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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7371024 | Printhead assembly A printer includes a pair of opposed printhead assemblies for double-sided printing. Each printhead assembly includes first and second print modules having respective first and second elongate print heads. A single printhead circuit board controls both of the print ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7360856 | Printing apparatus and printing method An inkjet printing apparatus which performs time-divisional driving poses the following problem for at least some gray levels when halftoning control by the unit matrix is performed. More specifically, the shape of a dot cluster in each unit matrix periodically chan... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7312808 | Image forming apparatus and scanning unit After having been reflected by a first return mirror, a light beam deflected by a polygon mirror is caused to travel toward a second return mirror disposed in a position below a base section of the polygon mirror by way of an opening. An image forming apparatus is c... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7142132 | Methods and systems for multi-state switching using at least one ternary input and at least one discrete input Systems, methods and devices are described for placing a controlled device into a desired operating state in response to the position of a multi-position actuator. Two or more switch contacts provide input signals representative of the position of the actuator. Cont... | 11/28/2006 |
| 6995754 | Plasma display module A plasma display panel, driving circuits for driving the plasma display panel, and a power circuit into which an external alternating current is inputted are provided to a plasma display module. The power circuit supplies driving voltages to the driving circuits. Th... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6172701 | Light emitting element array chip, light emitting element array drive IC and print head To achieve a reduction in the size of the print head and a reduction in the cost, LED array chips 1 achieved by matrix-connecting M×N LED elements 2 with M pad electrodes to be scanned 4 and N pad electrodes to be driven 3 and LED array drive ICs 10 are ... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6166757 | Led head Gray scale printing data with compensation for dispersion is stored in a first shift register, the data is sliced into respective bits and is fetched by means of a second shift register and AND-gates. Standard resistances are scanned by means of a third s... | 12/26/2000 |
| 5933178 | Multi-stylus head and process for producing the same Odd- and even-numbered conductors of recording electrodes, for example, first or second recording electrodes, are divided in the direction in which the conductor at the time of winding are stacked up to form different layers so as to increase the distance... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5654745 | Toner projection printer with capacitance-coupled address electrode structure A toner projection printer is provided with a developer surface which manifests a developer bias, and includes a cloud of entrained toner particles. A platen is positioned opposed to the developer surface and manifests a platen voltage that is attractive ... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5515095 | Electrostatic recording head with a plurality of linear electrode arrays and a method of driving the same An electrostatic recording head used for forming an electrostatic latent image of an image to be recorded on a recording medium comprises a plurality of electrode groups, each group including a plurality of needle-like electrodes. The needle-like electrod... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5502478 | LED electrophotographic printer having LED array and coordinated parallel drive of LED subarrays ElectrophotographLc image formation by an LED array consisting of a plurality of LED chips arranged in a row and a driver having a plurality of drive ICs each connected in parallel to each of m units of LED array chips within each of n groups obtained by ... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5150133 | Electrostatic latent image forming apparatus An electrostatic latent image forming apparatus is used in a printer which prints an image via toner deposition after an electrostatic latent image forming step. A conductive member divided into separate segments is provided at a position on a side of a s... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5128696 | Line head device A line head device comprises a line head that has plural blocks of EL elements arranged in a row in the direction of a printing line for paper supplied to a transfer position and printed in line units. In the line head device, the line head has more than ... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5065171 | Image sensor with uniformly dispersed storage capacitors A thin film transistor driven image sensor. The image sensor has a plurality of photodiodes. Each photodiode is connected to a storage load capacitor through a thin film transistor switching element. The photodiodes are arranged into a plurality of blocks... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5061948 | Electrographic marking with modified addressing to eliminate striations In a device for producing an electrostatic image along a scan line of a recording medium by means of a recording device including an array of stylus electrodes arranged in a series of groups cooperable with a series of complementary electrodes, each of th... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5053793 | Electrographic marking with dithered stylus group boundaries to eliminate striations A method of producing an electrostatic image along scan lines of a recording medium with recording means including a series of stylus electrodes arranged in a longitudinally extending array and divided into two groups, with the stylus members of each grou... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5012434 | Apparatus and method for selective rotation of data printed by a matrix printer An electro-photographic matrix printer such as a laser printer has characters to be printed stored as bits in columns and rows of a bit pattern page memory. The bits are read from the bit pattern page memory in the form of individually addressable blocks ... | 04/30/1991 |
