Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions

20090262149 - Print media cartridge for a camera: A print media cartridge is configured to be received within a camera in fluid communication with a printhead of the camera. The print media cartridge comprises a cartridge shell having an ejection slot, and housing a print media dispenser including a supply of print media, the print media dispenser further... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090262150 - Ink jet printing apparatus: An air pump is driven to supply air via an air supply tube to a sub tank, by which a predetermined quantity of the air is mixed inside the sub tank via a gas-liquid separation membrane. Next, a carriage is swayed to agitate the ink by using the air mixed... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090262151 - Inkjet printer system and ink supply apparatus: An inkjet printer system includes a print head, a sub tank, a pressure controller, and a check valve. The print head is configured to eject ink. The sub tank is connected to the print head and has a pressure control hole. The pressure controller is connected to the pressure control... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090262152 - Inkjet printer system and ink supply apparatus: An inkjet printer system includes a print head and a sub tank. The print head is configured to eject ink. The sub tank is provided above the print head and connected to the print head via a head-side supply passage. The sub tank has a first supplying hole and a... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090262153 - Inkjet printer system and ink supply apparatus: An inkjet printer system includes a print head, a sub tank, and a sensor. The print head is configured to eject ink. The sub tank includes an ink supply chamber and an ink detection chamber. The ink supply chamber has an ink inlet hole and an ink outlet hole connected... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090262154 - Printer control circuitry for reading ink information from a refill unit: A refill unit for refilling an ink cartridge that forms part of an inkjet printer. The printer also having a printhead, control circuitry and an interface for releasably engaging the refill unit. The refill unit has a body containing a quantity of ink, an ink outlet, and a memory circuit... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090262155 - Complex system having ink-jet printing function and testing function, and an ink-jet printing apparatus having the same: A complex system having an ink-jet printing function and a testing function, and an ink-jet printing apparatus having the same is disclosed. The complex system includes a plurality of ink-jet heads for feeding ink to form a plurality of patterns on a printing object. A gantry is movable over the... Agent: Polsinelli Shughart PC

20090262156 - Liquid droplet ejecting head and image forming apparatus: A liquid droplet ejecting head includes: an ejector having a nozzle, a pressure chamber, and a drive element that applies pressure to a liquid inside the pressure chamber; and a controller that applies a drive waveform to the drive element. The controller vibrates a flow velocity of the liquid ejected... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20090262157 - Forming method of adjustment pattern and liquid ejection apparatus: A forming method of an adjustment pattern is characterized by forming a first adjustment pattern on a medium by ejecting liquid onto the medium from a part of a plurality of nozzles that are arranged along a direction in which the medium is transported and that eject the liquid onto... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090262158 - Image recording device and image recording method: An image recording device comprises: a recording head that has a plurality of recording elements; non-uniformity information acquiring unit that acquires non-uniformity information of each recording element by using a test pattern; non-uniformity correction coefficient calculating unit that calculates a non-uniformity correction coefficient value for each density as recording characteristics... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090262159 - Selectable gloss coating system: A coating system comprises a high gloss coating ink supply source, and a low gloss coating ink supply source. The system includes a coating module configured to receive the high gloss coating ink and the low gloss coating ink. The coating module includes a first and second group of nozzles... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20090262160 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a moving mechanism having a first member supported by a recording section so as to be movable along a first axis, and capable of moving the recording section in one direction and its opposite direction along a second axis intersecting the first axis according to... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090262161 - Liquid jetting apparatus, liquid delivery system, and circuit board: A liquid jetting apparatus receives delivery of liquid from a liquid delivery system including a delivery system-side terminal. The liquid jetting apparatus includes a apparatus-side terminal, a contact sensing portion and a remaining level sensor portion. The apparatus-side terminal contacts the delivery system-side terminal when receiving delivery of liquid from... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20090262162 - Liquid ejecting apparatus and platen unit: There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a liquid ejecting head that has a conductive nozzle plate and discharges liquid from openings of the nozzle plate to recording material; an absorbing member that is arranged opposite the nozzle plate in a direction in which the liquid is discharged and... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090262163 - Inkjet nozzle incorporating piston actuator: A nozzle for an inkjet printer comprises a roof layer defining a nozzle port through which ink is ejected; a substrate layer fast with the roof layer and defining a nozzle chamber wall; and an actuator assembly fast with the substrate layer and comprising a support. The actuator assembly comprises... