Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
101485000 | Position or alignment | 43 |
20080229960 | Methods for setting the contact pressure of a displaceably mounted roller - A method is used to set a contact pressure between a displaceable roller and another roller or for moving the displaceable roller with respect to the other roller. At least one actuator is subjectible to the action of a pressure medium and presses the displaceable roller toward the other roller with an adjustable force. The pressure of the pressure medium can be adjusted by a valve. A switchover device is provided for use in connecting the valve to different actuators, as desired. | 09-25-2008 |
20080229961 | Methods for setting the contact pressure of a displaceably mounted roller - A method is used to set a contact pressure between a displaceable roller and another roller or for moving the displaceable roller with respect to the other roller. At least one actuator is subjectible to the action of a pressure medium and presses the displaceable roller toward the other roller with an adjustable force. The pressure of the pressure medium can be adjusted by a valve. A switchover device is provided for use in connecting the valve to different actuators, as desired. | 09-25-2008 |
20080236431 | Process for Color Variability in Printing to Simulate Color Variation of Natural Product - An apparatus for printing a variable pattern on a substrate, a method using the apparatus, a product produced by using the apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus includes an ink bath containing a printing agent to be applied to the substrate, a roller that picks up ink from the ink bath, a doctor blade to wipe of excess printing agent on the roller, and a means for intentionally varying the design printed on the substrate from the roller. | 10-02-2008 |
20080282921 | ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND PROCESSES FOR FORMING THE SAME - An electronic device includes an array. In one embodiment, a process for forming an electronic device includes the array, which includes electronic components, can include printing one or more layers as a series of segments onto a workpiece. In one embodiment, a process includes printing a layer onto the workpiece and at least one exposed portion of the chuck. In still another embodiment, a printing head is greater than 0.5 mm from the workpiece. In a further embodiment, “hybrid” printing can be used to help form a thicker layer having a relatively thinner width. In a further embodiment, processes can be used to reduce the likelihood of a stitching defect, nonuniformity of a layer across an array, or a combination thereof. A printing apparatus can be modified to achieve more flexibility in liquid compositions, temperatures or other conditions used in printing a layer. | 11-20-2008 |
20090044714 | Printing method of image and photo-printing system and digital camera adapted for the same - A method of printing an image and a photo printing system and a digital camera adapted for the printing method are provided. The method of printing an image is a printing method for outputting through a photo printer an image stored in an image storage device. The method includes: setting a temporary printing area on an image to be printed; determining whether or not an option for Paper-full printing in which no space is left on a printing material, is selected; if the Paper-full print option is selected, detecting a face area photographed on the image; determining whether or not the detected face area is included in a printing area; and according to the determination result, adjusting a printing area so that the face area can be included in the printing area. | 02-19-2009 |
20090056583 | Printing method, printing apparatus, and print producing method - A printing method that alternately repeats a transport operation that transports a continuous medium in a transport direction and an image forming operation that moves a head to form an image to thereby print out a first image and a second image, which has a smaller length in the transport direction than the first image, on the continuous medium. The printing method includes: setting a unit area, which is equal to or smaller than the size of a printing area that is printable through the one image forming operation, on the basis of the printable printing area and the size of the first image; generating print data for the unit area such that, within the unit area, an integer number of the first images are aligned at a first spacing in the transport direction, an integer number of the second images are aligned at a second spacing in the transport direction, and the integer number of the first images aligned in the transport direction and the integer number of the second images aligned in the transport direction are printed so as to be aligned in a width direction that intersects with the transport direction; and performing printing using the print data repeatedly so that, on the continuous medium, a plurality of the first images are aligned at the first spacing in the transport direction and a plurality of the second images are aligned at the second spacing in the transport direction. | 03-05-2009 |
20090272287 | Cutting Register Control - A web-fed rotary press having a regulating device. The regulating device is a register roller capable of linear movement installed upstream of at least one drive provided as an upstream actuator, i.e., the drive of the folder lead-in rollers or of the draw rollers near the former lead-in rollers and/or of draw rollers between the slitter and the former lead-in rollers and/or of draw rollers on the full web before it reaches the slitter. | 11-05-2009 |
