Physical Characteristics Patents (Class 347/106)
  • Patent number: 11673417
    Abstract: A pretreatment device includes a platen, a guide that guide a conveyance of the platen from a set position at which a recorded medium is set on an upper surface of the platen, a spray that sprays a pretreatment agent onto the recording medium set on the upper surface of the platen, an input portion into which is input at least one of an application range of the pretreatment agent onto the recording medium and an application amount of the pretreatment agent, a processor; and a memory storing computer-readable instructions. The computer-readable instructions also includes setting, on the basis of at least one of the application range and the application amount input into the input portion, at least one of a conveyance speed of the platen and a spray duty ratio that is a ratio of a spray time during a spray period of the pretreatment agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuichi Tamaki
  • Patent number: 11623854
    Abstract: A container-treatment machine includes a foaming unit that introduces foaming medium into a container that is filled with a foamable liquid. This causes a foam to form in the container. A sensor downstream obtains an image of the foam and provides it to a controller. The controller decides whether or not to eject the container based on the extent of a foam nose that forms on the container's outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Clüsserath, Achim Kunz
  • Patent number: 11596971
    Abstract: A coating apparatus includes a dispenser that includes a discharge port and a displacement sensor, the discharge port being configured to be capable of discharging liquid from a vertical direction the displacement sensor being configured to detect a distance in the vertical direction between the discharge port and the coating region, a drive device that drives the dispenser, a dispenser movement control unit that controls the drive device to move the dispenser along a predetermined coating path, a tilt detection unit that detects a tilt of the coating surface with respect to a reference plane based on the distance detected by the displacement sensor, and a coating path correction unit that corrects the coating path based on the tilt of the coating surface detected by the tilt detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Iwai
  • Patent number: 11352722
    Abstract: A system for in-line treatment of at least one thread is provided. The system is configured to be used with a thread consuming device and comprises a treatment unit having a plurality of nozzles arranged at different positions relative the at least one thread, said at least one thread being in motion in use, each nozzle being configured to dispense one or more coating substances onto the at least one thread when activated; and at least one thread engagement device configured to rotate the at least one thread along its longitudinal axis as the at least one thread moves through said treatment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Coloreel Group AB
    Inventors: Martin Eklind, Joakim Staberg
  • Patent number: 11235592
    Abstract: The invention relates to a direct printing device for applying a circumferential print onto containers with at least one container seam, comprising a printhead which is configured to print directly onto a container, a detection device which is adapted such that at least one predetermined feature of the container is detected, a computing device which is configured to determine whether and possibly how the container is to be oriented in order to be moved from an actual container orientation to a predetermined target container orientation, and an orientation device which is configured to orient the container to the target container orientation on the basis of the determination by the computing device. The target container orientation is predetermined such that the container seam is oriented relative to the printhead such that a print seam, which is produced during the application of a circumferential print, substantially coincides with the container seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventor: Anton Niedermeier
  • Patent number: 10919749
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method for filling printing ink in an electrowetting display substrate and a method for producing the electrowetting display panel. The electrowetting display substrate comprises a first substrate. The first substrate has pixel grids formed by pixel walls. The method for filling printing ink in an electrowetting display substrate comprises steps of: filling a mixture of an oil-containing printing ink and a solvent into the pixel grids, wherein the solvent has a boiling temperature lower than that of the oil, and the printing ink is soluble in the solvent; and vaporizing the solvent at a temperature that is lower than the boiling temperature of the oil and higher than or equal to the boiling temperature of the solvent. The method may adjust the filling height of the printing ink effectively, and allow the filling heights of the printing ink in all pixel grids to be substantially the same, so as to enhance the display effect of the electrowetting display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanming Feng, Xiaohui Wu, Xi Xiang
  • Patent number: 10890846
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a photosensitive resin composition and a cured film prepared therefrom. The photosensitive resin composition introduces a siloxane polymer containing a fluorine atom which has strong water-repellency into a composition including a common siloxane polymer and an epoxy compound, and fluorine groups may be present in the whole region of the cured film so that the water-repellency due to a fluorine component may be maintained even after removing the surface of the cured film is removed via a dry etching process. As a result, the resistance (chemical resistance) to chemicals used in a post-processing can be maximizes to provide a cured film having excellent stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Korea Ltd
