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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7068401 | Optical scanning apparatus having a carriage locking device An optical scanning apparatus including a chassis having a panel, the panel having an opening defined therethrough. The apparatus has a scanner carriage which is moveably supported within the chassis. A carriage locking device includes an elongated locking member wh... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7054218 | Serial memory address decoding scheme A decode circuit for a memory that uses “sequential addressing” includes a series of decoders form a shift register that may be used to provide either wordlines or column select lines for accessing the memory. A pulse generator supplies an appropriate number of ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6996344 | Fiber optic video transmitter and receiver system A video transmission system, for sending uncompressed digital video signals from an originating device such as a digital video camera to a distant location, such as a studio or editing facility and for receiving video signals sent from a distant location. The transm... | 02/07/2006 |
| 5322978 | Handwriting capture device with integral forms printer A handwriting capture device which includes an integral printer for printing forms and for feeding the forms over a digitizer for signature by a customer. The handwriting capture device employs a highly sensitive digitizer to accurately capture signature ... | 06/21/1994 |
| 4897800 | Electronic graph drawing apparatus An electronic graph drawing apparatus comprises an input device for inputting numerical data, a memory responsive to the input device for storing the input data, a selection circuit responsive to the memory for selecting the maximum numerical data from th... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4717967 | Image recording apparatus with recording medium quanity detecting means An image recording apparatus such as a facsimile apparatus has a recorder, a control circuit, a display circuit, a sensor for detecting a quantity of remaining recording paper, and an auxiliary memory for storing data which has been received but not yet r... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4615012 | Method of generating character patterns A method of generating character patterns to be printed on a printer, wherein each character is divided into line segments in the X or Y axis direction or 45°-angle direction on the X/Y coordinates. Segments are processed in pairs of contiguous, linked l... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4590330 | Printer A printer includes a carriage supporting a print head and movable across print paper for enabling the print head to print on the print paper, a fixed frame, a switch device mounted on one of the carriage and the fixed frame, the switch device being compos... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4361726 | Thermal message printer A thermal message printer for printing a wide block of text which is produced with low cost printheads. The printer includes a thermal printer having a first number of fixed printheads equal in number to the lines to be printed on thermographic paper. Eac... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4343968 | Electronic device having unitary display and printing sections To miniaturize an electronic device such as an electronic table computer provided with a printer, the display part and printing part of the device are united together to form a unitary component. Wiring of signal lead line for driving the display and prin... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4319077 | Circuit for coded symbol conversion A circuit for coded symbol conversion has first and second memories and a switching stage. Standard code characters from a keyboard are entered into the first memory and if the entered character is one which can be represented by a single binary word the ... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4316056 | Control circuit for electromagnetically-operated recorders in teleprinting devices A control circuit for momentarily energizing an electromagnetic coil in a teleprinting device recorder has a pair of switching transistors respectively operated by control pulses having a lag between respective switching times and a control transistor bia... | 02/16/1982 |
| 4286112 | Message preparation timing apparatus An apparatus is disclosed for use with teletypewriter consoles in teleprinter communication networks for providing transmission time information during message preparation; namely, the number of whole minutes of message time plus either the number of char... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4252994 | Automatic teletypewriter An automatic teletypewriter is provided. The teletypewriter includes a keyboard having alpha and numeric characters and includes means to utilize the numeric character keys for dialing into the telex network. The teletypewriter also automatically keeps co... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4236447 | Printing column number limiting device A device for limiting the number of printing columns in a printer in which a group of printing data codes transferred from a data source are successively compared with a group of type codes which are determined in correspondence to the instantaneous posit... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4233611 | Recording head for electrostatic printing apparatus An electrostatic printing apparatus having a transfer medium with a charge retentive surface for forming an electrostatic latent image, and a developer to develop the electrostatic latent image on the transfer medium for transfer to a support material. An... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4215238 | Method of and apparatus for printed character transmission and reception Printed characters are transmitted by storing data words in a transmitter representing character sequences for operating a printing head in accordance with a first mode, producing in the transmitter code words different from data words representing the ch... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4204090 | Process and an arrangement for reducing the redundancy of binary character sequences which describe characters or graphic patterns In a system in which characters or graphic patterns are representd in punctiform fashion, the redundancy of binary character sequences which describe the characters or graphic patterns is reduced such that, within the binary character sequences, each bina... | 05/20/1980 |
