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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6884516 | Internal member for plasma-treating vessel and method of producing the same It is to propose an internal member for a plasma treating vessel having excellent resistances to chemical corrosion and plasma erosion under an environment containing a halogen gas and an advantageous method of producing the same, which is a member formed by coverin... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6783863 | Plasma processing container internal member and production method thereof It is to propose an internal member for a plasma treating vessel having excellent resistances to chemical corrosion and plasma erosion under an environment containing a halogen gas and an advantageous method of producing the same, which is a member formed by coverin... | 08/31/2004 |
| 5786828 | Detachable print unit having updatable condition memory and printer using the same A printer is provided with at least one detachable print unit provided with a driven unit which is driven to print an image on a recording sheet. The condition of operation of the print unit is detected and the detected condition of operation of the print... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5475477 | Developing apparatus A developing apparatus is disclosed which is disposed opposite to an electrostatic latent image holding member and adapted for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the electrostatic latent image holding member to a visible image with a singl... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5453850 | Image reading apparatus and method using light shutter for blocking light from a light source An image reading apparatus includes a light source for illuminating a document, and a line image CCD for performing photoelectric conversion on the light reflected from the document. Particularly, the image reading apparatus further includes a light shutt... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5438576 | Data communication apparatus and method including means for and step of adding dummy character as a new last character of data to be transmitted A communication apparatus includes a control circuit for obtaining a transmission text formed of one of a single character and a series of characters, the last of which is one of specified control characters and a character of error check data, and a radi... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5436698 | Image forming unit having a detachable cartridge The optical unit forms an electrostatic latent image by applying scanning light onto the photosensitive member charged by the charger device from above at an angle. The developing device forms a toner image by developing the electrostatic latent image for... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5428382 | Ink jet printer head and manufacturing method therefor An ink jet printer head including a pair of body plates bonded together; a recess portion formed on at least one of the body plates, the recess portion having a plurality of pressure chambers and a plurality of orifices respectively communicating with the... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5422706 | Photoconductor for xerography A photoconductor is disclosed, which comprises a conductive cylindrical support which is substantially not hollowed, the conductive cylindrical support having a drive transferring mechanism coaxially and unifiedly provided on at least one of the end porti... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5419543 | Paper feeding apparatus for printer A paper feeding apparatus of the present invention, in which it is adapted such that a paper tray holding plural sheets of paper in a pile is supported by a fulcrum for rotation round the same and the paper tray is rotated by a paper setting mechanism so ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5412456 | Developing apparatus A developing apparatus is disclosed which is disposed opposite to an electrostatic latent image holding member and adapted for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the electrostatic latent image holding member to a visible image with a singl... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5409209 | Sheet delivery mechanism for a printer A sheet passage is formed so as to extend from a sheet feed position via a printing position to a sheet delivery position, delivery rollers driven by a driving unit are disposed between the printing position and the sheet delivery position on the sheet pa... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5401352 | Label printer A label printer for printing an image on a plurality of labels attached to a base sheet and issuing the labels on which the image has been printed. The label printer includes a platen roller, a pinch roller adapted to separably contact the platen roller t... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5402258 | Optical scanning device for scanning laser beam focused on image-forming surface A laser beam emitted from the beam emitting unit is deflected for scanning by a reflector rotated by a scanner motor. The deflection scanning beam passes through a meniscus lens device provided close to the reflector, and converges the laser beam on an im... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5397190 | Printed slip issuing apparatus A printed slip issuing apparatus is provided with a cutting blade having a cutting portion and disposed with its cutting portion extending along the width of a form web at a position immediately below a printing unit for printing on the form web, and a ni... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5387832 | Brush and commutator motor having brush device using the same A binded carbon brush includes a brush main portion formed mainly of carbon, and an electric conductor formed by a material, such as a copper powder, having an electric resistivity lower than that of the brush main portion and extending along a main curre... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5375680 | Check-out device A check-out device includes an input section for inputting an article code recorded on an article, an entry conveyor for conveying an article put thereon after the article code is input, a weighing device for measuring the weight of the article put on the... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5371614 | Image scanner for film According to the present invention, a film which has been inserted into a film insertion opening of a support is conveyed toward the inner part reciprocatably by a conveyance means; light is emitted from a light source and is allowed to pass through the f... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5367239 | Printer carrier driving method Disclosed is a method for driving a printer carrier. One power source is connected via a constant current circuit to the carrier motor. Data storing means stores the current command data corresponding to the acceleration, constant speed printing and decel... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5356231 | Ink jet printer The present invention provides an ink jet printer wherein a pinch roller is contacted with a printed face of paper after printing by an ink jet head to press the paper against a paper discharging roller, which contacts with a non-printed face of the paper... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5351375 | Method for fabricating ink jet printhead An adhesive layer 15 is formed over one major surface of a flat base plate 1 having a relatively high rigidity, a piezoelectric plate 2 is joined to the adhesive layer 15, a plurality of parallel grooves 3 are formed through the piezoelectric plate 2 into... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5347451 | Electronic cash register having auxiliary file containing information which is transferrable to an article file to reduce operator entries An electronic cash register includes a RAM for storing an article file in which article data for various articles are filed. The article data includes an article code, an article name, a department, and a unit price. The RAM also includes an auxiliary fil... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5343025 | Check-out device with activity sensor terminating article input A check-out device includes an input section having a customer operating panel, for sequentially inputting article codes of articles to be purchased, upon request from the customer operating panel, and a settlement section spaced away from the input secti... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5341402 | Automatic frequency control method and device for use in receiver An automatic frequency control method for use in a receiver mixes a received signal and a local oscillator signal to produce an intermediate frequency signal and converts the intermediate frequency signal to a voltage signal. The voltage signal is convert... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5336003 | Label printer A label printer including a printing section for printing a given image on a label, a label issue opening for issuing the label after the given image is printed thereon by the printing section, a sensor having a light emitting element and a light receivin... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5331441 | Color image reading apparatus having color correction coefficients A color image reading apparatus connected to an image data processing apparatus for the supply of a read-in image to the latter, image data processing apparatus comprises a photoelectric converting element for receiving a color manuscript image and for co... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5331680 | Position detecting apparatus A position detecting apparatus comprises a motion detecting section for generating a pulse when a carriage passes each of coordinate points set in a reciprocal movement span thereof at a predetermined pitch, and a counting section for storing position dat... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5331534 | Power supply apparatus A power supply apparatus has a full-wave rectifier for rectifying an AC voltage from an AC power source to output a DC pulsating voltage, and a high-frequency inverter which performs an oscillating operation to generate an output voltage. A first capacito... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5328808 | Method for manufacturing edge emission type electroluminescent device arrays Disclosed herein is a method for manufacturing edge emission type EL device arrays. A substrate carrying individually formed EL device arrays is coated with a transparent film. The film is etched to form terminals through exposure of the edges of block te... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5327627 | Method of manufacturing a high-density print head incorporating piezoelectric members A method of manufacturing a print head for an ink-jet printer comprises steps of: forming a main plate (1) by superposing a first piezoelectric plate (2), a first low-rigidity plate (5), a second low-rigidity plate (6) and a second piezoelectric plate (3)... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5323215 | Charging members for charging a photosensitive body without removing used toner from the body A rotating photosensitive body has a plurality of charging members on its surface. A direct voltage whose polarity is opposite to the charging polarity of the photosensitive body is applied to at least one of the charging members, and a direct voltage who... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5322378 | Label printer with interrupt function A label printer includes a thermal head, a keyboard unit for inputting label data including issuing number data determining the number of labels to be issued, a RAM for storing label data input by the keyboard unit, and a printing control circuit. The RAM... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5315510 | Electronic cash register indicating when cash is required to be collected from the cash drawer An electronic cash register includes a cash drawer, a memory for storing upper limits of the total amount of cash to be received in the cash drawer for different periods of time, and a processing section for generating total amount data indicating the tot... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5313573 | Apparatus for forming character patterns with line segments A character pattern forming apparatus has a ROM, a RAM, and a CPU. The ROM includes a first memory area for storing a plurality of segment data respectively designating different segments of a character each segment having one or more dots arranged in a r... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5311219 | Ink jet print head An adhesive layer 15 is formed over one major surface of a flat base plate 1 having a relatively high rigidity, a piezoelectric plate 2 is joined to the adhesive layer 15, a plurality of parallel grooves 3 are formed through the piezoelectric plate 2 into... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5311218 | Ink jet print head and method of fabricating the same An ink jet print head comprises a piezoelectric plate (2) formed of a piezoelectric material, a base plate (1) formed of a nonconductive, nonelectrostrictive material having rigidity lower than that of the piezoelectric material and joined to the piezoele... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5301404 | Method of producing printer head using piezoelectric member A method of producing a printer head wherein a substrate including at least one piezoelectric member polarized in its thickness direction is formed. A plurality of grooves and a plurality of posts are alternately defined in the substrate. A pre-processing... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5302036 | Multi-color ribbon cassette position adjusting apparatus A multi-color ribbon cassette position adjusting apparatus comprises a carrier having a print head, a cassette mounting member rockably supported on the carrier, and a fine adjustment mechanism attached to the cassette mounting member, for finely rocking ... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5300981 | Electrophotographic printing apparatus with fire prevention An electrophotographic printing apparatus includes a paper conveyor path, a photosensitive drum arranged on the paper conveyor path, a conveyor unit for conveying paper along the conveyor path, an image forming unit for forming an electrostatic latent ima... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5297196 | Facsimile apparatus adapted to communicate via an acoustic coupler An information communication apparatus includes acoustic and non-acoustic couplers, a switch for selectively connecting an information sending source of the apparatus to the acoustic or non-acoustic couplers, a setting unit for selectively setting items o... | 03/22/1994 |
