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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7325987 | Printing method using quill-jet A system for depositing a material is described. The system uses at least one cantilever, and more typically a plurality of cantilever to transfer small amounts of material from a source of material to a substrate surface. One application for the system is a printin... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7241420 | Capillary-channel probes for liquid pickup, transportation and dispense using stressy metal Fluidic conduits, which can be used in microarraying systems, dip pen nanolithography systems, fluidic circuits, and microfluidic systems, are disclosed that use channel spring probes that include at least one capillary channel. Formed from spring beams (e.g., stres... | 07/10/2007 |
| 6789965 | Dot printer with off-axis loading A pin-in-capillary apparatus for depositing droplets of fluid onto a surface is described. The apparatus has an off-axis channel for supplying fluid to the capillary. In the capillary the fluid wets the tip of the pin and is delivered to the surface when the pin is ... | 09/14/2004 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5876128 | Braille printing apparatus An apparatus for printing not only embossing braille characters but also an embossing figure on a recording medium such as paper, using a projection of a rod employed as a debossing die and a printing underlay employed as an embossing die. The printing un... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5746518 | Braille printing apparatus An apparatus for printing not only embossing braille characters but also an embossing figure on a recording medium such as paper, using a projection of a rod employed as a debossing die and a printing underlay employed as an embossing die. The printing un... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5711622 | Printer element An integrally-formed print element for providing finer dots than previously possible with an impact printer. The dots produced permit the printing of Chinese, Amharic, Devanagari, and like characters, in sizes as small as standard newsprint, and print in ... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5556211 | 24 pin dot printer head and method of making the same A method for manufacturing a print wire for a 24-pin dot printer head comprises the steps of first annealing an oil temper thin elongated wire rod at a predetermined rate to remove internal strains and eliminate distortions and imperfections after the oil... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5169246 | Reduced diameter wire tips in a wire printing head A wire printing head for a high resolution printing machine is provided together with a method for its manufacture. The printer is of the type comprising a printing platen for a recording medium and a carriage transversely movable with respect to the prin... | 12/08/1992 |
| 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 |
| 4867583 | Dot matrix printer/module using print wires having different lenth but equal mass A dot matrix shuttle printer and/or a module therefore uses print wires of different lengths so as to achieve desired close packing of individual print wire actuators and correspondingly close wire-to-wire spacing of the print wires. To help maintain sync... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4741637 | Marking pin for programmable marking machine A portable frame is supported for vertical movement on a pair of posts adjacent the surface of a table for receiving an object to be marked. A traveling plate is supported for movement on the frame in the horizontal plane above the surface of the object o... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4474485 | Dot matrix printing head An impact type dot matrix printing head in which a plurality of dot printing elements, each of which is formed of a thin flat sheet material, are stacked in the direction of their thickness and each being capable of sliding relative to one another when ac... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4460286 | Centrifugal ball elevator for microballistic printer A centrifugal ball elevator for use in a microballistic impact printer or the like in which a hollow rotary member arranged on a generally vertical axis and having an inlet at the lower end and an outlet at the upper end is formed with an internal surface... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4448123 | Variable speed printing for dot matrix printers A variable speed printing (VSP) adaptor for a dot matrix printer which includes a monitoring means having a plurality of devices each capable of assuming one of two states. The monitoring means monitors the state of the pattern data to be printed, and, in... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4428285 | Oscillatory band and hammer dot matrix printer Described, is a printing mechanism allowing full exploitation of the potential of dot matrix printing. Dot forming elements are mounted on a carrier for transport past an array of hammers located in front of media to be marked upon. The dots or carrier ar... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428284 | Band and hammer dot matrix printer Described, is a printing mechanism allowing full exploitation of the potential of dot matrix printing. Dot forming elements are mounted on a carrier for transport past an array of hammers located in front of media to be marked upon. The dots or carrier ar... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4399748 | Multiplexed hammer dot band matrix printer Hammers impact dot front elements on a moving band and drive them into a printing medium. The pitch between two dot font elements is assigned to two adjacent hammers in this invention. An electronic control is used so that adjacent hammers cannot be fired... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4378169 | Resilient breech for microballistic printers A breech for the gun of a microballistic printer comprising a plurality of metal spheres positioned on the inside periphery of a cup, forming a central opening slightly smaller than the spherical projectiles used in the microballistic printer. The spheres... | 03/29/1983 |
| 4351617 | Microballistic printer My invention comprises a ballistic impact printer which includes a gun for successively propelling balls along predetermined paths to trace a desired character on a medium supported on a platen spaced from the gun. Means are provided for orienting the gun... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4350447 | Synchronizing system for rapid-fire gun in a microballistic printer or the like Apparatus for synchronizing the aiming and firing of the solid projectile gun of a microballistic printer or the like. In the preferred embodiment, a microphone acoustically coupled to an inlet used to supply pressurized air to the ball gun senses the pre... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4340312 | Barrelless gun for microballistic printer A barrelless gun for use with a microballistic printer to propel balls toward a printing medium in which the ball next to be fired is releasably held in a resilient breech with gas under pressure supplied to the region behind the breech and with the regio... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4329070 | Method of avoiding collisions of projectiles in a microballistic printer The invention relates to a method of operating a microballistic printer in which successive projectiles are fired against a platen to print successive dots and the gun is moved along a path to form characters from the successive dots. In order to prevent ... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4286886 | Method and apparatus for controlling the feed of projectiles in a microballistic printer My invention comprises a ballistic impact printer which includes a gun for successively propelling balls to a printing medium spaced from the gun. The balls are fed to the printer from a reservoir and recycled to the reservoir after they have performed th... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4268178 | Anti-bounce projectile collecting surface for microballistic printer My invention relates to a microballistic printer in which I provide a collector wall normally struck by projectiles rebounding from the platen of the printer with an anti-bounce surface. The surface comprises a thin and flexible sheet spaced from the wall... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4143979 | Printhead needle cap A print member of the printhead of a ballastic type wire matrix printer terminates in an impression end and in an activation end. A cap is formed at the activation end for contact by the blade-like armature of an activating electromagnet. A tip is formed ... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4134336 | Half-herringbone support for restricting sideways vibration of comb hammers A half-herringbone support for the comb hammers of a dot matrix line printer is disclosed. The half-herringbone support is generally flat and includes an elongate base and a series of parallel tines integrally formed with said base and projecting obliquel... | 01/16/1979 |