| 4200769 | Process and arrangement for selectively transmitting predetermined characters or graphic patterns Predetermined characters or graphic patterns are transmitted from a transmitting station to a receiving station in a system wherein a printing head is provided with at least one printing component in the receiving station and is supplied with binary chara... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4191848 | Teletypewriter motor controlling The first signal transition of a teletypewriter signal triggers a resettable one-shot that activates the motor run switch to turn the teletypewriter motor on for a minimum interval of from two seconds to several minutes and also is applied to the input of... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4140872 | Control system for functional sequences A control system is disclosed for the control of sequential flow of functions in teletypewriters and data typewriters. Input signals are presented to the control system which release the carrying out of the functions. The control system produces output si... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4137425 | Bialphabetic teleprinter for texts in latin and arabic characters The teleprinter is provided with a bialphabetic keyboard, for example latin and arabic, and a dot printing head controlled by two different character generating units corresponding to the two alphabets. The teleprinter is normally predisposed for one of t... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4075422 | Automatic page selectors An automatic page selector comprises a counter, a page selector device responsive to the output of the counter to select pages for decoding and display, and a clock for providing pulses to the counter. Means may be provided for writing data into a memory ... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4074067 | Digital printout arrangement with magnetic field carriage drive A digital printout arrangement to print out a predetermined character response to a known coded input signal. The printout arrangement has a rotatably moveable platen for moving the medium upon which the printing is to occur in both forward and reverse di... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4074068 | Flying printing system using type belt A flying printing system using a type belt, in which in order to determine a type pitch M different from a predetermined print pitch N determined by the pitch of type hammers, the respective numbers d1 and d2 (d1 >d2 | 02/14/1978 |
| 4072820 | Apparatus for coding input data characters Apparatus for coding input data characters from a keyboard incorporates apparatus for recognizing characters which are to be represented by two successive code representations, rather than the usual single code representation for each character. When a tw... | 02/07/1978 |
| 4065638 | Demountable bearing and shaft assembly A bearing assembly and drive shaft particularly useful in connection, for example with a point-of-sale terminal in which the drive shaft is held within the terminal by a simple bowed spring retainer which spring-loads the bearing body elements against the... | 12/27/1977 |
| 4063029 | Arrangement for effecting a variable modification of information used to control a printer unit of a teleprinter An arrangement for effecting a variable modification of information used to control a printer unit of a teleprinter has a first store containing information for basic functions required to control the printer unit. A first decoding circuit analyzes receiv... | 12/13/1977 |
| 4033446 | Three-position ribbon guide for printer A three-position ribbon guide comprises a ribbon guide bar which is pivoted at one end and carries a ribbon guide at an opposite end. Arranged transversely to the guide bar, one above and one below, are two pivotable armature levers each coupled to the gu... | 07/05/1977 |
| 4027099 | Reducing teleprinter errors caused by primary power frequency variations A voltage controlled frequency source has an output frequency which varies in accordance with primary power line frequency variations. The output frequency of the voltage control frequency source is used to control the rate at which data is fed into a tel... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4021608 | Print-on-the-fly pager A hand held pager is disclosed which displays a transmitted message in hard copy form on a tape to permit a written record of the message for readout at the convenience of the recipient of the message. The hard copy pager is provided with a printing syste... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4020465 | Thermal line printer A thermal line printer includes a semiconductor chip for control of A × N heaters arrayed in N groups past which thermally sensitive paper is stepped B times in printing a line of characters in an A × B dot matrix. A sequential access memory stores N mu... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4016365 | Readout for recording typewriter A recording typewriter of the type including a memory arranged to record codes corresponding to typed characters as they are typed, and to drive the typewriter to type characters corresponding to stored codes. A single line readout is provided, preferably... | 04/05/1977 |
| 3986094 | Logic system for print ball tilt control A logic system for controlled energization of predetermined stepper motor phases for various optimal times employing a read only memory having a plurality of memory element arrays corresponding to predetermined stepper motor sequencing commands correspond... | 10/12/1976 |
| 3950731 | Data processing arrangement for printers A data interface between a plurality of data sources and a printer wherein the interface can accept data from such sources on a pre-established priority basis. The priority of any source is determined by the time relationship of its bid strobe signal to a... | 04/13/1976 |
| 3944741 | Print rate control system Maximizing the printing rate of an electronic printer by causing it to print data characters at a relatively constant rate despite variations in the pattern of the incoming data. The number of characters in an incoming data pattern to be printed substanti... | 03/16/1976 |