20110000387 | Print Unit having Blanket Cylinder Throw-off Bearer Surfaces and Method - An offset print unit includes a plate cylinder having an end, a rotatable plate cylinder support supporting the end and having a first bearing surface, a blanket cylinder having a blanket cylinder end, a rotatable blanket cylinder support supporting the end and having a second bearing surface and an actuating device for rotating the plate cylinder support and the blanket cylinder support, the first and second bearing surfaces contacting during a part of the rotation of the supports. A method is also provided. | 01-06-2011 |
20110011292 | Method for Changing Edition on a Rotary Press - A method for successive printing of a first print job and a second print job on the same web using at least one printing group of the rotary press to print the first print job and the second print job is provided. The printing group includes at least a plate cylinder, a plate, a blanket cylinder and a blanket. Between the first print job and the second print job, a plate-changing stage occurs in which the blanket is held away from the web and the plates of the plate cylinder are changed. According to one aspect of the invention, between the first print job and the second print job, the web is kept traveling through the rotary press. | 01-20-2011 |
20110265676 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING AND CONTROLLING A PRINTING MACHINE BY EMPLOYING MINUTE MARKS - A method for registering a press machine including printing stations, each including a plate roller with a printing plate. Each printing plate includes a microdot engraving. The method includes displacing the plate rollers with respect to each other for scattering them, printing a scattered microdot pattern on a print substrate, acquiring an image of the scattered microdot pattern, associating the plate rollers with their respective microdot marks, and displacing the plate rollers to a registered position, Each of the plate rollers is associated with a unique scattered displacement and with its respective microdot mark according to the position of its respective microdot mark relative to the other microdot marks in the scattered microdot pattern, and to the unique scattered displacement of the plate roller. The plate rollers are displaced to a registered position according to the position of their respective microdot marks relative to the other microdot marks. | 11-03-2011 |
20110297028 | CONTACT PRESSURE ADJUSTING METHOD AND CONTACT PRESSURE ADJUSTING APPARATUS FOR PRINTING PRESS - A contact pressure adjusting method and a contact pressure adjusting apparatus for a printing press, which can adjust a contact pressure automatically and always highly accurately without the influence of mechanical oscillations (disturbance such as noise), are provided. For this purpose, the contact pressure (load) of a wiping roll on an intaglio cylinder is converted into the torque value (electric current value) of a wiping roll drive motor, and given as feedback to a wiping roll contact pressure adjusting motor. | 12-08-2011 |
20120067239 | TURNING OR SHIFTING WEB IN PRINTER - A method for turning or laterally shifting a web in a printing machine includes guiding the web successively around four rollers. Roller | 03-22-2012 |
20120090489 | NANOIMPRINT METHOD - According to one embodiment, a nanoimprint method includes: performing imprinting by use of a first template, to form a pattern on a first substrate to be transferred; measuring an alignment deviation of the pattern with respect to the first substrate to be transferred; performing alignment-deviation correction based on the measured alignment deviation, to produce a third template by use of the first template; and performing imprinting by use of the third template, to form a pattern on a second substrate to be transferred. | 04-19-2012 |
20120118187 | Method of Removing a Printing Plate from a Plate Cylinder of a Printing Press - A method of removing a printing plate, each having leading and trailing edges located in respective lock-up slots in a plate cylinder of a printing press, from said plate cylinder, is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of extracting a first of said leading and trailing edges, rotating the plate cylinder in a first direction such that an extraction element located proximal to the surface of the plate cylinder passes beneath the extracted first edge until the printing plate is lifted off the surface of the plate cylinder by the extraction element, with the second edge still in its lock-up slot, to cause the second edge to move within its lock-up slot as the plate is lifted to loosen said second edge within its lock-up slot, rotating the plate cylinder in a second direction so that said plate drops back and, rotating the plate cylinder in the first direction again so that the extraction element pulls said loosened second edge out of said lock-up slot. | 05-17-2012 |
20120240803 | IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING AN IMAGE - An image-forming device includes a conveying part, an image-forming part, first through third sensors, and a control part. The conveying part is configured and arranged to convey a continuous recording material. The image-forming part is configured and arranged to form an image on the recording material conveyed by the conveying part. The first through third sensors are configured and arranged to detect positions of an edge surface of the recording material conveyed by the conveying part. The control part is configured to calculate first through third shifting amounts based on the positions of the edge surface of the recording material simultaneously detected by the first through third sensors, respectively. The first shifting amount is generated by movement of the recording material, the second shifting amount is generated by rotation of the recording material, and the third shifting amount is generated by fluctuations in the edge surface of the recording material. | 09-27-2012 |
