Array Patents (Class 347/12)
  • Patent number: 11938722
    Abstract: A fluid ejection device includes a plurality of fluid actuation devices, a plurality of memory cells, and a configuration register. Each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells corresponds to a fluid actuation device of the plurality of fluid actuation devices. The configuration register stores data to enable or disable access to the plurality of memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Scott A. Linn, James Michael Gardner, Michael W. Cumbie
  • Patent number: 11919074
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing method using an inkjet printhead supplied with a binder fluid, said method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a layer of powdered build material including a monomer; (b) selectively jetting the binder fluid onto predetermined regions of the layer of powdered build material, the binder fluid comprising a catalyst; (c) optionally exposing the layer of powdered build material to an energy source to initiate polymerization of the monomer; and (d) optionally repeating steps (a) to (c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Memjet Technology Limited
    Inventor: Simon Fielder
  • Patent number: 11897259
    Abstract: A fluid ejection device includes a plurality of fluid actuation devices, a plurality of memory cells, and a configuration register. Each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells corresponds to a fluid actuation device of the plurality of fluid actuation devices. The configuration register stores data to enable or disable access to the plurality of memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Scott A. Linn, James Michael Gardner, Michael W. Cumbie
  • Patent number: 11850846
    Abstract: A method for reducing instability of a nozzle meniscus of a droplet deposition apparatus. The method includes the steps of receiving first and second data blocks for respective first and second line pixels, receiving a data set of forbidden pixel periods, determining a first jitter delay value based on the forbidden pixel periods, generating first and second print data based on the first and second data blocks, the first print data defining a first holding period and one or more drive pulses and the second print data defining one or more drive pulses; wherein the first and second print data generate first and second actuating element signals that cause an actuating element to eject at least one droplet from a nozzle, wherein the first jitter delay value adjusts a first pixel period, defined by the drive pulses, to fall outside of the forbidden pixel periods to reduce nozzle meniscus instability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Xaar Technology Limited
    Inventors: Jesus Garcia Maza, Nigel Heather, Tomas Cerny, Peter Boltryk, Mario Massucci
  • Patent number: 11850845
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for creating a print profile to control the operation of a direct-to-shape printing system for applying images on the exterior of an axially symmetrical media object that has a contoured, varying exterior surface, such as occurs on curved wine bottles and sports equipment like bats. The process takes a media recipe holding media geometry information and an image intended to be printed and processes that information to control a motion control subsystem and a print engine subsystem. The geometry information is manipulated to generate a CAM table suitable for the motion control subsystem, and the image file is processed to create a raster image file suitable for ink head expression. Various setup values are included in the process to prepare the direct-to-shape printing system for use of the media recipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LSINC Corporation
    Inventors: James Richard Bullington, Christopher Shea Curry, Ralph Andrew Bedingfield
  • Patent number: 11820128
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a discharge head; an ultraviolet irradiator disposed at a position different from the discharge head in a first direction; a carriage configured to scan in the first direction; and a controller configured to: control the carriage and the discharge head to execute a first discharge process of discharging the ink on a predefined printing area of the recording medium in a first scan; after the first discharge process, control the carriage and the discharge head to execute a second discharge process of discharging the ink on the predefined printing area in a second scan; after the second discharge process, control the carriage and the ultraviolet irradiator to irradiate the ink discharged on the predefined printing area with the ultraviolet light in a third scan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshihiro Kishigami
  • Patent number: 11794486
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyor configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path, a print head on the conveyance path, a main scan direction of the print head crossing the conveyance path, and a controller configured to control the print head to, in a first printing mode, set a print reference position to a first end of the print head in the main scan direction and print an image on the sheet from a leading end side of the image, and in a second printing mode, set the print reference position to a second end of the print head in the main scan direction and print the image on the sheet from a trailing end side of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Chikahiro Saegusa
  • Patent number: 11794495
    Abstract: An object is to provide a full-line inkjet printing apparatus and a printing method that can suppress occurrence of image degradation in the case where a conveyance roller conveys a print medium and multipass printing is performed. The maximum conveyance amount in a return route is set to be smaller than a distance between the conveyance roller and a print head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masataka Kato, Kazuhiko Sato, Kazuo Suzuki, Yoshinori Nakajima, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Shin Genta, Satoshi Azuma, Shingo Nishioka, Sae Mogi, Taku Yokozawa, Noboru Kunimine, Akiko Aichi, Hiroshi Taira, Hiroto Kango, Hiroshi Kawafuji