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090262164 - Developer supply device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A developer supply device, includes: a developer holder; and a developer reservoir which is disposed inside of the developer holder, holds a liquid developer, and has at least one supply section that supplies the liquid developer from the developer reservoir to the developer holder, the liquid developer including a toner... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20090262165 - Supply system and injection-head structure thereof: A supply system capable of providing a working fluid is provided. The supply system includes an access device, a first energizer, a second energizer, a third energizer and an output device. The access device utilized to access the working fluid includes a connecting port. The first energizer provides a first... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20090262166 - Printhead having plural fluid ejection heating elements: A printhead is provided which has a plurality of fluid chambers defined in a substrate, a plurality of covers which each cover a respective fluid chamber, each cover having a plurality of radially extending supports supporting a rim thereby defining a fluid ejection nozzle, and a plurality of heating elements... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090262167 - Inkjet recording head substrate and drive control method, inkjet recording head, inkjet recording head cartridge and inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording head substrate having an electrothermal transducer for generating thermal energy used to discharge ink and a drive element for driving the electrothermal transducer mounted thereon includes a first circuit portion for outputting selection signals for selecting the electrothermal transducer to be driven at a amplitude level of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090262168 - Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting head includes a flow path substrate that has an array of pressure generating chambers communicating with nozzle openings, respectively, piezoelectric elements arranged in a region corresponding to the pressure generating chambers, a driver IC driving the piezoelectric elements, an array of individual lead electrodes extending in the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090262169 - Method of manufacturing liquid jet head, method of manfuacturing piezoelectric element and liquid jet apparatus: A method of manufacturing a piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric layer forming step of sequentially and repeatedly performing a heat treatment step of applying a piezoelectric material containing lead to a lower electrode film at a relative humidity in the range of 30% to 50% Rh and then performing a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090262170 - Liquid container and liquid consuming apparatus: A small-capacity liquid container capable of preventing a trouble due to a pressurized deformation of a large-capacity liquid container even when plural liquid containers having different capacity are densely arranged. A liquid container is an improvement of a small-capacity liquid container of a plurality of liquid containers selected from a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090262171 - Refillable ink cartridge and protection member thereof: In a refillable ink cartridge having an ink supply opening portion that is hermetically sealed with a sealing member, leakage of ink out of the cartridge due to a decrease in the sealing property of the sealing member is prevented. The sealing member, which is elastically deformable, is penetrated by... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090262172 - Double-sided printer having opposed print engines: A double-sided printer having two print engines are arranged on opposite sides of a print media path. Each print engine comprises an image transfer roller configured to operatively transfer an image onto a sheet of paper fed through the media path; an ink cartridge having an integrated printhead for printing... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090262174 - Inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a platen configured to support a recording medium at a position facing a recording head, a suction portion arranged at the platen and configured to suck the recording medium, an ink receiving portion arranged at the platen and configured to receive ink discharged on a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090262173 - Transfer apparatus, method for preventing leakage current of the transfer apparatus, and image forming apparatus including the transfer apparatus: A disclosed transfer apparatus includes an endless belt to transfer a recording member by attaching the recording member on a surface thereof by an electrostatic force; a driving device to rotate the endless belt; and a holding device to temporarily hold the recording member to hinder a movement thereof caused... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090262175 - Heat generation sheet and method of fabricating the same: Provided are a heat generation sheet and a method of fabricating the same. The heat generation sheet includes: a base comprising first and second sides; a heat generation layer which is formed in at least one region of the first side of the base and in which a plurality of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090262176 - Heating resistance element component and printer: Provided is a heating resistance element component, including: a supporting substrate; an insulating film laminated on the supporting substrate; a plurality of heating resistors formed on the insulating film, the plurality of heating resistors being arranged in a zigzag shape along a main scanning direction and having a substantially square... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq Adams & Wilks

20090262177 - Ribbon guide for thermal printers and method of installation: A ribbon guide used to install a thermal ribbon in a thermal printer, the ribbon guide having a bottle shaped profile and being formed of V-Max® brand synthetic paper. The ribbon guide has three integral portions, a first portion having a cross-shaped slit and a hole, a second portion that... Agent: Perry Hoffman And Associates, P.C.

