With Means To Scan Fluid Ejector Relative To The Receiving Medium Patents (Class 347/37)
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Patent number: 11590771Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a technique that effects spot gloss or gloss control and/or variations on one image without requiring clear inks. This is preferably accomplished by use of a multilayer printing process in which an image is first printed using a first set of color print heads and then cured, and in which the image is again printed using a second set of color print head, but where the image remains uncured for a predetermined interval to allow the ink drops applied to the media to spread and thus introduce a gloss effect.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC.Inventors: Lianhui Cong, Terrill Clayton
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Patent number: 11485081Abstract: A three-dimensional printing system includes a build plate, a carriage, a housing assembly covering the carriage, and a printhead. The build plate includes a lateral print area having a length along an X-axis and a width along a Y-axis. The carriage has a major axis along the Y-axis that spans the width of the lateral print area. The printhead is mechanically, fluidically, and electrically coupled to the carriage. The printhead includes a printhead housing that cooperates with the housing assembly to separate a print zone containing the lateral print area from connected internal components of the printhead and the carriage. The carriage is configured to scan along the X-axis and the printhead is configured to scan along the Y-axis supported by the carriage to address the entire lateral print area.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: CULINARY PRINTWORKS, INC.Inventors: Corey M. Davis, Michael E. Jones
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Patent number: 11448958Abstract: A fluid dispensing system, an imprint lithography system with a fluid dispensing system, a method of manufacturing an article with the fluid dispensing system. The fluid dispensing system comprising: a fluid dispenser and a heater. The fluid dispenser configured to dispense droplets of a fluid onto a substrate. The heater configured to maintain droplet temperature at greater than 23° C. Each of the droplets has a fluid volume that is less than 1.2 pL. The fluid dispenser is configured to have a drop placement accuracy for the imprint resist fluid that is less than a first threshold when the droplet fluid temperature is greater than 23° C. The drop placement accuracy is greater than the first threshold when the droplet fluid temperature is less than or equal to 23° C.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Colleen Lyons, Whitney Longsine, Matthew C. Traub, Van Nguyen Truskett
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Patent number: 11440332Abstract: A recording head unit includes a first line head and a second line head in which nozzles are provided in an X-axis direction. The first line head is arranged on one side of the second line head in a Y-axis direction intersecting the X-axis direction. The first line head includes a first windbreak member. The second line head includes a second windbreak member. A length by which the first windbreak member protrudes is smaller than a length by which the second windbreak member protrudes.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroki Sato, Masaaki Hagio, Keigo Yamasaki, Tomoyuki Nakano
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Patent number: 11420456Abstract: A movement mechanism for a movable body including a motor including a rotation shaft, a supporting member that supports the motor, an attachment member fixed to a base body portion and to which the supporting member is attached, a driving pulley coupled to the rotation shaft, a driven pulley attached to the base body portion, an endless belt stretched between the driving pulley and the driven pulley, and the movable body attached to the endless belt, in which the supporting member is configured to be pivotally movable about a position serving as a pivotal axis such that a distance between the driving pulley and the driven pulley shortens, the position being at a side of the driven pulley from the driving pulley in a stretching direction in which the endless belt is stretched between the driving pulley and the driven pulley.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takuro Ishikura
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Patent number: 11399110Abstract: An apparatus detects movement of a target object, estimates a control quantity for first feedback control for the target object at a first period, based on a detection signal, and estimates a first state quantity of the target object and a second state quantity obtained by time differentiation of the first state quantity in order to perform second feedback control for the target object at a second period shorter than the first period, based on the detection signal. The apparatus generates a first operation quantity for the first feedback control, based on the estimated control quantity, generates a second operation quantity for the second feedback control, based on the estimated first and second state quantities, and determines an output value, based on a result of comparing the second operation quantity with a maximum value of the first operation quantity.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuichiro Suzuki, Eriko Uchida
