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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7145668 | Print system, printing method, information processing apparatus, printing apparatus, printer driver, and memory medium A print system in which when a print driver can previously confirm data structure information during data generation, printing efficiency can be raised by using the structure information is provided. While the printer driver which is made operative by a host compute... | 12/05/2006 |
| 6668355 | Text editing system The present invention relates to a text editing system with a line end line feed function and an indentation function. In particular, a line end position Pg is stored in advance in a line end position storage unit 1, a line feed code in text data are dete... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6471351 | Ink jet recording apparatus and recording method therefor An ink jet recording apparatus, which records a image on a recording medium using a recording head provided with a plurality of ink discharge ports, includes a rotative platen having a plurality of supporting pieces arranged at predetermined intervals; a ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6053645 | Method for automatic margin correction according to paper feeding mode in image formation apparatus In an image formation apparatus receiving image data from a host computer and having an automatic paper-feed mode and a manual paper-feed mode, a method for the automatic correction of the printing margin in the manual paper-feed mode, includes the steps ... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6012860 | Tape printing device and tape cartridge used therein The present invention provides a tape printing device for printing a desirable series of characters on a tape and cutting the tape to a label of a desirable length, and also a tape cartridge used in the tape printing device. The tape cartridge has a chara... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5961225 | Tape printing device and tape cartridge used therein The present invention provides a tape printing device for printing a desirable series of characters on a tape and cutting the tape to a label of a desirable length, and also a tape cartridge used in the tape printing device. The tape cartridge has a chara... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5553205 | System and method of transferring a bit-mapped image using raster columns A system and method of transferring digital information corresponding to a bit-mapped image from a first device, such as a computer, to a suitable receiving device, such as a printer with adjustable margins. Raster columns within the bit-mapped image are ... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5409317 | Tape printing device capable of setting appropriate margin When a tape cassette having a special tape, such as a lettering tape, is mounted into a tape printing device, which normally permits user set margins, for printing image data on a tape by driving a thermal head and a tape feed motor until all image data i... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5255987 | Paper margin detecting device for use in printing apparatus A paper edge detecting device for a printing apparatus in which a paper margin of a print paper can be detected with high accuracy. A mark printing process is executed upon power-on of a printer, so that a carriage is displaced from an original position H... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5162993 | Word processing apparatus A word processing apparatus capable of automatically handling characters of which use is inhibited at the head or end of a row. Such inhibited character processing can be verified on a cathode ray tube, and is applied only to the locations selected by the... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5121481 | Text (word processor) having right end justified variable size display area for information related to input data A data processing system having a relational data memory device for storing data relational to the data to be input through an input device, and a retrieval device for the relational data. The system further has a detecting device for detecting a quantity of t... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5033879 | Electronic typewriter Character and control code data are input from a keyboard into a memory. A CRT display unit displays one line of data stored in the memory. A printer is automatically activated to print the line of data in response to a carriage return or line feed code, ... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5021974 | Method for updating a display bitmap with a character string or the like An improved method and system for updating a display bitmap with a character string in a given font is provided. Each character in the font is stored as a character bitmap. Each character comprises a contiguous set of virtual characters. A visible stack i... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4920882 | Electronic labeler with printhead and web sensor combined for concurrent travel, and assemblies of identification devices therefor An electronic labeling machine is disclosed which includes a printing mechanism with a carriage adapted for horizontal travel across assemblies of identification devices to be imprinted. A web sensor is attached to the carriage for concurrent travel there... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4914621 | Document processing system A document processing system includes an input device for inputting into the system document information, including line pitch information relating to lines of the document information. The document information is divided into at least two regions. Also p... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4904099 | Electronic typewriter Character and control code data are input from a keyboard into a memory. A CRT display unit displays one line of data stored in the memory. A printer is automatically activated to print the line of data in response to a carriage return or line feed code, ... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4880321 | Printing apparatus for automatically conducting a carriage return The disclosure relates to a printing device which includes so-called hot zones wherein a punctuation or hyphenation is automatically performed in accordance with a predetermined rule thereby letting users be free from the inconvenience of line end arrange... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4823288 | Document processor A document processor having a keyboard, a displaying apparatus for displaying inputted characters and symbols on a display and a control device for controlling the displaying apparatus, there is provided an improvement that permits the moving of an inputt... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4686649 | Word processor with alternative formatted and unformatted display modes A word processor supports an unformatted mode which includes display of a partial page and supports a formatted mode which includes display of the displaying format of an entire page of text. Both modes impose minimal burden on the display allowing use, f... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4678351 | Right margin zone hyphenation An electronic typewriter has a right margin zone hyphenation system operable with an error correction function to provide a reasonably aligned right margin of printed lines on a work sheet. To hyphen a word or a partial word printed in the hyphenation zon... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4668963 | Pen recorder A pen recorder for writing characters and graphic patterns with recording pens on a sheet of recording paper by moving the recording pens in an X-axis direction and moving the sheet of recording paper in a Y-axis direction. When a desired key on a keyboar... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4574363 | Mixed mode enhanced resolution hyphenation function for a text processing system The combination of dictionary driven hyphenation, specialized algorithmic hyphenation and intelligent blank insertion provides improved right margin justification capability in a text processing system. When hyphenation is required for right margin justif... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4556332 | Electronic typewriter including right margin adjusting means When a number of input key data sequentially stored in a first line buffer memory from a keyboard coincide with the contents of a right margin memory in a RAM, the line data up to the word immediately preceding the word reaching a preset right margin is s... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4500216 | Electronic typewriter An electronic typewriter comprises a character-bearing disk movable along the platen and a selector to space selected characters according to a plurality of constant spaces or proportional spaces. The electronic unit provides a line buffer on which the en... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4498150 | Document automatic pagination The specification discloses a method for automatically paginating a data stream in a word processing system. A vertical tracking register is incremented by a value representing the displacement of the vertical print position when a line end code is encoun... | 02/05/1985 |
| 4480931 | Electronic typewriter An electronic typewriter which provides for significant simplification of machine operations. The typewriter includes automatic error correcting function associated with electronic controls and a memory. A series of text data which have been deleted durin... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4462701 | Printing system wherein justification determination is shared between a host processor and a printer In a printing system comprising a printer controlled by a host processor (11), a system of justification is provided wherein the determination of justification parameters is shared by the host processor (11) and the printer formatting processor (12). Just... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4397572 | Justification of overstruck text Overstruck text is justified by distributing the white space residue at the end of the unjustified line among the interword spaces for justification. The amount of the residue distributed is used to determine a number of overstrike characters which will o... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4330217 | Line adjustment apparatus for a typewriter Line end adjustment decisions for a typewriter printing from test storage are based on a set of zones that are defined along the line respective of appearance considerations for the right margin. The potential end location for each successive word ready f... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4311399 | Method and apparatus for setting and varying margins and line spacing on data printers The specification discloses a method and apparatus for setting and varying margins, line spacing and printing direction of a data printing machine by a machine user before and during printing by use of a keyboard with push-button control which is coupled ... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4225249 | Variable character spacing matrix for proportional spacing printing systems The aesthetic characteristics of adjacent characters are used to enhance the quality of output in a proportional spacing printer and to provide right margin justification for composing. Spacing between characters is determined on the basis of the characte... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4185931 | Circuit arrangement for determining the position of a printer carriage in printer devices In an illustrative embodiment, a first advance signal is produced whenever a character is supplied to the keyboard control unit which is to be associated with advance of the printer carriage. Such a character may be shifted through a keyboard buffer stora... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4131949 | Word processor apparatus having means for recording a tab function as a signal indicative of the number of spaces tabbed A word processor system comprising a typewriter, a data storage unit, a tab stop register for storing signals representative of tab stops set on the typewriter and means for controlling the tab stop register to keep it aligned with the typewriter carrier ... | 12/26/1978 |
| 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 |
| 4087852 | Microprocessor for an automatic word-processing system The keyboard, printer and recording means are peripheral units under the control of a microprocessor including a programmable read-only memory from which appropriate control instructions are derived. Control signal sequences for operating the word process... | 05/02/1978 |
| 4026402 | Incremental line printer An incremental impact printer of the dot matrix type. Binary words representative of data to be printed along a line of print may be accepted from either the printer keyboard or the output of a computer or other source. The printer electronics provides fo... | 05/31/1977 |
| 3991405 | Margin adjusting of textual codes in a memory A system for automatically arranging a stored sequence ot textural character codes and control codes to provide textual line lengths within a predetermined range. If a tab code is detected within the stored sequence, the amount of line length correspondin... | 11/09/1976 |
| 3981383 | Right hand margin control system A settable margin control switch is actuated when a movable carriage printer approaches the right hand margin. In the keyboard operating mode, an audible alarm is sounded and a predetermined number of character positions later, the printing of keyboard or... | 09/21/1976 |
| 3968868 | Format control system for positioning final copy printed text A system for positioning final copy printed text, upon a first printing, at a specified location on a line in a format determined by input keying. The location can be a blank block on a form to be filled in. After initial setup and during any input or out... | 07/13/1976 |