20090262178 - Disc writer storing data and creating a visible image on a disc: A laser disc writer receives a blank disc on which to store data related to content and label information defining a label. Two heads, one disposed on each side of the disc, are used to store data and the label information on the two sides of the disc.... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20090262179 - Method for reducing the area coverage of a printing plate: Before image data are screened for the subsequent exposure of a printing form, files needed for the screening step are changed in such a way that the values of individual elements in the data fields are changed. The number of elements whose values are changed is determined by evaluating contiguous... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090256869 - Mobile device with printer: A mobile device having printhead for printing onto a media substrate, a media feed path along which the media substrate is fed past the printhead, and a capper assembly. The capper assembly is movable between a capped position covering the array of nozzles and an uncapped position spaced from the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090256870 - Printing apparatus capable of effectively heating and cooling ink: A printing apparatus is provided with a heater for heating ink and a cooler for cooling ink, and comprises: an ink circulation route including a heater side route and a cooler side route which are separately provided through the heater and the cooler respectively; a switch mechanism operable to switch... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090256871 - Inkjet printing apparatus and inkjet printing method: There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus which are used to obtain a printed matter having a small degree of glossiness unevenness and a flat surface. The apparatus is the inkjet printing apparatus for forming an image on a print medium by relatively scanning a first ejection unit for ejecting... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090256872 - Print head and printer equipped therewith: A print head which prevents printing force from being reduced by making the distance between the tip of a printing wire and a printing medium adjustable, and a printer equipped therewith are provided. When the tip of a wire (11) abrades through use of a print head (1) and printing... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090256873 - Printing apparatus and printing method: The present invention forms a high-quality image by using a print head, in which a plurality of arrayed small heads, each having a plurality of print elements arranged in columns, are arranged so that at least two sets of print elements in adjoining small heads are aligned in a scan... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090256874 - Image recording device: There is provided an image recording device, comprising first and second motors; first and second switch gears supported coaxially; first and second transmission gears, and wherein the first and second switch gears are provided to engage with corresponding ones of the first and second transmission gears in accordance with movement... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090256875 - Method for manufacturing patterned thin-film layer: A method for manufacturing a patterned thin-film layer includes the steps of: providing a substrate with a plurality of banks thereon, the plurality of banks defining a plurality of spaces; providing an ink-jet device comprising a plurality of nozzles for depositing ink therefrom; generating a jetting information about ink volume... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090256876 - Printer with processor having bused decoding and expansion units: A printer comprises a processor and a printhead. The processor comprises an address, data and control bus; an expander unit and a decoder unit each coupled to the bus and configured respectively to decompress a bi-level black layer and a contone layer of a page to be printed; and a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090256877 - Method of calculating correction value, correctioin value calculating program, and liquid ejecting apparatus: A method of calculating a correction value includes forming a test pattern in which a dot row formed A method of calculating a correction value includes forming a test pattern in which a dot row formed by aligning dots in a direction intersecting a predetermined direction is aligned in the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090256878 - Printing system, inkjet printer and method for printing: A printing system includes an inkjet head and a decompressor. The inkjet head has nozzles configured to eject ink droplets of ink to a medium. Each of the ink droplets has a volume of about 1 picoliter or less. The decompressor is configured to reduce a pressure in an area... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090256879 - Inkjet printing apparatus and inkjet printing method: There are provided an inkjet printing apparatus and an inkjet printing method, whereby, the temperature of a print head is controlled and the ejection volume of ink to be ejected is stabilized to print a high-quality image, even at a high printing duty. Based on print data, an ejection number... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090256880 - Printing system, inkjet printer and method for printing: A printing system includes an inkjet head, a medium supporting portion and a decompressor. The inkjet head has nozzles configured to eject ink to a print surface of a medium. The nozzles have a nozzle surface on which openings of the nozzles exist. The medium supporting portion has a supporting... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090256881 - Inkjet printer control: A printing speed for printing an image using an inkjet printer is determined. Information regarding a measure of the nozzle firing quality of the printer as a function of printing speed and in relation to an image attribute is determined. The image to be printed is analysed in respect of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090256882 - Bonded structures formed by plasma enhanced bonding: An electronic device comprises a substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface, a substrate carrier comprising a first surface and a second surface, and an inorganic material bonding the second surface of the substrate and the second surface of the substrate carrier.