    Inventors: Jong-Ho Na, Geun Huh, Jin Kwon, Jong Han Yang
  • Patent number: 10833229
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device and, particularly, to a display device using a semiconductor light emitting element. The display device according to the present invention comprises: a substrate at which a wire electrode is formed; a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements electrically connected to the wire electrode; a plurality of fluorescent material layers for converting a wavelength of light; a wavelength converting layer which has a plurality of partition wall portions formed between the plurality of fluorescent material layers and is disposed to cover the plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements; and a color filter which has a plurality of filtering portions for filtering blue, green, and red colors, and is disposed to cover the wavelength converting layer, wherein at least one of the plurality of filtering portions is configured to have a width different from those of the other filtering portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hwanjoon Choi, Yonghan Lee, Byungjoon Rhee, Jinhyoun Joe, Sungjin Park
  • Patent number: 10828905
    Abstract: A pressure controlling system for an inkjet printer includes a pressure chamber, a pump fluidically connected to the chamber and adapted for increasing or decreasing the pressure within the pressure chamber, a controllable three port two way valve, and a sensing unit including one or more pressure sensors. The pressure sensing unit is in fluidic communication with the pressure chamber for sensing the pressure therein. The valve has a first port controllably fluidically connectable to the pressure chamber, a second port controllably fluidically connectable to an inkjet print head, and a third port controllably fluidically connectable with atmospheric air. The sensing unit is adapted for sending signals representative of the pressure within the pressure chamber to at least one processor/controller. The pump and the valve are controlled by receiving control signals from the processor/controller(s). There are provided a method for operating the system and a printer including the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Stratasys Ltd.
    Inventor: Barak Glassman
  • Patent number: 10710368
    Abstract: There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus including: a print head having an ejection opening surface on which a plurality of ejection units each provided with an ejection opening for ejecting ink are arrayed in a first direction; a wiping member configured to wipe the ejection opening surface; and a moving unit configured to move the wiping member in a second direction crossing the first direction, wherein a longitudinal direction of the wiping member is inclined with respect to an edge of the print head located downstream in the second direction and is substantially in parallel with a direction defined by an edge of the ejection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Kiuchi, Noriko Sato, Hiroshi Nakai
  • Patent number: 10662343
    Abstract: Ink compositions for forming active layers in an organic light-emitting diode are provided. Also provided are methods of forming active layers of an OLED using the ink compositions. The ink compositions comprise a solvent system in which a substantial majority of the solvent is comprised of one or more ester compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Kateeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Inna Tregub, Tane Boghozian, Michelle Chan
  • Patent number: 10576769
    Abstract: A single plasma nozzle of a plasma treatment station is used to treat the card surface prior to performing drop-on-demand printing on the card surface. The single plasma nozzle has a plasma discharge width that is less than the width of the card. The card and the plasma nozzle are moved relative to one another using a two direction control scheme during plasma treatment in order to be able to plasma treat a desired area of the card surface. The card and the plasma nozzle may also be moveable toward or away from one another to change the distance therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: ENTRUST DATACARD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cory Wooldridge, Norbert Kill, Lex Prenevost, Brendan Hinnenkamp, Jon Wawra, Thomas Wagener
  • Patent number: 10553143
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present disclosure is configured in such a manner that unit pixels each constituted by a plurality of subpixels having different light emission colors are arranged in a matrix form and the subpixels having different light emission spectra of light emission colors are mixed in units of pixels or subpixels. Additionally, an electronic appliance according to the present disclosure is configured in such a manner as to include the display apparatus having the above configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yohei Funatsu
  • Patent number: 10522719
