Patents Issued in February 8, 2024
  • Publication number: 20240042742
    Abstract: A structural body including a plurality of convex-shaped rubber-elastic resonant portions, and a sheet-like support that supports the resonant portions. A specific gravity of the resonant portions is 1.0 g/cm3 or more and 3.0 g/cm3 or less, a height of the resonant portions is from 50 ?m to 100 mm, and an areal density of the support is 1.0 kg/m2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Haruki KOSHITOUGE, Daichi Okuno
  • Publication number: 20240042743
    Abstract: A polyethylene-based resin multilayer foam sheet may include a polyethylene-based resin foam layer containing a polyethylene-based resin (A) as a base resin, and a conductive layer laminated on at least one side of the foam layer. The conductive layer contains: a mixed resin of one or more polyethylenes (B) of low-density polyethylenes and/or linear low-density polyethylenes and an ethylene-based copolymer (C) having a structural unit derived from ethylene and a structural unit derived from a monomer having a polar group; and conductive carbon. The conductive carbon blended in the conductive layer may be in a range of from 3 to 15 wt. %. The difference, TmB?TmC, between the melting point TmB of the polyethylene (B) and the melting point TmC of the ethylene-based copolymer (C) each contained in the conductive layer may be in a range of from 30 to 80° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: JSP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotoshi KAKUTA, Mikidai FUJITA, Naoya KATSUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240042744
    Abstract: Multilayer biodegradable film particularly suitable for use in the manufacture of packaging, comprising at least one layer (A) comprising at least one aliphatic-aromatic biodegradable polyester blended with an aliphatic polyester having at least 70% in moles of succinic acid, and at least one layer (B) comprising a polymer composition comprising an aliphatic-aromatic polymer. The film has high mechanical properties, in particular a high elastic modulus, and appreciable optical transparency properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Catia BASTIOLI, Sebastià GESTI GARCIA, Pier Simone INGUÌ, Tiziana MILIZIA, Claudio RUSSO, Roberto VALLERO
  • Publication number: 20240042745
    Abstract: A laminate including, a base material layer; a first polyethylene resin layer containing a first polyethylene resin and having a melt flow rate of less than 5 g/10 minutes, and a second polyethylene resin layer containing a second polyethylene resin and having a melt flow rate of 5 to 12 g/10 minutes, in this order, in which a ratio R2 (Mw/Mn) of a weight-average molecular weight Mw to a number average molecular weight Mn of the second polyethylene resin is 7 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: TOPPAN INC., TAMAPOLY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi RO, Akinori SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20240042746
    Abstract: The present invention provides a resin film material produced from a resin material that includes a laminate that includes a resin layer with an evaporated metal layer, the resin film material containing a metal in the evaporated metal layer in the form of particles, wherein the metal particles are dispersed in the resin film material, and the number of metal particles with an area-equivalent diameter of 200 ?m or more present per cm2 of the resin film material is 1 or less. It is preferable that the resin film material is produced from a resin material that is made of a laminate group that includes the laminate that includes a resin layer with an evaporated metal layer and a laminate that includes a metal layer-free resin layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke FUKUI, Gota KATAYANAGI, Keito SATO, Katsutoshi AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240042747
    Abstract: The invention features a reinforcement element including a continuous paper strip having a first side and a second side, a first adhesive composition disposed on at least one of the first side and second side. The invention further features a paper reinforced tape including a continuous paper strip, a continuous paper backing layer and a first adhesive composition disposed between the continuous paper strip and the continuous paper backing layer thereby adhering the continuous paper strip to the continuous paper backing layer. The paper reinforced tapes and reinforcement elements of this invention have improved repulpability, recyclability, compostability and biodegradability. Further, these reinforcement elements and paper reinforced tapes, despite being predominately paper, unexpectedly provide excellent container reinforcement properties and further can be used as opening tapes, closing tapes and carrying handles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Michael J. Nowak, Cynthia A. Stewart-Irvin, Patrick D. Gleason
  • Publication number: 20240042748
