Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8439475 | Image recording apparatus and method for controlling the apparatus In at least one of the period when the conveying speed of a continuous record medium is accelerated until the conveying speed reaches a constant speed and the period when the conveying speed is decelerated to stop conveying the continuous record medium, a test patte... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8439476 | Method of adjusting optical axis of ink droplet detecting device, method of assembling ink droplet detecting device, and apparatus for adjusting optical axis After a light emitting element holder is rotated, it is detected from the output value of a position adjusting light receiving element that a light beam formed by light emitted from a light emitting element is incident on a positioning target provided in a light emi... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8439477 | Method of characterizing array of resistive heaters A method of characterizing an array of resistive heaters, a first resistive heater of the array having a nominal sheet resistance, a first nominal length and a first nominal width, the method includes (a) providing a first configuration test resistor disposed proxim... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8434851 | Printing apparatus A mounting detection circuit of a printing apparatus outputs a first mounting inspection signal to one of first terminals and outputs a second mounting inspection signal to one of second terminals thereby performing a mounting inspection for determining whether or n... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8424996 | Jetting timing determining method, liquid-droplet jetting method and ink-jet printer In a liquid-droplet jetting apparatus such as an ink-jet head having a plurality of nozzle rows formed therein, an ink is jetted from one of the nozzle rows and the ink is jetted from another nozzle row concurrently while changing delay times by each of which a jett... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8424998 | Method for aligning a plurality of elements and a device comprising a plurality of elements The invention relates to a method for aligning a plurality of elements with each other, each element having a position and a positioning range, the method comprising the steps of determining the position of each element, determining the positioning range of each ele... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8424995 | Attachable member-recognition device and ink-jet printer provided with the same An ink cartridge is formed with an information-engraved section formed to have a predetermined shape. A cartridge-attachment section, to which the ink cartridge is attached, includes a deformable section, a stress light-emitting section which emits light depending o... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8424997 | Recording device, control method, and recording medium A recording device including a carriage head, a recording head installed onto the carriage head, the recording head having an array of nozzles that discharges ink on a recording medium, a transfer roller that transfers the recording medium in a direction along the a... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8419159 | Drop detection In one embodiment, a drop detector includes a light source for illuminating drops passing through a drop zone and a light detector near the light source for detecting light scattered off the drops back toward the light source. In another embodiment, a drop detector ... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8419158 | Apparatus to sense temperature of ink-jet head An apparatus to sense the temperature of an ink-jet head includes at least one or more CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) lateral BJTs (bipolar junction transistors) to sense the temperature of the ink-jet head, and a current supply unit to supply a curr... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8419160 | Method and system for operating a printhead to compensate for failed inkjets An inkjet printer has a printhead in which all of the inkjets are used for printing, but at a less than maximum available ejection output. When a failed inkjet is identified, the ejection throughput is increased for inkjets that print pixels in an at least two pixel... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8414100 | Liquid ejecting head inspection apparatus, liquid ejecting apparatus, and inspection method of liquid ejecting head inspection apparatus A liquid ejecting head inspection apparatus detects malfunction of a liquid ejecting head that discharges liquid droplets. The liquid ejecting head inspection apparatus includes a liquid droplet landing portion on which a discharged liquid droplet can land. An elect... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8414102 | In situ calibration of multiple printheads to reference ink targets A method for calibrating in situ a plurality of printheads in an imaging device has been developed. Firing signals operate a plurality of printheads to form ink test patterns on an image receiving member. Reflectance measurements of light reflected from the test pat... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8414101 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus includes a motor that drives an object to be driven; a detection unit that detects the speed of the object to be driven; and a control unit that controls driving of the motor based on a speed profile including an acceleration range, a constant-s... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8403451 | Cleaning apparatus and printing apparatus A cleaning apparatus, which cleans a print head of a printing apparatus in response to a start trigger for regular cleaning, includes a sound sensor that detects a sound of the operational environment of the printing apparatus, a determination unit that determines w... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8403452 | Separation of drive pulses for fluid ejector A method for causing fluid to be ejected from a fluid chamber of a jet in a printhead. An actuator is actuated with a first energy imparting pulse to push fluid away from the actuator and toward a nozzle. Following a lapse of a first interval, the actuator is actuat... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8393709 | Printing method for reducing stitch error between overlapping jetting modules A method of printing is described for a page-width printer including a line head having a plurality of jetting modules that are staggered in a page-width direction. In a set up procedure, a test pattern is printed using the nozzles of adjacent jetting modules, and t... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8393708 | Recording device, method of positioning recording head, and method of manufacturing recording device A recording device may comprise a recording head comprising a discharge port configured to discharge a liquid droplet. The recording device may also comprise a head supporting member. The recording device may yet further comprise a securing member configured to secu... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8388096 | Detecting and removing fibers In one embodiment, a method to detect and remove fibers comprises identifying blocked nozzles in a grouping of nozzles within a printhead, and triggering a fiber removal event if it is determined that a plurality of adjacent nozzles are blocked. ... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8388098 | Printing orifice health detection device A detection device (10) including a drop detection device (22) positioned to receive drop ejection information as drops are ejected from the multiple orifices (18) of a drop ejection device (16), and a controller (34) that receives... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8388097 | Print head check method and image forming apparatus A printer has a print head check unit that performs an ink ejection check to confirm whether or not ink is being ejected normally from nozzles, based on induced voltage generated when charged ink droplets are ejected onto a check area. Upon receipt of a print instru... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8382232 | Method of operating printer with incorrectly operating nozzles A method is provided of operating a printer which has a printhead having ejection nozzles configured to print an array of rows and columns of dots and control means. The method includes monitoring for incorrectly printed columns with the control means, and increasin... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8376499 | Adjusting measurements A system for adjusting measurements is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes an optical sensor having a window marked with two fiducials and at least one processor coupled to the optical sensor. ... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8376501 | Reflex printing The present disclosure provides for an imaging system comprising an image receiving surface which is moved in a downstream direction; a first marking station which applies a first image to the image receiving surface; and, a second marking station, downstream of the... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8376500 | Image recording apparatus, method of calculating record position shifts, and method of recording measured patterns An image recording apparatus records a plurality of measuring patterns on a recording medium. Each measuring pattern is constituted by dots spaced from one another on the recording medium, or by dots contacting one another, forming lines spaced from one another on t... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8376503 | Method and system of in-document detection of weak or missing inkjets in an inkjet printer A method enables the positions of inoperable inkjets in printheads to be corrected for positional changes arising from shifts in media, shrinkage of the media, thermal expansion of optical sensors that detect the inoperable inkjets, and other measurement errors. The... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8376502 | Method and apparatus for generating color separation table, and image forming apparatus The relationship between the applying amounts of colored inks and the thickness of the layer of a color material formed on a recording medium, and the relationship between the applying amount of uncolored ink and the thickness of the layer of the color material form... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8371674 | Method and printing system for implementing jet detection Disclosed is a user interface associated with a printing system and a method of using the user interface to select a profile for jet detection. The printing system has a plurality of jets for outputting test images and document images and a jet detection device with... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8371675 | Liquid ejection device and liquid testing method A liquid ejection device includes a plurality of nozzles, a plurality of piezoelectric elements, a drive signal generating portion and a common ejection testing portion. The nozzles are arranged to eject a liquid. The piezoelectric elements are provided in respectiv... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8371676 | Liquid ejection device and liquid testing method A liquid ejection device includes a plurality of nozzles, a plurality of piezoelectric elements, a drive signal generating portion, a selection portion and an ejection testing portion. The nozzles are arranged to eject a liquid. The piezoelectric elements are provid... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8371673 | Printing apparatus and ink remaining amount detection method According to this invention, an inkjet printing apparatus having an arrangement for detecting an amount of remaining ink in an ink tank starts a printing operation in a short time immediately after power-on. If an operation in preceding use is ended without any erro... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8366234 | Inkjet recording apparatus An ink-droplet detecting unit detects a spray state of an ink droplet sprayed from an ink-droplet spray head. The ink-droplet detecting unit includes a light-emitting element, a light-emitting element holder, a light-receiving element, a light-receiving element hold... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8366233 | Printing material container, and board mounted on printing material container A printing material container is detachably attachable to a printing apparatus having a plurality of apparatus-side terminals. The printing material container comprises a first device, a second device, and a terminal group that includes a plurality of first terminal... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8366232 | Method of measuring landed dot, measuring apparatus for landed dot, liquid droplet ejection apparatus, method of manufacturing electro-optic apparatus, electro-optic apparatus, and electronic apparatus A landed dot measuring method in which a topology measuring apparatus having an interferometer measures topology of a landed dot which is a functional liquid droplet landed on an inspection sheet when an inspection ejection for a functional liquid droplet ejection h... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8356876 | Maintenance method for liquid ejecting apparatus There is a first process of pressurizing the liquid introduced into the discharge pipe by driving a pump device and transferring the liquid to one end side of the discharge pipe; a second process of applying an electric field between a liquid reception unit, which i... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8356877 | Verifying a maintenance process on a print head The present invention is embodied in a printing system (100) that includes a print head (120) having a controller (110), a temperature sensor (116) and a priming system (126) configured to apply a fluid pressure externally to the p... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8356878 | Method of printing images A method of printing an image includes co-dispensing a compensation vehicle and an ink from an ink set to sites on a printing medium to form a printed image. A combined amount of the ink and the compensation vehicle dispensed to each site is at least substantially e... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8356875 | Ink-jet recording device and ink-jet recording control method An ink-jet recording device is capable of correcting a recording position due to a leaning of a printing head and correcting of driving timing between multiple printing heads. Each nozzle row of a printing head is classified into multiple nozzle groups, and the driv... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8353572 | Ink supply devices An ink supply device includes a cartridge mounting portion to which an ink cartridge is configured to be mounted by being inserted thereinto in an insertion direction, a first determiner configured to determine a first characteristic of the ink cartridge, and a seco... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8348377 | Storage device, board, liquid container, method of receiving data which are to be written in data storage unit from host circuit, and system including storage device which is electrically connectable to host circuit A storage device electrically connected to a host circuit includes a data receiving unit, determination unit, and a data transmitting unit. The data receiving unit receives data including first data which are to be written in a memory array and second data which are... | 01/08/2013 |