  • Patent number: 11718090
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes first and second groups of nozzles and first and second groups of actuators corresponding to the first and second groups of nozzles, respectively, and a head drive circuit. The head drive circuit is configured to receive a sequence of input data portions including first and second data portions, and select a setting mode between a first setting mode, in which the first group of actuators is driven based on the first input data portion and the second group of actuators is driven based on the second input data portion, and a second setting mode, in which the second group of actuators is driven based on the first input data portion and the first group of actuators is driven based on an input data portion that is after the first data portion in the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kei Ozaki, Shunichi Ono
  • Patent number: 11685153
    Abstract: An integrated circuit for a print component including a number of memory bits. The integrated circuit may include a selection circuit to select at least one memory bit of the number of memory bits and fire actuators of a fire pulse group. The integrated circuit may include a memory voltage regulator to provide a write voltage to the at least one memory bit of the number of memory bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Scott A. Linn, James Michael Gardner
  • Patent number: 11660892
    Abstract: Embodiments include a method performed by a system operative to determine a condition related to a printed section printed by a shuttle-based printer. The method includes printing a portion of an image on a section of a medium, thereby providing a printed section. The section of the medium can have a size defined by at least a step size taken by the shuttle-based printer to advance the medium in a downstream direction. The method also includes scanning at least the printed section to capture a sample image of the printed section. The sample image can be captured by using an imager moving in a direction perpendicular to the downstream direction. The method also includes inspecting at least the sample image to determine a value indicative of a condition related to the printed section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC.
    Inventors: Steven A. Billow, Ghilad Dziesietnik
  • Patent number: 11648779
    Abstract: In a control part of a printer, a main area information holding part holds information prescribing a plurality of main areas which are obtained by dividing at least a portion in a facing surface of a head into a plurality of areas in a predetermined direction. A sub-area information holding part holds information prescribing a plurality of sub-areas which are obtained by dividing the main area into a plurality of areas in the predetermined direction. The initial setting part designates the settings relating to corrections in units of the main areas. In a case where correction amounts of darkness based on the initial setting are different between a first main area and a second main area which adjoin each other among the plurality of main areas, the re-setting part maintains or redesignates the settings relating to corrections designated with respect to the first main area in units of the sub-areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Akinori Wada
  • Patent number: 11607880
    Abstract: A recording device includes a recording head and a control unit. When recording a raster line forming a partial image of a image, using, of a nozzle row, a plurality of OL nozzles in a positional relationship to record a common raster line, the control unit performs recording using the OL nozzles of a first range, in a range of the OL nozzles in a first direction, when a recording condition is a first recording condition, and performs recording using the OL nozzles of a second range narrower than the first range, of the range of the OL nozzles in the first direction, when the recording condition is a second recording condition in which a density difference, in the image, between the partial image and an image other than the partial image is greater than in the first recording condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Akito Sato, Masahiro Fukazawa, Takuma Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11602932
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a fluidic die is described. The fluidic die includes a number of zones. Each zone includes a number of sets of fluidic devices. Each fluidic device includes a fluid chamber and a fluid actuator disposed in the chamber. Each fluidic device also includes a sensor to sense a characteristic of the zone and an adjustment device. The adjustment device 1) delays a firing signal received from a previous zone as it passes by each set of fluidic devices and 2) adjusts the firing signal as it enters the zone based on a sensed characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Martin, Daryl E. Anderson, James Michael Gardner
  • Patent number: 11559983
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for creating a print profile to control the operation of a direct-to-shape printing system for applying images on the exterior of an axially symmetrical media object that has a contoured, varying exterior surface, such as occurs on curved wine bottles and sports equipment like bats. The process takes a media recipe holding media geometry information and an image intended to be printed and processes that information to control a motion control subsystem and a print engine subsystem. The geometry information is manipulated to generate a CAM table suitable for the motion control subsystem, and the image file is processed to create a raster image file suitable for ink head expression. Various setup values are included in the process to prepare the direct-to-shape printing system for use of the media recipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: LSINC Corporation