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Patent number: 11331919Abstract: The plurality of first nozzles and the plurality of second nozzles are arranged such that a distance between nozzles adjacent to each other in a first direction is a first distance, the support body is provided with a first fixing portion for fixing the first head unit onto the support body and a second fixing portion for fixing the second head unit onto the support body, and a distance between the first fixing portion and the second fixing portion in the first direction is a second distance that is different from an integral multiple of the first distance.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takahiro Kanegae, Hiroyuki Hagiwara, Nobuaki Ito, Shunsuke Watanabe
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Patent number: 11318766Abstract: An alignment of jet holes of a liquid jet head is smoothly performed. A liquid jet head according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a nozzle section having a jet hole for liquid, a support member configured to support the nozzle section, and a position adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a position of the jet hole with respect to a carriage. The position adjustment mechanism includes a reference member a position of which with respect to the carriage is fixable, a position adjustment member which is coupled to the support member, and is configured to push the reference member to change a relative distance with respect to the reference member to thereby displace the support member on the carriage, and an intermediary member intervening between the reference member and the position adjustment member.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.Inventor: Takanori Koyano
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Patent number: 11318765Abstract: A carriage moving mechanism including a driving unit including a driving pulley, a driving motor, and a first support member for supporting both the driving pulley and the driving motor, a driven unit including a driven pulley and a second support member for supporting the driven pulley, and a third support member supporting both the driving unit and the driven unit, an annular belt that is wound around both the driving pulley and the driven pulley, a first outer peripheral surface and a second outer peripheral surface facing to the first outer peripheral surface, and a first carriage that is attached to the first outer peripheral surface, wherein the second support member, the third support member, and the first support member are aligned in this order in a first axis, and the third support member is disposed inside the annular belt.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Osamu Murayama
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Patent number: 11298882Abstract: An example three-dimensional printing system includes a first carriage, a second carriage, and a synchronization controller. The synchronization controller is coupled to the first carriage and the second carriage to synchronize movements of the first carriage and the second carriage. The synchronization controller is to avoid interference between the first carriage and the second carriage.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Michael Ewe, Eric Collins, Donnell D. Daniels
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Patent number: 11285718Abstract: A liquid jet head and a liquid jet recording device capable of reducing the installation area of the liquid jet head are provided. The liquid jet head according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is to be installed in a carriage of the liquid jet recording device. The liquid jet head includes a jet section provided with a nozzle hole configured to jet liquid, a support member configured to support the jet section, and provided with a hole part including a through hole penetrating in a jet direction of the liquid, a biasing member disposed in the hole part, and configured to bias the support member toward the carriage, and a biased member which is disposed at a predetermined position with respect to the carriage, and is biased in the hole part by the biasing member to thereby set a position of the nozzle hole with respect to the carriage.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.Inventors: Masatoshi Seki, Takanori Koyano, Masaru Midorikawa
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Patent number: 11283950Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit and a document reading unit. The recording unit includes a shaft, and the document reading unit includes a groove forming member. In the groove, an elastically deformable portion configured to make the width of the groove narrower than a maximum diameter of the shaft The shaft has a shape in which a radial dimension changes along a circumferential direction and is provided so as to rotate, and when the elastically deformable portion passes through the shaft in the process of opening the document reading unit from the closed state, the rotation of the shaft is regulated such that the radial dimension of the shaft with respect to the width of the groove is equal to or less than a first dimension smaller than the maximum dimension.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shintaro Miyamoto, Sho Aruga, Yuka Shimizu
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Patent number: 11267269Abstract: A recording-head position adjustment mechanism adjusts a position of a recording head. The recording-head position adjustment mechanism includes a first support, a second support, and an adjuster. The first support supports a first end of the recording head in a longitudinal direction of the recording head. The second support supports a second end of the recording head in the longitudinal direction. The adjuster moves the second support with respect to the first support in a transverse direction intersecting the longitudinal direction to adjust an inclination of the recording head.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Kengo Tsubaki
