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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6688739 | Image acquisition device with integral ink jet printing A handheld imaging apparatus includes an image acquisition device and an ink jet printing in an integral housing. The printing drive may include a single motor that drives both a print carriage and a paper drive member for printing images created by the i... | 02/10/2004 |
| 5464291 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus is provided. A vibrator comprising an elastic member and an electric/mechanical energy converting device jointed to the elastic member is attached to a carriage on which a printing head is mounted. The vibrator generates a progressive... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5449241 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus including a paper guide, provided on a frame for guiding recording paper; a platen pivotally supported by the frame; a paper feeding roller rotatably provided in the frame; and a printing driving section reciprocally moving with respe... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5433543 | Media feed and carriage motion mechanism for shuttle-type printers A shuttle-type printer includes a media feed assembly to controllably transfer a recording media through a printing station and a carriage operably mounted at the printing station to move bidirectionally across the media. The printer further includes mean... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5354136 | Printer feed mechanism A highly reliable, low-noise, printer for providing good print quality while configured to print and feed paper using a single motor. A cam mechanism is used to provide simplified control over paper feeding operations. A print head carriage is driven by a... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5269613 | Paper handling system for printers A paper handling system is provided which allows for controlled passage of a pivot between a normally biased initial position and a task-performing position. The pivot includes a sheet-directing member and a track which is fixed relative to the sheet-dire... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5000594 | Printer with carriage-actuated clutch and paper-feed mechanism The invented printer includes a carriage-actuated clutch and a motor-driven gear element. The clutch is selectively engageable with the element and causes the printer to perform different tasks when engaged. More specifically, the invented printer include... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4958949 | Drive element for platens of typewriters or similar office machines The present invention relates to a drive element of typewriters or similar office machines where the movement of the platen is derived from the movement of the carriage. In the past numerous drive elements have been required in devices of this type, which... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4772145 | Document preparing apparatus which automatically capitalizes characters at the head of a sentence A document preparing apparatus capable of preparing a document in which small letters and capital letters are printed together, e.g. a document in English. The apparatus includes a decision circuit for deciding whether or not a character to be processed i... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4772898 | Recording apparatus This specification discloses a recording apparatus for recording an image corresponding to image information on a sheet. More particularly, the specification discloses a recording apparatus for recording an image corresponding to image information on a sh... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4758845 | Thermal printer carriage-medium transport A thermal printer having a main shaft supporting a carriage mounted with printing mechanisms including a printing head and an ink ribbon peeling member for peeling an ink ribbon off the recording sheet as the carriage travels, and fixedly provided with sh... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4752786 | Single motor multi-function drive control recorder A thermal printer using a single pulse motor is disclosed. This thermal printer comprises: a single pulse motor; a moving member which is moved in accordance with the drive of the pulse motor; a head raising and lowering mechanism and a sheet feed mechani... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4715737 | Printer with paper feed roller disengagement mechanism A printer comprises a paper feed roller, an intermediate gear coupled with the paper feed roller and having a spur gear section on an outer circumferential surface thereof, and a paper feed cam having an axis extending perpendicularly to an axis of the in... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4596478 | Automatic format, mode control and code conversion for data processing and printing apparatus The present invention is concerned with the control of the format of documents, such as letters, prepared automatically on a printer in response to code signals read from a record medium (magnetic storage medium), and to mode control means for associated ... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4580917 | Paper feed apparatus for printer A paper feed apparatus has two partially toothed gears which are separately provided on a drive shaft and which rotate corresponding to the opposite ends of the displacement path of a carriage, and a driven gear rotating together with a paper feed roller ... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4500217 | Electronic printer mechanism with movable printhead assembly An electronic printer mechanism having a movable printhead assembly , wherein the printhead is a matrix of selectively heatable semiconductor mesas for producing dot matrix characters one line at a time on a paper medium. The electronic printer mechanism ... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4500892 | Serial thermal printer A serial printer for printing on a thermosensitive recording medium. The printer includes a frame having a carriage supported thereon for lateral movement across the recording medium. A thermal print head is supported on the carriage for lateral displacem... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4462709 | Type carrier return and platen line space device for typewriters A carriage return device in a typewriter including: an interposer operable through operation of a key lever for the carriage return; a cycle bail driven by the interposer; a driving source adapted to rotate a main shaft by a predetermined number of rotati... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4433925 | Manually-operated dot printer for pocket sized calculators A manually operated dot printer designed for use in a pocket sized calculator or a small sized electronic device includes a printing head which is manually movable across a sheet of printing paper in one direction. A pulse generating circuit produces a si... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4427314 | Speed controlled printer A manually operated dot printer designed for use in a pocket-sized calculator or a small-sized electronic device includes a printing head which is manually driven across the dot printer paper in one direction to store energy in springs. The springs return... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4420763 | Electromechanical printing device for a printer of the series-parallel type A device is provided comprising a printing head for printing a sheet, a rotary motor, and transmission means transforming the rotary movement generated by the motor, on the one hand into a reciprocating rectilinear movement driving the printing head and, ... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4388007 | Line feed carrier return mechanism for movable printing point typewriter In a movable printing point typewriter wherein line feed mechanism on a stationary platen is driven by type element carrier drive mechanism, provision is made to detect the distance of the carrier from an established left margin and, if it is too short, t... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4215944 | Single keylever multiple action control for typewriters A typewriter having a carriage return line indexing key to initiate in parallel a powered carriage return and a powered line indexing operation is provided with linkage associated with the carriage return action which assures initiation of the line indexi... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4120593 | Line-spacing system for printing office machines A printing office machine of the type having a carriage, a controllable line spacing mechanism and a controllable carriage return mechanism for returning the carriage to the beginning of the printing line with a manually actuatable control actuated by a f... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4050569 | Record media advancing mechanism The print head carriage for a printer has end-mounted toothed clutches secured thereto and engageable with mating toothed clutches mounted on the carriage support shaft for rotation thereof upon near end of travel of the carriage across the printer. The t... | 09/27/1977 |