    Abstract: A micro-transfer color-filter device comprises a color filter, an electrical conductor disposed in contact with the color filter, and at least a portion of a color-filter tether attached to the color filter or structures formed in contact with the color filter. In certain embodiments, a color filter is a variable color filter electrically controlled through one or more electrodes and can be responsive to heat, electrical current, or an electrical field to modify its optical properties, such as color, transparency, absorption, or reflection. In certain embodiments, A color-filter device includes connection posts and can be provided in or on a source wafer suitable for micro-transfer printing. In some embodiments, a color-filter device is disposed on a device substrate and can include a control circuit for controlling the color filter. An array of micro-transfer color-filter devices can be disposed on a display substrate in order to form a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: X-Celeprint Limited
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, Christopher Andrew Bower, Robert R. Rotzoll, Mark Willner
  • Patent number: 10479119
    Abstract: The three-dimensional fabrication apparatus is provided with: a first discharge section and a second discharge section, which have multiple discharge nozzles disposed in rows and which discharge molding material from the discharge nozzles toward a fabrication stage; a guide member of a head unit-moving unit, which is equipped with the guide member to guide the movement of the first discharge section and the second discharge section in the main scanning direction (X-direction) that is orthogonal to the direction in which the discharge nozzles are disposed and which moves the first discharge section and the second discharge section relative to the fabrication stage along said guide member; and a stage rotating unit for changing the rotational position of the main scanning direction of the first discharge section and the second discharge section relative to the fabrication stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Taiya Munenaka, Kuniaki Kashiwakura, Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Teruaki Yagura
  • Patent number: 10479859
    Abstract: This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure. The disclosure provides aromatic polyester polyether polyols and compositions comprising such polyols. The disclosed aromatic polyester polyether polyols and compositions including same are the products of the transesterification reaction of polyethylene terephthalate (“PET”) and an ethoxylated triol, namely glycerin or trimethylolpropane, wherein the degree of ethoxylation is from 1 to 9 moles. At least some of the PET used to generate the aromatic polyester polyether polyols is derived from recycled PET. The disclosed aromatic polyester polyether polyols have utility in preparing polyurethane materials, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Talaco Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Frank A. Queen, Robert Keith Salsman, Bennett McDonald Pearson
  • Patent number: 10457823
    Abstract: An aqueous ink composition includes an aqueous medium and resin microparticles formed from a resin, in which the resin has a structural unit represented by General Formula (1) or (2), and the content of the resin microparticles is 1% to 15% by mass, R1, R2, and R3 each represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; A1 represents —O— or —NR3—; L1 represents an alkylene group having 6 to 22 carbon atoms; M1 and M2 each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal ion, or an ammonium ion; A2 represents a single bond, —COO—, or —CONH—; and L2 represents a divalent linking group having 6 to 23 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Yasuda, Toshihiro Kariya, Atsushi Kaeriyama
  • Patent number: 10379264
    Abstract: A method of producing a lenticular printed material includes: an ink jetting step of jetting an aqueous ink, containing a colorant, resin particles, water and a water-soluble high boiling point solvent, onto an ink receiving layer of a lenticular sheet including a resin layer, a lens layer disposed at one surface side of the resin layer, and the ink receiving layer, which is disposed at the other surface side of the resin layer, which contains particles and a resin, and which has a porous structure and a void volume of 50% or greater, according to an ink jetting method; and a drying step of drying the aqueous ink, under conditions in which a surface temperature of the ink receiving layer is set to 30° C. or higher, to form a parallax picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Makuta, Yanlong Che, Masafumi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10046582
    Abstract: Provided are an image recording apparatus that efficiently detects defective recording elements causing image defects in a plurality of recording heads and a method of detecting the defective recording elements. An image recording apparatus including: a plurality of recording heads; an indicator acquisition unit for acquiring an indicator which relatively indicates how easily image defects are visually perceived for each color, an appearance ratio setting unit for setting an appearance ratio of a test pattern as a higher value as the indicator of each color becomes higher; a recording unit for recording the test pattern of each color on a recording medium at the appearance ratio; an imaging unit for capturing an image of the test pattern which is recorded on the recording medium; and an analysis unit for analyzing the captured test pattern and detecting a defect of a recording element in the recording head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Kyoso, Jun Yamanobe, Katsuto Sumi
  • Patent number: 9992381