    Abstract: A jig for laminate production for producing a laminate of an electrode for electrolysis and a membrane. The jig includes a roll for an electrode around which an elongate electrode for electrolysis is wound, and a roll for a membrane around which an elongate membrane is wound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshifumi WADA, Hiroshi TACHIHARA, Mamoru MATSUOKA, Akiyasu FUNAKAWA, Yoshifumi KADO
  • Publication number: 20240042749
    Abstract: A method for producing a partition for the interior of a commercial or transport vehicle for separating a passenger compartment from a cargo compartment. The partition is designed as a multilayer composite component made of a renewable raw material, in particular a wood-based material, which is produced by a forming process in a forming die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten JATZEN, Kevin ROOK, Fabian FISCHER, Thomas Grosse, Daniel KOHL, Falk-Andreas HOEFER
  • Publication number: 20240042750
    Abstract: A film peeling apparatus includes a first driver connected to a frame, a second driver connected to the frame, a first gripper connected to the first driver, a second gripper connected to the second driver, and a grip support spaced apart from the first gripper and the second gripper. The grip support and the first gripper grip a release tape attached to an end of a protective film attached to a panel and extending to an outside of the panel. The grip support and the second gripper grip the end of the protective film to which the release tape is attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., LTD.
    Inventor: YUNMIN KIM
  • Publication number: 20240042751
    Abstract: A heating device for heating a powder attached to a substrate, including a housing, a heating member, a cover, a fan, and a filter. The housing is provided with a heating cavity. The heating member is accommodated in the heating member, and is configured to heat the powder attached to the substrate after conveyed to the heating cavity. The cover is mounted on the housing, and covers the heating cavity. The fan is mounted on the housing, and an air extraction pipe is arranged between the fan and the heating cavity to enable the fan to extract air from the heating cavity. The filter is provided in the air extraction pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Jiangyu WU
  • Publication number: 20240042752
    Abstract: An apparatus for replacing printing sleeves comprising a handling device which can be removably engaged with a printing sleeve and a movement robot for moving the handling device; the handling device comprises a supporting frame, which is connected to the movement robot and supports a supporting rod which protrudes in a cantilevered manner from the supporting frame, and a grip assembly which is able to translate on command, with respect to the supporting frame, along a movement direction that is substantially parallel to the axis of the supporting rod, between an advanced working position and a retracted working position; the grip assembly is actuatable in rotation about an axis that is substantially parallel to the axis of the supporting rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: UTECO CONVERTING S.P.A.
    Inventors: Alessandro BICEGO, Claudio SEMPERBONI, Stefano MEZZALANA
  • Publication number: 20240042753
    Abstract: Provided are a substrate treatment apparatus and method which reconstruct a compensation nozzle map by processing nozzles in a specific area among all nozzles as unused nozzles. The substrate treatment apparatus includes: a process processing unit supporting a substrate while the substrate is being treated; an inkjet head unit including a plurality of nozzles and jetting a substrate treatment liquid onto the substrate to treat the substrate; a gantry unit moving the inkjet head unit on the substrate; and a controller controlling the nozzles, wherein the controller compensates for an abnormal nozzle by not using normal nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Jeong Ho JO, Ji Eun YI
  • Publication number: 20240042754
    Abstract: An ink drop measurement pad is for measuring volumes and positions of inkjet drops that are sprayed and dropped in a constant volume from nozzles of a head of an inkjet device. The ink drop measurement pad includes a pattern part including a plurality of groove portions arranged at pitch intervals corresponding to those of a plurality of head nozzles and wall portions formed between the groove portions. The groove portions are uniformly formed so as to have the same cross-section throughout an entire longitudinal direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Seog Soon KIM, Sung Jin LEE
  • Publication number: 20240042755
    Abstract: A fluid ejection apparatus includes a plurality of fluid ejectors. Each fluid ejector includes a pumping chamber, and an actuator configured to cause fluid to be ejected from the pumping chamber. The fluid ejection apparatus includes a feed channel fluidically connected to each pumping chamber; and at least one compliant structure formed in a surface of the feed channel. The at least one compliant structure has a lower compliance than the surface of the feed channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Christoph Menzel, Kevin von Essen, Steven H. Barss, Mats G. Ottosson, Darren T. Imai
  • Publication number: 20240042756
