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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322683 | System and a method for on-axis separate ink and silicon ink delivery A system providing ink to a printing device includes a carriage including a fluid interconnect probe, a plurality of ink supply cartridges, and an autoloader configured to fluidly couple one of the ink supply cartridges to the carriage. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7033058 | Flat display A flat display displays images on both sides is disclosed. The flat display includes a liquid crystal molecule layer disposed between two substrates, and a driving array having a plurality of switch devices disposed on one of the substrates. Images are asynchronousl... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6999169 | Spectrometer The present invention is intended to realize a spectrometer which improves the wavelength resolution without being affected by the pitch of the photodiode array. The present invention is characterized by a spectrometer which comprises a wavelength dispersion ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6355783 | Compounds for mass coloration of high temperature polymers The invention relates to novel soluble pigment precursors possessing not only higher thermal stability but also improved solubility characteristics and to a process for mass coloration of high temperature polymers that utilizes these novel soluble pigment... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6081340 | Image processing method to reduce marking material coverage with non-linear specifications A printing system for printing images, and including a system to reduce marking material coverage, while maintaining color fidelity, includes an image input, where the image defines an amount of marking material to be deposited on an printed reproduction,... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6002847 | High capacity compressed document image storage for digital color printers A high capacity compressed document image storage apparatus for color printing systems. The compressed document storage system is highly suited for use with high speed color pagewidth print heads. However, the document storage apparatus can also be used w... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5929873 | Chart recorders A chart recorder method and apparatus wherein a recording head records a plurality of different colored line segments on a recording medium, a head drive moves the recording head and the recording medium reciprocally relative to each other in a scanning d... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5639967 | Motor vehicle time speed recorder A motor vehicle time speed recorder that includes a hollow parallelepiped-shaped housing, time apparatus, speed apparatus, graphical time apparatus, and graphical speed apparatus. The hollow parallelepiped-shaped housing has a front with an elongated slot... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5329303 | Compact chart recorder A chart recorder is described, of the type which includes a strip of pressure-markable chart paper (12, FIG. 1) that is slowly moved downpath past a marking station (30) where at least one stylus (32) presses against the chart strip to mark it, which is c... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5291216 | Multi-trace chart recorder A simple chart recorder is described of the type which includes a strip of pressure-markable chart paper, which includes two pressure marking styluses that create traces that can be readily distinguished from one another. Each stylus has a horizontal inne... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5245363 | Pen cleaning system for a pen plotter In a pen plotter having a pen carriage exchangeably carrying a pen with a downward-facing plotting tip controlled in its movement over a plotting area by control logic and also having a multiple pen-holding rotating turret hub controlled by the control lo... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5239315 | Penstocker of automatic drafting machine A penstocker for an automatic drafting machine in which a shutter 15 is slidably mounted on a peripheral wall 13b of the penstocker's main body 10 such that a desired one or more slits 20, 21 and 22, formed on the peripheral wall 13b, are shielded thereby... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5187493 | Pen exchanging mechanism in automatic drafter A drawing head 11 of a pens exchanging mechanism has a pair of stationary arms 12 and 13 attached at one edge of a drawing head and a pair of rotary arms 14 and 15 pivotably attached at opposite edge of the head. In order to hold stably and surely the wri... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5093672 | Writing instrument This device relates to graphics apparatus of the pen-plotter type comprising a plotter head which is moveable in a horizontal direction Y and supports a writing instrument which is vertically moveable (Z direction) on the head. Each writing instrument bea... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5070344 | Writing instrument identification process and device This device relates to graphics apparatus of the pen-plotter type comprising a plotter head which is moveable in a horizontal direction Y and supports a writing instrument which is vertically moveable (Z direction) on the head. Each writing instrument bea... | 12/03/1991 |
| 4983991 | Method and apparatus for marking a film in an X-ray apparatus The inventon relates to a method and apparatus for marking or recording patient-related information and other necessary data in connection with X-ray imaging on a certain section of a film (6) by using a marking apparatus (2) which is movable relative to ... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4982208 | Method and apparatus for transferring writing tools in a graphics machine A writing tool (30) carried by a write head (10) of a drawing machine is transferred to an empty station in a storage turret by bringing the write head carrying the writing tool to a transfer position, engaging the writing tool in the station of the stora... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4956652 | Pen selection mechanism for a printer A pen exchange mechanism is disclosed, by which a plurality of pen chuck mechanisms holding pens on a carriage are disposed, and a slider is engaged with the carriage at a position corresponding to a pen, which should print, among said pens, printing bein... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4920357 | Unattended replacement of plotter pens A computer driven plotter pen includes a turret from which a any one of plurality of different types of pens may be selected. When the plotter determines that a pen has become spent, the spent pen is automatically removed by a pen transfer carriage from t... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4916467 | Direct writing over-the-drum graphic recorder A graphic recorder includes a moveable pen carriage and drive means associated with the pen carriage for causing it to travel back and forth under computer control. A media roller defines a continuous cylindrical member supported beneath the carriage path... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4888710 | Pen tip position detector Apparatus, for use in conjunction with a digital plotter incorporating controlled multiple markers to create displays, for determining the position of the markers along axes of movement, comprises a detector assembly disposed at a fixed axial position rel... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4860032 | Automatic pen capping mechanism A rotary action graphic recording system includes a pen carriage supporting a plurality of recording pen shuttles in a linear array together with means for moving the pen carriage in a carriage path. Each pen shuttle supports a recording pen having a down... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4853714 | Automatic pen type sensor for graphic recorder An automatic pen positioning system is operative within a graphic recording system having a plurality of recording pens moveably supported by a pen carriage. The pen carriage is moveably along a first path above a media which is moveable along a second pa... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4849771 | Plotter pen presence and type identification system An improvement to graphics pen plotters including a pen gripping mechanism for gripping a cylindrical bodied pen in a generally vertical orientation for sensing the presence and type of a pen in the gripping mechanism with a single sensor. There is a mult... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4843406 | Method and apparatus for detecting the presence or absence of a pen in pen recorder The present invention comprises an apparatus and method for sensing whether a pen is in the grasp of a pen claw of a drawing arm or a plotter or other graphics mechanism. More specifically, the present invention comprises a pen claw movable between an upw... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4833490 | Writing element with exchange mechanism In a device for exhanging objects, in particular writing instruments, between two holders (4, 5) open on one side, in which the object (6) is retained at least in one holder (4) by the cooperation of two retaining elements, one of which is a permanent mag... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4827293 | Symmetrical braking system for a graphic recorder A symmetrical braking system for a graphic recorder includes a generally cylindrical brake support supported by a carriage drive and having a combination of cam surfaces. A brake rotor is rotatable supported upon the brake support and defines an arrangeme... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4812858 | Indexing mechanism The present invention comprises a mechanism for incrementally rotating a plotter carousel holding a plurality of pens around its perimeter. The rotational increments of the carousel are spaced to present any of the plurality of pens to a drawing arm on th... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4779104 | Pen plotter pen type identification system A pen type sensor for use in a graphics pen plotter wherein plotter pens are moved along a pre-established path between a pen holding area and a plotting area for reading a plurality of vertically oriented reflective indicia positions thereon to create a ... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4758102 | Pen-recording apparatus capable of erasing written characters A recording device capable of writing a character on a sheet of paper with a writing ball-point pen according to a set of character pattern data which is stored in a pattern memory, and erasing a written character with an erasing ball-point pen with relia... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4757330 | Pen pressure device In a pen pressure device including a carriage, a pen axially movably supported to the carriage in such a manner that a front end of the pen is opposed to a paper, a pen pressure spring for biasing the pen toward the paper, a return spring for biasing the ... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4754288 | Pen carousel, pen sensing and indexing In a multi-position graphics plotter pen carousel system employing a pen capping mechanism therein at each pen position for capping and uncapping pens held by the carousel, an improvement for allowing the sensing of pen presence at the pen positions and t... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4716420 | Pen turret rotation for plotters In a plotter (10) having a plurality of pens (14) stored in a rotatable turret (16) for selective use in a plotting operation, the turret may be rotated by the drive motor (32) used to move the paper (12) bidirectionally, thereby eliminating the cost and ... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4683476 | Drawing machine having automatically replaced writing members and apparatus therefor The body of a writing member is movable in translation between a rest position and a work position, at least partly under the action of a magnetic force, and is permanently held against at least one guide element carried by the support, by means of a magn... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4677572 | Pen turret control system A control system for controlling a turret head in a pen plotter wherein the turret head and pen holder move in combination with the pen carriage to provide turret selectability at the writing site. Sensors and associated logic are provided for detecting t... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4673954 | Multi-pen recording device A multi-pen recording device including a carriage holding a number of pens and movable on a shaft over a writing surface, a single plunger provided for selectively urging a selected individual pen against the writing surface, a belt for driving the carria... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4660054 | Pen changer with orthogonal pick up from the turret A method of exchanging writing implements for automatic drafting machine and its device in which a plurality of writing implement holders consisting of a stationary arm and a rotary arm at a stocker side, and a writing implement holder consisting of a sta... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4656488 | Transportation equipment recorder with time accuracy The present invention provides a system for recording operating condition information regarding transportation equipment and for determining the accuracy of recorded duration of the operating conditions. The system includes a first recording member for re... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4633270 | Transportation equipment recorder for highlighting operating parameters outside of preset limits The present invention provides a measuring and recording system for transportation equipment which measures the values of various operating parameters of the equipment and which records these values in analogue fashion on a recording medium. The system is... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4614952 | Pen type multi-color recording device A multi-pen type plotter printer is disclosed in which a desired character or graphic pattern is produced on the monitor paper by a selected one out of plural pens arranged in the carriage in accordance with an information signal, comprising a hammer slid... | 09/30/1986 |