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Patent number: 11235599Abstract: A liquid droplet discharging apparatus includes a transfer device, a discharging head, a first medium supply, a second medium supply and an imaging device. The transfer device is configured to transfer a work along a transfer direction. The discharging head is configured to discharge a liquid droplet of a functional liquid to the work. The first medium supply is configured to supply a first inspection medium, which receives the liquid droplet, in a direction orthogonal to the transfer direction. The second medium supply is configured to supply a second inspection medium, which receives the liquid droplet and is arranged side by side with respect to the first inspection medium in the transfer direction, in the direction orthogonal to the transfer direction. The imaging device is configured to image the liquid droplet discharged to the first inspection medium and the liquid droplet discharged to the second inspection medium.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventor: Yousuke Mine
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Patent number: 11216227Abstract: When receiving a sheet size measurement instruction through a user interface, an information processing apparatus transmits a width measurement instruction to a printer through a communication I/F. When receiving a measurement result of a sheet width from the printer, a controller extracts sheet information that meets the received measurement result and displays the extracted sheet information for user selection. When a user selection is received, the controller updates a print setting with selected sheet information. When a user selection is not received, the controller transmits a type-designated measurement instruction designating the sheet type. When the measurement result is received, the controller updates the print setting with a sheet length information included in the received measurement result.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Po Chun Chew, Koshi Fukazawa
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Patent number: 11207903Abstract: A medium transport device includes a first roller that applies a transporting force to a medium, a second roller that applies a transporting force to the medium transported from the first roller, a third roller that applies a transporting force to the medium transported from the second roller, a first rotor that transmits rotational torque to the third roller, a first shaft that is provided away from the first rotor at a first interval, and a second shaft that is provided away from the first rotor at the first interval and at a position different from a position of the first shaft. A shaft center of the first shaft and a shaft center of the second shaft are positioned on a circular arc, the center of which is a rotation center of the second roller.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Shingo Waki
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Patent number: 11207897Abstract: Provided are a printing jig for an inkjet-type printer and a method for manufacturing printed objects therewith, which jig can be easily produced in accordance with the shape and size of an object to be printed and allows the object to be accurately positioned relative to the printer. The printing jig supports an object to be printed, and is placed in an inkjet-type printer when the object is being printed. The printing jig includes a mounting surface on which the object is to be placed, and a positioning part for positioning the object. The positioning part includes a protrusion preformed on the mounting surface so as to be brought into contact with at least part of the object placed on the mounting surface. The protrusion is made of deposited and cured ink used by the inkjet-type printer.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventors: Taku Takashina, Jindai Yamakawa
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Patent number: 11203212Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a wide format single pass printing apparatus. The printing apparatus can include multiple print housings configured to receive print beams with print heads configured to print onto a substrate. The print housings can be horizontally adjacent to one another relative to a horizontal plane. The print housings can also be oriented opposite to one another. The print beams can be inserted and/or removed from each print housing from opposing ends, allowing for greater ease of access to the print beams.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC.Inventors: Ernesto Propersi Sterbiati, Marco Serafini
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Patent number: 11198310Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a carriage mounts a recording head for discharging droplets, and moves in a main scan direction. A guide member slidably guides the carriage. An encoder scale is arranged along the main scan direction. An encoder sensor reads the encoder scale. The carriage includes a head mounting part for mounting the recording head, and a sensor attaching part for attaching the encoder sensor. The sensor attaching part is provided so as to be extended from the head mounting part. The encoder scale is arranged at a location which the encoder sensor can read. A partition member is provided to separate the head mounting part from the sensor attaching part in the carriage. The head mounting part is arranged in a first space, and the sensor attaching part and the encoder scale are arranged in a second space separated from the first apace by the partition member.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Norikazu Yanase, Makoto Kikura, Tsuguyori Kemma
