B41J 2/211
Mixing of inks, solvent or air prior to paper contact
Official title: {Mixing of inks, solvent or air prior to paper contact}
B41J2/211 (Mixing of inks, solvent or air prior to paper contact) appears on 225 US grants and 182 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Pigment dispersion for ink jet ink, ink jet ink, and printed matter4 Aug 2026US 12,697,819 B2DIC Corporation
- Passive mixer in jetting channels of a printhead27 Nov 2025US 2025/0360725 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Coating device, manufacturing system, method for controlling coating device, and method for adjusting coating device6 Nov 2025US 2025/0340069 A1Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.
- Active mixer in jetting channels of a printhead2 Oct 2025US 2025/0303742 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
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- Coating device and image forming system22 May 2025US 2025/0162329 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ink jet printing with color-balanced ink drops mixed using bleached ink94US 6,464,336 B1Eastman Kodak Company · 2002
- Solvent and multiple color ink mixing system in an ink jet66US 4,614,953 ALaitram, L. L. C. · 1986
- Ink-jet print head and ink-jet printer54US 5,371,529 ASony Corporation · 1994
- Microfluid valve for modulating fluid flow within an ink-jet printer54US 5,872,582 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1999
- Ballistic aerosol marking apparatus with non-wetting coating49US 6,416,159 B1Xerox Corporation · 2002