    Abstract: An object is to provide a liquid ejection head that is more reliable than conventional ones. The liquid ejection head includes a pitch conversion member. The pitch conversion member includes a plurality of first openings respectively connected to a plurality of first channels, and a plurality of second openings respectively connected to a plurality of second channels. A region where a plurality of the first openings are provided and a region where a plurality of the second openings are provided overlap as viewed from a penetration direction of the first openings and the second openings. A first distance in a second array direction between the two first openings closest to each other in the second array direction intersecting a first array direction is shorter than a second distance in the second array direction between the two second openings closest to each other in the second array direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: ATSUSHI TERANISHI, NAOKO SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240042757
    Abstract: An object is to provide a liquid ejection head that is compact and whose reliability of an electrical connection portion is high. The liquid ejection head has a plurality of sets of element substrates in which a plurality of ejection elements ejecting a liquid of the same type is arrayed and a plurality of sets of electrical wiring members for supplying electric power to the element substrate. Each element substrate is arrayed in a second direction inclined with respect to a first direction in which the plurality of ejection elements is arrayed. The electrical wiring member is connected to a terminal arranged at one end portion of the element substrate and extends in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: YOSHIYUKI NAKAGAWA, NAOKO SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240042758
    Abstract: Provided is a technique which can inspect liquid ejection energy without changing electric wiring on an ejection element substrate of a liquid ejection head or ejecting liquid from the liquid ejection head. A liquid ejection head as an ejection-energy inspection target includes an ejection element substrate having a substrate, a heat generation portion having an electrothermal converter on the substrate, a protective film covering the electrothermal converter, and an organic layer covering the electrothermal converter and the protective film. For this liquid ejection head, an electrical resistance value of the electrothermal converter is acquired as a first measurement result, and the film thickness of a film thickness measurement portion of the ejection element substrate where the protective film is exposed is acquired as a second measurement result. Further, information on ejection energy needed to eject liquid from the ejection port is obtained based on the first and second measurement results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: SATORU TAKAHASHI, JUNICHIRO IRI
  • Publication number: 20240042759
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head wherein a first common flow passage that is in shared communication with the plurality of individual flow passages and supplies a liquid to the plurality of individual flow passages, a second common flow passage that is in shared communication with the plurality of individual flow passages and collects a liquid from the plurality of individual flow passages, and a first bypass flow passage that connects the first common flow passage and the second common flow passage are formed in the first substrate, and the first substrate is comprised of a pressure compartment substrate in which the plurality of pressure compartments is formed and a communication plate that is provided between the pressure compartment substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Motoki TAKABE, Yu SHIOZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240042760
    Abstract: A contact pin printhead for microfluidic array spot printing can include a printhead chassis with a plurality of micro-pins insertable within respective sockets in the printhead chassis. An individual micro-pin can include a micro-pin tip that can be individually biased in a distal direction toward a target substrate via an elastic mechanical biaser associated with the micro-pin. An individual micro-pin can deposit fluid carried within a cavity therein and onto a target substrate during physical contact therewith at a micro-pin tip. Also, an individual micro-pin can retain fluid carried within the cavity, without depositing, absent physical contact at the micro-pin tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Max Marcel Shulaker, Alicia Ann Coto, Graham E. McGrath
  • Publication number: 20240042761