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Patent number: 11192372Abstract: An apparatus for processing a substrate may include a stage on which a substrate is placed, an ink jet head assembly for discharging chemical liquid onto the substrate, and a gantry for holding the ink jet head assembly over the substrate on the stage. The ink jet head assembly may include an ink jet head for discharging the chemical liquid onto the substrate, a supporting member for holding the ink jet head, a fixing member being combined with supporting member to fix the supporting member to the fixing member, a protruding member disposed on the fixing member, and a receiving member provided in the supporting member to receive the protruding member.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Semes Co., Ltd.Inventors: Boramchan Sung, Myungjin Kim
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Patent number: 11179932Abstract: A liquid ejection head including a recording element substrate that ejects a liquid, a flow passage member provided with a flow passage that supplies the liquid to the recording element substrate, an elastic member having elasticity disposed between the recording element substrate and the flow passage member, and a fixing member that fixes the recording element substrate and the flow passage member. In the liquid ejection head, an area between the recording element substrate and the flow passage member through which the liquid flows is sealed by having the elastic member be deformed with the fixing member.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akio Saito, Toru Nakakubo, Yohei Nakamura, Zentaro Tamenaga
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Patent number: 11173735Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyer belt that transports sheets, a platen plate that supports the conveyer belt to be slidable, a head holding unit that holds inkjet heads ejecting ink to sheets transported on the conveyer belt and being arrayed in a direction orthogonal to a transport direction of the conveyer belt, and a pair of gap adjustment units that have ends on one side being respectively attached to both ends of a lower surface of the head holding unit and ends on the other side being attached to an upper surface of the platen plate to adjust a gap between the lower surface of the head holding unit and the upper surface of the platen plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroki Endo
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Patent number: 11161298Abstract: A modular 3D printer system can include a base subsystem and multiple exchangeable components. The base subsystem can have a 3D motion module, a printhead module and a platform module. The multiple exchangeable components can include printheads having different configurations and functionalities, which can be exchangeably installed in the printhead module. The multiple exchangeable components can include platform supports having different configurations and functionalities, which can be exchangeably installed in the platform module.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2017Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Inventors: Karl Joseph Gifford, Tai Dung Nguyen, Tue Nguyen
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Patent number: 11141752Abstract: A repeatable manufacturing process uses a printer to deposits liquid for each product carried by a substrate to form respective thin films. The liquid is dried, cured or otherwise processed to form from the liquid a permanent layer of each respective product. To perform printing, each newly-introduced substrate is roughly mechanically aligned, with an optical system detecting sub-millimeter misalignment, and with software correcting for misalignment. Rendering of adjusted data is performed such that nozzles are variously assigned dependent on misalignment to deposit droplets in a regulated manner, to ensure precise deposition of liquid for each given area of the substrate. For example, applied to the manufacture of flat panel displays, software ensures that exactly the right amount of liquid is deposited for each “pixel” of the display, to minimize likelihood of visible discrepancies in the resultant display.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: KATEEVA, INC.Inventors: Michael Baker, Nahid Harjee, Douglas Bacon
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Patent number: 11124000Abstract: A slide member slides in conjunction with reciprocation of a carriage. The slide member slides between a first position and a second position to cause a switch gear to move between a plurality of slide positions at which the switch gear engages respective ones of a plurality of transmission gears. The slide member at the second position is closer to a first end of a shaft than the slide member at the first position is. A first cover covers a first sliding contact portion of the shaft over an entire range of the first sliding contact portion in a main scanning direction. The slide member is in sliding contact with the first sliding contact portion when the slide member slides between the first position and the second position. The first sliding contact portion is closer to the first end than the slide member located at the first position is.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuta Arakawa, Yoichiro Nishimura
