B41J 11/0045
Guides for printing material
Official title: {Guides for printing material (curl smoothing B41J11/0005; platens B41J11/02, B41J11/06; guiding webs B41J15/046)}
B41J11/0045 (Guides for printing material) appears on 964 US grants and 926 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Sheet supporting apparatus and image forming system21 Jul 2026US 12,686,584 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Printing apparatus30 Jun 2026US 12,668,073 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Recording apparatus and method of reading recorded image in recording apparatus23 Jun 2026US 12,661,909 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Media holders16 Jun 2026US 12,654,473 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Sheet feeding device and recording apparatus9 Jun 2026US 12,649,325 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Printing device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296073 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Printing apparatus10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264419 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Sheet conveying device, image forming apparatus, conveyance distance measurement method, and storage medium10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264422 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Printer27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249623 A1Citizen Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
- Inkjet printer23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208505 A1Roland Dg Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Media gate for thermal transfer printers411US 9,375,945 B1Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2016
- Ink jet printer having improved paper transport mechanism160US 5,291,227 ARicoh Company, Ltd. · 1994
- Digital camera system containing a VLIW vector processor133US 6,879,341 B1Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd · 2005
- Thermal printer with single latch, adjustable media storage and centering assemblies and print assembly133US 9,061,527 B2Datamax-O'Neil Corporation · 2015
- Digital camera having functionally interconnected image processing elements123US 7,701,506 B2Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd · 2010