    Abstract: An inkjet recording device includes a conveyance unit, a carriage, one or a plurality of ink heads, a pre-processing head, and a post-processing head. The conveyance unit is configured to convey a recording medium in a conveyance direction. The carriage is configured to reciprocate in a main scanning direction intersecting the conveyance direction. The plurality of ink heads is located on the carriage and each eject an ink. The pre-processing head is arranged upstream of the plurality of ink heads in the conveyance direction and ejects a non-colored pre-processing solution. The post-processing head is arranged downstream of the plurality of ink heads in the conveyance direction and ejects a non-colored post-processing solution. The plurality of ink heads includes a plurality of same-color ink heads arranged to align in the conveyance direction to eject a same-color ink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Daisuke ETO, Masahiro HIGASHITANI, Hiroatsu TAMAI, Masaaki MARUTA, Tomoya HOTANI
  • Publication number: 20240042762
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a discharge port to discharge a liquid, and a liquid chamber to communicate with the discharge port, and further includes a vibrating plate, and a piezoelectric element. The vibrating plate is disposed on a surface of the liquid chamber on a side facing a surface communicating with the discharge port, and includes a plurality of layers stacked in a layered structure. The piezoelectric element is disposed on a second surface of the vibrating plate being a back surface of a first surface of the vibrating plate in contact with the liquid chamber. The vibrating plate has a recessed portion surrounded by a bottom surface and four lateral surfaces intersecting with the bottom surface on the first surface. The recessed portion penetrates through a first layer having the first surface among the plurality of layers of the vibrating plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: AYAKO MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240042763
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes: a channel member; an ejection substrate being disposed in a recess of the channel member and having a nozzle row of nozzles arranged in a first direction; and a sealing member having a thermosetting resin filled in a predetermined space defined by side and bottom surfaces of the recess and a side surface of the ejection substrate and located upstream of the ejection substrate in a second direction. The sealing member includes: a first sealing portion having a first resin located near the bottom surface of the predetermined space; and a second sealing portion having a second resin located near an ejection surface of the ejection substrate. A coefficient of linear expansion of the first resin is less than that of the second resin, and a specific gravity of the first resin is greater than that of the second resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: HIROAKI KUSANO, JUNICHIRO IRI
  • Publication number: 20240042764
    Abstract: Add-on module suitable to receive and hold a disposable printer cartridge that is provided with inkjet nozzles, which disposable printer cartridge is equipped for placement in a printer, and wherein the add-on module is a disposable and independent item without forming a constructional part of the printer, and wherein the add-on module comprises at least one of capping means and wiping means that are arranged for capping and wiping respectively of said inkjet nozzles of the printer cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Mevam BV
    Inventor: Meindert de Groot
  • Publication number: 20240042765
    Abstract: A method for cleaning nozzle surfaces of an inkjet print head assembly includes using a cleaning slide to carry out a movement along the assembly and clean the nozzle surfaces with a cleaning liquid in ultrasonic vibration. The cleaning slide includes an ultrasonic cleaning device, a suction device, and a rinsing device and the movement of the cleaning slide includes a forward movement and a backward movement. During the forward movement, the ultrasonic cleaning device and the suction device following the ultrasonic cleaning device are activated while the rinsing device following the two is deactivated. During the backward movement, the rinsing device and the suction device following the rinsing device are activated while the ultrasonic cleaning device following the two is deactivated. Cleaning liquid and contamination are advantageously prevented from reaching the interior of print heads or into an ink supply system thereof, preferably in industrial inkjet printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Sven Butschko, Rene Stückroth
  • Publication number: 20240042766
    Abstract: An ink supply device according to the present disclosure includes an attachment part and a drip tray. To the attachment part, an ink pack is attached. The drip tray is provided below the attachment part and has a capacity equal to or larger than a capacity of one ink pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Kuniaki ARAISHI
  • Publication number: 20240042767
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus. A print head includes a nozzle that discharges a liquid. A recovery unit includes a cap that caps the nozzle and a pump that suctions a liquid from the nozzle via the cap, and discharges to a waste liquid tank that accommodates a waste liquid of suctioned liquid. A control unit causes the recovery unit to execute at least one of a first recovery operation, in which the suction pump is driven at a first driving amount, or a second recovery operation, in which the pump is driven at a second driving amount smaller than the first driving amount, based on an amount of waste liquid discharged to the waste liquid tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Kei Kosaka, Tetsuya Narazaki
