B41F 33/0063
Devices for measuring the thickness of liquid films on rollers or cylinders
Official title: {Devices for measuring the thickness of liquid films on rollers or cylinders}
B41F33/0063 (Devices for measuring the thickness of liquid films on rollers or cylinders) appears on 47 US grants and 38 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41F- Granted patents
- 47
- Published applications
- 38
- Assignees
- 33
- Inventors
- 110
- Latest grant
- 5 Dec 2023
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| 2022 | 4 | 6 |
| 2023 | 4 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Fountain solution thickness measurement system and method using ellipsometry5 Dec 2023US 11,835,446 B2Xerox Corporation
- Fountain solution thickness identification via gloss measurement system and method31 Oct 2023US 11,801,674 B2Xerox Corporation
- Method of operating a flexographic printing press, flexographic printing press, system, flexographic printing forme and a sleeve for a flexographic printing forme1 Aug 2023US 11,712,885 B2Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
- Fountain solution thickness control system in a digital printing device using a drag force sensor14 Feb 2023US 11,577,503 B2Xerox Corporation
- Fountain solution thickness measurement using an optical grating surface in a digital lithography printing system8 Nov 2022US 11,493,328 B2Xerox Corporation
- Fountain solution thickness measurement system and method using ellipsometry29 Dec 2022US 2022/0412878 A1Xerox Corporation
- Fountain solution thickness control system in a digital printing device using a drag force sensor18 Aug 2022US 2022/0258464 A1Xerox Corporation
- Fountain solution thickness identification via gloss measurement system and method14 Jul 2022US 2022/0219445 A1Xerox Corporation
- Fountain solution thickness measurement using optical properties of solidified fountain solution in a lithography printing system30 Jun 2022US 2022/0203749 A1Xerox Corporation
- Fountain solution thickness measurement using an optical grating surface in a digital lithography printing system30 Jun 2022US 2022/0205778 A1Xerox Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Arrangement for and method of determining the amount of dampening agent on a printing-image carrier15US 4,565,450 AGrapho Metronic Mess- und Regeltechnik GmbH & Co. KG · 1986
- Method of adjusting the inking unit of a printing machine and a measuring device for performing the same14US 4,570,539 AMAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG · 1986
- Ink and dampening solution determination in offset printing14US 6,832,550 B2Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · 2004
- Measurement of image area from stored pixel data13US 4,800,287 AWilson Engraving Company, Inc. · 1989
- Device for controlling by a measuring technique, dampening medium guidance zonewise in an inking unit for an offset printing machine11US 4,722,274 AHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · 1988