B41J 2/16529
Idle discharge on printing matter
Official title: {Idle discharge on printing matter}
B41J2/16529 (Idle discharge on printing matter) appears on 93 US grants and 105 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 28 Oct 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Printing device and printing method20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241727 A1Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.
- Printing apparatus, control method, and storage medium22 Jan 2026US 2026/0021661 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image processing apparatus, image processing method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and image forming apparatus30 Oct 2025US 2025/0332844 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inkjet control method and inkjet recording apparatus24 Jul 2025US 2025/0236109 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Printing apparatus and maintenance method thereof31 Oct 2024US 2024/0359495 A1SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- On-page inkjet printhead spitting system84US 5,659,342 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1997
- Image forming apparatus and image forming method48US 8,025,389 B2FUJIFILM Corporation · 2011
- Ink jet printing method and ink jet printing apparatus11US 7,290,858 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2007
- Ink jet printing method9US 8,287,066 B2E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company · 2012
- Printing apparatus and driving method therefor8US 9,498,961 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2016