Carriage assembly for an additive manufacturing system
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11981072
Certain examples described herein relate to a carriage assembly for an additive manufacturing system. The carriage assembly comprises a movable carriage to move over a build zone of the additive manufacturing system, a thermal sensor device on the carriage to obtain thermal data associated with a region of build material in the build zone, radiation device on the carriage to apply radiation onto the build material. The radiation device is configurable between a preheating mode, to apply…
Shared media paths
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11981534
In some examples, the disclosure describes a device that includes a first media tray positioned at a media input of a pick and separation mechanism, a second media tray positioned at the media input of the pick and separation mechanism, a media scan guide to position a sheet of print media at the media input of the pick and separation mechanism, a shared media path comprising a turn roller to receive the sheet of print media from the pick and separation mechanism from a first direction…
Image formation medium assembly with resin
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11981149
A device includes an image formation medium supply, a first portion, and a second portion. The image formation medium supply is to supply a non-absorptive, image formation medium along a travel path and to which a ground element is to be electrically connected. The first portion along the travel path is to receive droplets of ink particles and a non-aqueous resin within a dielectric, non-aqueous carrier fluid on the image formation medium to form at least a portion of an image on the…
Determining new remaining usage of cartridge
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11981144
An example printing material cartridge may include an input/output device and a memory. The memory may store an identifier of the cartridge, a usage counter of the cartridge, and an indicator that the cartridge has reached a usage threshold. The memory may also store a usage offset equal to a historical usage of the cartridge, the usage offset for determining a new remaining usage of the cartridge.
Print liquid supply
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11981143
An interface structure connectable to a separate liquid reservoir, to connect that liquid reservoir to a receiving station, comprising a liquid interface to fluidically connect to at least one liquid needle of the receiving station, a liquid channel, to fluidically connect the liquid interface to the reservoir, a support wall supporting an integrated circuit laterally next to the liquid channel, the integrated circuit having contact pad contact surfaces, and a front push area adjacent…
Heating print agent on print media
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11981121
Examples relate to methods to heat a print agent deposited on a print agent, print an image on a print media and heating systems for a heating a print agent deposited on a print media. A heating system comprises a radiation emitter to irradiate a print agent deposited on a print media, a reflector to reflect a radiation emitted by the radiation emitter back to the radiation emitter, and a displacing member to shift the heating system between a pre-heating position wherein the radiation…
Three-dimensional (3D) printed objects with fracture channels
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11981087
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a system is described. The system includes a fracture channel controller to determine fracture channels for a three-dimensional (3D) printed object. Portions of the 3D printed object along fracture channels are to be solidified to a lesser degree as compared to non-channel portions of the 3D printed object. The system also includes an additive manufacturing controller to control an additive manufacturing device. The additive…
Lifecycle condition-based manufacturing alteration
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11981084
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a system is described. The system includes a reader to read an identifier from a storage element associated with a part. An extractor of the system extracts, based on the identifier, lifecycle conditions specific to the part. A controller of the system alters manufacturing operations based on extracted lifecycle conditions for the part.
Build material supply units
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11981080
According to one example there is provided a build material supply unit for additive manufacturing systems. The build material supply unit may comprise a sloping support surface for the build material, which has no hard edges, a mesh above the sloping support surface, and a vibrator to vibrate the mesh and cause the descent of build material.
3-dimensional printed parts
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11981075
A 3-dimensional printed part can include a part body including a first matrix of fusing agent and thermoplastic polymer powder, a security feature including a second matrix of fusing agent, thermoplastic polymer powder, and photoluminescent agent, and a masking feature including a third matrix of fusing agent and thermoplastic polymer powder. The security feature can be positioned beneath and visible through the masking feature upon photoluminescent emission of the security feature.
Coplanar modular printbars
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11975468
In various examples, a printbar is formed from multiple modular fluid ejection subassemblies joined together through a molding process that provides for a continuous planar substrate surface. A mold may secure the modular fluid ejection subassemblies during a molding process in which a runner conveys a molding material to seams between the joined modular fluid ejection subassemblies.
Multitenant network device management
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11979821
Example implementations relate to managing a resource of a network device. A resource of a network device may be assigned from a first tenant to a second tenant of the network device. Resources of the network device may include an assignment right, an access right, and a configuration right, By assigning the resource to the second tenant, the second tenant may be granted an access right to the assigned resource. Responsive to the assignment of the resource, an access right to the…
Halftone screens encoding signatures
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11979536
In an example, a method includes, at least one processor, in response to each of a plurality of requests, determining a halftone screen. Determining the halftone screen comprises encoding a signature pattern in the halftone screen, and halftone screens for different requests may be encoded with a different signature pattern. The halftone screen may be arranged such that, when applied to image data to provide a printed output, the pattern is discernible therein to provide a signature for…
Facial expression alterations
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11978281
In some examples, the disclosure describes a device, comprising: a processor resource, and a non-transitory memory resource storing machine-readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause the processor resource to: determine an emotion based on a facial expression of a user captured within an image, apply a plurality of alterations to the image to exaggerate the facial expression of the user when the emotion has continued for a threshold quantity of time, and remove the…
Dynamic timing for shutdown including asynchronous dynamic random access memory refresh (ADR) due to AC undervoltage
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977900
A technique for managing undervoltage in a compute system is disclosed. The technique includes a method that further includes: detecting an AC undervoltage condition in the compute system; and upon detecting the AC undervoltage condition: dynamically determining a holdup time as a function of the present load; determining a monitoring period as a function of the dynamically determined holdup time; waiting for the determined monitoring period to expire; and upon expiration of the…
Image transfer
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977871
An example device for image transfer can include a memory device, a service cubby to house a computing device and coupled to the memory device, a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller can retrieve, from the memory device, an image requested for transfer to the computing device in the memory device, perform an integrity check on the image, and transfer, via a local network of the device, the image to the computing device while the computing device is coupled to the…
Charging member having two surface layers
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977340
An example charging member has a conductive support, a conductive elastic body layer on the conductive support, a first surface layer on the conductive elastic body layer, and a second surface layer on the first surface layer. The first surface layer includes a binder resin and a first plurality of first particles dispersed in the binder resin of the first surface layer, the second surface layer includes the binder resin, a second plurality of first particles, and second particles, the…
Fluid ejection controllers to pivotally hold firing boards
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11975547
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a fluid ejection controller is described. The fluid ejection controller includes a firing board to pass control signals to a fluid ejection device to eject fluid from the fluid ejection device. A mount pivotally holds the firing board between a disengaged position where electrical pins of the firing board are not in contact with electrical pads of the fluid ejection device and an engaged position where the electrical pins are in…
Fluid actuator evaluation based on actuator activation data
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11975534
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a fluidic die is described. The fluidic die includes an array of fluid actuators grouped into primitives. The fluidic die also includes a fluid actuator controller to selectively activate fluid actuators via activation data. The fluidic die also includes an array of actuator evaluators, wherein each actuator evaluator of the fluidic die is coupled to a subset of the array of fluid actuators. The actuator evaluators selectively…
Part packing
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11975483
Examples of methods for part packing are described herein. In some examples, a first subset and a second subset of a set of parts are determined. In some examples a first packing of the first subset is determined. In some examples, a second packing of the second subset is determined based on the first packing.
