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Apparatus for Simulating a High Five
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 |
| 6390596 | Method for homing head in ink-jet printing system A method for transporting an ink-jet head in an ink-jet printing system to the home position by use of driving voltage charged in the ink-jet printing system in the ink-jet printing system when power supply is cut off. The method for transporting the ink-... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6250624 | Extension guide apparatus An extension guide unit 30 is provided on a side portion of a recording medium conveying passage. An extension guide 36 is held in a wound state in an extension guide holder 31 of the extension guide unit 30. In order to convey a recording medium, the ext... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6247785 | Positioning assembly for drive mechanism A print head drive mechanism and cooperating positioning assembly are provided. In one embodiment, the print head drive mechanism comprises a lead screw that is coupled to the print head and extends through the threaded hub of a gear. The gear is driven b... | 06/19/2001 |
| 4933867 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus connected to a data processing device includes a printing section having a printing head, a detector for detecting the moving velocity of the printing head and a control circuit integrally incorporated therein. The control circuit ser... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4880321 | Printing apparatus for automatically conducting a carriage return The disclosure relates to a printing device which includes so-called hot zones wherein a punctuation or hyphenation is automatically performed in accordance with a predetermined rule thereby letting users be free from the inconvenience of line end arrange... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4804285 | Printhead transport apparatus Disclosed is a precision printhead transport apparatus. The apparatus includes a differential wheel rotatably mounted upon belt or a printhead carriage which is constrained to move along a printing path. A first portion of an endless belt or band is loope... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4613245 | Device for controlling the carriage return of a lead screw driven printing head Disclosed is a travelling control of printing head in which when a printing head is to be returned to its home position, the printing head is returned in a selected one of two modes, the first mode being such that a lead screw is reversely rotated upon co... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4551033 | Serial electric printer using single unidirectional motor A serial printer having a carriage adapted to be shifted transversely of a paper and a type cylinder carried by the carriage in such a manner as to be able to be shifted up and down and to be rotated, so that the printing is effected by pressing the desir... | 11/05/1985 |
| 3949855 | Typewriter carriage jam precluding and action jam release mechanisms A typewriter is provided with carriage control mechanisms such that more than one carriage control function can be initiated at one time. The arrangement of carriage function controls permit a dominant carriage movement to prevail, and less dominant carri... | 04/13/1976 |