    Abstract: One embodiment comprises a system that stores a pre-defined color conversion table and a hash table. The system receives user-defined color conversions for a print job, stores them in first locations in the hash table, and marks the first locations as persistent. The system processes the print job utilizing the color conversion table to convert colors in the print job to the output color space, and responsive to encountering colors in the print job that do not have color conversions in the color conversion table, interpolates between color conversions in the color conversion table to generate new color conversions, stores the new color conversions in second locations in the hash table, and marks the second locations as non-persistent. The system determines that the hash table is to be re-initialized, allows reuse of the second locations in the hash table, and prevents reuse of the first locations in the hash table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Vincent William Ferreri, Walter F. Kailey, John Thomas Varga
  • Patent number: 9962955
    Abstract: A nail art printing apparatus having a receiving device for the placement of a nail or plurality of nails, the nail art printing apparatus being connectable to an electronic device. The electronic device has a user interface means being operably engagable with the nail art printing apparatus. The nail art printing apparatus being operable to apply a plurality of colors and/or designs to one or more natural and/or artificial nails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: LOFT CRAG LIMITED
    Inventor: Judy Collett
  • Patent number: 9944107
    Abstract: An inkjet recording medium including a substrate and an ink receiving layer on the substrate, wherein the ink receiving layer includes amorphous silica having an average secondary particle size of 3 ?m or more, and a binder, the peak area ratio (C1s/Si2p) of a carbon atom (C1s) to a silicon atom (Si2p) in measurement of the surface of the ink receiving layer by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is 0.7 or more and 2.3 or less, and the contact angle between the surface of the ink receiving layer and pure water after a lapse of 10 ms from contact of the surface of the ink receiving layer with 4 ?l of pure water is 60° or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takatoshi Tanaka, Yasuhiro Nito, Tetsufumi Shiba
  • Patent number: 9926415
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a base film having a chemically converted polyimide, a particulate polyimide matting agent having a density from 1.3 to 1.5 g/cc and either a non-carbon black pigment or a dye. The particulate polyimide matting agent is present in an amount from 1.6 to 20 weight percent of the base film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Carney, Jeffrey Michael Bartolin, Meredith L. Dunbar, Scott John Herrmann
  • Patent number: 9878558
    Abstract: There is provided a water-based ink for ink-jet printing which is excellent in optical density when printed on any of a high-water absorbing recording medium and a low-water absorbing recording medium, spreading of the dot size on the low-water absorbing recording medium, and rub fastness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Eguchi, Ryuma Mizushima
  • Patent number: 9696575
    Abstract: Detection electrode wirings formed by an ITO film have a high resistance and the detection capability thereof is degraded with the increase of the size and/or resolution. A manufacturing method of a display device includes: (a) arranging liquid crystal between an array substrate and a counter substrate; (b) forming a metal layer and a low-reflection layer on the counter substrate after the step (a); (c) applying an overcoat film onto the metal layer and the low-reflection layer; and (d) curing the overcoat film to form a protection layer. The step (d) cures the overcoat film with light and heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshimasa Ishigaki, Daisuke Sonoda, Tatsuya Ide, Koji Ishizaki, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Hayato Kurasawa, Masanobu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9631054
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a base film having a chemically converted polyimide, a particulate polyimide matting agent and a low conductivity carbon black. The particulate polyimide matting agent is present in an amount from 1.6 to 20 weight percent of the base film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Carney, Jeffrey Michael Bartolin, Meredith L. Dunbar, Scott John Herrmann
  • Patent number: 9537119
    Abstract: An ink printing process employs per-nozzle droplet volume measurement and processing software that plans droplet combinations to reach specific aggregate ink fills per target region, guaranteeing compliance with minimum and maximum ink fills set by specification. In various embodiments, different droplet combinations are produced through different print head/substrate scan offsets, offsets between print heads, the use of different nozzle drive waveforms, and/or other techniques. Optionally, patterns of fill variation can be introduced so as to mitigate observable line effects in a finished display device. The disclosed techniques have many other possible applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Kateeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Nahid Harjee, Lucas D. Barkley, Christopher R. Hauf, Eliyahu Vronsky, Conor F. Madigan
  • Patent number: 9528685
    Abstract: A color conversion substrate includes a main plate having a first main surface and including a transparent substrate, and a fluorescent material layer including a light scattering layer formed at the first main surface for scattering incident light and emitting the light outside, and having a hole formed, and a fluorescent material body formed in said hole, exhibiting luminescence emission when light of an incident wavelength region is incident. The inner surface of the light scattering layer defining the hole reflects the light from the fluorescent material body output from the fluorescent material body towards the main plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinya Kadowaki
