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An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5988057 | Postal cancellation machine An apparatus for canceling postage on individual mailpieces of a stack of mixed mail includes an apparatus for separating individual mailpieces from the stack of mixed mail; structure for feeding the separated individual mailpieces along a feed path; a me... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5961227 | Thermal recording apparatus The number of pulses N corresponding to the gradation level of a print dot is read out from a table and stored in a counter 63 (S1). The first pulse is applied to the heating elements for the duration T1 (S4) and is stopped for the duration T | 10/05/1999 |
| 5957593 | Halftone pattern geometry for printing high quality images A digital halftone pattern geometry adapted not to the characteristics of variable dot size printing presses but to the operating characteristics of the printer itself achieves a high degree of image quality. The techniques for creating the halftone patte... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5902053 | Video printer having thermal head A recording apparatus according to the present invention has a structure such that recording position of each dot is inverted in one pixel area in such a manner that a direction in which dots of lines in the main scanning direction to be formed on a print... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5902054 | Energy saving image edging method and device Printing method and device enabling a low energy level to be indicated while extending the consumption duration and number of pages printed for a predetermined quantity of energy. According to the invention, detection of a predetermined quantity of energy... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5897255 | Speed fonts for matrix printers A method of printing font character bars comprised of a plurality of rows in a direction of printing movement perpendicular to the font character bars which are in turn comprised of a plurality of close adjacent dots to improve print quality at printing s... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5896160 | Thermal printing method and thermal printer A thermal printer using a thermal head having a plurality of heating elements arranged in line, wherein the heating elements are driven for different power conduction times to record dots at different densities. According to the invention, the thermal pri... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5886724 | Method and apparatus for thermal recording In the improved thermal recording method in which image data supplied from an image data supply source are subjected to specified image processing jobs and in which a thermal head is driven in accordance with the processed image data so as to perform ther... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5868505 | Printer apparatus A printer apparatus in which a multi-nozzle print head can be produced at low cost and which can deal with changes caused with lapse of time. With the printer apparatus, effective resolution can be improved and a more accurate gradation level in picture p... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5841461 | Accumulated heat correction method and apparatus Accumulated heat correcting data of an Nth line to be printed is subtracted from original heat data of the Nth line. This corrected heat data of the Nth line is supplied to a head driver which drives a thermal head to record dots of one line on a recordin... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5841459 | Color-to-color registration in thermal printers by adjusting image resolution based on image content A color thermal dye transfer printer that produces superposed color plane images of varying image densities on a receiver medium includes a printhead movable in a print direction relative to the receiver medium to produce images on the receiver medium at ... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5833376 | Method of activating individually energisable elements in a thermal recording head A method of activating a binary controllable element of a thermal head in correspondence with an N-bit data value representing a density value D by converting a digital signal representative of said N-bit value into a binary signal that, when applied to s... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5826994 | Tape printing apparatus A tape printing device comprises a print head, means for causing relative movement between an image receiving tape and the print head, and control circuitry for controlling the print head. The print head has a set of selectively activable printing element... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5805312 | Thermographical image copier system with real time copying and variable read and record speeds An image copying system is disclosed which has a thermal head energized at a strobe current supply time rate corresponding to a current head temperature according to a preset strobe current supply time rate control characteristics. In copying operation at... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5795082 | Printing system utilizing inks of different densities, cartridge used therefor, and method of recording images The present invention utilizes a high-density ink and a low-density ink with respect to a specific color ink, so as to improve the printing quality. The procedure of the present invention reads a recording ratio of deep dots by the high-density ink corres... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5765953 | Control device of energy supply for heating elements of a thermal head and method for controlling energy supply for said heating elements A control device which controls the supply of energy heating elements of a thermal head. The control device to a memory includes for storing multiplication results as correction energy values of combinations of influence parameters, each of the influence ... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5741079 | Printing apparatus and method of making mask pattern for exposure thereby There are provided a printing apparatus and a method of making a mask pattern for exposure by the use of the printing apparatus. A temperature of a thermal head is detected, and a plurality of split pulses formed by dividing a strobe pulse applied to the ... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5677577 | Reducing energy variations in thermal inkjet printers In thermal inkjet printing, an energy source supplies voltage pulses to a set of resistors in a printhead. The resistors are not necessarily equal-valued. The subset of energized resistors changes from pulse to pulse as a function of the printable data. A... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5660486 | Image printing apparatus and image printing method An image printing device includes a latent image charge keeping medium including a pyroelectric layer, a thermal head for selectively heating the charge keeping medium according to a signal, and an electrically conductive film disposed to be brought into ... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5611630 | Method and apparatus for securely printing a postal indicia image having a different dot density in two dimensions thereof A method for printing a postal indicia includes printing a first dot-matrix ink pattern of the postal indicia; and printing a second dot-matrix ink pattern of a portion of the postal indicia in overlapping relationship to the first dot-matrix ink pattern ... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5488223 | System and method for automatic selection of printer control parameters A system and method for the automatic selection printer operating parameters using a preprinted bar code image on a portion of a selected print medium or a separate sheet of bar code parameters and commands. The bar code image specified characteristics of... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5480239 | Postage meter system having bit-mapped indicia image security A deterrent to counterfeiting of indicias on mailpieces is provided in a method and apparatus for implementing the printing of the indicia using a customized printhead or customized printer drivers such that the dots of the bit-mapped printing are produce... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5327165 | Electronic printing system for imaging thermally sensitive paper An electronic printing system for imaging lines of pixels on thermally sensitive paper is disclosed. The pixels are imaged in accordance with digital data representing whether a particular pixel is to be imaged or not. The system may also operate in a gra... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5324121 | Recording density correcting device based on glaze layer thickness of thermal head A device for correcting the recording density of a recording apparatus having a thermal head implemented as an array of a plurality of elements. The device corrects energy to be applied to the head on the basis of the resistance of each element and thickn... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5242230 | Font cartridge with thermal correction information A font cartridge which can be attached to and detached from a printer and has an ROM to store the character font pattern corresponding to the type style to be output in accordance with a print request from the printer. The ROM stores the print correction ... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5235346 | Method and apparatus for controlling the temperature of thermal ink jet and thermal printheads that have a heating matrix system This disclosure presents methods for controlling the temperature of a thermal ink jet and thermal printhead so that the quality of black and white printing, gray-scale printing, and color printing is improved. The methods control the average residual powe... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5232294 | Recording head driving device for printer A printer has a recording head with a first plurality of recording elements being disposed in a main scan direction. The recording head records the first plurality of pixels on a recording sheet at a time. Each pixel has a second plurality of sub-lines di... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5191356 | Tower conserving recording apparatus A recording apparatus such as a printer for recording an image such as characters and patterns on a recording medium which may be a heat-sensitive paper, ordinary paper or the like. The apparatus has a recording head adapted for making a relative movement... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5191357 | Method and apparatus for preheating a thermally activated printing head A recording apparatus for performing recording on a recording medium includes a plurality of recording elements, and a control unit for selectively providing energy having a level lower than an actual recording level to adjacent ones of the plurality of r... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5166701 | Recording density correction apparatus in printer A recording density correction apparatus in a printer, comprises; a correction gradation level data selection device for producing class numbers for selecting correction gradation level data for respective heating elements constituting a thermal head on t... | 11/24/1992 |
| 4872772 | Thermal recorder for printing dot patterns having higher density at ends of pattern A recorder controls a record unit to print a portion of a line of record formed on a record paper by the record unit at a different record density than that of the remaining portion of the line of record.... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4810111 | Resistive ribbon thermal transfer printing apparatus A resistive ribbon thermal transfer printing apparatus produces two kinds of electric pulses for selectively energizing recording electrodes of a printing head according to a data to be printed. A first electric pulse (normal pulse) is applied to a record... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4784501 | Method of enhancing fine line of printer and related circuit The present invention relates to a method and a circuit for enhancing a fine line in the direction perpendicular to the arraying direction of the printing elements (i.e., in the direction of moving the printing paper) of a line printer which prints by app... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4514768 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is disclosed, which comprises a scanner for producing image information on a document by optically scanning the document, a keyboard for specifying various type face patterns of characters, numerals, symbols, etc., and a charact... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4268838 | Thermal recording system A thermal recording system in which a thermal treated paper is printed by a thermal head having a series of aligned heat-generating resistor elements and current-holding elements like SCR (thyristor) corresponding to each of said heat-generating resistor ... | 05/19/1981 |
