B41F 31/005
Ink viscosity control means
Official title: {Ink viscosity control means}
B41F31/005 (Ink viscosity control means) appears on 39 US grants and 52 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41F- Granted patents
- 39
- Published applications
- 52
- Assignees
- 34
- Inventors
- 107
- Latest grant
- 23 Dec 2025
Filings by year
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| 2004 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 3 |
| 2006 | 4 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2 | 3 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2012 | 0 | 9 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 3 |
| 2015 | 1 | 7 |
| 2016 | 5 | 0 |
| 2017 | 1 | 2 |
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| 2019 | 2 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 3 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Stencil printer and ink viscosity sensing device15US 6,095,040 ATohoku Ricoh Co., Ltd. · 2000
- Method and device for maintaining density of a printed color constant14US 4,552,165 ABobst SA · 1985
- Method and apparatus for controlling ink viscosity13US 4,362,179 ABaldwin-Gegenheimer GmbH · 1982
- Method for removing solids from substrates and preventing solids build-up thereon10US 4,716,829 AAmerican Can Company · 1988
- Ink viscosity measuring device, ink viscosity adjusting method and device therefor, and a printing apparatus10US 6,546,866 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa · 2003