20130074720 | PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING PAPER WIDTH DIRECTION EDGE POSITION - A printing device includes a head unit having a print head and a sensor that detects a presence or an absence of a sheet, a drive unit that causes the head unit to move to a width direction orthogonal to a feeding direction of the sheet, and a control unit controlling a position of the print head to the sheet based on a detection result of the sensor, wherein the control unit executes a first control that obtains the detection result of the sensor whenever the head unit moves only a first interval to a specific direction from a reference position and a second control that, when a change from the presence to the absence of the sheet is detected by the sensor during the first control, obtains the detection result of the sensor whenever the head unit moves only a second interval that is shorter than the first interval. | 03-28-2013 |
20130199390 | DETECTING AN UNSECURED STATE OF A MANDREL - A method for analyzing a mandrel ( | 08-08-2013 |
20140026773 | Projector Assisted Alignment and Printing - A flexible manufacturing system for an article of footwear includes a printing system for printing graphics onto the footwear. The flexible manufacturing system also includes a projection system for aligning a projected graphic with a predetermined portion of the article prior to printing the graphic to the article. The graphic can include a masked portion that corresponds to a design element on the article. | 01-30-2014 |
20140076184 | METHOD FOR FORMING STRUCTURED MICRODOTS - A method of making structured microdots ( | 03-20-2014 |
20140083316 | PRECISION OVERPRINTING METHOD OF PRINTED ELECTRONICS ROTARY PRINTING WHERE LOCATION CAN BE ADJUSTED IN REAL TIME - The present invention relates to a precision overprinting method of printed electronics rotary printing where a location can be adjusted in real time. More particularly, minute precise printing electronic patterns of a micrometer level which are multilayered by a plurality of gravure offset printing units are accurately overprinted, and a fine deviation in a rotation direction and an axial direction of a plate cylinder is quickly solved. The present invention also relates to a precision overprinting method of printed electronics rotary printing where a location can be adjusted in real time, capable of verifying a printing quality by displaying register marks printed in printing units and alignment state on a display device. | 03-27-2014 |
20160129684 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SETTING INK-CONDUCTING ROTATIONAL BODIES OF A PRINTING PRESS - Rotational bodies of a printing press with at least a first, a second and a third ink-conducting rotational body, which interact with each other in pairs, can be set in a thrown-on position. The second of the at least three rotational bodies can be set both against the first of the three rotational bodies and against the third of the three rotational bodies in order to form a two-sided thrown-on position. Tracking, coupled in a defined way, of the rotational axis of the second rotational body takes place at the same time as a radial positional change of the rotational axis of the first rotational body, by the superimposition of two movements along two non-congruent movement paths which run in a plane which is perpendicular with respect to the rotational axis. A device for setting rotational bodies of a printing press is also provided. | 05-12-2016 |
20160185103 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOUNTING A PRINTING PLATE - A method and apparatus for mounting a printing plate onto a printing cylinder, wherein the printing plate includes a first registration mark and a second registration mark centrally located along opposing edges thereof. The apparatus includes an optical system to transmit images of the registration marks to a user interface, wherein a user selects a desired location point location of each of the registration marks displayed on the user interface to facilitate an alignment of the printing plate in respect of a central axis of the printing cylinder. | 06-30-2016 |
20160200095 | PRINTING OF MULTIPLE INKS TO ACHIEVE PRECISION REGISTRATION DURING SUBSEQUENT PROCESSING | 07-14-2016 |
101486000 | Of print means | 20 |
20080250962 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING PRINTING PRESS MODULES - The present invention relates to a method for dynamically adjusting at least one printing press module of a printing press ( | 10-16-2008 |
20080264287 | METHOD FOR LOADING PRINTING PLATE ON IMAGING DEVICE - A method for aligning the leading edge of printing plate ( | 10-30-2008 |
20090084281 | Method for reducing register errors on a web of material moving through the printing nip of a multi-color web-fed rotary printing press and corresponding devices - Register errors on a web of material which is moving through the printing nip of a multicolor web-fed rotary printing press are reduced. This is accomplished by providing a portion of the web of material, what is located between the web lateral edges of the web and areas in the vicinity of the lateral edges of the web, with a deformation relative to each other. Such deformations are directed perpendicularly to a plane of rotation of the web of material which is subject to a register error occurring in the direction of rotation of the web of material. | 04-02-2009 |
20090126591 | METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING THE PRINTING PRESSURE IN FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING MACHINES - A method of automatically adjusting the printing pressure in flexographic printing machines is disclosed. The method is applied to flexographic machines with a rotating support drum around which a series of printing units with a series of printing rollers associated to respective ink rollers are arranged, and includes carrying out for each printing unit: detecting the start and the end of one mark (M | 05-21-2009 |