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Patent number: 11117403Abstract: Printhead carriers and adapters are disclosed. An example disclosed print mechanism includes an adapter to simultaneously couple a printhead assembly to both a logic circuit of a media processing device and a power source of the media processing device; a printhead carrier coupled to the adapter; and wherein a first connection, between data input connector and the logic circuit, and a second connection, between the power input connector and the power source, are maintained when the printhead assembly is removed from the print mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Zebra Technologies CorporationInventors: Robert P. Gotschewski, Timothy T. Anderson
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Patent number: 11097553Abstract: A control portion sets, as a head line of test mask data, such a read pixel line of a plurality of read pixel lines of read data obtained by a reading portion by performing reading, the plurality of read pixel lines being orthogonal to the sheet conveyance direction, as is located at a position upstream of a read pixel line of the plurality of read pixel lines as is read at a time when a detection portion detects a leading end of the sheet, by a number of lines calculated by adding an initial number of offset lines to a reference number of lines, and sets, as a non mask region, a sheet read region of the test mask data, and replaces, with white pixels, pixels outside such a region of test image data as corresponds to the non mask region.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Yuichiro Kurokawa
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Patent number: 11065895Abstract: A liquid discharge device includes a liquid discharge head to discharge a liquid, a head holder to hold the liquid discharge head, a sub-carriage to hold the head holder, a carriage to hold the sub-carriage and move in a main scanning direction, an adjuster supported by the sub-carriage, and a guide to guide the sub-carriage to be movable in a vertical direction. The carriage includes a reference shaft extending in the main scanning direction, the reference shaft supports the sub-carriage via the adjuster and positions the sub-carriage in the vertical direction, the adjuster adjusts an inclination of the sub-carriage with respect to the reference shaft, the sub-carriage includes a sub-reference shaft extending in parallel with the reference shaft, and the guide allows the sub-reference shaft to move in the vertical direction while restricting a movement of the sub-reference shaft in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Soichi Saiga
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Patent number: 11053089Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a tray on which a printing medium is placed, a printing unit configured to perform printing on a print surface of a printing medium on the tray based on a print job, and a first detection unit configured to detect a relative position relationship between the tray and a printing medium placed on the tray. In addition, a control unit is configured to control the printing unit not to perform printing in a case where the first detection unit detects that the printing medium is not placed at an appropriate position, and a selecting unit is configured to select whether to continue printing irrespective of results of the detection by the first detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuhisa Fujino
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Patent number: 11034176Abstract: The present teachings relate to various embodiments of an hermetically-sealed gas enclosure assembly and system that can be readily transportable and assemblable and provide for maintaining a minimum inert gas volume and maximal access to various devices and apparatuses enclosed therein. Various embodiments of an hermetically-sealed gas enclosure assembly and system of the present teachings can have a gas enclosure assembly constructed in a fashion that minimizes the internal volume of a gas enclosure assembly, and at the same time optimizes the working space to accommodate a variety of footprints of various OLED printing systems. Various embodiments of a gas enclosure assembly so constructed additionally provide ready access to the interior of a gas enclosure assembly from the exterior during processing and readily access to the interior for maintenance, while minimizing downtime.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Kateeva, Inc.Inventors: Justin Mauck, Alexander Sou-Kang Ko, Eliyahu Vronsky, Shandon Alderson
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Patent number: 11027546Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a recording element substrate including a discharge port. A channel member is configured to supply the recording element substrate with a liquid. An electric wiring board is configured to supply the recording element substrate with power. A plate-like protective member is directly or indirectly fixed to the channel member. In a case where a direction in which the recording element substrate is viewed from the channel member is defined as downward, the protective member includes a first bent portion configured to be bent in a transverse direction of the liquid discharge head. The first bent portion is located at a position that is above an upper end of the channel member and below a midpoint of a line segment connecting the upper end of the channel member and an upper end of the protective member.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yumi Komamiya, Satoshi Kimura, Shingo Okushima