  • Publication number: 20240042768
    Abstract: An ink replenishment system for a can decorator having a plurality of ink fountains corresponding to a plurality of ink station assemblies includes a robotic arm structured to pick up ink from a selected one of a plurality of ink container and to place the picked up ink into a selected one of the plurality of ink fountains, and a controller structured to control operations of the robotic arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Ian Kenneth Scholey, Joseph John Allen Maurer, Stephen Dane Christensen
  • Publication number: 20240042769
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a liquid storing container including a storage chamber configured to store a liquid supplied to a printing unit that prints an image by discharging the liquid, an outlet portion of the liquid, and a channel configured to connect the storage chamber and the outlet portion. The liquid storing container includes a first side portion on a side of a print region where printing is executed by the printing unit, and a second side portion on an opposite side of the first side portion, and the channel is formed in the second side portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Koki SHIMADA, Nobuhiro TOKI, Daiju TAKEDA, Fumie KAMEYAMA, Shota ASADA, Ken TAKENAGA, Yusuke TANAKA, Yuta ARAKI, Taiji MARUYAMA, Atsushi MATSUYAMA, Yusuke NARATANI, Kousuke TANAKA, Koya IWAKURA, Hideaki MATSUMURA, Tetsu HAMANO
  • Publication number: 20240042770
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a plurality of individual flow passages and a first common flow passage. The plurality of individual flow passages is provided correspondingly to a plurality of nozzles from which a liquid is ejected. The first common flow passage is in shared communication with the plurality of individual flow passages and supplies a liquid to the plurality of individual flow passages. A filter is provided in the first common flow passage. The filter is comprised of a plurality of protruding portions protruding from a first wall surface among a plurality of wall surfaces of the first common flow passage. The plurality of protruding portions is not in contact with any of the plurality of wall surfaces of the first common flow passage, except for the first wall surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Motoki TAKABE
  • Publication number: 20240042771
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a common liquid chamber communicating with nozzles, a filter partitioning the common liquid chamber into an upstream chamber and a downstream chamber, an inlet and an outlet for the upstream chamber, a liquid storage section, a supply flow path, and a recovery flow path. A beam portion is provided inside the downstream chamber. A pressurization discharge operation for discharging the liquid from the nozzles by pressurizing the supply flow path and a circulation operation for circulating the liquid in a circulation path including the liquid storage section, the supply flow path, the common liquid chamber, and the recovery flow path, are performed. In a process of filling the circulation path with the liquid, the circulation operation is performed after the pressurization discharge operation is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Hidenori SOKABE, Hiroyuki HAGIWARA, Shun KATSUIE
  • Publication number: 20240042772
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a filter that partitions a common liquid chamber communicating with a nozzles into an upstream chamber and a downstream chamber, an inlet, an outlet, a liquid storage section, a supply flow path, and a recovery flow path. A beam portion is provided inside the downstream chamber. A pressurization discharge operation for discharging the liquid from the nozzles and a circulation operation for circulating the liquid in a circulation path are performed. In the filling process of filling the circulation path with the liquid, after the first circulation operation is performed, a predetermined operation for moving the liquid inside the downstream chamber in a direction different from a direction in which the liquid inside the downstream chamber is moved by the circulation operation is performed, and thereafter, the pressurization discharge operation is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HAGIWARA, Shun KATSUIE, Hidenori SOKABE
  • Publication number: 20240042773
    Abstract: Systems and methods for laser assisted deposition of a material includes a printing unit configured to print individual dot-like portions of a material from a donor substrate onto a receiving substrate, and a vacuum shuttle configured to be positionable in two or three dimensions between the printing unit and the donor substrate and to engage the donor substrate upon application of a vacuum to the vacuum shuttle. The printing unit may include a coating system and a laser. The vacuum shuttle includes a vacuum channel about its periphery and an open window through which the laser irradiates the donor substrate. The vacuum channel is fluidly coupled to a vacuum inlet for receiving a vacuum suction, thereby to engage the donor substrate and hold it taught against the bottom of the vacuum shuttle in operation. The vacuum shuttle may also include one or more distance measuring sensors and fiducial markers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Zenou, Elad Dotan
