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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7325987 | Printing method using quill-jet A system for depositing a material is described. The system uses at least one cantilever, and more typically a plurality of cantilever to transfer small amounts of material from a source of material to a substrate surface. One application for the system is a printin... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325903 | Quill-jet printer A system for depositing a material is described. The system uses at least one cantilever, and more typically a plurality of cantilever to transfer small amounts of material from a source of material to a substrate surface. One application for the system is a printin... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7244018 | Ink cartridge having retaining structure and memory The ink cartridge includes an ink supply port formed at a position, offset to one side, of a wall configuring an ink container body; a positioning projecting portion, formed on one wall out of two opposing walls adjacent the wall, whose upper surface and side portio... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7237883 | Ink cartridge having positioning structure and recording apparatus for receiving the ink cartridge The ink cartridge includes an ink supply port formed at a position, offset to one side, of a wall configuring an ink container body; a positioning projecting portion, formed on one wall out of two opposing walls adjacent the wall, whose upper surface and side portio... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7168364 | Method and apparatus for marking workpieces A method and an apparatus are provided for marking a sheet-shaped workpiece using a marking tool. The marking tool is mounted in a punch holder of a punch press and a counter-support is fixed in place on a side opposite of a marking surface of the workpiece to be ma... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7108763 | Method for manufacturing multi-laminar wood sheets with printed patterns A method for manufacturing multi-laminar wood sheets by slicing from a flitch of natural and/or laminated wood sheets glued and pre-printed with a basic pattern. A basic pattern is printed on one or both faces of wood sheets obtained by rotary cutting or slicing a n... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7048455 | Wire dot printer head with abrasion having magnetic permeability and hardness surface In order to realize a stable rocking operation of the armature for performing high-speed printing, between the armature spacer for accommodating and holding the support shaft of the armature which supports the printing wires, and the yoke for holding the support sha... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6695496 | Dot printer A dot printer not using any type, nor requiring any ink ribbon has an ink roller 1, a platen 2 having an outer surface coated with ink by contacting the ink roller 1, and a printing head 3 facing the platen 2 in an appropriately spaced apart relation ther... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6695495 | Constant density printer system An ink density closed loop control system for an ink ribbon of an impact printer having a reservoir roller formed of an ink absorbent material with at least one or more channels within the reservoir roller fluidly connected to a pump and ink supply. A tra... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6561707 | Needle printing head A needle printing head comprising a support (11) able to axially guide a plurality of printing needles (15), each of which has one end attached to a mobile armature (16) of a corresponding actuation electromagnet (17) having a ferromagnetic core (18) prov... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6412938 | System and method for reducing inter-color bleeding in liquid ink jet printing Printing systems and methods that reduce inter-color bleeding between dark and light colored inks without losing productivity of a color ink jet printer by distributing the printing of a total amount of black ink required in a single swath over multiple p... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6231248 | Ink supply tank for a printer An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head i... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6224275 | Ink-supply tank for a printer An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head i... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6176629 | Ink supply tank for a printer An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head i... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6123469 | Ink-supply wire dot matrix printer head An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head i... | 09/26/2000 |
| 5622439 | Ink-supply tank for a dot matrix printer An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head i... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5615957 | Ink-supply tank for a dot matrix printer An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head i... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5607242 | Ink-supply tank for a printer An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head i... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5603577 | Ink supply tank for a printer An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head i... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5560720 | Ink-supply tank for a dot matrix printer An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head i... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5421658 | Ink supply mechanism for a dot matrix printer An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head i... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5221148 | Dot matrix printer ink supply system having ink absorbing member substantially filling an ink tank An ink-supply system for a dot matrix printer including an ink-supply tank formed with an ink-supply delivery port and an ink absorbing member formed of a porous material and dimensioned to substantially fill the ink-supply tank. The ink-supply tank inclu... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5174665 | Ink-supply system for a dot matrix printer An ink-supply system for a dot matrix printer including an ink-supply tank having an ink-supply delivery port and an ink absorbing member having at least two separate porous members disposed as stacked layers, one of the porous members which is closer to ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5158377 | Ink-supply system for a dot matrix printer An ink-supply system for a dot matrix printer including an ink-supply tank formed with an ink supply delivery port having an opening for passage of ink from the ink-supply tank. An ink absorbing member formed of a porous material is mounted within the ink... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5156470 | Two cartridge ink-supply system for a multi-color dot matrix printer An ink-supply system for a dot matrix printer including a unitary ink-supply tank formed with a plurality of ink-supply sections and a further separate ink-supply tank. An ink absorbing member formed of a porous material is positioned in each of the ink-s... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5156471 | Ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head i... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5156472 | Dot matrix printer supply system having ink absorbing member filled under reduced pressure An ink-supply system for a dot matrix printer including an ink-supply tank having an ink-supply delivery port, an ink impregnated member formed of a porous material within the ink-supply tank, and ink impregnated in the ink absorbing member under a pressu... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5156473 | Multi-color cartridge ink-supply system for a dot matrix printer An ink-supply system for a dot matrix printer including an ink-supply tank formed as a single disposable unit and adapted for mounting in and removal from the ink-supply system as a unit. The ink-supply tank is formed with a plurality of ink-supply sectio... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5078519 | Printer with two-stage skew adjustment Two-stage skew adjustment is achieved by first using only the drive force of the platen roller with the pinch roller and the capstan roller drive disrupted by a gap opening mechanism to effect a large skew adjustment. Then, the gap is closed and the plate... | 01/07/1992 |
| 4984911 | Ink dot printer A print head having a plurality of printing elements is disposed in an opposing relationship to an opposing electrode, and a negative voltage is applied to the opposing electrode while the print head is grounded. As a result, appearance of a spark dischar... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4969759 | Ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head i... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4913568 | Dot printer A dot printer wherein a film of magnetic ink is formed in a slit shaped between a pair of magnetic poles, and needles piercing through the ink film thus formed are driven to deposit the magnetic ink on a recording paper so as to print dots thereon. The ti... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4813797 | Dot printer A dot printer wherein magnetic ink is fed by magnetic-flux generating means to a slit formed between a pair of magnetic poles, and needles are selectively driven so that tips thereof furnished with the magnetic ink are brought into contact with a recordin... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4749291 | Inking system for wire dot matrix printer An inking system comprising an ink vessel removably mounted on a nose portion of a wire dot matrix printer. The ink vessel is stationarily connected to a capillary path member for transferring ink reserved within the ink vessel to the rear surface of a be... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4646111 | Ink dot printer An ink dot printer comprising an opposite electrode, a carriage capable of reciprocating along the opposite electrode, a printing head mounted on the carriage, recording electrodes arranged within the printing head so that the tips thereof can be exposed ... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4643599 | Inking apparatus for a wire matrix printer A wire matrix printer head has a group of print wires guided so as to pass through holes formed in an ink reservoir. The group of print wires are operatively connected to an actuator unit provided within a housing, the group of print wires having their fr... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4618276 | Dot matrix print head This invention involves methods and apparatus relating to the assembly and structure of a dot matrix print head. In the preferred embodiment, the tops of the bobbins, yoke members, and pole pieces are ground flush in a common plane. The common plane is th... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4603338 | Ink dot printer The present invention provides an ink dot printer wherein an electrostatic field is produced between ends of needles and an electrode, and the needles are selectively actuated to cause ink sticking to the ends of the needles to fly with a Coulomb force th... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4599629 | Magnetic ink dot printer with means for controlling print density An ink dot printer includes an ink tank for storing magnetic ink, a pair of magnetic pole plates arranged opposite to each other to form a slit, one end of the pair of plates being immersed in the magnetic ink in the ink tank. An electromagnet magnetizes ... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4579468 | Wire dot printer utilizing multicolor inks A wire dot printer having a plurality of ink applicators for separately applying inks of different colors to the ends of printing wires disposed in separate groups in the ink applicators. The ink applicators are supplied respectively with inks of differen... | 04/01/1986 |