    Inventors: James Richard Bullington, Christopher Shea Curry, Ralph Andrew Bedingfield
  • Patent number: 11559985
    Abstract: An integrated circuit for a fluidic die including an address bus to communicate a set of addresses, a first group of die configuration functions including a first address driver to drive a first portion of an address of the set of addresses on the address bus, a second group of die configuration functions including a second address driver to drive a second portion of the address of the set of addresses on the address bus, and an array of fluid actuating devices addressable by the set of addresses communicated via the address bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Scott A. Linn, James Michael Gardner, Michael W. Cumbie
  • Patent number: 11554590
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a medium accommodation portion that accommodates a medium, a medium discharge port for discharging the medium, a medium transport section that transports the medium, an ejection head that ejects a liquid to the medium to form an image, and an image detection section that detects the image. The printing apparatus has a first mode and a second mode, the first mode being a mode in which the medium transport section transports the medium in a direction from the medium accommodation portion toward the medium discharge port, and the ejection head ejects the liquid to the medium, and the second mode being a mode in which the medium transport section transports the medium in a direction from the medium discharge port toward the medium accommodation portion, and the image detection section detects image information of the image formed on the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Tatsuta, Tadashi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11529804
    Abstract: A printing system for printing images formed of pixels on a substrate, the system comprising a print system arranged where printheads traverse a substrate, the print system arranged to receive a sequence of print actuation requests in order to print each pixel of an image upon the substrate, the print system having an acceptable rate for the sequence of print actuation requests, the system configured whereby if presented with an actuation period of less than the minimum actuation period then the presented rate of print actuation requests is adjusted by altering the actuation event and/or the discarding of stripe data, to minimise print defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Global Inkjet Systems Limited
    Inventors: Alberto Donado Rodriguez, Damian Howard Laurence Smith, Nicholas Campbell Geddes
  • Patent number: 11465421
    Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a first light applicator disposed in a second scanning direction relative to a recording head. The first light applicator includes a first upstream light source group at a location corresponding to a location of the recording head in a movement direction of a recording medium, and a first downstream light source group on a downstream side in the movement direction of the recording medium relative to the recording head. The inkjet printer turns off the first upstream light source group and turns on the first downstream light source group during movement of a carriage in a first scanning direction and discharge of first ink from the recording head, and turns on the first upstream light source group and the first downstream light source group during movement of the carriage in the second scanning direction after discharge of the first ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Ishihara, Yuta Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 11442565
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a flexible integrated display panel module and manufacturing method thereof, the flexible integrated display panel module includes a flexible integrated display substrate, which including an integrated area, an active area and a non-display disposed at one side of the integrated area, the integrated area divided into a plurality of areas, used to defined as a corresponding functional area. The functional area includes: a display wiring functional area and a plurality of direct on-cell touch control wiring functional areas disposed on both sides of the display functional area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinrong Zhao
  • Patent number: 11407242
    Abstract: When an image recording apparatus records an specific image over a boundary between a first dot formation range where dots are to be formed in a preceding recording operation of two consecutive recording operations and a second dot formation range where dots are to be formed in a subsequent recording operation of the two consecutive recording operations, the apparatus sets, as a correction portion, an end portion in a scanning direction of a specific region including at least one of a first boundary region adjacent to the second dot formation range and a second boundary region adjacent to the first dot formation range in the specific image, and forms the dot placed at the correction portion by discharging liquid of a discharge amount smaller than the discharge amount set for a dot element corresponding to the dot from nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Mimoto, Kengo Noda, Shohei Ichikawa, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 11386311
    Abstract: A recording device includes a head including a first nozzle row that discharges a plurality of drawing inks; and a second nozzle row that discharges an overcoat ink posterior to the drawing inks, and also includes a dot-data generating unit that performs dot-data generating processing including halftone processing using a dither mask. When generating dot data used to perform recording in accordance with a first recording mode in which no nozzle that discharges the overcoat ink is assigned to part of pixels in a recording target region of the recording medium, the first recording mode being a recording mode using the second nozzle row, the dot-data generating unit generates the dot data by using a first overcoat dither mask having a threshold value set so as not to form a dot with the overcoat ink on the part of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Tanase