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Patent number: 10974505Abstract: A print head capable of forming dots on a print medium based on print data and a print medium are caused to perform relative movement in a specified direction, and a speed of the relative movement is set according to the number of dots to be formed in an area of a specified size. Whether to set the speed of the relative movement to a first speed is determined according to the number of dots to be formed in an area of a first size on the print medium. Whether to set the speed of the relative movement to a second speed lower than the first speed is determined according to the number of dots to be formed in an area of a second size which is smaller than the area of the first size in the specified direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Edamura, Kentaro Muro, Eiji Komamiya, Masashi Hayashi
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Patent number: 10960679Abstract: An inkjet printer comprising: an ink storage that communicates with a nozzle from which ink is ejected; a carriage that moves along a guide member and has the ink storage mounted thereon; an ink tube through which ink supplied to the ink storage passes; and a coupling member that connects the ink storage and the ink tube; wherein the carriage has a first wall located at a position that is in a first direction from the coupling member, and a second wall located at a position that is in a second direction from the coupling member, the first direction and the second direction being along the direction of carriage movement, and the second direction being opposite the first direction, and when viewed in the direction of carriage movement, the coupling member is superimposed with the first wall and is superimposed with the second wall.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yasushi Yajima, Hiroyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10946681Abstract: The present disclosure provides a printing control method, a printing control apparatus, a storage medium, and a printing device. The printing control method may be used for resetting a printing platform of the printing device to a preset starting position, including: detecting whether the limit switch is in a trigger state when receiving an electrical power-on signal of the printing device or a start printing command; controlling the printing platform to move according to a state of the limit switch and a corresponding route strategy; and controlling the printing platform to stop moving at the preset starting position when the state of the limit switch is detected that changed from a non-trigger state to a trigger stat, so that the printing platform stops at the preset starting position.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: SHENZHEN DANYA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Peng He, Zhenqing Lin
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Patent number: 10913299Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a head unit having a liquid discharging head that has a driving element, a position detection circuit that outputs a position information signal indicative of a position of the liquid discharging head, a first circuit that controls drive of the driving element based on a first signal, and a first conversion circuit that converts a first optical signal into the first signal; and a driving circuit having a second circuit that outputs a second signal, a second conversion circuit that converts the second signal into the first optical signal, a first cable, and a second cable, in which the first cable connects the first conversion circuit to the second conversion circuit, and propagates the first optical signal, and the second cable electrically couples the position detection circuit to the second circuit, and propagates the position information signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Inventor: Masayuki Kamijima
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Patent number: 10857821Abstract: A printing assembly includes: a print chassis having a fixed sleeve and a print module slidably and releasably mounted in a respective sleeve. The print module has a supply module and replaceable printhead cartridge, the printhead cartridge being slidably and releasably mounted to the supply module. The printhead cartridge is removable from the print module only when the print module is released from the fixed sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Inventors: Mark Profaca, David Burke, Billy Sy, Gilbert Alemana, Christopher Hibbard, Rommel Balala
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Patent number: 10843494Abstract: A stay rod includes a guide to slidably hold a functional part, the guide to be fixed to an apparatus body, a plurality of first parts each including a guide surface to form the guide, and a plurality of second parts each including a mounting surface to be mounted to the apparatus body. The plurality of first parts and the plurality of second parts are combined to have an elongated box-shaped cross section in which the guide surface of the plurality of first parts faces the mounting surface of the plurality of second parts, the plurality of first parts is arranged side by side in a longitudinal direction of the stay rod and is joined to the plurality of second pars at each joint formed at each end of the plurality of first parts.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Katsutoshi Akaba