20100005991 | PRINTING PRODUCT MANUFACTURING METHOD AND PRINTING PRODUCT MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing product manufacturing method of printing a plurality of printing products on a medium includes: generating first and second images on the basis of a printing target image; printing the first image in a first area of a print area and printing the second image in a second area of the print area on the downstream side of the first area in a transport direction; and transporting the first image printed in the first area to the second area, wherein the printing products in which the printing target image is printed on the medium are manufactured by alternately repeating the printing and the transporting. | 01-14-2010 |
20100043660 | METHOD FOR THE ARRANGMENT OF PRINTING BLOCKS ON A PLATE CYLINDER OF A PRINTING MACHINE - A plurality of printing blocks are placed on a plate cylinder of a printing machine. Each of these printing blocks is located at one of a plurality of mounting locations which are located adjacent each other in an axial direction of the plate cylinder. Each of these printing blocks is stored in a storage device which includes storage positions that are located adjacent to, and offset from each other at a fixed distance in the axial direction of the plate cylinder, prior to the arrangement of the printing blocks at one of the mounting locations of the plate cylinder. The plate cylinder and/or the storage device are displaced axially relative to each other by the operation of a positioning device. That displacement arranges a printing block to be arranged on the plate cylinder at a mounting location which is situated adjacent the mounting location of another printing block, which is already located there or what is still to be located there, at a distance which is reduced relative to a distance between two adjacent storage positions of the storage device. | 02-25-2010 |
20100071576 | OPTIMIZED REGISTER CONTROL PROCESS IN A SHEET-FED PRINTING PRESS - A method for setting position register and color register in a sheet-fed printing press having a control computer, which provides for one setting operation, in which both position and color register are set by the control computer. For the purposes of the setting, both the register setting elements in the printing units and the setting elements in the feeder are used. The invention is distinguished by the fact that before carrying out the setting operations, during the calculation of the travels for the register setting elements and setting elements in the feeder, an optimization comprising the travels of the register setting elements and the setting elements in the feeder is carried out in the computer. | 03-25-2010 |
20100101439 | MOVEABLE PRINTING PLATE REGISTRATION MEMBER - A method for registering a printing plate includes supporting the printing plate on a support surface. A plurality of registration members adapted to register an edge of the printing plate is provided. The first printing plate is moved over the support surface along a first direction to a position where the edge of the printing plate contacts a first registration member of the plurality of registration members. The first registration member is moved along a second direction that intersects the first direction while maintaining contact between the first registration member and the edge of the printing plate at a location on the edge that does not substantially vary as the first registration member moves along the second direction. Contact is established between the printing plate and a second registration member of the plurality of registration members after the first registration member has commenced moving along the second direction. | 04-29-2010 |
20100101440 | PRINTING PLATE POSITIONING - A method for positioning a printing plate includes supporting the printing plate on a support surface. A first force is applied to the printing plate to move the printing plate over the support surface along a path. A second force is applied to the printing plate to alter the movement of the printing plate along the path. The printing plate is pivoted on the support surface while applying the first force and the second force to the printing plate, wherein the printing plate is pivoted about a pivot point located on the printing plate at a location different from each of the locations on the printing plate to which the first and second forces are applied. | 04-29-2010 |
20100236438 | METHOD FOR SKEWING PRINTER TRANSFIX ROLL - A method of forming a nip with a skewed transfix roll includes positioning a first axis of rotation of a transfix roll at a skewed angle with respect to a second axis of rotation of an image drum, forming a nip with the skewed transfix roll and the image drum, and operating the printer with the nip formed with the skewed transfix roll. | 09-23-2010 |
20100294154 | SCALING IMAGES IN A DUAL ENGINE SYSTEM - A method for making adjustable magnified images in a plurality of physically coupled print engines by printing a first print including two first fiducial marks related to an original document. The separation of the two first fiducial marks on the first print are measured. Then the second engine is adjusted after printing a second image that has at least two second fiducial marks and using the separation between the at least two second fiducial marks on the second print until the separation equals the separation of the two first fiducial marks. | 11-25-2010 |
20110005419 | Method for Lubricating a Transfer Roller with An Image Member - A method is implemented by a printer to move a transfix roller selectively to clean the transfix roller. The transfix roller is moved from a transfix nip with the print drum to a position where the transfix roller remains in rolling contact with the print drum, but exerts a pressure on the print drum that is less than the transfix pressure. The transfix roller is later moved out of rolling contact with the print drum in response to the transfix roller rotating a predetermined distance. | 01-13-2011 |