  • Publication number: 20240042774
    Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording method including: discharging first ultraviolet curable ink of a radical polymerization reaction type which contains a radical photopolymerization initiator and a radical polymerization compound and in which transmittance at a wavelength of 395 nm is equal to or less than 1%, onto a recording medium; and curing the first ultraviolet curable ink which is landed on the recording medium by irradiating the ink with ultraviolet light, in which a light source which initially emits the ultraviolet light in the curing of the ink is an ultraviolet light emitting diode in which peak intensity of the irradiated ultraviolet light is equal to or more than 800 mW/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Mikito NAKAJIMA, Keitaro Nakano, Mitsuaki Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20240042775
    Abstract: A conveying device includes a conveyor, a detector, and circuitry. The conveyor conveys a recording medium in a conveyance direction. The detector detects a skew amount and a shift amount of a posture of the recording medium to be sent to the conveyor and detects, in parallel, end positions of the recording medium in a width direction of the recording medium intersecting with the conveyance direction, at at least three different points in the conveyance direction on one end of the recording medium in the width direction. The circuitry controls an operation of the conveyor and causes the detector to detect a corner folded portion of the recording medium based on the end positions of the recording medium in the width direction detected at the at least three different points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Takahashi, Motoharu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240042776
    Abstract: An ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diode (LED) inkjet printer includes a printing member for performing printing on a surface of a substrate, a carrying member configured to continuously pull the substrate so that the substrate can be conveyed forward from the printing member, a supporting platform and a cutting member. The supporting platform is provided in front of the carrying member to support the substrate conveyed from the carrying member. The cutting member is provided above the supporting platform, and includes a guide rail and a cutter. The guide rail extends in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the substrate is conveyed, and extends at least across an area of the supporting platform for supporting the substrate. The cutter is carried on the guide rail, and is movable along the guide rail. The cutter is configured to abut against and cut the substrate on the supporting platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Jiangyu WU
  • Publication number: 20240042777
    Abstract: A thermal ballot printer is disclosed for producing double-sided thermal full-face printed voting ballots, comprising: a first thermal print head disposed on a first side of a print path, the print path being configured to receive an end of a roll-fed thermal print medium; a second thermal print head disposed on a second side of a print path; and a cutter disposed on the first side of the print path and configured to cut printed sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Simon Jarvis, Adam Meunier, Michael Papa, Savio Polini
  • Publication number: 20240042778
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a head unit including an insertion port into which a flat cable is to be inserted; and a guiding portion configured to guide the flat cable when the flat cable is inserted into the insertion port. The guiding portion includes at least two guide members opposed to each other. The guide members opposed to each other each include a parallel surface to an insertion direction of the flat cable into the insertion port, and are disposed with the parallel surfaces opposed to each other. The distance between the parallel surfaces of the guide members that are opposed to each other matches a width in a longitudinal direction of the insertion port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Takuro ISHIKURA
  • Publication number: 20240042779
    Abstract: Examples include a method for priming a printhead that comprises a bag associated with a pump. A first control signal, which corresponds to a first target pressure, is applied to the pump. Directly after the application of the first control signal, a second control signal, which corresponds to a second target pressure, is applied to the pump. The second target pressure is lower than the first target pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Sheila CABELLO CABRERA, Mauricio SERAS FRANZOSO, Andreu CORTES VICENS