  • Patent number: 11364732
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a liquid ejection device to which an additional head can be attached and which suppresses a reduction in print quality. The liquid ejection device includes a main scanning drive portion that transports, in a main scanning direction, a carriage on which are mounted a base printing head that ejects ink for base printing onto a print medium, and a color printing head that ejects at least two colors of ink, from yellow, magenta, cyan, and black, onto the print medium, the base printing head and the color printing head being separated from each other in the sub-scanning direction. Between the base printing head and the color printing head on the carriage, the liquid ejection device includes an additional head attachment portion to which the additional head can be added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuichi Tamaki
  • Patent number: 11364719
    Abstract: A print component includes a plurality of data pads, a clock pad to receive an intermittent clock signal, and a plurality of actuator groups each corresponding to a different liquid type and to a different one of the data pads. Each actuator group includes a plurality of configuration functions, an array of fluid actuators, and an array of memory elements including a first portion corresponding to the plurality of configuration functions and a second portion corresponding to the array of fluid actuators. Each time the intermittent clock signal is present on the clock pad, the array of memory elements to serially load a segment of data bits from the corresponding data pad, including loading a first portion of data bits into the first portion of memory elements, and loading a second portion of data bits into the second portion of memory elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: James Michael Gardner, Scott A. Linn, Michael W. Cumbie
  • Patent number: 11325370
    Abstract: A fluidic die including fluid chambers, each including an electrode exposed to an interior of the fluid chamber and each having a corresponding fluid actuator operating at a first voltage level. Monitoring circuitry, operating at a second voltage level lower than the first voltage level, includes a select transistor and a pulldown transistor for each fluid chamber to selectively couple to the electrode, at least the select transistor being a high voltage tolerant transistor to operate at the second voltage in a normal operating condition and having a breakdown voltage level greater than the first voltage level to prevent a fault current from flowing into the select transistor from the electrode in a fault condition if the fluid actuator short-circuits to the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Martin, James R. Przybyla, Rogelio Cicili
  • Patent number: 11312140
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid ejection apparatus including: a liquid ejection head that includes nozzles; a signal output circuit that outputs a signal that varies depending on whether at least part of the nozzles includes a discharge-defective nozzle; and a controller. The controller is configured to discharge a liquid on a medium by using a partial discharge mode; perform determination, for at least one nozzle included in the nozzles based on the signal from the signal output circuit, about whether the discharge-defective nozzle is included therein; and set, based on the signal from the signal output circuit, the part of the nozzles not to include the discharge-defective nozzle when the liquid is discharged from the liquid ejection head on the medium by using the partial discharge mode and when the controller has determined that the discharge-defective nozzle is included in the nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoru Arakane
  • Patent number: 11305564
    Abstract: Machine and method for multi-pass digital printing of plate glass with minimization of print travel. The machine is configured to recognize the longest dimension of the motif to be printed in the X and Y directions and to execute the multiple print passes by moving the bridge in the X direction or by moving the carriage along the bridge in the Y direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventors: Juan Javier Fernandez Vazquez, Alberto Alvarez Flores
  • Patent number: 11267256
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Tanase, Keisuke Morita, Kentaro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11254153
    Abstract: A fluid ejection controller interface includes output logic to receive control data packets, each control data packet including a set of primitive data bits and a set of random bits. The fluid ejection controller interface includes counter logic to cause the output logic to output modified control data packets to a fluid ejection controller of a fluid ejection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: John Rossi
  • Patent number: 11220061
    Abstract: There is disclosed a non-transitory machine readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor and comprising instructions to: receive object data corresponding to a three-dimensional object to be generated; define print data for each of a plurality of slices of the object to control a respective layer forming operation in which print agent is ejected on a layer of build material in a pattern corresponding to selective fusing of the build material, wherein the print data and the respective pattern is defined for each slice according to object a print definition procedure; and select the print definition procedure from a plurality of print definition procedures based on a user input. There is also disclosed a corresponding method and additive manufacturing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Luis Garcia Garcia, Scott White, Salvador Sanchez Ribes
