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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7909523 | Sheet bundle printer and method of controlling sheet bundle printer A sheet bundle printer includes a platen roller facing a sheet bundle having peelably adhered multiple sheets of sheet and pulling up an uppermost sheet thereof, a print head feeding the sheet and performing printing thereon while peeling it off with the platen roll... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7371025 | Printer The present invention provides a low-profile printer. The printer has a claw installed on a plane which face an exposure surface of an instant film sheet, a single-rotation cam which completes a sequence of operations, and a three-rotation cam which rotates three t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7293869 | Recording medium processing apparatus The apparatus has a carriage that holds a head, a carriage-driving mechanism having a motor, and a holding mechanism configured to press a recording medium to a medium-holding base. The holding mechanism has a pair of arm members and a pushing member secured to the ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7167674 | Sheet storage cassette and image forming apparatus A sheet storage cassette includes: a case provided with a storage portion; a stacking plate on which a sheet is placed; and a lifting unit that lifts the stacking plate. The lifting unit has: a driving gear that communicates with an output gear of the device main bo... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7104714 | Printer A printer includes a transporting block, a printing block, a positioning block, and an intermediate picking-up device. The positioning block is disposed between the transporting block and the printing block, and positions printing sheets transported by the transport... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7086728 | Print engine with a printhead assembly arranged within a media tray assembly An inkjet printer includes a housing that defines a receiving formation for a media tray assembly. A chassis is positioned in the housing. A media tray assembly is displaceably engageable with the chassis to permit the tray assembly to be received in, and withdrawn ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6988844 | Printer A printer includes a transporting block, a printing block, a positioning block, and an intermediate picking-up device. The positioning block is disposed between the transporting block and the printing block, and positions printing sheets transported by the transport... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6984085 | Printer A printer includes a transporting block, a printing block, a positioning block, and an intermediate picking-up device. The positioning block is disposed between the transporting block and the printing block, and positions printing sheets transported by the transport... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6976800 | Printer A printer includes a transporting block, a printing block, a positioning block, and an intermediate picking-up device. The positioning block is disposed between the transporting block and the printing block, and positions printing sheets transported by the transport... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6971810 | Printer A printer includes a transporting block, a printing block, a positioning block, and an intermediate picking-up device. The positioning block is disposed between the transporting block and the printing block, and positions printing sheets transported by the transport... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6960038 | Printer A printer includes a transporting block, a printing block, a positioning block, and an intermediate picking-up device. The positioning block is disposed between the transporting block and the printing block, and positions printing sheets transported by the transport... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6957922 | Printer A printer includes a transporting block, a printing block, a positioning block, and an intermediate picking-up device. The positioning block is disposed between the transporting block and the printing block, and positions printing sheets transported by the transport... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6955487 | Printer A printer includes a transporting block, a printing block, a positioning block, and an intermediate picking-up device. The positioning block is disposed between the transporting block and the printing block, and positions printing sheets transported by the transport... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6945720 | Printer A printer includes a transporting block, a printing block, a positioning block, and an intermediate picking-up device. The positioning block is disposed between the transporting block and the printing block, and positions printing sheets transported by the transport... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6935736 | Printhead assembly arranged within a media tray assembly An inkjet printer includes a housing that defines a receiving formation for a media tray assembly. A chassis is positioned in the housing. A media tray assembly is displaceably engageable with the chassis to permit the tray assembly to be received in, and withdrawn ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6932529 | Method and systems for accessing a separation pad in a printing device A printing device including a feed roller assembly, a separation pad located adjacent to the feed roller assembly, and a printer housing having an access plate. The separation pad is user-accessible when the access plate is opened. ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6626595 | Automatic sheet-feeding device of printer An automatic sheet-feeding device of a printer includes a sheet loading section, delivery rollers, and a separating plate. When recording sheets placed on the sheet loading section are supplied, the delivery rollers are rotationally driven in contact with... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6012862 | Ink-jet printing apparatus having paper feed structure and control An ink-jet printing apparatus permits sequential ejection of printed papers without causing stain by non-dried ink, improves printing quality and permits down-sizing of the overall apparatus by simplifying a construction of a paper ejecting mechanism. An ... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5971641 | Carriage driven tray lowering device for an ink jet printer A liquid ink printing machine, for forming an image on a recording medium moving along a path, including an arrangement for reducing media feedhead loads on media being fed in the printing machine. This is accomplished by using the printing machine's prin... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5547183 | Imaging device An imaging device which reciprocatively transports a recording sheet to form a color image thereon. A front extreme end of the recording sheet is clamped between a pair of rollers, and the pair of rollers are reciprocatively moved along a recording sheet ... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5423619 | Card printing apparatus When a magnetic head is fed in one direction by a card stage, ID information recorded in a magnetic stripe on a lowermost one of vertically stacked cards in a card stock unit is read by the magnetic head. Then, the lowermost card is carried by the card st... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5399038 | Dual line slip printer A dual line slip printer wherein a slip is dropped into a chute to bottom against a supporting member and a serially operated inkjet print head is moved along the length of the slip to print a line of type characters and is then returned to print a second... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5244294 | Apparatus for transporting wet print media and method for same The present invention comprises an apparatus and method for transporting print media with wet ink out of a printer without smearing the ink or requiring the user to adjust the margins of the document to avoid the smearing of the ink. The apparatus compris... | 09/14/1993 |
| 4958950 | Paper feeder for printer A paper feeder comprises a tray having a stage on which papers to be fed are stacked, driving means for driving a platen, transmitting means for transmitting a motive power of the driving means to position the stage at predetermined position for paper fee... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4676682 | Marking machine with tag feeder A feeder device for feeding tags, cards, nameplates and the like to a rotary printer or marking machine. The feeder device is comprised of a chute for receiving a stack of tags. A reciprocatory pusher plate or shuttle is adapted to push a bottom-most tag ... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4304181 | Printer for a desk computer A printer for a desk computer includes a card case adapted to accommodate a large number of cards. The cards accommodated in the card case are pressed toward an open end of the card case by a biasing means. A movable frame is adapted to move up and down w... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4221374 | Device for moving sheet data carriers from and to stacks of sheets A device for feeding sheets one at a time from a sheet storage to a printer mechanism and for receiving the sheets one at a time from the printer mechanism and storing them in a printed sheet storage area, the feeding and receiving sections being indepden... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4143981 | Unit document feeding mechanism Disclosed is a means for feeding unit documents, such as sheets, envelopes, pages, cards, and the like to an apparatus for processing. Means is provided for feeding the documents to and removing them from the operating apparatus at a relatively high rate ... | 03/13/1979 |