  • Publication number: 20240042780
    Abstract: An ink-jet printing apparatus includes an ink-jet head unit including an ink-jet head, and a control device which controls an ink ejection timing of the ink-jet head and includes a comparator comparing first printing pattern information that is stored and second printing pattern information that is input with each other, a control signal generator generating a first head control signal based on the first printing pattern information when a difference between the first printing pattern information and the second printing pattern information is a reference value or less and generating a second head control signal different from the first head control signal based on the second printing pattern information when the difference between the first printing pattern information and the second printing pattern information exceeds the reference value, and a data output unit providing the first head control signal or the second head control signal to the ink-jet head unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Sang Jin LEE, Hong Gi MIN, Sang Hyoung RYU, Myung Soo HUH
  • Publication number: 20240042781
    Abstract: A printer for issuing print media includes: a rechargeable battery configured to supply power to the printer; a print unit configured to print information on the print media; a display unit; and a control unit configured to: compute “A” based on: a decrease in remaining battery capacity of the battery during a period of time from a reference time to the present time, and a total number of print media that have been issued during the period of time, where “A” is defined as remaining battery capacity of the battery decreased as a single print medium is issued; compute (B?C)/A to obtain a number of print media on which the print unit can print, where “B” is defined as present remaining battery capacity, and “C” is defined as a lower limit of remaining battery capacity of the battery; and control the display unit to display the number of print media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Michitaka KOJIMA, Kazuhito WAKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20240042782
    Abstract: A driving mechanism moves a moving unit in a predetermined direction and an opposite direction that is opposite to the predetermined direction. The driving mechanism includes a worm that is coupled to a driving source and rotates to move the moving unit, a worm wheel that is meshed with the worm, and a holding portion that holds the worm. The holding portion includes a highly-regulating portion that contacts with the worm when the moving unit moves in the predetermined direction, and a weakly-regulating portion that contacts with the worm when the moving unit moves in the opposite direction. A friction coefficient between the highly-regulating portion and the worm is greater than a friction coefficient between the weak regulation portion and the worm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Takuto TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240042783
    Abstract: A method for producing a transfer sheet is provided that yields excellent fastness properties in the transferred product for the image transferred from the transfer sheet. The method for producing a transfer sheet includes: forming an image by jetting an aqueous ink by an inkjet method onto a releasable support, and jetting an aqueous adhesive liquid by an inkjet method so as to at least partially overlap the image, wherein the aqueous adhesive liquid contains a resin A, and a resin B having a glass transition temperature that is at least 80° C. higher than that of the resin A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Yoshifumi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240042784
    Abstract: The laminate includes: a base material; an intermediate layer provided on the base material and having an accommodation part; a recording medium provided in the accommodation part; and an overlay layer provided on the intermediate layer. The accommodation part is provided in a part of a plane of the intermediate layer, and the accommodation part is a through hole penetrating in the thickness direction of the intermediate layer or a recess recessed in the thickness direction of the intermediate layer. The recording medium includes a color development layer containing: a coloring compound having an electron donating property; a developer having an electron accepting property; and a matrix resin. The base material, the intermediate layer, and the overlay layer contain the same type of resin material. The base material and the intermediate layer are bonded to each other by fusion, and the intermediate layer and the overlay layer are bonded to each other by fusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Maho WATANABE, Hirohisa AMAGO, Yuriko KAINO, Kenji TAKAGI, Ryota YAMANO, Hiroshi MIZUNO, Aya TEJIMA
  • Publication number: 20240042785
