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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6447189 | Detection mechanism, carriage monitoring device and printer incorporating the same A space for housing an optical sensor is formed between a detection gear of a drive transfer gear and a frame for supporting the detection gear. A detected part shaped like comb teeth is formed integrally on inner walls of the detection gear. The optical ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6152626 | Recording apparatus and recording method A recording apparatus comprises a recording head for forming an image on a recording medium, a carriage for holding the recording head, capable of scanning in a main scanning direction, and a carrying mechanism for carrying the recording medium in a sub-s... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5742316 | Actuation mechanism and printer using same An actuation mechanism for a lever including a spring member supported by the lever and frame of the printer and an actuation portion for rotating the lever by pressing and displacing an intermediate portion of the spring member. The printer may include a... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5524994 | Paper skew removal apparatus and a printer using the same A paper skew removal apparatus including a single paper feed roller for feeding a paper in a state that the paper feed roller is in contact with the central part of the paper as viewed in the paper width direction, and a paper feed roller and gate roller ... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5456539 | Printer with dual opposing printheads A printer has dual opposing printheads which can print in tandem on two sides of paper fed along a printing plane. The dual opposing printheads can print the same information on each side of two paper sheets fed in back-to-back (two-ply) fashion, thereby ... | 10/10/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5228790 | Auxiliary device for typewriter right margin correction A mechanical device to be easily placed and removed over the margin rod of a key operated machine and having motion transfer levers which mechanically couple certain of its keys to other corresponding keys of the machine. The device is suitable for provid... | 07/20/1993 |
| 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 |
| 4968163 | Hot zone control of automatic line feed An information processing apparatus has a keyboard including a key for setting an automatic line feed/line return mode, a control device, a printer, and a memory. When a space input is detected in a preset hot zone, an automatic line feed/line return is m... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4828414 | Output device for automatically changing end of line hot zone An electropic typewriter includes a changing unit for changing margin positions; a storage device for storing hot zone position information; and a deriving unit responsive to the change of the margin positions caused by the changing unit for deriving a ne... | 05/09/1989 |
| 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 |
| 4717269 | Electronic typewriter An electronic typewriter having a carriage which is automatically returned upon entering of space data through one operation of a space key on a keyboard, which space data is to be executed within an automatic-carriage-return zone which consists of a desi... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4437777 | Printer having plural type wheel assembly In a printer for desk calculators etc., return control means is disposed in order to control return means for resetting a carriage as well as a hammer to a starting position. When a type wheel has been shifted to a specified position in a carry direction ... | 03/20/1984 |
| 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 |
| 4273457 | Recording device for use with recording media of various widths A recording device is disclosed according to which writing information is recorded and the writing position in which the record head writes the information on a recording medium is detected. A discriminator determines the width of the recording medium loa... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4138719 | Automatic writing systems and methods of word processing therefor Automatic writing systems and methods of word processing therefor are provided in accordance with the teachings of the present invention wherein a central processor and a plurality of peripherals including at least keyboard means, printer means, buffer me... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4114750 | Printer system having local control for dynamically alterable printing A printer system having local control for dynamically positioning a print head relative to a print medium utilizing positioning and print data signal inputs, including a control unit for receiving and storing data inputs, the control unit including circui... | 09/19/1978 |
| 3988744 | Recording device A recording device includes record means for recording information on a recording medium, a guide for feeding the recording medium to the record means, and means for moving the guide in accordance with the configuration of the recording medium.... | 10/26/1976 |