  • Patent number: 11220108
    Abstract: An example of a printing apparatus comprising a scanning printhead and a controller is disclosed. The scanning printhead comprises a plurality of nozzles to print using a mask comprising a ramp area and non-ramp area. A first subset of nozzles of the plurality of nozzles is assigned to the ramp area and the second subset of nozzles of the plurality of nozzles is assigned to the non-ramp area. The controller is to calculate a number of spits of a nozzle from the second subset of nozzles for a pass. The controller is also to calculate a number of spits of a nozzle from the first subset of nozzles for the pass based on the number of spits of the nozzle from the second subset of nozzles. The controller is further to instruct the nozzle from the first subset of nozzles to eject online an amount of a composition on a service zone based on the number of spits of the first subset of nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Li Qian, Eduardo Amela Conesa, Marian Dinares Argemi
  • Patent number: 11203497
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller circuitry configured to control the ink-jet module to form a density adjustive image pattern on one of the multiple sheets, detect a jam during continuous feeding, and then determine whether or not images, which are to be formed on one or more fed-and-unejected sheets, include the density adjustive image pattern, where the images include the density adjustive image pattern, determine whether or not the unejected sheet, on which the density adjustive image pattern is to be formed, has passed through a certain position of the sheet conveyer path, and control the ink-jet module, where the unejected sheet, on which the density adjustive image pattern is to be formed, has passed through the certain position, not to re-form the density adjustive image pattern and to re-form images on rest of the unejected sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Daiki Sone
  • Patent number: 11192370
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a recording element substrate including a plurality of ejection port arrays, a support member supporting the recording element substrate, and including a plurality of liquid chambers, and a channel member including a plurality of channels. Each of the plurality of liquid chambers includes an opening connected to one of the plurality of channels. Each of the plurality of channels is a channel that extends upward from the opening in a vertical direction, in a posture of the liquid ejection head in ejecting the liquid. A volume of the channel connected to the opening located at a central portion of the liquid chamber in the longitudinal direction, among the plurality of channels, is greater than a volume of the channel connected to the opening located on an end portion side apart from the central portion of the liquid chamber in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoko Shimizu, Yosuke Takagi, Shimpei Yoshikawa, Hiroki Tajima, Kyosuke Toda
  • Patent number: 11186080
    Abstract: In some examples, a fluid dispensing device includes a plurality of fluidic actuators and a decoder. The decoder is to detect that an activated sense measurement is to be performed for a first fluidic actuator of the plurality of fluidic actuators in a first time group comprising a plurality of activation intervals for respective fluidic actuators. In response to detecting that the activated sense measurement is to be performed for the first fluidic actuator in the first time group, the decoder activates the first fluidic actuator in the first time group to perform the activated sense measurement for the first fluidic actuator, and suppresses an activation pulse to the first fluidic actuator in a second time group that follows the first time group to perform a reference measurement for the first fluidic actuator in the second time group, the second time group comprising a plurality of activation intervals for respective fluidic actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric T. Martin, Daryl E. Anderson
  • Patent number: 11173724
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a printing apparatus capable of mitigating/preventing instances of turbulent deviation of ink jetted from print heads when printing onto a substrate, a severe form of which looks like woodgrain. The printing apparatus can include a jet plate disposed on a subjacent surface of the printing apparatus that can include a series of apertures formed in the jet plate that are configured to receive corresponding print heads of the printing apparatus. The jet plate can also include a set of wings extending from a first end of a central portion of the jet plate. The set of wings can form a cutout portion of the jet plate that can modify a direction and/or velocity of a flow of air from the cutout portion along the printing area to mitigate/prevent a woodgrain defect occurring when distributing a material onto the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC.
    Inventors: Hui Zhang, John Peter Duffield
  • Patent number: 11164053
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for printing an image using an array of nozzles are described. In one example aspect, a printer system includes an array of nozzles and a control device coupled to the array of nozzles. The control device is configured to determine a step size for printing a current section of an image based on a set of masks. The set of masks includes one or more masks used for printing previous sections of the image. The control device is also configured to adjust the set of masks based on a printing mode to be used for the current section of the image. The array of nozzles is configured to print the current section of the image using a combination of the adjusted set of masks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC.