| 4975719 | Multi-stylus recording head manufacturing method and apparatus In manufacturing a multi-stylus recording head in the head surface of which the ends of MxN recording electrodes are exposed (N groups each having M electrode wires), a wire aligning drum having MxN wire positioning grooves, wire directing section and M w... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4785318 | Electrostatic recording head An electrostatic recording head comprises a number of recording electrode styli arranged at spaces from one another, in a row, the electrode styli being divided along the row into sets each constituting an element region, each predetermined number of the ... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4728972 | Multiplexing of transient image bar The invention is a liquid crystal material between horizontal and vertical electrodes. A xerographic drum is placed underneath the electrodes/liquid crystal configuration and an optical system provides light or no light at the intersection of the electrod... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4727386 | Print head for an electrostatic image An electrostatic print head for creating a latent image on a dielectric recording medium (1) in order to enable said image to be subsequently transferred to a final medium (generally ordinary paper) after development by inking. The print head comprises a ... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4689643 | Electrostatic print head The invention relates to electrostatic print heads enabling an electrostatic latent image to be progressively built up on a moving medium (18) which may be constituted by special paper or by some other material, by discharging ions using a set of aligned ... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4657416 | Non-impact printing apparatus The invention relates to a printing apparatus of the type which transfers an image without impact. This apparatus includes a flexible recording tape (20), a printing block (28) which is displaced along the tape so as to record latent images onto it and de... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4636816 | Electrostatic print head A print head for direct or indirect electrostatic printing comprises at least one row (21) of electrodes disposed at a regular pitch and organized in n groups (G1 . . . Gn) per row, together with a counter-electrode (1) constituted o... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4609927 | Image recording apparatus with divided memory An image recording apparatus capable of responding to high-speed input image signals by dividedly storing image signals of a line into plural memory units, for parallel output, for example, thus achieving higher speed of signal storage than the speed of s... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4553150 | Driving circuit for an electrostatic recording head The instant invention relates to a method and apparatus for driving an electrostatic recording head for recording images on a medium comprising a plurality of pin electrodes, the pin electrode arrays are separated into alternate even and odd arrays positi... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4470056 | Controlling a multi-wire printhead A current shunt multiplexed driver circuit in a high resolution multi-wire printhead is provided for use in an electroerosion printer. The circuit can reduce to the number of active devices required per print wire to two times the square root of the numbe... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4447821 | Method and apparatus of electrostatic recording A method and apparatus for forming an electrostatic latent image free of phantoms is provided. A recording medium is first uniformly charged and the charges are selectively dissipated by the recording unit including a plurality of styluses to which a reco... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4353080 | Control system for electrographic stylus writing apparatus In a matrix array for the supply of an electrographic stylus writing apparatus, a plurality of styli are driven by short pulses through R/C networks. The styli are divided into subgroups and parallel capacitors connect the styli of each subgroup to a high... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4271417 | Electrographic imaging with non-sequential electrode actuation Disclosed is a method and apparatus for charging a charge retentive surface of a record medium with a latent electrostatic image. The apparatus comprises a plurality of arrays of recording electrodes. The arrays are alternately divided into first and seco... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4262294 | Electrostatic printing apparatus comprising improved electrode drive means A sheet of copy paper (24) is moved perpendicular to a linear array (22) of printing electrodes (221, 222, 223, 224 . . . ). The electrodes (221, 222, 223, 224 . . . ) are selectively energized to form an electrostatic charge pattern on the copy sheet (24... | 04/14/1981 |
| 4258373 | Electrostatic recording apparatus and method The disclosure is of electrostatic recording apparatus including a plurality of groups of printing electrodes on one side of a sheet of printing paper and a plurality of base or counter electrodes on the other side of the paper. Corresponding electrodes i... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4215355 | Improved electrographic recording apparatus employing an improved drive circuit In accordance with the present invention there is provided an electrographic recording apparatus for recording on an electrostatic charge retentive record medium and a driver circuit suitable for use therein. The apparatus comprises a plurality of recordi... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4183032 | Electrostatic recording medium with elongated conductive segments An electrostatic recording medium having an insulating base, a conductive layer on the base, and a dielectric layer on the conductive layer. The conductive layer is divided into a plurality of segments arranged in a direction in which recording electrodes... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4180824 | Head for electrically printing an image The present invention relates to a printing bar with a plurality of styli (10) for printing an image. It includes a first network of conductive tapes (1) insulated from one another and in which one end of each of them forms a printing stylus (10) and n di... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4157553 | Recording electrode power limiting circuit for an electrographic recorder A power limiting circuit for controlling recording electrode energizing power in an electrographic recorder having a plurality of electrographic recording electrodes has a voltage and current monitor circuit for detecting the changes in voltage and curren... | 06/05/1979 |
| 4149192 | Transmission of encoded facsimile signals at variable intervals commensurate with recording time In a facsimile communication system wherein a document is scanned along its line path to generate a binary signal waveform for each line scan and the length of black or white run of each binary digit in the waveform is translated into a corresponding code... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4054885 | Electrostatic recording device An electrostatic recording device in which an area on a record carrier is charged electrically. Electrodes are arranged on both sides of the carrier. The print electrodes arranged in groups on one side thereof serve to form the desirable charge image. The... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4027195 | Voltage switching device comprising a gas discharge panel A voltage switching device operable by an electric power source comprises a gas discharge panel that includes opposing first and second electrodes and gas discharge cells therebetween. Resistors are connected between the power source and the respective fi... | 05/31/1977 |
| 3979760 | Electrostatic recording apparatus with auxiliary electrodes There is disclosed an electrostatic recording apparatus comprising a plurality of wire electrode groups each constituting a block, the corresponding wire electrodes of the respective groups being simultaneously scanned, a pair of auxiliary electrode rows ... | 09/07/1976 |
