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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7354213 | Printer having foreign material removing structure In a printer, a sheet discharge port for discharging a sheet therefrom is provided on the upper surface of an exterior case, and a recess portion for preventing invasion of a foreign material into the sheet discharge port is formed in the neighborhood of the sheet d... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7322762 | Tape-like object feeding device and label tape printing device A tape-like object feeding device in accordance with the present invention comprises a feeding mechanism 7 for feeding a tape-like object toward an outlet and a cutting mechanism 8 for cutting the tape-like object fed by the feeding mechanism. An eject... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318681 | Label making apparatus A label making apparatus displays a copy print setting screen to make a user input a number of sets or labels to be copied, and determines whether or not a value stored in a total number of sets in a RAM is 1. After the determination, if the total number of sets is ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7303342 | Print control apparatus and print control program A cable label having a desired configuration is provided without forcing a user to do any troublesome work. A character string to be printed on a cable label is memorized in a character string memory section. A print image generating section generates a character st... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7280350 | Computing devices Each of a cluster of computing balls (1) contains within its housing (3) a photosensitive device (51) for receiving light from a light source (5) and converting it into energy to power a processing chip (2). There is thus wireless ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7252442 | Tape printer and control method of tape printer A tape printer prints a text on a print label in such a way that the right side position of a character “A” corresponding to the beginning data of the text is moved to the final position of a liquid crystal display, and then an image of a leading end of the prin... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7165217 | Electronic book display device and its display method An electronic book display device capable of attaching the mark to the optional element by just conducting the simple operation like actual books. Since the display control means 28 is provided for determining the type of mark to emphasize the specifying element acc... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7073714 | Code reader display An improved code reader for reading and displaying OBD II diagnostic codes. The code reader displays textual diagnosis descriptions corresponding to diagnostic codes. The code reader can display both an OBD II code and the textual diagnosis description corresponding... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6976799 | Keyboard of a personal digital assistant A keyboard attached to a personal digital assistant (PDA) set having: a hinge unit including a connector to transfer a keyboard input signal to the PDA, and upper and lower hinge covers; a connection unit placed inside of the hinge unit, and can be attached in the f... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6945171 | Method of printing A method of printing information on each article of a set of articles arranged in generally parallel lanes at a printing station, the method including continuously moving a printing apparatus relative to the lanes to bring the printing apparatus into registry with e... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6912121 | Personal computer device having constant tilt display with adjustable height The present invention provides a notebook PC with a monitor that enables a user to have better handling of the PC and viewing of the display of the device when using the PC. A PC includes a monitor and a main unit that are connected to each other by an arm through a... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6907711 | Sheet package producing system, sheet handling device, and fillet folding device A sheet package producing system includes at least a cutter module and a packaging module. The cutter module has a cutter blade, for producing X-ray films by cutting a continuous sheet material. The packaging module has packaging robots, for producing a sheet packag... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6835013 | Label printer A label printer for printing a label, the printer comprising: input means for inputting data defining labels to be printed; storage means for storing a plurality of labels, labels being separated in said storage means by label indicators; selection means for selecti... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6504706 | Presentation device The invention relates to a portable presentation device (1) comprising a container having a lid (3) and a base (4), a first display device (7) and a controller (10) for driving the first display device (7). The portable presentation device is in the form ... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6496275 | Character printing method and device There are provided a character printing method and device. There are defined print size alternatives to be selectively set to a print size of a printing area of a printing object on which is to be printed part or all of a character group including at leas... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6491454 | Tape printing device and method A tape printing apparatus and method for printing a series of characters on a tape including an input device to input a series of characters, and a display device coupled to the input device and configured to display the series of characters. A tape lengt... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6459943 | Seal producing apparatus A seal producing apparatus includes file storing and recalling procedures wherein calling of a file is permitted only when a seal loaded in the seal producing apparatus is a seal type having a shape and size suitable to contain the allowable number of lin... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6411315 | Scalable edit window and displayable position indicators for an electronic typewriter A scalable edit window and position indicators displayable on a display of an electronic typewriter are provided. The width of the scalable edit window adjusts in accordance with the paper size or size of the recording medium selected for printing the key... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6341907 | Printing device and host device A printing system including printing device and at least two host devices. Each of the at least two host devices inputs a priority of a print request, and transmits a reason for the priority of the print request together with the print request and the pri... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6168323 | Tape printing apparatus There is provided a tape printing apparatus for printing desired character string data on a tapelike printing object, in which a plurality of functions can be set with a single physical operator. When a character size setting function key is operated (S14... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6126340 | Printer A printer 80 integrally comprises a printing section 81 for printing on a recording medium such as a cut sheet S and continuous paper L2 based on printing data transmitted from an external host unit H, a control panel 70 containing an indicator section fo... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6115024 | Image display device There is provided an image display device which is capable of clearly displaying the use of each fixed format for forming an image and the image formed according to the fixed format on a small-sized display screen with small memory capacity. A display dev... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6109798 | Tape printing device The present invention provides an improved tape printing device for printing a desirable series of characters in a preferable balance on a tape through a simple operation. The tape printing device of the invention is used for printing text data in a plura... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6062750 | Printer capable of printing a background in addition to text on a tape along with a decorating feature to extend the border of the printed tape A printing apparatus comprises input means for inputting various characters, design setting means for selecting a design pattern including a frame to be added around the characters and a background pattern to be added on a background of the characters the... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6007262 | Tape printing apparatus A tape printing apparatus is provided. Document data including character data, line feed data and division break-inserting data is input. An editing document formed of the document data is displayed. A position within the editing document is designated. A... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5967679 | Label printing apparatus A label printing apparatus having an input device for determining a predetermined label length and selecting one or more of plurality of characters for composing a label having one or more lines of characters in the length; a memory for storing font data ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5961225 | Tape printing device and tape cartridge used therein The present invention provides a tape printing device for printing a desirable series of characters on a tape and cutting the tape to a label of a desirable length, and also a tape cartridge used in the tape printing device. The tape cartridge has a chara... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5924806 | POS station output signal conversion method and system A method for processing single line data and multiple line data generated at a POS station for driving a printer thereof into common structure data, e.g., single line data, the method comprising the steps of defining a first lookup table having first sign... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5885012 | Printing apparatus The present invention relates to a label printer that has a plurality of keys for defining a label to be printed. Such keys include keys for defining the format of the label. The label printer also includes a display for displaying an image of the label, ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5885016 | Tape printing device A tape printing apparatus for printing a series of characters on a tape including an input device to input a series of characters, and a display device coupled to the input device and configured to display the series of characters. A tape length calculato... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5868504 | Tape printing device The present invention provides an improved tape printing device for printing a desirable series of characters in a preferable balance on a tape through a simple operation. The tape printing device of the invention is used for printing text data in a plura... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5860752 | Tape printing device The tape printing device of the present invention has the function of automatically setting the length of the front and rear margins according to the width of the tape and the function of printing a square-array dot pattern on a wide region which is wider... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5857789 | Tape printer for bar code printing The invention relates to a printer which can print both text and bar code data on an elongated web-like tape. The printer is provided with a display having a first display mode in which both text data and bar code data are displayed. A bar code display un... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5839837 | Printers which display the color of a printing medium A cartridge detector detects information on the color of a label tape of a cartridge which is a printing medium on the basis of the shape of the cartridge. A controller determines the color of the label tape on the basis of detected information obtained f... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5833379 | Tape printer having a display A tape printer includes a keyboard (4) that inputs character strings to be printed on each printed block that is defined in a label tape or a label tube and inputs control commands by which an output format of the character strings is controlled; a displa... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5823689 | Computer system with bi-directional communication and method The invention provides a computer system utilizing bi-directional communication between a computing device and a printing machine, for transmitting data representing real-time supply roll parameters to an application program on the computing device. Suppl... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5816717 | Label printing apparatus with character string matching A method of recalling stored labels is disclosed in which target data is provided by a user so that only labels having label data matching the target data are displayed.... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5810486 | Tape printing apparatus There is provided a tape printing apparatus for printing desired character string data on a tapelike printing object, in which a plurality of functions can be set with a single physical operation means. When a character size setting function key is operated (S... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5810487 | Carton processing system and carton processing method A system for processing a carton includes a unit for supplying articles for printing, a unit for printing the contents of articles supplied from the supplying unit so as to be housed within the carton, including the names or quantity of the articles to be... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5813021 | Tape printing and editing assembly A tape printing assembly for editing input data of up to `n` lines which includes a main display formed to display the edited input data in `p` lines, where `p` is an integer between 1 to at most `n`-1. A display controller is adapted to control the editi... | 09/22/1998 |