20110203472 | FEEDFORWARD CONTROL OF DOWNSTREAM REGISTER ERRORS FOR ELECTRONIC ROLL-TO-ROLL PRINTING SYSTEM - An ultra-precision register control method in a continuous roll-to-roll printing process for manufacturing electronic devices via a feedforward register control logic, which compensates for and eliminates additional register errors attributable to variations in the speed of upstream printing cylinders. When used in combination with a conventional feedback register control logic, the feedforward register control logic accomplishes a register control with ultra-precision in a continuous roll-to-roll printing process, and enables implementation of a continuous roll-to-roll printing process for manufacturing electronic devices, for which a roll-to-roll printing process was formerly unavailable. | 08-25-2011 |
20140109786 | MULTI-DRIVE PRINTED PRODUCT PROCESSING DEVICE WITH VERIFIED FEEDBACK CONTROL - A multi-drive printed product processing device is provided that includes a processing component and a motor driving the processing component. A motor control controls the motor. An encoder measures a position of the motor and sends an encoder feedback signal indicating the position. The motor control receives the encoder feedback signal. An encoder feedback signal verification circuit verifies the integrity of the feedback signal. A printing press is also provided. | 04-24-2014 |
20140158007 | METHOD FOR ARRANGING A PRINTING PLATE ON A PLATE CYLINDER - The invention relates to a method for arranging a printing plate onto a plate cylinder that has a channel in which a front and a rear clamping device are arranged. The rear clamping device is part of a slide that is arranged to be movable towards the front clamping device along a clamping path. In a first phase of the clamping process, the slide, together with a rear printing plate end that is clamped into the rear clamping device, is moved towards a first channel wall, and the printing plate is thereby clamped. In a second phase of the clamping process, the printing plate is released again, and the at least one slide is moved away from the first channel wall and towards a second channel wall. In a third phase of the clamping process, the slide, together with the rear printing plate end that is clamped into the rear clamping device, is again moved towards the first channel wall, and the printing plate is thereby clamped. | 06-12-2014 |
20140230676 | FLEXOGRAPHIC PLATE MOUNTING - A method of aligning a flexographic printing plate ( | 08-21-2014 |
20140230677 | METHOD OF ALIGNING A STAMP TO A STAMP BACKING PLATE - A method of aligning a stamp to a stamp backing plate includes mounting a fixture with a first alignment feature to a platen; providing a first stamp with a second alignment feature which matches the first alignment feature; aligning the first stamp to the fixture using the first and second alignment features; transferring the first stamp from the fixture to a first stamp backing plate maintaining registration; providing a second stamp with a third alignment feature which matches the first alignment feature; aligning the second stamp to the fixture using the first and third alignment features; and transferring the second stamp from the fixture to a second stamp backing plate maintaining registration. | 08-21-2014 |
20140238257 | METHOD OF MOUNTING AND REGISTERING A PRINTING PLATE ON A PLATE CYLINDER OF A MULTI-COLOR OFFSET PRINTING PRESS - A method of mounting and adjusting a printing plate on a plate cylinder of a multicolor offset printing press is described. The printing plate is clamped between front and rear clamping bars, the rear clamping bar being movable under the application of a tensioning force and occupying, upon clamping of the trailing end of the printing plate, a tension-release position. Tensioning of the printing plate is carried out by initially applying a nominal tensioning force to the rear clamping bar. A print register of the tensioned printing plate is then measured and compared to a target print register to determine a corrected tensioning position of the rear clamping bar corresponding to the target print register. The tension of the printing plate is thereafter released. The correct tensioning position is set as new reference position of the rear clamping bar before or after tensioning again the printing plate. | 08-28-2014 |
20150068421 | METHOD FOR ARRANGING A PRINTING FORME ON A PLATE CYLINDER USING TENSIONING SLIDES - A printing plate is arranged on a plate cylinder having a channel, in which front and rear clamping devices are located. The rear clamping device forms part of a slide positioned inside the channel and which can move towards the front clamping device. The slide is first moved, together with a rear end of the printing form that is fixed into the rear clamping device, towards the front clamping device. At least one rear spacer is then adjusted to a position relative to the slide that defines a specific distance of the rear clamping device from a second channel wall. A tensioning drive is subsequently deactivated and the slide, together with the rear clamping device, are held in position along the tensioning path by the force exerted by the tensioned printing form, that force pressing the slide against the second channel wall by the rear spacer of the slide. | 03-12-2015 |
20150290924 | A METHOD FOR PRECISE ALIGNMENT OF IMPRESSIONS MADE WITH DIFFERENT INKS IN ROTARY PRINTING - In a method for precise alignment of impressions made by different inks, a rotary printing surface is used for printing a material. The different inks to be aligned with respect to each other are printed on different areas of the material by the same rotary printing surface, such as an impression roller. | 10-15-2015 |