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090256883 - Maintenance station of an inkjet printer: A maintenance station of an inkjet printer mounted in a housing of the inkjet printer includes an ink cup rotationally and slidably coupled to the housing about/along an axis of rotation. The ink cup has a basic plate and a columnar rim around the basic plate. The columnar rim respectively... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090256884 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a recording head to eject ink droplets through a nozzle onto a recording medium, a replaceable ink cartridge to contain ink to be supplied to the recording head, a replaceable waste-ink tank to store waste ink ejected from the recording head, a cartridge mounting portion... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090256885 - Printer having moveable printhead and capping/purging member: An inkjet printer is provided which has at least one printhead having a plurality of ink ejection nozzles, a capping/purging member having a length corresponding substantially to that of the printhead, a first actuating mechanism arranged to move the printhead in an arcuate first direction between first, second and third... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090256886 - Liquid-droplet ejection head and ink jet printer: A liquid-droplet ejection head may include stacked plates that form therein a common liquid channel and a plurality of individual ink channels extending from exits from the common liquid channel to nozzles via pressure chambers. At least one of the stacked plates may include an island-shaped partial plate surrounded by... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090256887 - Liquid discharge method and liquid discharge head: A liquid discharge method allowing a liquid inside a flow path to be heated by a heat generating element (2), thereby to generate a bubble by using a liquid discharge head including an orifice plate (4) having a discharge port (5), heat generating elements symmetrically disposed on the surface opposite... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090256888 - Printhead having ejection nozzle integrated circuits: A printhead is provided having a support member for mounting the printhead in a printer, and a plurality of integrated circuits supported by the support member. Each integrated circuit has ejection nozzles defined on a substrate to eject fluid from an ejection side of the substrate and the support member... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090256889 - Pagewidth printhead unit: The invention provides for a pagewidth printhead unit for a printer. The unit includes two integrated circuits laid end-to-end, each having micro-electromechanical nozzles for ejecting printing fluid. The unit also includes an ink distribution plate for feeding printing fluid into apertures defined in the integrated circuits, and an ink distribution... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090256890 - Printhead nozzle arrangement with dual mode thermal actuator: A pagewidth inkjet printhead assembly has a plurality of nozzle arrangements. Each nozzle arrangement comprises walls defining an ink chamber having an ink supply channel and an ink ejection port having an ink spreading prevention rim; a thermal actuator mechanism for ejecting ink from the chamber via the ejection port,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090256891 - Heater chips with silicon die bonded on silicon substrate and methods of fabricating the heater chips: A heater chip has a substrate and at least one die, made of silicon, and a bond non-adhesively attaching them. The substrate, thick enough to resist bowing, has ink supply vias from back to front surfaces. The die has ink flow vias from back to front surfaces and circuitry including... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090256893 - Attachment, liquid container, and liquid supply apparatus: An attachment is mounted on a cartridge holder of a printer as a replacement of an ink cartridge. An ink outlet member having a link passage is separably secured to an attachment body. Ink is supplied from the exterior to the ink outlet member through an ink supply tube. When... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20090256894 - Ink cartridges: A cartridge includes a first member that prevents a first signal, having first intensity, from passing entirely therethrough, wherein one portion of the first signal has a second intensity. A second member either prevents a second signal having a third intensity from entirely passing therethrough, or allows one first portion... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090256895 - Ink cartridges: An ink cartridge includes a first member that alters a path of a first signal originating at a first position, a second member that alters a path of a second signal when the second member is aligned with each of a second position and a third position, and when the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090256892 - Ink container and image forming apparatus incorporating same: An ink container incorporatable in an image forming apparatus includes an ink pack formed by adhering perimeters of multiple flexible films together to contain ink therein, the ink pack having at least one hole formed in a perimeter thereof and a case to hold the ink pack therein, formed by... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090256896 - Ink-jet printer and method for decurling cut sheet media prior to ink-jet printing: Ink-jet printing systems and methods are presented for decurling cut sheet print media for ink-jet printing, in which the cut sheets are transported along a path with a moisture source directing water droplets or mist toward all or a portion of a first side of the sheets in a moisturizing... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090256897 - Object holder for printing multiple images: An apparatus for printing an image on an object includes electronic image storage for storing the image and a print head positioned in spaced-apart relation to the object for receiving electronic data representing the image. The image is printed onto the object using an ink that is applied with a... Agent: Adams Intellectual Property Law, P.A.