  • Patent number: 9511612
    Abstract: A recording medium including, in the following order, a base, an ink-receiving layer containing inorganic particles, and a protective layer. The protective layer contains colloidal silica, gas phase process silica, and at least one kind of particles selected from resin particles and wet process silica particles. The average particle size of the at least one kind of particles is 1.5 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuro Noguchi, Yasuhiro Nito, Kazuhiko Araki
  • Patent number: 9457589
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for three-dimensional printing directly onto an article of apparel. Disclosed is a method and system for direct three-dimensional printing onto an article of apparel, including receiving an undistorted three-dimensional pattern for display on the article, the undistorted three-dimensional pattern configured for placement on an irregular three-dimensional surface; creating a predistorted three-dimensional pattern from the undistorted three-dimensional pattern for printing onto a simple three-dimensional shaped object; receiving the predistorted three-dimensional pattern in a three-dimensional printing system; and printing the predistorted three-dimensional pattern onto the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd W. Miller, David J. Schenone
  • Patent number: 9373814
    Abstract: A pixel define layer (PDL) of an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel, which comprises a first PDL (21) and a second PDL (22) overlapped on the first PDL. The first PDL (21) is a hydrophobic film layer provided with openings (210) corresponding to luminous regions of sub-pixel units; and the second PDL (22) is a hydrophilic film layer provided with openings (220) corresponding to the openings (210) of the first PDL. The PDL can avoid the mutual pollution of organic light-emitting materials in luminous regions of different colors in adjacent sub-pixel units in the preparation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD
    Inventors: Wei Liu, Chunsheng Jiang, Dongfang Wang, Yanzhao Li
  • Patent number: 9288913
    Abstract: A wiring board includes a variable wettability layer situated on a top surface of a support board and containing a material of which a critical surface tension changes by energy given thereto. A conductive layer is situated inside a concave portion formed in the variable wettability layer. The concave portion has opposite side walls formed in tapered surfaces inclining so that a distance between the side walls is reduced toward a bottom of the concave portion in a cross-sectional shape taken along a plane perpendicular to a conducting direction of the conductive layer. Upper edges of the side walls are formed in gently curved surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miura, Koei Suzuki, Atsushi Onodera, Takanori Tano
  • Patent number: 9270836
    Abstract: A color measuring device includes a housing; a sensor unit configured to capture an image of a region, the sensor unit being held to the housing; an illumination light source configured to illuminate the region, the illumination light source being held to the housing; a detecting unit configured to detect a distance between predetermined two points from image data of the region obtained by the sensor unit; a correcting unit configured to correct the image data including a subject whose color is to be measured according to a ratio of the detected distance to a reference distance; and a calculating unit configured to calculate a colorimetric value of the subject based on the corrected image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Masahiro Shigemoto, Nobuyuki Satoh, Kazushi Takei, Hideaki Suzuki, Satoshi Iwanami
  • Patent number: 9254683
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus discharges ink onto a recording medium to form an image on a surface of the recording medium. The image forming apparatus includes a preprocessing unit that applies preprocess liquid on the surface of the recording medium before the image is formed; and a postprocessing unit that applies postprocess liquid, which is different from the preprocess liquid, onto the recording medium after the image is formed. An application quantity of the preprocess liquid is determined based at least on a kind of the ink, and an application quantity of the postprocess liquid is determined based at least on the kind of the ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Akiyama, Yoshinari Suzuki, Yukihito Niino, Kazuki Yasu, Seiya Murata, Honriku Jo
  • Patent number: 9193207
    Abstract: A recording medium includes a protective layer and a porous ink receiving layer. The protective layer includes a first binder and a first set of polymeric beads. The first set of polymeric beads has an average volume-based particle size equal to or greater than ten microns. The protective layer has a coat weight equal to or less than three grams per square meter. The recording medium also includes a porous ink receiving layer including a first set of pigments and a second binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xi Zeng, Tao Chen, Eric L. Burch
  • Patent number: 9180687
    Abstract: A filter manufacturing apparatus includes a printing cell setting unit that sets, based on a predetermined filter pitch and a head resolution, printing cells having an equal number of dot areas in the direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the printing medium, a shift amount calculating unit that calculates shift amounts between the filter pitch and the printing cells in the direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the printing medium, a shift amount determining unit that determines whether shift amounts of the printing cells exceed a unit dot area; and a printing cell complementing unit that complements the shift amounts of the printing cells exceeding the unit dot area by adjusting the number of dot areas included in the printing cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motonobu Kawabata, Toru Kawada, Kazushi Kibune, Takaharu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9151986
    Abstract: A discharge method is provided for discharging a fluid from nozzle sets having nozzles arrayed between first and second end portions. The method includes classifying each of the nozzle sets into one of a first nozzle group having a distribution characteristic in which a discharge quantity at the second end portion is greater than the discharge quantity at the first end portion, a second nozzle group having the distribution characteristic in which the discharge quantity at the first end portion is greater than the discharge quantity at the second end portion, and a third nozzle group having the distribution characteristic in which the discharge quantity at the first end portion is substantially the same as the discharge quantity at the second end portion. The method also includes forming a nozzle formation including the nozzle sets classified as the first nozzle group, the second nozzle group and/or the third nozzle group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kohei Ishida
  • Patent number: 9079446
    Abstract: A photo media may comprise a substrate, the substrate having an image receiving side and a non-image receiving side, an extruded barrier layer disposed on the non-image receiving side of the substrate, and a laminate layer disposed on the image receiving side of the substrate after an ink layer is printed. The photo media may further comprise an image receiving layer disposed on the image receiving side of the substrate between the substrate and the laminate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Lokendra Pal, Xulong Fu, Christine E. Steichen
  • Patent number: 9033455
    Abstract: A sheet attribution detection sensor device includes a light emission element configured to emit incident light to a paper sheet, a light receiving element configured to receive a specular reflection component of reflection light from the paper sheet of the incident light in order to specify a thickness of the paper sheet, and light receiving elements configured to receive a diffuse reflection component of the reflection light in order to specify one of surface roughness and color of the paper sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Keisuke Isoda
  • Patent number: 9035981
    Abstract: Device to reproduce images or graphical patterns in general on large surfaces, comprising at least a printing system (14) mobile in at least one direction with respect to a support frame (12)>> an optical viewing system (100) associated with the support frame (12) and able to recognize the position of the portion of image already executed, and to recognize possible reference signs affixed in the step when said portion of image was executed, in order to allow the correct positioning of the device so as to execute the adjacent portion of image that has to be executed next.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Inventors: Alessandro Dal Col, Carlo Tavian, Giacomo Battiston
  • Patent number: 9016850
    Abstract: A system for printing information on a substrate includes a printer for printing the information on a first surface of the substrate; and a heater for heating the substrate causing at least a portion of the printed information to migrate to a second surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Thomas D. Pawlik, Douglas E. Bugner
  • Patent number: 9004675
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for three-dimensional printing directly onto an article of apparel. Disclosed is a method and system for direct three-dimensional printing onto an article of apparel, including receiving an undistorted three-dimensional pattern for display on the article, the undistorted three-dimensional pattern configured for placement on an irregular three-dimensional surface; creating a predistorted three-dimensional pattern from the undistorted three-dimensional pattern for printing onto a simple three-dimensional shaped object; receiving the predistorted three-dimensional pattern in a three-dimensional printing system; and printing the predistorted three-dimensional pattern onto the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd W. Miller, David J. Schenone
  • Publication number: 20150035926
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to coated media substrates, as well as related systems and methods. In one example, a coated media substrate for inkjet ink printing can comprise an ink-receiving layer coated on at least one side of a substrate, and can be formulated for accepting an inkjet ink composition. The ink-receiving layer can comprise an optical brightening agent, an organic acid salt, a binder, a pigment, and a low-molecular weight polymeric carrier having a weighted average molecular weight less than 50,000 Mw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Lokendra Pal, Xulong Fu, Xiaoqi Zhou, Ronald J. Selensky
  • Patent number: 8926089
    Abstract: A printing apparatus has a transport module with a moving transport belt that transports strip-like print media past a printhead for printing thereon. The transport module has an entrance region upstream of the printhead, a magazine for the strip-like media located upstream of the entrance region of the transport module, the transport belt also serves as a take-off device to remove the strip-like media from the magazine, the magazine is mounted laterally offset with respect to the transport belt, thereby causing the strip-like media to be captured by the transport belt only in an edge region of the transport belt. The transport belt is wider by the edge region than is precisely needed to transport the strip-like media, in order to print on a remaining region of the strip-like media, which is smaller by the edge region than a total width of said strip-like media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muhl, Ulrich Hantel
  • Patent number: 8899739
    Abstract: A printing method and a printing system are provided in which a fast printing speed is achieved, a variety of ultraviolet curable inks can be used, and excellent transfer properties to a printing object can be achieved. First, print processing is performed, thereby printing an image on a transfer pad, next, provisional curing processing is performed, thereby provisionally curing an ultraviolet curable ink applied to the transfer pad, next, transfer processing is performed, thereby transferring the ultraviolet curable ink landed on the transfer pad to a printing object, and next, final curing processing is performed, thereby performing final curing of the ultraviolet curable ink transferred to the printing object. In this way, transfer printing of an image to the printing object can be performed by a single transfer. In addition, if the transfer printing is finished, cleaning processing is performed, thereby cleaning the transfer pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaru Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20140349037
    Abstract: The present invention provides a recording medium for an ink jet ink, which is capable of printing directly with an ink jet ink without a surface treatment step necessary for use of an ordinal plastic film as a substrate and which causes no problem of peeling or the like after printing, and also provides a printed material produced by ink jet printing on the recording medium and a production method therefor. Specifically, printing is performed with various ink jet inks on a layer (A) of a single-layer or multi-layer film (I) used as a recording medium, the layer (A) containing a cyclic polyolefin resin or an acid-modified polyolefin resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Matsubara, Takeo Ikeda, Yoshitaka Satoh, Hiroshi Harada, Yoshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 8864268
    Abstract: To prevent uneven gloss on a printed image in a printing apparatus in which light-curable ink is used, a printing apparatus is provided. The printing apparatus includes a controller controls medium-conveying parts for conveying a medium so that the medium supplied from an upstream side is released on a downstream side; nozzles for discharging ink droplets cured by light irradiation onto the medium; a light-irradiation part for irradiating the medium with light; and medium-deforming parts arranged on the downstream side of the nozzles, holding the medium from the front and back, and deforming the medium so that an irregular shape is formed in cross section; the medium is conveyed downstream by the medium-conveying parts after the medium is deformed by the medium-deforming parts; droplets of ink are discharged from the nozzles to form an image on the surface of the medium; and the ink droplets discharged onto the medium are irradiated with light by the light-irradiation part to cure the droplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Tanase, Toru Takahashi, Takamitsu Kondo, Hiroshi Wada
  • Patent number: 8840206
    Abstract: A nail print apparatus which prints on a nail and a printing control method of the nail print apparatus. In one implementation of the present invention, the nail print apparatus includes a imaging section; a nail region information detecting section which detects an outline and an area of the nail region; a print design image generating section; an element position judging section which judges whether or not a design element is contained within the nail region; and a printing section. The print design image generating section positions a design element in a position in the nail region which corresponds to a position on a standard nail model an element to a value in proportion with a ratio of the area of the nail region to an area of the standard nail model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shogo Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8833923
    Abstract: There is provided a method for forming a conductor, including a first printing step of printing a contour part of the conductor with a first printing ink, a drying step of drying the printed contour part, and a second printing step of printing a remaining part of the conductor with a second printing ink, wherein the second printing ink contains a conductive material and has a surface tension lower than or equal to a surface tension of the first printing ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Mori, Daisuke Uematsu, Nobuhiro Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 8827397
    Abstract: A web press, in particular a variable format book web press, variable format newspaper web press, or variable format periodical web press, has printing units having printing devices or groups of printing devices for applying ink to a paper web. The printing devices or groups of printing devices are constructed without rotating impression cylinders and are designed to apply ink to the paper web in a noncontacting manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: manroland web systems GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Knauer