    Inventor: Peter Heath
  • Patent number: 11090930
    Abstract: A fluidic die may include an array of fluid actuators comprising a first set of fluid actuators and a second set of fluid actuators. The fluidic die may further include a first power line connected to the first set of fluid actuators, a second power line connected to the second set of fluid actuators and a third power line connected to the first set of fluid actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Daryl E Anderson, James M Gardner, Eric Martin
  • Patent number: 11073784
    Abstract: An example apparatus may include a supply guide to receive a plurality of print supplies and a lock mechanism to retain the plurality of print supplies and release a print supply of the plurality of print supplies responsive to a determination that an amount of print substance in the print supply is at or below a threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Lynn A Collie, Wesley R Schalk, Vern Elliot Myers, John Connell, Paul Osborne, Kevin Lo
  • Patent number: 11066567
    Abstract: A thermal inkjet dye sublimation ink consists of a disperse dye colorant dispersion, primary and secondary solvents, a chelating agent, oleth-3-phosphate, additive(s), and water. The colorant dispersion is present in an amount ranging from about 1 wt % actives to about 7 wt % actives. The amount of the primary solvent (glycerol, ethoxylated glycerol, 2-methyl-1,3-propanediol, dipropylene glycol, or combinations thereof) ranges from about 10 wt % to about 22 wt %, and the amount of the secondary solvent ranges from 0 wt % to about 7 wt %. The chelating agent amount ranges from 0 wt % actives to less than 0.1 wt % actives, and the oleth-3-phosphate amount ranges from about 0.1 wt % to about 0.75 wt. The additive is selected from the group consisting of a buffer, a biocide, another surfactant, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Howard Doumaux, Nicholas J. Stewart
  • Patent number: 11052671
    Abstract: For a multi-pass printing, an image of a unit area is printed by M printing scans of M print regions of first and second nozzle arrays. Each of N pieces of column data is printed by a different printing scan. Ejection data for the first nozzle array is generated using a first mask pattern and ejection data for the second nozzle array is generated using a second mask pattern different from the first mask pattern, for each of the N pieces of column data. On that basis, the first mask pattern and the second mask pattern have a complementary relationship in each of the M print regions. Further, in each of the first mask pattern and the second mask pattern, a combination of print regions, of the M print regions, for printing dots at the same position on the print medium has a mutually complementary relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kawafuji
  • Patent number: 11034151
    Abstract: Examples include a fluid ejection die having a die length and a die width. The fluid ejection die may include a plurality of nozzles arranged along the die length and a die width. The plurality of nozzles is arranged such that at least one pair of neighboring nozzles are positioned at different die width positions along the width of the fluid ejection die. The example fluid ejection die further includes a plurality of ejection chambers including a respective ejection chamber fluidically coupled to each respective nozzle. The fluid ejection die further includes an array of fluid feed holes. The array of fluid feed holes includes at least one fluid feed hole fluidically each respective ejection chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Galen Cook, Garrett E Clark, Michael W Cumbie, James R Przybyla, Richard Seaver, Frank D Derryberry, Si-lam J Choy
  • Patent number: 11020960
    Abstract: In one example, a fault-tolerant printhead includes an array of fluid actuators. Each fluid actuator includes a fault sensor to detect a faulted fluid actuator and a per-fluid actuator memory to store a fault sensor state of the fluid actuator. The fault-tolerant printhead also includes an interface to read a state of each per-fluid actuator memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Martin, Daryl E. Anderson
  • Patent number: 11001074
    Abstract: An ink jet method includes causing a treatment liquid to adhere to a recording medium; a white ink to adhere to the recording medium; and a non-white ink to adhere to the recording medium. The treatment liquid, white ink, and non-white ink are applied by main scans of a recording head and sub-scans of the recording medium that intersect the main scans. The recording head includes a first nozzle group arranged in the sub-scanning direction and discharging the treatment liquid, a second nozzle group arranged in the sub-scanning direction and discharging the white ink, and a third nozzle group arranged in the sub-scanning direction and discharging the non-white ink. The second and third nozzle groups have non-overlapping portions in the main scanning direction, and one or both of the second and third nozzle groups have a portion overlapping the first nozzle group in the main scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventors: Ippei Okuda, Kimitaka Kamijo
  • Patent number: 10967634