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Patent number: 10843482Abstract: An ink jet recording method, which uses an ink jet recording apparatus including: first and second inks corresponding to aqueous inks containing a pigment; a recording head in which a first ejection orifice array for ejecting the first ink and a second ejection orifice array for ejecting the second ink are sequentially arranged from the bottom in the direction of gravity to be adjacent to each other and the first and second ejection orifice arrays are arranged to at least partially overlap each other; and a cleaning member, includes: recording; and cleaning, wherein at least one of the first and second inks contains a resin, and a content of the resin in the second ink is larger than a content of the resin in the first ink.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihide Aikawa, Minako Kawabe, Hideyuki Saito, Kouhei Nakagawa
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Patent number: 10737487Abstract: The present invention refers to a marking assembly suitable for providing markings, for example a text, an image, a barcode, or the like, on objects like containers, packages or products. The marking assembly comprises a control unit configured to receive a signal from a sensor and configured to either activate an actuator to move a marking device to an elevated position with an increased speed, or to activate a release device to disengage the actuator, thereby moving the marking device by a counterweight.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: SICPA HOLDINGS SAInventors: Diego De Carvalho Costa, Raynier Douglas Barbosa Gomes
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Patent number: 10723135Abstract: The ink jet recording method, which uses an ink jet recording apparatus, including: a first ink and a second ink containing a pigment; and a recording head having an ejection orifice surface in which a first ejection orifice array for ejecting the first ink and a second ejection orifice array for ejecting the second ink are formed, wherein the first ejection orifice array and the second ejection orifice array are sequentially arranged from the bottom in the direction of gravity to be adjacent to each other and arranged to at least partially overlap each other, includes: a recording step, wherein a true specific gravity of the pigment in the first ink is smaller than a true specific gravity of the pigment in the second ink.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Minako Kawabe, Kouhei Nakagawa, Hideyuki Saito, Yoshihide Aikawa
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Patent number: 10717289Abstract: The remaining amounts of inks in tanks are obtained, and, based on the obtained results, whether direction for printing an image next is to be inverted with respect to a set direction. This can reduce a difference in ink remaining amount between the tanks corresponding to print heads.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Nakamura, Akitoshi Yamada, Okinori Tsuchiya, Junichi Nakagawa, Kentaro Yano
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Patent number: 10682852Abstract: A recording device includes a carriage that is movable in a first and a second direction, a cable, a tube, a cable clamp member that extends from the carriage in a first direction and passes a turned curved portion to extend from the turned curved portion in a second direction, a spring member provided along the cable clamp member, and a clamp member supporting portion extending along the first and the second direction. The spring member is configured to generate spring force in a direction in which hanging down of the cable clamp member at a path portion extending from the carriage to the turned curved portion is suppressed, and the spring member is partially in contact with the clamp member supporting portion at a path portion extending in the second direction from the turned curved portion, in an intersecting direction intersecting the first and the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yasuhide Torigoe
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Patent number: 10668754Abstract: An inkjet module includes: first and second opposite end brackets; a print module slidably mounted between the end brackets for raising and lowering the print module relative to the end brackets, the print module having a front face, a rear face and an elongate printhead positioned at a lower surface of the print module; and a cable array including a plurality of laterally arranged cables connected to the print module. The cables of the cable array extend in a common plane parallel to the rear face of the print module and follow a curved path such that an outer cable is longer than an inner cable.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Memjet Technology LimitedInventor: Mark Profaca
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Patent number: 10668753Abstract: An integrated inkjet module includes: first and second opposite end brackets; a single print module asymmetrically positioned between the end brackets, the print module having an elongate printhead; a wiper carriage positioned between a first end of the print module and the first end bracket, the wiper carriage being configured for longitudinally wiping the printhead; and a print module carrier mounted between the first and second end brackets. The print module includes a mounting arm bridging over the wiper carriage and the print module carrier is slidably liftable relative to the first and second end brackets.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Memjet Technology LimitedInventor: Mark Profaca
