Bizarre Patents
Pet Toilet-Like Water Disk and Food Storage
One pet-friendly inventor patented "a device for watering pets, e.g., a dog or cat." The device, he helpfully noted, "has the general shape of a toilet."
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8436877 | Card printer and card printing/stacking device Based on information recorded on and read out from a card, a card printer erasably writes information on the card or erases information recorded on the card. The card printer comprises transport means T for transporting card 70 along a passageway 5 hav... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8405693 | Transport apparatus for flat materials to be printed A transport apparatus for flat materials which are to be printed has a number of spacer pieces which lie axially parallel with respect to one another and are disposed at two ends of a bearing plate of a roller carrier between a first and a second shaped part plate. ... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8368730 | Apparatus and method for marking different surface parts of an object moving along a line The invention describes an apparatus (10) for applying marking to perpendicular surfaces (15, 17) of an object (16) being conveyed along a line (11). A single marking head (12) is mounted on a positioning arm (14) which dire... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8319806 | Movement detection apparatus and recording apparatus An apparatus performs a pattern matching operation based on a template pattern size in the moving direction set according to information about the moving state of an object between acquisitions of first and second data, such as an encoder configured to acquire infor... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8289352 | Providing erasable printing with nanoparticles An apparatus and method for providing rewritable or erasable printing or copying that utilizes nanoparticle ink or toner is disclosed. A paper-like material is described using nanoparticles that are selectively controlled to show a substantially dark, gray, or white... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8040364 | Latent resistive image layer for high speed thermal printing applications An imaging system including an image receiving structure including a tunable-resistivity material; and an energy source to emit an energy beam at the image receiving structure to pattern-wise program the tunable-resistivity material. A resistivity can be pattern-wis... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7342689 | Methods and apparatus for converting full color images to two-color images for printing at a two-color printer Methods and apparatus are provided for converting a full color image to a two-color image for printing at a two-color printer capable of printing black pixels and alternate color pixels. Black pixels and alternate color pixels of the full color image will be printed... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7280797 | Image forming apparatus with paper thickness detection unit for detecting overlap of regular and insertion sheets An image forming apparatus has a first stacking unit for stacking regular sheets on which images are formed, an image forming unit for forming an image on a regular sheet fed from the first stacking unit, a second stacking unit for stacking the insertion sheets, a d... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7086793 | Goods-wrapping apparatus including a printer According to the present invention, a goods-wrapping apparatus for wrapping a particular article of a plurality of articles, includes: a goods storing section operable to store the plurality of articles; a goods carrying in/out section operable to carry in the artic... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7062214 | Image forming apparatus with paper thickness detection unit for detecting overlap of regular and insertion sheets An image forming apparatus has a first stacking unit for stacking regular sheets on which images are formed, an image forming unit for forming an image on a regular sheet fed from the first stacking unit, a second stacking unit for stacking the insertion sheets, a d... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057765 | Constrained multi-dimensional color transformation A system and method for multi-dimensional color transformation apply constraints to the transformation function to preserve the presence or absence of particular color information while achieving high accuracy color match. With a constrained multi-dimensional color ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054017 | Avoiding printing defects Various systems and methods are provided for avoiding printing defects when printing documents. In one embodiment, a method is provided that identifies a printing defect on a hardcopy document, the printing defect being created by a printer, identifies a non-printed... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7021737 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus which corrects a transfer amount of a recording material without a scanner is provided. A paper is transferred to a position in which the transfer amount is adjusted by an LF roller, and a plurality of test pattern images, each of which is... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6980324 | Apparatus and method for generating multicolor image When a multicolor image indicated by image data is generated, a signal for generation of a monochrome image according to the image data is amended according to the information about the monochrome image contained in the image data and according to the information ab... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6934054 | Method and apparatus for two-color thermal point of sale (POS) printing A 2-color thermal point of sale (POS) printer includes a converter for converting full color printing commands into a commands for printing in two colors, a primary color and an alternate color. A three color image is possible when using the background color of the ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6835352 | Spotting pin A spotting pin 10 capable of spotting equal amounts of a solution in a sequential manner comprises a first member 11 having a solution holding portion 13 formed at the tip thereof for holding a predetermined amount of solution, and a second memb... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6774340 | Shape of microdot mark formed by laser beam and microdot marking method A dot mark forming method for obtaining a dot mark includes a liquid crystal mask in which the maximum length of each pixel is 50 to 2,000 μm and is irradiated with a homogenized laser beam. The energy density of a split laser beam passed through the liquid crystal... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6767748 | Spotting pin, spotting device and method for spotting biomolecules The present invention enables the accurate management of the total number of spotting counts for each spotting pin. An IC chip is installed on the spotting pin to allow the IC chip to accumulate spotting-count information, and during each spotting time the informati... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6726883 | Spotting pin Identically shaped spots can be formed sequentially and stably by a spotting pin comprising a bar-like plunger 20. Four projections each formed in the shape of a top portion of a quadrangular pyramid are formed on the head of the plunger 20. The apexes... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6515767 | Digital synthesizer, digital copier and magnification control unit The digital synthesizer comprises a system control unit, a read control unit, and a write drive control unit, and based on a magnification fine adjustment value set using a magnification fine adjustment panel, in the copy mode, a magnification of an image... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6421073 | Device for positioning printing head according to printing substrate thickness A device for positioning a printing head of a printer in response to recording carrier/substrate thickness includes a reflex sensor arranged in a protected space formed between a head-carrying carriage and an opposing printing head housing surface. During... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6417879 | Method for making marks in a transparent material by using a laser An object to be marked is prepared. A laser beam of a wavelength that is transmitted by the material from which this object to be marked is formed is focused on the inner portion of said object to be marked, using an fθlens. A mark is formed in the regio... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6304278 | Achieving system stability in anamorphic printer defect pre-compensation Every printing system has characteristic defects which detract from high quality printing. Xerographic printing systems show defects such as banding, mottled colors in large fill areas, trail-edge deletion and starvation where toner concentrations deplete... | 10/16/2001 |
| 5812169 | Combined storage of data for two printheads A method and apparatus for processing image data representing plural colors for output to a color display device such as a printer or soft display. A block of digital image data signals is generated representing rasterized image data of at least two color... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5793398 | Hot melt ink jet shademarking system for use with automatic fabric spreading apparatus An improved fabric handling device equipped with a hot melt ink jet shademarking system for the contactless shademarking of processed fabric is described as follows: a series of commercial ink jet printheads are mounted on a head mount beam attached to a ... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5489967 | Method and apparatus for printing images on a stack of recording sheets using pressure In a magnetic printing apparatus wherein a demagnetizer 2 as a latent image eraser, a magnetic head 3 constituting a latent image former, a developer 4, a transfer roller 5, a fixer 6, and a cleaner 7 are disposed in this order around a latent image carri... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5036472 | Computer controlled machine for vending personalized products or the like A machine for vending greeting cards or other personalized or customized products includes audio and video presentations of available products and options available to a customer, provisions for payment and apparatus for automatic delivery of products. Ba... | 07/30/1991 |
