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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7184266 | Automatic monitor sliding system An automatic monitor sliding system comprises a machine case, a slidable structure, a monitor mounting plate, and a monitor structure. The slidable structure is mounted inside a reception chamber of the machine case. The monitor mounting plate is mounted in front of... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7142733 | Document processing method, recording medium recording document processing program and document processing device In the present invention, an erroneously recognized character is corrected by making use of an output in dot characters or in a gray color. The recognized document file is outputted in dot characters or in a gray color image (S101). An operator writes a sign ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 6352024 | Composite printing band and method of making same There is disclosed an endless flexible printing band and method of making such printing bands. A wide endless band having columns and rows of raised printing characters is molded onto a sheet having columns and rows of visually readable characters corresp... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6216588 | Character wheel and method of manufacturing same, and character wheel band and ring usable for character wheel and method of manufacturing same A character wheel, particularly for a numbering machine, comprises a character wheel disc having a plurality of printing portion mounting surfaces formed at an interval from each other in a circumferential direction on an outer peripheral surface of the c... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6189447 | Method of making composite printing band There is disclosed an endless flexible printing band and method of making such printing bands. A wide endless band having columns and rows of raised printing characters is molded onto a sheet having columns and rows of visually readable characters corresp... | 02/20/2001 |
| 5983789 | Printing band and method of making same There is disclosed a printing band and method of making same. The printing band has printing characters and human readable characters. The human readable characters and the portion of the band adjacent thereto are coated with a first coating while masking... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5762429 | Printing head structure of calculator having bold characters A printing head structure of calculator, including a belt type printing head the outer periphery of which is disposed with at least one group of fine characters and at least one group of coarse characters. The fine characters have the same symbols and num... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5547294 | Method and apparatus for controlling serial printer A method and apparatus for controlling a serial printer of the invention selects a first digit character by counting a predetermined number of timing pulses that starts to be generated during carriage return and sets the predetermined number so as to corr... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5524992 | Small printer A small printer is disclosed which contains a character member, such as a character ring or a character belt. The character member comprises a plurality of character bodies which are connected by coupling portions and which comprise dot-like projections w... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5509740 | Print band initializing method An object of the present invention is to provide a print control method capable of increasing a printing speed by preventing the drop of the printing speed in line feed without increasing an economical burden. Disclosed is a print control method of carrying ou... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5415479 | Postal bar code printing with engraved character impact printer An impact printing device for printing postal bar code patterns on an information carrier. The patterns are a combination of parallel tall and short bars separated by spaces. The type elements are attached to a movable type carrier, each element comprised... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5383399 | Zero hammer adjustment drum printer control technique A method and apparatus for controlling the adjustment of printer hammers which impact against an associated moveable member on which characters are present. Each hammer includes a coil which is energized at the appropriate time, taking into consideration ... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5315928 | Band line printer with grooved platen An impact printer has a print band moving longitudinally around pulleys with one side of the band moving in contact along a rigid platen and the other side having engraved characters presented along a print line of a print medium (e.g. paper and ink ribbo... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5245921 | Interposer device for impact printers An interposer device for use in an impact printer for printing at condensed pitches includes an interposer plate and a striker strip attached thereto. The interposer plate is a thin spring steel plate slotted to have a plurality of chevron flexure element... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5224417 | Interposer device and striker strip assembly therefor An interposer device for an impact band line printer comprises a spring steel interposer plate member with plural chevron flexure elements etched therein so that the apexes thereof are arranged in a row across the plate. A polymer striker strip has a seri... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5168803 | Band line printer with grooved platen A platen for a line printer has a polymer wear resistant strip on a base support. To reduce frictional drag on the band which is in sliding engagement with the wear strip, the leading edge of the strip is slanted against the direction of motion of the ban... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5152616 | Miniature printer A miniature printer is provided which can print characters in additional different character sets of fonts by combining several character sets which are included in the printer on a type drum or type belt. The printer includes a mechanism for selecting pa... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5046413 | Method and apparatus for band printing with automatic home compensation A system and method for automatically compensating for inaccuracies in the positioning of the timing mark sensor of a band line printer. A selected hammer is operated to impact a test character and an adjacent space between characters or a space provided ... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5044792 | Compact type belt microprinter A microprinter for use in combination with such compact equipments as electronic calculator. The microprinter comprises a type belt driven through a belt pulley by a motor, a type selecting ratchet wheel combined with the belt pulley for rotation together... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5033886 | Printer A printer for printing on a print medium. A type carrier is in the form of an endless belt having a plurality of type elements on a side face. A hammer mechanism urges the type elements in the print medium into contact. The hammer mechanism extends substa... