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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8118506 | Idler roller assembly for printing apparatus Disclosed is an idler roller assembly for a printing apparatus. The idler rolling assembly includes a shaft, at least one idler rolling element connected to the shaft, the at least one idler rolling element having an inner surface and an outer surface and being conn... | 02/21/2012 |
| 7309357 | Prosthetic spinal discs A prosthetic spinal disc uses a stiff spring or springs for resiliency between two plates that attach to adjacent vertebrae. When the disc has multiple springs, they may be adjacent, concentric or nested. Multiple springs may be spaced around the periphery of the pl... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7270494 | Easy assembly printer media transport arrangement A printer including: at least one elongate roller arranged, in use, to rotate so as to transport print media within the printer; a support frame for supporting the roller at the longitudinal first and second ends of the roller so as to allow the rotation of the roll... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7223033 | Pinch control in a printer A pinch control apparatus in a printer for controlling a pinch force exerted on a medium which is being fed into a printing zone is provided. The pinch control apparatus includes a camshaft rotatably mounted across a width of the medium, at least one cam attached to... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219990 | Personal digital assistant with internal printer and user interface 1. A hand held personal digital assistant including: memory for storing information; a display; a pagewidth printhead; a processor for processing information to generate dot data a... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7204653 | Recording apparatus There are provided a suction unit which sucks a recording medium, and a unit which changes sucking force of the suction unit according to the property of the recording medium. Hereby, since the sucking force of the suction unit can be set according to a state of the... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7152858 | Guiding and positioning apparatus and method thereof A guiding and positioning apparatus for accurate guiding and input of a print media sheet to a business machine. The guiding and positioning apparatus includes a rotating shaft, a retaining member, a guiding member, a sliding member, a roller, a first spring, a seco... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7104710 | Printing apparatus with first and second measuring means for obtaining a conveying amount of a printing medium A printing medium is conveyed at a high speed and high accuracy by reducing the conveyance error of a conveyor roller as much as possible. For this purpose, the printing apparatus includes first measuring unit for obtaining a conveying amount of said printing medium... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7099032 | Printer control based on detection of envelope-sized print medium In performing a printing operation, upon designating the type of paper by inputting it, a paper type table is searched to determine whether the designated type of paper requires a special printing operation, such as reverse feeding and printing. If the above-mention... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7088947 | Post processor inserter speed and timing adjust unit In the present invention an image-forming production system includes a marking engine. The marking engine outputs a plurality of printed sheets at a first speed. An inserter is connected to receive the plurality of printed sheets from the marking engine and insert a... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7018034 | Starwheel actuation timing for print media transport system and method A print media transport assembly for advancing a print media through a print zone includes a primary drive roller rotatably mounted on an entry side of the print zone and a pinch roller rotatably mounted opposite the primary drive roller. The primary drive roller an... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7011464 | Apparatus for detecting an end portion of a recording medium A printer having a hopper without shaft which performs a print operation on a roll of continuous paper. Detection marks are provided in flanges provided in supported members removably attached to the continuous paper, and the presence/absence of the detection mark i... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6997630 | Document feeder device with a roller adjustment device A document feeder device is disclosed. The document feeder device includes a frame, a first roller shaft coupled to the frame, and a second roller shaft coupled to the frame. The first shaft is cantilevered. The document feeder device further includes a bearing coup... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6951429 | Feed assistance member and a medium processing apparatus Provided is a medium feeding aparatus having at least one align roller to align medium in a path, wherein the align roller is positioned below the medium and is driven to transport the medium in the path. A feed assistance member includes a shaft and a feed assistan... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6939064 | Printing apparatus and method It is an object of the present invention to use a simple configuration to reduce the deviate of an image printed position caused by the behavior of a print sheet when the back end of the sheet slips out from an upstream roller pair. Thus, the present invention provi... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6905270 | Discharging roller, method of manufacturing the same, and recording apparatus incorporating the same In order to manufacture a discharging roller which discharges a recording medium from a recording apparatus, there are a first die formed with a first recess extending in an axial direction of a shaft portion of the discharging roller, and a second die formed with a... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6860665 | Passive linear encoder A passive linear encoder includes a loop and a sensor. The loop is configured to engage print media and to move in concert with, and under power of, the print media. The sensor is positioned to scan indicia defined on an inner surface of the loop. ... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6834949 | Device for simultaneously holding by suction and transporting a sheet A device for holding a sheetlike article on a movable underlying surface for transporting the sheetlike article in at least one direction selected from the group consisting of a direction into and a direction out of an operating station having a printing unit, inclu... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6736560 | Printer A removing member which rotates while being in contact with the periphery of a rotating member for conveying a sheet of paper that rotates while being in contact with a printed side of a sheet of paper is provided. When undried ink on the printed side is transferred... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6695504 | Conveying apparatus and recording apparatus A conveying apparatus for attracting and conveying a conveyed object by a belt provided with electrodes, includes an applying unit for applying a voltage to the electrodes to generate an electric force and a belt attracting unit for attracting the belt ut... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6695503 | Print media feed system for an imaging apparatus A print media feed system for advancing a sheet of print media having a leading edge and a trailing edge in a sheet feed direction through a print zone in an imaging apparatus includes a rotating support positioned downstream of an exit roller in relation... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6676313 | Printer media feed encoder apparatus and method A printer with a media feed apparatus bas a media tray with a surface for supporting a media stack. A wave drive mechanism has a pair of wheels, a belt looped around said wheels, and a plurality of freewheeling rollers. Each one of the freewheeling roller... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6637959 | Printing device with means for conveying paper Printing device with means for conveying paper A printing device (10) comprises a lower part (12) and an upper part (14) that is mounted on said lower part (12) such that it can pivot about a pivot axis (16). A print head (18) and a holding trough. (62) f... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6626596 | Wide format printer with detachable and replaceable paper feed unit components A wide-width format printer having detachable and replaceable paper feed unit components includes an automatic sheet feeder having a feeding width corresponding to standard width print media, a manual sheet feeder having a feeding width corresponding to s... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6588954 | Ink jet printer equipped for avoiding undesired belt movement An ink jet printer wherein a belt transports an image receiving member past a printhead is equipped with guiding means (18) for creating a bulge, d, in the belt, extending towards the ink ejecting means, thus keeping the "throw distance" constant and/or w... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6554513 | Apparatus for transporting single sheets through a device for exposing or printing the single sheets An apparatus for transporting single sheets through a device for exposing or printing the single sheets, with a drum and means that press the single sheet against the drum, with a processing station having a processing gap, with the single sheets being ex... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6527463 | Printer and print medium drive system To avoid the effects of unwanted variations in the pen-to-paper spacing of a printer, deliberate and effectively randomised variations are introduced by using paper drive rollers (20) with an irregular cross-section. In one embodiment, an overdrive roller... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6503010 | Paper pickup apparatus for a printer A paper pickup apparatus in a printer for pivotally moving by a motor includes a driving shaft rotated by the motor, a first pickup housing having at least one first transmission gear and first and second end portions, the first end portion mounted to the... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6474886 | Color printer and method of feeding paper by tension rollers In the present invention, the recording paper is conveyed by a feed roller to plural recording portions sequentially, and each recording portion successively prints each specific color on the recording paper while applying tension to the paper. The tensio... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6461066 | Printer media feed encoder apparatus and method A printer with a media feed apparatus has a media tray with a surface for supporting a stack of media sheets. A wave drive mechanism above the stack support surface has a media contact element operable to make contact with a top sheet of a media stack in ... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6419411 | Sheet conveying apparatus and recording apparatus using electrostatic attraction The present invention relates to a sheet conveying apparatus comprising a conveyance belt for supporting and conveying a sheet, an attraction force generating device for electrostatically attracting the sheet, a voltage supplying device for supplying volt... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6299365 | Duplex check printer using a check bending rotor A printer for printing on both sides of a document, such as a check being printed at a point of sale terminal, uses a single printing station to print on both sides of the document. The document is moved along a document path and past the printing station... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6299367 | Coil spring sheet-pressing member for sheet feeding mechanism A sheet feeding mechanism includes a sheet feed roller for transporting a sheet along a paper transport path, and a sheet-pressing member disposed so as to press the sheet feed roller. The sheet-pressing member integrally includes a pressing portion which... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6283655 | Friction-feed plotter with laterally-movable drive roller, and related method for plotting on sheets of different widths In an apparatus and method for plotting on sheets of different widths, such as by cutting and/or printing, a tool support holding a plotting tool, such as a pen or knife blade, is spaced apart from a laterally-extending sheet-supporting surface and movabl... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6168333 | Paper driven rotary encoder that compensates for nip-to-nip handoff error A sheet transport system has an encoder roller in direct contact with the sheet media and driven by the sheet media to detect and compensate for any registration error particularly at lead and trail edges during transport of the sheet media as media enter... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6149329 | Versatile printing mechanism A wide format versatile printing mechanism is provided which has ribbon tensioning means to equalize the surface tension forces across the ribbon and remove all wrinkles. In one embodiment a cambered rod is introduced between the print head and the ribbon... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6099180 | Method for feeding paper in image forming apparatus A process and image formation apparatus with an enhanced loading of printable media onto a path of conveyance through the apparatus during the practice of the process by feeding paper for an image forming apparatus by setting a predetermined pickup time o... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6079890 | Feed system for a marking system and laser marking system A tag feed system is used to feed tags through a marking machine, such as a tag printer or a laser marking machine, that marks information on the tags. A laser-marking system is used to mark and label information on metal tags, and a tag feed system for t... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6017161 | Check flipper for point of sale printer and method therefor A print head and check flipper subassembly having a removable flipper cartridge allows printing of both sides of a check or other document in one continuous operation, in which the orientation of the check or other document is reversed in relation to a pr... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5988903 | Printer for printing on single sheets and an endless paper strip A printer (10) for printing single sheets (126, 128) and at least one continuous paper strip (122) on a printing substrate plane (19), in which a single sheet (126, 128) is led up to the printing station (36, 56) from the operator side by being displaced ... | 11/23/1999 |