    Abstract: A security element with increased protection against forgery includes at least one first region with structures that reflect an image motif in different spatial regions, such that a moving image is produced for an observer when a light source is moved correspondingly and/or when the viewing angle is changed. When the light source is moved and/or the viewing angle is changed, a movement of the image motif occurs at the same time. Furthermore, an optical effect layer is provided which defines a second region. The structures are covered by the optical effect layer over their entire surface or partially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Stephan TRASSL, Martin EGGINGER, Marco MAYRHOFER, Anita FUCHSBAUER
  • Publication number: 20240042786
    Abstract: A security element (1) for papers of value or security papers has at least one first color-shifting region (2), wherein the security element (1) additionally has at least one second region (3), different from the first region (2), with structures (4), which reflect an image motif in different spatial regions, such that a moving image is produced for an observer when a light source (5) is moved correspondingly and/or when a viewing angle is changed, wherein, when the light source is moved and/or the viewing angle is changed, a movement of the image motif and a color-shifting effect occurs at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Sonja WÜRTH, Marco MAYRHOFER
  • Publication number: 20240042787
    Abstract: A security article may include a substrate. The security article may include a layer of security ink. The layer of security ink may include a set of color-shifting interference particles. The security article may include a layer of magnetic color-shifting ink. The layer of magnetic color-shifting ink may include a set of magnetically aligned magnetic particles. A color-shifting property of the layer of security ink and a color-shifting property of the layer of magnetic color-shifting ink may have a threshold level of similarity to create a color matching effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Vladimir P. RAKSHA, Cornelis Jan DELST
  • Publication number: 20240042788
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mask exposure method comprising the following steps:—the providing of a carrier substrate; the print application of a radiation-crosslinkable washable dye layer to the full area of the carrier substrate;—the exposure of the radiation-crosslinkable washable dye layer in defined regions to radiation by means of a radiation mask, such that the washable dye is cured in the defined regions;—the applying of a metallization over the full area;—the removing of the non-radiation-exposed washable dye outside the defined regions together with the metal present thereon with the aid of a solvent, such that the resultant carrier substrate has cured washable dye with metal applied thereto only in defined regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Winfried HOFFMULLER, Michael SOBOL, Andreas RAUCH
  • Publication number: 20240042789
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a non-slip assembly for a clip device, capable of securely holding documents and having various conveniences in use. Here, the non-slip assembly for a clip device is detachable from the clip device which comprises a clip device body having a pair of pressing ends, bent to have therein an insertion space, in which documents are inserted therein, and which press the documents while being narrowed or closed up by elastic restoration force; and a pair of handles, attached/linked to a handle inserting inlet formed on the clip device body, and pressed so that the clip device body is widened; and the non-slip assembly includes a non-slip unit and an affixing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Chun Ki KIM
  • Publication number: 20240042790
    Abstract: The present invention includes: a shaft cylinder having an opening at a front end thereof, a tip holder movable in an axial direction of the shaft cylinder, a tip projectable and retractable in conjunction with a movement of the tip holder, an annular member loosely fitted onto an inner periphery of the opening of the shaft cylinder to be movable in an axial direction of the shaft cylinder with respect to the shaft cylinder, and an elastic member capable of connecting the tip holder and the annular member such that the tip holder and the annular member are movable relatively to each other. A contact surface tapered toward the front end is formed on at least a part of an outer periphery of the annular member. A cutout is formed at a part of the annular member such that an inner diameter of the annular member is reduced when a load is received by the contact surface. A guide surface tapered toward the front end is formed on the part of the inside surface of the shaft cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Tatsuya IIJIMA, Yuki ARISAKA
  • Publication number: 20240042791
    Abstract: A writing system comprises a writing tool comprising a barrel having a first end and a second end, a medium holder having a first end and a second end, the medium holder disposed within the barrel, wherein the medium holder is adapted to support a medium applicator to protrude from the first end of the barrel, and a magnetic core disposed within the barrel proximate to the first end of the barrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Alexis Anne Chan, Isabelle Mokotoff