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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8083312 | Maintenance station of an inkjet printer A maintenance station of an inkjet printer mounted in a housing of the inkjet printer includes an ink cup rotationally and slidably coupled to the housing about/along an axis of rotation. The ink cup has a basic plate and a columnar rim around the basic plate. The c... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8070151 | Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet-table unit, a sheet-separating unit disposed at a downstream end of the sheet-table unit along a convey direction of the sheets, a convey unit arranged at a downstream end of sheet-separating unit, a discharge unit locat... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7845630 | Sheet feeding device A sheet feeding device includes a pick roller and a resilient element disposed above the pick roller. The pick roller has a roller surface. The resilient element includes two side resilient arms and a center resilient arm located between the two side resilient arms.... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7864069 | Method for displaying starting process of electronic device A method for displaying a starting process of an electronic device is described hereinafter. Firstly, divide the starting process of the electronic device into a plurality of starting stages. Next, set a displaying data for each of the starting stages respectively. ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7841592 | Paper feeding device A paper feeding device includes a pick roller, a spring element and a separator pad. The pick roller has a roller surface. The spring element is disposed above the pick roller. The spring element has two spring arms extending toward two ends of the pick roller. Free... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7827877 | Gear-rolling apparatus A gear-rolling apparatus includes two gear units and a base. Each gear unit has a rolling portion, a rolling shaft extends from the rolling portion, a clicking column and two location columns extend from edges of a free end of the rolling shaft along an axle directi... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7755028 | Optical scanning device with adjustable glass platform An optical scanning device with a dustproof function includes a shell defining a first receiving room and a second receiving room communicating with the first receiving room through an open window defined on the shell for scanning light beams passing therethrough. A... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7753363 | Paper feeding device A paper feeding device includes a cover, a base, a pickup roller assembly and at least one paper blocking unit. The paper blocking unit is placed beside the pickup roller assembly, has a paper blocking element and a projection projecting from the upper portion of th... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7654520 | Sheet-handling apparatus with a detecting device A sheet-handling apparatus with a detecting device includes a casing, a plurality of entrance rollers located in the casing, an image collector arranged at one side of the casing, a plurality of middle reflectors and side reflectors. A paper path is formed between t... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7611137 | Automatic document feeder An automatic document feeder includes a main body defining a passage for transporting a document. A feeding roller unit includes a feeding driving roller and a feeding idle roller coupling with the feeding driving roller. The feeding driving roller and the feeding i... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7583561 | Feed detecting system A feed detecting system includes a sending element, a receiving element, a filtering-amplifying circuit, a peak-holding circuit, an A/D converter and a processing unit. The receiving element receives an ultrasonic signal sent by the sending element, and then outputs... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7556253 | Auto document feeder An auto document feeder cooperated with an image processing machine defines a feeding path and has a base, a frame and a sensor device. The base has a background under the feeding path. The frame is mounted on the base. The sensor couples with the frame and has a se... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7534183 | Conveying device for adjusting scanning resolution A conveying device for adjusting scanning resolution includes a planetary gear transmission a belt and a scanning device. The planetary gear transmission has a base, a first stepping motor and a second stepping motor. A first motor gear drives a sun gear. A second m... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7506867 | Paper feeding device A paper feeding device comprises an upper frame, a pickup roller assembly connected to the upper frame and a lower frame. The pickup roller assembly includes a roller frame, a separating roller, a pickup roller, and a belt sleeved on both the separating roller and t... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7455294 | Paper-releasing mechanism A paper-releasing mechanism includes a paper-feeding device for feeding papers, a supporting shelf arranged under the paper-feeding device, a driving roller and an idle roller arranged in the front of the paper-feeding device and an elastic unit engaged with the idl... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7384301 | Anti-wear flexible flat cable An anti-wear FFC (flexible flat cable) according to the present invention is made up of a plurality of covered wires parallel to each other in side-by-side relationship. The anti-wear FFC is folded and forms a plurality of planes lengthwise. The anti-wear FFC includ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7367556 | Sheet-handling apparatus A sheet-handling apparatus includes a base, a second motor and a sheet-fetching assembly driven by the second motor. The sheet-fetching assembly has a passive gear and a floating gear. When the passive gear rotates, the floating gear revolves around the passive gear... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7356252 | Auto-focusing zoom lens mechanism An auto-focusing zoom lens mechanism includes a base unit forming a space; an auto-focusing (AF) lens unit located in the base unit and having a trajectory bar engaged therewith; a zoom lens unit located in the base unit and mounted on the AF lens unit and having a ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7255339 | Sheet-feeding apparatus with a paper stopper A sheet-feeding apparatus with a paper stopper includes a sheet-feeding base having a sheet-placing stand for placing sheets, a roller shell located on the sheet-feeding base having two side walls, a preliminary feeding roller unit and a feeding roller unit containe... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7167319 | Zoom lens system A stepwise variable zoom lens system includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group with a negative refractive power, a second lens group with a positive refractive power, a third lens group with a negative refractive power and a fourth lens group with a... | 01/23/2007 |
| 6894843 | Optical apparatus for a line scanner system with reduced optical total track An optical apparatus for a line scanner system comprises a main lens group, an aspherical field flattener lens and a line sensor arranged sequentially along the same optical axis. The main lens group consists of four rotationally symmetrical lenses for refracting an... | 05/17/2005 |
