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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179409 | Thermal printer A print-dot counting section counts a number of print dots of print data. An adjusting section adjusts to reduce, according to the number of print dots counted by the print-dot counting section, one of conveying speed of a print medium by a conveying unit and energi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8164609 | Print head pulsing techniques for multicolor printers In one aspect of the invention there is disclosed a multicolor thermal imaging system wherein different heating elements on a thermal print head can print on different color-forming layers of a multicolor thermal imaging member in a single pass. The line-printing ti... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8098269 | Print head pulsing techniques for multicolor printers In one aspect of the invention there is disclosed a multicolor thermal imaging system wherein different heating elements on a thermal print head can print on different color-forming layers of a multicolor thermal imaging member in a single pass. The line-printing ti... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8004548 | Thermal head and image forming apparatus using the same In a thermal head 10 of the present invention, a head-side I/F 13 includes: an LVDS receiver 131 that receives a low-voltage differential signal from a set-side I/F 20 and converts the low-voltage differential signal into a single-end sig... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7965308 | Method and arrangement for control of the printing of a thermotransfer printing device In a method and an arrangement for controlling printing by a thermotransfer printing apparatus with relative movement between a thermotransfer print head and a print medium, a microprocessor that provides pixel energy data to a pixel energy memory by making an energ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7940288 | Print control device for a thermal printer A print control device for a thermal printer for detecting a failure in a component of the thermal printer to prevent an incorrect printing of an item to be printed which provides for a thermal resistor associated with each component of the printer to render the pri... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7868907 | Thermal head driving IC and method of controlling the same A thermal head driving IC for supplying voltage to a plurality of heating resistors each controlled by a driving MOS transistor includes a switch for making and breaking electrically between a substrate and a source of the plurality of driving MOS transistors. In a ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7830405 | Print head pulsing techniques for multicolor printers In one aspect of the invention there is disclosed a multicolor thermal imaging system wherein different heating elements on a thermal print head can print on different color-forming layers of a multicolor thermal imaging member in a single pass. The line-printing ti... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7791626 | Print head pulsing techniques for multicolor printers In one aspect of the invention there is disclosed a multicolor thermal imaging system wherein different heating elements on a thermal print head can print on different color-forming layers of a multicolor thermal imaging member in a single pass. The line-printing ti... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7683921 | Method of controlling a thermal head The present invention provides a method of controlling a thermal head which is capable of maintaining high image sharpness even in high-speed printing. In the method of controlling a thermal head according to the present invention, resistors constituting the thermal... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7667722 | Thermal head and method of controlling thermal head A thermal head has plural heat generating elements arrayed therein in a main scanning direction to form a heat generating element row, causes the respective heat generating elements to generate heat while conveying a recording medium in a sub-scanning direction, and... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7643045 | Thermal printing apparatus and printing methods thereof Thermal printing apparatus and printing methods thereof are disclosed. One of the proposed printing methods includes: providing an n-bit value corresponding to a pixel, wherein a color level of the pixel ranges from 0 to 2n−1; determining a total print ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7580052 | Thermal head drive circuit and printer using the same A thermal head drive circuit drives M number of thermal heads for printing one line and includes a delay unit that applies different time delays to M bits of print data to be supplied to the corresponding M thermal heads. The higher order the odd number thermal head... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7492382 | Voltage adjusting system and method for adjusting driving voltage of thermal print head The present invention discloses a voltage adjusting system and method for adjusting a driving voltage of a thermal print head by utilizing an electronic variable resistor. The voltage adjusting system includes a power converter, a voltage divider, an analog-to-digit... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7419231 | Power sensing circuit A heater chip that includes a circuit element, and a bus that can be used to power the circuit element. The heater chip also includes a feedback circuit that is coupled to the power bus. Particularly, the feedback circuit can be configured to indicate if the bus is ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7369145 | Method and apparatus for controlling the uniformity of print density of a thermal print head array A method for controlling the print density of individual heating elements of a thermal print head array determines respective energy values for each heating element in response to image pixel data to be printed, multiplies determined energy values by a respective pr... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363859 | Temperature detecting unit with fixing apparatus A temperature detecting unit including a temperature detecting sensor, a window member, and a frame which holds the window member. The temperature detecting sensor receives infrared rays radiated by an object, thereby detecting the temperature of the object without ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365761 | Thermal printer A thermal printer having an improved arrangement of memory card sockets on a main board and capable of printing an image on a print medium by applying heat to both surfaces of the print medium is provided. The thermal printer includes: a rotating unit rotatably inst... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7295224 | Thermal response correction system A model of a thermal print head is provided that models the thermal response of thermal print head elements to the provision of energy to the print head elements over time. The amount of energy to provide to each of the print head elements during a print head cycle ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293042 | Managing and predicting component failure based on pattern recognition of subcomponent exposure to failure Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide for predicting system failure based on pattern recognition of subcomponent exposure to failure. A dataset is generated that has at least one exposure level to failure of a co... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7274223 | Semiconductor device As devices are often different in the characteristics from one another, semiconductor chips based on the devices have discrepancies in the performance. A semiconductor device having a semiconductor switching element and a drive controlling means (1) for gener... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7255410 | Ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording apparatus, having a control circuit for controlling the driving of a recording head and a driver circuit for driving the recording head, includes an AC/DC converting circuit for converting an input AC voltage into a first DC voltage to then supp... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7224377 | Thermal print head modulation using additive complements A thermal print head in a thermal printer for printing a digital image, the digital image being composed of lines of multi-bit pixels, the print head having a plurality of thermal resistors, adapted to be simultaneously addressed in parallel by a corresponding plura... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7203849 | Method and system for distributing power to networked devices One embodiment disclosed relates to a system for power distribution to network devices. The system includes a plurality of network switches each having an internal power supply and a plurality of ports for connecting to the network devices and an external power supp... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197268 | Current measurement circuit for transformer with high frequency output A printer apparatus includes a photoreceptor, a magnetic roll, an electrode, a current source coupled to the electrode, the current source having a signal generator coupled to an input winding of a transformer that exhibits a parasitic capacitance; and a current mea... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7190384 | Image forming apparatus and density unevenness preventing method A system controller of a color thermal printer obtains a density profile of an image with respect to a feeding direction of a color thermal recording paper based on density of a test print measured by a CCD line sensor, and then extracts a density unevenness compone... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7176953 | Thermal response correction system A model of a thermal print head is provided that models the thermal response of thermal print head elements to the provision of energy to the print head elements over time. The thermal print head model generates predictions of the temperature of each of the thermal ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7154519 | Printer and ribbon cartridge A printer includes a substrate input, a substrate transport, a printhead, a removable ribbon cartridge, a ribbon cartridge receiver, and a substrate output. The substrate transport is configured to feed a substrate from the substrate input along a print path. The pr... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7128482 | Multi-media gaming printer A multi-media gaming printer. The multi-media printer may accept various kinds of voucher media, such as thermally writable medias, smart cards, or magnetic strip cards. The multi-media printer includes writing, reading, and erasing devices within the printer to man... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7104624 | Fire pulses in a fluid ejection device An fluid ejection device includes nozzles and includes firing resistors which correspond to the nozzles. Each firing resistor and corresponding nozzle are located in zones on the fluid ejection device where each zone has at least one firing resistor and correspondin... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7101006 | Printhead substrate, printhead, temperature control method of printhead, and printing apparatus This invention provides simpler, low-cost printhead temperature adjustment means without complicating the driver arrangement of a printhead substrate. In a printing apparatus to which this invention is applied, when printing by alternately driving two printheads hav... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7101007 | Printhead, printhead driving method, and data output apparatus The disclosed printhead can speed up transfer of image data and driving of printing elements without increasing the number of signal lines and connection terminals. An image data signal supplied to the printhead has a 4-bit bus format containing block selection data... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7047430 | Method for saving chipset power consumption A method of operating a chipset for saving power consumption is provided. Basic operating units, control units and input/output ports are used to simulate the operation inside the chipset. Any idling operating units are temporarily shut down, only to be activated ag... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7032986 | Self-calibration of power delivery control to firing resistors A fluid ejection device having an internal power supply path and a power regulator providing an offset voltage from the internal power supply path voltage. A self-calibration circuit in the inkjet printhead determines a regulation band of the power regulator defined... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6969134 | Printer or other media processor with on-demand selective media converter On demand apparatus for use in a printer, printer module, stand-alone media converter, or other media processor includes a print device and a converting system. The print device receives a series of labels, tickets, tags, cards or other media samples and responds to... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6942403 | Method and apparatus for associating on demand certain selected media and value-adding elements A thermal transfer media printer is disclosed. In one embodiment, the printer selectively programs RFID transponders, and then embeds them into conventional on-demand printed media between the adhesive layer and the release liner. Selective configuration of each pri... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6923532 | Efficient yellow thermal imaging ribbon The invention relates to a donor for thermal imaging including a base and dye layer, wherein said dye layer includes yellow dye and binder in a ratio of about 0.63, and said base has a thickness of between 4 to 4.75 micrometers. ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6899028 | Container A container is provided which comprises a cylindrical main body having an end wall at an end thereof; an outlet projecting from an outer surface of the end wall for allowing a content to be supplied; and a protecting member disposed on the outer surface of the end w... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6798433 | Method for increasing thermal print quality A printing method for printing a pixel at a gray level x on paper by a printer. The printer includes a thermal print head, which includes a heater for heating a ribbon to print pixels from gray levels 1 to m−1 on the paper, and the ribbon. The method includes: if ... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6783225 | Vacuum feeder for imaging device Media is transported to an imaging region using a vacuum feeder. A vacuum head is positioned onto the media and a vacuum is applied to the vacuum head to hold the media against the vacuum head. The vacuum head is then relocated to the imaging region carrying with it... | 08/31/2004 |
