B41J 2/16514
Creating a distance between cap and printhead
Official title: {creating a distance between cap and printhead, e.g. for suction or pressurising}
B41J2/16514 (Creating a distance between cap and printhead) appears on 93 US grants and 107 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
- 93
- Published applications
- 107
- Assignees
- 25
- Inventors
- 210
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Servicing cassettes for handheld fluid jet apparatuses for use in modifying surfaces22US 9,616,668 B1The Procter & Gamble Company · 2017
- Systems and methods for providing a service interface mechanism14US 9,616,692 B1The Procter & Gamble Company · 2017
- Service stations for handheld fluid jet apparatuses9US 10,166,799 B2The Procter & Gamble Company · 2019
- Inkjet printing apparatus and ink filling method4US 10,894,416 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2021
- Drop characteristic measurement2US 11,318,738 B2Kateeva, Inc. · 2022