ribbon. The cassette receiving portion is open in the first direction and in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. Upon attachment of the cassette to the cassette receiving portion, a portion of the cassette protrudes out of the housing in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Shota Iijima, Takanori Izumi
  • Publication number: 20200269622
    Abstract: A printing device includes: a housing; a print head extending in a first direction; a cassette receiving portion; and a movable cover. The cassette receiving portion is open in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The cassette receiving portion can selectively receive a first cassette or a second cassette whose size is greater than that of the first cassette. The movable cover is movable between a closed position and an open position for covering and exposing the cassette receiving portion in the second direction. The cassette receiving portion provides: a first cassette receiving portion for receiving the first cassette with the movable cover at the closed position; and a second cassette receiving portion for receiving the second cassette with the movable cover at the open position. A portion of the second cassette receiving portion is overlapped with the movable cover at the closed position in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Shota Iijima, Takanori Izumi
  • Publication number: 20200269623
    Abstract: A method for forming an image on a non-permeable surface includes depositing a first layer of a solvent based composition on a non-permeable surface; partially curing the first layer; and printing a second layer of a solvent based composition on top of the first layer. The second layer can be a similar solvent based composition to the first layer, with the addition of one or more pigments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Xyrec IP B.V.
    Inventors: Peter Boeijink, Matthew M. Robinson, Paul T. Evans
  • Publication number: 20200269624
    Abstract: Eco-friendly signs such as wood and other natural material signs, and methods of making eco-friendly signs, including selecting a substrate as a base material having a first planar surface and an opposing second planar surface, cutting the substrate to a sign dimension, treating the first planar surface to form a smooth print surface, applying a base layer such as a layer of clear ink to the print surface, and applying a signage layer onto the base layer. The eco-friendly sign may be an ADA compliant sign in which the signage layer is a raised of ink produced using a 3-dimensional printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Green Dot Sign Incorporated
    Inventor: Simon Patrick Nussbaum
  • Publication number: 20200269625
    Abstract: There is provided an ink jet recording medium capable of recording images excellent in color developability and light resistance. The ink jet recording medium has a base material and an ink receiving layer provided on the base material. The ink receiving layer contains a wet silica, a binder, an ultraviolet absorber represented by the following general formula (1) (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; R2 and R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkyl group containing an ester group, or an alkylphenyl group), and a surfactant; in the ink receiving layer, the content of the ultraviolet absorber with respect to 100 parts by mass of the wet silica is 10 parts by mass or more and 20 parts by mass or less; and the surfactant is a polyoxyalkylene alkyl ether.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nito, Arika Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20200269626
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a safety device (1) for authorizing an operation, comprising: a supporting structure (2); a color-shift structure (5) coupled to the supporting structure (2) on a side or face of this latter; a first safety string (6) made in the supporting structure (2) and disposed on said side or face of the supporting structure (2) so that the first safety string (6) and color-shift structure (5) are overlapped on each other; a second safety string (7) made in the supporting structure (2) and disposed on said side or face of the supporting structure (2) so that the second safety string (7) and color-shift structure (5) are overlapped on each other. The present invention refers also to a safety method and system for authorizing an operation exploiting such safety device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: DG GROUP S.R.L.
    Inventor: Dino Radice
  • Publication number: 20200269627
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thin optical security element comprising a reflective or refractive light-redirecting surface having a relief pattern operable to redirect incident light from a light source and form a projected image on a projection surface, the projected image comprising a caustic pattern reproducing a reference pattern that is easily visually recognizable by a person. The invention also relates to a method for designing a relief pattern of a light-redirecting surface of a thin optical security element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Andrea CALLEGARI, Pierre DEGOTT, Todor DINOEV, Christophe GARNIER, Alain MAYER, Yuliy SCHWARTZBURG, Romain TESTUZ, Mark PAULY
  • Publication number: 20200269628
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of optical anti-counterfeiting, and discloses an optical anti-counterfeiting element and an optical anti-counterfeiting product. The optical anti-counterfeiting element comprises: a substrate which is at least partially pervious to light, comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite each other; an anti-counterfeiting image formed on the first surface of the substrate, wherein the anti-counterfeiting image comprises a plurality of imaging pixel groups, and the imaging pixel groups are arranged aperiodically and/or without an axis of symmetry; and a sampling-synthesis layer with optical characteristics formed on the second surface of the substrate, wherein target visual images corresponding to the imaging pixel groups can be presented through a light-pervious part of the substrate and the sampling-synthesis layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicants: ZHONGCHAO SPECIAL SECURITY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, CHINA BANKNOTE PRINTING AND MINTING CORP.
    Inventors: Baoli Zhang, Kai Sun, Jun Zhu, Xiaoli Wang
  • Publication number: 20200269629
    Abstract: A pen structure containing liquid ink is disclosed herein. It comprises a tube body having a reservoir and an open end; a liquid outflow bushing disposed at the open end and accommodated in the reservoir of the tube body at one end thereof, wherein the liquid outflow bushing has a liquid delivering space and a screw groove disposed on a wall of the liquid delivering space and connected to an end face of the liquid delivering space at one end thereof; and a brush disposed in the liquid delivering space of the liquid outflow bushing and surrounded by the screw groove at one end thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: PO-I SHIH
  • Publication number: 20200269630
    Abstract: A system, method, and kit to convert an image from a source, such as a newspaper or magazine, into a form of art for display. Such images are enormous in quantity in everyday newspapers and magazines, so an individual has an enormous, though random, selection of art that appears in newspapers and magazines, daily or periodically. Since the source of the art is plentiful, and the system, method, and kit utilize relatively inexpensive materials and supplies, such created art will be substantially less expensive than comparable commercial retail art. The system, method, and kit may be easily used and understood by any individual including children.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Stanley Markman
  • Publication number: 20200269631
    Abstract: A lettering film includes a lettering layer, a middle layer and a substrate layer. The lettering layer, the middle layer and the substrate layer are separably adhered to each other. The lettering layer has cutting stripes. The lettering film can be cut into characters and/or figures. The cutting marks of the characters and/or figures cut the lettering layer and the middle layer without cutting off the substrate layer. The lettering layer of the lettering film is adhered to an article and then the substrate layer and the middle layer are peeled off, whereby the lettering layer is adhered to the article and the cut characters and/or figures are adhered to the surface of the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Ming-Hsien YAO