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A self-righting hand-arm configuration which is adapted to pivot when struck by a user, thereby simulating a "high five."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7278794 | Wire dot printer head and wire dot printer In order to realize a stabilized pivotal movement of an armature to thereby obtain pivotal force required for high-speed printing, a pivot shaft is held such that an armature having an attracted face that is in contact with a core, that has a coil wound therearound ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7059787 | Motor control method and apparatus, time recorder having same and impact type printing apparatus An impact printing apparatus is also disclosed with printing pin actuation timing correction dependent upon scanning speed or platen shape, striking duration timing dependent upon scanning rate, or printing pin actuation timing dependent upon stored shift amounts. | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057870 | Inductive load driver circuit and system A circuit and system is disclosed for driving one or more inductive loads, or one or more electrical loads including one or more inductive components. A control computer is configured to selectively supply a boost voltage to the one or more inductive loads, and to c... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6857799 | Motor control method and apparatus, time recorder having same and impact type printing apparatus An impact printing apparatus is also disclosed with printing pin actuation timing correction dependent upon scanning speed or platen shape, striking duration timing dependent upon scanning rate, or printing pin actuation timing dependent upon stored shift amounts. | 02/22/2005 |
| 6698955 | Method and apparatus for adjusting print positions of dot line printer A control circuit generates two sorts of printing timing signals on the basis of the position of the printing mechanism module detected by a detector, and sends the generated signals to respective drive circuits. Herein, the printing mechanism module is c... | 03/02/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6254291 | Dot-impact printing head control apparatus A printing head control apparatus 10 is used for a dot-impact printer in which a dot is formed on a paper set on a platen via an ink ribbon 16 with an impact force applied by a pin 18. The printing head control apparatus 10 comprises: a dot classifier for... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6227730 | Thermal transfer printer without printing displacement The invention intends to obtain a good printed result without creating displacement of printing positions when printing is performed on a piece of printed paper with different contact pressures of the thermal head to the platen. To achieve the object, the... | 05/08/2001 |
| 5674014 | Printhead driver circuit for line printers A printhead drive circuit to be utilized in impact printers is disclosed. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the printhead driver circuit includes a first switch, a set of second switches, and a decoupling circuit. The fir... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5524989 | Print element assignment in printing apparatus The invention relates to a printing apparatus in which at least two printing elements are arranged a predetermined distance apart in a line parallel to the print direction. When two dots to be printed are the same predetermined distance apart as the print... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5480239 | Postage meter system having bit-mapped indicia image security A deterrent to counterfeiting of indicias on mailpieces is provided in a method and apparatus for implementing the printing of the indicia using a customized printhead or customized printer drivers such that the dots of the bit-mapped printing are produce... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5413423 | Print element drive control with constant current charge and discharge of capacitor A dot matrix printer having a print head having a plurality of print solenoids. The print head is carried on a print head carriage driven by a carriage drive arrangement. A print timing means supplies a sequence of print timing pulses as said print head t... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5385414 | Printing head and its drive timing control circuit for impact printer In a serial impact printer, a printing head having an impact wire pin array of two arrangement lines is mounted on a carriage in such a way that the pin arrangement lines are inclined by an angle θ with respect to the virtual vertical direction. The resp... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5356228 | Apparatus for driving adjacent elements in a wire-dot print head In a wire dot printer having a wire-dot print head provided with wire drive elements disposed in sequence, the energization of the respective wire drive elements is controlled in accordance with print data supplied for respective drive elements and a driv... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5310270 | Printing method for dot impact type serial printer A dot impact type serial printer is provided with a print head which has a plurality of print wires for printing an image. The print wires required to print a particular image are thrust toward a platen successively upon receiving a print timing signal, w... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5302035 | Method of driving wire-dot print head To suppress a secondary bound of a print wire of a dot matrix printer which may occur after a single dot or continuous dots are printed and also to prevent both density variation of printed characters and printing ghost from occurring, a braking pulse is ... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5291824 | Dot line printer having ordinary low dot and high dot density printing modes A dot line printer provided with an ordinary dot density printing mode, a low dot density or draft printing mode and a high dot density printing mode. A hammer bank provided with a plurality of printing hammers is reciprocally movable in a shuttling direc... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5219233 | Process for controlling the operation of a print head A process for controlling the operation of a printing head detects defects in the transport of the printing head along a printed line and if necessary corrects them. A control unit (24) controls a current source (16) which supplies current to a transport ... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5217310 | Printing control method A print head of a dot printer is controlled to move at a speed that is a function of a maximum dot duty cycle value from an accumulation of dot duty cycle values that are functions of the numbers of dots in the various columns of a line of print and a con... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5200764 | Print head assembly for use in an ultrasonic printer The present invention relates to a print head assembly for use in an ultrasonic printer. The print head assembly comprises at least one print head which is slidably mounted in a block which is slidably secured in the ultrasonic printer. Each print head co... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5186550 | Impact printer An impact printer having a platen, an impact printing member such as a printing wire, a driver such as a driving coil for driving the impact member, a controller for controlling the driver and a temperature detector. Before printing data is printed, the t... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5163762 | Driving circuit for solenoid head of a printer In a printing head, which is employable in a printer, having a predetermined number of printing pins respectively connected to solenoids circularly disposed along a predetermined circle, the solenoids being arranged to be connected to another predetermine... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5150108 | Method for slanting a generic font format while inserting corrective pixels to improve print quality A method of italicizing a font includes the steps of slanting a symbol stored in a generic font format as an arrangement of pixel locations by offsetting the arrangement of pixel locations at a predetermined slope to create a staircase edge; and inserting... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5149212 | Dot printer with changeable quality dot pattern In a dot printer having a print head, a moving mechanism for laterally reciprocating the print head relative to a recording medium, a driving circuit for driving the print head, a memory for storing basic dot patterns, and a controller for reading a basic... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5088847 | Setting variable character width in matrix printer When a specified head energizing pulse interval involves a decimal fraction, the fraction is accumulated at every printing, and when the cumulative value of the fraction is smaller than one pulse, a printing head is driven at a pulse interval of an intege... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5078520 | Apparatus for driving printing head of wire-dot impact printer An apparatus for driving a printing head of a wire-dot printer, the head including a plurality of electroexpansive elements for driving respective printing wires cooperatively constituting a wire-dot matrix and in accordance with print pattern data design... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5071269 | Wiring of actuators in a wire-dot print head In a wire-dot print head which comprises print elements arranged in a ring, each having an electromagnet formed of a core and a coil, and in which the electromagnets are divided into a plurality of blocks so that each block has a plurality of electromagne... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5048984 | Matrix printer In matrix printers, the printing elements in the printing head are frequently arranged so that they do not correspond to the printing raster of the characters to be printed so that the informations delivered for each time a printing column at the same tim... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5033889 | Open loop carriage control for dot-matrix printer using tables A method for operating a dot-matrix printer to allow printing in the accelerating and decelerating regions of the carriage traverse, which comprises the steps of: firing the wires for registration at the present position of the carriage and stepping the c... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5017027 | Impact printer An impact printer having a platen, an impact printing member such as a printing wire, a driver such as a driving coil for driving the impact member, a controller for controlling the driver and a temperature detector. Before printing data is printed, the t... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4971464 | Dot serial printer In a dot serial printer suitable for bidirectional printing of enlarged letters and the like, a signal for starting printing is produced with a time delay of m/n times the dot drive period relative to a signal produced in synchronism with a motor control ... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4887226 | Dot printing device capable of printing underline together with characters A dot printing device includes a head having a plurality of dot printing elements, a head driver for selectively energizing the dot printing elements according to dot data, a character generator, and data processing unit which causes designated character ... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4869609 | Method of controlling printing positions in a printer and an apparatus therefor Upon supply of electric power to a printer, a dot pulse is generated from a dot pulse generator each time a carriage driving motor rotates for a predetermined rotational angle, and thereafter, an output of a home position sensor falls when a carriage reac... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4850724 | Control circuit for dot matrix printing head Control circuit for a dot matrix printing head of the permanent magnetic type or simple electromagnet type, wherein a printing element is subjected to a variable magnetic flux, owing to an energization current and/or to a movable armature movement, which ... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4848943 | Method and apparatus for energizing a printhead A method and apparatus for energizing a printhead by maintaining substantially constant peak current in the actuator means of the printhead regardless of the duty cycle of the actuator means. The method and apparatus establishes a minimum time period for ... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4834562 | Print control apparatus A print control apparatus for a dot printer such as serial printer or line printer comprises a print head having a plurality of dot elements, a drive mechanism for driving the dot elements and a control circuit for controlling the drive mechanism, and ene... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4833626 | Optimizing printer throughput A method of improving printer throughput by selecting a print velocity based on the characteristics of a line to be printed. Incorporated into an application program are all available printing velocities to be used for printing. As each line to be printed... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4772140 | Print head drive system with trouble detector A print head drive system of the type wherein there is provided a one-shot generating circuit for generating one-shot pulses in response to an instruction given from a processor and the energization of a head is effected in response to the one-shot pulse ... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4757462 | Signal processing apparatus A pattern pitch adjustment is applied to dot matrix pattern data as it is output from a CPU to a printer. The data is transferred from a DMA to the printer bit by bit, and the number of synchronizing signals output from the printer for each bit is counted... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4737924 | Dot matrix type serial printer A serial printer of a dot matrix type wherein the pitch of dots oriented in the direction in which characters are to be printed in a matrix of dots is varied in a minute amount, to thereby adjust the pitch of the characters as desired.... | 04/12/1988 |
