US 12,434,164 B2
Toy figure manufacturing
Stanley Chan, Tai Koo (HK)
Assigned to Hasbro, Inc., Pawtucket, RI (US)
Appl. No. 17/776,858
Filed by Hasbro, Inc., Pawtucket, RI (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 11, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/059924
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 13, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/096904, PCT Pub. Date May 20, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/936,132, filed on Nov. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0387900 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. A63H 9/00 (2006.01); B29C 64/393 (2017.01); B33Y 50/02 (2015.01); B41J 3/407 (2006.01)
CPC A63H 9/00 (2013.01) [B29C 64/393 (2017.08); B41J 3/40731 (2020.08); B33Y 50/02 (2014.12)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An inkjet printing apparatus comprising:
an ink supply apparatus comprising one or more reservoirs for storing ink and one or more nozzles, each nozzle defining an opening at a first end in fluid communication with at least one of the reservoirs and at a second end aligned with a target region; and
a fixture apparatus configured to interact with the target region, wherein the fixture apparatus comprises:
a base plate;
a guide plate configured to be connected to the base plate, wherein the guide plate faces one or more nozzles when the fixture apparatus encompasses the target region; and
one or more sub-fixtures, each sub-fixture defined by a respective and aligned guide plate portion and base plate portion, each guide plate portion having a topographical shape that is complementary with a front region of a three-dimensional body and each guide plate portion defining a printing opening that is larger than a printing region defined within the front region of the three-dimensional body,
wherein each three-dimensional body is fixed between the base plate portion and the guide plate portion when the guide plate and the base plate are attached to each other.