B41J 2/17593
Supplying ink in a solid state
Official title: {Supplying ink in a solid state}
B41J2/17593 (Supplying ink in a solid state) appears on 643 US grants and 558 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
- 643
- Published applications
- 558
- Assignees
- 79
- Inventors
- 810
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 14 | 2 |
| 2002 | 8 | 7 |
| 2003 | 10 | 30 |
| 2004 | 19 | 19 |
| 2005 | 20 | 20 |
| 2006 | 15 | 33 |
| 2007 | 11 | 34 |
| 2008 | 19 | 46 |
| 2009 | 21 | 40 |
| 2010 | 53 | 52 |
| 2011 | 66 | 85 |
| 2012 | 53 | 58 |
| 2013 | 67 | 37 |
| 2014 | 62 | 37 |
| 2015 | 25 | 18 |
| 2016 | 15 | 9 |
| 2017 | 12 | 4 |
| 2018 | 5 | 8 |
| 2019 | 7 | 4 |
| 2020 | 5 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 |
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| 2023 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 4 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Printing apparatus and control method1 Sep 2026US 12,722,389 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Providing system, providing method, and management device9 Jun 2026US 12,649,317 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Image forming apparatus15 Jul 2025US 12,358,300 B2Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Circulation device25 Mar 2025US 12,257,850 B2KYOCERA Corporation
- Coating module for coating a thin layer of ink on a ribbon20 Aug 2024US 12,064,982 B2Armor
- Circulation device19 Jun 2025US 2025/0196507 A1KYOCERA Corporation
- Printing apparatus and control method12 Dec 2024US 2024/0408884 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Providing system, providing method, and management device22 Feb 2024US 2024/0059073 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Image forming apparatus22 Feb 2024US 2024/0059074 A1Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Thermal printing apparatus with high agility printing speed14 Dec 2023US 2023/0398788 A1Armor
Most cited
By later US patents
- Imaging process325US 5,389,958 ATektronix, Inc. · 1995
- Apparatus for supplying phase change ink to an ink jet printer237US 5,442,387 ATektronix, Inc. · 1995
- Method for applying a hot melt ink to a substrate199US 4,684,956 AWillett International Limited · 1987
- Ink dispenser with "frozen" solid ink171US 4,490,731 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1984
- Printing medium management apparatus149US 5,751,303 ALaserMaster Corporation · 1998