20090256898 - Device for printing a picture onto a piece of cloth to be embroidered, and embroidering machine having the same: A printing device includes a cloth-holding frame unit mounted fittingly and detachably in a receiving groove in a base, and having a lock bolt for locking an outer frame on a looped inner frame disposed on and surrounded by the outer frame such that a piece of cloth is held... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Office Of David Lathrop

20090256899 - Image forming apparatus, surface property reforming sheet, and method for forming image: An image forming apparatus includes a feeding device feeding a recording medium to be recorded, a thermal transfer sheet having an ink layer to form an image and a protective material layer to form a protective layer protecting the image, a thermal transfer sheet transporting device, a surface property reforming... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090256900 - System and method for optical printing on a laser printer: A laser printer includes a light source that is passed through or conditioned by an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) apparatus, a DLP (Digital Light mirrors) apparatus, to filter the light source before the light beam is applied to the photosensitive drum for the purpose of dispensing toner to paper. Passing... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090251498 - Liquid container, board, and method of rewriting liquid information: A liquid container adapted for installation in a liquid jetting device includes an installation status notifier portion. The installation status notifier portion, in an installed state wherein the liquid container is installed in the liquid jetting device, is able to make the liquid jetting device determine that there exists the... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20090251499 - Liquid ejecting apparatus and liquid ejecting method: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a printing head that ejects liquid to form dots on a recording medium; a head driving section that performs a main scanning for the printing head; a transporting section that performs a sub-scanning for the recording medium; an image forming section that forms an image,... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090251500 - Printing apparatus, printing method and computer program: There is provided a printing apparatus including a printing unit for printing visual information on a non-recording surface of a rotatably driven recording medium by discharging ink droplets; and a control unit for controlling movement of the printing unit in a radial direction of the recording medium, and controlling a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090251501 - Printing apparatus, printing method and computer program: There is provided a printing apparatus including a printing unit for printing visual information on a non-recording surface of a rotatably driven recording medium by discharging ink droplets; and a control unit for controlling movement of the printing unit in a radial direction of the rotatably driven recording medium, and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090251502 - Printing system having contolled multi-length printhead ics: printing system is provided which has a plurality of printhead integrated circuits of different lengths and a controller configured to supply print data to the printhead integrated circuits. The printhead integrated circuits are arranged to define a pagewidth printhead having rows of nozzles formed by adjacent nozzle rows of the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090251503 - Printing system having contolled multi-length printhead ics: A printing device having a function that adjusts for deviation that occurs between ink droplet landing positions during bidirectional printing in which ink droplets of a plurality of dot sizes are discharged to print images on a print medium, comprising a print head that discharges ink droplets having a plurality... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090251504 - Systems and methods for wet in-situ calibration using measurement of light transmittance through ink deposited on a substrate: The present invention provides inkjet print nozzle calibration systems and methods for measuring thickness of deposited ink pixel wells on a substrate. The method includes scanning a plurality of pixel wells with a thickness measurement device, wherein the pixel wells include fluid ink with evaporating solvent; re-scanning the plurality of... Agent: Dugan & Dugan, PC

20090251505 - Fluid ejecting head, a fluid ejecting apparatus: A recording head 4 includes a nozzle plate 22 provided with nozzle openings 23 ejecting ink, a heater 30 heating the ink, and a head cover 40 provided in contact with the nozzle plate 22 and having a predetermined function of protecting the nozzle plate 22. The heater 30 heats... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090251506 - Ink jet printer, ink supply mechanism for the ink jet printer, and ink supply method: An ink jet printer system includes an ink jet head, a plurality of ink supplying cartridges, an ink flow channel and a control device. The ink flow channel connects the ink jet head and the plurality of ink supplying cartridges to supply ink from the plurality of ink supplying cartridges... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090251507 - Microparticle/aerosol-collecting device for office machine: A microparticle/aerosol-collecting device for office machine. The microparticle/aerosol-collecting device is positioned near a printing section or a printer head. The microparticle/aerosol-collecting device includes a housing having an upper section and a lower section defining a space. The space has an opening. An absorption section is arranged in the space. The... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090251508 - Printer with reduced co-efficient of static friction nozzle plate: An inkjet printer with a nozzle plate that has an exterior surface with formations for reducing its co-efficient of static friction. By reducing the co-efficient of static friction, there is less likelihood that paper dust or other contaminants will clog the nozzles in the nozzle plate. Static friction, or “stiction”... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090251509 - Printhead substrate, printhead, head cartridge, and printing apparatus: This invention is directed to a head substrate capable of high-quality printing even when the environmental temperature, print duty, and printhead itself change, a printhead, a head cartridge, and a printing apparatus using the printhead. The head substrate includes a plurality of heaters, a constant electric current source which generates... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090251510 - Waste liquid treatment device and liquid ejecting apparatus: A waste liquid treatment device includes a storage unit configured to store waste liquid which is cured upon reception of an ultraviolet ray and an irradiating unit configured to irradiate a liquid surface of the waste liquid in the storage unit in an uncured state with an ultraviolet ray, and... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090251511 - Inkjet recording device: An inkjet recording device has an ink tank, a reservoir and an ink head, forms an ink supplying system by connecting with a path between the ink tank and the reservoir and between the reservoir and the ink head respectively, and forms a meniscus by generating a negative pressure on... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090251516 - Ink tank: The present invention provides an ink tank in which ink is unlikely to leak from an air communication hole even with variation in the internal pressure of the ink tank or an external impact on the ink tank. Specifically, ink attached to a rib or trapped in a groove may... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090251512 - Liquid cartridge, loading/unloading device of liquid cartridge, recording apparatus, and liquid ejection apparatus: A cartridge loading/unloading device includes a cartridge holding mechanism 154 which holds a liquid cartridge 80 when a liquid cartridge 80 is inserted by a first predetermined stroke, and a power transmission converting mechanism 153 which ensures a push-in force required for loading of the ink cartridge 80 using the... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20090251517 - Liquid storage device and liquid presence determining method: A liquid storage device includes a storage portion that is configured to store liquid therein, a rotating member that is provided in a bottom portion at inside of the storage portion so as to be capable of rotating, a driving member that is provided at outside of the storage portion... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090251515 - Pigment cartridge carrier device: An ink cartridge carrier device includes a casing, having an opening and an inner chamber communicated with each other, for carrying an ink cartridge; a locking/unlocking mechanism, pivoted on the casing, such that the locking/unlocking mechanism is made to be rotatable and applies a restraining force to fix the ink... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090251518 - Printing apparatus and ink cartridge therefor: To enable a coupling terminal member of an ink cartridge and a coupling terminal of a printing apparatus to be in certain and increase a degree of freedom on installation position of a coupling terminal member of the cartridge, a cartridge installed in a printing apparatus for supplying the printing... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20090251513 - Systems and methods for remanufacturing imaging components: An ink jet remanufacturing chip verifier for new ink jet chips attached to remanufactured ink jet cartridges includes a controller for verifying during the process of remanufacturing the ink jet cartridges: if the new ink jet chips attached to the remanufactured ink jet cartridges are new ink jet chips, if... Agent: William L. London

20090251514 - Universal ink cartridge seal: A universal ink cartridge seal is disclosed. The seal is used to seal an exit port on an ink jet cartridge. The seal has a top and a surrounding wall. The surrounding wall extends perpendicularly away from the circumference of the top. The surrounding wall has an inside surface. The... Agent: William L. London

20090251519 - Ink-jet head and manufacturing method thereof: Disclosed are an ink-jet head and a manufacturing method thereof. The ink-jet head, which has a reservoir storing ink, a chamber being supplied with the ink from the reservoir, a restrictor connecting the reservoir to the chamber, and a nozzle discharging the ink, includes: a chamber plate, in which the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090251520 - Ultraviolet irradiation device and ink ejection device: An ultraviolet irradiation device includes: a light source which irradiates ultraviolet curable ink with ultraviolet rays; and a jetting port which jets gas to form a gas film facing the light source in an irradiation direction.... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090251521 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting apparatus is provided. A transport mechanism is that transports a sheet in a first direction. A liquid ejecting head is configured to eject liquid onto the sheet. The transport mechanism includes: a plurality of transport belts that transports the sheet and arranged in a second direction which... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090251522 - Target transport device and recording apparatus: There is provided a target transport device including a support member having a support surface capable of supporting a target that is transported toward a downstream side from an upstream side, suction openings of suction holes capable of generating a negative pressure when the suction holes are suctioned being formed... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090251523 - Method and device for decorating an uneven surface of a dimensionally stable object: To permit the base of a hollow body such as a beverage can to be printed, the invention discloses a method for decorating an uneven surface of a dimensionally stable object. According to said method, the object to be decorated and a digital, contactless printing head are moved in relation... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20090251525 - Method of forming visual image on optical disk by laser beam: A method is designed for forming a visual image having a specified shape on a surface of an optical disk by using an optical writing process of irradiating a laser beam onto the surface of the optical disk to form pits. The optical disk is normally capable of recording information... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20090251524 - Pulsed laser mode for writing labels: An apparatus and a method for writing a label on a surface of an object, such as on the top surface of an optical disk (CD, DVD, Blu Ray etc.) are disclosed. The label is written by using the laser in the optical pickup unit of the disk device. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards