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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182065 | Apparatus and methods for compensation of thermal and hydroscopic expansion effects in a low cost motion control system Disclosed are apparatus and methods for compensating for the change in length of an encoder strip due to environmental effects such as temperature and humidity. The apparatus and methods utilize two simple optical sensors spaced apart and mounted on a substrate havi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182066 | Liquid body discharge device and method for discharging liquid body A liquid body discharge device includes a plurality of nozzles for discharging a liquid body to a liquid body discharged region of a substrate, and a plurality of heads moving along a moving path and each including the plurality of nozzles. Among the plurality of he... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8177327 | Ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording apparatus in which a head supporting plate having a line head mounted thereon which comprises a plurality of short heads staggered is attached to a carriage whereby recording is performed by ink jet printing with the line head on a recording med... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177326 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus includes a carriage which carries a recording head and moves reciprocally in a main scanning direction; and a first support member and a second support member arranged on an upstream side and a downstream side, respectively, in a sub-sca... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8162437 | Ink jet printer An ink jet printer for printing on a substrate comprising a first print head outputting ink and defining an ink meniscus; a platen operable to carry the substrate; a support structure; and a print head mechanism coupled to the support structure and carrying the firs... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8128198 | Image forming apparatus including carriage with recording head An image forming apparatus includes a first carriage, a second carriage, an endless belt member, and a driving source. The first carriage further includes a recording head. The second carriage further includes one or more electrical components. The endless belt memb... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8109603 | Recording apparatus Durability of a recording apparatus is enhanced. The recording apparatus includes: a carriage that carries a recording head which discharges a liquid onto a recording medium; and a guide unit that supports the carriage so as to be freely movable. The carriage has a ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8109602 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus for forming an appropriate test pattern is provided. A control section 41 includes: an image combination section 412 for combining image information corresponding to a subject image P1 of a first resolution, with secon... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8083316 | Printhead carrier with height-adjustable bearing mechanism for continuous adjustment of the printhead carrier position A printhead carrier includes a body having spaced apart bearings by means of which the body is supported at a predetermined position in the printer adapted to position a printhead on the printhead carrier at a placement relative to a path of a sheet of print media t... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8079662 | Drop coating apparatus A droplet applying apparatus includes a base 11 having a mounting surface 11a on which a substrate 10 is to be mounted, an arm part 4 which is fitted to the base 11 so as to be movable relative to the base 11 in an ar... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8075092 | Inkjet recording apparatus An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a conveyance mechanism which conveys a recording medium in the conveyance direction; an inkjet head; a first movement mechanism; a first movement printing controller; a fixed printing controller; and a mode instructor which in... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8057010 | Method and printer for multi-pass page-wide array printing A method of printing an image on a substrate using a page-wide-array printer and a page wide array printer is provided. The method includes printing a first portion of the image as relative movement occurs between the substrate and the print heads, and printing a se... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8038258 | Print head service shuttle A printer includes a first print head support carrying a plurality of print heads. The first print head support is movable towards and away from the media support and includes one or more guides movably supporting a first print head service shuttle along the media s... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8033641 | Method and a device for moving a jet member A device for moving a jet member (6) having a nozzle has a carriage (4) movable in a substantially rectilinear path and provided with a base portion to which the jet member is pivotably connected. A first drive member (9) is arranged for moving ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7976123 | Rotatable printhead array According to the present disclosure, a printer apparatus may include a chuck configured to support a substrate thereon, a rail spaced apart from the chuck, a printhead carriage frame coupled to the rail, and a printhead carriage pivotally coupled to the printhead ca... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7954922 | Ink jet recording apparatus Activation/deactivation of a pump 50 is executed with a delay of a predetermined time from a forward/reverse switching of rotation of a conveying roller 2, while an activation/deactivation of lock means 20 is executed simultaneous with a forward... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7946677 | Reciprocating apparatus, and printer including reciprocating apparatus A reciprocating apparatus includes a pair of guide members which extend in parallel with each other and in a first direction; a carriage which is reciprocateable in the first direction, supported and guided by the pair of guide members; and a carriage movement detec... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7934794 | Ink cartridge An ink cartridge having a container for storing ink therein and having an ink supply port formed at a leading end side in an insertion direction of the container, a memory device disposed on a first of two opposite surfaces parallel to the insertion direction of the... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934793 | Image creation and cutting system A printer for creating and cutting an image to be processed on a surface of an object includes a guide rail that extends in a specified direction, an inkjet head supported on the guide rail for movement in the specified direction on the guide rail, wherein ink from ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7926907 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus includes a rotational drum for retaining a recording medium on an outer circumference of the drum; a head retention member placed opposite to the outer circumference of the drum, for retaining a print head printing on the recording mediu... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7896464 | Printhead restraint system A system for restraining printhead movement in an imaging device includes an imaging device frame; a carriage operably coupled to the imaging device frame for movement between a print position and a retracted position; and a printhead array movably supported by the ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7878625 | Double shuttle configuration for digital printers A printhead positioning system is provided wherein the shuttle assembly is split up in a printing shuttle, having a high accuracy positioning capability and a utility shuttle needing only a low accuracy positioning system. Due to this split-up the mass of components... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7878624 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus in which air or dust does not enter a recording liquid tube when an ink cartridge is changed is disclosed. An engine unit, in which an image forming section and a sub scanning direction paper carrying section are integrated as one unit, is... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7857421 | Liquid droplet ejection apparatus, method for manufacturing electro-optic device, electro-optic device, and electronic equipment A liquid droplet ejection apparatus performs a drawing operation on a workpiece set on a set table by driving the ejection of a functional liquid droplet ejection head in a head unit while moving the head unit in a main scanning direction relative to the set table f... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7832835 | Reciprocating apparatus, and printer including reciprocating apparatus A reciprocating apparatus includes a pair of guide members which extend in parallel with each other and in a first direction; a carriage which is reciprocateable in the first direction, supported and guided by the pair of guide members; and a carriage movement detec... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7828413 | Positioning apparatus and printer using the same A positioning apparatus and a printer using the same are provided. The positioning apparatus includes a slide rod, a carrying base, and a light detecting module. The slide rod has a plurality of positioning grooves on one side surface thereof, and the carrying base ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7828412 | Ink jet printer An ink jet printer for printing on a substrate comprising a first print head outputting ink and defining an ink meniscus; a platen operable to carry the substrate; a support structure; and a print head mechanism coupled to the support structure and carrying the firs... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7815283 | Printer with a movable carriage A printer comprising a carriage, a guide rail and a print surface, the carriage being movable along the guide rail and carrying a printhead that faces the print surface and is movable in a direction normal to the plane of the print surface, wherein a stop or brake m... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7810901 | Driving apparatus A driving apparatus, including a driving device which moves an object along a predetermined path; a linear encoder including a linear scale and a detector one of which is moved relatively to the other when the object is moved along the predetermined path; a control ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7806510 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus comprises a carriage carrying a recording head for recording an image on a recording medium transported in a predetermined direction, first and second support members, disposed on an upstream side and a downstream side, respectively, in ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7798602 | Ink-jet head, ink-jet printer having the ink-jet head and printing method An ink-jet printer includes an ink-jet head. The ink-jet head has an image printing head and a ground-color-layer printing head. The image printing head is configured to print an image on a medium and has at least one image printing ink discharge port. The ground-co... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7789483 | Carriage driving unit and image recording apparatus A carriage driving unit comprises a carriage, an timing belt, an timing belt, which is jointed to the carriage, looped around between a driving pulley attached to a driving shaft of a motor and a driven pulley attached to a driven shaft, a frame for rotatably suppor... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7789484 | Printer-plotter and method for printing and cutting A printer-plotter includes first and second heads which are supported by a guide rail and are movable along a longitudinal direction of the guide rail, independently. A driving member is supported by the guide rail and configured to move along the longitudinal direc... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7784901 | Carriage driving apparatus and image forming apparatus There is provided a carriage driving apparatus having a first guide member and a second guide member that extend in parallel and are adjacent to each other, and a carriage disposed between the first guide member and the second guide member that queue side by side, t... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7784900 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus is disclosed that includes a carriage that moves back and forth along the main scanning direction, plural recording heads mounted on the carriage that discharge recording liquid, a guide that guides the carriage in the main scanning direction, a... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7775629 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus that includes: a conductive cable and an ink supply tube each of which is fixed to a carriage at one end thereof and to an apparatus body at the other end thereof and is routed to form a curved portion; and a turn supporting member inclu... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7775628 | Inkjet printer An inkjet printer includes: a print head; a print data storing unit; a print executing unit; a maintaining unit; a maintenance necessity determining unit; and a printing results inquiring unit. The print head is formed with one or more ink ejection opening. The prin... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7766452 | Ink jet recording head, liquid storage container and ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording head is detachably attached to an ink jet recording apparatus including a carriage operable to reciprocally move and an optical encoder scale. An ink jet recording head, a liquid storage container, or an ink jet recording apparatus includes at l... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7753481 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus includes a recording head, a carriage mounted with the recording head and reciprocates in a reciprocation direction, a conductive wire extending from the carriage, a regulating wall which extends along a reciprocation direction of the ca... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7753480 | Image forming apparatus and image scanner An image forming apparatus includes: a recording head that forms an image onto a recording medium; a guide shaft disposed to extend in a direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the recording medium; a carriage on which the recording head is mounted and inc... | 07/13/2010 |
