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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7365869 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a first memory for storing image data, a second memory for storing image forming conditions, an image output unit for outputting the image data stored in the first memory under the image forming conditions stored in the second mem... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7352980 | Image forming apparatus and method including power state shift control An image forming apparatus which is capable of achieving both enhanced userfriendliness and improved energy saving efficiency without being released from a reduced power consumption state by a user who has no will to use the same passing thereby. When a copying mach... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7290847 | IC chip, print apparatus, and heat generation warning method A printer (1) comprises a motor driver (34) for driving a carriage motor (20) and a paper feed motor (22). The motor driver (34) has a thermal shutdown circuit (43). If internal temperature T of the motor driver exceeds thre... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292377 | Image processing apparatus capable of reducing power consumption while connected to an external device A power control circuit (120) is driven by electric power supplied from a controller (200) as an external device via a cable (150), and controls opening/closure of a switch (104) in accordance with instructions from the controller (200... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7271924 | Printer, control method for the same, and control device When the printer is off-line and receives a large volume of data, the receive buffer is not filled and the communication interface with the host computer does not enter a busy state. A receive buffer temporarily stores data, including control commands, from the host... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7265771 | Printer capable of detecting status of unutilized ribbon A printer includes a ribbon supply end, a ribbon retrieving end, and a ribbon. The two ends of the ribbon are installed on the ribbon supply end and the ribbon retrieving end respectively. The printer further includes a print head, a print medium fixture, a driving ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7259776 | Tachograph with cubic housing and printing device A tachograph has a cubic housing and a printing device having a thermal print head, a feed roller driven by a drive mechanism and a carrier movable out of the housing to reload a ribbon which forms a stock of printing material. Locking means lock and unlock the carr... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254818 | Self aligning disc tray drive A tray is mounted in a framework for sliding between extended and retracted positions, and has a separate drive adjacent each of the opposite sides of the tray. The drives on the opposite sides of the tray are effected through friction clutches so that one of the dr... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7233406 | Image forming device management system and method In an image forming device management system and method of the present invention, a data communication device is connected to one or a plurality of image forming devices and a central control system is connected to the data communication device via a public switched... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7185103 | Rate-controlled transmission of traffic flow information Network analysis techniques are described for generating and outputting traffic flow packets which include traffic flow information indicative of network traffic flows. More specifically, the traffic flow packets may be generated and output in a rate-controlled fash... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7174264 | Fault diagnosis apparatus A fault diagnosis section activates a driving component alone, measures an operation state signal and a paper passage time, and stores feature values (Vm, ov, Tqs, ots) extracted as a determination reference in a storage medium. A paper passage fault determination s... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7158243 | Printing apparatus and printing system, control method, storage medium and program A printing apparatus can quickly cancel a print job without any influence on the other subsequent print jobs when a print cancel instruction is issued. During printing, if a print cancel instruction is inputted from a printer operation unit, a printer function manag... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7130940 | Interface apparatus and image forming apparatus An interface apparatus includes a USB interface portion which makes communication with an external first device via a USB cable, a parallel interface portion which makes communication with an external second device via a parallel cable, and a control portion which, ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7070350 | Image recording device A multi-part output paper tray 14 including a plurality of tray plates 21 to 24 slidably arranged together in a paper eject direction is attached to a printer assembly 1 so that it can be extended/collapsed, the printer assembly 1 ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7054025 | Printing system involving print preparing operation An information processing apparatus connectable with an external printer, includes communicating unit for communication with the external printer; notifying unit for notifying the external printer of pre-print notification through the communicating unit when executi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6958903 | Data storage device reader and method of using same File directory information contained on a portable self contained data storage device is read by a portable file reading apparatus that is not connected to nor is a personal computer. The file reading apparatus includes a housing of a size and weight capable of bein... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6948047 | Apparatus for providing a CPU cluster via a disk I/O bus using a CPU brick which fits into a disk cavity A general purpose computer apparatus including a central processing unit, a main memory and a system bus. The general purpose computer apparatus further includes means for interfacing the central processing unit to the system bus and means for interfacing the centra... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6937353 | Information processing apparatus, mode control method and storage medium An information processing apparatus having a power save mode is constructed to include a spool storing print data, and a controller for monitoring a state of the spool and for prohibiting a transition to the power save mode in a state where the print data is stored ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6934054 | Method and apparatus for two-color thermal point of sale (POS) printing A 2-color thermal point of sale (POS) printer includes a converter for converting full color printing commands into a commands for printing in two colors, a primary color and an alternate color. A three color image is possible when using the background color of the ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6930717 | Printer-incorporated electronic still camera There is disclosed a printer-incorporated electronic still camera that may be switched over between a photography mode, a reproduction mode, a print mode and a setup mode by operating a mode selection dial. If it is judged by an output signal from an acceleration se... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6883431 | Safety device and method for monitoring a hazardous area that cannot be looked at in a printing machine A control system for a printing machine and a safety device for scanning and displaying a hazardous area that cannot be looked at on a printing machine and method thereof includes permitting the printing machine to be started up only after an acknowledgement through... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6734986 | Print control apparatus, print data generating apparatus, print control method, print data generating method, and storage medium A print control apparatus for processing print information, which is connected to a printer, selects the optimal print mode for a set condition. The apparatus controls a printer driver to generate print data in the selected print mode in accordance with a print inst... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6508600 | Printer In a printer, a body cover is reclosably attached to a printer body (10). A fixed blade (14) and a movable blade (42) are attached to the printer body (10) and the body cover (20), respectively. The movable blade (42) is superposed on the fixed blade (14)... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6394675 | Tape printing apparatus There is provided provide a tape printing apparatus which is capable of properly operating a tape feed mechanism and a tape cutting mechanism by the use of a single motor. The tape printing apparatus is capable of printing on a printing tape while feeding... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6334719 | Stencil printer having a power saving mode A stencil printer for printing an image on a paper or similar recording medium with a master wrapped around its ink drum is disclosed. The stencil printer can be held in a power save mode for saving power when it is not used, and can recover from the powe... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6234695 | Variable power thermal printer A printer using a power reduction logic based upon reducing the speed of printing when the dot utilization calculation exceeds a particular power level for that printer. There is also provided a method for printing information at a given power supply capa... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6155731 | Printing apparatus with cover actuated drive source A printer in which loading of print media is greatly facilitated and in which modular construction is used in order to substantially reduce the number of parts normally needed for this type of printer. The printer includes a base and an associated cover t... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6048115 | Printing apparatus and printing processing method A printing apparatus and a printing processing method are provided in which content of print information is discriminated. A variable is initialized if the result of discrimination indicates the start of a printing job, and the variable is counted up of t... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6045274 | Power supply apparatus The present invention relates to a power supply apparatus and provides a power supply apparatus capable of properly performing the protective operation at the completion of use of the instrument connected through the power supply line, when and after susp... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5897252 | Peripheral device control method and printing apparatus A printing apparatus which shuts off the power supply to the apparatus, if a state in which the power supply to the apparatus is meaningless continues for a predetermined period, to prevent wasteful electricity consumption. When a LBP has an abnormality, ... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5885010 | Printer having forced stop function and forced stopping method A printer has a forced stop switch to stop the printer. The switch may be pressed to stop a print output immediately when the output state of the data transmitted from a computer is bad or when the print output is not one required by a user. This prevents... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5848848 | Battery powered printer system with self-contained high power solid state battery voltage switching A self-contained, high power, solid state, battery voltage switching system applies battery voltage to a thermal printhead when the printer is turned on and disconnects voltage from the battery to the thermal printhead when the printer is turned off, ther... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5829894 | Data switch and data switching method for Bi-tronics printer The present invention discloses a data switch for a Bi-Tronics printer that keeps the Bi-Tronics printer in the use of data switch by adding a controller circuit which provides simulating responding signals to a disconnected computer. When the data switch... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5826990 | Method and device for limiting a number of times each print hammer is driven during a predetermined period of time To prevent effective print speed from being lowered, a counter is provided for each of a plurality of print hammers. A number of times a print hammer is driven during one print phase having a predetermined period of time is counted by the counter. The cou... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5803623 | Printing system and a printing method A printing system is disclosed in which a host computer 1 sends print data to a printer 2, and the printer 2 prints an image on a paper in accordance with the print data received. The printer 2 includes a printing mechanism 19 for performing a printing op... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5800082 | Recording apparatus and recording temperature control method A controller receives a signal indicating the temperature of a print head from a head temperature detection thermistor. The controller sets a cooling time for the print head based on a time in which the temperature of the print head increase from a first ... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5781207 | Ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording apparatus comprises input keys for inputting information to be recorded, a protection device for protecting a recording head for discharging ink to record onto a recording medium in accordance with the input keys, and an execution con... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5720560 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus comprises a CPU 1, an image formation part 9, an interface 7 for communicating with an external host apparatus 19, an operation panel 8 which includes an operation switch and the like, etc., and a power cutoff circuit 12 which operate... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5716148 | Data printing and outputting apparatus A data printing and outputting apparatus has a host device, and a digital copying machine connected with the host device through a communication line for printing and outputting data. The control section of the digital copying machine, monitoring the prin... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5662421 | Print speed controlled dot line printer depending on print density To prevent undue elevation of temperature in a hammer assembly but to maintain the maximum printing speed, when a scheduled number of drivings at which print hammers are to be driven during one scan of a manner bank which follows the currently performing ... | 09/02/1997 |
