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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6686904 | Wheel reporting method for a personal computer keyboard interface A method and system that monitors movement of a wheel or slider included on a keyboard, and conveys information indicative of the movement and its direction to a host computing device to which the keyboard is coupled, using predefined scan codes or Univer... | 02/03/2004 |
| 5122786 | Ergonomic keypads for desktop and armrest applications A pair of left and right ergonomic keypads may be separately positioned on a desktop or in the armrests of a chair to permit the user to operate the keypads while assuming more comfortable and natural hand and wrist positions than required when using prio... | 06/16/1992 |
| 4552474 | Backspace device in typewriter A backspace device in a typewriter comprising: an interposer operable by the operation of a key lever; a cycle bail operable by the interposer; a cycle clutch for intermittently transmitting a driving force from a driving source to a main shaft so that th... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4469461 | Low profile keyboard actuator A low profile keyboard actuator for a typewriter in which L-shaped levers are pivotally mounted on a transverse shaft mounted immediately in front of the typewriter. The levers have generally horizontal arms of various lengths, the ends of which contact t... | 09/04/1984 |
| 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 |
| 4442425 | Passive fiber optic keyboard An electrically passive keyboard is provided with an array of keys. Each key is provided with an actuating bar which when depressed cooperates with a plurality of coded shutters. Each shutter is arranged to intercept a beam of light passing from light pro... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4381500 | Keyboard apparatus A keyboard apparatus has item keys for data entry, and select keys for changing the display of input data written on sheets, according to the item keys, and a changer for the sheets stored in a cartridge, which separates the sheets in the cartridge into t... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4316674 | Keylever pawl tube spring and keyboard utilizing a keylever pawl tube spring A hollow tubular rubber or rubberlike deformable member is supported by a plurality of character keylevers in a typewriter keyboard and constrained against movement within the typewriter by supporting surfaces on the keylevers such that the tube engages t... | 02/23/1982 |
| 4264225 | Bounce dampening system for switch actuators A bounce dampening system reduces switch actuator bounce when the actuators are restored to their home position. Included are selection interposers, one of which is selectively driven to thereby effect motion of selection bails and corresponding switch ac... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4247211 | Optically coded keyboard arrangement An optically coded keyboard arrangement has a plurality of key units arranged to be individually actuated; an actuation sensing arrangement that includes a plurality of light emitters generating light beams and a plurality of detectors each placed in the ... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4235554 | Keyboard signal storage mechanism A coded electric signal generating keyboard for a single element typewriter is disclosed which has a keylever signal storing function and includes an interlock mechanism for permitting only one interposer at a time to be moved out of its normal position. ... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4159183 | Keyboard employing photoelectric key actuation sensing In a key-operated machine in which actuation of a key moves code elements of an associated code card into the path of a photoelectric sensing system, each code card is moved by a drive mechanism so as to cause the code elements to traverse the sensing sys... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4128382 | Keyboard recocking mechanism A keyboard of a typewriter comprises a common actuator biased by a spring. The depression of a key causes a corresponding intermediate member to engage with the actuator to initiate an operating cycle and to move the intermediate member to a position whic... | 12/05/1978 |
| 4067429 | Selector system for a printing head for printing office machines A selector system for a printing head for use in printing machines and the like for selecting a character to be printed from the printing head. The system comprises at least two actuatable code bars. The printing head is positioned with respect to a first... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4050566 | Mechanical code converter for use with a typewriter or the like Apparatus is disclosed for use with typewriters of the type having trip hammers and is adapted to receive combinations of electrical signals which uniquely define the respective characteristics and to decode the electrical signals to selectively activate ... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4027763 | Keyboard for office machines A keyboard for a typewriter, teleprinter, calculator and similar office machines comprises a series of keys, a series of setting elements selectable by the keys and a group of code bars. A setting spring moves a common setting member which positions the s... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4010837 | Syllabic keyboard controlled devices A syllabic keyboard controlled device in which a syllabic keyboard controls a non syllabic printer by means of a storage unit (memory unit). The storage unit comprises a main memory to which the syllabic keyboard transmits through coding matrices pulses w... | 03/08/1977 |
| 4003087 | Mechanism for use in magnetic tape recorder/player A record and a play keys of a magnetic tape recorder/player are depressed in order to set the recorder/player in its recording mode, and they are locked in their depressed positions by means of a first locking plate. In the above, the record key is furthe... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3963109 | Single element typehead positioning mechanism A non-homing positioning mechanism to effect type selective movements of a single element typehead by means of coordinate band systems wherein the coordinate band systems are cntrolled by a translator comprising a four armed cross-shaped member unidirecti... | 06/15/1976 |
| 3930569 | Power driven typewriter with flexible type head A power driven typewriter comprising a shiftable carrier supporting a rotatable and axially movable flexible type drum having a plurality of circumferentially extending rows of type characters thereon. Type keys, when depressed, each condition one each of... | 01/06/1976 |