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Patent number: 10654293Abstract: A print engine includes: a media support chassis defining a curved media feed path; a maintenance chassis mounted on the media support chassis; a plurality of maintenance modules fixedly mounted between sidewalls of the maintenance chassis; a plurality of guide rails extending radially upwards from the maintenance chassis; a plurality of print module carriers, each print module carrier being slidingly received on respective parallel guide rails; a plurality of print modules releasably engaged with a respective one of the print module carriers; and a lift mechanism for radially raising and lowering the plurality of print module carriers relative to the maintenance chassis between a maintenance position a printing position.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Memjet Technology LimitedInventor: Mark Profaca
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Patent number: 10604594Abstract: A method for evaluating curing in an ink composition comprises depositing an ink composition on the surface of an object via a direct-to-object inkjet printing system to form a film thereon, the ink composition comprising a photoinitiator capable of initiating a free radical polymerization process in the ink composition upon the absorption of light to cure the deposited film; exposing, in-situ, the deposited film to light generated by a first source of light under conditions which initiate the free radical polymerization process to cure the deposited film; exposing, in-situ, the cured film to light generated by a second source of light under conditions which induce light absorption by unreacted photoinitiator in the cured film; measuring the absorbance of the cured film; and determining a degree of cure in the cured film from the measured absorbance and predetermined calibration data.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Mandakini Kanungo, Jack T. LeStrange, Peter Knausdorf, Xin Yang, Anthony S. Condello
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Patent number: 10498914Abstract: A medium discharging device includes a discharging unit which discharges a medium; and a medium receiving tray which receives the medium discharged by the discharging unit, and is switched between an extended state and an accommodated state, in which the medium receiving tray is provided with a base tray, a main extending unit that is accommodated or extended, and at least one sub-extending unit that is accommodated or extended, and in which the base tray forms an accommodating space for accommodating at least the one sub-extending unit, and is provided with a first protrusion portion protruding toward the accommodating space.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki Mokuo, Hidenori Harada
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Patent number: 10471748Abstract: There is provided an inkjet recording apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a head unit, an attachment member, a fixing member, and a support member. The conveyance unit conveys a recording medium on an outer circumferential curved surface of a cylindrical conveyance drum rotating around a cylindrical shaft. The relative position of the attachment member to the cylindrical shaft is fixed. The head unit has a nozzle ejecting ink and is attached to the attachment member such that the outer circumferential curved surface faces an opening of the nozzle across a predetermined relative distance. The fixing member fixes a fixing portion in the head unit to the attachment member. The fixing portion is between a center of gravity of the head unit and the cylindrical shaft. The support member supports the fixed head unit by applying force which disturbs rotation of the head unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Takeshi Urakami
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Patent number: 10464357Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head to discharge liquid, a head holder to hold the liquid discharge head, a sub-carriage to hold the head holder, and a carriage to hold the sub-carriage and which is movable in a main scanning direction. The carriage includes a reference extending along the main scanning direction that holds and positions the sub-carriage in the carriage. The head holder includes a rotation reference around which the head holder is rotatable with respect to the sub-carriage, and an angle adjuster to regulate a rotation and adjust an angle of the rotation of the head holder with respect to the sub-carriage.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Soichi Saiga
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Patent number: 10457047Abstract: A mounting assembly (1) for mounting a plurality of inkjet print modules in an adjoining relationship along a longitudinal direction of the mounting assembly (1) comprises a linear guide (13, 14) extending in the longitudinal direction for supporting the plurality of modules such that the modules are movable along the linear guide (13, 14). It further comprises for each of the plurality of modules a carrier (100.1 . . . 4) for mounting an inkjet print head including an array of nozzles formed on a nozzle face, wherein the carriers (100.1 . . . 4) are supported on the linear guide (13, 14) such that they are movable along the linear guide (13, 14), wherein in a mounted configuration of the inkjet print heads their nozzle face is arranged on a first side of the linear guide (13, 14). Each carrier (100.1 . . . 4) comprises a first adjustment mechanism for adjusting a distance of the carriers 100.1 . . .Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: MOUVENT AGInventors: Peter Brandenberger, Marcel Galliker, Pierino Pierantozzi, Walter Urech