Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7306219 | Device for reversal of direction of planar letters A device for reversal of direction of planar letters has two cover band conveyor runs with reversible transport direction, driven by a common drive roller. The letters are distributed alternately on the cover band conveyor runs. The back-transported letters are led ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7275883 | Method for stacking tickets in a printer Methods are provided for driving sheets through a transaction-based printer. A sheet drive forwards a sheet through a printing station to a cutting station where the sheet is severed from a spool by a cutter. Movement of a kicker element is coordinated with that of ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7258340 | Sheet registration within a media inverter Parallel printing systems and methods incorporate inverter assemblies for not only inverting media during transport through the system but also to register the media and to provide a velocity buffer transport with different drive velocities. The inverter assemblies ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7201370 | Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method A sheet direction inverting apparatus has a switchback portion for inverting the conveying direction of mails and the switchback portion has a drive roller and a driven roller. The length of mails sent to nips of the two rollers in the conveying direction is detecte... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7192205 | Method for reducing printing position error and image forming apparatus using the same An apparatus and method are provided for reducing a printing position error, in which the method includes the steps of (a) driving an encoder wheel as many times as a predetermined number of forward counts at a predetermined initial acceleration, thereby making the ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7165902 | Printer and printer control method A printer and control method to control the operation of a printer to assure consistent print quality regardless of the paper length. A paper transportation control unit 101 and ASF control unit 103 drive a paper feed roller 78 and main paper tr... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7080834 | Sheets reversing controller and control method A sheet reversing controller has a first conveying path for conveying sheets in the first direction, sensors to detect lengths of sheets in the conveying direction; a reversing portion comprising a reversing roller that is capable of normal/reverse rotations for tak... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7066463 | System and method for sheet transporting using dual capstan rollers A platesetting system and method comprising a pair of dual capstan rollers that receives a recording medium and records an image on the received medium as the medium is transported through the system. The system and method advantageously enable at least a portion of... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7044464 | Apparatus for reversing sheet An apparatus for reversing a sheet, such as a banknote, from a front face to a rear face. In the reversing apparatus a first end of a common path communicates with an exit of a first conveyance path, a second end of common path communicates with an exit of a second ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7040617 | System and method for sheet transporting using dual capstan rollers A platesetting system and method comprising a pair of dual capstan rollers that receives a recording medium and records an image on the received medium as the medium is transported through the system. The system and method advantageously enable at least a portion of... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7007788 | Banknote validator A banknote validator for determining the value and authenticity of a banknote is provided. The banknote validator includes a magnetic sensor, an optical sensor, and a non-return gate. The magnetic sensor includes a magnetic circuit and an electronic circuit. The opt... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6941104 | Carrying apparatus and image forming apparatus The carrying apparatus includes a carrying device for carrying an object to be carried, along a carrying route having a corner part, a control device for temporarily stopping and holding the object carried by the carrying device, and a detection device for detecting... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6883800 | Paper convey method and device in image forming apparatus In a paper convey method and device in an image forming apparatus according to this invention, a first sensor detects that the first paper sheet is fed from a paper feed unit, and a CPU outputs a control signal defining a desired cycle time at which paper sheets sho... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6873822 | Image forming apparatus A sheet re-feeding path (32) is disposed substantially horizontally at a location below a fixing unit (14) and an image forming unit. At a location below the sheet re-feeding path (32), sheet decks (3, 4) are disposed horizontally along a... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6836641 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method There is provided an image forming apparatus that can suppress the formation of creases when forming images on both surfaces of a sheet and can greatly reduce the incidence of unprinted areas. The image forming apparatus has a sheet stacking section in which sheets ... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6789795 | Variable pressure document infeed transport apparatus for use in a self-service terminal A variable pressure document infeed transport provides a first driving pressure on a document being transported in a first direction along a document transport path of a self-service terminal, and provides a second driving pressure which is greater than the first dr... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6783026 | Systems and methods providing bi-directional passage of an object via an articulated member An articulated flag body member permitting bi-directional passage of an object. The articulated flag body member has a flag body pivotably connected to a flag foot. As rotation of the flag foot occurs in one direction, the flag body rotates by engagement of a recess... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6782236 | Duplex image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus reverses a sheet, on one side of which an image has been formed in an image forming section, transports the sheet back to the image forming section, and forms an image on the other side of the sheet, the apparatus has an inlet feed path fo... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6769682 | Device for reversing direction of motion of paper sheet A device for reversing the direction of motion of a paper sheet has a passage for guiding the paper sheet inside and includes a plurality of rollers each having a specified function. A first roller serves as a driver roller, its rotation causing the paper sheet to b... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6746010 | Apparatus for conveying sheet-like recording material An apparatus for conveying a sheet-like recording material is provided. The conveying apparatus includes a recording material feeding device for feeding the sheet-like recording material to a rotating drum from a feeding guide disposed in a direction tangential to t... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6722648 | Mechanism for forwardly and reversely feeding recording medium A drive mechanism for rotating a drive roller includes an input transmission mechanism for transmitting a drive force from a motor, an output transmission mechanism for transmitting the drive force to the drive roller, an intermediate transmission mechanism for sele... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6722649 | Card processing apparatus A card processing apparatus allows for a more compact apparatus that does not cause a reduction in card transporting and printing processing capacity, but improves the freedom of design as an apparatus by establishing a plurality of processing units such as a printe... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6719283 | Sheet puncher, sheet finisher equipped with the sheet puncher and image forming apparatus using the sheet finisher A sheet puncher includes; a reversal conveying section having a displaceable stopping member by which a sheet is stopped at a predetermined position, and punching device; a conveying-in and conveying-out section having a conveying-in device and conveying-out device ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6705786 | Duplex printing of print sheets Systems and methods for duplex printing of print sheets are described. In one aspect, a duplex module is configured so that print sheets may be controllably and reliably re-introduced into a print module in an orientation that is suitable for marking the second side... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6705221 | Device for turning or reversing flat copies in half-revolution sheet-processing machines In a sheet-processing rotary printing machine operatable in recto printing and recto/verso printing modes, there is provided a device for reversing sheets, which includes a transfer drum bounded by two sheet-guiding cylinders, a reversing/storage drum and an additio... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6690909 | Double-sided printing device for paper handling A double-sided printing device for paper handling is proposed by the invention to allow users to print on both sides of a sheet of paper. The double-sided printing device employs the interaction between the switches, the obstructing unit and the turning u... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6681096 | Image formation apparatus, printer, copying machine, and facsimile device An image formation apparatus has a branching claw with a first guide surface along a side of a sheet to be fed into a reversing path and a second guide surface along a side of a sheet to be fed out of the reversing path. This branching claw is disposed so... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6666443 | Sheet finisher having stapler and image forming apparatus for use therewith In a sheet finisher having a stacker for sheets conveyed from an image forming apparatus and a stapler for stacked sheets, the sheet finisher further has a conveying timing adjustment section arranged upstream of the stacker including: a conveying-in sect... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6644875 | Printing device Before stopper members (25) of a skew correcting mechanism (10) are evacuated from a sheet conveyor path, sheet conveyor roller pairs (8) rotate a set angle in a direction opposite to the sheet feeding direction such that a sheet is separated from the sto... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6644656 | Paper feeder A paper feeder including a platen roller for feeding paper sheet supplied from a manual paper supply opening to a printing section and conveying the same after printing again to the manual paper supply opening so as to be discharged. In the paper feeder, ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6618577 | Sheet guiding device with electromagnetic shield plate serving as one guide surface and image forming apparatus including the same A sheet guiding device has an electromagnetic shield plate disposed between a re-transportation path for a sheet material and a video controller board, with the bottom surface of the electromagnetic shield plate being used as a sheet guiding surface and a... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6474638 | Device for turning sheets The invention relates to a device for turning sheets. A sheet to be turned is guided into a gap between two transport elements moving in opposite directions and is pressed against the reverse-moving transport element or the forward-moving transport elemen... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6473579 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus provided therewith An image forming apparatus includes a rotor to which torque in a fixed direction is transmitted and a transmitting unit for transmitting torque to the rotor. The transmitting unit is replaceable by a driving unit capable of freely rotating the rotor in bo... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6460847 | Sheet flow direction changing mechanism A sheet flow direction changing mechanism having a roller system comprised of three rollers and a sheet stopping device and so adapted and arranged that a sheet passing through said mechanism is (1) driven in a first direction by passing between a center ... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6446954 | Method and apparatus for end-to-end feeding of sheet media A method and apparatus for end-to-end advancement of sheet media in an automatic document feeder suitable for use with a scanner are disclosed. The method involves driving a drive roller in a forward direction to advance a sheet medium section-by-section ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6446956 | Paper discharge device for a printer A paper discharge device for a printer has a housing having a circular inside guide wall, a paper inlet, a paper taking out opening, a paper discharge opening, and a paper discharge space. A paper winding roll is rotatably provided in a space inside the c... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6446958 | Method and system for directing an item through the feed path of a folding apparatus A method and an apparatus for controlling the traveling direction of a piece of folded material in the feed path of a folding machine. A first roller nip is used to ingest the folded material into the front end of a turn chute. If the traveling direction ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6443450 | Sheet stacking apparatus and method A document creating apparatus comprises an image transfer system and a sheet stacker for stacking sheets of material. The sheet stacker is coupled to the image transfer system and is adapted to transport the sheets of material from the image transfer syst... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6434359 | Image scanning apparatus having a bifurcating guide member An image scanning machine includes a document feeder for feeding sheets into a first paper path from a stack one sheet at a time if a one-side scanning mode is selected. If a both-side scanning mode is selected, a sheet is introduced into a second paper p... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6422772 | Printer having an interference-free receiver sheet feed path and method of assembling the printer A printer having an interference-free receiver sheet feed path and method of assembling the printer. The printer, which is a thermal dye printer, comprises a print head for forming an image on a movable receiver sheet belonging to a stack of receiver shee... | 07/23/2002 |
