66 patents
Utility
Adaptive magnetic field cancellation
26 Sep 23
A valve with permanent magnet(s) and electro-magnet coils magnetically coupled to the permanent magnet(s).
Jack M. Champaigne, Mark A. Ingram
Filed: 22 Jun 20
Utility
Assembly system
26 Sep 23
An assembly system includes a robot, a first gripper mounted on the robot, the first gripper gripping a first housing, and a first clamping device clamping a cable and a contact connected to an end of the cable.
Yingcong Deng, Dandan Zhang, Lvhai Hu, An Yang, Jian Cao, Yun Liu, Roberto Franciso-Yi Lu, Yuting He, Haidong Wu, Hui Xiao
Filed: 3 Dec 19
Utility
Printing systems and associated structures and methods having ink drop deflection compensation
12 Sep 23
A printing system having a vacuum transfer belt conveyor includes a fixed or movable perforated platen that supports workpieces, e.g., substrates, boards or other parts, to be printed.
Juan Escudero Gonzalez, Eduardo Bueno Espinal
Filed: 5 Feb 21
Utility
Fabric printing on nested patterns, and associated print systems and products thereof
1 Aug 23
Disclosed are methods that couple effective nesting of fabric, as part of a textile cutting process, in which designs and/or graphic elements are directly printed on the nested elements, instead of on the entire textile sheet.
Asaf Landau, Ron Grinfeld, Ghilad Dziesietnik
Filed: 3 Oct 18
Utility
Integration of a line-scan camera on a single pass inkjet printer
4 Jul 23
Disclosed is an industrial single-pass inkjet printer/press incorporating a line-scan camera.
Steven A. Billow, Ghilad Dziesietnik, John A. Weismantel, Darin Schick, Boris Liberman, Noam Rabin, Hsinchia Chen
Filed: 1 Jun 21
Utility
Modifying image data to compensate for defective printer nozzles
4 Jul 23
The disclosed embodiments include a method to compensate for defective printer nozzles.
Steven Billow
Filed: 9 Mar 21
Utility
Replication alignment of components for use in inkjet printing applications
4 Jul 23
Techniques for more accurately and efficiently replicating the alignment of one or more printer components with respect to another printer component are described herein.
John A. Weismantel
Filed: 16 Mar 21
Utility
Upwards jetting digital printing platform
27 Jun 23
A printing platform includes a printing engine with one or more printheads arranged such that the ink drops are jetted vertically upwards against the action of gravity; and a substrate transportation system where the normal to the surface in contact with the substrate is parallel and with opposite direction to the travelling direction of the jetted ink drops.
Eduardo Bueno Espinal, Juan Escudero Gonzalez
Filed: 12 Jul 21
Utility
Systems and methods for determining printing conditions based on samples of images printed by shuttle-based printers
30 May 23
Embodiments include a method performed by a system operative to determine a condition related to a printed section printed by a shuttle-based printer.
Steven A. Billow, Ghilad Dziesietnik
Filed: 23 May 19
Utility
Inkjet process for three-dimensional relief on tiles
25 Apr 23
A technique is described for the application of three-dimensional (3D) relief to a substrate such as a ceramic tile using digital inkjet technology.
Mark Zavada, Matthew Tennis, David Weber, Alexander Meranto, Carlos Carratalá, Fernando Tomás Badenes, Louis Justus Fage, Ursula Good, Paul Andrew Edwards, Robert Roggers, John Hansen
Filed: 30 Oct 20
Utility
Multi-color multi-speed printing apparatus with circulation
24 Jan 23
Methods, systems, and devices related to a printer system that includes a first primary ink tank holding a dark-colored ink, a second primary ink tank holding a light-colored ink, a first selector valve configured to change a state, a first secondary ink tank connected to the first primary ink tank via the first selector valve, a second secondary ink tank connected to the first and second primary ink tanks via the first selector valve, a second selector valve connected to the first primary ink tank configured to return the dark-colored ink from the print heads to the first primary ink tank, and a third selector valve connected to the second selector valve and the second primary ink tank configured to either return the light-colored ink from the print heads to the second primary ink tank or to direct the dark-colored ink to the second selector valve.
Christopher Andrew Porter
Filed: 17 Jun 22
Utility
Method and composition for ink jet printing on a nonabsorbent substrate
10 Jan 23
Ink jet printing on a non-absorbent substrate involves a wet primer having a primer viscosity.
Michael Vincent Oberski, Paul Andrew Edwards
Filed: 22 Feb 21
Utility
Ultraviolet (UV) heat-activated laminating adhesive for an inkjet printing process
20 Dec 22
Apparatus, compositions, and systems for ultraviolet (UV) heat-activated laminating adhesives applied via an inkjet printing process are disclosed.
Donald A. Sloan
Filed: 1 Jul 21
Utility
Linear rotary encoder
13 Dec 22
A linear rotary encoder includes a pair of rotational surfaces.
John Peter Duffield
Filed: 16 Jan 20
Utility
Electronic method for calibrating peening intensity
1 Nov 22
A method for calibrating an electronic sensor for peening intensity.
Jack M. Champaigne
Filed: 24 Feb 20
Utility
Assessing printer quality by assigning quality scores to images
11 Oct 22
Disclosed here is a system enabling users/customers to receive an objective assessment of the performance of a printer.
Hanan Yosefi, Dani Barel
Filed: 5 Dec 19
Utility
Printer vacuum conveyor with adjustable active area
9 Aug 22
Juan Escudero Gonzalez, Eduardo Bueno Espinal
Filed: 9 Jan 20
Utility
Multi-color multi-speed printing apparatus with circulation
2 Aug 22
Methods, systems, and devices related to a printer system that includes a first primary ink tank holding a dark-colored ink, a second primary ink tank holding a light-colored ink, a first selector valve configured to change a state, a first secondary ink tank connected to the first primary ink tank via the first selector valve, a second secondary ink tank connected to the first and second primary ink tanks via the first selector valve, a second selector valve connected to the first primary ink tank configured to return the dark-colored ink from the print heads to the first primary ink tank, and a third selector valve connected to the second selector valve and the second primary ink tank configured to either return the light-colored ink from the print heads to the second primary ink tank or to direct the dark-colored ink to the second selector valve.
Christopher Andrew Porter
Filed: 1 Feb 21
Utility
Variable smoothing in printing
21 Jun 22
Methods, apparatus and systems for printing an image using an array of nozzles are described.
Peter Heath
Filed: 7 Oct 21
Utility
Apparatus to flatten a substrate along a print path of a printer
19 Apr 22
Disclosed here is an apparatus to flatten the substrate as the substrate travels along the print path of a printer, thus reducing damage to the transport belt, motor, gearbox, etc., and increasing print quality.
Juan Escudero Gonzalez
Filed: 18 Dec 20