B41J 25/001
Mechanisms for bodily moving print heads or carriages parallel to the paper
Official title: {Mechanisms for bodily moving print heads or carriages parallel to the paper surface}
B41J25/001 (Mechanisms for bodily moving print heads or carriages parallel to the paper) appears on 1,100 US grants and 1,215 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Inkjet apparatus and method of aligning the same6 Oct 2026US 12,752,534 B2Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Recording device and recording method of recording device6 Oct 2026US 12,752,552 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Systems and methods for positioning printheads of a printing apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,752,555 B2Cryovac, Inc.
- Carriage apparatus, printing apparatus, and control method thereof29 Sep 2026US 12,746,768 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Method for aligning printing heads of a printing device and printing device22 Sep 2026US 12,741,471 B2Bobst Mex SA
- Printing Apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295996 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Printing Apparatus And Method For Controlling Printing Apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296002 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Head unit and liquid discharge apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296016 A1
- Liquid Ejecting Apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296017 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Aqueous ink for inkjet recording, inkjet recording apparatus, and inkjet recording method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297357 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ink-jet printer equipped for aligning the printheads243US 6,554,398 B2Agfa-Gevaert · 2003
- Method of interconnecting a printhead with an ink supply manifold and a combined structure resulting therefrom145US 6,312,114 B1Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd · 2001
- Thermal printer with single latch, adjustable media storage and centering assemblies and print assembly133US 9,061,527 B2Datamax-O'Neil Corporation · 2015
- Pagewidth ink jet printer including multiple pass defective nozzle correction104US 6,089,693 AXerox Corporation · 2000
- Recording apparatus102US 4,675,696 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1987