    Abstract: A fluidic die includes an array of nozzles, each nozzle to eject a fluid drop in response to a corresponding actuation signal having an actuation value. Nozzle select logic provides for each nozzle a nozzle select signal having a select value or a non-select value. Actuation logic provides the respective actuation signal for each nozzle, the actuation logic to receive one or more drop weight signals, and for each nozzle select signal having the select value, to provide an actuation signal having an actuation value to the corresponding nozzle and/or to one or more neighboring nozzles based on a state of the one or more drop weight signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Martin, Daryl E Anderson
  • Patent number: 10967664
    Abstract: A multilayered body includes a base material with a metal tone glossy layer having metal tone glossiness, and a color layer layered on the metal tone glossy layer. The color layer has an arithmetic mean height and a transmission density located in a region below a straight line represented as (y=?0.1067x+0.8) on coordinates of the arithmetic mean height x and the transmission density y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Nishizawa, Akira Takatsu
  • Patent number: 10913287
    Abstract: The present invention has a problem of suppressing liquid gathering of an interpolation dot which interpolates a discharge defective nozzle and preventing deterioration of image quality, and the problem is solved by the present invention including: an inkjet head configured to separately discharge a large droplet, a medium droplet, and a small droplet from each of a plurality of nozzles; and a control unit which forms an image in a single-pass system by discharging the medium droplets from the plurality of nozzles respectively, and forms an interpolation dot to interpolate a discharge defective nozzle by discharging a droplet from a different nozzle when the discharge defective nozzle is present, the control unit forming the interpolation dot to interpolate the discharge defective nozzle with the use of the large droplet and forming at least one adjacent dot which is in contact with the interpolation dot with the use of the small droplet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takakazu Kuki, Toshiyuki Mizutani
  • Patent number: 10864725
    Abstract: An element substrate including heaters, drivers for each heater, and a diode, and connected to an external apparatus having a circuit for detecting a temperature based on a detection signal from the diode, comprises: a first wiring grounded, connected to one end of the diode, and serving as a reference voltage of the detection signal; a second wiring connected to the first wiring near the diode; a first pad connected to the first wiring; and a second pad connected to the second wiring. When the substrate is connected to the apparatus, a wiring serving as a reference voltage for a side where the detection signal of the circuit of the apparatus is inputted is connected to the second pad via the first pad connected to a ground serving as a reference voltage of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takamitsu Tokuda
  • Patent number: 10857253
    Abstract: A control circuit for a thermally-activated microfluidic ejection element and a method of dispensing a fluid composition from the same is provided. The thermally-activated microfluidic ejection element includes a plurality of nozzles and a thermal actuator associated with each nozzle, and a control circuit that includes: a logic circuit that increments through a pre-determined sequence, wherein the sequence is defined by the physical layout of the thermally-activated microfluidic ejection element; a first input in electrical communication with the logic circuit; a second input in electrical communication with each thermal actuator, wherein the first input and second input are used to select and energize each thermal actuator on the thermally-activated microfluidic ejection element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stephan Gary Bush, John Glenn Edelen, Viren N. Patel, Michael Anthony Marra, III
  • Patent number: 10857808
    Abstract: Examples relating to calibrating printing pens of a print bead assembly in a printer are described. For example, techniques for calibrating a printing pen includes detecting position of a first symbol and a second symbol of a pattern from amongst multiple patterns in an alignment pattern, where each pattern is associated with art ideal deviation and the symbols are printed in a juxtaposed position. The ideal deviation is a predefined value of deviation between the symbols when the printing pen is aligned. Thereafter, determining an actual deviation, due to misalignment in the printing pen, between the symbols. Further the technique includes establishing a relation between the actual deviation and the ideal deviation for the multiple patterns and determining a value of the ideal deviation for a zero value of the actual deviation. The value of the ideal deviation is a corrective value of alignment for the printing pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Andy/Prima Kencana, Peow Ng, Kang Leng Tan, Zixing Yao
  • Patent number: 10857786
    Abstract: A fluid ejection device may include a substrate, a first group of fluid drivers on the substrate, a second group of fluid drivers on the substrate, a memory element storing a predetermined offset value and electronics to receive an address of one of the fluid drivers of the first group for actuation control. The electronics may select one of the fluid drivers of the second group for actuation control based on the address and the stored offset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Vincent C Korthuis, Eric T Martin