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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6675705 | Microporous stencil sheet printing system and method of printing A microporous stencil sheet for use in stencil printing and methods for making stencil master using this microporous stencil sheet are disclosed herein. The microporous stencil sheet is for use in stencil printing using a low-viscosity ink with a viscosit... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6640702 | Stencil printing machine and method of controlling the same A stencil printing machine is provided as including first and second printing drums 25 and 26 carrying thereon respective screens30, a press drum 27 located in close proximity to the printing drums and a stencil making unit 9. In a control method, the ste... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6637325 | Rewritable-program computer interface for stencil printer, and method of rewriting program for the interface A computer interface for a stencil printer includes a data receiving section which receives printing data or program rewriting data from a computer, a data processing section which converts the printing data from the computer into stencil making data acco... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6634289 | Screen printing stencil production Screen printing stencils are produced by a positive-working method which involves no light-sensitive materials and does not require the use of safe lights. A coated receptor film having a coating layer and a support layer is imaged using an ink-jet printe... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6634288 | Stamp member and stamp unit using the stamp member A stamp member 11 includes a porous resin 101 and a film 103 adhered together by an acrylic adhesive 102. The film 103 is peeled from the porous resin 101 after stamp making operations have been completed for forming a stamp image on a stamp surface 71 of... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6629495 | Method of and apparatus for making heat-sensitive stencil and heat-sensitive stencil material When thermally perforating a thermoplastic resin film of heat-sensitive stencil material by the use of a thermal head, supply of energy to the thermal head is cut at a time the diameter of the perforations becomes not smaller than 65% and not larger than ... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6626098 | Master making device for a stencil printer A master making device of the present invention includes a thermal head having a plurality of heating elements arranged in an array in the main scanning direction. A platen roller forms a nip between it and the thermal head for pressing a stencil. The pla... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6609457 | Stencil for applying a cosmetic product and method of manufacture The present invention relates to a stencil for applying make-up to an area of the body, such as the hair or skin. The stencil includes a flexible sheet bearing a pattern that is to be reproduced on a convex surface, and of which one region, located near a... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6606943 | Stencil for applying a cosmetic product and method of manufacture The present invention relates to a stencil for applying make-up to an area of the body, such as the hair or skin. The stencil includes a flexible sheet bearing a pattern that is to be reproduced on a convex surface, and of which one region, located near a... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6595129 | Heat-sensitive stencil, process of preparing stencil printing master and stencil printer A heat-sensitive stencil including a thermoplastic resin film on which a porous resin layer, a water soluble resin layer and a fibrous porous layer are formed in succession. A thin resin layer may be disposed between the thermoplastic resin film and the p... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6571700 | Method for making a heat-sensitive stencil A stencil is made by thermally forming perforations arranged in both a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction in a thermoplastic resin film of heat-sensitive stencil material by the use of a heat source which is heated through supply of ener... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6571699 | Method of thermally perforating a heat sensitive stencil A stencil is made by thermally forming perforations arranged in both a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction in a thermoplastic resin film of heat-sensitive stencil material by the use of a heat source which is heated through supply of ener... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6571698 | Master making and feeding device for a printer A master making and feeding device for a printer includes a first conveying section and a second conveying section. When the first conveying section is perforating a stencil or after it has perforated a stencil, conveyance drive means drives the second co... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6561089 | Screen assembly having border construction with cupping features and method of making Improved methods and apparatuses for mounting screens on frames. Border strips with improved structural designs enable screens to be mounted so as to achieve higher tension more quickly and easily. Improved method permits screens to be mounted on frames w... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6550380 | Method for stencil plate making of stencil sheet for stencil printing A micro porous plastic sheet is stencil plate made by a method for stencil plate making of a stencil sheet for stencil printing under the following conditions: heat is provided to form a negative image with TPH at -30ࣘTp-Tmࣘ300° C. (Tp is heating pea... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6539856 | Method of screen printing stencil production A coated film product comprises a support base, a stencil-forming layer and an intermediate release layer. The stencil-forming layer is a blend of two grades of polyvinyl alcohol having different degrees of hydrolysis. The stencil-forming layer is imaged ... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6540417 | Stencil making apparatus A stencil making apparatus thermo-sensitively perforates a stencil sheet by a thermal print head. The apparatus includes a controlling device for driving contiguous N pieces of heat generating elements of the thermal print head while shifting respectively... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6536339 | Stencil printer system In a stencil printer system, a stencil is made by the use of master material unrolled from a stencil material roll and is wound around a printing drum by clamping the leading end of the stencil on the printing drum and rotating the printing drum while the... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6532868 | Stencil making and printing system, control method, and stencil making and printing machine A stencil making and printing machine outputs a busy signal indicative that the stencil making and printing machine is a busy state, and then, gives the busy signal as an answer to the external computer system via the controller for a predetermined time a... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6521287 | Method for manufacturing improved stencil/screen A method and apparatus for improved stencil/screen print quality is disclosed. The stencil or screen assists in application of a printable material onto a substrate, such as an adhesive to a semiconductor die of a semiconductor wafer during a lead-on-chip... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6505554 | Screen printing process with diminished moire effect A process of screen printing images on a substrate which effectively diminishes the Moire effect and other screen printing process distortions. The process utilizes specific screen angles for printing each process ink color, the application of UV light to... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6499394 | Stencil printer In a stencil printer, an elastic member is provided on a master conveying path from a roll of master sheet to a master pinch drum. The elastic member is pressed against the master sheet to apply back tension to the master sheet when the master sheet is mo... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6477947 | Stencil printing apparatus To pertinently control perforation and transfer (setting) of a stencil sheet in correspondence with each of plural printing drums, perforated stencil sheet are set to plural printing drums byt moving single stencil making unit, and a position of the stenc... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6460454 | System for making heat-sensitive stencil master A heat-sensitive stencil master making system includes a thermal head having an array of a number of heater elements which extends in a main scanning direction substantially perpendicular to a sub-scanning direction in which the thermal head is moved rela... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6450091 | Mini-stencil and device for using same A stencil (8) with a tension part combined with an operational device allowing deposition of solder paste to replace constituents on an electronic board. The stencil consists of a flat sheet (1), of rectangular shape, made of synthetic flexible material o... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6446552 | Stencil making apparatus and method A stencil making apparatus having a single conveyance section, a reading section which reads an original to obtain data during conveyance of the original, and a stencil making section which perforates a stencil sheet during conveyance of the stencil sheet... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6446551 | Method, apparatus, and plate for stencil printing having reversibly expanding and shrinking apertures A regenerable stencil printing plate is provided, which can be repeatedly used in master making and printing. The stencil printing plate comprises a film made of a polymeric material that shrinks in response to a stimulus selected from heat and light, and... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6427589 | Stencil printer and information storage medium storing therein software for controlling the stencil printer A stencil printer includes a stencil making system which makes a stencil by imagewise perforating a stencil material in a controlled position on the basis of an image signal, a printing system which makes prints by the use of the stencil made by the stenc... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6412408 | Simplified screen printing machine having pressing member A simplified screen printing machine includes a base member having a print base with an elastic member for mounting an object to be pressed; a framed stencil sheet assembly including a stencil sheet formed of a porous support and a resin film laminated to... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6403150 | Heat-sensitive stencil and method of fabricating same A heat-sensitive stencil having a thermoplastic resin film, and a porous resin layer formed thereon. The stencil has an air permeability in the range of 1.0 cm3 /cm2.multidot.sec to 157 cm3 /cm2.multidot.sec in ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6401607 | Stencil printing system, stencil printing method, and computer-readable recording medium storing stencil printing program The disclosed stencil printing machine automatically judges the process to be executed by referring to the operation waiting state of the controller and its own operation waiting state. According to this disclosed structure, the user's operation of printi... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6393979 | Thermosensitive stencil, production method thereof, thermosensitive stencil printing master making apparatus and thermosensitive stencil printing apparatus A thermosensitive stencil has a thermoplastic resin film and a porous resin layer formed thereon, with the porous resin layer having a surface smoothness of 15 to 250 sec when measured by the method of Ohken-shiki prescribed in Japan Tappi No. 5. A method... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6393980 | Method of forming an image by ink jet printing An image is formed by providing a coating of a crosslinkable polymeric substance on a first substrate, and applying a pattern or image of crosslinker to the coated substrate by ink jet printing to crosslink the polymeric substance. Uncrosslinked polymer i... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6371015 | Stencil printing apparatus A stencil printing apparatus for printing according to the input supplied from the host machine which prepares a master for covering the open part of the plate cylinder by switching the mode when the information that there is no continuous next plate prep... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6368897 | Method for manufactoring and using stencil/screen A method and apparatus for improved stencil/screen print quality is disclosed. The stencil or screen assists in application of a printable material onto a substrate, such as an adhesive to a semiconductor die of a semiconductor wafer during a lead-on-chip... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6366305 | Thermal stencil making method A stencil is made by thermally perforating a stencil material by the use of a thick film thermal head. The thermal head includes an electrical insulating substrate and a glaze layer superposed on a heat radiating plate in this order, a resistance heater f... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6362846 | Thermal stencil making apparatus A stencil is made by thermally perforating a stencil material by the use of a thick film thermal head. The thermal head includes an electrical insulating substrate and a glaze layer superposed on a heat radiating plate in this order, a resistance heater f... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6357348 | Heat-sensitive stencil master making apparatus A heat-sensitive stencil master making apparatus for making a stencil master by imagewise perforating thermoplastic film of heat-sensitive stencil master material according to an image on an original includes a thermal head which has an array of a plurali... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6354201 | Stencil printer Dot-gain information representative of the dot gain of ink is input for each ink type to be used in printing by a dot-gain information input section (80), and spectral-density information representative of the spectral density of the ink is input by a spe... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6348519 | Emulsion ink and printing method using emulsion ink Emulsion ink, by which clear images are produced, having excellent drying and fixing properties and preservation stability and does not bleed, strike through or leak. The emulsion ink contains an aqueous emulsified ultraviolet cure compound.... | 02/19/2002 |