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4967662 | High speed printer with interposer High speed impact line printers comprise a continuously moving type carrier, such as an endless belt or band having engraved type characters movable at constant speed parallel to a row of print hammers. A print medium such as a continuous paper web and an... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4961376 | Printer A printer for printing on a print medium. A type carrier is in the form of an endless belt having a plurality of type elements on a side face. A hammer mechanism urges the type elements in the print medium into contact. The hammer mechanism extends substa... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4945828 | Pulley for driving a high performance printer A pulley for connecting a driven device, that is sensitive to speed variations, to be driven by an a.c. motor that is susceptible to speed variations, caused by power line disturbances. The pulley has a peripheral drive surface for a belt drive and two si... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4843960 | Type carrier set for a stamp printing mechanism and method for assembling a stamp printing mechanism using such a type A type carrier set (10) for a stamp printing mechanism is described which comprises a plurality of type carriers (12) which carry print types (22) at their outer surface in consecutive fields (16). The type carriers (12) are disposed parallel adjacent eac... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4821639 | Control for enabling flight timing of hammers during printing A printer control apparatus provides a control circuit arrangement which enables flight timing to be performed during printing. Basically, the invention achieves this by providing flight time control means activated by a print hammer operation signal. Pre... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4801223 | Mask structure for type belt of printer A printer having a platen, a type belt having a plurality of types arranged oppositely to the platen and projected at an interval on a belt body thereof, a carriage for placing a hammer member for pressing the desired type of the type belt movably arrange... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4780015 | Impact detecting platen for a high speed impact line printer A platen assembly for an impact printer comprises the combination of an impact transducer between the backup plate and the type band of a printer and an impact isolator interposed between the transducer and the type band. The transducer comprises a strip ... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4778294 | Printer A printer comprising a printing drive gear for generating a print operation output and having a print control cam for controlling a print operation; a paper feed control cam adapted to be rotated with the printing drive gear as a unit for controlling a pa... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4764039 | Method for controlling line printers comprising a revolving type band and a print hammer bank Method for controlling line printers comprising a revolving type band (400) and a print hammer bank for precalculating the firing times of the print hammers. The type band generally comprises equidistantly spaced scannable time marks (402) and a reference... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4759647 | Dual pitch impact printer A printer for printing both standard pitch and condensed pitch characters which includes print hammer faces which have a single wide section for standard pitch characters and a double wide section for printing condensed pitch characters. Using this hammer... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4753544 | Multi-color plural belt printer with sliding hammer A printer comprises a plurality of type belts each having a variety of types thereon, turning means for driving the type belts, coloring means for applying inks of different colors to the type belts, hammer means for pressing the types against a sheet of ... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4744683 | Revolving endless bands comprising means for compensating for a displacement perpendicular to their direction of movement A type band for a printer comprises a track of marks to be scanned (timing marks) at least one of which is obliquely positioned relative to its adjoining marks. The centers of all marks are equidistantly spaced. When the horizontally moving type band is v... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4737923 | Type arrangement data editing apparatus A type arrangement data editing apparatus in which type arrangement data from a type carrier is automatically edited in accordance with the carrier set carried by the type carrier. A first area of a ROM stores the basic type arrangement data for a plurali... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4704963 | Device for cleaning a type-carrier A device for cleaning a rotary type-carrier, in which a brush which contacts the type-carrier continuously to clean it during normal operation may be moved so that its rotary center is positioned more closely to the type-carrier. As a result, as the brush... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4665820 | Print band timing mark detector In the print band timing system described herein, the bipolar pulse generated in a sensor by the passage of a print band timing mark is applied to a discriminating circuit which compares the pulse signal with a voltage level substantially equal to the nom... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4664543 | Device for monitoring and compensating for changes in the flight time of the print hammers of impact printers A device for monitoring and compensating for changes in the flight time of the print hammers of impact printers is disclosed. The flight time of the respectively monitored hammer is calculated from the elapsed time between the moment of firing of a hammer... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4655130 | Printer A printer for printing characters on a recording medium includes, a printing drum provided on a first portion and a second portion of the outer periphery thereof respectively with a first set of type faces and a second set of type faces, the first set of ... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4649501 | Band printer control system architecture A printer control system uses two microprocessors and a print control for operating a plurality of print hammers in synchronism with a revolving type carrier. One microprocessor is a mechanical control processor, the print hammers are operated by a self t... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4596479 | Dot matrix printer The present invention relates to a dot matrix printer which makes use of multiple dot patterns distributed on the cylinder, belt, hand or drum of a line printer to provide an improved printing throughput for an all addressable line printer. In a dot-helix... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4579055 | Printer having drive and control system for metal band holding print elements A printer of the type including a platen, a bank of hammers extending in a straight line along and spaced from the platen and a continuous metal band of magnetizable material on which are mounted a plurality of print elements is provided with drive means ... | 04/01/1986 |
