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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7369932 | System and method for turbine engine fault detection using discrete event system modeling A system and method is provided for fault detection in a turbine engine. The fault detection system and method uses discrete event system modeling to provide improved fault diagnosis and prognosis. The fault detection system and method receives sensor taken at multi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7266724 | Apparatus and method for interruption of read and write operation and program storage medium for storing read and write procedure program A method and an apparatus for performing high-quality read and write operations through a simple operation without being affected by an interruption even when the interruption has occurred in the course of a read/write operation between information storage media. Wh... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7193729 | Instrument cluster with laser beam illumination An automotive instrument cluster containing a grouping of display fields representing measured automotive operating quantities such as speed, temperature and pressure. Illumination markers which are analogs of pointers are created within the display fields from a si... | 03/20/2007 |
| 6908242 | Roll paper curl correction device and record apparatus with the roll paper curl correction device A roll paper curl correction device has a clamp roller for clamping and transporting roll paper, and a guide member comprising a guide face being positioned in the downstream proximity of the clamp roller and formed so that the roll paper is curved to an opposite si... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6904326 | Light responsive data entry system Systems, methods and devices are provided for a light responsive data entry system. The light responsive data entry system includes a panel. The panel includes a number of data entry areas for transmitting light incident on a surface of the panel to a sensor. The se... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6543875 | Method and apparatus for reporting printer component status A method and apparatus for servicing a printer which has a processor and a display includes a component having circuitry for communicating a status of the component, where the processor, coupled to the component, further includes second circuitry for dete... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6373509 | Method and apparatus for indicating information on a chart recorder A chart recorder apparatus wherein information is indicated by using light emitting devices which are disposed to access the rear surface of a chart on which measured signals of a chart recorder are recorded on a front surface thereof. Various types of in... | 04/16/2002 |
| 5751297 | Control method for paper-driven type automatic drafting machine A control method for a paper-driven type automatic drafting machine carries out a predetermined drafting operation by use of ink writing instruments. The automatic drafting machine has on its machine frame an ink dry time setter. The machine is made to wa... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5572240 | Chart recorder This chart recorder with n or m (n, m=1, 2, 3, . . . ) measuring channels, one for each of n or m measurement signals to be recorded, has a printing device (5) or m continuous-line recording devices (31, 32) which produces/produce n equal colored dot sequ... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5220352 | Thermal transfer recording device A thermal transfer recording device for recording an image on a recording sheet by means of an ink film. The device has a cassette accommodating recording sheets and a unit accommodating an ink film both of which are loadable into the main body of the dev... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5144328 | Method for producing an image on a substrate having the same spectral content with front and back illumination A method for producing a large scale color graphic that presents substantially the same spectral content to a viewer when the graphic is illuminated with front or back lighting includes applying an ink film on a first surface and a second ink film on a se... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5101220 | Chart recorder with thermal print head and sound generator A thermal chart recorder which is operative for simultaneously generating a plurality of wave form images on a thermally responsive chart in response to input signals utilizing a stationary thermal print head, includes a sound generation circuit for gener... | 03/31/1992 |
| 4939528 | Equipment requiring external cartridge to be assembled therein An equipment which requires an external unit to be assembled therein for starting inherent operation. The equipment includes a detection means for detecting an identification mark such as a trade mark affixed to the external unit. The equipment is only op... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4889442 | Writing instrument with ink quantity of level detecting function A writing instrument with ink quantity or level detecting function which has an ink tube containing ink, and a float so arranged in intimate contact with the rear end surface of the ink in the ink tube as to be driven in contact with the rear end surface ... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4855754 | Control device for an image recorder A control system for a laser printer and other image recorders stores history data including the number of prints produced by a photoconductive element and occurrences of various kinds of failures, and displays the history data at suitable timings. The co... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4748454 | Device for indicating waveform position of a dot array recorder The present invention relates to a dot array recorder having a dot array head carrying an array of the dot printing elements arranged in a plurality of groups, and for effecting dot printing at positions corresponding to the levels of an input print signa... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4654672 | Multiple color recording apparatus A multi-colored recording apparatus comprising a carriage disposed to be movable in the width direction and having a single wire hammer, a ribbon cassette having a plurality of different colored ribbons extending an effective width of the recording sheet,... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4649399 | Pen recorder An automatically balancing type pen recorder, which is compact in size and is highly reliable in operation, comprises an integral servo unit formed of a single printed circuit board which incorporates therein a pen carriage and an automatic balancing mech... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4603335 | Time recorder for vertical and horizontal use A time recorder which can be used for both vertical and horizontal states is disclosed. It has a box shaped main body just as a usual time recorder. The main body has an end face in which an insertion slot for inserting a time card is formed. Adjacent to ... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4564845 | Device to aid in the manual recordation of data A device to aid an operator in the manual recordation of data includes a case body having a surface upon which a record medium is accepted and plural visual light-emitting members in registry with respective discrete areas on the record medium. The light-... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4560990 | Recording paper feeding apparatus A recording paper feeding apparatus for use in a recording machine such as a facsimile machine includes a predetermined paper travelling path along which a recording head, a platen roller, a cutter and a paper discharging roller are disposed. In one form ... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4457312 | Method and apparatus for providing records of events during a cardiac arrest To provide accurate reconstructable records of the events and therapy administered during a cardiac arrest, flow sheets are attached to the top of a timing clipboard. Each row of the flow sheet matrix indicates a different event and the columns indicate t... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4433338 | Multiple-color recording apparatus A multiple color recording apparatus records on a sheet of recording paper, the magnitudes of a plurality of varying analog signals as a pattern of dots in different colors, and also records characters, symbols and the like related to the analog recording... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4423412 | Industrial process indicating/recording apparatus using stepping motor drive A compact ribbon-indicator and chart-recorder instrument for use in process control systems adapted to indicate and simultaneously record the values of up to three independent process variables. The motive power for each pen/indicator drive system is supp... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4420762 | Chart recorder A chart recorder useful in a marine depth sounder or in other applications. Chart paper for the recorder is loaded into a paper cartridge, which is insertable in the recorder. The paper cartridge supports a roll of chart paper, a takeup spindle for windin... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4417238 | Alarm modification for meteorological instrument An alarm modification kit for adding an electrical alarm signal feature to a mechanical recording type meterorological instrument. The kit includes a counterbalanced shutter arm adapted to be secured to the output shaft of the instrument which carries the... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4417253 | Arrangement for laser pumping in a combined laser recording and color projection system In a display system which uses a laser beam for writing data and a projection lamp for projecting the written data onto a viewing surface, there is provided an arrangement which utilizes the projection lamp for providing excitation energy for the laser.... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4369579 | Device for drawing a pattern on a support, particularly for use as a toy The device comprises a box, a pencil-holder with a magnet, for sliding on the box, a carriage in the box, with a magnet, and means for moving the carriage for displacing the pencil-holder through the magnets. A drawing support is placed on the box, so tha... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4345258 | Color display system A projection and display system utilizes a modulated laser beam whose energy distribution in the "P" and "S" polarization planes is controlled by a half wavelength retardation plate. The laser beam is then deflected along the X and Y axes and passes throu... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4333084 | Program pacer A timed lighting display adjacent the chart drive area of a polygraph indicating when the examiner and examinee have time to ask and respond to a test examination question before the next question.... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4315268 | Recording apparatus Recording apparatus utilizing a linear motor, having a mechanism for automatically stopping the motor in case of abnormal stopping of the carriage and an alarming mechanism for providing an alarm in the case of such abnormal carriage stopping.... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4191457 | Bi-directional optical apparatus for altering an optically projected member An apparatus for altering an optically projected member includes a writing light which is directed at the apparent projected image of the member, which may be a transparency or workpiece or the like. The writing light is transmitted backwards through the ... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4143382 | Battery operated electronic alphanumeric permanent recording instrument, such as recording pocket calculator A strip of recording paper on which a metallization is formed on a paper substrate, which metallization is burned off under the influence of an electrical discharge is passed beneath a recording head. In one embodiment, the recording head is moved transve... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4125843 | Method and apparatus for recording and projecting images A single projector and a laser radiation deflecting means enable laser generated images to be projected onto a screen together with a laser pointer. A first laser beam polarized in a first plane and a second laser beam polarized in a second plane is proje... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4117497 | Printing and displaying technology using selective laser beam pricking of liquid film for writing information This disclosure obtains printing and displaying of information stored as a pattern of orifices in a colored liquid film established on the interstices of a screen-mesh member. A laser beam is used to effect removal of the film at each selected interstice ... | 09/26/1978 |
| 4107697 | Pressure recorder with power conservation means An instrument for recordation and time monitoring of pressure, as at a remote wellhead site. The instrument is battery powered, and means for conservation of battery power include powering the device intermittently under control of low power-drain CMOS cl... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4104643 | Echo-sounding recorder with different depth-measuring ranges In an echo-sounding recorder wherein received echoes are recorded on a common recording surface, starting from a common zero mark, by means of a recording member moving with uniform velocity, the echo-sounding recorder being switchable to different depth-... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4093939 | Accessory for a vehicle for monitoring its operation and that of its drive means The invention provides an accessory for a vehicle, the accessory having a sensor for sensing the acceleration of the vehicle, the speed of the vehicle or the operating speed of an engine of the vehicle, a first recorder for recording when any of these par... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4083040 | Trace locator for a multi-trace recorder A trace locator for identifying in a visual display the position on a recording medium of a recorded trace representing an input signal in a multi-trace recorder. The trace position may be displayed without a movement of the recording medium to enable the... | 04/04/1978 |
| 4016365 | Readout for recording typewriter A recording typewriter of the type including a memory arranged to record codes corresponding to typed characters as they are typed, and to drive the typewriter to type characters corresponding to stored codes. A single line readout is provided, preferably... | 04/05/1977 |
